Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (321 results returned)

#9051, aired 2024-03-04HOBBIES & PASTIMES $200: An apiarist is someone who raises & cares for these bees
#1, aired 2024-01-12OVER CASTE $400: These creatures of the genus Apis have a strict caste system with male drones, female workers & a queen on top honeybees
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $400: "His head" (not his bonnet) "is full of" these buzzers bees
#8929, aired 2023-09-14BIOLOGY $400: Seen here, honey bees fill small baskets of specialized hairs on their hind legs with this powder pollen
#8905, aired 2023-06-30SCIENCE & NATURE $400: In a honeybee colony, the only job of these non-remote-controlled male bees is to mate with a queen drones
#5, aired 2023-05-10YOU BUG ME $2000: Not sounding much like biology-speak, it's the term for the figure-8 dance bees use to tell others the distance & direction to food waggle
#8772, aired 2022-12-27SCIENCE $400: This sweet plant secretion that's full of sucrose, fructose & glucose serves to attract pollinators like birds & bees nectar
#8724, aired 2022-10-20PHOBIAS $200: Apiphobia bees
#8697, aired 2022-09-13FULL OF HOLES $400: Worker bees build this structure & storage area in the hive from wax they produce honeycomb
#8692, aired 2022-07-26WHAT'S IN YOUR GULLET? $1200: If you're apivorous, you get by dining on these bees
#8659, aired 2022-06-09BOOK IT! $200: 2 very different novels are "The Murmur of" these & "The Secret Life of" these Bees
#8478, aired 2021-09-29SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees
#8444, aired 2021-07-15TIME FOR SCIENCE $2000: In addition to its acidity, one reason honey doesn't spoil is that an enzyme in bees helps produce this compound, H2O2, a germicide hydrogen peroxide
#8416, aired 2021-06-07SOME GOOD NEWS $1000: A city in Costa Rica has given citizenship to bees due to this role they play in the ecosystem pollinators
#8363, aired 2021-03-24THE PLANT WORLD $800: Lupine flowers that are out of this granular substance change color to signal bees to move on to a flower that has some pollen
#8291, aired 2020-11-30THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: Big bird, indeed! One of these can grow to over 8 feet tall an ostrich
#8291, aired 2020-11-30THE BIRDS & THE BEES $500 (Daily Double): Mason & carpenter bees are classified as this type that practices social distancing full time solitary bees
#8291, aired 2020-11-30THE BIRDS & THE BEES $600: Seen here is the roseate species of this bird, named for the shape of its beak the spoonbill
#8291, aired 2020-11-30THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: The peregrine species of this bird is known to dive at 200 miles per hour a falcon
#8291, aired 2020-11-30THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1000: About 4 times larger than a honeybee, the rare Wallace's giant is native to this country's North Moluccas Islands Indonesia
#8278, aired 2020-11-11JOHN BROWN $400: Zainab Jah plays this woman who tried to recruit supporters for John Brown; he called her "The General" "I will come with all the bees I can hive, but once that date is set, do not change it, not for anything." (Harriet) Tubman
#8234, aired 2020-06-11PUN-FORGIVABLE $1600: "Where Noah stored his bees aboard his vessel", or a place where historical documents & records are kept an ark hive
#8217, aired 2020-05-19GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $1600: "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's" this fall in love
#8198, aired 2020-04-08BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $600: Sue Monk Kidd examined their "Secret Life" Bees
#8162, aired 2020-02-18BUCKETS $800: Orchid bees fly into bucket orchids & deliver the materials that help in this reproductive process pollination
#8068, aired 2019-10-09LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at Texas Beeworks in Austin.) In the story "His Last Bow", this fictional character says of his retirement, "I live and keep bees upon the South Downs," and shows Dr. Watson the book he wrote on beekeeping Sherlock Holmes
#8045, aired 2019-07-26MAKE IT SNAPPY $800: Genus Antirrhinum, these flowers snap closed after they are pried open by bees snapdragons
#8035, aired 2019-07-12ALIEN INVASION! $2000: Apis mellifera scutellata is best known by this scary name & came from Africa to Brazil to the United States killer bees
#8001, aired 2019-05-27THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Beekeeping was practiced in ancient Egypt where honey was important not just in everyday life, but in the afterlife; the 1922 discovery of this king's tomb included jars of honey, still edible 3,000 years later King Tut
#8001, aired 2019-05-27THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for figuring out that bees communicate the distance & direction of a food supply to other members of a hive by using a series of rhythmic movements called these; a circling one means food is within 75 meters while a waggling one means a greater distance a dance
#8001, aired 2019-05-27THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) In ancient Greece, this father of medicine recommended honey as a cure for everything, from thirst & pain to fevers & ulcers Hippocrates
#8001, aired 2019-05-27THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) In the 1870s, beekeepers were using a smoker to calm bees; the smoke works by dulling the attack receptors of these chemical secretions pheromones
#8001, aired 2019-05-27THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Worker bees produce a nutritious milky substance long thought to be what made certain female larvae become queen bees, hence this name; recent research is challenging that assumption royal jelly
#7959, aired 2019-03-28FOR THE BIRDS $800: Birds do it, bees do it, it being this act that fertilizes flowers; hummingbirds & honeycreepers are noted for it pollination
#7952, aired 2019-03-19TRIPLE "O" RATED $200: Branch of biology that brings together bees, buffaloes & barracudas zoology
#7897, aired 2019-01-01COOL CRITTERS $1200: In 2016 beekeepers cleared 20,000 bees from a car in Wales after the bees tracked it for 2 days in order to free this the queen bee
#7845, aired 2018-10-19WHERE THERE'S SMOKE $1000: By the 17th century keepers of these had developed a screen veil & had learned the value of smoke in controlling them bees
#7712, aired 2018-03-06THE VEGAN LIFE $200: Whether this product is vegan or not depends on how you perceive bees to be affected by the extraction process honey
#7673, aired 2018-01-10PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN $800: Smoke used to calm bees prevents the alarm type of this chemical secretion from alarming others in the hive pheromones
#7672, aired 2018-01-09BUGS MEANIE $1,200 (Daily Double): If an Africanized colony of these is disturbed & in a bad mood, you may meet 10,000 of them in 15 seconds (killer) bees
#7663, aired 2017-12-27IF THE BEES WENT AWAY... $200: If colony collapse or other factors make bees extinct, there will be no more guac, as this fatty fruit is 90% dependent on them avocado
#7663, aired 2017-12-27IF THE BEES WENT AWAY... $400: Bees increase the quality of the fibers taken from this "Fabric of Our Lives" plant cotton
#7663, aired 2017-12-27IF THE BEES WENT AWAY... $600: The seeds of this big yellow flower of the Helianthus genus are much fewer if it self-pollinates the sunflower
#7663, aired 2017-12-27IF THE BEES WENT AWAY... $800: No bees means no more natural honey, and perhaps no more this Middle Eastern pastry baklava
#7663, aired 2017-12-27IF THE BEES WENT AWAY... $1000: Beef & dairy shortages? Bees are crucial for plants like alfalfa, used as this 6-letter type of food for cattle fodder (or forage)
#7623, aired 2017-11-01BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $200: "His head" (not his bonnet) "is full of" these buzzers bees
#7617, aired 2017-10-24ROBOTS $600: Called Robo-Bees, mini drones sporting sticky horsehair may one day help insects with this vital process pollination
#7606, aired 2017-10-09NAUGHTY BY NATURE $800: Just like the bird, cuckoo wasps are so named because they do this in the nests of other insects, like bees lay their eggs
#7537, aired 2017-05-23CREATURES IN MYTHOLOGY $1600: In Norse myth a never-ending supply of this drink is produced by the she-goat Heidrun, not by bees mead
#7483, aired 2017-03-08THE SAVAGE BEAST $800: Not the feared "killer" ones from South America, a group of these still managed to delay a Sept. 18, 2016 Angels game bees
#7467, aired 2017-02-14SIX FEET UNDER $1600: These social insects use the "waggle dance" to communicate the location of distant food sources bees
#7453, aired 2017-01-25THE YELLOW HORNET $200: Most hornets are a subfamily of these other insects; they differ in the direction their wings fold while at rest wasps
#7393, aired 2016-11-02"B"RANDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Mr. Shavitz, for whom this alliterative beauty brand is named, appeared in a 2008 PSA about colony collapse disorder Burt's Bees
#7387, aired 2016-10-25THE "IV" LEAGUE $800: As a verb, it means to live together closely, like bees to hive
#7286, aired 2016-04-25SCIENCE UPDATE $200: A 2016 report says the world's food supply is in trouble with the decline of bees & others who do this important job pollinators
#7267, aired 2016-03-29"B" & "B" $200: Animal pair involved in indoctrination about reproduction the birds and the bees
#7237, aired 2016-02-16SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $200: A house for birds & a house for bees aviary & apiary
#7166, aired 2015-11-09-OLOGIES $1600: The person seen here is equipped for this specific -ology apiology
#7163, aired 2015-11-04MERRIAM-WEBSTER NEW WORDS $1200: Colony collapse disorder refers to the death of these animals (honey)bees
#7074, aired 2015-05-21THERE'S A BUG IN MY BOOK TITLE $400: Set in South Carolina in 1964: "The Secret Life of ____" Bees
#7058, aired 2015-04-29OCCUPATIONS $400: An apiarist breeds these, please bees
#6891, aired 2014-07-28MIDDLE A $400: A big bunch of buzzin' bees swarm
#6889, aired 2014-07-24THE SOUND OF WORDS $600: 4-letter term for gossip or the predominant sound in an apiary buzz
#6878, aired 2014-07-09NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $2000: Tina Fey used "Queen Bees and Wannabes" as fodder to write this Lindsay Lohan film Mean Girls
#6790, aired 2014-03-07OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $600: For Book Club 2.0, Oprah chose "The Invention of Wings" by this author who once explored the secret life of bees Sue Monk Kidd
#6720, aired 2013-11-29BOTANY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Costa Rica.) The orchid here can be fertilized by only a few species of bees; luckily, nature manages to get the job done, producing this flavorful bean used in ice cream & baking vanilla
#6712, aired 2013-11-19MAKING A BEE LINE $400: This kid lit bear said, "When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming" Winnie the Pooh
#6712, aired 2013-11-19MAKING A BEE LINE $1200: Sue Monk Kidd said in this book that women make the best beekeepers because they can "love creatures that sting" The Secret Life of Bees
#6684, aired 2013-10-10SOUTHERN BOOKSTORE $400: Honey, you just gotta read about a young girl in 1960s Dixie in "The Secret Life of" these Bees
#6502, aired 2012-12-18LOVE $600: A song by this composer says, "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's fall in love" Cole Porter
#6471, aired 2012-11-05AROUND THE FOREST $1000: This forest dweller, also known as the ratel, does care to break into bees' nests to get the sweet stuff the honey badger
#6434, aired 2012-08-02ADD A LETTER $400: Add a letter to "warm" & you're buzzing with this bunch of bees swarm
#6396, aired 2012-06-11SISTER GOLDENHAIR $1200: In 2008 Elle of this family was Benjamin Button's friend Daisy & sis Dakota starred in "The Secret Life of Bees" Fanning
#6393, aired 2012-06-06PRODUCT NAMES $400: Lip balms & such: Burt's ____ Bees
#6346, aired 2012-04-02APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: It can refer to a large number of bees, especially if looking for a new home, or of other insects such as locusts a swarm
#6330, aired 2012-03-09SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: (Chevy Chase reads the clue from the set of Community.) I was taken hostage by killer bees led by Elliot Gould in a sketch where this "SNL" producer appeared on-camera for the first time Lorne Michaels
#6305, aired 2012-02-03EASY "A" $1200: They're the structures seen here apiaries
#6246, aired 2011-11-144 STRAIGHT VOWELS $2000: "The moan of doves in immemorial elms, and murmuring of innumerable bees" is an example of this literary device onomatopoeia
#6163, aired 2011-06-01GET A JOB! $1000: An apiarist keeps bees; this person shapes hedges a topiarist
#6146, aired 2011-05-09SPELLING BEES $400: This honeybee can lay a thousand or more eggs a day Q-U-E-E-N
#6146, aired 2011-05-09SPELLING BEES $800: It's the common name for the big, fuzzy members of the bombini tribe B-U-M-B-L-E-B-E-E
#6146, aired 2011-05-09SPELLING BEES $1200: Honeybees of this industrious caste are all female, but they never reach sexual maturity W-O-R-K-E-R-S
#6146, aired 2011-05-09SPELLING BEES $1600: This stingless honeybee drudge caste is only around in summer D-R-O-N-E
#6146, aired 2011-05-09SPELLING BEES $2,800 (Daily Double): 11-letter "continental," adjective that describes the honeybee hybrid A-F-R-I-C-A-N-I-Z-E-D
#6136, aired 2011-04-25THE OPENING VERSE $800: ...of "To Autumn" by Keats says this season "has o'er-brimm'd" the bees' "clammy cells" summer
#6095, aired 2011-02-25PALINDROMES $1600: "Did Hannah see" these stinging insects? "Hannah did" bees
#6044, aired 2010-12-16THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: Scientists now believe that birds are descended from the theropods, the "beast foot" family of these dinosaurs
#6044, aired 2010-12-16THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: The big difference between bees & these close relatives is that bees feed their young honey, not other insects wasps
#6044, aired 2010-12-16THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1200: The "giant" type of this bird is an imposing 8 inches long & weighs a colossal 2/3 of an ounce a hummingbird
#6044, aired 2010-12-16THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1600: That's not ladylike! If 2 of these bees emerge from their cells at the same time, they fight to the death the queens
#6044, aired 2010-12-16THE BIRDS & THE BEES $2000: The food of bee larvae is called royal this; it's secreted from the heads of other bees jelly
#5978, aired 2010-09-15SINGERS ON SCREEN $2000: As June Boatwright in "The Secret Life of Bees", she didn't play the piano but rather the cello, which she learned for the role Alicia Keys
#5947, aired 2010-06-22BEASTLY COLLECTIVES $800: Gnats, flies & bees all get together in groups called these swarms
#5945, aired 2010-06-18LIVING THINGS $200: These "laboring" honeybees who serve the queen are all female worker bees
#5919, aired 2010-05-13THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $400: nytimes.com calls these insects "the angels of agriculture" bees
#5892, aired 2010-04-06FUN AT THE BALLPARK $600: A 1976 game in Cincinnati between the Giants & the Reds was stopped for 30 minutes when players were attacked by these bees
#5840, aired 2010-01-22THE SCIENCE BUG $400: Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for work on animal behavior patterns, largely using the "dance' of this insect bees
#5799, aired 2009-11-26THERE'S A TITLE IN THE TITLE $800: Rosalind Wiseman's book that inspired the movie "Mean Girls": "____ Bees & Wannabes" Queen
#5666, aired 2009-04-06TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE $800: A German theory that these devices might disorient bees isn't widely accepted, so don't dump your Sprint plan just yet a cell phone
#5666, aired 2009-04-06TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE $1600: This U.S. ice cream maker with a faux Euro name created a special vanilla flavor to raise awareness of bees' plight Haagen-Dazs
#5612, aired 2009-01-20SHALL WE REPRODUCE? $800: Bees perform this important hyphenated reproductive function when jumping from flower to flower cross-pollination
#5538, aired 2008-10-08FLOWERS $1200: Monkshoods are pollinated only by these bees
#5516, aired 2008-09-08AT THE DRUGSTORE $1200: Originally making honey & candles, this brand now focuses on "Earth friendly, natural personal care" products Burt's Bees
#5474, aired 2008-05-29HORSE & BUGGY $1200: The cells bees make for workers, males & queens are different in size, but all are this shape hexagon
#5472, aired 2008-05-27BUGGY $600: Some ants herd these small insects of the order Hemiptera for the sweet excretions they produce aphids
#5403, aired 2008-02-20THE STAMP ACT $800: The Pollination stamps show a butterfly, a bat, bees & this small nectar-sipping bird a hummingbird
#5372, aired 2008-01-08YOU'RE AN ANIMAL $800 (Daily Double): Scientists are scrambling to find out the cause of colony collapse disorder, which is occurring with this insect bees
#5361, aired 2007-12-24COMMON BONDS $400: Killer, honey, bumble bees
#5337, aired 2007-11-20BEASTLY RHYME TIME $800: Confederate general's apian drones Lee's bees
#5327, aired 2007-11-06WOMEN AUTHORS $800: There was a lot of buzz over Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel, "The Secret Life of" these Bees
#5286, aired 2007-09-10THE HONEY $800: They're the waxy cellular structures in which bees store their food & lay their eggs honeycomb
#5278, aired 2007-07-18INSECT INVASION $800: There are 20,000 known species of these insects, including social, parasitic & "killer" types bees
#5217, aired 2007-04-24LET'S COMMUNICATE $400: Karl von Frisch figured out that these insects point in a given direction while dancing, to show where food is bees
#5191, aired 2007-03-19NATURE STUDY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a honeycomb tray at the University of Nebraska's Dept. of Entomology.) Carpenter & mason bees are classified as solitary types; honeybees, which live in colonies of tens of thousands, are this opposite kind social
#5169, aired 2007-02-15THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: Some (maybe the birds themselves) say the African gray type is the most accomplished talker among these birds parrots
#5169, aired 2007-02-15THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: Bees help create new species when they move this powder from one type of plant to another pollen
#5169, aired 2007-02-15THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1200: The white type of this forage plant is a prime source of the nectar that bees use to make honey clover
#5169, aired 2007-02-15THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1600: A nuthatch isn't an asylum, it's a bird that loves these nuts also called filberts hazelnuts
#5169, aired 2007-02-15THE BIRDS & THE BEES $2000: It's a small, chunky brown bird with a short bill & a silent initial W wren
#5099, aired 2006-11-09THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: Seen here is the laughing type of this "sea" bird--sorry, no audio for you seagull
#5088, aired 2006-10-25ADD A LETTER $1600: Sorry to tell you that adding this letter to "apology" turns it into the study of bees I (for apiology)
#5071, aired 2006-10-02BEEKEEPING $200: (Sarah Whitcomb of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Nebraska's Dept. of Entomology.) This familiar term for a group of bees refers specifically to the group that flies from the hive to form a new colony a swarm
#5071, aired 2006-10-02BEEKEEPING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a swarm of bees.) Drones don't sting, & queens only sting other queens, so only worry about a sting from these bees, but they are about 95% of a hive's population worker bees
#5071, aired 2006-10-02BEEKEEPING $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue with a tray of bees in front of her.) Honey is produced by the evaporation of this liquid that bees collect from flowers & then regurgitate nectar
#5071, aired 2006-10-02BEEKEEPING $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reveals the clue holding a tray with bees on it.) Glands on a bee's abdomen convert the sugar in honey to this building material beeswax
#5029, aired 2006-06-22FROM THE LATIN $800: Bees & beehives are kept in this, from the Latin for "beehive" an apiary
#4869, aired 2005-11-10TOUGH STUFF $400: When beekeepers open an active hive, they blow this into it first smoke
#4826, aired 2005-09-12THIS MOVIE IS A DISASTER! $2000: Killer bees from South America threaten the U.S. in this Irwin Allen disaster epic (not "The Sting", that's different) The Swarm
#4818, aired 2005-07-13IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: This novel by Sue Monk Kidd about a 14-year-old southerner Lily Owen is a honey of a read The Secret Life of Bees
#4811, aired 2005-07-04A_O_L $1600: It's the scientific study of bees apiology
#4771, aired 2005-05-09COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG $800: "Sky rockets" are these; hope you've got some "bees & honey" in yours your pockets
#4655, aired 2004-11-26FRAIDY CAT $2,000 (Daily Double): A person with ornithophobia & apiphobia may avoid a talk on this subject feared by erotophobics the birds and the bees (or sex)
#4644, aired 2004-11-11FLOWER $800: Bergamot is also called the "balm" of these creatures to which it's highly attractive bees
#4506, aired 2004-03-22POTPOURRI $1000: This flower got its name from the belief that bees got a sweet substance out of it honeysuckle
#4503, aired 2004-03-17-OLOGIES $200: Buzz in if you know that apiology is the study of these bees
#4471, aired 2004-02-02ANIMAL QUOTES $600: The Book of Judges reports Samson's riddle concerning "A swarm of bees and honey in a carcase of" this a lion
#4468, aired 2004-01-28WOMEN WRITERS $600: Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel is called "The Secret Life of" these insects Bees
#4459, aired 2004-01-15TERM ME LOOSE $400: Term for the 3 lower pipes on a bagpipe, or the male honey bees that live off the work of others drones
#4415, aired 2003-11-14THE "IV" LEAGUE $200: Home sweet home for bees a hive
#4397, aired 2003-10-21SCIENCE PUNS $200: Do bees build these from scratch or does the scratch come later hives
#4373, aired 2003-09-17CAN I HAVE A WORD? $2,000 (Daily Double): The corbicula is the small pollen basket below the knees on these bees
#4320, aired 2003-05-16OVER CASTE $400: These creatures of the genus Apis have a strict caste system with male drones, female workers & a queen on top bees
#4307, aired 2003-04-29WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $800: Melissophobia isn't the fear of Joan Rivers' daughter but the fear of these insects, honey bees
#4235, aired 2003-01-17WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: So many people are using this type of trendy term that they sound like bees buzzword
#4229, aired 2003-01-09TEACHER'S PET $800: I misunderstood when Mr. Bane said he had these, so I got him some Claritin; he just meant he kept bees hives
#4193, aired 2002-11-20THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: This term for a stingerless male bee sounds like an unmanned spy plane drone
#4193, aired 2002-11-20THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Monkey River in Belize) A mainstay of the toucan's diet, it's also in the name of the cereal that it promotes fruit
#4193, aired 2002-11-20THE BIRDS & THE BEES $600: This substance produced by bees is used in the making of candles & cosmetics wax
#4193, aired 2002-11-20THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: Ectopistes migratorius is the scientific name of this now extinct variety of pigeon passenger pigeon
#4193, aired 2002-11-20THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1000: Seen here, this long-winged native of the Andes Mountains is actually a type of vulture condor
#4161, aired 2002-10-07TINY THINGS $200: These minute grains link the flowers & the bees pollen
#4143, aired 2002-09-11FOOD IN HISTORY $600: The Reformation caused shortages of this sweet stuff by closing monasteries that raised bees for votive candle wax Honey
#4131, aired 2002-07-15PICTURESQUE EXPRESSIONS $400: People who've got these in their bonnets should be avoided, they're mad bees
#4079, aired 2002-05-02BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID $400: You might not want to tell your honey if you've got apiphobia, a fear of these bees
#4039, aired 2002-03-07CRANBERRIES $800: Cranberry growers bring in millions of these insects to pollinate the flowers bees
#3997, aired 2002-01-08QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $1600: West Virginia Senator Robert's family & actresses Arthur & Benaderet Byrds & bees
#3974, aired 2001-12-06BIRDS' SCIENTIFIC NAMES $800 (Daily Double): Merops apiaster is an "eater" of these insects bees
#3832, aired 2001-04-10TERMS OF ENDEARMENT $100: It's made by bees & is an important food for bears & badgers Honey
#3805, aired 2001-03-02THE BIRDS & THE BEES $100: Only female bees possess these poison-injecting organs Stingers
#3805, aired 2001-03-02THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: Bees & other animals also have wings, but birds are the only animals with these often colorful features Feathers
#3805, aired 2001-03-02THE BIRDS & THE BEES $300: These small yellow finches were once used by coal miners to detect deadly gases Canaries
#3805, aired 2001-03-02THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: It's the only continent without bees Antarctica
#3805, aired 2001-03-02THE BIRDS & THE BEES $500: Aaaack! It's the variety of Australian parrot seen here Cockatoo
#3804, aired 2001-03-01SKYWATCH $400: This is the term for a large group of meteors, or of bees a swarm
#3795, aired 2001-02-16INSECTS $500: The cells bees make for workers, males & queens are different in size, but all are this shape Hexagonal
#3776, aired 2001-01-22WILD KINGDOM $500: The greater wax & lesser wax types of this insect are major enemies of bees; their larvae eat the hive! Moths
#3756, aired 2000-12-25THE BIRDS & THE BEES $100: These domesticated bees take their name from the sticky substance they hoard honeybees
#3756, aired 2000-12-25THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: A home for some bees, it can also mean any place swarming with activity hive
#3678, aired 2000-09-06A BEE $400: This tallow-like substance extruded by bees is collected & used to make candles beeswax
#3678, aired 2000-09-06A BEE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the digestive tract, some bees turn this flower product into honey nectar
#3674, aired 2000-07-20KILLERS $100: In 1990 these insects on the lam from South America since 1957 reached Texas killer bees
#3602, aired 2000-04-11SCIENCE OF 1990 $200: The first swarm of these to enter the U.S. was destroyed killer bees
#3580, aired 2000-03-10ODD FELLOWS $400: Jed Shaner set a Guinness record in 1991 by covering himself with some 343,000 of these insects bees
#3471, aired 1999-10-11BEES $200: A scout bee may use the "waggle" variety of this to inform others about the location of flowers Dance
#3471, aired 1999-10-11BEES $400: Of 1 MPH, 15 MPH or Mach 2, the flight speed of an average worker bee 15 MPH
#3471, aired 1999-10-11BEES $600: The queen bee's basic duty, it happens 2,000 times a day during summer Laying eggs
#3471, aired 1999-10-11BEES $800: These people had domesticated the bee as early as 3000 B.C. Egyptians
#3471, aired 1999-10-11BEES $1000: The cosmetics industry uses more of this product than any other industry, more than 1,000,000 pounds a year Beeswax
#3458, aired 1999-09-22BUG ME! $600: Bees feed on both nectar & this granular dust-like substance necessary for germination Pollen
#3401, aired 1999-05-24SLANGUAGE $100: Let me tell ya 'bout these 2 groups of creatures, they're used to explain "The Facts of Life" birds and the bees
#3392, aired 1999-05-11BEE HEALTHY $100: Honey bee society is divided by humans into 3 classes: queens, workers & these studly bees drones
#3392, aired 1999-05-11BEE HEALTHY $200: Most of this crucial agricultural process is done by bees pollination
#3384, aired 1999-04-29THE MOVIES $200: Christopher Atkins learns about the birds & the bees on a desert island with this actress in "The Blue Lagoon" Brooke Shields
#3352, aired 1999-03-16ANIMAL GROUPS $200: Just thinking about a "grist" of these insects gives me hives Bees
#3305, aired 1999-01-08GATHERINGS $600: The A-crowd knows that types of these include quilting & spelling Bees
#3289, aired 1998-12-17"LET"s END THIS $1000: We can't see this type of light, but experiments indicate that bees & butterflies can ultraviolet
#3282, aired 1998-12-08COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG $300: When I run out of bees and honey -- money -- I visit the iron tank -- this place Bank
#3162, aired 1998-05-05STRAIGHT "A"s $300 (Daily Double): It's a place where bees are kept, though it sounds like a home for gorillas Apiary
#3155, aired 1998-04-24NATURE $800: In the 1940s zoologist Karl von Frisch discovered that bees use this as a compass the Sun
#3124, aired 1998-03-12BUDDY THE BEEKEEPER $300: Buddy makes people mad when he blows this in elevators, but he blows it at bees to calm them down smoke
#3124, aired 1998-03-12BUDDY THE BEEKEEPER $500: In spring Buddy gets ready for these masses of bees to fly from their hives & form new colonies swarms
#3111, aired 1998-02-23PHOBIAS $100: Cnidophobia is a fear of these, so sufferers avoid bees, wasps & Newman & Redford Stings
#3097, aired 1998-02-03THE BEE $100: Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey Nectar
#3097, aired 1998-02-03THE BEE $200: Bees are found on every continent but this one Antarctica
#3097, aired 1998-02-03THE BEE $300: Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey & this plant product Pollen
#3097, aired 1998-02-03THE BEE $400: On their heads bees have 5 of these -- 2 compound & 3 simple Eyes
#3058, aired 1997-12-10HOODS $400: It's the British term for the hood of a car; hopefully there are no bees in it Bonnet
#3028, aired 1997-10-29"HY" THERE $400: Killer bees, beefalos & tangelos, for example hybrids
#3016, aired 1997-10-13NATURE $300: The major groups of social bees are honeybees, tropical stingless bees & these bees bumblebees
#2999, aired 1997-09-18MY OH MAYAN $200: The Mayans domesticated turkey, ducks, dogs & these insects Bees
#2985, aired 1997-07-18SCIENCE $400: Birds & bees perform this transfer of gametes from anthers to stigmas pollination
#2961, aired 1997-06-16VEGETARIAN CUISINE $200: Some vegetarians choose not to eat this product because it is made by bees honey
#2954, aired 1997-06-05INSECTS $100: This large black & yellow bee can often be found at higher altitudes than other bees Bumblebee
#2946, aired 1997-05-26BOTANY $100: Unlike these honey makers, most butterflies don't eat the pollen they collect bees
#2944, aired 1997-05-22NATURE $200: Rather than by birds or bees, coniferous trees are dependent on this for pollination Wind
#2882, aired 1997-02-25THE INSECT WORLD $500: Bee milk is another name for this nutritious substance fed to queen bees royal jelly
#2868, aired 1997-02-05BIRDS & BEES $100: The smallest of these smallest birds is the bee type the hummingbird
#2868, aired 1997-02-05BIRDS & BEES $200: Because its mouth is extremely wide, the swift can feed on insects while doing this flying
#2868, aired 1997-02-05BIRDS & BEES $300: The kiwi is the only bird with these organs located at the tip of its beak Nostrils
#2868, aired 1997-02-05BIRDS & BEES $400: Usually a bee has this many more wings than a bird 2
#2868, aired 1997-02-05BIRDS & BEES $500: Beehives are placed in some orchards specifically for this reason pollination
#2843, aired 1997-01-01NOTABLE WOMEN $300: Eva Crane became interested in apiculture when she received a swarm of these as a wedding present bees
#2782, aired 1996-10-08PLANTS $300: In addition to its use as a cow & sheep feed, alfalfa is a favorite of these food-producing insects bees
#2708, aired 1996-05-15THE INSECT WORLD $400: This "royal" food that queen bees eat forms inside glands in the heads of worker bees royal jelly
#2680, aired 1996-04-05ANIMALS $800: A bee is said to do this at the hive to show the other bees the direction & distance to a food source Dance
#2616, aired 1996-01-08THE INSECT WORLD $200: Bees carry this in a special organ called the honey stomach nectar
#2610, aired 1995-12-29PROVERBS $400: A rhyming proverb tells us "A swarm of bees in" this month "is worth a load of hay" May
#2602, aired 1995-12-19SCIENCE $200: After a new queen bee emerges from her cell, she goes on a mating flight with these bees the drones
#2594, aired 1995-12-07PLANTS & TREES $100: Red clover is pollinated by these large furry bees of the family Bombidae bumblebees
#2535, aired 1995-09-15FLOWERS $600: Bees are especially fond of these purplish flowers of Scotland, from which they make a honey heather
#2505, aired 1995-06-23OLD TESTAMENT $200: He tore apart a lion & later found a swarm of bees & honey inside Samson
#2475, aired 1995-05-12THE INSECT WORLD $200: Bees produce this only when it's needed to build a honeycomb wax
#2275, aired 1994-06-24PHOBIAS $100: Here's the buzz--if you have apiphobia, you're afraid of these bees
#2247, aired 1994-05-17ZOOLOGY $100: Unlike bees, most wasps do not collect this pollen
#2191, aired 1994-02-28NATURE $100: Some of these on the trunk & branches of the honey locust tree may be 4 inches long--ouch! thorns
#2165, aired 1994-01-21FLUIDS $100: It's the poisonous liquid secreted by scorpions & bees as well as snakes venom
#2157, aired 1994-01-11SWEETENERS $200: It's estimated bees must visit over 2 million flowers to produce a pound of this honey
#2157, aired 1994-01-11INSECTS $300: Worker bees have "baskets" on their hind legs to carry this; cuckoo bees don't pollen
#2113, aired 1993-11-10THE BIRDS $1,000 (Daily Double): A bird that's described as apivorous eats these insects bees
#2098, aired 1993-10-20DECORATIVE ARTS $300: The "album" style of these bedcovers made at bees is often presented as an anniversary gift a quilt
#2096, aired 1993-10-18VOCABULARY $500: These 2 words which differ by 1 letter refer to places where birds & bees are kept aviary & apiary
#2074, aired 1993-09-16DISASTER MOVIES $200: Irwin Allen's "The Swarm" was about a swarm of these "killer" insects bees
#2042, aired 1993-06-22HONEY $400: This thin watery liquid that bees collect from flowers is used to make honey nectar
#1963, aired 1993-03-03ATTACKERS $400: On October 15, 1990 the first of these to migrate naturally to the U.S. was found in Texas killer bees
#1940, aired 1993-01-29PIONEER LIFE $100: At quilting bees women sewed patchwork together; at these they stripped ears of corn husking bees
#1898, aired 1992-12-02WAXES $100: It's thought that the ancient Egyptians used this insect wax as a cosmetic base honey bees
#1894, aired 1992-11-26ZOOLOGY $800: It's the name shared by types of ants & bees which build their nests in wood carpenter ants & bees
#1880, aired 1992-11-06ANIMAL GROUPS $500: It's the group term common to bees & eels swarm
#1878, aired 1992-11-04COLOR $600: Bees' color vision includes these wavelengths too short for humans to see ultraviolet
#1873, aired 1992-10-28ANIMALS $300: Mason, miner & killer are 3 types of these insects bees
#1855, aired 1992-10-02MAGAZINES $200: This magazine's "Geographica" section reports on poisonous toads, killer bees & other phenomena the National Geographic
#1839, aired 1992-09-10-OLOGIES $400: It's the type of insect studied in apiology bees
#1831, aired 1992-07-13ZOOLOGY $400: In a honeybee hive, there are 3 kinds of bees: the queen, the drones & these the workers
#1828, aired 1992-07-08INSECTS $300: Bees convert this to honey in their digestive tracts nectar
#1779, aired 1992-04-30INSECTS $200: These "criminal" bees are a hybrid of African honeybees & wild Brazilian bees killer bees
#1733, aired 1992-02-26COMMON BONDS $100: Killer, honey, bumble bees
#1661, aired 1991-11-18POETS & POETRY $600 (Daily Double): She called bees "buccaneers of buzz" in her poem No. 1405 Emily Dickinson
#1628, aired 1991-10-02MYTHOLOGY $100: Apollo's son Aristaeus was a keeper of these insects bees
#1615, aired 1991-09-13NATURE $200: Bees live in a apiary & these live in a vespiary wasps
#1602, aired 1991-07-16MAMMALS $100: Contrary to its name, this mammal also dines on other insects like bees & termites an anteater
#1581, aired 1991-06-17THE BEES $200: Common name of the hairy social bee of the genus Bombus the bumblebee
#1581, aired 1991-06-17THE BEES $400: The shortest route back to the hive, that has come to mean the shortest route to anywhere a beeline
#1581, aired 1991-06-17THE BEES $600: One of the chores of these female bees is to fan the air at the entrance to the hive workers
#1581, aired 1991-06-17THE BEES $800: Bee product used to make candles & cosmetics beeswax
#1581, aired 1991-06-17THE BEES $1000: The 2 items that bees gather from flowers nectar & pollen
#1561, aired 1991-05-20SCIENCE & NATURE $300: While an aviary is a place to keep birds, an apiary is for these creatures bees
#1555, aired 1991-05-10INSECTS $400: Karl von Frisch won a 1973 Nobel Prize for deciphering the dancing "language" of these insects bees
#1513, aired 1991-03-13INSECTS $100: As among bees, the breeding female in a termite colony is called this a queen
#1498, aired 1991-02-20DEM BUGS $200: Among bees, workers do all the work while their sole function is to mate with the queen the drones
#1495, aired 1991-02-15BIRD LORE $100: In explaining the birds & bees, many say babies are brought by these birds storks
#1489, aired 1991-02-07INSECTS $200: Queen bees only use their stingers to kill these bees other queens
#1475, aired 1991-01-18BOTANY $800: Bees make honey from this sugary solution secreted by some plants nectar
#1422, aired 1990-11-06HANDICRAFTS $100: The layered needlework made at bees in early America Quilting
#1369, aired 1990-07-12BOTANY $500 (Daily Double): Flowers pollinated by this have very small petals or none at all the wind
#1307, aired 1990-04-17PROVERBS $200: These "that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails." bees
#1272, aired 1990-02-27ANIMAL TRIVIA $300: The venom of these bees is actually less poisonous than European bees, but they attack in large groups African Bees/Killer Bees
#1264, aired 1990-02-15COMMUNICATION $200: Bees don't need a choreographer, they do this naturally to tell others where a pollen source is dance
#1218, aired 1989-12-13BEES $200: A typical honeybee hive has a few hundred of these stingerless male bees drones
#1218, aired 1989-12-13BEES $600: Scout bees perform a dance indicating the direction to the pollen from the hive in relation to this the Sun
#1218, aired 1989-12-13BEES $800: From the Latin for "beehive", it's a place where a colony of bees, not gorillas, is kept an apiary
#1218, aired 1989-12-13BEES $1000: Honeybees live in permanent hives, while these social bees build new homes each year bumblebees
#1218, aired 1989-12-13BEES $3,000 (Daily Double): Honeycomb cells have this many sides 6
#1217, aired 1989-12-12ANIMALS $400: A tisket, a tasket, bees carry this back to the hive in "baskets" formed by hairs on their hind legs pollen
#1196, aired 1989-11-13POTPOURRI $300: Imported into Brazil from Africa, these "killer" insects escaped the lab & bred with locals bees
#1138, aired 1989-07-12GUINNESS RECORDS $400: Maxwell J. Beck was covered with about 70,000 of these insects at a 1985 convention bees
#1117, aired 1989-06-13BIOLOGY $800: Unlike other organisms, drone honey bees hatch without this ever having been done to the eggs fertilized
#1092, aired 1989-05-09FLOWERS $800: Flowers produce this sugary liquid which bees use to make honey nectar
#1089, aired 1989-05-04BEES $100: A queen bee's job is to rule but to do this to produce young, to fertilize eggs
#1089, aired 1989-05-04BEES $200: These "industrious" bees really know how to use their heads: that's where they make royal jelly worker bees
#1089, aired 1989-05-04BEES $300: Since ancient times, people have blown this at bees to pacify them smoke
#1077, aired 1989-04-18ANIMALS $500: Apiculture is a fancy term for this the keeping of bees (commercial beekeeping)
#990, aired 1988-12-16ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $100: Hummingbirds hum & bees do this buzz
#956, aired 1988-10-31INSECTS $600: These bees who do nothing but fertilize queens have the shortest life span of any bee, 4 weeks drones
#955, aired 1988-10-28SCIENCE $400: 20th century Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch discovered the dance of these insects bees
#949, aired 1988-10-20IMAGINARY ISLANDS $500: "The Island of the Busy Bees" is in the Tyrrhenian Sea in this children's classic by Carlo Collodi (The Adventures of) Pinocchio
#894, aired 1988-06-23ANIMALS $300: While an aviary houses birds, an apiary houses these bees
#845, aired 1988-04-15BIOLOGY $300: These male bees have no useful function around the hive except for mating with the queen a drone
#844, aired 1988-04-14MEDIUM & MESSAGE $100: Bees do it, & so does a boss trying to get his secretary on the intercom buzz
#801, aired 1988-02-15ZOOLOGY $200: A crossbreeding experiment in Brazil resulted in accidental escape of these "homicidal" hive dwellers killer bees
#798, aired 1988-02-10BIOLOGY $400: Term used when a mass of bees leaves a hive with a queen to form a new colony swarm
#775, aired 1988-01-08MUSEUMS $500: A Kansas museum abuzz with live bees also has a dead horse, Commanche, who survived this 1876 battle Custer's Last Stand
#725, aired 1987-10-30INSECTS $300: Of all bees that can do this, only the honeybee can't do it twice sting
#723, aired 1987-10-28KILLER WORDS $1000: From Latin for "bee", it's the killing of bees, whether they "bee" killers or not apicide
#714, aired 1987-10-15BOTANY $100: Many seed crops require bees for pollination, including this "Halloween" gourd a pumpkin
#599, aired 1987-03-26BIRDS $400: About 1/5 of the world's birds feed mainly on this, but they can't make honey from it the way bees do nectar
#560, aired 1987-01-30BEES $200: As early as 3500 B.C., bees were domesticated in this ancient African civilization Egypt
#560, aired 1987-01-30BEES $400: Among other colors, mining bees can be a shade of 1 of these 2 metals dug from mines gold & copper
#560, aired 1987-01-30BEES $600: Because a bumblebee has a long one of these, only it can pollinate the red clover tongue
#560, aired 1987-01-30BEES $800: Tho collectors of nectar & pollen, these nonsocial bees don't build hives but bore in wood to nest carpenter bees
#560, aired 1987-01-30BEES $1000: Bees need feeding about 1300 times a day during this state of development a larva (larval)
#550, aired 1987-01-16BEES $100: Fortunately, this method of calming bees hasn't been banned by the Surgeon General smoking
#550, aired 1987-01-16BEES $200: Term for the large bunch of bees that, along with the queen, are on the move to a new colony swarm
#550, aired 1987-01-16BEES $300: Of the worker, drone, or queen, the honeybee with the largest brain worker
#517, aired 1986-12-02-OLOGIES $100: Experts in ornithology & apiology could teach you about these, & so could Dr. Ruth the birds and the bees
#510, aired 1986-11-21UNREAL ESTATE $200: In this happy hobo land, there are birds & bees & cigarette trees Big Rock Candy Mountain
#497, aired 1986-11-04ANIMALS $100: Of African killer bees or common honeybees, the ones who've killed more people in the U.S. common honeybees
#433, aired 1986-05-07BIOLOGY $400: Apple production depends on bees for this pollination
#407, aired 1986-04-01NEWS '85 $200: Bakersfield, CA was abuzz as these "winged terrorists" arrived from Brazil killer bees
#390, aired 1986-03-07FLOWERS $800: To show where nectar is, flowers have this type of marking bees can see ultraviolet markings
#351, aired 1986-01-13INSECTS $300: If 2 queen bees hatch at the same time, they fight until one kills the other by doing this continuously stinging
#347, aired 1986-01-07ANIMALS $500: Synonymous with tiny, some of these smallest arachnids live in the air tubes of honey bees' bodies mites
#314, aired 1985-11-21BIOLOGY $200: When sexually aroused, the carpenter species of this insect will chase jet liners bees
#290, aired 1985-10-18INSECT PESTS $200: Bees & wasps kill more people yearly than this much-feared reptilian encounter poisonous snakes
#191, aired 1985-06-03SPORTS SHIFTS $600: When this baseball team played in Boston, they were often called the Boston Bees the Boston Braves
#143, aired 1985-03-27ANIMALS $300: They are the only insects to produce a food commonly eaten by man bees
#139, aired 1985-03-21BIOLOGY $200 (Daily Double): "Biological" title of the following 1965 Jewel Atkins hit: "Let me tell you 'bout the stars in the sky /And a girl and a guy / And a way they kiss / On a night like this / When I look into..." "The Birds And The Bees"
#77, aired 1984-12-25INSECTS $200: Useful insects raised in apiaries bees
#62, aired 1984-12-04BEES $200: Its name comes from the Middle English word "bumblen" a bumblebee
#62, aired 1984-12-04BEES $400: Common name of an apiculturist a beekeeper
#62, aired 1984-12-04BEES $600: A large crowd of bees on the move a swarm
#62, aired 1984-12-04BEES $1,900 (Daily Double): The 3 classes of a honeybee colony a drone, a queen, and a worker

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (2 results returned)

#5424, aired 2008-03-20PLAGUES & PESTILENCE: Having first escaped from a South American research lab in 1957, they became a threat to the U.S. in 1990 killer bees
#2519, aired 1995-07-13BALLET CHARACTERS: In a famous 1892 ballet, she rules over the Kingdom of Sweets the Sugar Plum Fairy

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Carlos Nobleza Posas, an actor from Salt Lake City, Utah Season 34 player (2017-10-17).
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...



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