| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: "The Man Who Ate Too Much" is a biography of this American whose foundation gives awards to outstanding chefs James Beard |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $800: A bird called Aetos kaukasios ate his liver every day Prometheus |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CHICKEN SOUP $1000: During the 16th c. Wojna Kokosza, or "Chicken War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's poultry Poland |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $800: When he made the 2005 "Time" 100 list, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice The Gold Rush |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $1000: Down south:
ASHES ATE ALL Tallahassee |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | QUITE THE FISH STORY $400: "Piranha 3D" ate up the screen with Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames & great Scott!--this inventive "Back to the Future" actor Christopher Lloyd |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $200: (Mike Pereira of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Cheeseheads ate it up after this quarterback threw for 304 yards & three touchdowns to lead Green Bay to a win in Super Bowl XLV (Aaron) Rodgers |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IF ANCIENT GREEK DEITIES WERE AROUND TODAY $6,000 (Daily Double): Zeus has huge daddy issues in therapy, having overthrown & confined dad, this titan, in Tartarus; also, that dad ate Zeus' siblings Cronus |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | GOING GREEN $100: Perhaps something you ate didn't agree with you if you look "green around" these fish parts the gills |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CATS THROUGH TIME $400: This big name in 19th century nursing cared for cats too--dozens, including Mr. Bismark, who ate rice pudding off china plates Florence Nightingale |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $400: Add "ate" to this word meaning strong to get a strong person or ruler potentate |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $300: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans & a nice Chianti" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $100: A British earl who ate cold meat & bread slices while sitting at a gambling table gave his name to this sandwich |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | MYTHOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): From Greek for "the unseen", he ruled way downtown & had a 3-headed doggie named Cerberus who ate anyone that tried to leave Hades |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $400: ...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night! Hansel & Gretel |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $400: Kurt Vonnegut undoubtedly ate his Wheaties while penning this novel about auto dealer Dwayne Hoover Breakfast of Champions |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $1000: Hemingway ate his last meal on July 1, 1961 at Michel's Christiania Restaurant, still a hangout for skiers in this Idaho city Ketchum |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | NUMERIC HOMOPHONES $400: Idiomatically, this verb links the cat to the canary & the dog to your homework ate |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE HUNGER NAMES $200: This type of breakfast got its name from the idea that other Europeans ate lighter in the morning than Brits did continental breakfast |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT $1600: Dingoes Ate My Baby, performing down at the Bronze Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | POPPING OUT POP CULTURE $200: This "8 Mile" rapper, challenged to rhyme "orange": "I put my orange, 4-inch door hinge in storage & ate porridge" Eminem |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE COMMON DEFENSE $200: This traditional excuse for why you don't have your homework is in the original "Saved by the Bell" theme song My dog ate it |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you seem smug, you look like "the cat that ate" this bird a canary |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | TV LOCALES $1600: Amidst odd happenings on this show, agent Dale Cooper ate delicious cherry pie at the Double R Diner Twin Peaks |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $2000: Edward Lear's owl & pussy-cat "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" this a spoon |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | FOOD & DRINK RETRONYMS $600: Before "polishing" began, most of the rice people ate was this color variety; now the term is used for a "whole grain" type brown |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | MYTHOLOGY $400: After Polyphemus, one of these 1-eyed giants, ate some of Odysseus' men, the survivors blinded him a Cyclops |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy John Steinbeck |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | GRAMM"OR" $1600: "Fowler's Modern English Usage" says this is the correct word meaning to get your bearings, but if you must add -ate, go ahead orient |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | FOOD OF THE GODS $1000: To maintain their immortality, the Greek gods drank nectar & ate this ambrosia |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | FOOD & DRINK MOVIE QUOTES $1200: It's the dish that Hannibal Lecter ate with a side of fava beans & a nice Chianti liver |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $2000: He got up late on New Year's Day 1660, ate some turkey & began writing his diary (Samuel) Pepys |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE WWE SLAMMY AWARDS $1000: No winner for 1987's Song of the Year--Sika ate the envelope--but this WWE head honcho was nominated & did perform "Stand Back" Vince McMahon |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | VERB: ATE 'EM $200: In ancient Rome the dangerous job of Halotus was to do this to the food of Emperor Claudius taste |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | VERB: ATE 'EM $400: A South Carolina BBQ joint is named for this phrase meaning to make a hog of yourself pig out |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | VERB: ATE 'EM $600: Pronounced one way, it's a Norwegian artist; the other way, a verb meaning to eat Munch and munch |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | VERB: ATE 'EM $800: When cows chew their cud, they do this; in another sense of the word, you meditate over a subject ruminate |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | VERB: ATE 'EM $1000: In tech, this 6-letter word is half a byte; the mildly hungry often do it with their food nibble |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | THE 2018 IG NOBEL PRIZES $1000: Work on the caloric benefits of this anthropophagic diet during the Paleolithic ate up the Nutrition prize cannibalism |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | THEY COME IN PAIRS $2000: In an Edward Lear poem, this pair "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon" the owl and the pussycat |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | MOVIE QUOTES $200: "I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank pina coladas...why couldn't I get that day over & over?" Groundhog Day |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | NEW GAME VERSIONS $800: In the Clue edition based on this sitcom, you need to find who ate the last piece of cheesecake--I suspect Rose! Golden Girls |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $200: Consumed an octet ate eight |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | EAT IT! $400: Jonathan Swift wrote, "He was a bold man that first" ate these; let's be bold & enjoy them on the half shell oysters |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BEE WORDS $1200: Zeus & friends ate ambrosia & drank this nectar |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | GIMME A SLICE $600: In a poem, the owl & the pussy-cat "dined on mince & slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" 1 of these utensils a spoon |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | ALL KINDS OF TV $400: The "Dr."-ate of this mustached talk show host is in clinical psychology Dr. Phil |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | IT GROWS ON TREES $1600: The vine that ate the South, it grows on trees and shrubs, smothering and killing them kudzu |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Tuberculosis was once known as this because of the way it ate away at the patient the wasting disease (or consumption) |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | "M"ISCELLANY $2000: I remember fondly the time I once ate this small cake seen here a madeleine |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | CHICKEN SOUP $1000: During the 16th c. Wojina Kokosza, or "Poultry War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's chickens Poland |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | "YES" "NO" "OR" "MAY" "BE" $1200: To get your bearings geographically; the word can also have -ate at the end orient |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | YOU BUG ME $400: According to legend, this name originated when the spotted insects ate up pests after farmers prayed to the virgin ladybugs |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BEAR NAYS $200: After Goldilocks ate this boiled food of theirs, the 3 bears said, "Never again" porridge |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | '80s FICTION $800: This 1988 novel:
"A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | I SAY IT'S SPINACH $800: You can call it "liberty cabbage" & tell me they ate it in ancient Rome, but I'm not touching that fermented slop sauerkraut |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $2000: It shall be writ that the house of York was a house of ruin upon this site in 1485 once the king ate-eth the big one in a bog Bosworth Field |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE ELITE ATE $200: Ludwig Bemelmans said this elegant fish roe appetizer "is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress" caviar |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE ELITE ATE $400: Massaging the Wagyu caws with sake & feeding them beer makes for this tender & expensive Japanese beef Kobe |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE ELITE ATE $600: This dish of lobster tails with Bechamel shares its name with a French Revolutionary Calendar month Thermidor |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE ELITE ATE $800: The Densuke, a variety of this melon with black rather than green skin, has been sold for more than $6,000 a watermelon |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE ELITE ATE $1000: The most desirable of these are the black ones from France's Perigord & Quercy regions truffles |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | COMMANDER & CHEF $800: Pierre Chambrin, who quit as White House chef in 1994, said it wasn't true that this President ate a lot of fast food Bill Clinton |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a tree in Alaska.) Indians ate its bark & made its roots into hats; today, it's used for lumber, guitars, & gliders; no wonder the state tree, the Sitka type of this, is called the most valuable tree species in Alaska Sitka spruce |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | I WILL SURVIVE! $1200: The survivors of 1945's Gremlin Special crash in New Guinea ran into a tribe-of these; luckily they only ate enemies cannibals |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | LITERARY BUNNIES $400: This naughty little guy disobeyed his mother & "first ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes" Peter Rabbit |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | WHOSE LATE NIGHT SKIT $1000: "YouTube challenge: I told my kids I ate all their Halloween candy" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | I JUST "ATE" $400: From Latin meaning "to balance or weigh", it's what members of a jury do to reach a verdict deliberate |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | I JUST "ATE" $800: It's to pronounce words in a clear, articulate manner, just like this to enunciate |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | I JUST "ATE" $1200: A big election win means you have this, the authority to carry out your program a mandate |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | I JUST "ATE" $1600: To reflect on over & over again, or to chew the cud like a cow to ruminate |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | I JUST "ATE" $2000: To remove the entrails from an animal eviscerate |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | COLORFUL SONGS $2000: On "Sesame Street" Elvis Costello redid this song as "A Monster Went & Ate My Red 2" "The Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes" |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | CLASSIC ADS & JINGLES $1000: "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing" Alka-Seltzer |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | "L" CAN EAT $200: This twisty candy was used to make the shoe Charlie Chaplin ate in "The Gold Rush" licorice |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | HETERONYMS $1600: Something suitable, or to take possession of appropriate [uh-PRO-pree-ut/uh-PRO-pree-ate] |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | LINE FROM THE TV SHOW $800: Roger Sterling: "I did everything they told me. Drank the cream, ate the butter. Then I get hit with a coronary" Mad Men |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $800: This pesky invasive plant has been called the vine that ate the South kudzu |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WORLD OF FOOD $400: Polish off the dish seen here & you can boast that you ate the whole one of these, a Mexican specialty an enchilada |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | "O.S." WE DO $800: Because Adam & Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, this was inherited by all their descendants original sin |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | SILENT B $800: Birds ate Hansel & Gretel's trail of these, so they weren't able to find their way home crumbs |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | JONATHAN SWIFTIES $200: "He was a bold man that first ate" this bivalve mollusk an oyster |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | GRUMPY $1600: Who would hold it against this poor fisherman for being grumpy after sharks ate his prized marlin catch? Santiago |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | ALL THINGS CONSIDERED $600: In 2003 a Norwegian ate 187 of these in 3 minutes; I prefer mine on the half shell at a less frenzied speed oysters |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $400: Feb. 18, 1861: Dear Diary: At Montgomery for his inaugural. Ate some mighty fine hush puppies... Jeff Davis |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | LET'S GET READY TO ROOMBA! $400: Roomba ate some Bible pages...fill in a quote for me? "And" he "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years" Noah |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | NFL RECORDS $400: Appropriately, it's the record number of safeties by a player in one game; L.A.'s Fred Dryer ate up Green Bay on Oct. 21, 1973 2 |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | CONAN THE DOCUMENTARIAN $200: In a 2004 film Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but food from this chain for a month; a noble warrior, Spurlock is McDonald's |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1200: Work on a bridge over the Tsavo River was badly hampered in 1898 when 2 of these mammals ate 140 workers lions |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | WE GO WAY BACK $1600: Islam's Sunni/Shi'a split goes back to the question of Ali Abi ibn Talib's right to hold this post, leader of the Muslim world caliph |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | "NIGHT" SHIFT $400: I ate curry at bedtime & had one of these in which Richard Simmons & my grandmother chased me through a circus a nightmare |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: Looks like the beagle ate this bird an eagle |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | EXPEDITION WEEK $2,500 (Daily Double): "When Crocs Ate Dinos" takes us to this period, named for chalk cliffs, the dinosaurs' final period the Cretaceous period |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | HISTORIC FIGURES' MADE-UP NICKNAMES $200: The Beard that Ate Cuba;
Dictator Emeritus;
Mr. Poison-Proof (that one may or may not be from the CIA) (Fidel) Castro |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $600: Ate too much MSG or feelin' a megrim, or one of these, comin' on? Beta-blocker, shmeta-blocker! Try Dr. Alex' Head Cream! migraine |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | GRAMMAR $1000: It's best to use this type of voice when possible; "Bob ate the pie" is good... "The pie was eaten by Bob", not so much active |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | LET'S SPEAK PORTUGUESE $200: Ate amanha, part of a farewell, means this; it doesn't sound so different from the same in Spanish see you tomorrow |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | MOTHER GOOSE $1000: After singing for his supper, he ate "white bread and butter" Little Tommy Tucker |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $800: To look guilty but smug is "to look like" this, an expression that mentions 2 pets the cat that ate the canary |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | 4 LEGS GOOD, 2 LEGS BAD $1600: Bully for Theseus who killed this bad, bad 2-legged monster that ate sacrifices in a Cretan maze the Minotaur |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT $800: Lewis Browning ate more than 22,000 of these creme-filled Hostess cakes; if you did the same, I'd call you one a Twinkie |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | BOARD GAME HISTORY $1000: Imported from India, this game had you climbing to God by landing on a virtue, but a serpent ate you on a vice Snakes & Ladders |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | MYTHOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): The subject of a huge statue, this monster on the road to Thebes ate people who could not answer its riddle the Sphinx |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $400: In this language of the British Isles, you'll see accent marks on the letter W Welsh |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the following agudas on the monitor: nariz, ciudad, profesor, canción, detrás, menú.) Spanish words with the stress on the last syllable are called agudas & have accent marks only if they end in "N", "S" or one of these a vowel |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $1200: You may ask why this language has an accent mark in its word for "why", perchè Italian |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a poem line on the monitor: "Come live / with me / and be / my love".) In poetry, it's a foot or metrical unit consisting of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable iamb |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $2000: Some Shakespeare editions use accents to clarify meter, as in this man's "The time is out of joint, O cursèd spite..." Hamlet |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | JOE RANFT: PIXAR LEGEND $800: Joe ate some of the scenery as Heimlich the Ravenous Caterpillar in this 1998 animated feature A Bug's Life |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | PEOPLES $1200: Around 1000, these people who ate frozen cod in chunks like beef jerky, may have visited Cape Cod the Vikings |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | LET'S SING $1600: It's the mister you don't mess with in "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" Mr. In-Between |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $400: When he made Time's 2005 Top 100 List, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | LET'S GRAB SOME SEAFOOD $600: You'll be as rich as Rockefeller if you know Swift once penned, "He was a bold man that first ate" this bivalve an oyster |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | PASTA NAMES $600: Perhaps J. Lo & Ben Affleck ate this pasta, Italian for "lilies", while making the film of the same name Gigli |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | GLUTTONY $800: Pope Martin IV ate himself to death with eels; this "Divine Comedy" poet placed him in purgatory Dante |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | HOMOPHONES $800: Had a meal, or an octet ate/eight |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | THEN WE CAN DIG IT $1,000 (Daily Double): Finds at Whitehall Villa in Britain reveal that this ancient people ate dormice & really loved oysters the Romans |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | HOMOPHONIC DUOS $600: Consumed an octet ate eight |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 GREATEST ARTISTS $800: Bono wrote of him, No. 3 after The Beatles & Dylan, that he "ate America before America ate him" Elvis Presley |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | LITERARY PAIRS $400: They "dined on mince and slices of quince which they ate with a runcible spoon" the Owl & the Pussycat |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | VULTURE CULTURE $1000: Because he helped mankind, this mythological figure was chained to a rock where a vulture ate his liver daily Prometheus |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN $600: This 6-headed sea monster who ate sailors lived in a cave opposite the whirlpool Charybdis Scylla |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | NUMERICAL HOMOPHONES $400: Completes the title of Jeffrey Steingarten's book "It Must Have Been Something I ..." Ate |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $800: This thunder god's appetite was so huge he once ate an ox & 8 salmon, & drank 3 barrels of mead Thor |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | ANIMAL LORE $1000: In Indian legend, the Aquinnah Cliffs' red is the blood of these mammals which a giant caught in the sea and ate the whale |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | GUINNESS RECORDS $200: In 2000 a man ate 25 of these (buns, too) in 12 minutes to win a contest at Nathan's hot dogs |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | DELICACIES $1600: This lobster dish may get its name from the Revolutionary month in which Napoleon first ate it lobster thermidor |
| #4401, aired 2003-10-27 | EXTINCT NAMES $800: The ichthyosaur's name reminds us of this type of creature, which it resembled & ate a fish |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | THE REEL WORLD $600: 1991:
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1000: To improve his singing voice, the emperor Nero ate large quantities of this mild onion relative & symbol of Wales leek |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | CLASSIC ADS & SLOGANS $400: "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing" Alka-Seltzer |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | PEOPLE EAT THAT? $1000: Heaps of shells found at prehistoric sites indicate early man ate these; the petit-gris type is popular today snails |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | HONEY $400: He was going to give Eeyore a pot of honey for his birthday, but ate it instead Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | EVE $2000: Eve, & the Adam, ate fruit from the tree called this, which God specifically said not to do the Tree of Knowledge (of Good and Evil) |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | AMERICAN PIE $100: It's been a Thanksgiving favorite since the pilgrims ate it at the second Thanksgiving in 1623 pumpkin pie |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | POMEGRANATE PRESS $400: Because she ate his pomegranate seeds, Persephone had to return to his underground home for 4 months every year Hades |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | NO OIL PAINTING $400: This successor to Queen Elizabeth I ate like a slob because of his malformed jaws James I |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | WEBSITES $200: Jiskha is an online resource to help you with this, so you won't have to say your dog ate it homework |
| #3732, aired 2000-11-21 | TV 2K $100: Jane Clayson of "The Early Show" ate a bug to help promote this summer hit also on CBS Survivor |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | ATE $200: Idaho, Burbank, Round White & New are varieties of this vegetable Potato |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | ATE $400 (Daily Double): As a byproduct of WWII food rationing, this U.S. state consumes more Spam per capita than any other Hawaii |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | ATE $400: To ripen & provide distinctive flavor, manufacturers of these dairy products sometimes add mold fungi Cheeses |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | ATE $600: This fast food chain kept its name even after adding Brazier burgers to its menu of soft ice cream Dairy Queen |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | ATE $1000: This "hunter style" chicken is cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms & sometimes wine Chicken Cacciatore |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MOTHER GOOSE $500: It's what the rat ate in "The House That Jack Built" the malt |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | A LITTLE FOREIGN NUMBER $800: In Copenhagen, it's how many Danish pastries you have left from a dozen if you ate otte 4 (you ate eight) |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: One little pig "went to market"; one little pig "stayed at home"; one little pig ate this meat Roast beef |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: It's what Peter, Peter ate; later he kept his wife in the shell of one Pumpkin |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | "WHOLE"SOME $500: Completes the famous Alka-Seltzer ad line, "I can't believe..." I ate the whole thing |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | SAY CHEESE! $800: This Browning work says, "Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats...and ate the cheeses out of the vats" The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | BIBLICAL MADNESS $200: Forced from this kingdom, Nebuchadnezzar ate grass & grew his hair until his reason returned Babylon |
| #3403, aired 1999-05-26 | FAIRY TALE FEMMES $200: She ate the window pane of the witch's cottage Gretel |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | IN OTHER WORDS... $200: Resemble a feline who ingested a yellow bird look like the cat that swallowed the canary |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | PLAYING DOCTOR $500 (Daily Double): It's the name of the fictional psychiatrist seen here:
"A census taker once tried to test me... I ate his liver with some fava beans & a nice Chianti." Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | TASTE TREATS $100: As the Planters icon knows, everybody loves these; in 1996 Americans ate 2 billion pounds of them peanuts |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | SONG STANDARDS $500: This 1944 Bing Crosby hit was subtitled "Mister In-Between" "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | WILD PARTIES $800: At a 1903 dinner party in a chic N.Y. restaurant, guests ate from feedbags while sitting astride these horses |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | ANIMAL PHRASES $400: This feline expression means to look guilty but smug "Looking like the cat who ate the canary" |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: Though her name was Greek for "strangler", this riddler usually ate her victims or threw them from her rock The Sphinx |
| #2674, aired 1996-03-28 | NURSERY RHYMES $500: A cat killed the rat that ate the malt in his house "The House That Jack Built" |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | ART & ARTISTS $400: He once said he ate the same soup lunch every day for 20 years; that's why he painted soup cans Andy Warhol |
| #2638, aired 1996-02-07 | CHEESE, PLEASE $500: The rats "ate the cheeses out of the vats" in Robert Browning's poem about this musician the Pied Piper |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | WHAT'S THE PITCH? $200: "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" Alka-Seltzer |
| #2534, aired 1995-09-14 | QUOTATIONS $400: This poetic pair "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon" the Owl & the Pussycat |
| #2421, aired 1995-02-27 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $400: When Haemon couldn't answer this monster's famous riddle, she ate him the Sphinx |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | SEAFOOD $600: Jonathan Swift wrote, "He was a bold man who first ate" this shellfish an oyster |
| #2209, aired 1994-03-24 | BRITISH POTPOURRI $400: Cornish pasties, which tin miners often ate for lunch, originated in this county Cornwall |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: We don't think this Roman love goddess ate insects, but a plant named for her does Venus |
| #2089, aired 1993-10-07 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: During their 40 years in the wilderness, the Israelites ate this "bread" which fell from heaven manna |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | THE CHINESE ZODIAC $1000: This animal also ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built the rat |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | SILLY SONGS $400: A silly song from 1920 wondered "Who ate" these pastries "with Josephine when Bonaparte was away?" Napoleons |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | THE 1950s $100: While visiting Iowa Sept. 22, 1959, this Soviet premier ate his first hot dog Nikita Khrushchev |
| #1748, aired 1992-03-18 | MYTHOLOGY $400: The Greek gods ate ambrosia & drank this to keep up their immortality nectar |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | ANIMAL PHRASES $300: To look guilty but smug is to "Look like the cat that ate" this the canary |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | NAME BRANDS $200: Legend has it 96-year- old Robert Chesebrough attributed his longevity to this petroleum jelly he ate each day Vaseline |
| #1610, aired 1991-09-06 | ART $500: What the title "Eaters" ate in van Gogh's work potatoes |
| #1608, aired 1991-09-04 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $800: Cronus ate the kids Rhea bore him, but Rhea substituted a son when Cronus got to this one Zeus |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FAIRY TALE BIRDS $400: The couldn't find their way home because some crummy birds ate their bread crumbs Hansel & Gretel |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | RELIGION $600: City in which Jesus ate his last supper & from which Muhammad went to heaven Jersusalem |
| #1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MYTHOLOGY $100: This Norse god of thunder had a huge appetite; he once ate an ox & drank three barrels of mead Thor |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | JOHNNY MERCER LYRICS $300: Song that urges "E-lim-inate the negative; latch on to the affirmative; don't mess with Mr. In-Between" "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" |
| #1393, aired 1990-09-26 | FRUITS $300: As with limes, sailors in the 1800s also ate cranberries to prevent this disease scurvy |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN $2000: This 6-headed sea monster that ate sailors lived in a cave opposite the whirlpool Charybdis Scylla |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | WORLD HISTORY $300: This mystic ate his last meal at the home of Prince Feliks Yusupov, one of the men who killed him Rasputin |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | FIRSTS $200: Observance at which English colonists 1st ate popcorn the first Thanksgiving |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | KIDDIE LIT $200: Hansel & Gretel scattered these to find their way home, but the birds ate them breadcrumbs |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | ARTISTS $200: He said he ate the same soup for lunch for years; maybe that's why he painted soup cans Andy Warhol |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | '40s SONGS $1000: This J. Mercer-H. Arlen tune told us to "Latch on to the affirmative, Don't mess with Mr. In-Between" "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" |
| #1092, aired 1989-05-09 | MYTHICAL CREATURES $400: The Sphinx did this to poor travelers who couldn't answer her riddle ate them |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | ECONOMICS $1000: 20th c. English economist who handled his own investments every morning while he ate breakfast in bed (John Maynard) Keynes |
| #1063, aired 1989-03-29 | 19th C. AMERICA $400: In 1814 British officers ate in this famous residence--then burned it White House |
| #1046, aired 1989-03-06 | HEMINGWAY $600: In "The Old Man & the Sea", they ate the giant marlin the old fisherman caught the sharks |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | THE VIKINGS $300: World Book says the Vikings ate two meals daily but only with these two eating utensils spoon & knife |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | VERY GRIMM FAIRY TALES $500: She was taken away from her parents because her mother ate rampion from the witch's garden Rapunzel |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: Though "Never Cry Wolf" was produced by this studio, Charles M. Smith ate mice in it anyway Disney |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | NICKNAMES $100: English sailors were nicknamed this from the fruit they ate to prevent scurvy limey |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | SHAKESPEARE $900 (Daily Double): Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other Duncan |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: At the height of this war in 1870, some Frenchmen were so hungry they ate animals from the Paris Zoo the Franco-Prussian War |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: This snack cake's inventor, Jimmy Dewar, ate 40,177 of them in his lifetime Hostess Twinkies |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: After the ogre turned himself into one of these, Puss in Boots ate him a mouse |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | POTPOURRI $500: In 1978, Pat Donahue ate almost 2 lbs. of these in 68 seconds without sipping a single Gibson (pickled) onions |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | NURSERY RHYMES $200: They ate their pie with their mittens on Three Little Kittens |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Though he ate like a slob, he nonetheless concluded, "What a good boy am I" Little Jack Horner |
| #837, aired 1988-04-05 | AMERICAN POETRY $600: The Old Dutch Clock claimed the Gingham Dog & this feline "ate each other up" the Calico Cat |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $100: Jack Horner sat in his corner & ate a pie associated with this holiday Christmas |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: From age 7 to 60, males in this Greek city-state ate in government barracks, not at home Sparta |
| #737, aired 1987-11-17 | THE 1980s $2,000 (Daily Double): July, 1986 "USA Today" headline, "Sea Creatures Ate Staircase" referred to this the Titanic |
| #724, aired 1987-10-29 | AUTHORS $1000: Tho he actually ate well in expensive Paris cafes, in "A Moveable Feast", he claimed he went hungry Hemingway |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: Tenn. Gov. Ned McWherter ate pickles & ice cream after signing a law for businesses to provide this maternity leave |
| #711, aired 1987-10-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: It's said this naval officer ate chocolate every Sunday on his trek to the North Pole Peary |
| #696, aired 1987-09-21 | FAT $200: Since Jack Sprat ate no fat, this person ate it instead his wife |
| #696, aired 1987-09-21 | THIN $800: In the Bible he interpreted a dream about 7 thin cows that ate 7 fat cows but didn't get fat Joseph |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | ART $800: This 450 lb. pet of Jamie Wyeth ate 17 tubes of paint while posing for a life size portrait pig |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | TRIVIAL WORLD RECORDS $300: In less than a minute, Tony Dowdswell ate almost 3½ lbs. of this before it melted ice cream |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | SWEETS $400: This chocolate substitute is also called "St. John's bread" because it's said John the Baptist ate it carob |
| #663, aired 1987-06-24 | "M"ENAGERIE $300: It's said ancient Romans not only ate these eels but fed their disobedient slaves to them a moray eel |
| #641, aired 1987-05-25 | EXODUS $800: After all the rods became serpents, his rod ate them all Aaron |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | ANCIENT ROME $200: What the Roman elite did with dormice, ostrich wings & flamingo tongues ate them |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $200: What happened when four couples got together & dined eight ate |
| #617, aired 1987-04-21 | GOING IN STYLE $100: Years after her death, Juan Peron often ate dinner with this wife's body seated at his table Eva Perón (or Evita) |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | ANIMALS $200: In 1848, Mormon settlers were saved from starvation when a flock of these ocean birds ate locusts seagulls |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | WORDS OF THE PAST $100: If you ate a "porknell", you're as fat as one of these pig |
| #567, aired 1987-02-10 | ASTROLOGY $500 (Daily Double): According to the following Kris Kristofferson song, it's Jesus' sun sign:
"He ate organic food / He believed in love and peace / And never wore no shoes / Long hair, beard and sandals / And a funky bunch of friends..." Capricorn |
| #565, aired 1987-02-06 | LITERATURE $200: To commit suicide "Madame Bovary" ate a handful of this, not old lace arsenic |
| #509, aired 1986-11-20 | EXPLORERS $600: Before cannibals ate him in the Indies, this Italian sighted the N.Y. Bay where today a bridge bears his name Verrazano |
| #455, aired 1986-06-06 | A SANDWICH $300: This nickname comes from Philadelphia's Hog Island shipyard, where workers ate them for lunch a hoagie |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | MEDICINES $400: R. Chesebrough discovered this waxy substance which he not only used as a salve but also ate petroleum jelly (Vaseline) |
| #429, aired 1986-05-01 | ODDS & ENDS $200: Peter Dowdeswell ate a world record 144 of these dried fruits in 35 seconds prunes |
| #367, aired 1986-02-04 | NURSERY RHYMES $500: In "This little pig went to market", it's what the only pig that ate pigged out on roast beef |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | FRUITS $400: According to legend, this tree's leaves clothed Adam & Eve after they ate their fateful fruit fig |
| #277, aired 1985-10-01 | BIBLICAL ZOO $300: They licked the sores of Lazarus & ate the flesh of Jezebel dogs |
| #277, aired 1985-10-01 | BIBLICAL ZOO $400: Joseph explained Pharaoh's dreams of 7 lean ones who ate 7 fat ones but still remained lean kine or cows (or cattle) |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | MAMMALS $600: If a man ate proportionately as much as this smallest mammal, he would consume over 500 lbs. a day the shrew |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | ART $200: 13 ate at this event depicted by Leonard Da Vinci the Last Supper |
| #19, aired 1984-10-04 | MEDICINE $800: British sailors were named "Limey" for the fruit they ate to ward off this disease scurvy |
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