| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $1600: When time-traveling Bruce Willis is sent to the psychiatric ward in this 1995 movie, he meets Brad Pitt, who is really bananas 12 Monkeys |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | SAY YOUR FRUITS & VEGGIES! $1000: When it comes to this pluralized fruit, you can "go" them or be "driven" them bananas |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $300: It may seem bananas, but the letter K is the symbol for this element whose name actually begins with another letter potassium |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | WHAT'S THE "PLAN"? $800: Go bananas for these, aka cooking bananas; they're popular in Caribbean cuisine plantains |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | TAKE MY "Y", PLEASE! $800: Please take my "Learn to" do this CD; if I hear "Alpine Honeymoon" one more time, I'll go bananas yodel |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NOM NOM NOMINATIONS $600: A 2022 Beard nominee for Outstanding Restaurant, Brennan's in New Orleans is famed for this flambéed fruit & rum dessert bananas Foster |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $400: A pet feline acts a little bit crazy in the Lilian Jackson Braun mystery "The Cat Who Went" these tropical fruits bananas |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LET'S VISIT NICARAGUA $800: Major agricultural products include sugar cane, maize & these green bananas that can be cooked & eaten like a vegetable plantain |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $800: This company still markets bananas from Guatemala; when it was United Fruit Co., it helped kill a 1950s land redistribution there Chiquita |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | LESSER-KNOWN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Castries is the capital of this island country between Martinique & Saint Vincent, whose exports include bananas & beer Saint Lucia |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | WEIRD SCIENCE $600: Bananas have a tiny amount of radioactivity due to this element, which can emit .01 millirems of radiation potassium |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Pineapples & bananas are now tops in Costa Rican exports, but historically this crop was their number one pick-me-up coffee |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | FLAGS $400: Fiji's flag depicts many of its tropical treasures, including sugar cane, bananas & this type of palm a coconut tree |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEE LIFE $800: Here's the exciting part of the creation of this dessert, named for a regular at a New Orleans restaurant bananas Foster |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $600: You may get allergy symptoms when you eat bananas or zucchini if you are allergic to this "weed" that causes hay fever ragweed |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | FOOD TALK $400: The flambe dessert called Bananas Foster was created at Brennan's Restaurant in this city in the 1950s New Orleans |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | "A" VOWEL $400: Lady fingers & thousand fingers are varieties of this fruit bananas |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE FOOD NETWORK $800: Escoffier is said to have invented this dish of a certain fruit, sugar & brandy flambéed & spooned over vanilla ice cream cherries jubilee |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | SCIENTISTS $400: Bananas were an important lab tool for Thomas Hunt Morgan as he used these insects to prove chromosome theory fruit flies |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $800: An essential nutrient, this element, symbol K, is in bananas, lima beans & avocados potassium |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | IT'S THE WORLD ECONOMY $600: Along with pineapples, these fruits are the top agricultural export of Costa Rica bananas |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | YOU BURNED MY FOOD! $600: At Brennan's in New Orleans, 35,000 lbs. of a certain fruit gets flamed annually to make this signature dessert of the restaurant Bananas Foster |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | & DEAL THE CARBS $800: Okay, these fruits are about 22% carbs, but Cavendish ones do help lower blood pressure & promote a healthy heart, so it's worth it! bananas |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WHAT WE HAVE HERE $1000: You'll find plenty of bananas & coffee in this largest Central American country by area Nicaragua |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | PLANT THE FLAG $400: Fiji's flag shows a coconut palm & a bunch of these fruits bananas |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VENOM $1200: The Brazilian wandering type of this packs a powerful venom; check those bunches of bananas for it! a spider |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit Uganda |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES $1000: We like this potassium-rich fruit that comes in a blue Java variety a whole bunch bananas |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | FRUIT, NOT FRUIT $1000: Cross-examining himself in this 1971 movie, Woody Allen reveals he's an American citizen & the president of San Marcos Bananas |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE $800: Gwen Stefani spells "bananas" while singing about this girl "Hollaback Girl" |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | RECIPE ORIGINS $1000: This banana dessert was created at Brennan's in New Orleans & named for a pal of the owner bananas Foster |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ELEMENT-IUM $2000: The 40 isotope of this element is radioactive; isn't that bananas? potassium |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $400: How do you stop police from tailing you in L.A.? Get Damon Wayans to give you bananas, like Eddie Murphy did in this '84 film Beverly Hills Cop |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | FOOD & DRINK SCIENCE $2000: Green bananas produce this gas, which causes them to ripen; trapping the gas in a bag speeds up the process ethylene |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | GOING BANANAS $200: In 2014 a U.K. zoo banned bananas from these primates' diet; commercially available fruits are too sugary gorillas (or monkeys) |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | GOING BANANAS $400: "Fun Facts" at this company's website include "The average American eats 27 pounds of bananas each year!" Chiquita |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | GOING BANANAS $600: This "cooking banana" has a mild squashlike flavor a plantain |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | GOING BANANAS $800: Runner's World said marathoners have a post-race banana to replenish about 500 mg of this metallic element potassium |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | GOING BANANAS $1000: A 2013 Bon Appetit article called this, not apple pie, the "most American diner dessert" banana cream pie |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | CENTRAL AMERICA $1000: The southern coast on the Gulf of Fonseca is the only outlet to the Pacific for this country big in bananas Honduras |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | THAT'S BANANAS! $200: In this dessert the banana is prepared with 3 ice cream scoops, syrups, whipped cream & a cherry banana split |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | THAT'S BANANAS! $1000: At Brennan's in New Orleans, the recipe for this banana dish says, "tip the pan slightly to ignite the rum" Bananas Foster |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHICH SANDWICH? $200: Elvis' favorite was a fried sammy of peanut butter with mashed these bananas |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | TRIPLE "A" $800: Woody Allen played Fielding Mellish in this "tasty" 1971 film Bananas |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | MUSIC OF THE 2000s $600: The video for this 2005 song is bananas, featuring Harajuku Girls & the Fountain Valley High School marching band "Hollaback Girl" |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | POTENT POTABLES $800: Creme D'ananas is a liqueur flavored mainly with this fruit, not bananas pineapple |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | NAME THAT FOOD! $1200: Sautéed in a mix of rum, brown sugar & banana liqueur & poured over vanilla ice cream, go Bananas this! Foster |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $400: Robinson Crusoe "taught him to say yes and no and to know the meaning of them" Friday |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $800: This simple squire of Don Quixote has a wife, Teresa, a son, Sanchico, & daughter, Mari Sancha Sancho Panza |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $1200: This Agatha Christie sleuth is fond of his chronicler Arthur Hastings but thinks he's a bit of an imbecile Hercule Poirot |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the "Iliad", Patroclus is the bosom companion of this fierce Greek warrior Achilles |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $2000: In Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, physician Stephen Maturin is the sidekick of this captain Jack Aubrey |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | COUNTRY FACTS $1600: It's the largest fruit export for Honduras bananas |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | MEAN JOE $800: Fruity nickname of mob boss Joseph Bonanno Joe Bananas |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | SIDE DISHES $800: Tostones are usually made by frying this fruit; if you're not in the Caribbean, bananas may be easier to come by plantains |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | PLANT IT! $400: Fruit grows down from the top of the banana plant in clusters known for their shape by this anatomical name hands |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | ODD JOBS $200: Gassers of these tropical fruits of the genus Musa spray ethylene gas on them to ripen them so that they're yellow bananas |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | FLAMING FOODS $1000: Brennan's in New Orleans says that this flaming fruity dessert is the most requested item on its menu Bananas Foster |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | "POT"s & "PAN"s $800: Isolated by Sir Humphry Davy, this second-lightest metal could make you go bananas potassium |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | THEY'RE ON CABLE $2000: We are bananas about this celebrity stylist; the show titled her "Project" is seen on Bravo Rachel Zoe |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | FRUIT TYPES $800: Cavendish,
Manzano bananas |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | BANANAS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.) Bananas grow in hands of ten fingers or more; after harvesting, each hand is cut into what we call a bunch--growers refer to it as a corona, Spanish for this a crown |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | BANANAS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.) Banana plants with thin leaves produce good fruit; young plants with wide leaves are called hijos del agua--or "sons of" this, & are culled because too much of it is directed to the leaves water |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | BANANAS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.) Bananas stay green while attached to the plant; picking one releases a gas that changes the fruit's color & turns its starch into this sugar, from the Latin for "fruit" fructose |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | BANANAS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.) Though a banana bush can grow to 20 feet in height & is commonly referred to as a tree, it contains no woody tissue; it's actually a huge one of these plants common to cooks like sage or basil an herb |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | BANANAS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.) The string inside a banana carries nutrients such as sugars between parts of the plant; it's called the phloem, from the Greek word for this tough stuff that covers trees bark |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | LIVING HEALTHY WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz shows a plate of bananas, dates, strawberries, and other fruits.) One way to control high blood pressure is to counteract high levels of sodium in the average diet by eating foods rich in magnesium & this element--symbol K potassium |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | WHOSE DISH IS IT ANYWAY? $400: A New Orleans dessert:
Bananas ____ Foster |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | THE QUOTA SYSTEM $2000: A dispute dating to 1947 concerns Europe's quotas & tariffs on this fruit, which Latin America says are discriminatory bananas |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE $1200: Day-O! This job was for those who secured payments for goods on credit, like bananas maybe tallyman |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | FROM SOUP TO NUTS $400: One of Elvis' favorite snacks was a sandwich of peanut butter & this fruit "mashed and mixed" bananas |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | FRUIT $1000: Bananas are rich in this element that controls the body's fluid balance, providing more than almost any other fruit potassium |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | BACKWORDS $1200: Ellen liked to sleep on a pile of these from oranges & bananas peels (sleep) |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | "D"RINKS $400: This rum cocktail can be made frozen, often with bananas or strawberries a daiquiri |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | SCIENCE STUFF $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew compares the color of bananas.) A banana will ripen quicker in a bag, because the ethylene gas produced by the fruit cannot escape; ethylene gas is one of these growth regulators, Greek for "set in motion" a hormone |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Several fruit from the genus Musa Bananas |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | A CINEMATIC FEAST $1000: Woody Allen becomes the unlikely leader of fictional San Marcos in this 1971 film Bananas |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | MEXICAN FOOD FROM THE LITTLE DINER $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew gets his hands dirty.) These delicacies have been around for centuries; sometimes wrapped in the leaves of bananas or avocados, today they're usually wrapped in corn husks tamales |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | PAULA'S HOME COOKING $200: (Paula Deen herself flips a sandwich in a frying pan.) I'm gonna celebrate Elvis Presley, a great Southerner, by frying up his favorite sandwich--bananas & this peanut butter |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | THE CHUM BUCKET $200: Holy 2nd bananas! Douglas Croft, Burt Ward & Chris O'Donnell have played this superhero, old chum Robin (Batman) |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | YOU'RE SO SWEET $800: This fruit of the genus Musa is rich in potassium & also has a surprisingly high sugar content bananas |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | A STOCKPILE $2000: People seem to go bananas over this company, CQB Chiquita (Brands) |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | STATE GOVERNORS $200: Elected in 2003, dis guvenuh made his totally fantastic film debut in 1970's "Hercules Goes Bananas" Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | LET'S MAKE THIS $200: Peanut butter plus bread plus bananas all grilled up is a feast fit for a king--this King who died in 1977 Elvis Presley |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Duke University Primate Center.) Technicians of the Duke University Primate Center say the animals go bananas over grapes & this fruit of the genus Musa bananas |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | A 5-COURSE MEAL $2000: For dessert, we imitate Brennan's in N.O. & cook up this bananas & ice cream dessert named for a customer Bananas Foster |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $400: Paquin's plantains Anna's bananas |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | FRUIT $600: It's the most important fruit export of Costa Rica & Honduras bananas |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $800: It's the leading agricultural product of the island nation of Dominica bananas |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | NOVELTY SONGS $4,000 (Daily Double): This 1920s novelty hit supposedly got its title from the confusing statement of a Greek fruit peddler "Yes! We Have No Bananas" |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | IF YOU GROW IT, THEY WILL EAT $800: One of the oldest plants cultivated by man, it produces 1 bunch of "hands" & then is cut down bananas |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $200: Don't slip on this one: some Africans eat matoke & drink waragi, both made from this fruit bananas |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $1200: "Bananas Is My Business" (Carmen) Miranda |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | WHAT'S THE NEXT LINE? $800: "Yes we have no bananas..." "...We have no bananas today" |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: A bunch of bananas is called a hand; an individual banana is appropriately called this a finger |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | INCREDIBLE EDIBLES $800: The book "Fashionable Food" says the worst salad of the 1920s contained bananas & this movie theatre snack popcorn |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | THE ELEMENTS $800: Magnesium & this element can help prevent muscle cramps, so eat plenty of bananas potassium |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | TAKE MY "Y", PLEASE! $800: Please take my "Learn to" do this CD; if I hear "Alpine Honeymoon" one more time I'll go bananas yodel |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS UP $600: Guinness says a single bunch of these grown in 1999 weighed 287 lbs. -- hope no one slipped on the peel bananas |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | ELEMENT-ARY SCHOOL $1600: Bananas are an excellent source of this element whose symbol is K potassium |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | CONTORTIONISM $800: It's a position of the legs, not bananas, stretched out at right angles to the trunk a split |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | BONDS, COMMON BONDS $600: Fireplace logs,
sundae bananas.
infinitives things that are split |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | FRUIT $800: Wildly enthusiastic, crazy bananas |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | MAD, I TELL YOU! $200: Howard Cosell covers an assassination & a marital consummation in this "fruity" Woody Allen film Bananas |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL $400: He played himself in the films "Bananas" & "The 500-Pound Jerk" & was a lawyer before becoming a sportscaster (Howard) Cosell |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $800: Normally, it's the fruit set afire in the "Foster" dessert Bananas |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | BANANA REPUBLIC $300: Bananas are a culinary mainstay in Bahia, an Atlantic coast state in this South American country Brazil |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICA $200: This fruit crop accounts for a third of Honduras' exports & is the country's leading source of income Bananas |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | CARIBBEAN CUISINE $200: Puerto Ricans make mofongo by frying & mashing these "cooking bananas" Plantains |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | SECOND BANANAS $100: On the "Tonight Show", it was McMahon's standard introduction for Carson "Here's Johnny!" |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | SECOND BANANAS $200: He was Joey Bishop's sidekick long before he teamed up with Kathie Lee Regis Philbin |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | SECOND BANANAS $300: Once partnered with Tommy Chong, he now works with Don Johnson on "Nash Bridges" Cheech Marin |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | SECOND BANANAS $400: He got first billing even though he played second banana to wife Gracie Allen George Burns |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | SECOND BANANAS $500: Mel Brooks & this second banana won a Spoken Comedy Grammy in 1999 for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" Carl Reiner |
| #3403, aired 1999-05-26 | FRUIT $800: A cluster, or hand, of this fruit consists of 10-20 fingers bananas |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | U.S. GOVERNORS $800: In 1995 this state's voters went bananas for Mike Foster, who succeeded 4-termer Edwin Edwards Louisiana |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BANANAS $200: This company's blue logo shows a woman in a Carmen Miranda-style hat & a flamenco dress Chiquita |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BANANAS $400: Maurice Chevalier sang a French version of this novelty hit in the 1929 movie "Innocents of Paris" "Yes! We Have No Bananas" |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BANANAS $600: This gastropod mollusk is the official mascot of the University of California at Santa Cruz Banana slug |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BANANAS $800: An Australian kids' show is called "Bananas in" these Pajamas |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BANANAS $1000: This dessert was created at Brennan's, a New Orleans restaurant, & named for a customer Bananas Foster |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $400: This director claimed he called his 1971 film "Bananas" "Because there are no bananas in it" Woody Allen |
| #3292, aired 1998-12-22 | CITY FOOD $500 (Daily Double): (Richard Simmons reads the clue.) Bananas Foster & Oysters Rockefeller are 2 yummy dishes created in this Southern city, my birthplace New Orleans |
| #3244, aired 1998-10-15 | WHAT'S FOR DINNER? $300: Yes, we have no bananas, so we'll saute these starchier "cooking bananas" Plantains |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $400: Allen Ginsberg imagined this poet, who sang of himself, out shopping for bananas Whitman |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | GOING BANANAS $100: Recipes for this cake-like loaf call for 2 or 3 ripe bananas, mashed Banana bread |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | GOING BANANAS $200: This term for the leading comedian in a show originated in a burlesque routine involving bananas top banana |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | GOING BANANAS $300: A traditional banana daiquiri contains the light type of this liquor Rum |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | GOING BANANAS $400: While singing with The Tarriers, Alan Arkin had a hit with this song one month before Harry Belafonte "The Banana-Boat Song" |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | GOING BANANAS $500: The documentary film subtitled "Bananas Is My Business" profiles this movie star of the '30s & '40s Carmen Miranda |
| #3210, aired 1998-07-10 | I'M FROM MISSOURI -- SHOW ME! $1000: Show me! Paris went bananas over me when I danced semi-nude in a skirt made of bananas: Josephine Baker |
| #3144, aired 1998-04-09 | EXTRAORDINARY JOES $600: Mafia boss Joe Bonanno was unimaginatively nicknamed for these fruits bananas |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | IT'S NEVER DONE $300: Chiquita Banana likes "the climate of the very, very tropical equator, so you should never put bananas" in this the refrigerator |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS $400: "Manhattan"ite who said, "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable"--sounds "Bananas" to us Woody Allen |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $200: The railroads in Honduras were built mainly to transport this fruit that has a lot of ap"peel" bananas |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | AMERICAN FOOD $200: One of Elvis Presley's favorite dishes was a sandwich filled with mashed bananas & this spread peanut butter |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $100: Robinson Crusoe had 24 years of solitude prior to rescuing this cannibal & teaching him English Friday |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $200: Charley Bates is the boisterous sidekick to this "Oliver Twist" pickpocket the Artful Dodger |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $300: Several Sherlock Holmes stories refer to Miss Mary Morstan, who marries this physician Dr. Watson |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $400: This simple peasant became Don Quixote's squire after being promised an island to rule Sancho Panza |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $500: In "Huckleberry Finn", Tom Sawyer says that he & Huck Finn "have knowed" this slave "all his life" Jim |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | IMPOSSIBLE $600: "You can put them in a pie-aye/any way you want to eat them/it's impossible to beat them" Chiquita Bananas |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | TRADE $200: This fruit accounts for one-third of Honduras' exports Bananas |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | AGRICULTURE $100: The leading commercial crop of the Dominican Republic, it's grown on plantations sugarcane |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | FRENCH CUISINE $500: Coupes A L'Ananas are ice cream desserts made with this tropical fruit, not bananas Pineapples |
| #2804, aired 1996-11-07 | FOOD $100: Flambeed fruit desserts include Bananas Foster & cherries this jubilee |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | MOUNTAINS $600: Coffee & bananas are grown on the lower slopes of this mountain, the highest in Africa Mt. Kilimanjaro |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | FRUIT $100: This fruit's world crop, including plantains, is estimated at 35-40 million metric tons bananas |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | NUTRITION & HEALTH $800: While excess sodium raises blood pressure, this mineral in bananas may lower it potassium |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | CARIBBEAN CUISINE $800: In Puerto Rico mofongos are these cooking bananas mashed, fried & sometimes stuffed with meat or fish plantains |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | WORLD CITIES $1000: Most of the bananas shipped out of this country go through its port city of Guayaquil Ecuador |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | THE MOVIES $200: This 7-time Mr. Olympia winner made his film debut billed as Arnold Strong in "Hercules Goes Bananas" Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #2327, aired 1994-10-18 | POTPOURRI $100: Each cluster, or hand, of this tropical fruit consists of 10 to 20 fingers bananas |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | FADS & FASHIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): A fad in the '50s was this style of music, an example of which is heard here:
"Down the way /
Where the nights are gay /
And the sun shines daily on the mountaintop /
I took a trip on a sailing ship /
And when I reached Jamaica I made a stop /
But I'm sad to say /
I'm on my way /
Won't be back for many a day /
My heart is down..." calypso |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | COOKING $300: It's the special finishing touch that bananas foster & cherries jubilee have in common flame |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | POTPOURRI $400: This spice that comes in "quills" is essential to make Cafe Brulot & Bananas Foster cinnamon |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | NAMES $600: This Spanish name means "little one", though it makes us think of bananas Chiquita |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | FOOD $1000: In the 1950s Bananas Foster was created by Brennan's Restaurant in this U.S. city New Orleans |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | FRUIT $500: Americans consume more of this fruit than any other, yet it was little known in the U.S. before 1870 bananas |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | VITAMINS & MINERALS $600: There's no RDA for this macromineral found in bananas & raisins potassium |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | POTENT POTABLES $500: Creme d'ananas is made from this tropical fruit, not bananas pineapple |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | COSMETICS & PERFUME $300: You can make a facial mask by mashing bananas or this guacamole ingredient avocado |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | "H" ON THE MAP $300: This Central American country's railroads were built mainly to carry bananas Honduras |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | FLAGS $500: 1 of the several foodstuffs on the flag of Fiji (1 of) bananas, sugar cane, coconuts, cocoa & olive |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | LE CINEMA STALLONE $200: Stallone had a bit part in this 1971 Woody Allen farce partly set in Latin America Bananas |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | 1923 $600: This hit song was inspired by a Greek peddler who said that he had none of a certain fruit "Yes, We Have No Bananas" |
| #1901, aired 1992-12-07 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $200: This fruit varies in length from 4 to 12 inches & a bunch can weigh over 100 pounds bananas |
| #1853, aired 1992-09-30 | CENTRAL AMERICA $400: In 1974, Hurricane Fifi destroyed three-quarters of Honduras' crop of this fruit, a major export bananas |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | GAMES $200: Monkey Mania comes with 26 of these fruits which the plastic monkeys gobble up bananas |
| #1508, aired 1991-03-06 | JUST DESSERTS $400: Brennan's in New Orleans calls its dish using this fruit, Foster, for a favorite customer bananas Foster |
| #1392, aired 1990-09-25 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: A small bunch of bananas is called a hand; an individual banana is called this a finger |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | FOOD FACTS $500: Creme d'ananas is a liqueur flavored with this fruit pineapples |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | FOOD $100: Created by Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans, Bananas Foster is served for this course dessert |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | FRUITS $600 (Daily Double): Fruit mentioned in the title of the following:
[Instrumental music plays] bananas |
| #1033, aired 1989-02-15 | FOOD $100: Guinness says the longest of these ever made contained 20,000 bananas & 3 1/2 tons of ice cream a banana split |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | POTENT POTABLES $100 (Daily Double): Bananas Caribe is prepared with this potent potable rum |
| #896, aired 1988-06-27 | FRUITS $200: You can sprinkle cut bananas with citrus juice to prevent this going brown (darkening) |
| #879, aired 1988-06-02 | TV GUIDE SAYS $500: "Tootie's learning to drive-- & she's driving everyone bananas" The Facts of Life |
| #857, aired 1988-05-03 | TROPICAL FRUITS $800: Surprisingly, bananas originated on this continent, not in Central America Asia |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | FOOD $400: Some Caribbean dishes feature plantains, an island variety of these bananas |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | NOTORIOUS $1000: In 1926, this black American danced at the Folies Bergere wearing only a belt of bananas Josephine Baker |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | HONDURAS $200: The nation's leading source of income is this fruit bananas |
| #603, aired 1987-04-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Year in which President Harding died, Schick invented electric razor & "Yes, We Have No Bananas" was a hit 1923 |
| #568, aired 1987-02-11 | GOLDEN OLDIES $100: In 1957, Harry Belafonte said,
"Come Mr. Tally Man, tally" these me bananas |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | MOVIE TRIVIA $500: Ads for this 1971 Woody Allen film called it "More moving than prunes" Bananas |
| #497, aired 1986-11-04 | FOOD $400: The only Woody Allen film named for a food "Bananas" |
| #493, aired 1986-10-29 | HOLLYWOOD FRUITS $400: Humphrey Bogart went bananas when these disappeared in "The Caine Mutiny" strawberries |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | PRODUCE $100: Gulfport, Mississippi unloads 16 million lbs. each week of this imported tropical fruit bananas |
| #345, aired 1986-01-03 | MUNCHY MOVIES $100: Woody Allen film with "a peel" Bananas |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | BANANAS $100: Of red, yellow, & green, skin color of Baracoa variety of banana red |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | BANANAS $200 (Daily Double): While a member of the Tarriers, Alan Arkin co-wrote this '57 hit: "The Banana Boat Song" |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | BANANAS $200: This reputed mafioso, who illegally came to America in 1924, was nicknamed "Joe Bananas" Joe Bonanno |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | BANANAS $300: Hitler banned this song whose title in German was "Ja, Wir Haben Keine Bananen Heute" "Yes! We Have No Bananas" |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | BANANAS $500: Contemptuous political term for countries viewed as appendages of U.S. & the United Fruit Company banana republics |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | WOODY ALLEN $300: Two of the five Woody Allen films with one-word titles (2 of) Manhattan, Bananas, Sleeper, Interiors, & Zelig |
