| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $2,200 (Daily Double): Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there Botany Bay |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOTANY $400: Son of a gun, this female part of a flower is made up of the ovary, style & stigma the pistil |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOTANY $800: Gymnosperms bear seeds in cones; these, constituting most of the world's green plants, have flowers angiosperms |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOTANY $1200: Also known as pods, most of these release seeds by splitting open at their seams; some, like peanuts, don't open naturally legumes |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOTANY $1600: "X" is for this tissue in plants that provides support & moves water xylem |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOTANY $2000: In a 1771 experiment this British scientist discovered that plants give off what turned out to be oxygen (Joseph) Priestley |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | 19th CENTURY SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): An 1813 work called "Elementary Theory of Botany" introduced this field, the classification of organisms taxonomy |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: Indenting New South Wales, Botany Bay is an inlet of this sea the Tasman Sea |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | GETTING A "BA" IN BOTANY $200: In botany, this is a delicate ornamental flower of genus Gypsophila, not actual infant respiration baby's breath |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | GETTING A "BA" IN BOTANY $400: This herb of the mint family is a key ingredient in many pasta dishes basil |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | GETTING A "BA" IN BOTANY $600: The name of this tree with extremely lightweight wood is Spanish for "raft" balsa |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | GETTING A "BA" IN BOTANY $800: Chinese mountain & Japanese timber are varieties of this grass bamboo |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | GETTING A "BA" IN BOTANY $1000: Roots that descend from branches can give one of these tropical & subtropical trees the appearance of a thicket banyan trees |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $2,600 (Daily Double): To the Romans, Robigus was the god of this fungus that appears as red, orange or yellow spots on plants a rust |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $200: The c. 300 B.C. "De Historia Plantarum" helped establish Plato's student Theophrastus as the founder of this 6-letter science botany |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | ATLAS ALLITERATION $400: This Australian place got its name due to "the great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander" found on shore Botany Bay |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | SCIENCE CLASS $2000: Also meaning a mark of disgrace, in botany, it's the part of a flower where pollination occurs the stigma |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $400: The N.Y. Botanical Garden defines it as "a nonwoody plant"; many, like bergamot & marjoram, are useful for food or medicine an herb |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $800: Instead of seeds, non-flowering plants like ferns, use these one-cell units to reproduce spores |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $1200: Pines are members of this group of woody trees, typically evergreen, with needle-like leaves & tapered seed pods conifers |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $1600: Hopefully you remember this hardy perennial state flower of Alaska forget-me-not |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $2000: Not xylem but this related tissue conducts nutrients from the leaves to the rest of the plant phloem |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON $2000: In 1920 the society awarded William Bateson a royal medal for his work in this field of biology he had named in 1905 genetics |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | BOTANISTS $800: This former slave & botany whiz turned down offers to work for Thomas Edison & Joseph Stalin George Washington Carver |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | BOTANY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows images of plants on the monitor.) Virginia creeper's leaves are often mistaken for a more toxic plant; one way to tell the difference is that Virginia creeper usually has 5 leaves, while this harmful shrub always has 3 poison ivy |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | BOTANY $800: Collectively, these on a flower make up the corolla the petals |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | BOTANY $1600: This plant whose name comes from Italian for "beautiful lady" is a source of the drug atropine belladonna |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | BOTANY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a plant bending toward light on the monitor.) Especially at the beginning at the of the life cycle, the bending of a plant towards a light source is known as this type of response, from the Greek for "light" and "turning" phototropism |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | BOTANY $2,500 (Daily Double): Perfect for a drought-tolerant garden, the plants seen here are this type that store water in their fleshy leaves succulents |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | PROFESSORS $3,000 (Daily Double): A practicing physician, he became professor of botany as well as medicine at the University of Uppsala in 1741 Linnaeus |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | BOTANY $400: The spines on the barrel type of this succulent may reach 10 inches in length a cactus |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | BOTANY $800: The ear is the female part of the corn plant & this group of silky strands at the top is the male organ the tassel |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | BOTANY $1200: This American botanist developed hundreds of strains of fruits and other plants Luther Burbank |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | BOTANY $1600: Also known as a clove pink, this flower was used in Elizabethan times to spice ale & wine the carnation |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | BOTANY $3,000 (Daily Double): The 3 main classes of plant pigments are carotenoids, phycobilins & these greenish ones chlorophylls |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | BOTANY $400: The vein structure of these parts can be parallel, pinnate or palmate leaves |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | BOTANY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a table of hereditary traits on the monitor.) To study heredity, this botanist used seven pairs of distinctive traits, including pod color--green or yellow--and stem size Mendel |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | BOTANY $1,200 (Daily Double): Also known as the trailing arbutus, it's said to have been named by the Pilgrims; its bloom was the 1st seen in the spring of 1621 the mayflower |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | BOTANY $1600: Generally, 60-70% of the dietary fiber in citrus fruits is this gelling agent used to make jams & jellies pectin |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | BOTANY $2000: Also called wild hazel, this evergreen shrub of the Sonoran Desert is prized for its oil used in cosmetics jojoba |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $400: Baja, California, is a good place to see the ocotillo, also known as the "vine" this, but be careful a cactus |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $1200: In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the first horticulture lab in the U.S. at this school in East Lansing Michigan State |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $1600: Dutch elm disease is caused by a fungus that's spread by the bark type of this insect a beetle |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $2000: This "colorful" family of flowers, Caryophyllaceae, includes the corn cockle & members of the genus Dianthus the pink family |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $3,000 (Daily Double): In the early 19th century, Scottish botanist Robert Brown showed how grains of this could be used to classify plants pollen |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SYDNEY $2000: This convict-unloading bay a few miles to the south is now ringed by Sydney's suburbs Botany Bay |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): As a professor of botany at Uppsala University, he wrote several works including "Species Plantarum" Linnaeus |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | RED-LETTER DAY $2000: On April 29, 1770 Captain James Cook arrived at this bay in present-day Sydney, Australia, naming it Sting-Ray Harbour Botany Bay |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $2000: Insects are covered in book 11 & botany in books 12-19 of this Roman scholar's "Natural History" Pliny the Elder |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | BOTANY $200: The pileus is the cap seen on many varieties of these chlorophyll-lacking organisms mushrooms |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | BOTANY $400: This flower in the primrose family comes in red, blue & white varieties as well as "the scarlet" one a pimpernel |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | BOTANY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a tree in Cambodia.) The banyan tree, common in Asia, sends out roots that become new trees; botanically, it's a fig tree & it's part of this genus whose American versions are a little tamer Ficus |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | BOTANY $800: The duke is a hybrid of the sweet & sour varieties of this fruit tree a cherry tree |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | BOTANY $1000: The name of this lovely flower is from the Greek for "water vessel" hydrangea |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | RHYME TIME $1000: The sense that the science of plants is getting repetitive, day in & day out botany monotony |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | BOTANY $400: Ants live inside these sharp projections of some acacia trees; the ants protect the trees, which produce ant food thorns |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | BOTANY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Parts of Southeast Alaska receive about 70 inches of precipitation a year, creating a lush, temperate type of this forest that you might expect to find much further south rainforest |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | BOTANY $1200: The seeds of the red-bead tree were once used to weigh gold due to their uniform weight: 4 seeds equal this metric measure a gram |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | BOTANY $1600: Also called cape jasmine due to its fragrance, this corsage flower was named for a Charleston, South Carolina physician a gardenia |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | BOTANY $3,400 (Daily Double): In the scientific name of the common onion, Allium cepa L., the "L" stands for this botanist Carolus Linnaeus |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | BOTANY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Costa Rica.) The orchid here can be fertilized by only a few species of bees; luckily, nature manages to get the job done, producing this flavorful bean used in ice cream & baking vanilla |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | BOTANY $1200: A mountaineer, or a plant such as the Hydrangea anomala, which clings to brickwork by aerial rootlets a climber |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | BOTANY $1600: The tubular leaves on this carnivorous plant give it this name for a container for pouring liquids a pitcher plant |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | BOTANY $2000: In the early 1900s Dutch botanist Hugo De Vries proposed the theory of this alteration in genes mutation |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1600: This inlet of the Tasman Sea was named for the abundance of plants found on its shores Botany Bay |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WORLD HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The 1st planned convict settlement in Australia was at this bay named for its abundance and variety of life Botany Bay |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CAPES $1600: The entrance to this Australian bay near Sydney is guarded by Cape Banks & Cape Solander Botany Bay |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | BOTANY $400 (Daily Double): Varieties of this flower include Leen Van Der Mark, Orange Emperor & Apeldoorn the tulip |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | BOTANY $400: This smooth-skinned variety of peach can sometimes be found on the same tree as its fuzzy brethren a nectarine |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | BOTANY $800: They are the individual parts of a flower's corolla petals |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | BOTANY $1200: Bracken, a species of this green nonflowering plant, has large triangular fronds & is found worldwide a fern |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | BOTANY $2000: This orange pigment first isolated in carrots in 1881 is also found in pumpkins & sweet potatoes carotene |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a boomerang at the Australian Museum.) Boomerangs often feature designs that reflect aboriginal culture & history; on the one I'm holding, the warriors, body of water & ship represent this man's landing at Botany Bay Captain Cook |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: Phytology is another name for this, the study of plants botany |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | BOTANY $200: From the Latin for "cap", the pileus is the circular cap on one of these fungi a mushroom |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | BOTANY $400: A xerophyte is a plant adapted to living in places where there is a shortage of this water |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | BOTANY $600: Field peas usually have reddish-purple blossoms; garden peas have blossoms mostly of this color white |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | BOTANY $800: Southern or giant cane can reach heights of 20 feet & is a type of this tall grass bamboo |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | BOTANY $1000: Petunias belong to this scientific family, as do tomatoes and bell peppers nightshades |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | -OLOGIES $800: Traditionally, biology is divided into 2 major fields: botany & this study of animals zoology |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $400: The first Temple of Solomon was built from this wood of Lebanon cedar |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $800: Socrates could warn you about turning "the fruit of righteousness" into this poisonous herb hemlock |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $1200: Jacob took idols & hid them under this mighty tree where, we assume, little idols don't grow an oak |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $1600: In Exodus, the Lord told Moses, not the 3 kings, to bring this gum resin that was used in embalming frankincense |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $2000: Absinthe lovers are forewarned in Amos about "Ye who turn judgment to" this bitter, aromatic plant wormwood |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BOTANY $400: The anther of a flower usually has 4 sacs that produce this pollen |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BOTANY $800: Also called ling, this shrub that grows in the moors of Britain is often mentioned in Scottish songs the heather |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BOTANY $1,000 (Daily Double): The beard species of this symbiotic plant is often confused with Spanish moss lichen |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BOTANY $1200: Harison's Yellow is a hybrid of the Persian Yellow & Scotch Briar varieties of this flower a rose |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BOTANY $1600: This plant has blue flowers; the black candy that uses it comes from the roots & root stems licorice |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | BOTANY $400: The long leaves of the milfoil plant are especially suited to absorb this gas underwater carbon dioxide |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | BOTANY $1,000 (Daily Double): Parasitic fungi cause this disease of cereal grasses that produces black powdery masses; we're not talking pornography here smut |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | BOTANY $1200: This term, which is from the Greek for "naked seed", refers to nonflowering plants such as conifers gymnosperms |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | BOTANY $1600: This part of a plant's pistil has chemicals in it that will cause it to reject the wrong types of pollen the stigma |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | BOTANY $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) You can collect water from a plant's leaves because they lose water vapor through pores called these stomata |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $1000: In Jan. 1788 a fleet of 11 ships carrying convicts & soldiers sailed into this bay & founded what became Sydney Botany Bay |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | BOTANY $200: Auxin is a growth type of this substance; it regulates plant growth, especially in stems hormone |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | BOTANY $400: Canada wild rye isn't liquor from Yukon but this type of plant of the genus Elymus a grass (grain accepted) |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | BOTANY $600: This plant of the genus Ah-Ah-Ambrosia sheds pollen in great ah-ah-abundance ragweed |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | BOTANY $800: This small carpeting plant is also reputed to show up on the north sides of trees, but that's an alga moss |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | BOTANY $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a flower.) The color of a hydrangea's flowers can be determined by the level of this in the soil; above 6 for pink flowers, lower for blue acid |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | IT'S A SCIENTIFIC FACT $200: Traditionally, biology has been divided into 2 fields: botany, the study of plants, & this, the study of animals zoology |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | BOTANY $200: The flowers of this lawn weed, Taraxacum oficinale, are sometimes used to make wine dandelions |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | BOTANY $400: The common species of this prairie flower, Helianthus annuus, can reach a height of 15 feet sunflower |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | BOTANY $600: About 3/4 of U.S. plantings of this palm fruit are of the Deglet Noor, a semidry variety dates |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | BOTANY $800: Reproducing by means of spores, the only tree with no flowers, fruits or seeds is called the tree type of this fern |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | BOTANY $1000: Prized for its oil, this evergreen shrub of the American southwest is also known as the goat nut Jojoba |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | PARTLY CLOUDY, CHANCE OF RAIN $1000: In botany, it's a tendril; it's also this class of cloud noted for its thin white filaments & ice crystals cirrus |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | BOTANY $400: Loved by felines, the herb Nepeta cataria is better known by this name catnip |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | BOTANY $800: In 1885 this horticulturist bought a farm in Sebastopol, California for his plant-breeding activities Luther Burbank |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | BOTANY $1200: The jonquil is a species of this flower, & its name is often wrongly applied to all yellow species of the flower a daffodil |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | BOTANY $1600: Pollen grains are grown in this part of a flower that lies at the end of the filament the anther |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | BOTANY $2000: Fungus diseases that attack this potassium-rich tropical fruit include Panama & Sigatoka the banana |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | BAY "B" $600: A monument on the south shore of this Australian bay marks the spot where Capt. James Cook first landed in 1770 Botany Bay |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | BOTANY $400: An example of a plant that's a parasite is this one hung from ceilings at Christmas mistletoe |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | BOTANY $800: As they are made up mostly of this compound, mushrooms are a low-calorie food water |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | BOTANY $1200: The woody, jointed stems of these plants in the grass family are called culms bamboo |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | BOTANY $2000: The large, starchy root of this plant, also known as the manioc, has its roots in the new world cassava |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | BOTANY $5,000 (Daily Double): It's no stretch to tell us the Ficus elastica is better known as the India this rubber plant |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | THAT'S SO "LAME" $1600: In botany, it's the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther a filament |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BOTANY $200: Growers of this pitted red pie fruit plant mulberry trees near their orchards to entice birds away cherries |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BOTANY $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a ski slope.) The bristlecone variety of this tree is the oldest type of living tree in the U.S. & can live 4,000 years or more a pine |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BOTANY $800 (Daily Double): His garden at Altbrunn Monastery included several pairs of yellow peas, each with a different trait (Gregor) Mendel |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BOTANY $800: Maidenhair, Bracken, & Boston are species of this spore-bearing plant a fern |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BOTANY $1000: Flowering plants range in size from the duckweed at 1/50" long to this Australian gum tree that reaches 300 feet in height a eucalyptus tree |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | BOTANY $100 (Daily Double): The trailing arbutus, also known as this, is shipshape as the state flower of Massachusetts the mayflower |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | BOTANY $400: The white clover & the wood sorrel are among the plants called these, a symbol of Ireland shamrocks |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | BOTANY $800: Also called the harking, this yellow rose is named for the actress who harked back to Kansas from Oz (Judy) Garland |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | BOTANY $1200: On a cob of corn, the tassels are the male flowers & these are the female the kernels |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | BOTANY $1600: In the Concise Columbia Encyc., this member of the carrot family is right after another member, parsley parsnip |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | BOTANY $100 (Daily Double): Also known as ling, this low evergreen shrub grows in the moors of Britain & is found in peat bogs heather |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | BOTANY $400: This green plant pigment was first produced in the laboratory by Robert Woodward in 1960 chlorophyll |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | BOTANY $800: Of tulips, carnations or dahlias, the one not grown from bulbs carnations |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | BOTANY $1200: The "L" attached to the names of numerous plants refers to this 18th century botanist (Carl) Linnaeus |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | BOTANY $2000: It's the carbohydrate found in fruits used to jell various foods pectin |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | BOTANY $200: Of tulips, lilacs or daffodils, the flower not grown from a bulb lilacs |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | BOTANY $600: From the Latin for "foliage", it's the large, divided leaf of ferns & some palms frond |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | BOTANY $800: This tree disease is caused by a fungus, Ophiostoma ulmi, that is spread by 2 species of bark beetles Dutch elm disease |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | BOTANY $1,100 (Daily Double): It's the tallest of all grasses; one type grows to 120 feet with a stem circumference of 3 feet bamboo |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | PORTS $200: Much of Australia's foreign trade is handled by this city's Port Jackson or neighboring Botany Bay Sydney |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | YES SIR, THAT'S MY BAY $1000: The Cooks & Georges Rivers in Australia Botany Bay |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | BOTANY $400: The flowers of this yellow lawn weed are sometimes used to make wine dandelion |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | BOTANY $800: There are 2 kinds of true sequoia trees in North America: the giant sequoia & this one the redwood |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | BOTANY $1200: This part of a flower's stamen contains the pollen the anther |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | BOTANY $7,200 (Daily Double): Rembrandts are late-blooming varieties of these perennials tulips |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | -OLOGIES $1200: Mycology is the branch of botany that studies these, which include mold, mildew & mushrooms fungi |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | BOTANY $400: The old man type of this succulent is thornless & is covered in a coat of white hair a cactus |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | BOTANY $800: It's the common name for the herb Mentha piperita peppermint |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | BOTANY $1200: During the course of a summer, one single fern may produce millions of these tiny reproductive bodies spores |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | BOTANY $400: Lodgepole, Digger & Ponderosa are species of this most important timber tree pine |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | BOTANY $800: Also called sphagnum or bog moss, it's sometimes used as a packing material for shipping plants peat moss |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | BOTANY $1,000 (Daily Double): Tropism is he turning of a plant towards a stimulus; in hydrotropism, this is the stimulus water |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | BOTANY $1600: This botanist known for his potato developed an edible thornless cactus Luther Burbank |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | BOTANY $2000: Photosynthesis, the food-making process in plants, takes place in tiny green structures called these chloroplasts |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | MUSICAL BOTANY $400: Also the name of a plant, this golden oldie by The Coasters mentons "an ocean of calamine lotion" poison ivy |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | MUSICAL BOTANY $800: Tony Orlando & Dawn topped the charts with this song that begins, "I'm comin' home, I've done my time" "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | MUSICAL BOTANY $1200: It's the alternate title of the love theme from "A Star is Born" "Evergreen" |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | MUSICAL BOTANY $1600: In a 1982 hit Patrice Rushen was sending you these flowers "to help me to remember" forget me nots |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | MUSICAL BOTANY $2000: "Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow lies the seed that with the sun's love... becomes" this "The Rose" |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | PLANTS & TREES $200: This Australian gum tree produces a resin, Botany Bay kino, that protects wood against shipworms & other borers eucalyptus |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | BOTANY $200: Introduced into New Zealand in 1906, this fruit was named for the country's national symbol Kiwi fruit |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | BOTANY $400: The Holy Ghost flower, an orchid, is the national flower of this long, narrow Central American nation Panama |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | BOTANY $600: This spice comes from the membrane that covers the nutmeg seed kernel Mace |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | BOTANY $800: By definition, this branch of botany studies fossil plants paleobotany |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | BOTANY $1000: In 1742 he became professor of botany at Upsala, Sweden Carl Linnaeus |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH $100: The first people to settle this country migrated there 40,000 years ago; Europeans settled Botany Bay in 1788 Australia |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | "SY"ENCE $800: It's a balanced arrangement in geometry, or an agreement in the number of parts in botany Symmetry |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | BOTANY $200: This "sugar" tree is the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia & Wisconsin Maple |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | BOTANY $400: Species of this plant include the jumping cholla, barrel & organ pipe cactus |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | BOTANY $600: The largest seeds are the nuts of the coco-de-mer, a type of this tree that grows in the Seychelles Coconut palm |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | BOTANY $800: The Egyptian lotus is actually a member of these "water" plants that grow on the surface of rivers & streams Water lilies |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | BOTANY $1000: The stigma is the sticky area at the top of this female part of a flower the pistil |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | BOTANY $200: To the horror of homeowners, this lawn weed, Taraxacum officinale, can grow 1 1/2' high Dandelion |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | BOTANY $400: This "kissing" shrub, the state flower of Oklahoma, sometimes kills the tree that serves as its host Mistletoe |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | BOTANY $600: The Jaffa variety of orange originated in this country Israel |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | BOTANY $800: The jonquil is a short-trumpet narcissus; this yellow flower is a long-trumpet species Daffodil |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | BOTANY $1000: The finest dried form of this root spice used in pumpkin pie is produced in Jamaica Ginger |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | AS THE WORLD TURNS $400: This inlet of the Tasman Sea was the site of Captain Cook's first landing in Australia Botany Bay |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $300: A body of water usually smaller than a gulf; Botany is a famous one Bay |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BOTANY $200: This soft-stemmed swamp plant is named for its skunk-like odor Skunk cabbage |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BOTANY $400: Chickweed & soapwort, as well as carnations, are members of this "colorful" family Pink |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BOTANY $600: Cloth-of-gold & saffron are species of this hardy perennial in the iris family Crocus |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BOTANY $800: In the 1700s Linnaeus standardized this system of giving each species a genus & a species name Binomial nomenclature |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BOTANY $1000: The pollen of a perfect flower is contained in this enlarged tip of the stamen Anther |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $200: Scholars have it down on paper that the bulrushes on the Nile were probably this plant Papyrus |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $400: Sometimes Aaron felt like a nut, especially when his rod budded & brought forth these Almonds |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $600: Esau sold his birthright for a soup made with these similar to peas Lentils |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $800: Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to this seed Mustard seed |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $1000: This grain that was cheaper than wheat was used to feed cattle & in the loaves that fed 5,000 Barley |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | BOTANY $200: A plant's petiole is the slender stalk by which this is attached to a stem Leaf |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | BOTANY $400: This largest U.S. cactus is also known as the giant or monument Saguaro |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | BOTANY $600: The name of this lawn weed comes from the French for "lion's tooth" Dandelion |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | BOTANY $800: Tree ferns don't reproduce by flowers, fruits or seeds, but by means of these Spores |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | BOTANY $1000: This 18th century Swedish botanist was introduced to botany by his father, a minister in the town of Rashult Carolus Linnaeus |
| #3189, aired 1998-06-11 | BIBLICAL BOTANY $800: In the desert with Moses, the people still longed for this salad & tea sandwich veggie back in Egypt Cucumber |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | BOTANY $200: Indians of the southwest U.S. once used the curved spines of the barrel kind of this plant as fishhooks Cactus |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | BOTANY $400: The head of this flower, seen here, may produce over 1,000 seeds Sunflower |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | BOTANY $600: The Indians used this tree's "paper"-thin bark for wigwam covers Birch |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | BOTANY $800: Developed from the McIntosh & delicious, the empire is a variety of apple developed in this state New York |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | BOTANY $1000: During Elizabethan times this flower, known as the clove pink, was used to spice wine Carnation |
| #3002, aired 1997-09-23 | BODIES OF WATER $500: Botany Bay on the coast of New South Wales, Australia is an inlet of this sea the Tasman Sea |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | BOTANY $200: This goober accounts for about one-sixth of the world's vegetable oil production Peanuts |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | BOTANY $400: This gas is produced by plants during photosynthesis Oxygen |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | BOTANY $600: The dry fruits of a species of this flower contain such alkaloids as morphine & codeine Poppies |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | BOTANY $800: In most flowers, it consists of the anther & the filament Stamen |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | BOTANY $1000: Books 12-19 of this "elder" ancient Roman's "Natural History" are devoted to botany Pliny the Elder |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | BOTANY $100: Unlike these honey makers, most butterflies don't eat the pollen they collect bees |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | BOTANY $200: Tulips are said to have tepals because these colorful flower parts look just like the sepals petals |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | BOTANY $300: It ranks second only to sugarcane as the major source of the world's sugar sugar beet |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | BOTANY $400: These slender coils that vines use for support & climbing are actually modified leaves tendrils |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | BOTANY $500: These plants & trees are named for the fact that they keep their color & foliage throughout the year evergreens |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BOTANY $200: Dates & coconuts come from different species of this tree palm tree |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BOTANY $400: A small shrub called the Egyptian privet provides this orange-red dye used to color hair henna |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BOTANY $1000: The Adriatic variety of this fruit is the one most often used in fruit bars & pastes fig |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | -OLOGIES $200: Biology is generally divided into 2 branches: botany & this study of animals Zoology |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | NATURE $500: In botany it's the process by which plants lose water vapor through their leaves Transpiration |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | HISTORY $100: When this British sea captain first reached Botany Bay in 1770, he named it Stingray Bay Cook |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | GENERAL SCIENCE $200: Phytology was an early term for this science, the study of plants botany |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | BOTANY $200: This legume is sometimes called a groundnut because its pods develop underground a peanut |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | BOTANY $400: This part of a flower's stamen usually contains 4 small baglike structures that produce pollen the anther |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | BOTANY $600: It's the term for a plant that blooms & dies within a single year an annual |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | BOTANY $800: This organism composed of an alga & fungus covers much of the surface of the Arctic a lichen |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | BOTANY $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this flower of the crowfoot family comes from the Greek word for dolphin delphinium |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: Botany Bay is on the southeast coast of this country & Geographe Bay is on the southwest coast Australia |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | BAYS $800: A monument on the shores of this bay commemorates Captain Cook's first landing in Australia Botany Bay |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | SCIENCE & NATURE $600: This Australian tree produces a resin called Botany Bay kino that protects wood against worms the eucalyptus |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | SCIENCE $1000: In 1730 he was appointed lecturer in botany at Sweden's University of Uppsala Carolus Linnaeus |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | BOTANY $200: It's the main stem of a tree trunk |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | BOTANY $400: On a tuber such as a potato, these tiny swellings are called the eyes buds |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | BOTANY $600: Maidenhair & moonwort are types of this nonflowering plant fern |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | BOTANY $800: It's the common name for aquatic plants of the genus nymphaea, including the Egyptian lotus water lily |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | BOTANY $2,400 (Daily Double): The pileus which has gills on its underside, is the upper part of this type of plant mushroom |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | SCIENCE $400: In botany there are 4 flower parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these Pistils |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | BAYS $600 (Daily Double): This bay near present-day Sydney was named for the varied vegetation found by naturalists with Capt. Cook Botany Bay |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | BIOLOGY $100: In botany something that is foliate has or is covered with these leaves |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BOTANY $100: One limbless specimen of this desert plant was measured at 78 feet in height a cactus |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BOTANY $200: Pollen from this hairy-stemmed annual is the most frequent cause of autumn hay fever in the U.S. ragweed |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BOTANY $300: The sphagnum type of this is often used to pack plants & keep them moist for shipping peat moss |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BOTANY $400: This pigment in carrots also turns birch tree leaves yellow in autumn carotene |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BOTANY $500: His 2 basic hereditary laws are the law of segregation & the law of independent assortment (Gregor) Mendel |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | BOTANY $100: Found in a tree's xylem, it's a liquid made up of dissolved mineral salts & sugars sap |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | BOTANY $200: Burpee doesn't sell you seeds to grow these vegetables, it sends you eyes potatoes |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | BOTANY $300: The anther is usually made up of 4 of these sacs pollen sacs |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | BOTANY $400: Michigan, New Jersey & North Carolina grow the Highbush variety of this bright berry the blueberry |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | BOTANY $500 (Daily Double): Some of these plants, like cacti, store water in their stems; others use their leaves succulents |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | BOTANY $200: A valuable source of firewood in South America is this tree imported from Australia eucalyptus |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | BOTANY $400: Oil from this part of jasmines & roses is used in making of high-quality perfumes the petals |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | BOTANY $600: The best-known kind of this yellow flower is the trumpet narcissus the daffodil |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | BOTANY $800: The "true" species of this shrub is called sweet bay laurel |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | BOTANY $1000: The leaves of this carnivorous plant form a tube & spout to trap insects the pitcher plant |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | BOTANY $100: Peyote, hedgehog & pincushion are types of this desert plant cactus |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | BOTANY $200: Sometimes growing to 20 feet, higher than "an elephant's eye", it's the largest of the cereals corn |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | BOTANY $300: The name of the poisonous jimsonweed came from a corruption of this colony's name Jamestown |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | BOTANY $400: For magic charms the Druids used this "Christmas" parasite that grew on sacred oak trees mistletoe |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | BOTANY $500: This grain is grown over more of the earth's surface than any other food crop wheat |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOTANY $100: This external covering on the giant sequoia is over a foot & a half thick bark |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOTANY $200: Honey guides, spots or lines on flower petals, direct insects to this sugary substance nectar |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOTANY $300: Fungi such as mushrooms differ from green plants in that they don't contain this pigment chlorophyll |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOTANY $400: The potato is an example of this short, swollen part of a stem that grows underground a tuber |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOTANY $1,500 (Daily Double): The offspring of 2 genetically different parents are called these, like some popular roses hybrids |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | BOTANY $200: The saying, "Leaves three, let them be", refers to this shiny, irritating plant poison ivy |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | BOTANY $400: This scientific name for a type of tree means "cone bearer" coniferous (conifer) |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | BOTANY $600: His "Experiments with Plant Hybrids" was published by the Brunn Natural History Society in 1866 (Gregor) Mendel |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | BOTANY $800: Oak bark contains this compound used to change animal hides into leather tannin |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | BOTANY $1000: This plant's scientific name is Digitalis purpurea foxglove |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | BOTANY $100: A large funnel-shaped flower native to Argentina, or Porky Pig's girlfriend Petunia |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | BOTANY $200: The Easter species of this plant has waxy white flowers shaped like a trumpet lily |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | BOTANY $300: Varieties of this plant include Bracken, Royal & Boston fern |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | BOTANY $400: The stems of this giant Arizona cactus are used by elf owls & woodpeckers for their nests Saguaro |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | BOTANY $500: These legumes are the USA's largest source of vegetable oil soybeans |
| #1944, aired 1993-02-04 | BOTANY $100: Pollination by these is called ornithophily birds |
| #1944, aired 1993-02-04 | BOTANY $200: An epiphyte is a plant that doesn't have these in the soil; it's supported by another plant roots |
| #1944, aired 1993-02-04 | BOTANY $300: It's actually a modified reduced branch if you get our point...& rose gardeners do thorn |
| #1944, aired 1993-02-04 | BOTANY $400: A fertilized ovule develops into one of these seed |
| #1944, aired 1993-02-04 | BOTANY $500: It's the process by which a scion is put on a stock grafting |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | GEOGRAPHY $400: The Cooks & Georges Rivers flow into this Australian bay, an inlet of the Tasman Sea Botany Bay |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | BOTANY $200: Entomophily is pollination carried out by these creatures, as an entomologist could tell you insects |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | BOTANY $400: A biennial plant takes this many years to complete its life cycle 2 |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | BOTANY $600 (Daily Double): This disease in which fungus grows on the surface of a plant has powdery & downy types mildew |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | BOTANY $600: Most of the latex from which this substance is produced comes from the species Hevea brasiliensis rubber |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | BOTANY $800: A xerophyte is a plant adapted to living in places where this is in short supply Water |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | BOTANY $200: The U.S.' largest one of these legumes was a 3 11/16" specimen grown in Georgia a peanut |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | BOTANY $400: The bald cypress is not a true cypress, but is related to this giant California tree a sequoia |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | BOTANY $600: At his Santa Rosa, California farm, this plant breeder developed a spineless cactus Luther Burbank |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | BOTANY $800: Turkey red, a variety of this grain, was brought to Kansas in the 1870s by Russian Mennonites wheat |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | BOTANY $1000: Popular as a boutonniere, the scarlet variety of this perennial is Ohio's state flower a carnation |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | BOTANY $100: Of peonies, hyacinths or tulips, the one not grown from bulbs peonies |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | BOTANY $200: A member of the violet family, its name is a corruption of pensee, the French word for "thought" pansy |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | BOTANY $300: The flowers of this member of the water lily family are sacred to Buddhists lotus |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | BOTANY $400: Gardeners use this spongy & absorbent moss to keep young plants from drying out peat moss |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | BOTANY $1,500 (Daily Double): Members of this plant family include peas, clover & lentils legume |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | BOTANY $200: This term refers to trees that shed all of their leaves each year, usually in the fall deciduous |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | BOTANY $400: Around 1775 chemist Joseph Priestley showed that plants produce this gas oxygen |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | BOTANY $600: The milkweed is the only plant on which these regal butterflies will lay their eggs a monarch butterfly |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | BOTANY $800: This largest U.S. cactus is sometimes pollinated by bats the saguaro |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | BOTANY $1,526 (Daily Double): Plants absorb water from the soil through their roots by this process osmosis |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | BOTANY $200: The pileus is the proper term for the circular cap on one of these fungi mushrooms |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | BOTANY $400: It's the term for the large, divided leaves found on ferns & certain palms fronds |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | BOTANY $600: The spines on a cactus are modified leaves; the thorns on a bush are modified ones of these branches |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | BOTANY $800: All types of this grain belong to the botanic species Zea mays maize (or corn) |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | BOTANY $1000: Like a sign of disgrace, the part of a flower's pistil that receives pollen is called this the stigma |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | BOTANY $200: The prickly pear is not a pear, but one of these desert plants a cactus |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | BOTANY $400: Popular varieties of this include Sunray, Big Boy & Beefsteak the tomato |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | BOTANY $600: This fir, Oregon's state tree, is named for a Scottish botanist who was first to describe the species the Douglas fir |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | BOTANY $1000: In the U.S. about 50% of this grain is used for stock feed & another 25% as a source for malt barley |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | BOTANY $2,000 (Daily Double): The female part of a flower; it contains a stigma, a style & an ovary the pistil |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BOTANY $100: The scientific name of this vegetable is Rheum rhabarbarum rhubarb |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BOTANY $200: Kelp, the largest seaweed known, is a brown form of this primitive plant algae |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BOTANY $300: Shortly after formulating the principles of heredity, he became abbot of Brunn Monastery Mendel |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BOTANY $400: This fungal tree infection, Ceratocystis ulmi, was 1st identified in the Netherlands around 1919 Dutch elm disease |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BOTANY $500: This fragrant flower is named for the youth Apollo accidentally killed with his discus Hyacinth |
| #1650, aired 1991-11-01 | BOTANY $800: The field of agriculture that deals with the growth of crops & the proper use of soil agronomy |
| #1650, aired 1991-11-01 | BOTANY $1000: This organism consists of an alga & a fungus living together as a single unit a lichen |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | BOTANY $200: As with spinach & kale, this is the part of Brussels sprouts that's eaten the leaf |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | BOTANY $400: The Latin name for this "spreading" tree should click with you, it's Castanea chestnut |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | BOTANY $600: This tree has the largest seeds of all, so wear a hard hat when strolling along the beach coconut |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | BOTANY $800: The bristlecone variety of this tree in Calif.'s White Mountains may be the oldest living thing on Earth pine |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | BOTANY $1000: The tomato, potato & belladonna are part of this flower family nightshade |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | BOTANY $100: Grown for its edible root celeriac is a variety of this vegetable celery |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | BOTANY $200: Like the fields it's grown in, the dry, fresh grain of this plant is called paddy rice |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | BOTANY $300: This substance is made from the milky juice of the Castilla elastica plant rubber |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | BOTANY $400: Nodules on the roots of beans fix this element from the atmosphere nitrogen |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | BOTANY $500: The benjamina species of this genus is the one most commonly grown as a house plant Ficus |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | BOTANY $100: Type of plant that comes in varieties, like fescue & Bermuda grass |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | BOTANY $200: This plant produces creamy white flowers that turn purple, then drop off & leave the bolls cotton |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | BOTANY $300: If this nut used in marzipan looks a bit like a peach pit, it's because the 2 are related an almond |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | BOTANY $500 (Daily Double): It's the most widely planted fruit or vegetable in home gardens in the U.S. a tomato |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | BOTANY $500: A member of the pea family, its flowers cover vast areas of Texas each spring the bluebonnet |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | BOTANY $200: Ferns reproduce by means of these microscopic cells spores |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | BOTANY $400: The USSR is the top grower of these tall flowers grown for their edible seeds & oil sunflowers |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | BOTANY $600: Diatoms are single-cell varieties of these water plants algae |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | BOTANY $800: The "L." attached to the scientific names of numerous plants refers to this Swedish botanist (Carolus) Linnaeus |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | BOTANY $1,000 (Daily Double): First found as a vine on trees, this plant was given a Greek name meaning "lover of trees" philodendron |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | BOTANY $200: Maples, oaks & grasses are pollinated by the action of this wind |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | BOTANY $400: Native to the United States, southern cane is a variety of this giant grass bamboo |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | BOTANY $600: This acid is the chemical constituent of genes in plants too DNA |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | BOTANY $800: Also called ling, this shrub was probably named after the moors it's found on heather |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | BOTANY $1000: Complete flowers have both male stamens & these female appendages a pistil |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | BOTANY $200: "Line" in altitude or latitude beyond which a normal forest growth does not occur the timberline |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | BOTANY $400: Propagation method where a "scion" of 1 plant grows together with a "stock" of another grafting |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | BOTANY $600: They're the individual units of the corolla of a flower the petals |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | BOTANY $800: Viticulture is the art of growing these fruits grapes |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | BOTANY $1000: Powdery mildew is a plant disease caused by this group of plants that includes molds fungi |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | BOTANY $200: Pine nuts come from these parts of certain pine trees pine cones |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | BOTANY $400: The acorn is a true one of these, but a goober is not a nut |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | BOTANY $600: An organic material, such as peat, spread around plants to suppress weeds mulch |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | BOTANY $800: Bees make honey from this sugary solution secreted by some plants nectar |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | BOTANY $1000: Found in the cell walls of some plants, this carbohydrate helps jelly gel pectin |
| #1465, aired 1991-01-04 | AUSTRALIA $300: Finding Botany Bay unsuitable, Captain Arthur Phillip founded the first colony where this city is now Sydney |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | BODIES OF WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): This bay in New South Wales was so named because many new plant species were found on its shores Botany Bay |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | BOTANY $200: Chlorosis is a deficiency of this pigment causing a green plant to have yellow areas chlorophyll |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | BOTANY $400: A pea is this part of the plant a seed |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | BOTANY $500 (Daily Double): Flowers pollinated by this have very small petals or none at all the wind |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | BOTANY $600: Diseases that attack this fruit's plant include sigatoka, moko & Panama the banana |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | BOTANY $800: Sphagnum, which absorbs water like a sponge, is a type of this moss |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | WORLD CITIES $200: In 1788 a handful of officials & some 700 convicts founded this Australian city on Botany Bay Sydney |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | "S"CIENCE $100: In botany it's the term used for the liquid in the stems & roots of plants & trees sap |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | BOTANY $200: New Jersey greenhouses surpass all others on the mainland in growing these corsage flowers orchids |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | BOTANY $400: To grow this fruit in California, at least 1 male palm is planted in each acre of 49 female palms date |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | BOTANY $600: When a seed sprouts, the first thing to break out of the coat is this part of the plant root |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | BOTANY $800: In 1960 this green plant pigment was produced in the laboratory for the first time chlorophyll |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | BOTANY $1000: A 4,600-year-old bristlecone variety of this tree is thought o be the world's oldest living thing pine tree |
| #1188, aired 1989-11-01 | STARTS WITH "Z" $200: The 2 major divisions of biology are botany & this zoology |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | BOTANY $200: Positive phototropism is the bending of plants towards this stimulus light |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | BOTANY $400: Despite its name, this plant is found hanging from trees in the southern U.S., not Iberia Spanish moss |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | BOTANY $600: Though its natural habitat is a rain forest, this Ficus elastica makes an excellent indoor plant a rubber plant |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | BOTANY $800: If a flowering plant contains these 2 reproductive organs, botanists call it perfect stamen and a pistil |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | BOTANY $1000: Plants which consist of both algae & fungi are known by this name lichens |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | BOTANY $200: Speculation in these bulbs in Holland in the 17th century caused financial chaos tulips |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | BOTANY $400: Called gum trees in Australia, these tall flowering trees provide oil for medicine & leaves for koalas eucalyptus |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | BOTANY $600: After creating the boysenberry. Rudolph Boysen gave his vines to this founder of a California amusement park Walter Knott |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | BOTANY $800: When talking about plants it means a disease caused by certain fungi, not dirty pictures smut |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | BOTANY $1000: For flowers, it's considered the 1st stage in the reproductive process pollenation |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | DICTIONARY ABBREVIATIONS $300: "bot." doesn't mean you paid for it; it stands for this science botany |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | BOTANY $100: Relatives of the squash family grown for their ornamental fruits are called this gourds |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | BOTANY $200: Scientists estimate over 100,000 species of this group of nongreen plants are as yet undiscovered fungi |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | BOTANY $300: Binary fission is a process by which bacteria cells do this reproduce (divide) |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | BOTANY $400: The Norway variety of this is sometimes used as a Christmas tree a (Norway) spruce |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | BOTANY $500: Old man, cholla & organ-pipe are 3 kinds of these cactus |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | BOTANY $200: Botanically, a legume is not a vegetable, but is a dry, podded type of this a fruit |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | BOTANY $400: The part of a flower formed by the petals, or a type of Toyota the corolla |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | BOTANY $600: Of shade, partial sun, or full sun, amount of light gardenias should be grown in the full sun |
| #864, aired 1988-05-12 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Named by Captain Cook for the many plants along the shore, Botany Bay is on this continent Australia |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | BOTANY $100: The only garden flower listed under "E" in the World Book is this holiday flower Easter lily |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | BOTANY $200: To avoid freezing, experts recommend watering your flowers during this part of a winter day morning |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | BOTANY $300: The jimsonweed, a poisonous weed of N. America, derives its name from this Early American settlement Jamestown |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | BOTANY $400: Though botanical garden is used as a synonym, a true arboretum limits its collection to these plants trees |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | BOTANY $500: It's this substance, trapped in the dying leaves of maples, that turns them those fiery colors *sugar (**anthocyanin) |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | BOTANY $100: Any plant that grows where people don't want it to grow is by definition one of these weed |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | BOTANY $200: The teddy bear cholla is this type of plant cactus |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | BOTANY $300: The bush called "Capparis spinosa" gives up these flower buds, which are pickled & used to season food capers |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | BOTANY $500 (Daily Double): It's wise to know this attribute is shared by the needles of yew trees, mistletoe berries & rhubarb leaves they are all poisonous |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | BOTANY $500: During the night when photosynthesis stops, green plants release this gas into the atmosphere carbon dioxide |
| #806, aired 1988-02-22 | BOTANY $200: Varieties of this fruit include clingstone or freestone, with yellow or white fleshtones a peach |
| #806, aired 1988-02-22 | BOTANY $400: It's the principal constituent of most plant cell walls cellulose |
| #806, aired 1988-02-22 | BOTANY $600: The pollen sacs are normally in this part of a stamen the anther |
| #806, aired 1988-02-22 | BOTANY $700 (Daily Double): The 2 colors of Mendel's famous peas green & yellow |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | BOTANY $100: The new white "Little Boo" pumpkins were bred to be carved into these & shouldn't be eaten jack-o'-lanterns |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | BOTANY $300: Despite its name, this plant usually blooms after 10 to 15 years, not 100 century plant |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | BOTANY $400: It's the milky sap of the rubber tree latex |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | BOTANY $500: 2 products of the flax plant are linen & this oil produced from the seeds & used in art class linseed oil |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | BOTANY $200: Hydrotropism is the tendency of plants to grow toward this water |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | BOTANY $400: The primary photosynthetic organ of most green plants the leaf |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | BOTANY $600: In plant organs, the hypodermis is the layer of cells immediately beneath this epidermis |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | BOTANY $800: After a seed germinates, this is the 1st thing to emerge the root |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | BOTANY $1000: From Latin "put together", it's a mixture of decayed material used to fertilize & condition soil compost |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | BOTANY $200: As a young man, Luther Burbank was strongly influenced by the works of this evolutionist Darwin |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | BOTANY $400: When used in botany, "old world" is a synonym for this hemisphere the Eastern Hemisphere |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | BOTANY $600: Chloroplasts are structures containing chlorophyll in plants, & thus, able to perform this process photosynthesis |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | BOTANY $800: The bets variety of this hydrocarbon is the orange pigment in carrots carotene |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | BOTANY $1000: Halophytes are plants adapted to live in soils containing high concentrations of this common compound salts |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | BOTANY $100: Dandelion flowers are occasionally used to make this potent potable wine |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | BOTANY $200: When you speak of a plant's venation, you're referring to these veins in the leaves |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | BOTANY $300: The floss of this weed, named for the white liquid in its stems, was used in lifebelts in World War II milkweed |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | BOTANY $400: Cryptogams are not plants with secret meanings, but plants such as ferns that don't bear these seeds |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | BOTANY $500: Term for a non-indigenous plant, especially one grown in soil & climate different from the place of origin exotic plants |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | BOTANY $100: Many seed crops require bees for pollination, including this "Halloween" gourd a pumpkin |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | BOTANY $200: Algology is the study of these algae |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | BOTANY $300: Along w/bacteria, this plant group that includes rusts & molds help decompose plant litter on forest floors fungi |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | BOTANY $400: "Old World" plants include all major cereal grains except this one corn |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | BOTANY $500: Broccoli, turnips, & cabbage are related to this plant whose seeds become a common condiment mustard |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | BOTANY $800: Japanese experts have successfully grown these blossoms from 1000 year old seeds lotus blossoms |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | BOTANY $1000: Carotenoids produce the yellow in daffodils, the red in tomatoes, & this vitamin in animals Vitamin A |
| #653, aired 1987-06-10 | SCIENCE $100: It's the combined sciences of botany & zoology biology |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | BOTANY $200: Mangeove trees grow equally well in fresh, brackish, or this type of water saltwater |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | BOTANY $400: Very hardy types of this simple plant live in the hot springs of Yellowstone Park algae |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | BOTANY $600: The starch from this New World grain, "Zea mays", can be made into urethane foams corn |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | BOTANY $800: A naturalist said this giant cactus looks like "a tree designed by someone who had never seen a tree" a saguaro |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | BOTANY $1000: Some types of these are pinnate, twice-compound, & palmate leaves |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | BOTANY $200: A type of dried fruit, or to cut back a plant or tree prune |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | BOTANY $400: When roasted they won't make you itch, but cashews are related to this poisonous plant poison ivy |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | BOTANY $600: Lilies, like tulips, are grown from these bulbs |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | BOTANY $800: The President Hoover & Christian Dior are some names among hybrid tea varieties of this flower roses |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | BOTANY $200: The female reproductive organ of a flower, not a Colt .45 the pistil |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | BOTANY $400: Leaves of this aquatic plant may be 6 feet across & supposedly can support a small child a water lily |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | BOTANY $600: Though some call yeasts protists, when classed botanically they are considered these fungi |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | BOTANY $800: Most of a plant's dry weight comes from this element, atomic #6 carbon |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | BOTANY $1000: Cotton is over 90% of this cell wall material made by plants from glucose cellulose |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | BOTANY $100: Orange spots on the back of mint leaves indicate this condition rust |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | BOTANY $200: Edible part of the rhubarb plant the stalk |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | BOTANY $500 (Daily Double): Plant member of the legume family featured in this song:
[Instrumental music plays] clover |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | BOTANY $200: In the song, "That little 'ol ant" had "high hopes" he could move this a rubber tree plant |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | BOTANY $400: Of temperature, soil, nutrients, or light exposure, most important factor in flowering light exposure |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | BOTANY $600: You'd find the brittlebrush, wolly daisy, & soapweed in this type of area desert |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | BOTANY $800: When Reggie Jackson hits a home run, he might thank this tree from which most bats are made (the white) ash |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | BOTANY $1000: A V-shaped indentation in the rings of a tree indicates this the point where a branch grew from the tree |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | BOTANY $100: Term for plants that live for 1 year or 1 growing season an annual |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | BOTANY $200 (Daily Double): Title of the following, which is also a hardy annual climbing plant
"I went to a dance just the other night / I saw a girl there she was out of sight / I asked a friend of mine who she could be" "Sweet Pea" |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | BOTANY $200: Brazil nuts & peanuts are not really nuts, but these seeds |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | BOTANY $300: Of ⅒, ⅕, or ⅓, approximate amount of earth's land covered by forests ⅓ |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | BOTANY $500: A paleobotanist deals with plants in this form fossil form |
| #400, aired 1986-03-21 | NAMED FOR $200: While Asa Gray was known for his books on botany, Henry Gray was known for his books on this science anatomy |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | BOTANY $100: Originally from China, this fragrant evergreen was named for Dr. Alexander Garden gardenia |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | BOTANY $200: Belonging to the genus Helianthus, these yellow flowers actually turn to follow the sun's path sunflowers |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | BOTANY $300: The cob is actually the female flower of this cereal plant corn |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | BOTANY $200: Green leaves turn carbon dioxide & water into sugar & this oxygen |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | BOTANY $400: Honey is made from this scented sugary substance secreted by flowers nectar |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | BOTANY $600: Partially decomposed plant material found in bogs & fens peat |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | BOTANY $800: The union of 2 gametes to form a zygote, or putting horse manure on a plant fertilization |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | BOTANY $1000: In 1839, Mary Ann Smith grafted & budded her way into creating this fruit strain a Granny Smith Apple |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | BOTANY $200: This insect-catching plant is found in nature only in the area of Wilmington, N.C. the Venus flytrap |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | BOTANY $400: Turpentine comes from this kind of tree a pine tree |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | BOTANY $600: The 2 plants which supply nearly all of the world's sugar beets & sugarcane |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | BOTANY $800: Smuts, molds, mildews, & yeasts belong to this plant group fungi |
| #117, aired 1985-02-19 | BOTANY $200: Common yellow-flowered weed whose name means "lion's tooth" in French dandelion |
| #117, aired 1985-02-19 | BOTANY $400: Type of violet sometimes known as "flower with a face" the pansy |
| #117, aired 1985-02-19 | BOTANY $1,400 (Daily Double): Prairie plant that's the subject of this song:
"I know when night has gone / That a new dawn has dawned" the tumbleweed |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | BOTANY $200: Acorns are the fruit of this tree an oak tree |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | BOTANY $400: Most American grown ginseng is exported to this country China |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | BOTANY $600: From the Spanish word for "raft", this wood is twice as buoyant as cork balsa |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | BOTANY $800: Ferns reproduce by means of these spores |
| #65, aired 1984-12-07 | STARTS WITH "B" $500: Australian bay named for the many plants growing on its shores Botany Bay |
| #64, aired 1984-12-06 | BOTANY $200: Collective name for poisonous mushrooms toadstools |
| #64, aired 1984-12-06 | BOTANY $400: Because like an eye, they close at night, the English first called these flowers "day's eyes" daisies |
| #64, aired 1984-12-06 | BOTANY $600: Type of plant the British call a "creeper" a vine |
| #64, aired 1984-12-06 | BOTANY $800: The kumquat is in this fruit family citrus |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | BOTANY $200: By counting them you can discover a tree's age rings |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | BOTANY $400: Slave turned botanist who created 300 new products from peanuts George Washington Carver |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | BOTANY $600: "Sound of Music" song asking this white Alpine flower to "bless my homeland forever" "Edelweiss" |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | BOTANY $800: Japanese dwarf tree whose name sounds like a WWII battle cry bonsai |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BOTANY $200: Celebrated botanist, or civic subject of Carson monologues (Luther) Burbank |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BOTANY $400: Longfellow's "spreading" tree, now battling extinction by blight the chestnut tree |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BOTANY $600: Favorite food of pandas, it's the world's largest grass bamboo |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BOTANY $800: This "tree's" branches pointed way out of desert, so Mormons named it for Biblical leader the Joshua tree |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BOTANY $1000: Largest specimen of this tree has 350 large trunks & over 3,000 small ones the banyan tree |
