| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $600: It calls itself "the most highly recommended bed in America" Tempur-Pedic |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | 4, 4 $400: Goldilocks falls asleep in the bed of this character Baby Bear |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $600: Her first speech is "What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and company" Titania |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | SAY YOUR FRUITS & VEGGIES! $600: You idiomatically (we hope!) "turn into a" this when you say you have to leave a party to go to bed a pumpkin |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $800: In Greek myth: this river with Charon as the ferryman, but where could Charon ever spend the coins on the corpses? Bed Bath & Beyond? the Styx |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $400: Originally a small linen store in New Jersey, this home furnishing chain filed for bankruptcy in 2023 Bed Bath & Beyond |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | TRAILER PARK $600: In a trailer for this animated feature from 1999, Satan is in bed with Saddam Hussein South Park: The Movie (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut) |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $800: Martha:
"I'm drunk."
Nick: "I'm confused." Honey: "I'm mousy." George: "I'm going to bed" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $800: Doing this before bed can help you sleep better; try the bridge or legs up the wall poses yoga |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $2000: "The night before I met Jimmy Connors... at Wimbledon in the summer of 1975, I went to bed & slept soundly", he says in "Days of Grace" Arthur Ashe |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | NAMES OF THE 1990s $400: Tracey Emin caused a stir with a 1998 artwork consisting of this piece of furniture of hers, unmade, with empty vodka bottles her bed |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MED. ABBREV. $200: To decrease swelling from an injury, a doctor may order you to be on BR, short for this bed rest |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | TREES COMPANY $200: It can refer to the uppermost layer of overlapping tree branches, or a cloth covering suspended over a bed a canopy |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS $800: It bears the name of its inventor, who needed extra sleeping space in his cramped apartment; he called it in-a-dor Murphy bed |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $2000: His name became legendary from the bed he built that he forced people to fit into Procrustes |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $2000: At Woodstock, he quipped, "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000"; also, his real last name is Romney... Triiiippy! Wavy Gravy |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | THE CENTAUR OF ATTENTION $200: King Ixion repaid Zeus' hospitality on Olympus by trying to bed Zeus' wife, her, so Zeus tricked Ixion into siring the centaurs Hera |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | TALES $1,200 (Daily Double): "Down on its right side toppled the bed of the Roman's chariot" in this oft-filmed novel subtitled "A Tale of the Christ" Ben-Hur |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $1200: This word for a covering suspended over a bed comes from Greek konops, or mosquito, which it was meant to keep out canopy |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | SPOUSAL SUPPORT $600: Carl & Gerty Cori shared a bed & also a Nobel Prize, for discovering this simple sugar's vital role in our metabolism glucose |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOWL $1000: This Hawaiian raw fish dish is often served in bowls over a bed of rice poke |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COMPLETE THE PANGRAM $600: "Farmer Jack realized that big yellow" these bed coverings "were expensive" quilts |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HOMOPHONES $400: Your physical debut & a bed on a train birth/berth |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | COMPOSERS ARE QUIRKY $8,600 (Daily Double): Edvard Grieg had a lucky pig & one of these under-bridge-dwelling folklore creatures by his bed & always wished them good night a troll |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | A FRIENDLY GAME OF BILLIARDS $1000: Covered by a felt cloth, the bed of a billiards table is typically this metamorphic rock, also used in blackboards slate |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | 1, 2 & 3 $200: In 1735 Ben Franklin wrote, "Early to bed & early to rise, makes a man" this, this & this healthy, wealthy & wise |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HOW TALL/LONG/HIGH? $1000: The bed of the biblical giant Og: 9 of these units long--a building elsewhere in the Bible is only 6 of them wide a cubit |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of this Margaret Wise Brown classic about putting a bunny to bed Goodnight Moon |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | FURNITURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this piece of furniture comes from the French for "to put to bed" a couch |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | REAL-DEAL RHYME TIME $400: You just woke up & you've got this, mussed or tangled hair; some cultivate that look intentionally bed head |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | A STANDING MIDDLE O $400: It's a small collapsible bed a cot |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: At his death in 1616, he left 10 pounds to the poor of Stratford & his second best bed to wife Anne Shakespeare |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" in this tale the Metamorphosis |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | "LOCK" $200: Notice the placement of this type of storage unit by each bed in the barracks a footlocker |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | ____ & ____ $200: It's typically a small hotel or a house with private rooms offering a place to lay your head & a morning meal a bed & breakfast |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville Salt Lake City |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | TEXTING ABBREV. $800: Talk to you tomorrow--I'm "OTB", this off to bed |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | TO 5 DECIBEL PLACES $400: The National Hot Rod Association says this loud sport first topped 100 mph on the Muroc Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert drag racing |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Also a type of foldaway bed, it derives from Gaelic for "sea warrior" Murphy |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $2000: Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding Tom Jones |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $200: In this novel & the TV series based on it, Beth Harmon pictures a chessboard on the ceiling above her in bed at night The Queen's Gambit |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | ADD A LETTER $400: Add a letter to a fold-up bed & it becomes a male foal cot & colt |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | BUILDINGS $400: Charlie Munger planned a building at Michigan & a future 4,500-bed one at UCSB, both much discussed for the rooms' lack of these windows |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | ONE LETTER DIFFERENT $400: A word meaning constructed & a cloth bed covering built & quilt |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | JOB DESCRIPTION $200: Catwalking;
being "elite" like Cindy, Christy & Naomi;
not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day supermodel |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1200: A searing
camp bed
scheme a hot cot plot |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $5,600 (Daily Double): Ben Franklin's "Advice to a Young Tradesman" begins, "Remember that" this 3-word phrase--tick-tock! time is money |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | LAKES & RIVERS $4,800 (Daily Double): Clouds of dust from the exposed bed of Lake Texcoco add to the air pollution of this world capital Mexico City |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $400: Got up from the bed, or a prickly flower rose |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE CHOSEN FEW $400: British Airways in 1996 was the first airline in modern times to offer its first class flyers this feature for a comfy snooze a lie-flat bed |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS $400: A proverb says getting here "early" will help make you robust, rich & smart to bed |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The iron bed at Schönbrunn Palace was where this 86-year-old emperor died in 1916; he barely left the palace the previous two years, but mainly did so to visit wounded soldiers Franz Joseph |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | CLICHÉS $800: A soft bed & a warm fire are "creature" these, appealing to our animal nature as opposed to more spiritual needs comforts |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | FUNNY TV SONGS $2000: Sung of this feline on "Friends": "You may not be a bed of roses, and you're no friend of those with noses... what are they feeding you?" "Smelly Cat" |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $1200: In this Mel Brooks classic, Madeline Kahn ends up with "The Monster" in her bed; she seems pretty happy Young Frankenstein |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $1600: Steve Martin & John Candy got a lot of comedic mileage after they ended up spooning in bed in this 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $800: The villainous Procrustes stretched or dismembered victims to make them fit onto his iron this a bed |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | MINING $400: Also a sewing term, it's a bed or stratum of coal; Wyoming has some that are 250 feet wide a seam |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ALLITERATIVE BUSINESS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1987 founders Leonard Feinstein & Warren Eisenberg added the third element to the name of this home goods superstore Bed Bath & Beyond |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1600: Much of the business district in this New Zealand capital lies on reclaimed land after an 1855 earthquake raised its harbor bed Wellington |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | HOME DECOR BASICS $400: Associated with the decor of recent college grads, it's a Japanese-style filled mattress used for seating or as a bed a futon |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | WORDS IN PLAIN SIGHT $1000: A long, narrow strip of wood used as support for a bed a slat |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $1000: Spanish for "beach", it's a dry desert lake bed playa |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Tiny houses, usually 400 square feet or less, often have one of these open upper spaces for the bed a loft |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | TL;DR $2000: Nearly living up to its name, this novel by David Foster Wallace boasts nearly 1,100 pages, including 10 on the disassembly of a bed Infinite Jest |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | A BRUSH WITH DEATH $1200: "The skeleton atop the canopy bed is a reminder of our mortality", said this woman who painted herself in "The Dream" (Frida) Kahlo |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | PLACES TO LIVE $200: Yo, this term for a baby bed with high sides is also a slang term for your dwelling a crib |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | SPURN NOTICE $400: This directional phrase means to reject or something done to prepare a bed turn down |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | BACKPACKING $800: Be sure to have a waterproof container for your bedroll, AKA this 2-word portable bed a sleeping bag |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | FURNITURE $400: We're counting on you to name this style of bed seen here four-poster |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Temporarily staying in a series of other people's homes with makeshift sleeping arrangements is doing this--hang ten! couch surf (or bed surfing) |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | AMERICAN GODS $400: Placed under a bed, figurines of the Maya goddess Ixchel protect women during this childbirth |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | BROOKLYN $400: North central Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy, short for this, features the Billie Holiday Theatre Bedford-Stuyvesant |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | A THURBER CARNIVAL OF QUOTATIONS $1000: "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and" this dead |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | STILL I RISE $1200: According to Ben Franklin, "Early to bed & early to rise, makes a man" these 3 positive things healthy, wealthy and wise |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | IT WAS SO FUNNY $200: From this NBC sitcom: "How's life treating you, Norm?" "Like he caught me in bed with his wife" Cheers |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | FRANZ KAFKA $800: This story begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" Metamorphosis |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ETYMOLOGY $600: An old word for a bed's mosquito net gives us this term for a "roof" over a 4-post bed a canopy |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | SACK TIME $200: In the expressions sack duty & sack rat, heard in the military, sack means this bed |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $2000: The 20% off coupons an alliterative home store mails out include the lyrics "My love stands on golden sand" Bed Bath & "Beyond The Sea" |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | CITING PRECEDENT $600: Justice Robert Jackson left his hospital bed to be present for the decision of him v. Board of Education of Topeka Brown |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | FIRST THING IN THE MORNING $1000: Navy SEAL Admiral William McRaven says start the day with this tidying task to boost pride & productivity making your bed |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | ODD WORDS $400: If you're somnambulating, you're doing this; go back to bed! sleepwalking |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | MEMORABLE MOVIE SCENES $200: 1972:
A horse head is found in a bed & Sonny gets whacked The Godfather |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $2000: This director won a student Oscar for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" before his 1st feature, "She's Gotta Have It" Spike Lee |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | A "NIP" BEFORE BED $400: The Humane Society explains why Kitty is "crazy for" this perennial herb catnip |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | A "NIP" BEFORE BED $800: To move joints in the body, as a chiropractor does manipulate |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | A "NIP" BEFORE BED $1200: You can't leave the table until you name these 2 root veggies seen here a parsnip and a turnip |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | A "NIP" BEFORE BED $1600: 7-letter word for a small scrap or fragment a snippet |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | A "NIP" BEFORE BED $2000: This long word follows "minister" to designate a diplomat with full power to represent his government plenipotentiary |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | "HIT" & "MISS" $1200: To punch fodder, or to go to bed hit the hay |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | SOMEHOW THEY PULLED IT OFF $800: This dentist pulled off his boots before he died in bed in 1887, though he'd said he'd die with them on Doc Holliday |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | HOME FURNISHINGS $200: Santa would feel right at home in this style of bed a sleigh bed |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | SCIENCE $200: Bed bugs are attracted to this gas, as it indicates the presence of humans, so they can be lured with dry ice carbon dioxide |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | RHYMING TERMS $400: Rhyming phrase for a hairstyle that looks like it's a result of just waking up bed head |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | STATE SEALS $600: This item that ends up in a bed in "The Godfather" is also on New Jersey's flag & seal a horse's head |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | WHAT A Q____T! $200: A bed's coverlet a quilt |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $1000: Farrah Fawcett starred in this 1980s TV movie as a woman who ends years of abuse by incinerating her ex-husband The Burning Bed |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | PHRASES LITERALLY TRANSLATED $800: I see you've positioned the bed according to the principles of "wind water" feng shui |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | ANIMAL FARM $800: Among the animals' 7 commandments are bans on sleeping in a bed & drinking this alcohol |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | FURNITURE $200: A duchesse bed is a canopy bed that doesn't have these--not 4, not any posts |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | LYRE, LYRE $200: This Biblical king was known for hanging a type of lyre called a kinnor above his bed to catch the wind King David |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Research suggests that doing this before bed, especially hatha or nidra, may help you sleep better yoga |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | COMPOSERS $2000: In an early 1800s love letter, this composer wrote, "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my immortal beloved" Beethoven |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | LITERARY QUOTES $800: In this Poe story, "I had scarcely stepped from my... bed of horror... when the motion of the hellish machine ceased" The Pit and the Pendulum |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | STRAIGHT $600: Idiomatically, if you arise rigidly straight in bed, you sit "bolt" this way upright |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $400: In a collaboration with Eminem, she sings of a monster that's under her bed & voices inside her head Rihanna |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | A RUDE AWAKENING $1000: Chronic snoring that's loud enough to wake a bed partner can be a sign of OSA, obstructive sleep this disorder sleep apnea |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | SHELLFISH $400: A group of these "pearl" bivalves is called colony, bed or reef oysters |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $200: "Arising in the morning from an incorrect mattress section" "waking up on the wrong side of the bed" |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | DON'T HATE THE PLAYA $400: Playa is Spanish for beach & also means a dry lake bed, like the one where Burning Man is held in this Western state Nevada |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | ANIMAL COLLECTIVE NOUNS $400: Just as you can have a this "of roses", you can also have one of oysters a bed |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | BUSINESS $200: Brixton Metals has the stock symbol BBB; this home essentials store got BBBY Bed Bath & Beyond |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $2000: It can precede bass or bed sea |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | TRAILER PARK $600: In a trailer for this animated feature from 1999 Satan is in bed with Saddam Hussein South Park |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $2,600 (Daily Double): R.L. Stevenson wrote, “I had gone to bed” this man, “I had awakened” this other man. “How was this to be explained?” Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | VEGAS-SET TV SHOWS $800: "Mindfreak" episodes with this magician included "Car Wreck Vanish", "SUV Nail Bed" & "Naked Jail Escape" Criss Angel |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | SOUNDS LIKE A PIECE OF FURNITURE $2000: This foundation of a road or railway tracks is often made of crushed rock a bed |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | RED RHYME $200: The canopy variety is similar to the four-poster bed |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | BOOK ENDS $800: "I got onto the bed with her and put my arms around her. 'Thanks, Ollie'. Those were her last words" Love Story |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | C.T. $1600: Peter Rabbit's mom put him to bed & gave him this beverage chamomile tea |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | FURNITURE METAPHORS $600: It's the common furniture-based expression meaning "you have to live with the consequences of what you do" "You make your bed, you lie in it" |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | GARDENING $1600: The name of this flower bed plant of the balsam family comes from the speed with which its seeds are dispersed impatiens |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | FLOWERY PHRASES $400: Cash to start a new business or literally, cash to begin your new flower bed seed money |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | OF "THY" I SING $400: In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man" these 2 things "and wise" healthy and wealthy |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | NUT-TRITION $1000: Have some hazelnuts before bed; they're high in this sleep-aiding amino acid that's also found in turkey tryptophan |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | KID, NAPPING $400: Toulouse-Lautrec painted a different kind of nightlife in "The Bed", now seen at this city's Orsay Museum Paris |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | GIVING THANKS $3,000 (Daily Double): After hearing of the U.S. entry into WWII, he "went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful" Winston Churchill |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | YIPES, MOTHER GOOSE $200: The old woman who lived in this gave her kids "broth without any bread" & "whipped them all soundly & put them to bed" a shoe |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | SALUTE TO 7000 $600: 55 is where I set my 7000 model of this customizable bed Sleep Number |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM INDIA $200: This word for clothes now usually worn to bed translates as "leg garments" pajamas |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THEY SAID IT $200: This recently installed premier, 1961:
"A revolution is not a bed of roses" Fidel Castro |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | "DOUBLE" OR NOTHING $600: A studio couch converts into one of these a double bed |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $200: In 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that marriage is "a field of battle, and not a bed of" these roses |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | PROVERBIAL 4‑LETTER WORDS $1000: A Russian proverb says, "Better a bed of wood than a bier of" this gold |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | DESCRIBING THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: Title guy denies a promotion to his aide; aide gets revenge-y; title guy gives new meaning to the term "death bed" Othello |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | I'M "N"TITLED! $2000: Title of Marsha Norman's 1983 prize-winning play, or something you might say before heading off to bed 'night, Mother |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE END OF THE BOOK $1000: Lying sick in bed, Adam gives his son Caleb his blessing by saying the Hebrew word "timshel" East of Eden |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: As a rule of thumb, a full one of these should have a minimum of 300 coils; a king should have 450 mattress |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | "UV" EXPOSURE $1600: Viens ici, mon cher--snuggle with me in bed under this duvet |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | FABRICS $1000: From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin percale |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | WHAT WOMEN WANT $800: Before bed, a cup of this herbal tea from Celestial Seasonings; that's the logo seen here SleepyTime |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | "V"OCABULARY $800: This ornamental drapery is hung across the top edge of a bed, table or canopy valance |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FURNITURE $2000: In his will, Shakespeare left "my wife my second best" this "with the furniture" bed |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | PHOOEY $400: A built-in bed on a ship, or a word meaning "nonsense" bunk |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THAT '70s SONG $2000: "All you did was wreck my bed, and in the morning kick me in the head" "Maggie May" |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | POTPOURRI $200: In an old rhyme, this gospel quartet "bless the bed that I lie on" Matthew, Mark, Luke and John |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: This author of "The Bone Bed" once worked as a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner's office in Richmond (Patricia) Cornwell |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | "BED" $400: Barney, Betty, Pebbles & Bamm Bamm all live here Bedrock |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | "BED" $800: Traditionally, these Arab nomads stopped long enough to hold a Thursday market in Beersheba, Israel bedouins |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | "BED" $1200: A cowboy might curl up on one of these pads formed into a cylinder for portability a bedroll |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | "BED" $1600: In 1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono staged one of these "for Peace" a Bed-in |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | "BED" $2000: When the Statue of Liberty first lifted her light above Liberty Island it was known as this Bedloe's Island (Bedloe accepted) |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | WHAT ISLAND? $400: Rafjam's Bed & Breakfast & the Bob Marley mausoleum Jamaica |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | TIME FOR BED $200: A cinematic highlight of "Step Brothers" is when a set of these collapses bunk beds |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | TIME FOR BED $400: You lie crossways in the Mayan type of this, which can take 2 miles of cord to make a hammock |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | TIME FOR BED $600: Placed under a mattress, it's an arrangement of spiral coils enclosed in a cloth-covered frame a box spring |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | TIME FOR BED $800: "Numeric" bed with pillars at the corners to support a canopy or curtains a four-poster |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | TIME FOR BED $1000: Japanese name for a woven straw mat upon which a futon rests tatami |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CURTAINS $400: The Baja stripe model in Cape Cod fabric from Bed Bath & Beyond is this type of curtain a shower curtain |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | SOFA'S CHOICE $400: This type of sofa that changes into a bed shares its name with a type of car that lets you get some sun convertible |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | THE WORK OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION $200: (Bill Clinton delivers the clue from his office.) Many African families still don't have bed nets or medicines to cure this disease, the killer of half a million African children every year; we're subsidizing the cost of some of those treatments to fight the disease malaria |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A narrow bed made of canvas on a collapsible frame a cot |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | TED TALKS $200: A motto from this broadcasting entrepreneur: "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise" Ted Turner |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | WITCH MOVIE? $800: Angela Lansbury played an apprentice witch with a flying bed in this Disney film that mixed live action & animation Bedknobs And Broomsticks |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE LATE, GREAT COMEDIAN $1200: Mitch Hedberg said, "When I was a boy, I laid in my" this-sized "bed & wondered where my brother was" a twin |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | VOWELICIOUS $600: When it's midnight at this small, fertile desert area with a well, send your camel to bed an oasis |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $1600: Before bed, the cat dreams big & puts on this Tokens classic also called "Wimoweh" "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man Brigham Young |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | "B-L-T" $600: A decorative cylindrical pillow for a sofa or bed, or to improve something, like morale bolster |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | DOC $400: In most U.S. major operations, this doctor is at the head of the bed an anesthesiologist |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1200: She wrote a cheery work for kids titled "The Bed Book", published after her suicide Sylvia Plath |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | NO BED BUT BATH & BEYOND $200: Known for bar soap, this company with lots o' green says its deodorant is "made for lads with the scents lasses love" Irish Spring |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | NO BED BUT BATH & BEYOND $400: Take a Chance...or a Coco Mademoiselle; both are women's fragrances from this company Chanel |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | NO BED BUT BATH & BEYOND $600: Hello, ladies..."the man your man could smell like" was Isaiah Mustafa as he pitched (shirtlessly) this product Old Spice |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | NO BED BUT BATH & BEYOND $800: Sensitivity toothpastes from this brand include Full Protection & the not-so-sensitive-sounding Fresh Impact Sensodyne |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | NO BED BUT BATH & BEYOND $1000: Face facts: face products from this Paris company include Age Perfect & Revitalift L'Oréal |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | THE OED SEZ $1600: "A charm, of North American Indian origin...leather hoop with a webbed centre of threads...hung above a bed" a dream catcher |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | BLEAK HOUSE $1200: A svelvik, malm or nyvoll bed frame from this company will make sure you don't dread your bed IKEA |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | SINGERS IN SONGS $800: The chorus of a song by Barenaked Ladies says, "Lying in bed just like" this Beach Boy "did" Brian Wilson |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | GIANTS $600: It's said that this Minnesotan's first bed was a lumber wagon pulled by a team of oxen Paul Bunyan |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | VARIE-TEAS $1200: This herbal tea is made with a daisylike flower; Peter Rabbit was put to bed with some chamomile tea |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | RECENT BOOKS $1000: Book club alert--"Then Came You" is the latest novel by this author of "Good in Bed" & "In Her Shoes" Jennifer Weiner |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | BILLIARDS $800: The bed, or top, of a billiard table is usually made of this rock & can weigh as much as 800 pounds slate |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | FURNITURE $200: This type of low bed has casters so that it can be rolled under another bed for storage a trundle |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | SHAPES & SIZES $800: Longer but narrower than a king-sized bed is this state's "king" California |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $400: Hans Christian Andersen story in which you'll read, "Heaven knows what was in that bed... I am black and blue!" "The Princess and the Pea" |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE "URN" IT $200: A long, narrow hospital bed on wheels a gurney |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $1200: An 1855 earthquake in this Kiwi city raised the harbor bed by over a yard, allowing land to be drained & reclaimed Wellington |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | TIME FOR A SOLO $400: Get some goggles & recline in one of these beds: go for the high pressure for a greater proportion of UVA rays a tanning bed |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | HOME FURNISHINGS $200: Four-poster is a type of this, sometimes with a canopy a bed |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "H_BO" $600: It's at one end of your bed a headboard |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | WE ALL SPEAK HINDI $400: This light, portable canvas bed is usually on a folding wood frame a cot |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | DROP DEAD DIVA $1,400 (Daily Double): This jazz diva who sang "Strange Fruit" was just 44 and under arrest in her hospital bed when she passed away in 1959 Billie Holiday |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN $200: "Early to bed & early to rise, makes a man" these 3 things healthy, wealthy & wise |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | BABY TALK $400: Besides being a bed for a baby, it can mean a slang term for a home a crib |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | BABY TALK $800: The support for a handset of a phone, or a baby's bed on rockers a cradle |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | REALITY SHOWS A LA SHAKESPEARE $800: DJ Pauly D! Arise from thy tanning bed! Ronnie hath come to blows on the boardwalk! Do not tarry! "The Situation" is dire! Jersey Shore |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | WHATEVER $800: It's the hotel service of folding back your blanket for bed--& how about a pillow mint? turndown |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | RHYMING FOLKS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the museum at Bethel Woods in New York.) This psychedelic suit was worn by this Woodstock emcee who told the crowd, "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000" Wavy Gravy |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | U.S. BIZ $600: Stock up on shower curtains with this chain whose stock symbol is BBBY Bed Bath & Beyond |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | SONG LYRICS $800: Young Money (featuring Lloyd) just wants you to call him "Mr." this "I can make your bed rock" Flintstone |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | YOU'VE GOT BAGGAGE $600: A small trunk named for its placement at the end of a bed a footlocker |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE "POST" CATEGORY $1200: It's the type of bed seen here a four-poster bed |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This type of bed covering gets its name from an Old French word, cuilte a quilt |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | ...& OTHER MUSES $1200: On her 1969 honeymoon, this inspiring conceptual artist staged a "Bed-in for Peace" Yoko Ono |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: A "Beverly Hills Cop" star folds up into this piece of furniture an Eddie Murphy bed |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) For an exhibit commemorating the 40th anniversary of the event, the museum constructed a replica of the Montreal hotel room used by this couple during their Bed-In for Peace John & Yoko |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $1200: A lowlife opportunist, or a fish like the lake sturgeon, which takes sustenance from the bed of big lakes a bottom-feeder |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE APARTMENT OF ENERGY $600: Heating this type of bed does add a bit to the utility bill, but it's all part of my Austin Powers persona a water bed |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | EAST ASIA $200: Created by So-ami, a garden at Ryoan-ji outside Kyoto consists of rocks arranged on a bed of this sand |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | IT'S GETTING LATE IN HISTORY $400: Look, it's 1148--how about if the Second Crusade fails horribly in an attack on this Syrian city, then we all go to bed Damascus |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | COMMON RHYMES $800: Untidy hairstyle upon waking up bed head |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THAT'S CRIMINAL! $400: A 2008 U.K. thief who fell asleep in a child's bed with all his stolen goods was dubbed this fairy tale girl "Burglar" Goldilocks |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | YOU'RE A "Q____T" $400: The coverlet for a bed quilt |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT IS THIS, SOME KIND OF JOKE? $200: From this sitcom:
"How's life treating you, Norm?"
"Like it caught me in bed with his wife" Cheers |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT THE '90s MOVIE TITLE MEANS $800: Who can forget Mena Suvari on a bed of petals in this film? (The title is a type of rose) American Beauty |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT THE '90s MOVIE TITLE MEANS $1600: This 1996 Geena Davis action title can be a euphemism for death (Hint: In the film, she puts her past life to bed) The Long Kiss Goodnight |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | PHOTO/JOURNALISM $2000: Complete all editorial work on the newspaper & send it to printer, or what Mom is doing here put it to bed |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BED $400: This type of bed is named for the small wheels that allow it to roll under for storage a trundle |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BED $800: This bed that can be folded up into a closet is named for its American inventor Murphy |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BED $1200: To make the bed so the sheets stay tucked in, use the tight-fitting triangular fold called this place's corner a hospital |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BED $1600: The name of this type of down comforter comes from the French for "down" duvet |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BED $2000: As a verb, this name of the long cylindrical pillow seen on the bed means "to support" a bolster pillow |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | KIDDY LIT $400: In "Where the Wild Things Are", he wears his wolf suit, makes mischief & is sent to bed without supper Max |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | ROCK BAND $200: The law of superposition states that any bed of rock must be older than another bed here above it |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1600: Dishes a la Florentine are traditionally presented on a bed of this vegetable spinach |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | BEDTIME STORIES $1600: A boy in bed enters a fantastic dream world in this author-illustrator's "In the Night Kitchen" Maurice Sendak |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | NICE RIDE $200: The Toyota Tundra is one of these vehicles with 2 main sections, a cab & a bed a pickup truck |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $200: Agrippa says of her, "Royal wench! She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed" Cleopatra |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | LAST WILLS & TESTAMENTS $200: After his 1616 death, his will stipulated that his "second best bed" go to his wife, Anne, which does beg a question... Shakespeare |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | THAT WORD'S FOREIGN TO ME $200: From the Persian, these garments are what you'll wear to bed pajamas |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed Halley's Comet |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | FURNITURE WORDS $600: Stretch out in this garden area in which plants are grown, or perhaps here at the bottom of a lake bed |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | AT THE BUFFET $1000: Traditionally, eggs Florentine is poached eggs on a bed of spinach topped with this sauce, a variation on Bechamel Mornay |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | GIVE ME A "K"! $800: We may put you to sleep telling you its standard dimensions are an impressive 76 x 80 inches a king-sized bed |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | RHYME TIME $800: A bed covering made from bits & pieces of Scottish skirts a kilt quilt |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | VIENNA'S IMPERIAL PALACE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from within the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.) From 1857 to 1916, these apartments were the home of this emperor, who saw himself as a soldier, & slept on this simple iron bed Emperor Franz Joseph |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | COMPLETES THE OLD PROVERB $400: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man..." healthy, wealthy and wise |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | THEY DIFFER BY ONE LETTER $800: A lumpy bunk a bad bed |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: This E.B. White character slept in a tiny bed made of "four clothespins and a cigarette box" Stuart Little |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $800: Twain & his wife bought their bed in this romantic city of canals (iconoclast Twain slept feet toward the headboard) Venice |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | THE CW $600: Taking buses from Bed-Stuy to Corleone Junior High School is an adventure in hilarity on this show Everybody Hates Chris |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | "UNK" ROCK $400: Cowboy bed bunk |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $1200: Like David, Edvard Munch did a painting called "The Death" of this man, but he placed him on a bed, not in a bath Marat |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | TV ATTACK ADS $800: (NBC ran this ad:)
Contestants sleep on the ground with bugs & snakes, while Jeff Probst reclines in his feather bed. Is this fair, America? You be the judge Survivor |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The first ship completely excavated on the sea bed dates from 1200 B.C., this age; the metal was much of its cargo bronze |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | FAMOUS COUPLES $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.) In 1969 they left their Amsterdam bed-in for a press conference in a bag held right here at Vienna's famous Hotel Sacher John Lennon & Yoko Ono |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK $1000: "No crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head" "Away In A Manger" |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | STOCK SYMBOLS $800: Some people said presidential hopeful John Kerry was in bed with this company, HNZ Heinz |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | THE HELP $400: A young female servant, she sounds like what she did to the bed a maid |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: To see the Great Bed of Ware mentioned in "Twelfth Night", go to this museum named for a royal couple the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria & Albert accepted) |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | POP CULTURE QUOTES $400: A golfer of some repute, on whether his rep as a neat freak is deserved: "I make the bed in my hotel rooms" Tiger Woods |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | ROCK $1200: A bed of this oil- & fossil-bearing rock from the Cambrian period was famously discovered near Mt. Burgess in 1909 shale |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | THE SHIP $2000: Linda Morgan was in bed in 1956 when the Stockholm's prow rudely moved her; she survived, but this ship didn't the Andrea Doria |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | CALL ME IRVING $600: Call him the author of "The Man", "The Word" & "The Celestial Bed" Irving Wallace |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | HOT "BUN"s $600: In this early American courting custom, a couple lay fully clothed on a bed & exchanged endearments bundling |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | ONE-WORD RHYMES $1200: My Eskimo friend sure gets around--he's left this boot under a bed in every igloo in town a mukluk |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | PLAYING PYRAMID $1600: Truck,
bunk,
Murphy a bed |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | HEALTH MATTERS $200: Best to avoid dark chocolate before bed; 2 oz. contain about as much of this stimulant as a cup of black tea caffeine |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | WHAT A GOOD IDEA! $800: This man was a mechanic in a bed factory when he invented the 1st elevator with an automatic safety brake Otis |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $400: One April night in 1912 Titanic passenger Henry Harper lay in bed & saw this scrape past his cabin window an iceberg |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | THAT'S SHOW BIZ $800: Maybe he won an Oscar for "Syriana" in 2006 because he was in bed with host Jon Stewart (in the opening) George Clooney |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | NURSERY RHYME PREVIEWS $600: He arrives in a nightgown after 8 o'clock, wondering if your kids are in bed; this fall, is your family safe from... Wee Willie Winkie |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | SILENT "G" $2000: Ring the bells & tell us the style of bed seen here sleigh |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | COMMON BONDS $1600: Dollars into Yen,
a sofa bed,
a ragtop car convertible (conversion accepted) |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | ON THE "GO" $200: After trying out 3 different types, this fairy tale girl eventually fell asleep in the baby bear's bed Goldilocks |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS $800: Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibited this woman's art, including her Bed-In for Peace photos (Yoko) Ono |
| #4877, aired 2005-11-22 | RHYME TIME $200: TIGI has a line of hair products called this, to give you that tousled, just woken up look Bed Head |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $800 (Daily Double): Martha: "I'm drunk."
Nick: "I'm confused."
Honey: "I'm mousy."
George: "I'm going to bed" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | KID LIT $800: In "Where the Wild Things Are", he's sent to bed without his supper & later becomes royalty Max |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | THE NAKED TRUTH $1600: Taken by this woman, the last portrait of John Lennon shows him nude on a bed with a fully clothed Yoko Ono Annie Leibovitz |
| #4829, aired 2005-09-15 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A House majority leader goes ga-ga over Dylan's "big brass bed" occupant & earns the nickname... Tom DeLay Lady Lay |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | DON'T BUG ME $600: During the day this nocturnal bloodsucker hides under mattress buttons or in cracks in floors; sleep tight! a bed bug |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | JAMES THURBER $800: In a 1940 story Thurber wrote, "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and" this dead |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | A BAD MOTHER $400: She fed her children "some broth without... bread" then "whipped them all soundly and put them to bed" the old woman who lived in a shoe |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | TALK LIKE A BRIT $400: Of stay in bed, hit someone on the head or rub till it's red, what you do if you cosh hit someone on the head |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | "G" PEOPLE $2000: The cover of her "Ballad Of Sexual Dependency" shows her photo of Nan & Brian in bed Nan Goldin |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $400: Charlton Heston is seen here as this prickly character before he became president
"What did you say?"
"I said, 'I wonder whose bed Rachael'll be putting her moccasins under next.'"
[Smack!] Andrew Jackson |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | I'M JUST A "BILL" $800: The top of this recreation item is called the bed & may be 800 pounds of slate a billiard table |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | I'M ON CLOUD "NINE" $400: This hit song begins "Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition" "9 To 5" |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | STOCK SYMBOL SHOPPING $400: For kitchenware as well as sheets & towels:
BBBY Bed Bath & Beyond |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LAVA? $600: This North Atlantic nation is home to Odadahraun, the largest lava bed on Earth Iceland |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | HOUSEHOLD WORDS $800: This bed that folds into a closet when not in use is named for its inventor a Murphy bed |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS $1000: It's the sound the poem's narrator heard "out on the lawn" that caused him to spring out of bed a clatter |
| #4672, aired 2004-12-21 | TRAVEL FUN $1000: Have a candlelit breakfast in your room at Governor's Trace Bed & Breakfast in this colonial capital of Va. Williamsburg |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | THE "RED", "WHITE" & "BLUE" $400: In Perrault's version, she climbs into bed with the wolf, who's disguised as her grandmother "Little Red Riding Hood" |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | "DEEP" DISH $1000: People on bed rest are at risk for a serious blood clot in the legs known as DVT, short for this deep vein thrombosis |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | BEDTIME $400: From the Latin for "cushion", this warm bed covering is made of 2 layers of fabric with a layer between them a quilt |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | BEDTIME $600: This baby bed with a 4-letter name often has high barred sides to keep the baby from falling out a crib |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | BEDTIME $800: If you stay overnight at a B&B, in the morning you'll know that it stands for "bed &" this breakfast |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | NICK BEFORE NIGHT $200: This animated character may grasp advanced science, but he still needs to be in bed before 9 Jimmy Neutron |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $400: A crimson bunk a red bed |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | HOME & GARDEN $400: It's the numerical name for a traditional canopy bed a four-poster |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $200: The person you share your space with can be your cellie or, based on the type of bed you sleep on, this word your bunkie |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $200: When Samantha joined Darrin, it became the first live-action show to regularly put a man & wife in the same bed Bewitched |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | NON SEQUITURS $600: NBA player Kevin Garnett's bed is 98 inches long & this company's 2004 Acura TL is 72.2 inches wide Honda |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | RHYMES WITH A PLANET $1200: A built-in bed, as on a ship or train berth |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | WHAT'S "D" MATTER? $1200: A large city in Iowa, or a large sofa that often converts into a bed Davenport |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | UTTER NONSENSE $600: A bed built on a shelf over another bed a bunk bed |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | GARDENING $200: It's a small area of ground planted with flowers, but one may also hold oysters or sleepers bed |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | WINTER READING $2,000 (Daily Double): Fitting name of the poet who wrote, "Winter when the bed might just be ice and the clothes snow" Robert Frost |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | THE MALL $600: Get sheets, towels & more at the store called Bed, Bath & this Beyond |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | THE MALL $800: This term for a trunk often kept at the end of a bed is the name of an athletic shoe store a foot locker |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | GET A ROOM! $600: Get 40 whacks--oops, we mean 40 winks--at the Mass. home of this accused ax murderess; it's a bed & breakfast Lizzie Borden |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | ANIMATED MOVIES $600: Sully returns Boo to her own bed & Mike saves the factory at the end of this 2001 film Monsters, Inc. |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | COLORS $200: "Khaki" comes from the Hindi for the color of this; it's also what the "bunnies" under the bed are made of dust |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | BIBLICAL RHYME TIME $800: The person who would put fresh sheets on Baby Jesus' bed manger changer |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | LIMERICKS $400: I think I know the woman in the following
There was a young lady of Crete, who was so exceedingly neat, when she got out of bed, she stood on her head,
to make sure of not soiling ____ ____ her feet |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | YULETIDE DITTIES $800: "Away in" this type of box, "no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head" a manger |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | HEY, THAT RHYMES! $1000: A very warm canvas folding bed hot cot |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME $200: Don't jump up & down on your bed to the point that it causes one of these seismic shakings of the Earth's crust earthquake |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | BIOLOGY TEST $1000: Experiencing piloerection you have:
(A) hemorrhoids
(B) razor stubble
(C) goose bumps
(D) bed hair goose bumps |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | PARDON MY POLISH $800: Stay at a Polish lozko i sniadanie, one of these, & it's kielbasas at dawn for you bed & breakfast |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | HOPE YOU'RE NOT CLAUSTROPHOBIC $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lies on a bunk bed in a submarine.) A submariner's bed, also called this, is narrow, but comfier than the torture instrument of the same name a rack |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL PYRAMID $1200: Maria Muldaur's title time & place to "send your camel to bed" "Midnight at the Oasis" |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | & GO TO "BED" $200: In math, it means raised to the third power cubed |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | & GO TO "BED" $400: Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope" barbed wire |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | & GO TO "BED" $600: Kidded & teased (like Adam did to Eve, perhaps?) ribbed |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | & GO TO "BED" $800: If you've been clubbed, you've been made unconscious; if you've been this, you've been made a knight dubbed |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | & GO TO "BED" $1000: In the Bible she was mom to Moses & Aaron Jochebed |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | BEAUTY TIPS $400: Doing this 100 times before going to bed (like Marcia Brady did) can cause damage brushing your hair |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | HOMEMAKING $600: When I sweep these "hare-y" items out from under the bed, they're not nearly as cute as Chuck Jones' Bugs a dust bunny |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | THE DARWIN AWARDS $200: A Pittsburgh convict tied 8 of these together to escape but was 25 feet short; he broke his ankle & was caught his bed sheets |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | INITIAL REACTIONS $400: Go to a B&B, bed & breakfast, for a little R&R, which stands for this rest & recreation (also would accept rehabilitation, recuperation) |
| #4003, aired 2002-01-16 | FULL HOUSE $1000: Originally trademarked by Simmons, it's the name of the product seen here Hide-a-Bed |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $400: "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man..." healthy, wealthy & wise |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | SALAD DAYS $800: Some say this salad of crabmeat on a bed of lettuce in a chili sauce was created at Seattle's Olympic Club Crab Louie |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | DOUBLE LETTERS $600: This bed of heavy netting hung between 2 trees has been the resting place of many a lazy guy hammock |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NEW YORK CITY $400: Opened in 1736 as a 6-bed infirmary, a pavilion for the insane was added to this place in 1879 Bellevue Hospital |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | "HAM" IMPROVEMENT $100: A hanging bed made of canvas or netting hammock |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | SUMMER CAMP $200: A building or tent where the kids sleep, or the bed within it bunk |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | PICKUP LINES $400: The Toyota named for this treeless Arctic region might want to warm you up in its long bed Tundra |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | HAIR DON'TS $300: Rhyming term for the condition of your coiffure right after a night's sleep bed head |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | TAKE A LETTER $600: His famous love letter began, "Though still in bed my thoughts go out to you, my immortal beloved" Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | HISTORIC COUPLES $100: In his will, this playwright left his second-best bed to his wife; maybe the best one went to Gwyneth Paltrow William Shakespeare |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $300: He does quite a bit of bed-hopping in the 4 John Updike novels featuring him Rabbit Angstrom |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $200: Agrippa says of her, "Royal wench! She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed" Cleopatra |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A FIREFIGHTER $200: A Virginia Beach firefighter waives his right to do this on or off duty -- & especially, we guess, in bed Smoke |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | ALL "FOUR" YOU $600: A bed with a tall pole at each corner a four-poster |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | TEA TIME $200: This rabbit was put to bed with camomile tea, but Flopsy, Mopsy & Cotton Tail had bread, milk & blackberries Peter (Rabbit) |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | TV GUIDE'S 50 GREATEST CHARACTERS $300: No. 11 on the list, this backstabbing, bed-hopping oil baron was once shot by a mysterious assailant J.R. Ewing |
| #3683, aired 2000-09-13 | FRANZ KAFKA $1000: "Metamorphosis" character who "Found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" Gregor Samsa |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: A young rabbit gets ready for bed in this classic by Margaret Wise Brown "Goodnight Moon" |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | B__D $200: Hef's home in Chicago was famous for its round one Bed |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP "ROSE"S $500: Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that marriage "is a field of battle, and not" this a bed of roses |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | LET'S "PAL" AROUND $400: A makeshift bed, or a platform for moving goods pallet |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILL IN THE BIBLICAL BLANK $800: Mark 2:9 -- "Arise, and take up thy bed, and ____" Walk |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | AROUND THE HOUSE $100: Object around the house that may be prepared with "hospital corners" Bed |
| #3565, aired 2000-02-18 | "Q" TIPS $200: It's a spread for a bed Quilt |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | THE GOOD LIFE $300: Florally speaking, you can be rolling in clover or lying on a bed of these Roses |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $200: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man..." "healthy, wealthy, and wise" |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $500: A common place name in the Southwest, from a Spanish term, it's a dry river bed Arroyo |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | INTERIORS $400: The type of bed seen here, or the title of a Broadway play that starred Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy a four-poster |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | INTERIORS $800: This bed with scroll-like ends was named for its resemblance to a form of winter transportation Sleigh bed |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | HISTORY OF PASSION $200: In 1946, this Indian leader revealed he'd taken many women to bed with him over the years to test his celibacy Mahatma Gandhi |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | ENDS IN "TH" $600: It can be a built-in bed or bunk on a ship, or the space for a ship to dock Berth |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | READINGS FROM HOMER SIMPSON $200: He's the god hitting the hay here:
"Going up to the bed he slept and Hera of the gold throne beside him" Zeus |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $400: "Bed Shirt" "The Birds" |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $100: Baby bed
(8) bassinet |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | CLIFFS NOTES $300: George & Martha throw an after-party for Nick & Honey; play games; start for bed at dawn Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | RAILROADING $500: A bed on a Pullman for a Roman emperor might be a "Caesarean" one Berth |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | THE KING AND I $1000: Fed up with this fairy king, Titania vows, "I have forsworn his bed and company" Oberon |
| #3193, aired 1998-06-17 | FURNITURE $200: Often part of the frame, it's the panel or the pillowed end of a bed a headboard |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | PROVERBS $100: It "makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" "Early to bed and early to rise" |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: Leopold makes breakfast, walks around Dublin all day; goes home; goes to bed Ulysses |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | GOOD WILL SHAKESPEARE $1000: A perplexing bequest in Will's will left wife Anne the second best one of these Bed |
| #3145, aired 1998-04-10 | MUSKRAT LOVE $600: From Latin for "bed", female muskrats have 2-5 of them a year with 5-7 young in each Litters |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS $200: In 1968 this area called "Bed-Stuy" elected Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman in Congress Bedford-Stuyvesant |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | EPONYMS $200: This bed, raised & stored into a wall, lost its popularity when sofa convertibles came into vogue a murphy bed |
| #3110, aired 1998-02-20 | OLD TESTAMENT NUDITY $500: After prophesying, this 1st king of Israel stayed in bed, undressed, for a whole day Saul |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | NONSENSE WORDS $300: It's the kind of bed you might find in a cabin, or Henry Ford's definition of history Bunk |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: If you're grouchy now it may be because you "got up on" this in the morning the wrong side of the bed |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $200: Material that makes up an unwanted "bunny" under your bed dust |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | "ET" AL. $300: It can mean a temporary bed or a movers' platform a pallet |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $500: It's said this silent pres. liked to eat breakfast in bed while having Vaseline rubbed on his head Calvin Coolidge |
| #2983, aired 1997-07-16 | NONFICTION $600: Learn about opening one of these establishments "inn" your home from expert Barbara Notarius Bed & Breakfast |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | FURNITURE $200: This piece of furniture found next to a bed is called a bed table Nightstand |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | FURNITURE $600: Dating from the Renaissance, it's a low bed on wheels that rolls under a larger bed when not in use Trundle bed |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | TRAVEL BASICS $200: These establishments nicknamed B&B's don't always have private baths, so inquire in advance bed & breakfasts |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | SPORTS $300: In 1976 a yacht named "Midnight at the Oasis" set a speed record of 88.4 mph on this surface land (a dry lake bed) |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $100: A fitted queen one of these would fit a 60" x 80" mattress sheet |
| #2869, aired 1997-02-06 | DRAMA $600: This humorist wrote a "Carnival" of sketches based on his stories like "The Night The Bed Fell" James Thurber |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | INVENTORS $600: This sewing machine inventor's uncle Tyler invented the spring bed Elias Howe |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | FURNITURE $300: It's the part of a fancy bed on which you may see a finial Bedpost |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: Barbara Mandrell sang about "sleeping single in" one of these, also called a full-sized a double bed |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | FURNITURE $400: Louix XIV owned 413 of these; we don't know how many were four-posters a bed |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | BEDTIME $100: Some women still wear these to bed even though electric ones can be used in the morning instead curlers |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | BEDTIME $200: According to a cliche, an irritable person has "gotten up" this way on the wrong side of the bed |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | BEDTIME $400: "Floral" phrase for a situation of luxury & ease a bed of roses |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | THE BIBLE $1000: Jesus healed a man near this pool in Jerusalem by saying, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk" Pool of Bethesda |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | TRAVEL LONDON $500: The Great Bed of Ware, mentioned in "Twelfth Night", is in this museum nicknamed the V & A the Victoria & Albert |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | VOCABULARY $400: While this bed cover can be any color, it takes its name from the French word for white blanket |
| #2666, aired 1996-03-18 | ANAGRAMS $200: Hours elapse while you're this in bed asleep |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | FURNITURE $300: This child's bed mounted on rockers has nearly been replaced by the more functional crib a cradle |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | TRANSPORTATION $400: It's the term for a sailboat slip or a bed on a train a berth |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | AROUND THE HOUSE $500: You may want to set this bed, a Japanese folding pad, on a tatami mat a futon |
| #2643, aired 1996-02-14 | FILE UNDER "Q" $100: It's a bed cover made at a bee quilt |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $200: Most people are in bed by this time, the devil's dancing-hour Midnight |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | FURNITURE $400: This synonym for sofa comes from a French verb "to put to bed" couch |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS $800: A self-portrait hangs above the bed in his 1889 "The Bedroom at Arles" Van Gogh |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $500: Odadahraun, the largest lava bed on Earth, lies on this North Atlantic island nation Iceland |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | LEADING "ROLL"s $200: When it's time to go to sleep, campers unroll these a bed roll |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | ART $600: In 1538 Titian painted this Roman goddess of beauty reclining nude on a bed Venus |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | IN THE DICTIONARY $200: The name of this covering above a bed is from the Greek word for "mosquito", which it once protected against a canopy |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | SEWING $300: This is sewing together 2 pieces of fabric with padding between, perhaps to make a bed cover quilting |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $100: This type of accommodation is called a B&B for short a bed & breakfast |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | O PIONEERS! $200: Pioneer women found artistic expression making the patchwork type of these bed coverings quilts |
| #2464, aired 1995-04-27 | FURNITURE $200: In ancient Egypt some of these sloped downward & a footboard kept the sleeper from falling out bed |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | PROVERBS $100: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man" these 3 things healthy, wealthy & wise |
| #2433, aired 1995-03-15 | QUOTATIONS $200: According to James Thurber, "Early to rise and early to" this "makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead" bed |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | ROOMS $100: It's a hotel room for 2 people, or the kind of bed you may find in it a double |
| #2425, aired 1995-03-03 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: It can be a protective covering above a walkway, or an ornamental covering above a bed canopy |
| #2392, aired 1995-01-17 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: The Southfork Ranch this TV series made famous is now a $3500-a-night bed & breakfast Dallas |
| #2388, aired 1995-01-11 | WEAPONS $200: This "weapon" from "Basic Instinct" was an item at an October 1993 Hollywood auction ice pick |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | TRANSPORTATION $300: The name of this curtained couch that's carried was influenced by a French word for bed litter |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | FOOD & DRINK $300: Serve oysters Rockefeller on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning so the shells won't topple over salt |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | FURNITURE $200: It's the panel located at the pillowed end of a bed the headboard |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | COOKING $400: Nigiri sushi is simple to make; it's just a thin slice of raw fish on a small bed of this rice |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | "V"OCABULARY $500: It's a short drapery that can hang from the edge of a bed or table, or across the top of a window valance |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | PEOPLE & PLACES $300: It's the term for a person from Florence, Italy, whether or not he sleeps on a bed of spinach Florentine |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | FURNITURE $200: It's what a convertible sofa converts into a bed |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | ROYALTY $200: Born in 1729, this Russian empress had a secret room near her bed for entertaining lovers Catherine the Great |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: A courtier named Chastelard was hanged after he was found hiding under this Scotswoman's bed Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | QUOTATIONS $400: This wild-haired comedienne advised, "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight" Phyllis Diller |
| #2255, aired 1994-05-27 | LODGING $300: Built as a home in 1898, the Brigham Street Inn is an elegant bed and breakfast in this state capital Salt Lake City |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | LAKES $100: The Bonneville Salt Flats in the northwestern part of this state is the former bed of Lake Bonneville Utah |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the basic monetary unit of Laos, or British for a bed kip |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | WORD ORIGINS $400: The name of this bed pad comes from the Arabic taraha, meaning "to throw" a mattress |
| #2176, aired 1994-02-07 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: This size refers to a bed that are each 39" wide Twin |
| #2145, aired 1993-12-24 | ODDS & ENDS $200: According to the proverb, following this rule will make you "healthy, wealthy and wise" Early to bed & early to rise |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | TV MOVIES $500: She played Francine Hughes, who was accused of murdering her husband, in "The Burning Bed" Farrah Fawcett |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | ECCENTRICITIES $300: C. Vanderbilt reportedly kept dishes of this common seasoning under his bed to scare away evil spirits salt |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | FURNITURE $100: A fourposter bed often has one of these coverings suspended from its posts canopy |
| #2051, aired 1993-07-05 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: “See-saw”, this girl “sold her bed and lay on the straw” Marjorie Daw |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | FURNITURE $100: A davenport can be a small writing desk or a large one of these that you can convert to a bed a sofa |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | LEGAL LINGO $500: In Old England this was the time to cover your fire & go to bed by order of the king curfew |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | LONG LIVERS $1000: It's said that before her death at 94, this cosmetics queen conducted business meetings from her bed Helena Rubinstein |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $500: He rapped at the window & cried through the lock, "Are the children all in bed? For now it's 8 o'clock" Wee Willie Winkie |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY $400: When developed in 1927, this respirator consisted of a box, a bed & parts from 2 vacuum cleaners a iron lung |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | "ROSE"s $400: Robert Louis Stevenson said that "Marriage is a field of battle" & not this a bed of roses |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | FILE UNDER "O" $100: They live in a bed & can change their sex oysters |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | THURBER $400: Thurber rhymed "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and" this dead |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | HORSING AROUND $100: "Three jolly gentlemen, in coats of" this color "rode their horses up to bed" red |
| #1749, aired 1992-03-19 | FURNITURE $1000: The "sleigh" style of this piece of furniture was common in the 19th century a bed |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1920s play "And So to Bed" was based on the life of this diarist (Samuel) Pepys |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | THE RING CYCLE $400: The prologue to the ring cycle opens on the bed of this river where the maidens guard the gold the Rhine |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | THE ODYSSEY $600: When Odysseus returns, she tests him on details of their bed to confirm his identity Penelope |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | FURNITURE $600: An angel bed usually has a suspended one of these that doesn't extend to the bed's full length a canopy |
| #1606, aired 1991-09-02 | SERVING SUGGESTIONS $100: Baked oysters are sometimes served on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning salt |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | 2-CHARACTER PLAYS $2,500 (Daily Double): The entire action of this 1951 play takes place in a bedroom & much of it on the title bed The Fourposter |
| #1561, aired 1991-05-20 | DESIGN $100: A baldachino is an elaborate one these usually found over an altar or throne, not a bed a canopy |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | COUNTRY MUSIC $100: In 1978 B. Mandrell was "Sleeping single in" one of these, "thinking over things I wish I'd said" a double bed |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | COMMON BONDS $100: Oyster,
twin,
trundle a bed |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | THE WHITE HOUSE $400: The bed in the Queen's Room reportedly came from this president's home, the Hermitage Andrew Jackson |
| #1490, aired 1991-02-08 | PILLOW TALK $800: This diarist would frequently conclude his entries, "And so to bed" Samuel Pepys |
| #1463, aired 1991-01-02 | THE BIBLE $100: Jesus' first bed was one of these stone-feeding troughs a manger |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MAKING BEDS $300: Latin for "mosquito net", it's now the name for the decorative cloth suspended over a bed a canopy |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MAKING BEDS $400: This bed, named for its inventor, has come out of the closet for years a Murphy bed |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MAKING BEDS $500: The American empire style of bed named for the horse-drawn vehicle it resembles the sleigh bed |
| #1449, aired 1990-12-13 | MOTHER GOOSE $600: After "Jack fell down & broke his crown", he "went to bed to mend his head" using brown paper & this liquid vinegar |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: He "went to bed with his stockings on; one shoe off, one shoe on" diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | FAMOUS QUOTES $100: Robert Louis Stevenson said "marriage is like life in... that it is a field of battle and not a bed of" these roses |
| #1384, aired 1990-09-13 | IT TAKES TWO $200: According to the initials, the accommodations offered by a B&B a bed & breakfast |
| #1377, aired 1990-09-04 | DESIGN $200: A low bed designed to be pushed under the master bed when not in use trundle bed |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | FURNITURE $800: In the 1850s a spool bed was named for this Swedish singer who was touring America when it was designed Jenny Lind |
| #1366, aired 1990-07-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: A type of bed, apartment or marital status single |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | THINGS THAT GO BUMP... $100: Kids imagine them in the closet or under the bed, & Dr. Frankenstein built one in the lab a monster |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | FURNITURE $400: The piece of furniture that's most likely to sport a "splat" a chair |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | RECENT MOVIES $100: The 1989 film in which Michael Douglas found that marriage is no bed of roses (The) War of the Roses |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | ANTIQUES $100: An ornamental suspension over a bed, it was originally an emblem of privilege & rank a canopy |
| #1296, aired 1990-04-02 | PROVERBS $400: He coined the saying, Early to bed & early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise" Benjamin Franklin |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | LITERARY QUOTES $400: Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Marriage is ..... a field of battle, and not a bed of" these Roses |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | PLANTS $800: Name for a low, enclosed bed covered with glass or plastic for starting plants before the season Cold Frame |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | CHAIRS $200: The French version of a day bed, the chaise longue, literallly means this Long Chair |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to... uh-oh chop off your head |
| #1235, aired 1990-01-05 | LITERATURE $1000: This humorist's '33 autobiography contains episodes like "The Night the Bed Fell" & "The Car We Had to Push" James Thurber |
| #1228, aired 1989-12-27 | KID STUFF $200: Goldilocks thought this bear's porridge, chair, & bed were "just right" the baby bear |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | TOYS & GAMES $300: "The Complete Book of Games" says this type of battle can be held on a bed pillow fight |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | FURNITURE $200: The name of this bed sounds like it's made to hold corn, not children a crib |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | FURNITURE $800: A duchesse bed is a canopy bed without these posts |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | TV GUIDE SAYS $100: "In Salem, Mass. Samantha tries to help a warlock who's been turned into a bed warmer" Bewitched |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Near the end of this play, Theseus says, "Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time" "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | "LOCK"s $200: This brazen young blonde was caught napping in Baby Bear's bed Goldilocks |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | NURSERY RHYMES $500: In this rhyme, a parent bemoans the fact her child has gone to bed with stockings & 1 shoe on "Diddle Diddle Dumpling" |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | PROVERBS $100: As you do this "so you must lie on it", which is hard to do if you think about it "As you make your bed" |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | MUSICAL THEATER $1000: This 1966 musical based on Jan de Hartog's "The Fourposter" requires only 2 performers & a bed I Do! I Do! |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | FURNITURE $200: A low bed designed to roll under a larger bed, it was also called a truckle bed trundle bed |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | FABRICS $200: From a flaxen fabric, it's a term for bed sheets, though most are no long made of it linen |
| #1082, aired 1989-04-25 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $300: This lyricist's former home in Penn. is now a bed & breakfast inn, with the "King & I" room most expensive Oscar Hammerstein |
| #1078, aired 1989-04-19 | ANCIENT TIMES $600: Roman emperor Caracalla reportedly took "pride" in sharing his bed with one of these beasts a lion |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | ECONOMICS $1000: 20th c. English economist who handled his own investments every morning while he ate breakfast in bed (John Maynard) Keynes |
| #1059, aired 1989-03-23 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $1,400 (Daily Double): La Jolla, Calif.'s Bed & Breakfast Inn was once the home of this composer who wrote the following: John Philip Sousa |
| #1054, aired 1989-03-16 | FURNITURE $400: It's the distinctive feature of a Murphy bed it folds into the wall |
| #1031, aired 1989-02-13 | IN OTHER WORDS... $100: Retire at 9, up at 5, results in one guy being fit plus rich, not to mention smart Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | SCIENTISTS $500: His 1543 book refuting an Earth-centered solar system was published when he was on his death bed Copernicus |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | MOTHER GOOSE $200: "See-saw Margery Daw, sold her bed & lay upon" this straw |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | RODENTS $100: The name of this rodent is derived from its barking call prairie dog |
| #998, aired 1988-12-28 | MARCO POLO $1000: On his death bed, he's said to have stated, "I did not tell half of what I saw" for this reason you wouldn't have believed it |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | CALIFORNIA $100: Folks in L.A. for the 1st time may be surprised to see the L.A. River flowing on a bed of this material cement (concrete) |
| #979, aired 1988-12-01 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: This "makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise" Early to bed & early to rise |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | "AND" SO IT GOES $1000: Pepys often ended his diary entries with these four words referring to the end of the day's affairs "And so to bed" |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Non-flyer John Madden travels on this, the "Maddencruiser," complete with bed and shower Bus |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In architecture, it can be suspended over a statue; in furniture, it hangs above your bed a canopy |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | ACTRESSES $100: This star of "The Outlaw" said Howard Hughes got in bed with her once, but she threw him out Jane Russell |
| #954, aired 1988-10-27 | FURNITURE $300: Both a bed & a chair with curving lines were named for this Venetian vessel gondola |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This British poet, a notorious "Don Juan", kept his ringlets fresh by wearing curlers to bed George Gordon Lord Byron |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | KIDDIE LIT $400: Dying in bed, he shot an arrow out the window, saying he was to be buried where it landed Robin Hood |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In this fairy tale, the last words spoken by one of the 3 animal characters were, "And here she is" "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" |
| #877, aired 1988-05-31 | DANCE $1000: You won't find Jacob's Pillow on Marley's bed; it's a dance festival site in this New England state Massachusetts |
| #871, aired 1988-05-23 | CURRENT EVENTS $300: To show it was impossible for her to hide under it, Philippine President Aquino displayed hers to reporters her bed |
| #855, aired 1988-04-29 | "B" THERE $200: A built-in bed on a train, or a place for a boat to park berth |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: "See-saw Margery Daw, sold her bed & lay upon" this straw |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | ANIMAL GROUPS $200: A group of oysters is called this, when they're awake as well as when they're asleep a bed |
| #806, aired 1988-02-22 | WORD ORIGINS $500: An appetizer topped with a spread, from medieval Latin for a mosquito net that can top your bed a canapé |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | ENDS WITH "UNK" $100: To reveal falsehoods or to throw someone out of the top bed debunk |
| #781, aired 1988-01-18 | THE HUMAN BODY $100: According to Guinness, the sex that expends the most calories in making a bed the male sex |
| #763, aired 1987-12-23 | FURNITURE $800: Thin folks might be able to sleep on this low bed on wheels while it's still stored under a larger bed trundle bed |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | "ANGEL"IC SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Only Billboard Top 40 hit for Alan O'Day, it climbed all the way to No. 1:
"Cryin' on my pillow, lonely in my bed /
Then I heard a voice beside me, and she softly said /
Wonder is your night light, magic is your dream..." "Undercover Angel" |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In the McDonald's corporate "think tank", executives float on this type of bed to brainstorm waterbed |
| #725, aired 1987-10-30 | BIBLICAL PARTIES $800: At the banquet she threw, Haman fell on her bed & the king thought Haman was about to ravish her Esther |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | AMY VANDERBILT SAYS $500: Though Amy says to put ashtrays in guest bedrooms, she also says to "put your foot down" about smoking here in bed |
| #663, aired 1987-06-24 | '60s SONGS $500: This song asks, "Each night before you go to bed, my baby, whisper a little prayer for me, my baby" "This Is Dedicated To The One I Love" |
| #657, aired 1987-06-16 | LITERARY FLOWERS $200: Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "Marriage...is a field of battle, not a bed of" these roses |
| #653, aired 1987-06-10 | "SHORT" $400: Dormitory trick played on a roommate so he can't get under the covers of his bed short-sheeting |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | SLEEP $100: To avoid puffy eyes in the morning, experts say to raise this end of the bed up 3 or 4 inches the head |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | 1971 $400 (Daily Double): As a songwriter she topped pop charts 8 times, as a singer only once, with the following
"Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time / There's something wrong here there can be no denyin'" Carole King |
| #648, aired 1987-06-03 | SUDDEN DEATH $500: James Thurber wrote this "makes a male healthy, wealthy & dead" early to rise and early to bed |
| #617, aired 1987-04-21 | TV COMMERCIALS $600: Said to be 1 of TV's sexiest ½ minutes, the 1982 "Man in Bed" ad pushed this men's cologne Paco Rabanne |
| #609, aired 1987-04-09 | ANIMAL LOVERS $400: In "Son of Paleface", this equine star shared a bed with Bob Hope Trigger |
| #602, aired 1987-03-31 | INVENTIONS $200: In 1478, the 1st recorded reference to this camping aid called it a "wind bed" an air mattress |
| #571, aired 1987-02-16 | QUOTES $800: 17th century English diarist known for the phrase "and so to bed" Samuel Pepys |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | CRITICALLY SPEAKING $100: In their "Bests & Worsts" issue, TV Guide called it "Best reason to go to bed early on Saturday night" Saturday Night Live |
| #549, aired 1987-01-15 | NURSERY RHYMES $300: After "Jack fell down & broke his crown", he "went to bed to mend his head" using brown paper & this liquid vinegar |
| #547, aired 1987-01-13 | ACCORDING TO SPOCK $300: Of often, occasionally, or never, how often a child should be allowed to sleep with parents in their bed never |
| #517, aired 1986-12-02 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: Procrustes, a Greek robber, stretched short victims to fit a bed & did this to the tall ones hacked part of the legs off |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | GEOLOGY $400: The smallest lithostratigraphic division; make your own & you'll have to lie in it a bed |
| #471, aired 1986-09-29 | AUTHORS $400: Her Kenya home, now a museum, contains a bed Robert Redford shared with Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa" Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen |
| #444, aired 1986-05-22 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: Barbara Mandrell was "sleepin'" this way "in a double bed" "Sleeping Single In A Double Bed" |
| #411, aired 1986-04-07 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: Much-accomplished sister of Olivia de Havilland, she still found life "No Bed of Roses" Joan Fontaine |
| #409, aired 1986-04-03 | HOTELS $400: The phrase, "number of people behind each bed", refers to this criterion of excellence the staff |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | TWILIGHT ZONE $600: "Missing: 1 frightened little girl, name: Betina Miller", who crawled under here & disappeared the bed |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | PROVERBS $200: As you make your bed, so must you do this lie in it |
| #338, aired 1985-12-25 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: "Diddle diddle, dumpling, my son John" went to bed with one of these on shoe |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | INTERIOR DECORATING $300: A duchesse bed is a canopy bed without these at the corners posts |
| #290, aired 1985-10-18 | SPORTS TRIVIA $500: What Joe Jacobs said in 1935 when he left a sickbed to go to the World Series but bet on the wrong team I shoulda stood in bed |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | SUPERSTITIONS $300: Placing this beneath the bed will cut the pain of childbirth a knife (or an axe) |
| #173, aired 1985-05-08 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: He went to bed to mend his head with vinegar and brown paper Jack (from "Jack and Jill") |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | FAMOUS TRIALS $200: In "The Burning Bed", she played Francine Hughes, battered wife acquitted of murdering her husband Farrah Fawcett |
| #146, aired 1985-04-01 | SLEEP $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1909, his door bed company was 1st in U.S. to manufacture the concealed bed Murphy |
| #144, aired 1985-03-28 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: In his will, all the playwright left his wife was his "2nd best" of this household item his second best bed |
| #127, aired 1985-03-05 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $100: Many motorists prefer to stay in these "B&B" places bed & breakfasts |
| #98, aired 1985-01-23 | "WRONG" $100: What a morning grump did to get that way got up on the wrong side of the bed |
| #90, aired 1985-01-11 | PUNISHMENT $1000: Greek god whose body was bound to a rock while an eagle made pate out of his liver Prometheus |
| #68, aired 1984-12-12 | MUSICIANS $200: Among his famous "pianos" have been his bed & swimming pool Liberace |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It's where flowers "sleep" a bed |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | "B" MOVIES $100: In '61 movie, Audrey Hepburn's alternative to brunch in bed Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): Vehicle Butch Cassidy rode during this song:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head /
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed..." a bicycle |
