| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $1200: The Yenisei River, one of Russia's biggest, is home to the Siberian species of this big fish sturgeon |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | PLENTY OF FISH $400: Originally from the Indo-Pacific, this venomous fish with a big cat in its name has become an invasive species in the Atlantic lionfish |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $4,000 (Daily Double): 40 feet long & weighing 11 tons or more, this largest living fish has 2 animals in its name a whale shark |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | TUNE RIVER $1600: Big Mouth Billy Bass, a fish mounted on a plaque, lip-synched "Don't Worry, Be Happy" & this apt Al Green tune "Take Me To The River" |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | A PHRASE OF TURN $400: Do this on the same-named device to bring in that big fish you've just hooked reel |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $600: Fish fear the paws of these big brown bears grizzly bears |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | LET'S GO SNORKELING $600: Hawaii's Big Island is renowned for its night snorkeling with these gentle giants nicknamed devil fish manta rays |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $2000: Issued in 1862, the first dollar bill featured the portrait of a real big fish, this Treasury Secretary & future Chief Justice Salmon Chase |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | I AM BIG! $1200: Whiskers shrink with age on the Mekong giant this fish, up to 9' long, 650 lbs. &, in Laos, now illegal to catch a catfish |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | AMPHIBIANS $2,100 (Daily Double): A species of fish with a big round head & a skinny tail is called this "fish", after the young of many amphibians a tadpole |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | DOUBLE F WORDS $2000: It's an iron hook with a handle for landing big fish a gaff |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | "BIG" WORDS $1200: Morrissey wasn't thinking of fish when he sang that he "Strikes Again" "Bigmouth" |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | SEE HOW THEY RAN $600: He didn't get to be president, but he got a nice big fish during a 1972 campaign stop in New York (George) McGovern |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $400: Looking at those teeth I'm glad to report that actual attacks on people by this fish are rare a piranha |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $1000: The spiny ray above the snout of this fish, a fisherman itself, is its rod; a baitlike piece of flesh is its lure an anglerfish |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $200: Up to 15 feet long, this fish has no teeth as an adult but does have a weapon for a nose a swordfish |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $400: Don't struggle clumsily; identify the summer type of this, which can grow to almost three feet long a flounder |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $600: Gail Choy-Kaleiki wasn't an old man but she pulled an 1,800-pound blue one of these out of the sea in 1970 a marlin |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $800: A general term for a small fish; most American ones are less than 6 inches, but one in the Colorado River can run 6 feet minnow |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $1000: If you're doing this type of "Fishing in America", remember that New Jersey's record for a lake one is over 32 pounds trout |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | FAST FOOD, FAST $1000: Was the Big Fish, now the premium Alaskan fish sandwich Burger King |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES $800: A fantasy film by Tim Burton:
"Big ____" Fish |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1600: This fish was big business for the league; I enjoy the matjes type, myself herring |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: No big surprise--this hook-shaped peninsula of Massachusetts was named for the fish caught off its shores Cape Cod |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | BUT WHAT AM I? $1200: I'm P. onocrotalus, the white species of this big-throated bird; more fish, please! pelican |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $600: This long, pointy type of tooth comes before "tooth" in the name of a fish living at depths down to 16,000 feet a fang |
| #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 |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | FISH TALES $200: He & Jim catch a catfish that "was as big a fish as was ever catched in the Mississipp!" Huck Finn |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | "C" CREATURES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a big, dead fish.) Scripps Institution of Oceanography has one of the U.S.A.'s few specimens of this creature, once thought to be extinct for 60 million years a coelacanth |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | SUSHI CULTURE $400: (Jimmy reports from a fish market in Tokyo.) The most important auction at the Tsukiji Market is for this fish, a part of the Japanese diet chronicled as far back as the 8th century tuna |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $200: Oddly, his name means "dove" & not "he of the big fish" Jonah |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $1200: Ewan McGregor's resemblance to a young Albert Finney reportedly helped get him his role in this Tim Burton film Big Fish |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | BIBLE BOOK SHORTHAND $400: Big fish puts the bite on a reluctant prophet Jonah |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | THE SOLOMON ISLANDS $400: The main industries in the Solomons include mining, timber & fishing for this fish tuna |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $400: You're gonna need a bigger boat to top the record catch of 2,664 lbs. for one of these sharks caught off Australia in 1959 a great white |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $800: Just for the heck of it, identify this flatfish, one of which weighed in at 459 lbs. off Alaska in 1996 a halibut |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $1600: Fish sandwiches were all the rage when a 1,496-lb. tuna of this colorful type was landed off Nova Scotia a bluefin |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $2,000 (Daily Double): One of these freshwater pond fish was anything but "koi" when weighing in at 75 lbs., 11oz. in France in 1987 a carp |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $2000: A 55-lb., 1-oz. specimen of the "Northern" type of this long, sharp-toothed fish was pulled ashore in Germany in 1986 a pike |
| #4936, aired 2006-02-13 | MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $2000: In Finland, this Tim Burton film was subtitled "Fish Stories as Large as Life Itself" Big Fish |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | EUROPEAN EATS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points out some finned edibles in Tallinn, Estonia.) This small fish with the name of a nursery rhyme character is big in Estonia, especially smoked sprat |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $400: Wisconsin's state one of these is the muskellunge fish |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | "SMALL"VILLE $1600: Proverbially, you might be "a big fish in" one of these a small pond |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A type of fish, or a short-on-top, long-in-back hairstyle that was big in the '80s Mullet |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | AMAZON FACTS $600: The name of the 15-foot, 500-pound pirarucu means "red" this, though it could mean "big" this fish |
| #3169, aired 1998-05-14 | REALLY BIG $200: The largest predatory fish, this shark averages 1100-1700 pounds & has some set of jaws Great white shark |
| #3072, aired 1997-12-30 | FISH $200: It's a term loosely applied to any small fish, but also to the 2- to 4-foot Colorado squawfish minnow |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | SOMETHING'S "FISH"Y $100: These VIPs like small ponds Big fish |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | REALLY BIG $600: Growing over 20 feet, it's the largest predatory fish the great white shark |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | "BIG" $500: An important person in a relatively unimportant place a big fish in a small pond |
| #1090, aired 1989-05-05 | ZOOLOGY $500: The eggs of a fish in the ovary, or a big deer roe |
| #423, aired 1986-04-23 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: While Encyclopedia Americana says this Old Testament book should be read as a parable, we say it’s a big fish story Jonah |
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