| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | PAGING THE FICTIONAL DRIVER $600: Can you hear me, Stephen King teen Arnie Cunningham? Your 1958 Plymouth Fury nicknamed this has a bad muffler--& other issues Christine |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | SLANGIN' WITH MR. JENNINGS $800: It can refer to a person with expensive tastes; "Bad &" this hit No. 1 for Migos Boujee |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Menander, known for his comedic plays, wrote that "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is" this, "but a necessary" this an evil |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $200: "I'm that bad type make your mama sad type, make your girlfriend mad tight might seduce your dad type... I'm the bad guy" Billie Eilish |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESSERT $400: Bad when it's caused by heavy rain, good when it's a dessert cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur & Irish cream a mudslide |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $1200: This director of "Her" donned a dress in "Bad Grandpa .5", playing the elderly Gloria Spike Jonze |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $400: Alan, Wayne, Merrill & Jay were some of the other members of this singing family, with hits like "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $400: This word is medical speak for really bad breath halitosis |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $600: In 1789 the Marquis de Launay, gov. of this landmark, didn't give up its munitions to the people so easily; bad move the Bastille |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is" Marcus Aurelius |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $800: This song from "Three Little Pigs" became a rallying cry against the Great Depression & the rise of Hitler "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP MUSIC $400: We are rabbit fans of this performer born Benito Martinez Ocasio in Puerto Rico in 1994 Bad Bunny |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $1,800 (Daily Double): A prefix meaning "bad" begins this word for feigning illness in order to avoid work malingering |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $200: In "Why Him?" this "Breaking Bad" star does not understand the appeal of James Franco (but his daughter does) Cranston |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $1600: It's on a horn:
BAA BAD SAID Addis Ababa |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $200: In the aplastic form of this condition, AA for short, your bone marrow doesn't make enough new blood cells aplastic anemia |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $400: In the most common form of this hereditary disease, patients lack or have low levels of clotting factor number 8 hemophilia |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $600: Septicemia can be blood poisoning by bacteria; the body's serious reaction to it is known by this shorter name sepsis |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $800: To prevent bleeding problems due to a deficiency, newborn babies are given a shot of this vitamin vital for blood clotting vitamin K |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $1000: Compression stockings can help prevent a blood clot in the leg known as a deep vein this a thrombosis |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $800: Vince Gilligan has asked fans of "Breaking Bad" to stop throwing these on the roof of a house featured on the show pizzas |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $1500: They're "F" words, but not the bad kind; they refer to a region's native plant & animal life flora & fauna |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $200: Making the best of a bad past situation, this ex-heavyweight champ from Brooklyn put out edibles in the shape of ears in 2022 Mike Tyson |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $600: Campaigns called Take Back the Tap, aiming to reduce Americans' passion for this, say it's not specially safe & bad for the planet bottled water |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $800: In its Season 5 mid-season finale, Agent Hank Schrader discovered that his brother-in-law was actually the drug lord Heisenberg Breaking Bad |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $800: Oddly, Little Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Wolf appear in the wedding scene of this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $600: Full house! Not a bad Texas hold'em hand, but not so fast! I've got this hand--not a royal or straight flush, but I still win four of a kind |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $200: Seen here, this insect's spots & bright color signal to predators that it will taste really bad if eaten the ladybug |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $200: The Corvair from this make that also gave us the Corvette got bad PR from being declared "unsafe at any speed" Chevrolet (Chevy) |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "The Bad Beginning", written under this pen name, is dedicated to the "unfortunate" Beatrice, "darling, dearest, dead" Lemony Snicket |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $400: A series of articles in the L.A. Times about people dying in their sleep, perhaps during bad dreams, inspired this 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $2000: 2020:
Detectives played by Will Smith & Martin Lawrence fight drug lords in Miami Bad Boys for Life |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WISH I'D SAID THAT! $3,000 (Daily Double): H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be" this word happy |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $100: "A naive girl has a bad day after she fails to notice that her grandmother is actually a hungry wolf" "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Red Riding Hood" accepted) |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE $800: Tredici is Italian for this symbol of bad luck 13 |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $1000: This youthful fellow had a bad run-in with the authorities in 1934 Baby Face Nelson |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2000: Weighty Camaro tax a heavy Chevy levy |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $200: An old superstition says, "bad" this last full run-through in costume, "good show" dress rehearsal |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | CURLS GONE WILD $200: Aww, a baby one of these primates is clearly having a bad hair day an orangutan |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $600: "Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm I got a bad desire" "I'm On Fire" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $300: An MI6 agent & a wily assassin known as "Villanelle" have it bad for each other Killing Eve |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $800: Police received multiple reports at 10 P.M. of a man running through town & tapping on windows in his nightgown "Wee Willie Winkie" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $800: This handsome crooner revealed that after a bad breakup, he wrote "Somebody's Crying" inside a closet at a party Chris Isaak |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GOLF $400: It's the 3-letter position of the ball & may be "good" or "bad" depending on the height of the grass the lie |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | A LITTLE LEGALESE $600: You pay this to have a lawyer available whenever you need legal help, like suing that orthodontist for giving you a bad one a retainer |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $800: At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" this world is destroyed the Earth |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $300: Once asked if his long mane was a "bad perm", this "Amish Paradise" singer said, "It's bad natural hair" "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | THE JOKERS $200: His final role was as Tony in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" in 2009 Heath Ledger |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $400: The clue I am reading had an example of a shift in this tense |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $800: Its the typographical mark that is missing in the first line of this clue. the apostrophe |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $1200: In a sentence, this noun & its verb has--excuse me, have to agree in number the subject |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $1600: Flout, meaning "to show scorn for", is often confused with this word meaning "to show off" flaunt |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $2000: 8-letter term for a "sentence" error. Found in the present clue. a fragment |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MEDICAL MNENOMICS $900: Its "G" standing for "glycemic control", "glucose bad" is a mnemonic for people with this medical condition diabetes |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $2000: "Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I've been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans. Ironically, the book of Fortuna is itself bad luck" Ignatius J. Reilly |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $200: (Justin Long presents the clue.) To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18 (Mary) Shelley |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $1200: Lupus & Tanner/ Skilled not inside the diamond/ Buttermaker drinks The Bad News Bears |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $400: His diary for July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, read, "Rien", meaning "nothing" Louis XVI |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $400: "Wonderland" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $400: The phrase "stay in your" this is bad advice if you're being told not to try new things but good advice if you're driving lane |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $400: This actor seems bad at the outset of "Deadpool 2", but there was no question about his alignment in "Infinity War" Brolin |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: In a tale by Beatrix Potter, Tom Thumb & Hunca Munca are "two bad" these rodents mice |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | "M"USICALS $2000: This 2001 movie musical set in Paris is now a stage show with new(er) songs like "Rolling In The Deep" & "Bad Romance" Moulin Rouge! |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? $1200: This outdated word for a bad student comes from the middle name of John Scotus, a theologian & scholar dunce |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $600: 2 new faces on the list: this "basketball legend" at $1 billion & this "golf great" at a bit more LeBron & Tiger |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | TAKING STOCK $400: The rise & fall of the stock market, in good times & bad, is represented by these 2 animals bear & bull |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | PREFIXES & SUFFIXES $400: This prefix that leads into -adroit means bad mal |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $200: As seen on Old West posters, rewards were offered for the bad guys captured one of these 2 ways dead or alive |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LADY "A" $600: In recent years she's appeared in "Bad Moms" & as one of the stars of "Dead to Me" Christina Applegate |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $400: After his victory at Waterloo, he said, "I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to always be fighting" the Duke of Wellington |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | STARTS WITH "W" $2000: It sounds bad, but it's a type of firm fabric made from twisted, compacted yarn & often used for suits & pleated skirts worsted |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $400: Ryan Gosling & Christian Bale see bad times ahead in this 2015 movie about mortgage banking & more The Big Short |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $200: In 413 B.C. a failed Athenian campaign became a disaster when Nicias saw this astronomical event as a bad omen & put off leaving Sicily a lunar eclipse |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $400: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) One of the twists in "Bad Cinderella" is that this prince is missing in action when the show opens, so I didn't write any songs for him in Act 1
"I am Bad Cinderella / Got a style all my own / And I will not change it for you..." Prince Charming |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $800: Saw $40 billion in losses in one bad stock market year; signed Smoot-Hawley to raise tariffs, which did not help (Herbert) Hoover |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | CHEMISTRY $800: Formerly used as an anesthetic & still used by bad guys on TV, it has the chemical formula CHCl3 chloroform |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $2000: Bacteria, parasites & viruses inside you sound bad, but they're now seen as this 10-letter realm essential to gut & overall health microbiome |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $200: Rain water & bad bowling attempts end up in this the gutter |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POP METAL BANDS $200: "Shot through the heart, & you're to blame, you give love a bad name, I play my part, & you play your game, you give love a bad name" Bon Jovi |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | EPISODE IV $800: 2008:
"Cancer Man" Breaking Bad |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $800: Nora Ephron mentions ones that are loose, crepey, wrinkled & turkey gobbler in her essay "I Feel Bad About My" this Neck |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $1200: As an investor who didn't want to hear bad things about Theranos, I was played by Sam Waterston in "The Dropout" George Shultz |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | MISSION: IMPASSABLE $800: Sit, this 3-headed doggy of myth! You snacked on anyone who tried to escape Hades! Who's a bad boy? You are! You are! Cerberus |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | BURT BACHARACH $1600: Burt was married to this actress in the years she made "Point Blank", "Big Bad Mama" & "Dressed to Kill" (Angie) Dickinson |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $400: Atomic No. 20, it's good when it's in the bones but bad when it builds up in the arteries calcium |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $800: An unhappy sentimental song & an unpleasant Cobb or Waldorf a sad ballad & a bad salad |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | RIHANNA $1000: Rihanna's girl songs include "Selfish Girl", "A Girl Like Me", & signaling a new edgy image, "Good Girl..." these 2 words "Gone Bad" |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $600: In "Cold Pursuit", based on a Norwegian film, Liam Neeson gets revenge on bad guys using his job driving this big winter vehicle a snowplow |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A BOX OF MATCHES $800: A superstition perhaps with military origins says it's bad luck to light this many cigarettes on a match 3 |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $200: Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel chocolate |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $400: Luke, the son of Hermes, betrays this title kid at Camp Half-Blood by poisoning him; not cool Percy Jackson |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $600: In this S.E. Hinton novel, it's the Socs vs. the Greasers, & Dally is a bit of a thug The Outsiders |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $800: With a name fit for a Roman emperor, this rude boy falls into Willy Wonka's river & gets sucked up by a super pipe Augustus Gloop |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $1,200 (Daily Double): "You've been brought up bad... Fagin will make something of you", says this rascal to Oliver Twist the Artful Dodger |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $1600: 2019's
"El Camino" Albuquerque |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $400: Bad puddy tat! This evil uncle admits fratricide when he whispers, "I killed Mufasa" to Simba Scar |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $400: Set in Melbourne, Nevil Shute's 1957 novel "On the Beach" finds much of the world destroyed by this man-made disaster a nuclear war |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $800: In Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves", this mysteriously blows up into 7 pieces that rain bolides onto Earth the Moon |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $1200: Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" is a sun that went supernova, killing a planet, & is this celestial object from the New Testament the Star of Bethlehem |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $1600: Early in this novel Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz informs humanity Earth will be destroyed for a hyperspatial express route The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $2000: John Wyndham's novel about "The Day of" these meat-eating plants sees most of humanity blinded before being featured on the menu the Triffids |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | "ME" $200: This adjective for something neither bad nor good is from Latin for "of middle quality" mediocre |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $800: After a bad Hessian session, this schoolmaster is never seen in Sleepy Hollow again (Ichabod) Crane |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LORD OF THE DINGS $800: Mark Margolis first got our attention by ringing a little bell while playing Hector Salamanca on this show Breaking Bad |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | RAPPERS $600: In one week in June 2022, this Latin rapper was listed on 17% of the Hot 100's hits, including "Ojitos Lindos" Bad Bunny |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | PURE POETRY $2000: In 1950 "Bitter Strawberries" by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old Sylvia Plath |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $200: With her 2019 song "Bad Guy", at 17 years old this artist became the first born in the 21st century to have a No. 1 song Billie Eilish |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE $800: A torso-bursting good time; Ripley's continuing believe it or not; bad company, I can't deny Alien |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $800: "I wish I knew you wanted me", he sings in the 2022 smash "Bad Habit" Steve Lacy |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | YOU SEEM UPSET $1200: You can leave in a cab or in an Uber but please, not in this bad mood, also a verb meaning to blow huff |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | ADJECTIVES $800: A kind of deep chasm gives us this adjective that can mean "bottomless" or "profound" but also "incompetently bad" abysmal |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1600: A bit of a maverick herself, in "Bad Republican" this political daughter writes of not fitting in Meghan McCain |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $400: A movie bio subject, this general seen here had to repeat his freshman year at West Point due to bad grades (George) Patton |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $600: This letter got some bad publicity when it became a COVID variant first detected in South Africa in 2021 omicron |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $400: Home to up to 20,000 people, this city had a catastrophically bad day in 79 A.D. Pompeii |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: The black sheep's not so bad; he's got 3 bags full of wool for these 3 recipients the master, the dame & the little boy who lives down the lane |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $1000: The Grimms had this animal eat 6 baby goats, then get sliced open as it slept, with the "meal" still alive within a wolf |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $400: The 2022 song "Bam Bam" features vocals by Ed Sheeran & this Cuban-American superstar Camila Cabello |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | A SIGN OF SHAME $1200: A DD-214 is a discharge paper from the military; the worst kind is this "DD", when you did something really bad a dishonorable discharge |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $200: O'Brien is a powerful & shadowy member of the Inner Party in this Orwell work 1984 |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $400: An ancient demon named Pazuzu possesses a young girl & kills 2 priests in this '70s horror bestseller The Exorcist |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $600: In "The Handmaid's Tale", this main "Aunt"-agonist strives to indoctrinate her captive charges into subservience Aunt Lydia |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $1000: It's the last name of David, the very bad father of Patrick in novels by Edward St. Aubyn Melrose |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $2,400 (Daily Double): Cathy Ames kills her parents & later abandons her newborn sons Aron & Cal Trask in this Steinbeck novel East of Eden |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $4,800 (Daily Double): "Good Brother, Bad Brother" is a dual biography of this assassin & his actor/brother Edwin John Wilkes Booth |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $500: From bad to worse in this novel: escaping nuclear war, a plane crashes, killing all the adults; the boys form their own society on an island Lord of the Flies |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SPORTS COMPETITIONS $200: In 2022, a year after a bad car crash, Tiger Woods returned to the greens in Augusta to play in this tournament the Masters |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | EVERYDAY ITALIAN $600: Hopefully, you haven't had any bad encounters with these photographers who follow the famous to get their shots paparazzi |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LEGALLY SPEAKING $1600: Misdiagnosis, bad prescribing & childbirth errors are 3 of the most common claims of this alliterative wrongful act medical malpractice |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $100: Caishen, the Chinese god of this supposed "root of all evil", was in one story killed by an arrow shot into a straw effigy of him money |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | CHAO! $200: With a preface by Pearl Buck, a 1945 book by Buwei Yang Chao taught Americans this 2-verb basic method of Chinese cooking stir frying |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $400: Zeus's lack of wisdom had him swallow his wife Metis when she was pregnant with this daughter born unusually, as seen here Athena |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW $600: Him: "Austin Powers--he's the snake to my mongoose. Or the mongoose to my snake. Either way, it's bad. I don't know animals" Dr. Evil |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): wizardingworld.com tells us this villainous last name means "bad faith" Malfoy |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $400: Colm Tóibín's "Bad Blood" documented the people & politics of this island Ireland |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $800: Stuck with 2 bad options, you're this, the title of a book by trapped climber Aron Ralston between a rock & a hard place |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $200: In Monterey on HBO:
"My life isn't perfect, Madeline, bad things have happened to me. I do understand the concept" Big Little Lies |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | "TIP" $200: You can stand this way, or do it to walk quietly past a bad situation to walk on tiptoe |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLAYING SANTA $800: A poster for "Bad Santa 2" had this thespian face down on a bar above the tagline "Giving the holidays another shot" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $1000: Japan got right down to it for a Nevada-set film: "I'm Drunk & You're a Prostitute" Leaving Las Vegas |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $800: In 2022 Bad Boy Mowers kicked off its sponsorship of the Pinstripe Bowl in this stadium that's a bit better known for baseball Yankee Stadium |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | TV CARTOON VILLAINS $200: Tiny bad guy Sheldon J. Plankton is determined to steal the Krabby Patty formula from the Krusty Krab on this TV show SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $600: A teen who is good with animals & numbers but bad at social situations tries to solve the killing of a neighborhood pet The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: Ponce de Leon has a very elegant map of this peninsula on which he landed April 2, 1513; too bad it shows it as an island Florida |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | POETRY $2000: The "Terrible Sonnets" of this 3-named 19th c. poet aren't bad but sad, like "No Worst, There is None" & "Carrion Comfort" Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | CELEBS $400: A "proud Ukrainian", this "Bad Moms" actress helped raise $35 million for Ukrainian refugees in 2022 Mila Kunis |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE ROCK BASSIST'S GROUP $1600: I see a "Bad Moon Rising", so I also see Stu Cook Credence Clearwater Revival |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | MUSIC OF TODAY $1500: At the 2022 VMAs he performed "Titi Me Pregunto" at Yankee Stadium & became the 1st male Latin star to win Artist of the Year Bad Bunny |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LYRICALLY YOURS $1000: "Bad & boujee... still be playin' with pots & pans, call me Quavo Ratatouille" Migos |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THE BODY HUMAN $200: It can mean a deposit on your tooth or in an artery; both are bad plaque |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $400: An old saying goes, "Guests, like fish begin to" do this; how you waited 72 hours is beyond us smell after three days |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | FIRST EPISODES $800: After breaking extremely bad, a onetime lawyer is an Omaha Cinnabon employee as this show commences Better Call Saul |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | STAY HEALTHY $600: This 3-letter cholesterol is the "bad" kind; ways to lower it include physical activity, limiting trans fats & taking statins LDL |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | BEASTLY TALK $800: Bad actions cause trouble later in this barnyard expression chickens come home to roost |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE RICHTER SCALE $200: The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck this country's Shaanxi province in 1556 China |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $200: "The Green Mile" was this bad part of Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $800: All due respect, Dr., I don't have leprosy! Ephelides sounds bad but they're these flat patches of pigment under the skin freckles |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: 2 basic approaches in this field are deontology (an act is inherently good or bad) & teleology (depends on the result) ethics |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Not bad, not great, just sufficient, from Latin for "equal" adequate |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $200: If you've been afflicted by the green-eyed monster, you're guilty of this jealousy |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $400: This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick the blue flu |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $600: If you're cowardly, you can be lily-livered or this other hyphenated term mentioning a nearby body part yellow-bellied |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $800: This annoying condition is also known as conjunctivitis pink eye |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $1000: Seen here, this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life red tide |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $400: From 2012:
"Say My Name" Breaking Bad |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES $800: Listerine says bad breath is "also known as oral malodor or" this word; now oral malodor... that'd be a better name halitosis |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | WELSH FOLK $1000: Opera star Bryn Terfel put out an album called "Bad Boys" on which he sings roles like this Mozart seducer Don Giovanni |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | RHYME ZONE $400: The typical response for one of my bad puns groan |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 LYRICS $1200: 2006:
"You're taking one down, you sing a sad song just to turn it around" "Bad Day" |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | THE DEVIL $200: This marsupial kind of looks like a bear, has a jaw as strong as a hyena's & like its cartoon counterpart, can have a bad temper the Tasmanian devil |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Bad air was thought to cause this disease, so it was given a name meaning "bad air"; it's caused by parasites malaria |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TEXTING, TEXTING $600: Online at damnyou this: "How's your day going?"; "Awful. I have a bad case of the manboobs" (followed by) "Omg. The Mondays!" Autocorrect |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | KILLER TUNES $2000: Backed up by the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey & this man sang of the tragic fate of "Henry Lee" Nick Cave |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $400: Told there'd likely be a June 6 break in bad weather that had delayed the invasion, this commander gambled & said, "OK, let's go" Eisenhower |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SEND A LETTER $800: Big in the 1930s, the "Good Luck of Flanders" one of these mentioned bad luck too, if you didn't pass it on a chain letter |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | TV THEME SONGS $1600: In the theme song for "Cops" performed by Inner Circle, this question follows "Bad boys, bad boys" whatcha gonna do |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | THE DRUGS OF HUMANITY $200: Lipitor lowers fat in the blood called triglycerides & knows if this lipid has been bad or good & helps make it good for goodness' sake cholesterol |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | BRISK LIT $200: Bureaucracy is almost as bad as war in this Joseph Heller novel Catch-22 |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $400: Tami Taylor, on this Texas-set drama: "It's part of my job to make sure that you don't grow up stupid. It's bad for the world" Friday Night Lights |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $800: It was 1994. This Munch painting was gone. Vamoosed. The thieves even left a note saying thanks for the bad security The Scream |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | NOT TOO "SEX"Y FOR YOU $400: This word for a discriminating person (in a bad way) was popularized in 1965 by Pauline Leet of Franklin & Marshall College a sexist |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | VIGOROUS VOCAB $800: If you're doing this with checks, it's bad, but if the word is used to describe your "baby boy", it means he's healthy bouncing |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | METAPHORS $2000: To blame bad news on the one who told you; the last name of Chicago policeman William meant it was literally done to him in 1901 shoot the Messenger |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET $400: The Wow! computer for seniors says it has "free anti-virus" & this bad stuff "protection" malware |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WESTERNS $200: In Italian this Clint Eastwood western was called "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CLEAR "I"s $200: It's from the Latin for "not readable", like with bad handwriting illegible |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: A symbol of bad luck & of Halloween, this common pet can also be hard to photograph--use diffused, not direct light a black cat |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | NUMERICAL PHRASES $600: Some schools have this numerical policy, meaning no leeway on bullying or other bad behavior zero tolerance |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1600: Offering "very good advice on bad assumptions" is what the reviewer had to say about "How to Win Friends and" do this Influence People |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | MUSIC OF THE 2000s $800: In 2001, he and his initial were everywhere with "U Remind Me" & "U Got It Bad" Usher |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | PHRASE FARMING $400: Judging good against bad is "separating" these 2 threshed farm items the wheat from the chaff |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | TV SHOWS BY FINAL EPISODE $1200: "Felina", in 2013 Breaking Bad |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The master one transmits pedal action to the wheels; a bad one may be the culprit if your brake goes right to the floor a cylinder |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | FEB BE WARY $200: If the critter sees this on Groundhog Day, tradition says we should be wary, with more bad weather in store its shadow |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $400: Whether good or bad, the acronym TFW stands for this, an emotional time for sure that feeling when |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $400: Katniss thinks this man, leader of the Capitol, smells like blood & roses President Snow |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: Things turn out badly for Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because of this medical pro Nurse Ratched |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1200: This slimy villain of "David Copperfield" gets his comeuppance as seen in the illustration here Uriah Heep |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $2000: This character tells Paul Sheldon, "You're going to use this typewriter to write a new novel! Your best novel! 'Misery's Return!"' Annie Wilkes |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $5,200 (Daily Double): Smallpox is but one of the retributions suffered by the villainous Madame de Merteuil in this 1782 French novel Dangerous Liaisons |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | "TIC" TALK $2000: It was bad to be deemed this, one who went against the medieval Catholic Church, like Knights Templar leader Jacques de Molay a heretic |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THAT'S SO CLICHÉ! $600: 2 bad choices: "between the devil &" this location the deep blue sea |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MOVIE SUM-UP $800: PTA PTSD;
maternal instinct, lapsed;
liberty for Bell (& Hahn, & Kunis) Bad Moms |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | GET YOUR "M_B_A" $200: 2-word expression meaning "I am at fault" my bad |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | HITS OF 2021 $200: This singer who has his own record label, Gingerbread Man, put some of his "Bad Habits" on the Hot 100 Ed Sheeran |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $800: It's this 5-letter type of fertilizer made from bat droppings, but it's not too bad guano |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $1,800 (Daily Double): Trouble with hay fever?
Have bad reactions to bug bites? Or peanuts?
This specialist can help an allergist |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | TV SHOWS TO BINGE $800: This series on which Walter White & Jesse Pinkman were involved in a whole different type of cooking show Breaking Bad |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $400: It was a nearly impossible mission when he played a vicious killer in "Collateral" Tom Cruise |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $800: In "Battle of the Sexes", Steve Carell won zero love playing this misogynistic tennis star Bobby Riggs |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $1200: Notoriously virtuous Matt Damon said "Arrivederci!" to several victims as this "Talented" guy in a 1999 film Mr. Ripley |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $1600: This actor who played Atticus Finch later portrayed Josef Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil" Gregory Peck |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $2000: Morgan Freeman ends up being the kidnapper in this film directed by Ben Affleck Gone Baby Gone |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $200: Tokyo does not appreciate this 1954 title character coming to town--talk about bad breath! Godzilla |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ALSO KNOWN AS $200: Theater people refer to it as "the Scottish play" Macbeth |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $400: He's seen here in an old illustration meeting his end the Big Bad Wolf |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | METAPHORS $200: A problem individual in an organization ruins things for everyone, as in the old saying this "spoils the barrel" one bad apple (a bad apple) |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | TV SCIENCE $400: On this series, Walter & Jesse plan to make ricin out of castor beans to poison the troublesome Tuco Breaking Bad |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | WORD OF MOUTH $2000: It's that little fleshy cone that hangs down at the back of your mouth, & it's fun to say the uvula |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | PLAYING OPPOSITE YOURSELF $1200: Seen here, D'Arcy Carden played Janet, Bad Janet, & at one point, lots more Janets on this NBC show The Good Place |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | NASTY, BRITISH $600: This Brit has played bad guys like Stringer Bell on "The Wire" & lent his voice to meanies like Shere Khan on film (Idris) Elba |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz did plenty of swearing on the job when she was supposed to be instructing students in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | MUSIC STARS $400: She had 3 of Billboard's Top 20 songs of 2015, including "Bad Blood" Taylor Swift |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $200: "Thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!"; he should've cut bait & run, as his harpoon issues got much worse the next day (Captain) Ahab |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $400: James, don't break up a family's baseball game & try to kill this girl! Edward will be mad & it just won't end well for you! Bella Swan |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $600: She a) married Roger Chillingworth & b) didn't just head off for Europe with Dimmesdale as soon as she heard the word "prison" Hester Prynne |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $800: He makes the mistake of trusting O'Brien, which leads to a harsh re-education at the Ministry of Love Winston (Smith) |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $1000: True love wins out, but he wasn't smart to let his friend Mr. Darcy talk him into leaving Jane Bennet in the lurch Mr. Charles Bingley |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | PULLING INTO "TOWN" $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1862 Confederate General John Magruder followed in Cornwallis' footsteps in having a very bad day in this historic place Yorktown |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $600: A triple winner in 2018, she performed "I Like It" with J Balvin & Bad Bunny Cardi B |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | TV HUSBANDS $2000: "The Good Wife" was wed to the bad husband played by this actor Chris Noth |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | FAIRY TALES: A CLOSER LOOK $600: A wild animal who's pretty good at deception attempts 2 homicides, that of a girl & her grandmother, but ends up dead "Little Red Riding Hood" |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $2000: 1976:
Coach Buttermaker, Ogilvie,
Lupus The Bad News Bears |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $1200: Nobody cries when this big bad Bill comes to a bad end in "Oliver Twist" Sikes |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $1600: This "Treasure Island" bad guy was a former sidekick of Captain Flint, "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed" Long John Silver |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | CAR PARTS APART FROM CARS $600: Isiah Thomas & Bill Laimbeer were "Bad Boys" for this team the (Detroit) Pistons |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW $400: "Breaking Bad" New Mexico |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $1000: From a character in popular entertainment, a Peck's this was a man who didn't obey social norms Peck's Bad Boy |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | '80s TV $1200: "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have" this sitcom The Facts of Life |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $1000: He tinkers with history at the Ministry of Truth, gets a girlfriend & has a very bad year Winston Smith |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | IF AT "FIRST" $400: Sounds like bad grammar but "me" is an objective singular pronoun of this linguistic form first person |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | SIGNATURE SONGS $1600: A bio of John Fogerty says this CCR signature song shifts "Northern Californian experiences to a southern setting" "Born On The Bayou" |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE $600: Michael Jackson sang of being it:
2-1-4 bad |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | COMMON BONDS $400: The bucket,
bad habits,
a football things you kick |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE GENERAL WELFARE $400: Seen here is the logo for this community program; bad guys, beware the Neighborhood Watch |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | TV ROLES $800: This actor's roles have included Jesse Pinkman on "Breaking Bad" & Caleb Nichols on "Westworld" (Aaron) Paul |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE $800: The name of this man who was thrown overboard & swallowed by a fish became a word for one who brings bad luck Jonah |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE $1200: Tammy Wynette sang, "You'll have bad times, & he'll have good times", but you should still do this "Stand By Your Man" |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $2000: "Braveheart":
the bad guy Edward I |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 1985 the Cubs' speedy Davey Lopes had 47 of these, failing only 4 times--not bad for a 40-year-old! stolen base |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | HERE'S JOHN $800: He's gotten very bad reviews for his role in history John Wilkes Booth |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: In "The Three-Body Problem", the Trisolarans have 3 of these near their world & it's bad for them, so they're coming here stars (suns) |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | A BORING CATEGORY $800: This 2-word dental procedure for pulp damage starts with clearing bad tissue using a drill--or even faster, a laser a root canal |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | BUDDHISM $800: The chain of moral cause & effect; it's popularly simplified as if you're mean, yours will be bad karma |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | EPONYMOUS FOOD $600: These Purim pastries are named for Haman, the bad guy of the holiday hamantaschen |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM $1000: The Chicago mob had a bad temper when they destroyed this ice cream bar company's fleet for not paying protection in 1929 Good Humor |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "Ferret in a Brothel" & "Elvis Descending a Staircase" are 2 of the terrible paintings in MOBA, the Museum of this Bad Art |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS $400: "Hunger Games: Mockingjay" director Francis Lawrence won a Grammy for directing her "Bad Romance" video Lady Gaga |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HATS IN BOOKS $1000: This French schoolgirl can often be found wearing a sailor hat; one of Ludwig Bemelmans' books is her "and the Bad Hat" Madeline |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | HOMONYM-BLENESS $1000: A cabdriver, a type of cough or a bad writer a hack |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | AMERICAN MUSIC $800: The polka-influenced waila music of Arizona Native Americans is also known by this poultry term for bad handwriting chicken scratch |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $400: Ice-T rapprehends bad folks as detective Fin Tutuola on this "Law & Order" variant Special Victims Unit |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BADJECTIVES $800: This bad, bad word also sounds like you've got bits of crackers all over your shirt crummy |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BADJECTIVES $1200: Drop an "L" from the beginning of a word meaning "legal" to get this truly bad adjective awful |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $200: The Goths & Vandals were 2 of these groups, a term for non-Greeks or Romans, presumably with bad table manners Barbarians |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | A "HA"! $2000: Once meaning an innkeeper, it's a sign of things to come, good or bad a harbinger |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | TV LOCALES $800: Like "Breaking Bad", "Better Call Saul" is set primarily in this U.S. state New Mexico |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | NO. 1 LYRICS $800: In a Beatles song this 2-word title precedes "don't make it bad" "Hey Jude" |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $600: A black flag is scary enough, but a pirate ship flying this color flag meant "no quarter given", a very bad omen red |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $400: Bank robber Marat Mikhaylich was dubbed the "Holiday Bandit" because he began his crime spree during this month December |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $1200: The first robbery attributed to this man & his gang of outlaws took place in Liberty, Missouri in 1866 Jesse James |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $1600: Probably the most famous bank robber in U.S. history, he was public enemy number one when he was killed outside a Chicago theater (John) Dillinger |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $2000: A bootlegger & bank robber with the real name George K. Barnes earned this moniker for the weapon he carried Machine Gun Kelly |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2005 4 thieves at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport made off with $118 million worth of these, bound for Antwerp diamonds |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | TV SHOW QUOTES $400: Jesse Pinkman: "When the going gets tough, you don't want a criminal lawyer... you want a--criminal--lawyer" Breaking Bad |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | SUPERSTITION $1000: People mail back rocks taken from Hawaii, believing in bad luck caused by the so-called curse of this Hawaiian volcano goddess Pele |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $200: Leonardo DiCaprio has a bad encounter with one of these animals in "The Revenant" but does make it to the end of the movie a (grizzly) bear |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE $800: In this drama by Sophocles, the Oracle of Delphi has bad news for the person who murdered Jocasta's first husband Oedipus Rex |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE GRAMM"E"S $400: In 2020 she won Grammys for "Bad Guy" Billie Eilish |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | BAD TO THE BONE $200: Often formed in your joints, osteophytes, or bone these, project along the edges of your bones & are definitely not the fun cowboy kind spurs |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | BAD TO THE BONE $400: You're being very bad to your bones if you don't get enough of this "sunshine vitamin"; tuna, egg yolks & mushrooms are good sources vitamin D |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | BAD TO THE BONE $600: Examination of this tissue in your bones can help diagnose leukemia & Gaucher disease bone marrow |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | TV-POURRI $800: Before he was Mr. Big on "Sex and the City" & the bad husband to "The Good Wife", he was Detective Mike Logan on "Law & Order" Chris Noth |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | BAD TO THE BONE $800: Military recruits & runners are prone to this 6-letter fracture, a tiny crack in the bone from overuse stress |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | BAD TO THE BONE $1000: Ouch! You broke this largest arm bone humerus |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | HISTORICALLY BAD $200: In 1932 & '33 Stalin decimated Ukraine by exporting most of its grain, bringing on the Holodomor, or "Great" this Famine |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | HISTORICALLY BAD $400: During the French Revolution, thousands, including Louis XVI, had the misfortune of meeting this, aka the Louisette the guillotine |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | HISTORICALLY BAD $800: In 1794 a Paris factory for this military stuff exploded, devastating what's now the 15th arrondissement gunpowder |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | HISTORICALLY BAD $1,000 (Daily Double): This began in Latin America in 1928, a little before it hit the United States the Great Depression |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | HISTORICALLY BAD $1000: In 1258 Baghdad made the mistake of resisting these invaders who promptly sacked the city & slaughtered its inhabitants the Mongols |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | DOG IS MY COPILOT $2000: Obviously it's off to the ballet for this breed here, a favorite of Russian nobility for hundreds of years Borzoi |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy John Steinbeck |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | "USA"! "USA"! $1000: Adjective for a behavior or transgression that is so bad it cannot be pardoned or tolerated inexcusable |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | A NAPOLEON COMPLEX $1200: It should have been a bad omen for Napoleon when this wife of his bought Malmaison, the house of misfortune the Empress Josephine |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | ALLITERATIVE TV SHOWS $400: The fried chicken franchise "Los Pollos Hermanos" was a front for nefarious fowl-ness on this show Breaking Bad |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NON-PROPHETS $800: In Acts of the Apostles, the false prophet Elymas, aka Bar-Jesus, has a bad day when this man calls him a "child of the devil" Paul |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $800: Charles Dickens may have based Uriah Heep on this Danish author, who left a bad impression when he visited Dickens Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HE SCORES! $1000: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is one of Ennio Morricone's classic scores for this Italian director's films Sergio Leone |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | GETTING THE KEY TO THE CITY $200: In 2020 these 2 "Bad Boys for Life" got the key to Miami & were made honorary police officers Will Smith & Martin Lawrence |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $1600: Thomas More wrote that "pilgrimage: bad" is one of these punishable beliefs for which he had 6 men burned heresy |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | AN ENCOURAGING VERB $600: It used to mean praising God; now, a movie may be accused of doing it to bad behavior like drug use glorify |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: This newer hyphenated verb refers to the viewing & mocking of bad TV for entertainment hate-watching |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $200: Four legs good & bad: "FAR MAILMAN" Animal Farm |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | 2-WORD TV TITLES $400: It co-starred RJ Mitte as Walter Jr. Breaking Bad |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | '80s & '90s HIT PARADE $1600: This Bon Jovi album yielded the No. 1 hits "You Give Love A Bad Name" & "Livin' On A Prayer" Slippery When Wet |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $400: Found in the liver, it helps make vitamin D; hope you have a lot more good than bad! cholesterol |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | I PLAYED HER IN THE MOVIE $200: Bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins Meryl Streep |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The Persian Empire fell to him in the 330s B.C., then Western Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, on into India; not bad for a guy barely over 30 Alexander the Great |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | PRESIDENT & ACCOUNTED FOR $1200: This politician who said, "Being rich is bad, it's inhuman" had a TV show called "Hello President" before his death in Caracas in 2013 Hugo Chávez |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $200: "A bloody deed--almost as bad, good mother as kill a king, and marry with his brother" Hamlet |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | INSIDE OF ME $1000: The name of this internal organ is a synonym for ill humor or bad temper your spleen |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | FORGETFUL SEQUELS $1200: The 2nd film in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series titled this guy's "Revenge" was just treated like a bad dream in later films Freddy Krueger |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul McCartney's Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building "Live And Let Die Hard" |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | "Mc"PEOPLE $800: Once known as the bad boy of tennis, today he's a respected commentator, both here and abroad (John) McEnroe |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | THE LANGUAGE OF DE-FEET $1000: A babyface is a good-guy pro wrestler; this is the term for the bad guy the heel |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | TV TEACHER APPRECIATION $400: On "Breaking Bad", a chilling medical diagnosis led to this chemistry teacher making significant changes in his life Walter White |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | DA, YOU SPEAK RUSSIAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Also called the great sturgeon, this species lends its name to a type of caviar beluga |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Accommodations were poor at this Crimean conference that shaped postwar Europe: bad beds, lice, & Stalin had no private bathroom Yalta |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | PREQUELS $800: This "Breaking Bad" prequel shows us how Jimmy McGill becomes Saul Goodman Better Call Saul |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HOLY SMOKE $1200: Native Americans were fond of burning this plant in ceremonies, and the practice is now used to remove bad energy from home sage |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | "DEE" DEE, DEE-DEE-DEE $800: Do this to "yourself" & you make up for a bad performance; do it to Grandma's ring & you get it back from a pawnshop redeem |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | FILM CHARACTERS $1200: This mercenary AKA Wade Wilson: "You may be wondering, 'Why the red suit?' Well, that's so bad guys can't see me bleed" Deadpool |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEST COAST STATE HIGHER ED $800: Not a bad view from campus at Pepperdine, located on the Pacific Coast Highway, in this celebrity-filled 6-letter beach city Malibu |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | MOVIE MONSTERS $2000: Based on a 1960 Hugo award-winning novel, this movie starred Casper van Dien & Denise Richards as soldiers fighting insect-like aliens Starship Troopers |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | 1815 $3,000 (Daily Double): Stephen Decatur negotiated treaties with Tunis, Tripoli & Algiers, ending the war against these bad guys the Barbary pirates |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | "CH" SQUARED $1200: Alan Moore created this "Watchmen" character as a bad version of Batman, & cringed a bit when fans idolized him Rorschach |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | PLACES IN FANTASY $800: In Bill Willingham's graphic novels, Bigby, this foe of Riding Hood, is the Sheriff of Fabletown the Big Bad Wolf |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A historic "Cross of Gold" orator decides to make a meth of things as a "Breaking Bad" star William Jennings Bryan Cranston |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | FOE PAs $400: In a 1980 sequel this bad guy cuts off his son's hand & then says, "I am your father" Darth Vader |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Seen here is the title character of this 2017 book, also the title of a 1954 novel about a very evil little girl The Bad Seed |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | WHOSE NO. 1 ALBUM $800: 1969: "Green River", including the title song & "Bad Moon Rising" CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: An org. failing due to bad leadership is said to be a case of one of these cold-blooded vertebrates "rotting from the head down" a fish |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Something bad that later turns out to be good is one of these at first hidden signs of favor a blessing in disguise |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $1200: In 2019 Aaron Paul reprised his role as Jesse Pinkman for this "Breaking Bad" movie El Camino |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | X MARKS THE WORD $400: A person or thing that brings bad luck a hex (jinx) |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TV VILLAINS $800: Kasius, Graviton & a Kree were bad guys on this Marvel series on ABC Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | WOMEN'S MEMOIRS $1,000 (Daily Double): "I Feel Bad About My Neck", about the travails of aging, is by this late, great writer & director of "You've Got Mail" Nora Ephron |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: At the beginning of "Bad Guy", you can hear this young star removing her Invisalign braces so she doesn't lisp as she sings Billie Eilish |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | SPACED-OUT POP CULTURE $400: Bad robots & Xenomorphs are on the deadly prowl yet again in "Covenant", the most recent film in this interstellar terror franchise Alien |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | SHORT STORY SYLLABUS $1,000 (Daily Double): W.W. Jacobs came up with pretty much the opposite of a lucky rabbit's foot with this story of a dad, a son & 3 wishes gone bad "The Monkey's Paw" |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | CHEMISTS $2000: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Real-life scientists whose names came up on "Breaking Bad" included, of course, Heisenberg, & also this Frenchman guillotined at age 50 after making chemistry a modern science Lavoisier |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | "AFTER" $800: I "sense" you know it's the remaining sensation about an experience, often a bad one aftertaste (*after effects) |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: At age 15, this 16th century girl reluctantly allowed herself to be put on the English throne; bad move Lady Jane Grey |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | PROVERBS $800: Economist Milton Friedman was fond of the saying, "There's no such thing as" this a free lunch |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | I'M DYIN' UP HERE! $600: In 1819 famed aeronaut Sophie Blanchard ignited fireworks over Paris; bad idea in a balloon filled with this hydrogen |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | NEW MILLENNIUM TV $1000: In 2013 Variety said of this AMC show's final episode, it got the "chemistry just right" Breaking Bad |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | EARLY ROLES $2000: That's Megan Fox dancing in a club in this Will Smith/ Martin Lawrence sequel Bad Boys II |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $400: In German place names, bad means "bath" & a spa town got its name from this plural word for bath baden |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $1600: In 1969 & 2017 famous trees of this type with a Native Amer. name fell in Calif.; it's bad to cut a driving tunnel through a tree sequoia |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | QUOTES OF NOTE $400: On June 10, 1941 he said, "The British... are the only people who like to be told how bad things are" Churchill |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | PSYCHOLOGY JARGON $1600: Knowing smoking is bad for your health but doing it anyway is an example of "cognitive" this, simultaneous incongruent beliefs dissonance |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEFF GOLDBLUM $1600: In an episode on "Bikes" I visited a company that uses a special wind tunnel to help design the most efficient competitive sports bikes where it's all about this, the science of the way air moves around objects aerodynamics |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | WHAT A DISASTER! $2000: How bad can this Italian word be if it describes a bottle for Chianti? fiasco |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | CIRCUMSTANCE $800: In people with the most common type of CP, short for this, increased muscle tone is bad, causing stiff movement cerebral palsy |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BRITISH NOVEL HAIKU $400: No man's on island / Schoolboys have a bad field trip / Simon says please stop Lord of the Flies |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | TRUE STORY $1200: A nonfiction classic by Rabbi Harold Kushner is "When" these "Happen to Good People" Bad Things |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | WEIRD SPORTS STUFF $600: Bodexpress didn't win this 2019 race, the second in the Triple Crown, but did finish--not bad for running with no jockey the Preakness |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | THESE TV SHOWS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK $1200: The theme song of this show now in its 32nd season asks, "Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?" Cops |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | A "BUM" STEER $800: This type of bad trip is a real drag, man a bummer |
| #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 |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2-WORD ALLITERATION $1000: Alliterative phrase for a situation that seems okay but is "inclined" to gradually lead to a bad outcome slippery slope |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | HERE COMES THE JUDGE WORD $2000: Someone who knows what's good & bad is this "of taste"; author Petronius was declared to be one in Nero's court arbiter |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | GREEK & LATIN PREFIXES $800: Mal- is from Latin for "bad"; the Greeks used this prefix to indicate something bad, like when used before -function dys- |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHARK WEEK $400: It was a bad day to be a robot sub as the one here felt the 2-ton bite of one of these apex predators, also known as the maneater a great white shark |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | MOM & DAD CONFUSE ME $1000: Mom & Dad want me to let my sister use my toys; so how is this word bad when Grandma tells us too much personal stuff? oversharing |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | THE EDGARS $200: Part of "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams", "Obits" won the 2016 Short Story Edgar Award for my Maine man, this horror master Stephen King |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $1000: Dean Norris played this character who ended up on the wrong end of the gun on "Breaking Bad" Hank |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $1000: This Oscar-winning actor is all sorts of bad as the man in black in "The Dark Tower", based on the Stephen King novels Matthew McConaughey |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | BAD-JECTIVES $400: This 5-letter word for anything bad also means to be infested with parasitic insects lousy |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | BAD-JECTIVES $800: This 10-letter word for evil schemes means belonging to or involving the devil diabolical |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | BAD-JECTIVES $1200: This word for "hateful" is related to the present-day French word "haine", meaning "hatred" heinous |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | BAD-JECTIVES $1600: If someone calls you this, it can mean you are inadequate (or you arouse compassion) pitiful |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | BAD-JECTIVES $2000: Not "were" but this 4-letter word for dreadful comes before the name of an extinct wolf dire |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | HITMAKERS $400: "Something Just Like This" teamed Coldplay & this EDM duo whose name sounds like a very bad habit The Chainsmokers |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | PRONOUN LOSS $600: Take "I" from a term for any revered person in a particular field & you get this flimflam game con |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $200: "The Bad Beginning" is Book One in "A Series of" these unfortunate events |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a wagon at the Mercer Museum.) This type of pioneer wagon curved up at the ends so goods wouldn't fall out on bad roads--it's named for the area where it was developed in southeast Pennsylvania, not far from here a Conestoga wagon |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | 1- & 2-SYLLABLE HETERONYMS $1200: 1 syllable: injured; 2 syllables: metallic fabric lame and lamé |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | YOU ARE A BAD SAILOR $200: Why did you insist on putting refrigerator magnets on the binnacle? You've completely messed up this device a compass |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | YOU ARE A BAD SAILOR $400: You can't tell a clove hitch from a cleat hitch! Heck, you don't even know they are types of these knots |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | YOU ARE A BAD SAILOR $600: Do not descend sails by dragging a knife through them like this swashbuckling silent star did in "The Black Pirate" (Douglas) Fairbanks |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | YOU ARE A BAD SAILOR $800: So far, you've mistaken Mars, an airplane & the International Space Station for this North Star Polaris |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | YOU ARE A BAD SAILOR $1000: You don't need to howl during the naval watches 4-6 & 6-8, named for this animal--it's just a figure of speech a dog |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $400: In a classic kids' book by Judith Viorst, it follows "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible..." no good, very bad day |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ROBOTS $1000: As a social experiment, in 2014 a bot traveled 6,000 miles through Canada this way, but in the U.S. in 2015, soon met a bad end hitchhiking |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | 1980s POP LYRICS $1200: Michael Jackson:
"The word is out you're doin' wrong, gonna lock you up before too long" "Bad" |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | THE 2018 IG NOBEL PRIZES $800: The Economics winners investigated if the use of these dolls was effective against bad bosses voodoo dolls |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | TEACHERS IN SONG $200: This hard-rocking group "Got it bad. Got it bad. Got it bad". They're "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | TIME FOR GYM $800: Some advice for this 4-letter class--don't stand on the bike pedals with a vertical spine; it reduces power & is bad on your knees spin class |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: Tertullian's proverb "de calcaria in carbonarium" is said to be the source of this phrase for going from bad to worse out of the frying pan and into the fire |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | TELL $1000: The bad guys in the William Tell story work for this Austrian dynasty Habsburgs |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | NONFICTION $1000: "Bad Blood" covers the rise & fall of this woman & her blood-testing company Theranos, once the darling of investors (Elizabeth) Holmes |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | ACTORS $2000: This actor played a very good guy on "The West Wing" & a very bad guy in "Get Out" (Bradley) Whitford |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | BIBLICAL PAINTINGS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows "The Last Supper" on the monitor.) Bad-luck omens can be seen in Leonardo's "Last Supper"--not only are there 13 people present, but this apostle has spilled salt Judas |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CLASSIC FILM $2000: In the U.S. Sergio Leone's spaghetti western "Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo" has this title The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE $800: Inner Circle,
1987;
Martin Lawrence & Will Smith,
1995 "Bad Boys" |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $2000: First name of Steve Jobs' daughter whose 2018 book "Small Fry" shows Dad's good & bad sides Lisa |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | "MI" $800: First name of Mr. Finn, a Chicago saloon keeper of bad repute Mickey |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: Throwing a punch is this type of bad conduct that'll earn you a 15-yard penalty on a football field unsportsmanlike |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ALL BETS ARE OFF $1600: AMC TV series that introduced Mike Ehrmantraut, played by Jonathan Banks Breaking Bad |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | RECENT TV $400: Crackle's "Supermansion" has this "Breaking Bad" star voice Titanium Rex, leader of the League of Freedom Bryan Cranston |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | AWARD ETYMOLOGY $400: The Razzie Awards for bad movies are short for "Golden" these raspberries |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | NAMES IN MUSIC $400: "Bad At Love" singer Ashley Frangipane uses this anagram of her first name as her stage name Halsey |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $1000: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): After negotiations to end the American Revolution, Ben Franklin said, "There never was a good war, or a bad" this peace |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | HERE COMES THE SONG TITLE! $400: "Now we got problems, and I don't think we can solve 'em, you made a really deep cut, and baby, now we got" this "Bad Blood" |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | COMIC "ON" $800: An X-Men foe shares this name with a big bad guy from "The Lord of the Rings" Sauron |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Bad weather & crop failure caused a "Great" one of these in the 1300s; the Irish also had a "Great" one, 1845-1850 a famine |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | REJECTED SUPERHEROES $1000: We're not sure why he was rejected, since he could have reduced the bad guys to a fine spray the Atomizer |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $600: It's this mixture of decaying plant matter like grass & leaf clippings that's good as a soil fertilizer but bad for my nose compost |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $400: Einstein said his "biggest blunder" was creating the cosmological constant to deny this alliterative theory the Big Bang |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $800: Billy Graham admitted that he made a mistake in 1965 when he didn't go to the march that began in this Alabama city Selma |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $1200: Pres. Obama said his "worst mistake" was not planning better for the post-Qaddafi era in this country Libya |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $1600: Former N.J. governor Brendan Byrne admitted he regretted legalizing gambling in this city Atlantic City |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $2000: Despite the success of "Into Thin Air", this author called climbing Everest the biggest mistake of his life (Jon) Krakauer |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | TEA & SYMPATHY $200: I'll feel bad for you if you forgot Thomas Sullivan invented these by accident when he wrapped tea samples in silk tea bags |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORD & PHRASE HISTORIES $1000: Irish writer Brendan Behan added to the line "there's no such thing as" this: "except your own obituary" bad publicity |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND $800: Perforation is a synonym for this word also starting with "p" that's bad news for a car tire a puncture |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Notoriously bad, these British body parts are giving University of York researchers knowledge about the Victorian diet teeth |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | ON THE 2018 BILLBOARD CHARTS $1000: Yes, admiral! Turns out this one-named "Bad At Love" singer is good at music Halsey |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $400: Hip-hoppers liked "I Like It", provided by Bad Bunny, J Balvin & this woman who also warned us to "Be Careful" Cardi B |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | WHOSE HIT ALBUM? $2000: 1987's "Bad", including the hit "Man In The Mirror" Michael Jackson |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: In 2018 this actor ditched his shield to go from Captain America to bad cop in "Lobby Hero" Chris Evans |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BAD ROMANCE $200: Petruchio deprives Kate of food & sleep in this play, which makes her grow to love him? That's messed up, Shakespeare! The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BAD ROMANCE $400: George & Martha drag Nick & Honey into a nasty liquor-fueled 4-sided battle in this Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BAD ROMANCE $800: In this novel by George Eliot, Dorothea thinks she'll find happiness with the aging scholar Casaubon (nope!) Middlemarch |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BAD ROMANCE $1000: In this novel, Lady Brett Ashley & Jake Barnes could have been great together, if not for her affairs & his war wounds The Sun Also Rises |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BAD ROMANCE $3,000 (Daily Double): This novel ends with Amy & Nick Dunne reunited--sure, she framed him for her murder, but now she's pregnant Gone Girl |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | MYTHOLOGICAL HOMOPHONES $1200: Sneaky Norse bad guy, or a hyphenated word for "understated" Loki/low-key |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat Adam and Eve |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | MOVIE BY MacGUFFIN $2000: A 2007 Coen brothers film:
$2 million from a drug deal gone bad in west Texas No Country for Old Men |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $200: He only appears in 2 of Conan Doyle's stories, but he's quite a match for the hero Moriarty |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $400: A burglar, a murderer & a dog beater, Bill Sikes is a true villain in this novel Oliver Twist |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $600: Inner party member & torturer O'Brien shows this man the true face of evil in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" Winston Smith |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $800: Evil housekeeper Mrs. Danvers almost persuades a young wife to kill herself in this Daphne Du Maurier novel Rebecca |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $1000: This ruler of Narnia earned her colorful title by beginning the long winter, a 100-year period of snow & ice the White Witch |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $1600: "The Disaster Artist" chronicles Tommy Wiseau making this so-bad-it's-good film The Room |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | QUICK BOOKS $400: 1847:
Heathcliff is a bad cat Wuthering Heights |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $1200: To law enforcement, KA's are known these, potential accomplices the suspected bad guys hang out with known associates |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | HOMOPHONES $600: To smell really bad, or to inflict, usually havoc reek/wreak |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | DON'T TELL ME $800: Too bad, Heather, but Michael kicked the map into the creek, & you & your handheld camera are in for worse in this 1999 film The Blair Witch Project |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | ADJECTIVES $600: This word describes fresh foods like meat & fruit that need to be refrigerated before they go bad perishable |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | MUSICAL GROUPS $1000: It was a reality that they gave us a "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy":
Bad ____ Company |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | FROM "B" TO "Y" $800: If you're having this 3-word episode, you might have to explain that you're not going for a mohawk or mullet a bad hair day |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE $800: Bad Piggies is a spin-off of this popular mobile game Angry Birds |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | LEAN ON ME $200: The bad leg goes down before the good when descending stairs while leaning on these paired supports crutches |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $400: James Bond fails all over this film--doesn't save the girl, his house burns & the bad guy meets his goal to kill M & die Skyfall |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BODY LANGUAGE $600: Alluding to a bad boxer:
"Lead with one's ____" chin |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | MOVIE REMAKES $800: In a 2007 remake Russell Crowe is the bad guy the law wants to put on this title train 3:10 to Yuma |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | LET'S WATCH CARTOONS $200: Bobby, hyper-aware on A.D.D. drugs on this Texas 'toon:
"There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad... & there it goes" King of the Hill |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | THEATER SUPERSTITIONS $400: Best not have one of these on stage; if it breaks, it's 7 years bad luck & it also interferes with the lights a mirror |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | UNBEATABLE WORDS $800: To make an electronic switch active, or to help a loved one continue a bad habit enable |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | CHANGE 1 LETTER OF THE 5 $800: One is from bad luck; the other from good fortune sling & bling |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | WORD HISTORY $400: This word for a bad dream once also meant a monster that makes you feel suffocated while you sleep a nightmare |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME... $400: This canary puts up with a "bad ol' puddy tat"--Sylvester Tweety Bird |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | GEEK CONFUSION $800: Metatron is an archangel of Jewish myth; this Transformers bad guy could be turned into a toy gun Megatron |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | TV TITLES $400: A season 2 "Breaking Bad" episode title eventually became the name of this series Better Call Saul |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | BAD ADJECTIVES FOR A DATING PROFILE $200: This adjective for a baseball hit out of play is not good, especially if it's before "mouthed" foul |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | BAD ADJECTIVES FOR A DATING PROFILE $400: This word for selfish or boastful comes from the psychoanalytic term for the conscious self egotistical |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | BAD ADJECTIVES FOR A DATING PROFILE $600: It means "capable of polishing or cleaning a surface by grinding" abrasive |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | BAD ADJECTIVES FOR A DATING PROFILE $800: Rising in rebellion, or causing disgust revolting |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | BAD ADJECTIVES FOR A DATING PROFILE $1000: 6-letter synonym for acrid, corresponding to one of the 4 major kinds of taste buds bitter |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | WHAT A HIGH-CLASS MISTAKE! $800: Calling the 2005 paper "Information Loss in Black Holes" by this Cambridge prof. "derivative"? Bad form (Stephen) Hawking |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY $1200: The origin of modern conservatism is thinking this 18th c. revolution was a really bad idea the French Revolution |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | INTO THE "WOOD"S $200: To stave off bad luck, use your knuckles & do this knock on wood |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | SITCOMEDY TONIGHT $800: Before becoming an action movie star, he hung around Indiana as Andy Dwyer on "Parks & Rec" Chris Pratt |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | NASDAQ COMPANIES $800: The news (corp) had been good & then bad for this founder in his long bid to take over European broadcaster sky Rupert Murdoch |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | C.C. & ME $400: 1500 was a bad year for this explorer: he was sent back home in chains by Francisco de Bobadilla, his replacement Christopher Columbus |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Staten Island Ferry.) When it's split in 2 by the bad guys in the blockbuster "Spiderman: Homecoming", it's up to the teen webslinger & this other superhero to hold the ship together Iron Man |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | GRAPHICS $1000: It sounds like a bad thing, but this empty "space" defines the image & is the title of a book by designer Noma Bar negative space |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | LET'S TALK DESSERT $1200: To make bad news easier to bear; it's also done to sweeten some donuts sugarcoat |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | SOUP $200: Good news: a reptile is not the main ingredient in mock this soup; bad news: it's a calf's head cooked in water turtle |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | SOMEONE LOSES AN I $600: It wouldn't be so bad if lyricist Gershwin lost his "I"--it would make him this Egyptian god Ra |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | HARD "C" $800: This word for a harsh discordance of sound comes from the Greek for "bad sound" cacophony |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | ONE-HIT WONDERS $1600: Daniel Powter had this 2006 hit, also used as a kiss-off song on "American Idol" "Bad Day" |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | BUGS MEANIE $1,200 (Daily Double): If an Africanized colony of these is disturbed & in a bad mood, you may meet 10,000 of them in 15 seconds (killer) bees |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | FOE PA $800: In "A Storm of Swords", this bad dad is impaled by son Tyrion with a crossbow bolt while on the privy Tywin Lannister |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: Using less current than in the bad old days, it can be effective in treating severe depression electroshock therapy |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | CONTRONYMS $400: If someone calls you this & you are on a computer, you are skilled; if you are on a golf course, you are bad a hacker |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | TV REBOOTS & REVIVALS $800: Sidekicks Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo still watch bad movies, but with new host Jonah, on this series: "The Return" Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | "U" LOVE MUSIC $600: Made for the category, this R&B singer gave us "U Remind Me", "U Got It Bad" & "U Don't Have To Call" Usher |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | ETIQUETTE $600: U.S. flag code says a flag in bad shape should be "destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by" this method burning |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $1600: This 4-word phrase for "bad plan" could literally mean "your collie will not sniff out a quail" that dog don't hunt (or won't hunt) |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | SOME CHOICE WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): What a parent does to a better-loved child, or what a person limping is doing to the bad leg favoring |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | RECENT TV EPISODES $800: "Better Call Saul" &
"Our Man in Damascus" Homeland |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | IN THE NOV. 14-20, 1998 TV GUIDE $800: "The original bad boy... is back. Tonight, the return of Dylan McKay" Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | STARTS OR ENDS WITH A TREE $400: Ship steering wheel the helm |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | IN DISPENSABLE $1200: To make possible or easy, perhaps a bad habit enable |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | DRAMATIC TV DRAMA! $800: This actor, setting things straight: "I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger" Bryan Cranston |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | HISTORY OF SCIENCE $800: In 1880 Alphonse Laveran discovered that parasites caused this disease named for the "bad air" thought to cause it malaria |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS $200: A fan named Annie Wilkes breaks a writer's illusions of safety in this novel Misery |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS $400: There's "no play" for this character who comes under the influence of evil at the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" Jack Torrance |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS $600: Her mother is the domineering & ultra-religious Margaret White; don't wait up! Carrie |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS $800: An encounter with an amoral politician makes a psychic contemplate murder in this work The Dead Zone |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS $1000: It could only be this ageless creepy clown in "It" Pennywise |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | 30 SECONDS $600: This company gave us bad comedian Eli Manning, whose cable HD stands for "huge disappointment" DIRECTV |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF $400: Astronauts land on another world where humans are savages & chimps are civilized Planet of the Apes |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF $800: In the far-distant future, the Morlocks prey upon the Eloi The Time Machine |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF $1200: A city is hit by an epidemic of sight loss & the afflicted are confined to an empty hospital Blindness |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Coined in 1970 but big in the 20-teens, "micro" this refers to casual remarks that make minority folks feel bad microaggressions |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF $1600: Only women survive a mysterious plague except for Yorick Brown & his monkey Ampersand Y: The Last Man |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF $2000: The maximum age is 21 & don't try to get away Logan's Run |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | NET FLICKS $1000: Will Ferrell finds he's inherited his dad's bad temper when he coaches kids' soccer in this comedy Kicking and Screaming |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: He played Madea in many plays that he wrote & directed, beginning with 2000's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" Tyler Perry |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | ENDS IN "Y" $400: This one of the 7 dwarfs had a bad case of hayfever Sneezy |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $200: (I'm Mario Andretti.) Over the years I had bad luck at this famous American race, but I caught some breaks in 1969 when I won it in a backup car after a crash during practice the Indianapolis 500 |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $400: In a Disney film, Practical Pig, Fiddler Pig & Fifer Pig wonder "Who's Afraid Of" him the Big Bad Wolf |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $800: We learned to love Christopher Mintz-Plasse as McLovin in this comedy Superbad |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $1,200 (Daily Double): Leonard Maltin calls it "the quintessential spaghetti Western" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $1200: It's the song title (& maybe the only thing) in common to Neil Sedaka & Taylor Swift "Bad Blood" |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: On this song from "Channel Orange", Frank Ocean sings to a cab driver of his unrequited love for a man "Bad Religion" |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $200: He begins his memoir "A Life in Parts" by telling about "the most harrowing scene I did on 'Breaking Bad'" Bryan Cranston |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | HEART SURGERY WITH DR. OZ $2000: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) Major heart surgery may involve an incision down the midline of the breastbone, medically called this; it's not as bad as it sounds because there are relatively few nerves in that area the sternum |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $600: (Hi, I'm Neil Flynn.) On "The Middle", my character Mike Heck loves this Quentin Tarantino movie about Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink & a diamond heist gone bad Reservoir Dogs |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE? $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 ladies in this tragedy, playing rough in Gloucester's castle: "Hang him instantly"--"Pluck out his eyes" King Lear |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $800: In 2011 this actress showed her bad side as a "Bad Teacher" Cameron Diaz |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T "BAD" $200: Proverbially, it is said to spoil the whole bunch (or barrel) a bad apple (or one bad apple) |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T "BAD" $400: Disney Channel had a movie called this, when your coiffure just won't cooperate Bad Hair Day |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T "BAD" $600: This song by CCR says, "Looks like we're in for nasty weather" "Bad Moon Rising" |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T "BAD" $800: BCD is short for this not-so-great way of getting out of the military a bad conduct discharge |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T "BAD" $1000: Henry is the first name of this naughty character created for newspapers in the 1880s Peck's Bad Boy |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | THEIR FIRST NO. 1 HIT $600: "You Give Love A Bad Name"
(1986) Bon Jovi |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | QUOTATIONS $1000: From his "Analects": "To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough" Confucius |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | KILLER CARS $400: In a 1979 George Miller film, this title road warrior uses his V8 Interceptor to run down some bad bikers Mad Max |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $400: She played officer Stacy Sheridan on "T.J. Hooker" at the same time she played bad girl Sammy Jo on "Dynasty" Heather Locklear |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WILL SMITH $1600: In this 1995 film as Det. Mike Lowrey, Will tells Martin Lawrence, "You drive almost slow enough to drive Miss Daisy" Bad Boys |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS $1000: Tyra Collette was more than just the bad girl of Dillon, Texas on this drama Friday Night Lights |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | BAD INVESTMENTS $400: Popular coinage name for under-$5 stocks that are risky & sometimes peddled by fraudsters penny stocks |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | BAD INVESTMENTS $800: "Can't Touch This" rapper who lost his millions on investments like 19 thoroughbreds but came back as a tech startup guru (MC) Hammer |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | BAD INVESTMENTS $1200: Long-term capital, a prominent one of these high-risk funds, tanked in 1998 a hedge fund |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | BAD INVESTMENTS $1600: Flooz & Beenz were trying to push online these that never caught on & lost their investors real money virtual currency |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | BAD INVESTMENTS $2000: Shy away from investments with Moody's rating D-PD; the "PD" stands for "probability of" this default |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | MONEY MUSIC $800: A 1997 hit on Bad Boy Records warned us, "Mo money mo" these problems |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | CLICHES $1000: To mean "it looks shady", people say these "are bad"; it can also mean the science of light the optics |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $1200: A 1640 painting is entitled "The Repentant" this once-bad woman who became devoted to Christ Mary Magdalene |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | MTV MOVIE AWARD FOR BEST VILLAIN $400: Tom Felton won back-to-back for playing this bad seed in Harry Potter films Draco Malfoy |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | PLAYING TRIBUTE $400: Who's Bad bills itself as "an unrivaled celebration of pop music's one true king"-- this man Michael Jackson |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | TELEVISION CITY $400: "Breaking Bad" was "In Plain Sight" Albuquerque |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | SPORTS ABBREV. $800: Bad designation for a NASCAR driver:
DNF did not finish |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND $1000: This is bad if you're hoping for sober, but good if it describes your abs or an '80s jeans style ripped |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | OTHER BOND FILM CHARACTERS $800: First name of American spy Mr. Leiter, who often helped James Bond defeat the bad guys Felix |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: This religion of ancient Persia has a good god, Ahura Mazda & a bad spirit, Ahriman Zoroastrianism |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | NFL QUARTERBACKS $400: (Mike & Mike from ESPN present the clue.) "The greatest Super Bowl had to be the 1969 game when Joe Namath led the Jets over the heavily favored Colts..." "That's not bad, but not up to the game when this guy marched the 49ers down the field in 1989 in a game-winning drive" Joe Montana |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | MY EMMY-WINNING ROLE $1000: 2014:
Skyler White, a woman in a meth of a situation Anna Gunn |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | RHYMIN' SIMON $600: Hinderin' with trivialities, not coins nickel-and-dimin' |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS $600: John Ritter's last film appearance was in this movie, trying to keep an inebriated Billy Bob Thornton in check Bad Santa |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | ____ THE ____ $1600: "Sister Carrie" uses this dessert phrase that now means to surpass all others in a bad or unusual way take the cake |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | MOVING JOURNALISM $1,500 (Daily Double): British Airways' in-flight magazine has this name, like a Miller beer brand High Life |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $2000: Harvey Keitel plays an unnamed, unhinged cop with serious drug & gambling addictions in this film Bad Lieutenant |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | DRUGZ $200: Zocor is a statin, used to lower the bad type of this cholesterol |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $400: A bad kid's Christmas stocking will contain the object that composed "I've Got You Under My Skin" a lump of Cole Porter |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | REALITY TV SHOWS $1600: Reality shows on this cable channel have included "Bad Dog!" & "Snake Man of Appalachia" Animal Planet |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $800: It's a belief, not based in reason, that something bad will happen if you perform a particular action... or if you don't superstition |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES $2000: Before we go, we should check out the ratings on this website that sounds like something you throw at a bad film Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com) |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | LOOK AT THAT "S" CAR GO $600: After some bad safety reviews, this Suzuki off-road model said sayonara to the U.S. in 1995 the Samurai |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): Bianca must wait for this bad-tempered older sister to wed before she can Katherine |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED $1200: Yeah, you could always charm Elizabeth I, but disobeying James I & attacking the Spanish in 1618? Bad move. You're fired Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | SCENE IT $200: 1975:
Chrissie picks a bad time to go skinny dipping near Amity Island Jaws |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | BREAKING BAD $400: The small bone break called a stress fracture is aka this type of "fracture" that's not "receding" a hairline fracture |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: His "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" begins when he wakes up with gum in his hair Alexander |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | BREAKING BAD $800: This 8-letter process slowly realigns a broken bone using weights & pulleys traction |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | BREAKING BAD $1200: In 1985 this Redskin QB's career came to a gruesome end when he broke his leg on "Monday Night Football" Joe Theismann |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | BREAKING BAD $1600: This body part is loaded with bones, including the tarsals, so fractures there are unfortunately common the foot |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | BREAKING BAD $2000: When the bone breaks only on one side, it gets this "colorful" name that's fit for the forest greenstick |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HODGEPODGE $800: It is said that you can get rid of bad energy & unwanted spirits in your home by smudging or burning this "wise" herb sage |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | ROCK "ME" $2000: Police song that says, "Her friends are so jealous, you know how bad girls get" "Don't Stand So Close To Me" |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | "RACE" $800: Religious-sounding 2-word term for a redeeming feature that makes up for all kinds of bad stuff saving grace |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | THEATER TALK $400: In the expression "Bad dress--good show", "dress" is short for this a dress rehearsal |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | LAST LETTER, FIRST LETTER $400: You tune in to this on the news to find out how bad it's raining a weather report |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | LAST LETTER, FIRST LETTER $2000: The Ancient Mariner tells his tale to this person, on the groom's side the wedding guest |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | TV CHARACTERS $600: (Hi, I'm Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.) I was going to kill off this character at the end of Season 1, but once we cast Aaron Paul, we killed that idea instead Jesse Pinkman |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $200: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar & bad" but "all their children admired him" Huckleberry Finn |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | TEASING $800: The bad or antisocial type of teasing is sometimes defined as a form of this, harassing a vulnerable person bullying |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | GOOD & BAD INVESTMENTS $600: Different from Nationwide, this co. led by Angelo Mozilo saw its stock skyrocket, then collapse with the mortgage bust Countrywide |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | GOOD & BAD INVESTMENTS $800: One of the best investments in the last 20 years was this tech maker of Java, which despite the name isn't based in Delphi Oracle |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | GOOD & BAD INVESTMENTS $1000: One of Warren Buffett's best investments was in this federal corporation, often associated with Fannie Mae Freddie Mac |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | THE GOLD BURGLARS $600: Bad guys want the ship full of gold doubloons in this 1985 film; Chunk, Mouth & the rest of the teen crew aren't having it The Goonies |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | HIDING PLACES $1600: Displaying wrath ensures bad service in this Mediterranean metropolis Athens (wrath ensures) |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS $1000: (Hi, I'm Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.) I made my acting debut in 2014, ordering Annie & Abed around as the host of a VCR game called "Pile of Bullets" on this NBC sitcom that also starred my old pal Jonathan Banks Community |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | COWBOY SONGS $2000: In "Felina", the "Breaking Bad" finale, this Marty Robbins hit echoed the events in the episode "El Paso" |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING $1600: As a young man the II king of this name was already calling for Belgium to be a colonial power--bad news for the Congo (King) Leopold (of Belgium) |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME $600: Come visit Mongo /
Not far from the Congo /
Tibesti mountains are not that bad /
Yes, we're talking, talking 'bout... Chad |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | CLASSIFIED 3 F $800: You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both & there you have this 3-word term for reproduction & birth information the facts of life |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | PETER AND THE WOLF $800: The duck, who comes to a bad end, is represented by this instrument the oboe |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | MY "BAD" $200: This Taylor Swift hit featured Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | MY "BAD" $400: 1979 No. 1 for Donna Summer "Bad Girls" |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | MY "BAD" $600: Joan Jett didn't give a damn that she had this, the title of her signature song "Bad Reputation" |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | MY "BAD" $800: This Robert Palmer hit is subtitled "Doctor, Doctor" "Bad Case Of Loving You" |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | MY "BAD" $1000: One of you from Jersey? Give the title that finishes the lyric "Shot through the heart, and you're to blame..." "You Give Love A Bad Name" |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN $600: "There never was a good war or" this a bad peace |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $1000: "Say My Name"
(2012) Breaking Bad |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A good cop or a bad cop may be this person who asks you formal questions in an investigation an interrogator |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | MOVIES' VILLAINS $400: Non-spoiler alert! Kylo Ren is the bad guy Star Wars Episode VII |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | HITT"ING" THE TOP 40 $1000: Appropriately, this CCR hit was on the soundtrack to "An American Werewolf in London" "Bad Moon Rising" |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS $200: 2014: This New Mexico-set series Breaking Bad |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | LOANWORDS $400: German for "leader", it has bad associations Fuhrer |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | LOL $1600: On issues with the Hooli phone on this HBO comedy--"How bad is this?... Is this Windows Vista bad?"; "It's Apple Maps bad" Silicon Valley |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | "EX"s & "OH"s $1000: To make a bad situation worse exacerbate |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially said that bad weather & poor navigation were to blame for any loss of transports in the area between Miami, Puerto Rico & this island Bermuda |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | "AT" THE MOVIES $800: Burt Lancaster was Wyatt Earp & Dennis Hopper was Billy Clanton in this 1957 Western Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | I NEED MY SPACE $2000: Bearing a mythical princess' name, this nearby-ish spiral galaxy is a bad driver, having collided with other galaxies Andromeda |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | LAST EPISODES $400: In 2013 this AMC show ended its run as Badfinger's song "Baby Blue" played us out Breaking Bad |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | THEMS $600: In experiments, good people can be taught to dehumanize others, an effect named for this angel gone bad Lucifer |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $1200: This sultry bombshell from a 1988 hit claimed, "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way" Jessica Rabbit |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | ALLITERATION STATION $1000: This phrase was popularized by RAND methodology for identifying the bad guys who make a life of it career criminal |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | BAD GRAMMER $400: Kelsey Grammer, voicing this TV villain: "Attempted murder?...Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" Sideshow Bob |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | BAD GRAMMER $800: Kelsey scared his daughter the first time she saw him in makeup as this character in "A Christmas Carol: The Musical" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | BAD GRAMMER $1200: Kelsey sends hired help after Mark Wahlberg's daughter in the "Age of Extinction" installment of this series Transformers |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | BAD GRAMMER $1600: "No hand-me-down cowboy doll is going to mess things up" for this stinky prospector in "Toy Story 2" Prospector Pete |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | BAD GRAMMER $2000: On "Medium" Kelsey was death personified, haunting the visions of Allison DuBois, played by this blonde Patricia Arquette |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | SPORTS LINGO $600: A bad split in bowling yields this 2-word term; a white one around a house is part of the American dream a picket fence |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | WITHIN THE FICTIONAL PLANET $3,000 (Daily Double): Insolence in the "Doctor Who" planet gall (in Gallifrey) |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES $200: He tried to wash away the bad guys' sins by immersing them in water Baptizer |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES $400: He could put the bad guys in a trance with a swing of his pocket watch, which actually sounds pretty nifty Hypnotizer |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | I'D LIKE TO MAKE IT A TRUE "D.D." $400: A very bad way to be expelled from the military dishonorable discharge |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | RULE OF LAW $400: "Hearsay bad!" is one of the Federal Rules of this Evidence |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | DIVINE COMEDIES $800: Portia de Rossi as Lindsay on this show: "It's vodka... it goes bad once it's opened" Arrested Development |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | SAME MOVIE & SONG TITLE $1200: Movie:
Will Smith & Martin Lawrence are cops;
song:
used as the theme to "Cops" Bad Boys |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | DESPICABLE "ME" $400: John, Paul, George & Ringo battled blue ones of these bad guys Meanies |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $1200: (Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, delivers the clue.) I said, "No matter what nuclear holocaust or plague may occur, this Bob Odenkirk character will "wind up scurrying out into the sunlight after everybody else is gone" Saul Goodman |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $1600: In the cartoon "Deduce, You Say", this character plays Dorlock Homes to Porky's Watkins Daffy Duck |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | BAD NEWS $200: Late on April 14, 1912, things got bad for this ship roughly 400 miles south of Newfoundland the Titanic |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | BAD NEWS $400: An April 26, 1986 test at this power station ended up producing a radioactive cloud more than 3,000 feet high Chernobyl |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | BAD NEWS $600: A 7.4 quake in Istanbul in 1999 did lead to better relations with this western border country that gave support Bulgaria |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | DIRECTORS BY FILM $1200: 1966:
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (Sergio) Leone |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | TV $600: On a CBS drama Peter Florrick is the bad husband; Alicia Florrick is this title woman The Good Wife |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $1600: In a bad storm, so many people resort to this more-than-breakfast restaurant, FEMA bases an index on its operations Waffle House |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $1600: While a captive in this city, Daniel was given the name Belteshazzar Babylon |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | THAT'S HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This 1790 act gave authors exclusive control of their works for 14 years; violators were fined 50 cents per page the Copyright Act |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THAT'S A WRAP! $1000: 1969:
Captain America & Billy have a really bad trip Easy Rider |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | NAME THAT ELEMENT $2000: We won't tell you the "tedious" tale of the discovery of this element, No. 107, named for a physicist bohrium |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | RATERS GONNA RATE $400: A green splat icon denotes a bad review on this movie & TV rating site Rotten Tomatoes |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | COLORFUL PLACES $1600: You won't have a bad day at Pu'u Keka'a, aka this lava formation on Maui's Ka'anapali Beach Black Rock |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | THAT'S IN ROMEO AND JULIET $2000: In this Franciscan's first speech, he discusses the good & bad uses of herbs Friar Laurence |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | A BRIEF ILLNESS $400: Bad news for your liver--you have HAV, short for this virus hepatitis A |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | U.S. MARSHALS $1600: The Marshals don't just chase bad guys; from 1790 to 1870, they were responsible for taking this every 10 years the census |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | PLAY INTO FILM $3,000 (Daily Double): Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft re-created their stage roles to make this 1962 film The Miracle Worker |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | BRITISH HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Capturing Jamaica in 1655 allowed the English to replace the beer on ships with this, which didn't go bad rum |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON $1000: It got a bad rap in the film "Sideways", but wine.com says it's the top grape for the Right Bank of Bordeaux Merlot |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | TOUGH DAY AT $1,600 (Daily Double): the Garrett Farm on April 26, 1865, for this man who'd caused a bad night at the theater a couple of weeks earlier John Wilkes Booth |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | MOVIE PUNS $1200: In "Thunderball", 007 shoots a bad guy with a spear gun & says, "I think he got" this the point |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | ACTION WORDS $400: Slang meaning to give up a bad habit; a soccer player also does it kick |
| #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" |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | BAD MOTHERS FILM FEST $400: Oh, child services! Catherine O'Hara leaves Macaulay Culkin behind while jetting off to France in this 1990 film Home Alone |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | BAD MOTHERS FILM FEST $800: Here's to you, this character, Elaine's mom; you're trying to seduce Ben Braddock... aren't you? Mrs. Robinson |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | BAD MOTHERS FILM FEST $1200: Faye Dunaway... this 1981 feature... 'nuff said Mommie Dearest |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | BAD MOTHERS FILM FEST $1600: At first Piper Laurie thought this '70s film was a comedy & played for laughs as a mom of a girl who had a bad prom Carrie |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | BAD MOTHERS FILM FEST $2000: In versions of this movie, Angela Lansbury & Meryl Streep played moms manipulating their brainwashed sons The Manchurian Candidate |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | FROM THE GERMAN $1600: From this writer's "Tin Drum": "Even bad books are books and therefore sacred" (Gunter) Grass |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | THE SPIN-OFF SOURCE $400: of "Better Call Saul" Breaking Bad |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: Ed Oxenbould played this title kid who had "The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" Alexander |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | SPEECH! SPEECH! $200: On July 4, 1939 he told baseball fans, "I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for" (Lou) Gehrig |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | STARTS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $800: When angry, this South American animal spits bad-smelling saliva in its foe's face a llama |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY $1000: Nearly 1/3 of OT's work with children, often on the kids' cacography, bad this skill handwriting |
| #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 |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: George Harrison song that says, "I really want to see you" & is the titled poet who was mad, bad & dangerous to know My Sweet Lord Byron |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | TECH GOOFS $600: In 2014 Michael Bay had a bad day with a malfunction of this device that scrolls a prepared script a teleprompter |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | 3-NAMED ACTORS $2000: A child star in "The Bad News Bears", he's been a very different presence in recent films like "Watchmen" Jackie Earle Haley |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | TENNIS "E" $400: In tennis lingo, it's a bad shot; there are "forced" & "unforced" types errors |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | DOUBLE-LETTER SCIENCE $1000: The orientation of a spacecraft's axes relative to earth is this; you may develop a bad one if you get it wrong attitude |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | MOVIES WITH "HEART" $400: In this 2009 release Jeff Bridges played country music star Bad Blake Crazy Heart |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE NEW $100 BILL $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a special light bulb over a new $100 bill.)
Some businesses have detectors equipped with this type of light specifically to detect bad bills; the security thread should glow pink ultraviolet |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | "SEED"s $800: Nick Cave's band The Bad Seeds |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $200: In 1890 she was 4 years dead / & her 1st book of poems was read / It was a big hit & such / For a lady who did not get out much (Emily) Dickinson |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $400: His "Ode to Psyche" / Had some mad beats / But his love life, oh crikey! / Life was rough for... (John) Keats |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $600: I wrote "Kubla Khan" / To give you the word / & did more stuff / Than just about that darned bird! (Samuel) Coleridge |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $800: Nursing in the Civil War / Was unlike what I did before / I wrote of "my captain" Lincoln / O the tears back I was blinkin' (Walt) Whitman |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $1,600 (Daily Double): My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school! Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $1000: This task, creating a background of a bad guy, is done at the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime profiling |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | "D" BRIEFING $400: A bad way to get to the hospital:
DOA dead on arrival |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | BAD WORDS $200: Paired with "nice" in seasonal song, it means mischievous naughty |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | BAD WORDS $400: Diminished the quality of, or pampered a child to excess spoiled |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | BAD WORDS $600: The movie "Bad Words" got a 65% from the website with this bad word in its name Rotten |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | BAD WORDS $800: This noun for gross immorality comes from the Latin for "equal"--see the "qu" in the middle? iniquity |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | BAD WORDS $1000: In 2012 the State Department put out an APB--a new "Prevention Board" for these terrible crimes atrocities |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | "CIVIL" $2000: Title of a 1970s bestseller complaining about Americans' bad English--keep it "in your head" A Civil Tongue |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CURRENT WORLD LEADERS $2000: Havana bad time:
RURAL COAST Raúl Castro |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $1200: "You Give Love A Bad Name" was on the set list of this group's 2013 tour, the year's highest grossing Bon Jovi |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $1600: These 7 words penned by Edward Buller-Lytton have inspired an annual contest dedicated to bad opening lines It was a dark and stormy night |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | "BAD" CALL $400: 5-letter, 2-word modern equivalent of mea culpa my bad |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | "BAD" CALL $800: 8-letter, 2-word modern equivalent of mala fides bad faith |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | "BAD" CALL $1200: LDL bad cholesterol |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | "BAD" CALL $1600: Timothy Leary wrote that "The Western world has been on" one of these a bad trip |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | "BAD" CALL $2000: Brendan Behan said "there is no such thing as" this "except for your own obituary" bad publicity |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | THUMP! $600: Jimmy Page got this band name from Keith Moon's description of bad gigs going down like one Led Zeppelin |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR RAZZIE AWARDS $1600: "I Know Who Killed Me" starred this former child star & current bad girl as twins Lindsay Lohan |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | THE OLD WEST $600: This deputy U.S. Marshal believed Frank Stilwell killed his kid brother Morgan on 1882; bad news for Frank Wyatt Earp |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: Maybe the weather was bad in 1903, when Mary Anderson created this for cars; it had a swinging arm & a rubber blade a windshield wiper |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | WEBSITES $600: Having a bad day? Go to thenicestplaceonthe inter.net & get a free virtual one of these a hug |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | HI, TECH! $200: "Bad Piggies" & "Seasons" are offshoots of this Rovio game app Angry Birds |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Before he was killed in the War of 1812, Zebulon Pike discovered a famous mountain peak in this state Colorado |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $1600: When P.T. Barnum purchased this animal from the London Zoo in 1882, the queen demanded the sale be stopped Jumbo |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | CHICK LIT $600: It's the "fowl" moral of a fable about a milkmaid who spills her pail before she can sell it & realize her dreams don't count your chickens before they hatch |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | I'M JUST A SAYING $1600: Proverbally, the 4-word line a wise man gave to a king who wanted a saying true in good & bad times this too shall pass |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | THE 2014 EMMYS $600: In a fitting farewell, this show took home awards for Drama Series & for its lead actor & supporting actor & actress Breaking Bad |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | THERE'S A "WAY" $400: Footpads did their robbing on foot; these bad boys commanded victims to stand & deliver from horseback highwaymen |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES $1200: Hey, "Bad boys! Whatcha gonna do when" these title TV guys come for you? Cops |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | UNUSUAL TV FIRST NAMES $1200: First name of Mrs. Walter White (Anna Gunn) on "Breaking Bad" Skyler |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | GILLIGAN! $400: "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan pitched this character as "Take Mr. Chips and turn him into Scarface" Walter White |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | ANTISOCIAL SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1939 Edwin Sutherland put these 2 words before "crime" to describe bad things done by high-status people white collar |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $4,000 (Daily Double): He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!" Captain Hook |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | "DEL" AWARE $400: Here comes one of these big bad floods deluge |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | YOU'RE SO VAIN $200: A magic mirror gives the vain queen the bad news that another has surpassed her in beauty in this Grimm fairy tale "Snow White" |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITY $1000: Borgata's poker room has a jackpot for one of these alliterative outcomes, like when your 4 10s loses to 4 aces bad beat |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | A BLOODY BUSINESS $1000: Nice head on this Scottish hero. Too bad it ended up, in 1305, adorning London Bridge as a warning William Wallace |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | TV HANGOUTS $800: Los Pollos Hermanos Breaking Bad |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | PLASTIC SURGERY $1,000 (Daily Double): This alliterative procedure is also called abdominoplasty tummy tuck |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | MOUNTAIN BIKING $1600: When this item that presses against a disc squeals from wear or bad adjustment, it's called a "wild pig" brake pad |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | MUSICAL MEDICOS $1600: Robert Palmer tells his "doctor, doctor" he's got a "bad case of" this loving you |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | LOOKING FOR LOVE ON REALITY TV $2000: Girlfriend, it's the network where you'll find "Find Me My Man" & "Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too" Oxygen |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MAN OVERLORD! $1000: In 1998 rioting due to a bad economy ended the 32-year rule of this Indonesian president Suharto |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | ONE-HIT WONDERS $1600: Daniel Powter's one hit came in 2006 when he sang, "Cause you had" this (maybe tomorrow will be better) a bad day |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | THE FEMALE PERSUASION $800: Her unrelenting belief in Rasputin ended up being bad news for her & her royal hubby Alexandra |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $1000: An Old West "rawhide artist" was someone skilled with this implement a branding iron |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $400: Okay, we can see it. A resemblance led some to call Todd, played by Jesse Plemons on this show, Meth Damon Breaking Bad |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LITERARY SHIPPING $1,000 (Daily Double): In a C.S. Forester novel, Charlie Allnutt pilots this title craft on the Ulanga River The African Queen |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | ANGELS & DEMONS $400: Must've been the ultimate bad hair day when this one-named singer/songwriter got a "Devil's Haircut" Beck |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | BIRD ORIGINS $800: You're in bad shape if you look up & see this type of vulture with a name from the Old French for "lesser hawk" buzzard |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $200: An FBI press release said that she also went by the names Mrs. Roy Thornton & Mrs. Clyde Barrow Bonnie Parker |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) A Los Alamos operation center monitors instruments that help this craft that landed on Mars in 2012 analyze rocks & soil Curiosity |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | 2 SYLLABLES, 1 SYLLABLE $800: Vexing look thought capable of bringing bad luck to the person it was directed at the evil eye |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | THE COSTUME DESIGNS OF WILLIAM IVEY LONG $600: John Waters said Long's costumes for this show were "amazing. You have to have great taste to do bad taste" Hairspray |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | 1 LETTER DIFFERENT $800: Out-of-date fashion sense stale style |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | THAT '70s SHOW $400: In 2013 Barry Williams revealed he has the Tiki that brought bad luck during a Hawaiian vacation on this show The Brady Bunch |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES $400: 1984 was a bad year for Union Carbide but good for this other chemical company, No. 7 DuPont |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | YUCKY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): As in the Western "Flesh & the Spur", Indians used staking people to these as a torture--or at least white settlers said so anthills |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | LET'S AGREE ON A PRICE $400: He's a bad mother--shut your mouth! But I'm talkin' about Richard Price, who co-wrote this 2000 action reboot Shaft |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | INSECT, REPELLENT $1000: It's bad enough there are jumping & hissing types--does there really have to be one called the true death's head? cockroach |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | SAY MY NAME $400: "Breaking Bad" fans know this last name of 1932 Nobel physics prize winner Werner Heisenberg |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | TOO BAD $200: The commissioner of Scotland Yard resigned on Nov. 8, 1888, the day before the 5th & final murder attributed to him Jack the Ripper |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | TOO BAD $400: After a 2013 chemical attack near Damascus, the French prime minister called this man a war criminal (Bashar al-)Assad |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | CEO COMPENSATION $400: Frederick Smith of this company took home $25.3 million--not bad for an overnight delivery boy FedEx |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | TOO BAD $600: Last name of Lorenzino, who on Jan. 5, 1537 decided the Duke of Florence needed to breathe a lot less Medici |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | TOO BAD $800: The tenure of this first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition saw 2,000 stake burnings Torquemada |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | TOO BAD $1000: On July 26, 1794 this Frenchman seemed to call for an end to the use of terror, but thousands had died already due to him Robespierre |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY $1600: Before midnight, the stage ran red as Ethan Hawke opened as this tragic thane in 2013 the Scottish Play, or Macbeth |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | BIBLICAL LETTERS $1600: "E" is for this city in "witch" King Saul gets very bad news Endor |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | CARSON, DAILY $200: On July 29, 1981 Johnny said these 2 had "a fairy-tale romance. Too bad they had to spoil it & get married" Diana & Charles |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | "HANG" FIVE $1000: Slang for one who passes bad checks a paper hanger |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | ACTUAL 911 CALLS $600: In 2013 Connecticut police had to post online, missing "Breaking Bad" is not a 911 issue, please call this provider, not us your cable company |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Another word for poisonous, it can also describe a bad relationship toxic |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $2000: Now it's slang for any bad situation; back then it was a foraging soldier a bummer |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | "GR"AD SCHOOL $600: Season 1 episodes of this TV drama included "Three Bad Wolves" & "Game Ogre" Grimm |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Igbo proverbs are found throughout this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel that sounds like a bad game of Jenga Things Fall Apart |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | HEALTH & NUTRITION $600: The Mayo Clinic says a level of 190 mg/dL & above for this "bad" type of cholesterol is very high LDL |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | I GOT A "FEVER" $1200: Caused by a salmonella bacterium, it can develop 3 weeks after you eat bad food, perhaps cooked by Mary typhoid fever |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | CENTURY 19 $400: In 1876 Samuel Tilden won 184 of these; too bad Sam needed 185 to get the job he wanted electoral votes |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | THE MAYO CLINIC SAYS... $1200: "Certain foods, health conditions and habits are among the causes of" this, "also called halitosis" bad breath |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | THROWN OF GAMES $200: Woody Hayes has been credited with saying, "3 things can happen when you pass" in this sport "& 2 of them are bad" football |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | LET'S PUT OUR BAND NAME IN THE SONG! $2000: This '70s band with Paul Rodgers, "& I can't deny" / this '70s band with Paul Rodgers, "till the day I die" Bad Company |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | JUST DESSERTS $1000: A favorite at luaus, haupia is this flavor of pudding coconut |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | A GOOD OFFENSE $1000: For the 1927 Yankees, Babe Ruth batted in the third spot & this other lefty slugger batted fourth--not bad at all! Lou Gehrig |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | "'YS" WORDS $1600: Fathomless, or really, really bad abysmal |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES $400: A bad review in Osaka a pan (in Japan) |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | ALLITERATION $800: This type of Native American healer might try to chase bad spirits out of a patient a medicine man |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | SPANISH CLASS $200: Oh no! Temblor de tierra, this! earthquake |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THE RACE IS TO THE STRONG $400: You'll need water bad in the Badwater Ultramarathon from this low spot to over 8,000' up Mount Whitney Death Valley |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1969 the Alabama-born widow of this man became the first woman to preach in St. Paul's Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $1200: In 2013 a military judge said this was a bad idea, but she couldn't stop the accused Fort Hood shooter from doing it defending himself |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | "UGA" $800: 9-letter word meaning to present a pill or bad news so it's easier to swallow sugarcoat |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $200: (Hi, I'm Isaac Mizrahi.) This dance pop diva from New York has her own sense of fashion & is all over my iPod with songs like "Bad Romance" Lady Gaga |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | UNPACK YOUR ADJECTIVES $800: Adjective for bad behavior found in "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" naughty |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | MASTERS OF TEXT $2000: & on a final note, all I can say is, GR2BR good riddance to bad rubbish |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | 2013 BOOKS $1200: In his "Life Code", this TV doctor tells readers how the world really works--the good, the bad & the ugly Dr. Phil |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE "BAD" $200: Wind & rain can mess with your 'do, causing you to have one of these 3-word experiences a bad hair day |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE "BAD" $400: What's that racket in my backyard? Oh, it's for this game badminton |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THAT VERB'S DARNED IRREGULAR $400: I did this, handed out the cards--too bad if you don't like your hand dealt |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE "BAD" $600: Like South Dakota, Alberta is home to a large rocky region known as this for its inhospitable terrain the badlands |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE "BAD" $800: A proverb says that one of these always turns up a bad penny |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE "BAD" $1000: This Black Forest city with a double-talk name has been home to soothing baths since Roman times Baden-Baden |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE UGLY $1000: In a 1966 film Clint Eastwood was "The Good", Lee Van Cleef was "The Bad" & this actor was "The Ugly" Eli Wallach |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | NEPO-TV-ISM $1600: Jemima Kirke of HBO's "Girls":
Daughter of drummer Simon of this "Feel Like Makin' Love" band Bad Company |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | POTENT POTABLES $600: (Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) We tried a month of on-air sobriety, but as it turns out, antioxidants in red wine may help prevent heart disease by raising the HDL or the good type of this & lowering the bad type cholesterol |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $800: She has spent 14 of her 49 years busting bad guys as Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU" (& looks the same as when she began) Mariska Hargitay |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $4,200 (Daily Double): A weather event off Cape Ann Oct. 30, 1991 popularized this phrase for when a lot of bad things happen at once a perfect storm |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS $1000: A bad kid in Slovakia brat |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT $1200: A bad habit like smoking, or an illegal activity like prostitution; there's a squad devoted to it in wicked Des Moines vice squad |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | TIME'S 50 WORST CARS OF ALL TIME $1000: While "not particularly" a bad car, this Ford model "tended to erupt in flame in rear-end collisions" the Pinto |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | FEEL NOT-SO-GOOD MOVIES $1200: Kid meets ghosts, child psychologist meets kid, child psychologist gets bad surprise, the end The Sixth Sense |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $400: Sherlock Holmes describes him as "one of the great brains of the century" Professor Moriarty |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $1200: He vows to turn Desdemona's "virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all" Iago |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $1600: This "Heart of Darkness" villain lived in the jungles of Africa, where he controlled the ivory trade Mister Kurtz |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $2000: Claggart is the evil sailor who accuses this Herman Melville character of plotting mutiny Billy Budd |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | POISONOUS PLANTS $1600: This type of "oil" was bad enough as a folk cure for kids; a few of the same plant's seeds can kill you castor |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS $1600: Captured royalist leader Rowland Laugharne was spared execution by the drawing of these--bad luck, John Poyer lots |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | 2 Js $800: An object venerated superstitiously; why do we always hear about the "bad" kind? juju |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In a 1784 letter Ben Franklin called this national symbol "a bird of bad moral character" the bald eagle |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | B1, B2... $400: High doses of vitamin B3, aka niacin, are used to lower the "bad" type of this in the blood & increase the "good" cholesterol |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | CHEMISTRY $2,400 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) On TV, these two symbols play a part on "Breaking Bad", but in chemistry, they represent these two elements--one a toxic liquid, the other a metal bromine & barium |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | YOU DID BAD $200: Robert Frost got this punishment, ending his college career, after giving another student a disfiguring haircut expulsion |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | YOU DID BAD $400: Someone freed after serving out his prison sentence is often said to have paid his debt to this society |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | YOU DID BAD $600: Shame on me! This 5-letter word for self-reproach often follows "Jewish" or "Catholic" guilt |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | YOU DID BAD $1,000 (Daily Double): This term for exclusion from a group goes back to temporary banishment in ancient Greece ostracism |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | YOU DID BAD $1000: The opposite of a state of sanctity, this 8-letter word is the title of a prize-winning J.M. Coetzee novel disgrace |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | TV LOCALES $400: "Breaking Bad" takes place in this "Land of Enchantment" state New Mexico |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES $200: "Special skills?" Icandrink5Doubleshot
energycoffeedrinksfrom
thischainin1minute&
youcannevereventell Starbucks |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | WHAT DEGREE ARE YOU GETTING? $200: Not baddest but this word is the proper superlative degree of "bad" worst |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES $400: "Would you relocate?" Only to this Vermont capital, as I'm uncomfortable in any capital city over 8,000 people Montpelier |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES $600: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Replacing Kirk Hammett as lead guitarist of this "Unforgiven" band Metallica |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES $800: "Any questions?" What's your sick leave policy? I'm prone to this most common but least deadly type of plague bubonic plague |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES $1000: "What do you bring to the company?" My pet, a naked this... I have him with me today a mole rat |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | GREEN WITH NON-ENVY $1000: Norman Osborn is the civilian name of this bad guy who has Spider-Man climbing the walls The Green Goblin |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | ALL-TIME 100 SONGS $400: Her "Bad Romance" "is an infectiously catchy dance song about all of the... messed-up feelings people have for one another" Lady Gaga |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BREAKING BAD $200: If you've busted your scaphoid, radius & ulna, you've broken bones in this limb the arm |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BREAKING BAD $400: On June 17, 1972 some "plumbers" got into hot water for breaking into this office complex the Watergate |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BREAKING BAD $600: "Black's Law Dictionary" says breach of promise is "the violation of one's word... especially a promise to" do this marry |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BREAKING BAD $800: Germany broke the Munich Agreement of 1938 in March of 1939 by seizing the rest of this country that no longer exists Czechoslovakia |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BREAKING BAD $1000: A loved one's death may cause this, described as a medical syndrome in 1991 & called Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy a broken heart |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | "M.C." $2,600 (Daily Double): It's "my bad"--in Latin mea culpa |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | MONARCHS OF ENGLAND $800: This king, brother of Richard the Lionheart has a bad reputation; even his title, Count of Mortain, sounds evil John |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $400: Jim Croce hit No. 1 with a song about this title guy, "the baddest man in the whole damn town" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $800: This trio's song "Good Riddance" is subtitled "Time Of Your Life" Green Day |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $800: When the French realize you're a dancing double agent during WWI, Oct. 15, 1917 will be a bad day, female bro Mata Hari |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $1200: Whatcha gonna do? This reggae song was the theme to the TV show "Cops" "Bad Boys" |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $1600: "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang samples this Chic No. 1 hit from 1979 "Good Times" |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $2000: Still "Pure Country", in 2011 he had a hit with "Here For A Good Time", the title track of his 39th album George Strait |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE WRITE OF SPRING $400: Its prologue begins, "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote" The Canterbury Tales |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | COMPASS POINT MOVIES $1600: Nick Nolte has the best hands in football but a "bad attitude" in this satire on the business of football North Dallas Forty |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | LET US GO FOURTH $400: Though he was the first czar of Russia, he was the IV of his name; was he really that bad? Ivan |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $600: The ace pitcher on a boys' Little League team is a girl (Tatum O'Neal) in this comedy from 1976 The Bad News Bears |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $800: On this painting: "To me it was merely a serene and subdued face... the complexion was bad...there are no people that color" the Mona Lisa |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | POP GO THE LYRICS! $600: It's the 2-word title of the Lady Gaga song that includes "ro mah, ro-mah-mah, gaga, ooh-la-la!" "Bad Romance" |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | TV VILLAINS $400: Despite his evil intent, it's hard not to feel bad for this Warner Bros. Road Runner pursuer Wile E. Coyote |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | GOLD RUSH $400: Unlike real gold, when heated, fool's gold, or iron this, will smoke & produce a bad odor pyrite |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | TV DRAMAS $600: Bryan Cranston stars in this highly acclaimed AMC series, a whole different kind of cooking show Breaking Bad |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | HUGO AWARDS FOR SCIENCE FICTION $400: This Orwell novel that says, "Four legs good, two legs bad" Animal Farm |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | EVERYTHING FROM A TO C $400: This 7-letter term means "antiquated" archaic |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | TIE ONE $400: Tie up the bad guy's hands with cable ties, also known by this speedy name zip ties |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | VIDEO GAME TIMELINE $800: 2009:
Batman wins new fans as he fights bad guys who've seized this mental hospital Arkham Asylum |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST $3,000 (Daily Double): Killing this seabird is bad luck, & yet the short-tailed one is on the endangered species list an albatross |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | BAD LUCK? $400: A superstition says breaking one of these brings on 7 years of bad luck a mirror |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | BAD LUCK? $800: Ducks, Canucks & other players of this pro sport know it's bad luck to leave your sticks crossed hockey |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | BAD LUCK? $1200: Even if you're doing it "while you work", it's bad luck to do this backstage at a theater whistling |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | BAD LUCK? $1600: The Olsen Twins have found fortune despite being born on June 13, 1986, this day of the week Friday |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | BAD LUCK? $2000: Some have thought this October birthstone bad luck, perhaps because it looks like cats' creepy eyes the opal |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | BODY LANGUAGE $800: You may be "chilled to" this; I'm "bad to" it the bone |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of parts of England and France.) The crossing of the English Channel would have been 21 miles straight, but because of bad weather on August 6, 1926, a 35-mile route was swum by this Olympic gold medalist Gertrude Ederle |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | B.C. KING $800: This father of Alexander the Great wasn't so bad himself, extending his dominion over all of Greece Phillip |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BODY PART-POURRI $1000: Nora Ephron wrote the book "I Feel Bad About" this My Neck |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | SON OF... $1200: In Arabic names "son of" can be ibn or this, as in the name of a bad man born in 1957 bin |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MRS. HIPPIE $800: A "bad trip" is an uncomfortable LSD experience, like the one Mrs. Hippie had at this August 1969 N.Y. music festival Woodstock |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | ADVENTUROUS FOLKS $2000: In 1792 this British naval officer surveyed the coast of Washington & named Mount Rainier Vancouver |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | I CAN ALMOST TASTE THAT WORD $1000: In this word that means "without taste", every other letter spells "bad" bland |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | MEAN JOE $1600: Tom Sawyer's archfoe, he kills Doc Robinson & frames Muff Potter before coming to a bad end in a cave Injun Joe |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Conan Doyle wrote, "Where was the detective story until" this author "breathed the breath of life into it?" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $200: An old superstition says, "bad" this last run-through in costume, "good show" dress rehearsal |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $200: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) I grew up on this side of Chicago that according to the song "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" is the baddest part of town the south side |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | WEAK END $2000: The New York Times said this 1956 film about a grade schooler with an evil streak had an "asinine closing-credits sequence" The Bad Seed |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $1200: "Bad Teacher" Cameron Diaz set her sights on a colleague played by this singer/actor/anything else he wants to do Justin Timberlake |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | FILL IN THE QUOTE $400: Benjamin Franklin: "There never was a ____ ____ or a bad peace" good war |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | FUNNYMEN $600: Just months before his 2008 death, he recorded his 14th & last HBO stand-up special, "It's Bad for Ya" George Carlin |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | BASEBALL TIMELINE $200: On July 4, 1939 in Yankee Stadium, he said, "I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for" Lou Gehrig |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | A SPANISH INQUISITION $800: Do you feel bad for Mike, now that he's a two-time perdedor? a loser |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | TV THEME SONG HITS $600: 1993:
"Bad Boys" Cops |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT 2012 $800: This show about a teacher-turned-meth maker had its most-watched episode with its Season 5 premiere Breaking Bad |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | DO YOU KNOW THE "LING"O? $400: 6-letter verb meaning to tarry linger |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | OLD WEST LITERATURE $800: When the legend becomes fact, reprint Dorothy M. Johnson's "The Man who Shot" this bad guy Liberty Valance |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | PUT ME IN, MOVIE COACH! $600: Coach Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) gave his little leaguers beer after a tough loss, but this film still means well The Bad News Bears |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $200: Atomic number 17, it's poisonous, smells bad & causes irritation to the nose, lungs & throat; put some in my pool, please! chlorine |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | "A"-LIST LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: He's the title character in "The Return of the King" Aragorn |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | TV BUSINESSES $1000: Los Pollos Hermanos--best chicken in New Mexico! Breaking Bad |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | JIMMY'S ON TOP $600: His song "Big Bad John" spent 2 weeks at the top of the country charts Jimmy Dean |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! $1,000 (Daily Double): Bad stuff will go down when guys are named 1, 2 & 3 murderer, as Fleance & his dad discover in this play Macbeth |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $400: Irish poet Padraic Pearse was executed by firing squad after helping lead 1916's Easter Rebellion in this capital Dublin |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $800: Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca was killed in 1936 by this general's forces Franco |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $1200: This Roman orator & writer was executed on Dec. 7, 43 B.C.; his head & hands were then put on display at the forum Cicero |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This courtier & author of a "History of the World" was executed at the Tower of London in 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $2000: A romantic tale says this Austrian poet of "Sonnets to Orpheus" died from a scratch he got picking a rose--actually, leukemia (Rainer Maria) Rilke |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | THE BRITISH ARE COMING! $200: In 1964 this band had 19 Top 40 hits; not a bad year, lads the Beatles |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | ANTIHEROES $400: Snake Plissken was a bad, bad man in his first feature film appearance, "Escape from" here New York |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | "MIS"QUOTES $1000: Emerson wrote, "Art is a jealous" this, "and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry... he makes a bad husband" mistress |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | I DON'T GIVE A... $200: Starchy tuber from Africa yam |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | WHAT THE X-RAY SHOWS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays an X-ray on the monitor.) With the screws & pins in place, you can see it was a bad fracture of this leg bone the tibia |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | COLOR ME BAD $400: Dark name for medieval plague the Black Death |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | COLOR ME BAD $800: Herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas Agent Orange |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: In a Victor Hugo novel, things start going bad for this bellringer during Epiphany celebrations Quasimodo |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | BIOLOGY $1200: In 2011 virologist Ron Fouchier made bird flu more contagious by introducing these genetic changes--bad idea, some say mutations |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BAD KISSERS $200: James McAvoy said his movie kiss with this mother of Brad Pitt's children was awkward & sweaty Angelina Jolie |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BAD KISSERS $400: Keira Knightley said Johnny Depp was a better smoocher than this other Caribbean pirate Orlando Bloom |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BAD KISSERS $600: This actress told Robert Downey Jr. he didn't know what he was doing when their lips met in "Iron Man 2" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BAD KISSERS $800: Alyson Hannigan refused to kiss Jason Segel on this CBS sitcom due to his cigarette habit How I Met Your Mother |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BAD KISSERS $1000: Thandie Newton griped that this "Mission: Impossible" star's kisses were "icky & sort of wet" Tom Cruise |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $200: In traditional productions of "Swan Lake", Odile's tutu is this color black |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | A BYZANTINE CATEGORY $800: The Byzantines paid tributes of gold to this big bad Hun who attacked them repeatedly in the 440s Attila |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | THIS OR THAT $2000: A bad football punt, or the long, straight anchor part connecting the crown & the ring a shank |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND $2000: We had a big year in 1966, with 5 Top 10 hits including "Summer In The City"--not bad for 4 Greenwich Village boys The Lovin' Spoonful |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $800: He was buried in Madrid April 23, 1616, not long after finishing "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $1200: David Halberstam, author of books about this event like 1965's "Anatomy of a Quagmire", died April 23, 2007 the Vietnam War |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $1600: This English poet laureate died April 23, 1850 at Rydal Mount in his beloved Lake District Wordsworth |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $2000: Before his April 23, 1915 death abroad, he wrote, "There's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England" Rupert Brooke |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WE'LL LEAVE TONIGHT $2,000 (Daily Double): On June 20, 1791 she influenced her husband to flee Paris; too bad his picture was on the nation's paper money Marie Antoinette |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | IT'S USEFUL IN THE KITCHEN $600: Edward Lear wrote of the jumblies, who "went to sea in" this bowl-shaped item; seems like a bad idea a sieve |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | 1930s COMEDIES $2000: In this film Clark Gable reassures Claudette Colbert saying, "The walls of Jericho will protect you from the Big Bad Wolf" It Happened One Night |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | GREAT JANES $200: Since 2000 this writer has 18 credits on imdb.com, including an "Emma" miniseries; not bad for being dead for 195 years Jane Austen |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | SOLVE FOR "EX" $1000: If the murderer had blood type A, finding that a suspect has type O is this kind of evidence exculpatory (exclusionary also accepted) |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 2010s TV $800: New Mexico drug kingpin Gus Fring lost a good deal of face on this drama Breaking Bad |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | "YOU" ROCK $400: Title that follows "Shot through the heart and you're to blame" "You Give Love a Bad Name" |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $400: A loyal friend "sticks with you through" these alliterative antonyms referring to good & bad times thick and thin |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | McPEOPLE $1200: This bad boy of British fashion died in February 2010 (Alexander) McQueen |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | SCI FI & FANTASY $1000: Lord Foul is a really bad, bad guy in Stephen R. Donaldson's "Chronicles of" this unbelieving man Thomas Covenant |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $1600: Element No. 88, it was once widely used on glow-in-the-dark watch dials--a curie-ously stylish but bad idea! radium |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | MORE 4 YEARS $800: 1934 was a bad year for bank robbers: John Dillinger was killed in Chicago & this couple went down in a Louisiana police ambush Bonnie & Clyde |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | MORE 4 YEARS $1200: This Dickens book about relatives Martin (good) & Jonas (bad) was published in 1844 Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | FOREIGN $800: Tredici is Italian for this symbol of bad luck 13 |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $200: The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song Leroy |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $1000: This youthful fellow had a bad run-in with the authorities in 1934 Baby Face Nelson |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | STOP THAT RACKET! $400: This racket is extorting money by saying you'll keep bad guys (aka yourself) from hurting someone the protection racket |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | BEWARE OF GOD $400: Thrym, king of the frost giants, stole the hammer of this god & buried it 8 miles deep in the earth; bad idea Thor |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | GETTING DEFENSIVE $800 (Daily Double): One form of justification for a bad act is having had these, proverbially the asphalt on the way to hell good intentions |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CHAMBER MUSIC $1600: He intended his wife Clara to play his piano quintet, but when she fell ill, he found not a bad substitute in Felix Mendelssohn (Robert) Schumann |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | IT'S A "MAD" WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): The volcanic soil of this Atlantic island helps give a distinctive rich flavor to the fortified wine named for it Madeira |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | YOUR HISTORICAL INSURANCE ADJUSTER $600: Okay, the Louvre, Picasso was questioned on the Aug. 21, 1911 theft of this painting, but we don't cover for bad security! the Mona Lisa |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) The arrival of foxes in Western Australia in the 1920s was bad news for the quokka, a type of this kangaroo relative a wallaby |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $200: "100 Doses" & "Bad Day To Be A Rhesus Monkey" were on the soundtrack to this 2011 medical thriller Contagion |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | ALL SAINTS DAYS $600: December 29:
This man for whom it was a bad day in the cathedral (Thomas à) Becket |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $600: Bad-smelling chicken or turkey foul fowl |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | GROUP COUNTDOWN $800: In interrogation, one officer who acts threatening & another who comes on nicer to win the suspect's trust good cop, bad cop |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | BAD HEIR DAY $400: Adonijah, the fourth son of this biblical king, was killed by his brother Solomon David |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | BAD HEIR DAY $800: Robert the Steward was heir presumptive to his grandfather, this Scot, who suddenly had a son in 1324 Robert the Bruce |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | BAD HEIR DAY $1200: A December 2010 news story said this product was angling for Prince William, who was just 28, as a spokesman Rogaine |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | BAD HEIR DAY $2,000 (Daily Double): June 28, 1914 was the last day for this heir to a European throne Archduke (Franz) Ferdinand |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | BAD HEIR DAY $2000: In June 1461 Prince Carlos' father made him Governor of Catalonia, but in September Carlos died in this city Barcelona |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $2000: This 89-year-old ex-civil engineer said May 21, 2011 was the day... then, sorry, I was off by 5 months, it's Oct. 21, my bad Harold Camping |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $400: Matt Damon began writing this screenplay as a student at Harvard Good Will Hunting |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $800: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci & Ray Liotta--need I say more? Goodfellas |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz doesn't care what child gets left behind in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $1600: Ho! ho! no! Billy Bob Thornton is anything but in the spirit as a foul-mouthed con man in this 2003 flick Bad Santa |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $2000: Piper Perabo plays a fledgling songwriter who serves up sass & drinks in this 2000 movie Coyote Ugly |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | REMEMBER 2008? $800: After getting an $85 billion bailout, this insurance giant added to its bad PR when execs went to a swanky resort AIG |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | YOU'VE GOT THE WRITE STUFF, JAMES $400: You wrote the novels "Hawaii" & "Alaska"; too bad you never got around to "Rhode Island" (James) Michener |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $800: (Mike & Mike deliver the clue.) One of the most amazing performances ever came when Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics, that was impressive
Not bad, not bad, but even better might be when Roger Bannister broke this track & field time barrier in 1954 the 4-minute mile |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | CHILDHOOD HEALTH $600: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) Body fat affects the ability to use insulin, so bad eating habits among youth may be why more & more kids are diagnosed not with the type 1 or juvenile kind of this but the type 2 or adult-onset variety diabetes |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | "V" LOVE SCIENCE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an image of some butterflies on a monitor.) The monarch butterfly tastes bad to predators, so as a form of defense, this palatable but smaller butterfly mimics the monarch's coloration & pattern the viceroy |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | "J" $800: By definition, it's something that brings bad luck a jinx |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | NOVEL QUOTES $1200: "George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits" Of Mice and Men |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | CELEBS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON REALITY SHOWS $600: Duane Chapman's new sidekick chasing down bad guys on this A&E show? 3 words: Dame. Judi. Dench Dog the Bounty Hunter |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1000: It's the 7-letter name for this traffic beater; too bad it never really got off the ground with the public the aerocar |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1900 book, one character tells her, "I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad wizard" Dorothy |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | ON MY DOG'S iPOD $800: My dog really sinks his teeth into the George Thorogood classic "Bad To" this "The Bone" |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | HINDSIGHT IS 1920 $800: This country, once scheduled to host the canceled 1916 Olympics, was not invited to the 1920 Games; too bad Germany |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | HOUDINI $600: Houdini died from a burst one of these, not as the result of an escape gone bad an appendix |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN $1200: This 2-wd invention of mine saved my house during bad storm! oz./prev. = lb./cure! a lightning rod |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | YOU'RE SO COLORFUL $1600: "Metallic" term for what you see when you see the bright side of a bad situation the silver lining |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: Her father Francis says at about age 3 she heard him in a long argument & said, "Cut!" Sofia Coppola |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | WHO SANG IT? $600: "Bad Blood" & "Laughter In The Rain" Neil Sedaka |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $1200: Of women's Olympic ice hockey, 3 of the 4 times it's been played (not bad, eh?) Canada |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | QUITE THE CAST OF TV CHARACTERS $400: Gil Grissom & Raymond Langston both went after the bad guys (with science!) on this show CSI |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | DOC $1600: Doc, my nearsightedness is really bad & I don't want to try LASIK; what about RK, short for this? radial keratotomy |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | LET'S DO "UNCH" $600: Let's get a pizza... & a couple of burritos... & some chips... I've got a bad case of these the munchies |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $200: Your words of advice are as powerful as when this man of myth warned his boy Icarus about flying too near the sun Daedalus |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $400: You will roll around in this 2-word item seen here; you will then invest heavily in calamine lotion poison ivy |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $600: Just like Hurley on this ABC drama, your lucky numbers are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 & 42... but what kind of luck? Lost |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $800: You are always on our minds... says this agency in the Treasury Dept., established in 1862 to help pay Civil War costs the IRS |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $1000: A surprise awaits you... especially if you have funds in this "sibling" investment house; it'll go bankrupt (Sept. '08 cookie) Lehman Brothers |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL WARNINGS $1200: On March 23, 2010 the State Dept. issued a warning on going to this Mideast country; hiking its border is a bad idea, too Iran |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TALKIN' TOLKIEN $600: Tolkien's name for the "Black Land", the home of the bad guys Mordor |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | BREAKING NEWS $3,600 (Daily Double): Senator Obama attended the 2006 groundbreaking for this man's memorial, 1/2 mile from Lincoln's Martin Luther King |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | NAUTICAL TERMS $400: This lookout platform is named for the bird that would be released to find the nearest land in bad weather the crow's nest |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 2009:
He was really good as Bad Blake Jeff Bridges |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | GOLF $400: It's the 3-letter position of the ball & may be "good" or "bad" depending on the height of the grass a lie |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $800: By Judith Viorst:
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, ____ ____ Day" Very Bad |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | I OWE YOU AN "OLOGY" $1000: This -ology, part of sociology, uses the theory of differential association (i.e., hanging around with a bad crowd) criminology |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | IN CRISIS MODE $2000: Bad feelings left by 1908's Bosnian crisis, in which this dual monarchy annexed Bosnia, helped start WWI Austria-Hungary |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | TV THEME LYRICS $1600: "I don't know who you think you are but before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you" True Blood |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | DESCRIBING THE FILM $400: 1986: Principal Rooney has a bad day;
a Ferrari meets a bad end--
Broderick...? Broderick...? Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | WHAT'S IN AN OLD TESTAMENT NAME? $400: His name means "breath"; too bad Cain took it away from him Abel |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | NO. 1 WITH A BULLET $400: This title character of a Jim Croce No. 1 carried "a 32 gun in his pocket for fun" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | MARXISMS $1200: Film in which Groucho asks, "Wouldn't it be simpler if you just put the stateroom in the trunk?" A Night at the Opera |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | U.S. FLAG ETIQUETTE $400: It's the preferred way to destroy an American flag in bad condition burning it |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | JOHANNES BRAHMS $400: Brahms got off to a bad start with this Hungarian composer by falling asleep during one of his concerts Liszt |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $800: July 1, 1863: Good news, get to keep leg; bad news, I'm going to Cemetery Ridge for this Penn. battle Gettysburg |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | LET'S GET READY TO ROOMBA! $600: The Roomba took the tail off my rumpy-riser this cat type! ... My bad, it didn't have much of one to start a Manx |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $800: (Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)
"When it comes to controversy, not much can top the Black Sox scandal of 1919"
"Not much true--but for me, nothing is as bad as in 1989 when this record-breaking player was banned from baseball for gambling on games while still a manager" Pete Rose |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | 2010 EMMY WINNERS $800: Know what Emmy voters like? Meth & murder! OK, not really, but they loved Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman on this AMC show Breaking Bad |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | TEXTBOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Dr. H.V. Carter illustrated this 1858 text, an instant success despite bad reviews in the British Medical Journal Gray's Anatomy |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | MYSTERY MEAT $400: This poisoning usually picked up from bad canned meat takes its name from the Latin word for sausage botulism |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | SCI FI MOVIE SUMMARIES $2000: 1981:
Hi-ho, hi-ho, miners are dying on Io; bad drugs are the problem & a former James Bond is the solution Outland |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | WHEN YOU WISH UPON A CZAR $200: Talk about a bad heir day! Living up to his name in 1581, he murdered his only viable heir (& his namesake, to boot!) Ivan the Terrible |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | LET'S CALL TRIPLE "A" $200: From the Italian for "bad air", this disease kills more than one million people each year malaria |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | TAKE A POWDER $200: Locholest powder is designed to lower the levels of the "bad" cholesterol, known by this 3-letter abbreviation LDL |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | THE TENTH INNING $600: (Ken Burns reads.) In 1995 she said the owners negotiated in bad faith, ended the strike & sent players back to work on their existing contract; 11 years later she would become a Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | NFL RECORDS $1000: This Cowboy has the most career rushing attempts with 4,409; he's not a bad dancer, either Emmitt Smith |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | EPONYMS $400: Although sources disagree over the origin of this "do-over" golf shot, many accept that it was named for a bad golfer a Mulligan |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $1000: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award Joe Dumars |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CABLE GUYS $800: Bryan Cranston as chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin Walter White Breaking Bad |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | IN THE 21st CENTURY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the United Nations in New York.) Here in the General Assembly in March, 2006, the U.N. established a new council on these; the old commission on them had a bad name, with members like Sudan & Libya human rights |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | VILLAINS SPEAK $400: After I eat Little Red Riding Hood & her grandmother too, I will lead a new canine order & become master of the universe the (big bad) wolf |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ALIEN INVADERS! $800: At first a bad guy, in later movies he protected Earth from alien monsters like Gigan & Megalon Godzilla |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | FOOD SCIENCE $1,200 (Daily Double): From the French for "sour wine", this liquid will go bad over time, so it should be stored in a cool, dark place vinegar |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | ZOMBIELAND $400: & they thought alligators were bad! In 1984's "C.H.U.D." zombies haunt this city's sewer system New York |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | LIKE A HURRICANE $400: Hurricanes are bad enough, but they also spin off these other hazards; Hurricane Beulah generated 141 when it hit Texas in 1967 tornadoes |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | I'D RATHER PAY TAXES $400: He died April 15, 1865, after a really bad night at the theater Lincoln |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $200: It's not me, it's a homophone for this female sheep that can weigh more than 225 pounds a ewe |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $400: This doctor wrote that dreams "are simply... realizations of wishes" & I've had a breakthrough; I wish to be single Freud |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $600: Our timing was all wrong, just like my '69 Camaro from this car line; you know a good mechanic? Chevrolet |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $800: Sorry, I'm going to concentrate on my career & never marry, like this woman born in 1830 who wrote over 1,700 poems Emily Dickinson |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $1000: I only have eyes for this White House bigwig & ex-Congressman seen here Rahm Emanuel |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | BIBLICAL BAD STUFF $200: Abimelech, Lamech & Cain all commit this crime murder |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | BIBLICAL BAD STUFF $400: This 7th of the 10 plagues returned in Munich in 1984, damaging 250,000 cars & costing $1 billion hail |
