| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THE CAROLINAS $600: These colorful mountains of the Appalachians pass through both North & South Carolina & several other states as well Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | THE SABBATH $200: For decades, states have been dropping these colorful edicts; the Sunday shopping ban ended by North Dakota was among the last blue laws |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | I GOT THE BLUES $400: This "seafaring" shade of blue is one of the most popular colors for school uniforms in the United States navy blue |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: This phrase comes from the color used on TV maps to show the areas Al Gore won in the 2000 presidential election blue states |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | ANGELS IN AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): Here is this group of the United States Navy doing its thing with precision & grace the Blue Angels |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | STATES BY COLORFUL LOCALES $1000: Black Oak &
Blue Eye Arkansas |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | ASIAN FLAGS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a flag on the monitor.) The design of the national flag of Malaysia was based on the Stars & Stripes of the United States combined with the symbolism of this religion on the blue canton Islam |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | BLUE STATES $400: An ad says this sad state "hurts. Cymbalta can help" depression |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | BLUE STATES $800: This Stephen King novel is about writer Paul Sheldon & his No. 1 fan Misery |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | BLUE STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): A map of the 100 Acre Wood describes Eeyore's place as this, as well as "rather boggy and sad" gloomy |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | BLUE STATES $1200: In ancient physiology, the 4 humors were blood, phlegm, choler & this, aka black bile melancholy |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | BLUE STATES $1600: Light therapy can help with SAD, this disorder first described by psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal seasonal affective disorder |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE UNITED STATES MARINES $800: The red stripe on a marine's blue trousers honors those lost in the Battle of Chapultepec in this war the Mexican(-American) War |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AROUND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE $1600: Arctic territory under the red, white & blue includes this northernmost "Point" of Alaska & the United States Point Barrow |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | SAY UNCLE $200: This personification of the United States wears a white top hat that has white stars on a blue band Uncle Sam |
| #4798, aired 2005-06-15 | WORLD FLAGS $200: The flag of the Federated States of Micronesia has 4 stars on a blue background, the blue standing for this ocean the Pacific |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN BLUE $800: This country's Carabinieri evolved from a military group that served the Savoyard states Italy |
| #2364, aired 1994-12-08 | U.S. STATES $500: Its state bird is the Blue Hen chicken Delaware |
| #1611, aired 1991-09-09 | PAPER CURRENCY $800: The Treasury seal on Federal Reserve notes is green; it is this color on United States notes red |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | U.S. STATES $1000: Grandfather Mountain, the tallest peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is in this state North Carolina |
| #1181, aired 1989-10-23 | THE 50 STATES $600: This Rocky Mountain state's flag features a white bison on a blue background Wyoming |
| #1090, aired 1989-05-05 | U.S. STATES $600: South Carolina's flag has a blue field with this state tree in the center palmetto |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | FILM FACTS $400: Ironically, Bible Belt states of N. & S. Carolina are said to have largest concentration of these cinemas blue cinemas or XXX houses |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | U.S. STATES $200: Thoroughbred horses do well fueled by the "blue grass" of this state Kentucky |
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