#9068, aired 2024-03-27 | ARCHITECTS $800: In the 1960s Black architect Paul Williams co-designed the Ira Aldridge Theater at this D.C. university Howard |
#9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $1600: 1990s hip-hop duo, Black Star, was a collaboration between Talib Kweli & this rapper, also known as Yasiin Bey Mos Def |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: A dessert made from a family recipe is the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a Hulu series in 2023 Black Cake |
#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $400: Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck black cat |
#9060, aired 2024-03-15 | THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $200: Russia annexed this peninsula between the Black Sea & the Sea of Azov in 1783; wouldn't be the last time they tried that, either Crimea |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $1200: Willard Motley wrote novels as well as Bud Billiken newspaper columns for this city's Black weekly The Defender Chicago |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $800: From 2012 to 2020 Dave Navarro hosted this series that had episodes like "Drill Baby, Drill" Ink Master |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $800: In 2011, this country replaced its solid green flag with one featuring red, black & green stripes Libya |
#9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): This hard black wood from trees of the Diospyros genus shares its name with a magazine founded in 1945 ebony |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MIDDLE X $200: A cheerful & tricky sprite, or in a different sense, Black Francis, as one of a group a pixie |
#9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $600: Merriam-Webster "spills" the story that using this word to mean a secret truth first gained prominence in Black drag culture the tea |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AN ONOMATOPOEIA ROMANCE $200: When I see you, my beating heart does this, like the wings of a black swallowtail as it flies flutter |
#9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $200: An ebony-colored commemorative tablet celebrating your running & hurdling during high school a black track plaque |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $200: Colorful in 1877:
"Horse" Black Beauty |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SO FAR AWAY $600: This Winter Olympics city is on the coast of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains Sochi |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $800: The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876 Hickok |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $400: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A 1964 speech delivered by Malcolm X after he left the Nation of Islam, stated his Black nationalist philosophy, & he spoke of the ballot or this deadly word bullet |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $800: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) The series highlights the tragedies & triumphs of Coretta Scott King & this wife of Malcolm X; together as widows, they would attend the Black National Political Convention in 1972 Betty Shabazz |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | U.S. NATIONAL FORESTS $400: The Allegheny National Forest in this state is a prized source of black cherry wood used in furniture making Pennsylvania |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $400: Jelly Belly makes a jelly bean that tastes like this candy--the black kind, not the red licorice |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $1000: In "Oil!", Upton Sinclair writes, "Water and oil would spout up over the top of" this framework, "staining it... black" derrick |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1927 Davidson Black identified this "man" as a member of the human lineage on the basis of a single tooth found in North China Peking Man |
#9031, aired 2024-02-05 | THE "ARE" YOU BREATHE $800: These tenant farmers, about 1/3 of whom were Black, gave their proceeds to the landowners in a post-Civil War system sharecroppers |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ETCH & SKETCH $400: He reproduced his etching of "Black Lion Wharf" in a famous painting of his own mother Whistler |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Area 15 in Las Vegas houses art installations originally built for this annual festival held in the Black Rock Desert Burning Man |
#3, aired 2024-02-02 | RHYMING FOLKS $800: He took some severe punishment south of the border in the title role of "Nacho Libre" Jack Black |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $800: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character Jim Crow |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $1000: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) With the French army on the brink of collapse & in need of reinforcements, this American general, also known as "Black Jack" lent the 369th Infantry to fight for France Pershing |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | 2-3 ZONE $600: Losing other habitat, the Asiatic black bear & the monk vulture are surviving in this 155-mile-long strip with few humans the Korean DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) |
#2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College South Dakota |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $400: From a Kikuyu word for "white mountain", it's an east African country & the first name of TV's Barris, creator of "black-ish" Kenya |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $400: The 2 main ingredients for the pasta dish cacio e pepe are cheese & this, pepe nero in Italian black pepper |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $500: They're all A's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: actor Alan Arkin, singer Antonio Aguilar and this "Black-ish" star Anthony Anderson |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $1000: His acclaimed "Pittsburgh Cycle" explores the Black experience in 10 plays, including "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" & "Fences" August Wilson |
#9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $800: Unlike any human's, the great horned owl's driver's license would say its eyes are this color gold (yellow) |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $200: Barack Obama quickly resigns from the Senate for a very good reason 2008 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $600: Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history 1955 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $800: At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight 1962 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | COUNTRY OVERLAPS $2000: A Balkan "black mountain" country vaults over Serbia to meet the former Walachia & Moldavia Montenegromania |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $600: This "Great" northward move by Black Americans ramped up with the need for industrial workers in World War I the Great Migration |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | ____ & ____ BUSINESS $800: The Black Eyed Peas song "My Humps" mentions this upscale fashion brand, then Fendi & Donna Karan Dolce & Gabbana |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | TV CONNECTIONS $800: Orphan
____
Mirror Black |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $100: It's the title of a Black Sabbath song, or, a Robert Downey Jr. movie "Iron Man" |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HUNT & PECK $200: The "black" type of this, Africa's biggest venomous snake, hunts birds & rodents & can raise its head over a yard to strike mamba |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $1000: These can be purple to black in color, sour right off the tree, but good in a jam or pie elderberries |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | MUSIC TERMS $2,200 (Daily Double): You can use the black notes on a keyboard to play this common 5-note scale the pentatonic scale |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AFRICAN AMERICANA $800: The 2011 rom-com "Jumping the Broom" is named for a Black American tradition during this life event a wedding |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AFRICAN AMERICANA $1200: This Harvard professor's "The Signifying Monkey" traces the bond between Black oral tradition & literature Henry Louis Gates |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $2000: Young, gifted & Black, this playwright poses with her typewriter for a Vogue shoot in 1959 Hansberry |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $600: In the title of their debut album, The Black Crowes advised listeners to shake this your money maker |
#8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $800: This mythical giant whose camp stove was said to cover an acre got credit for creating Puget Sound & the Black Hills Paul Bunyan |
#8999, aired 2023-12-21 | UNION ACTIONS $1000: Black Union sailors John H. Lawson & James Mifflin got the Medal of Honor for their actions at the 1864 battle of this Alabama bay Mobile Bay |
#8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $800: Outraging many whites, in 1901, Teddy Roosevelt invited this eminent Black educator to dine with him at the White House Booker T. Washington |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CAUTIONARY RHYMES $800: "Red touch yellow, kill a fellow" refers to the lethal coral snake; "red touch black, friend of jack", to this harmless "royal" one a king snake |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | COUNTRIES INSIDE OTHER COUNTRY NAMES $2000: This Arabian Peninsula nation's name can be found within the name of a European country with a Black Sea coast Oman (from Romania) |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | COLORFUL SPORTS $400: Notorious nickname of the Chicago team that threw the 1919 World Series the Black Sox |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $800: White moves first & looks to increase his advantage; black replies & seeks to gain this, part of Wyoming's state nickname equality |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $200: Holmes figures out the killer in "Black Peter" must be strong--the victim is "pinned like a beetle" by this whaling weapon a harpoon |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WESTERN TV SHOWS $1000: A Paramount+ series follows this Black lawman of the Wild West who in real life apprehended more than 3,000 outlaws, including his son Bass Reeves |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $200: Partly set in Kingston, the plot of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" includes the attempted murder of this reggae singer Bob Marley |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $400: In "Blacktop Wasteland" Bug Montage is a wheelman, aka this "driver"; often idling out back during a heist a getaway driver |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $600: "Zora & Me" by Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $800: In "White Butterfly" P.I. Easy Rawlins said jazz cats came by Cadillac & bluesmen by bus or by thumb to Watts in this West Coast city Los Angeles |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $1000: The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name Iceberg Slim |
#8990, aired 2023-12-08 | OLIVE ME $1000: This thick spread made from capers & black olives hails from Provence tapenade |
#8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $400: 14th century European pandemic that destroyed Alderaan the Black Death Star |
#8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $200: A memoir:
"On Feb. 4, 2004... Larry drove me to the women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut" Orange Is the New Black |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE MOON $400: NASA describes these phenomena as "bulges" in the Earth's oceans caused by the Moon's gravitational pull the tides |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $1500: "The Last Black Unicorn":
She estimates that she worked over 500 bar mitzvahs in her younger years Tiffany Haddish |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $600: This Black Sabbath song says, "He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field" "Iron Man" |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FLAGS $1200: A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road Black Flag |
#8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $2000: In this 1957 film Joanne Woodward had a trio of personalities including Eve White & Eve Black The Three Faces of Eve |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $800: From the name of an 18th century man, it's a profile portrait drawn in black a silhouette |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | READING RAINBOW $1000: Julien Sorel is the amoral hero of this novel by French author Stendhal The Red and the Black |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIMENT $1200: LBD is short for this, a wardrobe staple in women's closets a little black dress |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $400: Jack Black fronted & provided tutelage to this young band, also a 2003 movie title School of Rock |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $800: The "Sicilian" one starts with a move by black on the queen's half of the board defense |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | ALSO A BEVERAGE $600: Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for writing this 2008 Sean Penn film Milk |
#8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $600: In this work mom is seated, facing left--or is it right? Anyway, she's clad in black with a white lace cap Whistler's Mother |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | KISS MY GRITS! $600: The hip-hop group that sings "Let's Get It Started" shares its name with this ingredient of Hoppin' John the Black Eyed Peas |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $1000: On "Black Thursday" 1943, the U.S. lost 60 of these bombers on a single raid; message:
Need escort fighters! the Flying Fortress (the B-17) |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $1200: She was a child star, an ambassador & in 1998, a Kennedy Center honoree Shirley Temple Black |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $200: Writer Mike White created the role of Dewey Finn, played by him in the film "School of Rock" Jack Black |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $300: 1932:
"Rosa McCauley! Any activism today?"
"I just got married"
"Do I know him?"
"His last name is" this Parks |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | HORSE, HOG, OR DOG $1500: The large black
&
the large white hog |
#8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $1600: In the 1919 World Series, this "Black Sox" player hit .375 & did not commit an error, footwear & all Shoeless Joe Jackson |
#8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $400: 2018:
"Wakanda forever!" Black Panther |
#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $800: Passionate about horses, Elizabeth Taylor wins one in a town lottery in this 1944 classic National Velvet |
#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $2000: In 2021 the Met premiered its first opera by a Black composer, this jazz trumpeter 5 months younger than Wynton Marsalis Terence Blanchard |
#8955, aired 2023-10-20 | HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS $200: Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film the Mummy |
#8955, aired 2023-10-20 | HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS $600: A costume for 2:
This double-crossing pair from Mad magazine, one in black & one in white, created by Antonio Prohías Spy vs. Spy |
#8955, aired 2023-10-20 | HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS $1000: Dress in black with a red plastic flowerpot for a hat & you can "Whip It" good like a member of this New Wave group Devo |
#8953, aired 2023-10-18 | MIRRORS $800: There is evidence that Precolumbian Mesoamericans used this black volcanic rock with a Roman name to make mirrors obsidian |
#8950, aired 2023-10-13 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $1600: With no pandas, kung fu or otherwise in sight, he hawked "Pitfall" for the Atari 2600 (in a pith helmet!) Jack Black |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $2000: Cicotte, Weaver, Joe/ The Black Sox accept their fate/ Gambling mars the game Eight Men Out |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $100: Barbara Ross-Lee was the first Black female dean of a U.S. medical school; her sister led this '60s Motown group The Supremes |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $400: To make a Black Forest cake you'll need chocolate, whipped cream and these fruits pitted cherries |
#8947, aired 2023-10-10 | BRANDO $2000: Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels The Wild One |
#8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $2000: "I can't light no more of your darkness, all my pictures seem to fade to black and white" "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" |
#8944, aired 2023-10-05 | EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS $800: These mountains between the Black & the Caspian Seas straddled Georgia's northern border the Caucasus |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $400: Rock drummer who married Pamela Anderson + last name = this "Men in Black" actor Tommy Lee Jones |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $1000: Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a 2-block plaza on 16th Street NW named for this social justice group Black Lives Matter |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $1600: There are both red & black varieties of this breed developed in Scotland Angus |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $600: Iron Monger was the villain in "Iron Man"; this similarly named guy was the baddie in "Black Panther" Killmonger |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome" Black Beauty |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $2,000 (Daily Double): In February, 1945, FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at the Livadia Palace near this Black Sea resort Yalta |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | SOUNDS FRACTIONAL $2000: W.E.B. Du Bois spoke of the elite of Black society as the "talented" this fraction the Talented Tenth |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $2000: Rivers called the Black, Red & White this flow through Burkina Faso, which used to be called Upper this Volta |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | FROM Z TO A $200: A football referee gets this animal-inspired nickname thanks to the standard black & white striped uniform a zebra |
#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | THE HOME SPA $400: For disguise, try one in black silk; to refresh your skin, try one made from oatmeal or avocado a face mask |
#8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: This adventure writer known as père had his own famous dad, who served in the all-Black military unit "La Legion Americaine" Dumas |
#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $2000: Ukraine's longest river, it bisects the country before emptying into the Black Sea the Dnieper |
#8932, aired 2023-09-19 | FUN & GAMES $400: Black & white pieces in this game are often called stones, which you want to get back home & then "bear off" to win the game backgammon |
#8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $800: This American author had a beloved pet named Catterina, who we hope was not the inspiration for his horror tale "The Black Cat" Poe |
#8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $200: Founded at the end of Reconstruction, Nicodemus in this "Sunflower State" was the 1st Black settlement west of the Mississippi Kansas |
#8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $1000: In 2023, USS Chancellorsville was renamed after this Black Civil War hero & Reconstruction-era congressman Robert Smalls |
#8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $200: After writing for "In Living Color", Larry Wilmore was the "Senior Black Correspondent" on this Jon Stewart show The Daily Show |
#8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $600: At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner Sidney Poitier |
#8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HISTORICAL FILMS $2000: This 2023 film is based on the true story of Joseph Bologne, a Black violinist & composer in 18th century France Chevalier |
#8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $600: The North Ronaldsay, the Blackface & the Border Cheviot (with a black muzzle) are breeds first developed in this U.K. country Scotland |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $600: Peter George's novel "Red Alert" got this title when Stanley Kubrick made it into an apocalyptic big screen black comedy Dr. Strangelove |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1200: The Georgian city of Batumi dates from around 1000 B.C. & is an important port on this sea the Black Sea |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $1200: He & Joe Robert Cole wrote the scripts for "Black Panther" & its sequel, & he directed both films, too Ryan Coogler |
#8919, aired 2023-07-20 | SPIDERS & SNAKES $600: Latrodectus geometricus, the brown this, has venom twice as powerful as that of its notorious black cousin a brown widow (spider) |
#8919, aired 2023-07-20 | THE DANUBE $800: Rising in the mountains of this "colorful" German forest, the Danube flows nearly 1,800 miles & empties into the same-shaded sea the Black Forest |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $1600: This political organization was founded by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale in 1966 the Black Panthers |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $2000: "War Pigs" by this British heavy metal band was meant to convey that war was the real satanism Black Sabbath |
#8915, aired 2023-07-14 | BANDS ACROSS THE DECADES $400: "Don't Lie"--will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo & Fergie totally hip-hopped through the 2000s Black Eyed Peas |
#8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $800: This term for something impossibly rare predated the 1600s discovery of the real thing, Cygnus atratus, in Australia a black swan |
#8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FROM THE HEADLINES $800: This U.S. city's Free Press, November 7, 1973: "Young elected city's first Black mayor" Detroit |
#8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $400: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One of my club picks for 2023 is "Black Candle Women" by Diane Marie Brown, about four generations of women who live under one roof & have a big secret--a love curse relating to a Voodoo sorceress in this Southern city that links the story back to the 1950s New Orleans |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $800: A song by Heidi Newfield begins, "There's something 'bout a man in black" & the chorus says, "I want a love like Johnny &" her June |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $1600: His "The Souls of Black Folk" includes a study of the Freedmen's Bureau & his disagreements with Booker T. Washington Du Bois |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $2000: Jimmie Allen's "Down Home" mentions this trailblazing Black country singer who died in 2020 Charley Pride |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | POP EYE $1200: On "Orange Is the New Black", Uzo Aduba played Suzanne Warren, who had this manic nickname Crazy Eyes |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $2000: In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa gave this other 3-named South American Nobelist a literal black eye Gabriel García Márquez |
#8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $400: A 2022 revival of this play broke ground with Wendell Pierce as the first Black man to play Willy Loman on Broadway Death of a Salesman |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $200: Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day Juneteenth |
#8894, aired 2023-06-15 | TV CRIMINALS $400: On this show, Piper Chapman was originally sentenced to 15 months at Litchfield Prison Orange is the New Black |
#8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $800: Located in the Black Hills region of this state, Wind Cave National Park boasts 160 miles of explored cave passageways South Dakota |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $400: 2003:
Verboom, a descendant of War Admiral, played him in this movie Seabiscuit |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $600: 1979:
Cass-Olé had the title role in this, maybe the second-best known horse tale with black in the title The Black Stallion |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $2000: From the color of their cloaks, this order is also known as the Black Friars the Dominicans |
#8890, aired 2023-06-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $800: It originally required a 25-watt bulb & came with colored plastic pegs & black construction paper to make an illuminated picture Lite-Brite |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | CATCH OF THE DAY $400: Catch the fish called a giant black sea this off Santa Monica Pier & you have to release it or find an aquarium that wants it a bass |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | JOIN THE CLUB $2000: BRMC for short, this band gets its name from Marlon Brando's biker gang in "The Wild One" the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | WATERFOWL-POURRI $400: Nursery rhymes collected under her maternal banner include "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" & "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" Mother Goose |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | WATERFOWL-POURRI $600: This gangly, black-feathered character often ran afoul of Porky Pig or Elmer Fudd in Warner Bros. cartoons Daffy Duck |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | STRAIT UP $800: From the Sea of Marmara, go northeast up the Bosporus Strait to reach this bigger sea the Black Sea |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $800: Dedicated to Stephen Hawking, Sarah Howe's "Relativity" describes these as "where parallel lines will meet" black holes |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $400: "I Gotta Feeling" you know this hip-hop group! They did "Don't Stop The Party"... c'mon, "Don't Phunk With My Heart"! Black Eyed Peas |
#8879, aired 2023-05-25 | GALACTIC VACATIONS $800: Take a pic for the Gram by the supermassive one of these at the core of the M87 galaxy--but don't get too close! a black hole |
#20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $600: On June 16, 1966 activist Stokely Carmichael rallied a crowd with "we want" these 2 words Black power |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Baa baa, Kara Koyunlu, i.e. these, have you any land? Yes, in 1410 our alliance conquered from Azerbaijan south to Baghdad black sheep |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $200: This wedding tradition may have once had to do with sweeping away evil spirits & today symbolizes a new beginning jumping the broom |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $600: While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women Essence |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Seen here are these heroic aviators, the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II the Tuskegee Airmen |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman |
#8876, aired 2023-05-22 | POP CULTURE 2003 $1600: I'm going to Wichita to tell you Spin magazine's Top Album of the Year was their "Elephant" The White Stripes |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | POP GOES THE MUSIC $600: In 2009 their "Boom Boom Pow" was knocked out of the No. 1 spot by their "I Gotta Feeling" the Black Eyed Peas |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | & SCENE $400: Anesthesia by mallet is one technique this trio uses when they play doctors in "Men in Black", their only Oscar-nominated film the Three Stooges |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $400: Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray quicksand |
#8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $2000: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd: petals on a wet, black bough" is the entirety of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of" this the Metro |
#14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $400: A columnist wrote that next to the Black Dahlia, L.A.'s biggest whodunit is who killed this streetcar system aka Pacific Electric the Red Car |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | EPISODE IV $600: 2022:
"King of the Narrow Sea" House of the Dragon |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | BRITISH MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: The lead singer is seen here in 2022 when this band performed back home in Birmingham at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremonies Black Sabbath |
#11, aired 2023-05-16 | CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $400: Wes Moore was Johns Hopkins' first black Rhodes scholar & in 2022, was elected this state's first African-American governor Maryland |
#11, aired 2023-05-16 | KEN JENNINGS: INTERNATIONAL NERD OF MYSTERY $1200: That "Battlestar Galactica" Viper helmet will pair well with my $3,200 black peak satin tux by this designer from Piacenza, Italy Armani |
#10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $400: A book of essays about the "Black Panther" film & its cultural impact is called "Why" this fictional country "Matters" Wakanda |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $400: Kruger National Park is home to several large snakes, including this deadly type of mamba named for the dark lining in its mouth a black mamba |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $400: In 1954 "Shane" got the award for Color this; "From Here to Eternity", for Black & White Cinematography |
#8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $400: "A milestone in the chronicling of the black experience", wrote Publishers Weekly about this author's "Beloved" Morrison |
#8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice The Gold Rush |
#7, aired 2023-05-12 | FUNNY LADIES $1600: She first gained notice for her "Awkward Black Girl" web series, some of it funded by a Kickstarter campaign Issa Rae |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: Called the first detective novel by a Black author, "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher is set in this Upper Manhattan area Harlem |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $800: In 1822, Black Nantucketer Absalom Boston captained an entirely Black crew scouring the seas in this profession whaling |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1200: Subject of a biopic, this actress began in vaudeville before starring in films like "Carmen Jones" Dorothy Dandridge |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1,400 (Daily Double): Known for skydiving while playing sax, aviator Hubert Julian went to fight for this African empire against Italy in the 1930s Ethiopia |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1600: A note from Mary Ellen Pleasant, a millionaire & former slave, was found in the pocket of this abolitionist before his 1859 hanging John Brown |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1200: Published in 1767, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin" was the first printed poem by this Black woman (Phillis) Wheatley |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: This nickname for many kings follows "M.C. Higgins" in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author the Great |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $400: To start the '70s he replaced the 2 white guys in the Experience with a black rhythm section in Band of Gypsys Hendrix |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $800: In the '60s Robert Culp & Bill Cosby pioneered interracial buddy espionage on this TV show I Spy |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $1200: Seen here are the co-stars of this TV show; one said the other was "the mother I had been looking for" Touched by an Angel |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $1600: Britain's two-tone movement included multiracial bands like the English Beat & this ska group with the hit "Ghost Town" the Specials |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Nicknamed for something sweet, he joined the all-white New Orleans Rhythm Kings on an early integrated jazz recording session Jelly Roll Morton |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $600: A cliche meaning a devastating punch & an embarrassed black bird a crushing blow & a blushing crow |
#8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $600: A 1756 incident saw numerous Europeans die in this dungeon in India the Black Hole of Calcutta |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | THE CENTAUR OF ATTENTION $800: A black hole in this constellation represented by a centaur is a strong source of radio waves Sagittarius |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | BASKETBALL GREATS $600: The winner of 11 NBA titles as a player, & the first Black coach in the NBA, this legend passed away in 2022 (Bill) Russell |
#8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $400: Let's break out the map of Romania, if we head east out of Arad, we can hit Sinaia & Sulina on our way to this sea the Black Sea |
#8851, aired 2023-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: As you can see, the Schwarzwald--this in English--covers a lot of ground, 2,300 square miles in area the Black Forest |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $1600: Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney make up this 2-man band that knew someone had an eye on their "Gold On The Ceiling" The Black Keys |
#8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $1600: The charismatic Fred Hampton in "Judas & the Black Messiah" Daniel Kaluuya |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | WHALES $1000: The largest member of the dolphin family, it's easy to identify by its black & white coloring an orca (killer whale) |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $1200: Gordon Parks' "Excerpt from" this film about a "Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" is at MoMA & we can dig it Shaft |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $200: Now in Syria, Aleppo lies at a crossroads of great commercial routes about 60 miles away from both the Euphrates River & this sea the Mediterranean |
#8841, aired 2023-04-03 | YOU'RE GONNA SING $400: This Black Eyed Peas song asks the tough question "Whatcha gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?" "My Humps" |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | TREE-NAMED PLACES $400: The Black Panther Party was founded in this Northern California city in 1966 Oakland |
#8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $600: In 1916 operatives of this nation exploded the Black Tom munitions depot; the nearby statue was hit & public torch access ended Germany |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | TOUGH SCIENCE $400: As well as a fast airplane, it's a fast stream, like the ones of hot matter at 99.99% the speed of light from some black holes a jet |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | STUDY: GUIDES $5,000 (Daily Double): From 1936 to 1967 this "colorful" guide aided African Americans in traveling safely during segregation the Green Book |
#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): The book "Noah's Flood" proposed that the event happened when the Mediterranean burst into this sea 7,600 years ago the Black Sea |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $600: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Life imitates art--my relationship on set with Gary Oldman very much paralleled Harry's relationship with this character, portrayed by Oldman, Harry's godfather & the titular "Prisoner of Azkaban" Sirius Black |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans a boycott |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $400: On "Black Panther: The Album" in 2018, this rapper gazed at "All The Stars" with SZA Kendrick Lamar |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $800: From around the mid-1910s, families vacationed in "Black Eden", Idlewild in the central region of this state's Lower Peninsula Michigan |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $1200: Ed Bradley & Bayard Rustin are alumni of Cheyney U., founded in 1837 & claiming the title first of these, often abbrev. to 4 letters HBCUs (historically black colleges & universities) |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $1600: Around 1910 there was no such thing as Chicago blues; this 2-word exodus of Black folks brought the music north the Great Migration |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $2000: The Boston Women's Memorial includes a bronze of this 18th century poet who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $1200: Poet & playwright Amiri Baraka is considered the founder of this 1960s & '70s movement, BAM for short the Black Arts Movement |
#8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $200: One of Canada's rarest stamps, the 1851 12-pence black features a youthful portrait of her Queen Victoria |
#8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $400: The 2017 Total Eclipse of the Sun stamp depicts a black disk that turns into this under the heat of a finger the Moon |
#8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $600: One of the most valuable U.S. stamps is the "Inverted" this, the female nickname of the Curtiss JN-4 shown upside down Jenny |
#8807, aired 2023-02-14 | STATE TREES $400: Visit this state to see its Black Hills spruce South Dakota |
#8806, aired 2023-02-13 | LOGOS $1000: This Italian carmaker has a black prancing horse on a yellow background in its logo Ferrari |
#8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $800: For her Afro-futuristic fashions in this Marvel film, Ruth E. Carter became the first Black woman to win for Costume Design Black Panther |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $2000: Now honored by a plaque in a station in Roxbury, Horatio J. Homer was this city's first Black police officer, for 40 years from 1878 Boston |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: During the Civil War he recruited for the all-Black Massachusetts 54th Infantry, in which 2 of his sons served Frederick Douglass |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1200: An Alabama historic site invites you to journey back to the 1940s & learn about this group of Black military aviators the Tuskegee Airmen (or Red Tails) |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | A LITTLE ASTRONOMY $2000: Nothing from inside, not even light, can escape past this, the 2-word term for the boundary around a black hole an event horizon |
#8799, aired 2023-02-02 | POP MUSIC $2000: An outlier ballad from this British metal band was "Changes" in 1972; it was rarely performed live Black Sabbath |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $1500: On the border between Europe & Asia, this "sea" is actually the world's largest lake the Caspian Sea |
#8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HEAD GEAR $800: A comb from Nigeria with fewer teeth than American combs gave Willie Morrow the idea for this item to style Black hair a (afro) pick |
#8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: "The Personal Librarian" tells of Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman who passed as white to curate this financier's library Morgan |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $400: Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele Get Out |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: The black sheep's not so bad; he's got 3 bags full of wool for these 3 recipients the master, the dame & the little boy who lives down the lane |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $600: James Ellroy took on the real-life unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed this, in his novel of the same name the "Black Dahlia" |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GOOD LUCK $1200: Seen here, this southern legume is thought to bring luck when eaten on New Year's Day black-eyed peas |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: The Hundred Years' War novel "1356" features this heir to the English throne, known for armor not suited for hot, sunny days Edward the Black Prince |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $1600: This 2014 film about voting marches in Alabama shined a light on the contributions of Black women to the civil rights movement Selma |
#8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE COLORS OF SCIENCE $200: In physics, this type of "body" is a surface that absorbs all the radiation that falls on it a blackbody |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LET'S TALK GALAXIES $400: One look at M64 & you'll see why it's called this galaxy, like a shiner after a punch in the face the Black Eye Galaxy |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): The first of several of these movements took 38 Black individuals from the U.S. to Sierra Leone in 1815 the back-to-Africa movement |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT $1200: In 2019 organizers of this event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert were turned down for a permit to raise capacity from 80,000 to 100,000 Burning Man |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | OTHER FAMOUS VOLUNTEERS $100: A superhero on film playing Marvel's Black Widow, this actress spent 8 years as a global ambassador for Oxfam Scarlett Johansson |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $1200: "Boom Boom Pow" is an explosive track from this group that includes will.i.am the Black Eyed Peas |
#8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $400: Last names of Duncan & Alonzo, who paired up in 1910 with plans to make the world's first portable power tool Black+Decker |
#8781, aired 2023-01-09 | BUILDINGS & BRIDGES $800: During World War II, Allied prisoners of war really did build a bridge over this Thai river; a simple black iron bridge is still there the Kwai |
#8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SPECIES IN PERIL $1000: The population of Diceros bicornis, the black this, has rebounded to more than 5,000, but it's still critically endangered a rhinoceros |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $800: This country superstar's hits include "A Better Man" & "Killin' Time" Clint Black |
#8779, aired 2023-01-05 | MANY RIVERS TO CROSS $400: The Black Hawk Bridge & the Old Vicksburg Bridge are 2 of the many ways to get across this river the Mississippi |
#8779, aired 2023-01-05 | NOT CHICKEN FEED $1000: Black-footed these little weasels eat mostly prairie dogs & add insult to injury by taking over their burrows ferrets |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $300: Australian writer K. Langloh Parker wrote of the brothers who became swans & then got feathers of this color from crows black |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $800: "Arrangement in Grey & Black No. 1" is so formal!
Please, call the 1870s painting by this more familial 2-word name Whistler's Mother |
#8776, aired 2023-01-02 | SACRIFICIAL ROLES $800: In "Endgame" this Avenger makes a heroic sacrifice & takes a terrible fall in order to obtain the Soul Stone Black Widow |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $400: In World War I the soldiers of the USA's all-Black 92nd infantry division put this animal on their patch buffalo |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE AGELESS DIANA ROSS $600: This co-star of TV's "Black-ish" hosted the American Music Awards on a special evening when mom Diana got the Lifetime Achievement Award Tracee Ellis Ross |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $2000: In Thomas Middleton's 1624 "A Game at Chess", the black pieces represented this country that threatened England Spain |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | HERE COMES THE BRIBE $200: Swede Risberg of this team took a bribe to lose the World Series & came through, going 2 for 25 with 4 errors the Black Sox |
#8772, aired 2022-12-27 | WORLD OF BEERS $200: Refreshing like a milkshake, this Irish beer nicknamed "the black stuff" is known for its unique texture Guinness |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | SOUNDS LIKE A UNIVERSITY $2000: Black table spice
+
a unit of force pepper dyne |
#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 |
#8766, aired 2022-12-19 | HISTORIC WOMEN $800: In 1893, activist Fannie Barrier Williams successfully fought for Black inclusion at this city's Columbian Exposition Chicago |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | DRONING ON ACROSS AMERICA $1000: Here's a spectacular look at the Black Hills Memorial to this Sioux chief, a work still in progress Crazy Horse |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | IN THE PUDDING $4,000 (Daily Double): This type of "pudding" is actually sausage, but sanguinaccio dolce, made with the same stuff, is pudding pudding blood pudding |
#8762, aired 2022-12-13 | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $1600: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by this playwright was performed Off-Broadway after cancer took her far too young at 34 (Lorraine) Hansberry |
#8761, aired 2022-12-12 | TRUE GRIME $400: It can precede "of the earth", but a "Men in Black" tagline was "protecting the Earth from the" this "of the universe" scum |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $400: A Black resident of Philadelphia, William still kept meticulous records of enslaved people he helped escape via this network the Underground Railroad |
#8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HIT THE SPOT $200: The black spots on the backs of these small red beetles warn predators that they won't taste good ladybugs |
#8754, aired 2022-12-01 | WORLD MUSEUMS $2000: Naturally a skull of Homo senegalensis was part of the 2018 inaugural exhibit of this capital's Museum of Black Civilizations Dakar |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $800: The title of this Ron Stallworth book that became a movie has only 2 Ks The Black Klansman |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A COLORFUL SONG TITLE $2000: My Chemical Romance bid you "Welcome to" this album title the Black Parade |
#8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Alliterative title of Richard Wright's book about racism & intellectual awakening in the segregated South Black Boy |
#8749, aired 2022-11-24 | SIMPLY GORGES $2000: Black River Gorges National Park is in this Indian Ocean island nation where the dodo once lived Mauritius |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A MATTER OF DEGREES $400: In karate, the rank of shodan is also known as first-degree this black belt |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: A decade before writing "Their Eyes Were Watching God", she was Barnard's first Black graduate (Zora Neale) Hurston |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $600: Per Black's Law, you can file this "conduct that defies the authority... of a court" under "C", & you can be held in it too contempt |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $1600: "Black Thunder" is about one of these events in 1800 planned by Gabriel Prosser, with the goal of seizing Richmond a slave uprising |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In the 1950s, she broke the color barrier in tennis & became the first Black American to win a Grand Slam tournament (Althea) Gibson |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SONGS FROM THE HIT ALBUM $1000: "Rehab" &
"You Know I'm No Good" Back to Black |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1600: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux dealt with racism in films like "Within Our Gates"; & in 1925's "Body and Soul", he introduced this actor & bass baritone later famous for his rendition of "Ol' Man River" (Paul) Robeson |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | FAR OUT $6,000 (Daily Double): Once matter enters a black hole, it falls to the center & concentrates at an infinitely dense point called this the singularity |
#8741, aired 2022-11-14 | THE LONG HALL $1600: Publisher of The Liberator, he founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society in Boston at what was called the Black Faneuil Hall (William Lloyd) Garrison |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $600: The title of a 2020 bilingual Black Eyed Peas song, it means an attractive woman, whether she's a mother or not "Mamacita" |
#8739, aired 2022-11-10 | SOMETHING THAT IS... $2000: Grey & Black:
To be specific, 1871's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1", an artwork much better known by this 2-word name Whistler's Mother |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1200: She's the first Black woman on the Supreme Court & the first justice to have been a federal public defender Justice (Ketanji Brown) Jackson |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | LESSER-KNOWN GEOGRAPHY $400: The independence-minded breakaway region of Abkhazia borders the eastern shores of this sea the Black Sea |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: The 2021 nonfiction book "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy" is by this prima ballerina Misty Copeland |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $2000: One of August Wilson's plays to explore the Black experience in America is called this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $1200: (Questlove presents the clue.) In 1975, Parliament released the album "Mothership Connection", an early example of what's called Afro-this-ism, blending Black pride with history & science fiction Afrofuturism |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $400: After 8 seasons, Dre & Bow opted for a new beginning as this sitcom came to a close black-ish |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW $800: In 1874 you were president of the Freedman's Bank & 3 years later, became the first Black U.S. marshal... extensive résumé! Frederick Douglass |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $2000: After she was sprung from "Orange is the New Black", she went on to co-create & star in "Russian Doll" Natasha Lyonne |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: The American Ballet Theater's first black female principal dancer, she was also the first to dance "Swan Lake" for the ABT (Misty) Copeland |
#8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: There's a certain braveness to this black bird the raven (in braveness) |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $200: On making history:
"It has taken 232 years & 115 prior appointments for a black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court" Ketanji Jackson |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | 4-LETTER FOOD & DRINK $600: This Greek liqueur tastes like black licorice & is served in a tall skinny glass called a kanonakia ouzo |
#8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WHAT A BUTTE! $1200: If you hike Black Butte in Oregon, you'll see this type of pine tree that's also the name of the Cartwrights' ranch on "Bonanza" a ponderosa |
#8722, aired 2022-10-18 | ____ & ____ $200: Slang for a police car, it also describes certain photographs black & white |
#8722, aired 2022-10-18 | 5-LETTER PLACES $600: In Romanian, this sea is called Marea Neagra the Black Sea |
#8721, aired 2022-10-17 | TRYING TO GET SOME WORKS DONE $1600: This bandleader's classical-influenced 1940s compositions "Black, Brown & Beige" & "Liberian Suite" Duke Ellington |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: The temple of Artemis was wrecked by these invaders who sound like they were wearing black & listening to Joy Division the Goths |
#8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $400: In this dark dance movie, Winona Ryder has leg issues as ousted prima ballerina Beth Black Swan |
#8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $400: The title character of this Anna Sewell novel is instructed by his mother Duchess, "Lift your feet up well when you trot" Black Beauty |
#8717, aired 2022-10-11 | SUBTITLED NONFICTION $400: Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" was subtitled "From" this alliterative event "to Black Holes" the Big Bang |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | CRITICAL "MASS" $800: A satanic version of a Christian religious service, or a 2015 movie about criminal Whitey Bulger black mass |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $400: Black's Law Dictionary says a "crime of" this is "committed in the heat of an emotionally charged moment" passion |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $200: Once, the USA's largest Black-owned business was North Carolina Mutual Life on Durham's Parrish Street, also called "Black" this street Wall Street |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | LIONS, TIGERS & BEARS $400: This Ivy League university began using a tiger as its mascot in part because its school colors are orange & black Princeton |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $400: His move into mogulship began when he launched Roc-A-Fella Records to release his album "Reasonable Doubt" Jay-Z |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $600: NBA Sixth Man Junior Bridgeman became the second man among franchisees of this chain with 160 restaurants Wendy's |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $800: These were often Black owned, avoiding style butchery by whites; Joe Louis' wife Rose Morgan built an empire from one hair (beauty) salons |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $1000: Asking, "Why should white guys have all the fun?", Reginald Lewis bought Beatrice Foods in a billion-dollar LBO, this type of buyout leveraged |
#8714, aired 2022-10-06 | HISTORICAL TV ROLES $400: Gillian Anderson as this prime minister on "The Crown" (Margaret) Thatcher |
#8714, aired 2022-10-06 | ALL HANDS $1000: In the early 1900s "Lupo the Wolf" Saietta darkened New York's Little Italy as a ringleader of this extortion gang the Black Hand |
#8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $800: Horrors! "The Man in the Black Suit" threatens to eat a child in a prize-winning short story by this author, of course Stephen King |
#8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $800: The 1946 murder noir "The Blue" this preceded the real-life murder case known as "The Black" this by a year Dahlia |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | TV SHOW THEME SONGS $600: Biracial herself, Mariah Carey was excited to record the theme to this "Black-ish" prequel show Mixed-ish |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $600: "Black Tuesday", October 29 of this year, was part of the stock market crash that helped set off the Great Depression 1929 |
#8709, aired 2022-09-29 | READING RAINBOW $400: Piper Kerman recounted her time as inmate #11187-424 in this memoir Orange is the New Black |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $600: "Black Hawk Down" refers to a pair of these in Somalia helicopters |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | LAKES & RIVERS $600: This river rises in the Black Forest & empties into the Black Sea the Danube |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $200: Bean,
market,
widow black |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $200: The center of this dense cosmic body is called a singularity a black hole |
#8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $1000: This magazine's black-on-black 9/11 cover was a joint effort by its art editor Françoise Mouly & her husband Art Spiegelman The New Yorker |
#8699, aired 2022-09-15 | PARTY! $400: Each year more than a million people hit the Cordão da Bola Preta ("cord of the black ball") to party at the center of this city Rio de Janeiro |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | ALL KINDS OF DOORS $400: The entryway at this London address features a Georgian era glossed-black door with lion's head knocker & a 10 10 Downing Street |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $2000: Sea parrot is another name for this Atlantic seabird with black-&-white plumage & a triangular bill a puffin |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $200: Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources ants |
#8685, aired 2022-07-15 | LET'S TALK ABOUT BITE CLUB $1000: This "black" snake of Africa is actually gray or brown & one bite can kill you in 20 minutes a black mamba |
#8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $800: "Wind Sprints" &
"Black Eyes & Broken Hearts" Friday Night Lights |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | TV COMEDY $2000: Robin Thede is the creator & Issa Rae is an executive producer of this HBO "Sketch Show" A Black Lady Sketch Show |
#8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WOOD $1200: The black & sweet types of these fruit trees provide tight-grained woods prized by craftspeople cherry |
#8680, aired 2022-07-08 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $1000: Protecting the Roman Empire's alpine frontier, the Porta Nigra or "black gate", is in Trier, now in this country Germany |
#8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE JACKSONS, 5 $1600: In 2022, Erin Jackson made history as the first Black woman to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, winning for this sport speed skating |
#8679, aired 2022-07-07 | ____ & ____ $600: Made with a pale ale & stout, it's the colorful name for the beer drink seen here--cheers a black & tan |
#8678, aired 2022-07-06 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Norway spruces are a prominent feature of this area that covers 2,300 square miles of southwest Germany the Black Forest |
#8677, aired 2022-07-05 | ACTRESSES IN THE SHOW $800: Uzo Aduba,
Laura Prepon Orange is the New Black |
#8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $2000: Black sculptor Edmonia Lewis depicted exclusion in her art like this mother of Ishmael cast out into the wilderness Hagar |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: As a visual aid, all the C's are red & the F's are black on the many strings of a standard type of this instrument a harp |
#8674, aired 2022-06-30 | I WON AN EMMY FOR THAT DRAMA $1000: 2016:
Tatiana Maslany, in the roles she was born to play Orphan Black |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $800: Founded as far back as the 7th century B.C., Constanta is one of Romania's main ports on this sea the Black Sea |
#8669, aired 2022-06-23 | MOUNTAINS $800: Lending their name to a peninsula, these mountains extend from Serbia to the Black Sea the Balkans |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SONG OF THE DAY $200: In 2013 Rebecca Black naturally followed up "Friday" with this song, a collaboration with the perfectly named Dave Days "Saturday" |
#8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $2000: Wife Geneviève outlived this "Carmen" composer by 50 years, but even after she stopped wearing black, stuck mostly to mauve (Georges) Bizet |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $400: In 1916 astronomer Karl Schwarzschild used relativistic equations to predict the existence of these inescapable bodies a black hole |
#8663, aired 2022-06-15 | TV MONSTERS $400: Folks guard against these mindless monsters on "Black Summer" zombies |
#8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles (Earl) Warren |
#8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $800: The story of Martin de Porres, the 1st Black saint in the Americas, includes this skill, letting him hover before the altar levitation |
#8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL $800: In 2022 Diébédo Francis Kéré became the first Black winner of this architecture prize in its 43-year history the Pritzker Prize |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $1200: M-O-double R-I-G-A-N spells Morrigan, a Celtic war goddess who turned into this ominous black bird a raven (a crow) |
#8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: In 2022 this late poet, author & activist became the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter Maya Angelou |
#8654, aired 2022-06-02 | WHAT BREED OF MOVIE DOG? $400: Frank in "Men in Black" & "Men in Black II" a pug |
#8650, aired 2022-05-27 | MAKEUP $200: L'Oreal's offerings for this cosmetic include Lash Paradise, which comes in Blackest Black & Mystic Black mascara |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $200: It's no spoiler to say Killmonger lives up to his name in this 2018 film Black Panther |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | Xs, THEN Os $200: "Black tie preferred" usually means this garment for men a tuxedo |
#8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE 1960s $2000: In 1964 he was called back to Moscow from a Black Sea holiday & told he was no longer in charge in the USSR Khrushchev |
#8638, aired 2022-05-11 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $1000: A black trefoil & an organization of like-minded people a club |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | COLORFUL ALBUMS $400: "99 Problems" is on this 2003 album that Jay-Z said would be his last (it wasn't) The Black Album |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | PROTESTANTS $800: NBC stands for a pillar of the Black church, the National this denomination Convention Baptist |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | OUR BRAND'S ON THAT $1600: The 2600 "Video Computer System" for gaming, with a switch to select color or black-&-white TV Atari |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | PETS $2000: Silver, black & Dalmatian are types of this popular freshwater aquarium fish, also a female first name a molly |
#8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $400: Litchfield Correctional Institution for Women Orange is the New Black |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $200: I eyed the bartender. This potent potable, I said. "Jim Beam black extra-aged" this. "& don't be stingy on the pour" bourbon |
#8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The "Big 3"--FDR, Churchill & Stalin--had a working vacation at the Feb. 1945 conference at this Black Sea resort Yalta |
#8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $1000: 2 black granite walls & a sculpture called "The Three Servicemen" are part of this Washington, D.C. memorial the Vietnam War Memorial |
#8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $800: The black paint used in figures on the ceiling of Spain's Altamira Cave is mostly this stuff, radiocarbon-dated to 14,000 years ago charcoal |
#8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $800: For the cover of a 2019 album, this "Truth Hurts" singer posed nude against a simple black backdrop Lizzo |
#8617, aired 2022-04-12 | GAME CHANGERS $1000: In 2019 season 10 of this online survival game ended with a giant asteroid blowing up its virtual island, leaving a black hole Fortnite |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | PURPLE REIGN $400: Commonly dried, black Corinth is a purple & often seedless variety of this fruit a grape |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $800: Not Moscow but this capital 300 miles north of the Black Sea is the "mother of Rus cities" Kyiv |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: This historically Black college in Atlanta consistently ranks among the top 10 women's colleges Spelman |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GIMME SOME SPACE $200: Hawking radiation is a theoretical positive energy escaping one of these near its event horizon a black hole |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $200: Giving dap began among soldiers in this war when the Black power salute was banned; some say the greeting stands for dignity & pride the Vietnam War |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: A symbol of bad luck & of Halloween, this common pet can also be hard to photograph--use diffused, not direct light a black cat |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $400: The tradition of Black women wearing beautiful, decorated these to church is partly rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:5 a hat |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $600: This "colorful" mountainous region is a site to see between South Dakota & Wyoming the Black Hills |
#8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $1200: "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" was this actor's first time on the big screen as southern matriarch Mabel Simmons Perry |
#8602, aired 2022-03-22 | CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX $1600: The Ross & Rachel, or the Jim & Pam, of "Orange Is the New Black" were Piper, played by Taylor Schilling, & Alex, played by her Laura Prepon |
#8600, aired 2022-03-18 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: Breaking barriers in country music, she was Grammy-nominated for her song "Black Like Me" & in 2021, co-hosted the ACM Awards Mickey Guyton |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | SPORTS WITH NO BALLS $600: A shammy towel is key; Olympian Jennifer Abel used a black one diving |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $800: In "Swan Lake", the same ballerina often dances both of these roles, a princess & a sorcerer's daughter the white swan & the black swan (Odette & Odile) |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU $1000: Literally "black beast", this 2-word French term refers to a specific thing that one strongly dislikes doing bête noire |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $800: August Wilson got the title for his play about this singer from her song that became a dance craze, "The Black Bottom" Ma Rainey |
#8597, aired 2022-03-15 | GLOW-POURRI $400: Made with fluorescent inks, these posters glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet rays black light |
#8590, aired 2022-03-04 | BORDERING RUSSIA $800: The Kerch Strait--along with serious border issues--separates Russia from this country on the Black Sea Ukraine |
#8590, aired 2022-03-04 | BORDERING RUSSIA $1200: I've got this nation on the Black Sea on my mind, along with Mount Kazbek, an extinct volcano that's one of its highest points Georgia |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $600: In 2009 Ursula Burns became the first Black woman to head a Fortune 500 company, this one; copy that! Xerox |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ACRONYMS $800: BIPOC:
an umbrella term for certain humans Black, Indigenous, & People of Color |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $800: Philosopher William of Ockham, circa 1347: this disease that killed many other Europeans then too the black plague |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $1600: Shakespeare's sonnets 127 to 152 are addressed to a mysterious woman commonly called this, whose "eyes are raven black" the Dark Lady |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | CONSTELLATIONS $2000: Light & everything else takes a swan dive into this constellation's X-1, the first known black hole Cygnus |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | LYRICS TO REMEMBER $800: This group in 2009:
"I gotta feeling (woo-hoo) that tonight's gonna be a good night... that tonight's gonna be a good, good night" The Black Eyed Peas |
#16, aired 2022-02-18 | MUSIC CLASS $400: There are 52 white keys on a standard piano & this many black ones 36 |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A HARD CATEGORY $800: Known for its hardness, durability & capacity to take a high polish, this heavy, black wood is big in cabinets & knife handles ebony |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $800: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) At the White House on August 10, 1863, Lincoln met for the first time with this man to discuss the treatment of thousands of Black soldiers recently inducted into the Union army Frederick Douglass |
#14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $2000: "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to our Legacy" is the latest book by this principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (Misty) Copeland |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | FANG SHUI $1600: First seen in "The Sorcerer's Stone", a gigantic black boarhound named Fang is this character's pet Hagrid |
#8578, aired 2022-02-16 | TV MOMS $2000: This actress whose mom is a Motown legend plays mom Rainbow Johnson on "black-ish" Tracee Ellis Ross |
#12, aired 2022-02-16 | GET YOUR "M_B_A" $400: The black species of this snake is actually dark brown to gray a mamba |
#11, aired 2022-02-16 | MARVEL $200: This Black Panther actor wanted T'Challa's accent to be authentically African, so he spoke in a dialect based on South African Xhosa Chadwick Boseman |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $1600: Martin Luther King Jr. attended this historically Black men's college in Atlanta Morehouse |
#8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $400: Black tie with turn-ups on the trousers? Appalling cuffs |
#8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1600: Toni Morrison edited the memoir of this woman who was a Black Panther, a UCLA professor & a fugitive Angela Davis |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $200: In 1849 the last issue of a newspaper Karl edited wasn't black & white, but this all over; he defiantly used that color ink red |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | THE MANY MUSICS OF MARK RONSON $800: (Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) A collaboration that changed both our lives started when I asked this artist how she wanted the album "Back to Black" to sound & she played me the '60s girl group the Shangri-Las Amy Winehouse |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: In 2021 President Biden mourned this first black Secretary of State as a "dear friend" Powell |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1200: The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Judas and the Black Messiah |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $800: This black-masked breed is pugilistic in name but great with kids a boxer |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS $1,000 (Daily Double): In November 1853 Russia destroyed Turkey's fleet in the Black Sea; France & Britain came to Turkey's aid in this war the Crimean War |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $400: Yul Brynner wore the black hat in this 1973 movie; Ed Harris is a different man in black on the TV series Westworld |
#8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $1200: In song, "Some came from a land beyond the sea, from Boston and New York, but the boys who beat the Black and Tans, were the boys from" here County Cork |
#8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 6 FLAGS $200: Introduced in 1920, it consists of 5 interlocked rings of blue, black, red, green & yellow the Olympic flag |
#8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $1600: Aspergillus niger, also known as black mold, is one of these organisms & may be found widely in a home a fungus |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: In Venice, before a mandate made them black, these were lavishly decorated by their wealthy owners (the Venetian) gondolas |
#8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $800: 2010:
"Maestro, Odile's coda... show me your" this, "Nina" Black Swan |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | MEXICO BEFORE 1600 $1200: The Toltec fashioned & traded various items out of this black volcanic glass obsidian |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | DEEP CUTS $1600: "Some Unholy War" is waged on "Back To Black" by this soulful British singer Amy Winehouse |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): 10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city Florence |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | CUTS FROM THE CLASSIC ALBUM $800: "Hells Bells" &
"You Shook Me All Night Long"
(1980) Back in Black |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $800: In the early '80s Keith Haring began drawing graffiti on blank black advertising panels inside these places around New York City subway stations |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | ROM-DRAMS $1000: Before winning an Oscar as a 1960s Black Panther, he played Slim to Jodie Turner-Smith's Queen in a 2019 film Daniel Kaluuya |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | SCIENCE $800: An event horizon is the boundary of one of these a black hole |
#8552, aired 2022-01-11 | RUN, 4 "S", RUN $600: ZZ Top recommended you go out & get yourself some black frames, & "they come in 2 classes--rhinestone shades" & "cheap" these sunglasses |
#8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STRIPES $1000: This dark pigment gives a zebra its black stripes melanin |
#8552, aired 2022-01-11 | THE VICTORIAN ERA $2000: The world's first postage stamp, this "dark" one, was issued & soon millions of letters were being sent every year the Penny Black |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | CELEBRITY HOBBIES $600: Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art karate |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS $200: "1 fish, 2 fish
red fish
blue fish.
Black fish
blue fish"
this fish
"new fish" old fish |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THAT'S BORDER LINE $400: Put it all on black in this principality that's surrounded by France & also just 5 miles from the Italian border Monaco |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 4-LETTER BIRDS $400: On a chessboard, this European black bird would be worth about 5 pawns a rook |
#8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER $800: Black Pepper Angus Steak & some Beijing Beef Panda Express |
#8543, aired 2021-12-29 | PLAYING OPPOSITE YOURSELF $400: Tatiana Maslany played many, many clones on this "colorful" sci-fi drama Orphan Black |
#8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: Anna Sewell said the aim of this book was "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses" Black Beauty |
#8539, aired 2021-12-23 | NASTY, BRITISH $800: Actor Tobias Menzies says Black Jack Randall in this time-traveling TV show is a sadist & character Jamie would agree Outlander |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | MAMMALS $200: Seen here is a group of the most common North American bear, called this species even though they're brown a black bear |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | A DIFFERENT LOOK AT CHRISTMAS SONGS $800: You don't think of Christmas tunes as black market body part movers, but "All I Want For Christmas Is" this pair of choppers my two front teeth |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | GEMS & JEWELS $400: Hawaii's state gem is black this, which is actually the skeleton of a marine creature coral |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | CHEMISTRY $800: In 1755 Joseph Black called it "fixed air"; today we call it a planetary problem carbon dioxide |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | GOING MEDIEVAL $1600: In the 14th century this Italian poet lost the love of his life, Laura, to the black death Petrarch |
#8528, aired 2021-12-08 | NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 $2,000 (Daily Double): In September the last piece of a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, opposed by the U.S., was put in place under this sea the Baltic Sea |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | POP CULTURE $400: 2021 saw the first stand-alone movie about this Marvel-ous title female, set during the time of "Captain America: Civil War" Black Widow |
#8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $400: This mythological hero & his Argonauts sailed the Black Sea in antiquity Jason |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $800: Woof! A small shark called the spiny this abounds in the Black Sea dogfish |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $1200: Russia's Black Sea coast includes this resort city that was established in 1896 & made international headlines in the winter of 2014 Sochi |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $2000: This mountain range, a dividing line between Asia & Europe, runs from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea the Caucasus |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $4,400 (Daily Double): It's alphabetically last of the countries that border the Black Sea Ukraine |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $200: The Danube arises in this region filled with beech & oak the Black Forest |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $400: Sacred territory for the Western Sioux, this region lies between the Belle Fourche & Cheyenne Rivers the Black Hills |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $600: Old this river in Ireland, keep on rollin' across County Waterford's Drum Hills to the sea (River) Blackwater |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $800: Waterloo, Iowa is the seat of this county named for a military leader of the Sauk people Black Hawk |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $1000: It's hard to believe Lake Lahontan once covered this Nevada desert area seen here in all its stark beauty Black Rock (Desert) |
#8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE WOMEN $200: Women in the U.S. House of Representatives had only worn dresses & skirts until Charlotte Reid put these on in 1969 pants |
#8517, aired 2021-11-23 | LEFT MOTION $600: In chess, the one time the king can move 2 squares is doing this; kingside is 2 squares left for the black king castling |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $200: He shared "A Brief History of a Brief History" in his "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays" Hawking |
#8511, aired 2021-11-15 | COMPOSERS $1200: Per the estate, English-speaking countries may only produce this composer's "Porgy and Bess" with a Black cast Gershwin |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SITCOMS $800: Actress & activist Yara Shahidi is known for her role as Zoey on "Black-ish" & on this spinoff Grown-ish |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THE SHIRLEY BOOTH $1600: In the miniseries "Mrs. America" about 1970s feminist wars, Uzo Aduba played this pioneering Black presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $1600: Dwayne Johnson named a daughter this, also the first Black Disney princess Tiana |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | SOME CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $1600: The black species of this African mammal vulnerable to poaching is recovering from a 98% drop in its numbers the rhino |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $1200: In "Interstellar", a character wishes he could see the collapsed star inside Gargantua, one of these a black hole |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $2000: A cat named Orion wears a collar that contains a miniature galaxy in this 1997 comedy blockbuster Men in Black |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $800: Traditionally the black keys on a piano are made of this hard dark wood ebony |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1898 Black troops known as Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside the Rough Riders during the battle of this hill San Juan |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $1000: In a color clash, the highest elevations in this mountain range are in its Black Mountains of North Carolina the Blue Ridge Mountains |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | FAMILY IS EVERYTHING $1600: The black & yellow panels in the state flag seen here are a heraldic symbol of this family that founded Maryland the Calverts |
#8498, aired 2021-10-27 | TELEVISION $1200: Inmate Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on "Orange Is the New Black", in 2021 she handed out therapy on "In Treatment" Uzo Aduba |
#8495, aired 2021-10-22 | PUZZLES & GAMES $2000: White offers to let black capture a queenside pawn in this royal-sounding chess opening shown here Queen's Gambit |
#8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW $1000: "black-ish" California |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $200: In 1348 this "colorful" pandemic killed half the population of Florence, Italy & spread through North Africa the Black Death |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $600: "Black Thursday" saw panic selling on Oct. 24 of this year, leading to "Black Monday" & "Black Tuesday" & dark days in the USA 1929 |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BLACKSMITHING $200: The job takes its name from this element once called "black metal" iron |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES $400: Care to dance with this 2010 thriller? Black Swan |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | THIS IS NPR $200: NPR teamed up with "Frontline" to report on how this industry failed to protect workers from black lung & "deadly dust" the coal industry |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MURDER, HE WROTE $1200: A real unsolved & brutal killing in 1947 Los Angeles haunts this "colorful" James Ellroy novel The Black Dahlia |
#8487, aired 2021-10-12 | ON BASE $1000: This Marine "Camp" outside of San Diego was used in TV shows like "Gomer Pyle" & "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Pendleton |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $400: The name of this capital means "black pool", referring to the dark waters of the River Liffey Dublin |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SCIENCE $1600: Astronomers recently found a cluster of these cosmic bodies & think their collisions were the source of gravitational waves black holes |
#8479, aired 2021-09-30 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $1200: Fort William in Calcutta is seen here around the time a small cell inside became infamous under this name the Black Hole of Calcutta |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys The Wiz |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | & IN A SUPPORTING ROLE $400: Jurnee Smollett was fantabulous as Black Canary in "Birds of Prey: and the fantabulous emancipation of one" this lead character Harley Quinn |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The 1943 film, "Stormy Weather", featured some of the greatest Black entertainers of the day, including Bill Robinson, Dooley Wilson, & of course, this beloved actress & singer, then in her 20s, who wore this green velvet dress & sang the title song (Lena) Horne |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1200: He was the first African American to receive a Harvard Ph.D. & his book of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" was published in 1903 (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NO. 5 $800: In 2008 this German carmaker rolled out its 5 millionth 5 Series, a black sedan BMW |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | CHANNEL $800: "Black Sails" & "American Gods" are originals from this heavenly sounding channel Starz |
#8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $2000: Two-word phrase for the color & the resinous material seen here; both words contain the same 3-letter sequence black lacquer |
#8472, aired 2021-09-21 | LET'S BOOZE IT UP $600: This cocktail, is vodka & Kahlua, without the light cream that would change its color & name a Black Russian |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Outside the Ansonia, Connecticut Public Library, a memorial fountain & horse trough honors this "Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | PRIME NUMBERS $2000: "We had it all when we were in our prime", sings Dan Auerbach on this duo's album "Turn Blue", recorded as his marriage ended (The) Black Keys |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | LET'S VISIT CENTRAL EUROPE $10,600 (Daily Double): The German town of Baden-Baden is in the northwest corner of this wooded region (the) Black Forest |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | FOOD & DRINK $400: White, black, & green types of this drink all come from the same plant--Camellia sinensis tea |
#8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN $400: As this film hero: "We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe" T'Challa (Black Panther) |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | LET'S TAKE IT OUTSIDE $600: Black's Law Dictionary says this 6-letter verb means "to hang about & (do) nothing in a public place" loiter |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $800: Poaching due to its horn led to the extinction of the West African black this by 2011 the black rhino |
#8455, aired 2021-07-30 | CELEBRATIONS OF THE MONTH $400: Black History Month February |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | PLAYING THE PART $1200: He played Sergeant Matt Eversmann in the movie "Black Hawk Down" & Ethan Chandler on "Penny Dreadful" Hartnett |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $400: Originally used as an advertisement, "Chat Noir' in the iconic poster translates to this "Black Cat" |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | BUTTE OF COURSE $1600: Black Butte Crater in southern Idaho is part of a 35-mile-long lava field in the plain of this river Snake |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | EUROPEAN PENINSULAS $800: This 10,400-square-mile peninsula sits between the Black Sea & the sea of Azov the Crimean Peninsula |
#8447, aired 2021-07-20 | A BORING CATEGORY $200: This "colorful" company says its GC1800 cordless drill's "keyless chuck makes bit changing a breeze" Black+Decker |
#8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church Stendhal |
#8443, aired 2021-07-14 | DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS $1200: To reverse course using the same route, & the star of "Nacho Libre" backtrack & Jack Black |
#8439, aired 2021-07-08 | GETTING CLOCK WISE $400: The Black Forest region in Germany is famed for these avian clocks cuckoo clocks |
#8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 3-RING CIRCUS $400: The top 3 rings in its logo are blue, black & red; there are 2 more below the Olympics |
#8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown" James Abbott McNeil Whistler |
#8428, aired 2021-06-23 | CATCH $2,000 (Daily Double): Alfred Glassell set a record catching a "black" one of these in 1953; footage of the catch was later used in "The Old Man and the Sea" a marlin |
#8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This "diabolical" landmark climbs 1,200 feet above the Belle Fourche River Valley in the Black Hills Devils Tower |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS $400: Our Georgia is on the Atlantic; the country of Georgia is sandwiched between Turkey & Russia along this sea the Black Sea |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL $1000: Bigger Thomas, a Black youth in Chicago Native Son |
#8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $800: The neuralyzer used by Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in Black" fools you by doing this to you wipes your memory |
#8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $3,000 (Daily Double): ... This book by Mark Bowden chronicling a savage firefight in Somalia in 1993 Black Hawk Down |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $2000: In this Walter Farley novel, Alec bonds with the title horse when they are shipwrecked together The Black Stallion |
#8422, aired 2021-06-15 | I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT $600: Rumors abounded about an ultra-exclusive "Black Card"; in 1999 this company made one available--the Centurion Card American Express |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | GHOST $400: Ghosts are said to live in a "sea of trees" at the base of this Japanese volcano, as do moles, deer & black bears Mount Fuji |
#8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FASHIONABLY $1000: This typically red & black checked pattern now popular at Christmas is said to be named for a herd of animals buffalo plaid |
#8417, aired 2021-06-08 | LAKES OF EUROPE $1200: Only a narrow barrier separates Romania's Lake Razelm from this sea the Black Sea |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980 BET (Black Entertainment Television) |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | "A" VOWEL $800: This nickname of General Pershing can also mean a face card in spades or clubs Black Jack |
#8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THE SHAPE OF YOU $800: Often made with black paper, these 2-dimensional outlines of your profile show the shape of your face silhouettes |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | NONFICTION $400: "My Year in a Women's Prison" is the subtitle of this memoir by Piper Kerman Orange is the New Black |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $200: One of Dave Matthews' first big hits was about these little guys "marching, red and black antennae waving" ants |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $800: In a song by The Who, Boris is one of these, "black & hairy & very small" a spider |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: The Great Sioux War of 1876 is also called this war, after the sacred region the Sioux were fighting for Black Hills War |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $400: As this disease infected much of the continent around 1350, Europeans tried cures like eating crushed emeralds the Black Plague |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $800: Dalton Trumbo & Burgess Meredith were 2 who had their careers damaged by this 1950s Hollywood practice blacklisting |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $1200: Nickname for the son of Edward III who fought the French in the Hundred Years' War the Black Prince |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | CREATURE FROM $1200: This big black buffalo is named for a bit of land in way southern Africa Cape buffalo |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $1600: A byproduct of sugar refining, it's a dark, viscous variety of molasses blackstrap molasses |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $2000: The Siksika & the Blood are groups that make up this Native American people the Blackfoot |
#8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THE 2021 WORLD ALMANAC $600: From her profile: She was born to "a Jamaica-born Black economist father & India-born biomedical scientist mother" Kamala Harris |
#8396, aired 2021-05-10 | LATIN OVERLAPPIN' $1200: Black Sea region, home to Yalta; it's just "my fault" Crimea culpa |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | SHEEP $200: In a children's rhyme, these 4 words precede "Have you any wool?" Baa, baa, black sheep (Black sheep, black sheep) |
#8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $800: The black, white & gray imagery in this 1937 Picasso mural includes a braying horse that has stumbled over a fallen warrior Guernica |
#8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Before she made history in Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to this state's Senate Texas |
#8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $6,600 (Daily Double): This American is legendary for the black & white landscapes he captured with his cameras Ansel Adams |
#8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $600: This star of HBO's "Insecure" wrote of "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl" Issa Rae |
#8384, aired 2021-04-22 | RATHER ODD NUMBERS $2000: This long black robe worn by priests traditionally has 33 buttons for Christ's age & 5 on each sleeve for his wounds a cassock |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SAY YES TO THE DRESSMAKER $800: "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury", said this French icon & creator of the "little black dress" (Coco) Chanel |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $1,000 (Daily Double): Bulgaria & Moldova belong to BSEC, the economic cooperation zone named for this body of water the Black Sea |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DISSECTING THE LYRICS $1200: This "colorful" singer: "Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, today is Friday, Friday"; she threw in "Tomorrow is Saturday" Rebecca Black |
#8379, aired 2021-04-15 | GEMS & JEWELRY $4,000 (Daily Double): The most prized of these flashy gems are the black ones, the actual colors can vary, from New South Wales, Australia an opal |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This 5-letter word is a type of black tea; when preceded by orange, it's a reference to the leaves, not the flavor pekoe |
#8376, aired 2021-04-12 | 6-LETTER "S"YNONYMS $400: Slang for a black eye a shiner |
#8375, aired 2021-04-09 | MUSICAL GODFATHERS $400: In addition to "The Prince of Darkness", this Black Sabbath man has been called "The Godfather of Heavy Metal" Ozzy Osbourne |
#8375, aired 2021-04-09 | ACTION FIGURES $400: In a tune by the Flaming Lips, Yoshimi battles some pink these; "she's a black belt in karate" robots |
#8375, aired 2021-04-09 | FLAG-POURRI $600: A NASCAR "naughty, naughty", or a Henry Rollins band black flag |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | CHESS TERMS $600: A gregarious crow of Europe with black plumage a rook |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS $800: The color of the iris comes from this brownish-black pigment--the more there is, the darker the iris' color melanin |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | FUNNY BOOKS $600: This actress and stand-up comedienne is also the author of the book "The Last Black Unicorn" Tiffany Haddish |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $1200: Roger Penrose won in 2020 for showing these in space are a consequence of general relativity, though Einstein doubted they exist a black hole |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $3,600 (Daily Double): As tires weren't colored black until 1912, Bibendum, the now-123-year-old mascot of this company, is white Michelin |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE NEBULA AWARDS $600: A Game Writing award went to Charlie Brooker for this: "Bandersnatch", also a Netflix movie Black Mirror |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE PLANT WORLD $1000: Shells of the black type of this nut aren't good for composting; they contain a chemical that can inhibit plant growth walnuts |
#8361, aired 2021-03-22 | HISTORY $1600: Echoing a name from about 19 centuries before, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led a slave revolt in Haiti, was known as "The Black" this Spartacus |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $600: A black flag is scary enough, but a pirate ship flying this color flag meant "no quarter given", a very bad omen red |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $1000: Act I of this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta has the lyric "Oh, better far to live and die/ Under the brave black flag I fly" The Pirates of Penzance |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | MEDICAL IDIOMS $400: If you've got a lot of bruising, you're said to be these 2 colors, also a way to cook your steak black & blue |
#8357, aired 2021-03-16 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $1200: Putting black schmutz on this part of a telescope or binoculars is a classic practical joke the eyehole (eyepiece) |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $400: "How Green Was My Valley" beat out this Orson Welles movie to win the 1941 Best Picture Oscar Citizen Kane |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $800: The Bogie & Bergman classic "Casablanca" was loosely based on the play "Everybody Comes to" this possessive name Rick's |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $1200: Max Schreck played the title vampire in this silent classic Nosferatu |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $1600: Charlie Chaplin starred in films like "Modern Times" & this satire of Hitler The Great Dictator |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $2000: As Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard", this actress says, "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" (Gloria) Swanson |
#8353, aired 2021-03-10 | COLORFUL RIVERS $400: Rising in Colombia, the Rio Negro (or black river) flows about 1,400 miles before joining this massive river the Amazon |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS $800: Piper,
prison Orange Is the New Black |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | NAVY BASES $400: Since the time of Catherine the Great, Sevastopol has been the site of a Russian navy base on this Black Sea peninsula the Crimea |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: For this show Justin Collette took the role of Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black in a 2003 movie School of Rock |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Black Elk, a holy man of the Oglala branch of these people, was at the battle of Little Bighorn & lived until 1950 the Sioux |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $1000: You can get naughty with this game--its black cards include "What did Vin Diesel eat for dinner?" & "Why am I sticky?" Cards Against Humanity |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | ANTARCTICA $2000: Species of penguin in the Antarctic region include this one named for the black strip below its beak a chinstrap penguin |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $400: After being pelted by a burrito in "Anchorman", this funnyman punts Will Ferrell's dog off a bridge Jack Black |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS $600: Black residue formed via fire & smoke soot |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $2000: He wrote about "Riders of the Purple Sage" & owned 2 horses called Black Star & Night Zane Grey |
#8342, aired 2021-02-23 | TV SHOW QUOTES $800: Dre: "So everything is okay as long as (the kids) are home by 5... & at 5:01, we call the police"; Bow: "4:59, & the fire department" black-ish |
#8342, aired 2021-02-23 | MUSEUM MUST-SEES $1600: At the Queen Sofia National Museum in Madrid: this 25 1/2 foot-long black-&-white painting depicting the tragedies of war Guernica |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $400: A house mouse weighs about an ounce; comparatively, a black one of these weighs about 10 ounces a rat (in comparatively) |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $800: In "Pleasantville" Reese Witherspoon goes from black & white to color after reading this novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MICHAEL WROTE $1000: "The Black Echo" & "The Black Ice" are books by Michael Connelly featuring this maverick LAPD detective (Harry) Bosch |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | FOOD & DRINK RETRONYMS $1000: The black type of this is the original type made from a plant; the "black" part was added when candy like Twizzlers came along licorice |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SCIENCE $200: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) Diabetes was a death sentence until Dr. Frederick Banting discovered how to use & extract this hormone to treat the disease insulin |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SCIENCE $400: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) To provide immunity from smallpox, in 1796 British physician Edward Jenner used cowpox to make the first of these, which is why the word comes from the Latin for "cow" vaccine |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SCIENCE $600: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) In 1996, a team at Roslin Institute in Scotland used a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce the first clone of an adult mammal, a Finn Dorset sheep named this Dolly |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SCIENCE $800: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) This property of elements, like uranium & thorium, was discovered in part by Marie Curie, who actually coined the word for it radioactivity |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SCIENCE $1000: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) In 2020, for the first time ever, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by two women, Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym CRISPR |
#8329, aired 2021-02-04 | CORNERSTONES $1600: According to tradition, this sacred cornerstone of the Kaaba achieved its color by absorbing the sins of worshippers the Black Stone |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | A CANDY STORE $800: Lincoln, Nebraska's this candy "International" sells nearly 160 types of it & not just the anise-like black one licorice |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: On May 31, 1921 a white mob began attacking what was called "Black Wall Street" in this Oklahoma city Tulsa |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: Marian Wright Edelman, the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar, also founded the CDF, short for this the Children's Defense Fund |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: The death of a massive star can form this, a cosmic body of extreme gravity from which not even light can escape a black hole |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | FINANCIAL SLANG $1000: This dark fowl is a term for a highly improbable but possible event, like the 2008 financial crisis a black swan |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: It's the "colorful" term for a thin frozen film on the road that can lead to hazardous driving conditions black ice |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $400: This Laura Hillenbrand nonfiction bestseller about a racehorse is subtitled "An American Legend" Seabiscuit |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HISTORY $400: In the 10th century the hajj was suspended for some 20 years after the theft of the black stone from the Kaaba in this city Mecca |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $400: In 1978 this Underground Railroad conductor appeared on the first stamp in the Black Heritage Series Harriet Tubman |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $800: Order in the Supreme Court--he was honored on a stamp in 2003 (Thurgood) Marshall |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $1200: A 2002 stamp paid tribute to a true renaissance man--this Harlem Renaissance poet (Langston) Hughes |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $1600: In 2019 the Postal Service paid tribute to this late dancer & actor Gregory Hines |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $2000: This esteemed journalist & PBS news anchor who passed away in 2016 was honored in 2020 Gwen Ifill |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $400: "Boom Boom Pow" by this "leguminous" group satisfied onomatopoeic musical cravings in 2009 the Black Eyed Peas |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | A PLANT-BASED DIET $1200: The Kellogg Co. owns the brand called these "Farms" known for black bean burgers MorningStar |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | PEAK AT THE MOUNTAINS $2000: Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of North Carolina is the tallest peak in this range the Appalachians |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | MAPS $800: 15th century monk, Fra Mauro, loaded up his map with plenty of information; here's this sea at the eastern edge of Europe the Black Sea |
#8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $400: Chekhov's "The Seagull" opens with a man asking an unhappy woman, "Why do you always wear" this color black |
#8304, aired 2020-12-17 | THAT WORD WAS A TRADEMARK $1000: Black Flag still makes this brand of insect trap that has now come to mean a seedy place to spend the night a Roach Motel |
#8302, aired 2020-12-15 | NOT GONNA THROW AWAY $1000: Nearly 100% of this black cement-like material made from oil is recycled when removed from pavement asphalt |
#8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1832, hoping to reclaim land in Illinois, this Sauk leader led Native Americans against U.S. forces in a months-long war Black Hawk |
#8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $800: Black Mamba (aka The Bride) vs. Cottonmouth (aka O-Ren Ishii) Kill Bill |
#8301, aired 2020-12-14 | OLYMPIC SPORTS YOU CAN DO BAREFOOT $1000: Prince Albert of Monaco was awarded a black belt in this martial art that's done barefoot at the Olympics judo |
#8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $400: To suffer a temporary loss of consciousness black out |
#8299, aired 2020-12-10 | VERY PURITANICAL $800: Clothing wasn't all black, but finery like this fabric from insects could only be worn by the rich, or else it might be "flaunting" silk |
#8298, aired 2020-12-09 | "USA"! "USA"! $200: Black pudding isn't a type of dessert--it's a type of this sausage |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | LIVE ALBUMS $400: Disc 1 of their 2004 album "live licks" features such megahits as "Start Me Up" & "Paint It, Black" The Rolling Stones |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | COLLABS $400: This company named for its 2 founders introduced its cordless electric drill in 1961 Black+Decker |
#8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | FOREST CLUMP $400: The Danube River may be famously blue, but it rises in a forest & empties into a sea both named for this color black |
#8292, aired 2020-12-01 | "HOP" $1600: This dish of black-eyed peas is a favorite in southern households on New Year's Day Hoppin' John |
#8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $2000: You can make a safer type of the "black" this reptile with baking soda & sugar--it produces CO2 & carbon ash snake |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | WORDS IN THE SONG $2000: "It's a black fly in your Chardonnay" "Ironic" |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 HBO took us to the "Country" named for this author, as Black travelers face vile monsters like those in his fiction (H.P.) Lovecraft |
#8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $800: To reach this much larger sea from the Sea of Azov, you must sail through the Kerch Strait the Black Sea |
#8285, aired 2020-11-20 | SILENT "L" $600: Part of your lower leg, or a baby black Angus a calf |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is the oldest Black-owned co. in the U.S., dating to the 1840s when a Ward was a conductor on this the Underground Railroad |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line the Black Star Line |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $400: Dancers clash over the lead role in a Tchaikovsky ballet in this 2010 thriller Black Swan |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | A TOTAL SMOKE SHOW $1200: The smoke monster on this 2000s ABC drama was really the Man in Black Lost |
#8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HE SCORES! $800: Former Clash frontman Joe Strummer scored this 1997 black comedy starring John Cusack as a conflicted hitman Grosse Pointe Blank |
#8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOGRAPHIC GATEWAYS $2000: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is the "Gateway" to this mountainous region between the Black & Caspian seas Caucasus |
#8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BOOKS BY SUBTITLE $1000: 1877:
"The Autobiography of a Horse" Black Beauty |
#8276, aired 2020-11-09 | MOVIE BIOS $2000: In "12 Years a Slave":
Chiwetel Ejiofor as this free Black man sold into slavery Solomon Northup |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $400: In 2019 Alfonso Cuarón won an Oscar for the black & white cinematography of this film about Mexico in the 1970s Roma |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $800: This 2011 Best Picture winner isn't completely silent, but it is a black & white movie The Artist |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1600: This spooky director filmed his stop-motion animation film "Frankenweenie" in black & white to emulate classic monster movies Tim Burton |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $2000: As keepers of the title beacon, Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe really let the isolation get to them in this 2019 film The Lighthouse |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $1200: Proud to plunder the rich who plunder the poor, Black Sam Bellamy called himself this English forest guy of the sea Robin Hood |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | 1970: 50 YEARS AGO $1600: After challenging King Hussein, this organization under Yasser Arafat was driven out of Jordan in "Black September" the PLO |
#8268, aired 2020-10-28 | BANDS OF THE 21st CENTURY $800: The Black Eyed Peas were 7 years in when this woman joined the group in 2002 as they went in a poppier direction Fergie |
#8268, aired 2020-10-28 | BANDS OF THE 21st CENTURY $5,000 (Daily Double): Jack White has had some conflict with Dan Auerbach of this band whose name oddly mirrors The White Stripes' The Black Keys |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | ASTRONOMY $3,000 (Daily Double): Aka the swan, this constellation in the northern sky is home to the first black hole discovered Cygnus |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | SCIENCE DIGEST $600: In 2017 scientists recorded ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, which emerged when 2 of these collided black holes |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday & this weekday named for a certain way to shop Cyber Monday |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2000: In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman Walter Mosley |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | THEIR BAR OR BAT MITZVAH $800: On Dec. 3, 2019 she celebrated her 40th birthday, her bat mitzvah & her new Netflix comedy special "Black Mitzvah" Tiffany Haddish |
#8255, aired 2020-10-09 | MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Eternal" slogan for the homeland of Marvel's Black Panther & his favorite mall retail clothier Wakanda Forever 21 |
#8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DYE ANOTHER DAY $800: "Sweet Thursday" is the name of a book by John Steinbeck, very different from this nickname for October 24, 1929 on Wall Street Black Thursday |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | EUROPE $1600: Freezing cold waves thrashed this country's black beaches consisting of plentiful volcanic sand Iceland |
#8247, aired 2020-09-29 | GAMES $1,800 (Daily Double): In the game of Hearts, this card is known as "The Black Lady" the queen of spades |
#8246, aired 2020-09-28 | TERMS FROM ISLAM $2000: This is the cube-shaped shrine in Mecca that contains the black stone the Ka'bah (Kaaba) |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | ROCK STARS $400: (Conan O'Brien presents the clue.) Forced to engage in a guitar battle with the virtuoso Jack Black, I cheated a smidge and employed this curly-haired, top-hatted legend, aka Saul Hudson Slash |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: 4-letter name for strong black Indian tea combined with milk, sugar & spices chai |
#8239, aired 2020-09-17 | DAILY READING $200: "Black Sunday" by Thomas Harris sees terrorists plot a deadly attack using a blimp on this ultimate sporting event the Super Bowl |
#8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska My Antonia |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1200: Wind erosion in this rugged 2,000-square-mile area of the Dakotas has unearthed a large number of fossils the Badlands |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Florida A&M University in this state capital is the only HBCU in the state university system of Florida Tallahassee |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: The Oaks, former home of Booker T. Washington, & the George Washington Carver Museum are at this Alabama school Tuskegee |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | GONE FISHING $800: Black & blue are 2 species of this sport fish & there's a multimillion-dollar Black & Blue Tournament to catch them off Baja Calif. the marlin |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Future Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche set up the political science department at this Washington, D.C. school Howard |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: This U. near the Va. "Roads" region has an oak tree where the Emancipation Proclamation got its first southern reading Hampton University |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $4,600 (Daily Double): Fisk University in Nashville has a master's- to-Ph.D. bridge program in conjunction with this local private university Vanderbilt University |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | JUST DESERTS $400: Home to Burning Man, Black Rock Desert is in the northwest part of this state Nevada |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | CONTROL "ALT" "DEL" $1000: California is known for this dry red wine from a black-skinned grape Zinfandel |
#8229, aired 2020-06-04 | EMMYS FOR WRITING $800: Charlie Brooker & William Bridges won 2018's limited series award for the "USS Callister" episode of this high-tech anthology Black Mirror |
#8229, aired 2020-06-04 | THE NATURAL WORLD $800: You see females a lot more often than males of this North American venomous spider, hence its name the black widow |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | CHECK YOUR CALENDAR $200: Colorful nickname for November 27, 2020, knowing that Thanksgiving is November 26 Black Friday |
#8225, aired 2020-05-29 | SAILING THE 5 SEAS $800: Odessa & Sochi are ports on this sea that looks dark in winter due to heavy fogs the Black Sea |
#8223, aired 2020-05-27 | SCIENCE NOW! $400: In 2019, using the Event Horizon Telescope, the first of these cosmic objects was photographed a black hole |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The Black Death that killed more than a third of the population of Europe in the 1300s was an epidemic of this infectious disease bubonic plague |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: British P.M. Eden & "black-ish" star Anderson Anthony |
#8215, aired 2020-05-01 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS $400: An exhibition about colors in fairy tales at a Brothers Grimm museum was titled "Red Hood," this color "Beard" blue |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | PREQUELS $400: Tracee Ellis Ross narrates "mixed-ish" , a prequel to this ABC sitcom black-ish |
#8211, aired 2020-04-27 | GENERAL HOSPITAL $400: A code of this color is widely used to call out a medical emergency all over the facility code blue |
#8210, aired 2020-04-24 | SPY TERMS $400: Also the title of a "Call of Duty" video game series, these "colorful" covert missions will be disavowed by your country Black Ops |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | HAIRSTYLES $1000: For black women natural hair cropped short is known as a TWA, short for teeny-weeny this an afro |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | DRAW ME $1200: Goya painted several pictures of his muse, Doña Maria, known as the "Black" this noble title The Black Duchess (The Duchess of Alba) |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | CHARACTERS IN BEATLES SONGS $2000: Nancy ran off with Dan, the rival of this guy from "the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota" Rocky Raccoon |
#8208, aired 2020-04-22 | "DEE" DEE, DEE-DEE-DEE $1200: Ah, my little black-capped one of these is the state bird of Massachusetts chickadee |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | LEGALESE $200: Black's Law defines this as "the corrupt payment, receipt, or solicitation of a private favor for official action" bribery |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | PETS $800: The black-footed species of this member of the weasel family is endangered; a domesticated type is a popular pet a ferret |
#8204, aired 2020-04-16 | SONGS OF YOUR OLDER SIBLINGS $1200: "You so 2000 & late", says this Black Eyed Peas song with an onomatopoetic title "Boom Boom Pow" |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $400: AKA Padfoot, this man didn't let taking the fall for Peter Pettigrew get in the way of being a good godfather to Harry Potter Sirius Black |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $600: This American dropped his drip style for one dubbed "Black Pourings"; a 1951 show of them sold none (Jackson) Pollock |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Celestial body of extremely intense gravity that scores an ace in golf a black hole in one |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $1200: On June 19, 1865 black residents of Texas learned of this document issued 2 1/2 years earlier the Emancipation Proclamation |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1600: Before he wrote "Roots", Alex Haley helped write the life story of this black nationalist leader Malcolm X |
#8191, aired 2020-03-30 | "T" TIME $1000: Meaning holding fast, it's also found in the name of a comedy rock duo featuring Jack Black tenacious |
#8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Sarah Manning & her sister clones enter sort of a techie "Twilight Zone" on a Netflix anthology show Orphan Black Mirror |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME? $400: Get your nib, a straight pen & some black ink & dive into this, from the Greek for "beautiful writing" calligraphy |
#8188, aired 2020-03-25 | FEMALE SUPERHEROES $800: It's the superhero name of Natasha Romanova, a big screen butt-kicker played by Scarlett Johansson Black Widow |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $600: Tracee Ellis Ross of "black-ish" is the daughter of this supreme-ly talented woman Diana Ross |
#8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WE KNEAD THE BREAD $800: Common in Germany & Russia, black bread is typically made from this grain rye |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $200: At the end of this book, Piper Kerman thanked the women of Danbury Federal Correctional Institution for changing her life Orange is the New Black |
#8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $2000: Not black eyeliner but stained-glass windows & pointed arches exemplify this architectural style begun around 1130 Gothic |
#8180, aired 2020-03-13 | STATE THE PROBLEM $200: The 1972 Black Hills flood claims more than 200 lives South Dakota |
#8179, aired 2020-03-12 | REPORT CARDS OF HISTORICAL FIGURES $600: Physics: Uses time wisely, in a book subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" (Stephen) Hawking |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $800: In French this insect is a "coccinelle" & usually rouge avec points noirs (red with black spots) a ladybug |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $800: Oil is also known by this "colorful" 2-word phrase, followed by "Texas tea" in an old sitcom theme black gold |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $1000: As well as penning "Black Panther" comics for Marvel, this African-Amer. writer topped the bestseller list with "The Water Dancer" (Ta-Nehisi) Coates |
#8169, aired 2020-02-27 | CAST YOUR PEARLS $200: Captain Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Johnny Depp |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | POTPOURRI $1200: Perfect for the orchestra is the mushroom seen here, known as the black this trumpet |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $13,000 (Daily Double): Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son Whistler |
#8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $400: 2010:
Spoken by Natalie Portman, "I was perfect" Black Swan |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FEBRUARY $400: According to annual presidential proclamations, February is this month--not "Black" anymore African-American History Month |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $400: In Glen Cook's "Black Company" series, Soulcatcher flies around on one of these, just like in the "Thousand and One Nights" a magic carpet |
#8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs The Monuments Men in Black |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET $800: These guardians of the Tower of London AKA Yeoman Warders wear a Tudor-period uniform that includes a black hat Beefeaters |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $1600: It's the 2-word title of a memoir by Shirley Temple Black, who was perhaps the most famous one ever the Child Star |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7 [He presents from Queens, NY].) Philip Johnson designed the soaring towers of the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in the futuristic Googie style which fit perfectly in this 1997 film that featured them Men in Black |
#8152, aired 2020-02-04 | I ALSO COMPOSE FILM MUSIC $800: Ludwig Göransson won Grammys for composing "Black Panther" & co-writing this 2018 Childish Gambino song "This Is America" |
#8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
#8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring & out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964; in the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this & became an example of Black pride & defiance of the establishment Cassius Clay |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | > $400: The People's Choice winner for best TV Comedy of 2018 was this show set in a prison Orange is the New Black |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | COLORFUL POP CULTURE ANIMALS $2000: In a 1994 film, Alan Cumming voiced this title horse Black Beauty |
#8146, aired 2020-01-27 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: This "dark" pandemic ravaged Europe between 1347 & 1351 the Black Plague |
#8146, aired 2020-01-27 | DANGEROUS COLORS $1600: Leonardo da Vinci used a black powder made from carcinogenic sources like coal tar & named for this element carbon |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THIS & THAT $800: The U.S. Navy wanted to paint this bridge that opened in 1937 with yellow & black stripes so that it would be more visible in the fog the Golden Gate Bridge |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE REST OF THE MOVIE'S TITLE $200: These rapscallions: "The Curse of the Black Pearl" Pirates of the Caribbean |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | GET YOUR "B.A." DEGREE $3,400 (Daily Double): This hornless breed--take a look--is named in part for a place in Scotland black angus |
#8141, aired 2020-01-20 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $2000: This one-named designer created the iconic little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Givenchy |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | ALBUMS $1200: "You go back to her" but Amy Winehouse goes elsewhere on this title track "Back To Black" |
#5, aired 2020-01-09 | WORD ORIGINS $3,400 (Daily Double): This condition was thought to arise from an excess of black bile, the origin of its name melancholia |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | 1995 $600: This gathering with a numerical and alliterative name drew hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington, D.C. the Million Man March |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | NAME THE DECADE $800: The Black Death starts;
the Battle of Crécy the 1340s |
#3, aired 2020-01-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME $600: Nickname of the team that was led to an undefeated 1958 season by future brigadier general Pete Dawkins Black Knights |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1940, for her role in this film, Hattie McDaniel became the first black performer to win an Oscar Gone with the Wind |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Here's the outfit James Gandolfini wore in the final scene at the diner of this Emmy-winning drama series before they cut to black The Sopranos |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A 1957 study of the middle class, with the alliterative title "The Black" this group, traced it to 1865 & the Freedmen's Bank the Bourgeoisie |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1960s alliterative slogan has roots in an 1858 speech that mentioned "rich color" & "full broad features" "Black is beautiful" |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WORLD OF COLORS $400: In French: noir black |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | TASTE THE RAINBOW $1600: A couple of shaves of this on your pasta can set you back several hundred dollars black truffles |
#8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1200: Black & mute swans |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ALTERNATIVE SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $600: Not sparing it to spoil the child in "The Children's Friend" in 1821, Santa left parents "a long, black birchen" this to use the rod |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $200: The helpful Wesley Snipes: "You ever play" this game? "Let me give you a word of advice--always bet on black" roulette |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | MUSICIANS WHO ACT $400: In the 1986 film "Trick or Treat", Gene Simmons played Nuke & this Black Sabbath frontman was Rev. Aaron Gilstrom Ozzy Osbourne |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $200: It's "a jury that cannot reach a verdict by the required voting margin--also termed deadlocked jury" a hung jury |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $400: It's "an attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury" assault |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $600: This means "to remove (oneself) as a judge in a particular case because of prejudice or conflict of interest" recuse |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | CLOTHING $600: A wardrobe staple for women is the LBD, short for this a little black dress |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $800: It's a 4-syllable "system of organized crime...involving the extortion of money from businesses by intimidation " racketeering |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $1000: "A threat of harm made to compel a person... a marriage" done under it "is generally voidable" duress |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | "B" SIEGE $400: The Crimean War's Siege of Sevastopol resulted in the loss of Russia's main naval port on this sea the Black Sea |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $800: Black Lives Matter came to national prominence as a hashtag after tragic events in this suburb of St. Louis in 2014 Ferguson |
#8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $200: Despite the color, the aeronautical object seen here is commonly called this a black box |
#8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $400: In 2018 the CDC reported "prevalence of black lung continues to increase among" these workers coal miners |
#8103, aired 2019-11-27 | HERE, KITTY $600: Distinctive black "tear tracks" along the snout of this fastest land animal may be an antiglare mechanism the cheetah |
#8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $600: Announcing the first iPhone, Steve Jobs wore his trademark black shirt of this style turtleneck |
#8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $800: Germans enjoy a sandwich of this black bread, slathered with lard, between 2 slices of rye pumpernickel |
#8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $1000: Netflix' "Black Mirror" released an Emmy-winning interactive movie in 2018 with this title out of "Jabberwocky" Bandersnatch |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | LIFE IN PLYMOUTH COLONY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at Plimoth Plantation.) Re-enactors today at Plimoth Plantation wear what the actual Pilgrims did, like what they'd worn in England. The image of black hats and buckled shoes came from artists during this British era the Victorian era |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MEDICAL IDIOMS $600: A blow to one's reputation, or bruising around the organ of sight a black eye |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $200: In "The Maltese Falcon", this actor tells Mary Astor, "if you...were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere" Humphrey Bogart |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $400: Grabbing a shower at a motel seems like a good idea to Janet Leigh in this 1960 thriller--it is not a good idea at all Psycho |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $600: This actor is defiant in "Raging Bull"--"I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray" Robert De Niro |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $800: Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Col. "Bat" Guano & Major "King" Kong are characters in this 1964 doomsday comedy Dr. Strangelove |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $1000: On "Seinfeld", Jerry caught serious grief for making out with his date during this 1993 World War II-set drama Schindler's List |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WE SAY JUMP $200: Jump-starting 101: positive (red cable) to positive, negative (this color cable) to ground on the dead car black |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | BIOPICS $400: Joaquin Phoenix played this "Man in Black" in "Walk the Line" Johnny Cash |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOUNTAINS OF ASIA $400: Rising to almost 13,000 feet, the Pontic Mountains of Northern Turkey bend along the southern shore of this body of water the Black Sea |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | SITCOMS $800: As grouchy, narrow-minded Calvin, Cedric the Entertainer heads up this show set in a Black area of Los Angeles The Neighborhood |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | SNAILS $1000: Tasmania produces around 25% of the world's wild caught supply of this large edible sea snail, mainly the black lip variety abalone |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $200: Corvus corax is the scientific name of this crow cousin a raven |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $400: 5-letter magazine founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson Ebony |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $600: Ancient Egyptians used this 4-letter cosmetic to line the eyes kohl |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | MOVIE MONSTERS $800: The Gill-Man is a prehistoric beast from the Amazon in this 1954 movie the Creature from the Black Lagoon |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $800: The RAF's Gloster Meteor, for example a jet |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $1000: Residue of coal tar distillation used to pave roads & waterproof roofs pitch |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $1600: This group: "My hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps, my lovely lady lumps" The Black Eyed Peas |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $400: A supermassive black hole is at the center of almost every large one of these, like NGC 4450 a galaxy |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Measuring from a black hole's event horizon, where not even light can escape its gravitational pull, to its center is known as the Schwarzschild this radius |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $1200: A type of radiation emitted from just outside a black hole is named for this physicist who theorized its existence in 1974 (Stephen) Hawking |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | STAMPS $1200: These black grapes with a 2-word French name make a nice red wine as well as a pretty 5-cent stamp Pinot Noir |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $1600: After its fuel is spent, any star with a mass more than 1.44 times that of this becomes a neutron star or a black hole our Sun |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $2000: The world didn't end Sept. 10, 2008, when this was switched on near Geneva; though it may create tiny black holes, they're no threat the CERN Large Hadron Collider |
#8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $4,000 (Daily Double): After arriving by submarine, this character claims the South Pole with a black flag bearing a gold "N" Captain Nemo |
#8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS $400: It's said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest orange & black |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | LET'S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB $1,600 (Daily Double): The U.S. Army's Sikorsky UH-60 is called this; 2 of them were at the center of a notorious incident in Mogadishu in 1993 Black Hawks |
#8076, aired 2019-10-21 | GAME OF CLONES $1200: Sarah, Helena & Cosima were but some of the "Clone Club" played by this actress on "Orphan Black" Tatiana Maslany |
#8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This recent winner began as an attempt to remake "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" The Shape of Water |
#8074, aired 2019-10-17 | SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $1600: A grandson of Sigmund, he made a self-portrait with a black eye that sold for over $4 million in 2010 Lucian Freud |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | TV PETS $4,000 (Daily Double): On "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", her talking black cat had this name, also a historic New England village Salem |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $600: The mother of this "Black-ish" actor is scorekeeper when he hosts "To Tell the Truth" Anthony Anderson |
#8067, aired 2019-10-08 | SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE $200: Song: By Black Sabbath; Movie: Tony Stark weaponizes an armored suit "Iron Man" |
#8067, aired 2019-10-08 | HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $200: 14th: Around 1347 the bacterium Yersinia pestis begins a European tour known by this "colorful" 2-word phrase black death |
#8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MANY HANDS $600: Mano nera, translated as this, was a turn-of-the-20th century Sicilian extortion ring black hand |
#8066, aired 2019-10-07 | DESIGNING WOMEN $1600: It's the last name of Miuccia, whose career took off in the 1980s with the introduction of her black nylon backpack Prada |
#8061, aired 2019-09-30 | FUN-TO-SAY QUOTATIONS $800: "Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove" is from this Led Zeppelin tune "Black Dog" |
#8061, aired 2019-09-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: When this beloved first lady died in Washington in 1849, the "ladies of Virginia" were urged to wear a black bow or ribbon in tribute Dolley Madison |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | PRE "SCH"OOL $1600: This dog breed with a wiry black or salt-&-pepper coat Schnauzer |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In the early 1900s Drs. Black & McKay discovered that this compound stains teeth brown but also helps them resist decay fluoride |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | STATE OF CHIEFS $2000: Black Hawk Illinois |
#8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Alfred Uhry based the character of Hoke in this play on the black chauffeur of his childhood Driving Miss Daisy |
#8053, aired 2019-09-18 | ITTY BITTY CITY $1600: Black Rock City is created & torn down every year as part of this Nevada arts festival Burning Man |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | BURGERS $1000: The FleurBurger 5000 is a $5,000 burger with black truffles & foie gras, made from wagyu, a type of beef originally from this country Japan |
#8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POTPOURRI $1600: In 1953 a fisherman paralleled "The Old Man and the Sea" by bringing in a 1,560-pound black one of these a marlin |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | SEPTEMBER $600: September is the heritage month for this style of music that rose to new heights in the Black church gospel music |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CANADIAN TV SHOWS $800: After witnessing the death of her double, a hustler is drawn into a clone-spiracy on this drama Orphan Black |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $1000: (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) In the 1960s times were changing & new on the scene was this man, who became the most successful Black performer in country music Charley Pride |
#8045, aired 2019-07-26 | 1960s TV $1600: One white guy, one black guy & one blonde gal fought crime as this cool undercover title trio the Mod Squad |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | NEW MUSICAL SUPERGROUPS $400: Rage Against the Sabbath Rage Against the Machine and Black Sabbath |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | SEAS $600: The Bosporus Strait connects the Sea of Marmara with this other sea the Black Sea |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | INFAMOUS WOMEN $2000: A character on "Black Sails", this real-life pirate escaped execution by hanging when it was discovered that she was pregnant Anne Bonny |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ABBREV. TV CHANNELS $600: Gabrielle Union was a single news anchor looking for love on "Being Mary Jane" on this channel, BET Black Entertainment Television |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $600: J.M. Barrie wrote that this pirate was "cadaverous...his hair dressed in long curls which look like black candles about to melt" Captain Hook |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | FANCY RESTAURANTS $1000: Diners book months in advance at Apège in Paris; in winter the menu has black truffles & in spring, stalks of white this asparagus |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $200: I know the men in black haunted Mulder on this TV show--I played one of them! The X-Files |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $400: 19th century artist Hokusai is credited with the first image of these stealthy warriors wearing black a ninja |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $600: Josh Brolin played a younger version of this actor in "Men in Black 3" Tommy Lee Jones |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $800: "Go Away White" is the 2008 reunion album by this Peter Murphy band that wore black & led many gloomy teens to do the same Bauhaus |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $1000: This Oscar-winning actor is all sorts of bad as the man in black in "The Dark Tower", based on the Stephen King novels Matthew McConaughey |
#8033, aired 2019-07-10 | PRISON NICKNAMES $1200: 250 years before it meant an astronomical singularity, this 2-word term was slang for a prison black hole |
#8032, aired 2019-07-09 | NEW TV $800: In 2018 he could be seen on both "The Conners" & "Black Earth Rising" (John) Goodman |
#8032, aired 2019-07-09 | NEW TV $2000: Cress Williams plays the titular African-American electrical superhero on this CW series Black Lightning |
#8031, aired 2019-07-08 | MAMMALS $400: Beneath the white fur, the skin of this bear is black, which helps absorb heat from the sun a polar bear |
#8028, aired 2019-07-03 | MY LAWN $200: Black medic & Canada thistle are types of these invasive things, my lawn's mortal enemies, & I kill 'em on sight weeds |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $1200: The IJF is the International Federation for this martial art that gives belts of rank from white to black judo |
#8024, aired 2019-06-27 | MASKS $200: The Medico de la Peste mask was originally worn in the 17th century by a doctor treating victims of this bubonic contagion the Black Plague |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | INTERNATIONAL PARKS $2000: Germany's Schwarzwald is this colorful national park in English Black Forest |
#8020, aired 2019-06-21 | ONE ACTOR, MULTIPLE ROLES $400: On "Orphan Black" Tatiana Maslany had multiple roles due to her characters being these--thanks, science clones |
#8020, aired 2019-06-21 | BACKPACKING $2000: This company named for a region of Argentina sells lightweight black hole bags Patagonia |
#8019, aired 2019-06-20 | COLLEGE BOUND $1000: Around the turn of the 20th century, this historically black all-men's school was called Atlanta Baptist College Morehouse |
#8017, aired 2019-06-18 | APPROPRIATE FOR MINERS $1200: The respiratory affliction coal-workers' pneumoconiosis is also known as "black" this body part lung |
#8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Dad loves his heavy new black skillet made of this type of "iron"; he seasons it with oil to keep it like new cast iron |
#8016, aired 2019-06-17 | VIRAL CHALLENGES $600: Everyone was standing still to "Black Beatles" by Rae Sremmurd in the challenge named for these dummies the mannequin challenge |
#8014, aired 2019-06-13 | RELIGION $400: Venerated in Islam, the "Black Stone" sits in a corner of the Kaaba in this city Mecca |
#8014, aired 2019-06-13 | THE MOVIES $800: In 2019, Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth suit up as part of this organization that protects the Earth from the scum of the universe the Men in Black |
#8012, aired 2019-06-11 | FERGUSON $400: Stacy Ann Ferguson, AKA Fergie, sang for this group & hosts the competition show "The Four" The Black Eyed Peas |
#8009, aired 2019-06-06 | VITAMINS $1000: This B-complex vitamin was found in the 1930s to cure a nutrition deficiency in dogs called black tongue niacin |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | TIMBERLAND $200: Black spruce, not maple, is the most common tree in this country's 1.3 million square miles of forest Canada |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | YOU ARE A BAD SAILOR $600: Do not descend sails by dragging a knife through them like this swashbuckling silent star did in "The Black Pirate" (Douglas) Fairbanks |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | COLORFUL PHRASES $1200: A complete embarrassment to a family is this wool giver a black sheep |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | WORLD FACTS $1000: The Black Sea is the northern border of the Asian part of Turkey, this region Asia Minor (or Anatolia) |
#8003, aired 2019-05-29 | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $400: You know the first black president--well, the guy he defeated he first time--OK, that guy's running mate, the lady Sarah Palin |
#8002, aired 2019-05-28 | SOLITARY SINGERS $1200: "Lonely Boy" was one of the songs on this duo's 2011 album "El Camino" The Black Keys |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $400: On this TV series Taylor Schilling plays the incarcerated Piper Chapman Orange is the New Black |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $2000: This singer & actress honors her roots with her signature black & white fashion choices Janelle Monáe |
#7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $1200: From 1830, "The Red and" this color black |
#7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Accusing someone of a failing that you also have? That's this expression that mentions 2 pieces of cookware the pot calling the kettle black |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | SHOW $1000: In "I Am the Night", Chris Pine is a reporter caught up in this real-life unsolved Hollywood murder case the Black Dahlia |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Tellest thou me of black and blue?" says Falstaff in this comedy; "I was beaten myself into all the colors of the rainbow" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
#7988, aired 2019-05-08 | I NEED A SUPERHERO $400: This Marvel-ous 2018 title guy got his claws into a Best Picture Oscar nomination Black Panther |
#7988, aired 2019-05-08 | SPELL THE BEANS $1000: Chipotle's ingredients include black beans & this other 5-letter type P-I-N-T-O |
#7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $5,200 (Daily Double): In 2018 it was announced that the world's oldest intact shipwreck was found off the coast of Bulgaria, at the bottom of this sea the Black Sea |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | SCI-FI STUFF $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Profiles in History in Calabasas, California.) Repurposed black, padded hockey gloves were part of a Cylon from this '70s sci-fi show, but balancing out the cool factor, the helmet is outfitted with the awesome red Cyclops eye Battlestar Galactica |
#7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HEY, "B.B." $800: Chapters in this Anna Sewell novel include "An Old War Horse" & "My Breaking In" Black Beauty |
#7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: This leading U.S. general of WWI was Army chief of staff from 1921 to 1924 (John J.) "Black Jack" Pershing |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHAT DAY IS THAT SONG? $2000: Rebecca Black went viral with this song "Friday" |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $400: Under Emir Abd Al-Rahman Khan, who died in Kabul in 1901, this present country used an all-black flag Afghanistan |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $800: The cover art of "Smell the Glove" by this mockumentary band was changed to solid black Spinal Tap |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $1200: In 1915 Kazimir Malevich unveiled the artwork seen here, yet wrote that this & texture are the essence of painting color |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $1600: The screen is dark for the first 15 seconds or so of this 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $2000: The 1760 novel "Tristram Shandy" devotes a black page to the passing of this man with the same name as Hamlet's jester Yorick |
#7976, aired 2019-04-22 | HAPPY EARTH DAY TO YOU! $800: For the 20th Earth Day, 750,000 crowded Central Park & this first Afr.-Amer. NYC mayor said, "Black & white... we are all green" (David) Dinkins |
#7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MUSIC "MAN" $1200: Johnny Cash wrote this song to explain his sartorial choices "Man In Black" |
#7966, aired 2019-04-08 | CAROL KAYE PLAYED BASS ON THAT $2000: 2006's "Fast Man Raider Man" by this former frontman of The Pixies Frank Black |
#7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEHIND BARS $1200: Piper Kerman's time at a correctional institution in Connecticut is the basis of this TV series Orange is the New Black |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | CELEBRITY FILM VOICES $800: Po in "Kung Fu Panda" Jack Black |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | TRIPLE "O" RATED $800: This dark-colored tea's name is from the Chinese for "black dragon" oolong |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | COLORFUL LIT $800: By James Ellroy & based on a real L.A. murder:
"The ____ Dahlia" black |
#7950, aired 2019-03-15 | BEWARE! $1000: One of the fastest & deadliest snakes, this African species is actually brown; its name comes from the color of its mouth the black mamba |
#7949, aired 2019-03-14 | CINEMATIC OAKLAND $400: This 2018 superhero film begins & ends in Oakland Black Panther |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $2000: Chris Hamby won for showing how doctors & lawyers worked to deny benefits to miners with this disease gotten on the job black lung disease |
#7947, aired 2019-03-12 | THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS $200: The stock market closes down 13% on Black Monday & 12% on Black Tuesday 1929 |
#7947, aired 2019-03-12 | COLORFUL BANDS $200: I gotta feeling you'll know that "I Gotta Feeling" was a No. 1 hit for will.i.am & this group the Black Eyed Peas |
#7946, aired 2019-03-11 | 1870s AMERICA $400: In 1874 a U.S. Army expedition to South Dakota found gold in them thar hills the Black Hills |
#7942, aired 2019-03-05 | STARS $400: In the double star Cygnus X-1, a blue supergiant orbits one of these, which is eating it alive a black hole |
#7938, aired 2019-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1200: The mom of TV's Huxtable family, in 2004 she became the first black actress to win the Tony for a leading role in a play Phylicia Rashad |
#7937, aired 2019-02-26 | JUST THE FACTS $2000: Maynard Jackson's 1973 election as the first black mayor of this state capital was seen as a sign of "The New South" Atlanta |
#7930, aired 2019-02-15 | IT WAS SO FUNNY $400: In this action pic, M'Baku warns, "One more word, & I will feed you to my children... I'm kidding. We are vegetarians" Black Panther |
#7930, aired 2019-02-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2019 $400: In the offbeat news section:
A French theme park has trained 6 of these black birds to pick up bits of trash to earn treats crows |
#7928, aired 2019-02-13 | THE IDES OF FEBRUARY $400: On the fateful day in 1970, this heavy metal band fronted by Ozzy Osbourne released its first album Black Sabbath |
#7926, aired 2019-02-11 | "ONICS" $1000: The black box is part of this system on a plane avionics |
#7925, aired 2019-02-08 | AVENGERS DISASSEMBLE! $200: Before dealing with the Black Panther, Paul Rudd told this "Anchorman" character about a fragrance called Sex Panther Ron Burgundy |
#7924, aired 2019-02-07 | "P"LACES AT THE MALL $600: An iconic Galleria bag or a black nylon backpack is a "must have" from this very upscale Italian brand Prada |
#7924, aired 2019-02-07 | SORROW $800: In Victorian London Jay's was a store of clothes for this period of a year or more, like the extra-dull black fabric bombazine mourning |
#7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: Unrestricted intl. commercial navigation through this sea was affirmed by a Russian-Turkish treaty in 1829 the Black Sea |
#7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PAINTERS' MASTERPIECES $1600: Thomas Carlyle was the subject of his "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2", not as big a hit as "No. 1" Whistler |
#7907, aired 2019-01-15 | EDIBLE COMMON BONDS $1000: Calimyrna,
Kadota,
Black Mission figs |
#7906, aired 2019-01-14 | DRESSED ALIKE $400: Laverne Cox, from this prison-set series, & Gabrielle Union presented an award at the 2015 BET Awards--in the same gown! Orange is the New Black |
#7906, aired 2019-01-14 | THE STORY OF MY LIFE $800: 1965's "The Autobiography of" him says the hustler is the most dangerous black man in America Malcolm X |
#7901, aired 2019-01-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: That black sheep is pretty generous--he's got wool for the master, wool for the dame & for this kid, too the boy that lives down the lane (or the little boy who lives down the lane) |
#7897, aired 2019-01-01 | MAKING THE ZINE $1000: Razorcake is devoted to "non-profit" this angry type of rock cranked out by NOFX & Black Flag punk rock |
#7894, aired 2018-12-27 | STUCK ON EWE $600: This 1996 film starred Chris Farley as the title member of the family who causes embarrassment Black Sheep |
#7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye |
#7893, aired 2018-12-26 | "W"RITERS $2000: Her first collection of stories, "In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women", was released in 1973 (Alice) Walker |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $400: A novel about a bestseller on UFOs, or a Will Smith movie about policing extraterrestrials Men in Black |
#7889, aired 2018-12-20 | INTO THE SPIDER VERSE $1200: "Black and hairy, very small" is Boris the spider in the first song bassist John Entwistle wrote for this band The Who |
#7888, aired 2018-12-19 | TEA & SYMPATHY $400: Black tea contains this stimulant but I know you're sad it doesn't have more, so I got you a Jolt cola, with 160mg in 1 can caffeine |
#7888, aired 2018-12-19 | THAT SUPERHERO/VILLAIN WON A TONY $1600: Black Widow, for "A View from the Bridge"
(2010) (Scarlett) Johansson |
#7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ON THE WALL $200: A special black paint from Rust-Oleum will turn any wall into one of these writing slates a chalkboard |
#7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $400: 1963:
"The Pink ____";
2018:
"Black ____" panther |
#7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $800: "Purple ____" with Prince;
"Black ____" with Michael Douglas rain |
#7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THE HILLS ARE ALIVE $800: You may encounter the native redbelly snake while visiting McGillicuddy Peak in these colorful South Dakota hills the Black Hills |
#7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $200: Friday, October 13, 1989:
A "mini-crash" sees a 190-point drop in this stock average the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
#7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $400: October 14, 1881:
A storm off the east coast of Scotland kills 189 fishermen on this sea the North Sea |
#7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $600: January 13, 2012:
32 die when an Italian cruise ship sinks; its captain is later convicted of this lesser type of homicide manslaughter |
#7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $800: May 31, 1985:
A cluster of about 40 of these wreaks havoc in Ontario, New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio tornadoes |
#7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $1000: This black Friday:
C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK was assassinated November 22, 1963 |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: Frank Petersen overcame fear of heights to be the Marine Corps' 1st black one of these, mastering the F-4 Phantom a pilot |
#7862, aired 2018-11-13 | GAMES OF THE VIDEO VARIETY $600: In "Black Ops III", Dempsey, Nikolai & co. try to save their souls & take on the zombie horde as they heed this series title Call of Duty |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | PRIMETIME TV $400: Zoey Johnson on "Black-ish" has stepped out into her own show about going to college, this spin-off Grown-ish |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | ON THE MENU $1000: I'll have the "You Pick Two" from this bakery-cafe: make it the black bean soup & the bacon turkey bravo sandwich Panera Bread |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | ON THE CALENDAR $1000: This "colorful" shopping day is the day after Thanksgiving Black Friday |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: Its black granite walls list the names of more than 58,000 killed or missing in action the Vietnam War Memorial |
#7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WHERE YOU GOING? $1000: Are you finally traversing the length of this mountain range that stretches from the Caspian to the Black Sea? the Caucasus |
#7849, aired 2018-10-25 | CONQUISTADORS $1600: Maybe the 1st black African in the New World, Juan Garrido pillaged in Mexico before going to Florida with this man Ponce de León |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | PIECES OF 8 $200: In pool the eight ball is mainly this color black |
#7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Ron Brown in 1989 for the Democrats & Michael Steele in 2009 for the G.O.P. were the first black holders of this post chairman of the party |
#7845, aired 2018-10-19 | ENDS IN "U" $1600: The bulk of the action in "Black Hawk Down" takes place in this African city Mogadishu |
#7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1968 at this school, SFSU for short, Nathan Hare created the USA's first black studies program San Francisco State University |
#7842, aired 2018-10-16 | LIST $800: In the King James Bible, the horses of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse:
White, red, black, this one ridden by Death pale |
#7842, aired 2018-10-16 | LIST $1000: In humors:
Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, this important stuff blood |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $200: Extortion blackmail |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $400: You'd think they'd make the entire plane out of the material used in a nigh-indestructible flight recorder AKA this the black box |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $600: A fruit, or a phone a blackberry |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $800: With a vertical drop of 500 feet, the Heathen is a tough ski run with a double this rating a black diamond |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $1000: A drink, or one of 7,000 British soldiers sent to Ireland in the early 1920s Black and Tan |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $600: In 1756 only 23 of the 146 British soldiers survived the night in the "black hole" of Fort William in this Indian city Calcutta |
#7833, aired 2018-10-03 | KARATE $600: Karate black belts are awarded degrees of this 3-letter rank, also a man's first name dan |
#7833, aired 2018-10-03 | COBRA KAI $5,200 (Daily Double): Dendroaspis, these deadly African members of the cobra family, come in green & black mambas |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | POP CULTURE POPS $800: Son of a Black Panther, this "California Love" rapper who died in 1996 expressed some daddy issues with "Papa'z Song" Tupac |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | BANDITS $1200: Old West bandit Black Bart rose to infamy robbing these Wells Fargo conveyances stagecoaches |
#7827, aired 2018-09-25 | THE UNSEEN $800: In the Cygnus X-1 star system, discovered in 1964, a blue supergiant circles this hungry, unseen phenomenon a black hole |
#7826, aired 2018-09-24 | PAINTED LADIES $400: His "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1" is better known as his "Mother" Whistler |
#7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $200: Heard at this event "honoring" Charlie Sheen:
"You're the black sheep of a family responsible for 3 'Mighty Ducks' movies" a (Comedy Central) roast |
#7825, aired 2018-09-21 | ALTERNATIVES TO COACHELLA? $400: This king of Wakanda is the alter ego of the Black Panther T'Challa |
#7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $2000: Jack Black is sweet on Sister Encarnacion in this 2006 movie; she's mad that kids are "wrestling in a sacred place" Nacho Libre |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REGIONAL VOCABULARY $800: In the Plains states, a black blizzard was one of these storms a dust storm |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Known by a "colorful" nickname, he got the rank of General of the Armies of the U.S. in September 1919 "Black Jack" Pershing |
#7817, aired 2018-09-11 | I'M ALLEN $600: In 1844 Macon Allen became the first black one of these professionals in the U.S. & later, first black justice of the peace an attorney (or lawyer) |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | BUSINESS $800: In 2007 Forbes reported that this TV personality was "America's sole black female billionaire" Oprah Winfrey |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | BACK TO BASICS $1200: The timeless line "when in doubt, go basic" this appeared in a 2017 Vogue feature black |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | I WANT TO GO NUTS! $800: 2 types of this nut are English & black; when buying ones in the shell, avoid shells with holes or cracks walnuts |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | ANIMAL PLANET $1600: In 2015 a Chinese man found the "pups" he got 2 years earlier were Asian black these, a class II protected species bears |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $2,200 (Daily Double): The name of these yellow & black study guides is used to suggest "a superficial grounding but no real insight" CliffsNotes |
#7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THE OCTOPUS $800: An octopus has 3 hearts to pump its blood of this color throughout its body blue |
#7806, aired 2018-07-16 | CAKE $400: Ja, in German this cake is known as Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte Black Forest cake |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | OUT IN LEFT FIELD $200: Despite his nickname, this left fielder for the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" didn't usually play barefoot Shoeless Joe |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | COLORFUL PLACES $1200: The memorial seen here in West Bengal honors prisoners who suffered in this infamous site in 1756 the Black Hole of Calcutta |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Chimamanda Adichie had a 2014 bestseller with "We Should All Be" these, believers in women's equality feminists |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $800: 15 years after "Push", this gem of a writer gives voice to Precious' son in "The Kid" Sapphire |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Maryse Condé wrote the historical novel "I, Tituba, Black Witch of" this New England town Salem |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | TV SHOWS BY FAMILY $1200: The Johnsons, including baby DeVante & twins Jack & Diane Black-ish |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British author of "White Teeth" also wrote "Swing Time", a story of 2 childhood friends who dream of being dancers Zadie Smith |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This "Their Eyes Were Watching God" author wrote "Tell My Horse" after living in Haiti Zora Neale Hurston |
#7802, aired 2018-07-10 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS $1600: The Badlands in South Dakota are home to the black-footed type of this weasel, back from the brink of extinction ferrets |
#7798, aired 2018-07-04 | 5, 5 $600: This pandemic plagued Europe in the mid-1300s the Black Death |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $1200: In 2014 this Mobile-born "Orange is the New Black" star became the first openly transgender Emmy nominee Cox |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | GEORGE GERSHWIN $800: Despite pressure to use white singers in blackface, George Gershwin insisted on a black cast for this work set on Catfish Row Porgy and Bess |
#7792, aired 2018-06-26 | COMMON BONDS $400: Black,
butter,
kidney beans |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | SURNAMES $800: A common Jewish surname, it's German for "black" Schwarz |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | ROCKS & MINERALS $800: An iron sulfide, pyrite looks this color in rocks but creates a black streak when rubbed across a surface gold (or yellow) |
#7788, aired 2018-06-20 | SPORTS DOCTORS $2000: Fullback Doc Blanchard was "Mr. Inside" for this school's undefeated 1944-46 Black Knights Army |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | SHE CREATED HIM $400: Jacob Black Stephenie Meyer |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | REVOLUTION NOW! $600: "Power to the people!" was a slogan of this African-American revolutionary group co-founded by Huey Newton the Black Panthers |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | BUT IT'S LUNCHTIME $800: Hillshire Farm's fine selection of lunch meat includes the Black Forest type of this ham |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $200: A kitchen fixture is in the name of this slang term for a tall, usually black silk top hat a stovepipe |
#7782, aired 2018-06-12 | THE BLUE DANUBE $800: The Danube ends its journey by emptying into this sea the Black Sea |
#7782, aired 2018-06-12 | NEW WORLD SYMPHONY $1200: The black hole called Gargantua speeds up time on one of the planets visited in this Christopher Nolan film Interstellar |
#7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: Grains of this metal on film react with a developing solution to create a black & white negative silver |
#7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PRINCE $1200: (Jimmy of Clue Crew presents from Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota.) One of the first videos by a black artist to get regular airplay on MTV was this one, inspired by a pink Mercury Marauder; Prince was vaulted into superstardom as the song rode up the charts "Little Red Corvette" |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | COMICS RELIEF $2000: T'Challa, aka this superhero, was introduced in 1966 in a Fantastic 4 book; he hit the big screen in 2018 the Black Panther |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $400: Remember this historic landmark, built as a Roman Catholic mission the Alamo |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $800: Why bother with a color photo when the skin of this water mammal is grayish anyway? a manatee |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | TRUE CRIME BOOKS, SWEETHEART $800: "Black Mass" about the life & capture of this notorious gangster, was made into a film with Johnny Depp Whitey Bulger |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $1200: In black-&-white may be the way many remember this alliterative actress of the 1930s, who starred in films like "Ninotchka" Greta Garbo |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $1600: Get your kicks from these rhymingly named boots here mukluks |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $2000: These ferns, whose name includes a word for a young lady, take their name from their delicate fronds maidenhair |
#7774, aired 2018-05-31 | TV & MOVIE COMMON BONDS $1000: Herbie,
General Lee,
Black Beauty cars |
#7772, aired 2018-05-29 | THE FOOD CHAIN $1,200 (Daily Double): Black bears sometimes prey on the young of this big deer, Alces alces a moose |
#7771, aired 2018-05-28 | ON THE "T"ABLE $600: This Mexican beer brand uses a black eagle in its logo Tecate |
#7769, aired 2018-05-24 | PHYSICS $800: The universe could end with the Big Crunch, meaning it collapses into one of these a black hole |
#7769, aired 2018-05-24 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $2000: There are golden & black-bellied species of this shorebird the plover |
#7767, aired 2018-05-22 | IT'S CHAOS $600: It's pure this in here! This, being where all demons live, not cute black-&-white bamboo eaters pandemonium |
#7767, aired 2018-05-22 | FOREIGN FORMER FORTS $1200: A fort named Khadzhibey on this sea became the Ukrainian city of Odessa the Black Sea |
#7766, aired 2018-05-21 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $800: The first black winter Olympic gold medalist, Vonetta Flowers won as a brake woman in this event in 2002 bobsled |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | PLANT ILLNESSES $400: Black spot does what its name suggests, most commonly to the leaves of these beloved flowers' bushes roses |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | IT'S ME, MARGARET $1200: In 1939 this actress starred with Judy Garland in "Babes in Arms" in black-&-white & "The Wizard of Oz" in green (Margaret) Hamilton |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: This colorful group of eroded mountains contains South Dakota's Custer Peak the Black Hills |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MUSIC $800: Their song "Back In Black" was a tribute to lead singer Bon Scott, who had just died AC/DC |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1200: The bag into which the very dark commemorative tablet goes the black plaque sack |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rent yourself a van in Yerevan, this country's capital, then shoot through Turkey to the Black Sea Armenia |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | RHETORICAL DEVICES $1200: Black & white keys side by side on a piano are an analogy for racial harmony in this Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder hit "Ebony And Ivory" |
#7757, aired 2018-05-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: In 1908 he knocked out Tommy Burns to become the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title Jack Johnson |
#7757, aired 2018-05-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: A year after his admission sparked a deadly riot, James Meredith became the first black graduate of this university University of Mississippi |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | IMAGE $400: NAACP Image Awards winners in 2018 included Taraji P. Henson for "Empire" & Tracee Ellis Ross for this sitcom Black-ish |
#7748, aired 2018-04-25 | EMOTION $1200: If you've seen Lewis Black do stand-up, you'll know why he was cast as the voice of this emotion in "Inside Out" anger |
#7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $200: (RuPaul presents the clue.) "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman" introduced movie audiences to this character, whom Tyler Perry called "exactly the PG version of" his mother & aunt Madea |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented Miss. not long after this Confederate president did Jefferson Davis |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: American daisy with dark center that was a leading U.S. suffragette black-eyed Susan B. Anthony |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | U.S. FORESTS $2,400 (Daily Double): New Hampshire's Black Mountain State Forest has plenty of the paper type of this, the state tree birch |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | IT'S A DISASTER! $400: By around 1400 this was responsible for the death of about 40% of Europe's population--25 million people the Black Death |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | WE APPRECIATE CANADIAN PERFORMERS! $2000: Saskatchewan's Tatiana Maslany perfected accents from British to Ukrainian on this clone drama Orphan Black |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | LITERARY LOVE TRIANGLES $800: Edward Cullen,
Jacob Black,
her Bella Swan |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | COLA $800: With over 30 flavors, including Black Cherry & California Dreamin', "It hasta be" this soda brand Shasta |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $200: A shiner is slang for this a black eye |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $400: In 2015 this hockey team won its sixth Stanley Cup the Blackhawks |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $600: "You Shook Me All Night Long" was on this classic album of the '80s Back in Black |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $800: It grew out of a small machine shop in Baltimore to become a leading maker of power tools & accessories Black and Decker |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $1000: An essay that promoted kindness to animals inspired Anna Sewell to write this novel Black Beauty |
#7728, aired 2018-03-28 | NOVELS ABOUT JESUS $400: This Man in Black of country music wrote "The Man in White" about St. Paul & Jesus Johnny Cash |
#7724, aired 2018-03-22 | AVIATION HISTORY $800: Benjamin Davis Jr. became the first to lead this all-black Alabama flying unit also known as the Red Tails the Tuskegee Airmen |
#7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X |
#7720, aired 2018-03-16 | TV TITLES $2000: The title of this disturbing British anthology comes from what your TV screen resembles when it's turned off Black Mirror |
#7719, aired 2018-03-15 | REAL "D" LIGHTS $800: Jack Black moonlights in this "persistent" band with partner Kyle Gass Tenacious D |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | WHAT A HIGH-CLASS MISTAKE! $800: Calling the 2005 paper "Information Loss in Black Holes" by this Cambridge prof. "derivative"? Bad form (Stephen) Hawking |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES $1600: The Morning Tulsa Daily World, August 4, 1921:
"Baseball Scorns Freed Black ____" Sox |