| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $2000: By Cormac McCarthy: the Kid, Judge Holden Blood Meridian |
| #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 |
| #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 | 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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | LIFE SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): In a fish's 2-chambered heart, it's the chamber that receives blood from the veins atrium |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | THE MOVIES $2000: A foe brings former FBI agent Clint Eastwood back into play in this 2002 film Blood Work |
| #4292, aired 2003-04-08 | CHEMISTRY $1200: Most types of E. coli work safely in your intestines; some even help make this blood-clotting vitamin Vitamin K |
| #3094, aired 1998-01-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Harper Lee helped him research an article which developed into the work "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | BLOOD $200: Of blood type, dental work, & tattoos, the subject not queried of Red Cross blood donors blood type |
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