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#9045, aired 2024-02-232020s & 1920s SLANG $400: This word used in the 1920s for cash also means a foul in billiards where the cue ball is pocketed scratch
#8798, aired 2023-02-01A FRIENDLY GAME OF BILLIARDS $200: In 8-ball, these are the 2 distinctive types of ball each player is trying to sink before the 8 solids & stripes
#8798, aired 2023-02-01A FRIENDLY GAME OF BILLIARDS $400: The Mikado's punishment for a pool shark: to play "on a cloth untrue with a twisted" this "& elliptical billiard balls" a cue
#8798, aired 2023-02-01A FRIENDLY GAME OF BILLIARDS $600: As Eddie Felson, this actor defeats Minnesota Fats at the billiards table in "The Hustler" & won his sole acting Oscar for the sequel Paul Newman
#8798, aired 2023-02-01A FRIENDLY GAME OF BILLIARDS $800: This billiards variation uses one white ball, 15 red & 6 colored ones; the 1985 world championship final took almost 15 hours snooker
#8798, aired 2023-02-01A 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
#8683, aired 2022-07-13HODGEPODGE $400: In billiards, when it's too far a reach, you can use a mechanical one of these 6-letter tools to help make the shot a bridge
#8617, aired 2022-04-12GAME CHANGERS $600: In 1875 a British army lieutenant modified a form of pool to create this very British billiards game snooker
#8352, aired 2021-03-09SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Shakespeare is guilty of an anachronism when this ancient queen says to an attendant, let's play billiards Cleopatra
#8201, aired 2020-04-13LESSER-KNOWN COLLEGE SPORTS $800: The ACUI sponsors a championship in this billiards game, one higher than another named for stripes & solids nine-ball
#8112, aired 2019-12-10DOUBLE DOUBLE O $1200: Doc's, this type of billiards establishment, is an important setting in the novel "Native Son" poolroom
#7995, aired 2019-05-17FILL IN THE STATE $200: Hall of Fame Billiards player: ____ Fats Minnesota
#7913, aired 2019-01-232 OF THE 3 LETTERS ARE VOWELS $800: Billiards rod a cue
#7900, aired 2019-01-04GOTTA RUN! $2000: From billiards, this expression means to win all the contests that are left, like primaries or football games run the table
#7828, aired 2018-09-26AROUND THE MANSION $400: No fooling--we're off to the billiards room to play this pool variant with 15 red balls & 6 non-red ones snooker
#7694, aired 2018-02-08THE RULES OF THE GAME $400: You win if you pocket the 8-ball on this first shot of the game the break
#7585, aired 2017-07-289 $400: Nine-ball is a standard pro variant of pocket these billiards
#7171, aired 2015-11-16"CU" LATER $1200: An error, especially with a billiards stick a miscue
#6795, aired 2014-03-14BILLIARDS SHOTS $200: The shot that hits a full rack of balls to start a game the break
#6795, aired 2014-03-14BILLIARDS SHOTS $400: It's any shot where the object ball bounces off a side cushion a bank
#6795, aired 2014-03-14BILLIARDS SHOTS $600: To hit the cue ball into the 6 ball into the 9 ball, all on purpose, is this kind of shot that can also open a safe a combination
#6795, aired 2014-03-14BILLIARDS SHOTS $800: When a player designates in advance the ball to be made & the pocket into which it will go, it's this type of shot a called shot
#6795, aired 2014-03-14BILLIARDS SHOTS $1000: This shot where you hit the cue ball low so that it rises off the table shares its name with a basketball shot a jump shot
#6652, aired 2013-07-16WRITERS' HOBBIES $400: This author enjoyed a good game of billiards and had a table for it in his house Mark Twain
#6605, aired 2013-05-10THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS $600: Ronnie O'Sullivan: This British billiards variant snooker
#6492, aired 2012-12-04DOUBLE "L" WORDS $800: The name of this game comes from a French word for "cue" billiards
#6369, aired 2012-05-03BARD GAMES $1200: Cleopatra learns of Antony's marriage while playing this game of which pool is the "pocket" type billiards
#6266, aired 2011-12-12BILLIARDS $400: In 8-ball the balls are racked in this shape, with the 8 ball in the center a triangle
#6266, aired 2011-12-12BILLIARDS $800: The bed, or top, of a billiard table is usually made of this rock & can weigh as much as 800 pounds slate
#6266, aired 2011-12-12BILLIARDS $1200: This white object gave its name to a bald "Dick Tracy" villain cue ball
#6266, aired 2011-12-12BILLIARDS $1600: Snooker is played with 15 balls of this color & 6 balls of other colors red
#6266, aired 2011-12-12BILLIARDS $2000: In 1845 this firm manufactured its first pool table for a Cincinnati meatpacker; it's sold millions of tables since then the Brunswick Corporation
#6034, aired 2010-12-02THE OLD WEST $2,000 (Daily Double): Morgan Earp survived this notorious October 1881 event but was killed 5 months later while playing billiards the O.K. Corral shoot-out (the gunfight at the O.K. Corral)
#5833, aired 2010-01-13CHEWING THE "FAT" $800: Better-known name of billiards master Rudolf Wanderone Minnesota Fats
#5468, aired 2008-05-21RHYME TIME $2000: A speedy billiards cue a quick stick
#5279, aired 2007-07-19BE A SPORT $1600: This sport was invented in England by modifying a dining room table; the ball was made of rubber or cork Ping-Pong
#5206, aired 2007-04-09SPORTS GEAR $800: In billiards, it's a stick with a notched plate at one end used to support the cue a bridge
#5132, aired 2006-12-26"OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $600: In this billiards game, players have 15 red balls to shoot as well as 6 balls of other colors snooker
#5014, aired 2006-06-01"B-I" $2000: The name of this ball game comes from the French for "sticks" billiards
#4695, aired 2005-01-21THAT'S "OK" $800: To dupe, or a variety of billiards snooker
#4543, aired 2004-05-12SPORTS TALK $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew knocks 'em over at the Nat'l Bowling Stadium in Reno, NV.) Sort of like in billiards, it's where you want your ball to go so you're more likely to get a strike the pocket
#4504, aired 2004-03-18NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS $1600: She can win representing the 17th letter of the alphabet, or be a failed stroke in billiards Miss Q/miscue
#4499, aired 2004-03-11FILMS OF THE '60s $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Louisville, Kentucky) What's now the Oak Room of the Seelbach (Hilton) Hotel was once a gentlemen's billiards hall, seen in this classic 1961 film The Hustler
#4282, aired 2003-03-25YOU GIVE ME THE WILLIES $1000: This pocket billiards champ was an adviser for the movie "The Hustler" Willie Mosconi
#4265, aired 2003-02-28"POCKET" CHANGE $400: It's a fancier name for pool pocket billiards
#4118, aired 2002-06-26COMPOUND WORDS $400: To cast a vote against someone; you can use a piece of billiards equipment to do it blackball
#4105, aired 2002-06-07THEATRE GAMES $400: In a Shakespeare play, this queen invites one of her eunuchs to play billiards with her at her palace in Alexandria Cleopatra
#4057, aired 2002-04-02THE SPORTING LIFE $2000: In 1952 the great Willie Hoppe retired from this sport--we hope he had a cushion to fall back on pool (billiards)
#3937, aired 2001-10-16POCKET BILLIARDS $100: (Sarah of the Clue Crew kicks things off.) As the loser of the previous game, I'm doing this to prepare for the break racking the balls
#3937, aired 2001-10-16POCKET BILLIARDS $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew takes her turn.) In this game named for a black sphere, players aim to sink either the stripes or the solids 8-ball
#3937, aired 2001-10-16POCKET BILLIARDS $300: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew takes her turn.) The term for the error I just made has come to refer to any type of mistake miscue
#3937, aired 2001-10-16POCKET BILLIARDS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew takes his turn.) John Carr, a British man, developed this spin technique in the 19th century putting english on the ball
#3937, aired 2001-10-16POCKET BILLIARDS $500: (Sarah of the Clue Crew wraps things up.) It's the term for my supporting hand, or for a stick I could use to support the cue bridge
#3896, aired 2001-07-09OUT OF "POCKET" $300: Snooker is an English form of this game using a cue ball & 21 additional balls, instead of 15 pocket billiards
#3827, aired 2001-04-03ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $300: You can't play billiards without this stick cue
#3701, aired 2000-10-09SPORTS RHYME TIME $500: A speedy billiards cue quick stick
#3695, aired 2000-09-29THE BALL ROOM $200: To play carom billiards you have to buy this many balls 3
#3671, aired 2000-07-17IVORY $600: John Hyatt developed celluloid as a substitute for ivory in the balls used in this game pool (or billiards or snooker)
#3441, aired 1999-07-19SPORTS NICKNAMES $400: Better-known name of mammoth billiards master Rudolf Wanderone Minnesota Fats
#3356, aired 1999-03-22ATHLETE'S RHYME TIME $200: An aquamarine rod for billiards blue cue
#3247, aired 1998-10-20"OO"PS $100: This form of billiards uses 15 red balls & 6 colored balls Snooker
#3035, aired 1997-11-07SHAKESPEARE $600: This queen likes to play billiards when she's not playing around with Antony Cleopatra
#3033, aired 1997-11-05BALL GAMES $200: In the billiards game named for this black object, you must sink it last the 8-ball
#2992, aired 1997-09-09OF AN ENGLISHMAN $300: Encarta calls it "the cue game most popular in Britain" snooker
#2658, aired 1996-03-06PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES $100: The Benjamin Harrisons liked to go into the basement & "rack up" a few games of this billiards
#2654, aired 1996-02-29LESSER KNOWN NAMES $200: In 1936 Willie Hoppe was this sport's three-cushion champ billiards
#2546, aired 1995-10-02GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This item used in playing billiards is der billardstock the cue
#2285, aired 1994-07-08AND STRIPES $100: Balls in a popular form of this game are divided into solids & stripes billiards (pool)
#2202, aired 1994-03-15THE WILD WEST $400: Morgan Earp was killed while playing billiards a few months after this notorious 1881 shootout the Gunfight at O.K. Corral
#2077, aired 1993-09-21BILLIARDS $100: It's the common name for pocket billiards pool
#2077, aired 1993-09-21BILLIARDS $200: This substance is used to increase the friction between the cue tip & cue ball chalk
#2077, aired 1993-09-21BILLIARDS $300: Billiards is the second-most popular participation sport in the U.S., after this one bowling
#2077, aired 1993-09-21BILLIARDS $400: In nine ball the balls are numbered 1 through 9; in eight ball, 1 through this number 15
#2077, aired 1993-09-21BILLIARDS $500: This game played with 22 balls, most of them red, became popular in Britain only after color TV was introduced snooker
#1680, aired 1991-12-13ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $100: In billiards it's the long rod used to hit the ball the cue
#1633, aired 1991-10-09FURNITURE $400: Name of the pouch-like receptacles at the corners and sides of a billiards table pockets
#1364, aired 1990-07-0519TH CENTURY AMERICA $500: The first official championship match in this sport in the U.S. was held at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island tennis
#1052, aired 1989-03-14TV TRIVIA $200: On 1967's "Celebrity Billiards", famous guests challenged this hefty hustler Minnesota Fats
#1010, aired 1989-01-13PLASTICS $200: In 1868 John W. Hyatt created the 1st "celluloid" to replace ivory balls used in this sport billiards
#994, aired 1988-12-22SHAKESPEARE $100: According to Shakespeare, this queen liked to play billiards with her eunuch Cleopatra
#942, aired 1988-10-11GAMES $300: The highest-numbered solid-colored ball in a standard game of pocket billiards 8
#755, aired 1987-12-11BILLIARDS $100: You might put a bit of this "language" on a ball to make it spin the way you want English
#755, aired 1987-12-11BILLIARDS $200: Piece of billiards equipment composed of a butt, shaft, & tip the cue stick
#755, aired 1987-12-11BILLIARDS $300: World Book calls it the most popular pool, or pocket billiards, game in the U.S. 8-ball
#755, aired 1987-12-11BILLIARDS $400: In 9-ball the balls are racked not into a triangle but into this shape a diamond
#722, aired 1987-10-27POT LUCK $300: While American "pyramid" pool is played with 16 balls, billiards is played with this many 3
#699, aired 1987-09-24GAME SHOWS $300: Of "Celebrity Billiards", "--Bowling" & "-- Bullseye", 1 which didn't use sports equipment Celebrity Bullseye
#494, aired 1986-10-30CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Mozart usually had a table in his home to indulge his passion for this game a billiards table
#350, aired 1986-01-10SPORTS $800: With the shakehand grip both sides are used; with the penholder only the front hits the ball ping-pong
#54, aired 1984-11-22SPORTS $400: Indoor sport dominated by Willie Mosconi from 1941-57 billiards (pool)
#23, aired 1984-10-10TOYS & GAMES $300: Pool without pockets billiards

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