| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $200: A ruminant races backwards & becomes this last name of actor Oliver & musician Lou Reed (from deer) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $400: Read backwards, a Japanese word for dried seaweed becomes this metal iron (from nori) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $600: A word preceding "chart" for a step-by-step guide becomes this big canine wolf (from flow) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $800: A set of enzymes from a cow's stomach lining becomes this, slang for what might buy you a plate of fish & chips tenner (from rennet) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $1000: A runner who sets the tempo of a race rewinds & becomes this shortened word for a TV opening that might begin "previously on" a recap (from pacer) |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1600: 2 friends leave a Mexican paradise & make their separate ways into a Maine prison The Shawshank Redemption |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TOUCH TYPE $400: A word & the same word backwards: done "on the shoulder", they mean you're being selected or being comforted tap or pat |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FAMOUS GINGERS $600: It was said of this Oscar-winning actress, that she did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards & in high heels Ginger Rogers |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $200: Born in Beatrice / Worshiped a girl named Florence / Oops, got that backwards Dante |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | THE JOKERS $400: In 1984 he was still known as Leaf when he played Robby in the ABC Afterschool Special "Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia" Joaquin Phoenix |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | LOGOS $600: The logo of this fashion house named for its founder contains 2 interlocking "C"s, backwards & forwards Chanel |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $1000: This Danish philosopher agreed that "Life can only be understood backwards, but... it must be lived forwards" Kierkegaard |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $400: Before doing it all backwards & in high heels with Fred Astaire, this dancing legend kicked things off in Independence Ginger Rogers |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Neptune's moon Triton is the only big moon in our solar system that orbits in this 10-letter way, meaning backwards retrograde |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 1986 she founded one of the most successful production companies in daytime TV, Harpo Productions (Oprah) Winfrey |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: "The Curious Case of" this title Fitzgerald short story character is that he ages backwards Benjamin Button |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE RICHTER SCALE $300: A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves on this big river run backwards the Mississippi |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Harold Pinter's adultery drama "Betrayal" is notable for unfolding in this unusual way in reverse or antichronological (backwards) |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! $1200: Llareggub, which is "bugger all", backwards, in his native country Dylan Thomas |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | PHYSIOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): This type of joint with a 3-word name allows for the greatest range of motion--forwards, backwards, sideways & rotating ball-and-socket |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $400: A spool of film & to gaze in a lascivious fashion reel & leer |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $800: Villainous & not lip-synched evil & live |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $1200: A distinctive sharp taste & a tiny fly tang & gnat |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $1600: A large instrument you blow into & to border or touch tuba & abut |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $2000: Interlacings of strings & a slangy word for one share in a company knots & stonk |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | SPIDERS $800: Some spiders that scuttle sideways & backwards are called this, like the aquatic arthropods they're named for crabs |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | A GUSTY MOVE $1000: A 2016 bike race in Spain was called off after wind stopped this, the name for a group of riders, in its tracks & pushed some backwards peloton |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | WHAT A DIVE! $1,500 (Daily Double): Someone who profits, or a backwards somersault that lands feet first into the water a gainer (full gainer) |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: Antonyms that fill in a famous Kierkegaard thought: life can only be understood ____ but it has to be lived ____ backwards & forwards (reverse & forward) |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1200: An ananym is a name written this way, like Kebert backwards |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | FORGETFUL SEQUELS $800: When this superhero "Returns" in a 2006 film, he must have spun the world backwards to erase movies No. 3 & 4, which were ignored Superman |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Australia's coat of arms has the kangaroo and this bird. Both symbolize the country's forward motion, as it's believed the animals don't like to move backwards an emu |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $400: A wild canine & to move like a liquid wolf and flow |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $800: To modify written material for publication & a lunar-influenced ocean swell edit and tide |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $1200: A fibber & to express anger about something liar and rail |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $1600: A sufferer of Hansen's disease & to push away with magnetic force leper and repel |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $2000: A Huggies product for a baby & a word for a debt no longer owed diaper and repaid |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | FUN WITH BACKWARDS WORDS $400: 20461 Dioretsa is one of these with a retrograde orbit an asteroid |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | FUN WITH BACKWARDS WORDS $600: Baseball star Anthony Garciaparra goes by this middle name, his dad's name backwards Nomar |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | FUN WITH BACKWARDS WORDS $800: Mail abuse prevention systems, or MAPS, are designed to fight this spam |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | FUN WITH BACKWARDS WORDS $1000: A backwards state name, Ak-Sar-Ben has been on the name of a racetrack & coliseum in this Midwest city Omaha |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | THE RULES OF THE GAME $800: "Polish" this is played on a 100-square board, & pieces may move backwards to capture checkers |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | 2-WORD SONG TITLES $1200: It's the title & shout-along chorus of a 2012 hit by The Lumineers "Ho Hey" |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | WORDS OF OPPOSITION $1200: Backwards, or a double handoff football play a reverse |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | WATCH OUT FOR SPIDERS $600: Like the shellfish for which they are named, these spiders are known to walk sideways & backwards a crab |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | WRITING $800: Perhaps to thwart those who would steal his ideas, Leonardo da Vinci used a backwards shorthand named for this object a mirror |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | FAMOUS GINGERS $200: It was said of this Oscar-winning actress that she did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards & in high heels Ginger Rogers |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | IF YOU WATCH THE MOVIE BACKWARDS... $200: In this 1975 film a sea creature spends his summer spitting up swimmers & boaters off Amity Island Jaws |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | IF YOU WATCH THE MOVIE BACKWARDS... $400: This title guy loses a title fight & breaks up with his girlfriend, who moves back in with her brother & works in a pet shop Rocky |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | IF YOU WATCH THE MOVIE BACKWARDS... $600: In this film, the arrival of dead major leaguers causes a home-owner to tear up his baseball field & plant some corn Field of Dreams |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | IF YOU WATCH THE MOVIE BACKWARDS... $800: Despite making a great sack for Notre Dame, a player is forced to toil solely on the practice squad for years in this pic Rudy |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | IF YOU WATCH THE MOVIE BACKWARDS... $1000: This actor reattaches his severed arm, sticks it under a boulder, then ascends up a canyon to safety James Franco |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS $400: In 1812 one of these caused a fluvial tsunami in the Mississippi River, causing it to flow backwards an earthquake |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS $800: Fitzgerald's "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is about a man who does this backwards ages |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS $1200: Rascal Flatts says if you play this backwards, you get your "house back... dog back... truck back" a country song |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS $1600: Neptune's moon Triton is one of the few in the solar system with this type of "walking backwards" orbit retrograde |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS $6,000 (Daily Double): 101 is called this type of prime number because it reads the same backwards palindromic |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | FOOD... BACKWARDS $200: A canned Hormel product spelled backwards becomes items that can help you find your way home Spam & maps |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | FOOD... BACKWARDS $400: Shelled snacks become a verb meaning to daze nuts & stun |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | FOOD... BACKWARDS $600: Forwards, a tuber; backwards, a month yam & May |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | FOOD... BACKWARDS $800: A roll sometimes "hot cross" becomes a small lump bun & nub |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | FOOD... BACKWARDS $1000: An onion relative turns into a part of a boat leek & keel |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $200: Born in Beatrice /
Worshiped a girl named Florence /
Oops, got that backwards Dante |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | ASTROLOGY $200: A planet in the zodiac with retrograde motion appears to be moving this way in reverse (or backwards) |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $400: In 1983 Michael Jackson danced backwards into history using this signature move on Motown's 25th Anniv. special the Moonwalk |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | A PIG $800: Warthogs use the burrows of aardvarks for shelter & enter this way to protect themselves backwards |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | CHECK YOUR "OIL" $200: The backwards movement of a gun after it's been fired recoil |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | A FUNNY RACE $800: Brian Godsey set a record with a 19:32 5k running this way--they say it's better for your knees backwards |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | RECREATION $200: Time to hit the street on this piece of equipment & do a Caballerial, a fakie 360 ollie (fakie means backwards) skateboard |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | IT'S MAGIC TIME! $400: The magician Kuda Bux was most famous for his ability to drive a car this way blindfolded |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | PONCE DE LEON & FLORIDA $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Florida peninsula with additional markings.) While sailing along the Florida coast, Ponce discovered a current so strong that it forced his ships backwards; later mapped by Benjamin Franklin, this ocean current flows from the Florida Straits to the Grand Banks the Gulf Stream |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Glacier Bay in Alaska.) The straw-colored plumes that curve backwards from behind the eyes are part of the breeding ornamentation of the tufted variety of this auk family member a puffin |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $400: A Jetta or a Golf in Wheeling VW and WV |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $800: The system to make announcements at a major news-gathering service an AP PA |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $1200: A holder of an advanced law degree playing music on the radio a JD DJ |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $1600: A heart attack suffered by a member of Jim Phelps' force IM MI |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $2000: For example, the company that makes the Profile dishwasher e.g., GE |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Going backwards, the 4 stages of a bee's life are adult, pupa, larva & this stage egg |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $400: Anatomy-wise, the subscapularis is a muscle in this "cuff" rotator |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $800: To make an allusion to something refer |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $1200: Reza Khan, born in Iran in 1878, & his son were these for a combined 54 years shahs |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $1600: Coloring something more rubicund makes it this redder |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS $2000: Exalted to the rank of a god deified |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | PREFIXES $1000: When this prefix precedes "active", it means "backwards"; by itself it refers to the style of an earlier time retro- |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $800: In the 19th century a unit of conductance was named the "mho" in tribute to this man who studied current flow Ohm |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | SAY CHEESE! $800: Comical Dutch farmers know that this cheese is made backwards edam |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | GET YOUR WORDSWORTH HERE! $1600: It sounds a little backwards, but "The child is father of" this the man |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | WHEN THINGS GO WRONG $1200: In this alliterative condition, often seen in the legs, weak valves allow the blood to flow backwards & pool in vessels varicose veins |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | WE'RE CUCKOO $200: Unlike most birds, cuckoos have 2 of these pointing forward & 2 pointing backwards, if you "grasp" the clue talons (or toes) |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | SAY WHAT, BOB? $1200: A railroad man "smoked my eyelids / and punched my" this--sure you haven't got that backwards, Bob? a cigarette |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: Kayak is an example of this, a word that reads the same forwards & backwards a palindrome |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | WE'RE GOING BACKWARDS $400: If you're 62 or older & receive loans that are charged against your equity in your house, it's this type of mortgage a reverse mortgage |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | WE'RE GOING BACKWARDS $800: Add 1 letter to a Darwinian word to get this, meaning assuming characteristics of an earlier form devolution |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | WE'RE GOING BACKWARDS $1200: Chronometrically speaking, in contrast to most twining vines, morning glory climbs this way counterclockwise |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | WE'RE GOING BACKWARDS $1600: In psychology when a 40-year-old acts like a 10-year-old, it's called this regression |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | WE'RE GOING BACKWARDS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) From Earth's point of view, shown here by the red line, planets sometimes appear to reverse direction because the Earth overtakes them in their orbits; the backward motion is called this--from the Latin for "walking backward" retrograde |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $600: This TV production company's name is its TV host owner's first name backwards Harpo |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | SPORTS, ILLUSTRATED $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a football diagram on the monitor.) Designed to confuse the defense with a quick change of direction, this type of football play has a backwards-sounding name a reverse |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | FOOTBALL 101 $400: Popularized by Amos Alonzo Stagg, it's a pass thrown backwards or sideways lateral |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | HOLLOW $400: A goat's are hollow, arch backwards & may be a pain in the butt to you horns |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | RIPLEYS $400: Robert Ripley's 1st "Believe It or Not!" had sports oddities like "A. Forrester...ran 100 yards" this way in 14 seconds backwards |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $200: Inuit boat of sealskin K-A-Y-A-K |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $400: A firecracker that fails to fire D-U-D |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $600: A highway patrolman's "gun" or a Golden Earring "Love" song R-A-D-A-R |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $800: From the Latin for "wheel", it's the part of a helicopter that provides upward lift R-O-T-O-R |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $1000: Asian new year celebration T-E-T |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a money-printing press in Washington, D.C.) There might be $300 million in production at a given time in the building I'm in, the D.C. facility of this bureau The Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT THE '90s MOVIE TITLE MEANS $400: It's what the tail does if things are backwards Wag the Dog |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IT'S OK TO SAY IT BACKWARDS $400: A job, especially for a musician a gig |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IT'S OK TO SAY IT BACKWARDS $800: A tiny child, or a small amount of liquor for a Brit a tot |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IT'S OK TO SAY IT BACKWARDS $1200: Palindromic breads include India's naan & one spelling of this Jewish Sabbath item hallah |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IT'S OK TO SAY IT BACKWARDS $1600: Paired with flutter, it's a slow wavering of pitch due to uneven playback speed wow |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IT'S OK TO SAY IT BACKWARDS $2000: More incarnadine redder |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | GAMES $600: In checkers this piece can move forwards & backwards the king |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | "B" SHARP $800: A joke says that when you play country music this way, your wife, your dog & your car return backwards |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | WO"RR"DS $400: This imperfect duplication of Superman with a childish brain lived on Planet Htrae (Earth backwards) Bizarro |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $400: A buddy & to lick up water like a dog pal and lap |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $800: To daze someone & cashews & filberts stun and nuts |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $1200: Survived & a creature like Satan lived and devil |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $1600: Dull & colorless & an old Celtic poet drab and bard |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS $2000: A type of beer & something suitable for a king lager and regal |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS? $1000: In Australia, water is going down drains backwards (to us). This fall, Mel Gibson takes on the reason why--this "Effect" Coriolis |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | SHRIMPING $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with her food on a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.) Shrimp typically swim backwards by flexing the tail & these aptly-named appendages on the abdomen swimmerets |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | STATE OF INTEREST $1000: The town of Levan (navel, backwards) is located in the middle of this state whose symbol is a beehive Utah |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $600: A title for an important Islamic leader; Khan you dig it? aga |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | THE POPES $1200: Pius X's original name was Giuseppe Sarto; sarto means this, one of the first craftsmen a new pope sees tailor |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | BIRD UP! $400: This small creature is the only bird that can fly backwards the hummingbird |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $2000: After recovering from paralysis around 1660, Mary Margaret Alacoque became a famous one of these a nun |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | UNIVERSAL TRUTH $800: This Pole's sun-centered universe theory explained why Mars appeared to move backwards across the sky Copernicus |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | "FULL" HOUSE $1600: In diving this maneuver is also known as a reverse or backwards somersault a full gainer |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $200: First bottled way back in 1826, its name is "naive" backwards Evian |
| #4477, aired 2004-02-10 | THE BODY HUMAN $2,600 (Daily Double): As opposed to ball-&-socket, your knee is this type of joint moving backwards & forwards hinge joint |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | CAN YOU PICTURE THIS? $600: Words illustrated here, forwards and backwards spool & loops |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | 21st CENTURY MOVIES $400: "Memento" & "Irreversible" share this unusual storytelling technique reverse/backwards |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | PEOPLE $1000: Erich Maria Remarque was a pen name; he came up with it by spelling this, his real last name, backwards Kramer |
| #4267, aired 2003-03-04 | PARROTS $600: In parrots these are zygodactyl -- the first & fourth are turned backwards toes |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | STAIR-ING AT THE SCREEN $800: After getting a nice motherly stab, Martin Balsam careens backwards down the stairs in this Hitchcock classic Psycho |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | THE GECKO $1200: The Global Gecko Association is in this state whose postal abbreviation is backwards in the word gecko Oklahoma (OK) |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | CONTORTIONISM $200: This alliterative phrase means to make an exceptional effort to please someone bend over backwards |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | STATUARY HALL $2000: Daniel Webster New Hampshire |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | "B" SHARP $800: A joke says that when you play country music this way, your wife, your dog & your car return backwards |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | FOOD & DRINK $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew ready to fall backwards into a swimming pool.) I'm about to take this drink company's famous plunge from TV ads Nestea iced tea |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is outside the U.N. building.) It's the U.N. goal & the reference from Isaiah expressed by the U.N. headquarters statue seen here beating swords into plowshares |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | TAXI $800: Played by this actor, Rev. Jim changed his name to Ignatowski, thinking it was "star child" spelled backwards Christopher Lloyd |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | SPORTS & GAMES $100: In checkers this piece can move forwards & backwards king |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | I KNOW IT FORWARD & BACKWARD $600: Craft illustrated here kayak |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | RHYME TIME $400: A hopeful desire for an aquatic creature fish wish |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | HISTORY $100: Legend says in 1811 & 1812 earthquakes on the Midwest's New Madrid Fault made this river run backwards Mississippi River |
| #3605, aired 2000-04-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: If Italy's boot kicked backwards, it would hit this country whose capital is Tirane Albania |
| #3413, aired 1999-06-09 | TRIVIAL STEW $200: In this contest using a rope, your team wins by going backwards & loses by going forwards Tug of war |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | THE JACKSON FIVE $1000: In October 1973 he became the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia Maynard Jackson |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $100: When males take on females, it's called "The Battle of" these S-E-X-E-S |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $200: Air traffic controllers check this screen to get the dish on the flight path of a plane R-A-D-A-R |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $300: Carpenter's tool, or the type of "head" a sensible person has L-E-V-E-L |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | IMPOSSIBLE $500: This suave Brit played a psychiatrist with a nubile young daughter in the 1968 farce "The Impossible Years" David Niven |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $500: Punctures grounded the Garfield one of these in the 1998 Macy's parade N-O-O-L-L-A-B |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | THE RENAISSANCE $200: Thousands of pages of his notebooks survive; to read them you'll need a mirror because he wrote backwards Leonardo da Vinci |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | EDISON & THE PHONOGRAPH $400: Edison marveled at the machine's ability to do this, perhaps making him the first to hear "Paul is dead" play backwards |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $200: It's any word that's spelled the same forwards & backwards Palindrome |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | WORD PLAY $600: GNIKLAW
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Plennie L. Wingo is in the Guinness Book of World Records for doing this 8,000 miles walking backwards |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | AND $200: It's often been said of these dancers that she did everything he did, but backwards and in high heels Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | PUNCHLINE $500: It explains why music played backwards is coming from Beethoven's grave he's decomposing |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | BACKWARDS $200: In T minus 5 seconds, you'll say this word for the inverted series used before a rocket launch a countdown |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | BACKWARDS $400: In psychology it's the process of reverting to an earlier, childlike form of behavior regression |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | BACKWARDS $600: Field Marshal Barclay used this maneuver associated with defeat to lure Napoleon deep into Russia a retreat |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | BACKWARDS $800: In competitive rowing, this is the only person in the boat whose back is not to the finish line the coxswain |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | BACKWARDS $1000: Called "Bojangles", he was renowned for tap dancing on stairs & running backwards at high speed (Bill) Robinson |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BIRDS $100: Not only do these birds hover, they're the only ones capable of flying backwards hummingbirds |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | SPORTS $500: The backwards one-revolution jump in this sport is named for Ulrich Salchow figure skating |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | VOCABULARY $600: It's the term for a word or phrase that reads the same way backwards & forwards a palindrome |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | POTPOURRI $500: Neewollah, a festival for this holiday, is observed each year in Independence, Kansas Halloween ("Neewollah" backwards) |
| #2565, aired 1995-10-27 | PREFIXES $400: Before fit, grade or active, it means backwards or back in time retro |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $800: Ross MacDonald named this character after Sam Spade's partner Lew Archer |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | ANIMAL FACTS $200: A zygodactyl bird, such as the parrot, has 2 of these directed forwards & 2 backwards his toes |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | ᗡƎƧЯƎVƎЯ $500: In 1968 this track & field gold medalist "flopped" over the high bar backwards (Dick) Fosbury |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | LETTER PERFECT $200: It's the letter turned backwards in the name of America's top toy store chain R |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: These feathered friends that can fly backwards are named for the noise their wings make a hummingbird |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | AMERICAN BUSINESS $800: Among the brand names owned by this firm are Meow Mix, Hostess Twinkies & Rye-Krisp Crackers Ralston Purina |
| #1958, aired 1993-02-24 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY PAIRS $200: Kraft makes Nice N' Light, Light N' Lively & Shake 'n this Bake |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | SINGERS $200: The rappers known as Kris Kross kreated a kraze by wearing their oversized klothes in this unusual way backwards |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: You have to lean backwards over the edge of a castle if you want to kiss this Gaelic landmark the Blarney Stone |
| #1806, aired 1992-06-08 | CYCLING $200: Caliper brakes work by squeezing levers on the handlebars; coaster brakes by doing this pushing the pedal back |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | FEATHERED FRIENDS $200: This small bird is the only one that can fly backwards the hummingbird |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | GREAT DANES $800: Philosopher who said, "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward" Kierkegaard |
| #1125, aired 1989-06-23 | WORDS $1000: Striking clocks in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is an example of this from Greek for "backwards" & "time" anachronism |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | TV "ADVENTURES" $100: Flipping over the film let this show's hero reverse his flying direction, but his "S" was backwards The Adventures of Superman |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: Sport in which you hit a ball with a club; in fact, its name backwards means to beat harshly golf |
| #1025, aired 1989-02-03 | KID STUFF $200: The "Toys R Us" logo is not accurate here because our computer can't print this a backwards R |
| #1023, aired 1989-02-01 | MEDIUM & MESSAGE $400: On his latest album, comic Bob Goldthwait put in messages that could only be understood this way by playing the album backwards |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | BASEBALL $400: The unusual thing Jimmy Piersall did after hitting his 100th career homer in 1963 ran the bases running backwards |
| #898, aired 1988-06-29 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Adjective form of the word that describes a word that reads the same forwards & backwards palindromic |
| #847, aired 1988-04-19 | U.S. HISTORY $100: An earthquake in 1811 at New Madrid, Mo. caused this "Big River" to flow backwards for a time Mississippi |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | "DD" $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the comparative form of a primary color & a palindrome, too redder |
| #834, aired 1988-03-31 | MOVIES $400: In a '43 film, Lon Chaney, Jr. visits the south using the name Alucard, an alias for this Dracula (spelled backwards) |
| #829, aired 1988-03-24 | TOUCHDOWN TOPICS $300: 1st coach to have center snap ball rather than roll it backwards, the College MVP Award is named for him (John) Heisman |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | GAMES $300: You can also play this popular crossword game "backwards" in a Hebrew edition Scrabble |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | SEA LIFE $1000: From Middle English for "shriveled", this "shriveled" crustacean can swim backwards shrimp |
| #752, aired 1987-12-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $300: Ending a 4-year journey in 1987, Steve Newman became the 1st person to go around the world this way walking |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | HOW TO... $200: Spin 73 plates simultaneously, walk 85 miles in 24 hours backwards, or be the largest lizard on Earth get in the Guinness Book of World Records |
| #711, aired 1987-10-12 | WORD ORIGINS $800: Some claim this word is derived from backwards spelling of Muldoon, the name of a gangster hoodlum |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | WORD ORIGINS $1,300 (Daily Double): "Rise to vote, sir" is one of these, named from the Greek "to run back again" palindrome |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $1,000 (Daily Double): To treat a simple nosebleed, one should sit down, pinch nose & lean in this direction lean forward |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | MUSIC TRIVIA $200: Carmen Miranda sang a backwards version of this song & called it "Eedapiz Ooh Dad" "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" |
| #603, aired 1987-04-01 | SPORTS "TRIPLE"s $400: The 1st trapeze artist to do this backwards was Lena Jordan in 1879; 12 years later a man did it a triple somersault |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | ROLLER SKATING $1000: In 1863, American James Plimpton invented the "rocking skate", enabling skaters to do this for 1st time skate in a curve |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | HOW TO... $300: "Spring forward, fall back" change the clock for daylight saving time |
| #580, aired 1987-02-27 | TRIVIAL WORLD RECORDS $500: In 1978, Billy Nichols waterskied this way for 2 hours & 42 minutes barefoot |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | DIRTY WORDS $500: This 4-letter word for porn is also a popular antacid spelled backwards smut |
| #444, aired 1986-05-22 | FICTION $300: Samuel Butler's tale of utopia that went "nowhere" backwards Erewhon |
| #426, aired 1986-04-28 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In "Betrayal", Harold Pinter tells the play's story chronologically this way backwards |
| #386, aired 1986-03-03 | TRIVIAL WORLD RECORDS $800: In 1930, Charles Creighton & James Hargis drove roundtrip from N.Y. to L.A. this way backwards (in reverse) |
| #362, aired 1986-01-28 | DISASTERS $200: In the early 19th century, a series of these caused the Mississippi & Ohio rivers to flow backwards earthquakes |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | DISNEY $200: In "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", the sorcerer's name, "Yen Sid", is really this Disney backwards |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: Spelled forward, it tells you things aren't off; spelled backwards, it tells you things are off on |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | GUINNESS RECORDS $500: Thomas Hunt "ran" 50 meters in 18.4 seconds this way on his hands |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Spelled forward it's how you feel, backwards it spells disaster mood |
| #193, aired 1985-06-05 | GAME SHOWS $400: Host who might've asked the stars, "Farmer Fred runs his farm backwards, even his cows go ____" Gene Rayburn |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | FLAGS $400: Symbol of Islam found on flags of Algeria, Turkey & Mauritania crescent |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | TV TRIVIA $200: On "Captain Video", the imaginatively named "Tobor" was this a robot |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | ODD JOBS $400: Circus performer who bends over backwards for you & into pretzel-like shapes, too contortionist |
| #143, aired 1985-03-27 | WORD PLAY $400: This cheese is "made" backwards Edam |
| #116, aired 1985-02-18 | POLITICS $200: Convention city of Republicans in '64, Democrats in '84 San Francisco |
