| #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 |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | PAGING THE FICTIONAL DRIVER $800: This Robert B. Parker detective, if that's your maroon MGB with whitewalls, your lights are on Spenser |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $200: Someone who's taken with you may say they like the cut of your this triangular sail J-I-B |
| #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 |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $1000: The refusal by the island of Melos to surrender to Athens in 416 B.C. is chronicled in this historian's "Melian Dialogue" Thucydides |
| #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 |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $1000: Fresh out of high school, this R&B singer's smash debut album "American Teen", had songs like "Young Dumb & Broke" Khalid |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $400: Dating back to 4000 B.C. fortified settlements, it's the largest city in Jordan & the residence of the king Amman |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | "B"EGINNINGS $2000: Nautically speaking, it's the case where the ship's compass is kept the binnacle |
| #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 |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | TAKING FLIGHT $1200: For its defensive firepower, World War II's B-17 was alliteratively nicknamed the "Flying" this Fortress |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $1600: Pastor B. wants your money to slide into this plate
(10 letters) collection |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $800: "B", 1956: Appropriately, "Giovanni's Room" by this man from Harlem is about an American living in Paris (James) Baldwin |
| #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 |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $600: Places to chow down on this Memphis street include B.B. King's Blues Club & Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe & Honky Tonk Beale Street |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
| #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 |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $5,000 (Daily Double): From 1910 to 1934 this writer & activist edited the NAACP's magazine The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #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 |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | COLLEGE PRESS $1500: Hint: say its name quickly! The Ubyssey is the student newspaper of the university of this Canadian province British Columbia |
| #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 |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $200: 390 B.C.:
These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome the Gauls |
| #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 |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | "B" GIRLS $200: On hiatus from Destiny's Child, she played Foxxy Cleopatra in "Austin Powers in Goldmember" Beyoncé |
| #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 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Mark Antony |
| #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 |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $400: Home to about 5.4 million, it's the province seen here British Columbia |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $7,000 (Daily Double): The birthplaces of B.B. King, Muddy Waters & Robert Johnson are markers on this state's "Blues Trail" Mississippi |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SAILING THE 3 Cs $800: This college degree is total B.S. bachelor of science |
| #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) |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $2000: He's the 18th century author of the farce "The Barber of Seville" & the comedy "The Marriage of Figaro" Beaumarchais |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 1990s HITMAKERS $1600: In 1994, this R&B group's "I'll Make Love To You" remained at the top of the charts for 14 straight weeks Boyz II Men |
| #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 |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $200: b.p.:
For water it's 212 degrees Fahrenheit boiling point |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $2,200 (Daily Double): Though the majority of this country's population is Hutu, the Tutsi minority has historically held power there Burundi |
| #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 |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | "B" IN MUSIC $2,800 (Daily Double): Russian by birth, he composed the patriotic song heard here for his beloved adopted country Irving Berlin |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "B" MOVIE QUOTES $800: "Miss Golightly, I protest" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #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 |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $800: The Tiger's Nest Monastery is in the Paro Valley, about 35 miles from Thimphu, the capital of this Himalayan nation Bhutan |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1200: 3 nations have territory on this large island mentioned in Ptolemy's "Guide to Geography" Borneo |
| #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 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $200: After defeating Pompey's army, this leader returned to Rome & became dictator for life in the 40s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #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 |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $1200: An audio clue on Robert Schumann's "Träumerei", meaning this activity that interested Freud, has to be long b/c it's played so slow dreaming |
| #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 |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $800: Boat--
spelling please; it's just one letter different B-O-O-T |
| #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 |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $800: 1994's "Creep" by this letter-perfect female trio sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick TLC |
| #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 | "B"ANDS $400: They always fought for your rights! "Your mom busted in & said, 'What's that noise?!' / Aw mom, you're just jealous, it's" this rap trio the Beastie Boys |
| #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 $600: Let's rock & roll:
Home to the University of Colorado, this city is known for its Flatirons, seen here Boulder |
| #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 |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | GOVERNORS $2000: Worth over $3 billion, this Illinois governor is America's wealthiest (J.B.) Pritzker |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | TRANSPORT OVER THE AGES $800: America's first commercial railway, the B&O, short for this, was used by some traveling on the Underground Railroad the Baltimore & Ohio |
| #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 |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $2000: Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C. Assyria |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $600: In 431 B.C., Spartan ally Thebes goes after Plataea, an Athenian pal, & it's on the Peloponnesian War |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | S-SS-ING THE SITUATION $400: It's the "B" in Elvis' classic TCB, mama; thank you, thank you very much taking care of business |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $1000: Part classicist, part romantic, this is the only one of the 3 "B"s of classical music who lived entirely in the 19th century Brahms |
| #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 |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE ACTOR'S MIDDLE INITIAL $800: Mr. Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance B. |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SHOE BIZ $400: After moving to Southern California in 1978, Aussie surfer Brian Smith launched this brand of sheepskin boots Uggs |
| #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 |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1000: Meaning produced by the lips, it's applied to letters like P & B labial |
| #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 |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY! $4,000 (Daily Double): In 2010 Abigail Breslin & Alison Pill played B'way roles originated by Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft in 1959 in this play The Miracle Worker |
| #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 |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $1200: He's the R&B superstar seen here Keith Sweat |
| #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 |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1200: This city, B'gosh, is located where the Upper Fox River enters Lake Winnebago Oshkosh |
| #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 |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE ACTOR'S STUDIO $1600: Seen here, Louis B. Mayer signs Clark Gable's "Gone with the Wind" contract with this studio, Gable's home from 1931 to 1954 MGM |
| #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." $400: It's slang for basic training of new military recruits boot camp |
| #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 |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1600: It's the Chinese veggie seen here bok choy |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $400: Around 630 B.C. this militaristic city-state basically turned Messenia's people into serfs Sparta |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $2000: This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built Pericles |
| #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 |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $800: Founded as far back as the 7th century B.C., Constanta is one of Romania's main ports on this sea the Black Sea |
| #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 |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Built in what's now this country in the 300s B.C. & still in use today, the theater at Epidaurus seats about 13,000 Greece |
| #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 |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE ABCs OF INDIAN FOOD $200: B is for this aromatic long-grained rice that's traditionally served with Indian dishes basmati |
| #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 |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | R&B MUSIC $1600: Billboard said this late, great singer "redefined R&B/soul" with "the socially themed 1971 landmark album 'What's Going On"' Marvin Gaye |
| #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 |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $400: You down with E.B.B., this poet who wrote "The Sleep" & "The Soul's Expression"? Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $2000: Movie where figure skater Moira Kelly tells hockey player D.B. Sweeney, "In case you've missed it, I am throwing myself at you" The Cutting Edge |
| #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 |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $800: In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest elephants |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $2000: The "Long Walls" of Athens were destroyed at this war's end to the accompaniment of flute music, but rebuilt in 393 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $1000: Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great Aristotle |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | ISLE "B" $1,000 (Daily Double): Recent surveys have found that the soil on this atoll has plutonium concentrations vastly higher than Chernobyl's the Bikini Atoll |
| #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 |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $1000: "I'm kinda buzzed & it's all because" of this Montell Jordan No. 1 R&B hit; we also learned "South Central does it like nobody does" "This Is How We Do It" |
| #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 |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $600: It was the first sequel in Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries B is for Burglar |
| #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 |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | THE COMPANY'S PRODUCT $800: This brand gets its kicks with Chuck Taylor All Star shoes Converse |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WE'VE GOT THAT BAND'S NUMBER $1200: The name of this Athens, Georgia band is slang for the high hairdos worn by Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson the B-52s |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Born around 610 B.C. on Lesbos, this poet integrated elements of Aphrodite's rituals like incense-laden altars into her work Sappho |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | "B" + 2 LETTERS $1000: Stated goal of taking tricks bid |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | EPONYMOUS -ISMs $400: It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy Confucius |
| #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 |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: Dead by her own hand in 30 B.C., she was thought to have been buried in Alexandria, but her tomb has never been found Cleopatra |
| #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 |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | AIR TRAVEL $1000: Only the "B" in the middle of this airline's colorful name is capitalized in its logo jetBlue |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE $400: It's proverbially done to "a cold":
6-5-5-4 feed |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | LET'S BOOZE IT UP $1000: The website of this gin brand shows "How we do it in London. The definitive B & T" Beefeater's |
| #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 |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $1000: Here's the view from one of these alphanumeric flying fortresses as it unleashed its bombs over occupied Europe in 1943 the B-17 |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL? $200: The "B" in G.B. Shaw Bernard |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL? $800: The "B" in W.B. Yeats Butler |
| #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 |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h height |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is less about Alice & more about this woman, her life partner who wrote the book Gertrude Stein |
| #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 |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: While Schubert's seventh symphony is also incomplete, it's his eighth symphony in B minor that's famously called this Unfinished |
| #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 |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MR. PRESIDENT $1600: Rutherford B. Hayes was the only president born in Delaware--that's Delaware in this state Ohio |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $200: Look, nothing's written in this--well, the tablet of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta from the 1200s B.C. is stone |
| #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 $200: Overdue, like some birthday congratulations belated |
| #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 $600: The name of this lawn bowling game is Italian for "wooden balls" bocce |
| #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 |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THE PRESIDENT'S AIRPORT $800: Looking for an ATM at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in this city? It's at door B Springfield |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $1200: The mighty MacKenzie flows into this sea that's north of Alaska & Canada & part of the Arctic Ocean the Beaufort |
| #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 |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | R&B & SOUL HITS $2000: He's remembered for hits like "You Send Me" & "Twistin' The Night Away" Sam Cooke |
| #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 |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $200: The city of Larsa wasn't up to this Babylonian's code, so he conquered it in the 1760s B.C. Hammurabi |
| #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 |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $1200: Born in Hamburg in 1833, he rose from his humble beginnings, to become one of the three B's of classical music (Johannes) Brahms |
| #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 |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | NOTORIOUS $2000: $5,800 of this parachuting hijacker's money turned up near the Columbia River in 1980 D.B. Cooper |
| #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 |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $600: "B" aware that Maine's tiny international airport in this city handles hundreds of unexpected flight diversions Bangor |
| #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 |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | HERE'S THE PLAY $800 (Daily Double): Kevin Bacon was not in this "numeric" play in 1990 but you could go trace his connections to Courtney B. Vance & Stockard Channing Six Degrees of Separation |
| #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 |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: In 1904 she was the head of the U.S. delegation to the International Council of women Susan B. Anthony |
| #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 |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $800: Michael B. Jordan played lawyer Bryan Stevenson & he was wrongly convicted death row inmate Walter McMillian in 2019's "Just Mercy" Jamie Foxx |
| #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 |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $200: The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $3,800 (Daily Double): Born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong performed songs named for these 2 local "B" streets Bourbon & Basin |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | STATUE OF NO LIMITATIONS $1000: Some are up in arms over this marble statue carved around 150 B.C., saying she's really the sea goddess Amphitrite the Venus de Milo |
| #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 |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eudora Welty said this E.B. White book about "friendship on earth, affection and protection" was "just about perfect" Charlotte's Web |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $800: I'm walkin' in this capital of Ancient Egypt, founded around 3000 B.C., but do I really feel the way I feel? Memphis |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1200: Noted for his wisdom, this B.C. ruler organized Ancient Israel into 12 districts, appointing his own gov. for each one Solomon |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1600: Newsflash, 338 B.C.! I'm hearing Philip II, ruler of this land, has taken Greece & I, for one, welcome our new overlord Macedonia |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | DESIGNER INITIALS $1000: She's known for her bold & whimsical designs & for her hair extensions: B.J. Betsey Johnson |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | "B" SIEGE $400: The Crimean War's Siege of Sevastopol resulted in the loss of Russia's main naval port on this sea the Black Sea |
| #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 |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $800: In 2018 this R&B singer lived up to his (stage) name, becoming an EGOT, the first African-American man to do so John Legend |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $200: It's a less appealing 2-word name for tofu bean curd |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $400: Starting around 600 B.C. many Jews were deported east from the kingdom of Judah in what's known as the Babylonian this forced departure Babylonian Exile (or diaspora) |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $800: It's the slang term for the ideological barrier separating China from the West Bamboo Curtain |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $1200: Ostia, at the mouth of this river, served as Rome's naval base & commercial harbor the Tiber |
| #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 |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | ON THE "B"-LIST $800: It's said to be the "soul of wit" brevity |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | "B" MOVIE STARS $2000: As Sgt. Barnes in "Platoon", this tough guy really gets on Charlie Sheen's bad side Tom Berenger |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | HIP-HOP MUSICIANS' REAL NAMES $1200: It's not an "Invasion of Privacy" to reveal that she is also known as Belcalis Almanzar Cardi B |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $400: It's been speculated that Halley's Comet in 12 B.C. was this star from Matthew 2:2 the Star of Bethlehem (the star that the Magi followed accepted) |
| #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 |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Born in Mass. in 1820, she had abolition & temperance as her main causes before focusing on women's rights (Susan B.) Anthony |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | FOLLOW THE LEADER $800: Following Fay Vincent as MLB commish:
B.S. Bud Selig |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: E.B.'s flying toys White's kites |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | THE COMICS $800: In this strip, Duke testified for the NRA in the '70s; the '80s went inside Reagan's brain; in 2004, B.D. got wounded in Iraq Doonesbury |
| #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 |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE WAR ON BACTERIA $1600: Sulfa drugs kill bacteria by preventing the production of this B vitamin acid that's crucial to life folic acid |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $400: This man defeated Vercingetorix at the 52 B.C. Battle of Alesia, & Gaul was Rome's Julius Caesar |
| #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 |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | TAURUS TYPES $2,000 (Daily Double): Those born under the sign of Taurus are devoted, like this woman, Gertrude Stein's partner & "Autobiography" subject Alice B. Toklas |
| #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 |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | THE SUPERB OWL $2000: These owl parts don't move but still can make up 5% of the bird's body weight; humans' make up about 0.02% eyes |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This period of music that saw the first attempts at opera ended with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach Baroque |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: The word beautiful sometimes appears in the title of this waltz, an unofficial anthem of Austria "The Blue Danube" |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Vivaldi wrote 230 violin concertos, his most for any instrument; second are his 40 or so for this "B" woodwind bassoon |
| #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 |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This Hungarian's 1923 "Dance Suite" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the merger of Buda, Pest & Obuda Béla Bartók |
| #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! $200: Here's the ex-president out getting some non-air at this structure about 200 miles up the International Space Station |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | LET'S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! $400: Here he is in this state that joined the union in 1876--the year RBH was elected Colorado |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | LET'S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! $600: Let's put him in the picture & make the man almost as tall as this Art Deco building completed in 1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | LET'S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! $800: Hayes visits this Maryland battlefield also known as Sharpsburg; he was wounded & missed the action when his regiment fought there in 1862 Antietam |
| #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 |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $1200: It's the "B" in scuba breathing |
| #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 $400: Of this 2009 Kennedy Center honoree, Barack Obama said, "I'm the president, but he's 'The Boss'" Bruce Springsteen |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | B.S., I LOVE YOU $800: In 2012 he won 71% of the vote to retain his Vermont Senate seat Bernie Sanders |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | B.S., I LOVE YOU $1200: In 1972 this pediatrician who wrote the book on bringing up baby ran for president Benjamin Spock |
| #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 |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: Among this educator's many books is "Up from Slavery", his autobiography published in 1901 (Booker T.) Washington |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | YOU'VE GOT CLASS $800: Geometry time--it's the number of degrees in angle B 50° |
| #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 |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $800: This pop star's 1987 AMA for Best Female Soul/R&B Singer was donated to the Smithsonian by her estate Whitney Houston |
| #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 |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $1600: 1988:
John Lithgow as Rene Gallimard, B.D. Wong as Song Liling M. Butterfly |
| #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 |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | DOUBLE "B"s $800: Monk house abbey |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | DOUBLE "B"s $1200: To mend boots, or to put something together clumsily cobble |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | DOUBLE "B"s $1600: Short ends of grain after harvesting, or of hair before shaving stubble |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | DOUBLE "B"s $2000: Decorator Rachel Ashwell gives tips to achieve the aura of old money & cushy comfort in books called this "Chic" shabby |
| #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 |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | MUSIC OF 20 YEARS AGO $600: "The Miseducation of" this singer debuted at No. 1 & would be named Billboard's R&B Album of the Year Lauryn Hill |
| #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 |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | POET-POURRI $1200: In the 600s B.C. the Greek poet Tyrtaeus composed verses to inspire this militaristic city's people to fight bravely Sparta |
| #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 |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | MEANWHILE... $1600: The Sumerians settled the city of Ur in the 3000s B.C., the beginning of this civilization's "long count" calendar the Maya |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $800: It's the northernmost of New York City's boroughs the Bronx |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | WHAT'S ON? $200: The 2018 series "Unsolved" is subtitled "The Murders of" him "& the Notorious B.I.G." Tupac |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | PRESIDENTS' ONE-SYLLABLE LAST NAMES $2000: He was elected in the nation's centennial year (Rutherford B.) Hayes |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THE B.G.s $200: Aboard this ship, Benjamin Guggenheim took off his lifebelt, put on evening clothes & wrote to his wife the Titanic |
| #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 $800: In 1986 big band legend Benny Goodman spent his last hours of life practicing Brahms on this instrument the clarinet |
| #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 |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Just before dying in Cleopatra's arms, he urged her to make peace with Octavian Antony |
| #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 |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EXTINCT PEOPLES $1600: The Morini Celts of Gaul revolted against this empire in 30 B.C., & that's the last anyone heard of the Morini the Roman empire |
| #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 |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | "B" PREPARED $1200: It's the formal act of becoming engaged to be wed betrothal |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | "B" PREPARED $1600: This adjective mans characteristic of the lord who penned "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Byronic |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | EASTER $800: This president's wife Lucy moved the Easter Egg Roll to the White House in 1878 (Rutherford B.) Hayes |
| #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 |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $400: Kristen Wiig is Maya Rudolph's maid of honor Bridesmaids |
| #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 |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR $400: This show made the upgrade & later changed Darrin's too Bewitched |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): E.B. White's diminutive rodent visits Dickens' friend William in Marshalsea Prison Stuart Little Dorrit |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | GOOD CAUSES $1000: Supporting the global Jewish community & championing human rights, it's BBI for short B'nai B'rith |
| #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 |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER $400: Heading southwest across South America, it's B, B, C--Brazil & these 2 Bolivia & Chile |
| #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 $400: Ohio's Nettie Metcalf put her state's nickname on this chicken breed she developed the Buckeye |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | "B"REEDS $600: It's the Indian cow breed seen here the Brahma |
| #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 | DR. JOHNSON'S ALPHABET $800: It "is confounded by the Germans and Welsh with B" P |
| #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 |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $400: Around 700 B.C., long after the war told of by Homer, Greeks occupied this city's site & called it Ilion Troy |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $1200: After 1400 B.C. this city near Crete's northern coast reverted from mighty capital to just another town Knossos |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $1600: During this Babylonian king's reign, he captured Jerusalem twice, the second time destroying the city's temple Nebuchadnezzar |
| #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 |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | GREAT BOOKS OF SCIENCE $1200: Written around 350 B.C., this Greek's work "Physics" held sway over science for 2,000 years Aristotle |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE CHANDLER $2000: Chandler's "Poodle Springs" was completed by Robert B. Parker, creator of this private eye & his pal Hawk Spenser |
| #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 $200: It's the method of trading in which goods or services are exchanged without the use of money barter |
| #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 |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other "B" city in 1849 Baltimore |
| #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 |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $600: This director was the first recipient of the honorary Golden Globe that's named for him Cecil B. DeMille |
| #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 |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $800: Based in Patna in what's now this country, the Mauryan empire declined after Emperor Ashoka died c. 232 B.C. India |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: Robert B.'s felt-tipped pens Parker's markers |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $1000: The last page of "The Autobiography of" this companion of Gertrude Stein was turned on March 7, 1967 Alice B. Toklas |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: During the reign of Egypt's Ptolemy II around 280 B.C., Sostratus completed this ancient wonder the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #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 |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE THRILL OF VICTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): At 18 in 338 B.C. he helped his dad's army to victory at Chaeronea, bringing Greece under Macedonian control Alexander the Great |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | MONOGRAM MANIA $800: Women's rights activist:
SBA Susan B. Anthony |
| #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 |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: At birth, this title E.B. White character "could have been sent by first class mail for three cents" Stuart Little |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | "B" MY LOVE $400: You'll look great in the T-shirt bearing this "Twilight" character's image; fittingly, her name means "beautiful" Bella |
| #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 |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $200: Plaza Bolivar is this Colombian capital's main square Bogotá |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1000: Canada's largest island, it's part of the territory of Nunavut Baffin Island |
| #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 |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | '90s R&B HITMAKERS $2000: "I'm kinda buzzed & it's all because (this is how we do it), South Central does it like nobody does (this is how we do it)" Montell Jordan |
| #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 |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $800: This commander's victory over Pompey in 48 B.C. at Pharsalus took him to the pinnacle of power Julius Caesar |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Defeat at the 207 B.C. Battle of the Metaurus River ended this man's efforts to conquer Italy Hannibal |
| #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 |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | WORLD HISTORY $800: The Olmecs flourished form around 1200 to 400 B.C. along Mexico's Gulf Coast in what became Veracruz & this "hot" state Tabasco |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPANY "B" $400: It's been flame grilling your patties since 1954 Burger King |
| #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 |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPANY "B" $2000: The seeds of its success include 1877's Surehead cabbage Burpee |
| #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 |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | "ROCK" IT TO ME $1200: In this song the B-52's suggest, "Put on your noseguard, put on the lifeguard" "Rock Lobster" |
| #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 |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: For Peace,
Lester B. Pearson North America |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | "B"RANDS $400: This company introduced the world's first cordless electric drill in 1961 Black & Decker |
| #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 |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | THE SINGING "B" $1600: Bob Geldof organized this British supergroup that sang the 1984 charity smash "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | THE SINGING "B" $2000: He sang lead for the Animals on "It's My Life" & "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" Eric Burdon |
| #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 |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE $200: August 30 B.C.
in Alexandria Cleopatra |
| #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 $400: B:
Handgun violence prevention act passed in 1993 Brady (Law) |
| #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 |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | NONFICTION $2000: He challenged Booker T. Washington's leadership in his 1903 collection of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | NONFICTION $3,000 (Daily Double): E.B. White called it William Strunk's "parvum opus" (little work) The Elements of Style |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | WE APPRECIATE "U"! $600: With only 2 movements, Schubert's "Symphony in B Minor" is dubbed this "Unfinished" |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | "O" 2"B" $2000: When the Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm gets mad, it's this "time" clobberin' time |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BRING YOUR "B" GAME $200: Here's the specialized board for this game backgammon |
| #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 |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | WE LOVE MEL BROOKS $1000: Mel's scheme to finally close "The Producers" on B'way by casting Larry David failed on this TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: One of the 3 "B"s, he was appointed director of music for the Protestant churches in Leipzig in 1723 Bach |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | LETTER PERFECT $1600: It's the symbol for the fifth element on the periodic table B (for boron) |
| #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 |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: Joyous or cheerful, like Noel Coward's title "Spirit" B-L-I-T-H-E |
| #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 $1200: It stretches from Cape Olyutor to the Seward Peninsula the Bering Sea |
| #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 |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BLACK & WHITE $600: Set in silent-era Hollywood, in 2012 it became the first mainly B&W best picture Oscar winner since "Schindler's List" The Artist |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $2000: Julius Caesar described his victories in the 50s B.C. in what's now France in his "Commentaries on" these "Wars" the Gallic Wars |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | 4-LETTER KNOWLEDGE $400: Of the 3 B's in classical music, he fits Bach |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Since Robert B. Parker's death, Ace Atkins has taken over writing the books about this detective for hire Spenser |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: 475-221 B.C. witnessed what's known as the Warring States period in this Asian country China |
| #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 |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | THE PLACE TO "B" $1600: Originally inhabited by Pygmies, it's last alphabetically of countries that begin with "B" Burundi |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | THE PLACE TO "B" $6,000 (Daily Double): This U.S. state capital was founded by the French in 1719 Baton Rouge |
| #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 |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | MOVIE MUSIC $2000: "Tubular Bells" was in this 1973 scarefest The Exorcist |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $4,800 (Daily Double): Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle was the subject of his 1872-73 work "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2" James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | LADY "B" GOOD $2000: The USA's first female M.D., she co-founded the New York Infirmary for Women & Children (Elizabeth) Blackwell |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $600: One of the 12 apostles, he's called Nathanael in John's gospel Bartholomew |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | HISTORY $800: This dictator's last battle was the defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | DOUBLE "B" $400: Pieces of rock used in masonry, or Fred Flintstone's buddy Barney rubble |
| #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 |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | MOVIE TITLE POSSESIVES $400: Paul Lynde voiced Templeton the rat in this 1973 animated film based on an E.B. White book Charlotte's Web |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $800: He wove "Charlotte's Web" (E.B.) White |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) My documentary "Not for Ourselves Alone" explored the lives of Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 2 of our country's greatest these, from the Latin for "voting tablet" suffragettes |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | ONLY THE LONELY $400: In the 500s B.C. the Jews were in the Babylonian this type of expulsion from one's land exile |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $400: The water buffalo is aka the buffalo of this country, where it's been enjoying the Ganges since at least 1000 B.C. India |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | "B"ILLBOARD HITS $800: This Who title completes the lyric "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man..." "Behind Blue Eyes" |
| #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 |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | I'M TELLING YOU 2 TIMES--"SH"! $200: It's this Wisconsin city of about 65,000 on Lake Winnebago, b'gosh Oshkosh |
| #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 |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS $1600: His 2009 Grammy at age 83 for Best Traditional Blues Album was this guitarist's 15th B.B. King |
| #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 $1,200 (Daily Double): Deeply religious area of the South & Midwest the Bible Belt |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THERE B 3 "B"s $1200: Trying to talk while crying blubbering |
| #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 |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $2000: Erech & Kish were cities of this earliest known civilization that flourished in Iraq in the 3rd millennium B.C. Sumeria |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad Philip |
| #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 |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | TODAY'S MUSIC $800: In 2007 her song "No One" hit No. 1 on Billboard's pop & R&B charts Alicia Keys |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $400: The director of this mostly B&W film said the little girl's red coat symbolizes the bloodstain of the Holocaust Schindler's List |
| #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 |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | STOCK UP ON CANDY $600: Warren Buffett liked See's Candies so much that he bought it & folded it into BRK.B, this company Berkshire Hathaway |
| #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 $200: In 2013 this Bee Gee launched his Mythology tour in tribute to his late brothers Barry Gibb |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE "B.G."'s $400: Classic ones include Parcheesi & Sorry! board games |
| #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 |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE "B.G."'s $800: It's how to say good morning or good day in Italian buon giorno |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE "B.G."'s $1000: This colorful Kentucky city made Forbes' list of the 25 best places to retire in 2014 Bowling Green |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | SAME-LETTER SWAP $200: Change all the B's in "babble" & you get this word meaning to inform on someone tattle |
| #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 |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: Begun in 486 B.C., China's "Grand" this is the world's longest manmade waterway Canal |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Marc Anthony |
| #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 $1200: It can precede "‑struck" or "‑waiter"--or you, if you don't respond dumb |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE SECRET LIFE OF B's $1600: This occupation gets its name from the Latin for "lead" a plumber |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE SECRET LIFE OF B's $2000: Rhyming synonym for "cradle-to-grave" that fits the category twice "womb-to-tomb" |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | 1990s HITMAKERS $800: In 1994 this R&B group's
"I'll Make Love To You"
remained at the top of the charts for 14 straight weeks Boyz II Men |
| #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 |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $200: 586 B.C.:
Nebuchadnezzar burns this city's first temple Jerusalem |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $800: Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #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 |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $600: Around 428 B.C. Athens kept control of Lesbos but by 404 things had swung Sparta's way in this war the Peloponnesian War |
| #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 |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | BETWEEN $400: He was the U.S. president between Andrew Johnson & Rutherford B. Hayes Grant |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | "B" IN THE TOP 40 $1200: This Jersey band's first Top 40 hit was 1984's "Runaway"; "It's My Life" hit the chart in 2000 Bon Jovi |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | "B" IN THE TOP 40 $1600: Among this woman's 15 Top 40 hits are "Shadows Of The Night" & "We Belong" Pat Benatar |
| #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 | IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B" $200: This second-most populous Chinese city Beijing |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B" $400: This city that in 1900 had about 6,000 people Boise |
| #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 |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B" $800: This landlocked kingdom of the Himalayas Bhutan |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B" $1000: This unincorporated area, home to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Used in every theater of World War II, the B-25 Mitchell is best known as the plane used by Doolittle's Raiders in the dramatic 1942 attack immortalized on film as "Thirty Seconds Over" this city Tokyo |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | TELL US WHAT HE'S WON! $800: 1920:
W.E.B. Du Bois medaled as winner No. 6 the Spingarn Medal |
| #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 |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $1200: Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the third Punic war resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #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. |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | SONGS FOR NEW YEAR'S $1600: This Wilson Pickett No. 1 R&B hit from 1965 will get us closer to the new year "In The Midnight Hour" |
| #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 |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1000: In Susan B. Anthony's centennial year, the U.S. passed this number amendment that achieved her goal the 19th |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $400: Alexander the Great's tutelage under this Greek ended in 336 B.C. after the assassination of Alexander's dad Aristotle |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | "B" GOOD $1200: Also called the ward, it's the courtyard of the castle & usually pairs with "motte" bailey |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | "B" GOOD $2000: Life is good at this tree seen here beech |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | PASSWORD $200: One of the earliest accounts of the use of passwords is by Polybius, describing their use by this army around 150 B.C. the Roman army |
| #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 |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! $600: In the 20s B.C., after Octavian took this imperial name, he established the Praetorian Guard to guard his body Caesar Augustus |
| #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 | NOVEL WIVES $600: "The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B." ends with Josephine's marriage to him Napoleon |
| #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 |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton the Indus |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $3,400 (Daily Double): Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" is an epic novel about this battle lost by the Spartans in 480 B.C. (the Battle of) Thermopylae |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | PLANES, TRAINS $2000: Introduced more than 55 years ago, it's the longest-serving bomber in the U.S. military the B-52 |
| #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 |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | THE COLOMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA $400: Under "B":
it's the capital & largest city Bogotá |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $600: Life in this city where the 2 met fills much of Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Paris |
| #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) |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | THE HITTITES $800: Around 1400 B.C. the Hittites began working with this metal that's softer than bronze, helping to usher in its "Age" Iron |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | "B" NICE $200: Medically, it's the opposite of malignant benign |
| #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 |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | "B" NICE $1000: Officially, it's the "B" in B.P.O.E. benevolent |
| #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 |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Much of what is known about Babylonian society comes from this 18th century B.C. king's code Hammurabi |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | THE "B" TEAM $800: They're Ohio's 2 NFL entries the Browns and the Bengals |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | THE "B" TEAM $1000: It was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's first pro team the Milwaukee Bucks |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS $2000: 480 B.C.: Crossing the Hellespont, supported by 700 ships; it's good to be the Persian king! Xerxes |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $200: I'm not positive that Harriet is receiving enough fibre in her diet F-I-B-E-R |
| #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 |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | SIGNATURE SONGS $2000: "Rock Lobster" The B-52's |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | FROM B TO SHINING B $200: Found after dive, cherry or stink, it's da this! the bomb |
| #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 |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | "B-L-T" $400: Count yourself really smart if you know it's the popular cut of diamond seen here brilliant |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $200: In November 1936 it began carrying traffic between San Francisco & Oakland across the water it's named for the Bay Bridge |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $400: In between stints as California's governor, he served 2 terms as Oakland's mayor Jerry Brown |
| #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 |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $800: Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this radical party in Oakland in 1966 the Black Panthers |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $1000: Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system borax |
| #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 |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | SCI. ABBREV. $200: In chemistry, B.P. stands for this; water's is 212 degrees Fahrenheit the boiling point |
| #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 |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | BALLET $800: Cecil B. De Mille's dancin' niece, she choreographed her last ballet, "The Other", in 1992 at age 86 Agnes de Mille |
| #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 |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | B IN THE MIDDLE $1200: It's the fourth book of the Old Testament Numbers |
| #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 |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | DOOBIE-OUS FACTS $1200: Paul Rudd took great offense to Michael McDonald's song "Yah Mo B There" in this "numerical" Steve Carell comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | B.P. $400: This occupational symbol is made up of red & white stripes a barber's pole |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | B.P. $1000: It's the lowest of the lowest range of voices basso profundo |
| #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 |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS $400: No. 1 is the inner coffin of Hornedjitef, an ancient priest of this kingdom, from the 3rd century B.C. Egypt |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us statues at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The Hall of Immortals honors medical pioneers, like Madame Curie, ancient Egypt's Imhotep, &
of course, this man, born in Greece around 460 B.C. Hippocrates |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $2000: Manohla Dargis titled the review of this 2011 drama "Finding the Humanity in the F.B.I.'s Feared Enforcer" J. Edgar |
| #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 |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: It's believed this rock group was built in England in three phases over 1,500 years, beginning around 3100 B.C. Stonehenge |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ALL WE NEED IS A TITLE $2000: Alan Paton's "C, the B C" Cry, the Beloved Country |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | IN CONJUNCTION $800: The earliest known use of this whitish metallic element was around 3500 B.C. in what's now Iran tin |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | HUSBANDS $800: Octavia's (we'll give you Gaius Marcellus, whom she married around 54 B.C., but you supply this second hubby) Mark Antony |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | GRAPHIC DESIGN $400: Alphabetically, it's the first lower case letter that has what's called an ascender b |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | WEDDING SONGS $1000: With the party under way, it's time to "celebrate good times, come on" with an R&B favorite from this group Kool & The Gang |
| #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 |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | LOGO SECRETS $400: Parts of the "B" & the "R" in this sweet treat shop's logo form the number "31" Baskin-Robbins |
| #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 |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $800: In 1978 they put an R&B spin on "Got To Get You Into My Life" Earth Wind & Fire |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $1600: After publishing an essay on Will Strunk, he was asked to revise Strunk's "The Elements of Style" (E.B.) White |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | THAT'S MY SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY $2000: Roger B. Taney Andrew Jackson |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | SILENT B $800: Birds ate Hansel & Gretel's trail of these, so they weren't able to find their way home crumbs |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | THE OLD BALL GAME $2000: Irish manuscripts of the 1200s B.C. describe this stick-&-ball sport that's now the national pastime hurling |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | YOU MIGHT "B" HUNGRY $200: Einstein Bros & Noah's are chains that specialize in these round breakfast items--do you want some shmear? bagels |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | YOU MIGHT "B" HUNGRY $1000: This 9-letter French sauce is served with meat, fish & vegetables; the yolk's on you! Béarnaise |
| #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 |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $800: Old Navy uses this adjective for solid-color shorts that are patterned when inside-out R-E-V-E-R-S-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 |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | SILENT LETTERS $1000: B:
He's the Zap Comix artist whose distinctive satirical work is seen here Robert Crumb (or R. Crumb) |
| #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 |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | THIS... IS... HEGEMONY! $1200: In 386 B.C. Persia ratified this city-state's hegemony, about 100 years too late for Leonidas & his 300 Sparta |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | SOUP ALPHABET $200: "B" is for this thin soup; Swanson's makes beef, chicken & vegetable varieties broth |
| #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 |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | I BELIEVE WEBSTER'S DEFINES IT AS... $1000: "adj... 2 b: happy, golden" as in (this) era or the (this) days of youth halcyon |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $400: Take these broken wings & learn to fly, you Turdus merula, aka this colorful bird blackbird |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $800: This kingfisher that shares its name with an "iron chancellor" lives in New Guinea, not Germany Bismarck (kingfisher) |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $1200: It's britspeak for a type of parakeet a budgie |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $1600: This tropical seabird was named for its supposed lack of intelligence; not afraid of humans, it was easily killed the boobie |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $2000: Buteo buteo is the common species of this large, slow-moving bird of prey the buzzard |
| #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 |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | FROM "B" TO "Y" $800: The temperature is so mild & pleasant, it's downright this 5-letter adjective balmy |
| #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 |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | R.B.s $400: Referring to his circulatory system, it describes any strong, patriotic, lusty American man red-blooded |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | R.B.s $600: This cerebral hemisphere helps us deal with spatial concepts the right brain |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | R.B.s $800: The first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, this man was appointed to the U.N. Palestine Commission in 1947 Ralph Bunche |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | R.B.s $1000: This small ledge beneath the doors of an auto helped passengers get in & out running board |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | LETTERMAN $1600: The "B" in this psychologist's first name was for Burrhus, which must've influenced his behavior to go by his initials B.F. Skinner |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | SPELL IT! $400: Spell this Christian group that's often found before "Oats" Q-U-A-K-E-R |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $1600: Themistocles led the Athenians defending against this "great" Persian's invasion in 480 B.C. Xerxes |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | SELLING "B" $400: It's the scariest cereal in General Mills' Big G line Boo Berry |
| #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 |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | BRADLEY $2000: Justice Joseph Bradley's vote made this man, not Samuel Tilden, president in the disputed election of 1876 (Rutherford B.) Hayes |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | ARRIVALS $400: On his arrival in Egypt in 48 B.C., he was presented with his rival Pompey's pickled head Julius Caesar |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SPELLING BEES $800: It's the common name for the big, fuzzy members of the bombini tribe B-U-M-B-L-E-B-E-E |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG $600: Robbie Nevil & B*witched had tunes called this French phrase meaning "that's life" "C'est La Vie" |
| #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 |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | BIZ "B"s $400: This brand of frozen veggies uses the logo seen here Birds Eye |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | BIZ "B"s $600: This "fraternal" company was the official supplier of typewriters to the 1984 Summer Olympics Brother |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | BIZ "B"s $800: This company is known for its Weejun loafers Bass |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | BIZ "B"s $1,000 (Daily Double): This company developed the Apollo lunar surface drill Black & Decker |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: This Athenian lawmaker revised most of Draco's 7th century B.C. code of justice Solon |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN $800: 1758 will b last yr of me writing & pub. this: been at it 4 25 yrs, that's enuf Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | THE MANSION FAMILY $800: Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island was bilt in the late 1800s for William, last name this Vanderbilt |
| #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 |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $600: Breaking news 479 B.C.: Greece has beaten the remaining forces of this Xerxes-led empire! Let's party! the Persian Empire |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID $800: "There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers" Susan B. Anthony |
| #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 $400: "Flowery" term for an old-fashioned women's undergarment bloomers |
| #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 |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $600: It's the westernmost & third largest of Canada's provinces British Columbia |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $800: This city's ruins lie on the Euphrates River about 50 miles south of Baghdad Babylon |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $1000: In the 1990s the sultan of this country was the world's richest man Brunei |
| #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 |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | SIGNIFICANT OLD BOOKS $400: Dating from the 5th century B.C., this Asian philosopher's "Analects" Confucius |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | GO! $400: Go, one of the world's oldest games, is thought to have originated c. 2000 B.C. in this Asian mainland country China |
| #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 |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | IT HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 5 $800: 1872:
In defiance of an existing law, this suffragette tries to vote in the U.S. Presidential Election Susan B. Anthony |
| #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 |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | ONLY YESTERDAY $1000: This R&B quartet's version of "Yesterday" is on their 1994 album "II" Boyz II Men |
| #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 |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE FAMILY CIRCUS $1600: John Ringling North worked on this Cecil B. DeMille film whose title describes his family's circus The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #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 |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | TABLOID HEADLINES ACROSS HISTORY $2000: Around 342 B.C.:
"Aristotle Tutors Tot";
323 B.C.:
He's "Gone in Babylon" Alexander the Great |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $800: (Hi, I'm Robin Quivers.) "Lets Get It On"--my iPod, that is--plenty of Motown R&B, especially the smooth sounds of this man who sang "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: Fact:
She had bit parts on "McHale's Navy" & "Bewitched" before her bust-out part in "1 Million Years B.C." Raquel Welch |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | & CROWN THY GOOD $200: In 336 B.C. at age 20, he succeeded his murdered father as Macedonia's king & was just super...wait, that's not the right word Alexander the Great |
| #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 |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | SONG LYRICS $1,000 (Daily Double): In R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", 2 of the 4 men with the initials "L.B." (2 of) Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs & Leonard Bernstein |
| #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 $400: Cratchit or Sideshow Bob |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $600: To divulge confidential info blab |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $800: Slang for a short, written promotional statement a blurb |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | "B"s ON BOTH ENDS $1000: An early name for Google was this type of massage backrub |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | CONTEMPORARIES $800: Susan B. Anthony pushed for women's rights while this woman was nursing British soldiers in the Crimean War Florence Nightingale |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | PAST LIVES $800: Women force their husbands to stop warring in this man's 411 B.C. play "Lysistrata" Aristophanes |
| #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 $800: "Always" this woman who attends the female geting married the bridesmaid |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | ONE B & 2 D's $1600: Prohibited; it precedes "City" in a walled section of Beijing forbidden |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | ONE B & 2 D's $2000: 10-letter word meaning reliable or worthy of trust dependable |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | ONE B & 2 D's $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the transmission capacity of an electronic communications device bandwidth |
| #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 |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | FAMOUS SHAMUS $1000: Robert B. Parker introduced this one-named P.I. in 1974's "The Godwulf Manuscript" Spenser |
| #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 |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: 2008's "Giants" pairs Lincoln with this man who first visited him in 1863 to discuss treatment of black soldiers Frederick Douglass |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $400: Son of Philip II of Macedonia who became the world's largest coral system Alexander the Great Barrier Reef |
| #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 |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $800: Maine college that was Nat Hawthorne's alma mater Bowdoin |
| #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 $400: Neil Simon's
"B.B.M." Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| #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 |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | I HAVE 5 KINGS $600: This bluesman's first Top 40 hit was 1964's "Rock Me Baby" B.B. King |
| #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) |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1600: The name of this island that's 165 miles northwest of Tahiti means "first born" Bora Bora |
| #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 |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | SHAKESPEARE'S B-STORIES $800: An island provides the backdrop as the succession to the leadership of Naples is decided The Tempest |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | SHAKESPEARE'S B-STORIES $1200: Jessica has regrets about her dad but looks forward to marrying Lorenzo & converting to Christianity The Merchant of Venice |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | SHAKESPEARE'S B-STORIES $1600: Sir Toby Belch & his friends trick Malvolio into acting crazy & getting sent to an asylum Twelfth Night |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | SHAKESPEARE'S B-STORIES $2000: Bolingbroke appears before the king & accuses Thomas Mowbray of treason Richard II |
| #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 |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | FILL IN THE AUTHOR $1600: "The Way of All Flesh"
by S.B. Samuel Butler |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | ROCK STARS ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES $600: May 24, 1980:
"'Rock Lobster' peaks at U.S. No. 56" The B-52s |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: As the word "born" in the first sentence of this book creeped people out, E.B. White changed it to "arrived" Stuart Little |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE HISTORY $800: In 490 B.C. Miltiades' runner pouts & says he's only going to run 1 mile & walk the other 24 from Marathon to here Athens |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | ASTRONOMY $400: In 1980 the Voyager spacecraft found that this planet's B ring had radial features called spokes Saturn |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $200: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $200: This S-T-E-E-L C-I-T-Y is the seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | CLASSICAL WORKS' OTHER NAMES $200: Schubert's symphony No. 8 in B minor is called this because only 2 movements were composed the "Unfinished Symphony" |
| #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 |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $1600: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee,"
B.T.S.B-S-W by the shining big-sea-water |
| #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) |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST SINGERS $400: "What'd I Say"? That this R&B singer/pianist is "On My Mind" at No. 2 on the list Ray Charles |
| #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 |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | OOO, 3 "O"s $2000: This B.I.G. term means widely & unfavorably known notorious |
| #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 |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | MUSICAL GENRES $600: The first "B" in B.B. King's name stands for this musical genre blues |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | "B" FORE & AFTER $600: Place to enjoy a pint of the local brewpub |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | THAT'S MY KID! $400: 47 B.C.:
Cleopatra
(think again) Julius Caesar |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | THAT'S MY KID! $800: 40 B.C.:
Cleopatra
(don't think again) Mark Antony |
| #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 |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $1200: Kelly Clarkson:
"S.U.B.G." "Since U Been Gone" |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | THE PILOT'S PHONETIC ALPHABET $400: Huzzah! Hooray! "B" is this! Bravo |
| #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 |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | MILITARY ABBREV. $1600: It's just what the "B" stands for in ICBM, so don't go this on us ballistic |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | YOU'RE IN THE CABI-NOT! $800: Roger B. Taney, after fighting the Bank of the U.S.,
1834 Treasury |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | THE SECRET LIFE OF "B"s $400: 2-word term for the demographic surge in the U.S. from 1946 to 1964 baby boom |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | THE SECRET LIFE OF "B"s $800: Systematic stress technique used on American prisoners during the Korean War brainwashing |
| #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 |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | THE SECRET LIFE OF "B"s $1600: Drugs called these blockers diminish reaction to adrenaline, keeping things mellow & reducing cardiac problems beta blockers |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | THE SECRET LIFE OF "B"s $2000: Field where Richard III fell Bosworth |
| #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 |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | I THINK $800: Upon this thinker's death in 347 B.C., the Greek philosopher Speusippus, his nephew, took over the academy Plato |
| #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 |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SUSAN B. ANTHONY $400: The $1 coin featuring Susan B. Anthony's likeness was first minted in this decade the 1970s |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SUSAN B. ANTHONY $1200: 14 years after her death, the movement created by Susan won passage of this women's voting amendment the 19th |
| #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 |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | ASTRONOMERS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) In the 200s B.C. Eratosthenes calculated Earth's girth using the difference in the angle of the Sun's rays between Aswan & this Egyptian city Alexandria |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | HEROD'S LOST TOMB $800: The Bible tells us Herod was troubled by the news of this great event and was soon dead in 4 B.C. the birth of Jesus |
| #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 |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Indian civilization, probably the first in the Americas, lived in eastern Mexico from about 1200 to 400 B.C. the Olmec(s) |
| #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 |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | J.W.s $2000: He was the sax-playing leader of R&B's All Stars Junior Walker |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | I'M CONCERNED... $2000: Founded in 1912, this group concerned with Jewish unity is the Women's Zionist Organization of America Hadassah |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $200: The farmer's spouse de-tails them:
3 B M three blind mice |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITAR SONGS $200: No. 1 on the list is his "Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $400: Marcus Agrippa's triremes proved too much for this couple's naval forces at Actium in 31 B.C. Antony & Cleopatra |
| #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 |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $2,000 (Daily Double): In Mr. B's version, this title creature had "shimmering feathers" tapering off in "orange-speckled flame" The Firebird |
| #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" $200: Acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining the lungs B-R-O-N-C-H-I-T-I-S |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | SPELLING "B" $600: Acute form of food poisoning that once claimed as many as 65% of its victims B-O-T-U-L-I-S-M |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | SPELLING "B" $1000: A Marxist adjective for the middle class B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | INFECTIOUS DISEASES $600: It's the B form of this inflammation of the liver that's spread by some kinds of personal contact hepatitis |
| #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 |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | SUE GRAFTON'S ALPHABET MYSTERIES $400: One who steals in the night:
"B Is For..." Burglar |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | HIP-HOP & RAP $200: Yo, this notorious rapper's second posthumous No. 1 hit single was 1997's "Mo Money Mo Problems" Notorious B.I.G. |
| #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 |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | "B" SHARP $1600: The battle of Bunker Hill actually took place on this adjacent hill Breed's Hill |
| #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 |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | 1980s MUSIC $400: This group was "Headin' down the Atlanta Highway... headin' on down to the Love Shack" The B-52's |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BATTLES $200: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end & the start of Sparta's rise Athens |
| #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 |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | "B" YOUR BEST $400: Moon walker Aldrin's moniker Buzz |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | "B" YOUR BEST $600: Whether he "did it" or not, he's the male head servant the butler |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | "B"EOPLE $1200: From 1992-99 he was CNN's senior White House correspondent covering the tenure of President Clinton (Wolf) Blitzer |
| #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 |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $2000: These mystical scriptures of Hinduism date from about 900 B.C. the Upanishads |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: In 338 B.C. this Macedonian king ended Greece's independence with victory in the battle of Chaeronea Philip |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | "B" & "O" $200: He's the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate Barack Obama |
| #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 |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $400: The almanac notes of her:
"b 3/15/33
(Brooklyn, NY)
Sup. Ct. Justice" Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $600: The naked truth about him:
"b 4/9/26
(Chicago)
Publisher" Hugh Hefner |
| #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 |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | BATTLE STATIONS $800: This Carthaginian's final significant battlefield defeat was against Scipio's forces in Zama in 202 B.C. Hannibal |
| #5410, aired 2008-02-29 | HEDY LAMARR-VELOUS $2000: In 1949 Hedy played Delilah to this actor's Samson in Cecil B. DeMille's epic version of this Biblical story Victor Mature |
| #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 |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | THEY MEAN BUSINESS! $800: It's Proctor & Gamble's main toothbrush brand, & they must want you to squeeze some Crest onto it Oral-B |
| #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 |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | SHORT STORIES $1000: The character Jesse B. Semple figures prominently in many of this "Harlem" poet's short stories (Langston) Hughes |
| #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 |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH KINGS $400: Near the end of the play, Fluellen, one of Henry V's officers, compares him to this 4th century B.C. conqueror Alexander the Great |
| #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) |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | MEAT ME $2000: Hot sauce, mustard & garlic powder can all go into this, the 3-letter term for the sauce used while the meat grills the mop (BBQ accepted) |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | PUNJAB $400: As part of his Easternmost conquests, this Greek's armies occupied the Punjab around 327 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | BRIT "B"ITS $800: It's the hearty nickname for the blokes seen here Beefeaters |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | BRIT "B"ITS $1600: "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street", it was founded in 1694 partly to finance William III's French wars the Bank of England |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | "B" IS FOR BARD $2000: In "The Taming of the Shrew", she's courted by 3 men Bianca |
| #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 $200: Aug. 4, 1901,
New Orleans:
Got his first cornet about 6 years later Louis Armstrong |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | LOU D.O.B.s $400: Jan. 4, 1809,
Coupvray, France:
Modified the Barbier point writing system for the Royal Institute for Blind Children Louis Braille |
| #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 |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $800: His 5th century B.C. writings traced the struggles between the Greeks & the Persian Empire Herodotus |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | LOU D.O.B.s $800: Dec. 27, 1822,
Dole, France:
Founding father of microbiology Pasteur |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | LOU D.O.B.s $1000: May 11, 1933,
The Bronx:
This guy who changed his name to Minister Louis X in the '50s Louis Farrakhan |
| #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 |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | THEY COME IN THREES $600: The 3 members of ancient Rome's First Triumvirate in 60 B.C. were Crassus, Pompey & him Julius Caesar |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | "B"s $400: This is the thin-sliced, salted & dried back & sides of the hog bacon |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | "B"s $800: Still used today, in Ancient Rome this instrument called the faithful to worship in the temples the bell |
| #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 |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | "B"s $2000: The oldest signs of life on Earth are fossilized ancestors of these one-celled organisms bacteria |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | "B" PLUS $400: It's one over par on a hole of golf, sweetheart a bogey |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | THE "B"IBLE $2000: It's at his feast that Daniel interprets the writing on the wall Belshazzar |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | QUOTATIONS $1200: In 1897 this women's rights pioneer wrote that "Suffrage is the pivotal right" (Susan B.) Anthony |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $200: This English minister made some real "Pilgrim's Progress" in the 1670s and 1680s (John) Bunyan |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $400: This Scottish playwright's initials stood for James Matthew (James Matthew) Barrie |
| #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" |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | BIOGRAPHIES $1200: Hollywood bios include Scott Eyman's life of Louis B. Mayer & Scott Berg's 1989 life of this Mayer associate Samuel Goldwyn |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | NUMBER TRIVIA $1200: Counting up from one, it's the first number that contains a "B" one billion |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | "B" PREPARED $400: For April, it's the diamond birthstone |
| #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 |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | GAUL'S GONE WILD! $4,000 (Daily Double): In 222 B.C., Romans defeated the Gauls in Italy, capturing the city of Mediolanum, now this northen city Milan |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | WE LOVE BROADWAY MUSICALS $1000: "The Ladies Who Lunch" love this composer's "Company", which began keeping company on B'way again in 2006 Stephen Sondheim |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | WHEEL OF FORTUNE $1200: Fred Hoyle's spaced-out name for how we all ended up here
B _ _
B _ _ _
_ H _ O R _ the Big Bang Theory |
| #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 |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | MILITARY MATTERS $800: West Point grads are awarded B.S. degrees & are commissioned as officers of this rank in the U.S. Army second lieutenant |
| #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 |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $1200: During this Carthaginian's crossing of the Alps in 218 B.C., he lost at least 10,000 men & most of his elephants Hannibal |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | THE HEEBEE "G.B."s $400: U.S. military base on the southeast coast of Cuba Guantanamo Bay |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | THE HEEBEE "G.B."s $800: Internal digestive organ connected to the liver the gall bladder |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | THE HEEBEE "G.B."s $1200: At about 1,250 miles long, it's the largest coral reef on earth the Great Barrier Reef |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | THE HEEBEE "G.B."s $1600: Entomological title of a Poe Story The Gold Bug |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | THE HEEBEE "G.B."s $6,000 (Daily Double): 19th century French opera composer of "The Pearl Fishers" & "The Fair Maid of Perth", among others Georges Bizet |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $600: This late R&B artist's duet with Norah Jones, "Here We Go Again", was named record of the year for 2004 Ray Charles |
| #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 |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | MEDICINE $400: To help the baby's nervous system develop, pregnant women need lots of the B vitamin known as this acid folic |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | ALL'S PHARAOH $800: After this man died in 323 B.C., Ptolemy, one of his generals, declared himself Pharaoh Alexander The Great |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | '80s BANDS IN OTHER WORDS $600: Several Of The Boeing Craft Known As Stratofortresses B-52's |
| #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 |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | "NEW" YORK $400: 1980s bands like The B-52's are classified as this style of music New Wave |
| #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 |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $1200: Of the actors who have played James Bond, he's the one born in Ireland in 1951 Pierce Brosnan |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $2000: This Dublin-born actor who's featured in "The Usual Suspects" & "Stigmata" was formerly married to Ellen Barkin (Gabriel) Byrne |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | YOU'VE GOT TO FIGHT $400: Talk about an elephant in the room; in 215 Macedonia's Philip V allied with this Carthaginian against Rome Hannibal |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | TO PARTY! $800: Sponsored by Cadillac, an island mansion was filled with movie sets for this Miami Heat's center's 34th B-day Shaquille O'Neal |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | "B" PREPARED $800: This U.S. government department is abbreviated B.I.A. the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | CONQUER $400: Around 336 B.C. this conqueror's army attacked & destroyed the Greek city of Thebes Alexander the Great |
| #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 |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $600: In 45 B.C. this Roman's army defeated the 2 sons of Pompey; it would be his final battle Julius Caesar |
| #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) |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | MESOPOTAMIA $1000: Nebuchadnezzar's spending on buildings & war left this empire open to conquest in 539 B.C. the Babylonian Empire |
| #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 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS "CAST" $400: For radio & TV, it was the "B" in CBS & that's no bull Broadcasting |
| #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 |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | CABLE TELEVISION $800: Bravo showed viewers what it's like "Being" this R&B singer who's married to Whitney Houston Bobby Brown |
| #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 |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA $400: The Who's Who 60, an all-time list in the 60th Edition, incudes this "aviator, b. Detroit, Feb. 4, 1902" Charles Lindbergh |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | CITY OF THE DAY: BIRMINGHAM $800: In its Oct. 2001 issue, this mag ranked B'ham's Highlands Bar & Grill among the top 5 restaurants in the U.S. Gourmet |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | "B-I" $1200: It's a person who loves or collects books a bibliophile |
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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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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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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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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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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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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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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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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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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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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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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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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.
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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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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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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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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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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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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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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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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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Sahir Islam, an investment analyst from Somers, New York
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"The champion of the 1997 Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California
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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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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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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
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Colby Burnett, a high school college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
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Brandon Blackwell, a writer and TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York
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Monica Thieu, a postdoctoral scientist from Atlanta, Georgia
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Monica Thieu, a psychology student from Dallas, Texas
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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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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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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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Ben Studdard, a trial judge from Henry County, Georgia
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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Daniel Elias, an advertising copywriter from New York City
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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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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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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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