#8122, aired 2019-12-24 | META-FOURS $1600: In "Good Omens", this biblical group was updated a bit for the times with a new member: Pollution the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | DRINKS ARE ON ME! $800: This drink of fermented honey & water goes back to Biblical times mead |
#6711, aired 2013-11-18 | PLACES $600: In biblical times, caravans stopped at Capernaum, Israel to stock up on fish from this nearby lake the Sea of Galilee |
#6071, aired 2011-01-24 | ANCIENT "P"LACES $400: If you were a Philistine in biblical times, it means you hailed from what's now called this place Palestine |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $1600: Now meaning those who are hostile to the arts, in biblical times it was a people subdued by King David a Philistine |
#5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land of Canaan is described as "flowing with" these 2 items mentioned some 20 times in the Bible milk & honey |
#5354, aired 2007-12-13 | WHAT A GEM! $1600: This blue gem has been prized since biblical times; tradition holds the tablets of the ten commandments were made of it sapphire |
#5171, aired 2007-02-19 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: Genesis calls it "the salt sea" perhaps because its salinity reaches 4 times that of ocean water the Dead Sea |
#4694, aired 2005-01-20 | SCIENCE GUYS $900 (Daily Double): In the 19th century Gerhard Hansen found out what causes this disease that goes back to Biblical times leprosy |
#4283, aired 2003-03-26 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $800: Set in Biblical times, this "racy" classic by Civil War general Lew Wallace is subtitled "A Tale of the Christ" Ben-Hur |
#4101, aired 2002-06-03 | THE ELEMENTS $400: The brimstone of biblical times was really this smelly element sulfur |
#4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $800: A best seller in 1980, this Jeffrey Archer novel sounds like the saga of biblical siblings Kane and Abel |
#3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: This New York Times editor married to Margaret Truman had a biblical last name Clifton Daniel |
#3611, aired 2000-04-24 | LET'S GET BIBLICAL $200: The total number of Hebrew patriarchs or the number of times Peter denied knowing the Messiah 3 |
#3539, aired 2000-01-13 | BIBLICAL NUMBERS $300: The number of times the words "apple" & "snake" appear in the King James Version of Genesis 0 ("fruit" & "serpent" were used instead) |
#3176, aired 1998-05-25 | BIBLICAL HOTTIES $600: It was heated 7 times hotter than normal for Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego fiery furnace |
#3046, aired 1997-11-24 | AROUND THE HORN $400: In Biblical times, this horn proclaimed the anointing of a new king a shofar |
#2900, aired 1997-03-21 | OPTICS $200: Made of bronze in Biblical times, today they're often glass with a backing of a silver solution Mirrors |
#2259, aired 1994-06-02 | BIBLICAL NAMES $300: Her career was on a "roll" when she played Jimmie Walker's mother on the TV series "Good Times" Esther Rolle |
#2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BIBLICAL TOOLS $500: What were called ox goads in biblical times are commonly called this today... & they're electric cattle prods |
#1593, aired 1991-07-03 | THE RENAISSANCE $400: The Donatello version of this biblical hero was the 1st large free-standing nude since classical times David |
#1287, aired 1990-03-20 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $300: She said, "Thou hast mocked me these 3 times and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth Delilah |
#704, aired 1987-10-01 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $300: Some 20 times in the Bible, the land of Canaan is described as "flowing with" these milk & honey |
#476, aired 1986-10-06 | BIBLICAL WATERS $200: The Universal Studios Tour does it up to 136 times a day, while Moses did it only once parting the Red Sea |
#399, aired 1986-03-20 | THE '50s $400: The 2 highest-grossing films of the decade, both set in biblical times The Ten Commandments & Ben-Hur |
#301, aired 1985-11-04 | BIBLICAL BIRDS $400: Peter denied 3 times that he knew Jesus after which this immediately happened a cock crowing |