| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $800: Formed in 1976, they're turning the Venetian in Vegas into a love shack with a 2024 residency The B-52s |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $1000: Used as an abbreviation for the standard unit of weight for gems C |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing bel canto |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $1200: Referencing a 1986 Top 5 hit by this band of hers, Susanna Hoffs tweeted, "Saturday is actually my fun day" The Bangles |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | COACH: BEARD $400: Guys, you may be able to spur beard growth with exercise & more sleep, possibly aiding in production of this 12-letter hormone testosterone |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $200: It's the right borough to be in if you want to watch Kevin Durant win a home game for the Nets Brooklyn |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ON THE TRANSCRIPT... $1200: Of her Nov. 29, 1872 trial hearing: "Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?" Her reply: "Not a particle" Susan B. Anthony |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | THE COMPANY'S PRODUCT $800: This brand gets its kicks with Chuck Taylor All Star shoes Converse |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $800: This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is Pythagoras |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $800: In the 800s B.C. Assyrian armies began moving west of this 1,700-plus-mile river, eventually conquering most of the Middle East the Euphrates |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | "E"PONYMOUS $7,400 (Daily Double): The plane truth is that this 2-word branch of math is named for a Greek who lived around 300 B.C. Euclidean geometry |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | GANGSTERS $4,000 (Daily Double): While Bugsy Siegel was being shot in B. H., Meyer Lansky's goons were walking into a hotel in this city & taking over Las Vegas |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $800: Mom & dad's date night essential (10) a babysitter |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2016 EDITION $200: This U.S. paper currency features B. Franklin & a bell that changes color from copper to green as a security measure a $100 bill |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | LETTER-WORD $2000: Yeah, decided to go here, take courses in entrepreneurial finance & marketing strategy, graduate & make a few mil B-school |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | LAWN CARE $600: Henbit & Florida Pusley are among plants controlled by Ortho's product this type of plant "B-Gon" a weed |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THEY SAID IT $800: "How can 'the consent of the governed' be given, if the right to vote be denied?" Susan B. Anthony |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "B" RIGHT $200: Fleshy crest on the head of a fowl the comb |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "B" RIGHT $400: To speak or perform without rehearsal to ad lib |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "B" RIGHT $600: This word for something you might find in a dusty corner comes from coppa, an Old English word for "spider" a cobweb |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "B" RIGHT $800: To soak up to absorb |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "B" RIGHT $1000: Slang for a baseball argument, or an edible plant of the genus rheum rhubarb |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | R.B.s $600: This cerebral hemisphere helps us deal with spatial concepts the right brain |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | & CROWN THY GOOD $200: In 336 B.C. at age 20, he succeeded his murdered father as Macedonia's king & was just super...wait, that's not the right word Alexander the Great |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | & CROWN THY GOOD $1000: The heroic 480 B.C. death of this king of Sparta at Thermopylae made him famous; c'mon, one of you saw "300", right? Leonidas |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | RIGHT BY THE NUMBERS $200: This letter is right by 221 in Sherlock Holmes' street address B |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Right on, Willy! The phrase "right on" appears in Act III of this Shakespeare play that takes place in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | ONE B & 2 D's $2000: 10-letter word meaning reliable or worthy of trust dependable |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $2000: Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer Java Man Ray |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $200: This S-T-E-E-L C-I-T-Y is the seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | MARK ANTONY $1,500 (Daily Double): Defeated in his quest to rule Rome, Mark Antony committed suicide in this country in 30 B.C. Egypt |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | MNOW YOUR MNEMONICS $600: "R'n'B" will help you remember how to set up these pieces from left to right on a chessboard rooks, bishops & knights |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a right triangle on the monitor.) It's the sum of angles B & C 90 degrees |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | LIKE, IT'S TOTALLY THE VALLEY $1000: Thutmose III was eternally maxin' & relaxin' in this narrow gorge used as a cemetery between 1550 & 1100 B.C. the Valley of the Kings |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | QUOTATIONS $1200: In 1897 this women's rights pioneer wrote that "Suffrage is the pivotal right" (Susan B.) Anthony |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1928 he moved to Paris & met fellow Irish writer James Joyce, with whom he formed a lasting friendship (Samuel) Beckett |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: This fighter for a woman's right to vote died in 1906, 14 years before the 19th Amendment made her dream a reality Susan B. Anthony |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | THE DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE WHO... $1000: ...has a B.S. in kinesiology & was No. 1 on Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100" list Eva Longoria |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | "B" BRAVE $2000: As many as 1 million may have died during the 1971 civil war that produced this country Bangladesh |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | LETTER PERFECT $1200: Alphabetically, the first letter that stands alone as the symbol of a chemical element B |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | "B"EGINNINGS $2000: We're not being prejudiced; it's a line diagonal to the grain of a fabric a bias |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | BICYCLE REPAIRMAN $600: B.R. knows that most pedals, because they are threaded differently, are marked with 1 of these 2 letters R or L (right and left) |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | "B" THERE $1000: As its name suggests, this section of the Alps was once controlled by the capital of Switzerland the Bernese Alps |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | I'VE GOT A LITTLE LISZT $2000: Liszt's "La Clochette Fantasy" is a difficult piano piece based on this violinist's difficult B minor concerto Paganini |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | PLAYBILL $5,000 (Daily Double): This musical's "American Dream" ended on B'way after 4,097 performances--& a lot of helicopter flights Miss Saigon |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: "Lucille"-strumming blues guitarist who reigned as a boy king of Egypt B.B. King Tut |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | B.C. PEOPLE $400: Known for his theory of right triangles, he believed that the planets create their own sounds in their orbits Pythagoras |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | GEOMETRY $200: In the right triangle seen here, they are the 2 angles considered complementary A & B |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | JOHNNY GILBERT ROCKS! $200: This song topped the pop, R&B & country charts in 1957:
"The warden said, 'Hey, buddy, don't you be no square /
If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair'" "Jailhouse Rock" |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | "B"s DO IT $200: If right-handed, they aim for the "pocket" between the 1 & 3 pins bowlers |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | U.S. COINS $800 (Daily Double): Next U.S. one-dollar coin in order: Morgan, Peace, Eisenhower.... Susan B. Anthony |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | ORATORY $600: "How can the 'consent of the governed' be given," she asked in 1873, "If the right to vote be denied?" Susan B. Anthony |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $300: Initially Emmeline Pankhurst secured the right to vote in England only for these women Married women |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Around 445 B.C. this class of free citizens won the right to marry patricians the plebeians |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | THE "B"IBLE $500: The name of this son of Jacob means "Son of the right hand" Benjamin |
| #2162, aired 1994-01-18 | INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $600: One reason Max Tishler was inducted was for his synthesis of this B vitamin, also called riboflavin B2 |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | LETTERS $500: It's the symbol for the first element on the periodic table H |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): The Senate gave Octavian this title, which means "exalted" or "sacred", in January 27 B.C. Augustus |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2,100 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 men who formed Rome's First Triumvirate in 60 B.C. Julius Caesar*, Pompey the Great, & Marcus Licinius Crassus |
| #1494, aired 1991-02-14 | MATHEMATICS $600: In a triangle, if angle C is a right angle, angles A & B will add up to this many degrees 90 |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | POTENT POTABLES $500: American Brands makes Sunshine cookies, Jergens lotion & this biggest selling bourbon Jim Beam |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | THE CALENDAR $500: The only month named after someone who dies in 44 B.C. July |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Sadly, she died 14 years before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote Susan B. Anthony |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: Samuel F.B. Morse was among those who 1st informed America of this Frenchman's photographic "types" Daguerre |
| #742, aired 1987-11-24 | FASHION HISTORY $500: Though shoes go back to circa 4000 B.C., shoes designed individually for these weren't common until 19th c. your left & right foot |
| #739, aired 1987-11-19 | ODD ALPHABETS $200: In alphabet radio code, "B" is Bravo and "F" shares its name with this dance the foxtrot |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: Modern-day country in which the Olmecs, or "rubber people", flourished from 1200 to 100 B.C. Mexico |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Excluding East Berlin, 2 of 3 capitals of East European Communist countries that begin with "B" (2 of) Bucharest, Budapest & Belgrade |
| #467, aired 1986-09-23 | SPELLING $500: If you can use your left hand & right hand equally well, you're considered this A-M-B-I-D-E-X-T-R-O-U-S |
| #391, aired 1986-03-10 | THE 1920's $600: Sons of millionaires who killed Bobby Franks as a "scientific experiment" Leopold & Loeb |
| #390, aired 1986-03-07 | AVIATION $300: Also known as the "Super Fortress", it was the model of bomber used at Hiroshima B-29 |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | ALPHABET SOUP $1000: In music, the seventh tone in the diatonic scale of C B (or ti) |
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