| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | PARENTING $400: Young Burt Bacharach hated taking these with Miss Raymond & they're a source of conflict in many a home piano lessons |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $1600: This Lord was no doubt delighted by the birth of his son Winston in 1874 Randolph Churchill |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PENALTIES & BONUSES $400: In the Gospel of John, the Pharisees told Jesus that this was the penalty for adultery; he told them to be cautious judging death by stoning |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $600: Representations of the North Star & this other night sky feature appear on Alaska's flag the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1600: This member of the weasel family is the only marine mammal that catches fish with its forepaws, not its mouth a sea otter |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $1200: More recently, it was Jay Leno, but back in the '50s, "You Bet Your Life" was hosted by this funnyman Groucho Marx |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $400: Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck black cat |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $800: In 1955 Texas judge Drummond W. Bartlett allowed this for the 1st time in a murder trial, & presumably combed his hair & adjusted his robe television cameras |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $1000: This airline launched by Richard Branson made its inaugural flight from London to the United States Virgin Atlantic |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport" Olympic medals |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $1600: In 1543 she was crowned queen at 9 months old at a ceremony officiated by the Archbishop of St. Andrews Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | OCEANOGRAPHY $800: These ecosystems consisting of polyps provide a habitat & food for about 25% of the world's marine life coral reefs |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | U.S. NATIONAL FORESTS $200: Montana's Flathead National Forest is home to this carnivore & many creatures below it on the food chain the grizzly bear |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $1600: In 2018 Coca-Cola launched 2 fruity local flavors, California Raspberry & this, from the company's home state Georgia Peach |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $400: October 2 honors these heavenly beings said by St. Jerome to protect us from harm guardian angels |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $800: Eng was half of the conjoined twosome who in the 19th century were billed as this pair Siamese Twins |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $800: A port city on Tutuila Island, Pago Pago is the capital of this U.S. territory in the South Pacific American Samoa |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $600: This big mammal is the national animal of Bangladesh, & please be specific a Bengal tiger |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $1000: When he was 15, he went out on tour with his dad, a guitar god; later he recorded solo for Mammoth WVH Wolfgang Van Halen |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THE OCEAN $800: Harmonic analysis helps predict the rise & fall of these, but it's tough to account for local variations in shore & seafloor tides |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | AMAZING ARMENIANS $800: This successful businesswoman's ex-husbands include Damon Thomas, Kris Humphries & Kanye West Kim Kardashian |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $800: Next time you prep deviled eggs in Tibet, remember they'll cook slower because this drops 1 degree F. for every 550' above sea level water's boiling point |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $1600: In 1979 the average price of gas at U.S. service stations passed this milestone for the first time a dollar a gallon |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $800: Popularly associated with Ray-Ban, these were originally created to protect military pilots' eyes from glare Aviator sunglasses |
| #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 |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SCIENCE $400: Ocean sediment may be made up of coccolithophores, these tiny organisms, 6 billion to the square foot algae |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $200: Partly set in Kingston, the plot of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" includes the attempted murder of this reggae singer Bob Marley |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DECIMALS $1200: Though not required, "trailing" these to the right of a decimal point are often used to show levels of accuracy zeros |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SECONDS $1000: In 1974 he became the second U.S. vice president appointed under the terms of the 25th Amendment Nelson Rockefeller |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | RAIN $200: Reduce your speed when it's raining to avoid this dangerous driving condition, which occurs when tires lose contact with the road hydroplaning |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1,990 (Daily Double): An 1884 conference chose the meridian of this facility's transit instrument as the "prime" starting point for time zones the Observatory of Greenwich |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Marcel Duchamp famously displayed an autographed one of these bathroom receptacles as an artwork urinal |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | YOU CAN'T GO THERE $800: Ethiopians believe this ancient container in the Church of St. Mary of Zion in Axum is the real deal; only 1 priest can view it the Ark of the Covenant |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $2000: My brother said "war is hell" & I quit as Secretary of State 4 days into the Spanish-American War, which I had opposed John Sherman |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | COMMON BOND CUISINE $2000: Carne Apache, Carpaccio,
tartare raw meat dishes |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $200: The largest known structure in the universe is a group of galaxies, the Hercules-Corona Borealis this, also a long thing in Asia a Great Wall |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | NOW, WE DUEL $400: Seen here, film director Willy Rozier fought a duel over the negative words of François Chalais, who was this type of writer a movie critic |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ACRONYMS $1200: When setting goals, be SMART--the S stands for this, so not vague & general specific |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | NATURE $1000: Scientists once thought this Aussie animal that has certain bird features & lays eggs was a hoax a (duck-billed) platypus |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | NUTRITION $600: It may be Greek to you, but this essential fatty acid found in salmon & tuna is good for your skin & may help with depression omega-3 fatty acids |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | SOMETHING THAT IS... $2000: Grey & Black:
To be specific, 1871's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1", an artwork much better known by this 2-word name Whistler's Mother |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Matthew 4 says Jesus fasted for this many days & nights in the wilderness, & he was hungry after; well, yeah! 40 |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $400: You'd have to expect that this would be Maryland's state bird the Baltimore oriole |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $200: Yes, you can Zoom this comedy art form whose rules include "establish the location" & "be specific" & "say yes, and..." improv |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | IT'S JUST ABOUT TIME $1200: Often a dubious purchase, it gives you peace of mind for a longer time & is also called a service contract an extended warranty |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $800: This pair, a novelist & a poet, ran off together in July 1814 but didn't marry until December 30, 1816 Mary Shelley & Percy Shelley |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | KINGS & QUEENS $200: In 1566 she gave birth to the boy who would be king--James VI of Scotland Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MISSING POISONS UNIT $200: A ____ can be a delicious bit of fungus, but some can kill you, & you don't want to see a specific "cloud" shaped like one mushroom |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $800: Her husband Scott told an editor not to praise her novel "Save Me the Waltz" too highly, as it would not be good for her mental state Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $2000: Set in 18th century Italy, Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" is about 2 of these male sopranos, adored as singers, yet shunned as men castrati |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE TERMS OF SERVICE $800: The father & son seen here, they served a total of six terms as California's governor Jerry & Pat Brown |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | ONES & ZEROS $600: 0 K, not to be confused with OK, is also known by this phrase absolute zero |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | HISTORIC DECLARATIONS $2000: In exile in the Netherlands, this English king made the 1660 Declaration of Breda, promising amnesty in return for his restoration Charles II |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | ALL ROADS $400: On Australia's Great Ocean Road, you may get inspiration from the limestone towers known as this biblical dozen the (Twelve) Apostles |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | FEELING BULLISH $400: John Bull is the personification of this nation England |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | MULTICOLORED $800: The Marcels sang of this celestial body, "you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart" a blue moon |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | CENTRAL AMERICA $400: The second-largest one of these is found off Belize; the largest is the "Great" one off Australia a barrier reef |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1600: Laszlo & Gyorgy Biro of Hungary used a novel tip when making this easy-to-use implement in the 1930s a ballpoint pen |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $600: A pilot is the person controlling an aircraft, or in the case of the book "Life on the Mississippi", one of these a steamboat |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | BEER/ME! $200: He served as governor of Massachusetts from 1793 to 1797 Samuel Adams |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | 2 $800: A fire at a London power station blacked out the much-anticipated 1964 launch of this TV channel BBC Two |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY $400: The Reagan era saw Desmond Tutu win the Nobel Peace Prize & Barney Clark survive 112 days after surgery implanting this an artificial heart |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $600: In 1955 this country's P.M. Ngo Dinh Diem printed his ballots on lucky red paper & his opponent's ballot on unlucky green paper South Vietnam |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GRAMMYS $2000: 2019 recipients included this 76-year-old Spaniard with many a romantic crossover hit Julio Iglesias |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $1600: In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this the Senate |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $600: West Wing crisis center since 1961 the Situation Room |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: After sulfur is removed, this has no odor; mercaptan is added to it so that leaks can be detected natural gas |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | OUTSIDE OF ME $1600: This cosmetic with a metal in its name can be used to give a warm, healthy-looking glow, not a specific color bronzer |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $1000: 3,300 feet up in the Mojave, Yucca Valley, California is in this type of area & has a nature museum named for it a high desert |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $200: Sweet! Alfred University in New York offered a course on this pancake topper maple syrup |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | GREENS $600: This national emblem of Ireland is a trifoliate plant a shamrock |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | IT'S HOW YOU WIN $200: "Roll out" this game: get a chain of 10 hanging primates Barrel of Monkeys |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | CURRENT SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: The NFL's Tyrann Mathieu doesn't care if you don't know his nickname is this species of fearless carnivore of the weasel family a honey badger |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | NICKNAMES $600: This matinee idol and grandfather of actress Drew had good looks and an aquiline nose, which got him the nickname "The Great Profile" John Barrymore |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | IKEA NAMES $200: Spoka, meaning "to haunt", is a line of these to illuminate kids' rooms night lights |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELTIES $600: Classic practical joke novelties include this one that sends liquid trickling down a drinker's chin a dribble glass |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | IT'S NOT GOOD TO BE THE KING $800: He was beheaded in Paris in 1793 Louis XVI |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | CELEBRITY COUPLES $1200: He & Miley Cyrus became close while filming "The Last Song"; the couple married in 2018 but split in 2019 Liam Hemsworth |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | THE HALL OF FAME POSITION $1200: Magic,
Isiah,
John
(okay, John Stockton) point guard |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | MAMMAL FACTS $2000: Ballena asesina is a Spanish name for this swimmer killer whale (orca) |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | GRAND OLD FLAGS $800: In 1801 the Cross of St. Patrick joined the crosses of St. Andrew & St. George on this the Union Jack |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | GRAND OLD FLAGS $1200: In use since 1743, the triangular pennons on Nepal's flag originally symbolized these jagged natural features the Himalayans |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WHAT'S FOR BREAKFAST? $800: The original McDonald's
Egg McMuffin is made with this type of meat Canadian bacon |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | TO THE STARS $2000: Many of the European space agency's launches happen at its spaceport in this South American territory French Guiana |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT $400: Here's a nifty cabin made from these Lincoln Logs |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | IT'S CRUNCH TIME $400: Here's a plate of the beef type of these fried, rolled Mexican treats. Made 'em myself taquitos |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | MUSEUM-PODGE $800: Wisconsin's National Railroad Museum has an exhibit on these porters: "from service to civil rights" Pullman car porters |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NEXT $1000: Grisham novels:
"The Client",
"The Chamber",
"The Rainmaker",
this title 12 The Runaway Jury |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2000: In a movie Greg Kinnear played Robert Kearns, who fought Detroit over this drizzly day innovation of his intermittent windshield wipers |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | SCIENCE NEWS $1600: Called cancer killers, TILs are a new preparation of "tumor-infiltrating" ones of these white blood cells that attack antigens lymphocytes |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET $800: In a Steinbeck tale Jody Tiflin kills a buzzard that's come to feast on his "Red" one of these that just died pony |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | TIMBERLAND $800: GP is this big lumber & paper products company; the "G" is for the state where it began Georgia Pacific |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | 3 OF A KIND $400: Fiesta,
Falcon,
Fusion Ford vehicles |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | 3 OF A KIND $800: Kahoolawe,
Lani,
Niihau Hawaiian islands |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | AN APP FOR TEACHER $800: StudyBlue simulates these little rectangles used by kids to study for tests & by contestants to prep for "Jeopardy!" flash cards |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | IN THE ORCHESTRA $1600: Orchestra these are a lot less dome-y than the church types tubular bells |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | "PORTER" $200: It's how Mr. Spock & Captain Kirk get from the ship to a planet's surface a transporter |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER, WHY? $800: The Tappan Zee over the Hudson in N.Y. was deemed unsafe, so it was replaced by a new bridge named for this late governor Mario Cuomo |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | NATURE STICKS IT TO YOU $400: This fish whips its tail forward like a scorpion to stab you with its barbs a stingray |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | READING TALK $800: An event that will be long remembered is "one for" these, like the ones published by Elias the record books |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $800: His first wife Maria bore him 7 children, including Carl Philipp Emanuel, before she died in 1720 J.S. (or Johann Sebastian) Bach |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | PLANT THE FLAG $1000: A white one of these aquatic flowers floats on the flag of Macau a lotus |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $600: In "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", Nag & Nagaina are 2 of these plotting against a human family & the title mongoose cobras |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | TOP 40 COUNTDOWN $1600: In a Spin Doctors hit, these title royals "kneel before you" "Two Princes" |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | SIZE MATTERS $600: At 9 feet long & fit for Carnegie Hall, this is the largest musical instrument made by Baldwin a concert grand |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LIST $800: Looks like the love of my life got fowl with this trio three French hens |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY $1,200 (Daily Double): The SBA encourages banks to make these, of $50,000 or less; they can help a business more than a "tiny" bit microloans |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | SUMMER CAMP $1000: Founded in 1924, Camp Lakota has the name of a group with this native people the Sioux |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE SPANISH DICTIONARY $600: Under C:
Castillo de arena is this, something you see at the beach a sandcastle |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | NATURE $800: The weight of the General Sherman, a type of this tree in California, is equal to about 40 adult blue whales a sequoia |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | NATURE $1200: Found in coastal waters & a favorite at aquariums, it's the lunar creature seen here a moon jellyfish |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $600: In English, the sonnet is often in this pattern, 5 metrical feet with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one iambic pentameter |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: Compound word you're wearing if you've put on a Tag Heuer Connected Modular smartwatch |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | ON THE ROOF $600: DirecTV knows that roofs are a good place for these, their microwave receivers satellite dishes |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | GETTING SPECIFIC AT GENERAL HOSPITAL $200: (Nancy Lee Grahn and Michelle Stafford give the clue as Alexis and Nina from General Hospital.) "You think you're getting away with it, Nina, but I'm on to you"
"Oh, really Alexis? Well your little world, your sterile field, is about to be in this condition, compromised by the introduction of foreign bacteria" infected (or contaminated) |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | GETTING SPECIFIC AT GENERAL HOSPITAL $1000: (Maura West and Laura Wright give the clue as Ava and Carly from General Hospital.) "When I'm fully recovered, Carly, you won't be able to stop me"
"No matter how many operations you have Ava, your soul will still suffer from this necrosis of soft tissues, from the Greek & Latin for 'gnawing away'" gangrene |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has the thrust of 18 747 jumbo jets & delivers nearly 141,000 pounds of payload into orbit, second only to this legendary NASA rocket that boosted the Apollo missions into space the Saturn V |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | CELEBRITIES' FASHION LINES $600: She hit a grand slam with her Eleven athletic apparel Venus Williams |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $800: This general got his 5th star in December 1944, but that wouldn't be his last government job Eisenhower |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | TV WITH HIGH RATINGS $2000: In 1994 the Winter Olympics scored 48.5 with its coverage of this event women's figure skating |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | LITERARY TITLE REFERENCES $800: "The Godfather" Don Vito Corleone |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $800: Britain's Natural History Museum houses an egg collected in Antarctica in 1911 from this "royal" bird the emperor penguin |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE 2017 IG NOBEL PRIZES $400: Cognition: For showing many who are these, like the Winklevosses, "cannot tell themselves apart visually" identical twins |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $1000: Like a certain Greek divinity, Tinia wielded this, a discharge of lightning thunderbolt |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SOCIOLOGY $1200: Trobriand islanders trade these items, important in the plots of "Titanic" & "Anastasia" necklaces |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NAME THE MOVIE SPORT $600: Featuring Ellen Page:
"Whip It" roller derby |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LONGTIME RULERS $400: Moscow, how was your 51 years? Terrible, with this man as the city's Grand Prince from 1533 to 1584 Ivan (the Terrible) |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | SINGERS $1200: The first name used by this singing bandleader doesn't refer to a taxi--it's short for Cabell Cab Calloway |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: In the U.S. basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of this skin cancer |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | WHERE IN THE BODY? $1200: The duodenum the small intestine |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $2000: "First They Killed My Father" by Loung Ung takes place during the brutal reign of this group in Cambodia Khmer Rouge |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | HOME FURNISHINGS $400: Use this appropriately named wire shelving unit to cool off your pies or to display your plants a baker's rack |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | THE FEDERALIST PAPERS $800: Federalist 56 argued that one member for every 30,000 people in a state would work for this body the House of Representatives |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | SPORTS ON FILM $2000: "Heart Like a Wheel" drag racing |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | A SHEEPISH CATEGORY $800: Used for the strings of musical instruments, it's made from sheep, not felines catgut |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | STRINGING YOU ALONG $400: Since 1913 a theatre in Salzburg has presented opera & ballet performed by these, not humans marionette puppets |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | CRAYOLA COLORS $400: In 1996 the 100 billionth Crayola was molded in this color, the top prize at many a state fair blue ribbon |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $1600: Chariot races were held in this largest Roman stadium for almost a thousand years, the last being in 549 A.D. the Circus Maximus |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | MUSICAL GUEST PERFORMERS $800: This tennis star with 20+ Grand Slam singles titles was onstage in Oct. 2016, twerking to Beyonce singing "Sorry" Serena Williams |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | BAND STANDS $600: MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer played protests at 2 of these--in Chicago in 1968 & Denver in 2008 the Democratic National Convention |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | FLAGS $1200: The flag seen here represents the nation-state led by this person Pope Francis |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | THE BOOK OF PALMS $800: The beginning of this Michener collection mentions the "coconut palms nodding gracefully" Tales of the South Pacific |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | THE PERKS OF BEING A WILDFLOWER $600 (Daily Double): Being one of these long-lived types that survive from season to season, like some species of aster perennial |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | IN THEIR LEAGUE $400: The St. Louis Cardinals the National League |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $600: An arctophile:
these cuddly toys teddy bears |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | BOATS & SHIPS $800: During World War II, a group of these operating in the Atlantic was known as a wolf pack U-boats |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ROBOTS $1000: Robots don't need goggles to do this job of fusing metal to metal with an electrical charge sparking across a gap arc welding |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BUTCHER $800: Your butcher should be able to tell you whether his poultry is classified as this, meaning they were allowed outdoors free range |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THE ELECTRIC COMPANY $400: Tom Lehrer wrote songs for the show, like one about this letter that likes to "turn a can into a cane" a silent "E" |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | INVENTION & DISCOVERY $400: On October 13, 1983 David Meilahn & Bob Barnett made the first calls on a commercial one of these, talking to Bell's grandkid a cellular telephone |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | GOING 24/7/365 $2000: The 24th Amendment says the right of U.S. citizens to vote "shall not be denied... by reason of failure to pay" this specific tax a poll tax |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | THE CITY'S TV SHOW $1600: On this CBS spin-off in 2016, les bons temps stopped for a petty officer murdered during Mardi Gras NCIS: New Orleans |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | OPUS DAY $1600: Performed at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 16, 1893, this piece by a Czech was inspired by American music Symphony "From the New World" |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | IT'S A WIRED WORLD $1200: Your smartphone isn't literally attached to you, unlike this type of "smart" product such as Samsung's Gear line a smartwatch |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | SEAS $200: This sea is dotted by more than 1,400 islands with almost all of them belonging to Greece the Aegean |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | FALLS $800: Among the cataracts in South America's Iguazu Falls are the pair called Dos Hermanas, this in English the Two Sisters |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE $1200: The recently discovered Laotian giant this rodent can reach 42 inches in length a flying squirrel |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $800: Mauritania north of the Nouakchott-Nema line is mostly this geographic feature the Sahara desert |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | PUZZLERS $1000: Marley, of "Marley and Me" fame, for example a yellow Lab |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | OF SURPRISE $2000: The Romans were surprised when, aided by rebellious slaves, Alaric led this group on a sacking of Rome in 410 A.D. the Visigoths |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $200: It's the elected medical official whose job it is to investigate deaths not due to natural causes a coroner |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | 'ALLO, CURRENT GOVERNOR $200: He followed in Dad's footsteps as New York's guv Andrew Cuomo |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MYTHOLOGY $600: In Greek mythology rivers leading into this place include Cocytus, Phlegethon, Acheron & Styx Hades |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $800: Phone clamp,
extendable monopod, shutter button a selfie stick |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | RECIPE ORIGINS $400: Mrs. Wakefield invented these in Whitman, Mass. when she added cut-up chocolate bars to butter-cookie dough Toll House cookies |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | THAT'S SHOW BIZ, "BOY" $1600: Since the '70s when this John Denver hit came out, the Baltimore Orioles have played it in the seventh inning stretch "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In the 1200s B.C., warring Egyptians & Hittites produced the document seen here, said to be the first of these in history a peace treaty |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | LITERARY QUOTES $1000: These "do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" stone walls |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT $800: Nguyen Van Thieu (1967 to 1975) South Vietnam |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | MacARTHUR GENIUS GRANT RECIPIENTS $2000: Dr. Eric Coleman, one of these "-icians", helps the elderly transition from hospital to home geriatric physician |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $200: Here, Fra Angelico depicts this happening to Adam & Eve, like students who've misbehaved at school banishment (or being expelled from the garden) |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS $2000: A help to the harassed, on Verizon *57 is this feature that tells you where your latest incoming call came from trace |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON $2000: During his brief time as president, Harrison tried to end this system in which offices were given to loyal party members the spoils system |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | JACK $400: The Sept. 7 2016 announcement that the headphone jack was out on this device was not 100% well received the iPhone 7 |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | THE SAVAGE BEAST $1000: In 2014 this species of big cat terrorized the people of Northern India, with at least 10 kills Bengal tiger |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | STRAIT TALK $800: The shortest distance across this strait lies between Cap Gris Nez in France & Shakespeare Beach in Britain Dover Strait |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | GEOGRAPHER'S DICTIONARY $600: These structures of accumulated skeletal deposits have been called Earth's most complex aquatic ecosystems coral reefs |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | GOTTA CRAM $800: In 2016 El Pollo Loco introduced new quesadillas that were called this, something you might say about your fluffy sofa overstuffed |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | EYE HEALTH $1600: A new type of plastic called hema allowed Bausch + Lomb to introduce these in 1971 soft contact lenses |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,200 (Daily Double): Daltonism is a type of this, a problem with cone receptors color blindness |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | CHILD REARING $800: Linus had one of these, a transitional object that helps a child move from dependence to independence a security blanket |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $2000: L.A. Times reporter Ruben Salazar was killed during a 1970 protest by this community, a term for Mexican Americans Chicano |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | WHAT $1000: It's the lively American breed of dog seen here a Boston bull terrier |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | PHYSICS $400: A roentgen is a unit of measure of the amount of exposure to these, discovered by Roentgen X rays |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | IT'S A CRIME! $2000: A word for taking over a plane led to this word for taking someone's automobile carjacking |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | A STUDENT OF FILM $800: Imagine you're this 2008 film guy; you're an immortal vampire! Bella has caught your eye! But you're in high school... forever! Edward |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | AMERICAN SYMBOLS $1,600 (Daily Double): Of the genus Haliaeetus, it represents strength & courage the bald eagle |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "READY" WHEN YOU ARE $1600: 4-word nickname of President Zachary Taylor, who had served 40 years in the U.S. military "Old Rough and Ready" |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | BRIT BITS $400: There are 650 members of this elected body, but only seats for 427 inside the House of Commons |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | PILOT WEAR $400: Since 1937 Ray-Ban has been making these accessories that sound like they were custom made for piloting aviators |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | MASTERS OF SOCKS $1000: Tabi & flip-flop socks have this unique feature a separated big toe (a big toe accepted) |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | VEEP $1600: She's seen here with hubby Juan, shortly before becoming his V.P. in 1973, & his successor in 1974 Isabel Perón |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | STATE BIRDS $400: This orange & black state bird of Maryland is also called a Firebird or golden robin the Baltimore oriole |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | ARIEL PHOTOGRAPHY $800: I used rolls & rolls of film to capture this living 135,000 square mile expanse in the Pacific the Great Barrier Reef |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $800: Frederic Joliot, winner of a Nobel with wife Irene, could hold his own at the dinner table with her, his mother-in-law Marie Curie |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | WOMEN GETTING PHYSICAL $2000: Noted activist Beate Klarsfeld was arrested in 1968 for slapping the chancellor of this country West Germany |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | "POLY" WANT $1000: In some shorebirds, the females exhibit this behavior, meaning having several male mates at once polyandry |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | SPICES $200: Spanish for "little gourd", the guajillo is a mild type of these with a heat rating of 2,500-5,000 Scoville units a chili (pepper) |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THINGS TO DO BEFORE $600: It's the "P" in PSAT, which high schoolers may want to take before the SAT preliminary |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | SAY IT IN SWEDISH $1200: Sweden's top rate of this, imkomstskatt, is 56% income tax |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | ANIMAL YOUNG $600: It's the largest animal whose baby is called a calf a blue whale |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | CENTRAL PARK $1200: The oldest man-made object in the park, it originally stood on the banks of the Nile Cleopatra's Needle |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | XENON $1600: Xenon is used to create fluorouracil, which is used to treat the basal cell type of this condition skin cancer |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | RHYME WAVE $1600: It uses steam & high temperatures to sterilize surgical equipment an autoclave |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NICE RED UNIFORMS! $1200: The annual August Apprentice Boys parade marks the 1689 lifting of the siege of Derry in what's now this country Northern Ireland |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $800: Try Falangetti & Weimortz for your criminal case-- they've both been on the other side as deputy these district attorneys |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | TOOTING YOUR OWN HORN $600: This man, son of Ellis & brother of Branford, was given his first trumpet by Al Hirt Wynton Marsalis |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | YOU'RE SO POSSESSIVE! $800: Lexicon & wordfinder are synonyms for this book first published in 1852 Roget's thesaurus |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | CLEANING OUT MY ATTIC $400: My old favorite one of these, like the classic model from Red Ryder! I bet it still shoots a BB gun |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | SPACECRAFT TYPES $1000: Like the Cassini around Saturn, this type of spacecraft by definition doesn't land, but circles a planet instead an orbital probe |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | THE BEATLES... GEAR! $600: Paul played a Hofner '61 "violin"-shaped one of these a bass |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $800: Shepherd's pie has a traditional crust of this on top whipped potatoes |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1600: This term for a carving like on the front of a coin means it's raised only slightly from its background a bas-relief |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | FLOWERY PHRASES $200: A shy person, or a purple flower diminishing in size a shrinking violet |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | PLAYBOY $200: In 2015 Playboy made news by announcing it would no longer publish these, but we still have the interviews nude photographs |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | VICE PRESIDENTS $2000: He shares his full name (but probably not much else) with a P-Funk music legend George Clinton |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | THE NORTH PACIFIC $200: Over 1,300 miles from Oahu, Kure Atoll is the farthest west part of this archipelago the Hawaiian Islands |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | ALL ABOUT NUMBERS $1200: Legal group of 23 persons charged with determining whether probable cause exists to believe someone committed a crime a grand jury |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ELECTION TERMS $700 (Daily Double): By definition, these are taken right after someone votes & are used to forecast the outcome an exit poll |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC WEDDING VOWS $200: I will always let you be the racecar or top hat when we play this game; I'm cool with being the thimble Monopoly |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | YOU MIGHT NEED SURGERY $1200: To relieve pressure, trepanning is boring or drilling a hole through this the cranium (the skull bone) |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THAT'S THE SPIRIT $600: Wild Turkey &
Maker's Mark bourbon |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | CRAIGS LIST $800: Giving it an amber color & a mellower taste, Rev. Elijah Craig is credited with being the first to age this liquor in charred barrels bourbon |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | HE'S CHEVY CHASE $800: (Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) In 2010 I played the repairman for this title object that sends Rob Corddry & his friends back to the 1980s the Hot Tub Time Machine |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | STATE ANIMAL FIGHT! $2000: Utah's Rocky Mountain elk can't figure out the unique gait of this "Volunteer State" equine the Tennessee walking horse |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | MAKEUP $1000: This line of loose powder makeup urges you to "Be original. Be natural. Be good" bareMinerals |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | 2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING $1200: A chapter in this fantasy volume is titled "The Taming of Smeagol" The Two Towers |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | BREAKFAST $400: An iron with a large, deep grid is used to make these, introduced to Americans in the 1960s Belgian waffles |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Though 20+ years older than his wife Eva, this Argentine leader outlived her by 20+ years Juan Perón |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $1200: India has universities named for Indira Gandhi & this man, her father Jawaharlal Nehru |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | WELCOME TO BOOZETOWN! $400: The Town of Bushmills in County Antrim is renowned for this stuff distilled there Irish whiskey |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | A VIRGIN CATEGORY $800: Dozens of islands including Tortola & Anegada make up this former crown colony in the Lesser Antilles the British Virgin Islands |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | THE OTHER ACTING BROTHER $800: His big brother was a "Drugstore Cowboy"; he's an "Entourage"r Kevin Dillon |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | DEBUTING IN 1984 $800: This '84-born little sister, singer & actress had a baby named Bronx Mowgli with rock star Pete Wentz Ashlee Simpson |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | CZECH COMPOSERS $800: Julius Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators" is now mostly associated with these less-fierce performers clowns (circus performers accepted) |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | THEY SAVED THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN $1000: "W" was saved by who else? This "Moon River" singer, crossing Hollywood in style Andy Williams |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | SOJOURNER $200: Nevada's capital is named for this man who sojourned through the West for 40 years Kit Carson |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | MOUNT EVEREST $100 (Daily Double): At age 16 in 2001 Temba Tsheri, a boy of this ethnicity, became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest Sherpa |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | WHAT A COOL GADGET $400: Feel like a sorcerer as you change TV channels by waving the Kymera Magic this Wand |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $400: Samwise was back home. But then he remembered an awful thing. He'd left his keys at Mount Doom! With a sigh, he turned The Return of the King |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | WARBIRDS $400: Britain's WWI S.E.5 fighter carried 2 of these, a Vickers fixed in the nose & a movable Lewis attached to the upper wing machine guns |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | PLAY "M-E" $1600: On Broadway in 1982, Cher & Kathy Bates asked, do this, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean "Come Back to the Five and Dime" |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | TIME FOR ART $1000: When talking about great Trecento art, like the example seen here, Trecento means this period the 1300s |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | NOT-SO-DESPERATE MEASURES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) It's a term for a small drink of liquor or a specific unit of weight that you need 256 of to amount to a pound, which would be a very big drink a dram |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | TOOT YOUR "-ONE" $1600: A type of clam, or the center of a Bing a cherrystone |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $600: Arnold did say he'd be back, hence this film subtitled "Judgment Day" Terminator 2 |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | WHAT DO I HEAR? $200: Worldwide there are more than 40 different species of this often coastal denizen a sea gull |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) On January 26, 1986, the crowd at Gino's East went crazy as this 300 pound-plus lineman scored on a 1-yard run to put the Bears ahead of the Patriots 43-3 in Super Bowl XX William "Refrigerator" Perry |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $400: 1971:
Chancellor Willy Brandt (be specific) West Germany |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | I AM A MAN OF SCIENCE! $1200: Louis & Mary's son, this Kenyan scientist found a humanlike creature's skull that was 1.7 million years old Richard Leakey |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | DESIGNERS $1200: She took over creative control of her family's design house in 1997, after her brother Gianni's death Donatella Versace |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | NOVELS BY CHAPTER $400: The first of 3:
"The Breaking of the Fellowship" The Fellowship of the Ring |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | STAR-STRUCK $1600: The crew of the ISS captured a rare occurrence: the shadow near the Earth's horizon is actually a total one of these a solar eclipse |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | ECONOMICS $800: China's cap on this at around 3.5% a year, favored by banks, has stifled spending by consumers, who need to save more the deposit interest rate |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | WHAT'S KILLING YOU? $600: "Transformers" a Decepticon |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | AQUA, FRESH $800: Limestone fractures easily, allowing ground-water to penetrate & emerge as this 6-letter flow of fresh water a spring |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | U.K. BODIES OF WATER $1200: Covering about 150 square miles, Lough Neagh in this U.K. country is the largest lake in the British Isles Northern Ireland |
| #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 |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THAT'S A LOT OF KIDS! $200: Like father, like son--several of his 20 kids, including Carl Philipp Emanuel, also became composers J.S. Bach (Johann Sebastian) |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | A SCENTIMENTAL MOOD $1000: Wrap yourself in this Estee Lauder fragrance whose name suggests a clean, crisp fabric White Linen |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | QUOTES OF NOTE $1200: Nancy Reagan:
"A woman is like" this beverage item--"only in hot water do you realize how strong she is" tea bag |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | MARVEL: 75 YEARS $600: The Superhuman Registration Act led to one of these in the Marvel universe, like the one in Spain from 1936 to 1939 civil war |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: As a rule of thumb, a full one of these should have a minimum of 300 coils; a king should have 450 mattress |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | NAME THAT FOOD $1000: Scotch bonnet:
a very hot one of these chili pepper |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $400: The registry includes a 1924 recording of "Rhapsody In Blue" with this composer at the piano George Gershwin |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | MOVIE SOUND FX $1600: It's a spooky night if we hear the sound of this "great" raptor the great horned owl |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | EXPLORERS' NATIONALITIES $1000: Sir Edmund Hillary New Zealand |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | AT THE GEORGIA AQUARIUM $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Georgia Aquarium.) Sea otters have up to a million hairs of fur per square inch, important, as they don't rely on this as an insulator, unlike a sperm whale blubber |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | YOU'RE ON THE LIST $400: There are 9 of them, 6 men & 3 women; there have been 112 in U.S. history Supreme Court justices |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | MADONNA VIDEOS $1600: Parmigianino's most famous work is called "Madonna with" this swan-like feature a long neck |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | A KILLEE'S HEELS $400: Early in "The Wizard of Oz", you see red heels on this witch's corpse before they morph onto Dorothy's feet The Wicked Witch of the East |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | SWEET RELIEF $1200: For pain relief for women undergoing labor, a lumbar this block is a popular anesthetic choice an epidural |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY $400: This persecuted group fled England in 1609 & lived in the Netherlands for 11 years before crossing the Atlantic Pilgrims |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ON THE "ROCK"S $600: Down, down! This spiny crustacean does not have claws, but those tails are goooood rock lobster |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN $1000: "Everybody's got" this body part, a song Bruce first intended to give to The Ramones a hungry heart |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | DOGGING THE "WAG" $200: "Jump on" this conveyance to join with what is currently popular or fashionable a bandwagon |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | U.S. COLONY NAMES $800: Rhode Island may be named for a place in this sea the Aegean Sea |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | HONG KONG $600: Hong Kong is surrounded by this sea to the east, west &, of course, "south" the South China Sea |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | STAMPS $1000: A 1918 error produced the valuable "Inverted" this; a 2013 stamp has the plane upside down on purpose Jenny |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $400: "And before him on the upland he could see the shining wigwam of the Manito of Wampum" "The Song of Hiawatha" |
| #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 |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | THE STARS WRITE $1200: "There and Back Again" tells of this actor's time playing Samwise Gamgee Sean Astin |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | STATUES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's no fairy tale--in 2013 this beloved Danish statue celebrated her 100th birthday the Little Mermaid |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | BORN TO BE WILD $800: The cub seen here is one of these creatures, named for an historical region of India a Bengal tiger |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | BORN TO BE WILD $1200: He doesn't look like much yet, but this little fellow could grow up to get his picture on the back of a quarter someday bald eagle |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | STRUCTURES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arizona.) It was a 1991 novelty & media focus when eight people sealed themselves in this giant structure for two years to create a self-sustaining ecosystem; 20-plus years later, it's leading to important understanding of our planet Biosphere 2 |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ACCESSORIES $800: In 1937, long before its instant cameras, Polaroid began making these sunglasses |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | GRAIL MIX $400: In "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", it is suggested that this woman, not a cup, could actually be the Holy Grail Mary Magdalene |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | CLOSE QUARTERS $2000: Thousands of Sunni Muslims are seen here in Mecca celebrating this fifth pillar of Islam the hajj |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $1200: John Milkovisch made the aluminum siding at his Houston home from 50,000 of these former cold ones beer cans |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | STATE BIRDS $800: This state bird of Maryland is black & orange the Baltimore oriole |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | CANDY CRUSH $800: Get the sensation of this candy crushed York Peppermint Patties |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | REALITY TV $200: Trace Adkins defeated Penn Jillette in the finale of the All-Star edition of this Trump-tastic show Celebrity Apprentice |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: (Former Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor gives the clue.) In 1925 Harlan Fiske Stone became the first nominee to personally go before this group; in 1981 I was relieved when Bob Dole told me I was among friends there the Senate Judiciary Committee |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $400: "41" is HBO's documentary about him & his life in Kennebunkport, his "anchor to windward" George H.W. Bush |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BODY PART PREFIXES $800: Hystero- uterus |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | YOUR NAME IS PERFECT $600: In 2013 Igor Judge stepped down from this high British government post, which unlike in the U.S. has "Lord" before it Chief Justice |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | "-UP" $1200: A sweet tradition in Vermont is sugar on snow, which is this liquid, heated & drizzled on the white stuff maple syrup |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | HISTORY OF CARS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) The 1930 Nash 482R had 2 spark plugs per cylinder, a top speed of 75 miles per hour, & one of these features, which was also known as the "mother-in-law seat" the rumble seat |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $400: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth" a silver spoon |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | CHIPS $200: Keebler's Soft Batch these are "so soft, they taste like they're home-baked!" chocolate chip cookies |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | -OLOGIES $800: With quite a large potential area to search, exobiology is the study of life here outer space |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | FAR SOUTHERN NOVELS $600: Clive Cussler's "Atlantis Found" finds this protagonist--no relation to Brad--in Antarctica Dirk Pitt |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" $400: A hitter wears them on his hands batting glove |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | LIBRARIES $1600: This Washington, D.C. library boasts "the world's largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials" the Folger Shakespeare Library |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | HIT PARADES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1893 this popular parade adopted a "never on Sunday" policy, so the 2012 one was held on January 2 the Rose Parade |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | THE BATTLESHIP U.S.S. IOWA $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the box launchers of the U.S.S. Iowa.) One of the modernizations to the Iowa in the 1980s was the addition of these armored box launchers & their deadly cargo of the Tomahawk variety of these a cruise missile |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | ONE NATION $600: 9 provinces & 7 metropolitan cities, including Inch'on-Gwangyoksi South Korea |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | THE ORCHESTRA $2000: Italian & concert are types of this composition, found at the front of a musical work the overture |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | SCIENCE ROUNDUP $800: Usually starting in the upper respiratory tract, the common cold is caused by one of these microorganisms a virus |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | YOU KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $2000: Mel Gibson gets tortured...I'll have to be a bit more specific, Mel gets tortured a lot onscreen...by Gary Busey's Mr. Joshua Lethal Weapon |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | GEOLOGY $2000: You won't find Santa at this point located in the Arctic Ocean & moving toward Siberia at about 40 miles a year the magnetic north pole |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | OF CALAIS $600: The burghers of Calais were 6 men who offered themselves as hostages to get the English to lift this in 1347 the Siege of Calais |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | FUN WITH SCIENCE $1200: It's annoying when you walk across carpet & touch metal but helpful when Xerox machines use it to make copies static electricity |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | SCIENCE FICTION $1200: In 2010's "Blackout", people with this academic job are sent back from 2060 to do fieldwork in World War II history professors |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | DOGS & CATS IN LITERATURE $1200: A feline about town, Bustopher Jones is a character in "Old Possum's Book of" these title critters Practical Cats |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | BORN IN THE 1400s $1600: In 1449 came this future ruler of Florence Lorenzo de' Medici |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | AMERICAN ANNUAL EVENTS $1200: This liquor flows for 6 days at a September festival celebrating it in Bardstown, Kentucky Bourbon |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | LINES $600: This conduit carries oil about 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez Harbor the Alaskan Pipeline |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE FUTURE $600: (Al Gore gives the clue.) The global economy is being transformed into Earth Inc. by the mechanization of human jobs & this practice of moving jobs from industrial to developing economies outsourcing |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | RELIGIONS $800: The Assemblies of God is the USA's top denomination in this movement associated with speaking in tongues Pentecostal |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | POMPEII $2000: The cast of the crying boy was made by filling the hole left in the ash with this substance used by sculptors plaster of Paris |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE STORY OF ENGLISH $400: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian & West Saxon were the major dialects of this, spoken until about 1100 Anglo-Saxon (or Old English) |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BE SPECIFIC $200: Just "Rockefeller" isn't enough; we need the first name of Ford's veep Nelson |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | "BE" SPECIFIC $400: "Beauty is in the eye of" this onlooker the beholder |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BE SPECIFIC $400: Pappy van Winkle's Family Reserve isn't just "whisky"; it's Kentucky straight this bourbon |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BE SPECIFIC $600: Pick a Baldwin, any Baldwin! Actually, pick this star of "The Usual Suspects" & "Celebrity Big Brother" Stephen Baldwin |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BE SPECIFIC $800: You just said "uranium"--we need this number isotope, the only naturally occurring fissile material 235 |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | "BE" SPECIFIC $800: A novice or tyro a beginner |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BE SPECIFIC $1000: "The Russo-Turkish War" won't do it; there have been a dozen--give us this 1853-1856 one the Crimean War |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | "BE" SPECIFIC $1200: Austin Powers knows it means to conduct oneself with propriety to behave |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | "BE" SPECIFIC $1600: One-word term for a person looking for useful items on the shore a beachcomber |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | "BE" SPECIFIC $2000: Verb meaning to give or spend with grumpy reluctance to begrudge |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | I'M BURNIN' FOR YOU $1200: William Tyndale, who completed his English translation of this in 1525, was burned in Brussels in 1536 the New Testament |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS $200: In 1797 Tennessee's William Blount became the first man expelled from this body & its only member impeached by the House the U.S. Senate |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN $600: Like their brethren in West Virginia, colliers went down, down, down to work in this place a coal mine |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | THE NAME OF THE FLAG $800: On YouTube you can watch Jack Webb talk about the U.S. flag in a clip rhymingly called "The Story of" this Old Glory |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | IT'S A TRAP! $800: Debuting in 1900, the Grand American is an event in this sport prizing accuracy shooting |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | PLANETARY MATTERS? $1200: It's also called a night crawler an earthworm |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | MOVIE TERMS $1200: This type of transition between a series of film shots is often used to suggest the passage of time a dissolve |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | CLEOPATRA $400: Shakespeare is among those who say Cleopatra killed herself with one of these, a symbol of divine royalty an asp |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | CLEOPATRA $2000: A head from the exhibit Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt is thought to depict this son of Cleopatra Caesarion or Ptolemy XV |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | SUMMER 2012 $200: July set this record for the continental U.S., beating out July 1936 the hottest July (high temperatures accepted) |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | HORSE & CARRIAGE $800: The Conestoga & this vehicle, seen here, were instrumental in the western expansion of the United States covered wagons |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | EDUCATION NATION $1600: Pusan National University South Korea |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | COMPOSERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) A silver rose is central to the action in "Der Rosenkavalier" by this composer Richard Strauss |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | FOOD STUFF $2000: The New York Public Library exhibit "Lunch Hour NYC" includes a reassembled one of these beloved & once very modern dispensers an automat |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | THE OLD GRAY MAYOR $400: "The last of the big-city bosses", he was 74 when he passed away as Chicago's mayor (Richard) Daley |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | ASTRONOMY $1200: The magnitude of Algol, a binary star, changes every 69 hours as the fainter star does this, passes in front of its pal eclipses |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | 29 & HOLDING $400: Title conveyance seen on Track 29 in a Glenn Miller song The Chattanooga Choo Choo |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | MEASURING DEVICES $800: A creepmeter doesn't measure how weird your date is but the movement of these cracks between quakes faults |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIKE A VESTAL VIRGIN $2000: So as not to spill their blood, vestal non-virgins were killed this way, which Poe called a "ghastly extreme of agony" burying them alive |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | DUTCH COURAGE $400: Rather than let his gunpowder-filled ship be captured, Captain Jan van Speijk did this to it, he & his crew still aboard blew it up |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | THINK FAST! $600: The world's fastest animal is this species of falcon whose diving speed can reach over 200 miles per hour peregrine falcon |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | LET'S EAT THAI $400: A basic ingredient in Thai cuisine is prik kee noo, a small, spicy one of these named for its resemblance to a mouse dropping pepper |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | HERSHEY'S $200: The milk chocolate Hershey bar was introduced in 1900; a version that added these came 8 years later almonds |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | ROYAL RELATIVES $200: Emperor Maximilian of Mexico was the uncle of this archduke who was assassinated in 1914 Franz Ferdinand |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | TERRIERS $1600: Appropriately, the first champion of this breed was Martell's Sapphire Beauty, born in Ireland & named for her coat color the Kerry blue terrier |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | I DON'T GIVE A... $800: Wrestling throw that puts an opponent on the canvas back-first body slam |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 21st CENTURY HEADLINES $200: In 2003 the headline read, "Davis Is Out, Schwarzenegger Is In by Big Margins in California" in this type of vote a recall |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $2,200 (Daily Double): Discovered in 1870, this natural feature of a national park has been called "Eternity's Timepiece" Old Faithful |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BOOK LEARNIN' $200: Usually at the end of a book, it's a list of source materials & related readings a bibliography |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | SAN FRANCISCO ATTRACTIONS $400: This attraction is home to Pier 39 & some 900 California sea lions Fisherman's Wharf |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | HOBBIES $400: In the 18th century, these figures were used to perform entire operas marionettes or string puppets |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | AMERICAN FOOD $800: Juice, jellies, & jams are made with this American fruit variety seen here Concord grapes |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | TEACHER'S "PET" $400: A document signed by many people asking for a specific action to be taken a petition |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | CALL THE POLICE $600: It's a legal document empowering the police to look through a premises for evidence of illegal activity a search warrant |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | TV REALITY SHOWS BY WINNER $400: In 2010:
Bret Michaels, who wasn't fired but hired Celebrity Apprentice |
| #6286, aired 2012-01-09 | THE SEA AROUND US $1600: The Gulf of Volos or Pagasai, anciently called Sinus Pagasaeus, is an arm of this sea the Aegean |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM, SEA OR OCEAN $400: Koror &
Guadalcanal the Pacific Ocean |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | MOVIE TITLE SUBJECTS $600: Captain, Loudy, Bitey, Stinky, Lovey, Nimrod
(2011) Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | BACK TO SCHOOL $800: History: This one of the 7 Ancient Wonders was said to be laid out on several brick terraces & 75 feet above the ground the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | CANCELED! $800: The final round in the NCAA Division III women's golf championships May 13, 2011--due to this lightning |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | I'M ON STRIKE $800: An early battle for this union formed in 1962 was when grape pickers went on strike for the minimum wage United Farm Workers |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) This occurs when the nucleus of a disk protrudes through the surrounding cell & puts pressure on a spinal nerve a herniated disk |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | A FINE CATEGORY $800: 6-letter word for one who sprays his own name in graffiti; no matter how cool the signature, he may get fined for it tagger |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $400: We're counting on your knowing that the Firth of Forth is an estuary in this country Scotland |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | GOING TO PIECES $600: The U.S. hasn't minted these, between a penny & a nickel, since 1872 a two-cent coin |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | NATIONAL FOOD DAYS $400: On July 6, you might pick up a bucket of KFC for national this day fried chicken |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | SAY CHEESE! $1600: Fromagerie Bel produces the little wheels called Mini this, also a nickname for a type of telecom company Babybel |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | ONE-LINERS $600: Will Rogers:
This group, then with 96 members, "opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation" the Senate |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | STRAIT AHEAD $400: The French call this strait that separates England & France the Pas de Calais the Strait of Dover |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | LATE MAN $1200: "Piper Bill" Millin, 1922-2010, played "Hieland Laddie" while under heavy gunfire on Sword Beach on this day in 1944 June 6 |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GENERAL RELATIVITY $800: In 1968 this grandson of a general & U.S. president married Julie Nixon with Norman Vincent Peale officiating David Eisenhower |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | EXPLORERS $1200: In 1955 this explorer published the aptly titled "High Adventure" Edmund Hillary |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | SCIENTIFIC NAMES $600: Canis rufus a red wolf |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CHEMISTRY $400: The celebratory year 2011 marks 100 years since this radiant scientist's Nobel Prize for Chemistry Marie Curie |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | CINCO DE MAYO $800: Any way you slice it, mayonnaise is primarily raw these, vinegar & vegetable oil egg yolks |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | SCIENCE $400: They're also called erythrocytes red blood cells |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | EXTRAORDINARY DENTITION $200: The longest teeth in the animal world are these on one of the largest animals the tusks |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | 1811 $800: In an 1811 massacre, this pasha of Egypt (not the boxer) knocked out the Mamluks for good Muhammad Ali |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | WINGS & THINGS $1200: It includes the Cabinet Room, Situation Room &, of course, the Oval Office the West Wing |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | STARS OF SPORT $1200: Father of "NCIS" star Mark, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1940 & received a Purple Heart in WWII Tom Harmon |
| #6155, aired 2011-05-20 | MALE NEWBORNS $1000: Pigeon or dove squab |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this South American estuary means "silver river" Río de la Plata |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | PAPER $2000: San Jose:
Tidings from a planet the Mercury News |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY $1000: (Jimmy gives the clue from the Moto Restaurant in Chicago, IL.) Miracle berries expand the uses of foods like lemon by blocking the sour types of these specialized cells, which scientists now say are found all over and not in separate parts of the tongue receptors |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | BASH-FUL $800: Jason Wu designed Michelle Obama's one-shouldered silk chiffon gown for these events on the night of Jan. 20, 2009 the inaugural balls |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | RUSSIAN FOOD & DRINK $600: Like latkes, draniki are these potato pancakes |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | OR THE HIGHWAY $400: U.S. Highway 20 from Boston to the West Coast has this distinction; it used to be No. 2 the longest road in the U.S. |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $800: One of these astronomical events was listed for July 11, 2010 a solar eclipse |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YOU ARE SO OUTTA HERE $1000: In 1986 this Philippine woman left more than a thousand pairs of shoes behind when she fled to Hawaii Imelda Marcos |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $1000: In 1946, in order to avoid the noose, Hermann Goering picked his this poison pill (cyanide accepted) |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | WINTER SPORTS $400: On New Year's Day, many souls brave icy waters to take part in a swim named for these ursine creatures a polar bear swim |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | THE CONSTITUTION $200: This specific body "shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the... states" the House (of Representatives) |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | BIRDIE $1000: For his service during WWI, Cher Ami, one of these useful birds, was awarded France's Croix de Guerre a homing pigeon |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | NEWSMAKERS OF 2010 $200: In September 2010 he visited England & spoke in the hall where Thomas More was condemned to death Benedict |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | SCIENCE $1200: About 65% of iron in humans is in the form of this, which transports molecular oxygen from the lungs through the body hemoglobin |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | POTTER ROAST $400: So this brother of Flopsy was a real pet of yours; but didn't your cook say something about making Hasenpfeffer? Peter Rabbit |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: In 2004 the Stratocaster, one of these, turned 50 an electric guitar |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | ALL ABOUT TROMBONES $800: The the swinging trombone player & big-band leader of the 1930s seen here, daddy-o Tommy Dorsey |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | BOTH MY X's $600: This Fortune 500 company's headquarters are in Irving, Texas Exxon Mobil |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $400: In the 1980s, $1 billion was spent developing Premier, a smokeless type of this that went down in flames cigarette |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | SHIP HAPPENINGS $400: The world's largest ship, 1,500 feet long & 225 feet wide, is the Knock Nevis, one of these supertanker |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | LIVED BY THE SEA $800: The ancient poet Sappho hailed from an island in this sea the Aegean Sea |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | LIVED BY THE SEA $2000: A good place to play Marco Polo is in this sea that surrounds Marco Polo's city of birth the Adriatic |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | "1", "2", "3" $800: The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker, collectively Three Men in a Tub |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | ACTION CINEMA 2010! $400: This character took on "the World"--his new girlfriend's 7 evil ex-boyfriends, to be more specific (Scott) Pilgrim |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $800: Attributed to Lao-tzu, it "begins with a single step" a journey of a thousand miles |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | FROM THE GREEK $400: Meaning "self-moving", this word often precedes pilot or transmission automatic |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | FOOD SPECIFICS $600: En croute means wrapped in this & baked pastry |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | LIVE LONG & PROSPER $400: This hotel founder lived to the age of 91; he made quite a pile, but he never saw Paris... or Nicky Conrad Hilton |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | HOW DO YOU LIKE MY DUDS? $200: Different types of this footwear include clogs, thongs & gladiators sandals |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | CORN-UCOPIA $400: The "straight" type of this liquor is distilled from a mash of at least 51% but not more than 79% corn bourbon |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | OFF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST $1000: Canis lupus, it's off the list in Montana & Idaho & may be back in some ranchers' sights the grey wolf (or the timber wolf) |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | PRO NOUNS $1200: A tennis pro can teach you not to step over the baseline while you serve--that would be one of these a foot fault |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEGA-EVENTS $1200: In 1896 more than 2,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this doomed czar Nicholas II |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | B.C. $400: In the 100s B.C. this statue was completed by Alexandros; its farewell to arms would come later the Venus de Milo |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I $400: A seaplane called the Campania was designed to take off from the deck of this; seems to defeat the purpose of a seaplane an aircraft carrier |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $200: Kenny Chesney started losing his hair in his teens--this ever-present accessory hides it a cowboy hat |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | NATIONAL PARKS & MONUMENTS $800: Lee's aide-de-camp Charles Marshall, John's great-nephew, chose this surrender site, now a national historical park Appomattox Court House |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | IF I WERE A RICH MAN... $400: I'd want &/or desire to buy this item seen here; it's about 45 carats, doc the Hope Diamond |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: It's a legal document empowering investigators to look through premises for evidence a search warrant |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | CHEMISTRY $400: In 1814 Jakob Berzelius proposed the idea of having these, instead of hieroglyphics, stand for the elements letters |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE "ODD" SQUAD $800: This salad dressing is named for a 1920s play about a group that believes in a female deity green goddess |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | DANGER IN WONDERLAND $600: She tried to whack Alice with that "off with her head" line; wait 'til she gets a load of you the Queen of Hearts |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL SHAKESPEARE $200: Shakespeare survived this deadly scourge that killed more than 30,000 in London alone in 1603 the bubonic plague |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This country is part of the U.K., but not part of Great Britain Northern Ireland |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | THE 4 BEATLES $400: Paul's mum Mary succumbed to this disease, the same one that took his beloved Linda breast cancer |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION $400: You can have a great meal at James' townhouse on W. 12th St. in this NYC area; James won't be there, though Greenwich Village |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | FUN AT THE BALLPARK $200: In 1976 Chicago Cub Rick Monday prevented 2 people from burning this in the outfield, making him a hero coast to coast the American flag |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | WE NEED AN ANSWER $800: Asked what he did during this period in France of 1793 & '94, Father Emmanuel Sieyes simply replied, "I survived" the Reign of Terror |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | PASS THE SALT $2000: Popular with racers, they cover about 100 square miles in Utah, & in some places the salt is 6 feet thick Bonneville Salt Flats |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE $200: Try not to leave this Greek landmark in any more of a shambles than it already is the Parthenon |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | CALIFORNIA $1600: The California poppy is the state's official flower & this tough critter is the official state animal the grizzly bear |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: It's the wooden finishing strip at the bottom of an interior wall where it meets the floor a floor molding |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | SUPERLATIVES $800: Someone slow-witted is said to be "not" this kitchen item "in the drawer" the sharpest knife |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | ALLITERATIVE FOOD & DRINK $800: Boston these were often served with Boston brown bread baked beans |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | HEN TRICKS $1200: Padres fans know this feathered trickster has been called "the Sir Laurence Olivier of mascots" the San Diego Chicken |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | GEOGRAPHIC AMERICANISMS $1000: It's not footwear for an urban cowboy, it's a device clamped to the wheel of a parked car with overdue tickets a Denver boot |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | SCIENCE FAIR $400: The duodenum, jejunum & ileum are 3 parts of this the small intestine |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | GEEK LOVE $1600: The 3000 version of this handheld Sony gaming console has a built-in microphone to Skype PlayStation Portable |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | A DATE $1600: Night has fallen, but we can play glow-in-the-dark this game at the putting edge mini-golf (or putt-putt) |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | OOPS IN SPORTS $400: The 2009 French Open women's final ended with a whimper, Dinara Safina's seventh of these serving mistakes a double fault |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THAT'S A PUZZLER $1600: This happened to Mistress Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" beaten black and blue |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | FATHER TIME $1600: After 12,000 years staring out over New Hampshire, this senior citizen succumbed in 2003 the Old Man of the Mountain |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | YOU'RE SO SPORTY $800: Brothers Jarit & Jimmie Johnson both compete in this sport NASCAR |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | THE LAW $1200: This word for someone who can testify about events he saw includes a 3-letter body part an eyewitness |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | BACK TO BUSINESS $800: No-contract & pay as you go plans are selling points of this cell phone company started by Sir Richard Branson Virgin Mobile |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | BEASTLY BLUES $400: Referring to this companion, Paul Bunyan could say, "I've got you, Babe" his blue ox |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | SEX & THE KITTY $600: Kitties' sex lives won't be quite the same after neutering or this female-specific counterpart spaying |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | POTPOURRI (REALLY) $800: Though they can irritate skin, the red hot fruits of this edible plant, Capsicum annuum, are found in some potpourris jalapeño (Cayenne accepted) |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | FLOWER NAMES $1600: Papaver somniferum is the scientific name for this flower, known since ancient times the opium poppy |
| #5697, aired 2009-05-19 | A POTENT POTABLE TOUR $800: Savor the "California" type of this effervescent treat at the Korbel Cellars in Sonoma County champagne |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | THE 21st CENTURY WITH CNN $600: (I'm Anderson Cooper, anchor of A.C. 360.) In 2005, this craft put the Space Shuttle program back in flight after Columbia's tragedy 2 years earlier Discovery |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a money-printing press in Washington, D.C.) There might be $300 million in production at a given time in the building I'm in, the D.C. facility of this bureau The Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | MODERN TECHNOLOGY $800: Los Alamos now has the fastest computer; it was designed using technology from this Sony gaming system PlayStation 3 |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | OCEAN O' LOTION $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a table.) The leaves of this plant are used in traditional remedies as a topical ointment; cutting open the leaves produces an easily applied clear gel Aloe vera |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | HIRAM $400: In 1884 Hiram Maxim made the first really effective fully automatic one of these killing machines a machine gun |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | QUICK STUDY $800: It's the study of crime & punishment & the management of prisons penology |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $800: With films like "A Better Tomorrow", John Woo brought attention to the cinema of this place where he grew up Hong Kong |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | GRAND THEFT AUTO $600: Compact cars top the list in most states, but in W.V. & Texas, the most commonly stolen vehicles are this type pickups |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | STARS & STRIPES $800: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse is a red one of these really, really, really big stars a red supergiant |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | THE HOLY "C" $400: Roman soldiers put this on Jesus' head, "and they put on him a purple robe" a crown of thorns |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: Diatoms are among the most numerous of these plantlike plankton that drift with the ocean currents phytoplankton |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | NURSERY RHYME TIME $200: Quite contrary gardener's yellow birds Mary's canaries |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FROM THE NECK UP $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) High-end cognitive thought is done at the extreme anterior of the brain in this cortex; yours is probably humming right now prefrontal cortex |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | DEACON BLUES $1200: A Deacon named St. Romanos the Melodist got his nickname by writing 8,000 of these hymns (or psalms) |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $600: Ate too much MSG or feelin' a megrim, or one of these, comin' on? Beta-blocker, shmeta-blocker! Try Dr. Alex' Head Cream! migraine |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | ASTRONOMERS $1600: Giordano Bruno suffered this punishment in 1600 for declaring the Sun the center of the Solar System he was burned at the stake |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | SOUNDS LIKE FUN $1600: It's a kite-like, delta-winged, aluminum alloy-framed, one-man soaring device a hang glider |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | A SHOT AT LOVE $1600: There was a certain glow in the air when Maria Sklodowska caught the eye of this French physicist in 1894 Pierre Curie |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK $1000: I called 703-417-8020 about noise at this facility named for Ronald Reagan, but couldn't hear the person talk the Washington, D.C. airport |
| #5565, aired 2008-11-14 | AQUATIC MAMMALS $1200: Seen here, the sea type of this has the thickest fur of any animal, with more than one million hairs per square inch the sea otter |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $800: 2 who have been appointed to this post are William Wordsworth & Ted Hughes Poet Laureate (of Great Britain) |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | BESTSELLERS: 2006 $2000: 2006's top-selling PC software was for easing the preparation of these, an annual April headache income tax returns (income taxes accepted) |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | NAME THE BOOK $200: "'He is a strange, half-savage creature of the jungle, Miss Porter'" Tarzan of the Apes |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | RETRONYMS $400: A company called Bumkins makes this baby product, a retronym created by the disposable kind cloth diapers |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | LETTERS & NUMBERS $400: Also a key on your PC, it represents the most destructive tornado class recorded F5 |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | SPORTS: 1948 $400: (I'm Olympic champion
Misty May-Treanor.) In 1948 this sport held its first tournament with a prize--it was a case of Pepsi, & I'm glad we do a bit better than that today beach volleyball |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | ADVERTISING WITH MAD MEN $2000: (Jon Hamm reads the last clue.) In the 1st episode of "Mad Men", Don Draper won over the clients with a campaign about the "toasted" goodness of this product (Lucky Strike) cigarettes |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | EXPLOSIVES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from an explosive test site at the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology.) Explosives deal effectively with rock; that's why this industry is the no. 1 U.S. civilian user of them, with West Virginia among the top consuming states coal mining |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | JUST DESSERTS $1000: This dessert, chocolate cake filled with apricot jam, was created by a Viennese man Sachertorte |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | MICROSCOPY $2000: Common nosy agent of infection seen here working on your cells a rhinovirus |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | CHINA & INDIA $2000: The Golden Shield, which restricts online viewing of controversial topics, is known as the "Great" this "of China" firewall |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | GENEALOGY $1200: A govt. database of immigration records dating from 1820 is arranged by these, like Charleston or Tacoma ports of entry (into the United States) |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | ANATOMY $2000: A large forehead doesn't indicate smartness; it indicates a large one of these bones that form the forehead the frontal bone |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: Chitin is the main component in this supportive outer covering of lobsters & insects the exoskeleton |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | GAMBLING $600: (Cheryl & Sarah play poker; Cheryl reads the clue.) When I'm playing Texas Hold 'Em in this type of tournament & I like my cards, I move all my chips in no-limit poker |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | CLASSIC ADS & JINGLES $400: This cereal is "A honey of an O" Honey Nut Cheerios |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To a criminal, this slang term can mean "diamonds" or "to kill", so be specific when taking out a contract ice |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | TECHNO THRILLERS $400: The bestselling car in 9 of the past 10 years is this model, now available in a hybrid version Camry |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | SCIENCE STUFF $1600: In this type of bomb, 2 atoms of deuterium collide to produce a helium atom & extra neutrons a hydrogen bomb (or a fusion bomb) |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | NUMERICAL PHRASES $1000: Collective name for the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw & Seminole tribes the Five Civilized Nations (or Tribes) |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | IRISH SONGS $400: "Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, too-ra-loo-ra-li, too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's" one of these an Irish lullaby |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | INNOCENT POPES $1000: Innocent I was strangely absent when Alaric I of this ancient German group had Rome sacked the Visigoths |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | ANIMALS ALOFT $1000: As part of a 1940s Arctic search & rescue unit, these team animals were parachuted in to help rescue downed pilots huskies (or malamutes) |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU $800: Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated, was killed in the meeting place of this body the House of Commons |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | HOW IT'S DONE $800: Note the dial numbers, left to right; subtract the previous figure to get kilowatt-hours used to read your electric meter |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | METALS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew uses a magnet on a beverage can and a food can.) In separating recyclables, a magnet is used because it will not attract aluminum, but will attract this metal, the main constituent of what we call tin cans steel |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | IT HAPPENED IN SAN FRANCISCO $800: An engineer saw a streetcar slide down Nob Hill, killing 5 horses, & came up with this better system cable cars |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | DEATH $400: Balinese villagers bury their dead temporarily until they can have a big one of these ceremonies with a pyre cremation |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | SON OF WOOD $1000: In German, this Strauss waltz is known as "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" Tales from the Vienna Woods |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | DANISH $2000: Like Dover, England, Mons Klint is worth a visit for this spectacular feature the white cliffs |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Henriette, eldest child of this illustrator, was a portrait artist when brother Andrew was just beginning to draw N.C. Wyeth |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | NOTHING SPECIFIC $200: You can "think outside of" it, or a group of opera patrons can be held in it the box |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | LET'S GET SAUCED $400: You can tell from the name that a vin blanc sauce has this specific type of potent potable in it white wine |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | SCULPTURE $1200: As marble was expensive, Luca della Robbia made his "Madonna and Child" with this glazed material terra cotta |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT $2000: To further the ambitions of her brother, her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged several marriages for her Lucrezia Borgia |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | THE FEMININE MISTAKE $1000: In 1951 she thought folks wouldn't have a problem with her running for VP of Argentina; she was wrong Evita Peron |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | LITERARY PETS $800: This poetic Eliot feline has "lived many lives in succession" & is named for the 5th book of the Old Testament Old Deuteronomy |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY $800: Setting 5 on the 1935 model of this Sunbeam appliance was "Whipping Potatoes"; setting 6 was "Cream" Mixmaster |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | THE TIGER $600: Tiger is the second rank in this organization for young boys the Cub Scouts |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $800: A fire-eater makes sure the flame is out before opening his mouth--otherwise a rush of this will revive it oxygen |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | ACCENT-A-PALOOZA $400: With places like Berwick-upon-Tweed & Newcastle upon Tyne, we'd have to be in this country, what what? England |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | FARK.com HEADLINES $200: After one of these "feral" birds was released into a park, "Alcoholics... hunt it down & try to drink it" a wild turkey |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | LIKE, IT'S TOTALLY THE VALLEY $600: Virginia Shenandoah Valley is bounded on its east side by these mountains the Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ETHIOPIAN CUISINE $800: Tej is a type of this made with honey; Ethiopians think it was once shared by Solomon & the Queen of Sheba a mead (or wine) |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | NATURE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside a skeleton at UC Santa Cruz's Long Marine Lab.) The Seymour Center at the Long Marine Lab has the world's largest displayed skeleton of this mammal, including an 18-foot jawbone a blue whale |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | YO, HOLMES! $1200: It's the great detective's London address 221B Baker St. |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | FLOWERS $800: On March 22, 1994 the Dutch Ambassador to the U.S. gave her a new tulip named for her Hillary Clinton |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | HODGEPODGE $200: At a 2005 auction, paintings by Warhol & Renoir didn't sell, but 3 by Congo, one of these playful primates, did a chimp |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | SCIENCE $800: As opposed to what arthropods have, vertebrates have this internal framework endoskeleton |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | CARTOON CRITTERS $1000: Heckle & Jeckle magpies |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | BELOVED POLAND $1200: Winning for Physics & Chemistry, this Polish woman is one of the 2 Nobel Laureates in 2 different fields Marie Curie |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | FUN ACROSS AMERICA $800: Blast off on a simulated trip to Mars on Mission: Space, a major thrill ride at this Florida theme park EPCOT (Disney World accepted) |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | HAVE A HEALTHY MONTH $200: The American Academy of Ophthalmology declares July safety month for these rays UV (ultraviolet) rays |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | ANIMAL FARM $400: The saliva of this species of flying mammal contains an anticoagulant vampire bat |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | GROUPS $3,599 (Daily Double): Infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, the Justice, the Pantaloon, second childishness Shakespeare's Seven Ages Of Man |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | MUSIC $1200: This string instrument got its name from its old job of playing along with other instruments low notes a double bass |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | BEFORE $1000: Long before Olivier & Brando there was this man, brother to an assassin Edwin Booth |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS $1000: Of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, it's the one starring an over 100-foot guy in his birthday suit the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $400: In 1939 Leo Szilard told Einstein about this type of "reaction" in uranium, & Al said, "I never thought of that!" a chain reaction |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | SCI FI $1600: Seen here, they're the team based in the Rockies but able to step through a portal to other planets Stargate SG-1 |
| #5214, aired 2007-04-19 | VERY SPECIFIC FORTUNE COOKIES $800: Be aware it's the sole alcohol component of a traditional screwdriver & you will claim $800 vodka |
| #5214, aired 2007-04-19 | VERY SPECIFIC FORTUNE COOKIES $2000: "Q" will be very important to you today, as you will grasp this type of equation, just like "a modern major-general" quadratical |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | LAST BUT NOT LEAST $400: The last of the old style of these "bugs" rolled off an assembly line in Puebla, Mexico in July 2003 a VW Beetle |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | BANGERS $1600: It sounds like you wear it on your head, but it's a small tube with an explosive like RDX, used to start a bigger boom a blasting (or detonating) cap |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | MIGRATION $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports in front of a map of the United States.) For these insects, autumn is a time to congregate in Michoacan, Mexico, where they're a major eco-tourist attraction monarch butterflies |
| #5203, aired 2007-04-04 | DARWIN $1600: Darwin & his wife were these close blood relatives, as Darwin's mother & his wife's father were siblings first cousins |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | LEMME SEE THOSE "LIP"s $200: People within the umbra, or region without sunlight due to the moon's shadow, experience this rare event a total solar eclipse |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | STATS FREAK $1000: This Cleveland RB of the '50s & '60s led the NFL in rushing 8 times; the most times for any other back is 4 Jim Brown |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | BREAKFAST CEREAL $1000: In 1987 Bela Lugosi appeared on boxes of this cereal, the first in General Mills' "Monster Cereals" Count Chocula |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: It's the instrument heard here going solo in a Bach concerto the harpsichord |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | THAT'S NOT KOSHER! $800: A Food Network recipe for this Maine specialty says to remove the meat from the claws & calls for hot dog buns a lobster roll |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | WINTER SPORTS $400: Types of jumps in this sport include the lutz, the salchow & the axel figure skating |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | SWEET NOTHINGS $400: Since 1902, Necco has been making this brand of appropriately shaped candies with bons mots printed on them Sweet Hearts (or Conversation Hearts) |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | D.C. SITES $1000: This library on the Hill has a theatre that evokes the courtyard of an English Renaissance inn the Folger Library |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | SWEET NOTHINGS $1200: Van Morrison sings, "she's as sweet as" this, something you might find in a Mississippi apiary Tupelo honey |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $400: This term first appeared in print in 1971 & refers to the many electronics firms in Santa Clara County, California Silicon Valley |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | DINOSAURS $200: Anatosaurus was this type of dinosaur named for a feature it shared with the platypus a duckbill |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | SOUNDS $200: Leviticus 25 says every 50th year is to be celebrated as a jubilee, with these instruments sounded trumpets |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: The U.S. wishes this trained ophthalmologist could see his way to support our Mideast policy Bashar al-Assad |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | ON FOOT $400: A tennis player who steps on the baseline while serving is guilty of this a foot fault |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | '90s POP CULTURE $1600: Tim Curry & Daryl Hannah were "altogether ooky" as this morbid TV duo in a direct-to-video "reunion" film Gomez & Morticia Addams |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | I'M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP $400: Of the two mammals with "panda" in their names, it's the bear-like one seen here--though you're only seeing a small part of it giant panda |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | ROYALLY LAST $600: The last Romanov ruler of Russia, he was shot to death with his family by Bolsheviks Nicholas II |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: This country admitted to NATO in 1955 had limits on its weapons production--bad memories, you know West Germany |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | TREES $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Oregon.) Also called the Sierra redwood, or just "the big tree", it once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere; now it's down to a few groves the giant sequoia |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | COMPUTER HISTORY $200: This removable item used for data storage was introduced in 1971; the first one was 8 inches square floppy disk |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | STATE INSECTS $600: It wasn't until 1983 that Utah finally made this its state insect the honeybee |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | MAKE $$$ IN YOUR SPARE TIME! $400: Numismatics, man! In 2005 one of these dating from 1792 sold for $437,000--that's 43.7 million times its face value a penny |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | YOU, YOUR HEALTH & YOU $200: Swollen lymph nodes called buboes are the main sign of this disease that devastated 14th century Europe the bubonic plague |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | FOOD FACTS $200: Osso bucco is the shank cut of this meat veal |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | YOU CAN BANK ON IT $800: A 1987 law says you can only sign for this purpose on the top 1 1/2 inches of the back of a check endorsing it |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | WORLD AUTHORS $1600: "The House of the Spirits" is the first novel by this Lima-born woman Isabel Allende |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | "TRUTH" OR CONSEQUENCES $2000: An acknowledgement of suffering is the first of this basic quartet of Buddhist beliefs the Four Noble Truths |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $400: Dave Anderson lamented that Jerry Kramer, Rich Jackson & Charley Conerly were not inducted into this sport's Hall of Fame professional football |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | SHRIMPING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.) The bigger species of shrimp with the larger nippers on the second pair of thoracic legs are called these prawns |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $2000: After the Last Supper & a little hymn singing, Jesus went to this Jerusalem site to pray Gethsemane |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | LIFE IN THE FAST LANE $2000: In the equation E=mc2, it's the constant that "c" represents the speed of light |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | "M"EDICINE $1600: The lower portion of the brain stem, its name means "long marrow" in Latin medulla oblongata |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | MIDWAY ISLAND $400: In June 1969 President Nixon & this country's Nguyen Van Thieu met secretly in the Commanding Officer's house South Vietnam |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | MADE YA LOOK--UP! $800: Teardrop-shaped, it's used to carry a radiosonde aloft & may be mistaken for a UFO a weather balloon |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | RATING SCALES $1600: Zero on the Danjon Scale of these events means Earth's satellite is nearly invisible lunar eclipses |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | HISTORIC NEW HAMPSHIRE $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mt. Washington in New Hampshire.) Mt. Washington was named in 1784; Adams, Madison, & the other peaks in this range had to wait until 1820 the Presidental Range |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | "WA" THIS WAY $600: Aquarius, translated from Latin water bearer |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | FROM OUTER SPACE $1600: The closest of its kind to the Milky Way, it's our nearby companion seen here the Andromeda Galaxy |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | CARTOON BEFORE & AFTER $200: SpongeBob's multi-limbed neighbor & best friend who became a Jewish national symbol Patrick Star of David |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | TOOLS OF THE TRADE $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports in front of a U.S. Postal Service truck.) One important tool of a letter carrier is a pepper-based spray intended for this purpose dog repellent (defense from dogs accepted) |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $4,000 (Daily Double): A scout during the war, John Greenwood is more famous as one of these; Washington was a patient a dentist |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | "B" IN FASHION $200: During the 1992 L.A. riots, one of these worn by Madonna in a video was stolen from Frederick's of Hollywood a bustier |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | TEUTONIC $800: Hermann Von Salza reigned over the Knights from 1210 to 1239 with this title, like one a chess expert might have grandmaster |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | STATE BIRDS $1000: A state bird since 1947, its black & orange colors resemble those on the Calvert coat of arms the Baltimore oriole |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The scientific name of this striped carnivore is Hyaena hyaena striped hyena |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | DUKE UNIVERSITY $600: Got ESP? Then you know in the '20s J.B. Rhine began his famous studies at Duke in this science that researches ESP parapsychology (paranormal psychology accepted) |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | STOP, THIEF! $200: In 2001 thieves in Birmingham, Eng. stole 23 of these animals--which flew back to their domicile a short time later homing pigeons (carrier pigeons accepted) |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | THE MISSIVES OF OCTOBER $800: Oct. 29, 1929: Sister Dear, things are gloomy in New York as this lost 31 points, or 12 percent; I need a stiff toddy the Dow Jones |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | BON APPETIT $400: This "dirty" Cajun grain specialty is so-named because chopped poultry livers & gizzards are added for flavor dirty rice |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $600: This Northeast Asian country came into being in 1948 & 2 years later the U.S. helped fight for its survival South Korea |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | NFL NICKNAMES $800: "Too Tall" (Ed) Jones |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE $800: Thin-sheeted gilded lettering gold leaf (or gold foil) |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: Michigan claims the nation's oldest one, starting in 1849; don't miss the pig races or the midway a state fair |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | SPEED $600: In 1965 Gordon Moore famously predicted that these would double in processing speed every 18 months computer chips |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? $2000: At England's historic Burnby Hall Gardens in York, you can see 80 different varieties of these aquatic flowers a water lily |
| #4843, aired 2005-10-05 | FORT SUMTER $600: On Dec. 27, 1860 Major Robert Anderson raised the stakes when he raised a 36- by 20-foot one of these the American flag |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ARRESTING TELEVISION $400: Gary Sinise dusts for DNA as Det. Mac Taylor on this Gotham-based whodunit CSI: New York |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | ART TECHNIQUE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew makes some cartoon trees grow.) By enlarging the nearest part of the image, this technique adds the illusion of depth foreshortening |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: The USA's only Leonardo da Vinci painting resides at this museum at 4th & Constitution the National Gallery of Art |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | ANATOMICALLY CORRECT $400: In humans, this internal organ is about 1 1/2 inches in diameter & 20-25 feet long the small intestine |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | FINANCIAL ABBREVIATIONS $400: When you need a loan to buy a house, you can get a fixed-rate one or this, an ARM adjustable rate mortgage |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | EDIFICE WRECKS $800: This elected British legislative body's chamber was destroyed by German bombing during WWII the (House of) Commons |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | SCIENCE FACTS $800: This hydrocarbon mix obtained druing petroleum refining is used to make candles & to coat paper paraffin |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | PREDATORS $200: This patriotic symbol will hover above water birds until they exhaust themselves diving the bald eagle |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | PREDATORS $400: Of the family Lamnidae, it's been described on film as "a perfect engine--an eating machine" a great white shark |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | RELIGION $800: It can be any person who's reached Nirvana, or a specific one of the 6th century B.C. buddha |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.) This type of rocket was used for the first Apollo flight to the Moon & propelling Skylab into space a Saturn V |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $1600: This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum Meyer Guggenheim |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | CHESS $800: The "Sicilian" one starts with a move by black on the queen's half of the board a defense |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | CHESS $1600: Bring your queen out fast & you can have this victory after just 2 moves fool's mate |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE URBAN SCENE $400: Sodium vapor is a common type of these, which help prevent crime & traffic accidents streetlights |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | 2 MILLION $1600: In 1948 more than 2 million tons of food, fuel & other supplies were airlifted into this city West Berlin |
| #4738, aired 2005-03-23 | I PITY THE "FOOL" $2000: Senior citizens might object to this proverb popularized by John Lyly in the play "Mother Bombie" There's no fool like an old fool |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | IT'S JUST A GAME $800: If Dick & Jane are playing tennis on the same side of the net, the game is called this mixed doubles |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | TV ROLES ON FILM $600: This character ran from David Janssen to Harrison Ford Dr. Richard Kimble |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | ADVERTISING MASCOTS $600: One of these critters is the mascot of the Hartford Insurance Company an elk |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $2000: John Masefield got the job with lines like "All I ask is" one of these "and a star to steer her by" a tall ship |
| #4669, aired 2004-12-16 | WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT? $200: In 1888 Nikola Tesla came up with the first practical system for generating & transmitting this type of current A.C. |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | BERMUDA SHORTS $800: The first settlement in 1609 resulted from this event, maybe the one depicted in the first scene of "The Tempest" a shipwreck |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | GET YOUR GOAT $2000: This sure-footed wild goat with back-curving horns can be found between the timber & snow lines of the Alps ibex |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | WHO APPOINTED ME TO THE SUPREME COURT? $1200: Thurgood Marshall Lyndon Johnson |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | SLANG $400: Wifebeater is a controversial slang term for this ribbed white item of apparel tank top (sleeveless undershirt accepted) |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ASIA $6,200 (Daily Double): If you plan to walk from Beijing to Ulan Bator, take lots of water, as you'll be crossing this land region the Gobi Desert |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | YOU HAVE TOO MUCH... $800: ...if you suffer from hypernatremia (put down the potato chips) sodium |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | "Y"? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU! $800: It's not how a rapper gets your attention, it's a Naval Petty Officer yeoman |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES $400: Jacob Schick came up with this device while mining way up north where hot water was scarce an electric razor |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $1600: This company, symbol XOM, makes up about 20% of the weight of the NYSE energy stock index ExxonMobil |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | HOCKEY $800: Bryan Trottier sparked this team to 4 Stanley Cup championships from 1980 through 1983 the New York Islanders |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | WHATEVER HAPPENED TO... $1600: Ferdinand, who gained renown for doing this on May 3, 1986, was turned into Japanese pet food winning the Kentucky Derby |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | CATHOLICISM $1000: A litany may address the Lamb of God, saying "you take away" these the sins of the world |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | THE OLYMPICS $600: For men in the Olympics, this is 115 centimeters high & has a couple of handles on top the pommel horse |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | STRONG MEN $200: Guinness reported that in 2002 Rick Belden took 3 minutes to rip up a total of over 28,000 pages' worth of these phone books |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | JOURNALISM $1000: These 2 "line"s tell readers where & when a story originated & who wrote it the byline & the dateline |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | WORLD MUSEUMS $600: This museum founded back in 1835 contains the gold coffin of Tutankhamen the Egyptian Museum |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | GREAT SPORTS $1200: This woman has risen to the top of her chosen profession Serena Williams |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | KENNEDY FAMILY MEMBERS $1600: Was killed during a volunteer bomber mission in WWII Joseph Kennedy, Jr. |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | SEA CREATURES $800: The male of this "musical" species uses its large claw to attract females a fiddler crab |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | WE'RE IN BUSINESS $1600: This current Ford CEO has appeared in ads for the family business Bill Ford (William Clay Ford, Jr.) |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | MILITARY TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $2000: Lt. Anderson,
Lt. Pruitt,
Major "Pappy" Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | LUXEMBOURG $1000: The Congress of Vienna in 1815 made Luxembourg a state headed by this type of ruler a grand duke |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | ALL AROUND LONDON $200: Chamber Live, an interactive addition to this scary part of Madame Tussaud's, is unsuitable for the very nervous the Chamber of Horrors |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | FASHION $400: Style.com reports some of these shown by Gaultier "were short enough to be belts" miniskirts |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | A GREEN CATEGORY $600: The green variety of this sticky-footed creature is seen here a tree frog |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | GEOMETRY $1600: The surface of the mirror in a reflecting telescope has this type of geometric curve a parabola |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | DUDE, WHERE'S MY "CAR"? $1600: Isotope used to date archaeological specimens carbon-14 |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | HARDWARE STORE MENAGERIE $800: It has adjustable jaws so it can grasp nuts of different sizes a monkey wrench |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | EARLY AMERICA $1600: In December 1620 the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony on the rocky shore of this bay Cape Cod Bay |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $1000: Cylinders,
crankshaft,
pistons a car engine |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | CARRY ON $800: In 2003 the override of a veto meant Missourians could carry these concealed weapons |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | BROADWAY LYRICS $600: Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect and do this, "so no one will suspect I'm afraid" whistle a happy tune |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | BODY PARTS BY PRODUCTS $1200: Desenex feet |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | PAGANOMICS $600: Before St. Patrick, this plant was a symbol of the 3 aspects of the pagan Irish goddess Brigit shamrock |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $1,600 (Daily Double): On December 27, 1978 this spot on Earth reached a balmy record high of 7.5 degrees the South Pole |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | PLANTS & FLOWERS $2000: You don't have to go to New England to see this plant; lots of American homes have one Boston Fern |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | VIRGINIA WOOLF $200: Woolf was active in this cause which she wrote "roused in man an extraordinary desire for self-assertion" women's suffrage |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | MEDICINE $800: Adding these charged particles to the air is supposed to reduce blood pressure & relieve headaches negative ions |
| #4498, aired 2004-03-10 | THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE $1200: Nguyen Van Thieu South Vietnam |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | FRANCIS SCOTT KEY $1000: Key's brother-in-law & law partner Roger B. Taney served as this from 1836 to 1864 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | A TRIP TO THE MOON $1000: About 3 times a year, when the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow, one of these occurs a lunar eclipse |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | GOD BLESS ARMENIA $1200: A 1990s energy shortage forced the restart of Metsamor, this type of plant, although it's in an earthquake zone a nuclear power plant |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | THE MALL $800: This term for a trunk often kept at the end of a bed is the name of an athletic shoe store a foot locker |
| #4477, aired 2004-02-10 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $1000: This term for an informant comes from a decoy once set out by bird hunters a stool pigeon |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | WHERE WOLF? $800: Wolf, Bobcat & Bear are ranks in this youth organization the Cub Scouts |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Some skeptics said that her novel "Wuthering Heights" must have been actually written by her brother Branwell Emily Bronte |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $800: In the 8th inning of a 1941 game, a play by shortstop Lou Boudreau ended this Yankee's 56-game hitting streak Joe DiMaggio |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | SEEN IN THE MIDWEST $1200: The Alpine-Alpa Restaurant near Wilmot, Ohio has a 23 1/2-foot-tall one of these timepieces cuckoo clock |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $200: "This was the noblest Roman of them all" Julius Caesar |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | MR. BUSINESSMAN $200: In 1945 he became president of a Dearborn, Michigan car company started by his grandfather Henry Ford II |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: Including Lee's surrender, in a current title it was "The Month That Saved America" April 1865 |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | PIRATES $600: A favorite weapon of pirates; being stabbed by one 20 times helped kill the pirate Blackbeard cutlass |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $2000: This "Fox" & his guerrilla band attacked the British & then retreated to South Carolina's swamps Francis Marion |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | DA BRONX $2000: Born in the Bronx (not Rotterdam), Arthur Flegenheimer took this alias from an earlier Bronx gangster Dutch Schultz |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | A FISH CALLED… $1200: Popular fly fisherman quarry seen here a rainbow trout |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SEA, I TOLD YOU $1200: The Gulf of California is also known as this from the conquistador who sent explorers there in the 1530s Sea of Cortez |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SEA, I TOLD YOU $4,500 (Daily Double): It's the sea you sail going from Muscat to Mumbai Arabian Sea |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | ORGANIZATIONS $1600: Over 26,000 attended this association's annual meeting in Atlanta, but we're sure they kept each other quiet American Library Association |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | TV WORKPLACES $600: The title character on this NBC drama works for the Massachusetts State Coroner's Office Crossing Jordan |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | TRADING SPACES $1000: You must take tea before bargaining for a rug at Istanbul's "Grand" one of these trading spaces bazaar |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $1200: From the Greek for "earth heat", it's the term for the energy that comes from the natural heat of the Earth geothermal energy |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $1600: This "sweet" state tree of Vermont is an important source of syrup sugar maple |
| #4249, aired 2003-02-06 | CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON $600: Abbreviated SAM, it's a guided weapon meant to be fired from the ground (or from a ship) surface-to-air missile |
| #4246, aired 2003-02-03 | U.S. COINS $1000: A study done in 1978 found people hated this coin even before it was issued; it looked too much like a quarter the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $800: Famed justice seen here; no relation to Thurgood John Marshall |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | GAME SHOW FORMATS $1000: 3 people all claim to be the same specific person To Tell the Truth |
| #4205, aired 2002-12-06 | FINANCIAL MATTERS $400: Appropriately, investing in housing can be one of these, letting you pay less to the IRS tax shelter |
| #4205, aired 2002-12-06 | I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM $600: You can "beat" this 1987 Bond title "out of" someone The Living Daylights |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | EUROPE $800: Kosovo is now an autonomous province within this Balkan republic Serbia |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | A CATEGORY FULL OF HOLES $800: It's where you would be if you dug a hole straight down 3,963 miles deep center of the Earth |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | THE 1990s $600: In 1997 the Marlins won the Major League, Mexico the Little League & LSU the college version of this event the World Series |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | SPORTS BEATING TERMS $800: This type of varnishing is what the Restorers did to the Cabinets, 11-2 shellacked |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | BE WELL $800: Chiropractors manipulate this part of the body to realign its vertebrae spine |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | GUINNESS SPORTS RECORDS $2000: In 1993 Tyler Farstad did 97 consecutive double-leg circles on this gym apparatus the pommel horse |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This common loon is Minnesota's state bird common loon |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | ANIMAL CRACKERS $600: Nabisco added the string to the box to allow it to be used as one of these holiday items Christmas tree ornament |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | COUNTRY COOKBOOKS $400: Her cookbook features dishes she made while raising Ashley & Wynonna Naomi Judd |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | BEAT IT $1000: A common effect of lightning injury is this, defined as a heartbeat of over 100 beats per minute tachycardia |
| #4095, aired 2002-05-24 | OLD ROMAN TIMES $400: Apicius is the first known gastronome to force-feed geese figs to produce this, now used to make pate foie gras (fat liver) |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | FEBRUARY SWEEPS $400: In 1998 these ran from February 7 to February 22 & TV Guide's preview issue featured Michelle Kwan on the cover the Winter Olympics |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | NIETZSCHE, I'M GLAD TO MEETCHA $400: One of the 2 things Nietzsche called "the 2 great European narcotics" Christianity (or alcohol) |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | ADVICE FROM DR. JOYCE BROTHERS $200: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Your daughter who's exhibiting this type of kleptomania at Wal-Mart may be trying to get attention shoplifting |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | JUST A THOUGHT $800: The people who were against the decisions made at the second Diet of Speyer & sided with Martin Luther were called these Protestant Lutherans (Protestants) |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | NURSERY RHYME WOMEN $1000: Container in which Peter, Peter kept his wife; "he kept her very well" a pumpkin shell |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | GIVE ME SOME CAVIAR! $2000: Sterling silver gives caviar a metalic taste; use a spoon made of this, also called nacre, instead mother-of-pearl |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | HE'S THE MAYOR $600: Nobel Peace Prize winner Willy Brandt was mayor of this beleaguered city from 1957 to 1966 West Berlin |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | MODERN GREECE $400: In 1996 Greece & Turkey nearly went to war over an uninhabited 10-acre pile of rocks in this sea Aegean |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | MODEL RAILROADING $800: In 1937 Lionel introduced the Hudson, a famous steam one of these, at a steep $75 locomotive |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | HYMNS $800: "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Are you washed in" this? the blood of the lamb |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | SOUNDS LIKE AN OBSCURE ROCK BAND $1200: A culinary specialty, they're the blue type of crustacean, caught just after they molt soft-shelled crabs |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | IN THE NEWS 1924 $1200: "A Passage to India" must have worn him out; he published no more novels the remaining 46 years of his life E.M. Forster |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | TAKING THE BAR EXAM $1000: Masuizumi,
Narimasa,
Wakatsuru sake |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1675 he was admitted to Harvard at the age of 12 while his father Increase was a fellow there Cotton Mather |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | DIAGNOSIS MURDER $800: This mobster who developed Vegas was rubbed out in his girlfriend's mansion in 1947; forget it, Jake, it's Beverly Hills (Benjamin) "Bugsy" Siegel |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is outside the U.N. building.) The land the U.N. complex is built on was donated by this wealthy businessman John D. Rockefeller |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | TENNIS $300: (Sofia serves up an infraction.) 2-word term for the infraction being committed here foot fault |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' SONGS $200: According to the song title, it "helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way" a spoonful of sugar |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | BISMARCK $200: In 1998, Gerhard Schroder took over this office that Bismarck held for 19 years the chancellor of Germany |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | EXPORTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In ancient times, the most famous export of the Phoenician town of Byblos to Greece was this material papyrus |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | TRUE STORY $300: Dr. Jerri Nielsen gives her account of discovering that she had breast cancer while "ice bound" here the South Pole |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ON THE BEAT WITH ANDY SIPOWICZ $300: (Franz reads the clue.) Dating back to the 1700s, it's the court order that authorizes police to enter a home to look for evidence search warrant |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | EMMY-WINNING ROLES $1000: Col. Wilhelm Klink Werner Klemperer |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | "SON" PRESIDENTS $100: He served the shortest term as president:
one month William Henry Harrison |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To a criminal, this slang term can mean diamonds or to kill, so be specific when taking out a contract ice |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: 14 of the books in the "Odyssey" are set on this rocky homeland of Odysseus Ithaca |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | DAWN $100: Dawn Special Care is a type of this that's good for hands Dishwashing liquid |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | ASIAN NEWSPAPERS $400: The latest reunification possibilities are dissected in this nation's Chosun Ilbo & Joongang Ilbo South Korea |
| #3818, aired 2001-03-21 | USC $600: When up & running, USC has a webcam focused on a bronze statue of this guy, its symbol Tommy Trojan |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | 20th CENTURY STYLE $200: In the 1940s Achille Gaggia built an appliance to make this beverage, basis of cappuccino, in your kitchen Espresso |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | CIRCUS CIRCUS $200: Type of circus sideshow denizen seen here the bearded lady |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $100: His hunting rifle accessory made him "Telescope Teddy" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | NURSERY RHYMES $200: It's the precarious location of the Rock-a-bye Baby's cradle In the tree top |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | AMERICAN INVENTIONS $400: On Feb. 21, 1947 Edwin Land demonstrated one of these to the Optical Society of America Polaroid/instant camera |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | THE WRITS $600: When a writ of dower is issued, it normally follows a death & assigns property to this person a widow |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | MERRY YACHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of a 1997 opera named for this American woman is set on the yacht Christina Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | CULINARY COMMON BONDS $100: Fore shank,
short loin,
brisket cuts of beef |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | CULINARY COMMON BONDS $400: Cotto,
Genoa,
pepperoni salamis |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $600: Classified by taste, one of the two main varieties of the nut seen here: bitter almond (or sweet almond) |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | ANATOMY $400: The 2 main types of these white blood cells are B cells & T cells lymphocytes |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | TEA TIME $200: Before being sliced or put into a salad for tea sandwiches, eggs must be cooked this way hard-boiled |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $200: This ancient time-measuring device must be designed for its specific location on Earth Sundial |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES $800: Ficus elastica, which grows in southern Asia, produces this substance used to make erasers Indian rubber |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | COUNTRIES BY AREA $400: Cheju,
South Kyongsang,
Kangwon South Korea |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | THE BIG APPLE $400: It's what John Smith could have called his dad's mom, or a variety of green apple grown in the U.S. Granny Smith |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | THE TWIN CITIES $200: Ya sure, go to Minneapolis' Park Avenue to visit the institute devoted to this ethnic group Swedes |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $800: A. Philip Randolph unionized men in this job held by the men depicted on the stamp seen here: sleeping car porters |
| #3436, aired 1999-07-12 | RELIGION BY THE NUMBERS $400: The sixth of these was an outbreak of boils & sores Ten Plagues of Egypt |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | CHRISTIAN SLATER $1000: As Will Scarlett, in this 1991 film Christian was in tight with Kevin Costner Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | FINISH THE LINE $400: An advertising slogan:
"Pork the Other..." White Meat |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | SPORTS RHYME TIME $400: Aye laddie, it's the teeny-tiny golf peg you put your ball on wee tee |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | GIGI $400: This beauty from Budapest appeared in the film "Gigi" before she moved to "Green Acres" Eva Gabor |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | SCIENCE $1000: When your "glands" are sore, they're busy producing these infection-fighting white blood cells Lymphocytes |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | GANGSTERS $300: His brother Buck was part of his gang, as was his moll Bonnie Clyde Barrow |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | HIGH HOPES $400: In the song "High Hopes", an ant has this type of "hope" -- apple, to be specific "High apple pie in the sky hopes" |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | GYM DANDY $800: In this men's event, it's "routine" to work your way around a long leather-covered apparatus the pommel horse |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | STRAIT-EN UP $400: Since 1994 rail traffic has been running in the Eurotunnel under this narrow strait Strait of Dover/ The Dover Strait |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | ARROWS $400: From 1976 to 1979, this automaker launched "Arrows" Plymouth |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | "HANG"OVERS $500: In a famous movie scene, Mommie Dearest screams at little Christina Crawford, "No" these wire hangers |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $300: Cross long end over short, pass it through loop, double short end into loop, give up, get a clip-on a bow tie |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | ENDANGERED SPECIES $200: It's the dark endangered species seen here a black rhinoceros |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | THE UNTOUCHABLES $800: Eliot Ness was hired by the Prohibition bureau in 1929, the same year as this holiday bloodletting the St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
| #3259, aired 1998-11-05 | 1997 $300: When this Chinese leader died February 19, 1997 it was noted he hadn't been seen in public since early 1994 Deng Xiaoping |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $500: Crest, weights, chain, pendulum, moon dial a grandfather clock |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DEAD LINES $800: Oscar Wilde says "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword" "Kill the thing he loves" |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | ELVES $200: Clement C. Moore called him "a right jolly old elf" Saint Nicholas |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | 4 OF A KIND $1000: In the 19th century the big 4 who built this were named Crocker, Hopkins, Huntington & Stanford the Transcontinental Railroad (Central Pacific & Union Pacific) |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ASSASSINATIONS $400: Executed in 1918, this czar has since been made a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church abroad Nicholas II |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | HOW'S THE WEATHER UP THERE? $1,000 (Daily Double): It lags behind a stroke of lightning at a rate of about 5 seconds per mile thunder |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | CHEM LAB $1000: The Greek prefix meaning "equal" is used in this term for 2 forms of the same element isotope |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | WINNIE $200: Except for 2 years, Winston Churchill served in this body from 1900 to his 1964 resignation the (British) House of Commons |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | IRISH HISTORY $200: 1846 saw the height of this Irish "Blight" potato blight (or potato famine) |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $300: As per Article I, the first group elected to this body was divided into those who would serve 2, 4, & 6 year terms the Senate |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | THE ART OF WAR $200: It's a nuclear power's capability of a preemptive attack, or one-third of an out in baseball First strike |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | TRANSPORTATION $100: Nonrigid airships, like the ones used for advertising, are more commonly called this blimps |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | TRANSPORTATION $300: In 1993 Barbara Harmer became the first woman to co-pilot this supersonic plane the Concorde |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | POTENT POTABLES $600: Booker's, Baker's & Knob Creek are "small batch" producers of this Southern elixir bourbon |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAMES $100: This "Dear" woman has lots of advice (Abigail) van Buren |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BIOLOGY $300: In plants & invertebrates, this outermost layer of protection is usually just one cell thick Epidermis |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | REALLY BIG $400: Longer than 2 football fields, it was launched at Friedrichshafen, Germany in 1936 the Hindenburg |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Daily newspaper of the group founded by Mary Baker Eddy's Komodo dragon The Christian Science Monitor Lizard |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | SAN FRANCISCO $100: The Powell-Mason, the Powell-Hyde & the California St. are the 3 working lines of this type of transportation cable car |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $600 (Daily Double): Subject of the song that includes the following:
"(Ow!)
They're generally set apart from a sentence /
By an exclamation point /
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong (Mmmm...)" interjections |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | FOOD $600: Served in Jewish chicken soup, knaidel is another name for this Matzo balls |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | REAL ESTATE $100: These "lords" live like peasants when courts make them stay in their undermaintained tenements Slumlords |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | HERBS & SPICES $400: Menthol, an ingredient in some mouthwashes & cold medicines, comes from the oil of this herb peppermint |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | NAMES OF THE '60s $300: Daughter of the president-elect & grandson of a former president who wed December 22, 1968 Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | CIVIL SERVICE $800: In this "system" rampant in the 19th C., election winners filled the government with their supporters "Spoils" system |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | COLORFUL FOOD $800: Gorgonzola & Stilton are classified as these blue cheeses |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | SHOW BIZ SIBLINGS $300: Early in their careers, these brothers appeared on the TV series "Sea Hunt" with their father, Lloyd Jeff and Beau Bridges |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | COMPOSERS $200: "Lady, Be Good!" was the first show he wrote in full collaboration with his brother Ira George Gershwin |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | 1995 $600: On July 12 the FDA said this is a drug that should be regulated Nicotine |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | SPORTS $500: The backwards one-revolution jump in this sport is named for Ulrich Salchow figure skating |
| #2849, aired 1997-01-09 | TRANSPORTATION $100: The Metro Red Line, which began service in L.A. in 1993, is this form of transportation Subway |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: Pyrography or pokerwork is the process of making designs in wood or leather this way burning it in |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $800: Ariadne supplied Theseus with the ball of thread that led him out of this The Labyrinth |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: Barbara Mandrell sang about "sleeping single in" one of these, also called a full-sized a double bed |
| #2802, aired 1996-11-05 | DAM $800: The volume of this dam on the Nile is about 17 times that of the great pyramid at Giza the Aswan High Dam |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | PLANTS & TREES $300: Sassafras tea is prepared with this part of the sassafras tree root bark |
| #2787, aired 1996-10-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: Scottish highland games take place every summer at North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain in this range Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #2786, aired 1996-10-14 | SCIENCE $600: After escaping Nazi-occupied Austria with her father in 1938, she set up a child therapy clinic in London Anna Freud |
| #2781, aired 1996-10-07 | SCIENCE NEWS $500 (Daily Double): Device that took the photo seen here: the Hubble Space Telescope |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: The largest lake in the western U.S., it's fed by freshwater streams but has a heavy saline content the Great Salt Lake |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Pal, a male collie, played the lead in the 1943 movie version of this Eric Knight novel Lassie Come Home |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | EMPRESSES $600: The sister of Theodosius II, Pulcheria became Augusta, or empress of this empire, July 4, 414 the Eastern Roman Empire |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | HISTORY $500: Angkor became capital of this empire in the late 9th c. & remained the capital for over 500 years the Khmer Empire |
| #2756, aired 1996-09-02 | WORLD HISTORY $300: In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family Baby Doc Duvalier |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | VENOMOUS ANIMALS $400: This marine animal's translucent float consists of nitrogen, oxygen & argon gases the (Portuguese) man-of-war |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $400: At the age of 12 this "Christina's World" painter illustrated an edition of "Robin Hood" Andrew Wyeth |
| #2749, aired 1996-07-11 | WOMEN $300: Shannon Lucid told her male roommates she wouldn't be a maid for the 5 months they'd be here in 1996 the Mir space station |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | HODGEPODGE $200: Draculase, an experimental drug that helps dissolve arterial clots, comes from this mammal's saliva a vampire bat |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | IRA GERSHWIN LYRICS $200: "A foggy day in" this place "had me low and had me down" London Town |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $1000: Oscar winner Miyoshi Umeki played housekeeper Mrs. Livingston on this 1969-1972 series The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | A IS FOR... $300: ABSCAM, which resulted in Michael Myers' expulsion from this body, the first since 1861 the House |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: Les Paul developed & popularized the solid-body type of this instrument in the 1940s the electric guitar |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | FORTS $500: This San Antonio fort named for a leader of the Texas Revolution supplied Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders Fort Sam Houston |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | "VO"CABULARY $300: It can be a calling to a religious career or to any specific occupation a vocation |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | MAGIC $300: No one is sure this trick from India was ever performed, but it is mentioned in ancient Eastern texts the Indian rope trick |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | MATH CLASS $200: It's the shortest distance between a pair of points on a flat surface a straight line |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | MAMMALS $400: Once thought extinct, this back-floating, abalone-eating mammal has made a comeback Pacific otter (sea otter) |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | INVENTORS $400: Typists owe a debt of thanks to Bette Nesmith, who invented this correction fluid Liquid Paper |
| #2596, aired 1995-12-11 | HISTORY $600: In May 1957 President Eisenhower met in Washington with this country's leader, Ngo Dinh Diem South Vietnam |
| #2596, aired 1995-12-11 | ANIMALS $1000: The baby lynx of North America is more commonly referred to by this name bobcat |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | ASTRONOMY $500: In 1987 astronomers got their best look at one of these exploding stars in almost 400 years a supernova |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | NEVADA $500 (Daily Double): The state capital was named for this man Christopher "Kit" Carson |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $1000: Daniel Webster contributed to this Whig president's lengthy March 4, 1841 inaugural address William Henry Harrison |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS $600: On Oct. 14, 1912 this former U.S. president was shot in Milwaukee Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | THE HUMAN BODY $600: About 13 feet long, the ileum is the longest section of this organ the small intestine |
| #2534, aired 1995-09-14 | PUZZLES & GAMES $100: The largest of these was over 50,000 square feet; a much smaller one had the most pieces, 204,484 a jigsaw puzzle (*picture puzzle) |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | SAINTS $500: Fellow novices nicknamed this saint born near Aquino, Italy "Dumb Ox" St. Thomas of Aquinas |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | ART CLASS $800: It's believed that Vermeer used this image-making device to help transfer images to canvas a camera obscura |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: "The Remains of the Day" author Kazuo Ishiguro was a grouse beater for this grandmother of Prince Charles the Queen Mother |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | THE OLD WEST $100: His brothers Virgil, Morgan & Warren were lawmen, too Wyatt Earp |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | FASHION $500: The Capezio Company was founded in 1887 to manufacture these dance items ballet shoes |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | POLITICAL TERMS $500: It's a measure added to a bill, not necessarily germane to the bill's purpose a rider |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | AWARDS $400: In 1971 this automaker's Vega was named Motor Trend's Domestic Car of the Year Chevrolet |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | GAMES $400: This highest poker hand is the sequence of 10 through ace in one suit a royal flush |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | NONFICTION $500: In her memoir "Leading With My Heart" she reminisced about life & raising sons Bill & Roger Virginia Clinton |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: The first of these institutions that store corneas for transplantation was established in NYC in 1944 eye bank |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | PLANTS & TREES $800: The coast species of this large tree ranges from California to Oregon's Chetco River redwood |
| #2465, aired 1995-04-28 | PATRON SAINTS $400: Let's raise a cup, an America's Cup, to St. Adjutor, patron saint of these sportsmen yachtsmen |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | ASTRONOMY $600: Just before it was a nebula, the Crab Nebula was one of these a supernova (or an exploding star) |
| #2437, aired 1995-03-21 | COOKING $600: It's how you cook croquettes deep fry them |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | LITERARY WOMEN $400: "The Steep Ascent", about a perilous flight, was the first novel by this wife of a famous aviator Anne Lindbergh |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | TV CHARACTERS $200: On Nov. 21, 1980 it was revealed that Kristin Shepard shot him J.R. Ewing |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | PLANTS & TREES $600: Hippocastanaceae is the family that contains these "equine" trees, including the buckeyes horse-chestnuts |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | HISTORY $400: In 1905 this czar issued the October Manifesto, creating Russia's first parliament Nicholas II |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The Ingalls family moves to Minnesota in her book "On the Banks of Plum Creek" Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #2384, aired 1995-01-05 | INVENTIONS $100: A new Sony VCR sets this device for you by using a signal broadcast to it by local PBS stations the clock |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | BIRDS $400: The largest of the passerines are these black birds ravens |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | CITRUS FRUITS $200: Varieties of this Mandarin fruit include the Clementine, Ponkan & Dancy a Mandarin orange |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | ETIQUETTE $400: Emily Post says a man may put his hand under this part of a woman only when helping her into a car or upstairs Elbow |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | ART $1000: His son Jamie is the day-dreaming boy with the coonskin hat in his 1952 watercolor "Faraway" Andrew Wyeth |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | HIGH SOCIETY $300: Athina Roussel, one of the world's richest children, is the only child of this late Greek shipping heiress Christina Onassis |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This sportscaster & brother of a morning TV personality covered the '94 Winter Olympics for CBS Greg Gumbel |
| #2308, aired 1994-09-21 | NATURE $300: Tahoe National Forest in California is the northernmost natural locale for these "giant" trees sequoias |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | CHEMISTRY $400: Chicle, a resin obtained from the Achras zapota tree, is used to manufacture this (chewing) gum (Chiclets accepted) |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | ANCIENT QUOTATIONS $500: Bartlett's quotes him as saying, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected" Julius Caesar |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $200: This configuration in Ursa Major is also known as the Plow the Big Dipper |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | RELIGION $600: While teaching Greek at Oxford, he led a serious religious club known as the Methodists John Wesley |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | THE 1950s $400: This physician was elected president of Haiti in 1957 Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: Jeweler's son whose vases & lampshades have been called "The Epitome of Art Nouveau" Louis Comfort Tiffany |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | AVIATION $1000: It wasn't until 1964 that Jerrie Mock became the first woman to do this; Wiley Post did it in 1933 circumnavigate the globe solo |
| #2268, aired 1994-06-15 | PRINCELY NICKNAMES $800: This brother of a presidential assassin was known as "The Prince of Players" Edwin Booth |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FEDERAL TAXES $800: For a single person, the basic one of these was $3,700 on 1993 returns a personal deduction |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME $300: Dick Button & Sonja Henie are among the notables honored at this sport's Colorado Springs Hall of Fame figure skating |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: Stanford's original art museum was severely damaged by this 1906 event the San Francisco earthquake |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | ANATOMY $300: The duodenum, jejunum & ileum are the 3 main sections of this the small intestine |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: This company's beers are "beechwood aged" Anheuser-Busch |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | ART $800: Art & Antiques magazine broke the story on this artist's secret cache of Helga paintings Andrew Wyeth |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | QUEEN VICTORIA $800: In August 1858 Queen Victoria & James Buchanan exchanged greetings via this new pathway the transoceanic cable |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: He was sworn into office 48 years to the day after his grandfather Benjamin Harrison |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: It's the mountain range for which John Muir set up a preservation organization the Sierra Nevada |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | LEFTOVERS $300: On June 27, 1950 the U.N. Security Council voted to protect this country's independence with troops South Korea |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | THE DINNER TABLE $400: Always used at very formal dinners, they're about 1 1/2" by 2 1/2" & use courtesy titles place cards |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $600: A Vietnam War exhibit is one of the highlights at his presidential library in Austin, Texas Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | NATURE $400: Named for a mythical creature, the basilisk is this type of animal a lizard |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | MOVIE MONSTERS $500: Larry Talbot was the real name of this monster The Wolf Man |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | RELIGION $1000: This church is headed by the "Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark" the Coptic Church |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | ON THE FARM $400: It's the 2-word term for applying pesticides by plane or helicopter crop dusting |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | 1961 $200: When the Navy decommissioned its fleet of these, they were deflated & packed away lighter-than-air ships (blimps) |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: This chess piece tells Alice, "The great art of riding is to keep--" & promptly falls over the White Knight |
| #2202, aired 1994-03-15 | FIRST LADIES $200: The inscription on this piece of jewelry that Abe Lincoln gave Mary Todd in 1842 says "Love is eternal" a wedding ring |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $400: A monument in Richmond, Va. honors this native son who danced with Shirley Temple in several films Bill "Bojangles" Robinson |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | GO FISH $200: This South American fish has been known to shock its prey with 600 volts an electric eel |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $1000: 1 of the 2 Russian emperors for whom Peter Carl Faberge made his jeweled Easter eggs Nicholas II (or Alexander III) |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | NATURE $500: In June 1993 there were only 73 of these vultures left in the U.S., all but 6 of them in captivity a California condor |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | THE MOVIES $100: In "Free Willy", Willy is this type of creature a killer whale |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | 19th CENTURY FASHION $400: A crinoline was used to stretch these garments to about 5 feet wide skirts (*a dress) |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: A derogatory song during his campaign said, "His grandfather's hat is too big for his head" Benjamin Harrison |
| #2176, aired 1994-02-07 | BUSINESS TALK $400: When investing in a mutual fund, you might consider the no-load type, which doesn't charge this startup fee (or commission) |
| #2172, aired 1994-02-01 | DRAMA $200: He played the title role in the 1917 play "Peter Ibbetson"; his brother Lionel was in it, too John Barrymore |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | WOMEN '93 $800: A South African court canceled her jail sentence, ordering her to pay a fine & compensation instead Winnie Mandela |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | NOTABLE NAMES $1000: His son Elliott wrote about his alleged romance with Missy LeHand in the 1973 book "An Untold Story" FDR |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | ANIMALS $100: More of these birds, symbols of the U.S., gather along Alaska's Chilkat River than anywhere else bald eagles |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | SCIENCE $400: The surfaces of this type of element can be anodized metal |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | STATE SEALS $500: On Ohio's seal, a sun rising over the mountains shows that it was the first state west of this range the Alleghenies |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | CORPORATE SYMBOLS $500: A stylized one of these fits around the Arby's name a cowboy hat |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | BANKING $200: Removing funds from an account before maturity; there's a substantial penalty for it early withdrawal |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | HISTORY $500: On March 3, 1905 this czar agreed to create a Russian national assembly, the Duma Nicholas II |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | JUST DESSERTS $400: Henri Charpentier is credited with inventing this fancy French pancake dish crêpes Suzette |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | THE MIDDLE AGES $600: This title by which the Mongol conqueror Temujin is known means "universal ruler" Genghis Khan |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | MODERN HISTORY $200: In February 1986 the Marcoses fled the Philippines & this dictator fled Haiti "Baby Doc" Duvalier |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | ASSASSINATIONS $800: Returning home after a 3-year self-exile, he was slain at Manila airport August 21, 1983 Benigno Aquino |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $300: He & his sister Jane were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for Writing & she for Acting Peter Fonda |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The Constitution provides for the selection of this Senate officer when the Vice President is absent the President Pro Tem |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | TV PROFESSIONS $500: Buddy Sorrell,
Sally Rogers &
Rob Petrie TV comedy writers |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $200: A 1983 revival of "You Can't Take It with You" reunited Eddie Albert with this glamorous "Green Acres" co-star Eva Gabor |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The storage of the government's gold & silver bullion is under the auspices of this agency the Bureau of the Mint |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | DEMOCRATS $200: Groomed for public office by his father, he became Chicago's mayor in 1989 Richard (M.) Daley |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | BY THE "BOOK" $400: Some men keep one of these "small" items containing the phone numbers & addresses of available women a little black book |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | SUPERSTITIONS $400: Many believe if you pluck 1 of these, 10 will grow in its place a gray hair |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | CLICHES $500: It's how you might describe a difficult problem, person or pistachio a hard nut to crack |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS $200: It was founded in 1866 in N.Y., where its agents can carry guns & arrest an owner for mistreatment the American SPCA |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: In voting announced Jan. 7, 1992, pitchers Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers were elected to this body the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | TRANSPORTATION $300: WWII bombings destroyed the German factories that made these airships & building was never resumed zeppelins |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | MUSIC $200: He wrote "Rhapsody In Blue" for jazz conductor Paul Whiteman's orchestra George Gershwin |
| #1980, aired 1993-03-26 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $300: Save old ones of these; the bristles are good for cleaning jewelry & window corners toothbrushes |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $400: Thomas Gore, "The Blind Savant", was the first sightless member of this body, where he represented Okla. the Senate |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | COMING OF AGE $400: She was only 20 when she published her famous tale "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $400: During WWI this French scientist was rushed to the front lines to X-ray wounded soldiers Marie Curie |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | FLOWERS & TREES $400: Fir trees belong to this tree family; don't let it "needle" you pine tree |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Adolf Berle & Raymond Moley were members of this president's "Brain Trust" Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) |
| #1932, aired 1993-01-19 | THE EARTH $500: Triggered by earthquakes, these destructive sea waves have been known to travel at nearly 500 mph tsunami |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | CANDLES $100: Made by insects, it's the tallowlike substance used to make candles beeswax |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1989, 32 years after his 1st Pulitzer Prize, Richard Wilbur won a 2nd for this category poetry |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $600: Churchill served in this body for over 60 years, ending in 1964 the House of Commons |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: His first wife, Alice, died in 1884, 2 days after giving birth to their daughter Alice Theodore Roosevelt |
| #1915, aired 1992-12-25 | TREES $300: Often found on sloping island beaches, they have the largest seeds of any tree a coconut palm |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1876 he helped found the American Library Association & came up with a decimal system Melvil Dewey |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | THE VIRGIN MARY $600: At the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D., the Bishops gave Mary this maternal title Mother of God |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | PEOPLE & PLACES $600: Reaching this site in 1912, Robert Scott wrote, "Great God! This is an awful place" the South Pole |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | FULL HOUSE $300: Lori Loughlin's character did this November 12, 1991, making the house a lot fuller had twins |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | DRAMA $200: A play called "The Man Who Shot Lincoln" is told from the viewpoint of this man's brother Edwin John Wilkes Booth |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | AWARDS $600: In 1990 this Labor Secretary was among the women to receive a Frontrunner Award from the Sara Lee Corp. Elizabeth Dole |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | FURNITURE $200: In the 18th cen. these furniture extremities were often carved to look like a rat's claw holding a ball feet (foot) |
| #1894, aired 1992-11-26 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This president helped design his 3-story Victorian mansion called Sagamore Hill Theodore Roosevelt |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | MUSICAL TERMS $400: In keyboard music, the direction "mano sinistra" refers to this body part the left hand |
| #1860, aired 1992-10-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1907, this president sent Secret Service agents west to investigate government land fraud Teddy Roosevelt |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | USA $200: This 36th president's boyhood home is in a national historical park in Blanco County, Texas Lyndon Johnson |
| #1841, aired 1992-09-14 | COMMON BONDS $100: Clumber,
English Springer,
Welsh Springer spaniels |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | PRESIDENTIAL MOMS $300: Abigail Smith John Quincy Adams |
| #1835, aired 1992-07-17 | 1956 $400: This British statesman's son Randolph was a losing contestant on "The $64,000 Question" Winston Churchill |
| #1806, aired 1992-06-08 | RULERS $200: Russian empress from 1762 to 1796, she never learned to speak the language properly Catherine the Great |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | PEOPLE $300: Dictionary Day, October 16, is celebrated, appropriately, on the birthday of this man Noah Webster |
| #1772, aired 1992-04-21 | ANIMALS $600: It's the common name for hares of the genus Lepus jack rabbits |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | TEXTILES $200: This type of wool comes from the first shearing of sheep less than 8 months old lamb's wool |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | THE 1980s $200: To warn parents that a film may be unsuitable for pre-teens, the movie industry created this rating in 1984 PG-13 |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: This French emperor approached the British & offered to help negotiate an early end to the Civil War Napoleon III |
| #1746, aired 1992-03-16 | PITTSBURGH $600: He was prime minister of Britain when troops built a fort on the city's site in the 1750s (William) Pitt the Elder |
| #1742, aired 1992-03-10 | WORLD HISTORY $400: This daughter of Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon became queen of England in 1553 Queen Mary I |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | THE LOW COUNTRIES $1000: The monarch of Luxembourg is not a king but one of these a grand duke |
| #1739, aired 1992-03-05 | MISC. $800: It's an alloy of iron, carbon & over 4% chromium that's resistant to corrosion stainless steel |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: After almost six years in exile, she returned to the Philippines in November 1991 Imelda Marcos |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: Bruskin/Goldring says the average American gets 14 pieces of this a week & reads 54% of it junk mail |
| #1733, aired 1992-02-26 | DOGS $300: Tho called "old", this shaggy-haired British herding breed developed only about 150 years ago the English sheepdog |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | COINS $200: In 1946 his portrait was first placed on the U.S. dime Franklin Roosevelt |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | RECENT HISTORY $300: Son & grandson of Indian prime ministers, he was assassinated by a bomb in May 1991 Rajiv Gandhi |
| #1722, aired 1992-02-11 | ISLANDS $800: In 1973 NYC's Welfare Island was renamed for this president Franklin Roosevelt |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $500: One of two specific crimes mentioned in the Constitution for which the Pres. or VP can be impeached treason (or bribery) |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | NURSERY RHYMES $100: They're made of "sugar and spice, and everything nice" little girls |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | COMMON BONDS $400: Tour en l'air,
Tour jete,
Pirouette ballet turns |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Even though he was "President for Life", he was forced to flee Haiti in 1986 "Baby Doc" Duvalier |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | ABBREVIATIONS $100: Type of professional abbreviated RN a registered nurse |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1000: By the 1770s this British firm had a monopoly on the sale of tea in America the British East India Company |
| #1686, aired 1991-12-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: This Indian prime minister's first name meant "red jewel", not "stylish jacket" (Jawaharlal) Nehru |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | COLLEGE DEGREES $400: Captains of industry know than an M.B.A. is this Master of Business Administration |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | NAME'S THE SAME $600: A 16th century, Italian-born explorer & navigator, or Mr. French on TV's "Family Affair" Sebastian Cabot |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | ACTRESSES $600: You could say that playing Norma Jennings on "Twin Peaks" was this ex-"Mod Squad"der's cup of tea Peggy Lipton |
| #1676, aired 1991-12-09 | NATIONAL PARKS $2,300 (Daily Double): This park in Oregon is located within the caldera of Mount Mazama Crater Lake |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | GENERAL SCIENCE $500: Colles' fracture, common in people who fall forward, is a break of this arm bone radius |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | U.S. HISTORY $800: It's estimated on May 11, 1934 the Great Plains lost 300 million tons of this topsoil |
| #1664, aired 1991-11-21 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $100: When accepting a present, "don't look" one of these equines "in the mouth" a gift horse |
| #1664, aired 1991-11-21 | THE HUMAN BODY $100: You have 2 of these passages & each one has an olfactory bulb at the top nasal passages |
| #1664, aired 1991-11-21 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Insincere people or big reptiles might feign sadness by shedding these crocodile tears |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | SCIENCE $300: You can use this compound. H2O2, as a disinfectant or to bleach your hair hydrogen peroxide |
| #1662, aired 1991-11-19 | FAMOUS QUOTES $300: The old saying "There is no new thing under the sun" goes back to this book the Old Testament (Ecclesiastes) |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | DESPOTS & DICTATORS $1000: She had her son Charles IX kill thousands of Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day Catherine de Medici |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $1000: If an amoeba wanted to trip a passing protozoan, it would stick this out a pseudopod (the false foot) |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $400: It took 21 years following his 1793 execution for a Bourbon to rule France again Louis XVI |
| #1639, aired 1991-10-17 | BROADWAY LYRICS $100: This “stays mainly in the plain!” the rain in Spain |
| #1639, aired 1991-10-17 | GETTING MARRIED $500: According to tradition, the man who catches the bride’s garter gets to place it on this person’s leg the woman who catches the bouquet |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | PHYSICS $800: When certain substances are cooled near absolute zero and lose electrical resistance, they become
these superconductors |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | THE 1920s $200: '20s idol born R. Alfonzo Raffaeli Pierre Filibert di Valentina d'Antonguolla or something like that Rudolph Valentino |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | BUTTER $400: Butter curls should be dropped in this to set their shape cold water |
| #1625, aired 1991-09-27 | "LAND" $400: In a photo finish, this inventor or the instant camera died in 1991 Edwin Land |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $400: The 23rd Amendment to the Constitution gave residents of Washington, D.C. the right to do this vote for president |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | LABOR UNIONS $1,299 (Daily Double): This union's TV commercials ask you to "Look for the Union Label" the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union |
| #1601, aired 1991-07-15 | BALLET $800: This niece of a film director choreographed "3 Virgins & a Devil" & played the priggish one herself Agnes de Mille |
| #1601, aired 1991-07-15 | BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): At the end of the ballet "Orpheus", this musical instrument rises from Orpheus' grave a lyre |
| #1600, aired 1991-07-12 | FOOD $200: The Westphalian type of this meat is smoked over beechwood & juniper ham |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | POTENT POTABLES $400: In the name of a gin cocktail, this ordinal number precedes "heaven" 7th |
