| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: You could "transcend blockchain barriers" at 2023's Icon Hyperbuild, this type of event for computer programmers a hackathon |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $400: Anatomical term for what the guy in the parking lot exit booth raises to let you leave arm |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $800: The divider mandated in some restaurants in this state so diners can't see drinks being poured has been called the "Zion Curtain" Utah |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $1200: Seen here is a bit of a 3,500-mile fence across Australia's outback to protect sheep & other animals from this type of dog dingo |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $1600: Also sold under the brand names Lucite & Perspex, this acrylic material is used in prison to separate visitor & convict plexiglass |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $2000: Get a chuckle with this name for a sunk fence to separate animal from human territory; Monticello had one a ha-ha |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | GEOGRAPHY $200: The Oosterscheldekering is one of several manmade barriers that help prevent this nation from flooding the Netherlands |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: Breaking barriers in country music, she was Grammy-nominated for her song "Black Like Me" & in 2021, co-hosted the ACM Awards Mickey Guyton |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $400: Do you know how fast you were going? 670,616,629 mph, or the speed of this; in theory, you can't go faster, but you still get a ticket light |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $800: Let's shatter this metaphoric barrier to high-level advancement for women in the workplace the glass ceiling |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $1200: Electric barriers were built in the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal to stop the spread of the invasive this 4-letter fish carp |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate said no general could lead an army out of his province, so the 49 B.C. crossing of this stream... huge the Rubicon |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $2000: A type of road barrier is named for this state where they were used on US Highway 22 in the 1950s New Jersey |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | THE IMPASSABLE DREAM $400: Dams & other barriers to migration have reduced the Atlantic species of this food fish to a fraction of historic numbers salmon |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $200: Fences of this wire invented for cattle are a constant in the internment camp novel "When the Emperor was Divine" barbed wire |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $400: Early on in a Twain work, Tom Sawyer must complete this "colorful" painting task on "thirty yards of board fence" whitewashing |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $600: In this 1990 novel raptors "hit the fence, take a shock. They never seem to mind" Jurassic Park |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Melville scribe spends time staring at "dead-walls", then at the high walls of prison Bartleby (the Scrivener) |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $1000: A stone wall in "Stardust" by this author has a 6-foot gap, with guards posted on each side Neil Gaiman |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | AMERICAN SUPERLATIVES $400: 275 million cubic yards of material were used in the largest of these American barriers, on Tenmile Wash in Arizona dam |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | EUROPE $800: Seen here is one of these protective barriers that keep much of the Netherlands from becoming inundated with water a dike |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: Wondering how to help impoverished women, this woman (1879-1966) realized she had to remove legal barriers to birth control Margaret Sanger |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WE WILL ROCK YOU $200: Playing for over 160,000 E. Germans in 1988, he hoped "one day all the barriers will be torn down"; the Boss got his wish in 1989 Springsteen |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $600: To do this action of fixing barriers is to try to improve damaged relations with others to mend fences |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY $800: A pun on one of China's claims to fame, this is the nickname for China's Internet barriers the Great Firewall |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Natural barriers like rivers, mountain ridges, even ditches and moats make up one quarter of the length of this landmark The Great Wall of China |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | SWITZERLAND $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew travels the Toblerone Trail in Switzerland.) The Toblerone Trail of antitank barriers was created in case Nazi Germany failed to respect this Swiss policy that dates back to the war-torn Europe of the 17th century neutrality |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | POTPOURRI $400: Large specimens of this marsupial can leap over barriers 6 feet high kangaroos |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | CUT TO THE "CHASE" $800: Unlike hurdles, the barriers in this track event don't move when you hit them the steeple chase |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | THE CON IS ON $800: Police had to remove buyers who were building toll barriers after George Parker sold this New York structure to them the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: In 1918 Woodrow Wilson proposed this numbered set of principles, one being the removal of trade barriers between nations the Fourteen Points |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | I HOP $200: The red type of this marsupial can leap over barriers as high as 6 feet kangaroo |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | SPORTS BARRIERS $200: In 1920 he became the first Major-League player to exceed 30, 40 & 50 home runs in a season Babe Ruth |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | SPORTS BARRIERS $400: In May 1915 Regret became the first filly to win this horse race; only 2 fillies have won since the Kentucky Derby |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | SPORTS BARRIERS $600: During the 1961-62 season, this Philadelphia Warrior became the first & only NBA player to score over 4,000 points in a season Wilt Chamberlain |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | SPORTS BARRIERS $800: At the Mexico City Olympics, the USA's Jim Hines was the 1st electronically timed in this race at under 10 sec., recording a 9.95 the 100-meter dash |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | SPORTS BARRIERS $1000: On October 3, 1993 Jim Epler became the first to surpass 300 miles per hour in this type of drag racing car seen here a funny car |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Robert Frost ended his "Mending Wall" with this famous phrase about barriers fences make good neighbors |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | OBSTACLES $1000: Part 5 of "Les Miserables" begins with a description of these Revolutionary barriers in the streets of Paris barricades |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BARRIERS $200: Fourth & retaining are types of this walls |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BARRIERS $400: A baseball slugger or anyone going for broke is "swinging for" these the fences |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BARRIERS $600: Sherry Lansing of Paramount & Brenda Barnes of Pepsi crashed (metaphorically) through this brittle barrier the glass ceiling |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BARRIERS $800: Soft to the touch, it's the proverbial barrier to entering the hottest clubs the velvet rope |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BARRIERS $1000: From the Latin "palus" come the words "pale", a stake or picket, & this word for a barrier made up of pales a palisade |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | PHRASES REVERSED $400: Farragut's quote:
fire underwater missiles into barriers that restrict water flow torpedo the dams |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | SECURITY $1000: Concrete barriers that restrict access are named for this state on whose highways they were first used New Jersey |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | UTAH $600: The 300-, 500- & 600-mph land speed barriers were broken at the speedway located on these salt flats the Bonneville Salt Flats |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | LANGUAGE BARRIERS $400: In Rome a castello might be encircled by a fosso, one of these moat |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | LANGUAGE BARRIERS $800: At the Barcelona Olympics Mark McCoy won the 110-meter vallas, these hurdles |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | LANGUAGE BARRIERS $1200: It's also called Wanli Changcheng, meaning it's 10,000 li long the Great Wall of China |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | LANGUAGE BARRIERS $1600: Eiserner vorhang is German for this metaphorical barrier that used to divide Germany & Europe the Iron Curtain |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | LANGUAGE BARRIERS $2000: In French un obstacle is this 10-letter word; the "speech" type is un defaut d'elocution impediment |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT? $400: George W. Bush once referred to these 2 trade obstacles as "terriers & bariffs" Tariffs & barriers |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | RECENT HISTORY $800: This agreement to eliminate trade barriers between the U.S., Canada & Mexico took effect Jan. 1, 1994 NAFTA |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Mending Wall" ends with this famous phrase about barriers good fences make good neighbors |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | IN OTHER WORDS... $200: Better than average barriers bring about better than average people next door good fences make good neighbors |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: Term for a barrier that impedes progress or a course made up of such barriers Obstacle |
| #1107, aired 1989-05-30 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Iroquois villages were often surrounded by these water barriers moats |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | FUNNY LADIES $800: Toothless, raspy-voiced raconteur, she finally broke racial barriers in the '60s Moms Mabley |
| #153, aired 1985-04-10 | CURRENT EVENTS $300: This country's Progressive Fed. Party broke racial barriers by granting blacks membership South Africa |
