#8808, aired 2023-02-15 | SERVING T FOR 3 $200: The chirping noise of a bird, or the app where people do a lot of chirping Twitter |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1600: 2022 is the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the British composer of beloved works like this bird "Ascending" Lark |
#8107, aired 2019-12-03 | ANIMAL MALADIES $1200: Psittacosis, AKA this bird "fever", can also spread to people from ducks & pigeons parrot |
#6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The so-called Pelican Portrait was named for the bird on the brooch, a symbol of motherhood, as it was believed it fed its young with its own blood, just as this woman sacrificed for her country Elizabeth I |
#6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $400: A soprano plays the title bird in "The Nightingale", based on a tale by this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
#6229, aired 2011-10-20 | AUSTRALISMS $2000: If you stick your nose in other people's business, you're a "sticky" this bird part beak |
#5363, aired 2007-12-26 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $800: Jordan & Bird hit "nothing but net" playing this shot-for-shot basketball game in 1990s TV ads for McDonald's HORSE |
#4130, aired 2002-07-12 | PEOPLE & PLACES $200: The folks in this "Cornhusker State" have been called bug-eaters, from a type of bird found there Nebraska |
#4061, aired 2002-04-08 | BIRD PEOPLE $200: All she wanted to do was "have some fun" so she quit teaching music & became a rock star Sheryl Crow |
#4061, aired 2002-04-08 | BIRD PEOPLE $400: She played the loud & brassy Carla Tortelli on "Cheers" Rhea Perlman |
#4061, aired 2002-04-08 | BIRD PEOPLE $600: While dead of St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin, he wrote "Gulliver's Travels" (Jonathan) Swift |
#4061, aired 2002-04-08 | BIRD PEOPLE $800: For his work in "Network", he became the first actor to win an Oscar posthumously (Peter) Finch |
#4061, aired 2002-04-08 | BIRD PEOPLE $1,200 (Daily Double): "If you seek his monument, look about you" at St. Paul's cathedral; if you seek his tomb, it's there too Sir Christopher Wren |
#3958, aired 2001-11-14 | YE GODS! $200: Akin to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs, Kinich Ahau was a fire-bird sun god of this Central American people the Mayans |
#3909, aired 2001-09-06 | PEOPLE FROM PLACES $200: We're not sure what one calls residents of this Indiana community where Larry Bird was born French Lick |
#3631, aired 2000-05-22 | PRETTY BIRDIES $700 (Daily Double): This bird's name comes from its ability to copy the songs of other birds; it can also mimic pianos & people a mockingbird |
#3557, aired 2000-02-08 | "MM" BOP $300: IDG books "For" these people include ones on "Bird Watching", "Opera" & "Windows 98" Dummies |
#3309, aired 1999-01-14 | HAPPY $200: People are sometimes "Happy as" this bird of the family Alaudidae Lark |
#2706, aired 1996-05-13 | PEOPLE & PLACES $400: These Londoners are known for their rhyming slang, such as calling a word a "dickey-bird" Cockneys |
#2103, aired 1993-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: These Plains Indians known by a bird's name call themselves Absaroka, which means "bird people" the Crow |
#754, aired 1987-12-10 | BIRDS $300: The honey guide bird of Africa got its name because people & large mammals can follow it to these beehives |
#278, aired 1985-10-02 | ANIMALS $200: Name for both Chinese gooseberry & people of New Zealand comes from this bird kiwi |
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