| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MISHEARD LYRICS $1200: A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called "the reverend blue jeans" Neil Diamond |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $1200: Owned by Bilbo & later Frodo, Sting was a magical one of these that glowed blue when servants of Sauron were near a sword |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | TAKING A RIDE $1200: You can take a nice-sized ride of 700 miles on a single tank of gas in a Sonata hybrid blue by this car company Hyundai |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE MALE GAZE $1200: Ben Stiller explained that this signature look of Zoolander is a 6-part process & is meant to convey "OK, take it already" Blue Steel |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $1000: & Just like that, you learned TV's Carrie Bradshaw got married in blue Hangisi heels by this Spanish designer Manolo Blahnik |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | BLUE BY YOU $400: He chose a nice blue hat to cover the bandage over his ear for the 1889 painting seen here van Gogh |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | BLUE BY YOU $800: "Crouching Woman" & "Blind Man's Meal" are paintings from his blue period Picasso |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | BLUE BY YOU $1200: Thomas Gainsborough set the tone with the portrait seen The Blue Boy |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | BLUE BY YOU $1600: Ultramarine was the ultra-essential to this Dutchman's "Woman in Blue Reading a Letter" Vermeer |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | BLUE BY YOU $2000: The Japanese artist Hokusai was adept at using the dye of blue named for this onetime European kingdom Prussian blue |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODES $3,000 (Daily Double): "Dirty Little Secrets" & "Happy Birthday, Mr. President!" Scandal |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | GARDENING $1000: By changing the pH of the soil, you can change some of these flowers from pink to blue or purple hydrangeas |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | MOVIES: THE LINE OF THE END $4,000 (Daily Double): "I hope to see my friend & shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope" The Shawshank Redemption |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In this 1908 romance by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, a pair of 8-year old cousins are marooned on a tropical island The Blue Lagoon |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | THE HALEAKALA OBSERVATORY $6,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Haleakala Observatory in Maui, Hawaii.) Carefully hold a thumb over the sun atop Haleakala, & you won't see a white ring like you would at sea level--just pure blue; the sky is so clear, that there's hardly any of this--the dispersion of light by atmospheric particles scattering |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | JACKETS REQUIRED $1200: For warmth, you can't beat this double-breasted navy blue wool jacket worn by U.S. sailors a pea coat |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | YOU'VE BEEN POSTERIZED! $1600: "Yellow, Red, Blue" is by this Russian, called the father of modern art Kandinsky |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | FASHION HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1886 mothers began forcing their sons to wear silly velvet suits inspired by this titled tot of literature Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG $1,500 (Daily Double): These 2 hounds whose names begin with the same letter are said by the AKC to have the keenest sense of smell bloodhound & basset hound |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | BUILDING BRIDGES $4,200 (Daily Double): In Thailand a sound & light show depicts the bombing of this bridge built by P.O.W.s the bridge on the River Kwai |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1,100 (Daily Double): The orchestral "Rhapsody in Blue" opens with a glissando by this instrument that slides into a bluesy melody a clarinet |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $200: In 1999 a possible strike by this group, baseball's "men in blue", led to "Go Ahead and Walk, You Porky Chumps" the umpires |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | ROAMIN' THE WORLD $400: When Sudan takes you to a place by this river, you can sit by the Blue or White one Nile |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $300: When you mention this bird "of happiness", you're referring to a play by Maurice Maeterlinck the blue bird of happiness |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,600 (Daily Double): South Carolina's highest point, Sassafras Mountain, rises 3,560 feet in this range of the Appalachians the Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #1546, aired 1991-04-29 | WHALES $100: Captain Ahab could tell you the beluga whale is also known by this colorful name a white whale |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | STATE ANIMALS $500: Connecticut's state animal is this species of whale made famous by Melville's "Moby Dick" the sperm whale |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | IN THE NEWS $800: 1st diamond of this color to be put on permanent display was unveiled by the Smithsonian in 1988 red |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | GEOLOGY $100: A body of water separated from the sea by a sandbar, you might find Brooke babbling in a blue one lagoon |
| #329, aired 1985-12-12 | "DOWN" SONGS $200: It's "where I first met you, with your eyes so blue" "Down By The Old Mill Stream" |
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