| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $400: The dilation of blood vessels is associated with this type of recurring vascular headache migraine |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $2000: Term for a type of large white blood cell that digests invading micro-organisms & also "eats" cell debris a macrophage |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HEALTH OBSERVANCES $2000: June 19 is the world day for this inherited blood disease that occurs mainly among people of African descent sickle cell anemia |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: From the Greek word for "kidney", these units, about a million per kidney, filter waste from the blood nephrons |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $1000: The first Sherlock Holmes novel was this one involving a message written in blood A Study in Scarlet |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $800: Sanguine, a blood-red chalk, is apt for the category; in the 1790s this Spaniard used it to sketch Saturn eating his son Goya |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SPEECHMAKING $600: Speaking to striking miners in 1912, this matronly activist warned of blood being spilled if guards were not soon called off Mother Jones |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $200: This cone-shaped body organ produces blood proteins & stores glycogen for you, so easy on the Lagavulin the liver |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $800: According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone" Genghis Khan |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $800: This type of heart surgery involves taking a blood vessel from elsewhere & creating a new pathway around a blockage bypass |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $400: This sport got ugly in 1956 as recently invaded Hungary beat the USSR in the "Blood in the Water" match water polo |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $400: This character says, "Make thick my blood; stop up the access & passage to remorse"; it's not her last experience with blood Lady Macbeth |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MEASURES $800: A blood test to measure cholesterol should calculate total cholesterol, LDLs, HDLs & these, named for a trio of molecules triglycerides |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LECTURING YOU ON SCIENCE $1600: This Brit who wrote about the full circulation of the blood in the human body was a Lumleian lecturer from 1615 to 1656 Harvey |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $800: This group of diseases is paired with leukemia in the name of a society that invests in research to cure blood cancers lymphoma |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $200: Agreeing to crucify Jesus, he washed his hands & said, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person" Pontius Pilate |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Max Dale Cooper got a Robert Koch Award & 100,000 euros in part for figuring out how leukocytes, also called these cells, work & fail white blood cells |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | SCIENCE STUFF $400: This iron-containing pigment in blood has a job to do: carry oxygen to tissue hemoglobin |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $400: "In Cold Tiffany's" In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $1000: We're sanguine you'll recall Michelle Forbes & Tara Buck takin' in life in Loo'siana on this fangs-tastic HBO series True Blood |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $200: In the aplastic form of this condition, AA for short, your bone marrow doesn't make enough new blood cells aplastic anemia |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $400: In the most common form of this hereditary disease, patients lack or have low levels of clotting factor number 8 hemophilia |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $600: Septicemia can be blood poisoning by bacteria; the body's serious reaction to it is known by this shorter name sepsis |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $800: To prevent bleeding problems due to a deficiency, newborn babies are given a shot of this vitamin vital for blood clotting vitamin K |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BAD BLOOD $1000: Compression stockings can help prevent a blood clot in the leg known as a deep vein this a thrombosis |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHOSE WHAT $5,000 (Daily Double): Their name comes from Isaiah 43, & their belief that blood transfusions would displease God is based on other biblical passages the Jehovah's Witnesses |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | PODCASTS $1200: "The Dropout" told the story of Elizabeth Holmes & this company of hers that claimed to revolutionize blood testing Theranos |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $1600: Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has scored several of this director's films, like "There Will Be Blood" & "Licorice Pizza" Paul Thomas Anderson |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | GLAD-JECTIVES $2000: "Humor" us & tell us of this happy word whose name derives from the Latin for "blood" sanguine |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $600: 4 Kansas murders / Which led to conviction / In a new type of novel / That was somehow nonfiction In Cold Blood |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $600: P.T. Anderson said the line in "There Will Be Blood" about drinking this was inspired by testimony in the Teapot Dome scandal milkshake |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: The title of a novel about settler/indigenous conflict is from a quote about "a secret river of" this in Australian history blood |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A PROVERBIAL MESS $600: From a blood stone you get can't you can't get blood from a stone |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | AMPHIBIANS $400: The wood frog of the Arctic can live with 65% of its body frozen due to using this sugar in its blood as an antifreeze glucose |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $1000: Cool it with the blood of this large, colorful African monkey & you're done--who wants to taste? a baboon |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $400: Not a blood type C |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LETTER & WORD $600: The most common human blood type (make sure to include whether it's positive or negative) O positive |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LIFE SCIENCE $1600: Transporting this protein is the main job of your body's erythrocytes hemoglobin |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ON ANOTHER PLANET $600: The ancient Romans named this planet after their god of war, perhaps because it resembles a drop of blood in the night sky Mars |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THIS GLAND IS YOUR GLAND $600: This gland in the front of the neck below the larynx makes calcitonin to deal with high levels of calcium in the blood the thyroid gland |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | HERALDRY $400: When heraldic images are termed "sanglant", it means they are symbolically stained with this blood |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | LOONEY TUNES $800: In "Buccaneer Bunny", he calls himself the "blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em firstiest, doggone worstiest" Yosemite Sam |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THE MEDI-VERSE $300: As its name implies, the object seen here is placed on a finger to measure the level of this in the blood oxygen |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THE MEDI-VERSE $400: A blood pressure reading has two parts: the systolic or top number and this, the bottom number the diastolic |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | FOOD FOR THOUGHT $1000: Monounsaturated fats in these "alligator pears" can lower blood pressure & promote a healthy brain avocados |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NATURAL BIOLOGY $200: Arterioles are a link between arteries & these fine blood vessels capillaries |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FROM THE GREEK $1200: This liquid part of the blood derives its name from the Greek for something molded or formed plasma |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $400: When Queen Victoria's grand-daughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her hemophilia |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHYSIOLOGY $800: Red blood cells are formed in the red this, also called myeloid tissue bone marrow |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHYSIOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The superior this brings blood from the head, neck, arms & chest to the heart, specifically to the right atrium the vena cava |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $1000: "It's the world against us & us against the world", says Errol Flynn as this sanguine title pirate Captain Blood |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $800: Consuming too much of this element, atomic number 11, can lead to high blood pressure sodium |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | THIRST $3,000 (Daily Double): Excessive thirst may be a symptom of high blood sugar, also known by this 13-letter name hyperglycemia |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE! $800: Sanguinary term for an aristocrat a blue blood |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | "CC" ME $2000: In medicine it's the complete or partial obstruction of a blood vessel, especially an artery occlusion |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $1600: In a book by Rafael Sabatini, "Captain Blood" is a feared pirate of this "Spanish" area of New World seas the Spanish Main |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | STARTS WITH "H-I" $1600: It's a chemical released by certain white blood cells during allergic reactions histamine |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $1600: Yu Hua's "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant" paints a picture of life under this man's Cultural Revolution Mao |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | GEOLOGY $400: This word for a type of blood vessel is also used for a mineral-filled fissure within rock a vein |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $800: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) "I feel I have blood on my hands", said a troubled Oppenheimer in a tense October 1945 meeting with this man, who replied that the blood was on his own instead Truman |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $1600: Beginning with 3 consonants, it's the word for a professional who is trained to draw blood a phlebotomist |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SPACE CUISINE $600: Long missions don't serve foods high in this element, as astronauts have fewer red blood cells & can't process it well iron |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $1000: Regarding blood pressure, these 2 words that end with the same 6 letters refer to how the heart muscles relax & contract systolic & diastolic |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | SCIENCE $1200: Of the 8 main blood types, this is the rarest in the U.S. & found in less than 1% of the population AB negative |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | NO CAP $1600: California has legal marijuana but no limit on the level in a driver's blood of this chemical whose name has 3- & 20-letter versions THC |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: 2 Greek words give us this 10-letter word meaning fear of blood hemophobia |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $400: Gore Vidal said he loathed this "In Cold Blood" writer "the way you might loathe... a filthy animal" Capote |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $800: "You're Dead" by '60s folk singer Norma Tanega is used as the theme song to this FX series What We Do in the Shadows |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MED. ABBREV. $800: FBS stands for this type of test that measures one's glucose level at least 8 hours after eating fasting blood sugar |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | NONPROFITS $800: Providing aid to veterans & their families, Soldiers' Angels was founded by a relative of this "Old Blood & Guts" general Patton |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | MEDICINE $800: Vitamin B12 shots may be needed if you have the pernicious type of this disease where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin anemia |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Some dieters attempt to enter ketosis, in which fat starts getting burned instead of this sugar in the blood glucose |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HANG UP YOUR TV REBOOTS $1600: "New Blood" was a fitting title for the Showtime reboot of the antics of this serial killer, but it was cut short after one season Dexter |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $7,200 (Daily Double): A lack of blood flow to the brain & a drop in blood pressure cause this, the medical term for fainting syncope |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): Blood pressure that's higher in the doctor's office than at home is referred to as this colorful type of hypertension white coat hypertension |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MEDICAL TERMS $400: Often called "the silent killer", it's the medical term for high blood pressure hypertension |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MEDICAL TERMS $1600: It's the clinical term for blood poisoning by bacteria septicemia (or sepsis) |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $1000: (Hans Zimmer reads.) I'm a big fan of this jack-of-all-trades musician who scored films like "The Master" & "There Will Be Blood"; you may have also heard of his little band called Radiohead (Jonny) Greenwood |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | SOUNDS SPOOKY $400: Sanguinelli is a variety of this citrus fruit whose flesh can be deep red a blood orange |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | INVERTEBRATES $800: A species of this annelid in the Amazon has a 6-inch proboscis that it uses as a hypodermic needle to suck blood a leech |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $400: Octopuses have 3 of these: 2 send blood to the gills, one sends blood to the rest of the body hearts |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | MISSION: IMPASSABLE $1000: The BBB, or this-this barrier, is crucial to regulating the entry of microorganisms into the central nervous system blood-brain |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $200: Witches,
Dunsinane,
ghost,
blood?
Womb,
doom Macbeth |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | A REAL BODY BUSY $800: Keepin' busy, this soft, fatty tissue inside your bones makes platelets & oh yeah, billions of new blood cells daily bone marrow |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $400: An article in the New York Times about the gruesome murder of 4 in Kansas inspired Truman Capote to write this book In Cold Blood |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | WHERE IS IT, DOC? $800: Subungual hematoma, I'm afraid--blood collecting under this a nail |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | ____ & ____ $200: Anatomical term for being human or for your relatives flesh & blood |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $600: Seen here is a type of this, used for blood pressure a gauge |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $1200: Among the few high-profile Beninese-Americans is this Oscar nominee for "In America" & "Blood Diamond" Djimon Hounsou |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $400: Luke, the son of Hermes, betrays this title kid at Camp Half-Blood by poisoning him; not cool Percy Jackson |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $400: Prior to the 17th century work of William Harvey, it was thought that 2 separate systems distributed this around the body blood |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | & EYE $200: Attention, students! Anisocoria is where these eye parts are unequal in size, maybe due to a torn or blocked blood vessel in the neck the pupils |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: This system illustrated here gets your blood & lymph going circulatory system |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FROM STEM TO STERN $1000: This small tube is inserted into a blood vessel that's blocked up a stent |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | ONE-SYLLABLE BODY PARTS $1,600 (Daily Double): Macrophages destroy old or damaged cells when blood passes through this organ the spleen |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $2000: When it comes to blood, this literally means "red cell" an erythrocyte |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | TV SHOW TITLES IN SPANISH $200: Starring Anna Paquin, it has been shown as "Sangre verdadera" & "Sangre fresca" True Blood |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $200: Time to conjure up Book 6 in the series, where Harry Potter deals with this title person (as you probably know, it's Snape) Half-Blood Prince |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | NOW, WE DUEL $800: In 1791 he built a coalition against Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law to win a Senate seat; blood came after Aaron Burr |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $300: After you donate blood, this org. says no heavy exercising & "enjoy the feeling of knowing you have helped save lives!" the (American) Red Cross |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $600: This waxy substance attaches to LDLs, low-density lipoproteins, to build unwanted deposits in blood vessels; watch it! cholesterol |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $900: As well as 8 arms, this creature in a genus of the same name has 3 hearts to pump its blue blood an octopus |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $1200: cancer.gov says this blood disease occurs most often in adults over 55 but is also the most common cancer in kids younger than 15 leukemia |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $1500: It's got glucose, it has proteins to help blood to clot & this liquid makes up about half of the content of the blood plasma |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | MEDICAL FOLKS $1200: Named Australian of the Century in 1999, Victor Chang helped develop artificial heart these to keep blood flow in the right direction valves |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | MEDICAL FOLKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Helen Taussig developed the first treatment for cyanotic infants, this alliterative syndrome blue babies |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | 3.7 TRILLION FISH IN THE OCEAN $400: To live in frigid waters, the icefish has blood glycoproteins that function as this, also a product made by Valvoline antifreeze |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $5,000 (Daily Double): Loosely based on historical events, this 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel is subtitled "The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $800: Having time to draw a cross of his own blood on the ground, Francisco Pizarro was killed in this city in 1541 Lima, Peru |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: From a Latin word for "hair", it's the name of the body's tiniest blood vessels capillary |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $400: Colm Tóibín's "Bad Blood" documented the people & politics of this island Ireland |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES $1200: As part of this system, the thin walls of the alveoli are conducive to extracting carbon dioxide & getting oxygen to the blood the respiratory system |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | MYTHOLOGY $400: After Medusa was beheaded, this winged horse sprang from her blood--weird & gross Pegasus |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $800: This phrase meaning someone is vulnerable to attack refers to something sharks are attracted to blood in the water |
| #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 | OIL THINGS CONSIDERED $1200: Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was the basis for this movie that won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar There Will Be Blood |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SCIENCE! $800: The size of a fist, this organ behind your left ribs fights invading germs in your blood by producing lymphocytes spleen |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $400: In 1940 he told the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" Churchill |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $800: The Red Cross says if you have this blood type, you're a universal donor, so come in & donate O negative |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $1200: He's the R&B superstar seen here Keith Sweat |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $2000: "Tears, Idle Tears" is an 1847 poem by this long-lived lord & poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $6,600 (Daily Double): Blood, sweat & tears all contain this metallic element, the 6th-most abundant in the Earth's crust sodium |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | POINTING OUT DECIMALS $200: In 1938 the AMA signed off on a legal limit for blood alcohol concentration of a rather startling .15; today it's this .08 |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $2000: A chief Aztec deity, this feathered serpent helped create the human race by mingling his blood with the bones of the ancient dead Quetzalcoatl |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | MOLECULES $2000: A 1998 Nobel rewarded work that revealed nitric oxide's role in triggering this, the expansion of blood vessels vasodilation |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | NUTRITION $200: This "index" ranks how much certain foods increase your blood sugar levels glycemic |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: A factor in human blood is named for this monkey seen here Rhesus |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $800: This large artery that supplies blood to the head & neck also aids in regulating blood pressure carotid |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $1600: In 1943 Dr. Willem Kolff's artificial kidney pioneered this treatment of removing, purifying & returning blood dialysis |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | COMMON BONDS $600: Turkey,
front,
a cruel & unfeeling person's blood things that are cold |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | BRAIN SURGEON'S TERMINOLOGY $600: Jugular veins take blood away from the head & the carotids, these blood vessels, bring it back arteries |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | BRAIN SURGEON'S TERMINOLOGY $1500: Called the "master gland", it sits at the base of the brain & sends hormones into the blood stream the pituitary |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $600: Filtering the entire contents of your blood as many as 40 times a day is the job of this pair of organs the kidneys |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $200: If you've got hemophobia, the fear of this, it's unlikely that you're a surgeon... or a vampire blood |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: This membrane of the eye contains no blood vessels, taking oxygen from tears & directly from the air your cornea |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | STAY HEALTHY $200: Pass the wild Alaskan sockeye! Be heart healthy & take in omega-3s to inhibit blood clot formation by eating some of this fish salmon |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $800: This Scottish king laments the whole ocean won't wash the blood from his hands but it will turn "the green one red" Macbeth |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE SKELETAL SYSTEM $900: Inside your bones is this soft tissue where blood cells & platelets are produced marrow |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | PRIMING THE PUMP $800: Oxygen-poor blood is pumped to the lungs through the pulmonary valve by the right this, a chamber of the heart ventricle |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $1600: All states have implied consent laws, so applying for a driver's license means agreeing to let police test this your blood alcohol level |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE $1600: "Blood On The Coal" by The Folksmen is on the soundtrack album of this Christopher Guest mockumentary A Mighty Wind |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | FACE/PALM $200: Fingers curl as palm fibers tighten in Dupuytren's contracture, which can be caused by this disease of high blood glucose diabetes |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | RED ALL OVER $600: A tarocco is this type of hybrid orange whose flesh is actually a vivid red, thanks to anthocyanins a blood orange |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $2000: "I drink your milkshake. I drink it up" There Will Be Blood |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PUMP-POURRI $200: It's the size of a fist & pumps 5-6 quarts of blood per minute, or about 2,000 gallons a day the heart |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ANTHROPOLOGY $800: In everyday speech this "Money" is from unethical sources; in anthropology, it's compensation to the family of a murder victim blood money |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | 6 DRUGS $3,000 (Daily Double): Used to reduce the formation of clots, Coumadin is a brand of this, also called blood thinner an anticoagulant |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | I'LL HAVE THIRDS $600: This third book in the King James Bible says, "It shall be a perpetual statute... that ye eat neither fat nor blood" Leviticus |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | ROUGH NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $400: The ball game version of this song doesn't include "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution" "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | ROUGH NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $800: Belt it out from its states of Sonora to Campeche! "War, war! Let the national banners be soaked in waves of blood" Mexico |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD $1600: Plates lined with blood vessels likely helped cool this Jurassic herbivore; beware the spiky tail, too Stegosaurus |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | DISEASES $400: In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas may no longer produce this hormone that controls blood sugar insulin |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | THE DRUGS OF HUMANITY $200: Lipitor lowers fat in the blood called triglycerides & knows if this lipid has been bad or good & helps make it good for goodness' sake cholesterol |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | FROM THE GREEK FOR... $1200: "To turn into blood": this dangerous swelling containing blood hematoma |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $600: In 2020 recovered COVID patients were asked to donate this liquid part of blood to possibly help others plasma |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | STARTS WITH "Y" $400: This action stretches the jaw, may increase blood flow to the brain & causes others around you to do it too yawning |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | PREFIXED PAIRS $400: Medical condition of abnormally high blood pressure & getaway move to another part of the universe in old video games hypertension & hyperspace |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $400: The A1C test measures average blood sugar over the past 3 months; at 5.7% you're pre-this, at 6.5 you're this diabetic |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | BIBLICAL PASSAGES $1200: In Exodus, this man tells the elders of Israel that when the Lord sees blood upon the lintel & side posts, he "will pass over the door" Moses |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $400: In apheresis, this is removed from the body; specific components are withdrawn from it before it's returned to the body blood |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | BOOZE IN BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Henry IV, Part 2", this jovial fellow attributes to sherry a "warming of the blood" that "illumineth the face" Falstaff |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: From words meaning "heart" & "vessel", this adjective means relating to the heart & blood vessels cardiovascular |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $1000: 2 very different things, plexiglass & the artificial blood cell, were invented at this Montreal university founded in 1821 McGill |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOUBLE TALK WORDS $1600: This abnormal heart sound is caused by turbulent blood flow within the heart a murmur |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $400: Katniss thinks this man, leader of the Capitol, smells like blood & roses President Snow |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | MARVEL $1000: Captain Marvel gets some powers due to the Tesseract; others she has via an infusion of this alien race's blood thanks to Yon-Rogg Kree |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | THE HUMAN BODY $2000: Bilirubin, a pigment of bile, is the result of the breakdown of these cells red blood cells |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | ANATOMY $800: On either side of the neck, you should be able to feel the pulse above this artery that supplies blood to the head the carotid |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1200: "Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book Bismarck |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: This Roman tragedy premiered Jan. 24, 1594 & the stage blood has been flowing since Titus Andronicus |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PROSE $1600: This "sanguine" novel by Cormac McCarthy describes the villainous Judge Holden as "a great shambling mutant" Blood Meridian |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | MAMMALS $200: The pachyderms include this mammal whose skin secretes a moistening reddish fluid, which led folks to believe it sweated blood a hippopotamus |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $1200: You can reduce your risk of stroke, heart disease & this, also called high blood pressure, by limiting your salt intake hypertension |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $400: "'Independence!' cries the American world; bathed in the blood of its heroes the land of Columbus" Colombia |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $400: Khal Drogo & Dany are mentioned in chapter one of the Best Novella in 1997, "Blood of the Dragon" by this man George R.R. Martin |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | A____ $200: This type of blood vessel, such as the carotid, carries blood away from the heart an artery |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | YOU NEED A VITAMIN BOOST $1600: Take your B6 to avoid microcytic this, where red blood cells are smaller than normal anemia |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | MIX-OLOGY $1000: It's not for the squeamish: HOMELY TOGA hematology |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | MUSIC STARS $400: She had 3 of Billboard's Top 20 songs of 2015, including "Bad Blood" Taylor Swift |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | ORGAN RECITAL $400: The largest internal organ in humans, it destroys old red blood cells the liver |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $2000: An earthenware beer mug & a circulatory vessel returning blood to the heart stein & vein |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | BLOOD $200: The mitral valve opens to allow blood flow from the left atrium into the left one of these ventricle |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | BLOOD $400: In 1649 William Harvey published "Two Anatomical Exercises on" this movement of the blood, which he had discovered circulation |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | BLOOD $800: Coagulation begins when these, also called thrombocytes, begin to aggregate at the site of a ruptured blood vessel platelets |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | BLOOD $1000: When a waste product known as bilirubin builds up in the blood, this yellowing of the skin & eyes can occur jaundice |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | BLOOD $7,400 (Daily Double): Hemoglobin in blood carries oxygen to the tissues & also holds 2/3 of the body's content of this element iron |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $200: In one draft Tolkien had this character stab & kill Smaug, then nearly drown in the dragon's blood Bilbo Baggins |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $400: There are 3 species of this flyer, the only mammal whose diet is solely based on blood a vampire bat |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $800: These bloodsucking worms have been used in medicine to treat everything from gout to whooping cough leeches |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $1200: Feasting on rats & humans, these bloodsuckers helped cause the deaths of 1/4 of Europe during the Middle Ages fleas |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $1600: Female mosquitos drink human blood & in so doing, can transmit diseases like this, also called breakbone fever dengue fever |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $2000: Terminix offers a 30-day guarantee when removing these bloodsuckers--90 days if you buy a mattress encasement bedbugs |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $800: One of Asia's first European-Native treaties was made in 1565 in the Philippines; drops of this mixed in wine sealed the deal blood |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | MED. ABBREV. $2000: P.E. is this type of blood clot in the lungs a pulmonary embolism |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $400: In Chapter One of this book, "a great fish" severs a woman's femoral artery, the blood now "a beacon... clear and true" Jaws |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $1600: Eugene O'Neill described this 4-act family drama as "old sorrow written in tears & blood" Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SPIN CYCLE $1000: Labs use this machine that spins fluids to do your hematocrit, or blood analysis centrifuge |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SCIENCE $1200: Also called thrombocytes, these cell fragments found in the blood are involved in clotting platelets |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THE WEEKEND $1000: Kick back with a Sunday read of "Blood & Treasure", a look at this 18th century Kentucky frontiersman (Daniel) Boone |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | FROM GRAY'S ANATOMY $6,000 (Daily Double): It "is the main trunk of a series of vessels which convey the oxygenated blood to the tissues of the body" aorta |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: "Blood Type" & "The Cullens" are chapters in this book, the first in a series Twilight |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | FOOD FIGHTS BACK $2000: Leafy greens are rich in this vitamin needed to synthesize clotting factors; blood thinners may counteract its activity (vitamin) K |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | THE CDC SAYS SO $1600: This hereditary disorder in which the blood does not clot properly is more common in males than females hemophilia |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | A BORING CATEGORY $600: In "There Will Be Blood", this actor uses a straw analogy regarding oil drilling: "I... drink... your... milkshake!" Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: Neutrophils are the most plentiful type of these colorless components in the body that fight infections white blood cells |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: This lowest part of the brainstem helps maintain normal blood pressure, among other activities the medulla |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | TIME FOR SCIENCE $1600: Percival Lowell thought he saw these on the surface of Venus--some think it was a reflection of the blood vessels in his eye canals |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | WORDS WITH ALL 5 VOWELS $1200: Done to prolong breathing & blood flow until medical help arrives, it's the "R" in CPR resuscitation |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $400: In an 1843 speech Henry Garnet told slaves to consider "the shedding of" this for freedom; Frederick Douglass disagreed blood |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | TRYING ON SOME GENES $1200: Later suspected in doping, the gene therapy repoxygen was developed to treat this disease by increasing the red blood cell count anemia |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE 3 "R"s $2000: The blood-brain this is made of tight capillary walls & reduces the danger of mercury poisoning barrier |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | CHURCHILL SPEAKS $400: In his first statement as prime minister, Winston Churchill said he had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears &" this sweat |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | SOME RANDOM INFO $200: Sticky fruits, not blood, are the diet of this type of parrot named for a classic character; check out that hairline Dracula |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | EVEN NUMBERS $2000: According to Johns Hopkins & the Mayo Clinic, a desirable level of total cholesterol in the blood is below this number 200 |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | MATCH $800: The ABO system is used to match types of this blood |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | DOUBLE THE DOUBLE VOWELS $800: Job title of an Old West owner of an establishment such as the Bucket of Blood in Nevada saloonkeeper |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEVER ENOUGH $800: This letter blood type belonging to 45% of Caucasians but over 50% of African Americans is always in high demand O |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | IN OTHER RECENT NEWS... $1200: In fall 2020 the 1st blood test became available for this top-10 U.S. cause of death; diagnosis by symptoms is tricky & brain scans costly Alzheimer's disease |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | HERBS $1000: Eating one seed from the castor bean can be fatal due to the presence of this blood-clumping toxin ricin |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | WELL VERSED IN POETRY $400: "Antique" title of a poem about a warship that mentions "her deck, once red with heroes' blood" "Old Ironsides" |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $200: As the proverb says, this is "thicker than water", normally by at least 3 to 4 times blood |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $2000: The Siksika & the Blood are groups that make up this Native American people the Blackfoot |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | THE HUMAN BODY $400: It's a network of blood vessels or nerves, like the solar one located behind the stomach the plexus |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | & I FEEL ALL RIGHT $800: Just relax & have some Captopril, an ace inhibitor used to lower this blood pressure |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | ACIDS $800: Heparin, a natural acid that prevents blood clots, is produced in this organ the liver |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "L" $1600: This chemical is used at crime scenes to reveal hidden traces of blood luminol |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIOCHEMISTRY $400: Trehalose is the major blood sugar in insects; this is its counterpart in humans glucose |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | TV & FILM $800: This "sanguine" HBO series was based on the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris True Blood |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | IMMORAL LINE $1600: This Bard royal says he must kill his brother's sons & marry the daughter, as he's "so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin" Richard III |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | IMMORAL LINE $2000: Judge Holden in "Blood Meridian" by this author advises, "Every child knows that play is nobler than work" Cormac McCarthy |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: The Razzies drew first blood in nominating this man for worst actor for his performance in "Rambo: Last Blood" Stallone |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | FIVE SUMMONER'S TALES $400: Occultist Aleister "The Beast" Crowley claimed to have used blood & topaz to summon Choronzon, one of these fiends demons |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | ANIMALS $200: A protein called draculin in the saliva of these animals prevents blood from clotting as they feed vampire bats |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | THE HUMAN BODY $2000: Seen here among other organs, this organ has clumps of lymphocytes, white blood cells that release antibodies to kill viruses the spleen |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | NECK & NECKING $600: "Go for" this main vein in the neck that drains blood from the brain the jugular |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): As its name indicates, this heart valve regulates blood flow to the lungs, if it's damaged, the heart gets stressed the pulmonary valve |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | PICTURE THE MUSICAL ACT $800: If you get this one, you've made me so very happy Blood, Sweat & Tears |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | DOCTOR HOW $800: ...does blood get supplied to the heart? Through the coronary arteries, branches of this, the longest artery in your body the aorta |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The Bruker Tracer 5 helps archaeologists with soil analysis: iron means the former presence of this, as at an altar or slaughterhouse blood |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | CORSICAN $2,000 (Daily Double): A corrupt justice system imposed by Genoese invaders long encouraged Corsicans to engage in the private blood feuds called this vendetta |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NATURE $800: Instead of hemoglobin, an octopus has hemocyanin, which gives it this feature blue blood |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $600: At Camp Half-Blood, this young demigod learns things like how to ride winged horses & sword fighting Percy Jackson |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Nichole Vrsansky from WOIO.) In 1967, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. René Favaloro removed a vein from a patient's leg & used it to route blood flow around a blocked coronary artery, achieving a landmark in this now common type of heart surgery bypass |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TESTING, TESTING $1200: Cardiac rhythm, blood pressure & breathing are all monitored while you exercise on a treadmill in this type of test a stress test |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS $600: These smallest blood vessels connect arteries with veins capillaries |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | BIOLOGY $1200: Considering it's about 7 feet up from its heart to its brain, this mammal's normal blood pressure is about 280/180 the giraffe |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | FOREST CLUMP $800: On Yemen's Socotra Island, there's a forest of this mythical animal's blood trees named for the deep red color of their sap dragon |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): The bone marrow doesn't produce enough blood cells in the aplastic type of this disease anemia |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SPORTS IDIOMS $1,000 (Daily Double): When you "draw" this in a boxing or fencing bout, you've inflicted the initial suffering in the contest first blood |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | NUMBER, PLEASE $800: Blood money is a synonym for this many pieces of silver, Judas' payment for betraying Jesus 30 |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | A BUSY BODY $1600: Blockage of these neck arteries that bring blood to your brain can lead to stroke the carotid artery |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Instead of calm or nonchalance, try this French phrase that means cold blood sang froid |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | TRANSLATED GEOGRAPHIC NAMES $2000: Spanish:
Blood of Christ mountains, Colorado & New Mexico The Sangre de Cristo Mountains |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | SCIENCE DIGEST $800: The heart, blood vessels & lymph vessels make up the bulk of this body system circulatory |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $1200: Adjective referring to vessels that carry blood away from the heart arterial |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | FROM "A" TO "Y" $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Clue presents by a display monitor.) When plaque clogs a coronary artery, a stent may be inserted with a balloon catheter that opens up the artery, allowing blood to flow more freely in the 11-letter procedure called this angioplasty |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $800: Red blood cells must take things one at a time passing through one of these tiny blood vessels, which can be .008mm capillaries |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | YOUR HEART'S CONTENT $800: To keep blood flowing in the right direction, your heart has 4 of these, including the mitral valves |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY $1600: Stay seated when you donate blood & get up slowly--a common side effect is syncope, aka this fainting |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY $2000: The original these for allergies, like Benadryl, make you drowsy because they can pass through the blood-brain barrier antihistamines |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | FLICK OF SEAGULLS $2000: A lone seagull draws first blood on this actress in Hitchcock's "The Birds" Tippi Hedren |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family In Cold Blood |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | GASES $400: Absorbed into the blood slower than nitrogen, this lightest inert gas is mixed with oxygen for deep-sea divers helium |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE MADNESS OF THE KING $400: A blood disease may have caused the madness of this king, & in 1811 his son assumed his duties King George III |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | BLOOD, SWEAT & CHEERS $400: This Minn.-based clinic says, "as a general goal, aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity every day" the Mayo Clinic |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | BLOOD, SWEAT & CHEERS $800: Do you even lift? 350, bro, lying on my back doing this exercise, pushing weight from chest level to arm's length the bench press |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | FOOD OF THE GODS $800: The blood of Kvasir was the origin of a type of this honey wine that gave wisdom & poetic inspiration to those who drank it mead |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | BLOOD, SWEAT & CHEERS $1600: Stand, squat, hands on the floor, kick both feet behind you, do a push-up, legs forward & jump to do one of these, but don't belch! a burpee |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | BLOOD, SWEAT & CHEERS $2000: "Plyo" is short for this type of exercise that used to be called jump training; use its box for squats & push-ups plyometrics |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | 3 NAMES IN CLASSIC ROCK $2000: Blood, Sweat & Tears never tire-d of singing, "What goes up, must come down", this title object, "got to go 'round" a spinning wheel |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | THE HUMAN BODY $1600: Erythrocytes are your red blood cells & these are your white blood cells leukocytes |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | YO HO HO $1000: "A drop of Nelson's blood won't do us any harm"; "Nelson" referring to Admiral Horatio & "blood" being this 4-letter potent potable grog |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | CORPORATE SCANDALS WITH DAVID FABER $1600: (David Faber of CNBC presents the clue.) Elizabeth Holmes' claim that she could perform dozens of medical tests from a few drops of blood was the lie that created this company that the SEC said took more than $700 million from investors Theranos |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $400: To win a 2000 Oscar in this movie, Russell Crowe played a real blood sport Gladiator |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | THE ZULUS $800: Andries Pretorius, a leader of this Dutch settler group, defeated an army of some 10,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838 the Boers |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $1200: Abby in "Blood Simple", written by who else but the Coen brothers & directed by Joel Frances McDormand |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | GENERAL HOSPITAL $2000: Have issues with your blood? Head over to this department, the study of blood diseases & of blood-forming organs hematology |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: In ancient Athens Solon's code of laws replaced the harsher one, said to be written in blood, by this lawgiver Draco |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $800: 1940: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat" Winston Churchill |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Weight, family history & high blood pressure are all contributing factors to the type 2 type of this diabetes |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | ANIMAL FACTS $1000: Insect blood does not have this protein that transports oxygen in our bodies & makes our blood red hemoglobin |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | MISSING PIECES $1600: Basic components of blood: white blood cells, red blood cells, plasma, these platelets |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $400: Charles Richard Drew organized the first of these alliterative plasma storage programs a blood bank |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | FAIRY TALE POLICE REPORT $400: "Open & shut. He admitted to killing Cock Robin, in cold blood with bow & arrow" the Sparrow |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $400: Truman Capote:
"Cold" In Cold Blood |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | THE BODY HUMAN $1200: One of the spleen's main functions is to filter out worn & damaged these blood cells |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | GENETIC DISORDERS $400: Unusual bleeding after vaccinations & swelling & warmth in joints are symptoms of this blood-clotting disorder hemophilia |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | UNFILMED NOVELS $1600: Plenty of this author's works have made it to the screen, but "Blood Meridian"--not yet Cormac McCarthy |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE? $400: "I am innocent of the blood of this just person" Pontius Pilate |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | MEDICAL PROCEDURES $1600: Cross hatching is shading a drawing; this is checking recipient-donor compatibility for a blood transfusion cross-matching |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SCI-POURRI $200: Using one of these he built himself, in 1674 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek gave the first accurate description of red blood cells a microscope |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $600: The good times roll in Bon Temps, Louisiana, the setting for this drama where some folks really vamped it up True Blood |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS $800: 5-word phrase said when turning down fatty food or folding a poker hand too rich for my blood |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAREEM $1200: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) My heroes include this man killed in 1770 who's been lauded as "the first to defy, the first to die" & "the first to pour out his blood as a precious libation on the altar of a people's rights" Crispus Attucks |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | MEDICAL MATTERS $1600: Red blood cells should be round but instead are crescent shaped in this type of anemia sickle cell anemia |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | JUST THE FACTS $200: Of the 4 main blood groups, this one is the most common; that group negative is the universal donor O |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | & DEAL THE CARBS $800: Okay, these fruits are about 22% carbs, but Cavendish ones do help lower blood pressure & promote a healthy heart, so it's worth it! bananas |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WE WUZ ROBBED! $400: Thomas Blood & his criminal gang stole these treasures from the Tower of London in 1671, but were quickly caught the Crown Jewels |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | METAPHORS $1000: Jefferson likened liberty to one of these that must be "refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" a tree |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $1600: Insufficient blood flow is the cause of this type of chest pain with a Latin name angina |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | ENDS IN "SS" $800: In this type of heart surgery, a blood vessel taken from a different part of the body is used to circumvent a blocked artery a bypass |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | PHARMACY KNOWLEDGE $800: An ill-fitting cuff may make this free test at the drugstore less accurate, so the store will sell you a home monitor blood pressure |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | WEIRD LEGAL NEWS $1000: Blowing our minds in 2010, a Neb. native got nailed for DUI costumed as this device that depicted a blood alcohol level of 6.9% a breathalyzer |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | MED. ABBREV. $800: A CBC, or "complete" this, gets hemoglobin & platelet stats a complete blood count |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $400: 2 species of this blood-drinking bat, the white-winged & hairy-legged, feed primarily on birds a vampire bat |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ Flannery O'Connor |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOSS $800: In Sweden these people get a text message when their lifesaving donation is used, as for a trauma victim blood donors |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $2000: By Cormac McCarthy: the Kid, Judge Holden Blood Meridian |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: What was once called "baby" this drug is now known as "low-dose" this drug & given to adults to prevent blood clots aspirin |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Your diet does not affect the pH levels of your blood, which is a standard alkaline 7.4 or so, regulated by these organs kidneys |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | FROM C TO D $1200: In a 1982 no. 1 hit The J. Geils Band sang, "My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold, my angel is" this centerfold |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CLASSICAL DANCE $400: Not "sausage" but this dance follows "Vienna Blood" in a Johann Strauss Jr. title waltz |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | LETTER IMPERFECT $2000: It was one of the 3 original blood groups discovered in 1900 but got changed to O C |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: In "Hard to Kill", this martial artist & actor says, "I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank" Steven Segal |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | SCIENCE NEWS $1600: Called cancer killers, TILs are a new preparation of "tumor-infiltrating" ones of these white blood cells that attack antigens lymphocytes |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | PLASMA $800: Blood plasma contains protective proteins called gamma or immuno- these globulin |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | PLASMA $1200: Blood plasma circulates these important current-conducting substances like sodium & magnesium electrolytes |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | PLASMA $2000: To make a Red Cross plasma donation, it's great if you have this, the fourth major blood group discovered AB |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1,600 (Daily Double): A Christopher Marlowe guy makes a deal he can't back out of, as he's written in blood, "Faustus gives to thee" this soul |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AROUND THE BODY $800: These arteries that supply blood to the heart itself take their name from the Latin for "crown" the coronary arteries |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | ALTER EGOS $1600: The Half-Blood Prince:
This potions professor Snape |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | NEW IN SCIENCE $400: The blood vessels in its gills gave a clue that the opah is an unusual fish of this type AKA homeothermic warm-blooded |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $200: "Fire & Blood" is a novel from this author, set centuries before the events in "Game of Thrones" (George) Martin |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | SITCOMEDY $200: In this title precinct, Detective Rosa Diaz' formal leather jacket is "the one without any blood on it" Brooklyn Nine-Nine |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $1600: It's the one-word name for a red blood cell erythrocyte |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | NONFICTION $1000: "Bad Blood" covers the rise & fall of this woman & her blood-testing company Theranos, once the darling of investors (Elizabeth) Holmes |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | ONE "L" OF A DRUG $400: Pfizer makes this popular anticholesterol drug that works by reducing low-density lipoproteins in the blood Lipitor |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | BREAKS & LIVERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The portal vein brings venous blood to the liver, while this artery brings oxygenated arterial blood the hepatic |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $2000: This Spanish poet & playwright of the tragedy "Blood Wedding" was executed by a Nationalist firing squad Garcia Lorca |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WE WILL ROCK YOU $1000: In November 2018 this band flew high with 12 of 50 songs on the Hot Rock Songs chart, including "Bandito", "Morph" & "My Blood" Twenty One Pilots |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: Vitamin K is essential for blood to be able to do this normally clot |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | -OMETERS $400: The sphygmomanometer will measure this blood pressure |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | PALE AIL $600: If you're "in" this, defined as a lack of blood flow, perhaps due to trauma, you may be pale; treat by loosening tight clothes shock |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | SUIT UP $200: Without the pressurized interior of this suit, AKA an EMU, your blood would boil in a vacuum a spacesuit |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | BEWARE! $200: In this activity, as you go lower & stay longer, pressure can damage tissues & nitrogen can build up in the blood scuba diving (or deep-sea diving) |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | IT'S CHINA, JAKE $1200: The national anthem asks, "Let us amount our flesh & blood towards our new" this long structure the Great Wall |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Theatrical blood remains on these leather boxing gloves worn by Robert De Niro in his Oscar-winning performance in this film Raging Bull |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Edvard Munch was out with 2 friends when "the sky became blood... over the deep blue fjord", inspiring this 1893 work The Scream |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1600: Clear body fluid containing white blood cells lymph |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $1600: This trumpeter composed "Blood on the Fields", a 1994 oratorio incorporating jazz rhythms Wynton Marsalis |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | POETRY FILL-IN $800: Abel Meeropol:
"Southern trees bear a strange ____, blood on the leaves and blood at the root" fruit |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | PHYSIOLOGY $800: Highly oxygenated blood is carried away from the heart by this largest artery the aorta |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | FRANZ KAFKA $1200: Kafka was a great admirer of this author of "Madame Bovary", calling him one of his literary "blood relatives" (Gustave) Flaubert |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $3,000 (Daily Double): Rafael Sabatini wrote a novel about this sanguine "Captain", a doctor turned pirate Captain Blood |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the Church on Spilled blood in St. Petersburg, Russia.) On the spot where his father was assassinated, Tsar Alexander III built the Church on Spilled Blood; its architecture reflects Russian nationalism & imitates this Moscow cathedral, the country's most famous St. Basil's |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT $200: The first plague was the turning of the waters of Egypt into this blood |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $2000: From the Latin for "opening a vein", it's a medical removal of blood as a therapeutic treatment a phlebotomy |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE! $2000: When unripe, the fruit of the ackee tree can cause this state of low blood sugar, leading to coma & death hypoglycemia |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | HERE COMES THE SONG TITLE! $400: "Now we got problems, and I don't think we can solve 'em, you made a really deep cut, and baby, now we got" this "Bad Blood" |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | COUNT $600: This count determines how many erythrocytes & leukocytes you have on average a blood count |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | GEN MED $600: One of these compares blood types to help determine a daddy or a non-daddy a paternity test |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? $1200: George Clooney tries to kill, then tries to save Prince Nasir in this 2005 film about oil & greed Syriana |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HISTORY TELLS US... $1200: In 1942 this general told his troops, "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood" (George) Patton |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | A.M.A. $400: The A.M.A. strives to lower this for over 100 million Americans in the program called Target: BP blood pressure |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | UNUSUAL-LOOKING ANIMALS $1200: The griffon species of this bird has a featherless head, perhaps to keep blood from matting while eating a carcass a vulture |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | THE MEDICAL FILE OF ALEX TREBEK $2000: I'm fine now, but slipping & hitting my head led to blood on the brain, a subdural one of these swellings a hematoma |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | FREE TIME IN ORBIT $1600: Astronaut Don Pettit used this "effect" with the name of the smallest blood vessel to create a zero-G coffee cup capillary effect |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | THE MOVIE'S SOURCE MATERIAL $400: This movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis: Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" There Will Be Blood |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | A POP CULTURE THANKSGIVING $400: The song "Zombie" by this group is about the blood shed over Irish freedom The Cranberries |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $2000: In this Bret Easton Ellis novel, Patrick Bateman doesn't want to ruin his Alexander Julian suit with the spray of blood American Psycho |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | THE HUMAN BODY $400: Types of these include B cells, leukocytes & monocytes white blood cells |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $800: Medications included the blood of these canonized people; Thomas a Becket's was thought extra-effective saints |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $2000: Home dubbed this war god "the blood-stained bane of mortals", & ol' Homie wasn't far wrong Ares |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | CONTRONYMS $6,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "blood", this word can mean either "cheerful" or "bloodthirsty" sanguine |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | A EUROPEAN HOLIDAY $600: Ancient Romans whooped it up in this February festival as blood was smeared on laughing priests called Luperci the Feast of Lupercalia |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | SOMETHING TO READ $800: After a Kansas family of 4 is murdered this 3-word title way, investigators track down the killers in cold blood |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | AP BIOLOGY $200: The original 2 chains, it's thin, it's chainlike & its found in every living cell on Earth RNA and DNA |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | LIST $1000: In humors:
Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, this important stuff blood |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | DRIVING ALEXIS $400: In 1912 someone must have driven Alexis Carrel to give his Nobel lecture on suturing these, arteries & veins blood vessels |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | GETTING SPECIFIC AT GENERAL HOSPITAL $400: (Laura Wright and Maurice Benard give the clue as Carly and Sonny from General Hospital.) "Sonny, if you go back into that life, it'll destroy me"
"I am clean, Carly, but your constant doubt, it feels like this archaic removal, often using leeches, of some of a patient's blood" bloodletting |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | WHAT BALL ARE YOU CHASING? $1000: The creator of "True Blood" & "Six Feet Under" Alan Ball |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AROUND THE BODY $2000: The left one of these arteries originates over the heart & supplies blood to the head & neck the carotid arteries |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $2000: One sign said, "The first blood for American independence was shed by a Negro"--this Boston Massacre victim Crispus Attucks |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THE OCTOPUS $800: An octopus has 3 hearts to pump its blood of this color throughout its body blue |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $1600: Toshiro Mifune starred in 1957's "Throne of Blood", one of 16 films he made with this director Kurosawa |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $2000: A 2010 remake:
"People did not give it credence that a young girl could leave home & go off...to avenge her father's blood" True Grit |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | I DON'T WANNA CRAMP $800: Diuretics lower this measure, so you can fit the new 2017 standards, but deplete fluid, which can lead to cramping blood pressure |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | THE RAMBO CONNECTION $1600: A type of survival knife, the Rambo knife is officially called this, after the 1982 film it was created for First Blood |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE NOVEL'S SUBTITLE $2000: Cormac McCarthy:
"The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | ON "MARS" $1200: "Their impure blood should water our fields" is a lyric from this 1792 composition "La Marseillaise" |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | PLAY BILL $800: Stephen Moyer sucked up the scenery as Bill Compton, a vampire on this HBO series True Blood |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE 2017 IG NOBEL PRIZES $200: Nutrition: "For the first scientific report of human" this in the diet of the hairy-legged vampire bat blood |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | FIELD TRIP $800: A valley in Jerusalem is said to be the location of the Field of Blood, bought with this man's rejected silver Judas Iscariot |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $800: Battle-sweat blood |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | SCIENCE LAB $400: Our tests have detected leukocytosis, an increase in the number of these in the blood, indicating infection white blood cells |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | PASS/FAIL $600: This "In Cold Blood" author said, "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" Truman Capote |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES $800: Ward off high blood pressure with the magnesium in these legumes with haricot & adzuki varieties beans |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $1600: The unusual blue blood of the horseshoe type of this is used to detect bacterial toxins & test drugs for purity crab |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $800: Abraham Lincoln repeatedly used the word "spot" from this play to imply the U.S. had blood on its hands in the Mexican War Macbeth |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | DESERT WILDLIFE $3,000 (Daily Double): When ticks bite the Western fence lizard, the lizard's blood kills the bacteria in the ticks that cause this disease Lyme disease |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | ANY "PORT" $1600: This vein conveys blood to the liver from the spleen the portal vein |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: The mitral valve acts as a one-way gate, letting blood flow from the left atrium to the left one of these heart chambers a ventricle |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | THE HUMAN BODY $1600: Also called a thrombocyte, this component of blood plays a key role in forming blood clots platelets |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE 1930s $600: The first of these institutions, at Cook County Hospital, facilitated 1,354 transfusions in its first year a blood bank |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | HORMONES $600: Glucagon, which raises glucose levels in the blood, works in opposition to this other pancreatic hormone insulin |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | EVERYBODY'S A CRITIC $800: A reviewer said of this 1965 novel, "That isn't writing, it's research", a play on Capote's own pithy quote In Cold Blood |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | YOU GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING $200: To an M.D., an RBC is one of these, also called an erythrocyte a red blood cell |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | BOOK SERIES $600: Played on TV by Anna Paquin, she's the telepathic barmaid & heroine of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novels Sookie Stackhouse |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | PUBLIC ANEMONE $2000: Greek myth says red anemones popped up from the blood of this really good-lookin' youth after his death Adonis |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: These worms used for almost any ailment by doctors of old are today used for restoring blood flow to damaged veins leeches |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | "S"CIENCE $1600: It's the fluid remaining after the solid portion of blood is removed serum |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS $800: Hitchcock hated eggs & said this liquid was "jolly" compared with runny yolk blood |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | CZECHNOLOGY $1200: In the early 20th century, Jan Jansky discovered there were 4, not 3, of these types in humans blood types |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT, TOUGH GUY $800: "I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!" There Will Be Blood |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: It can't fly or breathe fire, but this largest living lizard has a venomous bite that inhibits blood clotting the komodo dragon |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: It's the largest blood vessel in the body the aorta |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | COME UP TO THE LAB $400: A phlebotomist is the lab professional who takes this from a patient & processes it blood |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $200: Edvard Munch's diary entry where "the sky suddenly turned to blood" may have inspired this, his best-known painting The Scream |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $400: This liquid straw-colored part of blood consists of about 90% water plasma |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | ANATOMY? ANATO-YOU! $1600: The internal these veins help bring blood from the brain to the heart the jugular veins |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | GULP FICTION $800: While interviewed, Louis tells the story of how this vampire slashed a rat's neck & drank the blood from a glass Lestat |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | BALTIC BELIEFS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Church on the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia.) Originally, no traditional church services were performed at St. Petersburg's Church on the Spilled Blood, but these religious memorial masses conducted for the assassinated Tsar Alexander II attracted large numbers of worshippers a requiem |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | MOVIEMAKER'S MASHUP $1200: Kurosawa:
"Throne of Samurai" Throne of Blood & The Seven Samurai |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "FUSION" $1600: In the 1800s, with instruments called the impellor & the gravitator, Dr. James Blundell pioneered this procedure a blood transfusion |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | A CONSTITUTIONAL VOCABULARY $400: If your kids lost their inheritance because of your crimes, it was known as "corruption of" this fluid blood |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | FAIRY TALES $800: The 4 words that complete the line from "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the..." the blood of an Englishman |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BUTCHER $1600: Kosher salt would be better called koshering salt; butchers use it to draw out this, which kosher meat can't have blood |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | LETTER PERFECT $800: It's found in the universal blood donor type O |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | IT'S A BATTLE $1,500 (Daily Double): On Sept. 17, 1862 in Maryland, over 3,000 men were killed & 17,000 wounded in this blood battle Antietam |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | INVENTION & DISCOVERY $1600: A blood test for cancer is called a "liquid" this test; one developed in Sweden finds it with 96% accuracy from 1 drop a liquid biopsy |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $1600: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Hippocrates thought the body was ruled by blood, phlegm, yellow & black bile, each associated with a season & with one of the 4 elements... health depended on a balance of the 4 liquids known as these humors |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $2000: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Many patients died from the first blood transplants of the 17th century, but the ABO blood system of 1901 & this one from 1940 named for a species of monkey have made them routine medical procedures rhesus |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $400: Sam Peckinpah. Lots of blood. This 1969 Western The Wild Bunch |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | "CROSS"WORDS $1600: Medically speaking, it's the testing of the compatibility of the blood of a donor & recipient a crossmatch |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | REJECTED GREETING CARDS $800: "Nice surgery! You finally vented" this soft, purplish organ, that filters blood & stores platelets spleen |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | HELLO, SUCKER! $400: Completes the title of an 1847 novel featuring "a gush of blood, and a hideous sucking noise": "Varney the..." vampire |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective meaning concerning the heart & blood vessels, collectively cardiovascular |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | BIOLOGY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Blood has 4 main components: red blood cells that make up about 45% of the volume, white blood cells & platelets that account for less than 1%, & making up about 55% is this liquid part that transports cells throughout the body plasma |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | BY DEGREES $1000: To Francis Ford Coppola, nephew Nicolas Cage is in the third degree of this 13-letter word from the Latin for "blood" consanguinity |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | BRING YOUR "EI" GAME $400: You're so this blood vessel vein |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | A BUCKET LIST $1000: 1959's "A Bucket of Blood" was one of the movies that made this B-movie director "King of the Drive-Ins" Roger Corman |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | IT'S ALRIGHT, MA (I'M ONLY BLEEDING) $400: A spontaneous nosebleed can be exacerbated by severe hypertension, the medical term for this high blood pressure |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | THINGS HAVE CHANGED $800: In 1960 the 5-year survival rate of this white blood cell cancer averaged just 14%; today it's over 60% leukemia |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | IT'S ALRIGHT, MA (I'M ONLY BLEEDING) $800: In the show "Les Miserables", Fantine coughs up blood because she has this bacterial lung disease tuberculosis |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | IT'S ALRIGHT, MA (I'M ONLY BLEEDING) $2000: A collection of blood in unbroken tissue is a bruise, aka this fancy 9-letter word contusion |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | DIFFERING BY ONE LETTER $600: A tube inserted into a blocked blood vessel & a period of time spent in a job a stent and a stint |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $1200: It's the song title (& maybe the only thing) in common to Neil Sedaka & Taylor Swift "Bad Blood" |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | HEART SURGERY WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) When a coronary artery is blocked, & drugs & angioplasty can't fix it, we go in for this type of surgery where new blood vessels go around the artery, maybe even a triple or quadruple version a bypass |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | EVERY YEAR $1000: In Bruges, Belgium each spring, thousands watch the procession of le Saint Sang, this relic the blood of Jesus Christ |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | LESSEN PLAN $400: In the title "Eat Right 4 Your Type", it's what "type" refers to your blood type |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THIS IS "US" $400: A network of blood vessels or nerves, like the solar one the plexus |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: These white blood cells that have a single well-defined nucleus are the largest blood cells the monocytes |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | ANATOMICALLY CORRECT $400: To filter out waste, each day these internal organs process about 50 gallons of blood kidneys |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: In the sixth Harry Potter novel, Harry acquires a used potions book that had belonged to a student known as this the Half-Blood Prince |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | A TV GUIDE $400: Kelly Overton on Syfy's "Van Helsing" can save the world-- her blood makes these human again vampires |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: As a verb, it means to stop the flow of blood; as an adjective, steadfast or loyal stanch |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | 5-"H" $1200: It's the artery that supplies the liver with fully oxygenated blood the hepatic artery |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | COMMA SYMPATHIZERS $2000: Even this punctuation-averse author of "Blood Meridian" admits to the "occasional comma" Cormac McCarthy |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | THE "ANTI"-CATEGORY $1000: Warfarin is an oral one of these blood-thinning drugs an anticoagulant |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ABBREV. $1000: G.I., this index, is the measure of how fast & how much a food raises blood sugar levels glycemic index |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: In 1900 Karl Landsteiner developed a system for classifying blood into these 3 major letter groups A, B, and O |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEEING RED $600: It's what gives "The Red Badge of Courage" its redness blood |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | ANALYS"S" $400: At crime scenes experts study how blood is distributed across walls & floors, or this rather indelicate word spatter |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | ANTARCTICA $800: Blood Falls, which flows into Lake Bonney, gets its color because it is rich in this element iron |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: If you want to vent this lymphatic organ, you'll find out that it filters old red blood cells out of the bloodstream the spleen |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | BODY WORKS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a myelin sheath on the monitor.) Myelin sheaths insulate nerve fibers and promote speedy impulse transmission, but in multiple sclerosis, it appears that these, also known as leukocytes, attack the sheath, causing nerve impulses to short out white blood cells |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: "In Cold Blood" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | WORDS FROM THE GREEK $2000: To lose a lot of cash or blood very quickly hemorrhage |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $400: This Vietnam vet & action hero sprang form the pages of "First Blood" by David Morrell Rambo |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS $400: On Chile's flag, the red is for the blood of the patriots, the blue is sky & the white is the snow of these mountains the Andes |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | YOUR HEART $200: The 3 main ones of the heart branch from your aorta to supply the upper body & head with oxygenated blood arteries |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | YOUR HEART $600: When the heart doesn't pump enough blood, other fluids clog up your body & you have this type of "heart failure" congestive |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | YOUR HEART $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) When blood flow to the heart is reduced by plaque or a clot, the heart muscle is deprived of oxygen & begins to die; the result is a heart attack known medically as this, M.I. for short a myocardial infarction |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | SONGS ON TV $1000: "True Blood" said "Let's boot and rally" & have Bethany Cosentino team with this Stooges singer Iggy Pop |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALLITERATION $1000: The existence of these storage organizations made heart-lung pumps for open-heart surgery possible blood banks |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: Even smaller than a strand of hair, these tiniest blood vessels get their name from a Latin word for hair capillaries |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE! $800: Sanguinary term for an aristocrat blue blood |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a vein on the monitor.) Healthy blood has plenty of red blood cells to carry oxygen to body tissues; if the number of cells is reduced, causing weakness and fatigue, it may an indication of this condition, from the Greek for "want of blood" anemia |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $800: At "Burns Night" dinners, one of these puddings is brought in on a platter & ceremonially sliced the haggis |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | THE MAP OF SCIENCE $2000: Elie Metchnikoff got on a Soviet stamp for discovering these white blood cells that "eat" bacteria phagocytes |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | BODY TALK $1200: About 4 inches long, these blood filters sit below your diaphragm kidneys |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ABBREV. $2000: In the medical term H&H, one "H" is hematocrit; the other is this blood protein hemoglobin |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ROCK OF LOVE $2000: allmusic.com said his 2001 "Love and Theft" was "his best album since 'Blood on the Tracks'" Bob Dylan |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $400: Author Jeff Lindsay created this serial killer who worked by day as a blood spatter expert; Michael C. Hall played him Dexter |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $800: Sink your teeth into this HBO series that was based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels True Blood |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | WHATSAMATTA "U"? $2000: Swollen, painful big toe--sounds like gout, caused by elevated blood levels of this acid uric acid |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $200: Maltaise sauce is made by adding the juice from the blood variety of this fruit to hollandaise sauce an orange |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | HEALTH ISSUES $600: Coumadin & heparin are in this class of drugs whose name means that they thin your blood anticoagulants |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIOLOGY $400: During this process, a protein in the blood called fibrinogen is converted into fibrin threads clotting |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIOLOGY $1600: An epitope is the site on an antigen like a bacterium where this protective type of protein binds & attacks an antibody |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | "SQ"s ME $1600: The sight of blood makes some people this, meaning easily nauseated squeamish |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | SPIDERS $1200: Spider blood is this color because oxygen is carried by hemocyanin, not hemoglobin blue |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | "POLY" WANT $200: Sweat & blood pressure are measured with this truth-telling aid a polygraph |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | BAT DANCE $200: A protein dubbed draculin, found in this secretion of vampire bats, acts as an anticoagulant saliva |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | FRUIT STAND $600: Get anatomical with a cluster navel or Moro blood one an orange |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $600: "The Battle of Hogwarts" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: If you're having a heart attack, a 325-mg tab of this is smart, says the Mayo Clinic--less damage due to blood clotting an aspirin |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | THE HUMAN BODY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) Blood flows from the left atrium to the left ventricle via the mitral valve, which is also called this because it has two points, just like a certain tooth bicuspid |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | THRILLED TO THE MARROW $400: Red bone marrow, as well as the spleen & this organ, aid in the destruction of old red blood cells the liver |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | THRILLED TO THE MARROW $1200: Megakaryocytes are giant marrow cells that form the small blood cell fragments used in clotting called these platelets |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $1200: To turn sour or congeal; when you're scared, your blood is said to do this curdle |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | C.T. $1200: Blood vessels & tendons pass through this narrow opening in the wrist the carpal tunnel |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1942 Charles Drew received a patent for preserving this, allowing it to be stored in "banks" blood |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | MY "BAD" $200: This Taylor Swift hit featured Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $400: "Blood Sport" is part one of this Stephen King novel; part two is "Prom Night" Carrie |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AN ORANGE FOR TEACHER $600: If I may be sanguine, Sicily is a major producer of this sweet-tart dessert orange a blood orange |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | VITAMINS & SUPPLEMENTS $800: Vitamin K, required for the synthesis of prothrombin, helps blood do this clot |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | WHAT'S EATING YOU? $1600: Deer & Rocky Mountain are types of these arachnids that draw blood through beak-like projections ticks |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from UC Davis Veterinary Hospital.) In 1990, the hospital established the first facility in the country to provide this service for pets that uses an artificial kidney to remove waste from the blood dialysis |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES $800: To Mexican audiences, Daniel Day-Lewis starred in "Bloody Oil"--this movie There Will Be Blood |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | THE AZTECS $400: As a blood debt to the gods, humans were sacrificed by removing this organ & holding it up to the sun the heart |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | ODD WORDS $800: Buffy Summers knows that sanguivorous means subsisting on this blood |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | MEDICAL MATTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) Here is blood clotting normally at a wound site; here is blood that is missing or has low levels of clotting factor 8, meaning the person has the "A" type of this disease hemophilia |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | NOW YOU SEE ME $1000: This hard to spot insect lives up to its name, & some can force a toxin-containing blood from their exoskeletons a walking stick |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $800: Named for a British dentist, it's an artificial tube implanted in a blood vessel to keep it open a stent |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | IT'S THE WURST $200: Thank you, but I'll pass on the Blutwurst, German for this sausage blood sausage |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MY EX-WIVES & ME $1600: He & wife No. 5, Angelina Jolie, were bound by blood--for a while (Billy Bob) Thornton |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | ORGANS OF THE BODY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The largest gland in the body, it metabolizes proteins, removes waste matter, destroys old cells, & even synthesizes blood clotting factors the liver |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | ORGANS OF THE BODY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) In your kidneys, helping to filter the entire body's content of blood every 45 minutes, are millions of these small tubular units nephrons |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | SCIENCE UPDATE $800: In 2015 the earliest known case of this blood cancer was identified in a 7,000-year-old skeleton from Germany leukemia |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Dr. Arnold delivers the clue.) Simulations are so realistic that in one scenario apparent respiratory distress helps team members learn to distinguish between an asthma attack & this allergen-induced condition in which blood pressure & oxygen levels drop, requiring emergency response anaphylactic shock |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | YOU MIGHT NEED SURGERY $400: A hemostat is this device that's closed over a cut blood vessel to stop bleeding a clamp |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $1000: This 5-letter animal looks like it has some zebra blood, but it's actually related to the giraffe the okapi |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE $400: In Genesis this prized item of Joseph's wardrobe gets taken and dipped in blood the coat of many colors |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $2000: The music prize went to composers of classical music until 1997, when he won for his jazz-tinged "Blood on the Fields" (Wynton) Marsalis |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | NURSE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an equation on the monitor.) Nurses take the systolic blood pressure measurement & add it to double the diastolic blood pressure measurement, then divide by 3 to calculate M.A.P., which stands for "mean" this "pressure" arterial |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | NO VOWELS BUT Y $2,000 (Daily Double): A clear, yellowish fluid containing white blood cells lymph |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | MED. ABBREV. $1600: FBS is this type of test done after a patient hasn't eaten for at least 8 hours fasting blood sugar |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | SOUNDS MEDICAL $600: What a nurse may do if you need a test, or a first strike proving that a battle has been joined draw blood |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | MOTTOES & SLOGANS $1600: "Blood and fire" is the motto of this "Army"; the blood comes from Jesus & the fire from the Holy Spirit the Salvation Army |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | LITERARY VILLAINS $1600: Bald, pale & homicidal, Judge Holden is the monstrous nemesis in this author's "Blood Meridian" Cormac McCarthy |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | SCI. ABBREV. $1600: Detouring around blocked vessels that provide blood to the heart, CABG is this type of "bypass grafting" coronary artery |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | JUST PASSING THROUGH $600: Most of these smallest blood vessels are so small that only 1 blood cell can pass through them at a time capillaries |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | MAIL CALL $800: A Sept. 17, 1888 letter signed by this infamous man read, "Sorry about the blood" Jack the Ripper |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | GEM $1200: The most valued type of this gem is the pigeon-blood variety ruby |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) The hospital has its own blood bank & a program for local dogs to give blood; dogs with type DEA 1.1 negative are considered this, their blood type suitable for any recipient a universal donor |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | JEOPARDY! ON THE MOVIE MARQUEE $800: 2007:
"There Will Be Jeopardy!" There Will Be Blood |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) It's summer now, but during their winter sleep, bears don't eat, drink, or urinate; how their kidneys remove toxins from the blood is unknown, but if it could be replicated in humans, it would eliminate the need for this process for patients with kidney failure dialysis |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | TRUE BLOOD $200: The pigment that transports oxygen in the blood, it is in the red blood cells & gives blood its red color hemoglobin |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | TRUE BLOOD $400: The solid parts of blood--the red & white blood cells & platelets--are suspended in this, the liquid portion plasma |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | TRUE BLOOD $600: An old test for this infection "kissing disease" used a sample of the patient's blood, mixed with that of a sheep mononucleosis |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | TRUE BLOOD $1000: Large numbers of abnormal white blood cells multiply out of control & do not fight infection in this disease leukemia |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | TRUE BLOOD $2,000 (Daily Double): Some kinds of white blood cells produce these, proteins that destroy bacteria, viruses & other invaders antibodies |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | LITERARY CRIME WATCH $800: This 1966 book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas" In Cold Blood |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $800: Bon Temps, Louisiana True Blood |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ENDS IN "SH" $400: A close living relative is your this "& blood" flesh |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAL $800: Sanguinary term for 2 males bound by a great friendship blood brothers |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $1000: "It's the world against us & us against the world", says Errol Flynn as this sanguine title pirate Captain Blood |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) An earlier version of the Travenol used a Maytag washing machine as its tank--fitting, as it cleansed waste from a patient's blood, acting as an artificial one of these organs a kidney |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) Sometimes during surgery, the heart convulses, loses rhythm & stops pumping blood; Cleveland surgeon Claude Beck used cardiac massage & applied electrical current directly to the heart to reverse the phenomenon using this device; those techniques led him to develop CPR a defibrillator |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | MEDICAL MATTERS $400: Thalassemia, an inherited form of anemia, occurs when red blood cells have less of this oxygen carrier than normal hemoglobin |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $200: This 1966 Truman Capote book combined fiction with facts to tell about 2 drifters who murdered a Kansas family In Cold Blood |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | APPLES & ORANGES $1000: With its deep red flesh, the Moro variety of this orange is not for the squeamish a blood orange |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | PLAYING THE INTERNAL ORGAN $200: More than 2,500 pints of blood pass through these 2 bean-shaped organs every day the kidneys |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | PLAYING THE INTERNAL ORGAN $600: It breaks down alcohol & destroys old red blood cells the liver |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | LOVE THOSE ANNELIDS! $800: The giant Amazon type of this annelid uses its 6-inch proboscis as a needle to suck blood from its host a leech |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $2000: The higher number in 120/80 represents this type of blood pressure systolic |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | TAKE A PHOTO $800: Colorful term for the undesired reflection of a flash off the blood vessels of a photo subject's retinas red-eye |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A vessel that carries blood to the heart & a mug for drinking ale vein & stein |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | HEAVY $400: By the end of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", Snape is a murderer & this man, his victim Dumbledore |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | THE ORIFICE $1600: This soft tissue forms the innermost structure of a tooth & contains nerves & blood vessels pulp |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | FIX THE FAMOUS QUOTATION $400: "I have nothing to offer but blood, soil, tears and sweat" toil |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | ENTERING $600: Oxygenated blood, glucose & other nutrients enter the brain through the carotid & vertebral ones of these vessels arteries |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | ARACHNIDS $2000: The northern deer tick spreads this disease by injecting bacteria into its victims' blood Lyme disease |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | ANATOMY $400: This outer layer of the skin contains no blood vessels the epidermis |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | ANATOMY $800: There are ascending & descending parts of this artery that carries blood away from the heart the aorta |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SURGICAL TERMS $200: It can be a road allowing drivers to detour around a city or a surgically created passage that diverts blood a bypass |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | AT THIS HOUR $1600: You'll find "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" on this band's "Under a Blood Red Sky" U2 |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | SHARK TANK $400: Millions of years of evolution allow bull sharks to hunt where they can't see; they smell drops of this 500 yards away blood |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | THE HUMAN BODY $400: Tiny blood vessels; also, tiny channels that carry bile capillaries |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | THE BOOK OF EXODUS $400: There will be this, the first plague in chapter 7; the rivers turn into it blood |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | IN LIFE $1000: "When age chills the blood", waxed Byron, "our sweetest memorial" will be the "first" this "of love" kiss |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | BODY $800: The jejunum, the middle section of this organ, is a deep red color because of its rich blood supply the small intestine |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ROUGH WORDS IN NATIONAL ANTHEMS $800: "May your fields be watered with blood, may they leave their foot-prints in blood", sing Oaxacans in this country Mexico |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ROUGH WORDS IN NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1000: The anthem of this North African land that battled to get rid of the French mentions "streams of generous blood" Algeria |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | HEALTHY COOKING WITH MICHELLE OBAMA $200: (First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) We should make half our plate fruits & vegetables; when using canned vegetables, read the label & opt for ones low in this element that's tied to high blood pressure; or remove some by rinsing them in water first sodium |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | LETTER-WORD $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents an animation on the monitor.) A 2013 report showed doctors removed these letter-perfect white blood cells that fight infections, genetically modified them to recognize & attack cancer cells, then put them back in T-cells |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | QUEEN VICTORIA $1200: Victoria was a carrier of this blood disease that affected many of her descendants throughout Europe hemophilia |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | ANATOMY $1200: These 4 veins--2 internal, 2 external--return blood to the heart from the head & neck the jugulars |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $800: The sand in this Roman amphitheater was sometimes dyed red to disguise the blood the Colosseum |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | TV TITLES IN OTHER LANDS $2000: Spain:
"Sangre Fresca" True Blood |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | FISHY SCIENCE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Georgia Aquarium.) Used to remove small tumors, the radio surgical instrument not only cuts through tissue, but simultaneously prevents blood loss by doing this to vessels cauterizing them |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | OUT, -LET $1200: Lose the "let" in a blood component & you're left with a kitchen item platelet & plate |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: He spent a lot more time in Kansas than he would have otherwise to prepare "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | NOVELS BY CHAPTER $1,000 (Daily Double): The first of a "Saga":
"Blood Type" Twilight |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME ACTOR $800: Paul Dano played Eli & Paul Sunday opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in this film There Will Be Blood |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: Heracles used the blood of this many-headed monster to poison his arrows the Hydra |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2000: "Written in My Own Heart's Blood" is Diana Gabaldon's eighth novel in this series about Claire Randall in the 18th century Outlander |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THERE WILL BE "BLOOD" $200: A vein or an artery, functionally a blood vessel |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THERE WILL BE "BLOOD" $400: Abbreviated BAL, it's a legal measurement of intoxication blood alcohol level |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THERE WILL BE "BLOOD" $600: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) A layer called the omentum causes lots of problems when it stores fat; one is that your kidneys, deprived of space, raise this, measured in mm of mercury your blood pressure |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THERE WILL BE "BLOOD" $800: This word means the dynastic descendants of one individual the bloodline |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THERE WILL BE "BLOOD" $1000: Green chalcedony with red spots bloodstone |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AROUND THE BODY $1600: 2 coronary these supply blood to the heart muscle arteries |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AROUND THE BODY $2000: This spongy substance that fills the bones produces the body's blood cells marrow |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | SOUNDS LIKE MAD LIBS, BUT REAL $400: Maximilian Schell was the godfather of this actress who toted Billy Bob Thornton's blood Angelina Jolie |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: This, high blood pressure, contributes to the hardening of the arteries & damages the heart hypertension |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | BUBBLE TROUBLE $800: A blood vessel gets blocked by an air bubble moving through the bloodstream in one type of this condition an embolism |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $2000: This 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel has the alternate title "The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | IN THE PINK $600: Under an agreement with the Natl. Archives, her blood-spattered pink suit won't be seen again in public until 2103 Jackie Kennedy |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1000: This class of proteins in blood plasma is injected to treat measles gamma globulins |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS $1600: "The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed", wrote this man in a 1920 editorial Mussolini |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | AFFAIRS OF THE HEART $800: Fish generally have a single one of these chambers that pump blood out of the heart; mammals, 2 ventricles |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | AFFAIRS OF THE HEART $2000: This chest pain, sometimes a heart attack precursor, occurs when blood flow to the heart is limited angina |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | INITIALLY MEDICAL $400: You can treat it with diet & lifestyle changes as well as drugs:
HBP high blood pressure |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BOOKS FOR BARTENDERS $400: A book of "drinks and bites" themed to this TV show includes the Bon Temps Sazerac & Arti-Choked-to-Death Dip True Blood |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | SPACE STUFF $1200: Seen during a total lunar eclipse in 2014 was the phenomenon known by this sanguine term a blood moon |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | PREMIUM CABLE $800: "I am" this legendary gladiator who on Starz was dealing with "Blood and Sand" Spartacus |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THE HUNT IS ON! $400: The lobetoothed type of this is found in the Orinoco, & uh-oh, it smells blood a piranha |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: This liquid portion of blood gets its name from the Greek for "to mold" plasma |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | WE'LL NEED YOUR "ID" $1000: Strokes are often caused by a narrowing of these arteries in the neck that supply blood to the brain carotid |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | "SH"! $800: As a verb, it's what's being done to the rail car seen here; as a noun, it's a tube that diverts blood a shunt |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $1200: "In Cold Tiffany's" In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | CHESHIRE CATS $2000: Bowman's capsule, part of this blood-filtering organ, is named for Nantwich, Cheshire's William Bowman the kidney |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | MEDICINE $200: In the 1730s, Stephen Hales first measured this by using a crude manometer; he stuck a tube in a horse's artery blood pressure |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | TRUE RELIGION $400: At this event, Jesus handed a cup to his disciples, saying, "Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood" The Last Supper |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | HEADLINES FROM THE ONION $1000: This "Blood Meridian" author "Flaunts Sexy New Beach Body" Cormac McCarthy |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | THE STATE OF FILM TODAY $1200: 2002 movie in which Daniel Day-Lewis says, "somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands" Gangs of New York |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The so-called Pelican Portrait was named for the bird on the brooch, a symbol of motherhood, as it was believed it fed its young with its own blood, just as this woman sacrificed for her country Elizabeth I |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | GROUPIES $800: The ABO group for this was discovered by Karl Landsteiner in 1901 blood types |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | DISCOVER $1600: Biochemist Henrik Dam shared a Nobel Prize for discovering this vitamin vital to blood clotting vitamin K |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | POP MUSIC OF TODAY $200: The song heard here put this teenager on the map
"And we'll never be royals (royals) /
It don't run in our blood..." Lorde |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $1200: Also known as leukocytes, these defend the body by producing antibodies & destroying cancer cells white blood cells |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | MARINE BIOLOGY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Baja California.) Baja's sea lions can dive deep because they have the ability to store substantial amounts of this gas in their blood & muscle oxygen |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | DISCOVER $800: A wilderness doctor's must-have list includes this everyday pill, as a blood thinner in case of heart attack aspirin |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: "There Will Be Blood" Paul Thomas Anderson |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | EYE ON HEALTH $200: Another reason to keep your blood sugar down: cataracts & other eye problems can be complications of this disorder diabetes |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | THE 4 Rs $2000: In this 2-word cause of a stroke, vessels in the brain leak blood into the brain itself cerebral hemorrhage |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | LOW-TECH HIGH TECH $1,000 (Daily Double): A salad spinner can help diagnose anemia by acting as this device to separate red blood cells from plasma a centrifuge |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | REIGN $200: (I'm Adelaide Kane.) My character Mary, Queen of Scots, is also known as Mary Stuart, but due to my grandmother, a sister of Henry VIII, the blood of this other British family flows through my veins Tudor |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $1600: This Catholic doctrine says the bread & wine of the Eucharist are changed into the body & blood of Jesus transubstantiation |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | 21st CENTURY BOOKS $400: We bit on Charlaine Harris' "After Dead: What Came Next in the World of" this "True Blood" waitress Sookie |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | GRAIL MIX $400: In "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", it is suggested that this woman, not a cup, could actually be the Holy Grail Mary Magdalene |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | THEY DRINK BLOOD $200: Hirudin is an anticoagulant obtained from the secretions of these medicinal worms leeches |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | THEY DRINK BLOOD $400: The candiru, a tiny parasitic catfish of the Amazon, attacks other fish by swimming into these breathing organs to feast gills |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | THEY DRINK BLOOD $600: Georgia Southern University houses the world's largest collection of these tiny arachnids that can irritate your dog ticks |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | THEY DRINK BLOOD $800: The head type of this insect, Pediculus capitis, cannot survive apart from humans for more than 24 hours lice |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | THEY DRINK BLOOD $3,000 (Daily Double): An estimated 55,000 Africans die each year from being bitten by this fly whose name means "fly" in the Tswanna language the tsetse fly |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | IMAGINE DRAGONS $800: This medieval German hero killed a dragon & bathed in its blood to gain invulnerability--but what of the legend of Roy? Siegfried |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | "-ARY" $400: A minute blood vessel a capillary |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | MOVIE QUOTES $1600: "Oh, stewardess? I speak jive... just hang loose, blood, she gonna catch up on the rebound on the med side" Airplane! |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | OXIDES $2000: Diazoxide is used to treat low blood sugar, medically called by this single word hypoglycemia |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | I'LL BE YOUR TV WAITRESS $1600: Ashley Jones served up some bon temps at Merlotte's as Daphne on this HBO drama True Blood |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | INTERNAL FLUIDITY $3,000 (Daily Double): Plasma is blood without cells; this is blood without cells & clotting factors serum |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1200: Meaning "moulded vessel", this procedure to restore blood flow in a blocked artery was first performed in 1977 angioplasty |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | A BUG'S LIFE $400: These insects, like the Anopheles variety, use a tubelike proboscis to inject saliva & draw up blood mosquitoes |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | BIOLOGY CLASS $800: While red bone marrow gets its color from developing red blood cells, yellow marrow gets its color from this fat |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PHYSIOLOGY $400: Almost the entire dry weight of a red blood cell consists of this protein hemoglobin |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | I HAVE THE WINE $800: Tarnave, the oldest wine region in this ex-Romanian province, is big on white wine; you'd think it would only do blood reds Transylvania |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $800: A series of books by Charlaine Harris inspired this show about a group of supernatural misfits True Blood |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | BRIT FOOD $800: Blood & pork are featured in "black" this, so it's not a dessert like the kind Bill Cosby enjoys (black) pudding |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | LIQUIDS $600: Due to its bright red color, a palm tree resin used as a colorant & medication is called dragon's this blood |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2000: In 1897 Ronald Ross found that the parasite causing malaria gets into the blood via this mosquito genus the Anopheles |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | I'M IN... $200: This, failure perhaps due to bleeding or a heart-attack to get blood to all the tissues; I feel cold shock |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $1200: In 1910 physician James Herrick became the first to identify this blood disease that affects many African Americans sickle-cell anemia |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | GOD SAID UNTO THEE... $800: "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground" Cain |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | THE MOVIE IS COMPLIMENTARY $600: 2008:
"I've never wanted a human's blood so much" Twilight |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE $1200: These blood-sucking jungle worms produce hirudin, a chemical substance that prevents blood from thickening leeches |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | MILITARY NICKNAMES $800: This World War II American general was labeled "Blood and Guts" as well as "Old Iron Pants" Patton |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | ZOOLOGY $2000: 2 basic substances in snake venom are neurotoxins & these, a word for poisons that damage blood vessels hemotoxins |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | ONE LETTER ONLY $1600: A major blood group, or an interjection used at the beginning of "America the Beautiful" O |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | RED-DY $600: The expression "caught" this way alludes to blood you would have washed off if you'd had time red-handed |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | RED-DY $4,200 (Daily Double): About 0.8% of our red blood cells are destroyed daily; if the cells aren't replaced at the same rate, this condition results anemia |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | 30 MINUTES OF EXERCISE A DAY $200: ...will improve your body's ability to use insulin, the hormone that regulates levels of this, aka blood sugar glucose |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | 30 MINUTES OF EXERCISE A DAY $600: ...will reduce your risk of this, aka high blood pressure hypertension |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | ICONIC PENTAMETER $1,500 (Daily Double): "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand" Macbeth |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | & FEEL ALL RIGHT $400: (I’m Dr. Oz.) Trouble sleeping? Check your over-the-counter pain medicine; to help constrict swollen blood vessels, it may contain this alkaloid compound, which could keep you awake caffeine |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | GOING FETAL $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a rendering of a fetus on the monitor.) Are you talking or playing music for your baby? At 18 weeks, the bones & nerves of the ear may have developed enough that the baby can hear your stomach growling or blood flowing through this fetal lifeline the umbilical cord |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | CONSTITUTION DAY $1600: In 2013 an ACLU lawyer convinced the Supreme Court blood tests for alcohol require a warrant or consent under this amendment the 4th Amendment |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | BALLOON TIME $1600: In angioplasty, a balloon is used to unblock one of these blood vessels that carry blood from the heart an artery |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | FANTASTIC 4 $2000: The 4 of these were bile, blood, choler & phlegm the humors |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER $400: My blood runs cold! "my angel is" this item bound into the middle of a magazine centerfold |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | BEST ACTOR OSCARS $800: 2007:
Daniel Day-Lewis as prospector Daniel Plainview There Will Be Blood |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | -OLOGIES $1600: This medical -ology is the study of blood & its components & diseases hematology |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $10,000 (Daily Double): 40th:
A "pigeon's blood" one of these ruby |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | BLUE STATES $1200: In ancient physiology, the 4 humors were blood, phlegm, choler & this, aka black bile melancholy |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | RELATIVE-ITY $2000: "Thor" co-star Stellan Skarsgard's son Alexander really sucks as this "True Blood" vampire Eric Northman |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODY QUOTES $600: Pontius Pilate "took water, and washed" these "before the multitude", saying he was innocent of the blood of Jesus hands |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | B1, B2... $400: High doses of vitamin B3, aka niacin, are used to lower the "bad" type of this in the blood & increase the "good" cholesterol |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | CAN I LIVE WITHOUT YOU? $200: No:
this pump sends oxygenated blood throughout the body via arteries your heart |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | CAN I LIVE WITHOUT YOU? $600: Without 1, yes; without 2, no:
2 million nephrons filter 400 gallons of blood daily in a healthy pair of these kidneys |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $800: Filmed as "There Will Be Blood", Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" takes place in & around this West Coast city Los Angeles |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Perry Smith & Dick Hickock commit multiple Kansas homicides in this 1966 bestseller In Cold Blood |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | BIOLOGY 101 $800: Also called thrombocytes, these disklike cell fragments are important in the clotting process platelets |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | MY BROTHER'S IN THE SERVICE $1200: I saw a picture of his dog tag, listing his name, social security number, religion & this "type" his blood type |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | MLB TEAM NAMES? $400: Capt. Jack Sparrow & Capt. Blood pirates |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | TERMS WITH GREEK LETTERS $400: Inderal is one of this class of drugs that can lower blood pressure a beta-blocker |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | TERMS WITH GREEK LETTERS $800: The Mayo Clinic says these fatty acids from fish oil reduce blood triglyceride levels omega-3 acids |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | MEDICAL PROCEDURES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C..) The amount of blood taken from you is one unit, or about a pint, less than half the amount used in one of these medical procedures where someone else gets your blood a transfusion |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $200: Book in which the curator of the Louvre leaves a message to Robert Langdon drawn in his own blood The Da Vinci Code |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $600: This title gal from a 1974 novel is doused with pig's blood after being crowned prom queen Carrie |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | YOU NEED A LAB TEST $600: One way to check for diabetes is FBG--measuring the level of this sugar in the blood after an 8-hour fast glucose |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $800: In "Red Dragon" this jailed man asks, "Have you seen blood in the moonlight...? It appears quite black" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $1,000 (Daily Double): A chant in this 1954 book goes, "Kill the pig, cut her throat, spill her blood" The Lord of the Flies |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $1000: "Back to Blood", his first novel since 2004's "I Am Charlotte Simmons", hit shelves in 2012 Tom Wolfe |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | UNIQUE PLACES $1600: Yemen's Socotra Island has a tree that produces red sap called this mythic creature's blood dragon |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | TV SHOW SETTINGS $400: "Treme" & "True Blood": this state Louisiana |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | THEY CO-STARRED WITH LEO DiCAPRIO $2000: Djimon Hounsou, in Africa Blood Diamond |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | MED. ABBREV. $400: On a patient's medical chart, BP is this blood pressure |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | GREEN VEGGIES $800: This "Swiss" veggie has been found to contain a chemical that helps to regulate blood sugar chard |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | BRITCOMS $1000: This abrasive "doc" with a blood phobia is out of place in a sleepy Cornish town Doc Martin |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | BIOLOGY $5,000 (Daily Double): Normally, when the glucose level in the blood is high, the pancreas secretes this hormone to lower it insulin |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | BEFORE FINALS $600: It was the next-to-last Harry Potter novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $2000: This author called his 1966 masterpiece "In Cold Blood" a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | TO YOUR HEALTH $400: From the Latin for "hair", these hairlike tubes connect arteries & veins & carry blood deep into tissues capillaries |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | DR. JOHN $800: John Scott Haldane devised a way to measure the amount of this pigment in blood, still used to diagnose anemia hemoglobin |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | HOW DO YOU? $1000: Open the airflow valve slowly, note the reading when you first hear the pulse & again when you can no longer hear it take someone's blood pressure |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | MEASURED LANGUAGE $600: George Patton: "A pint of sweat will save a ____ of blood" gallon |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | THEIR ALBUM ROCKS! $1600: "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (1991) Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | MEDICAL EQUIPMENT $1000: The bulldog type of this is used to clamp an artery or vein to stop blood flow a hemostat (or forceps) |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | MEDICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: The word "anemia" comes from the Greek an-, "without", & haima, this blood |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | SCIENCE GRAB BAG $400: Cyanosis, a bluish cast to the skin, is caused by a lack of this gas in the blood oxygen |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | THE KITCHEN LIBRARY $800: "The New Sugar Busters!" explains this "index", which ranks foods by how they affect the blood glucose levels the glycemic index |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS $1000: Testing of blood serum helps diagnose this tick-borne ailment named for a range of peaks Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | SYSTEMS OF THE BODY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of the human body on the monitor.) It's the term for this system that transports blood to & from all parts of the body the circulatory system |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | THE CULTURE OF VIETNAM $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a public space in Vietnam.) Practiced here in Hanoi, & the world over, this martial art for all ages can lower blood pressure & reduce anxiety tai chi |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | "NEA" $400: This layer of the eye has no blood vessels the cornea |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | WHO'S THAT GIRL DIRECTOR? $1600: In her directorial debut, 2011's "In the Land of Blood and Honey" Angelina Jolie |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $600: Red Cross data on U.S. blood types say 53% of Hispanics are O positive & 0.2% are this negative AB |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | SAFETY IN NUMBERS $400: The American Heart Association says that for adults, this should normally be less than 120/80 blood pressure |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | BODY WORKS $200: These smallest blood vessels are barely wider than the blood cells that pass through them single file capillaries |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $400 (Daily Double): (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Dr. Charles Drew saved the lives of soldiers & civilians in WWII when he improved blood banks by finding a long-term storage method for this blood liquid plasma |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIKE A VESTAL VIRGIN $2000: So as not to spill their blood, vestal non-virgins were killed this way, which Poe called a "ghastly extreme of agony" burying them alive |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | THE WALKING DEAD $400: Russell, a vampire on this HBO show, took over a TV newscast, said he'd eat us all, then threw it to Tiffany for the weather True Blood |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Tree "blood" sap |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | THESE PUNS ARE OFFAL $1200: The blood bank wouldn't let me donate; I went there in this blood vessel vein |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | TO YOUR HEALTH $2000: (Dr. Oz reads the clue from an operating room.) From the Greek for "clotting", it's this formation of a blood clot in a blood vessel; if it causes a blockage, you've got an embolism a thrombosis |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | I LIKE TO READ $400: In the Percy Jackson books, Percy meets other teen demigods at camp this Camp Half-Blood |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | GIVE 'EM HEALTH! $1600: Prevention's "12 Ways to Lower" this "Naturally" include "Indulge in dark chocolate" & "Seek help for snoring" blood pressure |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Capote book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area" In Cold Blood |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HOMOPHONES $800: The Roman goddess of love, or pertaining to certain blood vessels Venus/venous |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | SEARCHING "HI" & "LOW" $1600: 3-word term also known as hypotension low blood pressure |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | THE TELL-TALE HEART $800: Atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque on the walls of these blood vessels, has no symptoms until it's advanced an artery |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | THE TELL-TALE HEART $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) Palpitations accompanied by dizziness & shortness of breath may indicate a problem with these parts of the heart, such as the aortic & pulmonary ones, that permit blood flow in only one direction a valve |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | RACHEL $800: Evan Rachel Wood played Sophie-Anne, the vampire queen of Louisiana, on this biting series True Blood |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1600: This dashing "Captain Blood" star died in 1959 at the end of a week-long binge Errol Flynn |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | WHAT'S DOT? $200: In 2009 Dots candy introduced Bat Dots, a black, blood orange-flavored gum drop, for this holiday Halloween |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | SPEECH! $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1862 he told the Prussian Diet, "The great questions of the time" will be decided by "iron and blood" Otto von Bismarck |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | IRON, MAN $1000: Iron is necessary for the formation of this blood protein that transports oxygen to the tissues hemoglobin |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | FLUID SITUATIONS $400: Patton:
"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of ____" blood |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | CABLE DRAMAS $1200: The Starz series about this title swordsman has subtitles like "Blood and Sand" & "Gods of the Arena" Spartacus |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | FAMOUS IVY LEAGUERS $400: A very young Oscar winner, this actress could mix her "True Blood" with the blue bloods at Columbia Anna Paquin |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1939 Jimmy Stewart classic premiered here at Constitution Hall
"It's just the blood and bone and sinew of this democracy that some great men handed down to the human race, that's all!" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | SCIENCE $1200: Making transfusions routine, biochemist Karl Landsteiner put together the A-B-O "typing" of this blood |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | A RELIGIOUS CATEGORY $600: When these high Catholic officials take their posts, they put on red robes symbolizing blood they'd be willing to shed Cardinals |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | MEDICAL CONDITIONS $800: Christmas disease is a type of this hereditary disease in which the blood doesn't clot normally hemophilia |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1200: His brothers dipped his coat in goat's blood to make his father Jacob believe animals had devoured him Joseph |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS $800: The Italian Red Cross checked the blood glucose of 1,220 people in 8 hours to raise awareness about this disorder diabetes |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: Though the real first name of this "Blood Meridian" author is Charles, he adopted a more Irish-sounding name Cormac McCarthy |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | THE FIRST LETTER IS... $800: U:
Different from peptic ones, chronic leg ones may result from poor blood circulation caused by diabetes ulcer |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | POISON $800: The venom of the Gaboon viper can affect the way your blood does this inside you--either too much or too little flow |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1603, Hieronymus Fabricius noted that these in the legs have valves that control blood flow veins |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | SOLVE FOR "EX" $1000: If the murderer had blood type A, finding that a suspect has type O is this kind of evidence exculpatory (exclusionary also accepted) |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | MOVIES BASED ON SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Throne of Blood" Macbeth |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | MED. ABBREV. $600: To a cardiologist, AO can be short for this blood vessel the aorta |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $1000: The "Jeopardy!" office on tape days: blood, toil, tears & ___ sweat |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | GRAY'S ANATOMY SAYS... $400: The internal this vein "collects blood from the skull, brain, superficial parts of face and much of the neck" jugular |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | GRAY'S ANATOMY SAYS... $1600: These "veins return oxygenated blood to the left atrium" the pulmonary veins |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | A DAZZLING INTERNAL ORGAN SOLO $800: 2 healthy specimens of this organ filter wastes from about 50 gallons of blood daily the kidneys |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) African elephants deal with more heat than their Asian relatives, so their ears are bigger; when they're flapped, thousands of these smallest vessels in the ear bring cool blood to the body capillaries |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) If a giraffe didn't have adaptations like thick-walled arteries & extra valves to counteract gravity, lowering its head to drink would cause an aneurysm, & then raising its head would cause it to faint, because this vital measure is naturally so high its blood pressure |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | WHAT'S YOUR SPECIALTY, DR.? $800: Hematology: this substance blood |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | SCIENCE "L"AB $400: The anopleura, or "sucking" these, are insects that feed only on blood lice |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BODY WORKS $1600: Feel the pulse of life, your life, in these arteries that supply blood to the head the carotid arteries |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | A FRUITFUL CATEGORY $600: We hope you don't faint at the sight of this fruit a blood orange |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | MESSING WITH YOUR BRAIN $1200: Gelfoam & Avitene are this type of agent that helps curb blood flow if Doc zigs with the scalpel when he should've zagged clot(ting) |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | MESSING WITH YOUR BRAIN $2000: It's a swelling in a blood vessel; the cerebral type is a common cause of strokes hematoma (or aneurysm) |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY $1600: Almost half of North Americans have this kind of blood Type A |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' $2000: In 2011 the Kimberly Process regulating these "sanguine" items allowed Zimbabwe to sell certain gems blood diamonds |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | I'M JUST TALKIN' ABOUT "SHIFT" $800: On "True Blood" Sam is this hyphenated kind of creature, often becoming a dog shape-shifter |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the human circulatory system on the monitor.) The theory that blood circulates from the heart through the body's arteries & back to the heart through the veins was first explained by this Englishman in 1616 (William) Harvey |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | "A"NATOMY $600: The 2 vertebral these perform the rather important function of supplying blood to the brain arteries |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | THE VILLAGE IDIOM $1200: Attempts to get money from the mill owner are in vain; "you can't get" this "out of a stone" blood |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | THE STORY OF O $400: In hematology, O represents the blood group of individuals who lack these 2 letter-named antigens A & B |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This 8-letter word for a collection of blood, usually clotted, comes from words for "blood" & "tumor" hematoma |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS $400: Nutritionally, EPA isn't an agency but one of these fatty acids from fish oils, thought to lower blood pressure an omega-3 |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS $800: This spice from the bark of a tree is good on toast; some studies say it may lower blood sugar in people with diabetes cinnamon |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | BODY WORKS $1600: Of the body's 2 chief kinds of glands, this type secretes hormones directly into the blood endocrine glands |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1000: This protein part of blood plasma may be given as treatment for some viral diseases gamma globulin |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL $400: It's whom Churchill called "a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder" Hitler |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | GIMME AN "H" $4,000 (Daily Double): Anglers & crafters, not just surgeons, use this instrument, whose name means "blood stop" a hemostat |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | TV WHO AM I $800: Title blood-splatter expert for the Miami police Dexter |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | HUSBANDRY $400: Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer have been a couple on this show & in real life, marrying in 2010 True Blood |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $500 (Daily Double): Vatican City's anthem says, "O noble Rome, you are the seat of" this apostle, "whose blood was shed in Rome" Peter |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is being prepped to donate blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Before giving blood a simple test will ensure that you don't have anemia, & that donating blood won't bring it on, as you'll be giving up about 250 milligrams of this element iron |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds bags of blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Every unit of blood is screened & tested for many different viruses, including HIV, & infections, including this--both B & C hepatitis |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew is donating blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) The Red Cross could really use your blood if this is your blood type; shared by only 7% of the population, it's the universal donor O negative |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew preps to donate blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Technically, the person who draws your blood is called this, from the Greek word for vein a phlebotomist |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew is donating blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Once your blood is collected it goes to a lab where it's separated into components, mainly red cells, platelets & this liquid part, which will be frozen until needed plasma |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: What a vampire on an HBO show might have to know to get a transfusion, such as O or AB True Blood type |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BONING UP $800: This fatty substance inside the bones is a major site of blood cell production the marrow |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | ALSO A BLOOD TYPE $400: In baseball statistics, these 2 letters represent stepping up to the plate one time AB |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | ALSO A BLOOD TYPE $800: An interjection, or a popular Vegas show O |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | ALSO A BLOOD TYPE $1600: One single photography image in which brightness values are reversed A- (a negative) |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | ALSO A BLOOD TYPE $2,000 (Daily Double): It sounds like a command urging optimism B+ (be positive) |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | ALSO A BLOOD TYPE $2000: The sixth tone in the scale of C minor A |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GENERAL RELATIVITY $400: Benjamin D. Wilson, an early mayor of Los Angeles, was the grandfather of this general, "Old Blood and Guts" Patton |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | ATTILA THE HUNGRY $800: Atty! No blood of the innocent until you've had this 9-letter veggie whose stalks are apple-green with purple-tinged tips asparagus |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | DISEMVOWELMENT $600: This condition is from the Greek for "want of blood":
NM anemia |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | FEAR $400: Hemophobia blood |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | CLASSIC KIDS' POEMS $400: Charles Kingsley: "And round the world away; young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog his" every dog his day |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1600: The name of this type of teeny tiny blood vessel comes from the Latin for "pertaining to hair" capillary |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | THE HUMAN BODY $1000: Cumin is a spice; this blood plasma protein that rhymes with it carries nutrients to body tissues albumen |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $400: It's the medical term for high blood pressure hypertension |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $800: Anemia can be caused by red blood cells that are deficient in this pigment hemoglobin |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | MOVIES BY INITIALS $1600: 2007, actually about religion & oil: "T.W.B.B." There Will Be Blood |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | GENERAL SCIENCE $800: In 1674 this Dutchman, using microscopes that he made, became the first to describe red blood cells van Leeuwenhoek |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | WHEN THINGS GO WRONG $1200: In this alliterative condition, often seen in the legs, weak valves allow the blood to flow backwards & pool in vessels varicose veins |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | AROUND THE BODY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When an injury like a cut is sustained, these blood cells change shape, become sticky, build up on the wound & form a plug platelets |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | SCIENCE $400: They're also called erythrocytes red blood cells |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | THE HUMAN BODY $1000: From the Latin for "thigh", these main arteries of the thigh supply blood to the lower extremities the femoral arteries |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | MEDICAL MATTERS $800: On a blood test, a level of 60 or above of this, the "good cholesterol", is healthy HDL |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | MEDICAL MATTERS $1200: From the Greek for "stopper", it's a clot, as of fat or blood, that can get lodged in a blood vessel & obstruct it embolism |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | THE PERIODIC TABLE $800: Decompression sickness, aka the bends, is characterized by the formation of bubbles of this gas in the blood nitrogen |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SUMMER READING? $1600: This memoir by Ron Kovic begins, "The blood is still rolling off my flak jacket from the hole in my shoulder" Born on the Fourth of July |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Erich Korngold had this middle name, so he had to become a composer, of movie scores like "Captain Blood" Wolfgang |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE DOG WHISPERER $600: (Cesar Millan stands next to a seated dog.) Dogs look to us for reassurance & notice fear immediately; in an entire city, a dog could find 1 gram of butyric acid, a component of this human secretion sweat (or perspiration) |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | PACIFIC OCEAN LIFE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Maui Ocean Center.) Sea turtles dive to hundreds of feet by storing air in special passages; unlike the lungs, the passages don't have a network of blood vessels, so nitrogen doesn't get into the bloodstream to cause this, as in humans the bends |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | THIS CATEGORY IS MURDER $200: The senseless murder of the Clutter family in 1959 prompted this man to pen "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | MEASURE THIS! $1000: In a blood pressure reading such as 115/75, the numbers represent these of mercury millimeters |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | KNOCK U OUT $2,000 (Daily Double): It can mean strong influence; knock out the "U" & you've blocked the flow of blood clout & clot |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | WHO SANG IT? $600: "Bad Blood" & "Laughter In The Rain" Neil Sedaka |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $800: "To run" this way means to run viciously, frenzied for blood; originally the term referred to a crazy malay amok |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | THE HUMAN BODY $1200: Appropriately, the name of this blood vessel means "great artery" aorta |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $1600: My Red Cross blood donor id card with my blood type, AB positive, known as the universal this recipient |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | PLEDGES & OATHS $400: These people led by Genghis Khan swore a blood-sealed oath called the Anda the Mongols |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | BODY BASICS $1600: Leukocytes also have this 3-word name white blood cells |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | CRIME DETECTION $400: Reacting to hemoglobin, the chemical Luminol is used to detect this, even if it's been wiped off blood |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, IL.) The story goes that the dying Lincoln was cradled by Laura Keene, the star of this play that Lincoln fatally attended, leaving his blood on a piece of her dress Our American Cousin |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | HAZARDS $800: The scuba diving hazard known as the bends results from this gas being released into the blood during a too rapid ascent nitrogen |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | BONES $800: Infection-fighting white blood cells called neutrophils are produced in this part of the bone the marrow |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | SCIENCE $1200: About 65% of iron in humans is in the form of this, which transports molecular oxygen from the lungs through the body hemoglobin |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | "I" DOCTOR $200: The pancreas secretes this hormone in response to high levels of blood sugar insulin |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | TV THEME LYRICS $1600: "I don't know who you think you are but before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you" True Blood |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | THE "CAR" POOL $1000: 14-letter adjective meaning pertaining to the heart & blood vessels cardiovascular |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | MED. ABBREV. $1200: FBS is short for fasting this, to check for diabetes, for example blood sugar |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | LOONEY TUNES $800: In "Buccaneer Bunny", he calls himself the "blood-thirsiest, shoot-'em firstiest, doggone worstiest" Yosemite Sam |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C.) One of the best ways you can help the Red Cross is to donate blood, & since you can do it every 56 days, that's this many times a year 6 |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | STAIN REMOVAL $800: Hydrogen peroxide can help with this, the only stain that gets its own single word in the Random House Dictionary blood |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $400: As Franklin D. Roosevelt's blood pressure was 300/190, he suffered from this 1-word condition hypertension |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | A MURDER INVESTIGATION $200: (Kyra Sedgwick delivers the clue.) Lividity, caused by blood pooling in certain areas, is one of the ways to determine this, abbreviated T.O.D., which Brenda often politely asks the forensics folks to tell her time of death |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | MEDICAL ISSUES $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2010 Bret Michaels suffered from hyponatremia, low levels of this element in the blood sodium |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | LIZARDRY $1600: To ward off predators, the horned lizard will squirt this out of its eyes blood |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | THE HUMAN BODY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a diagram of a heart.) This tube, the largest artery in your body, originates in a heart's left ventricle & sends blood to every part of your body the aorta |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | AFRO-DITTY $1200: Kanye West took on the issue of blood diamonds in "Diamonds From" this African country Sierra Leone |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | BOOKS' OTHER TITLES $2000: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood" this: "the Evening Redness in the West" Meridian |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | FLEA $200: Fleas make up the order Siphonaptera, siphon meaning tube used to extract this blood |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | MONKEY BUSINESS $1600: Macaca mulatta is better known as this monkey that's helped in medical science, especially blood grouping Rhesus |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? $600 (Daily Double): "Here's the smell, of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" Lady Macbeth |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE... $800: Kidney vertigo, eyebrow singe & this, a yellow discoloring of the skin caused by too much bilirubin in the blood jaundice |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CABLE GUYS $1000: Alexander Skarsgard as Eric Northman, an old & powerful Nordic vampire True Blood |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | "L" 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: The this & Lymphoma Society is a charity fighting blood cancers Leukemia |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: A technique called the relaxation response opens up blood vessels, easing a systolic type of this 1-word condition hypertension |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | LETTER & WORD $2,500 (Daily Double): The most common human blood type (make sure to include whether it's positive or negative) O-positive |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | BIG "BROTHER" $800: Sanguine term for a steadfast friend a blood brother |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | E BEFORE I $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.)
Blood vessels called arteries are connected by means of capillaries to this other type of blood vessel veins |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | RHYMES WITH SMART $200: Blood pumper heart |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | CALL SOMEONE WHO CARES $200: To donate blood at this organization, call (800) GIVE-LIFE the Red Cross |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | A FRUITY CATEGORY $800: The aptly named sanguinelli is a variety of this citrus fruit with deep red flesh a blood orange |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | OLD DEUTERONOMY $800: These dietary rules are detailed in Deuteronomy, like salting to remove blood kosher rules |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $400: Daniel Day-Lewis starred in this 2008 Oscar-winning adaptation of an Upton Sinclair novel There Will Be Blood |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $800: Leonardo DiCaprio's African jewel smuggler gains a conscience in this film Blood Diamond |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $1200: Sylvester Stallone played Vietnam vet John Rambo in this 1982 film First Blood |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $1600: The Coen brothers debuted with this murderous Texas noir tale Blood Simple |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $2000: Movie in which Jean-Claude Van Damme wins a secret martial arts tournament Bloodsport |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO $600: From this author's "The Jungle" I shall read lines like "On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood" Upton Sinclair |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | POE IS ME! $1600: "And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel" in "The Masque of" this "the Red Death" |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BIB-LICKAL EVENTS $1600: God tells this king through Elijah that dogs will "lick thy blood" & "eat Jezebel by the Wall of Jezreel" Ahab |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | CAUSED BY... $1000: Hypovolemic, a type of shock loss of blood |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | CUT! $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When clipping a dog's nails, be careful not to clip this part of the nail--blood vessels & nerves there will create pain for your pooch the quick |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | LIVING HEALTHY WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz shows a plate of bananas, dates, strawberries, and other fruits.) One way to control high blood pressure is to counteract high levels of sodium in the average diet by eating foods rich in magnesium & this element--symbol K potassium |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $2000: nytimes.com/health has a handy primer on the PSA blood test done on older gents, PSA standing for this prostate-specific antigen |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | HOMOPHONES $800: Egotistical, or a blood vessel vain/vein |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | TV $2000: A red beverage introduced for public sale bore the same name as this HBO show, in which the drink is seen True Blood |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | DUMB CRIMINALS $800: Criminals, don't call this "You can do it. We can help" store & ask "How do you get a large quantity of blood out of a carpet?" Home Depot |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $1600: In 1616 he began lecturing on the circulation of blood; his book on the subject didn't come out until 1628 (William) Harvey |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $400: Yellow fever is primarily carried by the Aedes aegypti species of this bloodsucker the mosquito |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $800: This nocturnal insect, Cimex lectularius, often finds shelter in the seams, tufts & crevices of mattresses a bedbug |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $1200: There are more than 10,000 species of this bloodsucker but Pulex irritans is the one used in most "circuses" fleas |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $1600: In 19th century France, this aquatic worm was raised on farms by the thousands for medicinal purposes leeches |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $2000: Only the female of this "equine" pest of the family Tabanidae feeds on blood; the male feeds on nectar the horse-fly |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | ON THE "BALL" $800: This "Six Feet Under" creator's career is far from dead; he brought "True Blood" to HBO Alan Ball |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS $400: A blood-craving Audrey II "branches" out & takes over NYC in Frank Oz' ending that never was to this film Little Shop of Horrors |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento, CA.) The Breathalyzer will test to see if I'm over this blood alcohol content; its enactment as the limit in all 50 states has saved many lives .08 |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | BEASTLY HOMONYMS $2000: Blood pumper heart (hart) |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES $600: Shortness of breath--must be a heart attack. No, histoplasmosis. Of course!--this red blood cell insufficiency anemia |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | YOU TUBE $400: The circle of Willis, a ring of arteries in this organ, is a fail-safe system to ensure it a steady blood supply the brain |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | TECHNOLOGY $800: More cardiac arrest patients survive thanks to purposely induced this condition, which cools the blood 5-8 degrees hypothermia |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | ALPHABETIC LETTER PAIRS $1,100 (Daily Double): If you have this blood type, you're lucky; it's the "universal recipient" AB |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | IT IS WHAT IT "IS" $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of an illustration of blood vessels.) In a frequent cause of heart disease, blood flow to tissues is decreased by obstructed arteries, a condition called this cardiac ischemia |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $400: Blood flows through a network of vessels known collectively as this system the circulatory system |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $800: Specialized white blood cells called lymphocytes begin as this type of cell in the bone marrow a stem cell |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $1200: Made mostly of water & salts, this fluid component of blood is usually yellow due to dissolved proteins plasma |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $1600: These blood cell fragments are also called thrombocytes platelets |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $4,000 (Daily Double): One of these, also called a syncope, is that blood flow to the brain is diminished fainting |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | "RED" SCIENCE $800: An erythrocyte a red blood cell |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | NAME THE FILM $1000: 2007:
"I... drink... your... milkshake! I drink it up!" There Will Be Blood |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | MARSHALL ARTS $400: In 1831 Marshall Hall showed that these tiny blood vessels bring the blood into contact with the tissue capillaries |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | SCIENTISTS $2000: This 17th c. British physician said the pulse comes from the heart pumping blood, not from the arteries contracting (William) Harvey |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $2000: Blood-hued courtesan a scarlet harlot |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IT'S A GAS $400: One of the main jobs of red blood cells is to carry this gas from the lungs to the body's tissues oxygen |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IT'S A GAS $1200: Rising too fast from deep water forces nitrogen gas into the blood, causing this condition in scuba divers the bends |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | ANATOMY $200: This transparent membrane in the eye covers the iris & has no blood vessels the cornea |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $400: "Arise, Ye Who Refuse To Be Slaves; With Our Very Flesh And Blood Let Us Build Our New Great Wall" China |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS $1200: In "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris, this "True Blood" waitress searches for the killer of a werepanther Sookie Stackhouse |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | MYTHICAL CREATURES $1600: This winged creature sprang from the blood of Medusa after Perseus beheaded her Pegasus |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | GIVING BLOOD $200: The Red Cross' "Top 10 reasons to give blood" run from "It's the right thing to do" to "Free juice and" these cookies |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | GIVING BLOOD $400: The Red Cross blood donation hotline is at 1-800-GIVE-this LIFE |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | GIVING BLOOD $600: Per a rule in place since 1996, you can't donate if you've lived since 1977 in certain countries on this continent Africa |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | GIVING BLOOD $800: The nurse will take 1 of this unit; your body will replace the fluids in 24 hours a pint |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | GIVING BLOOD $1000: Apheresis, in which you get your blood back, lets you donate these clotting blood cells to help those in need platelets |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | DOUBLE "E" WORDS $1200: This lymphoid organ destroys worn-out red blood cells & filters bacteria & foreign particles the spleen |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | TWILIGHT: THE NOVEL $200: While Bella finds the smell of this nauseating, to the vampires, it's intoxicating blood |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | RECENT BOOKS $400: Severus Snape turns out to be this title person in a Harry Potter novel the Half-Blood Prince |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | BIOLOGY $1600: White blood cells are also known by this medical name, from the Greek for "white" leukocytes |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | INFLATABLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Usually attached to an inflatable cuff, a sphygmomanometer measures this blood pressure |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION $1000: Take a guess:
Blut ist dicker als Wasser is this familial proverb blood is thicker than water |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | DR. OZ $1600: (Dr. Oz holds a heart.) This valve, which prevents the backflow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium, is named after the pope's hat the mitral valve |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | MOVIE MISSING LINKS $600: There Will Be ____ Diamond Blood |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | MOOSE ON THE LOOSE $800: This tiny, blood-sucking arachnid is a threat to the great big moose by irritating the skin so the moose rubs off winter hair a tick |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | DRINK"S" $1000: This drink made with red wine & fruit juices isn't so appealing when you know its name is from Spanish for "blood" sangria |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | JUST MISSED THE TOP OF THE CHARTS $2000: This Blood, Sweat & Tears song says, "What goes up must come down"; it went up to No. 2, then went back down "Spinning Wheel" |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | QUOTES ABOUT SPORTS TEAMS? $1200: Jefferson:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of ____ and tyrants" patriots |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $400: Sanguinary term for a diamond sold to finance military operations a blood diamond |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | MEDICAL PREFIXES & SUFFIXES $1000: Used as a suffix, -emia means pertaining to this substance blood |
| #5721, aired 2009-06-22 | ANN(E)-TASTIC! $200: She announced that 2003's "Blood Canticle" will be her final vampire novel Anne Rice |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | UPTON SINCLAIR $2,000 (Daily Double): Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was the basis of this Oscar-winning 2007 film There Will Be Blood |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | YOU: STAYING YOUNG $800: (Dr. Oz...) Take a daily dose of the seeds from this plant that have anti-oxident properties and can lower blood pressure; and don't worry--you won't sprout green hair chia |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Third syllable intoned by the giant who smells the blood of an Englishman fo |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | SMELLS TERRIFIC $600: Fee fi fo fum, it's what the giant smells in a popular fairy tale the blood of an Englishman |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1000: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother" Henry V |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $1200: The senseless, brutal murder of the Clutter family is at the heart of this work In Cold Blood |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Time put his violent western tale "Blood Meridian" on a list of the 100 best novels since 1923 Cormac McCarthy |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OUT LIKE A "LAM" $1000: This jawless eel-like fish feeds on other fish by sucking their blood the lamprey |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | BOOK CROOK $400: This Sherlock Holmes nemesis might have been a brilliant mathematician but "a criminal stain ran in his blood" Moriarty |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | ROCKS & MINERALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew scrapes a rock against a white sample surface.) The chief ore of iron, this mineral, is named for the fact that its powder, or the streak that it leaves, is blood red hematite |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | HE SAID, SHE SAID $1600: This "In Cold Blood" author said, "Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard & shot it" Truman Capote |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | HAVE A HEART WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue holding a real heart.) This valve, whose name is from the Latin for "three points", prevents the backflow of blood from the right ventricle into the right atrium the tricuspid |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | DEATH OF A PRESIDENT $800: He lived for about 80 days following his shooting, dying of blood poisoning September 19, 1881 Garfield |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | SCI. ABBREV. $1200: In mammals, they have no nucleus:
RBC red blood cells |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | THIS GLAND IS YOUR GLAND $600: This gland in the front of the neck below the larynx makes calcitonin to deal with high levels of calcium in the blood the thyroid |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $200: 2005, it return to bestseller list after long time, about 1959 Kansas murders, Tarzan horrified yet can't put book down In Cold Blood |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | "TRI" ME $400: High cholesterol is often associated with high levels of this fat in the blood triglycerides |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): This 2-letter word can precede "blood" &, "incident"ally, "bow" ox |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $600: This 1969 novella by Harlan Ellison tells the story of Blood, a telepathic canine who teaches his master to read A Boy and His Dog |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | LET'S REMOVE YOUR GALLBLADDER $800: Risks? bleeding from the cystic one of these carriers of oxygenated blood, I guess,-almost never happens... arteries |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | AN ELEMENT-AL CATEGORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a bedside.) Here at the sleep center at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, one of the 32 devices attached to a subject measures the levels of this element in the blood, which can be an indicator of sleep apnea oxygen |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | AHH, LIVER! $400: Some substances made by the liver help fight disease; fibrinogen enables the blood to do this 4-letter function clot |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | AHH, LIVER! $600: Digested food travels in the blood from this "tiny" 23-foot body part to the liver to be stored the small intestine |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | HEALTH MATTERS $600 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew shows some animated blood cell models on the monitor.) Instead of being biconcave discs, red blood cells are distorted into a particular shape & don't carry oxygen well in patients with this disease sickle cell anemia |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | OTHER RED STATES $400: It's blood rushing to the face that causes this alliterative term for a newly married gal blushing bride |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | ODE TO A SITCOM $1200: War & blood, blood & war / Hot Lips near cold corpses/ Comedy amidst pathos, thy name is Hawkeye M*A*S*H |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | PORTENT POTABLES $400: The Vikings used human blood to christen their ships; thank Odin this potent potable is traditional today champagne |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | GOOD WORKS $200: Thanks to some 4 million donors, this "American" group is the USA's largest supplier of blood & blood products the Red Cross |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | EEEUW...GROSS! $600: When these medicinal worms finish sucking your blood, they drop off; alert your nurse when this happens leeches |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | SCIENCE $200: Each of these organs contains about 1 million nephrons, which filter blood the kidneys |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | BODY WORKS $400: While veins carry blood toward the heart, these vessels carry blood away from the heart arteries |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | HEAD TRAUMA $200: This hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain is also known as an apoplexy a stroke |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $1000: Cool it with the blood of this large, colorful African monkey, & you're done--who wants to taste? a baboon |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | KNOW YOUR RIGHTS $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows an animated anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The heart's right ventricle pumps directly into this artery that carries blood into the lungs the pulmonary |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | SHAPE UP $1000: These smallest formed elements in the blood are named for their disklike shape platelets |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | CHURCHILLIAN PONDERINGS $600: In his 1st statement as P.M., Winston said he had nothing to offer but toil & these 3 things; cool name for a band! blood, sweat & tears |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | THE HUMAN BODY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a diagram of the heart on the monitor.) Deoxygenated blood is carried back to the heart via the body's two largest veins, the superior & inferior this the vena cava |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | LET'S HAVE SOME "PH"UN! $400: Afraid of blood? Snakes? Enclosed places? You have one of these intense irrational fears phobia |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | HOW NOVEL! $800: He oxymoronically described his 1966 book "In Cold Blood" as a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | CRUISE LINES $1600: As this vampire in "Interview with the Vampire", Cruise says, "What I wouldn't give for a drop of good... Creole blood" Lestat |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $400: When Queen Victoria's granddaughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her hemophilia |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD SAUSAGE $200: Drisheen sausage, made with lamb's blood, is a specialty of Cork in this country Ireland |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD SAUSAGE $400: Buen provecho when eating tapas made with morcilla, pig's blood with rice, from this European country Spain |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD SAUSAGE $600: Popular Thuringer rotwurst from this country has been given geographic protection by the EU Germany |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD SAUSAGE $800: Charcuterie includes boudin blanc & this other delicacy made from pig's blood, brandy & cream boudin noir |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD SAUSAGE $1000: Soondae, filled with potato noodle & served with kimchi, is a popular street dish in this country Korea |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | COLORFUL LANGUAGE $1600: This term for nobility comes from the Spanish sangre azul blue blood |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, teenaged Isabella Swan falls for a romantic one of these blood-suckers a vampire |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | ANATOMY $400: As opposed to the muscular or skeletal system, the heart, blood & blood vessels are parts of this system the circulatory system |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | ANATOMY $1600: Glucose levels in the blood are regulated by 2 pancreatic hormones: glucagon & this insulin |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | GREEK ALPHABET SOUP $400: High blood pressure & glaucoma can be treated with metoprolol, one of this "blocker" class of drugs beta blockers |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | GREEK ALPHABET SOUP $2000: Found in blood serum, they contain the antibodies of the immune system gamma globulins |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH $600: Researchers think they know why a blood disorder in the tropics protects against this mosquito-borne disease malaria |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | GEMS & JEWELS $400: This gem is most prized when its color is pigeon's blood red a ruby |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | TELEVISION $1000: Mick St. John is a P.I. who sucks--blood, that is--on this vampirific CBS show Moonlight |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: Film in which Daniel Day-Lewis searches for oil & citrus fruits with dark red flesh There Will Be Blood Oranges |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | SHAKEN-UP SHAKESPEARE $800: Akira Kurosawa's film "Throne of Blood", based on this play, has just one witch (if you don't count the lead guy's wife) Macbeth |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | BABOONS, BATS, & BANDICOOTS $200: These bats feed exclusively on blood from small wounds they make on animals with a single bite vampire bats |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | THE BODY HUMAN $5,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents the visual.) Red eye in photographs is the reflection of the flash off the blood vessels from this posterior part of the eye the retina |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | EDIBLE COMMON BONDS $800: Blood,
bockwurst,
chorizo sausages |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: Army doctor Benjamin Rush believed in the "depletion" of this, sometimes removing 80% of it from a patient blood |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | BODILY FLUIDS $600: The pale liquid portion of your blood, it's about 90% water plasma |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | BACKWORDS $400: Blood will flow if this predator gets among the cattle a wolf (flow) |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $800: "First Blood" was a Rambo movie; this 2007 film had Daniel Day-Lewis searching for oil There Will Be Blood |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? $1200: Blood tests that measure vitamin B12 levels are used to diagnose the pernicious form of this anemia |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $1000: "Oil!", a 1927 novel by this muckraker, was on the New York Times Best Seller List in 2008 Upton Sinclair |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | FISHIN' IMPOSSIBLE $200: In 2006 we learned that Antarctic fish have proteins that keep their blood from doing this freezing |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A British P.M. gives his blood, toil, tears & sweat as a Louisville horse race track Winston Churchill Downs |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | "C" IN PHYSICS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew puts a thin glass tube in a dish of liquid, and the liquid crawls up inside the tube.) Appropriately, blood & other liquids tend to rise up a small tube because of a phenomenon called this action capillary |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | MISQUOTED $400: This leader said "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat", not "blood, sweat & tears" Winston Churchill |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: In 1862 this Prussian said that "The great questions of the day" would be decided "by iron and blood" Bismarck |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $200: "Shadow of the Vampire" details the production of this 1922 F.W. Murnau film Nosferatu |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $400: The Coreys go after vampires in this 1987 film The Lost Boys |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $600: "The one name they all fear" was a tagline for this 2004 blockbuster that starred Hugh Jackman Van Helsing |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $800: It's the vampiric Death Dealers vs. the Lycans in this slick 2003 movie Underworld |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $1000: In 2002 Aaliyah played this "royal" from Anne Rice's vampire menagerie Queen of the Damned |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | MEDICAL TALK $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew tends to a virtual patient at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr, a Harvard teaching hospital in Boston, MA.) A dilated pupil indicates that a head injury may have led to an acute subdural this, where blood accumulates within the skull a hematoma |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | I'M FEELING BOOKISH $400: A phrase in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" became the title of this Capote crime book In Cold Blood |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | "A" IN SCIENCE $400: This deficiency of hemoglobin is often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells anemia |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | GIMME AN "H" $1200: Glands in this mammal's skin secrete a pink fluid that once led folks to believe it sweated blood a hippopotamus |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | PASS THE CHOCOLATE $600: A 2007 study said that eating a little dark chocolate daily may reduce this, both systolic & diastolic blood pressure |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | "LOW" $1000: It's the medical condition aka hypotension low blood pressure |
