| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING $200: A 2022 study said this state had the longest average work week, 41.4 hours; commercial fishing & drilling for oil ain't easy Alaska |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $1200: Antarctic downslope winds, which can average nearly 50 mph, get their speed from this force, rather than the atmosphere gravity |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | SCIENCE IS COOL $900: NASA says the average temperature on this eighth planet from the Sun is a brisk -330 degrees Fahrenheit Neptune |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $800: In 2014 the average summer temperature--again, summer temperature--in Cold Bay in this state was 54.1 degrees Alaska |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $600: In 2023 this type of filing affecting housing was 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities eviction |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THE OCEAN $400: The historical average of these Titanic menaces is about 500 entering N. Atlantic shipping lanes, but there are recent 4-digit years icebergs |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | LET'S TALK ASTRONOMY $400: An astronomical unit, or AU, is the average distance between these 2 bodies, or about 93 million miles Earth & Sun |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $1600: In 1979 the average price of gas at U.S. service stations passed this milestone for the first time a dollar a gallon |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | COLORFUL SPORTS $200: The area surrounding a golf hole; the average size on the pro tours is about 6,000 square feet a green |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $200: On average, this organ produces up to 2.5 pints of bile every day liver |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $200: X marks the spot where the New York City Opera premiered "X: The Life and Times of" this activist Malcolm X |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $400: Once called "America's most lurid talk show", it inspired a 2001 opera that took London by storm Jerry Springer |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $600: The 2000 opera "In the Penal Colony" is based on a gruesome 1914 story by this author of "The Metamorphosis" Kafka |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $800: Sister Aloysius suspects Father Flynn of illicit acts in an opera version of this John Patrick Shanley play Doubt |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $1000: "Nixon in China" is an opera by this composer with the name of a Founding Father John Adams |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $400: This ex-planet's average distance of 3.7 billion miles from Earth could pose commuting problems Pluto |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Jim has 6 apples,
Billy has 4,
Michele has 2 &
Debbie has 8 for an average of this many 5 |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WORD WITH YOU $800: In 1924 Rogers Hornsby's was .424 (his batting) average |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | TAKING STOCK $2000: Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is called the this 225 Nikkei |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $200: At 6,800 feet, it's the state with the highest average altitude Colorado |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY $600: It's the windiest continent & on average, the highest Antarctica |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | U.S. FACTS & FIGURES $400: 1.5 million high school students took this test in 2021, with an average score of 1060 the SAT |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | ANAGRAMMED SCIENTISTS $1600: Well, that's just nuts: AVERAGE CHOWING STRONGER George Washington Carver |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $400: The average cup of coffee has about 100 milligrams of it caffeine |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | ISLANDS OF THE FAR NORTH $400: Like Antarctica, this vastest island is capped by an ice sheet; it has an average thickness of about 5,000 feet Greenland |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | YOU'RE IN COLLEGE NOW $400: A 2022 study found the average cost of one of these college course units was $1,586; hope you have room on your card credit |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | HOP ON THE HOMOPHONE $400: Somewhat average or about adequate &
the price an airline charges for a ticket fair/fare |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: In 2021 this national park reported its hottest-ever June, with an average day/night temperature of 102.8 Death Valley |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | POINTING OUT DECIMALS $600: Ted Williams is the last Major Leaguer to hit more than this fabled average, going .006 above it in 1941 .400 |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | FOOT, THE BILL $200: An average cost at nail salons for this procedure involving only your piggies runs around $35 a pedicure |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | ALL OVER THE MAP $1000: This landlocked country highlighted here is pretty flat; the average elevation is less than 600 feet Belarus |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $100: This largest tropical rain forest can average well over 100 inches of rain each year the Amazon |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | MOUNTAIN WORLD $1600: This "colorful" mountain range in eastern Jamaica famous for growing coffee receives an annual average of 200 inches of rain the Blue Mountains |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | WAITS & MEASURES $600: A 2019 study found that Newark Airport had the longest average wait time, 23 minutes, in this 3-letter agency's lines the TSA |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $400: The A1C test measures average blood sugar over the past 3 months; at 5.7% you're pre-this, at 6.5 you're this diabetic |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | THE ELEMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This element makes up about 25% of the mass in your average star helium |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $2000: This George Eliot novel about Dorothea Brooke has 86 chapters, so they must average about 10 pages Middlemarch |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $200: Total up all the numbers in a set & divide by the number of numbers to get this, also called the mean the average |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | DEADLY SINS, ELSEWHERE $600: Really leaning into its name, the average this animal travels about 40 yards per day a sloth |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $1000: In a set of data, the median is the middle point, the mean is the average & this other "M" is the number that occurs most often mode |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $400: Blue topaz is often created by exposing it to this--the gamma type works especially well radiation |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $800: In 1976 a large ruby was carved into a 4-pound replica of this historic American object, crack & all Liberty Bell |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $1600: This fossilized resin has one of the lowest densities among gems & it will often float in salt water amber |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $2000: Weighing in at 2.75 tons, the Empress of Uruguay is an almost 11-foot tall geode of this purple quartz amethyst |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $6,000 (Daily Double): Dust & ash from a volcano in this state were used to create a new green type of gem called helenite Washington |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $3,800 (Daily Double): Oh, for an ocean breeze! In August 2020 the average high in this southwestern capital city was 111 degrees Fahrenheit Phoenix |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | MICHAEL JORDAN $1000: It wasn't quite as magical as the Bulls years, but MJ did average 20 per game at age 39 in his last year with this alliterative team the Washington Wizards |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | THIS & THAT $200: On an average day this armed service saves 12 lives & screens 300 merchant ships arriving in U.S. ports for security threats the Coast Guard |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | STAR-SPANGLED BANTER $1600: This sci-fi "Guide" says the universe is infinite with finite populated worlds; dividing by infinity is zero, so average population is zero The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | ALSO A DOG BREED $800: A clothes size once meant for the heavier-than-average boy husky |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TOP 10s $200: With a January average of -53 F., Verkhoyansk in this 2.5 million-sq.-mile region is often ranked the world's coldest spot (Russian) Siberia |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | SCIENCE CLASS $1200: This ocean has the greatest average depth, about 14,000 feet the Pacific |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: A leading org. against this activity says the average driver does it 80 times before being arrested for the first time drunk driving |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $1600: Globo Gym vs. Average Joes Dodgeball |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | CENTRAL AMERICA $600: Nicoya, Costa Rica is one of these "colorful" zones in which the population lives longer on average a blue zone |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: For 2, 5 & 11, it is 6 average |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $400: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This Midwesterner did have some down years in his 50-plus-year investing success story but also some pretty good streaks, including a nine-year run where shares in his company increased in value by an average of 52% a year (Warren) Buffett |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | OUTSIDE OF ME $800: Circus wardrobe fun fact: the average size of these is 28EEEEE clown shoes |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | THE HUMAN BODY $1200: In the average adult male, this thighbone is about 19 inches long the femur |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | FACTS & FIGURES $200: The average distance between these 2 bodies is 93 million miles the Earth & the Sun |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: On average, the statues on this Chilean dependency are 13 feet tall & weigh 14 tons Easter Island |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | NAMES IN POP CULTURE $800: A self-described "average student", this former "Late Show" host funds a scholarship at Indiana's Ball State Letterman |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | MLB SINGLE-SEASON RECORDS $600: Boston ace Dutch Leonard ended the 1914 season with a microscopic 0.96 one of these ERA (earned run average) |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | STOCK SYMBOLS $400: Companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average include Verizon (VZ) & this credit card company (just V) Visa |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $800: It's not usually thought of as an organ, but for an average human, it's the largest & can cover 20 square feet skin |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES $1000: Adjective for one who always seems to have a greater than average number of mishaps accident-prone |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | HISTORY $800: Making it tough on the pres. seeking re-election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time low of 41.22 in this year 1932 |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | AGRICULTURE $800: A 138-pound cabbage set a world record for Scott Robb, a farmer in this state, benefiting from the above-average amount of sunlight Alaska |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THAT'S HOT STUFF $200: Though closest to the Earth in size, this planet's average surface temperature is 860 degrees Fahrenheit Venus |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | NATIONAL $1600: At about 10,700 feet, this "Land of the Thunder Dragon" has the highest average elevation of any nation on Earth Bhutan |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | BACK"PACK" $1600: The average blue-collar guy Joe Sixpack |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | "Z"-POURRI $400: For every ton of the Earth's crust, an average of some 3 ounces is made up of this metal zinc |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $400: Something that is this place "variety", such as a carrot, is unremarkable garden |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $800: A sufficient effort is this, as is a road once it has been cleared of debris passable |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $1200: This 8-letter adjective for middling effort comes from words meaning "halfway up the mountain" mediocre |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $1600: Add an "A" to the middle of a non-holiday to get this word meaning "ordinary" workaday |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $2000: This "P" word that can mean "dull" is also a literary term, the opposite of poetic prosaic |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | CALLED OUT IN SONG $800: Knowing how to roc-a-fella with "Takeover" in 2001, this rapper went after Nas having "a 1 hot album every 10 year average" Jay-Z |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | FOR ME & MIGUEL $600: In 2012 Miguel Cabrera led the league in batting average, HRs & RBIs, becoming the first in 45 years to win this numeric title the Triple Crown |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | SUIT UP $400: The average weight of a full suit of this in the 15th century was 65 pounds a suit of armor |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUNNY "D" $400: This Texas city, "The Big D", has an average of 234 sunny days per year Dallas |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | THE HUMAN BODY $1200: Carl Wunderlich came up with this average body temp. Fahrenheit in 1868, but admitted it was a large range 98.6 |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | STEAMY SCIENCE $10,800 (Daily Double): Earthquakes have lengthened the average interval between its famed eruptions of water & steam by about 30 minutes Old Faithful |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | COUNT $600: This count determines how many erythrocytes & leukocytes you have on average a blood count |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $200: To pull off the title of this Jules Verne novel, you'd have to average about 13 miles an hour Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $200: Friday, October 13, 1989:
A "mini-crash" sees a 190-point drop in this stock average the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | SILENT "G" $200: California is no stranger to these dry spells when average rainfall is below normal for months or years a drought |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG PHARMA $200: Pfounded in 1849, this pharma giant was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2004 Pfizer |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | SAINTS ON EARTH $600: The name of this largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands means "holy cross" & holy cross! The average temp there is 82! Saint Croix |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: On Feb. 5, 2018 this dropped 1,175 points, its worst closing point decline to that date the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | 5, 5 $1000: In Manhattan, an average of 70-90 cases are heard in each session of this, held from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. night court |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | MULTIPLE A's $1000: Blame it on the AAR, meaning average annual this rainfall (or return or revenue) |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? $800: "Weather" refers to short-term conditions; this is the average weather at a particular location over time climate |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | FAST COMPANY $1600: Francois Garbart holds the record for doing this solo, just under 43 days--an average of 27.2 knots sailing around the world |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | STOCK MARKET INDEXES $200: This company puts out an industrial average & also publishes the Wall Street Journal Dow Jones |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | WORD HISTORY $2000: A statistical term or a synonym for ordinary, this adjective may have come from Arabic for "damaged goods" average |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | A DOG & PONY & LEMUR SHOW $200: The average height of this pony named for an island group is 40 inches--it's so short that it's not measured in hands a Shetland |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $800: After 3 seasons & a .220 average for the Blue Jays, Danny Ainge moved to this NBA team's back court, then its front office the Celtics |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2018 $800: A list of Dow Jones Industrial Average milestones includes first close over this big number, Jan. 25, 2017 20,000 |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | WINNING CLAMS AT THE CASINO $200: Wheel! Of! Mis-fortune! PBS noted if you bet $100 an hour on this game, you'd lose an average of $5.26 an hour over time roulette |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | SEAS OF THE WORLD $1200: Surface temperatures in this colorful sea average 85 degrees in summer the Red Sea |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | FOR IT IS A FACT $1600: In 2000 the average American consumed 146 pounds of this grain; carb-consciousness helped cut that 10% by 2011 wheat |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $1000: In Pocatello in this state, the average low temp in January is a not-so-sweet 16 Idaho |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | THE 300+ $1200: Whether his lifetime batting average was .367 or .366, it's still the all-time record Ty Cobb |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | STAY WOKE $600: This substance many use to stay awake can lead to tremors & anxiety at 500 mg/day; the average American consumes 300 caffeine |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS $200: In 1896 he paired with Charles Henry Dow to compute a daily industrials average (Edward) Jones |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | PRO RUSSELL-ING $400: This Celtic who battled Wilt Chamberlain had a 22.5-rebound average & won 11 NBA titles in a 13-year career Bill Russell |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | INFRASTRUCTURE $200: The 600,000 of these that Americans travel over average 40+ years old & 1 in 9 is structurally deficient bridges |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | GRADE THAT WORD $600: You had to flip "Purple Rain" to hear "God", one of these better-than-average tunes a B-side |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | THE OFFICE $2000: A 2013 survey found average office space cost by this common measure was $36 in San Francisco, $11 in Chattanooga by square foot |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BACK TO SCHOOL WITH POLITICIANS $600: He graduated from his Baton Rouge high school with a 4.62 grade point average & was voted most likely to succeed Bobby Jindal |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2017 $200: Under surprising facts, Americans in 2016 paid an average of 25.6% of their earnings in income tax & into this fund Social Security |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | YOU KIDS TODAY! $400: You're not rushing to the plow, as the average age of this occupation is up from 51 in 1982 to near 60 today farming |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $200: The daily price average of 30 selected blue chip stocks, it's abbreviated DJIA the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | A SUMMER COLD $1200: In July 2015 average temps. in Montego Bay in this nation ranged from 96 to--yipes!--75, so hope you brought a shirt Jamaica |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | HYBRID & ELECTRIC CARS $400: An "electric" stat: Chevy says owners who charge this model regularly average more than 900 miles between fill-ups the Volt |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | FITNESS & EXERCISE $600: NFL prospects run this dash, roughly the distance they'd have to run to cover an average punt 40 yards |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WORD WITH YOU $400: In 1924 Rogers Hornsby's was .424 batting average |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | BIG BATS OF BASEBALL $200: In 2015 this "Big Papi" with 500+ homers & a .455 World Series batting average said 2016 would be his final season (David) Ortiz |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | U.S. STATES $200: The coldest on average Alaska |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | UNITS OF MEASURE $400: A synodic month, on average 29.53059 days, is based primarily on the movement of this the Moon |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | LETTER PERFECT $800: It's the middle initial of average citizen John Public Q. |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | WYOMING $800: Wyoming's average elevation is around 6,700 feet, second only to this neighbor Colorado |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM $1200: Dewar's was the 1st Scotch of this type to be a royal supplier; 40 single malts go into it, an average of .025 of the whole blend |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | GOING BANANAS $400: "Fun Facts" at this company's website include "The average American eats 27 pounds of bananas each year!" Chiquita |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | EDUCATION $400: The first of these "average" schools in the U.S. was founded in 1823 in Vermont to train elementary school teachers a normal school |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | HELP ME, DR. SPOCK! $200: "The average baby gets his first" this "around 7 months" & 20 of them by age 2 1/2 a tooth |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: On average, a house cat does this about 15 hours a day sleep |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: Holy this Ohio city on both banks of the Maumee River! The average price for a home is under $100,000 Toledo |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | DOUBLE A $400: AAR stands for "against all risks" or, as meteorologists might know, "average annual" this rainfall |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | A JOB WITH NO COMMUTE $400: The USA's average age for this job has been rising for 30 years, to 58.3 as of 2012--remember, it's Old MacDonald farmer |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | SPIKE $400: From an average of about 2.3 million in the 1930s, births in the U.S. spiked to almost 3.5 million in this 1st baby boom year 1946 |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | BAR SCIENCE $600: (Jon Taffer delivers the clue.) If female guests average over 34, use barstools with backs, as women get sensitive about their own backs with age; under 34, let them spin & interact--that's applying this science, from the Greek for "people" & "writing" demographics |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | COLD WORLD OUT THERE $400: You can freeze your Aspen off in Fraser in this state, with a year-round average of 32.5 degrees Colorado |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $200: This spiteful word is the average of all the numbers in a data set mean |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $2,400 (Daily Double): Arkansas' Hot Springs average 143 degrees; presumably these Oklahoma springs are 69 degrees hotter Boiling Springs |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | CAUSE OF DEBT $400: One analysis says that those who graduated in 2012 with these had an average of almost $30,000 student loans |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $1200: The females of this giant water boa are longer than the males by an average of around 10 feet an anaconda |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | MEASURE UP $400: 1 astronomical unit = about 93 million miles, the average distance between these 2 objects the Earth & the Sun |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | COLORFUL SPORTS $200: The area surrounding a golf hole; the average size on the pro tours is about 6,000 square feet the green |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | WE ALL HAVE NEEDS $2000: You need these air sacs to breathe; the average adult has about 300 million in his lungs alveoli |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | SINGAPORE $800: It rains somewhere in Singapore almost every day; the average for this figure is 84% humidity |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1600: Despite its 730-square-mile area, this Florida lake has an average depth of only 9 feet Lake Okeechobee |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | WARM $200: It gets a touch warm at Turner Field in this city in July, when the average temperature is 89 degrees Atlanta |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | "P"SCIENTISTS $2000: The average size of a string in string theory is about 10‑33 centimeters, known as this German physicist's "length" (Max) Planck |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | "B" ABBREVIATIONS $400: BA
(important for a hitter) batting average |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | 1914--WHAT A YEAR $1600: As the year began, this Michigan company doubled its average worker's salary to a $5-a-day minimum wage Ford |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BLOGS $200: American Papist bills itself as "not your average" blog for those of this faith Catholic |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | SCIENCE SURVEY $600: It orbits the Sun at an average distance of 36 million miles Mercury |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | FROM THE "OL" COUNTRY $1200: This Asian country has an average altitude of 5,200 feet above sea level Mongolia |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | NUMERICAL GROUPS $1000: A 1936 book gave the Supreme Court this nickname; the justices' average age was 71 the "Nine Old Men" |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $400: This ex-planet's average distance of 3.7 billion miles from Earth could pose commuting problems Pluto |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | SCIENCE $400: Similar to reflex, humans' average for this time is roughly 1/4 second & we're going to test yours... right... now ! reaction |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | ARKANSAS $1600: The mineral waters that bubble forth in this national park average 143 degrees Hot Springs |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $400: A contribution of this Sterling, Connecticut man: the first average of selected U.S. stock prices (Charles Henry) Dow |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON $2000: The peak that forms much of this partner of Nevis is Mount Misery; with an average temperature of 80, sounds rough St. Kitts |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | BERRIES $400: This shortcake fruit has an average of 200 seeds on each berry a strawberry |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | JACKIE ROBINSON $800: En route to the 1949 NL MVP award, Jackie, a daring baserunner, led the league with a .342 average & 37 of these steals |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $1000: Better bring an umbrella to Lloro, near this South American country's Pacific coast, said to average 40 feet of rain a year Colombia |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | THE "B"-GINNING & END OF THE COUNTRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Average elevation about 8,000 feet: ends with N Bhutan |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | TUESDAYS $400: On "Black Tuesday", Oct. 29 of this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed & lost 23% of its value 1929 |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | NFL $800: In 33 seasons he won 347 games coaching the Colts & then the Dolphins, an average of 10.5 wins a season Don Shula |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A 4 "O" AVERAGE $400: A brand of chocolate drink, or a rhyming word used to get someone's attention Yoo-Hoo |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A 4 "O" AVERAGE $800: "Motion" is only part of this word for the power of moving; "Come on, baby, do" it locomotion |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A 4 "O" AVERAGE $1200: 12-letter disease causing the bones of older women to become abnormally fragile osteoporosis |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A 4 "O" AVERAGE $1600: Tediously unvarying & literally one-note, this is getting... monotonous |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A 4 "O" AVERAGE $2000: A word whose sound is imitative of the sound it refers to, like hoot onomatopoeia |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | TWO'S DAY $400: A 2.0 grade point average is equivalent to this letter C |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | PEOPLE OF FAITH $600: The Gideons say these last an average of 6 years Bibles |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | LAKERS $600: Workers are way above average in ports such as Duluth on this Great Lake Lake Superior |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HE'S QUITE THE SPORTSMAN $400: In 2012 Albert Pujols takes his career .328 average & 445 home runs from this city to Anaheim St. Louis |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | RUNNING A MARATHON $600: To the nearest minute, what you'll have to average per mile to run a 2:10 marathon like the champs 5 minutes |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | DUNN THAT $600: Ironically, Adam Dunn, who mainly played this position for the White Sox, finished 2011 with a .159 average designated hitter |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | I'VE GOT 2 TICKETS TO PARADISE $800: This state's record low is 12 degrees; its January average is a balmy 68 Hawaii |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) Among lions that roam southern Africa, the females do most of the hunting, & they generally outnumber males in these groups that average about 15 lions prides |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | LET'S TAKE A "TRIP" $200: Since 1900, only 12 baseball players have won this by leading a major league in batting average, home runs & RBIs a triple crown |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE ECONOMY $800: In May 1953 the average rate of this was only 2.5%, in Sept. 2011, it was 9.1% unemployment |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | NEWSPAPER HISTORY $400: In 1896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average officially appeared in print for the first time in this newspaper The Wall Street Journal |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | THE HUMAN BODY $200: On average, this human organ covers between 14 & 18 square feet the skin |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: The average life span of these receptor cell groups in the mouth is 8-10 days tastebuds |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | THE HUMAN BODY $1000: In the average human body there is enough of this element, atomic no. 6, to make about 900 pencils carbon |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | I NEED SOME SPACE $400: Flora, one of these "roid"s discovered in 1847, orbits the sun at an average distance of about 200 million miles asteroid |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | WHATCHAMACALLIT $400: Because it operates like an old execution device, your average paper cutter also goes by this name a guillotine |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | MAY I QUOTE YOU ON THAT? $800: A 1939 editorial:
The problem with this is "people must sit and keep their eyes glued... the average American family hasn't time" television |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | NYSE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside the New York Stock Exchange.) If the Dow Jones Industrial Average declines more than 10% in a day, trading is halted to prevent a market slide; it's a safety feature called this 2-word term, also a device that protects homes from electrical overloads circuit breaker |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | FRIDAY THE 13th $800: On Oct. 13, 1989, termed the Friday the 13th mini-crash, this average slipped 190.58 points the Dow Jones |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | 1911 $200: This race was held for the first time in May with Ray Harroun winning with an average speed of about 75 mph the Indianapolis 500 |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | SALT $800: On average, this, which the ancient mariner saw lots of, is about 3% salt; a gallon contains about a quarter pound ocean water (sea water accepted) |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | ASTRONOMY $200: It orbits the sun at an average distance of .3871 astronomical units, the lowest average of all the planets Mercury |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | MAGICAL MOUSE-TERY TOUR $1200: This 1959 Daniel Keyes novella about Charlie Gordon & a smarter-than-average lab mouse won a Hugo Award Flowers for Algernon |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | PENGUINS $400: (Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) The recent increase in gentoo penguin numbers may be due to decreased sea ice coverage caused by this phenomenon of rising average air temperatures global warming |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | DOUBLE "G"s $200: In the Harry Potter novels, they're your average non-magical humans muggles |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | BODY COUNT $2000: Number of bones in the average adult human body plus zero 206 |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a plate of hummus in Israel.) On average, each Israeli eats 22 pounds a year of hummus, a spread made from these garbanzo beans (or chickpeas) |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | FAMILY VALUES $600: No average Joe, this Mass. man had enough capital by 1929 to fund million-dollar trusts for each of his kids (Joe) Kennedy |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | YOU GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING $400: Keep it up & you'll go far:
GPA grade point average |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | HOW MANY FEET LONG? $400: The tail of your average male housecat 1 |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | ____ OF THE ____ $1000: This expression meaning "just the average part" sounds like it could refer to grain run of the mill |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES $400: There's American Express & this "of America" Bank |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES $800: It has a Supercenter on South 9th St. in Salina, Kansas Walmart |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES $1200: Roy E., the son of its co-founder, died in December 2009 Disney |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES $1600: Pfounded in 18P49 Pfizer |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES $7,000 (Daily Double): Its original purpose was to insure people on journeys Travelers |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS $1000: In June 2009 this U.S. car company lost its place on the Dow Jones Industrial Average GM |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $200: Call off the dogs! & the snow, rain & heat--the folks who carry this for a living make an average of $46,970 a year mail |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $400: Tip generously for that next dry martini or rusty nail--these invaluable folks average just $20,460 a year bartenders |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $600: No wonder Magnum had to borrow that Ferrari--the average annual wage for this job is $46,480 a private investigator |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $800: Surgeons average a whopping $206,770 a year; these other cutters who covered the job in the Middle Ages, just $26,610 a barber |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $1000: The BLS says the average annual U.S. wage is $42,270; for these folks, it's $124,750 (first thing, let's kill 'em) lawyers |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | LIVING HEALTHY WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz shows a plate of bananas, dates, strawberries, and other fruits.) One way to control high blood pressure is to counteract high levels of sodium in the average diet by eating foods rich in magnesium & this element--symbol K potassium |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | 1910 $1200: This Wall Street figure closed the year at 81.36 the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | TELL ME EVERYTHING $200: Your average garden variety of this creature moves at about .03 miles per hour a snail |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU SAY POTATO $800: On average a potato contains 3 grams of protein, 23 grams of carbohydrates & this many grams of fat zero |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | FLICK ARRR! $2000: In a 2004 film Steve the Pirate plays this title sport on Vince Vaughn's Average Joe's team Dodgeball |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | ROCK $1200: On average rocks consist of 46.5% this gaseous element oxygen |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | JUST AVERAGE $400: Just average 3.75 miles a day for a week & you'll have totaled about this marathon distance 26 miles (& 385 yards) |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | JUST AVERAGE $800: Just average 101 & 297 to get this prime number 199 |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | JUST AVERAGE $1200: The average is also called the arithmetic this mean |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | JUST AVERAGE $1600: Just average Joe & Josephine to get this average number of letters in their names six |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | JUST AVERAGE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a baseball slugging average equation on the monitor.) Items get different importance when calculating slugging average; a single counts as one, a triple as three, making it this type of average that sounds heavy a weighted average |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: This broke 10,000 for the first time March 29, 1999, making some brokers richer the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | RED SOX IT TO ME $800: With 44 homers, 121 RBIs & a .326 average, Carl Yastrzemski is the last baseball player to win this the Triple Crown |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | ASTRO-QUIZ $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Abbreviated A.U. & about 93 million miles in length, it's the average distance between the Earth & the Sun the astronomical unit |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | TAKE MY TEMPERATURE $200: It has an average surface temperature of 5,600 kelvin the Sun |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | ABBREV. $200: M.C. is short for this, your average entertainment host master of ceremonies |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: The Times said that with stocks, the price-to-this ratio should average about 16; it was at 27 as of 2007 earnings |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES 2009 $200: Joe Biden--
Your average Boston NBA player Celtic |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | THINK YOU KNOW BASEBALL? $1600: Researchers have knocked a point off his record lifetime batting average, reducing it to .366 (Ty) Cobb |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: This name evokes your average blue-collar worker, toting a half-dozen beers Joe Sixpack |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | MATERIAL $200: Coke cans are an average 60% recycled this metal aluminum |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | AN AVERAGE CATEGORY $200: On average, one of these has 30,000 quills a porcupine |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | AN AVERAGE CATEGORY $400: You're anything but average if you've got a 4.0 GPA, short for this grade point average |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | AN AVERAGE CATEGORY $600: World Book says the average number of these creatures in one sq. mile equals the number of people on Earth insects |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | AN AVERAGE CATEGORY $800: The average surface temperature on this planet is more than 860 degrees F. Venus |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | AN AVERAGE CATEGORY $1000: Marquette, Michigan averages 2.35 inches of precipitation in this month known proverbially for showers April |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $400: To a baseball pitcher:
ERA earned run average |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $800: This Seattle Mariner's 2004 batting average of .372 is the highest of the 21st century Ichiro Suzuki |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | THE ELECTRIC COMPANY $600 (Daily Double): Still around today, this power company was one of the first 12 companies included in the DJIA in 1896 General Electric (or G.E.) |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | SCIENCE STUFF $400: A recent discovery reveals that the oldest mammals, large & small, average about 1.5 billion of these per lifetime a heartbeat |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | MADE TO MEASURE $400: Of about 30, 50 or 100 inches a year, the Earth's average annual amount of precipitation 30 |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | ON AVERAGE $200: 2/3 of the water used in the average U.S. home is used in this room the bathroom |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | ON AVERAGE $400: With an average of 80.7 years, this country has the highest life expectancy in North America Canada |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | ON AVERAGE $600: With 32, workers in Sweden take more of these per year than workers in any other country vacation days |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | ON AVERAGE $800: Created in New York, it began May 26, 1896 as an average of just 12 numbers & came out to 40.94 the Dow Jones |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | ON AVERAGE $1000: According to the MPAA, Americans attend an average of 7.6 of these a year movies |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | CLASSIC TV TOONS $400: This smarter-than-the-average ursine debuted on "The Huckleberry Hound Show" in 1958 Yogi Bear |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | STATES OF THE UNION $800: This state has the highest average altitude of any state east of the Mississippi; must be pretty "mountainous" West Virginia |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | YOU PICKED A FINE TIME $800: Estimated at around 30 years, it's accepted as the average period between birth of parents & their offspring a generation |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | TOMATOES $600: An average tomato provides about 35 calories & about 40% of the RDA of this vitamin vitamin C |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the number of cells in your average dinoflagellate one |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | THE HILLS $200: In 2006 Coldwell Banker said the average home sale price in this town next to West Hollywood was $1.8 million Beverly Hills |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | IT'S ALL GOOD $1,800 (Daily Double): It can mean "far better than average" or "not yet settled", like an unpaid debt outstanding |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | COP ROCK $200: Copper is found in igneous rock at an average of about 55 ppm, ppm standing for this parts per million |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | THE DISNEY CHANNEL $1000: Disney says this title guy "is your average 13-year-old kid, who just so happens to be a powerful and magical dragon!" Jake Long |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | NHL, NBA, NFL OR ALL 3 $400: Highest average salary the NBA |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | JACK NICHOLSON $1600: Appropriately, Jack played 'your average horny little devil" in this bewitching 1987 film The Witches Of Eastwick |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | YOU GET A "D" $400: National Lead was one of the 12 companies tracked by this "average" when it debuted May 26, 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | SPOT THE MISSPELED WORD $800: The average survivor is usually the one who hangs out in the backround backround (background) |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $400: He won golf's Vardon Trophy, for the lowest adjusted scoring average, from 1999 to 2003 & again in 2005 Tiger Woods |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | 4-LETTER ABBREV. $1600: It includes AT&T: DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | FORESTS $200: The Mbuti of Congo's Ituri Forest are the shortest of these peoples at an average height of about 4'8" Pygmies |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | STATS FREAK $600: Wilt Chamberlain & this '60s Celtic are the only NBAers to average more than 20 rebounds per game Bill Russell |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | MEASUREMENT $200: One astronomical unit is about 93 million miles, the average distance between Earth & this the Sun |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | WELCOME TO "HIGH" SCHOOL $800: Also known as hypertension, this condidtion affects far more African Americans on average than white Americans high blood pressure |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | MINNESOTANS $1200: He's the familiar National Public Radio personality heard here
"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average..." Garrison Keillor |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands with a baseball bat ready for a pitch.) For control, he used a split grip. I don't know how he hit anything, let alone recorded the higest lifetime batting average Ty Cobb |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | YOU'VE GOT OUR NUMBER $600: We're sure you scored well above this in standard IQ tests; it generally indicates average for one's age 100 |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | WHAT A STATE I'M IN $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Peterson Air Force Base.) My mood is elevated here at Peterson Air Force Base, located at 6,200 feet in this state that has the highest average elevation Colorado |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | YOU, YOUR HEALTH & YOU $800: These blood-clotting aiders have an average life span of 9 to 14 days; healthy adults have over a trillion of them a platelet |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | INSIDE THE BRAIN $400: Of the average adult human, camel or killer whale, the one with the largest brain killer whale |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | ABBREV. $200: Of concern to students:
GPA grade point average |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | PARTLY CLOUDY, CHANCE OF RAIN $200: This island state has the wettest point on Earth, with an average of 460" of rain a year Hawaii |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | LEADER OF THE "PACK" $200: Beer-related term describing the average blue-collar guy Joe Six-Pack |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | SOFT NEWS 2003 $200: In 2003 this young L.A. Laker became the third NBA player to average 40 points per game for a month Kobe Bryant |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | THAT FUNKY MUSIC $400: "Average" British band that crossed the Atlantic & the color line with funk hits like "Pick Up The Pieces" Average White Band |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | AMAZING SPORTS RECORDS $1200: This Georgian's major league career batting average was .367--or maybe .366, still pretty good Ty Cobb |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: Jim has 6 apples, Billy has 4, Michele has 2 & Debbie has 8 for an average of this many 5 |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | INFIELD OF DREAMS $800: This third baseman's quest for a .400 average was the talk of baseball in 1980 George Brett |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | ABBREV. $200: In baseball:
ERA Earn Run Average |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | THE JIMMY $600: With an average speed around 133 mph, Jimmy Bryan won this race in 1958 the Indianapolis 500 |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ON AVERAGE $200: This legendary Yankee ended his career in 1939 with 493 home runs & a lifetime batting average of .340 (Lou) Gehrig |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ON AVERAGE $400: Of 5, 10 or 20, the average gallons of water in an adult human body 10 |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ON AVERAGE $600: At 51.1 years, a city in this state has the highest average age in the U.S. Florida |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ON AVERAGE $800: Considered the heaviest organ in the human body, it weighs over 6 pounds on average the skin |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ON AVERAGE $1000: Between 1954 & 1980, the average weight of this annual selectee went from 132 pounds to 117 Miss America |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | WE "EARN" IT $400: In 2003 Jason Schmidt led the NL in this stat with 2.34 earned run average (earned runs average accepted) |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | LET THERE BE LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): Fungi create these to reproduce & your average mushroom makes 16 billion of them spores |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT... $200: The city of Yuma in this state has a record average of 4,055 hours of sunshine each year Arizona |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | 1970s POP MUSIC $400: In February 1975 this Scottish sextet's album "AWB" topped the charts Average White Band |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | 10-HUT! $200: If an area has a yearly average of less than 10 inches of precipitation, it's classified as this a desert |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | "SUM" IT UP $1200: In diploma-speak, it's the highest of 3 special honors for grades above average Summa Cum Laude |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC $400: With an average car speed of 6 mph, it's easy to see how this "Eternal City" wasn't built in a day Rome |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | OUR TROUBLED PLANET $800: Your average U.S. municipal landfill is over 40% of this product, way more than plastic or metal paper |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | HOOP OF THE DAY $100 (Daily Double): In 2004 he joined MJ & "The Big O" as the only NBA rookies to average 20 points, 5 rebounds & 5 assists LeBron James |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | PLANETARY DISTINCTIONS $600: The hottest, on average Venus |
| #4609, aired 2004-09-23 | KOALA TIME $400: Of 6, 16 or 60 years, the one closest to the average life expectancy of a koala 16 |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | U.S. FACTS & FIGURES $200: The average time in the 15 largest U.S. cities for this is 24.3 minutes & most people do it by car commute |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | BASEBALL: THE 1930s $1200: In 1939 Red Sox rookie batted .327; 2 years later his batting average increased 79 points Ted Williams |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | GUINNESS RECORDS $800: With an average of 80.5 years, this Asian country leads the world in life expectancy Japan |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | SPORTS NUMBERS $1600: If you strike out & double in 2 major league at bats, your batting average is .500 & your slugging average is this 1.000 |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | OUR NATIONAL PASTIME $1000: Tony Gwynn's 1994 batting average of .394 was the highest since this man's .406 in 1941 Ted Williams |
| #4432, aired 2003-12-09 | ZOOM $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.) In 1973, this horse ran the Derby in a record 1 minute, 59 & 2/5, for an average speed of 38 miles per hour Secretariat |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | AVERAGE $400: From 1980 to 1998 this rose worldwide from 61 to 67 life expectancy |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | AVERAGE $800: Of 2, 4, 8 or 16, the number of hours a day the TV's on in the average American home 8 |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | AVERAGE $1200: According to Conde Nast, in the U.S. the average cost of this event is now $22,360 a wedding |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | AVERAGE $1600: In March 2003 astronomers said this grayish light brown was the average color of the universe beige |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | AVERAGE $2000: A Frenchman eats 53 pounds of this a year; an American, 31; a Japanese, 4 cheese |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | STAND BY YOUR BRAND $600: "The most famous person who never existed", she was invented by admen to represent the average housewife Betty Crocker |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | POTPOURRI $1000: Without this "effect", the average temperature on Earth would be about 0 degrees greenhouse effect |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | HELLO, SPORTS FANS $200: (Yankees manager Joe Torre reads the clue.) In 1971 I led the league in average & RBIs, so I was just the home run title short of winning this Triple Crown |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | CRACK OPEN A U.S. HISTORY BOOK $200: From 1789 to 1797 he cast only 2 vetoes, an average of 1 per presidential term George Washington |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | IS THERE A POINT TO ALL THIS? $200: A good student knows that GPA stands for this grade point average |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | SECONDARY MEANINGS $1200: As an adjective, it means below average; as a verb, to moo like a cow low |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | PRO BASKETBALL $1600: In 2002 this Philadelphia 76er won his third NBA scoring title with an average of 31.4 points per game Allen Iverson |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | ALL OVER EUROPE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from London.) Tower Bridge was built in this century at a cost of over a million pounds; average annual income was 40 pounds the 19th century |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS $800: State with the highest average monthly food stamp benefit per person; at over $100, that's a lot of poi Hawaii |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | THOSE FUNNY EUROPEANS $200: European workers average 6 weeks of this a year, 3 times what many Americans get -- maybe you don't find that so funny vacation |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | FELINES $200: Your average housecat can extend & sheathe most of these at will claws |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS $600: In 1968 this team's Carl Yastrzemski led the A.L. with a .301 avg., the lowest average to win a league title in MLB history Boston Red Sox |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Although this South American country is about 2,650 miles long, its average width is less than 110 miles Chile |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $200: For a 1981 staging of "Orlando", Peter Sellars made the hero an astronaut & set part of it on this red planet Mars |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $400: Called "America's most lurid talk show", it inspired a 2001 opera that took London by storm The Jerry Springer Show |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $600: X marks the spot where the New York City Opera premiered "X: The Life and Times of" this activist Malcolm X |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $800: A 1997 opera about this former first lady is set partly in Andy Warhol's New York studio Jackie Kennedy |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $1000: The 2000 opera "In the Penal Colony" is based on a gruesome 1914 novella by this author of "The Metamorphosis" Kafka |
| #4192, aired 2002-11-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $400: In the U.S. in 2000 it was 74.1 for men & 79.5 for women average life expectancy |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | ASTROLOGY $1,600 (Daily Double): This planet spends an average of 20 years in each sign of the Zodiac Pluto (because it's so far away) |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $800: You may not want to visit this national park in July, when the average high is about 115 degrees--what a "killer"! Death Valley |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | SO YOU'RE THE "SMART" ONE, EH? $200: Cartoon catchphrase meaning the quality of having a higher I.Q. than an ordinary ursine critter smarter than your average bear |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $800: The spa town in Garland County, Arkansas features waters with an average temperature of 143 degrees Hot Springs |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | INSIDE BASEBALL $400: This stat equals hits divided by official at-bats batting average |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | DECIMAL NUMBER, PLEASE $800: In the standard grade-point average system, it's your GPA if your grade is B in every class 3.0 |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | WHERE, OH WHERE? $800: Ruled by China, this region has an average elevation of around 15,000 feet Tibet |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | APES OF THE PLANET $400: Your average adult mountain gorilla's day begins just after dawn; he feeds, then takes one of these about nnon a nap |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $600: In 1916 this Red Sox pitcher led the American League in earned run average; 2 years later he led the league in home runs Babe Ruth |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | CHAD & GERMANY $1600: In Chad this demographic benchmark is 49; in Germany, 77 average life span (life expectancy) |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $200: Department statistics show the average for this is 24 students in public secondary school, 19 in private class size |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | FILMS OF THE '80s $800: Jack Nicholson plays "your average horny little devil" in this be-"witch"ing film The Witches of Eastwick |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | BODY FACTS & FIGURES $100: The average person has some 18 square feet of this, making it the body's largest organ skin |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | THAT'S A FACT! $100: To save energy, L.A. is changing this color traffic light's bulbs to LEDs, as, on average, they're on the longest red |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | SELLERS $300: (Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon.com.) It's estimated that 60% of net shoppers flag an average of 7 sites with one of these, also used in products we sell bookmarks |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $100: For your average adult male deer, they're both a weapon & a status symbol Antlers |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE BODY HUMAN $100: Of 106, 206 or 306, the number of bones an average adult has 206 |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | IN A MINUTE $200: Men's Health magazine says the average guy can do 33 of these in a minute in his 20s, 21 in his 40s push-ups |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | IN A MINUTE $500: Under the slogan "Real Estate for the Real World", this company claims on average to buy or sell a home every minute Century 21 |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | "YO"! $100: Smarter than the average bear, he stole picnic baskets from Jellystone Park Yogi Bear |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | TEMPERATURE $100: When taken orally, it's the average body temperature of a healthy human at rest 98.6 F. |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | TEMPERATURE $300: Term for the increase in the Earth's average temperature; by 2100, the Earth may be 3 to 8 degrees hotter Global warming |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | ABBREVIATIONS $200: On the avg., average, your mom may spend 20 minutes a day driving down the ave., this avenue |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | BASEBALL'S GREATEST HITTERS $300: In 1998 this Cub was named the National League's MVP with a .308 average & 66 home runs Sammy Sosa |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | BASEBALL'S GREATEST HITTERS $500: Over the past 50 years only Tony Gwynn & this K.C. Royals player had a .390 or better batting average for a season George Brett |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | SPORTS STATS $200: In 1999 Tom Rouen led the NFL with a 46.5-yard average on these Punts |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | FRACTIONS $400: In its lowest terms, a .400 batting average in baseball is this fraction 2/5 |
| #3694, aired 2000-09-28 | PHYSICS $200: It was James Watt who determined an average one of these could pull 33,000 foot-pounds of coal Horse (horsepower) |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $600: The sum of x numbers divided by x; or typical, common or ordinary Average |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS $200: Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966, his lifetime batting average was .344 Ted Williams |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Worshiped by farmers & the average Roman, this goddess of agriculture lent her name to the word cereal Ceres |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | THE TWINS $600: This Twins Hall of Famer seen here made a run at a .400 average in 1977: Rod Carew |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | THE NATIONAL PASTIME $500: This Padres player's 1994 batting average of .394 is the highest since 1950 Tony Gwynn |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | TOOL TIME? $300: This 3-letter word for a maxim is a cut above average Saw |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S DICTIONARY $400: Technically it's any ethnic group in which the average height of adult males is less than 4' 11" pygmies |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | SKIN STUFF $100: The average adult has 25 of these; a change in one's color may signify a malignant melanoma Mole |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | BEES $400: Of 1 MPH, 15 MPH or Mach 2, the flight speed of an average worker bee 15 MPH |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | THE VIKINGS $200: Although the wealthy drank wine, the average Viking drank beer or this strong, sweet drink made from honey mead |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | ROUND NUMBER, PLEASE $200: On March 29, 1999 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above this benchmark for the first time 10,000 |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | TELEVISION $1000: This Buddy Ebsen series had a Nielsen average of 39.1 for 1963-64, the highest season rating from 1960 to today The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #3413, aired 1999-06-09 | LEGENDS OF SPORTS $1000: One of the first baseball players elected to the Hall of Fame, his lifetime batting average was .366 Ty Cobb |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | THE NATIONAL PASTIME $400: Since 1924 this Red Sox player has had the highest major league batting average for a season, .406 Ted Williams |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | THE RUSHIN' REVOLUTION $200: In 1990 Arie Luyendyk set a track record at this Memorial Day race with an average speed of 185.984 MPH Indianapolis 500 |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | ANIMAL ALBUM $300: The average day of this wild canine is spent hunting & scavenging Jackal |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | REIGNING CATS & DOGS $300: The 2 heaviest dog breeds on average are the mastiff & this Alpine rescue breed Saint Bernard |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | CIVICS CLASS $600: It's about 50% in U.S. national elections, 30 points lower than in western Europe Voter turnout |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | RHYMES WITH TEEN $100: Nasty or stingy; or the average Mean |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | THE USA TODAY $400: The national average is about 1,000 (500 verbal, 500 math) of a possible 1,600 on the test abbreviated this SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | NUMBER, PLEASE $300: According to World Book, it's considered the IQ of the average person 100 |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE NBA $800: For 9 straight seasons, ending in '96, this Utah Jazz player led the NBA in average assists per game John Stockton |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | WORLD CUP '98 $100: There were an average of 2.67 of these a game, not enough for some bored U.S. viewers Goals |
| #3276, aired 1998-11-30 | WEST VIRGINIA $300: W. Va. has the highest average elevation east of the Mississippi, which may account for this official nickname "The Mountain State" |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | MOTHER EARTH $200: On the average, the Earth is about 93 million miles or one astronomical unit away from this the Sun |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | EDUCATION $800: An ordinary, average, everyday school, or one that trains teachers Normal school |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | U.S. CRIME STATISTICS $300: Of 1 in 20, 1 in 50 or 1 in 100, the average number of people who will serve time in their lifetime 1 in 20 |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $200: The average value of a set of numbers, or cruel Mean |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | WALL STREET $400: On March 3, 1998 it hit a fifth consecutive all-time high of 8,584.83 points Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | BASEBALL $1000: Tony Gwynn of this National League team has the highest career average of all active players with .340 San Diego Padres |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $100: On average, the icy layer on top of this snow-covered continent is 7,000 feet thick Antarctica |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: With an average elevation of 6,800 feet, it's the highest of all the states Colorado |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | MR. AVERAGE $200: Middle initial of John Public, or of sixth president John Adams Q |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | TV THAT'S NOT AS GOOD FOR YOU $800: By age 18 the average American sees 40,000 of these acts, not all of them solved by Angela Lansbury Murders |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | SCIENCE NUMBERS $200: 37° Celsius equals this average human temperature on the Fahrenheit scale 98.6 |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1000: Its city of Pusan has an average of 54 inches of precipitation a year South Korea |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: 30-second TV ads for this January 26, 1997 sporting event sold for an average of $1.2 million Super Bowl XXXI |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | "POP" THE QUESTION $300: Mr. Owl says it's "3"; a study done at Swarthmore claims it's an average of 142.18 The number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | NAME THAT TOON $400: He was the sidekick of the "smarter than the average bear" Boo-Boo |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONSTANTS $200: An astronomical unit is defined as the average distance between these 2 bodies Earth & Sun |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | SPORTS $500: In 1941 this Red Sox star led the major leagues in both batting average, .406, & home runs, 37 Ted Williams |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: On October 14, 1996 this stock index closed above 6,000 points for the first time the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #2959, aired 1997-06-12 | WALL STREET LINGO $100: General Motors & General Electric are among the 30 stocks in this, abbreviated DJIA the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #2935, aired 1997-05-09 | FOREIGN ANATOMY $100: An average Dutch person has twee en dertig, 32, of these, tanden teeth |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | INSTRUMENTS $100: The average string quartet contains 2 of these instruments violins |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | FINANCE $500: It's the Tokyo Stock Exchange's equivalent of the NYSE's Dow Jones Average Nikkei |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $300: Men's width sizes for these average C or D but go up to EEEEEE shoes |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | HEAT $500: Temperature depends on the average kinetic energy of these; the more active, the more heat Molecules |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | TRANSPORTATION $100: According to census data, the average time for this trip in metropolitan areas is 23.2 minutes Trip to work/commute |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ALL ABOUT RIVERS $300: On an average day the Mississippi dumps over 1 million metric tons of this into the Gulf of Mexico Silt/Sediment |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | OF NO IMPORTANCE $400: 4-word phrase meaning not special, like average goods coming out of a factory run of the mill |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | THE OLD WEST $500: In 1860-61 the average age of these was 20; William F. Cody was only 15 Pony Express riders |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | LABOR UNIONS $600: When their union struck in August 1994 these workers' average salary was $1.2 million Major League Baseball Players |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | HOME RUN SLUGGERS $300: When he slugged 61 home runs in 1961, his batting average was only .269 Roger Maris |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | THE BODY HUMAN $600: For the average adult human, the capacity of these is about 3.5 liters the lungs |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | 4th $300: No joke, it's the 4th-largest bone in the skeleton of an average adult male the humerus |
| #2736, aired 1996-06-24 | BIRDS $200: The homing or carrier type of this bird can fly at an average speed of 45 miles per hour a pigeon |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | BIRDS $1000: On average the heaviest bird of prey is the Andean species of this a condor |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | BASEBALL $300: Nicknamed the "Georgia Peach", he has the all-time highest career batting average, .367 Ty Cobb |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | ISLANDS $200: The ice cap that covers this largest island has an average thickness of about 5,000 feet Greenland |
| #2596, aired 1995-12-11 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: The astronomical unit is based on the average distance between these 2 bodies the earth & the sun |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $200: Of living birds, its eggs are the largest, weighing about 3 pounds on the average an ostrich |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $100: This daily published by Dow Jones has been printing the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 26, 1896 The Wall Street Journal |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | RHYME TIME $100: Above-average balsa or oak good wood |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $100: Strangely, this unit is equal to about 1 1/2 times the power an average equine can exert horsepower |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | THE 1980s $100: On Black Monday, October 19, 1987, this industrial average fell more than 22.5% the Dow Jones |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | TELEVISION $200: Average the ratings from 1990 through 1994 & this Morley Safer-Mike Wallace show ranks No.1 60 Minutes |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | PLUMBING $200: Of 20, 200 or 2000 gallons, the amount of water used by the average American household each day 200 |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | ZOOLOGY $200: On average this breed of goat yield about 8 pounds of mohair each year the angora goat |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is an average of this many industrials 30 |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | FOOD $600: The average plant of this tropical fruit produces 6 to 15 hands banana |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | BUSINESS TERMS $200: The DJIA is the Dow Jones Industrial Average & this is the DJUA the Dow Jones Utility Average |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | MAMMALS $400: Of the average man, mouse or warthog, the one who can run fastest at its top speed the warthog |
| #2414, aired 1995-02-16 | NUTRITION $300: The average person consumes 18% of calories in refined or processed forms of this simple carbohydrate sugar |
| #2402, aired 1995-01-31 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: On average, this Florida-based video rental Entertainment corp. opens one new store each day Blockbuster |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | SPORTS $100: When he retired on Oct. 6, 1993, this star had the highest NBA career scoring average with 32.3 (Michael) Jordan |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | FYI $200: On the average, one of these lasts 6 seconds; ho-hum a yawn |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | WORLD ALMANAC 1893 $200: Of about 33, 51 or 72 years, the "average duration of human life" in 1893 33 years |
| #2305, aired 1994-09-16 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $100: On the average only the Himalayas are taller than this range that stretches down South America the Andes |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | ABBREVIATIONS $200: To a baseball player, his ERA is this earned run average |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | 1911 $600: "The Georgia Peach", he won the 5th of his 12 A.L. batting titles with a career high average of .420 Ty Cobb |
| #2275, aired 1994-06-24 | CAUSTIC QUOTES $200: Andy Rooney said, "The average" one of these pets "is a nicer person than the average person" a dog |
| #2268, aired 1994-06-15 | ANATOMY $100: On average, it weighs about 3 pounds, with the cerebrum making up most of that weight the brain |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: Deimos, the outermost moon of this planet has an average diameter of only 7.8 miles Mars |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | SCHOOL DAYS $300: Your grade point average if you get straight As 4.0 |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | FACTS & FIGURES $300: In 1962 it reached a high of 726.01; in 1992, 3,413.21 the Dow Jones Average |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | CITIES OF INDIA $200: In this capital of India, the average temperature in May is 92° New Delhi |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | ARGENTINA $400: The average Argentine eats over 175 pounds of this meat annually beef (cattle accepted) |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | MONEY MATTERS $400: The Nikkei Stock Average is an index based on the prices of 225 stocks on this exchange the Tokyo exchange |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $300: You don't have to be a P.I. to figure out that it holds twice as much as the average champagne bottle a magnum |
| #2107, aired 1993-11-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: This country that stretches from Peru to South America's so. tip has an average width of about 110 miles Chile |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | SCHOOL DAYS $300: It doesn't take a CPA to figure out a student's GPA, which stands for this grade point average |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE HEART $100: At rest the average heart pumps 5 quarts of this each minute blood |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | TELEVISION $100: According to the theme song, this cartoon character "is smarter than the average bear" Yogi Bear |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: A 1992 study revealed that for an average adult this is 98.2°, not 98.6° as long believed the body temperature |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | "GREAT" GEOGRAPHY $100: It's over 4,000 miles long & has an average height of 25 feet the Great Wall of China |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | NORTH DAKOTA $400: Between 1980 & 1991 the average size of these in the state went from 1,043 to 1,224 acres farms |
| #1996, aired 1993-04-19 | THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM $600: Of 10, 30 or 100 feet, the length of the average adult digestive tract if stretched out in a line 30 |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | IN OTHER WORDS... $200: Better than average barriers bring about better than average people next door good fences make good neighbors |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | GEOGRAPHY $300: Average annual rainfall in this country ranges from about 28 inches in N. Galilee to 1 inch in the Negev Israel |
| #1926, aired 1993-01-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: The nation's No. 1 fast-food restaurant, it serves about 6% of the U.S. population on an average day McDonald's |
| #1921, aired 1993-01-04 | ITALIAN CITIES $100: Until the 1970s this city's islands were sinking an average of 1/5" a year Venice |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | WEATHER $400: On the average, the highly destructive path of one of these storms is less than 16 miles long a tornado |
| #1901, aired 1992-12-07 | ANAGRAMS $400: It's a synonym for average, as Marlon could tell you normal (Marlon) |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | ECONOMICS $300: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is quoted in these, not dollars points |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | GOLF $200: This is defined as the average number of strokes an expert golfer would need to complete a hole par |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1922 Sinclair Lewis published this novel about an average American businessman Babbitt |
| #1773, aired 1992-04-22 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $100: An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Sun & this planet the Earth |
| #1747, aired 1992-03-17 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is based on this number of stocks 30 |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: Bruskin/Goldring says the average American gets 14 pieces of this a week & reads 54% of it junk mail |
| #1736, aired 1992-03-02 | MONEY MATTERS $200: This stock market indicator is abbreviated DJIA the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | FISH $100: An average-sized specimen of this fish can discharge about 400 volts an electric eel |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | HISTORIC QUOTES $100: Part of a telegram they sent Dec. 17, 1903 read, "Average speed through air thirty-one miles" the Wright brothers |
| #1705, aired 1992-01-17 | CARTOON CATCH PHRASES $200: "I'm smarter than the average bear" Yogi Bear |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: During this National Hot Dog Month Americans down an average 1,000,000,000 of 'em July |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | MYSTERIES $300: This ex-jockey who wrote "Whip Hand" whips out an average of 1 mystery novel a year Dick Francis |
| #1666, aired 1991-11-25 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: Used mostly for horse racing today, this is based on the length of an average plowed furrow a furlong |
| #1660, aired 1991-11-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: In May 1991 this entertainment giant replaced USX on the Dow Jones Industrial Average Disney |
| #1651, aired 1991-11-04 | MISCELLANEOUS $500: Your average rhombus has this many sides 4 |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | BASEBALL GREATS $100: Detroit Tigers outfielder known as the "Georgia Peach" who has the highest career batting average at .367 Ty Cobb |
| #1639, aired 1991-10-17 | WORLD TRAVEL $200: This 180-foot structure 175 miles NW of Rome is tilting an average of .047 inches each year the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $400: On average, it's about twice as far from the Sun as Mercury Venus |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | POTPOURRI $1000: After Colorado, this state to its north has the highest average elevation in the U.S. Wyoming |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This colorful sea between China & Korea is an average of only 121 feet deep the Yellow Sea |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | FRUIT $400: This type of apple used as a garnish grows to an average of about an inch in diameter a crab apple |
| #1541, aired 1991-04-22 | ABBREVIATIONS $100: In baseball, ERA isn't the Equal Rights Amendment, it's this earned run average |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | ANATOMY $100: The hypothalamus, near the base of the brain, helps maintain this average body temperature 98.6 |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | "C" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: This South American country is 2,650 miles long, but on the average, only 110 miles wide Chile |
| #1512, aired 1991-03-12 | PSYCHOLOGY $400: An average child whose mental age & chronological age are equal have this number IQ 100 |
| #1474, aired 1991-01-17 | HATS $200: On average, 7 to 8 yards of material are used in a pagri, a type of this headdress worn in India Turban |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | GOLF $200: According to "Golf Digest", the chances of an average golfer doing this in a round are one in 11,000 a hole-in-one |
| #1431, aired 1990-11-19 | BASEBALL $400: This present Red Sox 3rd baseman has the 4th-highest career batting average of all time Wade Boggs |
| #1385, aired 1990-09-14 | 7-LETTER WORDS $100: It can refer to an arithmetic mean, or median, or just the typical guy average |
| #1358, aired 1990-06-27 | BASEBALL $400: In 1980 this K.C. Royals 3rd baseman hit .390, the highest average since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941 (George) Brett |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: Tulane & Loyola, both on St. Charles Ave. in this city, are an average of 4 feet below sea level New Orleans |
| #1317, aired 1990-05-01 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Winter ocean air west of Norway is over 40 degrees warmer than average for that latitude because of this current The Gulf Stream |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $200: In anthropology, the used word for a member of any human group whose males are less than 4'11' in average height pygmies |
| #1279, aired 1990-03-08 | U.S.A. $200: On average this city packs more than 23,000 people into 1 sq. mile New York City |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | THE FAR EAST $200: Of 240 acres, 24 acres or 2.4 acres. the size of the average Japanese farm 2.4. acres |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | "BLACK" MOVIES $100: Leonard Maltin described the 1971 British film version of this Anna Sewell tale as "average horse opera" Black Beauty |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | ANATOMY $600: It comprises about 62% of the weight of an average man; about 6% less in women water |
| #1196, aired 1989-11-13 | MATH $100: Of means, medians & modes, the term that's often called the arithmetic average means |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | IN OTHER WORDS... $200: Having an intelligence quotient over that of an everyday ursine creature smarter than the average bear |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | AVIATION $400: Of $4, $10 or $15, the sum the New York Times says the average airline spends on food & drink per passenger $4 |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | ABBREVIATIONS $200: A GP who had a good GPA in school had a good one of these a grade point average |
| #1143, aired 1989-07-19 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: In most schools it's a perfect grade point average 4.0 |
| #1141, aired 1989-07-17 | EARTHQUAKES $200: Of 300, 3.000 or 11,000, the No. of quakes recorded in southern Calif. by Caltech in an average year 11,000 |
| #1121, aired 1989-06-19 | ASTRONOMY $300: The average distance between the earth & this is 239,000 miles, not too far the moon |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: Even without its ice, this continent would have the highest average altitude Antarctica |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | U.S. STATES $200: This, the "Mountain State", has the highest average altitude of any state east of the Mississippi West Virginia |
| #1076, aired 1989-04-17 | THE BRAIN $800: Guinness says this Asian country has the highest average I.Q., with 10% of the people above 130 Japan |
| #1065, aired 1989-03-31 | THE HEART $300: To the nearest pound, it's the weight of the average adult male heart 1 pound |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Since 1960 all I.Q. tests have been based on this being the average score 100 |
| #1039, aired 1989-02-23 | MATHEMATICS $400: Average of the 30 dollar amounts on the board at the start of Jeopardy! 300 |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $500: Noblemen riding steeds taller than the average mounts gave us this phrase on their high horse |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $400: Consumption of this beverage peaked around 1950 when the average American downed 600 glasses a yr. milk |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | SPORTS GREATS $200: On average he hit a home run every 12 times he went to the plate, a Major League record Babe Ruth |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: In 1987 an average of 2 new products a day were introduced that could be cooked in this device microwave oven |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | POTPOURRI $200: USA Today reports the average U.S. citizen has about 1,000 of these coins at home pennies |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1,100 (Daily Double): From mid 1948 to late 1949 an average of 4,000 tons of provisions a day were being flown into this city Berlin |
| #951, aired 1988-10-24 | ANATOMY $200: Of 25,000, 50,000 or 100,000, the approximate number of times an average heart beats each day 100,000 |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | PEOPLE $300: On the average, it takes Judye Suttenberg 1 hour to sell your family a set of these an encyclopedia (the World Book Encyclopedia) |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | NAIL CARE $200: Between 0.5 & 1.2 millimeters per week how much do nails grow in a week on average |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | WEATHER $300: Of 37, 45 or 58º F, the average global temperature on Earth 58 |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | THE 1940s $300: From mid 1948-late 1949, an average of 4,000 tons of provisions a day were being flown into this city Berlin |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | "POOR" $200: While the Dow-Jones Industrial Average is based on 30 stocks, this company's index is based on 500 Standard & Poor's |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | INVERTEBRATES $100: There's an estimated average of 1/2 a ton of these nocturnal crawlers in an acre of soil earthworms |
| #867, aired 1988-05-17 | PALINDROMES $200: For a ballplayer, they can include batting average & RBIs stats |
| #866, aired 1988-05-16 | THE FAR EAST $600: The average January temperature of Ulan Bator, capital of this country, is -17° F Mongolia |
| #841, aired 1988-04-11 | BASEBALL $300: His 1987 Major League-leading .370 batting average was highest in the N.L. since 1948 Tony Gwynn |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | AFRICA $400: Also known as Negrillos, they average 4 1/2 feet tall Pygmies |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | HOT DOG! $200: At 55%, an average dog is mostly this liquid, not meat water |
| #763, aired 1987-12-23 | INITIALS $400: To a baseball fan & a feminist, the initials "ERA" stand for these 2 very different things earned run average & Equal Rights Amendment |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | THE 1990s $300: One analyst projects that this should hit at least 3500 by 1990 the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #737, aired 1987-11-17 | BASEBALL $400: His batting average was .320 or higher for 23 major league seasons in a row Ty Cobb |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: First successful 5 & 10; from August '82 to August of '87, it outperformed all other stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average Woolworth's |
| #693, aired 1987-09-16 | SPORTS TRIVIA $300: After 1064 games in 1985, Pete Weber had an average of 213.64 in this sport bowling |
| #669, aired 1987-07-02 | WEATHER $1000: Standard average pressure at this "height" on earth is 1013 millibars sea level |
| #662, aired 1987-06-23 | AGRICULTURE $600: The average farm in this Southwestern state is larger than the average farm in any other state Arizona |
| #629, aired 1987-05-07 | BIRDS $400: Of 1, 4 or 400, number of times per year the average flamingo mates 1 |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | ANATOMY $400: The average adult has about 9000-10,000 of these, mainly on the upper surface of the tongue taste buds |
| #599, aired 1987-03-26 | "BREATH" $300: The LAPD performs t his test an average of 200 times a day, with a 90% failure rate a breathalyzer |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | PBS $300: Of 1.8, 2.5, or 3.7 hours per home, the average time PBS is viewed each week in U.S. 1.8 |
| #573, aired 1987-02-18 | FACTS & FIGURES $600: It remains on the average, the most expensive state in which to buy a house California |
| #573, aired 1987-02-18 | FACTS & FIGURES $1000: # of companies included in Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 |
| #560, aired 1987-01-30 | BUSINESS LINGO $400: A bond value of 100% or an expert golfer's average score par |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | BASEBALL $1000: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, with 3rd highest lifetime batting average, is not in Hall of Fame probably due to this The "Black Sox" Scandal of 1919 |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | WEATHER $400: Region with the coldest climate in the world; the January average at Verkhoyansk is -59° F. Siberia |
| #546, aired 1987-01-12 | TRIVIA $400: On this type of test, 100 is not a perfect score but the statistical average an IQ test |
| #544, aired 1987-01-08 | BASEBALL GREATS $400: He still holds Major League record for highest "lifetime" batting average at .367 Ty Cobb |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | BASEBALL $700 (Daily Double): The 3 categories that make up the batting "Triple Crown" runs batted in, home runs & batting average |
| #530, aired 1986-12-19 | NATURAL RESOURCES $200: In U.S., an average of about 19 gallons of this are extracted from every 42-gallon barrel of crude oil (automobile) gasoline |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | GARY COOPER $500: Known for portraying the average man, his character took this "average" name in a 1941 Frank Capra film John Doe |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: According to Henry Adams, # of letters the average U.S. adult received during entire year of 1800 one |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | AGRICULTURE $100: In 1986, during the week before this, egg sales went up nearly 50% from weekly average Easter |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | LABOR UNIONS $200: Though their average salary was $363,000 a year, players in this sport struck for 2 days in 1985 baseball |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Research dept. of this 85-year-old co. found the average man will spend 3,350 hrs. of his life shaving Gilette |
| #478, aired 1986-10-08 | FOOD $500: This European country is largest consumer of cheese w/annual average of 38.1 lbs. per person France |
| #460, aired 1986-09-12 | GOLF $100: For an average golfer, it can achieve an initial speed of about 140 MPH the speed of a golf ball |
| #455, aired 1986-06-06 | SPORTS FIGURES $200: Golf Digest is notified, on the average, of 110 of these per day holes-in-one |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | BUSINESS TRIVIA $200: 1 of 2 crimes which account for about 3% of the average retail price tag shoplifting (or employee theft) |
| #441, aired 1986-05-19 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Golden-arched restaurant chain recently added to Dow Jones Industrial Average Elite 30 McDonald's |
| #440, aired 1986-05-16 | AIR $200: Barometers are based on fact that average air pressure at sea level holds up 29.92 inches of this mercury |
| #432, aired 1986-05-06 | TRIVIA $400: Of 50, 100, or 200 gallons, the amount of water used daily in the average U.S. household 200 |
| #424, aired 1986-04-24 | JOURNALISM $200: On the average, this fills about 60% of U.S. newspaper space advertising |
| #406, aired 1986-03-31 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: The average trip to this store takes about 30 minutes, if you don't bring the kids or forget the eggs the grocery store (supermarket) |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | 1976 $200: On March 11, Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above this level for 1st time since 1973 1000 |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | COLD SPOTS $1000: On the average, this N.D. city has more 0º days per year than any other U.S. metropolitan area Fargo |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | HORSES $400: The height of an average thoroughbred is over 15 hands or this many feet 5 feet |
| #386, aired 1986-03-03 | MYSTERIOUS EAST $200: The average altitude of this country is 15,000', which would make the Dalai Lama a very high priest Tibet |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | EUROPE $800: Country that's 600 mi. long with average width of only 90 mi. coast to coast Italy |
| #317, aired 1985-11-26 | COFFEE $100: An average tree produced only enough of these yearly to make about 1½ lbs. of coffee green beans (or coffee berries) |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | WEATHER $800: The average weather conditions of a region over a long period of time climate |
| #301, aired 1985-11-04 | AFRICA $200: These people have shortest average height of any population the Pygmies |
| #277, aired 1985-10-01 | AGRICULTURE $600: Farms on this continent average about 5000 acres Australia |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | U.S. STATES $800: State with highest average wage, $9,000 higher than 2nd-highest state Alaska |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | NATURE $200: The average gestation period of the species "Homo sapiens" 9 months |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | SUPERSTITIONS $600: It's never mentioned during a no-hitter the fact that it is a no-hitter |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | U.S. CITIES $800: The met. area of this East Coast city has the highest average cost for a home, over $160,000 Washington, D.C. |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | FOOD FACTS $100: The average adult male needs 3000 a day, a female, 2200 calories |
| #122, aired 1985-02-26 | DINING OUT $400: Of 2, 2.5 or 3.5, the number of times the average American eats out per week 3.5 |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | THE HOME $100: Of the average shower & bath, the one that uses less water a shower |
| #80, aired 1984-12-28 | INSECTS $600: Average lifespan for mayflies 1 day |
| #42, aired 1984-11-06 | SPORTS $300: Baseball's "earned run average" is a measure of prowess at this position pitcher |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | TV TRIVIA $100: He's smarter than the average bear Yogi Bear |
| #25, aired 1984-10-12 | MEDICINE $400: Not really the normal, but the statistical, average human body temperature 98.6 |
