| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $600: Sharing its name with a pro baseball team, this orange & black bird with a 2-word name can also range down to South America a Baltimore Oriole |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: This 2-word phrase for a farewell performance is derived from the belief that a certain bird makes music as it dies a swan song |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $600: This 4-word phrase is the ordinal equivalent of "The early bird gets the worm" First come, first serve |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FOR THE BIRDS $1600: A native Brazilian word is the source of the name of this tropical bird that has a large, brightly colored beak a toucan |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | FROM THE DUTCH $800: This word for an artificial bird used as a lure by a hunter is from the Dutch for "cage" a decoy |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | LOGOMANIA $1000: "Bird is the word" for this brand of often salty snacks whose logo is seen here Wise |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $800: The name of these Portuguese islands comes from a word for the goshawk, & that bird is on the islands' flag the Azores |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE NO-FLY LIST $1600: The name of this large extinct flightless bird of New Zealand may come from a Polynesian word for "fowl" the moa |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $200: You might be as "naked as" one of these, Garrulus glandarius a jaybird |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $400: A convict a jailbird |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $600: "Cerebral" word for a foolish or flighty person a birdbrain |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $800: Ammunition used to hunt flying game birdshot |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $1000: A horse racing enthusiast, so called for his trackside perch a railbird |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THEM CROOKED VULTURES $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for the type of bird vultures are is from an old word meaning a toll collector scavenger |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $200: The crested caracara, a type of falcon, is this country's national bird but is also found in Texas Mexico |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $400: They're the pro basketball-playing birds of prey in Atlanta the Hawks |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $600: Thomas Macaulay rudely said John Dryden's imagination resembled the wings of this large African bird the ostrich |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $1,000 (Daily Double): This term for small chickens & the weight of some boxers comes from an area on Java bantam |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $1000: As a verb it means to denounce something loudly; as a noun, it's a short-winged marsh bird a rail |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $200: A Beatles tune talks about this bird seen here singin' in the dead of night blackbird |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $400: In myth, this real bird was believed to have access to the waters of creation, the source of all fertility the stork |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $600: The name of this bird seen here can also mean an unscrupulous person who preys greedily a vulture |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $800: The name of this game bird is also a verb that means "to shrink with fear" quail |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $1000: The house variety of this common songbird was introduced to North America in the 1850s sparrow |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | LITERATURE $800: In this Edgar Allan Poe poem, the title bird's favorite word is "nevermore" "The Raven" |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | BEASTLY LIT $800: 1930:
Bird is the word for Dashiell Hammett in this mystery The Maltese Falcon |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | WORD ORIGINS $1,200 (Daily Double): It's no Greek myth: this big South American bird was probably named for the wife of Cronus the rhea |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER $400: Seen here is the trumpeter variety of this bird, whose name comes from an old word for "singer" a swan |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $200: What's good for the goose is good for this, also meaning a glance the gander |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $400: That this bird leaves its eggs in other birds' nests, that's just "crazy", man the cuckoo |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $600: It's a glossy black bird, or to toot your own horn a crow |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $800: Something done on a whim may be done on this songbird of the family alaudidae a lark |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a pink disc.) It's the general two-word term for a trap shooting target--live ones went out in the early 1900s a clay pigeon |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | WORD ORIGINS $400: The name of this bird is from the French version of Peter parrot |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | "V" WORDS $100: It's the 6-letter "V" word for what Lance's bird, seen here, is about to do vanish |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | GO GO GAUGUIN $400: Quoth this, the 1-word title of the painting seen here, a reference to Poe; notice the black bird in the corner Nevermore |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | PET BIRDS $100: Guinness says an African gray one is the world's most talkative bird, with an 800-word vocabulary a parrot |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | ZOOLOGY $300: This term for the hair below a Clydesdale's knees is the same as the word for a bird's plumage Feathers |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This tropical bird's name is probably derived from the name Pierre a parrot |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | BACK TO THE BEACH $1,000 (Daily Double): Heard here, he sang the following in the film:
"Well everybody's heard about the bird! /
Bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word! /
Well, the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word..." Pee-wee Herman |
