| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA $200: A NASDAQ stock, this company produces tens of billions of non-edible chips every year Texas Instruments |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | STARDUST $2000: The Oort Cloud & its inner region, this belt, are thought to contain billions of comets the Kuiper Belt |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $400: There are a billion cubic these in a cubic meter a cubic millimeter |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $800: A report said more than 225 billion of these annoying 4-letter texts were sent in 2022; the FCC is on it spam texts |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $1200: Begun in 1960, the construction of this "High Dam" on the Nile cost about $1 billion the Aswan |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $1600: One billion of these make up a second a nanosecond |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | TV $600: For season 6 of this series, Corey Stoll replaced Damian Lewis as the main very, very rich guy Billions |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | A REAL BODY BUSY $800: Keepin' busy, this soft, fatty tissue inside your bones makes platelets & oh yeah, billions of new blood cells daily bone marrow |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | ECONOMICS $1200: Hyperinflation ran rampant in this end-of-the-alphabet nation in 2009 when billions of its currency bought a loaf of bread Zimbabwe |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $1600: In "Too Big to Fail", he played Fed chair Ben Bernanke; on "Billions", he's a U.S. attorney going after Wall Street corruption Paul Giamatti |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | THE WORD SERIES $800: Henry Traute of the Diamond Match Co. came up with this 4-word phrase that begins with "close cover", printed billions of times before striking |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $1600: In 1859 a few European rabbits were released on this continent; by the 1920s there were billions Australia |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | SURVIVING PROHIBITION $800: This brewery bought a Colorado ceramics company & sold porcelain under the brand name; the ceramics co. is worth billions today Coors |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $1200: The billions made & lost in the real estate crash are detailed in this "large" Michael Lewis bestseller, later a film in 2015 The Big Short |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | COMPUTER LANGUAGES $400: Seen here is the logo for this language that’s used on billions of devices everywhere Java |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | UNIVERSE $400: This communication method is the "R" in FRBs, bursts of energy from billions of light years away now found to repeat in patterns radio |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | TV INSPIRATIONS $800: Preet Bharara was reportedly an inspiration for Paul Giamatti's character on this Showtime drama set in the financial world Billions |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL $1000: Yo, France... between 1930 & '40, will it be worth it to spend billions of francs on this "Line" of defense? (it will not) the Maginot Line |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $800: The mix of water & chemicals that made up Earth's oceans billions of years ago is often called this kind of "soup" primordial (or primeval) |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): On March 11, 1941 this alliterative act became law & let FDR transfer billions of dollars in supplies to foes of the Axis the Lend-Lease Act |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1600: Bobby Axelrod on "Billions", running this type of financial enterprise a hedge fund |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | AT LEAST 20 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS $600: 46 million:
The fight against malaria is a big topic for this Seattle tweeter worth many billions Bill Gates |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BEFORE HUMANITY $1600: Some of these gems are billions of years older than the South African kimberlite in which they're found diamonds |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | GET "OUT"! $800: In 2008 the Big Three automakers asked for one of these, worth billions of dollars a bailout |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | WORD HISTORY $800: It can contain billions of stars & takes its name from the Greek for "milk" galaxy |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | CHARITABLE FOLKS $200: In 2006, he pledged to donate more than 80% of his wealth--& he's worth billions--to charities Buffett |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $800: A posthumous collection of this astronomer's writings is titled "Billions and Billions" (Carl) Sagan |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | I LIKE BIG BUCKS $1200: This ex-Microsoft man has fun with his billions, owning 3 pro sports teams & giving away $2 billion to charity (Paul) Allen |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Billions of federal research & development funding goes to what is known as the research triangle, formed by these three universities all located within about 20 minutes of each other Duke, North Carolina State, and the University of North Carolina |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $2000: Gaming company SJM Holdings has billions in assets, including 17 casinos it operates in this Asian territory Macau |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | SPACED OUT $200: Our galaxy contains hundreds of billions of them, but only about 3,000 are visible to the naked eye stars |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $400: World population hit 1 billion in this early 19th Century year that Thomas Jefferson was re-elected president 1804 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $800: There were now 2 billion of us in this roaring year that Lindy flew into history 1927 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $1200: World population hit 3 billion in this year that Rome hosted the Summer Olympics 1960 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $1600: This year of Nixon's resignation saw the dawn of a world of 4 billion 1974 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $7,000 (Daily Double): 5 billion Earthlings were on the globe in this 1980s year when the stock market crashed on "Black Monday" 1987 |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ALPHANUMERIC TERMS $200: Hundreds of billions were spent to defeat this, aka "the millennium bug", which hasn't affected our +f6$>z!Q Y2K |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | WEIRD SCIENCE $1000: Microbes feeding on an ancient Antarctic forest may be generating billions of tons of this greenhouse gas, CH4 methane |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $3,200 (Daily Double): In the last chapter of "Billions & Billions", this scientist talked about the disease that took his life Carl Sagan |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | NUCLEAR ENERGY $400: This rate of radioactive decay can be a fraction of a second or billions of years; for plutonium-239, it's 24,000 years a half-life |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | THE OED SAYS IT'S... $400: "Any of the numerous systems, often of millions or billions of stars, held together by gravitation" galaxies |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | WHO WANTS TO BE A BILLIONAIRE? $1000: He ran track for the University of Oregon & later sold Japanese shoes out of his car; now he's worth billions Phil Knight |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE SUN BELT $400: The Sun is about 25,000 light years from the center of this galaxy, & one of hundreds of billions of stars within it the Milky Way |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $200: In 1994 it began boasting of "billions and billions served" McDonald's |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $400: To the nearest billion, the world's population 7 billion |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $600: A PBS "American Experience" film about his family describes him as "history's first billionaire" (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $800: A gamma ray burst that was briefly visible to the naked eye in 2008 took place at a distance of 7.5 billion these light years |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $1000: A Kraft foods "healthy living" primer notes that billions of these "live naturally in everyone's digestive system" bacteria |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST $400: A Senate report showed his govt., deposed in 2003, stole billions from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program (Saddam) Hussein |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | SCIENTISTS $200: This astronomer hosted only 13 episodes of the PBS series "Cosmos" (not billions & billions) (Carl) Sagan |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | "KER" $600: Billions worldwide still light their homes with this liquid obtained from distilling petroleum kerosene |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | IT'S ASTRONOMICAL! $200: A small elliptical one of these might contain a million stars; large spiral ones, hundreds of billions a galaxy |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | POSTHUMOUS WORKS $400: "Billions and Billions" is a collection of writings by this noted astronomer Carl Sagan |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HIGH-TECH CINEMA $2000: In "Swordfish" John Travolta enlists this Aussie actor to hack billions from the government Hugh Jackman |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | SPACE SCIENCE $800: There are billions & billions of ways to know this "Contact" man was a professor of astronomy & space science at Cornell Carl Sagan |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ASTRONOMY $800: (I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.) Some with billions, others with trillions of stars, these are the fundamental building blocks of visible matter in the universe; they come in many varieties including spiral, irregular & elliptical galaxies |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | A BILLION REASONS $200: Since 1909 his head has appeared on billions & billions of pennies Lincoln |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | THE BODY HUMAN $2000: The human brain has billions of connections across these gaps between neurons synapses |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | MAY THE FOREST BE WITH YOU $1200: This nation has planted billions of trees called the "green great wall" to fend off desertification China |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | MONEY FOR NOTHING $1000: From the Latin for "support", they're government grants given to industry; billions have gone to U.S. farmers a subsidy |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: Recycled paper became billions of dollars for "The Queen of Trash", Zhang Yin, from this country China |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $400: In 1960, this number, the GDP, for the U.S. was $526 billion; in 1970, almost twice that the gross domestic product |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $800: In 1980 Jimmy Carter signed a bill giving this auto company $1.5 billion in loan guarantees Chrysler |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $1200: Begun in 1960, the construction of this "high" dam on the Nile cost about $1 billion the Aswan |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $1600: It's used to indicate the speed of a computer operation; one billion of them make up a second a nanosecond |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | THE SUPREME COURTSHIP $400: They met in 1977; 4 years later, their wedding was viewed by billions Prince Charles & Princess Diana |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | IN NEED OF A DATE $400: Billions of mourners worldwide watched Princess Diana's funeral on Sept. 6 of this year 1997 |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THAT'S "SUPER"! $600: When a massive star dies out, it may explode & become one of these, billions of times as bright as the sun a supernova |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | "G" PEOPLE $800: Born in Minneapolis, he made billions off oil & picked up a little art along the way J. Paul Getty |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | STARDUST $2000: The Oort cloud & its inner region, this belt, are thought to contain billions of comets the Kuiper belt |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | BRAIN TEASE $2000: These brain cells that transmit nerve impulses number in the billions neurons |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THE UPPER CRUST $200: Athina Roussel, granddaughter of this Greek tycoon, inherited billions when she turned 18 in 2003 Onassis |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | GIVE ME AN "A"! $200: Wow! In 2002 a "supercolony" of billions of these was discovered stretching across several countries in Europe ants |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | INSECTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Since entering the U.S. from Mexico in the 1890s, it's cost the cotton industry billions upon billions of dollars the boll weevil |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | BIOLOGY $400: The top 3 inches of an acre of soil may contain billions of nematodes, this type of creature worm |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | FAST FOOD $400: Head chef since 1993, Andrew Selvaggio has served billions & billions for this restaurant McDonald's |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | SCIENCE $600: An acre of soil contains billions of nematodes, the round type of these seen here under the microscope worms |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | MADISON & PHYSIOLOGY $400: Neurons don't weigh much; why, there are billions of them in this roughly 3-pound organ Brain |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | ____ & ____ $200: Carl Sagan said he never uttered this phrase associated with him & checked the "Cosmos" tapes to prove it "Billions & Billions" |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | THE SPORTS BIZ $400: In 1997 Paul Allen, who made billions as co-founder of this software giant, bought the Seattle Seahawks for $200 million Microsoft |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | HAIL, HAIL ALBANIA $3,000 (Daily Double): After Albania broke with the USSR, it turned to this country which gave it billions until a tiff in 1978 (People's Republic of) China |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | SCIENCE CLASS $100: The largest one on the moon is about 700 miles in diameter; there are billions at least 1 foot wide craters |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | REDHEADS $2,400 (Daily Double): He completed his last play, "Buoyant Billions", when he was 92 George Bernard Shaw |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | HARVARD TEACHERS $200: Prior to 1968 this astronomer taught fewer than billions & billions of Harvard students Carl Sagan |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | THE BRAIN $1000: They're gaps found at the bottom of each axon & you have billions of them synapses |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | WEATHER $200: This first Atlantic tropical storm of the 1992 season hit Florida August 24, causing billions in damage Andrew |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | FAMOUS SENIORS $400: He wrote his last play, "Buoyant Billions", at age 91, 35 years after "Pygmalion" George Bernard Shaw |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | MIDDLE NAMES $300: This astronomer has 1 middle name: Edward, not "billions & billions" Carl Sagan |
| #1078, aired 1989-04-19 | THE HUMAN BODY $200: Each day, throughout your body, billions of these are replaced cells |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: He was awarded one Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden", not billions & billions Carl Sagan |
| #938, aired 1988-10-05 | FASHION $200: In 1988 the fashion industry lost billions on this style shunned by professional women the miniskirt |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | PATRON SAINTS $400: Saint Dominic is patron to "billions & billions" of these scientists astronomers |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | THE UNIVERSE $400: The Soviets have launched over 1000 satellites in this program, not billions & billions Cosmos |
| #620, aired 1987-04-24 | DYNASTIES $200: Father H.L., who made billions in oil, begat William, Bunker, & Lamar who declared bankruptcy in '86 the Hunts |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | PBS $200: "Billions & billions" of stars were presented to millions & millions of viewers by this astronomer Carl Sagan |
