| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | THE DEPTHS $2000: "B" is for this type of map that uses contour lines to show the ocean's depths a bathymetric map |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ENDS WITH "B" $1000: It's a jester's red cap possibly named for its resemblance to a male chicken's crest a coxcomb |
| #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 |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $400: "A":
This clear fluid surrounds a baby in its mother's womb amniotic fluid |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1200: "A":
You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom & one from dad alleles |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1600: "B":
This pigment gives bile its yellowish color & can lead to gallstones bilirubin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $2000: "C" "C":
2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself the cell cycle |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $6,400 (Daily Double): "C":
In myth, it's a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it's an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA chimera |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $200: A regular B & B is Bénédictine & brandy; if you're drinking a Kentucky B & B, this other "B" is an ingredient bourbon |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $800: 490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire the Persian Empire |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name flibbertigibbet |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Charlotte's Web" also wrote a monthly column for Harper's called "One Man's Meat" (E.B.) White |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A PARANORMAL CATEGORY $800: Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form an out-of-body experience |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name B |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $800: A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol vitamin A |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $400: "Fleeing playgirl traced to Rio" is a headline about Holly Golightly in this Truman Capote tale Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the palace of Knossos on this island Crete |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $600: At the 2020 Grammys, Alicia Keys & this trio sang "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" in a tribute to Kobe Bryant Boyz II Men |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | DEAR ABBEY $10,000 (Daily Double): St. Mary's Abbey in this city lent part of its name to a theatre that W.B. Yeats co-founded Dublin |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $1000: On "Black Thursday" 1943, the U.S. lost 60 of these bombers on a single raid; message:
Need escort fighters! the Flying Fortress (the B-17) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $900: The New York Times dubbed him "Ballet's Colossus" in its review of "Mr. B", a 2022 biography of this choreographer George Balanchine |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $600: This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task to botch |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $200: If train A leaves Oamaru at 9 a.m. at 70 mph & train B leaves Timaru at 1 p.m. going 80, this will still be New Zealand's capital Wellington |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $800: The most decorated figure skater in U.S. history, she started college in 1999 & returned to get her B.A. in 2009 Michelle Kwan |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | GRAB A "B"ITE $400: It's just side pork that's been cured & smoked bacon |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | GRAB A "B"ITE $2000: You can bake, steam or simmer this winter squash; it's flesh is sweet butternut |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B Bénédictine |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $200: Eat my shorts, Jay Gatsby! He was the only fictional character on Time's list of the most influential people of the 20th century Bart Simpson |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $400: Sticky Fingers and Bone Suckin' are two brands that make this type of condiment barbecue sauce |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $600: No more "European Pink" for Misty Copeland; in 2017, Gaynor Minden began making this footwear with darker skin tones ballet shoes (or ballet slippers) |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $800: "I gets high off your love / I don't know how to behave"; it's the title track on D'Angelo's 1995 album "Brown Sugar" |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $1000: This slow-moving creature is common in the Pacific Northwest; its name is apt considering its yellow color a banana slug |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | B MINUS $1000: When a cetacean fatty layer sweats out its B, this unskilled seaman is all that's left a lubber (from blubber) |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $200: A horse of pure stock a Thoroughbred |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $400: A sensational 5-column-wide newspaper a tabloid |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $600: A Russian thistle, bouncing down an Old West street in the wind a tumbleweed |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $800: All added up, it means arranged in a systematic form tabulated |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $1000: In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan the New York Times |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | "B" IN MUSIC $400: You could say it's a conductor's magic wand a baton |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | "B" IN MUSIC $800: It's the male singing voice between tenor & bass a baritone |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "B" MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas... it's dark & we're wearing sunglasses"; "Hit it" The Blues Brothers |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $400: "B":
an especially big payment that comes due at the end of a loan a balloon |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $800: "A":
this type of interest that has accumulated but not yet been paid accrued |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $1200: "C.C.":
the expenses incurred in finalizing the transfer of property ownership closing costs |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2,000 (Daily Double): "A":
this word meaning to pay off a debt in installments comes partly from Latin for "dead" amortize |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2000: "B.B.":
securities with no registered owner payable to whoever holds the certificate bearer bonds |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GETTING AN EYEFUL $200: A call for an act of retribution, it's No. 196 in the 18th century B.C. code of Hammurabi eye for an eye |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $800: Mizar A & B are what's called a visual this word, like a kind of computer code, for their apparent closeness a binary system |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "B" NICE $1000: Did you inherit some money? You were the recipient of this from someone's will bequest |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | EURO COINS $1200: The image of an owl on this nation's 1-euro coin was copied from a 4-drachma coin from the 5th century B.C. Greece |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $200: When Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first of these, the patient lived less than a month, but Dr. B.'s 2nd try got a guy 18 months a heart transplant |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $400: In a word for the side post of a doorway B (jamb) |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | CLOSE ELECTIONS $400: In 1910 Democrat Charles B. Smith won a U.S. House seat with 20,685 votes; his Republican opponent got this many 20,684 |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | "B" COOL $800: It's a vibratory sound, or the excitement generated by a cool new product or performer buzz |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $200: "O.M.I.T.B." is short for this, a show & the podcast within it Only Murders in the Building |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named
A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $1200: (I'm B.J. Novak.) In my first feature film as writer & director I play a New York journalist trying to help a bereaved Texas family get this, the film's title & a synonym for retribution Vengeance |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $400: Yes, yes, yes, "No, No, No Part 2" was a No. 1 R&B hit for this "youthful" Houston girl group Destiny's Child |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $600: "My Prerogative" by this singer is noted as a prime example of R&B's new jack swing era Bobby Brown |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $2000: Take six pals & be seven against this Greek city where you can check out what's left of the circa 1400 B.C. Palace of Cadmus Thebes |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | BAKER'S DOZEN $800: Relaying more information about the problem aboard Apollo 13, he said, "We've had a main B bus undervolt" (Jim) Lovell |
| #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 $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra |
| #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 |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | WHAT'LL IT "B"? $1000: A shot of this, & I don't care whether it's Booker's or Blanton's bourbon |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $1600: "Creed" star who got involved with a drug kingpin's kitty in "Keanu" Michael B. Jordan Peele |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $400: This ruler's legal decisions were codified in cuneiform in the Old Babylonian language in the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Seaweed farmer is a major job on this Indonesian island & in "Ticket to Paradise", George Clooney's daughter falls for one Bali |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ART SUPPLIES $400: Looking to throw clay with an evenly rounded shape? You may want to invest in one of these, like the Brent Model B Power one a potter's wheel |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $200: Details are sketchy on him; was he a 9th century B.C. guy? 8th? From Ionia? Did he really create the 2 epic poems he's credited with? Homer |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | EASY MONEY $500: This woman, a prominent U.S. suffragist, was on the U.S. dollar coin from 1979-1981 Susan B. Anthony |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $200: As a patrician, you could not do this with a plebeian until 445 B.C.'s Lex Canuleia marry |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SHOE BIZ $600: Like Elvis sang, "don't you step on" these shoes that you can get from Brooks Brothers (blue) suede shoes |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now that's a construction project! 13,000 miles long & found in part in Gansu province, this dates to the 600s B.C. the Great Wall of China |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $1500: When the pope makes someone a cardinal, he's said to give them this item to wear a red hat |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $400: In World War I the soldiers of the USA's all-Black 92nd infantry division put this animal on their patch buffalo |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $800: The 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani by a U.S. drone took place at the airport of this world capital Baghdad |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $1600: After continually losing elections for Israeli prime minister since 1948, he won the office in 1977 in what's known as "the upset" (Menachem) Begin |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SOUNDS $800: It's the title of a novel by E.B. White & the sound heard here The Trumpet of the Swan |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | JAZZ & BLUES NICKNAMES $2000: Riley King went by B.B., originally short for Blues Boy; his guitar also had a nickname--this woman's name Lucille |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $800: For his Broadway debut in "All the Way", Bryan Cranston's portrayal of this president earned him a Tony Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $1600: Around 1400, this Belgian "B" city northwest of Brussels was among Europe's richest & built itself quite a city hall Bruges |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PICK A "CARD" $300: Here's this rapper wearing what could be described as "Bodak Yellow" Cardi B |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $500: Also a noted essayist, he gave us the books "Charlotte's Web" & "Stuart Little" E.B. White |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: In the 70s B.C. this gladiator led a slave revolt; Kirk Douglas played him on film Spartacus |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): 2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line the caged bird |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $2000: Tens of millions:
Each W-80 nuclear warhead, which can be delivered by this bomber also called the Stratofortress the B-52 |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers" Stuart Little |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1200: It's one of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names a Boa constrictor |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | ONE LETTER CHANGES EVERYTHING $800: Subtract a "B" from a loose-fitting women's shirt to get this parasite you don't want to find there louse |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $400: In "Why Not Me?", this actress "freely" admits that her relationship with "Office" mate "B.J. Novak is weird as hell" Mindy Kaling |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | FROM "B" TO "I" $1600: Native to Africa, this hound dog is also known to be barkless a Basenji |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | FROM "B" TO "I" $2000: It's a decorative mark or jewel in the middle of the forehead traditionally worn by married Hindu women a bindi |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | BEACH, BAY "B" $600: A legendary surfing spot, 'Ehukai Beach on Oahu's North Shore is known as this pipeline, a Japanese cheer Banzai |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | R&B MUSIC $800: In 2016, part of a Detroit street was named in honor of this man, who's had Number Ones on the R&B charts since he was a kid Stevie Wonder |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $400: In the 330s B.C. a Macedonian tough guy took over in Egypt & founded this city that's named for him Alexandria |
| #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 |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $800: During the ice age what's now this strait was a land bridge linking Asia to North America the Bering Strait |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $2000: This fertile word is the "B" in FBR, a reactor that produces more nuclear fuel than it consumes while generating power breeder |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $800: (I'm Evrod Cassimy.) After GM's president told Detroit car executives, "We must outbuild Hitler", Ford's Willow Run plant churned out the B-24 Liberator, a 4-engine this type of warplane at an unbelievable rate of one per hour a bomber |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | BACKING BANDS $400: 2 saxophonists & a trombonist were some of the J.B.'s, who backed up this legend with the same initials (James) Brown |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE INNER "EAR" $200: In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these a beard |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $2000: This man's book "Walden Two" is a fictional account of a society based on his theories of behaviorism B.F. Skinner |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $200: In "U Can't Touch This", he rapped his thanks to the Lord "for blessing me with a mind to rhyme & 2 hyped feet" MC Hammer |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $400: Making their Top 40 debut in 1991, this vocal group told us, "Motownphilly's back again, doin' a little East Coast swing" Boyz II Men |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | I WANT 2 B $600: A child's toy, or a showy trinket that's of little actual use a bauble |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN $1000: On July 2, 1979 the U.S. Mint elected to release a coin honoring this woman; nearly 758 million were made that year Susan B. Anthony |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice" a trumpeter swan |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1600: A homeless teen becomes a star football player after he's taken in by Sandra Bullock in this film based on a true story The Blind Side |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | "B" + 2 LETTERS $1000: Stated goal of taking tricks bid |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $1600: You get a "B" if you know it's the most common volcanic rock in the Earth's crust basalt |
| #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 |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE $400: It's proverbially done to "a cold":
6-5-5-4 feed |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | STARTS WITH "B" $1200: Guinea is a small species of this primate baboon |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $2000: This person's "Play" by Charles Fuller about Sgt. Waters & Captain Davenport arrived on B'way in 2020, 38 years after winning a Pulitzer A Soldier's Play |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $800: Capable of firing 650 rounds a minute, the B.A.R., or Browning this, was in service with the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1957 automatic rifle |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | TUNE A FISH $200: This song by the B-52's says, "There goes a dogfish, chased by a catfish" "Rock Lobster" |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF $2000: She got her U.S. citizenship in 1957 & earned her B.A. with honors 2 years later Albright |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $200: The c. 300 B.C. "De Historia Plantarum" helped establish Plato's student Theophrastus as the founder of this 6-letter science botany |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | IN THE DICTIONARY $200: There's a silent "B" in this adjective meaning mysterious & faint, like the Mona Lisa's smile subtle |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king Alexander the Great |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | HISTORY $200: Around 1530 B.C. Queen Ahhotep rallied this kingdom's troops to victory against a Hyksos invasion Egypt |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | THE "B"s $400: The pastry seen here gets its name from its resemblance to an animal's foot a bear claw |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | THE "B"s $800: A true New Yorker knows all the goods on all the shelves in his favorite this corner store a bodega |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | THE "B"s $1000: This stroke also called a reverse solidus divides a directory & a subdirectory in some operating systems a backslash |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $2000: This "large animal" lake is a center of skiing, fishing & more in California's San Bernardino National Forest Big Bear Lake |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | ENDS IN "B" $600: 2-syllable word for a good-looking actor who's the object of romantic infatuation a heartthrob |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | ENDS IN "B" $800: Verb meaning to examine thoroughly, or to connect a building's water pipes plumb |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | GUITAR TALK $600: A guitar's strings are set to E-A-D-G-B-E in "standard" this tuning |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $400: Farm girl Fern Arable wants to save the life of a pig in this E.B. White tale Charlotte's Web |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | PLANE SPOKEN $800: This alphanumeric U.S. plane began flights over the USSR in July 1956 U-2 |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | MOVING $1000: B.O.L. is short for this, basically a customer's itemized contract with a moving company bill of lading |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | HISTORICAL FACTS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Gladiator or Third Servile War in the 70s B.C., this rebel & his forces gained control over most of southern Italy Spartacus |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $200: pga.com says a good one of these assistants "can be worth several strokes a round" a caddy |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $400: 3-letter aka for a hole in one ace |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a golf grip.) All ten fingers are placed on the club in this type of grip, named for another sport baseball |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $800: It's the amount of sideways curve or bend to a putt break |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $1000: Often traveling 100 yards plus, it's a shot hit to get up close to the green on a longer hole an approach |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Tradition says here's the roughly 25-mile route Pheidippides ran in 490 B.C., bringing news of victory to Athens from this plain whose name is known beyond ancient history Marathon |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | FONTS OF WISDOM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) California’s 3rd and Texas 3th district make the A; Ohio’s 12th and 7th districts make the B, and Connecticut’s 1st district is the C in a new font called Ugly Gerry in which “Gerry” stands for this partisan process gerrymandering |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $200: Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work the Parthenon |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $1200: In a Venn diagram, an upside down "U" is used to represent this set that contains all elements in common to both "A" and "B" the intersection |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $800: Born in 1903 with the initials E.A.B., took his pen name from an English river in 1933, passed away in 1950, 34 years early George Orwell |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | BOSS HOG $1200: Noting this swine's efforts, E.B. White wrote, "It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people" Wilbur |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | B IN THE MIDDLE $2000: It's the long, broad sash worn with a kimono an obi |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | LATIN PHRASES $1600: Julius Caesar summed up his victory in a 47 B.C. campaign with these 3 Latin words Veni, vidi, vici |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: The B. stands for Beatrice, a name this Barbara Park kindergartener can't stand Junie B. Jones |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | STARTS & ENDS WITH B $400: It's the business end of a fishhook barb |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $400: It's a painful bony protrusion at the base of the big toe a bunion |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET $1000: This men's hat of the Napoleonic era has a name meaning "two-horned" a bicorne |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | > $1000: With superheroic effort at 2019's NAACP Image Awards, he bested Michael B. Jordan--again--as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture (Chadwick) Boseman |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | GET YOUR "B.A." DEGREE $800: It's a city of 3 million located on the Río de la Plata Estuary Buenos Aires |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | "B"EASTS $1000: You little weasel! The American species of this member of the weasel family is a carnivore & a good digger a badger |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $200: It's 399 B.C. & I'm ready for my trial; 500 Greek jurors are sure to give this harmless elderly philosopher a fair shake Socrates |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | POND $200: A real pond in this urban park is where E.B. White's Stuart Little is victorious racing his sailboat Central Park |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | "B" SIEGE $2,500 (Daily Double): During this 1900 rebellion, a siege of the International Quarter of Peking was broken with the timely help of the U.S. Marines the Boxer Rebellion |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $200: It's a less appealing 2-word name for tofu bean curd |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FROM B TO A $800: It's not just any old Catholic church--it's one with special status from the Vatican a basilica |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks Marathon |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | "B" SPOKE SHAKESPEARE $1200: Before love conquers all in "Much Ado About Nothing", she calls Benedick "the prince's jester, a very dull fool" Beatrice |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) At the decisive 331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great's phalanxes opened ranks to let these wheeled Persian weapons pass through, then wipe them out chariots |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: A tailor in a play by G.B. Shaw, he extracts a thorn from a lion's paw & is spared later in the arena by that lion Androcles |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | TORY SPELLING $2000: He's remembered for his 1917 "Declaration" about Palestine B-A-L-F-O-U-R |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | I'D LIKE TO SELL A VOWEL $600: I don't have any Ford Model T's B's, F's or R's, but I do have this other 20th century model (Model) A |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | A "B"6 SHOT $1200: It's the printed name of the author of an accompanying news story byline |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | A "B"6 SHOT $1600: It's the crime of having 2 wives at once bigamy |
| #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 |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | A LONG, LONG TIME AGO $1200: Don't call Ayla in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" a Neanderthal--she's this kind of human that emerged later, around 40,000 B.C. a Cro Magnon |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $1200: It's the vocal range between tenor & bass baritone |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $1600: Important for energy production in the body, it's also called Vitamin B2 riboflavin |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FROM B TO C $600: It's a cockroach's least favorite acid boric acid |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $1200: This 1962 film, based on a Broadway play, is about the woman seen here The Miracle Worker |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: It's a type of song originally sung by gondoliers; here's a famous one by Offenbach barcarole |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $2000: This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience Aristophanes |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | CENTS OF A WOMAN $200: The first U.S. circulating coin to depict a real woman was the $1 coin featuring this suffragist Susan B. Anthony |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | VERY DEFINITELY FOR PROFIT $2000: Last name of American Tobacco's James B., who smoked up profits with American Cigar & American Snuff Duke |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (I'm Jim Gardner from 6ABC.) The Franklin Institute has the only intact Model B made by these 2 men; it was the first plane to carry air freight, live bombs & a U.S. president Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | WORDS FOR YOUR DOG $200: A coveted award for those who exhibit their dogs, "B.I.S." stands for this accolade best in show |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | LET'S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! $1000: Rud, we looked for you everywhere, & here you are out in this type of flooded field used to grow rice a rice paddy |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THE WRITER SPEAKS $800: On writing up to children, "I handed them...a mouse-boy and they accepted it...I gave them a literate spider, and they took that" E.B. White |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | B.S., I LOVE YOU $1600: On June 20, 1947 this mobster & Vegas visionary took a bullet shower, leaving him down & out in Beverly Hills Bugsy Siegel |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | B.S., I LOVE YOU $2000: In addition to a bloody classic 1897 novel, this Irishman also wrote 1909's "The Lady of the Shroud" Bram Stoker |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $600: "Shopping sprees in Paris, everything 24 karats, take a look in that mirror, now tell" this singer "who's the fairest" Bruno Mars |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | WRITER'S CHEAT SHEET $600: A-B-A-B is an example of this, which sounds like a devious plan rhyme scheme |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): E.B. White referred to this 1952 book of his as a "hymn to the barn" Charlotte's Web |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | THE ROLES OF MY LIFETIME $1600: We'd give an "A" to his work as Oscar Grant & Killmonger, but he's going to get a "B." from you (Michael B.) Jordan |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | BUSINESS LINGO $1600: When 2 different products are sold as a package deal, ti's called this "B" term; software is a good example bundling |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | THE UNSEEN $400: The Air Force's B-2 Spirit is sprayed with a radar-absorbent coating, helping make it this type of bomber stealth |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | DOUBLE "B"s $400: Bazooka is a brand of this bubble gum |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | OR BUST $1200: A bronze head of this man who became Rome's sole ruler in 27 B.C. was found in 1910 Augustus |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Around 509 B.C. the Romans formed this kingless type of government mentioned in the U.S. pledge of allegiance a republic |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $800: Phillis Wheatley & W.E.B. Du Bois are part of African-American lit "From the Beginnings to" this area's "Renaissance" Harlem |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | WHO HAS MY LETTER? $1000: There's a giant one on a Provo, Utah hillside; the letters "B" before it & "U" after it never got built Y |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THE B.G.s $400: He co-founded a company called Traf-O-Data while still in high school Bill Gates |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THE B.G.s $600: A final score from 1964:
LBJ 486, this B.G. 52 (Barry) Goldwater |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THE B.G.s $1000: This Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence was as cute as a small clothing fastener Button Gwinnett |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | HELLO, "B.B." $1600: From a film based on a 20th century novel, it's the sinister entity depicted here Big Brother |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: American daisy with dark center that was a leading U.S. suffragette black-eyed Susan B. Anthony |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | SAVES $600: When a closer enters a close game & gives up the tying run, it's B.S., this for short a blown save |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE FICTION SECTION $200: This "Little" St.-Exupery guy comes from a little world--it's not even a planet, it's Asteroid B-612 Little Prince |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | MOVIE TITLES GET RELIGION $400: In the title of a 1957 movie that reworks G.B. Shaw's original text, this word precedes "Joan" saint |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | "B" PREPARED $400: It's a nonrigid airship often used for observation, Colonel a blimp |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $1600: Billy Strayhorn's lifetime collaboration with this legend led to hits like "Chelsea Bridge" & "Take the 'A' Train" Duke Ellington |
| #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 |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: Still in use, China's "Grand" one of these man-made waterways may date back to the 300s B.C. a canal |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: This Egyptian port was founded around 332 B.C. by--well, let's just say by a pretty great guy Alexandria |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | A BARREL FULL OF COOPERS $1200: It's the name of the fabled hijacker who parachuted out of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet in November 1971 D.B. Cooper |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | HIP-HOP & R&B 2017 $400: A lot of people liked "That's What I Like", a chart-topper for this "Planetary" singer Bruno Mars |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $200: Hollywood slang for a movie that tells the story of a real person's life a biopic |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $400: Quarterback Jameis Winston, or any other member of the NFL's Tampa Bay team Buc |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: It's what the B-A stands for in BART, the rapid transit system Bay Area |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | "B"REEDS $200: Because of its name, this kitty may have illusions that it's an Indian tiger a Bengal |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | "B"REEDS $800: The Brabant is also known as this nationality's draft horse a Belgian |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | "B"REEDS $1000: The second part of this little dog's name refers to its curly hair a Bichon Frise |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | "B" A SPORT $1,000 (Daily Double): Britannica's entry on it notes early Scandinavians revered the Norse god Ull as both a ski god & a hunting god biathlon |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | ALPHABET SOUP WHEN YOU'RE SICK $1000: If you see b.i.d. on a prescription, it's giving you this instruction telling you to take it twice a day |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | RECENT NONFICTION $400: Sheryl Sandberg's "Option B" is about "facing adversity", such as this tragedy that befell her in May 2015 becoming a widow |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | "B"USINESS $800: It sounds like a small, high-end shop, but in business, it's a specialty investment banker boutique |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | A NUMBER OF GROUPS $200: "Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale, and it's about to set sail" sang this group in "Love Shack", baby The B-52s |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | TIME FOR A DRINK $400: I'm gonna party like it's 44 "B.C."! Mix me one of these, a Bloody Mary with clamato rather than tomato juice a Bloody Caesar |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This Roman poet's "Art of Love" from around 1 B.C. is a hedonistic seduction manual still useful today Ovid |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | A BUCKET LIST $1000: 1959's "A Bucket of Blood" was one of the movies that made this B-movie director "King of the Drive-Ins" Roger Corman |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | AMERICAN ART $400: Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of" this European museum depicts its best paintings; the lady in the bottom center is a clue the Louvre |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | FOUNDING FATHERS $2000: A Civil War surgeon, he would found Akron, Ohio's rubber industry (B.F.) Goodrich |
| #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 |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | FROM B TO D $2000: It's where on your person you might find Presidents Washington, Jackson & Lincoln a billfold |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | "B" MY LOVE $800: Here's an offer you can't refuse: a getaway to Francis Coppola's Turtle Inn Resort in this Central American country Belize |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1600: In 2010 Air Force captain Daniel Welch began piloting this same plane his grandfather flew the B-52 |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | IT'S EPIC $1,400 (Daily Double): This Roman poet wrote his own epic around 19 B.C. & in 1321 A.D. appeared as a character in one Virgil |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 2 TICKETS TO PARAGUAY $1000: A national department is named for this 19th U.S. president, who helped settle a boundary dispute in Paraguay's favor Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $600: Flip 2 letters in a lumberjack's falling-tree yell & get this quality of the sound of a voice T-I-M-B-R-E |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | MY "BA-E" $800: It's the longer, fancier name for a bachelor's degree a baccalaureate |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | -OLOGIES $400: For a B.S. degree in this -ology, you have to take courses like weather forecasting & climate dynamics meteorology |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | A PEEK AT THE PARANORMAL $800: Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form an out-of-body experience |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPANY "B" $1,000 (Daily Double): Blue Shirt Nation was a social network for this retailer's employees Best Buy |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCULPTURE $800: Myron's most famous bronze was made around 425 B.C. & depicts an Olympic athlete throwing this object a discus |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: Here's a sculpture of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony & this woman, a Quaker & a suffragette (Lucretia) Mott |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $800: It's the sea that surrounds Jamaica & Cuba C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | "B"RANDS $600: Here's a sandal from this brand Birkenstock |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | "B"RANDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Mr. Shavitz, for whom this alliterative beauty brand is named, appeared in a 2008 PSA about colony collapse disorder Burt's Bees |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | READING YOUR DIARY $1000: His 1944 diary says fellow general & fellow George "Marshall even harked back to" a 1942 incident--"a forgiving S.O.B." (George) Patton |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $200: A horse of pure stock a thoroughbred |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $400: A sensational 5-column-wide newspaper a tabloid |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $600: A Russian thistle, bouncing down an Old West street in the wind a tumbleweed |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $800: All added up, it means arranged in a systematic form tabulated |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | THE SINGING "B" $400: They flew to the top of the charts in 1965 with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" The Byrds |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | A SILENT "B" HIVE $800: These prisons for those in financial trouble were formally abolished in the U.S. in 1833 debtors' prisons |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | A SILENT "B" HIVE $2,000 (Daily Double): Architecturally, it’s either of the sides of a door or window a jamb |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | OUT OF THE CRADLE $600: When Grandma called the cradle this by mistake, we heard Baby say, "It's not" this! This "is oval & starts with a B!" bassinet |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $800: Mom & dad's date night essential (10) a babysitter |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.) The B-24 Liberator was the most-produced U.S. aircraft of WWII; pilots who flew it on hazardous bombing missions over Germany included Senator George McGovern & this star of "It's a Wonderful Life" (Jimmy) Stewart |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $800: B:
Chemistry law saying pressure of a gas at constant temperature varies inversely with volume Boyle's |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | "A" "B" $200: It's used for voting by mail an absentee ballot |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BRING YOUR "B" GAME $400: Each player's fleet includes a submarine & a destroyer in this classic board game Battleship |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BRING YOUR "B" GAME $800: In the book "Casino Royale", 007's mission is to ruin a Russian operative at this royal casino game baccarat |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) To find the area under a curve between points "a" & "b", calculate the definite this of the curve, denoted by an elongated "S" symbol the integral |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | BETWEEN 5 FERNS $200: A young girl named Fern saves a pig from certain death in this E.B. White novel Charlotte's Web |
| #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 |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $400: In a book by E.B. White, Snowbell the cat does not have this title mouselike boy's best interests at heart Stuart Little |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | THE SEA "B"s $2,000 (Daily Double): From the mid-1880s to 1914, this sea east of New Guinea was under German control the Bismarck Sea |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | THE SEA "B"s $2000: It's not easy to "scale" this Arctic sea named for a British admiral; it's under ice most of the year the Beaufort Sea |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | 2-LETTER ABBREVIATIONS $400: Undergrad engineering students get this kind of degree a B.S. |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A LITTLE READING $200: First & last name of E.B. White's adventurous mouse-like boy from a 1945 story Stuart Little |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WHAT'S THE WORD? $2000: For unusually severe laws like those promulgated by a 600s B.C. Athenian statesman draconian laws |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Her, in 1869 in a women's suffrage newspaper:
"Join the union, girls, and together say equal pay for equal work" Susan B. Anthony |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | A LIFE ON THE "B" LIST $1200: He's seen here after devoting more than 50 years of his life to representing West Virginia in Washington (Senator Robert) Byrd |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | "B"OOKS $200: It's the huge 1992 bestseller about a photographer, a farm wife & 4 days in Iowa Bridges of Madison County |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | LOGOS $1200: This NFL team's logo features a purple bird's head with a gold letter "B" on it the Baltimore Ravens |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | RETURN OF THE WOOD $400: A Con Ed electric safety brochure advises using a fiberglass or wooden one around power lines, never metal a ladder |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | DOUBLE "B" $1000: From the Aramaic for "my father", he's the superior of a monastery an abbot |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $1600: It's the 9-letter term for someone who owns & manages a small hotel or B&B innkeeper |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | "B"ILLBOARD HITS $1600: The cover of this Meat Loaf album shows a man riding a motorcycle that's shooting out of the ground in a graveyard Bat Out of Hell |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | WARBIRDS $1000: The Cold War era Soviet TU-4 was a copy of this U.S. bomber; several had landed in Russia after bombing Japan the B-29 |
| #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 |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THERE B 3 "B"s $400: To fumble a baseball in an erroneous fashion bobble |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THERE B 3 "B"s $1600: From what happens to the tires, it's a 2-word slang term meaning to stomp on the gas burn rubber |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THERE B 3 "B"s $2000: Fashion-conscious adolescent teen girl of the 1940s a bobby soxer |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $400: Bollywood wasn't even a gleam in Ashoka's eye when he ruled this island city in the 3rd century B.C. Mumbai |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $1200: This Biblical city's first walls, dating to 8000 B.C., were some 13 feet high & supported by a 28-foot watchtower Jericho |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $800: Circa 45 B.C., Decimus Laberius & Publilius Syrus engaged in a mime contest at this man's command; Publilius won Caesar |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $200: The official language of Syria Arabic |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $400: To illegally seize & take away abduct |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $600: If you're "taken" this, you're disconcerted aback |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $800: The mood or atmosphere of a place such as a restaurant ambience |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $1000: A deviation from the normal type, way or course aberrance |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | IN MY CABINET $800: Oral-B's Complete Deep Clean Ultra this hits those hard-to-reach spots dental floss |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $1200: There are 8 of these on a Steinway grand, but only 3 in a grouping of composers made up by Hans von Bulow B's |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $400: Go from the present to the original home of baseball's Braves & you've gone from here to here Atlanta to Boston |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $800: Cross Namibia's narrow Caprivi Strip to go between these 2 southern African lands Angola & Botswana |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $2,500 (Daily Double): One a state capital, these 2 cities on Amtrak's Empire Service fill the bill Albany & Buffalo |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $400: The current vice president's last name B-I-D-E-N |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $800: "Emotion":
Samantha Sang in 1978 & this female R&B group in 2001 Destiny's Child |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $2000: Ancient Greek for "hot gates", this mountain pass was the site of a famous battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | A DOLL'S HOUSE $3,000 (Daily Double): In doll collecting, M.I.B. isn't "Men In Black" but this desirable condition mint in box |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: Mary Patterson, the first black woman to earn a B.A. degree, graduated in 1862 from this state's Oberlin College Ohio |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: America's first passenger line, this railroad began steaming along in 1830 the B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $4,600 (Daily Double): A governor's failure to stop Indian raids prompted this 1676 rebellion led by a Virginia planter Bacon's Rebellion |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | SONG LYRICS $600: The B-52's:
"There goes a dogfish chased by a catfish" "Rock Lobster" |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE "B.G."'s $600: In 2013 one of these worn by Jackie Robinson, possibly in the 1955 & '57 World Series, sold for $373,002 at auction a baseball glove |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | SAME-LETTER SWAP $1000: London's in bloom as the B's have deserted a bobby & turned him into this flower a poppy |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | "B" + 3 $400: A source of fiber, it's the outer layer of a grain bran |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | WOMEN'S GROUPS $400: Its 1966 statement of purpose said females earn only 1/3 of B.A. degrees; that was then, this is... NOW (National Organization for Women) |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE SECRET LIFE OF B's $400: An unsuccessful movie a bomb |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE SECRET LIFE OF B's $800: A classic symptom of frostbite numbness |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE SECRET LIFE OF B's $1600: This occupation gets its name from the Latin for "lead" a plumber |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THAT'S ALL IN THE PAST $800: Once called Lacedaemon, it was a city-state that eventually came under Rome's control in 146 B.C.; this is...! Sparta |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: The festival of Hanukkah commemorates this Jewish hero's restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem Judah Maccabee |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | WE'RE A NORTH AMERICAN BAND! $600: B-b-b-baby, name this band that topped the charts in 1974
"You ain't seen nothin' yet /
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet /
Here's something, here's..." Bachman-Turner Overdrive |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $200: The young girl in this 1958 Truman Capote work is described as having "a face beyond childhood" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | POULTRY IN MOTION $400: A real trumpet is used by E.B. White's title fowl in the story called "The Trumpet of" this bird the swan |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B" $600: This country, a neighbor of Latvia & Ukraine Belarus |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRE-'80s HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration the Rubicon |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $600: In the Cambridge Shakespeare text, title word between "Love's" & "Lost" (don't forget the apostrophe) L-A-B-O-U-R-'-S |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | IT'S A RAP $400: "I made the change from a common thief/ to up close and personal with robin leach", rapped this "Notorious" guy Notorious B.I.G. |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | STREET SMARTS $1000: Manhattan's Alphabet City gets its name from these, lettered A, B, C & D (no Q) Avenues |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | MAP QUEST $200: Incorporated as a city in 1853, it's on the shores of Lake Winnebago b'gosh Oshkosh |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | "B" GOOD $2000: Life is good at this tree seen here beech |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: U.S. General "Rosie" O'Donnell commanded operations of B-29s, this type of plane a bomber |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: Used instead of B.C. as a secular date reference, B.C.E stands for this Before Common Era |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $1600: It's less than 30 miles between this pair of cities, Belgium's largest & its capital Antwerp & Brussels |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $3,600 (Daily Double): It's about a 30-hour drive between these 2 rhyming state capitals Austin & Boston |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | SAILING THE 3 C's $800: This college degree is total B.S. a Bachelor of Sciences |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | ASTRONOMY $1600: This gap between Saturn's A & B rings is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon Mimas, which clears it of particles the Cassini division |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | CARE TO DANCE? $1000: Also a haircut style, it's the R&B-based state dance of South Carolina the shag |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The legendary wealth of this king in what's now Turkey didn't help in 546 B.C. when the Persians defeated him Croesus |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Reminders of the war are everywhere in Vietnam; a small lake in a quiet Hanoi neighborhood still holds wreckage of one of these giant U.S. bombers that attacked the city in December 1972 a B-52 |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: It's a surprise to his parents when this E.B. White character is born with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $5,000 (Daily Double): Awards & Honors:
•400s B.C.--
The Parthenon dedicated to me, wisely Athena |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | LET IT "B" $800: Proverbially speaking, it's what "a watched pot never" does boil |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | LET IT "B" $2000: Spelled one way, it's a broth; spelled another, it's gold or silver in the form of bars or ingots bouillon (or bullion) |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $400: In July dense fog caused a B-25 bomber to crash into this building's 78th & 79th floors The Empire State Building |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | "B" NICE $600: A favor or gift, it's a homonym of a Colonial frontiersman's name boon |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $1200: A god rose from the sea... or a 460 B.C. statue of one did, & it's at this capital's Natl. Archaeological Museum Athens |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | MAY "B" $400: Oh, Jeeves! It's the job title of a household's chief male servant a butler |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $800: A taxi, or to travel in one cab |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1200: To recede, like the tide; it's often paired with "flow" ebb |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1600: To yield territory cede |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $2000: A work of classical Icelandic poetry an edda |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $400: That adolescent's behaviour is utterly reprehensible B-E-H-A-V-I-O-R |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $400: The 11th letter, it's rarely used in languages that developed from Latin K |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | FROM B TO SHINING B $400: It's a globular underground part of a flower a bulb |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | FROM B TO SHINING B $600: That's the spot! it's a therapeutic manipulation of the dorsal muscles a backrub |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | FROM B TO SHINING B $800: A brief advertisement, perhaps for your buddy's novel a blurb |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The Venn diagram here contains three sets: A, B & C, but, there's another set that includes all possible things that's called this the universal set |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | "B-L-T" $200: Ernest Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" is a treatise on this Spanish spectacle a bullfight |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $600: What's now East Oakland was once a city called this, like a borough southeast of Manhattan Brooklyn |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | A BUNCH OF "S.B." $200: At one of these, help yourself to lettuce & a variety of toppings plus your choice of dressing a salad bar |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | A BUNCH OF "S.B." $400: It's the type of sign the man seen here is wearing, just waiting for your ad a sandwich board |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | A BUNCH OF "S.B." $600: Due to overfishing, many restaurants have banished the fish called Chilean this from their menus sea bass |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | A BUNCH OF "S.B." $800: Years after Little Big Horn, this Sioux chief joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Sitting Bull |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | A BUNCH OF "S.B." $1000: This author of "Herzog" received the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature Saul Bellow |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | MOVIE TERMS $400: It's the letter-perfect name for films like "Teenagers From Outer Space", often the second half of a double feature a B-movie |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | WEIRDPODGE $1200: Swiss writers of this language generally ignore the weird "B" that sometimes replaces a double "S" German |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | A LONG TIME AGO $800: By the waters of the Euphrates, this city became a Mesopotamian capital in the early 2nd millennium B.C. Babylon |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | DEAR ABBEY $1200: St. Mary's Abbey in this city lent its name to a theater that W.B. Yeats helped run Dublin |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | GRAB A "B"ITE $400: It's just side pork that's been cured & smoked bacon |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | "B"4 $200: It's the cry of a donkey a bray |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | "B"4 $600: A stain caused by a discoloring substance, or a stain on one's character a blot |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $1200: This resident of the labyrinth is seen here in a Greek artwork from the 500s B.C the Minotaur |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | "B" PLUS $400: It's the launching of a rocket--3-2-1... blastoff |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | "B" PLUS $800: Here's a simple one of these charts, showing students' test scores a bar graph |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | "B" PLUS $1600: It's a bowl-shaped depression on the ocean floor, or a washbowl or sink in your house a basin |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | B.P. $400: This occupational symbol is made up of red & white stripes a barber's pole |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WEBSITES FROM A TO Z $400: B: Microsoft's search engine Bing |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | LEFTOVERS $600: In 63 B.C. Tiro invented a system of this to record Cicero's speeches shorthand |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $800: In 2005 this mayor of Tehran won the presidency of Iran in a landslide over Hashemi Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING $200: When a government fixes prices at a set level, it's called one of these--b-r-r-r! a freeze |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ALL WE NEED IS A TITLE $2000: Alan Paton's "C, the B C" Cry, the Beloved Country |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MUSICAL TERMS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a musical staff with 3 lowercase B's superimposed.) First used on the B note, accidental symbols are all variations of the letter B; the flat lowers pitch, the sharp raises it & this symbol cancels a flat or sharp a natural |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | WE ALL MAKE CHOICES IN LIFE $200: The math section of the S.A.T. a) is 70 minutes long; b) covers algebra; c) is mainly multiple choice; d) all of the above d) all of the above |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $400: In October 2010 this group's Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh & Timothy B. Schmit hit the road for a fall tour the Eagles |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $200: This adjective can describe a bachelor worthy of marriage or an NFL receiver who's allowed to catch a forward pass E-L-I-G-I-B-L-E |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | MOTORCYCLE MAKERS $800: Baseball's Ichiro must be aware that this maker's B-King is the "rowdy alter ego" to its Hayabusa Suzuki |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | THAT SMELLS... LIKE A CELEBRITY! $1000: Get this "U Remind Me" R&B singer's eau de toilette for dad... then explain he's not a guy who works in a movie theater Usher |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | LET'S GET SIRIUS $600: As massive as the sun but much more condensed, Sirius B was the first of these "colorful" little stars to be discovered a white dwarf |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $1200: It's britspeak for a type of parakeet a budgie |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $200: Around 447 B.C. this group led by the "Scourge of God" devastated the Balkans & drove south into Greece the Huns |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $600: This king who died in 1750 B.C. left a code dealing with family laws, loans, debts & even witchcraft Hammurabi |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the Palace of Knossos on this island Crete |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | "B"OOKS $4,000 (Daily Double): This children's classic is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $200: That's a Cuban soldier standing on a U.S. B-26 in the aftermath of this failed April 1961 operation the Bay of Pigs |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | A CELTIC CATEGORY $400: Celtic independence on the European continent came to an end with this leader's 58 to 51 B.C. conquest of Gaul Julius Caesar |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | R.B.s $200: In 2008 a 6'3", 9,033-pound ball was made using 726,500 of these stretchable office items rubber bands |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | SPELL IT! $400: Spell this Christian group that's often found before "Oats" Q-U-A-K-E-R |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | SELLING "B" $1000: A chef in commercials sings about how his lasagna can't compete with this maker's packaged one Bertolli |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | "B"4 $1200: A thing that ruins or spoils; perhaps it's the this "of your existence" bane |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | BIZ "B"s $200: Its original Irish cream is a blend of Irish whiskey with hints of vanilla & chocolate Bailey's |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $200: It's 404 B.C. & here is our top story: Athens has been forced to accept a humiliating peace treaty with this city-state Sparta |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | "B" WEAR $200: In the U.S. this is a frilly hat for women; in England it refers to the hood of a car a bonnet |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | "B" WEAR $600: Formal functions are sometimes called these 2-word affairs, referring to a piece of men's clothing black tie |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $400: "To Anacreon In Heaven" mentions this rollicking Roman god's vine
(7 letters) B-A-C-C-H-U-S |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | ENGINEERING $200: Built at a cost of more than $200 million, it stretches from Victoria, B.C. to St. John's, Newfoundland the Trans-Canada Highway |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | MIDDLE NAMES $2,400 (Daily Double): A U.S. president: Birchard Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | MY "B*FF" $200: It's the state animal of Kansas & Oklahoma a buffalo |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | GUILDING $1600: Shocking! It's the "B" in the IBEW, a union for electrical workers Brotherhood |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | IT'S ELEMENTAL, MY DEAR $1200: To earn a B.A. in chemistry, you'd better know that Ba is the symbol for this barium |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | THE NUMBER OF YEARS FROM... $400: New Year's Day 5 B.C. to New Year's Day 5 A.D. 9 |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $400: This adjective describes the fear of small places or being closed in claustrophobic |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $1200: Here's looking at you, kid, if you can tell me this name of Morocco's chief seaport and largest city Casablanca |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $1600: It's the state of being away; your heart may grow fonder because of it absence |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO $400: In Egypt in the 2nd millennium B.C., a typical daily laborer's wage included 1 or 2 jugs of this beer |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | "B" IN FASHION $800: It's the French name for a tam beret |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | "B" IN FASHION $1000: This children's shoe brand dates back to a comic strip character with a dog named Tige & sister named Mary Jane Buster Brown |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | THERE'S A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD $600: 10 bucks should get you a replacement head for your Oral-B power this toothbrush |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $200: If Train A leaves Oamaru at 9 a.m. at 70 MPH & Train B leaves Timaru at 1 p.m. going 80, this will still be New Zealand's capital Wellington |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | RAY LaHOOD'S TRANSPO-LOOZA $800: When British Airways mistakenly offered a $40 fare from the U.S. to this subcontinent, the D.O.T. required B.A. to pony up India |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | HISTORICAL YEARBOOK ENTRIES? $600: Rome H.S. football rules! Voted most popular, most likely to cross the Rubicon in 49 B.C. & to have a month named for him Julius Caesar |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | NUMBER WORD PLAY $400: Carl Sagan knew that this number is the first to contain a "B" when spelled out billion |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THOUGHT FOR FOOD $1200: A good source of vitamin C & some B vitamins, it's German for "sour cabbage" sauerkraut |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | A PARIS CHRONOLOGY $400: After its forces put down a revolt led by Vercingetorix, the area came under this empire's control in 52 B.C. Rome |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $200: The opposite of a blockbuster at the box office a bomb |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $800: Slang for a short, written promotional statement a blurb |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | IT'S A TELEGRAM $400: In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille wired from California, "Want authority to rent barn in place called" this "for $75 a month" Hollywood |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | CHIEF JUSTICES $800: Dred Scott's nemesis, he was rejected as an associate in 1835 but a new Senate confirmed him as chief the next year Roger B. Taney |
| #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 |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | NUCLEAR WEAPONS 101 $2,000 (Daily Double): Abbreviated B.R., it's the distance from the point of impact that will be affected when a nuclear explosion occurs blast radius |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $1000: On "Black Thursday" 1943, the U.S. lost 60 of these bombers on a single raid; message: Need escort fighters! B-17 |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | LIFE'S A (MILITARY) CAMPAIGN $200: The 49 B.C. campaign of Ilerda led to victory by this Roman over Pompey's forces Julius Caesar |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | ONE B & 2 D's $400: Check your RPMs on this panel beneath a car's windshield the dashboard |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | ONE B & 2 D's $1600: Prohibited; it precedes "City" in a walled section of Beijing forbidden |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE KILLERS $1000: Pausanius, a young Macedonian noble, killed this man, Alexander's dad, in 336 B.C. Philip |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | TAKE THE FIFTH $1000: You get a B if you know it's the fifth element on the periodic table boron |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | STARTING A LEGAL HOME BUSINESS $200: You might want to start with the S.B.A., this government administration Small Business Administration |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | WE GO WAY BACK $400: Between 770 & 476 B.C., a time of struggle is called the Spring & Autumn Period in this Asian country's history China |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | SCIENCE GUYS $1,600 (Daily Double): Born a slave in Missouri, this scientist received a B.S. in Agriculture from Iowa State in 1894 George Washington Carver |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $800: Future geneticist J.B.S. Haldane began research in his teens on his sister's 300 of these rodents guinea pigs |
| #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 |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $600: Ship's officer who summons the crew with a whistle a boatswain |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | A PERFORMER'S EDUCATION $800: Maybe it was while earning a B.A. at Yale that he learned the rules of "Fight Club" Edward Norton |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $1000: John Osborne's
"L.B.I.A." Look Back in Anger |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | INSIDE A B-17 $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from outside a B-17.) One of the B-17's key targets was Schweinfurt, a manufacturing center for BBs, not air rifle pellets, but these round items vital to the German war effort ball bearings |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | A MUSICAL PASTICHE $1000: Of classical music's "three B's", the one born in Hamburg in 1833 Johannes Brahms |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $600: From the Latin for "to come round", it's what you do when you want to avoid something circumvent |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | IT'S THE 26th $1600: Little is known about this 26th century B.C. ruler, but his fame was assured by the tomb he built, the Great Pyramid Cheops (or Khufu) |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | SHAKESPEARE'S B-STORIES $400: Bottom arrives, prepared to lead Quince, Flute & Snout on stage A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $800: On Nov. 18, 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for doing this; she refused to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty" voting |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $200: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! $600: It's seen here in a photo but is not meant to be seen on radar--that would defeat the purpose a B-2 |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | THAT'S HISTORIC $400: Following a military victory in 34 B.C., she dressed up as Isis & he dressed up as Dionysus Mark Antony & Cleopatra |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $800: Tradition says this "great" rival of Julius Caesar founded a colony in Pamplona in 75 B.C.; the city's name honors him Pompey (the Great) |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | LET'S GET I.T. ON $800: This programming language isn't a little worse than "B minus"; it's a 1980s improvement of a language called "Combined" C++ |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | BE A SPORT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates some hockey strategies on a monitor) In ice hockey, player A's shot is legal; player B's shot crosses two red lines, which is this infraction icing |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) If side a equals 3 & side B equals 4, it's the length of side C 5 |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $400: In 1901 C.A. Yont & W.B. Felker became the first to drive a car to the top of this Colorado peak Pike's Peak |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | "B" FORE & AFTER $600: Place to enjoy a pint of the local brewpub |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | AS A YOUNG MAN $1200: …in the 1300s B.C. he made Thebes Egypt's capital & changed his name to honor Amon Tutankhamon |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | MAYBE WE'LL INVADE BRITAIN! $600: A Brit named Cassivellaunus opposed this Roman's invasion in the 50s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | THE SECRET LIFE OF "B"s $1200: Used as fodder, mangold is a type of this purplish root vegetable beets |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | GOOD BUY! $200: In January 2006 a single B-share of this Omahan's Berkshire Hathaway was $2,952; by Oct. 2008 it was $4,650 Warren Buffett |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1,600 (Daily Double): (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) I direct a research institute at Harvard University named for this author of "The Souls of Black Folk", black America's leading public intellectual through most of his long life, 1868-1963 W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | "B" PREPARED $800: In journalism, when a reporter gets her name on a story, it's called this a by-line |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | "B" PREPARED $2000: It's a musical note equal in length to 2 whole notes a breve |
| #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 |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) If a line's slope equals 3, "X" equals 1 & "B" equals 1, then "Y" equals this 4 |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | A LITTLE "B" BOP $600: On a bottle of champagne, this word indicates that it's very dry; how savage! brut |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | A LITTLE "B" BOP $1000: Established in Alberta in 1885, it's Canada's oldest national park Banff |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "B-U-T" FULL $200: For a U.S. Navy captain in full dress in 1802, they were "yellow metal, with... anchor and the American Eagle" buttons |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: His bark is worse than his bite except in the case of this barkless African dog B-A-S-E-N-J-I |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | SEND IN THE CLOWNS $800: In Cecil B. Demille's "The Greatest Show on Earth", he plays Buttons, a clown who was once a surgeon Jimmy Stewart |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The son of Suddhodana, a wealthy ruler, he was born in what's now Nepal around 563 B.C. Buddha |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | THE "B" LIST $1600: It's a hooded cloak worn by Arab & Berber men a burnous |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LETTER-HEADS $800: Originally made to accompany the main feature on a double bill, today it's any quickly made low-budget film a B movie |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $800: In 413 B.C. a Corinth/Syracuse fleet defeated this city's navy, & so left all the Greeks vulnerable Athens |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | B FOLLOWS A $600: As a noun, it's a mop used to clean a ship's deck; as a verb, it's what you do with the mop swab |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | B FOLLOWS A $800: It's an outline of what material will be covered in a college course a syllabus |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | IN "B"ETWEEN $1000: From the Latin for "shake", it's a synonym for earthquake a temblor |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | MIDDLE "C" $400: It's the "B" in a BLT bacon |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | SPELLING "B" $1000: A Marxist adjective for the middle class B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | SPACED OUT $1600: A telescope atop a 17-story building on an Arizona mountain is called the LBT; the "B" is this, meaning "using 2 eyes" binocular |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $1600: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | "B" PLUS $200: The alpha factor measures a stock's own volatility; this Greek letter compares it to the entire market beta |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | "B" PLUS $600: It's what Papa had in a 1965 James Brown hit "A Brand New Bag" |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | "B" SHARP $1200: From the Italian for "jest", it's a clown or a fool a buffoon |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | GET YOUR "B.A." $1200: It's the specialty of Kat Von D's seen here a body artist |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | SENIOR YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): Once featured on a U.S. coin, she was past 80 when she founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Susan B. Anthony |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | "B" YOUR BEST $200: Yes, Bubbe, it's a headscarf worn by Russian women, or a term for a Russian grandmother a babushka |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | A SPELLING PRODUCTION $400: From the Greek for "vein", it's the inflammation of a vein P-H-L-E-B-I-T-I-S |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | CLINT EASTWOOD: A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD $2000: Clint has won 2 Oscars for directing & in 1995 got this memorial award from the Academy the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | THE "BAY" STATE $200: It's the compartment where a B-52's ordnance is carried & from which it's dropped the bomb bay |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | THE COURAGE TO "B" $400: A submarine's home port, or the place where a runner is safe during a game base |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | THE COURAGE TO "B" $2000: This Asian capital city's Grand Palace houses the Emerald Buddha, which sits on a gilded wood throne Bangkok |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | SPELLING "BE" $1600: A doughnut-like treat from New Orleans' Cafe du Monde B-E-I-G-N-E-T |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | "B" SHARP $400: Snoopy's breed a beagle |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Chopin's funeral march is in B flat this, a group of keys used to depict sadness minor |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $800: In Shakespeare's "Richard III" the title character opens the play by saying, "Now is the winter of our" this discontent |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | "B" HAPPY $2000: It sounds like a gun manufacturer, & it's the name for the stiff hat worn by Catholic bishops & cardinals biretta |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HAM LIT $800: Seen here as a U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring this character created by E.B. White in 1952 Wilbur |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $2000: It's what the pessimist's blood type was O-negative (A-negative, B-negative, AB-negative also acceptable) |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | BIBLICAL WARRIORS $800: Joab was this Israelite king's successful commander when he conquered Jerusalem around 1000 B.C. David |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | LOU D.O.B.s $600: February 18, 1848,
New York City:
The piece seen here is a creation of this opalescent glass pioneer Tiffany |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | LET'S LEARN HEBREW $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives us a Hebrew lesson.) In Hebrew, prefixes can be used as prepositions; "reshit" means "beginning", & "b'reshit" means this familliar phrase in the beginning |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $2000: Mr. Bumble's occupation in "Oliver Twist"
(6) beadle |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | MOVIE PREMIERES $2,000 (Daily Double): The premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's "Union Pacific" was a 3-day costume spectacle in this city where the U.P. railroad began Omaha, Nebraska |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME $2,000 (Daily Double): Famous for his B&W images used in psychology, as a youth he was named "Kleck", German for "inkblot" (Hermann) Rorschach |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1200: It's an Italian appetizer of toasted bread, garlic & olive oil, often topped with chopped tomatoes B-R-U-S-C-H-E-T-T-A |
| #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 |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | "B"s $1200: This type of immunization is used to renew or maintain the effects of a previous one a booster |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | "B"s $1600: In the 1800s John Farrar was one of the first to move teeth in slow increments using a mechanism that evolved into these braces |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | "B" PLUS $400: It's one over par on a hole of golf, sweetheart a bogey |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $600: This author of "Humboldt's Gift" received the gift of a Guggenheim fellowship (Saul) Bellow |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LIVING LYRICS $1000: "Underground like a wild potato", The B-52's were living here (In my own) "Private Idaho" |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | NUMBER TRIVIA $1200: Counting up from one, it's the first number that contains a "B" one billion |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | ON BROADWAY $800: Angela Lansbury returned to B'way in 2007 as a former champion in this sport in Terrence McNally's "Deuce" tennis |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | SILENT B $800: This fleshy growth atop a chicken's head comes in shapes such as buttercup & pea comb |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | M*A*S*H $1200: After Trapper John was transferred stateside, this California-born surgeon replaced him B.J. Hunnicutt |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | WITCHCRAFT $1,400 (Daily Double): Title of a B'way play & also a Jimmy Stewart film, these 3 items are part of a Catholic rite concerning witches bell, book & candle |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | OH, "MAN"! $1600: Leonardo's "Proportions of Man" is also called this, after a 1st century B.C. architect Vitruvian Man |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | LITERATURE $400: E.B. White spun this tale about a spider & a pig Charlotte's Web |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | THE HEEBEE "G.B."s $1600: Entomological title of a Poe Story The Gold Bug |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2006 $1000: Under "B" you'll find this 9-letter word for a renewable fuel made from vegetable sources like soybean oil biodiesel |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | ASTRONOMY $1600: Named for an astronomer, this dark "division" that separates Saturn's A & B rings is 2,920 miles wide Cassini Division |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "B" IN FASHION $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1970s it was named Arizona's official state neckwear a bolo tie (or bola tie) |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | MUSIC $2000: "Let's Groove" with this R&B group that had a hit with "Shining Star" Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | RELAX, IT'S MY TREATY $400: A 40 B.C. treaty called for Mark Antony to marry the sister of this Roman, the future Emperor Augustus Octavius |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | "B" PREPARED $800: This U.S. government department is abbreviated B.I.A. the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| #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 |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE $800: In 338 B.C. at age 18, he commanded the cavalry in his father's army in the Battle of Chaeronea in Macedonia Alexander the Great |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The first one of these tombs was built about 2650 B.C. by Imhotep for King Zoser & rose about 200 feet using steps a pyramid (the pyramids accepted) |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | ADD AN ELEMENT SYMBOL $800: Add the symbol of this element to the letters "B-R-I-D-E-S" & you get a Scottish island group helium (He) |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | WHAT'S URSINE? $600: In song, this American folk hero "kilt him a b'ar when he was only three" Davy Crockett |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THREE ON A MATCH $800: The 3 B's of classical music Bach, Brahms & Beethoven |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TUNNELS $800: Also a style of staircase, it's the type of tunnel built in B.C.'s Yoho National Park to solve the problem of a steep grade spiral |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | A, B OR C $800: A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol A |
| #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 |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | "B-I" $1200: It's a person who loves or collects books a bibliophile |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | RAY CHARLES & FRIENDS $1000: This legendary blues guitarist joined brother Ray for a "Sinner's Prayer" B.B. King |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | "B" IN FASHION $200: During the 1992 L.A. riots, one of these worn by Madonna in a video was stolen from Frederick's of Hollywood a bustier |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | "B" IN FASHION $800: This short jacket worn open in the front is perfect for listening to Ravel's music of the same name a bolero |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: This term that means an ambusher & also inlcudes "B-U-S-H" gets that meaning from Civil War guerrillas a bushwhacker |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | CLASSICAL CLASSICS $1200: In 1881, on receiving a doctorate, this last of the "3 B's" composed the "Academic Festival Overture" Johannes Brahms |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | "B" BOYS $600: This musician's works include the song "A Pirate Looks At 40" & the book "A Pirate Looks at 50" Jimmy Buffett |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | BE B.C. $1,800 (Daily Double): This "great" guy got a gig as governor of Galilee in 47 B.C.; a few years later, he was king of Judea Herod the Great |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | J.S. BACH & SONS $400: Lesser-known son J.G.B. followed Dad as a virtuoso on this instrument & played it at Muhlhausen's Marienkirche the organ |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | SCRABBLE 50-POINT BONUSES $800: E, W, S, B, O, 2 Rs:
A website access tool browser |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | NAME THAT TUNE $1000: The B-52's:
"I got me a car, it's as big as a whale... and it's about to set sail!" "Love Shack" |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | SCRABBLE 50-POINT BONUSES $1200: 2 As, R, B, S, D, N:
An underwater ridge in a river sandbar |
| #4877, aired 2005-11-22 | SCULPTORS $2000: This Greek's "Aphrodite of Cnidus" from 350 B.C. was the first classical portrayal of a nude goddess Praxiteles |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $400: 1st used in police work by Berkeley, Ca.'s chief August Vollmer in the 1920s, this tool measures pulse, B.P. & respiration a lie detector |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the theory that the universe was created in a cosmic explosion the big bang theory |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | SILENT "P" $1600: A general in Alexander's army, he became king of Egypt in 305 B.C. Ptolemy |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | INSPIRED SONGS $600: This male rapper's song "I'll Be Missing You" was a tribute to the Notorious B.I.G. Puff Daddy |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $2000: The surrender of this British general's forces at Saratoga in 1777 helped bring France into the war as a U.S. ally Burgoyne |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | RELIGION $800: It can be any person who's reached Nirvana, or a specific one of the 6th century B.C. buddha |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays a card game with Sarah.) We've gone through the flop & turn cards of this geographic game; now it's time for the river card Texas hold 'em |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $1000: Photographer Robert Frank documented the people of the U.S. in a '50s book with this simple title The Americans |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | IN A "B" COUNTRY $400: This Himalayan kingdom's Ngultrum currency features 2 dragons facing each other Bhutan |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | IN A "B" COUNTRY $800: It's retained closer ties to Russia than any other former Soviet Republic Belarus |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | IN A "B" COUNTRY $1200: It's surrounded on 3 sides by Malaysia Brunei |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | KIDDIE LIT $400: Louis, a mute trumpeter swan in E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan", was named for this musician Armstrong |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | BEN, BENJAMIN OR JUST PLAIN B $1000: It follows "Agnes" in the name of a boutique whose first U.S. store opened in 1981 B |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Name of the woman who became a widow on the Ides of March, 44 B.C. Calpurnia |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | THE "B.G."s $400: A U.S. Army "one star" a Brigadier General |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | THE "B.G."s $600: As teens, he & Paul Allen ran Traf-O-Data, a company that used a computer to analyze traffic patterns Bill Gates |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | DEEP VOICES $1200: This artist heard here got Grammy nominations in pop, jazz & R&B as well as a children's category
"You'll never find /
Another love like mine..." Lou Rawls |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE! $2000: In 1990 a color remake was produced of this director's 1968 B&W zombie classic "Night of the Living Dead" George Romero |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | A, B, C $1200: It's the symbol for the letter A in braille a dot |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | PUT OUT THE CHINA $1200: In 87 B.C. the Chinese recorded an astronomical phenomenon that scientists think was this, also seen in 1607 A.D. Halley's Comet |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | "B" BRAVE $800: From the Latin for a type of hawk, it's the word commonly applied in the U.S. to a turkey vulture a buzzard |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $1000: (Hi. I'm Keith Olberman.) I started when I was 16 and I graduated at 20 with a B.S. in communications at this Ivy League school in Ithaca Cornell |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $200: …that means of secondary importance:
A. ancillary
B. fiduciary
C. habilimentary
D. pecuniary ancillary |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $400: …that means to perplex:
A. acrimonious
B. congruous
C. nonplus
D. tremulous nonplus |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $600: …that means face up:
A. prostrate
B. prone
C. supine
D. incline supine |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $800: …that means verbal abuse:
A. abrogation
B. cogitation
C. sinistration
D. vituperation vituperation |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $1000: …that means not sincere:
A. dissentious
B. disputatious
C. disingenuous
D. discommodious disingenuous |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | GET A DEGREE $200: If you want a life in the theatre, perhaps you should get a B.F.A. degree, B.F.A. standing for this Bachelor's of Fine Arts |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | GET A DEGREE $600: It's the degree you hold if your mom introduces you as "my son, the M.B.A." a Masters of Business Administration |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | GET A DEGREE $1000: Check it out! B.L.S. is a bachelor of this library science |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | "B"EOPLE $800: Seen here, he's a Delaware Democrat & the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joe Biden |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1,000 (Daily Double): This country that's named for a South American hero lies on Peru's eastern border Bolivia |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | ENDS IN "GHT" $5,400 (Daily Double): Samuel F.B. Morse could have told you that it's a past tense & a past participle of work wrought |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B benedictine |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was a demon's name & mentioned in "King Lear" flibbertigibbet |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | "B"EGINNINGS $1200: It's a synonym for width breadth |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | "B"EGINNINGS $1600: It's unglazed china or a thick, cream soup with shellfish a bisque |
| #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 |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | WELL, I'LL "B" $1000: Several James Bond movies feature this diabolical leader of SPECTRE caressing a white Persian cat Blofeld |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! $200: B.I.O.N., Texan David Pay has written over 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this! rice |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! $600: B.I.O.N., every year a Filipino village recreates this event of around 30 A.D. using nails the crucifixion |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! $800: B.I.O.N., because he believes it's possessed by his dead fiancee, a man married one of these dolls! a Barbie doll |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! $1000: B.I.O.N., a 3-year old Ugandan boy was adopted & raised for 4 years by a colony of these human-like apes! chimps |
| #4515, aired 2004-04-02 | W TO W $600: It's a device you can use to move your load of garden dirt from point A to point B wheelbarrow |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS $600: It's said of No. 3, "His string-bending & vibrato made his famous guitar, Lucille, weep like a real-life woman" B.B. King |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | SPELL THAT GOVERNOR $2000: Of Maine, a distant relative of bestselling thriller author David, he's John... B-A-L-D-A-C-C-I |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | ANCIENT ROMANS $200: A party of this leader's so-called friends conspired to kill him, & did, in March 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | FILE UNDER "C" $1600: He's given us a lot to fill a "B.S." category: "Bitter Sweet", "Blithe Spirit"... (Noel) Coward |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | "B" PLUS $400: A U.S. Army brigade can be made up of a headquarters & 3 or more of these units a battalion |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAME SPELLING $800: Lyndon Johnson B-A-I-N-E-S |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | PLAYING DOCTOR $800: In 1975 he joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" as B.J. Hunnicut, a gifted surgeon & practical joker Mike Farrell |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party Republican |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | 1980 $1000: Due to their unpopularity the U.S. Mint stopped making them, temporarily, less than a year after their introduction the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | LET IT "B" $200: The name of this woman's undergarment is from the Old French for "armor for the arms" a brassiere |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | PAPERBACK WRITER $600: This E.B. White book about an arachnid has long been a bestselling children's paperback Charlotte's Web |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | LET IT "B" $800: From Middle English for "attack", it's whining or arguing in a bad-tempered way bickering |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | A "LITTLE" LIT $800: The mousy hero of this E.B. White book leaves home to search for the bird who's his dearest friend Stuart Little |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | ADD A LETTER $600: It's what you add to row to get the front part of a boat P |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | INVENTIVE MINDS $400: In the 1930s inventive minds at Warner's introduced the A, B, C & D cup sizes for these bras |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | "S.B." $200: In the 1600s a group of monks in the Alps developed this dog breed Saint Bernard |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | "S.B." $400: It's said that a werewolf can be killed with one of these silver bullet |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | "S.B." $600: Montecito is a suburb of this city, called "The Queen of the California Missions" Santa Barbara |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | "S.B." $800: White wine produced from this grape is often said to have a grassy, herbaceous aroma & flavor sauvignon blanc |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | "S.B." $1000: (Hi, I'm Barbara Mandrell.) I had a reoccurring role as Alex Mitchum on this Aaron Spelling daytime drama Sunset Beach |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: Susan B. Anthony Day is the day after this federal holiday Valentine's Day |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | ASTRONOMY'S GREATEST HITS $600: Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer Halley's Comet |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | FERTILE "I"s $200: Composed around 700 B.C., it recounts a war fought over the abduction of a famous beauty "The Iliad" |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | SOMEWHERE, B.C. $400: A World's Fair opened in this British Columbia city in May 1986 to great fanfare & a fainting spell by Princess Diana Vancouver |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | "B-L-T" $400: It's the cry of a sheep or goat bleat |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | REESE'S PIECES $1200: In this 1998 film Reese helps bring color to the lives of characters in a 1950s B&W TV sitcom Pleasantville |
| #4246, aired 2003-02-03 | U.S. COINS $1000: A study done in 1978 found people hated this coin even before it was issued; it looked too much like a quarter the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | THAT'S A LOAD OF GARBAGE $1200: The first known law against throwing your garbage in the street was issued around 500 B.C. in this Greek city Athens |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "L.B."s $600: Herbie, the endearing Volkswagen in a classic Disney film The Love Bug |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | BIOLOGY TEST $600: A Venus's Flytrap is considered:
(A) aluminous
(B) bigamous
(C) carnivorous
(D) decamerous carnivorous |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | THE "B.G."s $200: A small piano about 5 feet long baby grand |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | THE "B.G."s $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) It's a visual method for comparing numbers bar graph |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | THE "B.G."s $1000: A naval force made up of an aircraft carrier & support vessels battle group |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | THE COURAGE TO "B" $1200: Paul could tell you it's defined as a swelling of the joint between the big toe & the first metatarsal bunion |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $800: This word isn't in the Constitution's First Amendment:
A. press
B. redress
C. compress
D. establishment C. compress |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN $1000: "Freddie's Dead" & sadly, so is this R&B singer & producer who made the song a hit in 1972 Curtis Mayfield |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | PLANE & SIMPLE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside an airplane at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.) It's the alphanumeric designation of this type of plane, which made history on August 6, 1945 B-29 (the one that carried the atomic bomb) |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | SO LONG $400: Egypt's Old Kingdom, which lasted from about 2680 to 2180 B.C., is also called the "Age" of this type of structure a pyramid |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | BICYCLE REPAIRMAN $400: B.R.'s uniform features a jersey of this color, like the leader in the Tour de France yellow |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | BICYCLE REPAIRMAN $1000: B.R.'s been repairing bikes since he had to fix a banana seat on one of this company's Sting-Rays as a kid Schwinn |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | WEATHER SUPERLATIVES $2000: Arica, Chile in this desert may be the driest place on Earth; it had an annual rainfall of only .03'' during a 59-year period the Atacama |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE $2000: After Trapper John left, this doctor became Hawkeye's new co-conspirator B.J. Hunnicutt |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | JERUSALEM $1200: In 168 B.C. Syrian Antiochus IV destroyed much of the city, causing a revolt under this man's leadership Judah the Maccabee |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | "B" SHARP $2,200 (Daily Double): From the Italian for "jest", it's a clown or a fool a buffoon |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $1200: Jimmy Stewart plays Buttons the Clown (a surgeon in disguise!) in this 1952 De Mille circus epic The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew peruses a model train hobbyist's fantasy setup.) If train "A" leaves at 3:00 at 60 mph, & train "B" leaves at 5:00 at 90 mph, this equation, d=rt, tells you when B passes A distance equals rate times time |
| #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 |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | "B.S." $400: "Don't have a cow, man" is one of his expressions Bart Simpson |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | "B.S." $800: Used in the 1940s & '50s, this was slang for a teenage girl bobby-sox |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A BOY! $200: This "boy king" who reigned from 1333 to 1323 B.C. was in the news again in 1922 King Tut |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $800: The Horn's Grinde is a peak in the northern part of this "dark" German region the Black Forest |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1600: In 1822 a Portuguese prince declared this South American country's independence Brazil |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | "B" YOUR BEST $800: Yes, Bubi, it's a headscarf worn by Russian women or a term for a Russian grandmother babushka |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | IT'S A TOUGH WORLD $5,000 (Daily Double): The first nation of this name existed c. 650 B.C.; the latest declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 Macedonia |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | SPELLING BEE $600: It's the country formerly known as Rhodesia Z-I-M-B-A-B-W-E |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS $400: Train A goes only 20 mph & B goes 30; this U.S. national rail corp. will have to fix them Amtrak |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS $600: Flighty is to capricious as flimsy is to:
A. indefatigable
B. insubstantial
C. interfascicular B (insubstantial) |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS $800: Asia's 1900 Boxer Uprising was a movement to: A) win Olympic gold; B) unionize; C) get rid of foreigners get rid of foreigners |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS $1000: Of A) codicil; B) uracil; C) Clearasil, it's a base contained in RNA uracil |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | HISTORICAL COLLECT CALL FROM... $1000: It's appropriate this president would be calling; in the 1870s he was the first to use a telephone in the the White House Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | MUSIC FOR YOUR FISH $800: This B-52's song says, "There goes a dogfish chased by a catfish... watch out for that piranha!" "Rock Lobster" |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | "B" CAREFUL $400: (Cheryl & Sofia of the Clue Crew outside at a carnival.) It's the common name for
the treat being enjoyed here bubble gum |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | "B" ON THE LOOKOUT $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew climbs a rock-climbing wall.) As a noun, it's a large rock; as a rock-climbing verb, it means to take an easy route close to the ground boulder |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | DOC TALK $400: A complaint of S.O.B. means shortness of this breath |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | "B"EAUTIFUL $400: It's a road around a town, or an operation to reroute blood bypass |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | "B"EAUTIFUL $1000: (A Renaissance artist, or the intellectual game Cheryl & Jimmy are playing)
Cheryl: P.
Jimmy: Is it the founder of a colony?
Cheryl: No, it's not William Penn. Botticelli |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: "Lucille"-strumming blues guitarist who reigned as a boy king of Egypt B.B. King Tut |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | WHERE THE "BOY"s ARE? $600: It's the title of the 1941 hit song heard here
"He was a top man at his craft /
But then his number came up /
And he was gone with the draft /
He's in the Army now /
A-blowin’ reveille..." "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)" |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: R&B group that had a hit with "Celebration" & included Mao's third wife to implement harsh policies Kool And The Gang Of Four |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | U.S. MONEY $200: Minted from 1979 to 1981, the coin featuring her was the first depicting a real woman that went into general circulation Susan B. Anthony |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | GOOD DOG! $200: Dogs in B.A.R.K. (Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps) fetch homers hit from this team's park into San Francisco Bay San Francisco Giants |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | DRAMA & DRAMATISTS $200: As a music critic, this playwright signed his essays first as "Corno di Bassetto", then as "G.B.S." George Bernard Shaw |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | U.S. COINS $300: The 1909-S V.D.B. version of this coin is a grail to collectors; just watch out for counterfeits Lincoln head penny |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | B-BOYS $400: "M*A*S*H"'s Radar O'Reilly Gary Burghoff |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | SLIPPERY "ROCK" $400: It's the aquatic crustacean found in the title of a 1978 song by the B-52's rock lobster |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | IT'S A MYSTERY $200: Under the name Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson created this hero who could cloud men's minds The Shadow |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | "B.B."s $600: He had over 2,700 career hits but is often remembered for missing a grounder in the 1986 World Series Bill Buckner |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | "B.B."s $1,200 (Daily Double): A 19th century landfill project created this Boston neighborhood Back Bay |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | CHEMISTRY $200: It's the smallest unit of a substance that shows all the chemical properties of that substance Molecule |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | DECOR $300: Inserted in a window, it's meant to be seen through; as a room partition, it's not Screen |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | U.S.A. $1,000 (Daily Double): The racetrack, Giants Stadium & the Continental Airlines Arena form this complex The Meadowlands |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $400: A peace officer having minor judicial functions, usually in a small town C-O-N-S-T-A-B-L-E |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $500: In football it's a substitute offensive play called by the quarterback as an adjustment to a defense A-U-D-I-B-L-E |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: This Lake poet's autobiographical poem "The Prelude, or, Growth of A Poet's Mind" was published in 1850, after his death William Wordsworth |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | R&B $400: The title cut from Aretha Franklin's "A Rose Is Still A Rose" album was written & produced by this Fugees phenom Lauryn Hill |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | KIDDY LIT $400: This "Soul Provider" singer made his debut as a children's book author with 1997's "The Secret of the Lost Kingdom" Michael Bolton |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | HORSEY WORDS $500: Steadfast, or unchanging, like a patient's condition Stable |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | TURKEY, THE BIRD $300: A male turkey's snood hangs directly over this part of its body Beak/nose |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE TWELVE $200: In Leonardo's "Last Supper", he's just sitting there quietly, holding a purse Judas |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He was born on a farm near the Pedernales River on August 27, 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | "B.B."s $200: A "vein" aristocrat may think of himself as one of these a blue blood |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | "B.B."s $600: "Infantile" African animal seen here a bush baby |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | "B.B."s $800: An expression meaning "Just like that!", or a bar where TV's "The Sopranos" conduct business Bada Bing |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | CELEBRITIES $400: This female TV "Friend" has a B.S. in biology from Vassar College -- who knew? Lisa Kudrow |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | CELEBRITIES $600 (Daily Double): This actor is the son of a British poet laureate & the son-in-law of playwright Arthur Miller Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $600: Around 334 B.C. this Macedonian's stater became a world currency Alexander the Great |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Souls of Black Folk" is seen here on a U.S. stamp W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | COOKIES $300: The Cookies had a Top 10 R&B hit with "In Paradise"; they later became the Raelettes, this singer's backup group Ray Charles |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MY MAINE MAN $400: After moving to a farm in North Brooklyn, Maine, he spun such tales as "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | ANTEBELLUM $200: It's how you'll feel at Louisiana's Bienvenue House, a circa 1830 B&B, or what the name of the house means welcome |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILE UNDER "B" $100: It's a British bottom or an American tramp Bum |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILE UNDER "B" $500: From the Latin for "projecting", it's a rich silk cloth with a raised pattern in gold or silver Brocade |
| #3592, aired 2000-03-28 | DOTS NICE $200: In Braille, 1 dot represents "A"; in Morse code, 1 dot represents this letter E |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | A LOSING BATTLE $100: At Dyrrhachium in 48 B.C., Pompey handed this Roman one of his few defeats Julius Caesar |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | CLOTH & FABRICS $200: It's a sheer, fluffy silk fabric for blouses, or a fluffy type of pie Chiffon |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | NEW YORK LANDMARKS $1000: Manhattan's oldest church, this chapel shares its name with a famous London cathedral St. Paul's |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | "B.S." $100: A popular 1940s style of ankle covering, or stockings for Robert Bobby sox |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | "B.S." $200: A disreputable member of a family is known by this "woolly" term Black sheep |
| #3554, aired 2000-02-03 | "B"ELIEVE IT OR NOT $400: From the Old English for "signal", it's a flashing light to guide or warn ships Beacon |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $600: Making quiche? To test the freshness of this ingredient, put it in a bowl of water -- if it floats, it's rotten Egg |
| #3483, aired 1999-10-27 | WATER $500: From Dutch for "salt", it's a term used of standing water with a salty, unpleasant taste Brackish |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | MR. & MISSIVE $800: In a 1980s letter this Soviet leader said Samantha Smith reminded him of "Becky, Tom Sawyer's friend" Yuri Andropov |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | PRIME NUMBERS $500: Boeing's answer in the early 1960s to the Douglas DC-9; it's good for medium hauls 727 |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | THE "W.B." $200: It's worn by a novice in judo or karate White belt |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | KIDDIE LIT CHARACTERS $400: He's the E.B. White character seen here Stuart Little |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | POTENT POTABLES $500: In the name of a brand of scotch, it's what J&B stands for Justerini & Brooks |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: He tells you all about Fern, Wilbur & a certain spider when he reads his own "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | FROM A TO B $600: Only 3 letters long, it's a long white robe worn by priests an alb |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | FROM A TO B $1000: Sweetie, darling, it's the nickname of that British series featuring Edina & Patsy Ab Fab |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | PLAYING AGAINST TYPE $200: She was merry poppin' out of her shirt in "S.O.B.", a film directed by her husband Julie Andrews |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | STATE CAPITALS $100: In 1955 Martin Luther King, Jr. led a boycott of this Alabama capital's segregated bus system Montgomery |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | A WOMAN SCORNED $800: This lyricist was devastated in 1969 when her husband left her for Mia Farrow Dory Previn |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $500: Punctures grounded the Garfield one of these in the 1998 Macy's parade N-O-O-L-L-A-B |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | TROUBLE $500: In 1797 3 French agents later known by these 3 letters asked U.S. trade representatives for a bribe "X", "Y" & "Z" |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | B.C. TIMES $200: Ancient miners using one of these to filter out gold may have inspired the object of Jason's quest a fleece |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $200: In a 1976 Playboy interview, Jimmy Carter said he'd committed this in his heart many times adultery |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $400: Ring in & tell me this correct name for a young swan cygnet |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $600: They're the 2 words describing lenses that curve outward or inward concave & convex |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $800: From 1672 to 1858 this city was the headquarters of the British East India Company Bombay |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $1000: The name of this German publisher has become synonymous with a guidebook Karl Baedeker |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | SPELLBOUND $200: It's what the "B" in FBI stands for B-U-R-E-A-U |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | TV STARS $1,600 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Renee Jones from Days of Our Lives.) Before he was B.J. Hunnicutt on "M*A*S*H", this actor played Scott Banning on "Days of Our Lives" Mike Farrell |
| #3287, aired 1998-12-15 | WAR PLANES $300: First flown in 1952, this bomber was built to meet U.S. nuclear strategic needs the B-52 |
| #3287, aired 1998-12-15 | WAR PLANES $500: It's the American bomber seen here during a '40s atomic bomb test run a B-29 |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $500: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | U.S. STAMPS $600: Her portrait appeared on a 1936 stamp above the caption "Suffrage For Women" Susan B. Anthony |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Legendary "Lucille" guitarist seen on FOX's animated series about a Texas family "B.B. King Of The Hill" |
| #3205, aired 1998-07-03 | SPELLING $600: Bra is the common abbreviaion for this item of clothing which is harder to spell B-R-A-S-S-I-E-R-E |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | VILIFICATION $400: Dorothy Parker's comment on this actress, "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B", was a joke Katharine Hepburn |
| #3188, aired 1998-06-10 | THE GREAT ABBA $400: Agnetha & Anni-Frid are the A's, & they are the B's in the group's name Benny & Bjorn |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | ROCK ARTISTS $200: B.B. King made a guest appearance on this Irish group's "Rattle And Hum" album U2 |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $700 (Daily Double): The title of this John Dos Passos trilogy has only 3 letters "U.S.A." |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: She's also the voice of Marge Simpson's sisters, Patty & Selma; they sound a lot like Marge Julie Kavner |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | A "B" CITY $100: You can cross this city's Francis Scott Key Bridge by the dawn's early light Baltimore |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | A "B" CITY $300: Aurelia Aquensis in ancient times, you may want to take a "double" dip in this German city's baths Baden-Baden |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | A "B" CITY $400: Its first name was F‑E‑L‑S‑I‑N‑A, not O‑S‑C‑A‑R Bologna |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | A "B" CITY $500: The center of the Czech Republic's wool industry, it looks like it needs to buy a vowel Brno |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | ON ST. PADDY'S DAY $500: The first of these office machines by A.B. Dick
went on sale
March 17, 1887 March 17, 1887 a mimeograph |
| #3110, aired 1998-02-20 | G.B. SHAW PLAYS $400: John & Ann in "Man And Superman" were inspired by characters in this composer's "Don Giovanni" W.A. Mozart |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | DOUBLE "B"s $100: Talk "turkey", or wolf down a lot of turkey Gobble |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | DOUBLE "B"s $300: A crusty old bootmaker, or a crusty old fruit dessert Cobbler |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | DOUBLE "B"s $400: A "rouser" may rouse this low class of people Rabble |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | "B" IN BIOLOGY $100: This layer of fat helps maintain a whale's body temperature at 93-99 F., & that's nothing to cry over Blubber |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $500: A dozen U.S. counties are named for this 19th century politician, a "Little Giant" indeed (Stephen) Douglas |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | "B"s DO IT $600: On trains they assist conductors; on bobsleds their main duty is slowing things down brakemen |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | "B"s DO IT $1000: In a symphony orchestra, these speed reeders sit next to the clarinetists bassoons |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | SLEEP $500: From Latin for "about a day", it's the term for one's rhythm of sleeping & waking Circadian rhythms |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $200: Title of Newhart's third sitcom Bob |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $600: A tell-all book might have this kind of short publicity notice on its cover Blurb |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $800: A cutting remark, or a part of a feather Barb |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | HAMMERS $400: A 1st century B.C. maxim of Publilius Syrus says it's when you should hammer your iron When it's hot |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | B SILENT $1000: It's a small elevator used to move items between floors of an apartment building dumbwaiter |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | THE SMITHSONIAN $400: Now a treasured term, this nickname began as a put-down about its load of junk "The Nation's Attic" |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | BALLET $200: This niece of Cecil B. De Mille choreographed a ballet based on John Ford's classic film "The Informer" Agnes De Mille |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $400: Martin Scorsese earned a B.S. & an M.A. from this Manhattan university's film school, & also taught there NYU (New York University) |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | FUN FACTS $800: It's the total number of dots on a pair of dice 42 |
| #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 |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | CHILDRENS LITERATURE $400: While living on a Maine farm, he wrote "Charlotte's Web", which is set on a farm E.B. White |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | WHERE'S THE FIRE? $200: When buying one of these, look for one that puts out A, B & C classes of fire a fire extinguisher |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $100: A former Socialist, he formed the anti-Communist Fascist Party in 1919 Benito Mussolini |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | TAKE A LETTER $500: It's the seventh tone in a C-major scale B |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | EDGAR ALLAN POE $200: A 1949 book on Poe's life & works had an introduction by this psychoanalyst who died in 1939 Sigmund Freud |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | ROCK MUSIC GEOGRAPHY $400: Georgia college town that gave us R.E.M. & the B-52's Athens (home of the Univ. of Georgia) |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | TRAVEL CANADA $300: Victoria, B.C. boasts a replica of the famous thatched cottage of this woman, Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It's one's partner in crime Accomplice |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Lionel Hampton's instrument Vibraphone |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | MUSEUMS $400: The world's largest Jewish service organization, its headquarters in Washington house a Jewish museum B'nai B'rith |
| #2873, aired 1997-02-12 | PERIODICALS $600: To help plan a museum of journalism, Peter Prichard quit in '94 as editor of this, "The Nation's Newspaper" USA Today |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Of William Golding's Piggy, George Orwell's Napoleon or E.B. White's Wilbur, the one that's not a pig Piggy |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: The rutabaga is related to this root vegetable; it's sometimes called a "yellow" one Turnip |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI $400: Peter Brook's unusual 1970 production of this comedy featured Oberon & Puck on trapezes "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | U.S.A. $400: Built in 1876, the Flying Horses Carousel on this Massachusetts island is a national historic landmark Martha's Vineyard |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | U.S.A. $500 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this Pine Tree State has a pine tree on its state flag Maine |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | ZOOLOGY $800: When this fish first leaves fresh water for the sea, it's called a smolt Salmon |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | IN THE DICTIONARY $600: LASER & MASER are examples of this type of word formed from the first letters of a series of words Acronym |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: The Great White Throne, a flat-topped monolith, rises about 2,400 feet above this Utah park's canyon floor Zion |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 7 years after creating Stuart Little, E.B. White spun this tale about a spider "Charlotte's Web" |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | GUINNESS FOOD & DRINK RECORDS $500: The world's oldest cake, made around 2200 B.C., is in a food museum in Vevey in this Alpine country Switzerland |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | CATS & DOGS $500: It's a synonym for a domestic cat, or a coat pattern that may be classic, spotted, ticked or mackerel Tabby |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | FEMINISM $600: Called "America's first libber", her profile was put on a U.S. coin in 1979 Susan B. Anthony |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | POTPOURRI $400: If you aspire to be the new Leslie Stahl, you may want to earn a B.S.J., a bachelor of science in this field journalism |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | EPIC POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Tradition holds that this poet lived in the 12th century B.C. in Chios or Smyrna Homer |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: This current Secretary of the Interior received a b.s. in geology from Notre Dame Bruce Babbitt |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | POTPOURRI $500: Neewollah, a festival for this holiday, is observed each year in Independence, Kansas Halloween ("Neewollah" backwards) |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | FOLKLORE $400: When the foot & hoof prints left by this pair filled with water, Minnesota's 10,000 lakes were formed Paul Bunyan & Babe |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | "B" WORDS $200: It's a 4-letter synonym for boast Brag |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | "B" WORDS $300: It's a person hired to remove disorderly people from a nightclub or restaurant Bouncer |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $800: In Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", these creatures saw the world in B&W angels |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: July 26 is observed as the feast day of the Virgin Mary's parents, St. Joachim & this woman St. Anne |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | "B.A."s $100: It's a popular nickname for New York City Big Apple |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | "B.A."s $200: She was featured on "All in the Family", then came "Maude", "Amanda's" & "Golden Girls" Bea Arthur |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | "B.A."s $300: Jose de San Martin, father of Argentine independence, is buried in a cathedral in this city Buenos Aires |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | "B.A."s $400: It's where keglers hang out a bowling alley |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | "B.A."s $500: Hats off to this former congresswoman who attended the 1995 women's conference in Beijing Bella Abzug |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | "A" IN HISTORY $300: While passing through Phrygia in 333 B.C., he's said to have cut the Gordian Knot Alexander the Great |
| #2480, aired 1995-05-19 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $500: Often caused by a lack of iron or certain B vitamins, it's the most common disorder of the red blood cells anemia |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | "B"s $100: This word can mean prejudice or a line running diagonally across the grain of a fabric bias |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | "B"s $400: It's a contemptuous utterance concerning god blasphemy |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | "B"s $500: The sound of this 3-stringed Russian musical instrument is similar to a mandolin's a balalaika |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $500: Noted for its sugarcane production, it's the easternmost island of the West Indies Barbados |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | U.S. AUTHORS $400: A Philip Marlowe novel left unfinished at his death was later completed by Robert B. Parker Raymond Chandler |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | UNUSUAL BOOKS $200: Jewel Shepard's "Invasion of the B-Girls" is a collection of interviews with girls who appear in these B-movies |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: George Custer's brother Thomas was the only person in the U.S. Army to win 2 of these medals during the war Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | FILE UNDER "B" $100: The Canadian, or back type, of this is leaner; it comes from the loin area of a hog's back Bacon |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | WORLD ALMANAC 1893 $100: A list of these, perhaps the largest ever published, included "Rah, rah, ru, Bucknell, B.U." cheers |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | HOBBIES $100: As its full name states, the S.I.B.A.A. promotes the art of building these in bottles Ships |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | HISTORIC NAMES $300: The idea for his 1543 heliocentric theory came from a 3rd cent. B.C. Greek philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: Around 621 B.C. Draco, a chief magistrate, first codified the laws for this Greek city-state's people Athens |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, is a day for women's hearts; Feb. 15, her birthday, for women's rights Susan B. Anthony |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $100: The most popular type of this fruity dessert is Apple Brown a Betty |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $200: Cookbooks advise sticking 3 or 4 of these spice buds in an onion to flavor meat dishes clove |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $300: The tomato type of this gelatin salad can be made with canned tomato juice aspic |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $400: This fish paste is often combined with butter & seasonings & spread over broiled steak anchovy paste |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $500: These fruits, often mistaken for huckleberries, make wonderful jams, pies & muffins blueberries |
| #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 |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | CHAMPIONS $400: Daughter of a Quaker abolitionist, she was known as the champion of women's rights Susan B. Anthony |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | BEAUTY QUEENS $400: Once a La Jolla beauty queen, she's looked great since "One Million Years B.C." Raquel Welch |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $200: Tom Hanks plays a 12-year-old in a grown- up body in this film co-written by Steven Spielberg's sister Big |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | HISTORY $200: In 1991 B.C. Amenemhet, a former vizier, founded this country's 12th dynasty Egypt |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | ANCIENT TIMES $200: Around 500 B.C. Greek kids were playing with this toy popularized in the U.S. by Donald Duncan in the 1920s a yo-yo |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $300: A tradesman's 13
(6,5) a baker's dozen |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $500: A contemporary of Susan B. Anthony, she's credited with being the 1st married woman to keep her maiden name Lucy Stone |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: The Chou was China's longest-reigning one of these, lasting from 1122-256 B.C. a dynasty |
| #1989, aired 1993-04-08 | 1951 $300: In July A.B. "Happy" Chandler ended a 6-year reign as this sport's commissioner baseball |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | "A" "B" "C"s $100: After a day of sunbathing, your mother might tell you you're as "red as" this vegetable a beet |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | "A" "B" "C"s $200: This Oriental pain-relieving method will have you on pins & needles, so to speak acupuncture |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | "A" "B" "C"s $300: The letters of this magic word were once worn on an amulet to ward off trouble abracadabra |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | "A" "B" "C"s $400: It's probably the only element to have a whole branch of chemistry devoted to it: organic chemistry carbon |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | "A" "B" "C"s $500: It's a synonym for beginning, or another term for a graduation ceremony commencement |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | "W"RITERS $600: He narrated a recording of his kids' story "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | DE GUYS $400: Leslie Halliwell quoted him as saying, "Give me any couple of pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture" (Cecil B.) De Mille |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | RECENT BOOKS $600: In "Pastime" by Robert B. Parker, this P.I. "For Hire" searches for a missing mother who's mixed up in a mob heist Spenser |
| #1886, aired 1992-11-16 | "B" IN LITERATURE $200: Her book "All Men Are Brothers" is actually a translation of a Chinese classic Pearl S. Buck |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HISTORIC HOMES $100 (Daily Double): Her home in Rochester, New York is now a museum filled with memorabilia of the fight for equal rights Susan B. Anthony |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THEATRE HISTORY $300: Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C. Athens |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | KATHARINE HEPBURN $400: Dorothy Parker's famous pun of Kate's acting said she ran "The gamut of emotions from A to" this B |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | "B" IN LITERATURE $600: Scholars believe that Zosima, a monk, presents Dostoyevsky's own religious viewpoint in this sibling saga The Brothers Karamazov |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: In 1989 the B-2 stealth bomber accounted for half this company's sales Northrop |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | THE IDES OF MARCH $400: Dr. Bernard Fantus set up the 1st bank of this type in the U.S. March 15, 1937; it had no coins, just corpuscles a blood bank |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | BIBLICAL FILMS $300: This leader of the Tijuana Brass played a drummer in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" Herb Alpert |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | LETTER PERFECT $500: It's the seventh note in a scale of C Major B |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | THE GRAMMYS $100: The Best R & B Recording of 1965 was this singer's "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" James Brown |
| #1662, aired 1991-11-19 | U.S.A. $1,000 (Daily Double): On May 11, 1864 J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern near this state capital Richmond |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | OHIO $800: A presidential library in Fremont houses the papers of this 19th president, & Lucy's, too Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | HISTORIC FIGURES $200: Liu Pang, a man of humble birth, founded this country's Han Dynasty circa 202 B.C. China |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | KIDDIE LIT $300: A grey spider keeps Wilbur from ending up as Bacon in this E.B. White story Charlotte's Web |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | ANTHROPOLOGY $800: If the writing on the tablet you found on this island is in Linear A, it's Minoan, B it's Mycenaean Crete |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: This country's "Martial Emperor", Han Wu-Ti founded a colony in North Korea in 108 B.C. China |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | LEFTOVERS $1000: On the street sign for "Sesame Street", the 3 letters in the little space on top CTW (Children's Television Workshop) |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | MEN OF LETTERS $800: In 1978 this author of "Charlotte's Web" was given a special Pulitzer Prize (E.B.) White |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | COLLEGE DEGREES $200: A B.L.S. is a bachelor of this science--shhhh! library science |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | POTENT POTABLES $400: A "widow's dream" is a cocktail that contains this B&B ingredient benedictine |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | SPELLING $1,400 (Daily Double): Traditionally, every seventh year a teacher is entitled to this leave of absence S-A-B-B-A-T-I-C-A-L |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | MOVIE TRIVIA $500: In 1949's "Beyond the Forest", B. Davis uttered this famous line about the condition of her home "What a dump!" |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | FEMALE FIRSTS $800: As a candidate of the Equal Rights Party she was the 1st woman to run for U.S. president Victoria Woodhull |
| #1402, aired 1990-10-09 | STARTS WITH "B" $200: In England it's a yeoman of the royal guard whether or not he relishes rump roast a Beefeater |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | MEN OF LETTERS $800: A noted essayist, he also spun the tale of "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #1385, aired 1990-09-14 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: He was appointed official military photographer by the federal government Mathew Brady |
| #1379, aired 1990-09-06 | KIDDIE LIT $300: In an E.B. White tale Frederick C. Little's second son looked & acted like one of these a mouse |
| #1358, aired 1990-06-27 | PHILADELPHIA $600: The city's largest school of higher learning is this university at which Bill Cosby earned his B.A. Temple |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | AUTHORS $400: "Confessions of an S.O.B." is a biographical work by Al Neuharth, founder of this nat'l newspaper USA Today |
| #1347, aired 1990-06-12 | SPELLING $300: Lots of people know this is dancer Mikhail's last name, but not everyone can spell it B-A-R-Y-S-H-N-I-K-O-V? |
| #1326, aired 1990-05-14 | ECONOMICS $500: First American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, he's the author of a widely used college textbook Paul Samuelson |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | MARLON BRANDO $400: Brando starred in the last film this silent screen legend directed, 1967's "A Countess From Hong Kong" Charles Chaplin |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | STARTS WITH "B" $100: A little mistake, or Yogi Bear's little buddy Boo Boo |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | 1989 $1,300 (Daily Double): Chemist B. Stanley Pons & Martin Fleischman claimed to have devised a room temperature version of this Cold/Nuclear Fusion |
| #1229, aired 1989-12-28 | STARTS WITH "B" $200: Despite its name, this lettuce shouldn't be tied under a baby's chin bib |
| #1229, aired 1989-12-28 | STARTS WITH "B" $400: It's a flat, baked roll covered with onion flakes & named for a city in Poland bialy |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | U.S."A"s $300: Though fined $100 for voting in New York, she never paid it Susan B. Anthony |
| #1219, aired 1989-12-14 | CURRENT U.S. COINS $200: The word "dollar" appears on these 2 coins the quarter dollar & the half dollar |
| #1215, aired 1989-12-08 | THE 20TH CENTURY $200: To mark the 5th centennial of American exploration, this nation will host a 1992 Olympics & a World's Fair Spain |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | PEOPLE $500: Mary Pickford's stepson; he made his film debut at 13 in 1922, & in in 1989 he was a guest star on "B.L. Stryker" Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $200: Harper's Bible Dictionary says he was born in 5 or 6 B.C. in Judea & died in 28 or 29 A.D.in Jerusalem Jesus |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | COUNTRIES $600: The U.S. maintains Subic Bay Naval Base & Clark A.F.B. in this Pacific island country the Philippines |
| #1163, aired 1989-09-27 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $600: This reason of Czechoslovakia was once inhabited by a tribe called the Boi--hence, it's name Bohemia |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | DANCE $400: This dancer nicknamed Misha played a huge insect in the B'way production of Kafka's Metamorphosis Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $300: In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the 1st woman to earn this degree Doctor of Medicine |
| #1142, aired 1989-07-18 | TUNES OF THE '20s $500: In "Good Boy", Helen Kane made this B. Kalmar-H. Ruby song famous, "Boop-boop-a-doop" "I Wanna Be Loved By You" |
| #1139, aired 1989-07-13 | M*A*S*H $300: The peg o' his heart was his wife Peg, back in California B.J. Hunnicutt |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | SPELL THAT NAME $500: Orville the popcorn king spells his last name this way R-E-D-E-N-B-A-C-H-E-R |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | TV GUIDE SAYS $100: "Moneylender Charles demands a pound of flesh from B.J. and Hawkeye" M*A*S*H |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $2,000 (Daily Double): Last name of the composer who wrote the music to this song, B. Streisand's 1st million-selling single:
"Memories / Light the corners of my mind / Misty water-colored memories / Of the way we were..." Marvin Hamlisch |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | CELEBRITY SPELLING $200: Shirley MacLaine's brother uses this last name B-E-A-T-T-Y |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | STARTS WITH "B" $100: Despite its name, you don't have to be single to earn one of these degrees a bachelor's degree |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | STARTS WITH "B" $500: A glass vessel designed to cover & protect, it's also the title of a Sylvia Plath novel a bell jar |
| #1074, aired 1989-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: After Cleopatra's death in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of this ruling nation Rome |
| #1061, aired 1989-03-27 | ZOOS $200: The "Garden of Intelligence" was a zoo built by this country's emperor about 1000 B.C. China |
| #1053, aired 1989-03-15 | DRAMA $1000: Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize winning play "J.B." retells the story of this biblical figure Job |
| #1021, aired 1989-01-30 | SONGS OF THE '70s $200: In Ricky Nelson's "Garden Party" he stepped out of the closet "playing guitar like ringin' a bell" Johnny B. Goode |
| #977, aired 1988-11-29 | COINS $200: Issued in 1979, this U.S. coin was criticized for looking too much like a quarter the Susan B. Anthony dollar |
| #958, aired 1988-11-02 | U.S. STATES $600: Besides X,Y & Z, 2 of the 3 consonants that don't begin a state's name J & Q (& B) |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | SPELLING $800: The capital of Brazil B-R-A-S-I-L-I-A |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | SPELLING $1000: A small corsage worn by a man in his buttonhole B-O-U-T-O-N-N-I-E-R-E |
| #914, aired 1988-07-21 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It's 2 or more cars parked obliquely across a street with B. Crawford standing behind them a roadblock |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | COLE PORTER SONGS $200 (Daily Double): Late comedian heard here, singing a 1941 Cole Porter tune on B'way in "Let's Face It":
"But honey, I suspect you all / Of bein’ intellectual / And so, instead of gushin’ on / Let’s have a big discussion on /Timidity, stupidity, solidity, frigidity / Avidity, turbidity, / Manhattan and viscidity / Fatality, morality, legality, finality / Neutrality, reality, or Southern hospitality / Pomposity, verbosity / You’re loosing your velocity / But let’s not talk about love" Danny Kaye |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | BIBLICAL OPERAS $900 (Daily Double): In B. Britten's opera, this biblical trio gets thrown into "the burning fiery furnace" Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | "B" MOVIES $400: 1952 movie in which a brainy chimp leads a college football team to victory--without Ronnie's help Bonzo Goes to College |
| #898, aired 1988-06-29 | COMIC BOOKS $100: We told you last year he changed his red & blue webbed costume for a b&w one, well, he's switched back Spider-Man |
| #878, aired 1988-06-01 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $200: "Pretty Baby" whose book for coeds, "On Your Own", has a section called "B's Are OK Too!" Brooke Shields |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Playing the accursed Judas on B'way in "Jesus Christ Superstar" proved a blessing to this star's career Ben Vereen |
| #855, aired 1988-04-29 | "B" THERE $100: Pronounced one way, it's a table from which guests serve themselves, the other, it means to hit buffet |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $600: 1984 Tom Hanks film featuring a fiance's final fling Bachelor Party |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | STARTS WITH "B" $300: While Snoopy started out looking like this breed, as a grown dog he's strictly "Canus cartoonicus" beagle |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | STARTS WITH "B" $500: In a common phrase, it's worn with your tucker bib |
| #789, aired 1988-01-28 | DRUG STORE $400: It's said a Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 B.C., calling for plant materials, is the oldest one known prescription |
| #772, aired 1988-01-05 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1893, Sanford B. Dole became president of this area he declared a new U.S. protectorate Hawaii |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | SCIENTIFIC SPELLING $1000: The opposite of the type of exercise featured at Fonda's, it means "in the absence of oxygen" A-N-A-E-R-O-B-I-C |
| #753, aired 1987-12-09 | BOWLING $200: Bowling has been traced back to 5200 B.C. to equipment found in a child's tomb in this country Egypt |
| #748, aired 1987-12-02 | LANDMARKS $500: Soviet president Podgorny & Egypt's Sadat waited 6 months to dedicate it on Gamal Nasser's b'day, Jan. 15, 1971 the Aswan High Dam |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | "B" IN LITERATURE $200: Sebastian Marchmain's stately home, it's a great place to "revisit" Brideshead |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | "B" IN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): 1880 epic subtitled "A Tale of the Christ" Ben-Hur |
| #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 |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING $200: Panama adjoins South America at this country's border C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A |
| #725, aired 1987-10-30 | MUSICAL "BELL"S $200: Johnny B. Goode "could play a guitar just like" this ringing a bell |
| #719, aired 1987-10-22 | "B" IN SHAKESPEARE $300: In the play-within-a-play in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he played Pyramus Bottom |
| #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 |
| #707, aired 1987-10-06 | INVENTIONS $200: It's said J.B. Jolly of Paris noticed that turpentine spilled on a dress cleaned it & so invented the process dry cleaning |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | "C" IN SPELLING $200: The last car on a freight train C-A-B-O-O-S-E |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | MEDICAL SPELLING $600: Inflammation of a bursa B-U-R-S-I-T-I-S |
| #617, aired 1987-04-21 | LETTER PERFECT $600: It's the only letter which stands for both a chess piece & a blood group B (for Bishop) |
| #609, aired 1987-04-09 | SPELLING $200: From Greek for "air" & "life", these exercises can start your day off with a jump A-E-R-O-B-I-C-S |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $400: When Liz Taylor said, "What a dump!" in this film, she was quoting B. Davis in "Beyond the Forest" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #547, aired 1987-01-13 | "B.S." $800: Noel Coward play about the haunting of a man by his 1st wife while he lives with his 2nd "Blithe Spirit" |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | JULY $100: It's a good thing he was born on "July12", 100 B.C., since the month was named for him Julius Caesar |
| #515, aired 1986-11-28 | FAST FOOD $100: Worldwide, it serves about 145 B.P.S.- burgers per second McDonald's |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | MUSICAL WOOD $200: It's what "Gitarzan" does without a trapeze in his B.V.D.'s swings through the trees |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | MONEY $400: On the Kennedy half, it wears a shield; on the Susan B. Anthony dollar, it's landing on Moon the eagle |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | PRESIDENTS $200: In the novel "1876"
Gore Vidal's narrator
calls this president "Rutherfraud" Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #467, aired 1986-09-23 | SPELLING $100: In the Gregorian calendar, it's the 2nd month F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y |
| #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 |
| #450, aired 1986-05-30 | JARGON $500: When "Variety" tells of a movie's "B.O.", it's not a critic's assessment, but this box office |
| #441, aired 1986-05-19 | "B.S." $200: At rehearsal for her debut at La Scala, the orchestra gave her a standing ovation Beverly Sills |
| #441, aired 1986-05-19 | "B.S." $300: Anglo-Irish author whose claim to fame is a thirsty Rumanian count Bram Stoker |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | TV HOSTS $1000: A spinoff from "That's Incredible", this show's hosts were B. Meredith, P. Presley & J. Stafford Those Amazing Animals |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | DRAMA $800 (Daily Double): In the 4th century B.C., this type of play was forbidden in Greece as demoralizing in time of war satire (comedy) |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | SWAMP THINGS $500: The 3 residents of "The Swamp" in the final season of "M·A·S·H" Hawkeye, B.J. & Major Charles Winchester |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | SPELLING $300: From the Irish "smidirin", something exploded into fragments has been blown to this S-M-I-T-H-E-R-E-E-N-S |
| #391, aired 1986-03-10 | THE 1920's $600: Sons of millionaires who killed Bobby Franks as a "scientific experiment" Leopold & Loeb |
| #370, aired 1986-02-07 | "B.O." $200: New York's 1st big one was November 9, 1965 a blackout |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | GREAT "SCOTT" $300: "B" western star who earned an "A" financial rating as one of Hollywood's richest men Randolph Scott |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | ENGINEERING $200: Begun by Appius Claudius as a public work in 312 B.C., it's one of the roads that lead to Rome the Appian Way |
| #274, aired 1985-09-26 | NOTABLE ANIMALS $100: Siam, 1st of this cat breed in the U.S., was a gift to Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878 Siamese (cats) |
| #188, aired 1985-05-29 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $900 (Daily Double): Almost all U.S. presidents have worn these but most removed them when in public eyeglasses |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | COMPOSERS $600: One of the "3 B's", as a youth he made money playing piano in Hamburg bordellos Johannes Brahms |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | ALPHABET SOUP $1000: In music, the seventh tone in the diatonic scale of C B (or ti) |
| #65, aired 1984-12-07 | STARTS WITH "B" $400: Quality of a Scot's brogue which makes the "R" r-r-r-oll a burr |
| #23, aired 1984-10-10 | BEGINS WITH “Z” $400: TV's senior F.B.I. agent who's also a junior Efrem Zimbalist |
| #13, aired 1984-09-26 | SILLY SONGS $500: According to Ray Stevens, "He swings through the trees without a trapeze in his B.V.D.'s" Gitarzan |
| #2, aired 1984-09-11 | BIOLOGY $400: L.B.J.'s hound dog or Darwin's ship the Beagle |
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
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"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
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"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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B.J. Novak, an actor from Newton, Massachusetts
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"An actor from Newton, Massachusetts, during its nine-season run, he wrote,...
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Kyle Baum, an M.B.A. candidate originally from Wildwood, Missouri
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Season 32 player (2015-09-24).
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
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"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
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"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
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"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Audrey Hosford, a junior from Annapolis, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,400. Jeopardy! Message...
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Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia
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2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
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"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
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"She wants to be a journalist, because it’s important for the...
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Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida
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"Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
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"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
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"He teaches at Todd Beamer High School, named for a heroic...
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California
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Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
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Marcia Edmundson, a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia
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"In the banking world, she checked credit scores. She's much happier...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Karan Takhar, a senior from North Attleborough, Massachusetts
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. First name pronounced like "KUR-run". Jeopardy...
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Katie Houghton, a senior from Ewing, New Jersey
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HOW-ton".
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
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\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
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• 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
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Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He won the Teacher\'s Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
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Brandon Blackwell, a writer and TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
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Monica Thieu, a postdoctoral scientist from Atlanta, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Monica Thieu, a psychology student from Dallas, Texas
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
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• 2012 College Championship winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
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• 2012 Teachers Tournament winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions winner...
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Colby Burnett, a high school college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Ben Studdard, a trial judge from Henry County, Georgia
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Season 18 player (2002-04-01). Ben wrote "Who is Gracie Studdard" for...
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