| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORD HISTORIES $2000: This synonym for jeans comes from the name of a blue cloth that originated in India dungarees |
| #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 |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $1000: In "Grease" & Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant", this outerwear goes with blue jeans leather jacket |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | OUR BRAND'S ON THAT $400: Blue jeans... more specifically, 501 Original Fit Levi’s |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | BLUE'S CLUES $600: Crayola's blues have included cerulean, aqua & this jeans fabric denim |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE WORKING DEAD $200: What he called "waist overalls" have stood the test of time (as blue jeans) since he came up with them in the 1870s Levi Strauss |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: Jeans, blue or otherwise, owe their name to this Italian city Genoa |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | FIRST IN YOUR CLASS $800: His name is synonymous with blue jeans; he founded the first company to manufacture them Levi Strauss |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | "D" PLUS $2000: From the Hindi, it's another name for blue denim jeans dungarees |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: A brand of blue jeans, or a cowboy in charge of saddle horses wrangler |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $800: If blue or black aren't scientific enough for you, you can get jeans in the color of this element, C carbon |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | 100 YEARS OR OLDER $2000: In his 100 years this French anthropologist erroneously received numerous orders for blue jeans (Claude) Lévi-Strauss |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | FEMALE SINGERS $1000: With a name like a Wild West outlaw, she set off some alarms with her 2009 country-pop tune "Blue Jeans" Jessie James |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | THAT AIN'T IN YOUR TYPICAL COUNTRY SONG $400: I never grew up poor / I have no old blue jeans / My suits are all from these siblings' store / In business since 1818 Brooks Brothers |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | APPAREL "L" $200: This brand name became synonymous with blue jeans Levi's |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | SHADES OF BLUE $600: Now largely synthetic, this plant dye traditionally put the blue in blue jeans indigo |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | NEIL DIAMOND'S GEMS $1600: In a 1979 hit Neil went casual singing, "And long as I can have you here with me I'd much rather be" this "Forever in Blue Jeans" |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | THE '70s $600: This company's 1973 Gremlin had a Levi's trim package option featuring nylon "blue jeans" seat covers AMC (American Motors) |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | MISHEARD LYRICS $800: This Brooklynite was "Forever in blue jeans", not "The Reverend Blue Jeans" Neil Diamond |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | SONG SUNG "BLUE" $400: A 1979 Neil Diamond hit says, "Long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be" this, the song's title "Forever In Blue Jeans" |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | ASHTON KUTCHER $1000: In the late '90s, Ashton appeared in ads for this designer's blue jeans Calvin Klein |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | CAMELS $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew) Also a brand of blue jeans, it's the name for a handler of animals, like camels on a movie set Wrangler |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | THE "A" TEAM $1200: (Sofia gives the clue.) They're the popular blue-jeans additions seen here appliqués |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | THIS & THAT $600: This plant dye, now largely synthetic, traditionally puts the blue in blue jeans indigo |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | BLUE JEAN $200: This '60s style was named for the flared shape of the jeans' lower portion Bell bottoms |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | BLUE JEAN $400: Jeans were originally called "waist-high" these, as distinguished from "bib" ones Overalls |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | BLUE JEAN $800: In the disco era many said, "Uh-oh, Sergio" as they squeezed into this brand of designer jeans Sergio Valente |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | "BLUE" $100: Levi's,
for example Blue jeans |
| #3189, aired 1998-06-11 | NAME THE SINGER $100: "Song Sung Blue",
"Forever in Blue Jeans" Neil Diamond |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | THE 1970s $100: From Calvin Klein & others this piece of denim apparel became "designer", i.e. tight & expensive blue jeans |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | FABRICS & TEXTILES $200: This fabric used to make jeans is usually woven with a blue cotton warp & white cotton filling denim |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | 19th CENTURY FASHION $300: He put the blue in blue jeans (Levi) Strauss |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | CALIFORNIA $200: You can trace the history of blue jeans at this company's museum in San Francisco Levi Strauss |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | PEOPLE $200: Patty Ludwin of Canonsburg, Penn. turns blue jeans into "Calamity Jeans" by riddling them with these bulletholes |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | FASHION $100: A recent trend in blue jeans fashion is to sport a rip in the fabric at this strategic spot knee |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | COLORS $200: Levi Strauss began marketing denim jeans in this color in the 1850s blue |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | BLUE JEANS $100: His first "jeans" made in 1853, were neither blue nor denim, but brown & canvas Levi Strauss |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | BLUE JEANS $200: On the back of his 1984 album cover, he's wearing blue jeans with a red baseball cap in the right rear pocket Bruce Springsteen |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | BLUE JEANS $300: A huge billboard in Italy parodied this artist's work with God offering a naked Adam a pair of jeans Michelangelo |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | BLUE JEANS $400: Take a stab at the name of these blue jeans whose label is punctuated with a question mark Guess |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | BLUE JEANS $500 (Daily Double): Like 501s, this 1979 Top 20 hit is considered a classic: "Money talks / But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk / And long as I can have you here with me / I much rather be..."
[The song was not played going into the break.] "Forever In Blue Jeans" |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | "BLACK" & "BLUE" SONGS $300: Though by 1979 Neil Diamond could afford Gabardine pants, he was "forever in" these blue jeans |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | ASTRONOMICAL SONGS $100: Planet named for a goddess whom Jimmy Clanton described "In Blue Jeans" Venus |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | FASHION $300: When 1st developed in San Francisco in the 1850s, they were called "waist overalls" & sold for 22¢ blue jeans |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | "BLUE" SONGS $500: Conclusion Elton John came to in '84 when he couldn't be "rollin' like thunder under the covers" "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" |
