#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | GETTING TERRITORIAL $800: Australia's territories include this island named for a December 1643 sighting Christmas Island |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS $1600: The day octopus can shape shift & blend into the rough & smooth surfaces of coral in this site off northeastern Australia the Great Barrier Reef |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $1600: From Australia & New Zealand, this honey with a Maori name is said to have antibacterial properties Manuka honey |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $800: Australia beat England in 1877 to win the first of the international cricket games known by this 2-word term test matches |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $800: In 1873 a team using camels became the first Europeans to cross this continent's Great Sandy Desert Australia |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $1,000 (Daily Double): "The accent is on the 'Can"', said the woman announcing the name of this newly chosen, yet-to-be-built capital in 1913 Canberra |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | ON THE MAP $1600: The central town of the 100,000-square-mile area of Australia called the Red Centre is this community, named for Alice Todd Alice Springs |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $300: In 2000, the word "doping" was first included in the oath for participants of this event, being held in Australia the Olympics |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES $400: Almost as big as the continental U.S., it's the "southern" land Australia |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS $400: The "Convict Era" of this nation's history spans 1788 to 1868, when some 160,000 prisoners were transported there Australia |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | ODDS & "N"s $800: Australia also has a region called this, but theirs doesn't include Vermont & Connecticut New England |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name La Niña |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER… $400: Lies in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, with a slouch hat & a sprig of wattle Australia |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $400: Discovered there around 1770, cockatiels are native to this continent Australia |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2000: The "Aerial Services" of this state & this territory of Australia gave Qantas its name Queensland & Northern Territory |
#8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $200: The Capricorn Highway lies on the Tropic of Capricorn in the state of Queensland in this country Australia |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $900: A common way to greet a friend in Australia is to say "G'day," this Mate |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1,500 (Daily Double): Named after a Russian ballerina, this meringue-based dessert is nicknamed "Pav" in Australia Pavlova |
#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $200: To combat malnutrition, in 1942 Tasmanian blue peas were added to the rations of this country's troops Australia |
#8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $1000: Rod "the Rocket" Laver of this country is tennis' only repeat Grand Slam winner Australia |
#8949, aired 2023-10-12 | THE JEOPARDY! WORLD ORCHESTRA $600: The didgeridoo heard here originated on this continent Australia |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1600: The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this 2008 Baz Luhrmann epic Australia |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE SHIP OF STATE $400: 2 schooners called the Oregon Fir & the Oregon this carried lumber from the U.S. to Australia in the 1920s the Oregon Pine |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | MIXED NUTS $200: An Australia native:
I AM A CAM AD macadamia |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | ISLANDS' COUNTRIES $300: Lizard Island
&
Kangaroo Island Australia |
#8928, aired 2023-09-13 | MAMMALS $400: The San Diego Zoo welcomed its first pair of these from Australia, Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, in 1925 a koala |
#8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $1000: Originally a Spanish breed, it first came to Australia in 1797 & changed that country's economy forever the Merino |
#8917, aired 2023-07-18 | SHARK! $800: In Australia, this dangerous shark with a 4-letter name has been called a "blue pointer" mako |
#8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $800: This term for something impossibly rare predated the 1600s discovery of the real thing, Cygnus atratus, in Australia a black swan |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CARTOON CRITTERS $200: Nicknamed "Taz", this voracious Warner Bros. character is named for a real creature off Australia's coast the Tasmanian Devil |
#8902, aired 2023-06-27 | AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES $200: A research center at the University of Tasmania specializes in the climate & ecosystems of this continent Antarctica |
#8902, aired 2023-06-27 | AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES $600: Ernie the this flightless bird is the beloved mascot of Western Australia's Edith Cowan University an emu |
#8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LOVE ISLAND U.K. $800: "Remain!" In 2013 people in this South Atlantic territory were nearly unanimous in their vote to stay under British rule the Falkland Islands |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY $200: In the 17th century this continent was given the name New Holland Australia |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MOVIE CONTINENTS $1600: Australia:
Toni Collette longs to be a bride Muriel's Wedding |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $1200: Seen here is a bit of a 3,500-mile fence across Australia's outback to protect sheep & other animals from this type of dog dingo |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $200: A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columns called these, components of a musical instrument organ pipes |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEERS $800: Lion Beer Australia says its beers are made from only 4 core ingredients--water, barley, malt & these hops |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $400: This wild dog of Australia rarely barks but it does howl like a wolf a dingo |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): This creature with a fierce reputation is Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial a Tasmanian devil |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: This symbol of Australia ranks as the world's second-tallest bird the emu |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "G" AS IN GLOBAL $1200: In Australia Sir Isaac Isaacs was the first native-born holder of this post, representing the queen Governor General |
#8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A BOX OF MATCHES $400: The first cricket international test match was played between the national teams of England & this faraway nation in 1877 Australia |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $800: In 1975 Malcolm Fraser, after 2 hours as Australia's PM, received a vote in Parliament of "no" this confidence |
#8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THE SUPERLATIVE EARTH $800: Oddly, the highest point on this continent is a mount named for a Polish patriot who fought in the American Revolution Australia |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $1600: In 1951 the ANZUS Pact united these 3 countries against aggressors Australia, New Zealand & the U.S. |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | PLANES, TRAINS $2000: Australia's Indian Pacific train runs from Sydney on the Pacific side to this state capital 2,000 miles to the west Perth |
#8833, aired 2023-03-22 | RESILIENCE $800: This country's national flower is the golden wattle, resilient to challenges like bushfires Australia |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | EIGHT IS ENOUGH $1000: Australia's Ivy League, the group of 8 includes the universities of Sydney, Adelaide & this city in Victoria Melbourne |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TRAVEL FACTS $400: Mainland Australia has 3 of these, ranging from UTC +8 to UTC +10 time zones |
#8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1600: This city's airport bears the name of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, one of the first pilots to fly from the U.S. to Australia Sydney |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $1000: It's 10 feet wide & 260 deep, so don't fall into Australia's Standley this "C" word--a chi word in Greek Chasm |
#8798, aired 2023-02-01 | MOUNTAINS $400: Yes, darling, the Darling Range is near Perth in this country Australia |
#8790, aired 2023-01-20 | SOUND $400: Cockburn Sound off the coast of Western Australia is an inlet of this ocean the Indian Ocean |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | A TORY PARTY $500: In Australia a moderate segment of this environment-focused party is sometimes called the Tree Tories the Green Party |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | HORSES ON WHEELS $1000: Subaru's utility vehicle the Brat got its warmest welcome in this country, where it was renamed the Brumby after a wild horse Australia |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | WORKERS OF THE WORLD $400: The Tolpuddle Martyrs were 6 British farm workers who were sent far away to this land in 1834 for trying to start a union Australia |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | EVERYDAY ROYALTY & NOBILITY $200: Home to the Croissan'wich, this fast food chain had trademark issues Down Under, so it's known as Hungry Jack's in Australia Burger King |
#8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $400: Forest, one of these at Queensland's Australia Zoo, stands almost 19 feet tall, barefoot a giraffe |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $3,400 (Daily Double): (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) In early 2020, I was in Australia to cover its unprecedented wildfires & learn how the hottest & driest year on record had parched giant stretches of these native trees filled with extremely flammable oil eucalyptus trees |
#8754, aired 2022-12-01 | REMEMBERING OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN $400: Though born in Cambridge, England, Olivia spent her formative years living in this country Australia |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $600: If "The Graduate" were set in South Australia, Ben could have gotten 2 years or a $10,000 fine for interrupting this type of event a wedding |
#8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $200: A state in Australia & an African waterfall both bear her name (Queen) Victoria |
#8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $1000: This capital of South Australia was named for the wife of Britain's King William IV Adelaide |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | CATS THROUGH TIME $800: A feline named Trim kept explorer Matthew Flinders company after his boat got stuck on a big mass of this near Australia coral |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MARSUPIALS $1600: The Tasmanian devil went extinct on Australia's mainland thousands of years ago, perhaps due to this canine also called the warrigal a dingo |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): Known for its extinct (maybe not for long) tiger, this island state is Australia's smallest Tasmania |
#8702, aired 2022-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1200: Doing a Taft, Australia's first prime minister Sir Edmund Barton resigned in 1903 to join Oz' equivalent of this U.S. body the Supreme Court |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $1200: They're the wild canines of Australia heard here dingoes |
#8695, aired 2022-07-29 | WATERCOLORS $1600: Works from seminal Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira were celebrated in 2002 by the National Gallery in this capital Canberra |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | TENNIS ACES $600: Mark "Eddo" Edmondson in 1976 is the last men's singles winner of this major who's from the country where it's played the Australian Open |
#8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MOUNTAINS $1200: The Snowy Mountains, which include Mount Kosciuszko, form the "roof of" this country Australia |
#8690, aired 2022-07-22 | EXPENSIVE FOODS $200: One of these bivalve mollusks from Coffin Bay, Australia can weigh over 2 pounds & sell for $100 oysters |
#8681, aired 2022-07-11 | GLACIERS $400: Tasman Lake in this country is one of the few lakes in the world where you can see icebergs New Zealand |
#8660, aired 2022-06-10 | SECRET SERVICES $2000: This country's secret intelligence service ASIS was founded in 1952; its existence was only acknowledged in Parliament in 1975 Australia |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $200: The fairy type of this bird seen here can be found in Eastern Australia a wren |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HODGEPODGE $2000: The world's largest monolith is in Australia's Northern Territory & has this Aboriginal name Uluru |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES $1000: Most of the Torres Strait islanders actually reside in this Northern Australia state and its Cape York Peninsula Queensland |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | MANE-SPLAINING $800: Also found in South Australia, the fur seal named for this nation has a thick mane of long guard hairs New Zealand |
#8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE SINGER'S COUNTRY OF BIRTH $800: Iggy Azalea Australia |
#8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $400: In Australia, this is compulsory but easy, & done on Saturdays voting |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $600: As the Coriolis force moves counterclockwise, afternoon brings a sea breeze called the Fremantle Doctor to this Western Australia capital Perth |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | WITH GORGE $800: Purnululu National Park in this country is home to a narrow gorge called echidna Chasm Australia |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | COLORS IN NATURE $400: Somewhere over in Australia is this variety of lorikeet, named for its array of colors rainbow |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: The Maralinga nuclear tests along with the continent's first Olympics are in this: "The Year Australia Welcomed the World" 1956 |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | TREES $600: This tree first brought from Australia to Hawaii in the 1880s can produce 65 pounds of nuts each year a macadamia tree |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $400: Batmania & Bearbrass were old names for this second-most populous city in Australia Melbourne |
#9, aired 2022-02-15 | A SEMESTER ABROAD $200: Sail from Tasman Bay & the South Island of this nation & swing around to the Bay of Plenty New Zealand |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | BUILDINGS $800: It's the geographic "Q" in the 1,058-foot Q1, Australia's tallest building Queensland |
#8568, aired 2022-02-02 | AUSTRALIANA $800: Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister in 2010 as leader of this political party the Labor Party |
#8566, aired 2022-01-31 | OUTLAWS $1600: In 1880 bushranger Ned Kelly & his gang briefly captured the township of Glenrowan in what's now this country Australia |
#8562, aired 2022-01-25 | NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $200: "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross we'll toil with hearts and hands, to make this Commonwealth of ours renowned of all the lands" Australia |
#8541, aired 2021-12-27 | MUSICAL 3‑INITIALers $1200: She founded the ONJ Centre in Australia to help others who have had cancer Olivia Newton-John |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SKIING AROUND THE WORLD $400: Mt. Buller in the state of Victoria is one of this country's most popular ski resorts Australia |
#8528, aired 2021-12-08 | FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB $600: Used to hunt birds, these curved throwing weapons, like those used by the Aborigines of Australia boomerangs |
#8526, aired 2021-12-06 | LESSER-KNOWN MARSUPIALS $400: These sticky-tongued insect consumers include proper ones like the giant & animals loosely called that, like Australia's numbat an anteater |
#8526, aired 2021-12-06 | LESSER-KNOWN MARSUPIALS $800: The long-nosed potoroo lives in forest underbrush areas in this island state of Australia Tasmania |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | SCIENCE: ODD BUT TRUE $400: Fossils of 13-foot types of these pouched mammals that include wombats & koalas have been found in Australia marsupials |
#8517, aired 2021-11-23 | HUT, HUT $600: Here's Seaman's Hut, used as an emergency shelter in this country's Kosciuszko National Park Australia |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $1600: In 1859 a few European rabbits were released on this continent; by the 1920s there were billions Australia |
#8514, aired 2021-11-18 | OVERSEAS TERRITORIES $400: Norfolk Island, a territory of Australia, gives its name to a type of this tree also called a living Christmas tree a pine |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | LAKES & RIVERS $200: This country's largest salt lake is now called Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, reviving its aboriginal name Australia |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | DID I MISS ANYTHING? $800: For union activism, George Loveless was sent from his English village to this distant place in 1834, but in 1837 was able to return Australia |
#8486, aired 2021-10-11 | CITY NICKNAMES $800: Once gently funned as "Brisvegas" for its anemic nightlife, it now prefers "Australia's New World City" Brisbane |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | CANYONS $2000: A canyon with 600-foot walls in Australia's Bungle Bungle Range bears the name of this small, spiny monotreme echidna |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: In the 1890s this was discovered in Western Australia; what a rush! gold |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $800: The largest attack on Australia during World War II was a 1942 bombing of this port city named for a British naturalist Darwin |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $13,000 (Daily Double): Australia became its own nation January 1, 1901 as the this of Australia, a word implying union for everyone's good Commonwealth |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | SOMETHING BIG IS COMING! $2000: 2/3 of a mile long, the world's longest passenger train, the Ghan, travels 1,850 miles coast to coast across this continent Australia |
#8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ODD HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): The Great Emu War of 1932 proved disastrous for this country's army; the big birds were no chickens Australia |
#8438, aired 2021-07-07 | MARSHALL MATTERS $400: John Marshall, of Marshall Islands fame, gained notoriety bringing the first convicts to Port Jackson in this current country Australia |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS $200: Australia has six stars, including a Commonwealth one; this island nation to the southeast, just four New Zealand |
#8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Referring to semi-arid bush country, it's the term for remote & largely uninhabited interior regions of Australia the Outback |
#8426, aired 2021-06-21 | YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP $1200: We believe you'll be "Abel" to name this sea between Australia & New Zealand that covers nearly a million square miles in area the Tasman Sea |
#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MUSICAL SEQUELS $800: In the 1982 musical sequel to this movie, the Rydell High exchange student is from Britain, not Australia Grease |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | GAME $800: In 1996 the New Zealand All Blacks beat Australia 43-6 in the first tri-nations tourney in this tough sport rugby |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD $1000: ABBA, dabba do! This Toni Collette movie tells us that Sydney, Australia is known as "The City of Brides" Muriel's Wedding |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | LET'S VISIT THE CITY $800: Check out Cottlesloe Beach & have a g'day in this capital of Western Australia Perth |
#8386, aired 2021-04-26 | Q, NO U $400: In 1965 this airline made the first nonstop commercial flight from the U.S. to Australia Qantas |
#8384, aired 2021-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE WHALES $400: Australia's humpback highway has whales splashing their position to attract mates; breaching is perhaps part of this procreative ritual courting |
#8379, aired 2021-04-15 | GEMS & JEWELRY $4,000 (Daily Double): The most prized of these flashy gems are the black ones, the actual colors can vary, from New South Wales, Australia an opal |
#8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A SWAMPY SITUATION $600: In 1961 heir & explorer Michael Rockefeller vanished forever in the Asmat Swamp of this huge island north of Australia New Guinea |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $400: In 1616 Dutch sailors sighted Australia when they ended up too far east after rounding this cape the Cape of Good Hope |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $800: In 1770 this then-lieutenant mapped Australia's east coast & claimed it for Britain Cook |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $1200: In 1873 the first European expedition crossed the Great this Desert (almost a stupid answer) the Great Sandy Desert |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $2000: In the 1830s Thomas Livingstone Mitchell named parts of what would soon be this southeast state Australia Felix, or Happy Australia Victoria |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $3,600 (Daily Double): This Dutchman charted the coast of North Australia in 1644 & got a sea & an island named for him Tasman |
#8337, aired 2021-02-16 | NATURAL CONSTRUCTION $800: The mounds of the cathedral type of these insects in Australia can be as tall as 26 feet termites |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | A STREAM OF TV $800: Netflix beat out the U.S. government to trademark this Steve Carell show's military title in Europe, Australia & Mexico Space Force |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | AMPHIBIANS $2000: This type of toad introduced to control pests on sugar crops has gotten out of control in places like Australia a cane toad |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | COUNTRY ROADS $600: The Snowy Mountains Highway, the Tasman Highway Australia |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SLOW TRANSPORTATION $1000: With gentle winds & lovely countryside to view from above, Canowindra is this transport capital of Australia ballooning |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | BOATS & SHIPS $2000: This clipper ship that sailed from Australia to London 25 days faster than other ships is now a sailing museum in Greenwich, London the Cutty Sark |
#8299, aired 2020-12-10 | ALL ROADS $400: On Australia's Great Ocean Road, you may get inspiration from the limestone towers known as this biblical dozen the (Twelve) Apostles |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | GEOGRAPHIC FOURS $1000: Of Australia's 4 most populous cities, 3 are in the east & this one is in the far southwest Perth |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | CENTRAL AMERICA $400: The second-largest one of these is found off Belize; the largest is the "Great" one off Australia a barrier reef |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | HATS AMORE! $600: Slouch hats are associated with this country; World War I cavalry soldiers from there would wear emu feathers on them Australia |
#8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOLOGY $800: These features have their disastrous downsides, but on the plus side many, such as Australia's Junction one, host gold deposits faults |
#8276, aired 2020-11-09 | AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS $400: With an area of about 840,000 square miles, it's the world's largest island Greenland |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | OK, BOOMERANG $200: Nonreturning boomerangs have been used by these first people of Australia for centuries to hunt, dig & skin animals the Aborigines |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | MAKING A 4 "A" $400: These nuts originated in Australia, not Hawaii macadamia |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | WHICH COUNTRY'S FOREST? $600: Fundy National Park Canada |
#8245, aired 2020-09-25 | 1920 $800: Providing taxi service & pleasure flights, this airline was founded in Queensland, Australia Qantas |
#8223, aired 2020-05-27 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Extending for more than 1,200 miles off the northeast coast of Australia is this natural wonder the Great Barrier Reef |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | WORLD FACTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Bass Strait separates this smallest state of Australia from the mainland Tasmania |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | NONFICTION $600: "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes chronicles this nation's founding as a product of the British penal system Australia |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $8,400 (Daily Double): Eucalypta, Kangaremu & Cookaburra were suggested names for this capital Canberra |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ROADS SCHOLAR $800: 9,000-mile Highway 1 completely circles this country, linking cities like Darwin & Adelaide Australia |
#8193, aired 2020-04-01 | HUGH JACKMAN $400: Hugh helped drive 2,000 head of cattle across the Outback in this 2008 epic as wide as the Down Under sky Australia |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | SHINY THINGS $400: Since the 1980s this country has had a shiny gold coin called the nugget; one version shows a wallaby Australia |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $1200: One variety of this insect from Australia can grow up to 2 feet long a stick bug |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HOW ABOUT DESERT? $600: Deserts of this country include the Great Sandy & the Great Victoria, the nation's largest Australia |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONTINENTAL $400: The sheep population of this continent is about 3 times the number of its people Australia |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONTINENTAL $1000: With a leg span of about 12 inches, the Goliath bird-eating spider is native to this continent South America |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $2000: By 1924 Imperial, the ancestor of this current airline, had routes to Australia, India & South Africa British Airways |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Australia's coat of arms has the kangaroo and this bird. Both symbolize the country's forward motion, as it's believed the animals don't like to move backwards an emu |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $4,000 (Daily Double): You'll find this state in Australia's lower right-hand corner New South Wales |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | "B"EASTS $600: No time to crash--some of these mouse-like marsupials of Australia have a gestation period of a mere 12 days a bandicoot |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | THE SPORTING LIFE $1000: 6'11" Mason Cox, a walk-on hoopster at OK. St., got his kicks as a Down Under star in this sport, playing in its grand final Australian rules football |
#8106, aired 2019-12-02 | THE ELECTORAL COLLAGE $2000: The Commonwealth Electoral Bill of 1924 made voting in federal elections compulsory in this country Australia |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $2000: "Swan River Mania" brought settlers to what's now "Western" this in 1829 Western Australia |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS REVEALED $800: A candid 1994 photo of Bob Hawke, ex-prime minister of this country, in his "swimmers", as they say, made a few waves Australia |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $1600: The tropic passes through Western Australia, Queensland & this territory in between them the Northern Territory |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The coastline of the state of Western Australia is mainly on this ocean the Indian |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | IT'S NOT AUSTRALIA $200: It was part of the Anschluss with Germany, not the Anzac that fought Germany Austria |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | IT'S NOT AUSTRALIA $400: It has twice as many people, 1.3 million of them in Córdoba, & it's in South America Argentina |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | IT'S NOT AUSTRALIA $600: 920,000 square miles, it also has a great, big sandy desert, but between Libya & Mali Algeria |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | IT'S NOT AUSTRALIA $800: It's in Transcaucasia, not Australasia, & its prime minister is named Pashinyan, not Morrison Armenia |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | IT'S NOT AUSTRALIA $1000: It has an area of 180 square miles, not 3 million, & it has princes, not a queen Andorra |
#8076, aired 2019-10-21 | ACCENTS $400: A 2019 survey ranked this island nation as having the sexiest accent; nearby Australia ranked fifth New Zealand |
#8068, aired 2019-10-09 | NOT THE CAPITAL $200: Of Australia, though it's the country's oldest city Sydney |
#8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NEAREST OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL $800: To Canberra, Australia Wellington, New Zealand |
#8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $2000: The longest river in this country, the Murray runs 1,570 miles Australia |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | MUSICAL MONUMENTS $1600: Statues of Bon Scott of this band are found in Scotland & Australia AC/DC |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IN THE AIR $2000: In 1979 this craft made news when it entered the atmosphere & broke apart over Australia Skylab |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | DESERT-POURRI $400: Ernest Giles' journal of crossing Australia's deserts says, "Oh, would that I had" these! "What are horses in such a region?" camels |
#8031, aired 2019-07-08 | "J"-6 $200: My sleep routine was way off due to this after I flew from Australia to Los Angeles jetlag |
#8028, aired 2019-07-03 | GEOGRAPHY $1600: Kings Canyon in this country's Northern Territory offers some spectacular views Australia |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $2000: A tournament in this sport named after a school is held yearly among Argentina, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand rugby |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | CROCS $400: Of course you can see crocs at the Australia Zoo, founded by the family of this late "Crocodile Hunter" (Steve) Irwin |
#8006, aired 2019-06-03 | CAPITAL "A" $1600: Called City of Churches, this capital of South Australia has the country's oldest Catholic cathedral Adelaide |
#7992, aired 2019-05-14 | GAME OF THORNS $600: A thwarted love affair between a Catholic priest & a young woman in Australia is at the heart of this 1977 bestseller The Thorn Birds |
#7987, aired 2019-05-07 | THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) Using facilities in Spain, Australia & California, JPL can monitor all space missions beyond the orbit of the Moon from mission control; those stations are spaced by this many degrees longitude, one-third of the globe, to maintain constant contact 120 |
#7984, aired 2019-05-02 | WORLD OF SPORT $200: In 1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in the first test match played by international teams in this sport cricket |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ROGUES GALLERY $6,600 (Daily Double): Depicted here is a gang of bushrangers, the sometimes romanticized bandits of this country Australia |
#7966, aired 2019-04-08 | ROOT '66 $800: Australia took a step away from mother Britain in '66 when it switched from pounds to this currency the dollar |
#7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST $600: A hearty brekkie of bacon & beans at La Veen Coffee in Perth Australia |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | COIN STAR $600: Introduced in 1988, Australia's 2-dollar coin depicts a traditional Aboriginal man & this constellation the Southern Cross |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Wolverine's claws were donated by this actor to help Australia's Fight Cancer Foundation Hugh Jackman |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $2,200 (Daily Double): Billy Hughes spent WWI advocating this wartime practice, which split Australia as it later did the U.S. in the 1960s the draft |
#7932, aired 2019-02-19 | ALEX' BUCKET LIST $400: Having been to every continent except this one, the smallest, puts it on the list Australia |
#7925, aired 2019-02-08 | ISLANDS $1200: The smallest known vertebrate is an 8-millimeter frog found in 2010 on this second-largest island, near Australia New Guinea |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WWF $1200: Extinct on mainland Australia, this marsupial is now found only on the island in its name Tasmanian devils |
#7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $400: Some of New Zealand's first colonists were convicts from the penal colony in this nearby land Australia |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | DISASTER AVERTED $400: In February 1942 this country's Sydney Morning Herald ran headlines about a Japanese invasion that never came Australia |
#7918, aired 2019-01-30 | VALLEYS $800: In odd-numbered years, Australia's Barossa Valley holds a festival for this, a major product of the region wine |
#7907, aired 2019-01-15 | "WEST" WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): Perth is the capital of this foreign state Western Australia |
#7903, aired 2019-01-09 | PLACES $1600: It's been called Australia's "Second City" & was the second city named a UNESCO City of Literature Melbourne |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | SCHOOL UNIFORMS $200: In some schools in Australia, both boys and girls wear this hot type of jacket a blazer |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $400: Boring, Oregon & Dull, Scotland are informal sister communities; some wanted to say g'day to Bland in this foreign nation Australia |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $400: In Australia, Hungry Jack's is home to the Whopper, found at this chain in America Burger King |
#7847, aired 2018-10-23 | THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY $1600: Alice Springs & the Simpson Desert Australia |
#7843, aired 2018-10-17 | CELEBRITY POLITICIANS $1600: Peter Garrett, lead singer for Midnight Oil, was in this country's House of Representatives for almost a decade Australia |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | TRAVEL BOOKS $200: Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country" takes us to this continent with its unique animals & friendly people too Australia |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $1600: Australia's economy was transformed when the Merino type of this arrived in 1797 wool (or sheep) |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | MAMMALS $400: Beware of dog, especially this wild predator of Australia a dingo |
#7817, aired 2018-09-11 | SCIENCE AROUND US $800: Many invertebrates comprising this 1,400-mile structure off Australia died in 2016 the Great Barrier Reef |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | I WANT TO GO NUTS! $600: In Australia, this 2-word nuts, seeds & dried fruit combo is known as scroggin...wait a minute; where did you get M&Ms? trail mix |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NOVELS $400: In Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice", a young woman survives WWII in Asia & then starts a new life in this country's bush Australia |
#7776, aired 2018-06-04 | COUNTRY FACTS $1600: It's Australia's most populous state New South Wales |
#7774, aired 2018-05-31 | FLY, YOU FOOLS! $400: Over 1,700 miles, the Outback Way is called this continent's "longest shortcut"--try Qantas Australia |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | ISLANDS $2000: New Caledonia & the Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific are part of an overseas possession of this country France |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | CIAO, CASSINI! $400: Launched in 1997, Cassini was a joint venture by NASA, the European Space Agency & the ASI, the space agency of this country Italy |
#7754, aired 2018-05-03 | IT BEARS MY NAME $1000: These 2 states of Australia Victoria and Queensland |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | THE SEA SECTION $1600: The northern part of this sea hits Papua New Guinea; on its west, Australia, noted for a certain reef the Coral Sea |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $6,400 (Daily Double): The Snowy Mountains are a range in this country's Alps Australia |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES $800: About 3% of Australia's population are these indigenous people, from the Latin for "from the beginning" Aborigines |
#7728, aired 2018-03-28 | LEAGUES $5,000 (Daily Double): In the 19th century the Land League on this island sought to gain more rights from their British landlords Ireland |
#7724, aired 2018-03-22 | ON THE BOARD GAME $1000: Western Australia,
Kamchatka Risk |
#7716, aired 2018-03-12 | THE LAKE SHOW $2000: In 1802 Matthew Flinders discovered the rather unusual-looking & very salty Lake Hillier in this nation Australia |
#7700, aired 2018-02-16 | IN A HALL OF FAME $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2011 both The Wiggles & Kylie Minogue were inducted into this country's Recording Industry Hall of Fame Australia |
#7683, aired 2018-01-24 | ONLY GEOGRAPHY $400: The only continent without glaciers Australia |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | A WOOLLY CATEGORY $800: With about 25% of the global total, this commonwealth nation leads the world in wool production Australia |
#7649, aired 2017-12-07 | DESERTS $400: A single national park in the Simpson desert occupies 4,000 square miles of Queensland in this country Australia |
#7644, aired 2017-11-30 | IN THE JUNGLE $1200: A rainforest recently explored in this 4th-most populous country revealed new & unknown species of kangaroos Indonesia |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $800: One of Australia's most beloved poems is Banjo Paterson's "The Man from" this river Snowy River |
#7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: Places on the map named for her include a land in Antarctica & a state in Australia Victoria |
#7623, aired 2017-11-01 | KEVIN $1200: A leading member of the Labor Party, Kevin Rudd was prime minister of this nation from 2007 to 2010 Australia |
#7619, aired 2017-10-26 | WORLD OF TELESCOPES $400: The largest single optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is found in this country's Northern Cape Province South Africa |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | WORLD LEADERS $4,200 (Daily Double): Also MP for Wentworth, Malcolm Turnbull is PM of this, one of the world's 10 largest countries in area Australia |
#7594, aired 2017-09-21 | NOT THEIR FIRST RODEO $1600: Head to Jindabyne in this country for its annual Man from Snow River Rodeo Australia |
#7590, aired 2017-09-15 | SEAS $1000: This sea off Australia's east coast is named for invertebrate marine organisms the Coral Sea |
#7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name La Niña |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $400: Shifting priorities prompted Samoa to adjust this line in 2011 to go back to the future & be on the same day as Australia the international date line |
#7564, aired 2017-06-29 | INVERTEBRATES $1000: The giant triton species of this gastropod is protected in Australia because it eats starfish that feed on coral the snail |
#7561, aired 2017-06-26 | PLACES IN CONTINENTS $200: It's in Australia, it's big, hot & empty, & it's called the Great Sandy this desert |
#7552, aired 2017-06-13 | JOBS TAKEN BY AUTOMATONS $600: In Australia, this--at least the robot won't cry wolf like the one in Aesop sheep herding |
#7543, aired 2017-05-31 | CAMEL LOT $200: Camels were brought to this country to work in the Outback; today, it has the world's largest herd, about 750,000 Australia |
#7539, aired 2017-05-25 | OCEANOGRAPHY $400: There are 3 main types of coral reefs: fringing, atolls & this, like the one off Australia a barrier reef |
#7534, aired 2017-05-18 | MOURNING ASSEMBLY $400: In response to Australia's 1938 sesquicentenary, this group held a day of mourning that has since been a yearly event the Aborigines |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | STRANGER THINGS $200: The billy goat plum of Australia contains 100 times more of this vitamin than an orange vitamin C |
#7526, aired 2017-05-08 | THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Its northernmost point is Cape York, Queensland, which juts into the Torres Strait Australia |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WE'RE GOING LONG $200: 9,900 miles lie between these capitals of Austria & Australia Vienna and Canberra |
#7518, aired 2017-04-26 | NOVEL COUNTRIES $400: "The Thorn Birds" Australia |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $1600: This island known for its great wineries is just a short hop by plane from Adelaide, Australia Kangaroo Island |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's Down Under slang for Australia itself Oz |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | "C" ALL THE ANIMALS $800: Unlike most parrots, this parrot of Australia & New Guinea can raise & lower its crest of feathers a cockatoo |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | ISLAND PRISONS $800: If you were already a convict banished to this nation & committed a crime, you got sent to a tougher prison on Norfolk Island Australia |
#7482, aired 2017-03-07 | A WATERY BORDER $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the largest nation in area that borders the Coral Sea Australia |
#7468, aired 2017-02-15 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS $2000: Australia's most populous state is the one with this 3-letter abbreviation NSW |
#7451, aired 2017-01-23 | NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $400: Eucalyptus is common in Southwest National Park on this island state of Australia Tasmania |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AUSTRALIANA $200: In 1927 Australia celebrated the transfer of its federal parliament from Melbourne to here Canberra |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AUSTRALIANA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Equal in size & volume to about 10 chicken eggs & dark green in color which helps camouflage it in a nest of grass & leaves, one of the largest bird eggs belongs to this big bird of Australia an emu |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | THE 1700s $200: In 1787 the first ships bearing these people, more than 700, were sent to Australia convicts |
#7430, aired 2016-12-23 | ON EARTH $1600: This capital of Australia's Victoria state was founded in 1835 by John Fawkner & Batman...John Batman, that is Melbourne |
#7428, aired 2016-12-21 | WHERE $1000: In Australia's Northern Territory, 1,141 feet high, 5.8 miles around its base Ayers Rock |
#7425, aired 2016-12-16 | COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES $1600: Tuvalu, a small island country in the South Pacific, uses the dollar of this country 2,000 miles away Australia |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | THAT'S JUST NUTS! $600: Hawaii is the USA's largest exporter of these nuts native to Australia & crazy high in fat content macadamias |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | EVERY CLAIM YOU STAKE $1600: In the mid-19th century, Dumont d'Urville claimed Adelie Land, part of here, for the French Antarctica |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: For Medicine,
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Australia |
#7402, aired 2016-11-15 | LYRICS IN OTHER NATIONAL ANTHEMS $800: "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross, we'll...make this commonwealth of ours renowned of all the lands" Australia |
#7400, aired 2016-11-11 | WHICH CONTINENT? $800: Is where you'd find the Adelie Coast Antarctica |
#7393, aired 2016-11-02 | THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... $400: lies in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, with a slouch hat & a sprig of wattle Australia |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NAME THE CAPITAL $400: Australia Canberra |
#7385, aired 2016-10-21 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: The 2016 Victorian Architecture Medal went not to a 19th-century styled building, but to the Geelong Library in Victoria in this country Australia |
#7368, aired 2016-09-28 | SPIDERS $400: This country's Sydney funnel web spider is extremely venomous; its fangs can bite through a fingernail! Australia |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | PUT IT THERE $400: Ayers Rock:
this country Australia |
#7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AUSTRAILIAN WILDLIFE $1200: This largest carnivorous marsupial & its ornery disposition are now confined to Australia's island state the Tasmanian devil |
#7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AUSTRAILIAN WILDLIFE $2000: 2 of the world's 3 largest birds live in Australia & both are flightless: the cassowary & this one an emu |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | SWEET ISLE OF MINE $1200: East Wallabi Island Australia |
#7282, aired 2016-04-19 | CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS $1200: Australia & Morocco Canberrabat |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | ODDS & "N"s $800: Australia also has a region called this, but theirs doesn't include Vermont & Connecticut New England |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SYDNEY $400: Sydney's 110,000-seat Stadium Australia, designed primarily to host this event, opened in 1999 the Summer Olympics |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SYDNEY $1200: Sydney is situated on an inlet of this sea that separates Australia & New Zealand; we hope you're Abel to name it the Tasman Sea |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SYDNEY $1600: Sydney is the capital of this state in Australia's southeast corner New South Wales |
#7275, aired 2016-04-08 | 7 UP $400: At about 3 million square miles, it's the smallest of the world's 7 continents Australia |
#7266, aired 2016-03-28 | THE 1880s $1200: The 1883 eruption of this Indonesian volcano was heard as far away as Perth, Australia Krakatoa |
#7264, aired 2016-03-24 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1200: Its anthem contains the line "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross" Australia |
#7255, aired 2016-03-11 | EXPLORATION $400: Roald Amundsen reached this point in December 1911 & told the world 3 months later in a telegram from Australia the South Pole |
#7252, aired 2016-03-08 | ALL THE GLITTERING PRIZES $400: Finally in 1983, after 132 years, Australia II became the first foreign yacht to win this prize the America's Cup |
#7243, aired 2016-02-24 | STRIKE OUT $400: Strike "out" from a part of Australia & get this part of your anatomy back (from Outback) |
#7243, aired 2016-02-24 | WORLD FACTS $1200: Oddly, Australia's highest peak is named for this Polish patriot Kosciuszko |
#7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THIRD $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) His third voyage went around the Cape of Good Hope, past Australia & New Zealand, up to Vancouver island, then the Bering Sea, & the final stop for this captain was in Hawaii in 1779 Cook |
#7240, aired 2016-02-19 | A GOOD VIEW AT THE OPERA $1600: The last name taken by this dame was derived from her Down Under hometown Dame Nellie Melba |
#7236, aired 2016-02-15 | WHERE YA FROM? $200: People from the Perth area of this country are "Sandgropers" Australia |
#7235, aired 2016-02-12 | AROUND THE WHIRLED $200: Country near Australia:
ZEN LAD ANEW New Zealand |
#7234, aired 2016-02-11 | DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a picture of a plane and a map of Australia on the monitor.) In Australia's remote areas, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has dozens of bases providing airborne care; the Alice Springs base serves nearly half a million square miles of this territory the Northern Territory |
#7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WITH FOAM $200: High winds stir up a lot of foam on the coast north of Brisbane, Queensland, this country Australia |
#7227, aired 2016-02-02 | LET'S "GO" $1200: In Australia, it's also known as a warrigal a dingo |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | POP SONGS OF 2015 $800: "Zero" was big for this singer, but domestic violence issues resulted in denial of his visa for a trip to Australia Chris Brown |
#7221, aired 2016-01-25 | ON THIS CONTINENT $1000: The Republic of Tannu-Tuva, now Tyva Asia |
#7215, aired 2016-01-15 | HOLY HOUSES $800: Consecrated in 1845, the Hobart synagogue in this island state is Australia's oldest surviving Jewish house of worship Tasmania |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $2000: It took until 1956, but finally a Southern Hemisphere city hosted--this one Melbourne, Australia |
#7209, aired 2016-01-07 | TRAINS $1600: The Indian Pacific's route between Sydney & this capital of Western Australia has a record 297 miles of straight track Perth |
#7207, aired 2016-01-05 | LODGE PODGE $800: The Lodge is the name of the prime minister of Australia's
official residence in this city Canberra |
#7200, aired 2015-12-25 | THE LARGEST COUNTRY... $400: Entirely outside Asia, by area Canada |
#7200, aired 2015-12-25 | THE LARGEST COUNTRY... $5,000 (Daily Double): Entirely south of the Equator, by area Australia |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $200: This actress who played Satine in "Moulin Rouge!" was actually born in Honolulu Nicole Kidman |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $400: A surprise about this original "Mad Max": He was born in Peekskill, New York Mel Gibson |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $600: At my signal unleash your response of this Wellington, New Zealand-born actor & Oscar winner Russell Crowe |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $800: "You're the One That I Want" hit No. 1 in 1978 for John Travolta & this Cambridge, England-born woman Olivia Newton-John |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $1000: The British Isles was the birthplace of the Disco kings of the '70s, this band of brothers the Bee Gees |
#7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NORTH & SOUTH $800: The next country due north of Australia's northernmost point is this 3-named one Papua New Guinea |
#7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NATURE'S WONDERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Called a "saltie" by the Aussies, the saltwater this of Northern Australia is one of the world's largest reptiles a crocodile |
#7176, aired 2015-11-23 | STAND UP $800: Her "Uganda Be Kidding Me Live" show came to Australia, New Zealand & Netflix Chelsea Handler |
#7157, aired 2015-10-27 | THAT'S OLD STUFF $800: Crystallized some 4.4 billion years ago, zircons found in Australia are the Earth's oldest known of these rock constituents minerals |
#7147, aired 2015-10-13 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II $2000: This WWII battle was named for the area of water between Australia & New Caledonia the Battle of the Coral Sea |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO $1200: The 2 countries farthest south that recognize Elizabeth as queen New Zealand & Australia |
#7132, aired 2015-09-22 | ROCKET MAN $1000: Rod "The Rocket" Laver of this country is tennis' only repeat Grand Slam winner Australia |
#7131, aired 2015-09-21 | RED-LETTER DAY $2000: On April 29, 1770 Captain James Cook arrived at this bay in present-day Sydney, Australia, naming it Sting-Ray Harbour Botany Bay |
#7109, aired 2015-07-09 | WELCOME TO BOOZETOWN! $800: This "White Label" brand was founded in Perth (Scotland, not Australia) in 1846 Dewar's |
#7092, aired 2015-06-16 | WORLD LIT $400: "The Fallen Race" is a sci-fi novel set in Australia about the Anonos, spawn of humans & these marsupials kangaroos |
#7087, aired 2015-06-09 | SPORTS AWARDS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a famous trophy.) Since 1851, the America's Cup trophy has been won by just six yacht clubs--New York, San Diego, Golden Gate, one from Switzerland, & clubs from these two southern-hemisphere countries Australia & New Zealand |
#7073, aired 2015-05-20 | CAVES $1600: The 5-mile perimeter of this sandstone rock in Australia is dotted with numerous shallow caves Ayers Rock |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | FOREBEARS $400 (Daily Double): For the Gagudju & other Aboriginals of this country, "the Dreaming" is the time of their ancestor spirits Australia |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | SHARK TANK $800: In Australia what's called "flake" is actually shark meat & is the most popular fish in fish 'n' these chips |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | WORLD OF WATERCRAFT $200: In 1932 Oskar Speck paddled from Germany to Australia in one of these whose name is Inuit for "small boat of skins" a kayak |
#7056, aired 2015-04-27 | WHIP SMART $800: The crack of one of this country's long-handled stockwhips signaled the start of the 2000 Summer Olympics Australia |
#7048, aired 2015-04-15 | YES, PRIME MINISTER $1600: In 2014 Tony Abbott of this Commonwealth country said he'd "shirt-front" Vladimir Putin over Ukraine Australia |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | TREATIES $800: The acronym ANZUS is a security treaty signed in 1951 by these 2 nations & the United States Australia & New Zealand |
#7017, aired 2015-03-03 | GEOGRAPHIC ETYMOLOGY $400: Just under 3 million square miles, it gets its name from a Latin phrase that translates to "unknown southern land" Australia |
#7016, aired 2015-03-02 | HIDDEN GEMS $1600: Stop along the way to Australia's Lightning Ridge Field & you may find the prized black type of this opal (in Stop along) |
#7012, aired 2015-02-24 | ANIMAL PLANET $800: The Banff Springs snail: this country Canada |
#7011, aired 2015-02-23 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Ports on this reef-filled sea include Brisbane, Australia & Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea the Coral Sea |
#7008, aired 2015-02-18 | MY MOVIES $1600: Starring Judy Davis & set in bygone Australia:
"My Brilliant ____" Career |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $3,000 (Daily Double): This island nation with a directional name splits oil revenues with Australia, not its old master Indonesia East Timor |
#6982, aired 2015-01-13 | BRR, BABY, BRR $800: This continent's record low, -23 Celsius, was recorded in the Snowy Mountains on June 29, 1994 Australia |
#6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE WALLABY $800: Not all wallabies live in Australia; several types of forest wallaby live on this large island directly to the north New Guinea |
#6961, aired 2014-12-15 | I'LL BE "BACK" $800: Said to cover 75-to-80% of Australia the Outback |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY SHOES $800: Brian Smith founded this brand in 1979 to import sheepskin boots to the U.S. from Australia Uggs |
#6954, aired 2014-12-04 | PLACES, EVERYBODY $400: Country:
It's 2 letters shorter & much smaller than Australia, & it's German-speaking Austria |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): On Jan. 26, 1808 George Johnston of Australia's New South Wales Corps led a mutiny vs. this governor & arrested him William Bligh |
#6947, aired 2014-11-25 | FROM "E" TO "U" $800: Africa has the ostrich; Australia has this the emu |
#6946, aired 2014-11-24 | CONTINENTAL $1000: It has about the same population as the state of Texas Australia |
#6945, aired 2014-11-21 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $2,800 (Daily Double): The Barossa Valley just north of this capital of South Australia is known for its vineyards & great wines Adelaide |
#6925, aired 2014-10-24 | GEOGRAPHUN $1600: (Sarah points to a map)
Though it's 3,000 miles wide, China has only one time zone. At 2,500 miles wide, Australia has three, and the one used in this state Is the same one for all of China. Western Australia |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | THE OUTBACK $200: These 1st people of Australia & noted Outback dwellers numbered at least 500,000 when Euros arrived in 1788 but only 62,000 by 1921 the Aborigines |
#6910, aired 2014-10-03 | HOLIDAY $600: In Australia, Eight Hours Day was the original name of this holiday Labor Day |
#6899, aired 2014-09-18 | GEMS $400: Dive, mate! The waters of Australia are rich in the white south sea variety of these gems pearls |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | MILITARY FIRSTS $1600: The digger hat is synonymous
with this nation's army, which first wore it
in 1885 Australia |
#6891, aired 2014-07-28 | THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER $1600: Of this continent: in the south of the Northern Territory Australia |
#6884, aired 2014-07-17 | THE HIGHWAYMEN $800: 19th century highwaymen known as bushrangers terrorized this continent Australia |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: This country's longest river, the Waikato, winds north & west before entering the Tasman Sea New Zealand |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR $2000: Australia's first parliament opened on May 9, 1901 in this city in the state of Victoria Melbourne |
#6854, aired 2014-06-05 | SHEEP-POURRI $200: In Australia a sheep farm is called one of these, the second "S" in the l.S.S. station |
#6851, aired 2014-06-02 | LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL $200: Little League is now in 80+ countries; in 2013, Perth Metro became the first team from this one to reach the World Series Australia |
#6841, aired 2014-05-19 | THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY $800: Austria,
Australia,
Argentina Argentina |
#6840, aired 2014-05-16 | LAKES & RIVERS $1600: Murray is not just your cousin the dentist but also this country's major river, at more than 1,500 miles Australia |
#6839, aired 2014-05-15 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $600: Though the emu is taller, this relative is the heaviest bird in Australia a cassowary |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FEATURING FLAGS $2000: A black one of these birds is featured on the flag of Western Australia a swan |
#6830, aired 2014-05-02 | THE 4 Rs $800: Australia's "Great" one extends about 1,400 miles Barrier Reef |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia, she wrote 1934's "Mary Poppins" & several sequels P.L. Travers |
#6805, aired 2014-03-28 | 5-LETTER MAMMALS $600: The prey of this wild dog of Australia includes kangaroos & wallabies a dingo |
#6793, aired 2014-03-12 | MEDICAL PROBLEMS $2000: With 40,000 cases in 2011, Australia was hit by an epidemic of this respiratory ailment that can be fatal in babies whooping cough |
#6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ISLAND PRISONS $400: In the 1840s convicts sent to Australia's Cockatoo Island in this city's harbor had to build their own prison Sydney |
#6779, aired 2014-02-20 | COLD-BLOODED KILLERS $200: Research on this beast's vision led to a wet suit developed in Australia to look as unlike its usual prey as possible a shark |
#6776, aired 2014-02-17 | KIWI FAUNA $800: Wallabies & brush-tailed possums arrived in New Zealand from this neighbor Australia |
#6742, aired 2013-12-31 | THAT'S OUR ISLAND! $400: Kangaroo Island Australia |
#6729, aired 2013-12-12 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $2,800 (Daily Double): In 1925 Australia sent the San Diego Zoo Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, its first pair of these koalas |
#6727, aired 2013-12-10 | FILE UNDER "Q" $800: It's Australia's "Sunshine State" Queensland |
#6727, aired 2013-12-10 | "N" THE ATLAS $1000: This 8-square-mile island northeast of Australia is the world's smallest republic Nauru |
#6710, aired 2013-11-15 | THE ONION DESCRIBES THE COUNTRY $400: Enjoy this country's "Vegemite Mine" & "Paul Hogan Institute of Knife Identification" Australia |
#6708, aired 2013-11-13 | YES, NOVEMBER! $400: This sporting event got underway in Melbourne, Australia on November 22, 1956 the Summer Olympics |
#6705, aired 2013-11-08 | FROM THE "OL" COUNTRY $1600: We sing the song of this island country in the Pacific about 1,000 miles N.E. of Australia--actually, we won't the Solomon Islands |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BEERS TO YOU! $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Sydney, Australia.) American visitors to Australia have a great heritage: in 1886, two New York City brothers with this name arrived, built a brewery & went home, but they've been quenching Aussie thirsts ever since Foster's |
#6690, aired 2013-10-18 | GEMS $1200: Australia produces some of the finest examples of these gems opals |
#6685, aired 2013-10-11 | ___ING ___ $1,000 (Daily Double): Australia's unofficial national anthem "Waltzing Matilda" |
#6671, aired 2013-09-23 | HAWAII... NOT! $600: Australia's Gibson Desert was named for an expedition member who died searching for this water |
#6668, aired 2013-09-18 | HAIL MARY $600: Once excommunicated by the Bishop of Adelaide, Mary MacKillop became the first Catholic st. of this country Australia |
#6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $600 (Daily Double): The greatest width of this ocean spans about 6,200 miles befween Africa & Australia the Indian Ocean |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS $600: A container in Australia can |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | THE APPLE STORE $1200: The Beatles used this green apple variety from Australia as the logo of Apple Records Granny Smith |
#6650, aired 2013-07-12 | COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS $1000: Lake Eyre Australia |
#6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WORLD HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The 1st planned convict settlement in Australia was at this bay named for its abundance and variety of life Botany Bay |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $400: It's the capital of the state of New South Wales & it's Australia's largest city Sydney |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This capital of Victoria was the first capital of Australia, serving from 1901 to 1927 Melbourne |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $2000: This capital of Western Australia is famous for the black swans along the Swan River Perth |
#6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: In Australia, Northern Territory is directly east of this 2-word state Western Australia |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $1,000 (Daily Double): January 13, 1939:
Record summer heat sparks "bushfires" that ravage millions of acres in this country Australia |
#6603, aired 2013-05-08 | ISLANDS $400: In 1906 Britain transferred the territory of Papua on this island to the jurisdiction of Australia New Guinea |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | QUIRKY NEWS $600: Some golf opens have weather delays; the one in this country, seen here, was delayed by interference on the fairway Australia |
#6580, aired 2013-04-05 | WORLD "S"ITIES $400: Sometimes called the "Gateway to Australia", it's the oldest city on the continent Sydney |
#6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): This capital of Australia's Northern Territory lies on Beagle Gulf Darwin |
#6574, aired 2013-03-28 | ON THE MONEY $2,400 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Sydney, Australia.) Australia's $2 coin depicts an aboriginal tribal elder set against the background of native grass trees & this constellation the Southern Cross |
#6559, aired 2013-03-07 | MARRY LAND $800: Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban, June 25, 2006 Australia |
#6554, aired 2013-02-28 | ON WHAT CONTINENT? $400: The Great Victoria desert Australia |
#6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $600: Soaked up Australia's Gold Coast for the "Quicksilver Pro" that kicks off the world tour of this sport surfing |
#6534, aired 2013-01-31 | MEET THE MONOTREMES! $2000: The short-beaked echidna is native to Australia; the long-beaked one, to this island New Guinea |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | SWANS $200: Fully black swans are native only to this country, & the Sydney Swans sports team is only found there, too Australia |
#6525, aired 2013-01-18 | THE AMAZING SPIDER $400: Countless spiders built these webs after 2012 floods forced them to higher ground in Wagga Wagga, in this country Australia |
#6508, aired 2012-12-26 | SHIP SHAPE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.) The CLS4 Carpenteria was built in 1917 to be a floating one of these; a sunlight-operated valve on the unmanned ship turned on the acetylene beacon a lighthouse |
#6507, aired 2012-12-25 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $400: Discovered there around 1770, cockatiels are native to this continent Australia |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | ALL OVER THE WORLD $400: Mainland Australia's northernmost point, Cape York, is in this "royal" state Queensland |
#6502, aired 2012-12-18 | SPORTS TERMS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew walks on the beach at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.) This basic swimming stroke used by lifesavers was pioneered in Australia during a rescue approach; it's modified to keep the head out of the water & the rescuer's eyes on the victim the Australian crawl |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | WORLD AUTHORS $800: This "Thorn Birds" author established the department of neurophysiology at a hospital in Sydney, Australia Colleen McCullough |
#6473, aired 2012-11-07 | EDUCATION NATION $1200: The University of Adelaide Australia |
#6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $200: The Capricorn highway lies on the Tropic of Capricorn in the state of Queensland in this country Australia |
#6455, aired 2012-10-12 | PREHISTORIC TIMES $400: The procoptodon, a 450-pound one of these, jumped all over Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch a kangaroo |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: It's the remote rural area not only of Australia but of New Zealand as well the Outback |
#6452, aired 2012-10-09 | GOIN' COUNTRY $400: Settled as a prison colony in 1788, this country averages only about 8 people per square mile Australia |
#6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Stewart Island, this Down Under country's third-largest island, is 1/66th & 1/87th the size of the 2 biggest New Zealand |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | THE 19th CENTURY $600: Captured & hanged in 1880, Ned Kelly was a legendary bushranger outlaw of this country Australia |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | FIRST FEMALE LEADERS $1200: Prime Minister Kim Campbell
(1993) Canada |
#6442, aired 2012-09-25 | THE ADMIRALS CLUB $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a figurehead in the Sydney, Australia Nat'l Maritime Museum.) The figurehead of this famed admiral, who died off Cape Trafalgar & became an English national hero, comes from an 1814 British battleship Nelson |
#6432, aired 2012-07-31 | NAME THAT CONTINENT $800: The Brisbane River Australia |
#6426, aired 2012-07-23 | MACADAMIA $200: Macadamias originated in the rain forests of what's now Queensland in this country Australia |
#6424, aired 2012-07-19 | RIVER COUNTRY $1600: The Fraser (about 850 miles) Canada |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | IT'S THE TRUTH $600: Of the 6 states of Australia, the largest by area is this "directional" one Western Australia |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: In May 1787 Captain Arthur Phillip set sail from England to Australia with some 200 guards & 800 of these & their families prisoners (or convicts) |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | FACE THE NATION $200: Summer in this country lasts from December to February Australia |
#6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $400: The Nobel folks said the tales of Patrick White "introduced" this continent "into literature" Australia |
#6397, aired 2012-06-12 | WHAT'S FOR DESERT? $2000: Australia's western Outback consists mostly of 3 deserts: the Gibson, the Great Sandy & the Great this Victoria |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | SHEEP $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Tobruk Sheep Station in Australia.) Sheep are usually shorn once a year in this season, before the new lambs are born; in Australia, the new season officially begins September 1st spring |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | SHEEP $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Tobruk Sheep Station in Australia.) A human & dogs gathering a group of sheep together are said to be doing this, also a verb used for gathering military personnel together for duty mustering |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | SHEEP $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Tobruk Sheep Station in Australia.) A mythic figure in Australia is the person with this job of driving animals across vast distances; he was expected to move sheep 6 miles a day, which may not seem like much, until you try it drover |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | SHEEP $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Tobruk Sheep Station in Australia.) Australia's wool industry, producing one-fourth of the world's supply, began about 200 years ago with the importing of this breed of sheep originally from Spain Merino |
#6385, aired 2012-05-25 | THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE AIR $200: This airline says it's got the "Spirit of Australia" (but still no U in its name) Qantas |
#6379, aired 2012-05-17 | "DAR" $1200: This capital of Australia's Northern Territory is named for an evolutionary scientist Darwin |
#6371, aired 2012-05-07 | POP CULTURE $1200: This 3-letter word comes before "Australia" in the name of a brand of sheepskin boots introduced to the U.S. by Brian Smith Ugg |
#6369, aired 2012-05-03 | INDONESIA $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) The zoological boundary known as Wallace's Line runs through the Indonesian islands; animal life on the left is classed Asian, & on the right, including bowerbirds & marsupials, is the class named for this continent Australia |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CENTER FIELD $600: The MacDonnell Ranges cross the Red Centre, a sprawling area in this country's Northern Territory Australia |
#6343, aired 2012-03-28 | AUSSIES & THE SEA $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.) Ken Warby wanted to break the world speed record for boats, so he built the "Spirit of Australia", a wooden type of this craft that makes little contact with the water; 288 miles per hour later, he had his record a hydroplane |
#6338, aired 2012-03-21 | FLIGHT $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a Qantas flight simulator in Sydney, Australia.) The four forces that act on a plane in flight include lift, gravity, & drag; by pushing these levers forward, we're increasing this fourth force that counteracts drag thrust |
#6334, aired 2012-03-15 | 1N, 2N, 3N, 4N, 5 $200: This wild dog of Australia is also known as a warrigal a dingo |
#6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SALUTE THE FLAGS $400: This constellation appears on the flags of Australia, New Zealand & Papua New Guinea the southern cross |
#6308, aired 2012-02-08 | LITERARY LOCALES $200: "Kangaroo" by D.H. Lawrence:
This country Australia |
#6307, aired 2012-02-07 | GEOGRAPHIC MEANINGS $400: A big country:
"Southern Land" Australia |
#6304, aired 2012-02-02 | JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD $400: Australia's first university was the University of this city Sydney |
#6301, aired 2012-01-30 | PLACE $400: It's Australia's second-most populous city Melbourne |
#6286, aired 2012-01-09 | THE SEA AROUND US $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Australia.) This section of water known as the Backpacker's Express carries unwary tourists out to sea; it's one of these currents, similar to an undertow, that draws water away from shore a rip current |
#6284, aired 2012-01-05 | ARMY STRONG $200: Its army has about 30,000 permanent troops, with about 11,000 stationed in Queensland Australia |
#6265, aired 2011-12-09 | THE WORLD PRESS $800: Founded in 1831, this city's Morning Herald is Australia's oldest continuously published newspaper Sydney |
#6254, aired 2011-11-24 | HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.) A relative of the plesiosaurs, this 42-foot reptile terrorized the seas of the early Cretaceous period; called Kronosaurus queenslandicus, it was discovered on a 1931 Harvard expedition to this continent Australia |
#6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) Koalas have adapted their diet with an extra long gut to break down poisons in these leaves & sleep 20 hours a day due to a lack of nutrition in the leaves eucalyptus |
#6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) The eastern gray kangaroo can cover 25 feet in a single leap, & they're widespread in this, the country's smallest state Tasmania |
#6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) It's the world's largest burrowing animal & can make a destructive tunnel complex 650 feet long, so farmers don't find it as cute as zoo-goers might a wombat |
#6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) The arrival of foxes in Western Australia in the 1920s was bad news for the quokka, a type of this kangaroo relative a wallaby |
#6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) This egg-laying mammal has no teeth with which to eat; its taxonomic name is Tachyglossidae, or "fast tongue" the echidna |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANTHROPOLOGY $400: The 42,000-year-old Panaramitee petroglyphs in Australia have symbols that man etched into these stone |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | AIRPORT CODES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a Qantas flight simulator in Australia.) The Qantas A380 flight simulator has a training visual database of over 130 airports, naturally including Australia's busiest one, which goes by this 3-letter code SYD |
#6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $1200: Cook's first visit to Australia was tagged onto a voyage to this South Seas island later visited by Captain Bligh Tahiti |
#6208, aired 2011-09-21 | TREES $2,500 (Daily Double): Brought over from Australia, blue gum is the USA's most common variety of this tree eucalyptus |
#6201, aired 2011-07-25 | HOW CONTINENTAL! $400: This continent covers only about 5% of the earth's land area; deserts cover about 1/3 of the continent Australia |
#6196, aired 2011-07-18 | COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Sydney, Australia.) Australia was the first country to start making bills out of this; they improve security & last much longer than paper bills, if you don't spend them plastic |
#6195, aired 2011-07-15 | LIFESAVING AT BONDI BEACH $200: (Sarah gives the clue from Bondi Beach.) The familiar red-&-yellow flags & uniforms of Australia's lifesavers originated with the maritime code signals, in which a red-and-yellow flag stood for the letter "O", which was used to signal man in this predicament overboard |
#6190, aired 2011-07-08 | CUTE & CUDDLY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew leaves a koala be at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) No matter how cuddly they look, visitors to Taronga Zoo are not allowed to hold koalas, which are often mistakenly called this type of animal bear |
#6187, aired 2011-07-05 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Maori is an official language of this island country about 1,000 miles southeast of Australia New Zealand |
#6186, aired 2011-07-04 | REALLY BIG COUNTRIES $1600: This country's highest point, Mount Kosciuszko, lies in the state of New South Wales Australia |
#6176, aired 2011-06-20 | RHYME TIME $2000: The jargon of a wild dog of Australia dingo lingo |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AUSTRALIAN MOVIES $400: Rockatansky is the last name of the title character of this 1979 film set in a dystopian future Australia Mad Max |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AUSTRALIAN MOVIES $800: Though this sheep-herding pig was created in a book by an Englishman, the movie was set in Australia Babe |
#6146, aired 2011-05-09 | EXPLORERS $400: In 1923 his Endeavour journal was acquired by the National Library of Australia Capt. Cook |
#6143, aired 2011-05-04 | SISTER CITIES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.) In less than 13 1/2 hours, Qantas flies direct from Sydney, the home of the Harbour Bridge, to this U.S. sister city that also has a famous bridge San Francisco |
#6122, aired 2011-04-05 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $2000: Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia includes this monolith, which aboriginals of the region call Uluru Ayers Rock |
#6119, aired 2011-03-31 | JUST GET A MOVE ON $1,000 (Daily Double): The large wedge-tail eagle is the emblem for the Indian Pacific Train that spans this continent Australia |
#6103, aired 2011-03-09 | OF ORDER $1000: National leaders from north to south:
Hugo Chavez,
Julia Gillard,
Barack Obama Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, Julia Gillard |
#6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) In 1973, "The Magic Flute", which included a queen character, was the first performance given here, & in the hall on opening night was this woman, who officially opened the Opera House Queen Elizabeth |
#6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) To compensate for the high ceilings in the concert hall, acrylic rings were hung to reflect the sound of the instruments back to the orchestra & to improve this, from the Greek for "to hear" the acoustics |
#6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia) In March 2010, just shy of 90, this sitar virtuoso performed on the opera house stage with his daughter Anoushka in his "Farewell to Australia" tour Ravi Shankar |
#6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from in front of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia) As the story goes, Danish architect Jorn Utzon's winning design for the opera house was saved from the rejection pile by this famed architect from Finland (Eero) Saarinen |
#6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the stage of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) In September 2009, this 65-year-old dame of Maori descent thrilled audiences here on the Opera House stage, singing Strauss & Puccini (Kiri Te) Kanawa |
#6072, aired 2011-01-25 | SYDNEY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a wriggling echidna at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) Naturally, Sydney's Taronga Zoo has a distinctly Australian echidna; an echidna named Millie, short for "millennium", was a mascot in the summer Olympic games in this year 2000 |
#6072, aired 2011-01-25 | SYDNEY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew enjoys the surf at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.) It's easy to see why local tradition says that "bondi" once meant "water breaking over rocks" in the language of these people the Aborigines |
#6072, aired 2011-01-25 | SYDNEY $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.) One of the world's most accurate maritime reproductions is the Australian-built replica of this James Cook ship that shares a name with a Space Shuttle Endeavour |
#6072, aired 2011-01-25 | SYDNEY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sydney, Australia.) At 3/4 of a mile, the Harbour Bridge is so long that it requires a permanent continuous painting crew; this man, who played Crocodile Dundee, was once a part of that crew (Paul) Hogan |
#6072, aired 2011-01-25 | SYDNEY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) As the Opera House is located on the Harbour, it's fitting that the roof is made up of these sections, named for what they're designed to evoke sails |
#6064, aired 2011-01-13 | WEB SITES $400: This deadly spider is found in most parts of the world, including Australia, where it is called the Redback the Black Widow |
#6049, aired 2010-12-23 | I'M GAME $400: In Europe & Australia this board game has "do" on the end; in Brazil it's called "Detective" Clue |
#6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew feeds a kangaroo at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney.) Found in the bush & also the zoo, the eastern gray kangaroo is Australia's most commonly seen animal in this group of mammals marsupials |
#6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks on the beach at Sydney, Australia.) 80,000 people who participate in the annual City to Surf Fun Run come to this alliterative Sydney beach, a destination for surfers from around the world Bondi Beach |
#6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits behind a pile of sheep fleece at Tobruk Sheep Station, Maroota, Australia; next to her is a bale of fleece labeled "TOBRUK STATION".) From the 1830s to the 1970s wool was Australia's top export, & it's still seen in products like this brand of boots founded by Aussie Brian Smith UGGs |
#6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a boomerang at the Australian Museum.) Boomerangs often feature designs that reflect aboriginal culture & history; on the one I'm holding, the warriors, body of water & ship represent this man's landing at Botany Bay Captain Cook |
#6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of Sydney Harbor, with the Sydney Opera House in the background.) With the skyline of Sydney behind me, I'm in this Australian state, the first one settled by the British New South Wales |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | HAWAIIAN AGRICULTURE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from a jungle on Maui.) Hawaii, the only U.S. state with a true tropical one of these environments, grows most of the USA's macadamias, which originated in the same type of environment when it covered much of Australia rainforest |
#6008, aired 2010-10-27 | SUV NAMES $200: A Subaru, or a remote inland area of Australia Outback |
#6003, aired 2010-10-20 | LIZARDRY $2000: The name of this lizard of Australia tells you he's not just happy to meet you, he's this frilled |
#6000, aired 2010-10-15 | ZOOS $1600: Until his untimely death from a stingray's barb, he was director of the Australia Zoo in Queensland Steve Irwin |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | MIXING APPLES & ORANGES $800: Have a devil of a time in this smallest state in Australia, often called the Apple Isle Tasmania |
#5988, aired 2010-09-29 | MUSIC OF THE NIGHT $800: In 1982 this soft pop duo from Australia found that "Even the nights are better" Air Supply |
#5985, aired 2010-09-24 | IT'S A PLAIN! $1600: From the Latin for "no tree", the Nullarbor Plain extends to the Great Victoria Desert in this country Australia |
#5982, aired 2010-09-21 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $600: It's the capital of South Australia & alphabetically first among the country's major cities Adelaide |
#5973, aired 2010-07-28 | COUNTRY BY BEER $1200: Victoria Bitter Australia |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $400: Richard Rowe's 1869 adventure tale "The Boy in the Bush" follows the exploits of a 14-year-old settler in this country Australia |
#5960, aired 2010-07-09 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: In Australia, this city is second only to Sydney in population Melbourne |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | THAT'S HISTORY, KIDS! $800: May 9, 1927:
This country's Parliament moves to Canberra Australia |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | PEOPLES MAGAZINE $1600: Hurt & angry at also being called the Kukukuku, the Anga lash out from their home on this large island north of Australia New Guinea |
#5936, aired 2010-06-07 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1600: The rudimentary wings of this national bird of Australia are useless for flying, but it is an excellent swimmer the emu |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | ADOPTION $200: Listen up, Berhanu! New South Wales, Australia has banned changing these for adopted kids over 1 year old names |
#5927, aired 2010-05-25 | THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE $800: Named for a cartographer, the Lambert Centre, 120 miles S. of Alice Springs, is the official centre of this country Australia |
#5926, aired 2010-05-24 | BOOK SMART $2000: Australia's Miles Franklin was just 16 when she wrote this "Career"-oriented book My Brilliant Career |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $800: North of Australia:
Port Moresby Papua New Guinea |
#5917, aired 2010-05-11 | SOMETIMES A GREAT OCEAN $400: Part of Asia separated from Australia & Antarctica in the Middle Jurassic, causing this ocean to begin to form the Indian Ocean |
#5913, aired 2010-05-05 | THAT'S HOT! $1200: The water in Frying Pan Lake in this country near Australia gets up to about 130 degrees New Zealand |
#5898, aired 2010-04-14 | "INGO" $200: Wild dog of Australia a dingo |
#5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $200: To combat malnutrition, in 1942 Tasmanian blue peas were added to the rations of this country's troops Australia |
#5868, aired 2010-03-03 | GEMS & JEWELRY $1000: The most prized of these fiery gems are the black ones found in New South Wales, Australia an opal |
#5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this Baz Luhrmann epic Australia |
#5860, aired 2010-02-19 | ROOTS $400: Some in this country trace their ancestry to its 1788 "First Fleet", kind of a Mayflower of convicts Australia |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | NAME THAT CONTINENT $600: Ayers Rock, or as the locals call it, Uluru Australia |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $2000: After gold was discovered in 1890 in the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie mines, this capital of Western Australia grew rapidly Perth |
#5835, aired 2010-01-15 | PASS-IVE $1000: Accessible in winter only by snowmobiles, the Charlotte Pass is found in this country's Snowy Mountains Australia |
#5815, aired 2009-12-18 | PREY LATER $200: This predator is believed to have been introduced to Australia thousands of years ago by man the dingo |
#5814, aired 2009-12-17 | IN PLAIN SIGHT $800: Parts of this natural wonder seen here are just 10 miles off the shore of northeastern Australia the Great Barrier Reef |
#5804, aired 2009-12-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1000: "Beneath Our Radiant Southern Cross We'll Toil With Hearts And Hands" Australia |
#5801, aired 2009-11-30 | DEEPWATER PORTS BY COUNTRY $400: Hobart,
Adelaide Australia |
#5784, aired 2009-11-05 | PUBERTY RITUALS $800: Sensory deprivation is practiced on pubescent boys by Australia's indigenous people, called these Aborigines |
#5781, aired 2009-11-02 | A WORLD OF PLACES $1200: The city of Wagga Wagga in this Down Under nation straddles the Murrumbidgee River Australia |
#5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $2000: In 2008, over 65 years after it was sunk, HMAS Sydney was found 11/2 miles down in this ocean off Western Australia the Indian Ocean |
#5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Australia's southernmost mainland point is Wilson's Promontory in this state named for a queen Victoria |
#5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Australia's largest freshwater lakes were artificially created & include Lake Gordon on this island state Tasmania |
#5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: This imaginary line at 23 degrees, 27 minutes south latitude passes through the middle of Australia the Tropic of Capricorn |
#5732, aired 2009-07-07 | WORLD WIDE WEBS $800: Found in Australia, the spider seen here is named for this saint, whose cross is seen on Scotland's flag St. Andrew |
#5730, aired 2009-07-03 | PUBS & TAVERNS $400: The good folk at gdaypubs.com are making a major pub crawl in this country, which has more than 4,000 of them Australia |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | ONE-WORD MOVIES $400: Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman starred in this epic about the land Down Under Australia |
#5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ART $800: One exhibit at this country's 1982 Sydney biennial was the creation of the largest indoor sand painting Australia |
#5706, aired 2009-06-01 | MMM...DONUTS $800: To celebrate this movie's DVD release, fans in Australia built a 20-foot, 7,000-lb. "D'oh"nut The Simpsons Movie |
#5703, aired 2009-05-27 | FIRST FEMALE LEADERS $600: Prime Minister Jenny Shipley
(1997) New Zealand |
#5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NIGHT WATCH $400: July 7, 2009:
If you're in Australia, the Americas or sailing the Pacific, look for an eclipse of this the Moon |
#5683, aired 2009-04-29 | SEAS THE MOMENT $2000: Sydney, Australia is on an inlet of this sea the Tasman Sea |
#5666, aired 2009-04-06 | GOOD O'MEN $1000: A work titled "The Bush" helped make Bernard O'Dowd a major poet of this country Australia |
#5662, aired 2009-03-31 | THAT'S CRICKET $1200: Cricket's World Cup is contested every 4 years; crikey! This country has now won 3 straight Australia |
#5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OLYMPIC FACTS $1200: Cathy Freeman was the first athlete of this ethnicity to win individual gold for Australia Aborigine |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | "NORTH" & "SOUTH" $200: Continent between 35 & 85 degrees west longitude South America |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | EAST & WEST $1000: It's the state immediately to the west of South Australia Western Australia |
#5631, aired 2009-02-16 | 1909: 100 YEARS AGO $400: On June 2 Alfred Deakin became prime minister of this Commonwealth country for the third time Australia |
#5628, aired 2009-02-11 | WHAT A COUNTRY! $800: Surfing culture is centered in Hawaii, California & this commonwealth country, the home of champ Mick Fanning Australia |
#5622, aired 2009-02-03 | SPORTS FACTS $600: In 1962 this country's Dawn Fraser became the first woman swimmer to break one minute in the 100-meter freestyle Australia |
#5607, aired 2009-01-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a spot on the globe.) Appropriately, Australia--located here near the bottom of the globe--gets its name from a Latin word meaning this south |
#5605, aired 2009-01-09 | THE MOST POPULOUS NATION $200: Canada,
New Zealand,
Australia Canada |
#5597, aired 2008-12-30 | NEWS RADIO $800: The U.S. has ABC news radio; so does this country, where you can listen on 99.9 FM from Tuggeranong Australia |
#5597, aired 2008-12-30 | "GREAT" GEOGRAPHY $2000: Australia's largest desert, it was first crossed in 1875 by Ernest Giles & named for a monarch (Great) Victoria |
#5593, aired 2008-12-24 | WE'RE MAP-HAPPY $1600: Hema Maps is based in this country, so they make an upside down world map showing their continent on top Australia |
#5589, aired 2008-12-18 | SPOTTED CREATURES $1000: Looking like a cross between a cat & a possum, the spotted quoll of Australia belongs to this order of mammals a marsupial |
#5588, aired 2008-12-17 | ISLANDS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $400: Australia's least populous state, it consists of the main island & many smaller ones, including King & Flinders Tasmania |
#5586, aired 2008-12-15 | PODGE-POURRI $1000: Vegemite, a trademarked vegetable extract used as a sandwich spread, is from this country Australia |
#5583, aired 2008-12-10 | OTHER FAULT LINES $3,000 (Daily Double): There's rich mining to be had around this country's Atacama fault Chile |
#5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FOREIGN STATES $200: Victoria &
New South Wales Australia |
#5579, aired 2008-12-04 | NAMED $1000: Rachel Griffiths' son Banjo is named for the man who wrote this song of her native Australia "Waltzing Matilda" |
#5576, aired 2008-12-01 | U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS $2000: In Victoria, the town of Portland is an ideal spot to visit the southern coast of this country Australia |
#5572, aired 2008-11-25 | CAVES $400: Australia's Jenolan Caves were first known as Binoomea, this type of "places", but in 1887 got electric lighting dark places |
#5570, aired 2008-11-21 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $600: Russell Crowe spent most of his childhood in Australia but moved back to this country of his birth at age 14 New Zealand |
#5560, aired 2008-11-07 | INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Machu Picchu in Peru.) Nationals of the European Union, Australia, Canada & the U.S. who visit Peru for less than 90 days aren't required to carry one of these documents unless they're here for business a visa |
#5543, aired 2008-10-15 | GEOLOGY $800: This continent has turned almost 360 degrees over the past 200 million years & in 50 mil. years more will hit Asia Australia |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $1200: The quokka, a short-tailed species of this kangaroo relative, is found on Rottnest Island & in W. Australia a wallaby |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): Australia has the only all-black species of this bird, Cygnus atratus a swan |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $2000: This manatee relative of the order Sirenia can be found in the coastal waters of North Australia a dugong |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | WHERE YA BEEN? $200: Strolling through the National Gallery of Australia in this capital Canberra |
#5512, aired 2008-07-22 | STATE FISH $1200: The reef triggerfish, this state's state fish, can be found as far south as Australia Hawaii |
#5502, aired 2008-07-08 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1770 Capt. James Cook became the first European to sight Australia's fertile east coast, which he named "New" this South Wales |
#5498, aired 2008-07-02 | SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND $1200: Asia, Australia & Europena are 3 of the children of "Mrs. Wiggs of" this title "Patch" Cabbage |
#5490, aired 2008-06-20 | RAISE THE FLAG, PLEASE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the constellation seen on the flags of New Zealand & Australia the Southern Cross |
#5480, aired 2008-06-06 | THE WRITE STUFF $400: Sir John Buchan wrote the adventure thriller "The 39 Steps" before becoming governor-general of this country Canada |
#5470, aired 2008-05-23 | AUSTRALIA $200: Eat too many chockies, these, & you may find yourself crook, "sick" chocolates |
#5470, aired 2008-05-23 | AUSTRALIA $400: Like the highest peak in Western Europe, the highest peak in Australia is in a chain with this name the Alps |
#5470, aired 2008-05-23 | AUSTRALIA $600: An Australian sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman is the only Aussie knighted for his services to this sport cricket |
#5470, aired 2008-05-23 | AUSTRALIA $800: In 1967 a talking koala became the spokesmarsupial for this airline Qantas |
#5470, aired 2008-05-23 | AUSTRALIA $1000: Besides the platypus, Australia's other egg-laying mammal is this one that looks like a porcupine an echidna |
#5464, aired 2008-05-15 | IT'S AN OLYMPIC YEAR $400: Playing on their native soil, this country's Hockeyroos won gold in 2000 Australia |
#5460, aired 2008-05-09 | COLLEGE-PODGE $1000: The University of this island state boasts one of the southernmost college campuses in Australia Tasmania |
#5455, aired 2008-05-02 | GEOGRAPHY $400: 1 of the 2 Australian states with "Australia" in their names South Australia (or Western Australia) |
#5454, aired 2008-05-01 | A WORLD OF BEER $600: Foster's Australia |
#5450, aired 2008-04-25 | MOUNTAINS $800: This country's Mount Kosciusko lies in the Snowy Mountains Australia |
#5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BRAND NAMES $600: Adjective before "Dog" in a brand line from Purina Mighty (Lucky accepted) |
#5440, aired 2008-04-11 | ROCK BAND COUNTRY OF ORIGIN $1200: AC/DC Australia |
#5432, aired 2008-04-01 | COLD $800: Charlotte Pass in this 3-named state holds Australia's cold-temperature record with -9° F. in 1994 New South Wales |
#5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WORLD FACTS $400: This country's ADF sent troops to the Solomon Islands in 2006 to help restore order following riots Australia |
#5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $200: As a result of the 1851 discovery of this in New South Wales & Victoria, Australia's population almost tripled by 1860 gold |
#5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: From 1793 to 1810, this liquor made from molasses or sugar cane was used as currency in Australia rum |
#5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $600: Due to Australia's vast distances, in 1928 K. St. Vincent Welch became the 1st doctor to reach patients in this way by plane |
#5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $800: In 1999 voters rejected a proposal for Australia to withdraw from this collective the British Commonwealth |
#5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This continent's highest mountain was named for Polish hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko Australia |
#5392, aired 2008-02-05 | FUNNY FOR NOTHIN' $1200: This Fox-TV cartoon boy: "Just so you don't hear any wild rumors, I'm being indicted for fraud in Australia" Bart Simpson |
#5388, aired 2008-01-30 | POP QUIZ $1200: The 1980s band Midnight Oil hailed from this country Australia |
#5386, aired 2008-01-28 | BLIGH ME, CAPTAIN! $2000: Before the mutiny, the Bounty Islands of this Pacific Nation were discovered by Bligh & his crew in 1788 New Zealand |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS $400: Mount Kosciusko in New South Wales Australia |
#5378, aired 2008-01-16 | TREE PEOPLE $800: The Bailey Acacia, aka the Cootamundra Wattle, is named for a botanist from this country Australia |
#5358, aired 2007-12-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: For the musical "Sunset Blvd.", Hugh Jackman won two Mo Awards (equivalent to the Tonys) in this, his native country Australia |
#5356, aired 2007-12-17 | THE MOST POPULOUS NATION $200: Australia,
South Africa,
New Zealand South Africa |
#5348, aired 2007-12-05 | ZOOLOGY $800: A type of this snake that sounds like a James Clavell novel is Australia's deadliest & most feared a taipan |
#5344, aired 2007-11-29 | SCIENCE FACTION $400: ANZAAS is these 2 countries' Association for the Advancement of Science Australia & New Zealand |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | STATES & TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA $200: An Australian territorial claim covers 42% of this continent Antarctica |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | STATES & TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA $400: 95% of the population of the small enclave known as the Australian Capital Territory resides in this city Canberra |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | STATES & TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA $600: Australia's most populous city, Sydney, is in this state with a 3-word name New South Wales |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | STATES & TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA $800: One of the 2 states named in honor of a woman Victoria (or Queensland) |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | STATES & TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA $1,200 (Daily Double): The one state named for a man Tasmania |
#5334, aired 2007-11-15 | "IRA" $800: Australia's Yellow Tail winery sells this on its own as well as in a cabernet blend shiraz |
#5331, aired 2007-11-12 | ROAMIN' HOLIDAYS $1200: Head off to these 2 countries for Anzac Day to commemorate those who fought in WWI at the Dardanelles Australia & New Zealand |
#5325, aired 2007-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAPS $1000: A map of the Pacific Ocean goes from the Bering Sea down to this one off Australia the Tasman Sea |
#5319, aired 2007-10-25 | CRITTERS $800: This arboreal marsupial is smaller & lighter-colored in Northern than in Southern Australia a koala bear |
#5311, aired 2007-10-15 | AUSTRALIAN LIT $2000: After settling in Australia, he set many of his novels there, like "On the Beach" & "A Town Like Alice" (Nevil) Shute |
#5307, aired 2007-10-09 | THE CONTINENTS $600: This continent has a lot of marsupials, like the native wombat Australia |
#5306, aired 2007-10-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Tidal ranges in this ocean vary from 38 feet to 2 feet just south of Perth, Western Australia the Indian Ocean |
#5296, aired 2007-09-24 | LITERARY LOCALES $1200: "Walkabout"
(1959) Australia |
#5289, aired 2007-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL $200: Oil up with some serious sunscreen as you trek to Alice Springs, the center of this nation's vast "Red Centre" Australia |
#5272, aired 2007-07-10 | CONTINENTAL DRIFTING $2000: It's also the sixth-largest country in area Australia |
#5265, aired 2007-06-29 | I'M INTO WORLD "P"s $1000: In 1975 Murdoch University opened in this state capital of Western Australia Perth |
#5259, aired 2007-06-21 | ANTROPOLOGY $200: The Spinifex people of Australia are among the few remaining societies of foragers, also called "hunter"- these gatherers |
#5259, aired 2007-06-21 | YOU NEED HELP $1000: Call up the Royal Flying Doctor Service if you need emergency medical help in a remote part of this country Australia |
#5255, aired 2007-06-15 | THE 10 LARGEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD $400: The one that borders no other countries Australia |
#5251, aired 2007-06-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $1000: "When to go" to Australia? If it's summer (Dec.), try southern (cooler) states, like this one named for a queen Victoria |
#5247, aired 2007-06-05 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF 2006 $600: Scientists in Australia hope to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger by using genetic fragments & this method cloning |
#5235, aired 2007-05-18 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1606, Willem Janszoon landed on Cape York Peninsula, becoming the 1st European to visit this continent Australia |
#5231, aired 2007-05-14 | "LAND" HO! $800: Australia's second-largest state in area, it's nearly 5 times the size of Japan Queensland |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | COUNTRIES BY COLLEGE $1600: University of Wollongong, Southern Cross University Australia |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | REEF MADNESS $400: Of the main types of coral reef, this one is miles offshore with a channel between it & the mainland a barrier reef |
#5223, aired 2007-05-02 | HAIKU GOES COUNTRY! $400: G'day! (You need more?!) / A Tasmanian devil / Is this too easy? Australia |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2000: Part-time astronomer after whom the capital of Queensland, Australia was named (Sir Thomas) Brisbane |
#5211, aired 2007-04-16 | CHICKS RULE! $800: In the 1990s this Down Under island country has back-to-back female P.M.'s, Jenny Shipley & Helen Clark New Zealand |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | EYE ON ASIA $800: Some think the floor of what's now the Arafura Sea was once a land bridge between Asia & this continent Australia |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: D.H. Lawrence visited this country in 1922 & set his 1923 novel "Kangaroo" there Australia |
#5202, aired 2007-04-03 | DIFFERENT STOKES $1000: Once a sheep-raising area, Stokes National Park is in the southwest of this vast country Australia |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | PEOPLE YOU CAN EAT $1000: These nuts native to Australia were named after a Scottish-born Australian chemist Macadamia nuts |
#5186, aired 2007-03-12 | COUNTRIES ON THE DOLLAR $600: Spend dollars there in Brisbane or Borroloola Australia |
#5164, aired 2007-02-08 | EXPLORATION $1600: (Kelly shows a map on the monitor.) In 1845, Ludwig Leichhardt completed a 3,000-mile journey, finding a route to the north coast & fertile pastures, exciting the people of this land Australia |
#5162, aired 2007-02-06 | IDENTIFY THE CONTINENT $1000: It's the only continent without an active volcano on the mainland Australia |
#5153, aired 2007-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS? $1000: In Australia, water is going down drains backwards (to us). This fall, Mel Gibson takes on the reason why--this "Effect" Coriolis |
#5152, aired 2007-01-23 | THE HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $2000: (Jimmy stands in front of a seated statue of Herbert Hoover.) As a young geologist in the 1890s, Hoover found a gold mine near Coolgardie in this country; he called it "a land of red dust, black flies, and white heat" Australia |
#5128, aired 2006-12-20 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $400: This flightless bird of Australia can grow to 100 pounds and 5 feet tall the emu |
#5124, aired 2006-12-14 | ENERGY $400: Kazakhstan & Australia combine to mine half of the world's production of this element needed for nuclear power uranium |
#5114, aired 2006-11-30 | ANIMALS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the penguin habitat.)
The smallest of all penguins, the little blue is the only one native to this continent where it is sometimes called the fairy penguin Australia |
#5106, aired 2006-11-20 | THE 1980s $2000: In 1988 Brisbane, Australia hosted a World Expo & this Canadian city hosted the Winter Olympics Calgary |
#5102, aired 2006-11-14 | A VARIETY OF WORDS $1600: If Variety says a film is doing well in "Oz", it doesn't mean the Munchkins like it, it means it's popular here Australia |
#5090, aired 2006-10-27 | ROCK OF AGES $1200: Give me a Z! One crystal of this 6-letter mineral was found in sandstone formed in Australia about 4.4 bil. years ago zircon |
#5088, aired 2006-10-25 | I GO BY "AL" $1600: If I take the 5:15 p.m. train from Adelaide, Australia on Sunday night, I go by this city Monday at noon Alice Springs |
#5082, aired 2006-10-17 | LAND ANIMALS $1200: In 1930, Noel Burnet opened a sanctuary for these eucalyptus-loving animals in Sydney, Australia koalas |
#5079, aired 2006-10-12 | WHAT'S THAT SOUND? $800: The islands in Australia's Yampi Sound are rich in hematite, an ore of this metal iron |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | THE ALIENS ARE HERE! $400: This southwestern U.S. tree of genus Prosopis, often used for smoked BBQ, is invading Saudi Arabia, India, Africa & Australia mesquite |
#5075, aired 2006-10-06 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPER $400: The Sydney Morning Herald,
the Queensland Independent Australia |
#5063, aired 2006-09-20 | SOMEWHERE $400: The Tasman Sea lies between Australia & this neighboring nation New Zealand |
#5040, aired 2006-07-07 | THE SMALLEST IN AREA $600: China,
Australia,
Brazil Australia |
#5029, aired 2006-06-22 | IT WAS THE OCEAN TO BE PACIFIC $1600: On September 1, 1951 New Zealand signed a Pacific defense pact with these 2 countries Australia & the United States |
#5014, aired 2006-06-01 | BINGO $1200: Of yardie, housie or barnie, what bingo is known as in Australia housie |
#5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BODIES OF WATER $600: In the 1770s James Cook explored this sea between Australia & New Zealand the Tasman Sea |
#4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $400: You're gonna need a bigger boat to top the record catch of 2,664 lbs. for one of these sharks caught off Australia in 1959 a great white |
#4967, aired 2006-03-28 | ONE NATION $400: The one nation over 2 million square miles in area that borders no other countries Australia |
#4949, aired 2006-03-02 | 19th CENTURY HISTORY $600: In 1827 Allan Cunningham became the first European to explore this continent's Darling Downs Australia |
#4947, aired 2006-02-28 | ISLANDS $800: This country's Rottnest Island got its name because the quokka, a type of wallaby, looked like a rat Australia |
#4933, aired 2006-02-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Hobart is the capital city of this island state of Australia Tasmania |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $400: This capital of New South Wales is the home of Opera Australia Sydney |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $1600: This capital of South Australia was named for a queen, the consort of King William IV Adelaide |
#4922, aired 2006-01-24 | DEAF POETRY $1200: Deaf poet Henry Lawson of this country published "Children of the Bush" in 1902 Australia |
#4921, aired 2006-01-23 | MASSACRE $1600: In the highest score ever in an int'l soccer game, Australia humbled this "American" territory 31-0 in 2001 American Samoa |
#4909, aired 2006-01-05 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800: This president once served as a mining engineer in Coolgardie, Australia Herbert Hoover |
#4897, aired 2005-12-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1200: If you watch a lot of medal ceremonies for Olympic swimmers, you've heard the anthem of this country Australia |
#4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $200: The loud Australian bird known as a kookaburra is also known as this "laughing" equine jackass |
#4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $400: The "Ground" for this sport in Melbourne, Australia has a capacity of about 100,000 spectators cricket |
#4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $800: Australia's smallest state, this island used to be called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
#4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $1,000 (Daily Double): This Australian state reports it has lost the 1859 decree Victoria signed authorizing its name Queensland |
#4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $1000: It's "evolved" to become the largest city of Australia's Northern Territory Darwin |
#4895, aired 2005-12-16 | MR. AND MRS. SMITH $800: An annual festival in Sydney, Australia honors Maria Smith, the originator of this famous apple the Granny Smith apple |
#4877, aired 2005-11-22 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $200: In a sensational 1980s police case in Australia, Lindy Chamberlain claimed one of these "took my baby!" a dingo |
#4872, aired 2005-11-15 | ALL THE RAVE $1000: Find a mate in Victoria at the Earthcore Global Carnival in this country Australia |
#4859, aired 2005-10-27 | MAA (military acronyms & abbreviations) $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue while standing in the ANZUS corridor of the Pentagon.) I'm in the Pentagon corridor that honors the Pacific security treaty known as ANZUS, an acronym for these three nations Australia, New Zealand, & the United States |
#4858, aired 2005-10-26 | THE SERPENT'S EGG $1200: The death adder, Acanthophis antarcticus, is actually from this continent where most snakes are poisonous Australia |
#4855, aired 2005-10-21 | OTHER STARS & STRIPES $800: The stripes are the Union Jack; the stars form the Southern Cross New Zealand |
#4852, aired 2005-10-18 | DOG TOWNS $2000: When Lassie wants to visit Collie, she takes a boat on the Indian Ocean to Bunbury on the west coast of this country Australia |
#4848, aired 2005-10-12 | GOING GLOBAL $1600: Much of the western part of this country is covered by the Great Sandy & Great Victoria Deserts Australia |
#4846, aired 2005-10-10 | ANAGRAM ZOO $400: From Australia:
ORGAN OAK kangaroo |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: Australia is home to 2 egg-laying mammals, or monotremes: the spiny anteater & this one the platypus |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1200: Australia's tallest building is the 823-foot high Rialto Towers in this former capital Melbourne |
#4830, aired 2005-09-16 | BEST "WESTERN" $1200: Its capital is Perth Western Australia |
#4823, aired 2005-07-20 | RESCUE ME! $400: On Feb. 6, 1938 the lifesavers of Bondi Beach in this country rescued 300 people from freak waves Australia |
#4817, aired 2005-07-12 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $800: "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross, we'll toil with hearts & hands" Australia |
#4816, aired 2005-07-11 | THE WESTERNMOST NATION $2000: The Philippines,
Australia,
Indonesia Indonesia |
#4809, aired 2005-06-30 | WORLD OF FOOD $800: Vegemite Australia |
#4803, aired 2005-06-22 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $400: Brought to Australia c. 3000 B.C., this canine is the continent's largest hunting mammal, besides man the dingo |
#4803, aired 2005-06-22 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $800: North Australia is a habitat of the saltwater species of this reptile that has reached 30 feet in length a crocodile |
#4803, aired 2005-06-22 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $1000: The long-beaked species of this monotreme lives in New Guinea; the short-beaked lives in Australia an echidna |
#4800, aired 2005-06-17 | MEN IN CHARGE $1600: Prime Minister John Howard Australia |
#4791, aired 2005-06-06 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $400: You may experience a southerly burster or a brickfielder on this continent Australia |
#4788, aired 2005-06-01 | LETS TAKE A "D" TOUR $1200: It's the capital of Australia's Northern Territory, which, incidentally, is located on the Beagle Gulf Darwin |
#4781, aired 2005-05-23 | "BRIL"-LIANT! $800: Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback My Brilliant Career |
#4767, aired 2005-05-03 | MAY $400: May 13, 1787:
11 ships leave England on a voyage that ends by establishing a penal colony here Australia |
#4767, aired 2005-05-03 | THAT ISLAND IS OURS! $1600: New Caledonia France |
#4730, aired 2005-03-11 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPERS $200: The Bunyip &
The Alice Springs News Australia |
#4715, aired 2005-02-18 | MEDICINE $800: Its fair-skinned, non-indigenous population gave this country of 20 million the world's highest skin cancer rate Australia |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | CATCH OF THE DAY $400: A large albino whale recently sighted off Australia earned comparisons to this 1851 Melville beast Moby-Dick |
#4701, aired 2005-01-31 | THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT $1600: Australia & this nearby country of 3.9 million people use a currency called the dollar New Zealand |
#4697, aired 2005-01-25 | THE SMALLEST IN AREA $400: Australia,
New Zealand,
Indonesia New Zealand |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $200: Dutch Captain Willem Jansz is credited with the first known contact between Europeans & this indigenous group the Aborigines |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $600: The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has a full-size replica of this extraterrestrial lab now flying over the Earth the International Space Station |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $800: Australia's botanists first bred these green-skinned apples in the late 19th century Granny Smith apples |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $1000: The Brisbane, the Murray & the Murrumbidgee are all famous ones of these in Australia rivers |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $3,800 (Daily Double): For this holiday, schoolchildren in Australia receive a 6-week summer vacation Christmas |
#4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: In terms of rainfall, it's the driest continent after Antarctica Australia |
#4682, aired 2005-01-04 | TAKE THE KIDS! $400: If the kids can stomach it, watch Tasmanian devils being fed in Tasmanian Deveil Park at Taranna in this country Australia |
#4674, aired 2004-12-23 | DESERTS $400: This continent's Gibson Desert was named for Alfred Gibson, who was lost searching for water in the 1800s Australia |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ADD TWO LETTERS $2000: New or fresh; add two letters & you get this adjective for an early inhabitant of Australia original & Aboriginal |
#4624, aired 2004-10-14 | FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD $400: Macadamias were originally native to this continent Australia |
#4623, aired 2004-10-13 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $1000: Like the ostrich, which it resembled, the 10-foot moa of this country defended itself by kicking New Zealand |
#4605, aired 2004-09-17 | ISLANDS $400: Named by Abel Tasman, Grotte Eylandt is the biggest island in this country's Gulf of Carpentaria Australia |
#4604, aired 2004-09-16 | LISTEN TO THE ANIMALS $800: This continent's Sydney funnel-web spider brags that it makes the black widow look like the girl next door Australia |
#4604, aired 2004-09-16 | NEW ZEALAND $1000: In WWII this representative and future U.S. Pres. put on a uniform & was sent to New Zealand & Australia LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) |
#4582, aired 2004-07-06 | CORAL REEF LIFE $400: Just off Australia, it's the largest chain of coral reefs in the world the Great Barrier Reef |
#4575, aired 2004-06-25 | PLACES FOR PILGRIMS $1600: Uluru, also known as this rock, is a sacred site to Aborigines in Australia Ayers Rock |
#4572, aired 2004-06-22 | A "D" IN HISTORY $2000: During World War II, the Japanese repeatedly bombed this city on Australia's northern coast Darwin |
#4571, aired 2004-06-21 | WHAT'S NEW? $800: Developed in Australia, the Sugarbaby & the Crimson Glow are new breeds of this shortcake fruit strawberry |
#4569, aired 2004-06-17 | PLAINS $400: As its name implies, Nullarbor Plain in Australia is a 400-mile-long plateau where none of these grow trees |
#4551, aired 2004-05-24 | AIRLINES $200: This airline calls itself "The Spirit of Australia" Qantas |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | SIMPLY GEOGRAPHIC $200: It's the smallest continent Australia |
#4538, aired 2004-05-05 | THE SOUTH OF... $800: Wallabies & wombats abound in the state called "South" this country Australia |
#4532, aired 2004-04-27 | WINE FOR DUMMIES $600: This country's wine regions include the Barossa Valley & the Adelaide Hills Australia |
#4531, aired 2004-04-26 | SAMUEL $200: Dedicated to upholding this nation's constitution, the Samuel Griffith Society is HQ'd in New South Wales Australia |
#4530, aired 2004-04-23 | THE 7 CONTINENTS $600: This continent has the highest per capita GNP at about $20,000 a person North America |
#4530, aired 2004-04-23 | THE 7 CONTINENTS $800: This continent is also a commonwealth Australia |
#4528, aired 2004-04-21 | TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS $2000: It took 5 days in 2003 for India to beat Australia in its first test match victory in Australia in this sport in 22 years cricket |
#4525, aired 2004-04-16 | WHAT "A" COUNTRY $800: 2 of its most celebrated stars, Mel Gibson & Nicole Kidman, weren't even born there Australia |
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 | COUNTRIES BY CITY $800: Toowoomba,
Wagga Wagga,
Adelaide Australia |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | 1954 $1000: On September 8 the U.S. formed this alliance with 7 other nations, including Thailand, Australia & the Philippines SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) |
#4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $200: Cloncurry in this country's state of Queensland hit 128 degrees Fahrenheit in 1889 Australia |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | WORLD COINS $1200: In 1999 it issued its 1-oz. silver kookaburra coin with honor marks reproducing several U.S. state quarters Australia |
#4499, aired 2004-03-11 | THE SAILOR MAN $1600: On April 20, 1770 he reached the unexplored east coast of Australia, naming it New South Wales (Captain) Cook |
#4498, aired 2004-03-10 | VOYEUR INFORMATION $200: Observe the critter seen here in his native habitat, & you'll discover you're in this country Australia |
#4498, aired 2004-03-10 | "SNOW" JOB $2000: Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciusko, lies in this range the Snowy Mountains |
#4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE JEOPARDY! WORLD ORCHESTRA $600: The didgeridoo heard here originated on this continent Australia |
#4459, aired 2004-01-15 | TERM ME LOOSE $1200: This 4-letter word is the Aussie term for the wild, wooded & little-populated part of Australia the bush |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | COME HERE OFTEN? $200: In 1998 it became the seventh continent to get an ESPN feed Antarctica |
#4448, aired 2003-12-31 | GUINNESS RECORDS $800: The tallest tree on record was a 435-foot one of these in Australia, reported in 1872 a eucalyptus |
#4434, aired 2003-12-11 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Although not one of Australia's longest rivers, it became famous in an 1890s poem about a "man from" it Snowy River |
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 | GREAT FIGURES $1000: The Nullarbor Plain in this country has a dead-straight stretch of railroad track 297 miles long Australia |
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 | "A" IN GEOGRAPHY $1200: It's the capital of the state of South Australia Adelaide |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: Follow the yellow brick road & give us this 2-letter nickname for Australia Oz |
#4421, aired 2003-11-24 | YOU'RE A BEAST! $1000: The hairy-nosed variety of this burrowing marsupial of south Australia can reach 4 feet in length wombat |
#4420, aired 2003-11-21 | HABITATS $800: Divers seek the butterfly fish and other colorful creatures in this type of habitat, like Australia's "Great" one a reef |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | WHERE THE HECK IS THAT? $2000: Just plain Perth is in Australia; Perth this is in New Jersey Amboy |
#4409, aired 2003-11-06 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1000: Australia's national bird, it has been hunted to scarcity because it's destructive to crops the emu |
#4402, aired 2003-10-28 | THE LARGEST IN AREA $600: Australia, Brazil, China China |
#4382, aired 2003-09-30 | MISSING VOWELS $600: A country: "STRL" Australia |
#4376, aired 2003-09-22 | WHERE'D YOU GO ON VACATION $1200: ..."Down Under" to this country, where we got to explore the Great Barrier Reef Australia |
#4366, aired 2003-09-08 | "Q" ME $800: With 160 inches of rain a year in some places, it's Australia's wettest state Queensland |
#4364, aired 2003-07-17 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $600: Norfolk Island & the Republic of Kiribati use this country's dollar Australia |
#4361, aired 2003-07-14 | COUNTRY SINGERS $1200: INXS' Michael Hutchence Australia |
#4352, aired 2003-07-01 | CAMELS $200: Camels were first brought to this continent in 1840 & later transported goods between Adelaide & Perth Australia |
#4351, aired 2003-06-30 | LINE 'EM UP $200: From largest in area to smallest:
Australia, United States, Russia Russia, United States, Australia |
#4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $400: 100 million years ago this continent was connected to Antarctica; in 50 million more years, it'll hit Asia Australia |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $800: Named for a British naturalist, it's Australia's northernmost capital Darwin |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1200: This capital of Victoria served as Australia's capital from 1901 to 1927 when the seat of govt. was moved to Canberra Melbourne |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $3,200 (Daily Double): This capital of South Australia is the only Australian capital named for a woman Adelaide |
#4313, aired 2003-05-07 | DOGGY BAG $400: Encyclopaedia Britannica says if raised from a puppy, this wild dog of Australia may become an affectionate pet dingo |
#4309, aired 2003-05-01 | GILMORE GIRLS & BOYS $800: Poet Dame Mary Gilmore fought for women's rights & the rights of the aborigines in this, her home country Australia |
#4306, aired 2003-04-28 | HAVE A CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST $200: G'Day Mate! Room service hopped in with kangaroo-tail soup, your breakfast from this continent Australia |
#4301, aired 2003-04-21 | NO E'S PLEASE $2000: This island is over 200,000 square miles in area Madagascar |
#4297, aired 2003-04-15 | TAKES 2 TO TONGA $200: It's the continent that's closest to Tonga Australia |
#4289, aired 2003-04-03 | ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $400: The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi guaranteed the Maori rights to this country's land in return for British sovereignty New Zealand |
#4283, aired 2003-03-26 | AYE AYE, CAPTAIN $200: A national park on this country's South Island is named for Captain Abel Tasman New Zealand |
#4281, aired 2003-03-24 | CONTINENTS' LOWEST POINTS $1600: 52 feet below sea level, Lake Eyre Australia |
#4269, aired 2003-03-06 | MEL GIBSON $400: Although many believe Gibson was born in Australia, he was actually born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill in this state New York |
#4263, aired 2003-02-26 | WELL TRAINED $2,000 (Daily Double): The 2,461-mile-long Indian Pacific line connects the east & west coasts of this country Australia (goes from Perth to Sydney) |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | VACATION FUN $400: Ride the Nutmobile thru macadamia orchards at the Big Pineapple, a top attraction in this "Down Under" country Australia |
#4249, aired 2003-02-06 | EXPLORERS $3,800 (Daily Double): In November 1642 this Dutchman discovered the island now named for him south of Australia's mainland Abel Tasman (Tasmania) |
#4248, aired 2003-02-05 | SALUTE THE FLAGS $800: The corner of Australia's flag, seen here, shows the national flag commonly called by this 2-word nickname Union Jack |
#4246, aired 2003-02-03 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: There's a possible $53,000 fine if you remove coral from this World Heritage Site on Australia's northeast coast The Great Barrier Reef |
#4245, aired 2003-01-31 | RANCHES $200: At about 12,000 sq. mi., Strangeray Springs, a cattle ranch (or station) in this country, is bigger than Vermont Australia |
#4235, aired 2003-01-17 | 17th CENTURY DUTCHMEN $400: Willem Janszoon made the first European sighting of this continent, but thought it was part of New Guinea Australia |
#4222, aired 2002-12-31 | TAKE THE KIDS! $400: If you stay at Cradle Mountain Lodge in this country, your tykes may get to see some Tasmanian devils Australia |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPER $1000: The Warrnambool Standard & The Alice Springs News Australia |
#4203, aired 2002-12-04 | WORLD OF TENNIS $400: Evonne Goolagong Australia |
#4202, aired 2002-12-03 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $800: The 1956 summer games in this country were the first not held in Europe or the U.S. Australia (Melbourne) |
#4200, aired 2002-11-29 | PORT-POURRI $1200: Port Adelaide was established in 1837 to serve ships coming from England to this vast land Australia |
#4194, aired 2002-11-21 | WATCH OUT FOR ALLIGATORS! $600: The Alligator River of Australia actually contains these related reptiles, not alligators crocodiles |
#4169, aired 2002-10-17 | TOUGH GEOGRAPHY $2000: The north part of this Pacific sea off Australia's Queensland state is known as the Solomon Sea Coral Sea |
#4166, aired 2002-10-14 | PADRES $200: Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie & Father de Bricassart The Thorn Birds |
#4159, aired 2002-10-03 | PORTS $200: Much of Australia's foreign trade is handled by this city's Port Jackson or neighboring Botany Bay Sydney |
#4150, aired 2002-09-20 | IT'S A FACT $1200: In Australia, this soft, furry critter is sometimes called a native bear koala bear |
#4147, aired 2002-09-17 | COMMON BONDS $1200: Frosted Flakes,
Expectations,
Australia's Barrier Reef things that are Great |
#4143, aired 2002-09-11 | MOST-LIVABLE COUNTRIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Of the Top 25 most-livable countries, 1 of the only 2 south of the equator Australia or New Zealand |
#4142, aired 2002-09-10 | YES SIR, THAT'S MY BAY $1000: The Cooks & Georges Rivers in Australia Botany Bay |
#4126, aired 2002-07-08 | CHEESY COUNTRIES $400: Tasmania highland chevre log Australia |
#4111, aired 2002-06-17 | IN THE "CAN" $800: It's Australia's largest inland city Canberra |
#4096, aired 2002-05-27 | THEY'RE INDIGENOUS $200: Australia is home to the Torres Strait islanders & to the larger indigenous group usually called this Aborigines |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | MAKE MINE RARE $400: A forerunner of modern marsupials, the bettong is one of the rarest mamals on this continent Australia |
#4073, aired 2002-04-24 | LARRY, MOE OR CURLY $600: Need some lignite? Head to this mining town in Gippsland, Australia Moe |
#4071, aired 2002-04-22 | A SPORTING CHANCE $800: In area, it's the largest country in the world ever to host the Commonwealth Games Canada |
#4065, aired 2002-04-12 | ENDS IN "TH" $1000: Officially, Australia is this type of federation of states a commonwealth |
#4065, aired 2002-04-12 | VICTORIA'S SECRETS $1600: Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur served as governor-general of this country from 1911 to 1916 Canada |
#4064, aired 2002-04-11 | WORLD OF WEATHER $1200: Ocean waters give this state Australia's most moderate climate Tasmania |
#4058, aired 2002-04-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $800: As a staunch ally of the U.S., Australia first sent troops to this Asian country in 1962 Vietnam |
#4041, aired 2002-03-11 | WHERE IN THE WORLD IS...? $800: The Great Victoria Desert Australia |
#4040, aired 2002-03-08 | INTERNATIONAL "K"UISINE $200: In Australia, some people make a soup from the tail of this marsupial; Run, Skippy! a kangaroo |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $1600: What goes up must come down & in 1979 this first U.S. space station broke apart over Australia & the Indian Ocean Skylab |
#4026, aired 2002-02-18 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $1000: Author Colleen McCullough Australia |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | IT'S A FACT $1000: Mt. Kosciusko, this continent's highest point, is located in the Snowy Mountains Australia |
#3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $200: It's not only Australia's largest city, it's the oldest as well Sydney |
#3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: Australia's name comes from the Latin "australis", which means this south (southern) |
#3990, aired 2001-12-28 | DEAR DIARY $1,400 (Daily Double): 1975: One day I'll be so rich I could buy my own island, maybe Australia. Starting Microsoft with my pal Paul is a good start Bill Gates |
#3988, aired 2001-12-26 | SEA WORLD $1200: Common in Australia, this type of shark named for a striped feline can be 15 feet long tiger (tiger shark) |
#3987, aired 2001-12-25 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The biggest exposed rock in the world, Ayers Rock is held sacred by this large country's Aborigines Australia |
#3984, aired 2001-12-20 | A "C.D." CATEGORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Rodney Ansell, Australia's barefoot bushman, inspired this movie character Crocodile Dundee |
#3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING: THE DARK SIDE $5 (Daily Double): Burke & Wills were the first to cross this continent south to north; they died on the way back Australia |
#3956, aired 2001-11-12 | THE SURF REPORT $400: Whoa! I took a donut (wiped out) at Burleigh during the Billabong Pro on this country's Gold Coast Australia |
#3952, aired 2001-11-06 | THE LAKE COUNTRY $500: Lake Macquarie,
Lake Mungo Australia |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | DOUBLE LETTERS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the San Diego Zoo.) Found in northern Australia & New Guinea, the tree variety of this marsupial can grow to 18 pounds kangaroo |
#3944, aired 2001-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN $100: Golfer Greg Norman was born in this country Australia |
#3930, aired 2001-10-05 | MONOTREMES $200: The country that's home to the earliest dated monotreme fossils, it's also home to the platypus Australia |
#3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WORLD SKYLINE TOURS $200: This city has one of the world's largest single-span bridges across its harbor Sydney, Australia |
#3929, aired 2001-10-04 | THE LAND OF OZ $400: This island state is sometimes called the "Apple Isle" because it once produced most of Australia's apples Tasmania |
#3929, aired 2001-10-04 | THE LAND OF OZ $600: This constellation is depicted on Australia's flag Southern Cross |
#3924, aired 2001-09-27 | MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE $500: "From every mountainside" you'd hear tales about the "Survivor" cast in this country's Outback Australia |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BEACH BOYS $500: Fred Astaire's first dramatic role was in this 1959 post-nuclear war Nevil Shute drama set partly in Australia On the Beach |
#3916, aired 2001-09-17 | GLOBETROTTING $400: This sixth-largest country in the world was first sighted by Europeans in the 17th century Australia |
#3915, aired 2001-09-14 | WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? $200: Designed to prevent wild dogs from killing sheep, the 3,300-mile-long "Dog Fence" in this country is the world's longest Australia |
#3901, aired 2001-07-16 | TIME TO RETIRE $1000: Born in Australia in 1926, this soprano retired from the stage in 1990 Joan Sutherland |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | LET'S TAKE A WORLD TOUR $400: Southern Cross University & Lake Tuggeranong College are found in this large country Australia |
#3894, aired 2001-07-05 | WILDLIFE $300: The Australian water-holding frog comes out during rain to eat & do this, a word associated with Australia mate |
#3893, aired 2001-07-04 | THE FLAG $200: The black one of these, a symbol of Western Australia, is seen here on that state's flag the swan |
#3883, aired 2001-06-20 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $500: A popular housepet, the birds seen here originally came from this continent Australia |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | TRAVEL FUN $100: You can cuddle a koala at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane in this country Australia |
#3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MUST BE "D" PLACE $200: In 1911 the name of Palmerston, Australia evolved into this Darwin |
#3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $600: The place is another word for Australia's outback; the person is the most powerful man in the world Bush |
#3846, aired 2001-04-30 | FLAGS $100: The flag of this country also appears on the flags of Tuvalu, Fiji & Australia Great Britain |
#3839, aired 2001-04-19 | GLOBAL NUMBERS $500: Number of continents completely south of the Equator 2 (Antarctica & Australia) |
#3822, aired 2001-03-27 | "NEW" GEOGRAPHY $500: It's the oldest state in Australia, as well as the most populous New South Wales |
#3820, aired 2001-03-23 | WATERFALLS $200: Wollomombi Falls in northern New South Wales is one of this continent's highest waterfalls Australia |
#3805, aired 2001-03-02 | THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: It's the only continent without bees Antarctica |
#3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $100: Xavier Herbert's debut novel, "Capricornia", explores the lives of Aborigines in this country's northern Outback Australia |
#3794, aired 2001-02-15 | AUTHORS' NATIVE LANDS $600: "Schindler's List" maker Thomas Keneally Australia |
#3793, aired 2001-02-14 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Shogun" called himself a "half-Irish Englishman...born in Australia" James Clavell |
#3774, aired 2001-01-18 | WHERE FOR ART $800: Original Aboriginal art has been shown in the National Gallery of Australia in this city Canberra |
#3773, aired 2001-01-17 | THE WINE CELLAR $200: Shiraz, produced in the Coonawarra region, is one of this country's most popular wines Australia |
#3769, aired 2001-01-11 | AUSSIE ODDS & ENDS $200: Australia became a commonwealth in 1901, but this group didn't become citizens until 1967 Aborigines |
#3760, aired 2000-12-29 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $200: This vast country is about 1,000 miles northwest of New Zealand Australia |
#3753, aired 2000-12-20 | MAMMALS $300: This canine of Australia is that continent's largest wild hunting mammal Dingo |
#3750, aired 2000-12-15 | "C" BIRDS $800: Some of these flightless birds found in the forests of Australia have wattles like turkeys cassowary |
#3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH $100: The first people to settle this country migrated there 40,000 years ago; Europeans settled Botany Bay in 1788 Australia |
#3735, aired 2000-11-24 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $400: This island that's second in size only to Greenland has some of the world's largest gold & copper reserves New Guinea |
#3730, aired 2000-11-17 | I PROTEST! $200: In 1988 this country's bicentennial celebration was protested by Aborigines as a "day of mourning" Australia |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | PENINSULAS $800: Explorer Abel Tasman called this continent's Cape York Peninsula Carpentaria Land Australia |
#3710, aired 2000-10-20 | LITERARY LOCALES $500: "Timeless Land",
"The Tree of Man",
"Walkabout" Australia |
#3706, aired 2000-10-16 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This continent still has a Van Diemen Gulf, though Van Diemen's Land became Tasmania Australia |
#3669, aired 2000-07-13 | WOMEN: WRITE ON! $400: Like her "Thorn Birds", "The Ladies Of Missalonghi" is set in her native Australia Colleen McCullough |
#3663, aired 2000-07-05 | LITERATURE $400: The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this country's Aboriginal culture Australia |
#3660, aired 2000-06-30 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $200: One of these off Belize, like the "Great" one off Australia, is listed Barrier reef |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: Built from the shell of an old power station, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney is this country's largest museum Australia |
#3656, aired 2000-06-26 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $100: It takes up an entire continent Australia |
#3654, aired 2000-06-22 | PEN NAMES $400: Mudrooroo, AKA Colin Johnson, gained fame as an Aboriginal writer from this country Australia |
#3644, aired 2000-06-08 | LAKES & RIVERS $300: Australia's only large permanent lakes are artificially created & include Lake Gordon in this island state Tasmania |
#3638, aired 2000-05-31 | AKA $300: Bird that's the "bushman's clock" in Australia a kookaburra |
#3622, aired 2000-05-09 | AUSTRALIAN STATES $1000: Northern Territory is directly above this state South Australia |
#3618, aired 2000-05-03 | GREAT SCOTS! $200: Scottish-born John McDouall Stuart's 1861-62 south-to-north crossing of this continent won him a prize Australia |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | DEPENDENCIES $800: Christmas Island Australia |
#3612, aired 2000-04-25 | WORLD CITIES $1000: This chief city of South Australia was named for the wife of Britain's King William IV Adelaide |
#3610, aired 2000-04-21 | ZOOLOGY $200: Rodents native to this continent include the cavy, coypu & capybara South America |
#3609, aired 2000-04-20 | FOREIGN NATIONAL PARKS $100: Cooloola & Goongarrie Australia |
#3606, aired 2000-04-17 | 'ROUND THE WORLD $400: Of Brazil, India or Australia, the one that's largest in area Brazil |
#3603, aired 2000-04-12 | CONTINENTS BY DESERT $200: Gibson,
Great Sandy Australia |
#3601, aired 2000-04-10 | ON THE MONEY $500: Poet Banjo Paterson & the first lines of his "The Man From Snowy River" grace this country's 10-dollar note Australia |
#3597, aired 2000-04-04 | WIDE WORLD OF TRIVIA $200: Also known as the "Bush", it's the Aussie term for the remote, rural areas of Australia the Outback |
#3586, aired 2000-03-20 | THE INDIAN OCEAN $200: On parts of Australia's coast, the high & low ones may vary by only a foot or 2 tides |
#3580, aired 2000-03-10 | ISLANDS $100: An island named for the animal seen here belongs to this country
[kangaroo] Australia |
#3570, aired 2000-02-25 | BANNED AS PETS IN NYC $500: It may be wild to have this wild dog in Australia but in New York City it's no go Dingo |
#3549, aired 2000-01-27 | ISLANDS $300: It's not only Australia's southernmost state, it's the most mountainous as well Tasmania |
#3547, aired 2000-01-25 | WORLD CITIES $600: It served as Australia's capital from 1901 to 1927 Melbourne |
#3544, aired 2000-01-20 | COMING UP IN 2000 $100: The Summer Olympics will be held in this city Sydney, Australia |
#3544, aired 2000-01-20 | COMING UP IN 2000 $500: In 2000 the America's Cup will be held off the coast of this nation that currently holds the trophy New Zealand |
#3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE HOT "ROCK" $1000: In 1985 Australia's Aborigines regained ownership of this monolith they call Uluru Ayers Rock |
#3543, aired 2000-01-19 | BRAND NAMES $500: This sleek swimsuit brand got its start in Australia in 1928 Speedo |
#3539, aired 2000-01-13 | CURRENCY NAME'S THE SAME $100: Australia,
Guyana,
Taiwan Dollar |
#3531, aired 2000-01-03 | AROUND THE GLOBE $200: Called the "Eighth Natural Wonder of the World", it stretches over 1,250 miles off Australia's east coast the Great Barrier Reef |
#3514, aired 1999-12-09 | THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH $800: These "springs" with a female name, population about 25,000, are the center of Australia's vast "Red Centre" Alice Springs |
#3501, aired 1999-11-22 | IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY $500: Australia has an uninhabited territory named for this sea off its northeast coast Coral Sea |
#3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CIRCUS $500: Circus Oz, which turned 21 in 1999, is a zany, satirical circus from this country that's nicknamed "Oz" Australia |
#3486, aired 1999-11-01 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Queen Victoria's prime minister 2nd Viscount Melbourne had a city in this country named for him in 1837 Australia |
#3479, aired 1999-10-21 | A WORLD OF BEER $200: Foster's Australia |
#3476, aired 1999-10-18 | I BELIEVE I CAN'T FLY $900 (Daily Double): It's Australia's national bird Emu |
#3475, aired 1999-10-15 | GENERAL HOSPITAL $100: [Hi, I'm Ingo Rademacher from "General Hospital] Like "G.H."'s Robert & Mac Scorpio, my character of Jax is from this country, where I really grew up Australia |
#3470, aired 1999-10-08 | LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION $400: The Tasman Sea separates Australia & this nation New Zealand |
#3456, aired 1999-09-20 | ENDS IN "U" $400: In 1932 Australia tried to eradicate this large flightless bird by using machine guns -- didn't work the emu |
#3454, aired 1999-09-16 | THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE $400: Bob Hawke Australia |
#3452, aired 1999-09-14 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $500: Many of this country's finest red wines come from the Coonawarra region, southeast of Adelaide Australia |
#3448, aired 1999-09-08 | OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $400: In Sydney, Australia English |
#3443, aired 1999-07-21 | COUNTRIES BY REGION $300: Western Plateau,
Great Victoria Desert,
Great Artesian Basin Australia |
#3440, aired 1999-07-16 | CONTINENTS BY VOLCANO $200: Erebus Antarctica |
#3433, aired 1999-07-07 | COASTING ALONG $1000: A former British colony now part of Ghana, or a city in Queensland, Australia Gold Coast |
#3428, aired 1999-06-30 | RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE $400: In February 1999 Aborigines smeared this country's flag with ashes in Canberra Australia |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | AS THE WORLD TURNS $400: This inlet of the Tasman Sea was the site of Captain Cook's first landing in Australia Botany Bay |
#3422, aired 1999-06-22 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $600: Between 1801 & 1803 Matthew Flinders became the first person to circumnavigate this country Australia |
#3421, aired 1999-06-21 | PENINSULAS $800: Mention the east side of Australia's Cape York Peninsula & you're "reef"erring to this sea Coral Sea |
#3413, aired 1999-06-09 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $600 (Daily Double): We're not pulling the wool over your eyes when we tell you it was the first nation to grant women the right to vote New Zealand |
#3410, aired 1999-06-04 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Weddell Sea, bordering this continent, was named for James Weddell, who charted it in 1823 Antarctica |
#3396, aired 1999-05-17 | FAMOUS DATES $300: On Jan. 1, 1901 this southern hemisphere country (that's also a continent) proclaimed its independence Australia |
#3394, aired 1999-05-13 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: This taxonomic troublemaker from Australia is known scientifically as Ornithorhyncus anatinus Duck-billed platypus |
#3390, aired 1999-05-07 | NATIONS' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $200: Australia Sydney |
#3376, aired 1999-04-19 | WHAT "A" COUNTRY! $800: Birds that call this country home include the galah, the rosella & the fairy penguin Australia |
#3372, aired 1999-04-13 | NATIONAL AIRLINES $100: Qantas Airways Australia |
#3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Beginning in the mountains of Queensland, the Darling River flows 1,700 miles as this continent's longest river Australia |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | POP MUSIC $400: When INXS went home, they went to this country Australia |
#3366, aired 1999-04-05 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $400: Melbourne Australia |
#3363, aired 1999-03-31 | OLYMPIC MASCOTS $600: Olly the Kookaburra, Syd the Platypus & Millie the Echidna will represent the games held in this year 2000 (Summer Games in Sydney, Australia) |
#3359, aired 1999-03-25 | SIX FLAGS $200: It's the commonwealth nation represented by the flag seen here Australia |
#3344, aired 1999-03-04 | TASMANIAN TIDBITS $100: Tasmania is this country's smallest state Australia |
#3335, aired 1999-02-19 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: You may wander past wallabies when you bushwalk through this country's Blue Mountains Australia |
#3332, aired 1999-02-16 | INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS $300: Gallipoli Peninsula Turkey |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | GIVE ME A SEA $1000: Sydney, Australia is the largest city on this sea Tasman Sea |
#3311, aired 1999-01-18 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS $800: This "Shark" from Australia is the all-time leading money winner on the PGA Tour Greg Norman |
#3308, aired 1999-01-13 | THEY'RE IN CHARGE $400: Prime Minister John Howard Australia |
#3304, aired 1999-01-07 | CRITTERS $100: This island off Australia has been home to carnivorous "devils" & wolves Tasmania |
#3301, aired 1999-01-04 | FOREIGN HOLIDAY $800: An April 25 holiday in Australia honors this military group ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) |
#3296, aired 1998-12-28 | NORTH BY NORTHWEST $1000: Eighty Mile Beach, on the Indian Ocean, is part of this continent's northwest coast Australia |
#3283, aired 1998-12-09 | WESTWARD HO! $500: From this second-largest Aussie state, it's a 500-mile walkabout to the largest: Western Australia Queensland |
#3276, aired 1998-11-30 | PEOPLE EAT THAT? $200: Witchetty grubs are large insect larvae savored (& named) by this country's Aborigines Australia |
#3252, aired 1998-10-27 | 1798 $200: Sailing through a strait off Australia in 1798, George Bass & Matthew Flinders proved this was an island Tasmania |
#3250, aired 1998-10-23 | MINES, ALL MINES $400: Emphasize the Au in Australia, home of the Kalgoorlie Super Pit Mine for this gold |
#3247, aired 1998-10-20 | GEOGRAPHICAL EXTREMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Only 4 nations lie south of 40 degrees south latitude: Australia, New Zealand, Argentina & this one Chile |
#3246, aired 1998-10-19 | "QUEEN" FOR A DAY $200: It's the state indicated here, mate Queensland (in Australia) |
#3243, aired 1998-10-14 | CAPT. COOK $200: In early 1774 Cook came within 300 miles of discovering this continent Antarctica |
#3241, aired 1998-10-12 | STANDARD $500 (Daily Double): Constellation on Papua New Guinea's flag; the country used to be part of Australia Southern Cross |
#3238, aired 1998-10-07 | SHOW ME THE MONEY! $400: Seen here, the $1 bill of this vast country features art by native artist David Malangi Australia |
#3236, aired 1998-10-05 | BIRTHPLACES $200: Famous singers born in Melbourne, Australia include Samantha Sang & this "strong", "invincible" woman Helen Reddy |
#3226, aired 1998-09-21 | FAR"M"S $200: After Sydney, it has the largest metropolitan area in Australia Melbourne |
#3205, aired 1998-07-03 | IT'S SANDY! $400: The Canning Basin on this continent is also called the Great Sandy Desert Australia |
#3200, aired 1998-06-26 | FUN THINGS TO DO $400: Boats made from beer cans sail by in the Beer Can Regatta, held in Darwin in this country Australia |
#3193, aired 1998-06-17 | MAMMALS $400: Originally, it was a domesticated animal brought to Australia by the Aborigines; it then went wild the dingo |
#3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE REAL LAND OF OZ $100: Australia boasts the only all black type of this often white & graceful aquatic bird Swan |
#3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE REAL LAND OF OZ $400: This party led Australia from 1983 to 1996, while a party of the same name was Britain's opposition Labor |
#3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE REAL LAND OF OZ $500: 5-letter name of the capital of Western Australia, named for a county in Scotland Perth |
#3156, aired 1998-04-27 | WHERE YA FROM? $500: Elle Macpherson Australia |
#3151, aired 1998-04-20 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Found in Eastern Australia & Tasmania, this mammal's scientific name means "bird-snout" a platypus |
#3139, aired 1998-04-02 | GONE WITH THE WINDS $600: Guinness lists Commonwealth Bay on this southern continent as the world's windiest place Antarctica |
#3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: In 1642 & 1643 this Dutch captain circumnavigated Australia without seeing it (Abel) Tasman |
#3129, aired 1998-03-19 | COURTS $100: This term for a crude or unfair tribunal was first recorded in mid-19th C. America, not in Australia kangaroo court |
#3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $600: The melodic instrument of this country's native people is the didjeridu Australia |
#3120, aired 1998-03-06 | IN THE GROUND $100: Found in Australia, a giant species of this annelid can measure 10 feet long a worm |
#3109, aired 1998-02-19 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $300: Adventurous travelers can trek across this country's Kangaroo Island on camels Australia |
#3097, aired 1998-02-03 | CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS $400: In 1996, Sri Lanka, a 66-1 underdog, batted down Australia in the World Cup of this sport Cricket |
#3095, aired 1998-01-30 | WORLD WAR II $1000: The main 1942 battle of this sea off Australia was the first naval battle waged entirely by air power the Coral Sea |
#3093, aired 1998-01-28 | AUTHORS' ODD JOBS $400: Colleen McCullough used to drive a bus in this, her native country Australia |
#3087, aired 1998-01-20 | "W"ORDS $500: Phascolomis ursinus, this burrowing marsupial of Australia, resembles a small bear wombat |
#3083, aired 1998-01-14 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: The 2 continents that fit the category Australia & Europe |
#3079, aired 1998-01-08 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Lake Disappointment is a dry salt lake on the edge of this country's Gibson Desert Australia |
#3078, aired 1998-01-07 | DIBS! $400: The Dutch had already sighted Australia, & Aborigines lived there, when he claimed it for England in 1770 Captain James Cook |
#3078, aired 1998-01-07 | WET & WILD $500: The water opossum is also called the yapok, in honor of this continent's Oyapok River South America |
#3065, aired 1997-12-19 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $200: 2-preposition nickname for Australia "Down Under" |
#3065, aired 1997-12-19 | FOREIGN STATES $200: Queensland, Victoria & New South Wales Australia |
#3055, aired 1997-12-05 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $400: This flightless bird of Australia may weigh up to 120 pounds an emu (or cassowary) |
#3048, aired 1997-11-26 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: It's any of the first known inhabitants of a region, especially one from Australia an aborigine |
#3047, aired 1997-11-25 | WINE $100: The Coonawarra is a top wine region in this down under country Australia |
#3045, aired 1997-11-21 | MORE STUPID ANSWERS $200: Queensland & New South Wales cover eastern Australia & this state covers western Australia Western Australia |
#3044, aired 1997-11-20 | ODE TO ENGLAND $600: In 1788 convicts were bound for this big land that Cook had found Australia |
#3036, aired 1997-11-10 | AT THE KENNEDY CENTER $500: A 1994 festival honoring this country featured the Tjapukai Aboriginal Dance Company Australia |
#3032, aired 1997-11-04 | CYBER LIFE $200: Web addresses that end with ".au" are located on host computers in this country Australia |
#3029, aired 1997-10-30 | SHEEPISH COUNTRIES $200: Producing about 30% of the world's wool, this country has 7.7 jumbucks per person Australia |
#3022, aired 1997-10-21 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Sidney Nolan, a native of this continent created a series of paintings inspired by outlaw Ned Kelly Australia |
#3002, aired 1997-09-23 | BODIES OF WATER $500: Botany Bay on the coast of New South Wales, Australia is an inlet of this sea the Tasman Sea |
#2992, aired 1997-09-09 | ISLAND PRISONS $800: Cockatoo Island is a former prison in this country settled by prisoners Australia |
#2983, aired 1997-07-16 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Cape York Peninsula stretches northward from this continent's mainland Australia |
#2977, aired 1997-07-08 | HODGEPODGE $200: It's the only continent occupied by a single nation Australia |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: It's a nickname for Australia, or a land somewhere over the rainbow Oz |
#2969, aired 1997-06-26 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: The redundant-sounding Townsville, in this country's Queensland state, was named for Robert Towns Australia |
#2968, aired 1997-06-25 | MAMMALS $400: This group of mammals lost out to placental mammals in much of the world but hung tough in Australia Marsupials |
#2962, aired 1997-06-17 | 1836 $400: Adelaide in this country was founded in 1836 & named for the wife of King William IV Australia |
#2961, aired 1997-06-16 | "C" IN GEOGRAPHY $100: Australia's National Library in this city overlooks Lake Burley Griffin Canberra |
#2957, aired 1997-06-10 | VOLCANOES $500: Mount Erebus in this continent's Victoria Land region was discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 Antarctica |
#2950, aired 1997-05-30 | FOREIGN FILMS $200: The 1995 pig film "Babe" was shot on a farm in this down under country Australia |
#2948, aired 1997-05-28 | NATURE $200: Kangaroo Paw, an unusual-looking wildflower, is native to this country Australia |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | AUSTRALIA $200: Somewhat paradoxically, it's the common term for the vast Australian interior outback |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | AUSTRALIA $400: 1788's first fleet of British settlers carried about 730 of these, including thieves & debtors criminals |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | AUSTRALIA $600: In the 1980s the world followed the case of Lindy Chamberlain, who said one of these wild dogs killed her baby dingo |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | AUSTRALIA $800: Australia is 1,000 miles from New Zealand but only 100 miles from this, the world's second-largest island New Guinea |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | AUSTRALIA $1000: Australians remember lost countrymen April 25, the date of this ill-fated WWI landing in Turkey Gallipoli |
#2937, aired 1997-05-13 | THE OLYMPICS $400: The last summer games of the 20th century will be the 2000 games in this harbor city down under Sydney, Australia |
#2915, aired 1997-04-11 | ROCK MUSIC GEOGRAPHY $100: You can get down under to the music of this country's Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil & INXS Australia |
#2909, aired 1997-04-03 | ANIMALS $400: Also called a warrigal, this wild dog is one of the few nonmarsupial mammals of Australia Dingo |
#2902, aired 1997-03-25 | MOUNTAINS $500: Ranges in Australia & Virginia both have this color in their names Blue |
#2901, aired 1997-03-24 | "OVER" & "OUT" $200: The remote part of Australia the Outback |
#2892, aired 1997-03-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: In 1964 Kath Walker became the first aboriginal woman from this country to have a book published Australia |
#2886, aired 1997-03-03 | HISTORY $300: Around 1605 Dutchman Willem Jansz became the first European to sight this continent Australia |
#2883, aired 1997-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $1000: The discovery of gold at Kalgoorlie in 1890 aided the growth of this capital of Western Australia Perth |
#2881, aired 1997-02-24 | GEOGRAPHY $200: The Grampians, a part of this continent's Great Dividing Range, is also known by its Aboriginal name, Gariwerd Australia |
#2878, aired 1997-02-19 | THE ELEMENTS $200: At over 150 lbs., The Welcome Stranger, discovered in Australia, is the largest pure nugget of this gold |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | SPORTS $400: In May 1995 this country's Black Magic yacht beat the Young America to win the America's Cup New Zealand |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | THE CONTINENTS $400: This continent is the world's largest wool producer, accounting for about 30% of the total Australia |
#2849, aired 1997-01-09 | THE 1970s $400: On Christmas Day 1974, a cyclone damaged 90% of the buildings in this country's city of Darwin Australia |
#2848, aired 1997-01-08 | PLANTS & TREES $400: A type of this tall gum tree is Australia's most important timber tree eucalyptus |
#2847, aired 1997-01-07 | TENNIS $2,000 (Daily Double): To accomplish a Grand Slam, you have to win certain tournaments in these 4 countries Australia, England, France & United States |
#2845, aired 1997-01-03 | ANIMALS $300: Australia has over 300 species of these animals, including skinks, geckos & giant goannas lizards |
#2840, aired 1996-12-27 | "E"ASY DOES IT $100: This flightless bird of Australia is a nuisance because it knocks down sheep fences Emu |
#2834, aired 1996-12-19 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $400: He & his loyal crew members charted part of the coast of Australia after being set adrift from the Bounty Captain Bligh |
#2831, aired 1996-12-16 | PORT CITIES $800: In 1927 Australia's government moved from this port city to Canberra Melbourne |
#2821, aired 1996-12-02 | MOUNTAINS $1000: The Flinders Ranges in this country extend about 300 miles from near Port Pirie to near Lake Eyre Australia |
#2815, aired 1996-11-22 | GEOGRAPHY $500: This capital of Queensland in Australia was founded as a station for British convicts in 1824 Brisbane |
#2812, aired 1996-11-19 | ANIMALS $200: 1 of 2 egg-laying mammals of Australia a duck-billed platypus (or echidna) |
#2809, aired 1996-11-14 | LANGUAGES $1000: The Khoisan languages of this continent are noted for their clicking sounds Africa |
#2804, aired 1996-11-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Australia's largest natural freshwater lake, Great Lake, lies in this island state Tasmania |
#2798, aired 1996-10-30 | PEOPLE $800: Malcolm Fraser was a grazier, or rancher, in Victoria before becoming prime minister of this country Australia |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the closest continent to Vanuatu, a country that consists of about 80 islands Australia |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | WORLD TRAVEL $400: You'll find the Olgas, a series of 26 enormous rock domes, about 35 miles from Ayers Rock in this country Australia |
#2778, aired 1996-10-02 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Shallow, saline Lake Eyre is this continent's lowest point Australia |
#2767, aired 1996-09-17 | GOLF $300: In his first year as a professional, Greg Norman was chosen to represent this country in the World Cup Australia |
#2754, aired 1996-07-18 | ANIMALS $300: Found chiefly in Australia, the wallaby is a smaller type of this marsupial Kangaroo |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: Broken Hill, this country's largest company, took its name from a small town in New South Wales Australia |
#2747, aired 1996-07-09 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: This country's Canning Basin is coextensive with the Great Sandy Desert Australia |
#2741, aired 1996-07-01 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Kangaroo Island is a large island off this country's south coast Australia |
#2737, aired 1996-06-25 | WORLD CITIES $400: This capital of New South Wales is Australia's oldest British settlement Sydney |
#2737, aired 1996-06-25 | MOUNTAINS $1000: Mount Kosciusko, Australia's highest peak, lies in this range of the Australian Alps the Snowy Mountains |
#2735, aired 1996-06-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Large aboriginal populations live in this country's states of Queensland & New South Wales Australia |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | MOUNTAINS $600: This continent's Alps include Mount Bogong & Mount Kosciusko Australia |
#2723, aired 1996-06-05 | PREHISTORIC TIMES $300: The procoptodon was a giant one of these in Pleistocene Australia; don't all jump in at once a kangaroo |
#2715, aired 1996-05-24 | TERRIERS $200: The Silky Terrier, formerly called the Sydney Silky, was developed in this country circa 1900 Australia |
#2702, aired 1996-05-07 | EXPLORERS $600: Thomas Livingstone Mitchell found a vast expanse of fertile ground in this country's Victoria state Australia |
#2700, aired 1996-05-03 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: The 3 continents crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn South America, Africa & Australia |