| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $200: The title of this Billy Crystal-Meg Ryan film refers to 1977, driving from Chicago to New York together after college When Harry Met Sally... |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $200: Billy Dee Williams voiced Fudge Turnover as well as himself on this "mechanized poultry" show that debuted on TV in 2005 Robot Chicken |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $400: Billy Bob Thornton does his best James Carville in this 1998 film that fictionalized the first Clinton campaign Primary Colors |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | HOW MANY TIMES? $800: Billy Bob Thornton:
6 times, most recently in October 2014 how many times he's been married |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POP $400: She teamed up with dad Billy Ray to sing "I Learned From You" Miley Cyrus |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $1200: Various people who live lives of quiet desperation, like Davy in the Navy, yell at Billy Joel to sing at a watering hole "Piano Man" |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $1200: This director's tombstone at Westwood Memorial Park in L.A. reads, "I'm a writer but then nobody's perfect" Billy Wilder |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Benjamin Britten composed the music for an opera based on this sailor who shared Ben's initials Billy Budd |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | STARTS WITH SOFT "G" $800: A punk band fronted by Billy Idol, or the group born following the baby boom Gen X (Generation X) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | OUR SONG $800: One of his "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" had "Brenda & Eddie... the popular steadies & the king & the queen of the prom" Billy Joel |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $800: Billy Halleck is literally wasting away after being cursed in this tale by Richard Bachman, aka Stephen King Thinner |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $400: Hankies recommended for "700 Sundays," the nostalgic one-man show starring this "Mahvelous" comedian Billy Crystal |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CAR TUNES $800: He had a 2-part request in the title of his 1988 No. 1 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" Billy Ocean |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PALINDROMIC YEARS $1200: Pat Garrett makes sure Billy the Kid will never be Billy the old man 1881 |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $400: Before "Harry Met Sally", he worked as a substitute teacher on Long Island Billy Crystal |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $800: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man; now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $1200: This team refused admission to a local tavern owner's billy goat in 1945, & the ensuing curse lasted until the 2016 World Series the Cubbies |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | MOB HITS $800: "When I got into family therapy, this was not the 'family' I had in mind", says Billy Crystal in this 1999 comedy Analyze This |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Jim has 6 apples,
Billy has 4,
Michele has 2 &
Debbie has 8 for an average of this many 5 |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | SHAPES IN NATURE $300: I spy with my Billy or Nanny eye, the rectangular pupils of the animal seen here are believed to help its peripheral vision a goat |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $300: In her song "Can't Be Tamed", she sings "it's set in my DNA"; her dad, Billy Ray, passed down to her some of that genetic code Miley Cyrus |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $200: William Hedley invented Puffing Billy, this type of locomotive, which began pulling coal cars in 1813 a steam engine (steam locomotive) |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 1990s HITMAKERS $400: In 1992, I hope you'll understand he hauled his "Achy Breaky Heart" to No. 4 on the Top 40 Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $200: He helped computerize his high school's scheduling system, went to Harvard in the '70s, dropped out & was a billionaire by 1987 Bill Gates |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $400: In 1887 he began running the San Francisco Examiner, which his dad acquired 7 years before Hearst |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man" |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $800 (Daily Double): William Thomson is a fine name for a physicist, but after developing the absolute temp. scale, Lord this had a nice ring (Lord) Kelvin |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $1000: In May 2019, this mayor of New York threw his hat in the ring to run for president, but by September, the hat had been returned de Blasio |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | CROOKS $400: In 1878 this "childish" gunslinger fought in the Lincoln County War before his date with Pat Garrett in 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $1600: Born in Austria, he learned English while rooming with Peter Lorre, so it's lucky the people in "Some Like It Hot" don't talk like I am Billy Wilder |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $200: The second paragraph of this novel mentions a sea-chest belonging to the old sailor, Billy Bones Treasure Island |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | REVIVAL $1000: A 1949 article said the revival meetings of this male evangelist drew more than 20,000 people "in the big tent" (Billy) Graham |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" Billy the Kid Rock |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $800: The title is cribbed from the best--Billy Shakespeare; y'all live in a hard-to-say county; Benjy the hunted The Sound and the Fury |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1600: Likes being a sailor or foretopman, depending on the edition; kills Claggart; doesn't make it to the end of the story Billy Budd |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $2000: This Georges Franju classic about plastic surgery inspired a Billy Idol song & an Almodóvar film Eyes Without a Face |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $2000: This Brit's 21st century film roles include Mr. Woodhouse in "Emma." & has-been rock star Billy Mack in "Love Actually" Bill Nighy |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | A JR. IN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: UT Austin's trove of material from this Jr.'s career includes his "Raging Bull" boxing robe & even scripts from "Dirty Grandpa" Robert De Niro |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | READING MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in "Dancing with Myself" by this ever-sneering singer include "Drunken, Stupid, & Naked" Billy Idol |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $1200: John Ratzenberger asks Billy Crystal, "Why can't they call me the Adorable Snowman... or the Agreeable Snowman?" in this Pixar film Monsters, Inc. |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $1200: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city San Francisco |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $400: "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $1600: This Billy Joel song /history lesson references the Rosenbergs, Dien Bien Phu, the Edsel & of course, "Wheel of Fortune" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | THE SNL ALUMNUS WHO... $400: Starred in "Hustle", "Grown Ups" & "Billy Madison" Adam Sandler |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | SELF-REFERENTIAL BEATLES $2000: "I'm The Greatest" had Ringo sing, "Yes, my name is" him, "the one and only" singer in Sgt. Pepper's band Billy Shears |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SONGS OF THE 2010s $600: This collaboration between Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus was Billboard's No. 1 Hot 100 Song of the Year for 2019 "Old Town Road" |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $1000: In "Grease" & Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant", this outerwear goes with blue jeans leather jacket |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $800: ...laughs, at this L.A. "Store" opened in 1972 on Sunset Blvd., with notable alumni like Billy Crystal & Eddie Murphy The Comedy Store |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLAYING SANTA $800: A poster for "Bad Santa 2" had this thespian face down on a bar above the tagline "Giving the holidays another shot" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | TV FINAL EPISODES $1600: Drug cocktails & the other kind of cocktails were both featured in the finale of this show starring Billy Porter Pose |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $400: Aaron Copland composed the music for a ballet set in the southwest & named for this notorious bandit Billy the Kid |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $500: Billy Bibbit & Charles Cheswick are fellow inmates with Randle McMurphy in this Ken Kesey novel set in a mental hospital One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | STAR TRACK: THE NEXT GENERATION $200: This father & daughter both hit No. 1 on the music charts: he with "Achy Breaky Heart" & she with "Wrecking Ball" Billy Ray Cyrus & Miley Cyrus |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $1200: In 2022 this veteran funnyman took to the stage as the mahvelous Buddy Young Jr. in "Mr. Saturday Night" Billy Crystal |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $400: T-Mobile:
This Billy Idol song that we just hear more, more, more "Rebel Yell" |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $200: You may be right, I may be this man who periodically gets his own channel; in 2022, his "52nd Street" got played track by track Billy Joel |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | NAME THAT HITMAKER $1600: "Eyes Without A Face" & "White Wedding" Billy Idol |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: Among this president's stable of horses were Reb, Billy Button & Jeff Davis U.S. Grant |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $600: Escaping from prison days before he was to be hanged, he was tracked down & killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett July 14, 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE 1800s $400: For nearly half a century, "Puffing Billy", an early locomotive powered by this, hauled loads from an English coal mine steam |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE $1600: In a 1983 song & album, this piano man was "An Innocent Man" Billy Joel |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COUNTRY MUSIC SONG TITLES $400: Billy Ray Cyrus lamented the good old days in his tongue-in-cheek song entitled "I Want My" this hairstyle "Back" Mullet |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $1000: Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows" the Red Fern |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | SCRAMBLED NOVELS $1200: Billy Pilgrim gets bombed: "A HUGE TUSH FLIES OVER" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $1200: In 1992 country music fans hit the floor for a line dance accompanying this Billy Ray Cyrus hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $600: Character actor J.T. Walsh told a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film Sling Blade |
| #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" |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $400: A policeman's nightstick: ____ club a billy club |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Body of Jesus" & an "Uptown Girl", onetime wife of Billy Joel Corpus Christi Brinkley |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TV, STREAMED $600: Billy Butcher has some serious issues with superheroes on this Amazon show & confronts them quite directly The Boys |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: "Play" is in the title of this drama based in part on playwright Charles Fuller's time in the army & on "Billy Budd" A Soldier's Play |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | CELEBRITIES $800: In 2020 he went in a different direction, wearing a Gucci dress as the first solo male to grace the cover of Vogue magazine Harry Styles |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $400: Give us your best Billy Batson impression as you say the title of this 2019 DC film Shazam! |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | MISS, MR. OR MRS. SONG $800: Billy Paul:
"Me and" her "We got a thing goin' on" Mrs. Jones |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WATERLOGGED READING $800: Spoiler alert! It does not end well for this title foretopman in a book written in 1891 Billy Budd |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $600: Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie Brian's Song |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THIS CATEGORY HAS LEGS $1200: Billy Bowlegs was a 19th century leader of this southern people who fought three wars with the United States the Seminoles |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | SONGS TO JINGLES $400: The Billy "Crash" Craddock song "Rub It In" became "Plug It In" for this home scent brand Glade |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | SONG OF MYSELF $800: A trip to a Japanese disco inspired this Billy Idol hit about "the floors of Tokyo" "Dancing With Myself" |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | ACTOR-MOGULS $800: Happy Madison, Adam Sandler's production company, combines these 2 Sandler movie titles Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $200: Though a Wild West icon, this youthful outlaw who also went by Henry McCarty was born on the East Side of New York City Billy the Kid |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $1600: The 2014 Gershwin Prize concert honoring him included Boyz II Men performing his doo-wop tribute "The Longest Time" Billy Joel |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | HOWDY, SHERIFF $1200: As a sheriff, this man found Billy the Kid twice & killed him once; he'd later get a sweet new gig thanks to Lew Wallace (Pat) Garrett |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE FAMOUS MOM $1600: Of
Alexa Ray Joel (Christie) Brinkley |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | PARTY IN THE BACK $600: Our '80s party wouldn't be complete if we didn't crank this Billy Idol hit! "It's a nice day for" it "White Wedding" |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | MLB MASCOTS $800: Billy, who measures 44 inches from the tip of his bill to the tip of his back fin Marlins |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $2000: The Pen/Faulkner Award, for American fiction, has twice gone to this man--for "Billy Bathgate" & "The March" E.L. Doctorow |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | NOVELLAS $1600: Melville House Press offers classic novellas in book form, & of course included the tale of this title sailor by Melville himself Billy Budd |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $400: In "We Didn't Start The Fire", Billy Joel sings of "trouble in" this Mideast canal region, the site of a 1956 crisis Suez |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | HEIR GUITAR $200: The Hard Rock Hotel in Tulsa featured guitars signed by Miley Cyrus & this man, her father Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | MOVIE TO STAGE $600: This musical centers on a boy from a family of coal miners who wants to be a ballet dancer Billy Elliot |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $1200: In a 1977 biopic Billy Dee Williams played this ragtime pianist who dreamed of having his opera produced Scott Joplin |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $400: The comedy called "Throw" her "from the Train" finds Danny DeVito enlisting Billy Crystal in a murder plot Momma |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | OPERA SETTINGS $1600: The opera about this alliterative Melville sailor takes place aboard the HMS Indomitable Billy Budd |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | IT'S THEIR SONG $800: Subtitled "Anthony's Song", this singer's "Movin' Out" is enough to give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack Billy Joel |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $1000: Billy Wilder, his director in "The Apartment", said there was a little bit of genius in everything he did Jack Lemmon |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | I HEAR VOICES $800: This funnyman & 9-time Oscar host voiced Mike in "Monsters, Inc." & "Monsters University" Billy Crystal |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LET'S MAKE A SUPERGROUP $400: Over on piano, this New Yorker who had his own residency at Madison Square Garden Billy Joel |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | EVERYTHING'S JAKE $400: Brother of Maggie, this actor played Billy Crystal's son in "City Slickers" Jake Gyllenhaal |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | YOU MAKE MY HEART SING $200: Billy Ray Cyrus found disfavor with country purists for this song, a No. 4 crossover pop hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | ZOOM $1000: Guitarist Billy Zoom rocks out with the pioneering L.A. punk band known by this near-the-end-of-the-alphabet letter X |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $1000: 1982's winner was this man from N.C. who "took his message of Christianity into the...world of radio and television" Billy Graham |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): On his way to Savannah, you might have heard Union troops calling him "Uncle Billy" William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | CHARACTERS IN BEATLES SONGS $800: This Beatles song introduced "to you the one and only Billy Shears" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $800: After performing there in 1965, Paul McCartney got back to this large N.Y. venue in 2008 to help Billy Joel play its last show Shea Stadium |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | YOU KILLED ME! $800: He lived by the gun & died by Pat Garrett's on July 14, 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR $200: Christie Brinkley, in 1985 Billy Joel |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In 1909 a toy company chose the slogan "Goodbye" to this other 2-word toy, "Hello, Billy Possum" a teddy bear |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | BEST DIRECTOR TWICE $2000: "The Lost Weekend" & "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | IKEA NAMES $400: Billy, a popular one of these especially for your library, is named for IKEA employee Billy Liljedahl a bookshelf |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: In concert, after playing this song that begins, "Don't go changing, to try & please me", Billy Joel said, "& then we got divorced" "Just The Way You Are" |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FAIRY TALES & FOLK TALES $800: In this folk tale, the title barnyard trio faces off against a troll under a bridge The Three Billy Goats Gruff |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $1600: In 2017 Billy Bob Thornton took home the gold for his role as lawyer Billy McBride taking on the big guys on this drama Goliath |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | I WON'T BE IN TODAY $600: From Billy Clanton, October 26, 1881: Got a dental appointment... with this killer dentist Doc Holliday |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $2000: Among this African-American actor's paintings are self-portraits as Lando Calrissian "Billy Dee" Williams |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $400: Billy Bob Thornton played coach Gary Gaines in this film; the TV show of the same name had Kyle Chandler as coach Eric Taylor Friday Night Lights |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $1600: This Viennese-Amer. Best Director for "The Apartment": "Thank you so much, you lovely discerning people. Thank you" (Billy) Wilder |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTER $800: Velma Kelly & her lawyer Billy Flynn Chicago |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE POWERS THAT BE $1000: Tom Powers plays the doomed hubby of scheming Barbara Stanwyck in this 1944 Billy Wilder classic Double Indemnity |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | audible SUMMER READING $1000: James Franco gives voice to this absurdist novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN $400: Pat Garrett was newly elected sheriff of Lincoln County, N.M. when he tracked down this outlaw AKA Henry McCarty Billy the Kid |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '80s $800: It completes Billy Ocean's 1988 title request &/or demand, "Get Outta My Dreams..." "Get Into My Car" |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | DADS & DAUGHTERS $200: He's the proud dad seen here Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | JUKEBOX MUSICALS $800: "Movin' Out":
This keyboard guy Billy Joel |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $1200: There's an actress with lots of kids, 3 adopted--before she married that actor, she was married to this other actor, him, with 3 names Billy Bob Thornton |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: In 1991 William Martin called this North Carolina evangelist a "Prophet With Honor" Billy Graham |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FILM TEACHERS $400: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras attempts to teach third grade to this grown-up funnyman in "Billy Madison" Adam Sandler |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | PHRASE ORIGINS $200: Ask Billy Idol--the origin of this phrase is the bloodcurdling battle cries of Confederate troops rebel yell |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $800: "Billy (Durant), Alfred (P. Sloan) &" this Big 3 car company is a very specific biography General Motors |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $400: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) Tonight, for the opening o the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal will reunite with director Rob Reiner for a screening of this romantic comedy that wondered if men & women would really be friends When Harry Met Sally... |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | LYRICALLY INACCURATE $1000: In this "mortal" tune from 1977, Billy Joel sang "Only" this occurs, yet Caligula expired at 28 "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $2,200 (Daily Double): Billy Hughes spent WWI advocating this wartime practice, which split Australia as it later did the U.S. in the 1960s the draft |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | THIS IS "MY" SONG $400: It's the 1978 anthem of independence by Billy Joel heard here "My Life" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $200: An L.A. bar gig in the '70s inspired Billy to write this song "Piano Man" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $400: In 2018 a banner honoring the 50th show of Billy's residency at this arena was raised into its rafters Madison Square Garden |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $600: This tender song was Billy's first U.S. Top 10 hit "Just The Way You Are" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $800: In 2009 Billy headed back out on the road for a "Face 2 Face" tour with this other legend of the 88 keys Elton John |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $1000: This song mentions, among many others, "Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | RECENT TV $1600: Disgraced L.A. lawyer Billy McBride has some "huge" issues to deal with on this Amazon show Goliath |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $800: Billy Graham admitted that he made a mistake in 1965 when he didn't go to the march that began in this Alabama city Selma |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS $1200: 2014:
"Dancing With Myself" Billy Idol |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | ASSIGNED LOCKERS $800: On Dec. 27, 1880 deputy U.S. marshal Charles Conklin put this "childish" outlaw in the Santa Fe jail Billy the Kid |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $400: On this man's passing in 2018, Jimmy Carter said, "He shaped the spiritual lives of tens of millions of people worldwide" (Billy) Graham |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | THE "HEART" OF COUNTRY $200: Billy Joe Shaver declares this "is where I was born... the Lone Star State's where I'm comin' from" the heart of Texas |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | THE "HEART" OF COUNTRY $400: In a 1992 title Billy Ray Cyrus had one an achy breaky heart |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $800: Later D.W. Griffith's D.P., Billy Bitzer worked for Hearst on the first film camera team to cover a war, this one the Spanish-American War |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $800: 1963:
Kirk Douglas as Randle McMurphy, Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbit One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | MR. & MRS. SONGS $800: Billy Paul topped the charts with "Me & Mrs. Jones"; "Mr. Jones" was a No. 5 hit for this "avian" group in the 1990s the Counting Crows |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | THAT'S A GOOD-LOOKIN' TITLE WORD $800: Billy Crystal's Fernando knows this word for Amazon's Mrs. Maisel marvelous |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SONG TIME $400: "It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in", begins this Billy Joel signature song "Piano Man" |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME $400: Policeman's nightstick:
____ club billy |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $400: In 2016 this "Sling Blade" Oscar winner began playing lawyer Billy McBride in TV's "Goliath" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | ROLE WITH THE PUNCHES $1600: He put up a good fight as Billy "The Great" hope in 2015's "Southpaw" Jake Gyllenhaal |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | SINGERS $800: In 2017 this onetime lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins rebranded himself using his full name Corgan |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $800: (RuPaul presents the clue.) Billy Wilder hired famed drag artist Barbette to teach Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to move like women for this 1959 film Some Like It Hot |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | ENTERTAINMENT 2017 $1200: Billy Eichner left the street for this show's "Cult" & played a game of what Billy liked to call "sawing off my boss' head" American Horror Story |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | THE BRIT'S NO. 1 HIT $1200: 1987:
"Mony Mony" Billy Idol |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | THE BRIT'S NO. 1 HIT $2000: "Caribbean Queen" Billy Ocean |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $400: This author's "Billy Budd, Foretopman" has a Claggart clash that does not end well for either man Melville |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $800: This title kid danced out of the movies & onto Broadway in 2008 (Billy) Elliot |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $1200: In 1948 Billy Mitchell's son received a new medal honoring his dad from this chief of staff of this military branch the Air Force |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $1600: Billy Strayhorn's lifetime collaboration with this legend led to hits like "Chelsea Bridge" & "Take the 'A' Train" Duke Ellington |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $2000: This evangelist's "Hour of Decision" was first broadcast on the radio in 1950 (Billy) Graham |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | "F" STOP $600: Title adjective for "Three Billy Goats" in a folktale Gruff |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | IOWA HISTORY $800: In 1873 near Adair, Iowa, this outlaw & his gang hit the Rock Island line in the "first train robbery in the West" Jesse James |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | AM I BLUE? $2000: Movie audiences saw a lot of blue as Billy Crudup played Dr. Manhattan in this 2009 film Watchmen |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | CANINE COMPANIONS $1200: Billy West voiced Stimpson J. Cat & later in the series, this canine companion Ren |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | STREET MUSIC $1000: In 1978 this singer-songwriter parked "Big Shot" & "Honesty" on "52nd Street" Billy Joel |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | ON BOXING DAY $800: The 1946 rematch of this "Brown Bomber" & Billy Conn was the first world heavyweight title fight available on TV Joe Louis |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | HISTORY, WITH SOUND EFFECTS $800: On April 28, 1881 Billy the Kid escaped jail... but it was game over when this sheriff caught up with him a few months later Pat Garrett |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | & OTHER ODD FILMS $800: Billy Connolly isn't a dog in "Fido", but rather one of these undead minions a zombie |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | INSTRUMENTAL SONG TITLES $1200: Billy Joel based this song on his experience playing at an L.A. bar called The Executive Room "Piano Man" |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | NONFICTION $400: "Reason, even science, was what Billy Beane was intent on bringing to baseball" is a line from this book Moneyball |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | THE TV "A" $800: Billy Bush is no longer allowed past the velvet rope on this show that's been covering the stars since 1996 Access Hollywood |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1000: Billy the Kid is a minor character in "Time for Outrage", about this future state's Lincoln County War New Mexico |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | FINGER-SNAPPING TUNES $2000: "The Longest Time" kept its time with snapping & this man had himself a 1984 hit Billy Joel |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | BARBRA STREISAND DUETS $400: Who better to duet with Barbra on "New York State Of Mind" than this piano man Billy Joel |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | TV KILLERS $800: As serial killer Billy Flynn, Tim Curry confronted Shemar Moore on this CBS show Criminal Minds |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | STRANGER THINGS $200: The billy goat plum of Australia contains 100 times more of this vitamin than an orange vitamin C |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | THIS IS PBS $2000: "Billy Porter: Broadway & Soul" & "Sinatra: Voice for a Century" were "Live from" this landmark around 64th & Columbus Live from Lincoln Center |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Seen here on a break is Billy Johnson, a celebrated rider for this service of the early 1860s the Pony Express |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | KING ME $1000: This ineffectual 15th century king still got his name on not 1, not 2, but 3 Shakespeare plays Henry VI |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan (a male role) in this Indonesia-set film The Year of Living Dangerously |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | THE SOUTHWEST $400: New Mexico boasts a museum dedicated to this outlaw aka William Bonney Billy the Kid |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | MONEY MUSIC $2000: It's the Steve Miller Band's song about criminal lovers Billy Joe & Bobbie Sue "Take The Money And Run" |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $2,600 (Daily Double): It was the '70s:
Ted against Joanna regarding little Billy Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $400: "Innocence is the central idea...of 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'", about a soldier deployed in this country in 2004 Iraq |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | BOOTS $1600: The infamous buried here in Tombstone, Arizona include Billy Clanton & Frank McLaury Boot Hill |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $2000: The Milwaukee International Airport is named for this air power advocate who was later court-martialed General Billy Mitchell |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | SONG OF "MYSELF" $200: Back in the '80s Billy Idol was doing this on the floors of Tokyo & down in London town to go-go "Dancing With Myself" |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | SONG OF "MYSELF" $1000: In a '50s hit Billy Williams was "Gonna Sit Right Down And" take this epistolary action "Write Myself A Letter" |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | SAINTS BE PRAISED $400: They had Billy Kilmer & Jim Taylor when they began play in 1967 the New Orleans Saints |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BILLY IDOL $400: This musician had a sold-out 12-show run at Madison Square Garden in 2014 & keeps filling the place Billy Joel |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BILLY IDOL $800: This evangelist had a 16-week crusade at Madison Square Garden in 1957 Billy Graham |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BILLY IDOL $1200: In April 1881 he was sentenced to be hanged, but ended up dying that July of bullet-related causes Billy the Kid |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BILLY IDOL $1600: Herman Melville died in 1891, leaving behind the tale of this sailor, unpublished for another 33 years Billy Budd |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BILLY IDOL $2000: We'd know this evangelist who played Major League Baseball in the 1880s any day of the week Billy Sunday |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS $600: John Ritter's last film appearance was in this movie, trying to keep an inebriated Billy Bob Thornton in check Bad Santa |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OSCAR WINNER'S MOVIE $1000: For 1996:
I reckon that writer fella Billy Bob Thornton won, mm hm Sling Blade |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | JOEL $400: It's been more than 30 years since his 2-album "Greatest Hits", featuring "Big Shot" Billy Joel |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | STEP RIGHT "UP" $400: It comes before "Girl" in a Billy Joel title & "Funk!" in a Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars title uptown |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | FRIENDS $400: Then known as Lew Alcindor, this 7'2" basketball star was a high school friend of not 7'2" funnyman Billy Crystal Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | GEORGE CLOONEY FILM ROLES $400: Fishing boat captain Billy Tyne The Perfect Storm |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A New Jersey governor tries a modeling career & marries Billy Joel (for a while) Chris Christie Brinkley |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | THAT'S A REAL HORROR STORY $800: This character says, "Billy thinks he wants to change. He's making himself a girl suit out of real girls" Hannibal Lecter |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $800: No. 74:
"Just The Way You Are"--by him, not Billy Joel Bruno Mars |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | GOING ____ ON CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Eugene Loring choreographed Copland's "____ the ____" Billy the Kid |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $1200: On Broadway in 1975, Billy Flynn was played by Jerry Orbach, but this show got into Gere on the silver screen in 2002 Chicago |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE MOVIE ACTOR'S ROLE $1000: "Looking good, Billy Ray!" says Dan Aykroyd in this 1983 film; "Feeling good, Louis!" replies Eddie Murphy Trading Places |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | GRAVE MATTERS $800: A Fort Sumner, New Mexico marker lists pals Tom O'Folliard, Charlie Bowdre & William H. Bonney, alias him Billy the Kid |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | "O" 2"B" $1600: "Broncho Billy" Anderson starred in the 1903 classic "The Great Train" this robbery |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | SONG LYRICS $1600: This hit by Billy Ray Cyrus begins, "You can tell the world you never was my girl" "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | A MIDNIGHT MOVIE $1200: This 1978 film tells the true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey Midnight Express |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES $400: Billy Bob Thornton played a high school football coach in this 2004 film; Kyle Chandler in the TV series Friday Night Lights |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | THE OLD WEST $1200: in 1882 this sheriff wrote the book "An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid" to correct "false statements" that had been published (Pat) Garrett |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | AUDRA McDONALD ON BROADWAY $800: (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) In 1994 this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about carnival barker Billy Bigelow had a new go-round on Broadway Carousel |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MY EX-WIVES & ME $1600: He & wife No. 5, Angelina Jolie, were bound by blood--for a while (Billy Bob) Thornton |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | U.S. LIBRARIES $1200: Follow his journey from humble farm boy to "America's Pastor" at his library in Charlotte, North Carolina Billy Graham |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | THE LAST MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1996 Delaware's Billy Bailey became the last condemned murderer to be put to death in the U.S. this way hanging |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | BACKING BANDS $1600: Billy Vera the Beaters |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | LOL $1200: Games of this comic "on the Street" included "Would Drew Barrymore Like That?" & "It's Spock! Do You Care?" Billy Eichner |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | RECENT MUSIC $1000: Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman" inspired John Legend to write this song for Chrissy Teigen "All Of Me" |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | PRESIDENTIAL SURNAMES ON FILM $800: 1995:
"Billy ____" Madison |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | "AT" THE MOVIES $800: Burt Lancaster was Wyatt Earp & Dennis Hopper was Billy Clanton in this 1957 Western Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | '90s POP CULTURE $400: She was Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" until their marriage ended in 1994 Christie Brinkley |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $200: This young outlaw escaped from a New Mexico jail on April 28, 1881; a bullet ended his run on July 14 of that year Billy the Kid |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | NAME THAT TUNE $1000: "Now Paul is a real estate novelist, who never had time for a wife" in this signature Billy Joel song "Piano Man" |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER $400: Billy Wilder:
"Hindsight is always ____/____" 20/20 |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | ON BROADWAY $600: This musical about a silent screen star eager for a comeback was based on a Billy Wilder film Sunset Boulevard |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $200: AnGeL Ministries is an organization founded by Anne G. Lotz, daughter of this evangelist & his wife Ruth Billy Graham |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | A "RUN" OF TOP 40 HITS $1600: "This here's a story about Billy Joe & Bobbie Sue"; really, this here's a clue about this song by the Steve Miller Band "Take The Money And Run" |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $1200: Billy Pilgrim witnesses the firebombing of Dresden & subsequent killing of 135,000 in this Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | HAIRLESS BANDS $600: The follically consistent Billy Corgan fronted this band on "1979" the Smashing Pumpkins |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THAT'S A WRAP! $1000: 1969:
Captain America & Billy have a really bad trip Easy Rider |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $800: Billy Flynn,
Matron Mama Morton,
Roxie Hart Chicago |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | THE BISHOP $400: Being credited with downing 72 German planes made Billy Bishop Canada's top one of these "cards" in WWI an ace |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | TV DADS $800: Billy Ray Cyrus was dad Robby Stewart on this show Hannah Montana |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | NAME-DROPPING SONG LYRICS $1200: "Liston beats Patterson" is a line from his hit "We Didn't Start The Fire" Billy Joel |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | CAR TUNES $600: He had a 2-part request in the title of his 1988 No. 1 hit: "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" Billy Ocean |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | "SALT" & "PEPPER" $1200: A 1978 film featured Peter Frampton as Billy Shears & Billy Preston as this "military" title character Sgt. Pepper |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | PERFORMERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: "Dancing with Myself"
(2014) Billy Idol |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Billy Joel:
"Well, we're living here... and they're closing all the factories down" Allentown |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | CRIMINALITY... IN SONG $1000: In 1976 he sang, "Billy Joe shot a man while robbing his castle, Bobbie Sue took the money & run" Steve Miller |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $400: On July 14, 1881 he entered a dark room & asked in Spanish, "Who is it?"; Pat Garrett responded with 2 fatal shots William Bonney (or Billy the Kid) |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $800: This British musical about a coal miner's young son danced away with 10 Tony Awards in 2009 Billy Elliot |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $1200: Urged on by his priest, Billy Wilkerson of this Variety rival published "Billy's Blacklist" in 1946 Hollywood Reporter |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE CELEBRITY SPOUSE IN COMMON $1600: Cynda Willians, Angelina Jolie Billy Bob Thornton |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | THE CARTER FAMILY $400: 13 years younger, he was Jimmy's only brother Billy |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $800: This Melville sailor said he was "found in a pretty silk-lined basket hanging" from "a good man's door in Bristol" Billy Budd |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $200: Billy Crystal so liked the horse he rode in this 1991 comedy that he rode him at the Oscars City Slickers |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | A CATEGORY WITH REVERENDS $200: "Just As I Am" is the autobiography of this evangelist Billy Graham |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | CHRISTMAS ON BROADWAY $400: This musical about a boy born to dance features a catchy protest number, "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher" Billy Elliot |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | SOUNDS LIKE MAD LIBS, BUT REAL $400: Maximilian Schell was the godfather of this actress who toted Billy Bob Thornton's blood Angelina Jolie |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | THE 2014 EMMYS $400: In a touching tribute, Billy Crystal remembered this friend, "the brightest star in a comedy galaxy" Robin Williams |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $800: In a Benjamin Britten opera, Claggart uses Corporal Squeak to spy on this title sailor Billy Budd |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | DEEP CUTS $400: Off "Piano Man":
"Stop In Nevada",
"Ain't No Crime" Billy Joel |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | THE CAST OF FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH $1600: All right, Hamilton! Judge Reinhold later played detective Billy Rosewood in this 1984 Eddie Murphy picture Beverly Hills Cop |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | THE VOICE $1200: In "Looney Tunes: Back in Action", Billy West brought this noted "wabbit hunter" to life Elmer Fudd |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | LITERARY CLERGYMEN $1600: Famed evangelist Billy Sunday reportedly called Sinclair Lewis "Satan's Cohort" for writing this 1927 novel Elmer Gantry |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $2000: In this 1966 Billy Wilder film, Walter Matthau persuades Jack Lemmon to exaggerate his injuries for the insurance money The Fortune Cookie |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | INTERNET SLANG $400: Someone trying to get your goat is one of these, just like the foe of the Billy Goats Gruff a troll |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | POLITICAL PARTIES $600: Brother Billy skipped the Plains, Georgia election-night party for this guy in 1980, but it was a bust anyway Jimmy Carter |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | OTHER LINES TO SING THE KIDS $800: "And if that Billy goat won't pull, papa's gonna buy you a cart & bull" "Hush, Little Baby" |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | 2-"TO"-2 $1600: Characteristic of affluent people, like Billy Joel's "Girl" uptown |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | 1990s HITMAKERS $200: In 1992 I hope you'll understand he hauled his "Achy Breaky Heart" to No. 4 on the Top 40 (Billy Ray) Cyrus |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $400: About his upcoming opponent Billy Conn, this boxing champ remarked, "He can run, but he can't hide" Joe Louis |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | ACTORS' ROLES $800: Captain Billy Tyne,
Michael Clayton George Clooney |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Born in 1918, he's reportedly preached to more people live than anyone else in history, nearly 215 million people Billy Graham |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | ____ THE ____ $400: William H. Bonney was one of several aliases that he used Billy the Kid |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | TV IQ TEST $200: Oh yah, in 2014 Billy Bob Thornton was in full FX as Lorne Malvo on this drama, based on a movie; hope ya like snow! Fargo |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ALBUM FILLER $400: Billy Joel:
"____ Street" 52nd |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $1600: Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously" Linda Hunt |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | TV TITLE PAIRS $600: Cop Billy Gardell & teacher Melissa McCarthy Mike and Molly |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | BALLET SETTINGS $4,000 (Daily Double): Street scene,
an American desert &
the jail Billy the Kid |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $600: "Born To Boogie" &
"He Could Be A Star" Billy Elliot |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | MOM & DAD'S DATE MOVIES $800: Burns & Albright are the surnames of Billy Crystal & Meg Ryan as the title pair in this film When Harry Met Sally... |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | ANGELS $800: This longtime evangelist, Franklin's dad, wrote that angels "think, feel, will, and display emotions" (Billy) Graham |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | SHELVING! YES, SHELVING! $200: This retailer denies reports it's redesigning its Billy bookcase for tchotchkes instead of books no one now buys Ikea |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | PLAYING LINCOLN $600: Billy Campbell played the big man in a 2013 TV adaptation of this Bill O'Reilly book Killing Lincoln |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | MOVIE COMEDY $1600: Billy Wilder's first choice for the role of Sugar Kane in this film was Mitzi Gaynor, but Marilyn Monroe got the part Some Like it Hot |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | SANTA FE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Santa Fe, NM.) Though the palace of the governors is just a short walk from the jail where this young outlaw sat in 1880, Governor Lew Wallace refused to meet with him & discuss the pardon he had offered; a jailbreak soon followed Billy the Kid (William Bonney) |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | POP QUIZ $800: He's Hannah Montana's real-life daddy Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $800: Before "Harry Met Sally", he worked as a substitute teacher on Long Island Billy Crystal |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $1600: Golden Earring? Billy Squier? It's this rock format like WROQ 101 classic rock |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | NOVELS BY CHARACTER $1000: Billy Bibbit,
Candy,
The Big Nurse One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BEERS TO YOU! $600: Cans of Billy Beer came inscribed with a note from him: "I think it's the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot" Billy Carter |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $1600: He was born Henry McCarty in New York City; some 22 years later, Pat Garrett put an end to him Billy the Kid |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $2000: Claggart is the evil sailor who accuses this Herman Melville character of plotting mutiny Billy Budd |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $600: 56 times this North Carolinian has been rated by Gallup as one of the 10 most admired men in the world Billy Graham |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | NONFICTION $200: After killing this outlaw, Pat Garrett co-wrote the first biography of him Billy the Kid |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | WEB MUSIC PARODIES $800: Billy Joel is parodied in "We Didn't Start" this type of war in which insults are hurled online a flame war |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | RING MAGAZINE'S GREATEST TITLE FIGHTS $1000: The 1941 bout between Billy Conn & this "Brown Bomber" Joe Louis |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? $2000: Billy is an Aussie word for a type of pot, as in "he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled" from this song "Waltzing Matilda" |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | FAMOUS PAIRS $400: Sigmund Freud & Billy the Kid are 2 of the people this pair meets in their "Excellent Adventure" Bill & Ted |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | THE END OF THE STORY $2000: "One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet'?" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | ___ THE ___ PEOPLE $600: He'd killed numerous men by the time he died around age 20 in 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | POP GO THE LYRICS! $400: As Billy Joel put it, "everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound / funny, but it's still" this "Still Rock & Roll To Me" |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SILVER ANNIVERSARIES $200: With infinite gladness, Billy Corgan formed this band in 1988; happy anniversary The Smashing Pumpkins |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS $2,600 (Daily Double): In 2006 Mike Meyers wore a kilt to honor this recipient Sean Connery |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES $600: 1989:
"Billy" Bathgate |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | AMERICAN KNIGHTS $200: This evangelist was knighted in 2001 by the British ambassador on behalf of the queen Billy Graham |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | FROM FILM TO BROADWAY MUSICAL $600: It's more than a "miner" problem when a boy in a mining town wants to dance ballet rather than fight Billy Elliot |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $1200: 1996: "Sling Blade" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | WHAT DEGREE DID THEY GET? $2000: 1994:
Billy Crudup's artistry is recognized an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS $1600: In 1881 this New Mexico governor & novelist rejected Billy the Kid's pleas for a pardon Lew Wallace |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | ALSO A SEA $600: Precedes "Queen" in the title of a No. 1 hit by Billy Ocean Caribbean |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | NFL $1000: Billy Johnson, a great kick returner of the 1970s & 1980s, was known by this footwear nickname Billy "White Shoes" Johnson |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | GENERAL PRACTICE $2000: This outspoken U.S. general is proving his views here, holding a piece of a battleship sunk by air power Billy Mitchell |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | MOVIES: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $800: Billy Madison Adam Sandler |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | ASTRONOMY $400: On the Moon, Hell, Billy & Julius Caesar are these craters |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN $400: The original "Piano Man" (1974) Billy Joel |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | GOIN' COUNTRY $200: His 1971 album "Man In Black" included a duet with evangelist Billy Graham Johnny Cash |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | GOIN' COUNTRY $400: "I'm American" is the latest album from this singer who burst onto the scene in 1992 Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | OVER MY DEAD BODY $2,000 (Daily Double): "Born Nov. 23, 1860 Killed July 14, 1881 /
The Boy Bandit King /
He died as he had lived Billy the Kid |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | FIRST NAME FILL-IN $800: Mr. Club, seen here billy |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $1000: "To Hell on a Fast Horse" tells of the intertwined lives of Billy the Kid & this sheriff Pat Garrett |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | "M"USICALS $2000: For this 2002 musical, Twyla Tharp used 28 Billy Joel songs Movin' Out |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | YOUR PEAS $800: This classic Billy Wilder film gets its name from the nursery rhyme "Pease Porridge Hot" Some Like It Hot |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | AMERICAN BALLET $400: The same ballerina plays both the mother & Mexican sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED $600: Alfred was the real first name of this man whose first of several stints managing the Yankees began in 1975 (Billy) Martin |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | A REAL COMEDIAN $1200: He agreed to host the 84th annual Academy Awards--his 9th time doing so Billy Crystal |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCOUNT TENT $600: Winds rushed in & Billy lost some frostbitten toes due to the "dry" type of this localized death of tissue gangrene |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $200: Billy Joel the piano |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | THE AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD $2,500 (Daily Double): 1990:
This director of epics like "The Bridge on the River Kwai" David Lean |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $1600: "They're closing all the factories down", sang Billy Joel about "living here" Allentown |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | HOBBITS' OTHER ROLES $600: Billy Boyd (Pippin) served as Russell Crowe's coxswain in this period piece Master and Commander |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | CURRENT MUSIC (GET IT?) $200: "The River" was his next album after "Darkness on the Edge of Town" Bruce Springsteen |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AL-LIT-ERATION $2000: Melville man,
Claggart clash,
mutiny mitigation Billy Budd |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: Sericulture, the use of these "worms" in fiber manufacture, goes back more than 4,000 years silkworms |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | HOW THE WEST WAS SPUN $800: After killing this outlaw, Pat Garrett wrote a book to "correct the thousand false statements" in the press Billy the Kid |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | SONG MASH-UPS $800: The first Top 40 pop hits for Billy Ray Cyrus & Blondie, no wonder it hurt so much--lucky thing it didn't shatter "Achy Breaky Heart Of Glass" |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | SONG MASH-UPS $1200: According to Hall & Oates, "they see your every move", while Billy Idol sings, "got no human grace" "Private Eyes Without A Face" |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $1600: As Fernando, this performer popularized the phrase "You look mahvelous" Billy Crystal |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: Since 1940 Lincoln, New Mexico has presented a folk pageant called "The Last Escape of" this young outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | THE BENJAMINS $2000: In 1976 this "Billy Budd" composer was made a British life peer Benjamin Britten |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | THE DE NIRO CODE $1200: To Billy Crystal in this film: "I was gonna whack you. But I was real conflicted about it" Analyze This |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | WEE FOLK $1000: This ugly guy "with eyes as big as saucers" wanted to eat the 3 billy goats that crossed over his bridge the troll |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $800: In "Moneyball" Brad Pitt played this Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $400: The musical about this English boy's dream of going to the Royal ballet school hit Broadway in 2008 Billy Elliot |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $1600: Ho! ho! no! Billy Bob Thornton is anything but in the spirit as a foul-mouthed con man in this 2003 flick Bad Santa |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | MAN IN THE MIDDLE $600: Rocka
____
goat Billy |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | 20th CENTURY LIT $1200: "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" & "Ironweed " are books in his Albany Cycle (William) Kennedy |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | "EARS" TO YOU $600: Last name of Billy, mentioned in "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Billy) Shears |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "O" YES! $800: His song "Caribbean Queen" sailed to No. 1 in 1984 Billy Ocean |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | INCLUDES A PAPAL NAME $800: "Oh Yes I Am" this, just like in the title of a 1983 Billy Joel album & song an innocent man |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | TEAM PLAYERS $1000: 1977:
Golden Richards, Billy Joe DuPree, Roger Staubach... all were offensive minded the Dallas Cowboys |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | STATE SONGS? $400: Billy Joel:
"____ State Of Mind" New York |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | IT'S THE POLICE $800: There's a first name in this term for a policeman's heavy nightstick a billy club |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES $400: In a northern England mining town, a young boy takes up ballet dancing Billy Elliot |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $600: 1979: His "52nd Street" Billy Joel |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | OUR 1st ANNUAL HISTORY AWARDS $1600: The Can't Keep Him Down Award:
Him, for re-serving in France's army in WWI after his Dec. 1894 court-martial was cleared Dreyfus |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | TASTY MUSICAL ACTS $400: Billy Corgan of this band wasn't Melon Collie when its third album sold over 4 million copies The Smashing Pumpkins |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | THE SUNSHINE STATE $2000: Ending the third of the wars named for them, Billy Bowlegs of this tribe surrendered with his warriors in 1858 the Seminole tribe |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The manuscript for "Billy Budd" was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death Herman Melville |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $400: "Mr. Saturday Night" in the movies, in 2004 he starred in a one-man show called "700 Sundays" Billy Crystal |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $800: In 2003 Patrick Swayze did a 2-week stint as lawyer Billy Flynn in this musical Chicago |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $1200: In 2010 this Broadway dancing title tot was played by Liam Redhead (& 3 other boys, on different nights) Billy Elliot |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $1600: "Movin' Out", which moved into the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2002, was based on the songs of this pop star Billy Joel |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $400: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man: now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | CHRISTIANITY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1949 this man held a SRO 8-week crusade in a giant tent in Los Angeles that vaulted him to national fame Billy Graham |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | I THEE DIVORCE $400: 2003:
Billy Bob Thornton
(She managed to land on her feet, though) Angelina Jolie |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | I THEE DIVORCE $800: 1994:
Billy Joel
(the second of her 4 divorces) Christie Brinkley |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | ONE FACT AMONG THE FALSE GOSSIP $200: She & Billy Ray are doing a Metallica tribute album! She voiced Penny in the film "Bolt"! She has 14 toes! Miley Cyrus |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Billy Flynn & Clifford Irving Richard Gere |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $600: Gol-lee! When Billy Batson spoke this word, he became Captain Marvel shazam |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | MANLY HITMAKERS $800: 1974:
"Piano Man" Billy Joel |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $800: "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $400: In a Gallup poll of the most admired people of the 20th century, this evangelist ranked seventh (Billy) Graham |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | THE RAZZIES FOR 2009 $800: He took Supporting Actor for "riding his daughter's coat-tails and playing her dad in 'Hannah Montana: The Movie'" Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | BILLY IDLE $400: Thanks to George, he had plenty of off time between his 5 stints as manager of the New York Yankees Billy Martin |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | BILLY IDLE $800: He's been idle ever since his July 14, 1881 run-in with Pat Garrett Billy the Kid |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | BILLY IDLE $1200: This evangelist retired from public life following a last crusade in 2005 Billy Graham |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | BILLY IDLE $1600: He stayed busy in the late '70s, but he didn't get up to much after his brother left office Billy Carter |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | BILLY IDLE $2000: This army aviator & air power advocate resigned from the service after his 1925 court-martial Billy Mitchell |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | CITY SONGS $400: Sinatra:
"Bet your bottom dollar you lose the blues in" this city, this city, "the town... Billy Sunday could not shut down" Chicago |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | COMIC STRIPS $2000: "The Family Circus" follows the life of Mommy, Daddy, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly & this baby brother with a 2-letter name P.J. |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | STAGE TALK $1000: A humorous interlude in a serious drama, or a Billy Crystal-hosted benefit comic relief |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ENDS IN "FF" $1000: In a kids' tale, it follows "Three Billy Goats" Gruff |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | YOU MAKE MY "HEART" SING $600: You can tell Billy Ray Cyrus' "lips to tell my fingertips", but don't tell this title organ; it "might blow up and kill this man" his "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | THE NOVEL'S LAST LINE $2000: "One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | FRIEND $800: Billy the Kid was captured & later murdered by this one-time friend Pat Garrett |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | SCENE & HERD $200: Billy Crystal goes on a cattle drive (& causes a stampede with his coffee grinder) in this 1991 comedy City Slickers |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | GOOD BAD GUYS ON TV $600: In 1997 James Marsters rocked a Billy Idol look as Spike, a bloodsucker on this show Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | REMINDS ME OF MY FIRST MARRIAGE $1600: Her first hubby was Billy Smith; she was a topless dancer when she met No. 2, oilman J. Howard Marshall, 60+ years her senior Anna Nicole Smith |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ACTING THE PART $800: Playing Karl Childers, this actor informed us, "Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | HAIR-Y SITUATION $800: It's said that this cut once favored by Billy Ray Cyrus is "business in the front, party in the back" a mullet |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | THE 2009 TONY AWARDS $800: Yes sir--this British composer's adaptation of "Billy Elliot" won 10 Tonys, including Best Musical Elton John |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | AUTHOR, AUTHOR! $200: "Billy Budd, Foretopman" Melville |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | WYATT EARP $800: A feud between the Earps & these brothers, Ike & Billy, resulted in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral the Clantons |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | CONVERSATIONS $800: George W. Bush said that at 40 he gave up booze & renewed his faith after a conversation with this evangelist Billy Graham |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: Roxie, Velma & Billy Flynn paint this title town red 8 shows a week at the Ambassador Theatre Chicago |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $800: This musical about a boy with a passion for dance won a 2009 Tony for (surprise!) Best Choreography Billy Elliot |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BALLET $200: This ballet concludes with Pat Garrett leading pioneers, marching west Billy the Kid |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $800: A Billy Ray Cyrus hit gave us this hyphenated adjective achy-breaky |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: In a Melville work, Billy Budd's last words are "God bless" this captain Captain Vere |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | THEY SHOT THE SHERIFF $400: He & 5 accomplices ambushed Lincoln, N.M. sheriff William Brady in 1878, 3 years before Pat Garrett caught up with him Billy the Kid |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | THEY SHOT THE SHERIFF $1600: Billy Clanton shot & wounded these 2 lawmen, Wyatt's brothers, during a pretty famous fight--but they got him Virgil & Morgan |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | THEY SHOT THE SHERIFF $2000: On his 21st birthday, this 3-named gunman shot & killed Deputy Charles Webb in Brown County, Texas John Wesley Hardin |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | MUSIC'S MISSING PERSONS $400: Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods:
"____ Don't Be A Hero" Billy |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | STARS BY MOVIE ROLES $2000: Harry Burns,
Miracle Max,
Mike Wazowski Billy Crystal |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | TV SOLE DADS $400: Widower & sole dad Billy Ray Cyrus raises a pop star daughter on this Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $200: Your first hit was this /
'74 was the year /
Say, does that microphone /
Still smell like beer? "Piano Man" |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $400: I recall this 2-word vid /
That starred a young top model /
The song was nice, but nicer still /
Was watching Christie waddle "Uptown Girl" |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $600: We saw your show with this man /
But some of it's a blur /
Loved that duet on "Your Song" /
Hey, do you call him "Sir"? Elton John |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $800: You sang to Virginia in this hit /
Don't get mad & don't try to fix me /
All I'm saying about it /
Is that you just turned 60 "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $1000: This album won a Grammy /
& made you some real bones /
Its title's a reminder /
Some folks should not throw stones Glass Houses |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): Scene One of this American ballet is set at the corral of Burnt Ranch Rodeo |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | ROCK STARS' BACKSTAGE NEEDS $600: No more, more, more calories: this "Rebel Yell" guy's contract calls for a tub of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Billy Idol |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | QUOTES ABOUT SPORTS TEAMS? $800: Billy Joel:
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the ____; the sinners are much more fun" saints |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WALL TO WALL-E's $1200: Title for Billy Graham, Jesse Jackson or Sun Myung Moon Reverend |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | JUNE 5 BABIES $600: Born 1850:
An Old West lawman & "Kid" killer Pat Garrett |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | A SNEEZY CATEGORY $200: Billy Gilbert was the voice of Sneezy in this film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | NAME THE WORK $1,000 (Daily Double): Melville:
"Captain Vere was an exceptional character" Billy Budd |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | LIBYA, LIBYA, LIBYA $1200: In 1980 this presidential brother registered as an agent of Libya's government Billy Carter |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | I DO'S & I'M DONES $1200: Being blonde & beautiful wasn't enough to save the 4th marriage of this supermodel, Billy Joel's ex Christie Brinkley |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | MUSICAL HEART CONDITIONS $400: In 1992 you couldn't escape this country crossover hit by Billy Ray Cyrus "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | GET INTO GERE $200: Richard Gere was lawyer Billy Flynn, who gets his clients acquitted with a little "Razzle Dazzle", in this musical film Chicago |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | FROM SCREEN TO STAGE $2000: Elton John wrote the music for this Broadway show in which a working-class British lad dreams of being a ballet dancer Billy Elliot |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | YOU "GO" FIRST $400: Beard sported by a billy, not a nanny a goatee |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | NAMED $200: He honored his grandfather as he & Angelina Jolie named their boy twin Knox Brad Pitt |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | NOVEL ALLITERATION $1600: Melville created this foretopman Billy Budd |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | DANCE TO THE MUSIC $600: That hair! That sneer! Man, it was the early '80s when this Brit was "Dancing With Myself" (Billy) Idol |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | LAST TOP 10 POP HIT $1600: "Cradle Of Love"
(1990) Billy Idol |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | AIRLINE CARRY-ON NO-NOs $1000: Like the billy club, this leather-covered club with a rhyming name cannot be in a carry-on bag a blackjack |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $2000: Melissa Lee Gatlin,
Toni Lawrence,
Cynda Williams,
Pietra Dawn Cherniak,
Angelina Jolie Billy Bob Thornton |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | SPORTS MASCOTS $2000: Billy, the mascot of this city's NFL team, gets his likeness from the city's name Buffalo |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | NEBRASKA: THE GOOD LIFE $200: Rub shoulders with Nebraska state legislators at Billy's restaurant on H Street in this capital Lincoln |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | A BIT OF LIT $800: "God bless Captain Vere!" are the last words this Melville foretopman speaks before being hanged Billy Budd |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | "C"LASSICAL MUSICIANS $2000: He composed the music for the 1938 ballet "Billy the Kid" (Aaron) Copland |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: Daughter Miley duetted with him on the recent hit "Ready, Set, Don't Go" Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | MOVIE MR. & MRS. $1000: In a 1992 movie, he played comic Buddy Young Jr., "Mr. Saturday Night" Billy Crystal |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $2000: Adam Sandler gives "sophomoric" a new meaning when he has 24 weeks to pass 12 years of school in this 1995 comedy Billy Madison |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | THE PAPARAZZI LOVE... $1000: This actress whose father Billy Ray "got caught up in...filming" & forgot to buckle up for one of his scenes Miley Cyrus |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $400: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue.) The name of my production company, Happy Madison, comes from the titles of these 2 movies I starred in Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1600: "Top Gun"ner Val, or '70s NFL gunner Billy Kilmer |
| #5448, aired 2008-04-23 | L.A. GEOGRAPHY IN POP CULTURE $600: Billy Joel wanted to "Say Goodbye To" this storied L.A. area Hollywood |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | SCRAMBLED COUNTRY SINGERS $1600: Maybe he could have won "Dancing with the Stars" with a name like
SILLY BAY CURRY Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | POLICE & THIEVES $400: In the Cattle Wars Sheriff Pat Garrett captured this criminal, who later escaped from jail in 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | CURSES $400: This Chicago team hasn't been in a World Series since 1945, when Billy Sianis cursed them for ejecting him & his goat the Chicago Cubs |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Yeeeeeee-haaaa! Billy Idol knows this drink's got bourbon, triple sec, lemon juice, an egg white & an orange slice a Rebel Yell |
| #5410, aired 2008-02-29 | FOR SAX AND VIOLINS $600: In 1977 Phil Woods was smooth as silk playing a sax solo on this man's "Just The Way You Are" Billy Joel |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | SING! $800: Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | NOTORIOUS $1600: In a 1938 ballet, a symbolic character known as Alias is killed again & again by this title Outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | CELEBRITY AKA $400: Destiny Hope Cyrus, Billy Ray's kid & star of TV's "Hannah Montana", now goes by this first name Miley |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | ON BROADWAY $1000: Huey Lewis, Harry Hamlin & George Hamilton have all been tapped to play tap-dancing lawyer Billy Flynn in this musical Chicago |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: "Father of the Constitution" & Adam Sandler flick where he goes back to school James & Billy Madison |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | GIFT GIVING $800: You know how Uncle Billy likes politics; let's giving him this politician's book "The Assault on Reason" (Al) Gore |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | WHACK $600: Brother Ike took a powder as Billy of this family was gunned down at the O.K. Corral the Clantons |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | "T" TIME $1600: Another name for a billy club or a policeman's baton a truncheon |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | GRAMMY'S RECORD OF THE YEAR $400: 1978:
"Just The Way You Are" Billy Joel |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE OLD WEST $600: In March 1879 this young killer met secretly with N.M. governor Lew Wallace to discuss a pardon; he never got it Billy the Kid |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | ESPN ENTERTAINMENT $600: John Turturro played this oft-fired manager in the 2007 ESPN miniseries "The Bronx is Burning" Billy Martin |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $400: You couldn't drag a Best Picture nomination out of the Academy for this 1959 Billy Wilder film; well, nobody's perfect Some Like It Hot |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $2000: This E.L. Doctorow title character joins Dutch Schultz's gang as a 15-year-old in 1930s New York City Billy Bathgate |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: Time-travelin' Dresden dude; he wasn't a Puritan; a Vonnegut check Billy Pilgrim |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC $2000: This "Piano Man" has had hits with "Uptown Girl", "My Life" & "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" Billy Joel |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | ONLINE INSULTS $1200: Provoking people in an online forum could get you this moniker, like the nemesis of the Billy Goats Gruff troll |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | FAMOUS CANADIANS $400: In 1917 & 1918 Ontario's Billy Bishop claimed 72 aerial victories as an Ace in this war World War I |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | RHYME TIME $400: A jacket for a nanny or a billy a goat coat |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | CEMETERIES $600: About 250 people were buried in this Tombstone, Arizona Cemetery from 1878 to 1884, including Billy Clanton Boot Hill |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | VOICES, I HEAR VOICES... $2000: Billy West voices (among others!) Prof. Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, Dr. Zoidberg, Fry & Richard Nixon on this Fox TV Show Futurama |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | ON THE ROAD $1600: Hey man, hit the road with Wyatt & Billy, man & check out Phil Spector as Connection in this 1969 film, man Easy Rider |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | MORTAL MATTERS $800: In 1908, 27 years after killing Billy the Kid, he was shot to death by a New Mexico rancher in a land dispute Sheriff Pat Garrett |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | GEOGRAPHIC FILM & TV $400: Title destination of Mr. Smith, Billy Jack & The Happy Hooker Washington |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WHO CREATED THEM? $1600: Harold Ryan,
Dwayne Hoover,
Billy Pilgrim Kurt Vonnegut |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | MORE SONGS $1000: This Billy Joel song says, "Sinners are much more fun" "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | "OVER" & "OUT" $800: Among the more famous ones were Belle Starr, Butch Cassidy & Billy the Kid outlaws |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | I STILL LIKE CARTOONS $600: These 2 title kids get to torment the Grim Reaper after winning a limbo contest against him Billy & Mandy |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | THE ZODIAC $1000: Billy--as in billy goat--would be an appropriate name for someone born under this goatlike sign Capricorn |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: In an 1876 novel, he cons Ben, Billy & Johnny into whitewashing a fence for him Tom Sawyer |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | HOT TUNES $1000: "Wheel of Fortune', Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide" is a line from this hot Billy Joel tune "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | MOVIE PEOPLE $1200: This great 1930s choreographer ended his career in 1962 with a circus flick, "Billy Rose's Jumbo" Busby Berkeley |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | BALLET $6,000 (Daily Double): Pat Garrett is one of the roles in this American ballet Billy the Kid |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | GRAB BAG $400: On Nov. 5, 1950 this evangelist began his radio program "The Hour of Decision"; it's still on the air Billy Graham |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | 1970s ALBUMS $1600: His 1978 album "52nd Street" was named for a NYC area famous for its jazz scene Billy Joel |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $2000: A concluding part added to a literary work where you might read, "Billy would become Canada's P.M. in 2022" epilogue |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $1000: During an 8-year Major League Baseball career, he batted .248; around 1896, he began holding revival meetings Billy Sunday |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | THE 5th BEATLE $1000: This keyboardist, who died in 2006, sat in with the Beatles often & also wrote Joe Cocker's hit "You Are So Beautiful" Billy Preston |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | '60s CINEMA $400: Jack Lemmon has his ups & downs with elevator operator Shirley MacLaine in this Billy Wilder classic The Apartment |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | CAN I GET YOUR LITERARY NUMBER? $800: Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time is recounted in this anti-war Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | STAR WARS $200: Regarding Brad Pitt's new hairdo, in 2005 this ex said, "Billy Idol called--he wants his look back" Jennifer Aniston |
| #5095, aired 2006-11-03 | CONTROVERSIAL SPORTS CELEBS $400: In the 1980s, this iron-fisted team owner hired, then fired, managers Billy Martin, Bob Lemon, Yogi Berra & Gene MIchael Steinbrenner |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $400: 1996:
Billy Bob Thornton for this story of a mentally handicapped man Sling Blade |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | SONG NAMES $400: Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods:
"____, Don't Be A Hero" Billy |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | REVISED CANTERBURY TALES $2000: Verily she was the mate of E.L. Doctorow's title "Billy" The Wife of Bathgate |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $800: This heavyweight champ was referring to Billy Conn & their 1946 bout when he said, "He can run, but he can't hide" Joe Louis |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: That's actor Billy Crudup doing the "Priceless" voiceovers in commercials for this credit card MasterCard |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Billy Joel could tell you this "town" near Bethlehem, Penn. has the oldest municipal band in the U.S. Allentown |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | OLD WEST DESPERADOES $800: When he arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1877, he told the townspeople his name was William H. Bonney Billy the Kid |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE WGA's TOP 101 SCREENPLAYS $400: 1 of the 2 scripts that got Billy Wilder into the Top 10 Some Like It Hot (or Sunset Boulevard) |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1200: In "Carousel" this amusement park barker talks to Julie Jordan about marriage & she sings "If I Loved You" Billy Bigelow |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT ALLITERATION $2000: Melville man,
Claggart clash,
hanged high Billy Budd |
| #4977, aired 2006-04-11 | I'M STILL STANDIN' $400: In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest":
Randle McMurphy,
Chief Bromden,
Billy Bibbit Chief Bromden |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | KICK THE CANNES $1000: The first festival in 1946 screened "The Lost Weekend" directed by this man Billy Wilder |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | FAKE ROCK BANDS & SINGERS $2000: Originally named Deathtongue, Billy & The Boingers first cracked out the heavy metal in this comic strip Bloom County |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | HAIL OF BULLETS $200: On Oct. 26, 1881 Ike Clanton & Billy Claiborne escaped the hail of bullets at this site by fleeing to a photo studio the O.K. Corral |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: As Fernando, this actor looked mahvelous & asked Mr. Hulk Hogan & Mr. T about their plans for Passover Billy Crystal |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | SPORTS FRANCHISES ON FILM $800: 1971:
No. 40
Billy Dee Williams the Chicago Bears |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | BALLET ROLES $800: This outlaw pirouettes to Copland's music before he shoots people Billy the Kid |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $1000: Adam was kickin' it old school--elementary school--as this 1995 title character Billy Madison |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | OPERA--IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! $1600: Red Whiskers & Squeak serve aboard ship with this title character, Herman Melville's sailorboy Billy Budd |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | NOVELS $2000: Billy, whose dogs are Old Dan & Little Ann, finds out "Where" this "Grows" in a book by Wilson Rawls the Red Fern |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | SONG ADJECTIVES $400: Billy Ray Cyrus:
"_____ _____ Heart" Achy Breaky |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | SOFT NEWS 2003 $600: Billy Bush, a first cousin to W., hosted a 2003 revival of this classic Monty Hall game show Let's Make a Deal |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | SINGERS $1200: "New York State Of Mind" is a classic by this singer from Hicksville, New York Billy Joel |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | STOP, THIEF! $400: Born in New York City in 1859, this notorious killer, seen here, specialized in cattle rustling Billy the Kid |
| #4906, aired 2006-01-02 | WE HAVE A PROBLEM $1000: If Billy can swallow 4 goldfish in 2 1/2 minutes, he can swallow this many in 20 minutes 32 |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | STREET SMARTS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a New York City street.) At the heart of Midtown, you'll find this street that became a Billy Joel album title 52nd Street |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | CAROLINIANS ON MY MIND $800: In June 2005 more than 230,000 attended this 86-year-old North Carolinian's New York Crusade Billy Graham |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | OFF TO COLLEGE $1000: In 1944 he entered Atlanta's Morehouse College as a 15-year-old struggling with religions doubts Martin Luther King |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | MOB HITS $800: "When I got into family therapy, this was not the 'family' I had in mind", says Billy Crystal in this '99 comedy Analyze This |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | WORLD WAR I $2000: This controversial Army officer led the air operations of the AEF & flew many missions deep into enemy territory (Billy) Mitchell |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | THE PRE-PSAT $200: Billy loves the Red Sox no matter what; he loves 'em
A) eerily
B) unconditionally
C) ceremoniously
D) haphazardly unconditionally |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS $800: The "Plains" folk governor & the long-imprisoned boxer Jimmy & Rubin Carter |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | NAME THE INSTRUMENT $200: In Billy Joel's "___ Man" Piano |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: Jim has 6 apples, Billy has 4, Michele has 2 & Debbie has 8 for an average of this many 5 |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Billy Beane, this team's wizard of a general manager, is profiled in Michael Lewis' "Moneyball" the Oakland Athletics |
| #4815, aired 2005-07-08 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $800: 1973:
James Coburn &
Kris Kristofferson Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | MUSICMAKERS $1000: In 1972 he "and Mrs. Jones" had a "thing going on" Billy Paul |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: Outfielder Mickey Rivers claimed, "me", this Yankees owner "& Billy (Martin) are two of a kind) George Steinbrenner |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | NAME THAT MOVIE $1000: 1969:
"You know, Billy. We blew it" Easy Rider |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | DANCING BAREFOOT $1200: She choreographed the show "Movin' Out" to Billy Joel's songs Twyla Tharp |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | YOU'RE FIRED! $400: Bob Lemon, Gene Michael & Lou Piniella were each fired twice by him; we won't get into the Billy Martin saga George Steinbrenner |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: This star of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" had to learn some new lines to play Billy Flynn in "Chicago" in 2004 Wayne Brady |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY IN SONG $600: In 1981, Billy Joel told us to "Say Goodbye To" this title place Hollywood |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | THE FABULOUS '50s $200: This evangelist known for his "crusades" said he believed there is life on other planets & that the Bible hints at it Billy Graham |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | HISTORIC ESPN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) June 19, 1946:
This heavyweight had warned Billy Conn "He can run but he can't hide"; eighth round, ooh!ouch! thhh--the running ceases Joe Louis |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID $2000: The title kid in 1948's "The Boy with Green Hair" Dean Stockwell |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $1000: Jessica, Chester & Billy Tate Soap |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE SPORTS PAGE $200: Yankee manager Billy Martin nearly came to blows in the dugout with this "Mr. October" slugger in 1977 Reggie Jackson |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | DAYS OF THE WEEK $2000: It's estimated 100 million people attended his early 20th century religious revivals Billy Sunday |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES $200: This presidential relative, quite logically, had his own brand of beer in the 1970s Billy Carter |
| #4723, aired 2005-03-02 | DENNIS, ANYONE? $800: Heeey maaan, he was soooo groovy playing Billy in "Easy Rider", man Dennis Hopper |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | ALSO AN APPLE VARIETY $400: Acting brothers Alec, Billy & Stephen Baldwin |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS $400: 1995:
"Uma,
Oprah.
Oprah,
Uma" David Letterman |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | AMERICANA $800: Following 1912, it was the next year a star was added to the U.S. flag 1959 |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | ASTRONOMY $800: In ancient times, this star rose at dawn during the hottest time of summer, thus the "dog days of summer" Sirius (or Alpha Canis Majoris) |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | FURNITURE $800: Empire, the first major style of the 1800s, originated in this country during its First Empire, 1804-1814 France |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1000: This British city's Medieval Latin name was Cantabrigia, so its people are Cantabrigians Cambridge |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | FURNITURE $1200: From a Latin word for "read", it's a slanted-top stand used to support a speaker's notes a lectern |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | FURNITURE $2000: This English furniture designer who followed Chippendale wrote his "Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide" in 1788 Hepplewhite |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | 1970s ALBUM COVERS $1000: 1978:
Billy Joel leans against an alley wall holding a trumpet 52nd Street |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | KILL BILL: VOL. 1 $200: In 1881 this "bonney" lad was killed daid in Fort Sumner, New Mexico Billy the Kid |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | THE BILLS $1200: This Benjamin Britten opera is based on a Herman Melville work Billy Budd |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | THE BILLS $2,000 (Daily Double): In January 1989 he gave the invocation at President George Bush's inauguration Billy Graham |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | ROLE CALL $400: Bronco Billy, Thunderbolt Doherty, Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | AMERICANA $400: New Mexico's state song, "O, Fair New Mexico", was written by the daughter of this man who killed Billy the Kid Pat Garrett |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | NAME THAT WESTERN $800: 1991: "Hi, Curly. Killed anyone today?" City Slickers |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | -O-O-O $1600: He wrote "World's Fair" & "Billy Bathgate" E.L. Doctorow |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | THIS "BUD"'S FOR YOU $1000: His name precedes "Foretopman" in the title of a 19th century novel Billy Budd |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | HERE BE MONSTERS $800: In "Monsters, Inc." he provided the voice for Mike, a one-eyed green monster Billy Crystal |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | A "THORN"-Y CATEGORY $400: He won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for "Sling Blade" (Billy Bob) Thornton |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | '70s NONFICTION $200: Billy Graham called them "God's secret agents" angels |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | FILMED IN HAWAII $1600: Danny DeVito scampered off to Kauai to murder Billy Crystal's wife in this 1987 comedy caper Throw Momma from the Train |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $600: In France, Billy Crystal learned all about "life, love and cows" in this film City Slickers |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | "ICK"Y WORDS $800: It's a billy club carried by a policeman a nightstick |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | JOHN RITTER $1600: John got some of the best notices of his career for this offbeat 1996 film starring his pal Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade |
| #4609, aired 2004-09-23 | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE HONOREES $3,200 (Daily Double): Houdini, Emma Goldman & Henry Ford are in this writer’s first winner; Dutch Schultz is in his second winner E.L. Doctorow |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | MUSIC $400: In a Billy Joel hit, she's "looking for a downtown man" an Uptown Girl |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE MAGICIAN $1200: Billy McComb's version of this classic illusion used a boy & a girl & switched their lower halves cutting a body in half |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: (Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus.) In 1992 I had a lot of people line dancing to this song, my first No. 1 hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | POTPOURRI $1200: When Billy Batson said this word, he got the wisdom of Solomon & the speed of Mercury Shazam |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $200: Dominance by "LOTR" caused this host to quip, "People are moving to New Zealand just to be thanked" Billy Crystal |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | LAST WORDS $1200: At the end of this 1960 Billy Wilder comedy, Shirley MacLaine settles down to a card game & says, "Shut up and deal!" The Apartment |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | LEADING MEN $1200: The first syllable of his last name rhymes with "mood", not "mud" Billy Crudup |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | MOVIE ROLES $400: In a 2003 movie he played the bitter, foul-mouthed "Bad Santa" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | THE OLD WEST $2000: As New Mexico gov. this future "Ben-Hur" author offered to pardon Billy the Kid but the prosecutor nixed the plan Lew Wallace |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | -IST A JOB $600: Billy Sunday, seen here, was a baseball player, but gained even greater fame in this occupation an evangelist |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | OH, THE THINGS I KNOW! $1600: In 1876 this "Wild" West man was killed in the Dakota Territory holding aces & 8s, later known as a dead man's hand Wild Bill Hickok |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $600: He is the eldest of 4 children; he had 2 sisters, Gloria & Ruth, & one brother, Billy Jimmy Carter |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | THEIR LAST TOP 10 HIT $1600: "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
(1988) Billy Ocean |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | THE L.A. COLISEUM $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) The all-time L.A. Coliseum attendance record of 134,254 occurred in 1963 when this reverend held a crusade here Billy Graham |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | PIECES OF APRIL $400: Bob Ford collected a reward after shooting this man dead April 3, 1882 Jesse James |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | DOUBLE LETTERS $800: It was the last name of the 3 billy goats who crossed over the "troll" bridge Gruff |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Graham,
Joel,
Wilder Billy |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THAT OLD TIME TELEVISION $2000: Jeepers, Dr. Smith! On TV's "Lost in Space", this actor played the youngest Robinson Billy Mumy |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | "G" MEN $800: In 1957 he preached to a crowd of 100,000 at Yankee Stadium Billy Graham |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | THE 2nd MRS. $400: Billy Joel Christie Brinkley |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | NO. 1 HITS IN OTHER WORDS $600: (1989)
Billy Joel:
"You & I Weren't Responsible for Those Flames" "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | SHOW $2000: This musical with Billy Bigelow, based on "Liliom" by Ferenc Molnar, has been making the rounds since 1945 Carousel |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | BETTER KNOWN AS... $400: Outlaw William H. Bonney Billy the Kid |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | OCCUPATION HAZARDS $600: In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while X-raying his molar dental hygienist |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | WEAPONS OF THE OLD WEST $2000: (Jimmy) Billy the Kid was among those who toted the 1873 model of this rifle, called "The Gun That Won the West" Winchester |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $400: A life preserver for a nanny or a billy goat float |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | CABLE TV $1600: (Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus.) In 2001 I began practicing medicine in the Big Apple on this Pax TV drama Doc |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | FILM SHORTS $1600: Behind-the-camera legend seen here Billy Wilder |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | COMIC STRIPS $600: This Great Dane lives with Dottie, Phil, Barbara & Billy Winslow Marmaduke |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | BALLET $800: The famous 1938 ballet about a western outlaw is named for this "kid", not the Sundance Kid Billy the Kid |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: I'm Charley Pride, It's the title of my 10th album "Charley Pride's 10th Album" |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | POPULATION UNDER 50,000 $1,200 (Daily Double): Billy Bob Thornton was born in this steamy Arkansas city where Bill Clinton lived as a boy Hot Springs |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | MOVIE MUSICALS $800: Jerry Orbach originated the role of Billy Flynn in "Chicago" on Broadway, but this man got the part in the film Richard Gere |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | COMEDY $1000: "Back in Therapy" was the tagline of this 2002 sequel that starred Billy Crystal & Robert De Niro Analyze That |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | TV GAME SHOWS $600: In 1978 Billy Crystal cleared all 6 categories in a record 26 sec. on the $20,000 version of this Dick Clark show Pyramid |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): "On Sunset Boulevard" is a book about "The Life and Times of" this famous film director Billy Wilder |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | CELEBRITY ODD JOBS $400: He used to sling pizza before he made "Sling Blade" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | YOU'VE GOT TO STAND FOR SOMETHING $1600: (Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus) You might have seen some of my videos on CMT; CMT stands for this Country Music Television |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BALLET $600: Pat Garrett is one of the roles in this ballet that features music by Aaron Copland Billy the Kid |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | FROM MOVIE TO MUSICAL $800: Tony Curtis took the Joe E. Brown role, not the Tony Curtis part, in a new musical based on this Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | SINGING ACTORS $1600: In 2001 this Oscar winner sang "Angelina", a romantic tribute to his fifth wife, on his album "Private Radio" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | GNOME-ENCLATURE $800: Billy Barty played the title role in the 1987 film about this gold-spinning gnome Rumpelstiltskin |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF OPERA $2000: Perhaps the most "indomitable" of Benjamin Britten's opera, this 1951 work has an all-male cast Billy Budd |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | CLASSIC COMIC CATCHPHRASES $400: "You look mahvelous!" Billy Crystal |
| #4288, aired 2003-04-02 | RANKS & TITLES $600: Like the sadistic Claggart in "Billy Budd", the master-at-these is the petty officer who maintains discipline arms |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | THEATER $1200: John Raitt starred as carnival barker Billy Bigelow when this musical debuted on Broadway Carousel |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | ROCK NICKNAMES $200: "Piano Man" Billy Joel |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 15-year-old E.L. Doctorow high school dropout joins gangster Dutch Schultz' mob Billy Bathgate |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $800: When robbed by Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in 1947, this Yankee went crazy -- he actually kicked the dirt Joe DiMaggio |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | ALIAS $1200: This man was using the alias Thomas Howard when Bob Ford killed him in 1882 Jesse James |
| #4198, aired 2002-11-27 | ON BROADWAY $800: Billy Crudup merited the role of John Merrick in the 2002 revival of this drama The Elephant Man |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | THE OLD WEST $1000: This lawman tracked down & shot dead the outlaw Billy the Kid Pat Garrett |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | I AM A CROOK $400: Sheriff Pat Garrett said this crook's "face always wore a smile" Billy the Kid |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $200: She's the type of girl Billy Joel was "in love with" in a 1983 hit "Uptown Girl" |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STAR WARS STARS $1000: Gale Sayers in the original "Brian's Song", he played the dashing Lando Calrissian in 2 of the films Billy Dee Williams |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | HERE'S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON $1000: In "The Ten Commandments" this actor famously snarled, "Where's your messiah now?" Edward G. Robinson |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | POLITICALLY CORRECT MUSICALS? $2000: Domestic abuser Billy Bigelow reforms & builds a family therapy theme park around that merry-go-round Carousel |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | ROLE PLAYING $1200: "Mr. Saturday Night"
(1992) Billy Crystal |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | SUPERHEROES $800: The dude seen here is the "Silver" one of this type of athletes surfers |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | AROUND THE APARTMENT BUILDING $1600: These common, crawly apartment insects have German, brown-banded & American species cockroaches |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | MOVIE MUSIC $1200: (Harry Connick Jr. in front of a Jeopardy! background.) My first multiplatinum album was the soundtrack to this 1989 Billy Crystal film When Harry Met Sally... |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $600: An associate said of this "boss", "There's nothing more limited than a limited partner in the Yankees" Steinbrenner |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | MUSIC MAKERS $1600: He wrote "My Life", "Big Shot" & the piano works on the recent album "Op. 1-10 Fantasies & Delusions" Billy Joel |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | CELEBRITY MARRIAGES $800: He & Angelina Jolie are bound by blood; they've worn amulets with each other's blood around their necks Billy Bob Thornton |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BALLET $800: The 1938 premiere of this ballet featured Lew Christensen in the role of Pat Garrett Billy the Kid |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | MOVIES BY CHARACTER $400: Michigan detective Axel Foley, California detective Billy Rosewood Beverly Hills Cop |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | PAY THE "BILL" $400: In the classic Scandinavian folk tale, this title trio outwits a hungry troll "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | PAY THE "BILL" $800: In the '70s many quenched their thirst on a brand of brewski named for this presidential brother Billy Carter |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | PAY THE "BILL" $1200: Tom Laughlin kicked butt as this troublesome Indian hippie in 4 movies Billy Jack |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | HYPHENATED-AMERICANS $1200: Bridgette Wilson of "Billy Madison" married a tennis star & became this actress in "The Wedding Planner" Bridgette Wilson-Sampras |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | MIDNIGHT READS $800: This book is Billy Hayes' account of drug smuggling in Turkey & his subsequent imprisonment Midnight Express |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | MANLY TITLE MOVIE ROLES $1200: 2001: "The Man Who Wasn't There" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | FRAGILE-SOUNDING NAMES $400: His film roles include Harry Burns & "city slicker" Mitch Robbins Billy Crystal |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | FRAGILE-SOUNDING NAMES $800: John & Michelle's daughter, she's married to Billy Baldwin Chynna Phillips |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | ANIMAL HOUSE $200: Kid, billy, nanny, herd goats |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | THE BROWN BOMBER $800: Before a fight with Billy Conn, Joe Louis quipped, "He can run but he can't" do this hide |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | MUSIC STYLES $600: "Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound, funny, but it's still" this to Billy Joel rock and roll |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | CRAYOLA CRAYONS $800: Billy Crystal gets all "fired up" for this reddish-brown classic; it's the color he used as a kid to draw autumn in N.Y. Burnt Sienna |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $2000: Ship's captain really, really doesn't want to hang a nice sailorboy; he does it anyway Billy Budd |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew on a riverboat.) This title "Man" in a Melville story takes in gullible riverboat passengers on April Fool's Day The Confidence-Man |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | THE 1880s $400: Shortly after Garfield was shot, this notorious young outlaw was shot dead **Billy the Kid (*Jesse James) |
| #4003, aired 2002-01-16 | THE NATIONAL PASTIME $1200: In his first Major League managing job, his Twins finished first but he was fired after brawling with one of his players Billy Martin |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $1200: "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | THE EMMYS $200: On September 13, 1998 he won an Emmy for his Oscar hosting Billy Crystal |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $200: The history of evangelism is on display at a Wheaton, Illinois museum named for this evangelist Billy Graham |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | MELROSE FACE $600: As Amanda on "Melrose Place", she was "involved" with Michael, Billy, Jake, Craig, Peter, Bobby, Kyle & Rory Heather Locklear |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | DAVID E. KELLEY TV $200: All was not well in Beantown when Billy, played by Gil Bellows, died of a brain hemorrhage on this Kelley show Ally McBeal |
| #3936, aired 2001-10-15 | THEY WERE IN THAT? $800: Mel Gibson makes a punked-out cameo in this 1997 Robin Williams-Billy Crystal comedy Fathers' Day |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | SNL CATCHPHRASES $200: It was how everyone looked according to Fernando, the talk show host played by Billy Crystal mahvelous |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | TOP 40 DEBUTS $100: 1974:
"Piano Man" Billy Joel |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | THE REAL SLIM PICKENS $800: Educating as well as entertaining, Slim appeared in the 1973 film "Pat Garrett &" this outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | MUSIC OF THE '70s $300: His "52nd Street" was the No. 1 album of 1979 Billy Joel |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | SKOOL DAZE $200: Billy had an eye out the window when Mrs. Hinkle told the myth of Odysseus & one of these one-eyed giants a cyclops |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | U.S. CITY SONGS $200: In 1976 Billy Joel was in this city's "state of mind" New York |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | MOVIES OF THE "YEAR" $600: Linda Hunt played the male role of Billy Kwan in this Peter Weir film The Year of Living Dangerously |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | MOVIE MANIA $400: 24 years before his Best Actor nomination, this actor-writer appeared in the 1973 yearbook photo seen here Billy Bob Thornton |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | MOVIE MANIA $500: A pregnant Billy Crystal's got a bun in the oven in this 1978 film directed by Joan Rivers Rabbit Test |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY $600: Billy Bob Thornton
(1996) Sling Blade |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $200: 1959 comedy in which 2 musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre & flee the mob by joining an all-girl band Some Like It Hot |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $400: Wilder directed this big 1950 film in which Gloria Swanson says, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small!" Sunset Boulevard |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $600: Wilder was Oscar-nominated for this noir classic seen here: Double Indemnity |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $800: Ray Milland says, "I'm not a drinker--I'm a drunk" in this 1944 classic The Lost Weekend |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $1000: This 1953 war drama was based on a play by Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski, 2 ex-G.I.'s who'd been P.O.W.s Stalag 17 |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | ANIMAL RHYME TIME $400: Small vessel for shipping a nanny or a billy goat boat |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | MADE-UP HISTORIC NICKNAMES $1000: 1644-1718:
"Quaking Billy" William Penn |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | COUNTRY STARS $400: There must have been some "Achy Breaky Hearts" when his ponytail was auctioned off for charity Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | NOTORIOUS $600: This larcenous family that included brothers Ike & Billy went up against the Earps at the O.K. Corral Clanton |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $400: Founder of her own AnGeL Ministries, Anne Lotz is the daughter of this famous evangelist & his wife Ruth Billy Graham |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $600 (Daily Double): In his "day", the early 1900s, this baseball player turned preacher is estimated to have converted 300,000 people Billy Sunday |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | "B.B."s $200: Fitness guru seen here Billy Blanks |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | WE'RE NO. 1! $200: In 1998 Billy Boat started the Indianapolis 500 from the No. 1 spot, also called this Pole position |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | "C.B." $100: The ex-Mrs. Billy Joel Christie Brinkley |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | HEADS UP $200: He's the "childish" 19th century outlaw & New York City native seen here Billy the Kid |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | MEN ON FILM $500: "Billy Madison"
(1995) Adam Sandler |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | RECENT MOVIES $400: This funnyman played Robert De Niro's shrink in "Analyze This" Billy Crystal |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $400: Released in May 1992, his debut album "Some Gave All" was certified triple platinum by July Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | CLASSIC KIDDY LIT $200: Family name of the 3 billy goats who turned the tables on a troll Gruff |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | FRIENDS $400: Movie in which Billy Crystal told Meg Ryan that a man & a woman can never truly be friends When Harry Met Sally... |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK $100: They're the 4 words that precede "All is calm, all is bright" "Silent Night, Holy Night" |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | GUINNESS RECORDS $100: Topped with 1,360 lbs. of whipped cream & 3,995 lbs. of strawberries, the biggest of these cakes was over 3.5 tons strawberry shortcake |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $300: You have the honor of spelling... P-R-I-V-I-L-E-G-E |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $500: Do me a favor & spell... A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-E |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: Once steamboats were launched on this river in 1819, traffic flourished from St. Louis to Fort Benton, Montana the Missouri |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | "I" LADS $100: This punk rock hitmaker heard here has had numerous hits on both sides of the Atlantic Billy Idol |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $500: This bald man's early rock band The Marked didn't go far, but his Smashing Pumpkins took over the world Billy Corgan |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE STARS $100: This "SNL" alumnus & Oscar host is known for his "mahvelous" impersonations of Sammy Davis Jr. & Grace Jones Billy Crystal |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | CD $300: "Rebel Yell",
"Whiplash Smile" Billy Idol |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | KILLERS $300: "(Hi, I'm Billy Warlock of "General Hospital") In the TV movie "Honor Thy Father And Mother: The True Story Of" these "Murders", I played Lyle" the Menendez murders |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FUN WITH AREA CODES $200: This 1982 Billy Joel hit is covered by 610 "Allentown" |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: In a 1989 novel by E.L. Doctorow, gangster Dutch Schultz takes this title teen under his wing Billy Bathgate |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: Royall Tyler created the flirtatious fop Billy Dimple in "The Contrast", the USA's first play of this type comedy (satire accepted) |
| #3642, aired 2000-06-06 | WHO CREATED 'EM? $600: Eliot Rosewater,
Dr. Felix Hoenikker,
Billy Pilgrim Kurt Vonnegut |
| #3638, aired 2000-05-31 | GETTING JAZZED $600: Billy Strayhorn composed classics like "Take The 'A' Train" during his collaboration with this bandleader Duke Ellington |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | AT AUCTION $200: In September 1999 Billy Crystal paid $239,000 for a glove used in a game by this Yankee great Mickey Mantle |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | GEORGIA FACTS $400: This presidential brother is buried in Plains Billy Carter |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | THE ALLITERACY RATE $600: The title character of a 1955 novel by Herman Wouk has this alliterative name Marjorie Morningstar |
| #3616, aired 2000-05-01 | BANDS $200: Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Lamonte McLemore & Ron Townson made up this group The 5th Dimension |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $600: John Ritter was acclaimed for his portrayal of a small-town gay man in this 1996 Billy Bob Thornton film Sling Blade |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $200: 1959 Billy Wilder comedy:
"Well, nobody's perfect" Some Like it Hot |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES $200: He came up with his "Sling Blade" character Karl Childers while working on a 1987 TV movie Billy Bob Thornton |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | INSTRUMENT BY PERFORMERS $100: Keith Jarrett,
Barry Manilow,
Billy Joel piano |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | VOICE TALENT $100: Ay chihuahua, Billy West was not only Stimpy, but this dog pal of his Ren Hoek |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | A.T. $200: In this 1999 film, Billy Crystal treated Robert De Niro well Analyze This |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | FEELING "ILL" $300: This police officer's weapon is also known as a nightstick Billy club |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | CLASSIC ROCK LYRICS $300: "Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound, funny, but it's still" this to Billy Joel rock and roll to me |
| #3548, aired 2000-01-26 | WATERY NAMES $100: His No. 1 hits include "Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car" & "Caribbean Queen" Billy Ocean |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | AUTOBIOGRAPHERS $200: 1986:
"Absolutely Mahvelous" Billy Crystal |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | ILLINOISE $400: Songs by this Billy Corgan band out of Chicago include "Tonight, Tonight" & "Today" Smashing Pumpkins |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | THAT '70s SHOW $1,500 (Daily Double): Billy Crystal first won fame playing Jodie Dallas, a gay character on this offbeat sitcom Soap |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | KILLER MUSICALS $800: Billy Bigelow kills himself after a botched hold-up in this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic Carousel |
| #3515, aired 1999-12-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Piano Man" who pounded out the folktales of Uncle Remus Billy Joel Chandler Harris |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | SCRAMBLED SINGERS $200: Jolly bile Billy Joel |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $1000: Like Burton & Taylor, Billy Zane & Leonor Varela had a romance when they played these lovers (in a 1999 miniseries) Antony & Cleopatra |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | LITERARY MANHATTAN $800: This "Moby Dick" author wrote "Billy Budd" while living at 104 East 26th Street Melville |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | TRENDS $200: Billy Blanks is the man behind this fitness system that includes elements of tae kwon do Tae Bo |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | GOULASH $400: At the Oscars in 1992, Billy Crystal said this "City Slickers" co-star was backstage on the Stairmaster Jack Palance |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | MOVIE REVIEWS $200: Entertainment Weekly called this 1991 Billy Crystal film, "Dances With Cows" City Slickers |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | BILLS & WILLS $600: This outlaw of the Old West also went by the name Henry McCarty Billy the Kid |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | ROCK & ROLL RHYME TIME $300: Idol's flowers Billy's lilies |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: "Sling Blade" Oscar winner who won a Pulitzer for "The Skin of Our Teeth" Billy Bob Thornton Wilder |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | FEATURE FILM DEBUTS $200: Billy Zane's career took off after he played a bit role in this Michael J. Fox time-traveling classic Back to the Future |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: On July 20, 1957 this evangelist set a Yankee Stadium attendance record when 100,000 jammed in to hear his message Billy Graham |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: Houston Oiler Billy Johnson's colorful nickname "White Shoes" |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | WAR STORIES $1,100 (Daily Double): In "Slaughterhouse Five", Billy Pilgrim survives the firebombing of this German city Dresden |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $800: Traditionally, the ballerina plays the mother & the sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | FROM A TO Y $600: According to a 1992 song title, it's the 2-word description of Billy Ray Cyrus' heart "Achy Breaky" |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "City Slickers" funnyman who built Rev. Schuller's Orange County church Billy Crystal Cathedral |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Sling Blade" actor who chronicled "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" Billy Bob Thornton Wilder |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | HISTORIC AMOURS $300: It's likely that Etta Place, the companion of this "Kid", was a lady of the evening rather than a schoolmarm the Sundance Kid |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | FAMOUS FEUDS $100: George Steinbrenner fired him 4 times as manager of the Yankees Billy Martin |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | THIS JUST IN... $200: This desperado can see himself pursued by Pat Garrett at 11, if he's allowed to stay up that late Billy the Kid |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | JOB BANK $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Billy Warlock of General Hospital.) I started my career in Hollywood as a stunt double for Robin Williams on this TV series Mork & Mindy |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | HIT TUNES $1000: Billy Idol reached No. 1 in 1987 with a cover of this Tommy James & the Shondells song "Mony Mony" |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | EPITAPHS $300: "Truth and history. 21 men. The boy bandit king -- he died as he had lived" Billy the Kid |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | TEENS OF THE PAST $200: In the 1870s this teenage outlaw was sometimes referred to as Kid Antrim Billy the Kid |
| #3336, aired 1999-02-22 | THE ROAD TO MELVILLE $600: Melville's last prose work, this novella about a young sailor on a warship, wasn't published until 1924 Billy Budd |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | NO. 1 ALBUMS $400: "Glass Houses" Billy Joel |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | CALL ME BILLY $200: "Sunset Blvd.", "Stalag 17" & "Double Indemnity" were all directed by this native Austrian Billy Wilder |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | CALL ME BILLY $400: This presidential sibling had a beer named after him Billy Carter |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | CALL ME BILLY $600: This title literary character is hanged for the murder of a sadistic master-at-arms named Claggart Billy Budd |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | CALL ME BILLY $800: The biggest films of this small star include "Willow", "Harum Scarum" & "Bride Of Frankenstein" Billy Barty |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | CALL ME BILLY $1000: Court-martialed for insubordination, this WWI air-power advocate was later awarded the Medal of Honor Billy Mitchell |
| #3318, aired 1999-01-27 | SPORTS COMEBACKS $600: This golfer famous for his comebacks lost to a Billy Casper charge on the last day of the 1966 U.S. Open Arnold Palmer |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | ON THE "TOWN" $500: This industrial city & surrounding area in eastern Pennsylvania provided the title of a 1982 Billy Joel hit Allentown |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: In 1957 this actor founded Little People of America, an organization for short-statured people Billy Barty |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | WHO CREATED THEM? $1,000 (Daily Double): Coalhouse Walker, Jr.,
Daniel Lewin,
Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $500: Miss Marple creator once married to Billy Joel Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | "STICK" WITH IT $600: A policeman would carry one of these billy clubs on the graveyard shift a nightstick |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | SECRET IDENTITIES $300: TV's Billy Batson Captain Marvel |
| #3259, aired 1998-11-05 | 1997 $100: Hosting the Oscars, he was pursued by pilot David Letterman in an "English Patient" parody Billy Crystal |
| #3249, aired 1998-10-22 | IF THEY MARRIED.... $400: Former Yankees manager strikes up the nuptials with a famous "Peter Pan" actress Billy & Mary Martin |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | MORE THAN "ONE" MOVIE $500: We "count" this Billy Wilder film about a Coca-Cola executive as one of Jimmy Cagney's best One, Two, Three |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | BALLET $1000: The 1938 ballet named for this famous outlaw features a musical gun battle Billy the Kid |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | SINGERS $100: Rolling Stone named this "Piano Man"'s "River of Dreams" CD sleeve 1994's worst album cover Billy Joel |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | SONGS $200: Billy Joel's "Sleeping With the Television On" samples this song played by TV stations at sign-off "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Jimmy Carter's "Achy Breaky" Secretary of State "Billy Ray Cyrus Vance" |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | WHAT'S "UP"? $200: In a 1983 hit Billy Joel was a "downtown man" in love with her Uptown Girl |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | I LEFT MY HEART $100: In 1992 this Billy Ray Cyrus song was a No. 1 country hit as well as a No. 4 pop hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | "KID" STUFF $200: No foolin', this outlaw's real name was William Bonney Billy the Kid |
| #3156, aired 1998-04-27 | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $800: According to the title of a 1974 Billy Preston hit, this "leaves nothing" "Nothing From Nothing" |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | SNEEZING $200: For the voice of Sneezy in this 1937 classic, Disney "achoo"sed Billy Gilbert Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | DEATH SENTENCES $400: He asked "Who is it?" just before Pat Garrett shot him Billy the Kid |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | THE MOVIES $400: The French film "Les Comperes" was turned into this 1997 film with Robin Williams & Billy Crystal Fathers' Day |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | MORE OPERATIC DEMISES $1,300 (Daily Double): In a Melville-inspired opera, this young sailor is hanged from the yardarm of the H.M.S. Indomitable Billy Budd |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | QUOTABLE POTENT POTABLES $400: In 1977 President Carter stated that this man "put the beer industry back on its feet" Billy Carter |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE 19th CENTURY $600: In 1880 this Lincoln county sheriff captured Billy the Kid Pat Garrett |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | BATTLE CRIES $400: Title of the song here: The Battle Cry Of Freedom |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | WISDOM OF THE AGES $800: A fragment from Euripides has the line "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he" first does this makes mad |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $100: Stars in front of this famous theater include Basil Rathbone's, William Shatner's & Billy Graham's Grauman's/Mann's Chinese Theater |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | GOT YOUR GOAT $100: A male goat is a buck or billy; a female goat is called this a nanny |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS $500: "The best director is the one you don't see", observed this director of "Some Like It Hot" Billy Wilder |
| #3110, aired 1998-02-20 | MOVIE DEBUTS $200: This "City Slicker"'s film career was born with "Rabbit Test", in which he played a pregnant man Billy Crystal |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | REEL MOTHERS $200: Billy Crystal is meant to kill Danny DeVito's mother according to DeVito's plan in this 1987 comedy Throw Momma From The Train |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | BILL & BILLY IN SONG $200: In her "All I Want to Do", "the man next to me" says "His name's William but I'm sure he's Bill or Billy" Sheryl Crow |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | BILL & BILLY IN SONG $600: "And as Billy started to go she said 'Keep your pretty head low' Billy don't" do this, "come back to me" "Billy, Don't Be A Hero" |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | BILL & BILLY IN SONG $800 (Daily Double): The group heard here:
"Oh come on, Bill.
Oh come on, Bill,
Come on and marry me, Bill" The 5th Dimension |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | BILL & BILLY IN SONG $800: In this 1963 Crystals hit about Bill, "I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still" "Da Doo Ron Ron" |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | BILL & BILLY IN SONG $1000: "The Legend of Billy Jack" is the subtitle of this 1971 Coven song "One Tin Soldier" |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: Peter Ustinov directed the 1962 film version of this Herman Melville novel & played Captain Vere in it Billy Budd |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | POP MUSIC $200: His then-wife Christie Brinkley painted the cover of his 1993 album "River of Dreams" Billy Joel |
| #3084, aired 1998-01-15 | FUNNYMEN $300: On "Saturday Night Live", he created the "Mahvelous" Fernando & an accident-prone masochist Billy Crystal |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | COUNTRY SINGERS $1000: Dwight Yoakam played a despicable dirtbag named Doyle in this Billy Bob Thornton film Sling Blade |
| #3073, aired 1997-12-31 | BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS $800: This preacher dresses casually or formally on different dustcovers for his 1997 book "Just As I Am" Billy Graham |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | TEENS ON FILM $200: In this comedy named for a holiday, Charlie Hofheimer is the son of Robin Williams... or Billy Crystal Father's Day |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | wee folk $400: These Scandinavian beings often lurk under bridges; just ask the 3 Billy-Goats Gruff trolls |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $500: Mr. Crystal's female foals Billy's fillies |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | ENTERTAINERS $800: This "Saturday Night Live" "Opera Man" has since starred on film in "Billy Madison" & "Happy Gilmore" Adam Sandler |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: Billy Graham presided over his funeral services April 27, 1994 in Yorba Linda, California Richard Nixon |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | THE MOVIES $500: Charles Barkley & other NBA stars had cameos in this 1995 film in which Billy Crystal played an NBA referee Forget Paris |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | COUNTRY SINGERS $300: This "Achy Breaky Heart"throb called his second album "It Won't Be The Last" Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | MUSIC VIDEOS $400: Billy Corgan of this band that won seven 1996 MTV Video Awards was quoted, "Videos kind of ruin the song" Smashing Pumpkins |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | THE OSCARS $100: It's "clear" he's the perfect choice to host the Oscars; since 1990, he's done it 5 times Billy Crystal |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BY GEORGE $300: He fired Billy Martin 5 times George Steinbrenner |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | ACTORS IN '50s FILMS $200: He played Billy the Kid in "The Left-Handed Gun" in 1958, 11 years before he starred as Butch Cassidy Paul Newman |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | THE BRITISH INVASION $400: This manager of The Beatles managed Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas Brian Epstein |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | WELL-KNOWN NAMES $100: For over 40 years this U.S. evangelist has been known for his crusades, such as "Youth For Christ" Rev. Billy Graham |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | 1980s ROCK MUSIC $300: Exposure on "Family Ties" in 1985 repopularized "At This Moment" by Billy Vera & this group The Beaters |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: In May 1996 this evangelist & his wife Ruth were honored with a Congressional gold medal Billy Graham |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | FACIAL HAIR $300: Wearing this kind of beard would turn a nanny into a billy Goatee |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | NOTABLE WEDDINGS $300: Chynna Phillips, whose mama & papa are John & Michelle, married this Baldwin with his brothers in attendance William (Billy) Baldwin |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | 1989 BOOKS $1000: Mobster Dutch Schultz is a character in this novel by E.L. Doctorow "Billy Bathgate" |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: This "A Passage to India" author co-wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" E.M. Forster |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | THE WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $200: Record producer Billy Sherrill suggested that Virginia Wynette Pugh change her name to this Tammy Wynette |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $500: This sheriff who shot Billy the Kid was later appointed a customs collector by Teddy Roosevelt Pat Garrett |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: This Norse god rides through the sky in a noisy chariot pulled by 2 huge billy goats Thor |
| #2856, aired 1997-01-20 | OPERA $800: This "Billy The Kid" composer wrote 2 operas: "The Second Hurricane" & "The Tender Land" Aaron Copland |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | THE MOVIES $400: Billy Zane played the title role of this Lee Falk comic strip character, "The Ghost Who Walks" The Phantom |
| #2849, aired 1997-01-09 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $500: Mitzi Gaynor, not Marilyn Monroe, was Billy Wilder's 1st choice for the role of Sugar Kane in this comedy "Some Like It Hot" |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: This Melville title character's last words are "God Bless Captain Vere!" Billy Budd |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | MEN OF NOTE $500 (Daily Double): Country singer married to the actress seen here: Clint Black |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | EVILDOERS $300: In July 1881 Pat Garrett caught up with this young outlaw in Fort Sumner, New Mexico Billy the Kid |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $400: This future "Phantom of the Opera" played the title role in the 1974 musical "Billy", adapted from "Billy Liar" (Michael) Crawford |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | COUNTRY SINGERS $800: Don't break his heart, his achy breaky heart: buy his new album "Trail of Tears" Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | "C"OMMON BONDS $400: Billy, night, golf clubs |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | 1989 BESTSELLERS $1000: The new novel from this former Columbia pictures script reader was "Billy Bathgate" E.L. Doctorow |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: "A Prophet with Honor" is a profile of this evangelist & preacher to the presidents Billy Graham |
| #2720, aired 1996-05-31 | ACTRESSES $600: Discovered while performing with Billy Rose's Aquacade, she later became film's "Million Dollar Mermaid" Esther Williams |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | OPERAS & OPERETTAS $1000: Superintendent Budd is a character in this "Billy Budd" composer's comic opera "Albert Herring" Benjamin Britten |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | BOB DYLAN SONGS $200: Bob sang "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" on the movie soundtrack "Pat Garrett and" this outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | LEAD SINGERS $400: Billy Corgan Smashing Pumpkins |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | THE MOVIES $100: He not only starred in "City Slickers", he was executive producer Billy Crystal |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | THE MOVIES $600: Characters in this film include R.P. McMurphy, Nurse Ratched & Billy Bibbit One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #2684, aired 1996-04-11 | OPERATIC DEMISES $1000: Owen is found dead after sleeping in a haunted room in this "Billy Budd" composer's "Owen Wingrave" Benjamin Britten |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $500: I've been acting since 1927 & despite my 3' 7 1/2" height I a giant in the industry Billy Barty |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | CELEBRITY ASTROLOGY $200: If you don't know Billy Crystal's sign, go fish Pisces |
| #2659, aired 1996-03-07 | GAME SHOWS $400: This "City Slickers" star holds the record for going up Dick Clark's "Pyramid" the fastest Billy Crystal |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | LITERATURE $400: This Herman Melville title character, an English sailor, is hanged for killing master-at-arms Claggart Billy Budd |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | CELEBRITY ALUMNI $200: Andrew Shue, who plays Billy Campbell on this series, majored in History at Dartmouth Melrose Place |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $300: In a Judith Krantz bestseller, Billy Ikehorn Orsini owns this title boutique Scruples |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AUTHORS $400: As a youngster this "Billy Budd" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany Herman Melville |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | POTPOURRI $200: In 1954 this U.S. evangelist held his first crusade in Britain Billy Graham |
| #2609, aired 1995-12-28 | POTPOURRI $200: In Norse myth trolls live under these structures, as 3 gruff billy goats could tell you bridges |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: In a 1965 revival of this musical, Jerry Orbach played Jigger & understudied the role of Billy Bigelow Carousel |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | DANCE $400: This country line dance was inspired by a 1992 Billy Ray Cyrus hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $200: In a 1938 ballet this "youthful" outlaw's mother & his Mexican sweetheart are played by the same dancer Billy the Kid |
| #2587, aired 1995-11-28 | COMPOSERS ON FILM $800: Billy Preston played this composer as a boy & Nat King Cole played him as an adult in "St. Louis Blues" W.C. Handy |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: In 1993 this Oscar host rode onto the stage on a giant Oscar pulled by Jack Palance Billy Crystal |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | AUTHORS $1000: While growing up in Oxford, Mississippi, he was called Billy or "Memmie" by his family (William) Faulkner |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | POP MUSIC $200: "Piano Man", released in 1973, was his first successful album Billy Joel |
| #2534, aired 1995-09-14 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $200: Time magazine says "he's preached in person to more people than any human being who ever lived Billy Graham |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | THE COMICS $500: Newsboy Billy Batson became Captain Marvel by shouting this one word Shazam! |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | THE OLD WEST $300: This "juvenile" outlaw was buried next to his friend Tom O'Folliard, also shot by Pat Garrett Billy the Kid |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | ASSOCIATIONS $500: Decision is the magazine of this man's evangelistic organization Billy Graham |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | SHOW TUNES $500: Rodgers & Hart wrote "There's A Small Hotel" for this Billy Rose Circus musical, but it was cut Jumbo |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | NO. 1 HITS $200: In 1980 this "Piano Man" had his first No. 1 hit with "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" Billy Joel |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Upon Billy Bigelow's death in this play, Nettie consoles Julie by singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" Carousel |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: The familiar legend that this outlaw killed 21 men by the time he was 21 probably isn't true Billy the Kid |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | THE BEATLES $100: Badfinger, Mary Hopkin & Billy Preston were among those featured on this Beatle-owned label Apple |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | SINGERS $100: Billy Ray Cyrus said his favorite record as a child was her hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Nancy Sinatra |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | THE MOVIES $300: The 1994 sequel to this Billy Crystal movie was subtitled "The Legend of Curly's Gold" City Slickers |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | LITERATURE $600: This Kurt Vonnegut novel about Billy Pilgrim is subtitled "Or, the Children's Crusade" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | ROCK $400: In 1976 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. sang, "You don't have to be" this "to be in my show" a star |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | MEET THE MITCHELLS $1000: His complaint about the Navy losing a dirigible in a storm was one reason for his 1925 court-martial Billy Mitchell |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | FAMOUS PAIRS $300: This Piano Man & Uptown Girl ended their marriage in 1994 Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | 20th CENTURY OPERAS $1000: "The Burning Fiery Furnace" is a Biblical opera by this composer of "Billy Budd" Benjamin Britten |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | TV TO MOVIE STARS $200: He looked "mahvelous" on "Soap" & "Saturday Night Live" before becoming a "City Slicker" Billy Crystal |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | NOTORIOUS $300: A reversed photo of this young outlaw started the legend that he was left-handed Billy the Kid |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | COMPOSERS $1000: This "Billy the Kid" composer's first published piece of music was "The Cat and the Mouse" Aaron Copland |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | OPERA SETTINGS $600: This opera based on a Herman Melville book is set on the H.M.S. Indomitable in 1797 Billy Budd |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | THE 1994 GRAMMYS $400: Although he didn't win for his "River of Dreams" album, he performed the single on the telecast Billy Joel |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | THE WILD WEST $200: One rumor says this outlaw escaped Pat Garrett, changed his name to Ollie & lived until 1950 Billy the Kid |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | '70s FADS $400: In 1977 the President's brother endorsed a potent potable product called this Billy Beer |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | MAGAZINES $300: This evangelist who's advised many presidents helped found the magazine "Christianity Today" Billy Graham |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | EVANGELISTS $400: This Southern Baptist's Evangelical Association publishes Decision magazine Billy Graham |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | THE MOVIES $500: Raymond Chandler collaborated with this director on the screenplay for "Double Indemnity" Billy Wilder |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | 1994 CALENDARS $200: This Southern Baptist evangelist & friend of presidents has a 1994 day-by-day desk calendar Billy Graham |
| #2237, aired 1994-05-03 | FICTIONAL ANIMALS $800: A nasty, ugly troll threatens to gobble up this ruminant trio the Three Billy Goats Gruff |
| #2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: "Mr. Saturday Night" was the first film he directed; he starred in it, too Billy Crystal |
| #2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: Billy Wilder & Otto Preminger were born in this Austrian city in 1906 Vienna |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | OLD RADIO KIDS $100: Billy & Betty Fairfield hung out with this all-American boy Jack Armstrong |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Melville novelette, a young sailor is hanged for killing a jealous petty officer named Claggart Billy Budd |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | HEARTTHROBS $200: Andrew Shue, who plays Billy Campbell on this series, used to play professional soccer in Zimbabwe Melrose Place |
| #2174, aired 1994-02-03 | JULY $1,000 (Daily Double): On July 14, 1980, Billy Carter registered as an agent of this country's government Libya |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | THE OLD WEST $600: On April 21, 1881 he was turned over to Sheriff Pat Garrett, but he escaped April 28 Billy the Kid |
| #2160, aired 1994-01-14 | BOXERS $100: Before a title fight with Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, "He can run but he can't" do this hide |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | ROCK MUSIC $400: 5 years after the release of his first album, he had his first top 10 hit with "Just The Way You Are" Billy Joel |
| #2107, aired 1993-11-02 | LITERATURE $600: Kurt Vonnegut novel in which Billy Pilgrim "time-trips" between Earth & the planet Tralfamadore Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: Lincoln, New Mexico was the site of this "juvenile" outlaw's last escape, & it's reenacted there every year Billy the Kid |
| #2090, aired 1993-10-08 | ENDS WITH "END" $400: A title for Martin Luther King or Billy Graham Reverend |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | LITERATURE $800: When he falls in battle, Capt. Vere's final words are the name of this foretopman Billy Budd |
| #2075, aired 1993-09-17 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $500: Peter Ustinov directed the film version of this Herman Melville work & played Captain Vere Billy Budd |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | SONG STANDARDS $1000: "Me And My Shadow" is one of many timeless tunes with lyrics by this showman who married Fanny Brice Billy Rose |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1891 he gave up baseball to become a YMCA worker & 5 years later began conducting religious revivals Billy Sunday |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | GOLDEN OLDIES $400: In "Ode to Billy Joe", Billy Joe McAllister jumps off this Mississippi bridge Tallahatchie |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Nanny, kid or billy goat |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | RHYME TIME $300: A person who acts like a fool, especially if his given name is William silly Billy |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | TELEVISION $400: The 1960s series "The Tall Man" told stories of Billy the Kid & this New Mexico deputy sheriff Pat Garrett |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | DOUBLE TALK $300: In a song it follows "Oh where have you been" & "Can she make a cherry pie" Billy Boy, Billy Boy |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $500: John Raitt said he'd never acted before he played Billy Bigelow in this musical Carousel |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | FAMOUS FANNIES $200: This Ziegfeld star's husbands were Frank White, Nicky Arnstein & Billy Rose Fanny Brice |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES $500: Unopened six-packs of this beverage named for Jimmy Carter's brother are now a collector's item Billy Beer |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | AUTHORS $200: Like Billy Pilgrim, hero of "Slaughterhouse-Five", he was at the destruction of Dresden (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AUTHORS $300: Though found in this man's desk after his death in 1891, "Billy Budd" remained unpublished until 1924 (Herman) Melville |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | JOKERS $100: On May 16 1992 she again joined Robin Williams & Billy Crystal to host Comic Relief Whoopi Goldberg |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | MAGAZINES $200: Among the 25 this magazine found most intriguing in 1992 were Diane English & Billy Ray Cyrus People |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | MUSIC $1000: This "Billy the Kid" composer won an Oscar for the score of "The Heiress" (Aaron) Copland |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $500: Before I was "Lost in Space", I was the first American actor to kiss Brigitte Bardot Billy Mumy |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | THE 1980s $400: In July 1980 this presidential brother registered as an agent of the Libyan government Billy Carter |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | LULLABIES $800: The words to a German song were later added to this composer's 1868 music to create his famous "Lullaby" BrahmsA (mocking) bird & a (billy) goat |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | POP MUSIC $400: The title cut from his 1974 LP "Piano Man", was an account of his own experiences Billy Joel |
| #1921, aired 1993-01-04 | ANGELS $400: This "crusade"ing evangelist wrote the 1975 book "Angels: God's Secret Agents" Billy Graham |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | COMPOSERS $1000: The role of Captain Vere in this Benjamin Britten opera is sung by a tenor Billy Budd |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | TELEVISION $500: This comic was the first guest on the new "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno Billy Crystal |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $300: Paul,
Cindy,
Billy Dee Williams |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | GOLDEN GUYS $100: In the 1920s, the company he founded merged with Metro Pictures Corporation Samuel Goldwyn |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1732, Vincennes, in this future state, was founded by the French on the Wabash River Indiana |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | FAMOUS NAMES $500: Douglas MacArthur was a member of the court martial that convicted this advocate of air power in 1925 Billy Mitchell |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $300: Billy Crystal said he stopped eating veal after performing with a calf in this film about a cattle drive "City Slickers" |
| #1874, aired 1992-10-29 | COUNTRY SINGERS $100: After "Achy Breaky Heart", his debut CD "Some Gave All" hit No. 1 on the country & pop charts Billy Ray Cyrus |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | JAZZ $400: Billy Strayhorn's music for this big band leader included "Take the "A" Train" Duke Ellington |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $100: Christian Slater played Billy Mowcher in the 1981 musical "Copperfield", based on this novel David Copperfield |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | BALLET $800: He wrote the music for the Western-themed ballets "Billy the Kid" & "Rodeo" Aaron Copland |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | RELIGION $600: Singer George Beverly Shea has been associated with this evangelist since the late 1940s Billy Graham |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | FAMOUS AUSTRIANS $200: Franz Werfel's most famous novel is "The Song of" this young girl of Lourdes Bernadette |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | DOGS $200: The Afghan hunts by this sense, not by smell sight |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | SCIENCE $600: From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element silver |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | HODGEPODGE $800: In 1779 this Virginia college became the 1st in the U.S. to offer professional training in law The College of William and Mary |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1977 John Neumann, a bishop of Philadelphia, became the first American male to be made this saint |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | LEFTOVERS $100: In poetry it's a contraction of "evening" or "even" e'en |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | U.S. FLAGS $100: The last year the presidential flag was altered was 1960 when this was added a Hawaii star |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | NON-POTENT POTABLES $100: During the 1992 Super Bowl, this drink introduced its new slogan "Gotta Have It" Pepsi |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | LEFTOVERS $300: The Chateau de Blois is famed for its extraordinary semi-enclosed winding one of these a staircase |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | THE CARIBBEAN $300: Caribbean islanders sometimes combine peas with this grain also found in arroz con pollo rice |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | STAR TREK: THE MOVIES $300: 1 of the 2 men who've directed 2 of the movies (1 of) Leonard Nimoy (Nicholas Meyer) |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | STAR TREK: THE MOVIES $500: For "Star Trek III" Robin Curtis took over the role of this Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Hamilton, Citizen & Movado are big names in this product watches |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | MUSEUMS $1000: There's a Coptic museum in Misr al-Qadimah, the old section of this capital city Cairo |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | 1991 $100: The Little White Chapel in this Nevada city opened the 1st drive-up wedding window in the U.S. Las Vegas |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | MOUNTAINS $500 (Daily Double): Penn.'s highest point is in these mountains the most northwesterly main range of the Appalachians Alleghenies |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | SINGERS $100: This rock singer born William Broad, allegedly said, "I can be an idol just by calling myself one" Billy Idol |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | FAMOUS FOLKS $100: In a 1977 article in Newsweek, he was quoted as saying, "I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie" Billy Carter |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | LITERATURE $200: E.M. Forster worked on the libretto of Benjamin Britten's opera of this author's "Billy Budd" Herman Melville |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | THE OLD WEST $400: He was a buffalo hunter before he hunted down & shot Billy the Kid Pat Garrett |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | FAMOUS ARMSTRONGS $200: On radio, Dick York played Billy Fairfield, best friend of this all-American boy Jack Armstrong |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | OPERA $1000: This British composer's 1951 opera "Billy Budd" is set on a man-o'-war & there are no female roles Benjamin Britten |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: From 1883-91 Billy Sunday was a professional one of these before turning evangelist a baseball player |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $2,200 (Daily Double): This Herman Melville hero went to his execution crying, "God bless Captain Vere" Billy Budd |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | DANCERS $600: Eugene Loring choreographed the 1938 ballet about this youthful outlaw, & he starred in it, too Billy the Kid |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BASEBALL $400: "Number 1" was the autobiography of this 5-time Yankee manager Billy Martin |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Songs from this Billy Rose show include "Little Girl Blue" & "The Circus is on Parade" Jumbo |
| #1626, aired 1991-09-30 | FAIRY TALE ANIMALS $400: In an Old Scandinavian tale, it's the name shared by 3 ruminants threatened by a troll Billy Goats Gruff |
| #1611, aired 1991-09-09 | WEAPONS $100: William could tell you this informal name for a small wooden club a billy club |
| #1611, aired 1991-09-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: Kurt Vonnegut novel that focuses on Billy Pilgrim, a soldier in Dresden in World War II Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | QUOTES $100: Before his heavyweight title fight Joe Louis said of Billy Conn, "He can run, but he can't" do this hide |
| #1600, aired 1991-07-12 | THE OLD WEST $200: Gunslinger Billy Claiborne used this "childish" nickname after the original outlaw died Billy the Kid |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | NONFICTION $400: "Peace with God" & "How to Be Born Again" are two of several books by this evangelist Billy Graham |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $100: Billy Kramer,
Joanna Kramer,
Ted Kramer Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: A pageant in Lincoln, New Mexico is named for this 19th century outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | NONFICTION $400: This comic titled his 1986 autobiography "Absolutely Mahvelous" (Billy) Crystal |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | 1980s ROCK $100: His "Uptown Girl" was a love letter to his future wife, model Christie Brinkley Billy Joel |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | WORLD WAR I $400: Billy Mitchell directed a 1918 attack against Saint-Mihiel by some 1,500 of these machines airplanes |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | LITERATURE $200: The last two characters this author killed off were Captain Vere & Billy Budd Herman Melville |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | TELEVISION $400: In "It's a Good Life" on "The Twilight Zone", he played the monster who wished people into a cornfield Billy Mumy |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | "CAPTAIN"S $200: Comic book character Billy Batson says "Shazam!" to change into this superhero Captain Marvel |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | THE 1920s $800: Court-martialed for defiance of his superiors, he resigned from the Army in 1926 Billy Mitchell |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $800: In "Midnight Express", Billy Hayes gave his account of time spent in prison in this country Turkey |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | SPORTS $500: In 1990 this Reds outfielder set a World Series record with hits in 7 straight at-bats Billy Hatcher |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | THE OSCARS $500: In 1961 he won Oscars for writing & directing "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | COMMON BONDS $200: Billy,
putty,
string sillies |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | N.Y. YANKEES $200: From 1975-1988, he was hired & fired five times as Yankee manager Billy Martin |
| #1379, aired 1990-09-06 | THE OLD WEST $300: He captured Billy the Kid, lost him, tracked him down again & killed him Pat Garrett |
| #1379, aired 1990-09-06 | KIDDIE LIT $500: In a 1987 film Amy Irving played the miller's daughter & this character was played by Billy Barty Rumpelstiltskin |
| #12, aired 1990-09-01 | THE OLD WEST $100 (Daily Double): Robert Leroy Parker used this alias in honor of a rustler he rode with as a teenager Butch Cassidy |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | MAGAZINES $1500: Decision Magazine is published by this minister's evangelistic association Billy Graham |
| #1358, aired 1990-06-27 | THE MOVIES $200: Art Carney, Paul Newman & Billy Crystal all played title characters with this first name Harry |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1944, early in his evangelical career, he was chief preacher of the "Youth for Christ" movement Billy Graham |
| #1338, aired 1990-05-30 | POT LUCK $400: This Melville work inspired a 1969 musical called "Billy", which closed after its opening night Billy Budd |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The Big Billy Goat Gruff poked this character's eyes out with his horns & crushed him to bits The Troll |
| #1323, aired 1990-05-09 | NURSERY RHYME ANIMALS $400: 1 of 2 animals mentioned in "Hush, Little Baby" Billy goat or mockingbird |
| #1323, aired 1990-05-09 | BALLET $1000: A roper & a wrangler compete for the love of a cowgirl in this Agnes de Mille ballet Rodeo |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | IN THE NEWS $400: This evangelist who has personally preached to over 100 mil. now has his own star on Hollywood Blvd. Rev. Billy Graham |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | EPITAPHS $600: The epitaph on his footstone reads, "Truth & history. 21 men. The boy bandit king -- he died as he lived." Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney) |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | LITERARY RELATIVES $200: An incident on a warship on which his cousin was an officer may have inspired "Billy Budd" Herman Melville |
| #1317, aired 1990-05-01 | SINGERS $400: "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" was this singer's third No. 1 single with 8 words in the title Billy Ocean |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | CIRCUS MOVIES $400: The elephant stole the show in this Doris Day musical based on Billy Rose's stage spectacular Jumbo |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | HISTORY $200: When he died he was using the name Wm. H. Bonney, but that probably wasn't the one he was born with Billy the Kid |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Name shared by the 3 billy goats who met up with the wicked old troll Gruff |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | BEST SELLERS $1000: Written in his usual factual-fictional style, "Billy Bathgate" is this "Ragtime" author's most recent work Doctorow |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: This model & wife of Billy Joel says she was a chubby & self-conscious teenager Christie Brinkley |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | POP MUSIC $200: "Wheel of Fortune" is mentioned in his 1989 hit "We Didn't Start The Fire" Billy Joel |
| #1252, aired 1990-01-30 | THE WILD WEST $400: We know that he killed Billy The Kid, but no one knows for sure who killed him Pat Garrett |
| #1246, aired 1990-01-22 | NOVEL OPERAS $1000: The Benjamin Britten opera based on this Herman Melville work climaxes with a hanging Billy Budd |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: This star of "When Harry Met Sally..." walked off the set of "SNL" in '75 when producers cut his act time Billy Crystal |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: Evangelist whose preaching career began as a result of a religious transformation at age 16 in 1934 Billy Graham |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This legendary outlaw is the subject of Larry McMurtry's novel "Anything for Billy" Billy the Kid |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | BALLET $200: Though it's rarely done in ballet, Billy the Kid does this in the Spanish ballet named for him he speaks (in Spanish) |
| #1142, aired 1989-07-18 | A.K.A. $600: He was born William Samuel Rosenberg; James Caan played him in "Funny Lady" Billy Rose |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | WEDDINGS $400 (Daily Double): Title of the following in which Marilyn McCoo addressed her then-fiance, Billy Davis Jr.:
"...and love won't carry me / Till you marry me Bill / Bill I love you so / I always will / And in your voice I hear a choir of carousels..." "Wedding Bell Blues" |
| #1100, aired 1989-05-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,800 (Daily Double): Evangelist Billy Sunday said, "Goodbye, John Barleycorn" when this was passed in 1919 prohibition |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | FAMOUS STUDENTS $600: He studied directing at NYU under M. Scorsese & was an "absolutely mahvelous" student Billy Crystal |
| #1098, aired 1989-05-17 | THE BUSH INAUGURATION $500: At the inaugural ceremony, this evangelist led the invocation Billy Graham |
| #1082, aired 1989-04-25 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Booth Tarkington novel about an adolescent called "Silly Billy" Seventeen |
| #1076, aired 1989-04-17 | THE INSTRUMENT PLAYED $800: Dave "Baby" Cortez,
E. Power Briggs,
Billy Preston the organ |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Just before he was hanged, this "Foretopman" cried, "God bless Captain Vere!" Billy Budd |
| #1055, aired 1989-03-17 | PEOPLE $200: The September 27, 1988 headline "Plains buries a favorite son" referred to this man's funeral Billy Carter |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | FAMOUS TEENAGERS $200: This youthful outlaw's real name may have been Henry McCarty, & we're not kidding Billy the Kid |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | SONGS $300: 1 of 2 drinks mentioned in Billy Joel's "Piano Man" (1 of) tonic & gin (or beer) |
| #1015, aired 1989-01-20 | COUNTRY CROONERS $300: "Accidental" nickname of Billy Craddock who's often called "Mr. Country Rock" Crash |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | McSINGERS $400: She got "The Wedding Bell Blues" & Billy Davis Jr. married her Marilyn McCoo |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | THE OLD WEST $1000: Imprisoned in 1881, Billy the Kid appealed to this governor who was too busy promoting his novel to help Lew Wallace |
