#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | WORLD OF RELIGION $600: Ganesha, the Hindu god of beginnings, is traditionally depicted with the head of this animal, symbolizing breaking through obstacles an elephant |
#8746, aired 2022-11-21 | NUMERICAL TERMS $200: A 1930s ad for a razor gave us this phrase for the beginnings of a beard at the end of the day 5 o'clock shadow |
#8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $1200: Yiddish theater's beginnings are associated with this Jewish holiday involving dressing up in costume Purim |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $1200: Born in Hamburg in 1833, he rose from his humble beginnings, to become one of the three B's of classical music (Johannes) Brahms |
#8121, aired 2019-12-23 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: The god of beginnings & ends, this Roman god had a temple in the forum whose doors were open during war & closed during peace Janus |
#7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $2000: The beginnings of NASCAR are chronicled in "Big Bill" about this man Bill France |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $800: Phillis Wheatley & W.E.B. Du Bois are part of African-American lit "From the Beginnings to" this area's "Renaissance" Harlem |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | OH MY GODS! $800: Ganesha, the Hindu god of beginnings & good fortune, has a human body & the head of this animal an elephant |
#7475, aired 2017-02-24 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: For this woman seen here, "One Writer's Beginnings" was in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi Eudora Welty |
#7244, aired 2016-02-25 | PRAYERS $800: On this holiday of beginnings, Jews say tashlich prayers by a body of water into which sins are symbolically cast Rosh Hashanah |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) With a fistulated cow, students literally have a window into the beginnings of the digestive process & what happens to food & nutrients in this first chamber of the stomach the rumen |
#7061, aired 2015-05-04 | THE MIDWEST $600: The Telegraph Herald in Dubuque traces its beginnings to 1836 & this state's first newspaper Iowa |
#6865, aired 2014-06-20 | BREAKFAST $1,200 (Daily Double): Patrick Towle honored Abraham Lincoln's humble beginnings with the name of this syrup Log Cabin |
#6651, aired 2013-07-15 | BOOKS' BEGINNINGS $400: "Fahrenheit 451":
"It was a pleasure to ____" burn |
#6651, aired 2013-07-15 | BOOKS' BEGINNINGS $800: "Anna Karenina":
"Happy ____ are all alike..." families |
#6651, aired 2013-07-15 | BOOKS' BEGINNINGS $1200: "A Christmas Carol":
"____ was dead: to begin with" Marley |
#6651, aired 2013-07-15 | BOOKS' BEGINNINGS $1600: "The Wizard of Oz":
"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great ____ prairies..." Kansas |
#6651, aired 2013-07-15 | BOOKS' BEGINNINGS $2000: "The Sun Also Rises":
"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of ____" Princeton |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GREAT BEGINNINGS $200: In 1925 the first of these lodging places along highways & byways appeared in San Luis Obispo, California a motel |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GREAT BEGINNINGS $400: In 1998 this relationship guru began his rise to fame by appearing on Oprah's show every Tuesday Dr. Phil (McGraw) |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GREAT BEGINNINGS $600: A donation of 120 pounds & 400 books helped the Mass. Bay Colony start a college in the 1600s, today known as this Harvard |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GREAT BEGINNINGS $800: The Space Age began October 4, 1957 with the launch of this satellite Sputnik |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GREAT BEGINNINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Following a crisis earlier in the decade, this cabinet department was created August 4, 1977 Energy Department |
#5784, aired 2009-11-05 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE $1600: "X-Men Origins" was the story of this title superhero's beginnings Wolverine |
#5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SONG TITLES' MISSING BEGINNINGS $200: "Mountain High Enough" &
"Way To Treat A Lady" "Ain't No" |
#5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SONG TITLES' MISSING BEGINNINGS $400: "Lane",
"Lover" &
"For Your Thoughts" "Penny" |
#5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SONG TITLES' MISSING BEGINNINGS $600: "Best For Last" &
"Last Dance For Me" "Save The" |
#5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SONG TITLES' MISSING BEGINNINGS $800: "When September Ends" &
"Before You Go-Go" "Wake Me Up" |
#5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SONG TITLES' MISSING BEGINNINGS $1000: "Sunshine" &
"Broken Glass" "Walking On" |
#5497, aired 2008-07-01 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $800: Autumn symbolizes a waning life; this season symbolizes new beginnings or birth spring |
#4682, aired 2005-01-04 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1,000 (Daily Double): It was created in 1979 but traces its beginnings to 1803, when Congress allocated aid to fire-stricken Portsmouth, N.H. FEMA |
#4530, aired 2004-04-23 | NFL COACHES $400: (Hi, I'm Joey Galloway of the NFL.) Since the beginnings in 1960, the Dallas Cowboys have had only 6 coaches, including this man for 29 years Tom Landry |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | YOU SAY POTATO $1000: The potato's roots are traced back to their beginnings on this continent South America |
#3913, aired 2001-09-12 | SYMBOLISM $200: Autumn can symbolize a waning life & this season can symbolize new beginnings or birth Spring |
#3830, aired 2001-04-06 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $1000: The beginnings of this religious group came around 1647 with the preaching of George Fox of England Quakers (Society of Friends) |
#3612, aired 2000-04-25 | POPULAR MUSIC $300: (Hi, I'm George Clinton) Funk music traces its beginnings to songs like "Out of Sight" & "Cold Sweat" by this legend James Brown |
#3538, aired 2000-01-12 | LITTLE RHODY $400: This chicken, the state bird, had its beginnings on a farm in Little Compton in the 1850s Rhode Island Red |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | THE NUDE IN ART $400: The seated nude in his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" shows the beginnings of his Cubism Pablo Picasso |
#3068, aired 1997-12-24 | GODS & GODDESSES $200: This 2-faced god presided over doors & beginnings, such as the beginning of the year Janus |
#2452, aired 1995-04-11 | THE 14th CENTURY $600: This world capital had its beginnings with a city founded on an island in Lake Texcoco Mexico City |
#2408, aired 1995-02-08 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $500: In & on are 2 of the most common of these words used at the beginnings of phrases prepositions |
#2315, aired 1994-09-30 | 1960 $200: This fast food chain had its beginnings when Tom Monaghan & his brother took over a Michigan pizzeria Domino's |
#1850, aired 1992-09-25 | HOUSEWARES $400: Hotpoint had its beginnings when it improved this small appliance by concentrating the heat in the point an iron |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | BEGINNINGS $200: Language that had its beginnings in the 10th c. when the Jews were forced from northern France Yiddish |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | BEGINNINGS $400: Older than chess, a form of this common board game was played by Egyptians in 2nd millennium B.C. checkers |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | BEGINNINGS $600: This bathroom article was 1st made in the U.S. in 1857 & sold as "Gayetty's Medicated Paper" toilet tissue |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | BEGINNINGS $800: Local anesthetic introduced as a substitute for cocaine in 1905 novocaine or procaine |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | BEGINNINGS $1000: In the 17th c., modern embalming was started by this Eng. physiologist & discoverer of circulation (William) Harvey |