#9068, aired 2024-03-27 | DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY $5,000 (Daily Double): On December 2, 1859 he rode to the gallows on his coffin & remarked, "This is a beautiful country" John Brown |
#9067, aired 2024-03-26 | WORLD STAR $1600: Italian actor Roberto Benigni won a Best Actor Oscar in 1999 for this film about the Holocaust Life Is Beautiful |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $1200: This title Daryl Hannah character says to Steve, "You have a big nose! You have a beautiful, great, big, flesh-&-bone nose!" Roxanne |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $400: Beautiful spy Tatiana Romanova is the perfect bait for this man in "From Russia with Love" James Bond |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: He was just a shepherd when he was asked to judge which of 3 goddesses was the most beautiful Paris |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | HOMES $2000: In 1879 Jefferson Davis paid $5,500 for this Biloxi home whose name suggests its "beautiful view" Beauvoir |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AT THE TINY DESK CONCERT $400: This woman + The Machine performed "Ship To Wreck" from their album "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" Florence |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $400: In 2013, this entrepreneur bought "The Washington Post" (Jeff) Bezos |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $800: She captioned a 2022 Instagram post, "Happy Bald is Beautiful Day to all my brothers & sisters with no hair" Jada Pinkett Smith |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1200: This St. Louis Cardinals great slugged his 700th home run in 2022, his last season in Major League Baseball Albert Pujols |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1600: To date, he's played newsman J. Jonah Jameson in five live-action "Spider-Man" movies J.K. Simmons |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $2000: This political strategist's first success was helping Bob Casey get elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1986 Carville |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | JUKEBOX MUSICALS $2000: "A Beautiful Noise":
this icon Neil Diamond |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | TRAIN STATIONS $1500: Nicknamed the railway cathedral, this country's Antwerpen-Centraal is often called the world's most beautiful station Belgium |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $1500: 2001:
John Nash hallucinates A Beautiful Mind |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $200: Howard Carter wrote, "The throne" of this king "was the most beautiful thing that has yet been found in Egypt" Tutankhamun |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: Also known as Catamitus, he was a beautiful boy carried away by an eagle for purposes uncertain Ganymede |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $400: Take in the beautiful blue agave fields near this town in Jalisco that gave its name to a potent potable Tequila |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | HOBBIES $200: Scripts to master in this art of beautiful handwriting include copperplate & Spencerian calligraphy |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | SCIENCE & NATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): This plant whose Italian name means "beautiful woman" produces beautiful but poisonous berries belladonna |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $200: This song mentions "purple mountain majesties" "America The Beautiful" |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | "SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES $200: To the tune of his hit song "You're Beautiful", James Blunt croons about this three-sided shape a triangle |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $400: "A vain leader is swindled by con men who claim to make beautiful garments that are invisible to the unwise or incompetent" "The Emperor's New Clothes" |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | KAUAI $2000: In the movie version of "South Pacific", Kauai's beautiful North Shore was used as this exotic isle Bali Hai |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | A FISH CALLED... $800: This beautiful rasbora that shares its name with a romance book brand is sure to be the talk of the tank harlequin |
#8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $1600: As a producer, he was smart enough to hire himself to direct "A Beautiful Mind"; imagine that! Ron Howard |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $600: It's the former boy band of Harry Styles
_ _ E / _ I _ E _ _ I O _ One Direction |
#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GARDENS $2000: A National Historic Site of Canada, these gardens on Vancouver Island include the beautiful Sunken Garden seen here the Butchart Gardens |
#8928, aired 2023-09-13 | PUEBLOS MÁGICOS $1200: The beautiful town of Cholula lies near the foot of Popocatépetl, not just a mountain but one of these a volcano |
#8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $600: Buchanan, in this state, is a beautiful storybook town per Matthew Ramsay of the band Old Dominion who grew up there Virginia |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $800: "The Knight of Maison-Rouge" is a long-forgotten Dumas adventure about this beautiful & tragic queen Marie Antoinette |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $200: She was a beautiful mortal, but after making Athena angry, which you should definitely never do, this Gorgon got a reptile hairdo Medusa |
#8898, aired 2023-06-21 | NEVADA $800: In the 1840s John Fremont & his men explored Nevada & marveled at the beautiful sight of this lake on the California border Lake Tahoe |
#8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIOPICS $800: Game theory mathematician John Nash was the subject of this biopic A Beautiful Mind |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CAT BREEDS $1,356 (Daily Double): This place associated with a tiger subspecies is also the name of a beautiful cat breed Bengal |
#8876, aired 2023-05-22 | VACATION SPOTS $1600: Let's visit the historic temples & beautiful beaches of Kuta & Jimbaran on this Indonesian island Bali |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: This 15-letter adjective simply means beautiful pulchritudinous |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | FUTILITY $4,000 (Daily Double): The scene of heavy fighting & futility in World War I, this peninsula bears a name that comes from the Greek for "beautiful city" Gallipoli |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $800: This mathematician who was the subject of the movie "A Beautiful Mind" was intrigued by the number 23 & died on that day in May 2015 (John) Nash |
#8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TEXAS STATE SYMBOLS $1000: The legislature called this alliterative cactus "rugged & beautiful" in naming it the state plant the prickly pear |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $400: 1942:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | A.K.A. $1000: Deadly nightshade sounds sorta scary, but it's also known as this, meaning beautiful woman, which sounds rather charming belladonna |
#8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $400: The beautiful Orion Nebula is an H II region, a vast cloud of ionized this elemental gas hydrogen |
#8807, aired 2023-02-14 | TV SHOW TITLES IN SPANISH $800: "Belleza y poder", or "Beauty & Power", was what became of this fashion-set daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful |
#8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $400: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans", sang John Lennon in a song to this person he loved Sean Lennon |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $1200: Johann Strauss II wrote a famous waltz about this "Beautiful Blue" river that flows through Europe the Danube |
#8798, aired 2023-02-01 | MOUNTAINS $1600: Beautiful Kirkjufell, or Church Mountain, is said to be the most photographed mountain in this country Iceland |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | MUSHROOM STEW $1200: White button, cremini, & this beautiful harbor mushroom are all the same variety, just at different stages of life a portobello |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | YOU WEAR ME OUT $800: Seen here is this beautiful garment of the Middle East & North Africa kaftan |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $600: When singing "America The Beautiful", you end with these 5 words from sea to shining sea |
#8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THE BOTTOM 10 $1200: We'll be blunt; James Blunt topped the chart in 2006 with this "gorgeous" song but "High" only went as high as 100 that year "You're Beautiful" |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: You can sleep in one of the pods overlooking Peru's Sacred Valley of this historic people, not far from Cusco the Inca |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: Paradoxically, this cataract in Venezuela drops 3,200 feet from a plateau called Devils Mountain Angel Falls |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1200: Light & water conditions cause amazing effects on Colombia's Caño Cristales River, called the "liquid" this 7-letter word rainbow |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1600: A volcano rising nearly 20,000 feet & with a nearly symmetrical cone, Cotopaxi is just outside this capital of Ecuador Quito |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $2000: Check out the gorgeous Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, the largest park in this nation & home to nearly 50 glaciers Chile |
#8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $800: Think about
Russell Crowe &
Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind |
#8749, aired 2022-11-24 | NEAR THE FRONT OF THE DICTIONARY $1000: Genus Haliotis, it's an edible marine mollusk with a beautiful shell abalone |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $200: Initiated by the founder of the Joseon Dynasty, here is the beautiful Gyeongbokgung Palace in this nation South Korea |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $400: Declared a saint in 2016; her motto:
"Let us do something beautiful for God" Mother Teresa |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $100: On Aug. 8, 2022 FBI agents executed a search warrant here, which Donald Trump calls "my beautiful home" Mar-a-Lago |
#8714, aired 2022-10-06 | PRETTY CRAFTY $200: Here are the tools used to produce this beautiful writing calligraphy |
#8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo |
#8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE BEATLE'S NON-BEATLES SONG $800: Ringo:
& by the way, "you're beautiful & you're mine" "You're Sixteen" |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS $2000: Used to dilate the pupils, atropine is commonly derived from this plant whose name means "beautiful lady" belladonna |
#8661, aired 2022-06-13 | HUNGARY $800: The beautiful Tokaj region in the northeast is world famous for its production of this, like Tokaji Aszu wine |
#8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ON THE COAST $200: The beautiful people know the Côte D'Azur is also called the French this Riviera |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $1000: One of the most famous works of this Venetian master is simply known as "La Bella", "The Beautiful Woman" Titian |
#8650, aired 2022-05-27 | EUROPE $400: It's a beautiful day for a ball game; let's play one at Lord's Cricket Ground in this city London |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $400: The tradition of Black women wearing beautiful, decorated these to church is partly rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:5 a hat |
#8593, aired 2022-03-09 | SO THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE $2000: This mathematician, a 1994 Nobel Prize winner in economics, became the world's most famous game theorist John Nash |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ESPERANTO FILM FESTIVAL $1200: "Bela Menso" A Beautiful Mind |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $600: Perhaps you'll visit beautiful Dubrovnik, "the pearl of" this sea the Adriatic Sea |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $400: Think back, & remember a time when Don Draper made a beautiful & poignant pitch about Kodak's Carousel on this drama Mad Men |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | RIVER CITY $800: The Ponte Vecchio crosses the Arno in this beautiful Italian city Florence |
#1, aired 2022-02-08 | SOCIAL MEDIA STARS $1600: This singer of "Scars To Your Beautiful" was discovered via her YouTube channel after she began posting videos at 13 Alessia Cara |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT WAS ALL PURPLE $200: Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties" in what became this song "America The Beautiful" |
#8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 5 RANDOM THINGS $400: Holy biloba! Here's a beautiful example of this tree at a Buddhist temple said to be planted by a Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty a ginkgo |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | DEEP CUTS $400: Would you spin your chair for this country star's "You'll Always Be Beautiful", off the "Hillbilly Bone" EP? Blake Shelton |
#8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $800: The lady's slipper & the dancing lady are species of these beautiful flowers that grow wild all over the world, not just in hothouses orchids |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | JOY TO THE WORLD $600: The Grand Canal sets a beautiful backdrop for Carnival revelers in this city Venice |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | FAMOUS PROFESSORS $1600: Math professor John Nash, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, was the subject of this Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind |
#8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WE'VE GOT THAT BAND'S NUMBER $400: Megan Thee Stallion is featured on "Beautiful Mistakes" by this group; the video shows her & Adam Levine flying a car over Los Angeles Maroon 5 |
#8516, aired 2021-11-22 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Michelle Moran wrote of this beautiful woman, "Queen of Egypt, Daughter of eternity" Nefertiti |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | LOOK AT THAT MOUNTAIN! $600: Though it's far from the tallest, 22,350-foot tall Ama Dablam is often called the most beautiful peak in this range the Himalayas |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | TV SHOW OPENING CREDITS $1000: Beautiful people frolic around L.A.; Heather Locklear is somehow a "Special Guest Star" for 6 1/2 of 7 seasons Melrose Place |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | "D" NATURE OF THINGS $1000: Here's this showy flower in a beautiful plum color a dahlia |
#8493, aired 2021-10-20 | MYTHOLOGY $800: As both were beautiful & unfaithful, Helen of Troy is often compared to this wife of King Arthur Guinevere |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $400: The Italian phrase "che" this feminine name means "how beautiful!" Bella |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $800: Change the 2 middle letters of "Carrie" to get this name from the Greek for "beautiful" Callie |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $1200: It's a first name & a synonym for "beautiful" often heard before "Scotland" Bonnie |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $1600: This last name of the actor seen here is a Spanish word for “beautiful” Delroy Lindo |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $2000: Checking multiple cultural boxes, this name signifying beauty in Japanese also belonged to a Muslim mystic poet Rumi |
#8473, aired 2021-09-22 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Between the Franco-Prussian War & WWI France went through a period of peace & prosperity called this, French for "beautiful era" La Belle Époque |
#8443, aired 2021-07-14 | SUPER GENIUS $1000: " Non-Cooperative Games", the doctoral thesis from his beautiful mind, made the "Annals of Mathematics" in 1951 (John) Nash |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $400: As a noun, it's a monetary penalty paid to a court; as an adjective, it describes a pleasing look fine |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $400: Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write the words to this patriotic anthem after climbing Pikes Peak "America The Beautiful" |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $800: Attractive, like Roy Orbison's "Woman" pretty |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $1200: It's the "D" word often found preceding "tones" regarding a melodious voice dulcet |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $1600: Tall & shapely, resembling a marble artwork statuesque |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $2000: This Spanish word for really beautiful can end in -mo or -ma; the Italian word sounds the same bellisima |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | ARIA GRANDE $5 (Daily Double): Susanna sings the beautiful aria "Deh vieni, non tardar" in this Mozart opera that promises nuptials The Marriage of Figaro |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: This optical device that uses mirrors & colored glass gets its name partly from the Greek for "beautiful" kaleidoscope |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: To visit beautiful Moorea in French Polynesia from the U.S., you'll likely first fly to this larger sister island about 10 miles away Tahiti |
#8396, aired 2021-05-10 | I'VE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP $2000: Hike to Bow Summit to see beautiful Bow Lake in this Canadian national park Banff |
#8389, aired 2021-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TOP 10s $1000: This mountain chain that extends some 1,500 miles from Morocco to Tunisia is the world's 7th longest the Atlas Mountains |
#8384, aired 2021-04-22 | MYTHOLOGICAL IDIOMS $2,500 (Daily Double): Meaning a very beautiful woman, this idiom refers to the fleet that went to war after Helen's abduction a face that launched a thousand ships |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $400: This word for something impartial is also used in storybooks to describe a beautiful princess fair |
#8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $1600: This member of the Greyhound family seen here is one of the oldest dog breeds saluki |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $800: When this song written by an alumna is sung at Wellesley, it goes "and crown thy good with sisterhood" "America The Beautiful" |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | LET'S GO SNORKELING $1000: Maybe we'll see the beautiful Zanclus cornutus, more commonly known as the Moorish this the Moorish idol |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: There's quite a scene in New York Harbor as a reproduction of this Pilgrim ship arrives after a voyage across the Atlantic the Mayflower |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: The American Falls are the second largest of the three that make up this natural wonder located in America's oldest state park Niagara Falls |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: Workers had to climb 700 stairs to the top & then be lowered by cables to work on this massive monument Mount Rushmore |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: An estimated 11,000 elk share their winter habitat with a group of bison at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson in this state Wyoming |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: Fittingly, Cueva Ventana in Puerto Rico, with a spectacular view of the valley below, literally means "cave" this window |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $3,500 (Daily Double): His work on game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize, which he shared with John C. Harsanyi & Reinhard Selten John Nash |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $2000: In a ballet, this beautiful princess loved by Prince Siegfried is transformed into a swan by the sorcerer Rothbart Odette |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | ADVERBS $800: When it means "beautiful", as before "woman", it's an adjective; when it comes before "good", it's an adverb pretty |
#8300, aired 2020-12-11 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $200: Her motto was "Let us do something beautiful for God" Mother Teresa |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1000: Immortalized in a bust, this ancient queen has a name meaning "a beautiful woman has come" Nefertiti |
#8278, aired 2020-11-11 | 21st CENTURY BROADWAY $1200: Jessie Mueller took piano lessons to play this singer-songwriter in "Beautiful" Carole King |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH $2,700 (Daily Double): The opening words to "America The Beautiful" were inspired by the view from this peak in the Rockies Pikes Peak |
#8264, aired 2020-10-22 | THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY $1000: Create beautiful landscapes using techniques taught by this late PBS host in his "Joy of Painting" videos Bob Ross |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | GOING ON VACATION $800: Chile has a beautiful "district" of mountains & water that shares its name with this similar one in north England the Lake District |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS $2000: Today we learned about this alliterative rock noted for its beautiful color lapis lazuli |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS $800: "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"' Oklahoma! |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! $400: After descending the ladder of the lunar module, this second man to walk on the Moon stated the obvious: "Beautiful view!" Buzz Aldrin |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME? $400: Get your nib, a straight pen & some black ink & dive into this, from the Greek for "beautiful writing" calligraphy |
#8177, aired 2020-03-10 | POET-POURRI $2,400 (Daily Double): Katharine Lee Bates' book containing this patriotic song used similar language about Mont Blanc: "O beautiful beyond all dream" "America The Beautiful" |
#8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): A holiday classic where an angel gets his wings & Roberto Benigni gets an Oscar It's a Wonderful Life Is Beautiful |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | JUST A SAMPLE $2000: Oh darlin', darlin'--Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" sampled some of this Ben E. King classic "Stand By Me" |
#8146, aired 2020-01-27 | NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES $400: No lie: "The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet" Pinocchio |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | PARK CITY $800: This South Dakota city and its beautiful Falls Park are both named for the same landmark Sioux Falls |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | "P"ICTURE THIS $1000: This colorful word can be applied to both the beautiful bloom & the edible gastropod seen here periwinkle |
#8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: New Zealand-born Russell Crowe received 3 straight Best Actor nominations, winning in 2001 for this film Gladiator |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1960s alliterative slogan has roots in an 1858 speech that mentioned "rich color" & "full broad features" "Black is beautiful" |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS $800: This Polish-born piano man called his E Major Etude his most beautiful melody Chopin |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, Austria.) With beautiful landscaping, fountains, and statues, Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg was created in the 1600s but first opened to the public in 1854 by this longtime emperor of Austria Franz Joseph |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | "EL" OR "LA" $2000: The name of this Keats poem means "the beautiful lady without pity" “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | BIOPICS $200: In "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood", beloved children's TV show host Mister Rogers is played by this beloved actor Tom Hanks |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | STAMPS $400: 5 phrases from this song are represented on a set of stamps; one shows a double rainbow over Kansas for "spacious skies" "America the Beautiful" |
#8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS? $1000: A famous estate: 1 Lodge Street, Asheville, North Carolina the Biltmore house |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $800: The Portuguese name for this island was Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Island" Taiwan |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LEFT ON THE BOARD $2000: The subject of "A Beautiful Mind", in 2015 he won the Abel Prize for his work on partial differential equations (John) Nash |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | GRAPHIC $2000: A golden age of poster art was in 1890s France, the era called this, French for "beautiful age" the Belle Epoque |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $1200: Ankhesenamun, one of the daughters of King Akhenaten & this beautiful queen, married King Tut Nefertiti |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | FINISH THE CLASSIC AMERICAN LYRIC $400: "O beautiful for spacious skies..." for amber waves of grain |
#8020, aired 2019-06-21 | POP MUSIC $600: "I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It" was a No. 1 Album for this "Yearly" band The 1975 |
#8006, aired 2019-06-03 | JUKEBOX MUSICALS $600: "Beautiful":
This singer-songwriter Carole King |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | ON THE BEACH $600: There's a Barbie doll based on this 1990s TV show about beautiful & fit lifeguards on L.A. County beaches Baywatch |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | QUEEN VICTORIA $1200: After attending this Shakespeare comedy, the queen mentioned "Mendelssohn's beautiful overture" in her diary A Midsummer Night's Dream |
#7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $400: A real Wilde read:
"The Picture of" this beautiful young man Dorian Gray |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $1200: This country's beautiful island of Santorini gets its name from the martyr Saint Irene Greece |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | EVERY ANIMAL HAS ITS DAY $400: These pups are beautiful every day, but that fact is officially celebrated April 21 a bulldog |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | CHINESE $400: This art of beautiful writing has long been revered in China as a supreme visual art form calligraphy |
#7958, aired 2019-03-27 | ALLONS-Y $400: Let's go to this palace & see the beautiful gardens there Versailles |
#7958, aired 2019-03-27 | ALLONS-Y $1600: The duchy of a historic Eleanor, this beautiful region of southwest France added "Nouvelle" to its name in 2016 Aquitaine |
#7941, aired 2019-03-04 | MEANINGS OF CELEBRITY NAMES $200: This "You Oughta Know" singer has an Irish first name meaning "beautiful"; also, her dad is Alan Alanis Morissette |
#7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $200: "Life is Beautiful" & "8 1/2" are 2 of the record 14 films from this country to win Best Foreign Language Film Italy |
#7930, aired 2019-02-15 | IT WAS SO FUNNY $800: On this HBO show Jemaine & Bret sing, "I can tell that you are the most beautiful girl in the room (in the whole wide room)" Flight of the Conchords |
#7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: The richest man on Earth travels through space with a beautiful woman at his side in Kurt Vonnegut's these "of Titan" sirens |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | ITALIAN ON VACATION $1000: There's no shortage of chiese, these--they're beautiful, rich in art & cool in the summer churches |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: The word beautiful sometimes appears in the title of this waltz, an unofficial anthem of Austria "The Blue Danube" |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10.) Beautiful people, unique buildings, warm water & white sand epitomize this world-famous Florida neighborhood with a directional name South Beach |
#7862, aired 2018-11-13 | SUMMER CAMP $200: The 1876 brochure for the 1st private U.S. summer camp said it overlooked a beautiful one of these for swimming & rowing a lake |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ETYMOLOGY $400: Pavilion comes from the Latin for this beautiful insect a butterfly |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $800: Max Ehrmann's much-reprinted "Desiderata" says, "With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still" this kind of world a beautiful world |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | FIRST LADIES $200: Before she passed away in 2018, she told son Jeb she believed she was going to a "beautiful place" Barbara Bush |
#7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $2000: His second novel, "The Beautiful and Damned", was published in 1922 & deals with a rich & glamorous couple Fitzgerald |
#7815, aired 2018-07-27 | TRAVEL HAWAII $800: In 2013 the beautiful Kilauea Point Lighthouse on the north end of Kauai was renamed to honor this late senator (Daniel) Inouye |
#7789, aired 2018-06-21 | BEAUTIFUL HAITI $400: Highlights of this Haitian capital include its picturesque Iron Market Port-au-Prince |
#7789, aired 2018-06-21 | BEAUTIFUL HAITI $800: Revelers wear colorful outfits to celebrate this Caribbean festival that leads up to Mardi Gras Carnival |
#7789, aired 2018-06-21 | BEAUTIFUL HAITI $1200: In 1982 UNESCO designated the Citadelle Laferrière as one of these historic sites a World Heritage Site |
#7789, aired 2018-06-21 | BEAUTIFUL HAITI $1600: The beaches of Île-à-Vache may have been enjoyed by this pirate who was knighted in 1674 & used the isle as a staging area Sir Henry Morgan |
#7789, aired 2018-06-21 | BEAUTIFUL HAITI $2000: Haiti's native flowers include several species of this sweet-scented tropical beauty plumeria |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC $2000: Pablo Casals compared this instrument to "a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time" the cello |
#7748, aired 2018-04-25 | CROSSOVER TV $200: Aaron Spelling produced both shows, so of course this beautiful title trio of P.I.s boarded "The Love Boat" Charlie's Angels |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $400: It's not just a (game) theory--he played mathematician John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" Russell Crowe |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $1600: This Tom Robbins novel features the beautiful Sissy Hankshaw, a hitchhiker with big dreams & big thumbs Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
#7715, aired 2018-03-09 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $1600: The Canadian PM can be found at 24 Sussex Drive, which has a beautiful view of this river Ottawa |
#7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The cruise line whose ships include the Rotterdam manages to sail to "purple mountain majesties" Holland "America The Beautiful" |
#7704, aired 2018-02-22 | LAUGH-IN AT 50 $600: Announcer Gary Owens declared that each episode was shot in "beautiful downtown" this So-Cal city Burbank |
#7700, aired 2018-02-16 | ART & RELIGION $800: This art of beautiful handwriting is seen in the Book of Kells as well as much Islamic art calligraphy |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | "X" = Z $400: Wooden hammers hit wooden bars to make beautiful music on this a xylophone |
#7681, aired 2018-01-22 | MYOPIC BIOPICS $600: Contradicting this film's depictions of him, John Nash insisted he never had visual hallucinations A Beautiful Mind |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | WHOSE ALBUM? $600: Her "Beautiful Trauma" recently debuted at No. 1 Pink |
#7656, aired 2017-12-18 | THE PERKS OF BEING A WILDFLOWER $800: The perks of being a wildflower: just being so beautiful, like a field of California these California poppies |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR $800: At the Grammys in 2014, Sara Bareilles sang this song of hers with Carole King; the pair also sang King's "Beautiful" "Brave" |
#7646, aired 2017-12-04 | DISNEY PRINCESS NAMES $200: French for "beautiful" Belle |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CHEESY NAME ORIGINS $800: A soft, creamy cheese:
Italian for "beautiful country" Bel Paese |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | SCIENCE FICTION $1600: In "A Princess of Mars", this fictional Civil War vet is transported to Mars & meets the beautiful Dejah Thoris John Carter |
#7620, aired 2017-10-27 | BOTANY $1600: This plant whose name comes from Italian for "beautiful lady" is a source of the drug atropine belladonna |
#7618, aired 2017-10-25 | NEEDLES $1600: Though beautiful, the Norway type of this evergreen isn't the best Christmas tree because of poor needle retention a spruce |
#7618, aired 2017-10-25 | RADIO $2000: This last name of singer James can mean a marijuana cigarette & his "You're Beautiful" got a radio edit for a drug lyric Blunt |
#7581, aired 2017-07-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $800: "Beautiful", a bio of this songwriter, features her hits "You've Got A Friend" & "Natural Woman" Carole King |
#7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ITALIAN COMPOSERS $3,600 (Daily Double): Vincenzo Bellini was one of the main proponents of this operatic style whose name means "beautiful singing" bel canto |
#7570, aired 2017-07-07 | CURLY $1000: This "Easy Breezy Beautiful" cosmetics brand makes an eyelash curler to go along with its mascara CoverGirl |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | THE RED, WHITE & BLUE $400: There's no Norwegian blue, but the blue hyacinth species of this type of parrot does have beautiful plumage a macaw |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $200: (Alley Mills and Dick Christie give the clue as Pamela and Charlie from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"You go ahead, Charlie, I'll be home in a few hours."
"Pammy, do I need to steal you away like this beautiful Grecian woman abducted by Paris around 1100 B.C." Helen of Troy |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (Karla Mosley and Jacob Young give the clue as Maya and Rick from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"Rick, if you keep obsessing about taking over the company, you're gonna make yourself sick."
"No, Maya, it's time to strike like this bold U.S. commander during the Korean War who cut off & surrounded the enemy with his brilliant Inchon landing" (Douglas) MacArthur |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $600: Last name of Floria, the bold & beautiful title diva in an opera by Puccini Tosca |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $800: (Katherine Kelly Lang and Don Diamont give the clue as Brooke and Bill from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Bill, you've got to concentrate & do the right thing."
"You expect me to concentrate, when you walk in the room like this Greek goddess of love walking ashore from the sea in all your radiant glory" Aphrodite |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
#7533, aired 2017-05-17 | THE MAP OF CANADA $200: Ontario's Wasaga Beach is the world's longest freshwater beach, 9 miles along Georgian Bay, an arm of this lake Huron |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | ONCE UPON A TIME $200: Bullied as a youngster over his looks, he grew up to be a beautiful swan the Ugly Duckling |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Poet Katharine Lee Bates used her amber waves of brain to pen the lyrics to this patriotic song "America The Beautiful" |
#7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $2000: A high adventure set in the desert, this "beautiful" 1939 film starred Gary Cooper as a French Foreign Legionnaire Beau Geste |
#7509, aired 2017-04-13 | "B" MY LOVE $400: You'll look great in the T-shirt bearing this "Twilight" character's image; fittingly, her name means "beautiful" Bella |
#7509, aired 2017-04-13 | LITERARY QUOTES $600: In a Hans Christian Andersen story, an old woman tells her that her beautiful tail is "thought on Earth to be quite ugly" the Little Mermaid |
#7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $2000: This literary pair "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" the Owl and the Pussycat |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | THAT'S A MYTHTAKE! $2000: She boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids; Poseidon got mad & ravaged the land Cassiopeia |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | GRAMMY RECORD OF THE YEAR $2000: 2000:
For U2, it was one of these a "Beautiful Day" |
#7470, aired 2017-02-17 | ROAMIN' THROUGH ROMANIA $1600: Revolution Square is a beautiful spot in this capital city Bucharest |
#7469, aired 2017-02-16 | FANTASTIC BEASTS $200: This creature was spawned when Perseus decapitated Medusa Pegasus |
#7444, aired 2017-01-12 | YAS QUEEN $800: The name of this Egyptian queen of the 1300s B.C. translates as "a beautiful woman has come" Nefertiti |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (Darin Brooks and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood give the clue as Wyatt Spencer and Steffy Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"Please, Steffy, I need to be sure."
"Stop talking, Wyatt. You've conquered my heart like this bold warrior king overcoming Persia in 330 B.C." Alexander the Great |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $800: (Thorsten Kaye and Jacob Young give the clue as Ridge Forrester and Rick Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"I'm running this company now, not you."
"Ridge, you're just Iike this son of a river god who gazed longingly at his own reflection & died alone & unloved" Narcissus |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1200: (Ashleigh Brewer and Scott Clifton give the clue as Ivy Forrester and Liam Spencer from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"Why Liam? Why now?"
"I want my future to be with you, Ivy. You bring it all, great beauty & boldness like this 11th century woman of Coventry who rode nude on horseback in protest of high taxes" Lady Godiva |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1600: (Rena Sofer and John McCook give the clue as Quinn Fuller Forrester and Eric Forrester, Sr. from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"Eric, I can't live if you won't forgive me."
"Quinn, don't try to get a hold on me like this female World War I spy who danced naked for royalty & military officers. May I remind you she died in a blaze of firing squad bullets!" Mata Hari |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Linsey Godfrey and Pierson Fodé give the clue as Caroline Spencer and Thomas Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"I'm so afraid, Thomas. I've made so many mistakes."
"There's no turning back now, Caroline. We have to move forward like Julius Caesar crossing this small river & triggering the Roman civil war" the Rubicon |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | THRILLER & SUSPENSE NOVELS $800: A beautiful spy named Tatiana Romanova is part of a trap to destroy 007 in this classic From Russia, with Love |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $2000: Stephen Tyler went gaga for a beautiful blonde, who turned out to be Vince Neil of Motley Crue; thus this song was born "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: Though "Gone with the Wind" says she "was not beautiful", it does mention her "arresting face" Scarlett O'Hara |
#7423, aired 2016-12-14 | DON'T HATE THE PLAYA $2000: Beautiful Playa de la Concha brings crowds to San Sebastian in this cultural "country" of northern Spain Basque |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BRIDGE-POURRI $800: Some of the world's most beautiful bridges are this type, like Tokyo's Rainbow Bridge, seen here suspension |
#7415, aired 2016-12-02 | BROADWAY $800: This current biographical musical ends with a rousing rendition of "I Feel The Earth Move" Beautiful: The Carole King Musical |
#7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $1000: She gave us the lesser-known "O beautiful for halcyon skies" as well as "O beautiful for spacious skies" Katharine Lee Bates |
#7404, aired 2016-11-17 | "T" UP SOME ENTERTAINMENT $400: The debut album "A Beautiful World" was released under just this last name--no Robin Thicke |
#7402, aired 2016-11-15 | QUARTER BACKS $2000: An America the Beautiful quarter depicts General Burgoyne surrendering his sword in this 1777 battle Saratoga |
#7399, aired 2016-11-10 | ADMIRABLE ADJECTIVES $600: A slogan popularized in the 1960s said "black is" this, highly pleasing to the sight beautiful |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $2000: In a novel title, F. Scott Fitzgerald paired them with the "Damned" The Beautiful |
#7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm A Beautiful Mind |
#7364, aired 2016-09-22 | POLYNESIA $1600: Less than an hour from Tahiti by plane, this double talk isle has been called "the most beautiful island in the world" Bora Bora |
#7341, aired 2016-07-11 | SIGNATURES $400: Wang Xizhi was so renowned as one of these "beautiful writers" that his signature was deemed priceless a calligrapher |
#7334, aired 2016-06-30 | CENTRAL PARK $2000: The name of this castle that houses a visitor center & nature observatory means "beautiful view" in Italian the Belvedere Castle |
#7333, aired 2016-06-29 | ALL "CAP"S $1200: It's just another beautiful day on this Italian island Capri |
#7327, aired 2016-06-21 | MEMORY $1200: "Memory, all alone in the moonlight, I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then" is sung in this Broadway musical Cats |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | RESORTS $1000: The beautiful turquoise color of this Alberta lake is due to sunlight reflecting off glacial silt Lake Louise |
#7322, aired 2016-06-14 | DAVID BOWIE $800: David Bowie & his wife, this Somali-born model, made a beautiful couple Iman |
#7315, aired 2016-06-03 | 3 VOWELS IN A ROW $5,000 (Daily Double): These 2 words that fit the category precede "amber waves of grain" in song beautiful & spacious |
#7311, aired 2016-05-30 | NFL TEAM NAMES $400: They weren't named for a beautiful bird but for used reddish jerseys purchased from a college the Cardinals |
#7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) I'm at Sunnyside, near Sleepy Hollow, New York, home of this "Rip Van Winkle" author; he designed the home & grounds himself & wrote, "It is a beautiful spot, capable of being made a little paradise" Washington Irving |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: This man's band has been in perfect harmony since coming on the scene
"You're such beautiful drug /
I can't get enough /
Addicted and I'm dying /
For a hit of your love..." Zac Brown |
#7264, aired 2016-03-24 | "CALL" NOW $400: Such beautiful writing with special pens calligraphy |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BAYS $1600: The beach at Magens Bay near Charlotte Amalie on this island has been called one of the world's most beautiful beaches St. Thomas |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: To render beautiful or add fictitious details to a story embellish |
#7249, aired 2016-03-03 | KAUAI $2000: In the movie version of "South Pacific", Kauai's beautiful North Shore was used as this exotic isle Bali Ha'i |
#7240, aired 2016-02-19 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: If you're into cross-country skiing, try the beautiful Peer Gynt ski area of this country Norway |
#7216, aired 2016-01-18 | OH SAY CAN YOU SEE? $200: The beautiful Snake River Canyon is a highlight of this state Idaho |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | WOMEN OF MYTH $800: This daughter of Zeus & Leda was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world Helen of Troy |
#7180, aired 2015-11-27 | BEAUTY $1600: Edmund Burke's 1757 work "On the Sublime and Beautiful" is a landmark in this, the philosophy of beauty aesthetics |
#7179, aired 2015-11-26 | I'M IN LOVE WITH THAT SONG $600: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) In 2006 my future wife Gabrielle Giffords chose one of the wake-up songs for me & my fellow crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery: "Beautiful Day" by this band U2 |
#7174, aired 2015-11-19 | "NORTH" & "SOUTH" AMERICA $800: This Florida playground for the rich & beautiful is aka "SoBe" South Beach |
#7171, aired 2015-11-16 | LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE $1200: This term for light, sophisticated literature is French for "beautiful letters" belles-lettres |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $200: Many consider it the most beautiful monument in the world the Taj Mahal |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $400: You ought to recognize this iconic art deco skyscraper the Chrysler Building |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $600: The stunning Baha'i Temple in New Delhi is built in the shape of this sacred flower the lotus |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $800: In 2015, this museum, named for the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, moved to a new building with a cantilevered entrance the Whitney Museum of American Art |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $1000: Legend says the architects of this cathedral were blinded so they could never again create anything as beautiful St. Basil's |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | MYTHOLOGY $400: This Greek sun god loved Hyacinthus, a beautiful young man Apollo |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | JEOPARDY! ON THE MOVIE MARQUEE $1000: 1998:
"Jeopardy! is Beautiful" Life is Beautiful |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | BLUE BIRDS $1000: The blue bird seen here is Steller's this, noted for its beautiful plumage & harsh call a jay |
#7137, aired 2015-09-29 | ROLE IN COMMON $800: (Hi, I'm Zachary Quinto.) In March 2015 I got to reminisce with Conan O'Brien about the beautiful life of this man with whom I shared a role (Leonard) Nimoy |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | AKC-DEFINED BREEDS $1000: "Elegant toy dog... distinguished from other breeds by (its) beautiful, butterfly-like ears" a papillon |
#7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $800: Lady Gaga sang, "I'm beautiful in my way, 'cause God makes no mistakes, I'm on the right track baby, I was" this "Born This Way" |
#7117, aired 2015-07-21 | AMERICANA $1000: The view from the summit of this mountain inspired the song "America The Beautiful" Pikes Peak |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | "L"AKES $1200: Sadly, the beautiful Chapel Bridge over this Swiss lake was badly damaged in a 1993 fire Lake Lucerne |
#7087, aired 2015-06-09 | PRETTY CITY $2000: Autumn is an especially beautiful time to visit the temples of this city, Japan's capital until 1868 Kyoto |
#7083, aired 2015-06-03 | THE TONY AWARDS $600: 2014's "Beautiful", about this woman who co-wrote hit songs with hubby Gerry Goffin, won for its star Jessie Mueller (Carole) King |
#7055, aired 2015-04-24 | HISTORY $1600: In 1912 an expedition found a painted bust of this Egyptian queen whose name means "the beautiful one has come" Nefertiti |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: In this Ira Levin novel, a community's women are turned into perfect, loving beautiful....robots! The Stepford Wives |
#7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $1600: This debut novel from Dan Brown featured brilliant & beautiful mathematician Susan Fletcher Digital Fortress |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | LEAVES $2,000 (Daily Double): "Life is so beautiful", says this fictional Italian American before dying in his garden Don Vito Corleone ("The Godfather") |
#6999, aired 2015-02-05 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $3,200 (Daily Double): This beautiful lake in the Cascade Mountains is nearly 2,000 feet deep Crater Lake |
#6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ITALIAN ISLANDS $1200: The island of Burano in this city's lagoon is known for its colorful homes & beautiful lace Venice |
#6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THERE WILL BE "BLOOD" $1000: Green chalcedony with red spots bloodstone |
#6954, aired 2014-12-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $800: "Beautiful Redemption" is the finale of this paranormal mystery series set in a small South Carolina town Beautiful Creatures |
#6948, aired 2014-11-26 | AMERICANA $200: The America the Beautiful quarter that honors this Florida national park shows a bird with outstretched wings the Everglades |
#6948, aired 2014-11-26 | HALF A TV TITLE PAIR $800: "& the Beautiful" The Bold |
#6948, aired 2014-11-26 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $1600: This colorful range is known for its beautiful scenery, especially along the Skyline Drive in Virginia the Blue Ridge Mountains |
#6947, aired 2014-11-25 | PUERTO RICO $400: Puerto Rico's anthem says that when this man reached the island he exclaimed, "This is the beautiful land that I seek" Columbus |
#6933, aired 2014-11-05 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $2000: The only national parks now in the original 13 states are one each in North & South Carolina, & this beautiful park in Virginia Shenandoah |
#6911, aired 2014-10-06 | VAMOS LA BRASIL $600: From the small town of Horizontina, she's been called "the most beautiful woman in the world" Gisele Bundchen |
#6910, aired 2014-10-03 | NIGHTS ON BROADWAY $400: Jessie Mueller won a 2014 Tony for her portrayal of this "Tapestry" singer in the musical "Beautiful" Carole King |
#6908, aired 2014-10-01 | ANTHROPOLOGY $800: In the 1700s Johann Blumenbach divided the races based on these bony body parts & claimed Caucasian ones are "most beautiful" skulls |
#6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A poem of his says grass is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Walt) Whitman |
#6885, aired 2014-07-18 | MADONNA VIDEOS $400: Michelangelo delivered on the promise to carve the most beautiful work of marble in Rome with this sculpture the Pietà |
#6885, aired 2014-07-18 | MEDICAL TALK $1000: After childbirth, a woman may complain about these, striae gravid arum; you're still beautiful, honey stretch marks |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE MONUMENTS WOMEN $400: O, a beautiful Falmouth, Mass. statue of Katharine Lee Bates shows her imagining the lines of this song "America The Beautiful" |
#6874, aired 2014-07-03 | COVER ME $600: "Easy, breezy, beautiful..." is a pitch of this makeup brand Cover Girl |
#6870, aired 2014-06-27 | THE "OOD" LIFE $200: It was always a beautiful day in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $200: This hairless guy was a part of the "SNL" band before leading Letterman's CBS Orchestra Paul Shaffer |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: He won a 1956 Oscar for "The King and I" Yul Brynner |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $600: As well as being king of France, the 9th century's Charles the Bald had this "holy" title Holy Roman Emperor |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $800: On who would reach the "American Idol" finals in 2006, Simon Cowell said "'the bald-headed kid", meaning him Chris Daughtry |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: This Democratic strategist with a Southern drawl & gleaming skull is credited with the line "It's the economy, stupid" James Carville |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $400: As the last line of "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart says, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of" one of these "a beautiful friendship" |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $800: In this 1678 British work, you'll find mention of a stately palace, "the name of which was beautiful" The Pilgrim's Progress |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $1200: In a 19th century song, it precedes "Wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee" "Beautiful Dreamer" |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $1600: Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called this "Adonais" poet a "beautiful and ineffectual angel" Shelley |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $2000: In 1880 this French novelist sometimes accused of immoral writing stated, "What is beautiful is moral" Gustave Flaubert |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $600: 2000 & 2001:
"Beautiful Day" & "Walk On", both by this group U2 |
#6854, aired 2014-06-05 | IS THERE A TV DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $1000: Plastic surgeons Christian Troy & Sean McNamara helped make Miami even more beautiful on this FX drama Nip/Tuck |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | THE BRITS ADD U TO IT $1200: It's a beautiful day in this, a district or locality the neighborhood |
#6848, aired 2014-05-28 | PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY $800: Titania says "Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful" to this Shakespeare character recently made an ass Bottom |
#6818, aired 2014-04-16 | IOWA $1000: Buddy Holly & friends perished near this Iowa city named for a beautiful body of water Clear Lake |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | AN ECO-CATEGORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.) The Academy calls itself the world's greenest museum; the 197,000 square-foot living roof is a sustainable tapestry of native California plants, including these state flowers California poppies |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $400: Straddling the Danube, Hungary's capital consists of these 2 parts Buda and Pest |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $800: Hungary's former capital, this Danube city is now the capital of Slovakia Bratislava |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $1200: Danube cities in this country include Linz & Krems Austria |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the only country through whose territory the Danube flows that used to be part of the USSR Ukraine |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $2000: In Germany the Danube flows through Ulm in Baden-Wurttemberg & Neu Ulm in this neighboring state Bavaria |
#6801, aired 2014-03-24 | CHEESY NAMES $2000: The name of this Italian cheese means "beautiful country", referring to the Lombardy area bel paese |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "S" $400: O beautiful, for this adjective, for it means roomy or extensive spacious |
#6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $1600: This song from "Oklahoma!" tells us that "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye" "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning" |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $1200: Directed by Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind |
#6778, aired 2014-02-19 | ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC $1200: Called by some the most beautiful place on Earth, Moorea is just 12 miles from this largest island in French Polynesia Tahiti |
#6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $1600: This actress was a frequent presence in the films of John Ford Maureen O'Hara |
#6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $400: China is the home of this beautiful red flower, seen resting on its pad a (water) lily |
#6728, aired 2013-12-11 | POP QUIZ $400: You might notice a slight resemblance between the beautiful boy seen here & this guy, his proud pop John Lennon |
#6727, aired 2013-12-10 | CONTROL $400: This patriotic song says, "Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law" "America The Beautiful" |
#6716, aired 2013-11-25 | POTENT POE‑TABLES $1200: "And this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful" her Annabel Lee |
#6711, aired 2013-11-18 | PEOPLE $400: People named this movie star & goop.com provider the "World's Most Beautiful Woman" Gwyneth Paltrow |
#6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $400: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Based on a movie, this musical about an Irish guy & a Czech girl uses song & dance in a way I've never experienced in an American musical: to convey a beautiful shimmer of might-have-been regret Once |
#6701, aired 2013-11-04 | FLORA! FLORA! FLORA! $800: It's the heavenly avian name for the beautiful flowers of Strelitzia reginae the bird of paradise |
#6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $400: (I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Katherine Boo's reportage in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" captures life's inequalities in the slums of this Indian city & commerical center Mumbai |
#6695, aired 2013-10-25 | CEREMONIES $800: Chado is the Japanese name for this ceremony founded upon reverence for the beautiful in everyday life the tea ceremony |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $800: Daphne du Maurier remembered her original idea for this book as "A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy..." Rebecca |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $2000: All things were bright & beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name James Herriot |
#6684, aired 2013-10-10 | ONE LETTER ONLY $1600: A major blood group, or an interjection used at the beginning of "America the Beautiful" O |
#6683, aired 2013-10-09 | TAKE IN (ALPHABETICAL) ORDER $400: Proverbially, the most beautiful woman amongst many "of the ball" belle |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | MOVIE ENDING LINE OF THE DECADE $400: 1940s:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | HEAVENLY LANGUAGE $400: Something unexpected comes "out of" this, a feature of a beautiful day the blue (or clear blue sky) |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | APPS $600: "Fast beautiful photo sharing", promises this app Instagram |
#6668, aired 2013-09-18 | GOING FETAL $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rubs her tummy.) At the end of the second trimester, the baby's lungs are starting to produce surfactant, a substance that allows the air sacs to inflate; at the same time, the nostrils are opening up, though the baby is still breathing this fluid the amniotic fluid |
#6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES $600: This art of decorative handwriting is from the Greek for "beautiful writing" calligraphy |
#6635, aired 2013-06-21 | SONGS GETTING AIR PLAY $1600: In 1967 the 5th Dimension flew "Up Up And Away" in their "Beautiful" this Balloon |
#6604, aired 2013-05-09 | SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME $200: Soccer is also called this type of "football", hence the short form "soccer" association |
#6604, aired 2013-05-09 | SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME $400: If a player gets closer to the opposing goal than both the ball & the second-last defender, this can be called offside |
#6604, aired 2013-05-09 | SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME $600: The 10 players other than the goalie are said to play here; in baseball, only 3 do outfield |
#6604, aired 2013-05-09 | SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a soccer field.) Also called a one-two, this play can start with a pass or a throw-in; then the player breaks past the defender into open space for a quick return pass give and go |
#6604, aired 2013-05-09 | SOCCER, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME $1000: The international soccer body known by these 4 letters has more members than the U.N.! FIFA |
#6598, aired 2013-05-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew walks along the beach.) It's the good life in the three beach cities south of Los Angeles--Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach & this one, whose name means "beautiful" Hermosa Beach |
#6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $200: "Back After Baby!" In 2012, this singer & mom to Blue Ivy was hailed as the "world's most beautiful woman" Beyoncé |
#6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $400: This "Pretty Woman" has been named the prettiest 4 times, most recently in 2010 Julia Roberts |
#6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $600: In 1990 this "Fabulous Baker Boys" girl graced the cover of the first "most beautiful" issue Michelle Pfeiffer |
#6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $800: Storm in the "X-Men" movies, she reigned as the cover girl in 2003 Halle Berry |
#6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $1000: She was probably "Up All Night" after making the cover of the 2009 issue Christina Applegate |
#6577, aired 2013-04-02 | "AND" BOOKS FOR SHORT $1000: F Scott Fitzgerald:
"T.B. and D." The Beautiful and Damned |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | 3 LAST WORDS $800: "America the Beautiful" to shining sea |
#6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LANDMARKS $1200: Jorn Utzon called this Australian landmark that he designed "a beautiful white shimmering thing" the Sydney Opera House |
#6545, aired 2013-02-15 | LAKES $1200: Shared by Macedonia & Albania, Ohrid Lake--one of Europe's most beautiful--is on this peninsula the Balkan |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | FROM ZORBA THE GREEK $5,000 (Daily Double): "Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of" this beautiful goddess Aphrodite |
#6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: "Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England" is a line from this John Knowles novel A Separate Peace |
#6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: She wrote a piece of Jane Austen fan fiction called "The Beautiful Cassandra", inspiring her pen name Cassandra Clare |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | SWANS $400: In Greek myth the beautiful Leda is ravished by this god in the form of a swan Zeus |
#6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $1600: "Find your style!" on this site that lets you "organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web" Pinterest |
#6521, aired 2013-01-14 | SCIENCE 101 $1200: Look up at Messier 101, a beautiful pinwheel one of these a galaxy |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 2012 IN MEMORIAM $1600: On his passing, Barbra Streisand said, "He was a true musical genius, but above all that, he was a beautiful human being" Marvin Hamlisch |
#6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $600: Make beautiful, or add fictitious details embellish |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $200: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) I grew up on this side of Chicago that according to the song "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" is the baddest part of town the south side |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) This poet was so right in 1904 when he called Chicago "a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities" Carl Sandburg |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $600: This is the stadium where the Bears play, but please don't put an "s" on the end Soldier Field |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: This downtown park is known as Chicago's front yard; it was the place to be for 125,000 of our friends on Election Night 2008 Grant Park |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $3,400 (Daily Double): (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) Grant Wood's "American Gothic" & Picasso's "Mother & Child" are highlights of this museum's amazing collection the Art Institute |
#6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONGS $400: "Born This Way",
"Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" Lady Gaga |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | JEOPARDY! ENNUI $800: Calling sit-ups & push-ups by this word from the Greek for "beautiful" doesn't make them interesting calisthenics |
#6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: Widely considered the most beautiful bridge in D.C., the Arlington Memorial Bridge spans this river the Potomac River |
#6466, aired 2012-10-29 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $400: Both Titian & Giovanni Bellini painted this beautiful Roman goddess gazing in a mirror Venus |
#6459, aired 2012-10-18 | QUOTH THE POET $1200: "The owl and the pussy-cat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" (Edward) Lear |
#6445, aired 2012-09-28 | GARDENS $2000: A national historic site of Canada, these gardens on Vancouver Island included the beautiful Sunken Garden seen here the Butchart Gardens |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: Poe wrote, "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of" this beautiful maiden Annabel Lee |
#6431, aired 2012-07-30 | THINGS THAT GO BLOOM $1200: These beautiful blooms commonly come in Easter & tiger varieties lilies |
#6427, aired 2012-07-24 | SPACE FIRSTS $1000: On April 12, 1961 this Russian, the first man in space, said the earth had a "beautiful blue halo" Gagarin |
#6409, aired 2012-06-28 | LENNON $400: 1980's "Double Fantasy" has songs about Yoko-- "Woman"--& about him--"Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" Sean Lennon |
#6401, aired 2012-06-18 | EVERYONE'S AN ART CRITIC $800: This Spaniard "enjoys making repulsive works out of beautiful subjects" Picasso |
#6384, aired 2012-05-24 | "O", HOW ENTERTAINING $400: Called the "most influential work in the American musical theatre", it opens with "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"' Oklahoma! |
#6377, aired 2012-05-15 | SQUAWK ON THE STREET $400: The scarlet macaw, part of this talkative family, has beautiful plumage but an ugly squawk parrots |
#6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BABY, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT $200: He referred to Edith, his wife of 55 years, as his Luthien, a beautiful princess from Middle-earth Tolkien |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: Here's the view from the 7,200-foot Harney Peak in the Black Hills of this state South Dakota |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: Cabo wabo! This port-of-call is where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Cabo San Lucas |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: If you're enjoying Rascal Flats at the landmark seen here, you're in this city y'all Nashville |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: Check out Yellowtail Dam, part of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area in this state Montana |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: Quebec's Chateau Frontenac Hotel overlooks this 800-mile river the St. Lawrence |
#6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The second verse of this classic American song begins, "O beautiful for pilgrim feet" "America The Beautiful" |
#6290, aired 2012-01-13 | STATE LICENSE PLATE SLOGANS $600: "Sportsman's Paradise" Louisiana |
#6288, aired 2012-01-11 | TRAVEL $800: Beautiful Margaret Island in this river has been a Budapest park for more than 100 years the Danube |
#6279, aired 2011-12-29 | THAT SMELLS... LIKE A CELEBRITY! $600: This singer believes "you are beautiful, no matter what they say", especially with her "Inspire" floral scent Christina Aguilera |
#6275, aired 2011-12-23 | AN ABBREVIATED STORY $400: At the party I impressed a beautiful woman by fibbing & telling her I worked for the CBO, this U.S. Govt. office the Congressional Budget Office |
#6272, aired 2011-12-20 | COLORS $800: This secondary color is in the third line of "America The Beautiful" purple |
#6262, aired 2011-12-06 | MY MOVIES $1000: "My ____ Laundrette" Beautiful |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | YOU'VE GOT THE WRITE STUFF, JAMES $800: You met Samuel Johnson May 16, 1763; it was the start of a beautiful friendship (James) Boswell |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | LATINOS IN HOLLYWOOD $1200: She co-founded an organization called Voto Latino to get people to the polls, even in Sin City Rosario Dawson |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | LATINOS IN HOLLYWOOD $2000: Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, this bombshell was a trained dancer & sometimes partnered Fred Astaire Rita Hayworth |
#6212, aired 2011-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: A view from Pikes Peak inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write the words to this patriotic song "America The Beautiful" |
#6196, aired 2011-07-18 | TV CAREER MOVES $600: After playing Marissa on "The O.C.". this waifish gal strutted her stuff as a model on "The Beautiful Life" Mischa Barton |
#6178, aired 2011-06-22 | LANDMARKS $800: It's eye-catching, it's beautiful, but it's the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang in this country, so you might not stay there anytime soon North Korea |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | ANIMA"L"S $1600: Stink fights are popular among these ring-tailed prosimians lemurs |
#6138, aired 2011-04-27 | FAMOUS LAST WORD $1600: In "America the Beautiful" sea |
#6110, aired 2011-03-18 | CLASSIC MOVIE TRAILERS $1000: The trailer for this 1950 film describes Judy Holliday's character as follows
"Blonde, beautiful, brazen, and oh, brother!" Born Yesterday |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID $1000: "'House Beautiful' is play lousy" Dorothy Parker |
#6089, aired 2011-02-17 | GLEE SONGS $2000: Amber Riley showed off her singing chops covering "Beautiful" from this blonde pop star Christina Aguilera |
#6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "timely" London landmark turns into an actor who won for a 1982 biopic Big Ben Kingsley |
#6076, aired 2011-01-31 | MY MICHELLE $1600: She made the very first cover of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1990 & then again in 1999 Michelle Pfeiffer |
#6053, aired 2010-12-29 | TV CHARACTERS $1200: On "Lost" this character told Jack, "I've looked into the eye of the island, and what I saw was beautiful" (John) Locke |
#6049, aired 2010-12-23 | THE 1880s $1000: This author of "America the Beautiful" introduced Mrs. Claus in an 1889 tale Katharine Lee Bates |
#6034, aired 2010-12-02 | ASSORTED FLOWERS $800: These fowl from New Guinea with beautiful plumage sound like they should live in the Garden of Eden birds-of-paradise |
#6026, aired 2010-11-22 | THE QUOTABLE DE NIRO $1,000 (Daily Double): (In Sicilian)
"To you she's beautiful. For me, there's only my wife & son" The Godfather Part II |
#5997, aired 2010-10-12 | PRINCESS $3,000 (Daily Double): This "flowery" J.M. Barrie princess was called "the most beautiful of the dusky Dianas" Tiger Lily |
#5948, aired 2010-06-23 | GREAT "B"-GINNINGS $600: The publication The Hill also lists the 50 most this; No. 1 for 2009 was hunky New Mexico representative Martin Heinrich beautiful people |
#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 |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $400: One of her newsworthy exploits was shaving her head in 2007, the year of her album "Blackout" Britney Spears |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $600: The thing is, one of this TV and movie actor's roles was as "The Thing" (Michael) Chiklis |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $800: Famous for playing a Siamese king, he also played a royal on film in "Solomon and Sheba"--he had hair in that one Yul Brynner |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1000: He's the hard-rocking former "American Idol" contestant seen here (Chris) Daughtry |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | OTHER GRAND CANYONS $1600: Mark Twain dubbed this island's Waimea Canyon the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific" Kauai |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | MONARCHS FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE $1,800 (Daily Double): The highlight of his years as a prince surely had to be marrying a beautiful Austrian archduchess in 1770 Louis XVI |
#5942, aired 2010-06-15 | AESOP'S FABLES $1000: This bird asked Juno for a voice like a nightingale, but had to be content with a beautiful train of feathers a peacock |
#5926, aired 2010-05-24 | BOOK SMART $1200: Sylvia Nasar wrote this biography of math genius & Nobel laureate John Nash A Beautiful Mind |
#5907, aired 2010-04-27 | BIRD "R"s $400: This state bird of Wisconsin has beautiful blue eggs a robin |
#5898, aired 2010-04-14 | GORGE $400: Around 13 miles long, the Verdon Gorge in this country is ranked by some as Europe's most beautiful canyon France |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | JERUSALEM'S NOBLE SANCTUARY $200: (Alex Trebek reports from inside a Jerusalem landmark.) The beautiful Dome of the Rock is one of the oldest surviving Islamic monuments, & it also boasts some of the oldest mihrabs which are niches, all of them designed to point to this holy city Mecca |
#5871, aired 2010-03-08 | MY FAIR LADY $1200: Beautiful Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of a future British P.M., had an affair with this lord famous as both a poet & a rake (Lord) Byron |
#5866, aired 2010-03-01 | ROLLING STONE'S 20 MOST ANNOYING SONGS $800: "Life is brilliant" & sure, your "love is pure", but let's be blunt, James: this "pretty" song of yours is on the list "You're Beautiful" |
#5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $1200: Really more of a scavenger, this beautiful bird was turned into a thief by Rossini the magpie |
#5859, aired 2010-02-18 | TV ADJECTIVES $800: 1 of 2 current CBS daytime soaps:
"The ____ and the ____" Young & Restless (or Bold & Beautiful) |
#5847, aired 2010-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A pageant first held in 1921 "for amber waves of grain" Miss America the Beautiful |
#5844, aired 2010-01-28 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: Pablo Casals said that this instrument "is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time" cello |
#5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MATHLETES $1600: John Nash has a beautiful mind that contributed to this "theory" of strategic decision making game theory |
#5834, aired 2010-01-14 | SOAP OPERAS $600: This alliterative '60s soap about a New England town shot Ryan O'Neal to stardom & came to DVD in 2009 Peyton Place |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $400: Logician Saul Kripke said he refused a job offer from this Camb, Mass. Univ,: his mom wanted him to finish H.S. Harvard |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $800: Future geneticist J.B.S. Haldane began research in his teens on his sister's 300 of these rodents guinea pigs |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $800: He played math genius John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" Russell Crowe |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $1200: Paul Morphy so dominated chess in the 1850s, he offered to play anyone using only 7 of these pawns |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $1600: On Sept. 19, 1952 he was working on compound helixes & a character with his same first name joined "Peanuts" Linus Pauling |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Communication satellites orbit in a belt 22,300 miles above the Earth; the belt is named for this science fiction writer who proposed geostationary orbits in 1945 Arthur C. Clarke |
#5811, aired 2009-12-14 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY $800: Aptly, her name translates as "a beautiful woman has come"--check out her bust Nefertiti |
#5807, aired 2009-12-08 | ISLANDS $800: Portuguese sailors originally named this island in the South China Sea Ilha Formosa, "beautiful island" Taiwan |
#5800, aired 2009-11-27 | RENAISSANCE FAIR LADY $800: The beautiful lass here was drawn by this Florentine great; "La Gioconda" was less upsetting da Vinci |
#5800, aired 2009-11-27 | RENAISSANCE FAIR LADY $1600: Raphael painted this beautiful title woman "of the Goldfinch" in 1505 the Madonna of the Goldfinch |
#5789, aired 2009-11-12 | MUSIC OF TODAY $400: This teen with "Beautiful Eyes" was motivated by her opera-singing granny but chose to sing country music (Taylor) Swift |
#5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you're using a balalaika, you're trying to make beautiful this music |
#5778, aired 2009-10-28 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: Not the beginning of a beautiful friendship, the Agadir Incident pitted Germany vs. France in this N. African country Morocco |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | WHAT THE BLEEP? $200: A song:
"O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of bleep..." grain |
#5751, aired 2009-09-21 | PRODUCE $1200: As a producer, he was smart enough to hire himself to direct "A Beautiful Mind"; imagine that! Ron Howard |
#5734, aired 2009-07-09 | YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL $800: (Dr. Oz shows an animation of a throbbing artery in the brain on the monitor.) The brain is a beautiful place, but triggered by dilation of arteries in the brain, these extremely painful events are sometimes accompanied by nausea migraines |
#5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In one translation of an 1868 work, this author calls Denmark's Rosenborg "the Castle of the Roses, as beautiful as the flower that gave it its name" Hans Christian Andersen |
#5729, aired 2009-07-02 | CRY $1200: Roberto Benigni shields his son from the horrors of a concentration camp in this Italian Oscar winner Life Is Beautiful |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: "America! America! God shed his Grace on thee/ And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to" this shining sea |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: "O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain/ For purple mountain majesties, above" these 3 words the fruited plain |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: "O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years/ Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human" these tears |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: "America! America! God mend thine every flaw/ Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in" this law |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: "America! America! May God thy gold refine/ till all success be nobleness, and every gain" this godly word divine |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $2,400 (Daily Double): The 1990 album "Unison" marked the English language debut of this chanteuse from Quebec Céline Dion |
#5717, aired 2009-06-16 | CHARACTERS IN CASABLANCA $1600: First name of Claude Rains' Captain Renault; it sounds like the beginning of a beautiful friendship... Louis |
#5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WHO'S THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL? $600: In 2008 this Goldie girl (actually, Goldie's daughter) graced the cover of People's Most Beautiful People issue Kate Hudson |
#5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WHO'S THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL? $800: A 2005 "60 Minutes" story said the world's most beautiful woman is Aishwarya Rai, queen of this country's cinema India |
#5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WHO'S THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL? $1000: Her dad (Crown Prince Haakon) called Princess Ingrid of this country the "most beautiful little girl in the world" Norway |
#5698, aired 2009-05-20 | ROAD TEST $800: John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed miles & miles of beautiful carriage roads in this state's Acadia National Park Maine |
#5697, aired 2009-05-19 | WELL, "B"! $400: A Clodius parnassian is one of these beautiful insects butterfly |
#5693, aired 2009-05-13 | OOO, 3 "O"s $400: It's a beautiful day in this, a district or locality, often with reference to its inhabitants the neighborhood |
#5684, aired 2009-04-30 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $200: This song mentions "purple mountain majesties" "America the Beautiful" |
#5671, aired 2009-04-13 | I DO'S & I'M DONES $1200: Being blonde & beautiful wasn't enough to save the 4th marriage of this supermodel, Billy Joel's ex Christie Brinkley |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $400: 2000:
"Beautiful Day",
2001:
"Walk On" U2 |
#5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OUT LIKE A "LAM" $400: Adjective meaning alluring or beautiful, like a movie star glamorous |
#5658, aired 2009-03-25 | THE SOPRANOS $1200: One of Lily Pons' well-known roles was that of the beautiful Rosina in this Rossini opera The Barber of Seville |
#5637, aired 2009-02-24 | COLORFUL TERMS $200: It describes the "waves of grain" in "America The Beautiful" amber |
#5631, aired 2009-02-16 | AMERICANA $400: The song "America, the Beautiful" says, "crown thy good with" this "from sea to shining sea" brotherhood |
#5608, aired 2009-01-14 | NAME THE MOVIE $1000: 2001:
A paranoid schizophrenic does some math; the CIA does or doesn't get involved A Beautiful Mind |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | YOU: BEING BEAUTIFUL $200: (Dr. Oz presents.) Ease your stress & its aging effect by applying pressure to the web of your hand, a homemade version of this technique acupressure |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | YOU: BEING BEAUTIFUL $400: (Dr. Oz presents.) Exposure to U.V. radiation dries out & can burn the skin & also releases these liberated molecules that can damage the DNA & lead to cancer free radicals |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | YOU: BEING BEAUTIFUL $600: (Dr. Oz presents.) Try to get 20 minutes of sunlight a day, but only at low levels when your shadow's taller than you in order to get what you need of this vitamin vitamin D |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | YOU: BEING BEAUTIFUL $800: (Dr. Oz presents.) Those gorgeous high-heeled shoes can cause a partial dislocation of the big toe, causing a bony prominence known as this a bunion |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | YOU: BEING BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Dr. Oz presents.) As many as 1 American in 50 may be unrealistically dissatisfied with their bodies called body dysmorphic disorder; it's a form of this--OCD for short obsessive-compulsive disorder |
#5599, aired 2009-01-01 | GET SOME CULTURE $2000: When I saw "Les Noces", "Everything was beautiful at" this, as they say in "A Chorus Line" the ballet |
#5598, aired 2008-12-31 | HOMOPHONIC NAMES $1600: Beautiful movie stars Janet & Gong Leigh or Li |
#5585, aired 2008-12-12 | A ROLE IN THE HAY $800: Meryl Streep played this beautiful blonde bumpkin in her high school's production of "Li'l Abner" Daisy Mae |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | POSE-POURRI $1200: Tyson isn't fowl: a co-host of "Make Me A Supermodel", he's been one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People Tyson Beckford |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $400: Ah! An Old French word for "elegant" evolved into this adjective that means "dazzlingly beautiful" gorgeous |
#5552, aired 2008-10-28 | CRAYOLA: A COLORFUL HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a rotating crayon conveyor at the Crayola Museum & Factory in Easton, PA.) It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood on February 6, 1996, when this man stopped by to help make the 100 billionth Crayola Mr. Rogers |
#5544, aired 2008-10-16 | DOUBLE TALK $2000: James Michener called this French Polynesian island with its fabled blue lagoon "the most beautiful in the world" Bora Bora |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $1000: William Warner's "Beautiful Swimmers" is an exploration of the Atlantic blue crab & this bay the Chesapeake |
#5522, aired 2008-09-16 | MUSICAL ADJECTIVES $200: Christina Aguilera sang "You are" this "no matter what they say, words can't bring you down" beautiful |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Much of "The Beautiful and Damned", his 1922 novel about a self-destructive couple, now seems autobiographical F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#5502, aired 2008-07-08 | THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $2000: "Joy, beautiful radiance of the gods, daughter of Elysium..." German |
#5480, aired 2008-06-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Franz Schubert called this man's "Marriage of Figaro" Overture "the most beautiful in the whole world" Mozart |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | ART $400: This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases Ming |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | AH, SWEET MYTHTERY $1000: This mythological sculptor tragically fell in love with a beautiful statue he had carved Pygmalion |
#5473, aired 2008-05-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $600: Lauren Bacall said his "All The Pretty Horses" was "the most beautiful writing I have read in years" Cormac McCarthy |
#5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Junoesque, meaning having imposing beauty, refers to Juno, the beautiful wife of this Roman God Jupiter |
#5452, aired 2008-04-29 | INSIDE THE COUNTRY $800: All "hail" this country & its beautiful Buddhist temples Thailand |
#5437, aired 2008-04-08 | THE GERALD R. FORD MUSEUM $1200: (Cheryl stands next to a large ornate plate.) This beautiful Kutani plate was presented to President Ford in 1975 by this emperor, the first from his country ever to visit the United States Hirohito |
#5415, aired 2008-03-07 | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $1600: At the end of "Caesar and Cleopatra", Caesar promises to send Cleo a beautiful present: this man Mark Anthony |
#5414, aired 2008-03-06 | RHYME TIME $600: Adjective meaning so awe-inspiringly beautiful as to be almost heavenly sublime |
#5403, aired 2008-02-20 | LET'S GO TO OHIO $400: Churchill called this largest city on the Ohio River "the most beautiful of the inland cities of the Union" Cincinnati |
#5403, aired 2008-02-20 | THE GYM $600: From the Greek for "beautiful strength", these light exercises that help promote fitness are often part of gym class calisthenics |
#5386, aired 2008-01-28 | HEY, GOOD LOOKING! $800: In 2007 this friend of "Jeopardy!" was the cover girl for People magazine's "100 Most Beautiful" issue Drew Barrymore |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | WHO CREATED THEM? $400: The beautiful Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway's cousin F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TERN! TERN! TERN! $100 (Daily Double): Terns eat insects, small fish & this type of arthropod whose name comes from the Latin for "hard-shelled ones" crustaceans |
#5367, aired 2008-01-01 | "AIN" WE GOT FUN $800: Delicately beautiful, like some little girls or flowers dainty |
#5362, aired 2007-12-25 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $800: He dedicated "The Beautiful and Damned" to Shane, Leslie, George, Nathan & Maxwell Perkins for their literary help F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#5350, aired 2007-12-07 | MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $2000: "Dear Lord... we thank you... for this bountiful harvest... my 2 beautiful sons, Walker & Texas Ranger..." Talladega Nights (The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) |
#5345, aired 2007-11-30 | MYTHICAL MENAGERIE $2000: She was a beautiful nymph before she was turned into a sea monster, doomed to live in a cave opposite Charybdis Scylla |
#5341, aired 2007-11-26 | RAJAS $800: Around 1000 A.D. Rajaraja I expanded his Chola Empire by invading this beautiful island off India Sri Lanka |
#5340, aired 2007-11-23 | OPENING NUMBERS OF MUSICALS $200: "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'" Oklahoma! |
#5335, aired 2007-11-16 | REAL CASTLES & PALACES $800: As you can see, Neuschwanstein Castle is one of the most beautiful in this mountain range the (Bavarian) Alps |
#5332, aired 2007-11-13 | BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA $1000: This beautiful widow who beheads General Holofernes gets her own book Judith |
#5301, aired 2007-10-01 | "Y" IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1600: A beautiful young maiden a nymph |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2,200 (Daily Double): "T.B.A.D."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful And Damned |
#5298, aired 2007-09-26 | QUOTH THE RAVIN' $600: As John Nash in this movie, Russell Crowe does quite a bit of talking to people who don't exist A Beautiful Mind |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "D" $1600: Strauss' Beautiful Blue body of water
(6) the Danube |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | YOU'VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER $200: The beautiful Bathsheba was already married, but that didn't stop this King of Israel from pursuing her King David |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | YOU'VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER $400: This beautiful queen's affair with a knight of the Round Table foreshadowed the fall of King Arthur's kingdom Queen Guinevere |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | YOU'VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER $600: One of the most beautiful women in Antiquity, this gal's "bust" can be seen in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin Nefertiti |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | YOU'VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER $1,000 (Daily Double): This beautiful & enticing daughter of Leda would have to have lived around 1200 B.C. Helen of Troy |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | YOU'VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER $1000: Theodosia, the daughter of this third U.S. vice president, was a beautiful child prodigy who spoke 4 languages Aaron Burr |
#5244, aired 2007-05-31 | REMEMBER THAT SONG? $1600: This James Blunt farewell song goes, "You have been the one, you have been the one for me" "Goodbye My Lover" |
#5231, aired 2007-05-14 | LETTER PERFECT $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew holds a guitar.) As a letter before "string" it's kind of racy; as this guitar chord [strums], it's just beautiful G |
#5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $800: Al called Georges Lemaitre's idea, now called the Big Bang, "the most beautiful ...explanation of" this word creation |
#5230, aired 2007-05-11 | "D" IN SCIENCE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a micrograph of an organism with radial symmetry on the monitor.) A grungy type of earth used as industrial filler is named for these beautiful symmetrical algae from which it's made diatoms |
#5226, aired 2007-05-07 | YE GODS! $400: The Hindu goddess Shatarupa was so beautiful, this creator god grew 4 heads so he could view her in all directions Brahma |
#5219, aired 2007-04-26 | BEFORE COMPUTERS $800: This term for a type of penmanship comes from the Greek for "beautiful writing" calligraphy |
#5213, aired 2007-04-18 | WORLD CITIES $400: Volksgarten isn't a parking lot for Volkswagens but a beautiful park noted for its rose bushes in this Austrian city Vienna |
#5201, aired 2007-04-02 | I'LL BE YOUR HOST $400: (Hi, I'm James Denton.) In January of 2006 I was surrounded by lots of beautiful women when I hosted this pageant, held outside of Atlantic City for the first time Miss America |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the state song of the beautiful State of Ohio "Beautiful Ohio" |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the state song of the beautiful state of Nebraska "Beautiful Nebraska" |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | HORSING AROUND $1000: At the 2000 Olympics, the German team won the gold in this equestrian event; the U.S. team came in third dressage |
#5194, aired 2007-03-22 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $2000: Prized for its beautiful fur, this American wild cat, seen here, is an endangered species in the United States the ocelot |
#5173, aired 2007-02-21 | BROADWAY LYRICS $600: "I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then, I remember the time I knew that happiness was" Cats |
#5163, aired 2007-02-07 | ISLANDS $400: Treasures of this U.S. island include the beautiful beaches near its capital city, San Juan Puerto Rico |
#5158, aired 2007-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: This beautiful painting by Gustav Klimt has the same name as a famous sculpture by Rodin The Kiss |
#5128, aired 2006-12-20 | RENAISSANCE MEN $500 (Daily Double): Benedetto Dei, a merchant of this city, bragged in a letter that it "is more beautiful and 540 years older" than Venice Florence |
#5127, aired 2006-12-19 | GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN $600: This 14,110-foot Colorado mountain peak discovered in 1806 inspired the song "America The Beautiful" Pikes Peak |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY $200: In a 2006 Country Weekly poll, she was named "Country's Most Beautiful" woman; I'm sure hubby Tim agrees Faith Hill |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | "MIND" GAMES $600: Sylvia Nasar's biography of mathematical genius & Nobel laureate John Nash A Beautiful Mind |
#5111, aired 2006-11-27 | THE 5th BEATLE $1000: This keyboardist, who died in 2006, sat in with the Beatles often & also wrote Joe Cocker's hit "You Are So Beautiful" Billy Preston |
#5100, aired 2006-11-10 | CONVERT THE ROMAN NUMERAL $800: TV secret agent Maxwell Smart's beautiful agent wife:
XCIX 99 |
#5099, aired 2006-11-09 | NOVELS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.) This Milan Kundera novel says "the saints were shaking their fists and lifting their stone eyes to the clouds. Prague was the most beautiful city in the world" The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
#5090, aired 2006-10-27 | HOW GREAT THOU ART $1200: He was quoted as saying, "I like to make explosions into elaborate beautiful forms... what they become in a comic strip" Lichtenstein |
#5075, aired 2006-10-06 | MUSIC TO YOUR EARS $400: This "beautiful soul" heard here has also been nominated for 2 acting Emmys for "All My Children"
"I don't want my love to go to waste /
I want you and your beautiful soul..." Jesse McCartney |
#5069, aired 2006-09-28 | STATE SONGS $400: Bet you a buckeye knows that his state song is "Beautiful" this Ohio |
#5067, aired 2006-09-26 | ANCIENT TALK $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew finds a clue engraved in hieroglyphs in Abu Simbel, Egypt.) This Egyptian word for "good" or "beautiful" came before "titi" & "tari" in the name of Egyptian women nefer |
#5064, aired 2006-09-21 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks atop a lush seaside hill.) I'm at this site in New York State bought by Congress for $11,085 in 1790 at the request of the Secretary of War West Point |
#5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MOTHER RUSSIA $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shares a photo op on Red Square.) Legend says that Ivan the Terrible lived up to his nickname when he blinded the designers of this cathedral so they could never again build anything as beautiful St. Basil's |
#5055, aired 2006-07-28 | U.S. LAKES & RIVERS $800: This lake whose French name means "heart of an awl" is at the heart of a beautiful resort area in Idaho (Lake) Coeur d'Alene |
#5053, aired 2006-07-26 | I'VE ZINE THE MOVIE $1000: A GQ article became this film where Piper Perabo learned that beautiful women plus booze equals money Coyote Ugly |
#5050, aired 2006-07-21 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $2000: "A Beautiful Mind":
Russell Crowe,
Jennifer Connelly,
Ed Harris Jennifer Connelly |
#5048, aired 2006-07-19 | THE JEP-TONES WORLD TOUR 2006 $400: After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger" Madonna |
#5047, aired 2006-07-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $400: 1942--
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
#5036, aired 2006-07-03 | "SMALL" TIME $600: In a hymn by Cecil "Fanny" Alexander this line follows "All things bright and beautiful" "All creatures great and small" |
#5024, aired 2006-06-15 | ECONOMICS $1200: This American man put his "Beautiful Mind" to work on game theory & shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics John Nash |
#5009, aired 2006-05-25 | "AE" $1600: 9-letter adjective meaning having a sense of the beautiful aesthetic |
#5008, aired 2006-05-24 | ALL DOLLED UP $2000: It sounds like a type of soup, but it's the kind of unglazed china used to make many beautiful 19th century dolls bisque |
#5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1000: His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist" Tom Wolfe |
#4999, aired 2006-05-11 | LOVE SONGS IN GERMAN $1000: Joe Cocker:
"Sie Sind So Schon" "You Are So Beautiful" |
#4985, aired 2006-04-21 | A BUG'S LIFE $800: This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts ladybug |
#4984, aired 2006-04-20 | THE AMERICAN DREAM $500 (Daily Double): Martin Luther King dreamed of "the table of" this, a crowning quality in "America, The Beautiful" brotherhood |
#4964, aired 2006-03-23 | TAKE IT "EASY" $600: In July 1961 Billboard unveiled a new chart for this style also called "beautiful music" easy listening |
#4963, aired 2006-03-22 | ARE YOU BEING SERBED? $1000: The Sava River is a tributary of this river that flows through Serbia the Danube |
#4962, aired 2006-03-21 | WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT $800: As the 1943 winner of this national title, beautiful Jean Bartel sold 2 1/2 million dollars worth of war bonds Miss America |
#4946, aired 2006-02-27 | THE "L" WORLD $800: This beautiful lake in Banff National Park is named for a British princess Louise |
#4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $800: For 1998, this Italian movie won Best Foreign Film & its star Roberto Benigni won Best Actor Life Is Beautiful |
#4939, aired 2006-02-16 | PLANT LIFE $400: The hybrid tea varieties of this beautiful flower are so named because they smell like tea rose |
#4936, aired 2006-02-13 | TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY $800: The Borg-Warner Trophy is awarded every year to the winner of this epic auto race held on Memorial Day weekend the Indy 500 |
#4918, aired 2006-01-18 | INSPIRED BY ZAGAT $800: Visitors praised the "beautiful fjords" & "midnight sun" but thought Alesund "smelled like herring" Norway |
#4914, aired 2006-01-12 | EASILY IMITATED $600: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Humphrey Bogart |
#4910, aired 2006-01-06 | PATRIOTIC SONGS' OTHER LYRICS $400: "O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife" "America The Beautiful" |
#4908, aired 2006-01-04 | MYTHING IN ACTION $200: "Don't hate" her because the maiden Psyche was just too this, or so the myth says beautiful |
#4907, aired 2006-01-03 | SOAP DISH $1600: Once "the soap of beautiful women", this fragrant bar with a French-sounding name was introduced in 1926 Camay |
#4899, aired 2005-12-22 | MOVIE NEWCOMERS $400: "Pushover" features this woman seen here in her first lead
"Afraid I don't read the paper. And I don't know anyone named Harry." Kim Novak |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $1200: It describes the "skies" in "America The Beautiful" spacious |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | WHAT A GEM! $400: Emeralds owe their beautiful green color to tiny amounts of this element, Cr, in their crystals chromium |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: Famous for his chairs, in 1946 this designer had the first one-man furniture exhibit at MoMA (Charles) Eames |
#4869, aired 2005-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue suspended in a bubble in front of a giant clock in the Gershwin Theatre in New York.) In the hit musical "Wicked", this beautiful resident of Oz floats in high above the set Glinda (the Good Witch) |
#4856, aired 2005-10-24 | SAINT PETERSBURG $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from the beautiful Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.) The Peacock Clock at the Hermitage was given to Catherine the Great by this prince for whom a Russian battleship was named Potemkin |
#4854, aired 2005-10-20 | HOME PAGES $2000: Beautiful but penniless Lily Bart overdoses on chloral in this not-so-jolly book by Edith Wharton The House of Mirth |
#4851, aired 2005-10-17 | KEANU REEVES $200: In 1995 Keanu was chosen one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by this magazine People magazine |
#4849, aired 2005-10-13 | NATURE STUDY $800: The prickly pear, or Indian fig, is neither a pear nor a fig; it's a type of this succulent cactus |
#4848, aired 2005-10-12 | BLONDE AMBITION $1000: In 2005 she & hubby Nick Lachey were among People magazine's Most Beautiful Couples Jessica Simpson |
#4844, aired 2005-10-06 | SCARFACE $1000: Capone's home from August 1934 through November 1939 Alcatraz |
#4836, aired 2005-09-26 | CITY NICKNAMES $600 (Daily Double): "Garden City",
"America's Most Beautiful City",
Georgia Savannah |
#4833, aired 2005-09-21 | STATE THE ITEM $800: "Yes, I lost my little darlin' the night they were playing" this beautiful state song the "Tennessee Waltz" |
#4832, aired 2005-09-20 | THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew fawns over a metal-plated case in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This beautiful humidor, sans cigars, was given to John F. Kennedy by this cranky premier when they first met in Vienna in 1961 Nikita Khrushchev |
#4826, aired 2005-09-12 | A BALTIC CRUISE $1600: (In his very first clue on the show, Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Germany.) From its buildings & its setting, it makes sense that this North German city was originally called Liubice, or beautiful Lübeck |
#4814, aired 2005-07-07 | READ THE BOOK $400: "The Beautiful and Damned", his second novel, takes place during the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#4789, aired 2005-06-02 | PICK ME A WIENER $3,000 (Daily Double): Born near Vienna in 1797, he died at age 31 after being a "lieder" in his field Schubert |
#4780, aired 2005-05-20 | WORLD COINS $2000: This land of the "dragon people" depicts Saturn on its beautiful 1995 1-sertum solar system coin Bhutan |
#4775, aired 2005-05-13 | UNIVERSITIES BY ALUMNI $1,800 (Daily Double): Mathematician John Nash,
Donald Rumsfeld Princeton |
#4773, aired 2005-05-11 | ALSO A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $5,600 (Daily Double): Greek muse whose name means "beautiful voice" Calliope |
#4767, aired 2005-05-03 | LET'S LEARN SCOTTISH GAELIC $1600: If you know cardhu ("black rock") & laphroaig ("beautiful hollow by the broad bay") you either love Gaelic or this scotches |
#4766, aired 2005-05-02 | POP CULTURE $200: Jack Handey "Deep Thought": "To me", this sport "is like a ballet, except, there's no music... and the dancers hit each other" boxing |
#4744, aired 2005-03-31 | FLOWER NAMES $2000: The name of this garden flower, seen here, comes from Greek words for "water" & "vessel" hydrangeas |
#4731, aired 2005-03-14 | COMPOSERS $2000: Featured in "Somewhere in Time", his beautiful "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" is heard here Rachmaninoff |
#4707, aired 2005-02-08 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $800: This egghead egg-splains that the beautiful cravat he's wearing was an un-birthday present Humpty Dumpty |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | WORLD TRAVEL $1600: You'll find the beautiful Butchart Gardens 14 miles north of this city, the "queen" of British Columbia Victoria |
#4705, aired 2005-02-04 | FRENCH LESSONS WITH MOM $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew as "Mom" gives the clue.) I know you want to talk to that girl in your homeroom. Try this: "Que vous êtes jolie." You're telling her flat-out she's this gorgeous (or cute or beautiful or pretty) |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $1200: In 1991 Heather Tom was a teen when she debuted as Victor Newman's daughter on this CBS soap opera The Young & the Restless |
#4696, aired 2005-01-24 | U.S. LAKES & RIVERS $400: 1,645 feet deep, this beautiful blue lake on the California-Nevada border is one of North America's deepest Lake Tahoe |
#4679, aired 2004-12-30 | SNOWY SONGS $800: "In the lane snow is glistening, a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight" in this place a winter wonderland |
#4671, aired 2004-12-20 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands by a table with architectural drawings on it in the Frank Lloyd Wright home in Oak Park.) A colleague said Wright maneuvered his T-square with beautiful dexterity in this activity for which this room is named drafting |
#4665, aired 2004-12-10 | SPANISH CLASS $1600: The traditional mariachi tune "Cielito Lindo" addresses a woman as "Beautiful little" this sky |
#4663, aired 2004-12-08 | I HEAR A SYMPHONY $2000: Mozart's 38th is called by the name of this city that stood in for Vienna in the filming of "Amadeus" Prague |
#4649, aired 2004-11-18 | THINGS TO GIVE THANKS FOR $800: Melody, rhythm & this third main element, used as a synonym for "chord", making music beautiful harmony |
#4643, aired 2004-11-10 | TRAVEL $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew in Venice, Italy.) I'm here in Venice on this beautiful square which Napoleon called "The Drawing Room of Europe" St. Mark's Square |
#4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $2000: "A Beautiful Mind" (John) Nash |
#4628, aired 2004-10-20 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $400: In Europe, the beautiful blue Danube eventually empties into this sea of another color the Black Sea |
#4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: In an opera based on history, the pharaoh Akhenaten gives up polygamy for this beautiful queen Nefertiti |
#4621, aired 2004-10-11 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Crime novelist who wrote "The Big Bounce", composed "Suzanne" & penned "Beautiful Losers" Elmore Leonard Cohen |
#4608, aired 2004-09-22 | METER MAIDS $1200: This lady from an old New England family wrote "A Lady", which says, "You are beautiful and faded, like an old opera tune" (Amy) Lowell |
#4603, aired 2004-09-15 | FEMMES FATALES $600: A legendary beautiful woman living on a rock in this river, Lorelei was said to lure sailors to their deaths the Rhine |
#4585, aired 2004-07-09 | THE FIRST WORD $1600: In the novel "Gone with the Wind" Scarlett |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | PURPLE HAZE $200: In 1893 Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain" in this song "America The Beautiful" |
#4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FAMOUS MEN $1200: This fashion photographer who died in 2004 defined the "Cosmo Girl", shooting covers for 3 decades Francesco Scavullo |
#4548, aired 2004-05-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: Often used of women, it's a fancy word for beautiful pulchritudinous |
#4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $400: Some think this Irving Berlin song should replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem -- it's easier to sing "God Bless America" |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | HIT SONGS $200: This song by Christina Aguilera says, "You are" this, "no matter what they say" & "in every single way" beautiful |
#4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NATIONS $400: 1998:
"Life Is Beautiful" Italy |
#4519, aired 2004-04-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: One version of this story begins, "There was once a poor miller who had a very beautiful daughter" "Rumpelstiltskin" |
#4504, aired 2004-03-18 | AMERICANA $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rides a carousel.) My beautiful steed was carved by Charles I.D. Looff, who designed the first carousel at this Brooklyn site back in 1875 Coney Island |
#4503, aired 2004-03-17 | ENDS IN "ELLA" $400: This female first name is Italian for "beautiful" Bella |
#4500, aired 2004-03-12 | STOCK SYMBOLS $400: Purveyor of beautiful baubles:
TIF Tiffany |
#4485, aired 2004-02-20 | TRL $600: (Sarah takes us on another stop on TRL Street.) Our Christina Aguilera video is a track on this 2002 CD, also the name of her world tour:
"I am beautiful; no matter what they say..." "Stripped" |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THE MOVIES? $600 (Daily Double): She was discovered while performing at the 1940 Aquacade in San Francisco Esther Williams |
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 | CUBA $800: In 1997 this magazine chose Cuba as one of its "50 Most Beautiful" People |
#4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE KIDS' TABLE $800: As the ugly duckling was really a swan, he was in truth the beautiful this cygnet |
#4436, aired 2003-12-15 | SHOW $1200: "Ganzl's Book" calls Aldonza in this musical "a wildcat"; Playbill calls her "the beautiful whore" Man of La Mancha |
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 | MOVIE SONGS $1000: "Beautiful Maria of My Soul"
(1992) The Mambo Kings |
#4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $200: Ron Howard grabbed 2 Oscars in quick succession as director & producer of this film A Beautiful Mind |
#4419, aired 2003-11-20 | COLLEGE PROFESSORS $800: M.I.T. Professor & Nobel Prize winner John Nash inspired this Oscar-winning movie A Beautiful Mind |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | HEY, "BEAUTIFUL" $200: The last line of this classic song is "And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!" "America The Beautiful" |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | HEY, "BEAUTIFUL" $400: In its original Italian, this 1997 film is titled "La Vita e Bella" Life is Beautiful |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | HEY, "BEAUTIFUL" $600: Title woman the unhappy seeker heard here is looking for
Tell her I'm sorry
Tell her I need my baby "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | HEY, "BEAUTIFUL" $800: Seen on CBS, this soap opera premiered in 1987 The Bold and the Beautiful |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | HEY, "BEAUTIFUL" $1000: BBW, the publication that bills itself as "The Original Magazine for Plus-Size Women", stands for this Big Beautiful Woman |
#4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $2000: A person who looks after others, like a bodyguard or a babysitter; John Nash would be a beautiful one a minder |
#4399, aired 2003-10-23 | BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $800: 2001:
Akiva Goldsman for this biography of a schizophrenic math genius A Beautiful Mind |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | PATRIOTIC SONG TITLES $1200: "O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..." "America The Beautiful" |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | THE "BALD" & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: In 1782 it became a national symbol bald eagle |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | THE "BALD" & THE BEAUTIFUL $800: Nonsense! balderdash |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | THE "BALD" & THE BEAUTIFUL $1200: An 1867 Mussorgsky symphonic composition is about a "Night on" this Bald Mountain |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | THE "BALD" & THE BEAUTIFUL $1600: In French this Absurdist play from Eugene Ionesco is "La Cantatrice Chauve" The Bald Soprano |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | THE "BALD" & THE BEAUTIFUL $2000: "Saving Faith" & "Absolute Power" are among the bestselling novels by this author David Baldacci |
#4362, aired 2003-07-15 | PEN NAMES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) Appropriately, the name of this kind of pen is from the Greek for "beautiful writing" calligraphy |
#4356, aired 2003-07-07 | BIBLICAL WOMEN $600: 2 Samuel says that this wife of David was "very beautiful to look upon" Bathsheba |
#4352, aired 2003-07-01 | PLAYING THE PALACE $400: In 1825 John Nash used his beautiful mind to remodel this London royal residence Buckingham Palace |
#4323, aired 2003-05-21 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $2000: Perseus rescued this beautiful maiden, who was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a monster Andromeda |
#4316, aired 2003-05-12 | LIMERICKS $200: Here's a sartorial story
There was a young man of the cape, who always wore trousers of crepe, when asked don't they tear, he replied here and there,
but they keep such a beautiful ____ shape |
#4306, aired 2003-04-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Margaret Mitchell began this book, "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it..." "Gone with the Wind" |
#4295, aired 2003-04-11 | '60s LYRICS $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is in Albuquerque.) This '60s pop tune asks, "Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?" "Up, Up And Away" |
#4289, aired 2003-04-03 | ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1600: James A. Michener once called this island 143 miles northwest of Tahiti the world's most beautiful island island Bora Bora |
#4278, aired 2003-03-19 | "A" PLUS $2000: It's the color mentioned in the second line of "America the Beautiful" amber |
#4273, aired 2003-03-12 | SCULPTURE $1000: The name of this famous statue of Apollo appropriately means "beautiful view" "Belvidere" |
#4266, aired 2003-03-03 | GLAMOUR GIRLS OF SONG $200: What's age got to do with it? People Magazine put this sexy sexagenarian on its 2000 list of the World's Most Beautiful People Tina Turner |
#4266, aired 2003-03-03 | GLAMOUR GIRLS OF SONG $600: The 2002 revival of the fairy tale musical "Into the Woods" starred this beautiful singer seen here Vanessa Williams |
#4260, aired 2003-02-21 | STIRRING SONGS $1200: (Hi, I'm Harry Connick, Jr.) On my 1999 album "Come by Me", I play this beautiful Irish song that uses the melody from "Londonderry Air" "Danny Boy" |
#4242, aired 2003-01-28 | PIANO PIECES $1200: The Brahms work heard here is this type of dance music waltz |
#4228, aired 2003-01-08 | HAPPY ENDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Social misfit Mia Thermopolis turns into a beautiful young woman fit for the throne of Genovia in this 2001 film The Princess Diaries |
#4227, aired 2003-01-07 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $300 (Daily Double): In a 2001 tale by Alice Hoffman, Aquamarine is a beautiful & brokenhearted one of these creatures a mermaid |
#4218, aired 2002-12-25 | CURLY $1200: In mythology, Athena changed the beautiful curls of this maiden into hissing serpents Medusa |
#4215, aired 2002-12-20 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $1200: "Oklahoma!" opens with Curly singing this song about the new day "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" |
#4193, aired 2002-11-20 | DRUGS $7,400 (Daily Double): Used today as an antispasmodic asthma treatment, this drug's name is Italian for "beautiful woman" belladonna |
#4187, aired 2002-11-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $400: This director spent "Happy Days" studying cinema at USC long before he won an Oscar in 2002 -- what "A Beautiful Mind" Ron Howard |
#4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $1600: Julie Christie won an Oscar as a beautiful but empty woman in this "endearing" 1965 film Darling |
#4176, aired 2002-10-28 | BIOGRAPHIES $800: Title of Sylvia Nasar's tale of "The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash" "A Beautiful Mind" |
#4173, aired 2002-10-23 | THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH $400: In a letter on the capture of Vicksburg, Lincoln referred to it as the "Father of Waters" Mississippi River |
#4173, aired 2002-10-23 | THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH $800: Nicknames for this city include "The Metropolis of the New South" & "Derby Town" Louisville |
#4173, aired 2002-10-23 | THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH $1200: (Hi, I'm Harry Connick Jr.) At age 5 I played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at my dad's inauguration as D.A. of this "Crescent City", my hometown New Orleans |
#4173, aired 2002-10-23 | THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH $1600: Carter's Grove, a magnificent plantation home, is just 7 1/2 miles from the colonial area of this Virginia town Williamsburg |
#4173, aired 2002-10-23 | THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH $2000: John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" depicts some colorful characters in this Georgia city Savannah |
#4156, aired 2002-09-30 | ROCK OF AGES $600: Ringo Starr's girl was this title age, beautiful & his, while Chuck Berry's was sweet & little 16 |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE $800: Many beautiful images like the one seen here have been given to us by this famous space telescope Hubble Space Telescope |
#4145, aired 2002-09-13 | A NATION OF ASIA $800: In the 16th century Portuguese sailors named this island "Ilha Formosa" or "beautiful island" Taiwan |
#4139, aired 2002-09-05 | HUMPHREY BOGART MOVIES $400: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
#4077, aired 2002-04-30 | A BEAUTIFUL "IND" $200: Lacking the sense of sight blind |
#4077, aired 2002-04-30 | A BEAUTIFUL "IND" $400: Something used to help you recall an important fact or duty a reminder |
#4077, aired 2002-04-30 | A BEAUTIFUL "IND" $600: Sir Francis Drake's "precious metal" flagship the Golden Hind |
#4077, aired 2002-04-30 | A BEAUTIFUL "IND" $800: One who discovers a new route, or the title of a James Fenimore Cooper novel the pathfinder |
#4077, aired 2002-04-30 | A BEAUTIFUL "IND" $1000: A highly intelligent person who plans & directs a criminal activity a mastermind |
#4070, aired 2002-04-19 | FEELIN' BLUE $400: Virginia's beautiful Skyline Drive runs through this range of the Appalachians the Blue Ridge |
#4060, aired 2002-04-05 | "ON" WORKS FOR ME $2000: Waltz in & give us the full 5-word title of the following work "On The Beautiful Blue Danube" |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $1000: His Oscar win for "Life is Beautiful" made him so elated he walked on chairs (Roberto) Benigni |
#4048, aired 2002-03-20 | TENORS, ANYONE? $1000: A soccer accident when he was 12 left him blind, but he's often said to have the most beautiful voice in the world (Andrea) Bocelli |
#4048, aired 2002-03-20 | THAT'S ITALIAN $1200: This 5-letter adjective for a beautiful woman is often heard after "ciao" bella |
#4023, aired 2002-02-13 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: Franz Schubert called this man's overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" "the most beautiful in the whole world" Mozart |
#3997, aired 2002-01-08 | HONORARY DEGREES $400: It was a beautiful day in his neighborhood when he got a Ph.D. from Middlebury Mister Rogers |
#3966, aired 2001-11-26 | GOOD TOMES $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.) This man's second novel, 1922's "The Beautiful and Damned", features scenes in the Plaza's Grill Room F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#3962, aired 2001-11-20 | COMMERCIAL SUCCESS $800: This retail chain used Devo's "Beautiful World" to push its blue products & Petula Clark's "Sign Of The Times" for red Target |
#3958, aired 2001-11-14 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: H.L. Mencken said, "No romantic novel ever written in America... is one half so beautiful as" this one by Willa Cather My Antonia |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $100: Colorful images in this patriotic classic include "purple mountain majesties" & "amber waves of grain" "America The Beautiful" |
#3946, aired 2001-10-29 | ART-PODGE $100: This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases Ming |
#3927, aired 2001-10-02 | HEY, BEAUTIFUL $200: She auditioned for the role of Cordelia on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" but won the title role instead Sarah Michelle Gellar |
#3927, aired 2001-10-02 | HEY, BEAUTIFUL $400: Apparently, "What Women Want" was to vote his gams the "Sexiest Celebrity Legs" in a 2001 survey by Hanes Mel Gibson |
#3927, aired 2001-10-02 | HEY, BEAUTIFUL $600: She probably should've had the "Basic Instinct" not to appear in "Police Academy 4" Sharon Stone |
#3927, aired 2001-10-02 | HEY, BEAUTIFUL $800: This actor led the Soggy Bottom Boys in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" George Clooney |
#3927, aired 2001-10-02 | HEY, BEAUTIFUL $1000: David Copperfield's 6-year engagement to this German supermodel disappeared in 1999 Claudia Schiffer |
#3914, aired 2001-09-13 | MYTHING IN ACTION $200: A beautiful young Trojan, Ganymede was whisked away to this home of the gods to be their cupbearer Mount Olympus |
#3905, aired 2001-07-20 | AM I BLUE? $400: Blue is the online magazine of this company known for its beautiful blue jasperware Wedgwood |
#3900, aired 2001-07-13 | EMERIL'S TV DINNERS $500: Emeril's momma taught him that this pungent bulb is a beautiful thing; he drizzles it with olive oil & roasts it garlic |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: His ballad "Beautiful Dreamer" wasn't published until after his death Stephen Foster |
#3874, aired 2001-06-07 | THE FIRST PERSON $200: The beautiful female seen here refers to herself with this French pronoun moi |
#3849, aired 2001-05-03 | HISTORIC DATES $100: On this date in separate years "America" was first sung publicly and "America the Beautiful" was first published July 4th |
#3847, aired 2001-05-01 | CHOICE PARENTS $800: Now for some good news: this anchorwoman & Maury Povich adopted a beautiful boy Connie Chung |
#3846, aired 2001-04-30 | T"EEN" $400: From the Middle English for "beautiful", it's the last name of "presidential" actor Martin Sheen |
#3842, aired 2001-04-24 | "LE" CATEGORIE $200: This TV "Friend" was one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2000 Matt LeBlanc |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: Artist George Romney thought this beautiful lady was quite an eyeful; so did Lord Nelson Lady Hamilton |
#3828, aired 2001-04-04 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $100: The Hungarians call this "Beautiful Blue" river the Duna Danube |
#3825, aired 2001-03-30 | FAMOUS JESSICAS $1,000 (Daily Double): One of People's 50 Most Beautiful was this 1948 & 1978 Tony Award winner Jessica Tandy |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $100: "Beautiful" starring Minnie Driver marked the big screen directorial debut of this "Norma Rae" star Sally Field |
#3815, aired 2001-03-16 | AYE! IT'S IRELAND $300: Reflecting its lush, beautiful countryside. it's Ireland's gem of a nickname "The Emerald Isle" |
#3815, aired 2001-03-16 | OXYMORONS $800: Roberto Benigni's film "Life Is Beautiful" is a beautiful example of this oxymoronic genre tragic comedy |
#3801, aired 2001-02-26 | HAWAII $200: These beautiful Hawaiian garlands aren't always made of flowers: seeds & shells are used, too Leis |
#3797, aired 2001-02-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: Portuguese for "beautiful", it's a city in northern Argentina, & also an old name for Taiwan Formosa |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | CELEBRITIES $500: His film "La Vita e Bella" or "Life is Beautiful" was inspired by his father who was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen Roberto Benigni |
#3792, aired 2001-02-13 | SPEAKING ESPERANTO $100: Esperanto adverbs generally end in "E"; these words, like bela for "beautiful", in "A" Adjectives |
#3788, aired 2001-02-07 | VAUDEVILLE $400: The billing of Julian Eltinge, seen here, was "The most beautiful woman in the world is really" this a man |
#3785, aired 2001-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: In 1973 he howled "You Are So Beautiful" to the moon Joe Cocker Spaniel |
#3769, aired 2001-01-11 | MACHO MAN $200: On his official web page, this Minn. governor says he'd like to be remembered for his "beautiful hair" Jesse Ventura |
#3749, aired 2000-12-14 | R&B $600: (Hi, I'm Brian McKnight) In 1993 I duetted with this beautiful lady on the hit song "Love Is" Vanessa Williams |
#3749, aired 2000-12-14 | FRANCO-AMERICAN CITIES $800: Beautiful Mountain, Texas Beaumont |
#3748, aired 2000-12-13 | EUROPEAN PHRASE BOOK $200: If you ask your beautiful young Parisian escort "Parlez vous Anglais?", you've asked her this Do you speak English? |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | THE BEAUTIFUL $200: Her famed rendition of "That Old Black Magic" appears in the 1956 film "Bus Stop" Marilyn Monroe |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | THE BEAUTIFUL $400: Enrique is the real first name of this Puerto Rican who knows how to "Shake Your Bon-Bon" Ricky Martin |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | THE BEAUTIFUL $600: The success of "The Philadelphia Story" as a play & a film helped her shake the reputation of "box office poison" Katharine Hepburn |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | THE BEAUTIFUL $800: He was the title character in 1991's "Johnny Suede" Brad Pitt |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: In a 1957 film photographer Fred Astaire loved her "Funny Face" Audrey Hepburn |
#3708, aired 2000-10-18 | ITALIAN COMPOSERS $1000: Bellissima! Bellini wrote for singers in this style, Italian for "beautiful singing" Bel canto |
#3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $100: In 1951 he gave the first of over 4,500 performances as the King of Siam Yul Brynner |
#3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $200: Bald in the third installment, this actress has starred in all the "Alien" movies Sigourney Weaver |
#3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $300: On the silver screen he's been bald as Ike, Othello & Morpheus Laurence Fishburne |
#3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: This Emmy-winning talk show host, seen here, has also been seen in dramatic roles Montel Williams |
#3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $500: This bald man's early rock band The Marked didn't go far, but his Smashing Pumpkins took over the world Billy Corgan |
#3698, aired 2000-10-04 | DR. SEUSS $400: In this tale the Once-ler tells of how his greed destroyed a beautiful forest of truffula trees The Lorax |
#3688, aired 2000-09-20 | GEOGRAPHIC SQUARES $300: Krasnaya Ploshchad, the Russian name for this, can mean "beautiful square" Red Square |
#3687, aired 2000-09-19 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Anna Sewell classic about Belle & her not so beautiful beau Black Beauty and the Beast |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | WAVES $400: Line that follows "O beautiful for spacious skies" "For amber waves of grain" |
#3640, aired 2000-06-02 | A JOLLY CATEGORY $300: (Hi, I'm Katherine Kelly Lang from The Bold and the Beautiful.) On TV, my dad Keith Wegeman played this "jolly" advertising icon first used in canned peas the Jolly Green Giant |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: "Hello Princess!" directed by & starring Roberto Benigni, this film was re-released in 1999 & dubbed in English Life is Beautiful |
#3579, aired 2000-03-09 | NOVEL OPENINGS $100: 1936:
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm..." Gone with the Wind |
#3570, aired 2000-02-25 | BODIES OF WATER $500: In 1994 many of the beautiful islands in this Vietnamese gulf were designated a world heritage site by UNESCO Gulf of Tonkin |
#3550, aired 2000-01-28 | LETTER PERFECT $200: It's the first word of "America the Beautiful" O |
#3549, aired 2000-01-27 | WALTZING $200: Patti Page lost her "little darlin' the night they were playing" this beautiful song "Tennessee Waltz" |
#3548, aired 2000-01-26 | HYMNS $500: Line that follows "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful..." "The Lord God made them all" |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | ITALIAN CINEMA $100: His film "Life is Beautiful" was widely compared to Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried" Roberto Benigni |
#3532, aired 2000-01-04 | CASABLANCA $300: It completes the film's last line, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of..." A beautiful friendship |
#3515, aired 1999-12-10 | THEY SAYETH OF BEAUTY $600: It's the Oscar Wilde novel that includes the line "It is better to be beautiful than to be good" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
#3513, aired 1999-12-08 | THE CINEMA $500: 1972 film that ends with "Here life is beautiful." The girls are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful" Cabaret |
#3498, aired 1999-11-17 | PEOPLE $200: The first name of this "Ally McBeal" star means "most beautiful" in Greek Calista (Flockhart) |
#3498, aired 1999-11-17 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: It's Keep America Beautiful month, & the month in which you'd find Earth Day April |
#3482, aired 1999-10-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: These beautiful New York mountains are associated with the area once known as the "Borscht Belt" Catskills |
#3442, aired 1999-07-20 | HODGEPODGE $200: He said, "You don't have to be drunk or intoxicated to be attracted to Carmen Electra. She is a beautiful woman" Dennis Rodman |
#3431, aired 1999-07-05 | NAME THE MOVIE $200: 1942:
"Louis, I think this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
#3424, aired 1999-06-24 | BIBLICAL DATING GAME $1,100 (Daily Double): Jacob served 7 years to win the 'beautiful" Rachel, but had to take this "tender-eyed" sister first Leah |
#3410, aired 1999-06-04 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: During one year, 1802, Wordsworth wrote 3 poems about this beautiful winged insect a butterfly |
#3407, aired 1999-06-01 | SISTER CITIES $400: This Moroccan city is a sister to Chicago; it might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Louis Casablanca |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | MODERN AFRICAN WOMEN $600: This beautiful singer known by one name was born in Ibadan, Nigeria in 1959 Sade |
#3395, aired 1999-05-14 | NAME THAT COUNTRY $500: It has a tropical climate; its king is called the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong; there's a beautiful zoo near Kuala Lumpur Malaysia |
#3395, aired 1999-05-14 | TELEVISION $800: (Hi, I'm Laura Lee Bell from The Young and the Restless.) My parents William & Lee Bell created both "The Young and the Restless" & this soap opera which premiered in 1987 The Bold and the Beautiful |
#3379, aired 1999-04-22 | HER STORY $400: In "The Scarlet Letter", the result of her "a"dultery is her beautiful daughter Pearl Hester Prynne |
#3371, aired 1999-04-12 | LET'S GO SHOPPING! $1000: Located at 333 Canal Street, Canal Place is one of the most beautiful shopping centers in this Southern city New Orleans |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | GRAB BAG $400: It's the first color mentioned in the song "America the Beautiful" amber |
#3357, aired 1999-03-23 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $200: Jambonneaux doesn't mean beautiful jam; it's a fancy French word for this animal's knuckles pig's knuckles |
#3338, aired 1999-02-24 | CLIMB IT $300: Some climbers call 27,800-foot Makalu the most beautiful peak in this Asian range Himalayas |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | HISTORY OF PASSION $100: Paris just had to have this beautiful daughter of Zeus, & the rest is history Helen of Troy |
#3317, aired 1999-01-26 | JEOPARDY! 101 $100: From beautiful downtown Culver City, it's the name of the studios where "Jeopardy!" is taped Sony Pictures Studios |
#3311, aired 1999-01-18 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS $1000: In 1998 this beautiful German figure skater played the mistress of a Russian mobster in the movie "Ronin" Katarina Witt |
#3310, aired 1999-01-15 | FIRST NAMES $300: Beautiful, like Ronstadt's voice Linda |
#3308, aired 1999-01-13 | ON THE ROCKS $400: This variety of quartz is a beautiful birthstone amethyst |
#3306, aired 1999-01-11 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $600: It's New England's "City Beautiful" as well as the "Insurance City" Hartford |
#3297, aired 1998-12-29 | THE WORLD OF ISLAM $600: Granada, Spain is home to this fortress-palace, the most beautiful example of western Islamic architecture The Alhambra |
#3275, aired 1998-11-27 | TRAVEL EUROPE $1000: While in this city, stop by its beautiful Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti Palace for a picnic lunch Florence |
#3261, aired 1998-11-09 | OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $200: When David first saw her, she was "washing herself, and" she "was very beautiful to look upon" Bathsheba |
#3261, aired 1998-11-09 | MOUNTAINS $300: The view from the top of this Colorado peak inspired the words to "America The Beautiful" Pikes Peak |
#3254, aired 1998-10-29 | WORLD HODGEPODGE $500: When shopping on Saba, an island in this sea, look for the beautiful, delicate Saba lace the Caribbean Sea |
#3251, aired 1998-10-26 | OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $400: The beautiful Butchart Gardens is one of the top draws in this capital of British Columbia Victoria |
#3235, aired 1998-10-02 | THE "DEAD" ZONE $500: This beautiful lady seen here is extremely poisonous deadly nightshade |
#3200, aired 1998-06-26 | STATES OF THE UNION $500: The name of this "Hawkeye State" means either "Beautiful Land" or "One Who Puts to Sleep" Iowa |
#1, aired 1998-05-03 | SAN FRANCISCO TREATS $200: (Actress Julie Pinson clears her throat before singing the jingle in person.) It promotes itself as "the San Francisco Treat" Rice-A-Roni |
#3140, aired 1998-04-03 | ANCIENT TRAVEL GUIDE $200: Visit here & enjoy Mediterranean cuisine, beautiful women & a huge wooden horse donated by the Greeks Troy |
#3137, aired 1998-03-31 | POP MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Vanessa Marcil.) I've appeared in 2 of this symbolized singer's videos, "Undertaker" & "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" The Artist Formerly Known As Prince |
#3128, aired 1998-03-18 | GENE POOL $1000: Oleg Cassini was once married to this beautiful movie star of the 1940s Gene Tierney |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: The Klamath River rises in this state then empties into the Pacific Ocean in California Oregon |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: Both Dakotas have areas of eroded terrain called this; South Dakota's has a national park named for it Badlands |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: The 288-year-old town of Easton, Maryland sits on the eastern shore of this bay Chesapeake Bay |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: The last time both major party conventions were held in the same place was 1972 in this southern "beach" city Miami |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: The "files" on this large Illinois city include its historic leadership in screw production Rockford |
#3120, aired 1998-03-06 | EUROPEAN RIVERS $100: This "Beautiful Blue" river is blue for only part of its length; mostly it's brown or sepia-colored Danube |
#3120, aired 1998-03-06 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $200: Nebraska's official one is "Beautiful Nebraska"; Ohio's is "Beautiful Ohio" state song |
#3115, aired 1998-02-27 | INTERNATIONAL STARS $400: This beautiful daughter of Ingrid Bergman shared some of her thoughts in her 1997 memoir "Some of Me" Isabella Rossellini |
#3108, aired 1998-02-18 | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS.... $200: Of this deaf composer she wrote, "Sweet sounds, oh beautiful music, do not cease!" L.V. Beethoven |
#3100, aired 1998-02-06 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $100: Grumari has been called "The Most Beautiful" of these in Rio, & Ipanema, "The Most Chic" Beaches |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND $400: Mae West's reply to the comment "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!" "Goodness has nothing to do with it" |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Major tributaries of this beautiful blue river include the Inn of Austria & Germany & the Tisza of Hungary Danube |
#3045, aired 1997-11-21 | FIRST LADIES $400: This Texas-born conservationist headed the First Lady's Committee for A More Beautiful Capital Lady Bird Johnson |
#3045, aired 1997-11-21 | TAKING THE FIFTH $1000: In 1967 they rose to the Top 10 singing "Up, Up And Away In My Beautiful Balloon" The 5th Dimension |
#3038, aired 1997-11-12 | YOU'RE ALL WET! $200: Almost all of Austria's rivers flow into this beautiful blue one Danube |
#3033, aired 1997-11-05 | FLOWER POWER $400: A species of this beautiful tropical flower is classified as vanilla planifolia the orchid |
#3019, aired 1997-10-16 | BEAUTY $200: Like Kate Moss today, beautiful 1960s supermodel Twiggy was best known for this physical quality Being thin |
#2983, aired 1997-07-16 | MYTHOLOGY $500: In early Greek art, these singing water nymphs had the bodies of birds & the faces of beautiful women Sirens |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | THE BIBLE $500: In Genesis Leah is described as "tender eyed" & this sister as "beautiful and well favored" Rachel |
#2963, aired 1997-06-18 | U.S. CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this N.Y. city may be derived from a mispronounciation of "Beau Fleuve", or "Beautiful River" Buffalo |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | DANCE $400: The Minangkabau candlelight dance of Sumatra is one of the most beautiful from this country Indonesia |
#2934, aired 1997-05-08 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $200: Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lies on this "Beautiful Blue" river Danube |
#2934, aired 1997-05-08 | WORLD FAMOUS $400: This beautiful figure skater was once called "The Brooke Shields of East Germany" Katarina Witt |
#2917, aired 1997-04-15 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $400: This luminous display seen in the night sky was said to be the radiance of Gerda, a beautiful maiden the aurora borealis |
#2916, aired 1997-04-14 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This queen of talk shows ranked among Ebony magazine's 15 Most Beautiful Black Women of 1996 Oprah Winfrey |
#2906, aired 1997-03-31 | HOTELS, MOTELS & INNS $400: This future president & his beautiful wife spent part of their 1953 honeymoon at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara John F. Kennedy |
#2890, aired 1997-03-07 | GEOGRAPHY $600: This Taj Mahal city on the Yamuna River is also home to the beautiful marble tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulah Agra |
#2864, aired 1997-01-30 | GEOGRAPHY $800: A breed of sheep is named for this range of hills in western England known for it beautiful villages cotswold |
#2846, aired 1997-01-06 | BIRDS $500: The "snowy" type of this member of the heron family is known for its beautiful white plumes an egret |
#2810, aired 1996-11-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $300: He called his beautiful hilltop estate Monticello, which is Italian for "little mountain" Thomas Jefferson |
#2786, aired 1996-10-14 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $800: The beautiful Rebecca is carried off by Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert in this Sir Walter Scott classic Ivanhoe |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: "Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful" is a volume of poetry by this author of "The Color Purple" (Alice) Walker |
#2756, aired 1996-09-02 | FEMININE NAMES $200: Actress Bergman helped popularize this Scandinavian first name, possibly meaning "beautiful" Ingrid |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BALLET $200: Ravel composed the beautiful score for Michel Fokine's 1912 ballet about "Daphnis and" her Chloe |
#2727, aired 1996-06-11 | BROADWAY LYRICS $200: In "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'", this "is as high as an elephant's eye" the corn |
#2711, aired 1996-05-20 | MAINE $300: Longfellow called this largest Maine city "the beautiful town that is seated by the sea" Portland |
#2698, aired 1996-05-01 | ASIA $300: Legend says the people of this "Land of Snows" descend from a saintly monkey & a beautiful demon Tibet |
#2665, aired 1996-03-15 | CATHEDRALS & CHURCHES $800: The beautiful cathedral in this city SW of Paris was the site of King Henry IV's coronation in 1594 Chartres |
#2663, aired 1996-03-13 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $200: "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm..." Gone with the Wind |
#2656, aired 1996-03-04 | THE U.S. $400: This state's Havasu Canyon has 4 beautiful waterfalls: Navajo, Havasu, Mooney & Beaver Arizona |
#2656, aired 1996-03-04 | THE U.S. $1000: This northernmost lake of Minnesota is shared with Canada Lake of the Woods |
#2656, aired 1996-03-04 | MYTHOLOGICAL RELATIVES $1000: She was the beautiful daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre; a continent is named for her Europa |
#2641, aired 1996-02-12 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: The name of this island nation off the coast of India means "beautiful island" in the native language Sri Lanka |
#2636, aired 1996-02-05 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: On Hangul. Korean Alphabet Day, children compete in this art of beautiful handwriting calligraphy |
#2631, aired 1996-01-29 | ANIMALS $200: The silvery blue, the spring azure & the common oakblue are blue-winged types of this beautiful insect butterfly |
#2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THE INSECT WORLD $100: The Red Admiral is a brush-footed type of this beautiful winged insect a butterfly |
#2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The Tisza, Hungary's longest river, is a branch of this "beautiful blue" river the Danube |
#2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This star of TV's "Hazel" ran a Coney Island boardinghouse in the 1954 musical "By the Beautiful Sea" Shirley Booth |
#2600, aired 1995-12-15 | WOMEN $1000: Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote this patriotic poem in 1893, was a professor at Wellesley America the Beautiful |
#2594, aired 1995-12-07 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $200: The most beautiful woman on Earth, her name came from the Greek for "light" Helen of Troy |
#2592, aired 1995-12-05 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: Susan Lucci & Jensen Buchanan were on this "Digest"'s 1995 list of most beautiful women Soap Opera Digest |
#2553, aired 1995-10-11 | DEMOCRATS $200: In 1995 this Mass. senator eulogized his mother, saying. "She was the most beautiful Rose of all" Ted Kennedy |
#2545, aired 1995-09-29 | SEAFOOD $400: This bivalve is served in its beautiful fan-shaped shell, as in Coquilles St. Jacques scallops |
#2541, aired 1995-09-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This musical opens with the Rodgers & Hammerstein tune "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" Oklahoma! |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | INSECTS $100: Sara orangetip, which has orange-tipped wings, is a type of this beautiful insect a butterfly |
#2516, aired 1995-07-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This Hungarian capital is considered one of Europe's most beautiful cities Budapest |
#2505, aired 1995-06-23 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $100: In song titles it precedes "What a Beautiful Mornin'" & "You Beautiful Doll" Oh |
#2502, aired 1995-06-20 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $300: Add vinegar or lemon juice when cooking this root vegetable to keep its beautiful crimson color the beet |
#2483, aired 1995-05-24 | PARROTS $500: The scarlet is often considered the most beautiful member of this group of large parrots the macaws |
#2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $1000: This French existentialist's "The Proud and the Beautiful" earned him a nom. for Best Motion Picture Story (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
#2422, aired 1995-02-28 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: She's the beautiful teller of tales in "The Thousand and One Nights" Scheherazade |
#2411, aired 1995-02-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, lies on this beautiful island Tahiti |
#2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): This Hawthorne heroine has a beautiful, mischievous daughter named Pearl Hester Prynne |
#2380, aired 1994-12-30 | AWARDS $200: In 1992 he received a Peabody Award for "25 years of beautiful days in the neighborhood" Mister Rogers |
#2357, aired 1994-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $200: In Greek myth this most beautiful woman was not so much born as hatched Helen |
#2354, aired 1994-11-24 | MYTHOLOGY $200: This lone mortal among the Gorgons was once a beautiful maiden with beautiful hair Medusa |
#2353, aired 1994-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This ode poet wrote about a knight enthralled by a beautiful lady in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" John Keats |
#2352, aired 1994-11-22 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $100: The Volksgarden, a beautiful park in this Austrian capital, is famous for its rose trees Vienna |
#2350, aired 1994-11-18 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $1000: Dr. Tertius Lydgate marries the beautiful, but shallow Rosamund Vinci in her novel "Middlemarch" George Eliot |
#2344, aired 1994-11-10 | LANDMARKS $600: This beautiful white mausoleum stands on the banks of the Yamuna River at Agra, India the Taj Mahal |
#2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The high-living hero & heroine of his 1922 novel "The Beautiful and Damned" resemble him & his wife Zelda F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#2340, aired 1994-11-04 | RELIGION $600: The name of Durga, a fierce & beautiful goddess of this religion, is Sanskrit for "the inaccessible" Hindu |
#2318, aired 1994-10-05 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $200: One legend says this beautiful woman of Troy ended up on an island, married to Achilles Helen |
#2296, aired 1994-09-05 | MUSEUMS $400: Every year this Fifth Avenue art museum decorates a Christmas tree with beautiful Baroque angels the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
#2283, aired 1994-07-06 | BRANSON, MISSOURI $100: This singer's beautiful Moon River Theatre is a showcase for his collection of paintings & Navajo blankets Andy Williams |
#2277, aired 1994-06-28 | BAPTISTS $200: Samuel Francis Smith, a Baptist clergyman, wrote new words to "God Save the King", creating this song "America" ("My Country, 'Tis Of Thee") |
#2267, aired 1994-06-14 | WORLD FACTS $600: Tulum, one of the most beautiful Mayan sites in Mexico, overlooks this sea Caribbean |
#2228, aired 1994-04-20 | ANCIENT EGYPT $400: The name of this wife of Akhenaton means "the beautiful woman has come" Nefertiti |
#2187, aired 1994-02-22 | ROYALTY $100: This beautiful Egyptian queen was also known as Nefer-Neferu-Aton Nefertiti |
#2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $300: This beautiful mausoleum found in Agra is a masterpiece of Mogul architecture the Taj Mahal |
#2183, aired 1994-02-16 | WORLD FACTS $200: Romanians call this "beautiful blue" river Dunarea the Danube |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | SOAP OPERAS $500: On Oct. 18, 1993 Michael Sabatino flew out of "Days of Our Lives" & drove onto this fashion industry soap The Bold and the Beautiful |
#2174, aired 1994-02-03 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: He awarded Aphrodite the Golden Apple after judging her the most beautiful goddess Paris |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | CATHEDRALS $1000: This city's beautiful cathedral stands near the Alcazar Palace, as Carmen could have told you Seville |
#2139, aired 1993-12-16 | CANADA $400: Canada's beautiful National Gallery isn't far from the Parliament buildings in this city Ottawa |
#2128, aired 1993-12-01 | HISTORICAL OPERAS $200: You need a mezzo to play this beautiful queen in Phillip Glass's opera "Akhenaton" Nefertiti |
#2117, aired 1993-11-16 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $400: From the Greek for "beautiful strong", it's an exercise program that will shape you up calisthenics |
#2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BODIES OF WATER $300: Associated with a beautiful siren, the Lorelei is a famous rock in this river the Rhine |
#2108, aired 1993-11-03 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: The Grand Place in this Belgian capital is one of the most beautiful squares in Europe Brussels |
#2108, aired 1993-11-03 | DIVAS $1000: In Brooklyn she won a contest as the most beautiful baby of 1932 Beverly Sills |
#2100, aired 1993-10-22 | ITALIAN FOOD $500: The name of this semisoft, mild cheese can be translated as "beautiful country" Bel Paese |
#2099, aired 1993-10-21 | POETRY $400: The name that completes Poe's line "And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful..." Annabel Lee |
#2094, aired 1993-10-14 | BODIES OF WATER $600: This "Beautiful Blue" river receives over 300 tributaries, many of them in the region around Belgrade the Danube |
#2089, aired 1993-10-07 | FASHION HISTORY $1000: Collier's Encyclopedia says this beautiful wife of Napoleon III once wore a gown with 113 flounces Eugénie |
#2080, aired 1993-09-24 | OKLAHOMA! $600: In the Danish production, this opening number translated to "Aah, Sikken' Morgen Saa Dejlig" "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" |
#2061, aired 1993-07-19 | ANIMALS $100: An orb weaver, which is this kind of animal, is known for spinning beautiful, intricate webs a spider |
#2055, aired 1993-07-09 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Charles Bulfinch is famous for the beautiful houses he built on Beacon Hill in this city Boston |
#2044, aired 1993-06-24 | SONG STANDARDS $500: In "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'", "The corn is as high as" this an elephant's eye |
#2043, aired 1993-06-23 | 1950s TV $200: This beautiful Oscar winner's dramatic anthology series was originally titled "A Letter to Loretta" Loretta Young |
#2030, aired 1993-06-04 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $800: Thor's wife Sif had her beautiful hair stolen by this mischief-maker Loki |
#2007, aired 1993-05-04 | COMPOSERS $600: The 19th century American who wrote "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" & "Beautiful Dreamer" Stephen Foster |
#2001, aired 1993-04-26 | FOOD $100: The name of this Scottish quick bread is akin to the German for "beautiful", Schon a scone |
#1999, aired 1993-04-22 | TOYS & GAMES $500: Colorful fragments form patterns inside this toy whose name is from the Greek for "beautiful form viewer" a kaleidoscope |
#1996, aired 1993-04-19 | AD LINES $500: This brand of make-up is "redefining beautiful" Cover Girl |
#1982, aired 1993-03-30 | MYTHOLOGY $800: In Greek myth this goddess had a magical girdle that made those who wore it charming & beautiful Aphrodite |
#1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: On winning his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest Hemingway said it should have gone to this "Beautiful" Danish writer instead Isak Dinesen |
#1970, aired 1993-03-12 | LEFTOVERS $1000: From the Greek for "foreign" or "alien", it can also mean "strangely beautiful & enticing" exotic |
#1944, aired 1993-02-04 | THE HUMAN BODY $1000: To make them "beautiful women", Italian women once used drops of belladonna to enlarge these pupils in their eyes |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | PEAS $300: It's the transportation for "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" a beautiful pea-green boat |
#1936, aired 1993-01-25 | OSCAR WILDE $300 (Daily Double): Its preface begins, "The artist is the creator of beautiful things" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
#1914, aired 1992-12-24 | STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS $400: Title preceding "Wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee" "Beautiful Dreamer" |
#1906, aired 1992-12-14 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: This "beautiful blue" river begins as 2 small springs, the Breg & Brigach, in the Black Forest the Danube |
#1894, aired 1992-11-26 | ALAN & MARILYN BERGMAN SONGS $500 (Daily Double): 1983 film that included the following
Academy Award nominee:
Can you hear me?
Papa, can you see me?
Papa, can you find me in the night? Yentl |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | "UP" $600: This 1967 5th Dimension hit begins, "Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon" "Up, Up And Away" |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | CATS $200: Some cats might "envy" the Russian blue's beautiful eyes, which are this color green |
#1766, aired 1992-04-13 | ARTISTS $1000: In 1578 a beautiful woman from Toledo bore a son by this Greek artist El Greco |
#1746, aired 1992-03-16 | NOVELS $600: She's the beautiful Gypsy girl who "rang" Quasimodo's bells Esmeralda |
#1715, aired 1992-01-31 | SONG $1000: "Songs and Dances of Death" is a beautiful song cycle by this "Boris Godunov" composer Modest Mussorgsky |
#1714, aired 1992-01-30 | U.S.A. $300: Sedona in this state is famous for its beautiful red rock formations Arizona |
#1690, aired 1991-12-27 | THE ILIAD $600: For settling a dispute in her favor, Aphrodite promises him the world's most beautiful woman as his wife Paris |
#1686, aired 1991-12-23 | SONGS OF THE '60s $400: Legend says days before his 1864 death at Bellevue he wrote "Beautiful Dreamer", but it's not true Stephen Foster |
#1680, aired 1991-12-13 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $400: In "America the Beautiful" it's described as "shining" sea |
#1678, aired 1991-12-11 | GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES $100: A beautiful princess breaks the spell that turned a handsome prince into one of these amphibians a frog |
#1674, aired 1991-12-05 | GLASS $1,000 (Daily Double): The addition of this element to glass makes it sparkle--& makes it heavier lead |
#1667, aired 1991-11-26 | BIRDS $100: In Florida these birds were killed off in the wild for their beautiful pink feathers flamingos |
#1666, aired 1991-11-25 | "WITH" $300: In "America the Beautiful", this lyric follows "and crown thy good..." with brotherhood |
#1646, aired 1991-10-28 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $500: A broad, flat cap often worn by Scottish soldiers, or the state flower of Texas the bluebonnet |
#1641, aired 1991-10-21 | PIKES PEAK $2,000 (Daily Double): Katharine Lee Bates wrote the lyrics to this patriotic song after seeing the view from atop the peak "America The Beautiful" |
#1638, aired 1991-10-16 | THE TWENTIETH CENTURY $500: This Nazi war criminal committed suicide hours before his scheduled Oct. 16, 1946 execution Hermann Goering |
#1634, aired 1991-10-10 | DANCE $3,000 (Daily Double): 1975 Broadway musical in which dancers sang the following:
"Everyone is beautiful at the ballet /
Every prince has got to have his swan /
Yes, everyone..." A Chorus Line |
#1629, aired 1991-10-03 | WORLD CITIES $600: Napoleon called this Italian city's Piazza San Marco "the most beautiful drawing room in Europe" Venice |
#1620, aired 1991-09-20 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $300: Salamanca in this country boasts 1 of the most beautiful squares in Europe, the Plaza Mayor Spain |
#1614, aired 1991-09-12 | CELEBRITY SPELLING $500: Gene Kelly didn't go back to Brigadoon to see Sid Caesar, but to be with this Cyd (Cyd) C-H-A-R-I-S-S-E |
#1600, aired 1991-07-12 | ISLANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Early Portuguese explorers called this island "Ilha Formosa" or Beautiful Island Taiwan |
#1587, aired 1991-06-25 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A beautiful painted bust of her was found at Tell el-Amarna in 1912, many centuries after her death Nefertiti |
#1573, aired 1991-06-05 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $300: Most beautiful baby of 1932, in Brooklyn, this opera diva is nicknamed "Bubbles" Beverly Sills |
#1561, aired 1991-05-20 | SILLY SONGS $100: "You and I,
You and I,
Oh! How happy we'll be" here by the sea (by the beautiful sea) |
#1561, aired 1991-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $200: Some say its name is from the French "beau pleuve", beautiful river, not from bison Buffalo |
#1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FAIRY TALE BIRDS $100: The Grimms said this heroine got her beautiful clothes from a little white bird, not a fairy godmother Cinderella |
#1534, aired 1991-04-11 | "ALL" OR "NOTHING" $200: 1 of 3 James Herriot book titles taken from a poem by Cecil F. Alexander (1 of) All Creatures Great And Small, All Things Wise And Wonderful, or All Things Bright And Beautiful |
#1528, aired 1991-04-03 | BRITISH ROYALTY $200: This beautiful princess became president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1989 Princess Di |
#1528, aired 1991-04-03 | LYRICISTS $500: He & B. Comden made beautiful lyrics together for "On the Town" & "Wonderful Town" (Adolph) Green |
#1500, aired 1991-02-22 | ANIMALS $500: Some of the largest & most beautiful of these insects belong to the swallowtail family butterflies |
#1499, aired 1991-02-21 | COLORS $400: The color of the "mountain majesties" in "America The Beautiful" purple |
#1494, aired 1991-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: This "Great" czar was 17 when his mother arranged for him to marry a beautiful girl named Eudoxia Peter the Great |
#1489, aired 1991-02-07 | DAYTIME DRAMAS $400: The 2 current soaps with "and" in their titles & they're both on CBS The Bold and the Beautiful & The Young and the Restless |
#1482, aired 1991-01-29 | LITERATURE $600: Title of the John Keats poem that means "the beautiful lady without mercy" "La Belle Dame sans Merci" |
#1460, aired 1990-12-28 | JOURNALISTS $2,500 (Daily Double): Editor-in-chief of "Vogue" from 1962-71, she coined the expression "beautiful people" Diana Vreeland |
#1457, aired 1990-12-25 | CHRISTMAS $800 (Daily Double): According to Clement Moore, it's how St. Nick's stomach shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly |
#1456, aired 1990-12-24 | NAME THE AUTHOR $400: "The Beautiful and Damned" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#1438, aired 1990-11-28 | HODGEPODGE $100: The waves of grain in "America the Beautiful" are this color amber |
#1410, aired 1990-10-19 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: Many think this so-called "First Lady of Monaco" is Europe's most beautiful princess Princess Caroline |
#1406, aired 1990-10-15 | GHOST STORIES $600: This creator of the Headless Horseman also wrote about the beautiful ghost of a guillotine victim Washington Irving |
#1376, aired 1990-09-03 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This pampered "Little Lord" had beautiful curls & wore a lace collar Little Lord Fauntleroy |
#1374, aired 1990-07-19 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $200: As leader of Taiwan until his death in 1975, he never gave up his claim to authority over all of China Chiang Kai-shek |
#1374, aired 1990-07-19 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $400: In this ancient society, boys had their heads shaved except for a lock on one side Egypt |
#1374, aired 1990-07-19 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $600: Late screen & stage star who described himself as "a nice clean-cut Mongolian boy" Yul Brynner |
#1374, aired 1990-07-19 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $800: Last 2 bald major party presidential candidates to run against each other Eisenhower & Stevenson |
#1374, aired 1990-07-19 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1000: This H.S. dropout became an actor, director & author of the best sellers "Tracy & Hepburn" & "Hollywood" Garson Kanin |
#1366, aired 1990-07-09 | RADIO SITCOMS $400: Beautiful dumb blonde secretary played by beautiful blonde Marie Wilson My Friend Irma |
#1352, aired 1990-06-19 | UKRAINE $700 (Daily Double): This peninsula known for its beautiful resort towns became part of Ukraine in 1954 the Crimea |
#1325, aired 1990-05-11 | ART $400: Greek for "beautiful writing", it's the art of beautiful handwriting Calligraphy |
#1325, aired 1990-05-11 | ART $1,500 (Daily Double): Renoir depicted this mythical character having to choose the most beautiful of 3 goddesses Paris ("The Judgment of Paris") |
#1323, aired 1990-05-09 | BALLET $800: The title character of this Stravinsky ballet is part musical bird & part beautiful woman The Firebird |
#1310, aired 1990-04-20 | A.K.A. $400: This beautiful French actress' real name is Catherine Dorléac Catherine Deneuve |
#1304, aired 1990-04-12 | DOUBLE TALK $500: James Michener said this island, 140 miles NW of Tahiti, is the world's most beautiful Bora Bora |
#1280, aired 1990-03-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $600: The Great White Throne is one of the beautiful rock formations in this state's Zion Nat'l Park Utah |
#1256, aired 1990-02-05 | FICTION $300: In "Alice in Wonderland", it was described as "beautiful soup so rich & green, waiting in a hot tureen" turtle soup |
#1256, aired 1990-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: These for "The Star-Spangled Banner" & "America the Beautiful" were taken from other sources musical notes |
#1233, aired 1990-01-03 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Poet James Lowell asked, "And what is so" this "as a day in June?" rare |
#1222, aired 1989-12-19 | SCULPTURE $800: A large cache of beautiful terra-cotta figurines was found at Tanagra in this country in 1874 Greece |
#1220, aired 1989-12-15 | GEMS $800: This gemstone gets its beautiful deep blue color from a rare mineral called lazurite lapis lazuli |
#1207, aired 1989-11-28 | GEOGRAPHIC SQUARES $200: The Russian name of this Moscow landmark can also be translated "beautiful plaza" Red Square |
#1171, aired 1989-10-09 | MAGAZINES $400: Also known by its initials, BBW, it's "The world's first fashion magazine for the full-size woman Big Beautiful Women |
#1163, aired 1989-09-27 | SONGS THAT "DON'T" $400: This song might explain where country singer Crystal Gayle got those beautiful blue eyes "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" |
#1150, aired 1989-09-08 | LEFTOVERS $200: Its last line is "And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!" "America The Beautiful" |
#1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This poem by Katherine Lee Bates was 1st published on July 4, 1895; the music came later "America the Beautiful" |
#1119, aired 1989-06-15 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $200: He was the 1st constitutional president of China & later the 1st president of Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek |
#1119, aired 1989-06-15 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $400: This TV baseball announcer has hosted "To Tell the Truth" & "Sale of the Century" Joe Garagiola |
#1119, aired 1989-06-15 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $600: He wore a rug playing Archie Bunker's son-in-law; now a director, he wears whatever he wants Rob Reiner |
#1106, aired 1989-05-29 | STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS $500: This "Queen of my Song" was asked to "wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee" Beautiful Dreamer |
#1096, aired 1989-05-15 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $300: Katherine Lee Bates wrote the words "O beautiful for spacious skies" after a trip to this Colo. peak Pikes Peak |
#1094, aired 1989-05-11 | LITERATURE $200: The 1st line of "Gone With the Wind" says that this character "was not beautiful" Scarlett O'Hara |
#1074, aired 1989-04-13 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): The beautiful Emma Hamilton was best known as the mistress of this 19th c. naval hero (Lord) Nelson |
#1072, aired 1989-04-11 | ACTORS $300: Dorothy Lamour said she & this star of "The Music Man" once made beautiful music together Robert Preston |
#1072, aired 1989-04-11 | COLORS $400: The 1st color mentioned in "America the Beautiful" amber |
#1072, aired 1989-04-11 | COLORS $800: "Vegetable" color of the beautiful boat "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea in" pea green |
#1039, aired 1989-02-23 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $200: This conductor of the Boston Pops composed the scores for "Star Wars" & "E.T." John Williams |
#1039, aired 1989-02-23 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $400: Dallas Cowboys' coach noted for his soft hat & sports jackets Tom Landry |
#1039, aired 1989-02-23 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $600: When this Hollywood super agent made 5 deals in 1 day, Humphrey Bogart nicknamed him "Swifty" Irving Lazar |
#1039, aired 1989-02-23 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $800: When Rupert Murdoch bought the Chicago Sun-Times, this columnist switched to the rival Tribune Mike Royko |
#1026, aired 1989-02-06 | PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE $500: This friend of Pee-Wee's, "The most beautiful woman in Puppetland", dresses like a prom queen Miss Yvonne |
#1021, aired 1989-01-30 | ROCKS & MINERALS $4,000 (Daily Double): In "America the Beautiful", type of white gypsum used to describe the gleam of the cities alabaster |
#1004, aired 1989-01-05 | ANCIENT EGYPT $1000: Akhenhaten's wife; her name meant "the beautiful one comes", something said at her birth Nefertiti |
#999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "The victor belongs to the spoils," he claimed in "The Beautiful & the Damned" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#995, aired 1988-12-23 | THE FAR EAST $2,000 (Daily Double): Portuguese sailors named it "Beautiful Island", though the Chinese call it "Terraced Bay" Taiwan or Formosa |
#992, aired 1988-12-20 | ADS & COMMERCIALS $400: In a Pantene shampoo ad Kelly LeBrock says, "Don't hate me because I'm" this beautiful |
#953, aired 1988-10-26 | ICE SKATING $200: This beautiful brunette was the only U.S. gold medal winner at the Grenoble Olympics in 1968 Peggy Fleming |
#927, aired 1988-09-20 | OPERA $400: In Verdi's "Macbeth", he's killed right after singing a beautiful aria & before becoming a ghost Banquo |
#917, aired 1988-09-06 | "UP" & "DOWN" $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following that went up to No. 7 in 1967:
"Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon / Would you like to ride in my..." "Up, Up And Away" |
#896, aired 1988-06-27 | FRUITS $300: The strikingly beautiful akee fruit must only be eaten when ripe for this reason it's poisonous otherwise |
#890, aired 1988-06-17 | "WORLD"LY SONGS $100: She "picks my ties out, eats my candy, drinks my brandy" "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" |
#859, aired 1988-05-05 | LAST WORDS $600: When her husband Robert asked her how she felt, this poet replied, "Beautiful" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
#857, aired 1988-05-03 | CELEBRITIES $500: May West's 1959 autobiography or her response to the line, "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds" Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it |
#854, aired 1988-04-28 | LANDMARKS $200: Russian name of this Moscow site, "Krasnaya Ploshchad", means it's both "beautiful" and "red" Red Square |
#837, aired 1988-04-05 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: Name which ends the line "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful..." Annabel Lee |
#833, aired 1988-03-30 | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $300: In "The Beautiful & Damned", Fitzgerald's marriage to her is fictionally described Zelda |
#805, aired 1988-02-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC $1000: While an English professor at Wellesley, Katherine L. Bates wrote the words for this patriotic song "America the Beautiful" |
#805, aired 1988-02-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC $1,100 (Daily Double): [audio -- music]
It's said the following, his song, played by a street musician was last music this composer heard Stephen Foster |
#798, aired 1988-02-10 | SESAME STREET $200: He was known as the Beautiful Day Monster until he chose a cookie over a trip on a game show Cookie Monster |
#790, aired 1988-01-29 | STARTS WITH "B" $400: Literally Italian for "beautiful lady", this plant is also known as the deadly nightshade belladonna |
#783, aired 1988-01-20 | "ZZ" IN MUSIC $300: He got married in 1935 to the woman with whom he made beautiful music, Harriet Hilliard Ozzie Nelson |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $100: The 1st line of "America the Beautiful" O beautiful for spacious skies |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | BEAUTIFUL "MUSIC" $200: In 1967 folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary intoned "I Dig..." this Rock and Roll Music |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $200: Subtitle of "This is All I Ask", they were asked to "walk a little slower when you walk by me" "Beautiful Girls" |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $300: This '75 song was Joe Cocker's last solo single to make the charts "You Are So Beautiful" |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | BEAUTIFUL "MUSIC" $400: This 1980 film starred Bruce Jenner, Valerie Perrine, & the Village People Can't Stop the Music |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $400: In this song Ray Stevens says "We shouldn't care about the length of his hair or the color of his skin" "Everything Is Beautiful" |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $500: Charlie Rich came out from behind closed door with this, his only #1 pop hit "The Most Beautiful Girl" |