| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $600: Living in the town of Bayport on Barmet Bay, Frank & Joe are this pair of brothers who solve mysteries the Hardy Boys |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: Frankie Valli, of course, is a character in this musical about the Four Seasons Jersey Boys |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Also known as an etherophone, this boxy electronic instrument was used by The Beach Boys a theremin |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $400: This Spanish name for boys & old fishermen literally means "Saint James" Santiago |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $2000: The Beach Boys mentioned these Mexican sandals in "Surfin' U.S.A." huaraches |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $1600: In "The Boys from Brazil", a Nazi hunter chases clones of Hitler created by this fugitive doctor Dr. Mengele |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $800: Many boys in Latin America have names of the big archangels: Gabriel, Rafael & this Spanish name Miguel |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2000: This French version of a girls' name important in the New Testament is also given to boys, like the Marquis de Lafayette Marie |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $400: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch,
the Beach Boys
(she's giving me excitations) "Good Vibrations" |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BAYS $1600: In song, "The boys of the NYPD choir were singing" of this Irish place Galway Bay |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | 2020s TV $1200: Set in a school for wannabe superheroes, "Gen V" is a spinoff of this hard-hitting Amazon Prime show The Boys |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $2000: 2020:
Detectives played by Will Smith & Martin Lawrence fight drug lords in Miami Bad Boys for Life |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $400: This "Fame" co-star & choreographer shows this leader of the Green Mountain Boys how to dance Debbie Allen & Ethan Allen |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town in Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1600: "City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country Brazil |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Boys, you must strive to find your own voice" the Dead Poets Society |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | TALK ABOUT... PUP MUSIC $800: This country star Carrie-d on, singing "I close my eyes & I kiss that frog... the more boys I meet, the more I love my dog" (Carrie) Underwood |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $100: #1 for boys: a boatload of kids share their name with this biblical ark builder Noah |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $300: #5 for boys: a term for a worker who lays bricks or stone Mason |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THE MEDI-VERSE $500 (Daily Double): Development of the fighter pilot's G-suit is one of the breakthroughs from this clinic whose name sounds like a deli condiment the Mayo Clinic |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THREE DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS $1500: Giddy up! This Beach Boys song about a Chevy hot rod shares its title with a household cleaning product "409" |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $900: This boy band kicked off their DNA World Tour in 2022; they sang "I Want It That Way" & other hits the Backstreet Boys |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $400: A tropical island seems nice for a new post-apocalyptic society, but I fear a few British boys won't see the end of this 1954 book Lord of the Flies |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $1600: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born" Waylon Jennings |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $400: In 2020 she topped John Waters & the Beastie Boys to win a Grammy for her spoken word album, an audio book of her memoir Michelle Obama |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $1000: Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles "The Boys of Summer" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $800: For the last several years, this name of a Dickens hero has been the most popular boys' name in New South Wales Oliver |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2000: "Wave" goodbye to this boys' name & hairstyling term; it hasn't been a popular name in France since the 1920s Marcel |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | BANDS ACROSS THE DECADES $200: The Wilson brothers, Mike Love & Al Jardine, surfin' over '60s high notes The Beach Boys |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $400: Songs in this Broadway show include "Walk Like A Man" & "Big Girls Don't Cry" Jersey Boys |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | TV CRIMINALS $800: The villainous Supe Homelander on this series is the leader of the Seven, a group of some not-so-super heroes The Boys |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $200: "It's fun to stay at the YMCA... you can hang out with all the boys" the Village People |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: 2 childhood friends wind up on opposite sides of the law in this author's 2022 legal thriller "The Boys from Biloxi" Grisham |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | A CENTURY OF TIME MAGAZINE COVERS $1200: 1923 cover boys included President Harding, G.B. Shaw & Roy Chapman Andrews, who made headlines finding fossil these from an oviraptor eggs |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ASSISTING THE DETECTIVE $200: This young sleuth from dozens of books gets into adventures with her friends Bess & George &, sometimes, the Hardy Boys Nancy Drew |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | INTERNATIONAL MOVIES? $800: 1978:
"The Boys from ____" Brazil |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | A JR. IN ENTERTAINMENT $600: Tha (Dwayne) Carter Jr. went platinum at age 17 when he was with the Hot Boys, but you may know him under this nom de rap Lil Wayne |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $400: They always fought for your rights! "Your mom busted in & said, 'What's that noise?!' / Aw mom, you're just jealous, it's" this rap trio the Beastie Boys |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LEFTOVERS $600: Every decade in the U.S. from the 1960s through the 1990s, this name of an archangel ranked as the most popular first name for boys Michael |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $200: Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel chocolate |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $400: Luke, the son of Hermes, betrays this title kid at Camp Half-Blood by poisoning him; not cool Percy Jackson |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $600: In this S.E. Hinton novel, it's the Socs vs. the Greasers, & Dally is a bit of a thug The Outsiders |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $800: With a name fit for a Roman emperor, this rude boy falls into Willy Wonka's river & gets sucked up by a super pipe Augustus Gloop |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $1,200 (Daily Double): "You've been brought up bad... Fagin will make something of you", says this rascal to Oliver Twist the Artful Dodger |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $600: The amazingly named Remember Baker was part of this 1770s militia that was also called the Bennington Bob the Green Mountain Boys |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAMES $1600: From Hebrew for "the Lord exalts", it's a good name for prophets, boys & bullfrogs Jeremiah |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: These 2 title animated boys have a pet platypus named Perry Phineas & Ferb |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | THEY'RE "N"TITLED $2000: In 2020 Colson Whitehead won a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for this novel The Nickel Boys |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I'M HENRY VI, I AM $800: This prestigious school for boys with a 4-letter name was founded near the Thames River by Henry VI in 1440 Eton |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Kissing the girls made them cry, but when the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie did this ran away |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | REPETITIVE MUSIC $400: The Beach Boys had their share in 1964 singing, "She'll have" this, this, this "'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away" "Fun, Fun, Fun" |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $500: From bad to worse in this novel: escaping nuclear war, a plane crashes, killing all the adults; the boys form their own society on an island Lord of the Flies |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $1600: William was a popular boys' name in this Dutch house, like of William III, king from 1849 to 1890 the House of Orange |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THE BOTTOM 10 $2000: "So What'cha Want" hit 93 for this trio in 1992, though some call the album it's off, "Check Your Head", a masterpiece the Beastie Boys |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 boys & 7 girls who did not volunteer as tributes were sacrificed to this monster annually until Theseus killed it the Minotaur |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BAND AD $800: "Musicians-singers for acting roles in new TV series... 4 insane boys, age 17-21", said the 1965 ad that launched this group The Monkees |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $2000: A spider & a trickster god whose origins are in West Africa lives as Mr. Nancy in "Anansi Boys" by this writer Neil Gaiman |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $1200: Possessive title of Louisa May Alcott's sequel to "Little Men" Jo's Boys |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | TUNING INTO THE '90s $600: Listen all y'all, it's a "Sabotage", performed by this rap trio at the 1994 VMAs (& blowing the roof off of it) a the Beastie Boys |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $800: After fighting for the U.S. in the American Revolution, this leader of the Green Mountain Boys tried to get Canada to annex Vermont Ethan Allen |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | POP MUSIC $200: This '60s group loved the waves with hits like "Surfer Girl", "Surfin' Safari" & "Surfin' U.S.A." The Beach Boys |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $600: In 1996 The Bayside Boys remix of this song by Los del Río was a No. 1 hit; its accompanying dance was a '90s fad too "Macarena" |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $1000: "Riding in Town Cars with Boys" &
"The Unblairable Lightness of Being" Gossip Girl |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | WELSH FOLK $1000: Opera star Bryn Terfel put out an album called "Bad Boys" on which he sings roles like this Mozart seducer Don Giovanni |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $800: A-Train & Homelander leave a bit to be desired as superheroes on this Amazon show based on Garth Ennis' work The Boys |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | TV MONSTERS $1600: The monster-hunting Winchester boys on this show tangled with demons & Rakshasa Supernatural |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | FINANCE BROS $1600: The fabulous Baker Boys, Julian & Felix, run a hedge fund specializing in this 7-letter sector of new drug development biotech |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | TV THEME SONGS $1600: In the theme song for "Cops" performed by Inner Circle, this question follows "Bad boys, bad boys" whatcha gonna do |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | TRIOS $800: Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz wrote a 600-page bestselling chronicle of this trio the Beastie Boys |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | SCRAMBLED NOVELS $2000: A Colson Whitehead Pulitzer winner:
"BEEN SICKLY HOT" The Nickel Boys |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $1600: "The Boys" is a memoir of child actorhood by Clint Howard (Mark on "Gentle Ben") & his brother Ron (Opie on this show) The Andy Griffith Show |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TV, STREAMED $600: Billy Butcher has some serious issues with superheroes on this Amazon show & confronts them quite directly The Boys |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $1600: This actor who played Atticus Finch later portrayed Josef Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil" Gregory Peck |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $1200: In song, "Some came from a land beyond the sea, from Boston and New York, but the boys who beat the Black and Tans, were the boys from" here County Cork |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | MUSIC BIOPIC SUBJECTS $1600: "Love & Mercy":
this genius of The Beach Boys Brian Wilson |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $800: Dave Eggers' book about this group that shares a name with Peter Pan's gang led to building a school in South Sudan the Lost Boys |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $1000: The Backstreet Boys & this boy band joined forces to usher in 2011
"Yeah, you /
Got the right stuff /
Ha, baby, yeah /
You're the reason why I sing this song /
Come on, y'all! /
Here we go!" New Kids on the Block |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | TOOLS $600: Tin is one type of these metal cutters, also found in a list of what little boys are made of snips |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | ALLITEROCKERS $200: In 1987 this trio that fought for the right to party had the first rap album to top the Billboard charts the Beastie Boys |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | LITERARY PROFESSORS $1200: The protagonist of this author's 1995 novel "Wonder Boys" was inspired by his University of Pittsburgh writing professor Michael Chabon |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | LET'S GO SEE THE BAND! $800: They get around The Beach Boys |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | OMAHA $1000: In 1917 this priest rented a boarding house in Omaha to care for 5 neglected boys; later, he bought a farm & it became Boys Town Father Flanagan |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | COMPLETE THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE $1600: 2006, set at a British grammar school:
"The ____ Boys" History |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | "K"-POP $2000: Ooh I wanna take ya, but, the Beach Boys completely made up this triple-rhyme title island from a 1988 song Kokomo |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | CAR PARTS APART FROM CARS $600: Isiah Thomas & Bill Laimbeer were "Bad Boys" for this team the (Detroit) Pistons |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPORTS BOOKS $200: Roger Kahn's 1972 bestseller "The Boys of Summer" is a nostalgic look at this team before it headed west the (Brooklyn) Dodgers |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | FOOD FORWARD $400: Gail Becker, mom of 2 boys who couldn't have gluten, started the Caulipower line by making this out of cauliflower pizza crust |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | WHO DIRECTED IT? $400: "Riding in Cars with Boys",
"Awakenings" (Penny) Marshall |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $1600: "Big Creek Missile Agency", Homer Hickam's article about his childhood, became this book that became the movie "October Sky" Rocket Boys |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $1200: Colson Whitehead's novel about these "Boys" is based on abuse & worse at a real reform school in the Jim Crow Era Nickel |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $2,000 (Daily Double): His novel "Rites of Passage" echoed the survivalist theme of an earlier work about boys marooned on a remote island (William) Golding |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TV WORKPLACES $600: Vought International employs this show's ethically challenged superheroes The Boys |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $1200: The title good ole boys of this show were "fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL $600: Both on the Upper East Side, Constance Billard School for Girls & St. Jude's School for Boys Gossip Girl |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | PAST LIVES $400: Benedict Arnold co-led this militia from Vermont that had less than a hundred men when it took Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 the Green Mountain Boys |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | ROCK BANDS $800: At the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, this group played "Boys Don't Cry" The Cure |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOURNALISTS $1200: Mary Marvin Breckenridge was the only woman among the World War II era correspondents known as this reporter's "Boys" Edward R. Murrow |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: Before this woman moved to Montgomery, she helped her husband Raymond defend the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s Rosa Parks |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $1000: At 15, Joe was the younger of this literary detective duo; his first love, Iola Morton, would perish from a car bomb The Hardy Boys |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $200: Here's a twist--in 2019, the top name for boys was this, like Dickens' young Mr. Twist Oliver |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $400: The Beastie Boys' "Brass" one was actually a cocktail; George Michael sang of a metaphoric one "on your back" a Monkey |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE STOCK MARKET $600: In 2021 the wild ride of GameStop stock pitted small investors against the big boys who use this method & hope the price will fall short selling |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FICTIONAL PICKERS $2000: A story by Brian Friel begins as boys on their way to gather these are "the only living things in that part of County Tyrone" potatoes |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | FICTION $800: Jo March has become Mother Bhaer in this 1871 sequel Little Men |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THEY LIVED TO 100 $800: In 1996 this star of "The Sunshine Boys" reached 100 before he said, "Good night, Gracie" George Burns |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $400: This world-conquering musical act's name is short for Korean words that mean "bulletproof Boy Scouts" BTS |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $800: This actress won an Oscar for her performance as Brandon Teena in the 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry" Swank |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $1200: Frank & Joe are these fictional brothers who've solved mysteries like "The Secret of the Old Mill" The Hardy Boys |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $1600: The son of actors Dennis & Meg, he battles abusive superheroes on TV's "The Boys" Jack Quaid |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $2000: The Soggy Bottom Boys was a fictional band formed by the chain gang escapees in this film O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | PAINTINGS $1600: Though perhaps better known for his sea subjects, in 1872, he painted a group of boys playing Snap the Whip (Winslow) Homer |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $800: After being trapped in a cave for more than 2 weeks in 2018, 12 boys & their soccer coach were rescued in this country Thailand |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | PLAY CHARACTERS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this play Sister Aloysius, who serves as the principal of St. Nicholas School, has suspicions about Father Flynn Doubt |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $800: "You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you" Jersey Boys |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $2000: "All the boys they say que soy buena" when they hear this tune, tops from 1996 "Macarena" |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | YACHT ROCK $200: Mike Campbell wrote the music for "Boys Of Summer" working on a Tom Petty album but gave it to this Eagle who penned the lyrics, flying solo Don Henley |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | TV $200: A writer joked that this HBO mob drama "should be called 'Jersey Boys' and 'Jersey Boys' should be called" this HBO mob drama The Sopranos |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary" Dead Poets Society |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $1000: Not only did the Beastie Boys get "No Sleep Till" this borough, the group also said "Hello" to it as well Brooklyn |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | GETTING THE KEY TO THE CITY $200: In 2020 these 2 "Bad Boys for Life" got the key to Miami & were made honorary police officers Will Smith & Martin Lawrence |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $200: In "Tropic of Fear" Nancy Drew met up with these brothers for a Hawaiian-themed mystery the Hardy Boys |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ONCE-POPULAR FIRST NAMES $1200: Once, Brits gave thousands of boys a year this name of Christopher Guest's "Spinal Tap" guitarist; in 2016, fewer than 5 Nigel |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Put your hands together & make noise for this term for a shade-filled retort to Nick Carter & his '90s band Clap Backstreet Boys |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $800: Cute & cuddly, boys! "The Penguins of" this place waddled on to Nickelodeon Madagascar |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $3,200 (Daily Double): Barnard Hughes: "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires" The Lost Boys |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1600: He followed up "The Underground Railroad" with "The Nickel Boys" Colson Whitehead |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $400: At 23 in 1705 Archibald Campbell, third Duke of Argyll, was appointed treasurer of this country Scotland |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $800: As a young man Arthur Wellesley, best known as this duke, had gambling debts & trouble at school before his martial glory the Duke of Wellington |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $1200: Wealthy landowner & 1750s Prime Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles was Duke of this "upon-Tyne" Newcastle |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $1600: A constant schemer against his brother King Edward IV, George, Duke of Clarence was killed in this London prison in 1478 the Tower of London |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $2000: Machiavelli fittingly referred to the young duke Cesare Borgia as a "new" this title prince |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOTALLY AWESOME '80s TV $800: Ken Levine & David Isaacs penned "The Boys in the Bar" & "The Last Angry Mailman" episodes of this sitcom Cheers |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: As the recipient of the 2018 Icon Award, she took "Control" & took to the stage in her first live TV performance in nearly a decade
"Nasty, nasty boys, lemme see your nasty body move /
Oh, you nasty boys..." Janet Jackson |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POP CULTURE $1200: Amazon Prime was super in 2019, debuting this show about edgy superheroes like Homelander & the Deep The Boys |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $400: The words "Saving Children" are on a 2017 one of these coins celebrating the centennial of Boys Town half dollar |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $600: At the 2017 awards these guys, a '90s boy band, joined Florida Georgia Line to perform "God, Your Mama And Me" the Backstreet Boys |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | CLASSIC ROCK & ROLL QUOTES $200: This "Quiet Beatle" looked back on his whirlwind pop days & noted, "We were the Spice Boys" George Harrison |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIO ACTIVE $800: In the '60s the first 2 Top 40 Hits for this group had the word "Surfin"' in the title; No. 4, "Surfer" The Beach Boys |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | WHOSE NO. 1 ALBUM $1000: In 2019, this boy band, back on top with "DNA" the Backstreet Boys |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TV VILLAINS $1600: Crowley, a charming villain on this show, was known to give the Winchester boys a devil of a time Supernatural |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $200: Novelist Henry & playwright Arthur, both Brooklyn boys Miller |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $400: Journalist Tom & novelist Thomas, both southern boys Wolfe |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | BANDS, CLANS & GANGS $1000: Gangs in the "Gangs of New York" era included the Plug Uglies, the Short Tails & these "Boys" named for part of lower Manhattan the Bowery Boys |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | WELCOME BACK BOYS! $200: Inconsistently consistent, he took the oath of office on March 4, 1885 & was back for more on March 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | WELCOME BACK BOYS! $400: He's the party hearty family member who returns home & gets a nifty meal in Luke 15 the Prodigal Son |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | WELCOME BACK BOYS! $600: In 2019 this hard rock band led by Maynard James Keenan released its first album in 13 years & it went to No. 1 Tool |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | WELCOME BACK BOYS! $800: In 1985 John Sculley & the tech company's board demoted this co-founder, but he was back in charge in 1997 Steve Jobs |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | WELCOME BACK BOYS! $1000: On Dec. 19, 1972 astronauts Cernan, Schmitt & Evans splashed down in the Pacific as this last manned Moon mission came to an end Apollo 17 |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | # $600: #HeforShe went viral after a U.N. speech about men & boys working for gender equality given by this "Harry Potter" actress Emma Watson |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $200: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 2012 at age 82 I became the oldest winner of a competitive acting Oscar; the record for a male actor had stood for 36 years, since this beloved 80-year-old comedian took the honors in 1976 for "The Sunshine Boys" (George) Burns |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | ANIMAL NAMES WITH LEWIS & CLARK $800: Though we think of it as grayish-brown, the boys called it a "white bear" & killed quite a few the grizzly bear |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | THESE WOMEN MAKE THE CLOTHES $400: Rei Kawakubo made clothes that had the ease of boys' clothes, so she named her line "Comme des" these, French for boys Garçons |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | META-FOURS $400: In "Jersey Boys" Frankie Valli, lead singer of this group, narrates the section of the play dubbed "Winter" the Four Seasons |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | EARLY ROLES $2000: That's Megan Fox dancing in a club in this Will Smith/ Martin Lawrence sequel Bad Boys II |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | THE SONG (BY PARENTHETICAL TITLE) $400: Beastie Boys: "(You Gotta) do this (To Party!)" "Fight For Your Right" |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | A MAN OF THE CLOTH $400: A shirt once used for rowing, or the last name of the Eagles member who had a solo hit with "The Boys Of Summer" a henley |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SO LONG $400: Hallmark says sales of cards for this anniversary spiked in the early 1990s; Americans had rushed to marry before the boys went to WWII 50th anniversary wedding card |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE $800: Song: By The Cure; Movie: Hilary Swank played Teena Brandon, who became Brandon Teena "Boys Don't Cry" |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | THESE TV SHOWS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK $1200: The theme song of this show now in its 32nd season asks, "Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?" Cops |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1600: Ethan Allen gets credit for leading this group, but in 1775 Seth Warner was elected as its leader the Green Mountain Boys |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | FUN FACTS $400: The boys from Delta House didn't make it, but a party for 3,700 wearing these garments took place in Queensland in 2012 togas |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | FANTASY ISLAND $200: Peter Pan can bring visitors to this island, home to the Lost Boys Never-Never Land |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | JUKEBOX MUSICALS $400: "Jersey Boys":
Them The Four Seasons |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | HIP-HOP TO IT $1000: Following "Licensed to Ill", this second "Ill" album by the Beastie Boys featured "Sabotage" Ill Communication |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $800: These title "Boys" in an Ira Levin novel are clones of Hitler The Boys from Brazil |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $400: Adam Clayton,
Bono,
the Edge U2 |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $800: Steve Jones,
Johnny Rotten,
Sid Vicious the Sex Pistols |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $1200: Donnie Wahlberg,
Joey McIntyre,
Jordan Knight New Kids on the Block |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $1600: Stu Cook,
Tom Fogerty,
John Fogerty CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $2000: Andy Hurley,
Patrick Stump,
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE $800: Inner Circle,
1987;
Martin Lawrence & Will Smith,
1995 "Bad Boys" |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LIGHT $600: A motto was born when a boys town boy carrying another boy who had polio said, "He ain't heavy..., he's" this my brother |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LIGHT $1000: In "First Man" an angry Janet Armstrong calls NASA "a bunch of boys making models out of" this light wood balsa |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | CAROL KAYE PLAYED BASS ON THAT $400: That's legendary session musician Carol Kaye playing bass on "Good Vibrations" & a bunch of other hits by this band The Beach Boys |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | BLUE MAN GROUP $1600: In the 1940s these "Boys" helped Kentuckian Bill Monroe establish a new genre of music the Bluegrass Boys |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | THIS IS "MY" SONG $1600: The Pet Shop Boys covered this Willie Nelson hit that begins, "Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have" "Always On My Mind" |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | FAMILIAR BRANDS IN SONGS $600: In "The Boys of Summer", Don Henley sings, "You got that hair slicked back" & these Ray-Bans on Wayfarers |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 2018 divers rescued 12 boys & one adult trapped by rising water inside a cave in this country Thailand |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $1200: "Smile", which stalled out as a Beach Boys album in the '60s, finally came out in 2004 as a solo release from him Brian Wilson |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THAT'S SOME STRONG LANGUAGE! $800: Let's play detective, "Boys"; it means strong enough to endure hardy |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | "RITE" YOU ARE $1600: Xhosa boys wear a blanket with red stripes after undergoing this type of 3-word transition to manhood rite of passage |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $1600: Boys Town began as this priest's Boys' Home Father Flanagan |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | THE MOVIE'S SOURCE MATERIAL $2000: This movie starring Al Pacino:
The Life magazine article "The Boys in the Bank" Dog Day Afternoon |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | SCHOOL UNIFORMS $200: In some schools in Australia, both boys and girls wear this hot type of jacket a blazer |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | SCHOOL UNIFORMS $600: Boys at England's Eton College are shown here in this type of hat they had to wear until the mid-1900s a top hat |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): When these 2 boys & their pal Joe Harper are presumed dead, they hide in the church & hear their own funerals Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | ON BROADWAY IN 2018 $2000: Matt Bomer, Zachary Quinto & Jim Parsons were some of the "Boys" in this revived Mart Crowley play Boys in the Band |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $800: Would it "Wreck-It" if we told you that this name for boys, not as popular as it used to be, means "wolf counsel"? Ralph |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY $1200: From Louisa May Alcott's blog in 1871: "This aptly titled 1st sequel--done! Jo runs a school for boys! Now...party time!" Little Men |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $1600: In "Worth Dying For", this 6'5", 250-lb. Lee Child action hero makes life very difficult for the evil Duncan boys Jack Reacher |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | MORE COWBELL $600: This rap trio from Brooklyn--as in "No Sleep Till..."--threw in a cowbell solo on "Hey Ladies" the Beastie Boys |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | BOYS IN THE BAND $400: Liam,
Harry,
Louis,
Niall One Direction |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | BOYS IN THE BAND $800: Robby Krieger,
Ray Manzarek,
John Densmore,
Jim Morrison The Doors |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | BOYS IN THE BAND $1200: The late Chester Bennington,
Mike Shinoda,
Brad Delson Linkin Park |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | BOYS IN THE BAND $1600: James Hetfield,
Lars Ulrich &
briefly Dave Mustaine Metallica |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | BOYS IN THE BAND $2000: Ronnie Vannucci,
Brandon Flowers The Killers |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Corey Haim & Corey Feldman co-starred in this 1987 film about vampires in California The Lost Boys |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | NOT IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $1200: Are you "Kid A"-ing? These alt-rock legends weren't part of the class of 2018, their first year of eligibility Radiohead |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | MEMBERS OF THE HIP-HOP GROUP $1600: Prince Marky Dee,
Kool Rock-Ski,
Buff Love the Human Beat Box
(combined weight, more than 750 lbs.) The Fat Boys |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | BAND MATH $1600: Dave Clark's boys times Ben Folds' boys 25 |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | SCHOOL OF ROCK $400: In 1963 this band sang "Be True To Your School" but usually sounded like they'd rather be surfing The Beach Boys |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | CLASS OF 1918 $2000: This future composer was far from "The Common Man" when he graduate from Boys' H.S. in Brooklyn in 1918 Aaron Copland |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THIS IS MY COLLEGE FIGHT SONG $600: Red is very, very big at this Midwestern Big Ten school "where the girls are the fairest, the boys are the squarest" Nebraska |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | A WIEN-WIEN SITUATION $600 (Daily Double): The Imperial Chapel is a great place to catch this "young" group of singers founded by Maximilian I in 1498 the Vienna Boys' Choir |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | CATCHING "FIRE" $1000: "Light the fire within" is the motto of this youth organization that began accepting boys in 1975 Campfire |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | BAND OF BROTHERS & SISTERS $200: Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson The Beach Boys |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $3,000 (Daily Double): "Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out" Louisa May Alcott |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | ONE-HIT WONDERS $2000: Their "I Know What Boys Like" hit in 1982 The Waitresses |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | TOTALLY '80s WORDS! $200: In 1986 Run-DMC & the Beastie Boys were using this sick adjective as a verb for "to behave badly" ill |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "Dawn (Go Away)" & "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" Jersey Boys |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $1600: Someone sinister is creating clones of Hitler The Boys from Brazil |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS $2000: In this Michael Chabon novel that became a Michael Douglas film, Grady Tripp struggles to finish a novel Wonder Boys |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | THE BOOK OF PALMS $400: Boys in this William Golding novel create a "rude shelter" of "palm trunks and leaves" Lord of the Flies |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | OF THE TIGER $200: The Jersey boys who play sports for this university are the Tigers Princeton |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | COLORING BOOKS $2000: A chapter of "Hans Brinker, or" these is "What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam"... OK, slow down, it's a kids' book! the silver skates |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | TOP BABY NAMES IN BRITAIN $400: Popular for boys, the names of these two Prince William and Prince Harry |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $400: These 2 siblings have solved such cases as "The Twisted Claw" & "The Hidden Harbor Mystery" the Hardy Boys |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | BASEBALL RECORDS $1600: Don Henley hit No. 5 with this song whose title he got from a book about the Brooklyn Dodgers "The Boys Of Summer" |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $800: From Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Daryl Dragon got the nickname "Captain Keyboard" before joining this woman in a pop duo (Toni) Tennille |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | HIT TV THEME SONGS $2000: Just some "Good Ol' Boys" by this country music star was all "The Dukes of Hazzard" needed Waylon Jennings |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | TV PRIVATE DETECTIVES $1200: In a "Wonderful World of Disney" episode in 2002, Maggie Lawson was hardy, boys, as this heroine Nancy Drew |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | THE CITY'S TV SHOW $800: Lee Iacocca, G.Gordon Liddy & the Fat Boys guested on this 1980s Don Johnson superhip cop show Miami Vice |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: On January 15, 2017 Frankie Valli took the stage to say a few words at the end of this musical's 11-year run on Broadway Jersey Boys |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | BRING YOUR "EI" GAME $1200: The anchor seen here is this, clear of the sea floor, my boys aweigh anchor |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | STYLES OF COUNTRY MUSIC $600: This all-acoustic style got its name from the "Boys" who were Bill Monroe's backup band bluegrass |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | REAL PEOPLE IN SONG $2000: The Beastie Boys rhymed "tom foolery" with the name of this host of "Scrabble" & "Love Connection" Chuck Woolery |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | DANCE COMPANIES $1200: For the Joffrey Ballet, Twyla Tharp created "Deuce Coupe", set to the music of this group The Beach Boys |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | DONE THERE $400: Becoming a man in the Amazon can be tough--boys of the Satere-Mawe must wear gloves filled with the bullet type of this insect an ant |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $1200: Willie Clark & Al Lewis are 2 grumpy old former vaudeville partners in this Neil Simon comedy The Sunshine Boys |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $1200: In Amos Oz' novel "The Hill of Evil Counsel", 2 boys grow up in Jerusalem under this country's post-WWI mandate the United Kingdom |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | SCHOOL'S OUT IN JUNE $800: A sometimes brutal school for boys opened in 1900 as the Florida State this type of school & closed in June 2011 reform school |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | 1990s NO. 1 ALBUMS $400: This rap group had "Ill Communication"; take a "Sure Shot" the Beastie Boys |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | THEIR FIRST NO. 1 HIT $400: "I Get Around"
(1964) The Beach Boys |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WILL SMITH $1600: In this 1995 film as Det. Mike Lowrey, Will tells Martin Lawrence, "You drive almost slow enough to drive Miss Daisy" Bad Boys |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WARNER BROS $800: This Vermont regiment led by Seth Warner was crucial in the 1777 Battle of Bennington the Green Mountain Boys |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | "I" TUNES $1000: The Beach Boys were "gettin' bugged drivin' up & down the same old strip" in this 1964 song "I Get Around" |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $2000: In 1980 Waylon Jennings had a country & pop hit with "Good Ol' Boys", the theme from this TV series The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Beastie Boys could tell you "brass" this animal refers to weather that's really cold brass monkey |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HUMANITARIANS $1600: In December 1917 this priest opened his first Boys Home in a Victorian mansion in downtown Omaha Father Flanagan |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | MORE THAN AN ATHLETE $200: He took "Heat" leaving the Cavs, but that televised "decision" raised $2.5 million for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America LeBron James |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | THE BROADWAY MUSICAL'S CHARACTERS $600: Nick Massi,
Mary Delgado,
Frankie Valli Jersey Boys |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | TOUGH CHILDREN'S LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): In an 1883 book the talking insect tells him, "Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home" Pinocchio |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $200: Their 1964 "Christmas Album" includes "Little Saint Nick", called a rewiring of their hit "Little Deuce Coupe" The Beach Boys |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | THE COMPANY STORE $600: This auto supply store named for Manny, Moe & Jack has a proprietary brand called Definity Pep Boys |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: In May 1607 this settlement was founded by 104 Englishmen & boys; the women came the following year Jamestown |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | YOUTH MOVEMENTS $400: During WWII Great Britain's Air Defence Cadet Corps prepped boys for service in this "Royal" group formed in 1918 Royal Air Force (RAF) |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | MUSICAL ACTS $400: This Canadian rapped, "Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, them boys up to somethin', uh uh uh I think I need some Robitussin" Drake |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | OBVIOUS BROADWAY $400: "My Boyfriend's Back" is one of the songs in this show that begins in New Jersey in 1962 Jersey Boys |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $200: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Just north of Hollywood & Vine, the studios at Capitol Records have been used by Frank Sinatra, Green Day, Sam Smith & this band, who recorded their "Surfin' Safari" album in the tower the Beach Boys |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | WHAT AILS YA $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation of a spine on the monitor.) Girls are more likely to have this disorder than boys; an original abnormal curve can later lead to an additional curve due to compensation scoliosis |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $600: The first users of this nickname for a major U.S. city were jazz musicians & stable boys the Big Apple |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | THESPIANISTS $400: Dude! He played Jack Baker, one half of "The Fabulous" piano-playing "Baker Boys" Jeff Bridges |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | COWBOY SONGS $1600: "Come along boys and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on" this old cattle trail the "Old Chisholm Trail" |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HOW JUVENILE! $400: Edward Stratemeyer conceived the juvenile novel series about these 2 brothers, teen detectives the Hardy Boys |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $1600: John Lloyd Young made his Broadway debut in 2005 as Frankie Valli in this show & got the movie gig in 2014 Jersey Boys |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NICE RED UNIFORMS! $1200: The annual August Apprentice Boys parade marks the 1689 lifting of the siege of Derry in what's now this country Northern Ireland |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | BROADWAY $800: "Chain Gang" is a merry number in the 2010 musical about the horrific experience of these Alabama "Boys" the Scottsboro Boys |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: In 2009 the FDA approved this HPV vaccine for boys & young men as well as girls Gardasil |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | MAMA'S BOYS $400: Lucky number 7, this brother of a president blossomed from the former Rose Fitzgerald in 1925 RFK (Robert Francis Kennedy) |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | MAMA'S BOYS $600: As kids Rahm, Ari & Ezekiel, these later high-achieving brothers, would cause mom Marsha to yell, "I hate all of you equally" the Emanuels |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | MAMA'S BOYS $800: This writer who defined guts as "grace under pressure" was born to the former Grace Hall in Illinois in 1899 Hemingway |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | MAMA'S BOYS $1000: If his Mama Hannah hadn't left him as a child, he might have been less troubled--then again, we might not have the "Principia" Newton |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | BAND WITH $800: Mike Love,
Al Jardine &
the Wilson brothers the Beach Boys |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THE DUDE ABIDES $800: The Dude isn't a fan of the Eagles, but he can abide the solo career of this member & his songs like "Boys Of Summer" Don Henley |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1600: Brownsville Station's only Top 10 hit was a 1973 smash about doing this forbidden thing "in the boys room" smoking |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND $3,000 (Daily Double): First formed to drive New York settlers out of Vermont, this armed band later gained fame at Fort Ticonderoga the Green Mountain Boys |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | 2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING $800: Teen detectives join forces in "Double Crossing" when Nancy Drew teams up with these guys, Frank & Joe the Hardy Boys |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A LITTLE READING $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1886 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel inspired a fad of dressing young boys in velvet suits Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $400: "The Summer Game" by Roger Angell & "The Boys of Summer" by Roger Kahn are classic books about this sport baseball |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | SAME MOVIE & SONG TITLE $1200: Movie:
Will Smith & Martin Lawrence are cops;
song:
used as the theme to "Cops" Bad Boys |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | "BOY" BANDS $200: The 2015 Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy" depicts the making of this group's "Pet Sounds" The Beach Boys |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | "BOY" BANDS $600: This British duo revived the career of Dusty Springfield when she joined them on "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" the Pet Shop Boys |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | "BOY" BANDS $800: When is a "boy" band not a boy band? We nominate this country group with the name of a Tennessee atomic research city the Oak Ridge Boys |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | "BOY" BANDS $1000: When is a "boy" band totally a boy band? We nominate this group who wanted us to "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)", baby the Backstreet Boys |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | SHORT STORIES $1600: This Annie Proulx story about 2 "drop-out country boys with no prospects" was in the New Yorker's Oct. 13, 1997 issue "Brokeback Mountain" |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | CHARACTERS ON STAGE $400: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi Jersey Boys |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP $800: Ad-Rock of this group acts in the movie "While We're Young" & says in it, "We're old men" The Beastie Boys |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP $1000: In an ode to the past, 40-something Nas says, this rotund trio "broke up, rap hasn't been the same since" The Fat Boys |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | YIPES, MOTHER GOOSE $1000: Whoa! An alternate version has "four and twenty naughty boys baked in a pie" & a bag, not a pocket, full of this rye |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who was a 76ers player nicknamed "The Answer" Ethan Allen Iverson |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | POP MUSIC $1600: In 1994 this trio had its second No. 1 album, "Ill Communication" the Beastie Boys |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $800: "The Boys in the Bank", a Life magazine account of a Brooklyn bank robbery, inspired this 1975 Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | HISTORIC HANDSHAKES $200: While attending Boys Nation in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 1963, this future president shook hands with JFK Clinton |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $200: By crowd vote, this convict was released instead of Jesus Barabbas |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $400: This youngest son of Rachel fathered one of the 12 tribes of Israel Benjamin |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $600: One of the 12 apostles, he's called Nathanael in John's gospel Bartholomew |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $800: Son of Rahab, great-granddad of David & husband of Ruth Boaz |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $1,400 (Daily Double): This Babylonian is slain the same night as his feast at which Daniel reads the writing on the wall Belshazzar |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | POP MUSIC ROYALTY $1600: Slayer guitarist Kerry King's solo on this trio's "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" will keep you awake the Beastie Boys |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $2000: This author based his "Wonder Boys" character Grady Tripp on his Univ. of Pittsburgh English professor Chuck Kinder Michael Chabon |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | BACK THEN NO ONE KNEW $600: ...this word for a certain men's hairstyle; an early use was in a 1994 Beastie Boys tune mullet |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | 3 CHEERS FOR THE BLUE, GREEN & YELLOW $1200: At the 1777 Battle of Bennington, Seth Warner led this American militia to victory the Green Mountain Boys |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | TRIOS $200: Sadly, Adam Yauch, aka MCA of this trio, died in 2012 The Beastie Boys |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | OBESITY IN AMERICA $600: Bigger kids means more clothes in boys' plus sizes, more tactfully called this 5-letter term husky |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | IN LIFE $400: In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys & 12 in girls puberty |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | I WANT TO ROCK & ROLL ALL NIGHT $400: Irish band Thin Lizzy's biggest U.S. hit came when telling us that they "Are Back In Town" "The Boys" |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | UNITS $1000: The "409" in a Beach Boys song referred to the engine displacement in a Chevy, given in these units cubic inches |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $400: In this 1871 sequel Jo March & her husband run a school for boys in their home Little Men |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NONFICTION $400: "The Boys In The Boat" is the true story of the U.S. Crew Team & its quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics in this city Berlin |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $400: This Biblical name has come full ark; in 2013 it was the most popular name for U.S. boys Noah |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $600: Thanks to the "Twilight" saga, this last name of Edward has been on the rise as a first name for boys Cullen |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NO. 2 HITS $1000: The Beach Boys hit No. 2 with this girl who had them "rockin' and a-reelin'" Barbara Ann |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $1,200 (Daily Double): Now used for girls as well as boys, this poetic name is from the Welsh for "son of the sea" Dylan |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $1600: Boat builder's boys:
H, S & J Ham, Shem & Japheth |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $200: His experience teaching unruly boys helped inspire his book "Lord of the Flies" (William) Golding |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | ____ & ____ $600: You boys played that first half like you didn't even know the plays! Let's go back to these 2 letters! "X"s & "O"s |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | BORDERING THE RED SEA $800: The Red Sea Boys are the soccer team of this African country, the most recently independent Red Sea nation Eritrea |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | THERE'S A "WAY" $400: Footpads did their robbing on foot; these bad boys commanded victims to stand & deliver from horseback highwaymen |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $400: "California Girls":
The Beach Boys in 1965 & this lead singer of Van Halen in 1985 David Lee Roth |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $600: "Always On My Mind":
Willie Nelson in 1982 & this British synth-pop dance duo in 1988 Pet Shop Boys |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES $1200: Hey, "Bad boys! Whatcha gonna do when" these title TV guys come for you? Cops |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | THE MOVIE'S INTERNATIONAL TITLE $200: In France, this film about good ol' boys Bo & Luke somehow became "Sheriff, Make Me Afraid" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | ROLE REVERSAL $400: This actor played a Nazi in "Marathon Man" & a Nazi hunter in "The Boys from Brazil" Laurence Olivier |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | COMPLETE THE LYRIC $800: fun.:
"This is it boys,
This is ____ --
What are we waiting for?" "war" |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | THE 1990s RAP SONG $2000: From the Beastie Boys: "I can't stand it, I know you planned it... listen, all y'all, it's a" this "Sabotage" |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | 1901-1910 $1600: Published in London in 1908, his book "Scouting for Boys" began a worldwide movement Baden-Powell |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $400: Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry" Hilary Swank |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1,600 (Daily Double): "City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country Brazil |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction the Scottsboro Boys |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: After he was kicked out of a town in Massachusetts, this leader of the Green Mountain Boys settled in what's now Vermont Ethan Allen |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | '80s ACTORS & ROLES $600: This rap group entered the medical field in "Disorderlies" the Fat Boys |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | J.S. BACH $600: 20 kids of his own weren't enough--for 27 years Bach supervised boy singers as this "master" in Leipzig choirmaster |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | RECENT MOVIE QUOTES $1600: "You're one of those a cappella girls. I'm one of those a cappella boys & we're gonna have a-ca children" Pitch Perfect |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $200: In this 1954 novel Jack tells the other boys, "We're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything" Lord of the Flies |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | LET'S PUT OUR BAND NAME IN THE SONG! $800: "We're" this English synth-pop dance band known for "West End Girls" / "Suburbia's a Slipstream to a Memory" the Pet Shop Boys |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | IT'S A RAP $1200: "Another plane, another train / another bottle in the brain", the Beastie Boys rapped in "No Sleep Till" here "Brooklyn" |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | WHICH DIRECTION? $200: Pet Shop Boys No. 1 hit:
"____ End Girls" West |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | CHIPS $1000: In this 1934 novel, the title character teaches at Brookfield, an all-boys school in England Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | FAR SOUTHERN NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): Beryl Bainbridge's "Birthday Boys" fetes this explorer's fatal 1912 expedition to the South Pole Robert Falcon Scott |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | PIGGYBACKING $400: This place in Omaha,
whose logo is seen here, traces its roots to the efforts of Father Edward J. Flanagan Boys Town |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | "BOY"s WILL BE BOYS $400: The magazine Boys' Life has been published by this organization since 1911 the Boy Scouts |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | "BOY"s WILL BE BOYS $800: The young man seen here, or anyone known to be
moral & innocent a choir boy |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | "BOY"s WILL BE BOYS $1200: Schlitz introduced this 24-ounce can in 1956 & has brought it back in a 16-ounce version the tallboy |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | "BOY"s WILL BE BOYS $1600: A scapegoat, perhaps tied to a post a whipping boy |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | "BOY"s WILL BE BOYS $2000: Not far from L.A., Mrs. Knott's restaurant has been serving these pies since 1934 boysenberry pies |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | PLAY BALL MUSIC $1600: The Beastie Boys rhymed "I've got more action than my man John Woo" with "and I've got mad hits like" this hall of famer Rod Carew |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) In "Kinky Boots", girls & boys
just want to have fun,
kicking up their heels
to songs by this Grammy & now Tony winner Cyndi Lauper |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS $1200: Their mouths covered to ensure silence, these boys are performing a ritual dance in this country--DRC for short the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD $2000: The boys from Siracusa are among the 5 million speakers of this island tongue Sicilian |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | ROCK & ROLL CALL $1600: Pete Wentz & Joe Trohman are 2 of the boys in this "boy" band Fall Out Boy |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | TEXT ME $1000: To quote the Beach Boys, GOK God only knows |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | I GOT MAD HIP-HOP SKILLZ $2000: "Your mom busted in & said, 'What's that noise?' Aw Mom, you're just jealous, it's" them the Beastie Boys |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | ALL THE SINGLE LADIES $200: Austria's archduke & Sweden's king were among many vying for this 16th c. English queen's hand; no dice, boys Elizabeth I |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | 1988 NO. 1 HIT LYRICS $400: "Ooo I wanna take you down to Kokomo, we'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow" the Beach Boys |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | EUROPEAN LAKES $2000: In 2006 this prestigious boys' school on the Thames completed construction of Lake Dorney for rowing Eton |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | AUTHORESS! AUTHORESS! $400: In 1871 she gave us "Little Men: Life At Plumfield With Jo's Boys" Louisa May Alcott |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | MUSICIAN MOVIE SUBJECTS $1600: 2011:
"Never Say Never" Justin Bieber |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | GROUP ON $200: Boys who are related to a member of this secret society may join the Order of Builders the Freemasons (or Masons) |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $600: In 1990 this "Fabulous Baker Boys" girl graced the cover of the first "most beautiful" issue Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $1200: Whatcha gonna do? This reggae song was the theme to the TV show "Cops" "Bad Boys" |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1600: This ex-minister's first novel for boys, "Ragged Dick", told the story of a poor shoeshine boy who rises to wealth Horatio Alger |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IN THE BOY SCOUT HANDBOOK $1600: This subdivision of a Boy Scout troop "is a team of six to eight boys who make things happen" a patrol |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $600: The ace pitcher on a boys' Little League team is a girl (Tatum O'Neal) in this comedy from 1976 The Bad News Bears |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | 2 TONES $1200: This duo came up with "West End Girls" because nobody else was rapping in an English accent the Pet Shop Boys |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | QUOTES FILLED WITH BOOZE $800: Boswell quotes him: "claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy" (Samuel) Johnson |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | TRAINS $200: 1940s Big Boys were the largest locomotives ever in regular service powered by this, soon replaced by diesel coal (or steam) |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | TONY-WINNING MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 2006:
"Garden State Guys" Jersey Boys |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | JEWISH STARS $800: This Canadian "Take Care" rapper spun the Backstreet Boys at his bar mitzvah Drake |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | THE RACE IS ON $800: This "All-American" competition was inspired by 3 boys in the 1930s racing homemade engineless cars down an incline the Soapbox Derby |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $400: Anything by this singer because she thanked her cat Kitty Purry in the credits of her 2008 debut album "One of the Boys" Katy Perry |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | IF THE SHOE FITS... $800: The Beach Boys' "Surfin' U.S.A." mentions these leather-thonged sandals with a Spanish name huaraches |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT $1600: At the 1526 Battle of Mohács, Sulei & his boys crushed the forces of this kingdom, which had advanced from Buda to meet him Hungary |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | POPULAR MECHANICS $400: Aaaaaay! This "Happy Days" mechanic got out of the garage to be Dean of Boys at a vocational high school the Fonz |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? $600: June 14:
These boys Gemini |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | CEREMONIES $400: The name of this Jewish ceremony for boys of 13 means "son of the commandment" bar mitzvah |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | LEADING INTO THE SONG TITLE $800: The Beach Boys: "I wish they all could be..." "California Girls" |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | NAMES IN THESE TUNES $800: The Beach Boys:
"Sloop ____ B" John |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | TV THEME SONG HITS $600: 1993:
"Bad Boys" Cops |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | IT'S ALWAYS "I", "I", "I" $200: Baby Boom boys remember Annette Funicello & Ursula Andress splashing around wearing these a bikini |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | 50th ANNIVERSARIES IN MUSIC $400: 5 decades ago, this band invited folks on a "Surfin' Safari", an album also including "Surfin'"--we sense a theme the Beach Boys |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | 50th ANNIVERSARIES IN MUSIC $800: It was 50 years ago these Jersey boys hit No. 1 with both "Sherry" & "Big Girls Don't Cry" Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | A COLORFUL CATEGORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This patriot militia was established in 1770 in present-day Bennington, Vermont the Green Mountain Boys |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | POLITICAL TERMS $1000: Folks in this job are called the "Boys on the Bus" after a book that documented the 1972 presidential campaign reporters |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $400: This stretchy one-piece garment for both sexes was named for a guy, a French acrobat a leotard |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $800: In the ballet "Checkmate", the red one of these gets to die an agonizing death at the hands of the black queen a king |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): A boy named Fritz breaks this title gift given to his sister Clara by Drosselmeyer The Nutcracker |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $1200: Boys' classes often emphasize jumps, maybe even the difficult tour en l'air, which means this in the air turn (twirl accepted) |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $2000: After a performance, ballerinas curtsy; men perform a small one of these equivalent gestures a bow |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | I LIKE TO READ $200: Lincoln Pierce & Marjorie Weinman Sharmat write about boys with this first name; one is "Big" & one is "the Great" Nate |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | ON BASS & DRUMS $200: In the '60s:
Brian Wilson &
Dennis Wilson The Beach Boys |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | BRITISH HISTORY $1600: In 1440 Henry VI founded this boys' school as a prep school for King's College Eton |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | 30 ROCK $600: This star of "TGS" had a novelty song, "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah": "Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves" Tracy Morgan (or Tracy Jordan) |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | ABBREVIATED BANDS $600: For a recent tour & album, these 2 groups banded together as NKOTBSB New Kids on the Block & the Backstreet Boys |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SINGERS' SONGS FROM THE HEART $600: A boy band:
"Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
(1997) the Backstreet Boys |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | KEYBOARD CATS $1200: At the 2012 Grammys the Beach Boys feted their 50th anniversary with this song-writing sibling at piano Brian Wilson |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $400: In August 2008 he appeared on a Sports Illustrated cover with his 8 gold medals hanging from his neck Michael Phelps |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WAR POETRY $400: William Cullen Bryant's "The Green Mountain Boys" the Revolutionary War |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $800: In a 1972 issue of Sports Illustrated, he posed with his 7 gold medals hanging from his neck Mark Spitz |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $1200: (Hannah Storm of ESPN gives the clue) She won 3 track & field gold medals at the 1960 Olympics; I bet Fred Flintstone was a fan Wilma Rudolph |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $2000: In 2011 she & Kerri Walsh said they'll go for a third straight beach volleyball gold in 2012 Misty May |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1995 he published a candid memoir called "Breaking the Surface" Greg Louganis |
| #6395, aired 2012-06-08 | THE TONY AWARDS $400: 2006 was a good year for boys: "The History Boys" won Best Play & this show about the Four Seasons was named Best Musical Jersey Boys |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | THEY'RE IN THE BAND $1600: Ad-Rock &
MCA The Beastie Boys |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND $2000: We had a big year in 1966, with 5 Top 10 hits including "Summer In The City"--not bad for 4 Greenwich Village boys The Lovin' Spoonful |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town near Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: A 325,000-member fraternal order of these professionals was founded by 2 Pittsburgh boys in blue in 1915 police |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | LYRICS OF THE ARTIST $600: "I'm bringin' sexy back, them other boys don't know how to act... get your sexy on" Justin Timberlake |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: If you're looking for a biography, try "Wendy and the Lost Boys", about this late Tony-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | FITNESS $200: For boys to win the top Presidential Physical Fitness award, they have to run this distance in 6:06 a mile |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | GANG OF FORE $1200: The LPGA's all-time money winner, this Swede dueled it out with the boys at a 2003 PGA event Annika Sörenstam |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | COUNTRY GROUPS $800: In 1981 they burned up the pop & country charts singing, "My heart's on fire, Elvira" The Oak Ridge Boys |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $1600: Gingerbread figures turn back into boys & girls when the witch's spell is broken in this opera Hansel and Gretel |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: John Belushi & the boys set up their fraternity in the museum where crazy Vincent Price turns people into figurines Animal House of Wax |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | THE WRECKING CREW $200: The Wrecking Crew were L.A. studio musicians who played on dozens of hits, including this band's "Good Vibrations" The Beach Boys |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Nebraska-named D-Day landing area whose album "Pet Sounds" clones Nazis in South America Omaha Beach Boys from Brazil |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES BY YEAR $200: 1971, boys:
An archangel Michael |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES BY YEAR $600: 1914, boys:
A gospel writer John |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES BY YEAR $800: 1930, boys:
Like Goddard or Benchley Robert |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BIG BIRTHER $800: Number of babies (boys & girls, not cephalopods) birthed by Nadya Suleman in January 2009 eight |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | THIS YEAR IN HISTORY $400: 1770:
This man & Seth Warner organize the Green Mountain Boys Ethan Allen |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | DRESS CASUAL $2000: This cloth is not just for grunge musicians; an 1897 book for boys says it's "the best wear for cricket" flannel |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | TV OPENING CREDITS $2000: "God Only Knows" why season 4 of this HBO show eschewed the Beach Boys & went with the Engineers' song "Home" Big Love |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $200: One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | THE WARDROBE $200: A book by Frances Hodgson Burnett inspired the velvet suit for boys called "Little Lord" this Fauntleroy |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | ANIMATION NATION $1200: "Cute & cuddly, boys!" this animated series set at the Central Park zoo is for the birds The Penguins of Madagascar |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $200: Manny Rosenfeld, Moe Strauss & Jack Jackson co-founded this company in 1921 the Pep Boys |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | MUSICAL FILL IN THE BLANK $1600: "The Boys From ____" (also a city in New York) Syracuse |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | LOST PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES? $400: At Dr. Clark's school we applaud the young man's almost military discipline, but he can't go slapping other boys Patton |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $400: This Dutchman died in July 1890; his brother Theo died 6 months later & was buried next to him Van Gogh |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $800: This manager of Elvis was born Andreas Cornelius Van Kuijk in the Netherlands Col. Tom Parker |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $1200: A campaign against the Portuguese cost this last Dutch Colonial Governor of New York his right leg Stuyvesant |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $1600: This great Dutch Navigator sighted New Zealand on Dec. 13, 1642 (Abel) Tasman |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $2000: This Delft painter might have used a camera obscura; his friend Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was a master lens maker Johannes Vermeer |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $400: A local news blog that debuted in 2007 is called this "room", conjuring up visions of fedoras & copy boys city room |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | "WONDER" LAND $2000: Bob Dylan won an Oscar for the song "Things Have Changed" from this 2000 film Wonder Boys |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ROCK $2000: This Beach Boys song was inspired by Brian Wilson's mom saying dogs could sense things unspoken, in the air "Good Vibrations" |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $400: This film features the Soggy Bottom Boys, fronted by George Clooney O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $2000: Yakov Liebermann, the hero of this Ira Levin novel, was based on Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal The Boys from Brazil |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | PO BOYS $400: This fashion designer who gave women the power suit was born in Piacenza, a city on the south bank of the Po River Giorgio Armani |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | PO BOYS $800: In 2008 this Milan-born man helmed a new party--Popollo della Liberta--& won a third term as prime minister Silvio Berlusconi |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | PO BOYS $1200: After featuring his bare chest & flowing locks on the covers of romance novels, this Milan man wrote a few too Fabio |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | PO BOYS $1600: This Italian director of "Blow Up" kept his speech short when he accepted his honorary Oscar in 1995: "Grazie" Michelangelo Antonioni |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | PO BOYS $2000: This Turin-born man, the second of his name, was the first king of a united Italy Victor Emmanuel |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | NEW ENGLANDERS $1200: Sadly, this leader of the Green Mountain Boys didn't live to see Vermont enter the Union; he died 2 years before Ethan Allen |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | BOARDING SCHOOL $800: From 1896 to 1974 Choate was just for these; then it merged with Rosemary Hall boys |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS & GIRLS $200: Colonial Americans invented this girls' name by combining Sam from Samuel with the Greek for flower Samantha |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS & GIRLS $400: This Irish form of Katherine is currently one of the 100 most popular names for girls Katelyn |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS & GIRLS $600: Mr. Frome might know it's from the Hebrew for "solid" or "firm" Ethan |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS & GIRLS $800: Leon means "lion" & this name means "lion bold" Leonardo |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS & GIRLS $1000: It's from the Old Norse for "ruler", whether he has red hair or not Eric |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | MY BOYS $200: Dusty Springfield sang, "The only one who could ever reach me" was "the son of" this person the preacher man |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | MY BOYS $400: In 1999 his son Robbie made a 228-foot motorcycle jump over a part of the Grand Canyon Evel Knievel |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | MY BOYS $600: Ronald Lauder, the son of this woman, ran for mayor of NYC in 1989 Estée Lauder |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | MY BOYS $800: The New Testament begins, "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of" this king David |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | MY BOYS $1000: Christopher Columbus the explorer's oldest son, or Dora the Explorer's cousin Diego |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $1200: In 2010 this Broadway dancing title tot was played by Liam Redhead (& 3 other boys, on different nights) Billy Elliot |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | THE BIBLE $1200: In Matthew this ruler called for the deaths of all infant boys in Bethlehem: that's not so "great" Herod |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | COMMON BONDS $10,000 (Daily Double): The Beastie Boys,
a Chrysler model,
Pauline Kael's workplace New Yorkers |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | I'M DRIVING $400: In a Beach Boys song, a female driver will have "fun, fun, fun" until her daddy takes this away a T-Bird |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | ASSORTED FLOWERS $400: This air rifle manufacturer's website asks you to "take pride" the Daisy air rifle |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | DEBUT ALBUMS $400: 1962:
"Surfin' Safari" The Beach Boys |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paterno sends his "Happy Valley" boys to get some "neighbor"ly life insurance Penn State Farm |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 6,000 $200: In a classic of American fiction, these 2 boys get a $6,000 reward each after finding money that Injun Joe hid in a cave Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | WHAT'S THE STORY? $2000: Mack & the boys share a fish-meal storage shed in Monterey and throw a party for Doc Cannery Row |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | EASY ON THE EYES $600: It's a tossup whether this actress was at her loveliest in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" or "Tequila Sunrise" Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | LYRICS OF THE ARTIST $1200: "I drink Brass Monkey and I rock well, I got a castle in Brooklyn that's where I dwell" the Beastie Boys |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $1000: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award Joe Dumars |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | IT'S NOT EASY BEING TWEEN $800: From the Latin for "adulthood", this process generally starts for girls between 10 & 12 & boys, 12 to 14 puberty |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | CLASSIC ROCK $400: "I Get Around" was their first #1 hit The Beach Boys |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE IRON HORSE $400: Later replaced by diesel engines, "big boys" were among the largest locomotive engines of this type ever built steam |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | THE HARDY BOYS $400: He partnered with Stan Laurel in more than 100 comedies Oliver Hardy |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | THE HARDY BOYS $800: Moses Hardy, who died in 2006 at the age of 113, was one of the last surviving veterans of this war World War I |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | THE HARDY BOYS $1200: Rocker Brian Setzer is among the stars whom artist Ed Hardy has personally decorated with these tattoos |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | THE HARDY BOYS $1600: General Hugh Hardy was a 1980s commanding officer of this huge Marine base near San Diego Camp Pendleton |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | THE HARDY BOYS $2000: Captain Thomas Hardy (not the author) kissed this mortally wounded admiral at the Battle of Trafalgar Nelson |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $2000: Ben Brantley says "injustice has been very good" to this musical writing duo; see "Chicago" & their new "The Scottsboro Boys" Kander & Ebb |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | MUSICAL BY SONG & SINGER $800: "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"
by Frankie Valli Jersey Boys |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DO TELL THE HOTEL $400: Twin boys residing in a swank Boston hotel made Mr. Moseby's life a challenge on this Disney Channel TV show The Suite Life of Zack & Cody |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAMES $200: Beach Boys Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | THE SONGS OF BRIAN WILSON $200: One of Wilson's Beach Boys classics asks this girl to "help, help me" to get another girl "out of my heart" Rhonda |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | MUSIC MAKERS $800: Earl Scruggs, once a member of the Foggy Mountain Boys, gained fame playing this instrument a banjo |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | THE SECOND TIME AROUND $800: "Barbara Ann":
The Regents in 1961, this group in 1966 The Beach Boys |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | SUPER 8 $1600: Eric Sevareid & Howard K. Smith were 2 of the 8 newsmen known as this reporter's "Boys" Edward R. Murrow |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BALLET $400: Twyla Tharp used the music of this group for the ballet "Deuce Coupe" The Beach Boys |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | MUSICAL NAME ORIGINS $1000: This "Boys Are Back In Town" band was named for a female robot in a comic strip, not from the nickname of the Model T Thin Lizzy |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | ACTRESSES' ROLES $800: "Boys on the Side",
"Never Been Kissed",
"Charlie's Angels" Drew Barrymore |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | POLAR OBSESSION $800: (Paul Nicklen presents the clue.) Called oakum boys because their brown down looks like the frayed rope fiber used to caulk ships, king penguin chicks undergo this shedding process that gives them their waterproof feathers molting |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | PUBERTY RITUALS $800: Sensory deprivation is practiced on pubescent boys by Australia's indigenous people, called these Aborigines |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | PUBERTY RITUALS $1600: In Thailand Poy Sang Long temporarily makes boys into these religious men, including shaving their heads monks |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | PUBERTY RITUALS $2000: An essay by Walter Ong looks at the learning of this language as a puberty rite for well-off Renaissance boys Latin |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | WHAT THE TV TITLE MEANS $1600: This title had the last name of the "Boys" played by Wopat & Schneider, & where they lived; actually, that's pretty dead-on The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | PLAYBOY COVER BOYS $200: March 1990 saw this businessman on the cover & here are your keywords--hair, yooge & you're fired Trump |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | PLAYBOY COVER BOYS $400: Seen here is the April 1964 issue with this British comic genius, the first man to make the magazine's cover Peter Sellers |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | PLAYBOY COVER BOYS $600: Take "The Pineapple Express" to this actor (not James Franco) on the April 2009 cover Seth Rogen |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | PLAYBOY COVER BOYS $800: This hard rock bassist did a cover in March 1999; come on & give us a kiss! Gene Simmons |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | PLAYBOY COVER BOYS $1000: In February 1996 this silver-haired comic film actor was the cover boy, & don't call him Shirley Leslie Nielsen |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $1200: "Rock This Town",
"Runaway Boys" The Stray Cats |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | ACTING FAMILIES $1000: Junius & his boys
Edwin & John Booth |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | DYLAN $2000: Bob won an Oscar for his song "Things Have Changed", featured in this 2000 Michael Douglas film Wonder Boys |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | MEASURE IT $1200: For moderately active 12- & 13-year-old boys, the government recommends consuming 2,200 of these units a day calories |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | DANCES WITH WOLVES $400: In "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" this "ER" wolf linked to many an actress dances with the Soggy Bottom Boys George Clooney |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | THE DALLAS COWBOYS $600: He & his hat coached the boys from 1960 through 1988, winning 250 games Tom Landry |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | SONG & MOVIE TITLES $1600: A 1979 song from The Cure; later, the title of Hilary Swank's first Oscar winner "Boys Don't Cry" |
| #5697, aired 2009-05-19 | THE MUSICAL '80s $400: This former Eagle won a Grammy for best male vocal performance for "The Boys of Summer" Don Henley |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | TAKE A "SHOT" $800: For olympians, the ball weighs 16 pounds; for high school boys, 12, in this event the shotput |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1200: The Bad Boys of Magic: Penn & ____ Teller |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | SONG DICHOTOMY $400: It's hard to swallow their rebellious song "I Get Around" after picturing them as loners in "In My Room" The Beach Boys |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | THE SOPRANOS $600: For business or pleasure, Tony & the boys frequented this strip club owned by Silvio the Bada Bing! |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | MIT DEN BEATLES $800: To please their rabid German fans, the boys re-recorded this hit as "Sie liebt dich" in 1964 "She Loves You" |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS' E-MAILS $1000: To: (general island mailing).
From: Asthmaboy. Subject: My name.
I'm not happy with the "porcine" name you boys gave me Piggy |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HOME BOYS $400: Alligators Florida |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HOME BOYS $800: Knickerbockers New York |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HOME BOYS $1200: Pelicans Louisiana |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HOME BOYS $1600: Palmettos South Carolina |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HOME BOYS $2000: Yellowhammers Alabama |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Sir Duke" singer who's a Michael Chabon novel about a professor & his student, a budding writer Stevie Wonder Boys |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS $200: "Sherry" &
"December 1963
(Oh, What A Night)" Jersey Boys |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | DRINKING SONGS $800: In "American Pie", "good old boys were drinking" these 2 things whiskey & rye |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | THE LONDON STAGE $2000: In 2007 these studious "Boys" were back in town in Alan Bennett's play at Wyndham's Theatre The History Boys |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | Z BOYS $200: This "Lumpy Gravy" musician howled on the Barking Pumpkin record label Frank Zappa |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | Z BOYS $400: This career soldier who never voted served as president for fewer than 500 days Zachary Taylor |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | Z BOYS $600: After buying the Tribune Company, he promised to sell the Chicago Cubs Sam Zell |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | Z BOYS $800: This Italian director is famous for his 1968 film of "Romeo and Juliet" Franco Zeffirelli |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | Z BOYS $1000: He served as an adviser for Jimmy Carter & as director of the Trilateral Commission Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | DISNEY FILMS $200: 1940:
Bad boys are turned into donkeys Pinocchio |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | MOTORIN' $1000: Boogity boogity boogity! Let's go racin', boys! & when he did, he took NASCAR's checkered flag 84 times Darrell Waltrip |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES OF 2007 $400: Boys' No. 2:
Collins,
Kidd,
"Row The Boat Ashore" Michael |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES OF 2007 $800: Boys' No. 4:
Reynolds,
Logan,
Tree National Park Joshua |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES OF 2007 $1000: Boys' No. 7:
Burgess,
Eden,
Wayne
(he of the "Mad" variety) Anthony |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 1947 2 shepherd boys found these in 8 large clay jars in a cave 7 miles south of Jericho the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $1000: 1968:
"Boys, let's watch the cigarette butts, shall we? This is my house, not a pigsty" The Odd Couple |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | KIDDY LIT $400: Brothers Frank & Joe have been solving mysteries in this series since 1927's "The Tower Treasure" The Hardy Boys |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $1200: 4 blue-collar guys work their way up from the streets of Newark to the heights of stardom in this 2005 smash Jersey Boys |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | BOOKS' SUBTITLES $400: Louisa May Alcott:
"Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys" Little Men |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | ABC AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL STARS $400: He was the dad in "My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel"; he later starred with brother Jeff in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" Beau Bridges |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | ABC AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL STARS $600: "One Too Many" starred Val Kilmer & this object of affection of "The Fabulous Baker Boys" Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | 1980s ROCK $600: "Brass Monkey" & "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" were songs on their hit 1986 debut album the Beastie Boys |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | 1980s ROCK $800: In 1988 the Beach Boys had a No. 1 hit with this song from the Tom Cruise movie "Cocktail" "Kokomo" |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | ON THE BEACH IN RIO $600: (Jimmy reports from the beach.) Vanity Fair's September 2007 cover was "Viva Brazil", starring this model and the new girls & boys from Ipanema Gisele Bündchen |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | I KNOW THAT SONG $1600: "When I dance they call me" this, "and the boys they say que soy buena, they all want me, they can't have me" the "Macarena" |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | "M.J." $1600: A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, she used the slogan "Join the union, boys" Mother Jones |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | POP'S MUSIC $800: Dad thinks he's an O.G. because he was into these white rappers long before their album "Ill Communication" the Beastie Boys |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | LITERATURE $400: "Jo's Boys" was the second sequel to this 19th century novel Little Women |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | SARDI'S $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Sardi's in New York, NY.) One of the newest caricatures here at Sardi's is that of John Lloyd Young, who won a Tony for playing Frankie Valli in this musical Jersey Boys |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | TIME FOR LEFTOVERS $200: In the nursery rhyme, they're made up of "snips & snails & puppy dog tails" little boys |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | TRAVEL EUROPE $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The Imperial Chapel is home to the Wiener Sangerknaben, this world-famous group that was formed in 1498 the Vienna Boys' Choir |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | MOVIE ADJECTIVES $200: 1989:
"The ___ Baker Boys" Fabulous |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $400: The Coreys go after vampires in this 1987 film The Lost Boys |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | SHERLOCK HOLMES $1000: Before "Rain Man", he directed "Young Sherlock Holmes", in which Holmes & Watson meet as boys at boarding school Barry Levinson |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | AFRICA $2000: Around age 15, boys in this largest tribe in Kenya begin warrior training; at 30, they reach the rank of Elder the Maasai |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | HIGH SCHOOL $600: "Unlock" the future by joining this public service club, a member of the Kiwanis International family a Key Club |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Amir & Hassan are boys who fly kites in Kabul in this film based on a novel The Kite Runner |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | CHARACTERS WITH MIDDLE NAMES $200: All the boys in this Dostoyevsky title brood have the middle name Fyodorovich, for their dad The Brothers Karamazov |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | ARNOLD $800: English educator Thomas Arnold was the longtime headmaster of this boys school that shares its name with a sport Rugby |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS $1200: Decisions, decisions: this 1988 film finds Michelle choosing between Kurt Russell & Mel Gibson Tequila Sunrise |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | HITS OF THE '60s $400: Brian Wilson sang backing vocals on this duo's 1963 No. 1 hit "Surf City" Jan and Dean |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | THAT I LOVE YOU $800: In 1993 this "Fabulous Baker Boys" star (& it wasn't Beau or Jeff Bridges) wed TV producer David E. Kelley Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | GREEK & ROMAN POTPOURRI $400: This form of ancient transport is mentioned in the Beach Boys' hit "Fun, Fun, Fun" chariot |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | TOP 40 HITMAKERS $200: "Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)" & "California Dreamin'" The Mamas & The Papas |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a gym in Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) I'm at the spot where in a 1938 movie this actor, as Whitey Marsh, is elected mayor of Boys Town Mickey Rooney |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | THE TIGER $600: Tiger is the second rank in this organization for young boys the Cub Scouts |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | POTENT QUOTABLES $200: "Some time, Rock, when... the breaks are beating the boys--tell them to go in there with all they've got & win... one for" him the Gipper |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | MAPPING THE TOP 40 $200: In titles, The Beach Boys went "Surfin'" here & John Mellencamp told us about "R.O.C.K." here U.S.A. |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | BRITSPEAK $1200: An all-male school wouldn't have an alumni reunion but a gathering of these, part of the "network" of them old boys |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | FAMOUS HUMANITARIANS $600: After WWII, this Boys Town founder served as a consultant in setting up youth programs in Korea & Japan Father Flanagan |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $800: Artists become eligible this long after their first release; The Beach Boys went in in 1988, Springsteen in '99 25 years |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | BOOKS OF THE MONTH $1600: By Homer Hickham: "Rocket Boys", also published as "____ Sky" October |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: "We never had a losing season, boys; there's not many that can say that", says the coach in this Jason Miller play That Championship Season |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | THEY DIFFER BY ONE LETTER $1600: A big spotted cat's ballet suit a leopard leotard |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | BASEBALL: THE 1960s $400: Known as the "M & M Boys", these 2 Yankees slugged a total of 115 regular season home runs in 1961 Mantle & Maris |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | THE HISTORY BOYS $400: Snorri Sturluson, from this island, wrote a history on Norwegian kings from Odin to his own time Iceland |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | '80s MOVIE MEMORIES $600: Brownsville, Oregon was cast as Castle Rock in this 1986 film about 4 boys on a trek for a dead body Stand By Me |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | THE HISTORY BOYS $800: William Coolidge, author of these mountains "In Nature and History", made the first winter climb of the Jungfrau Alps |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | THE HISTORY BOYS $1200: Mark Bowden has written the story of this 1979 crisis, "The First Battle In America's War With Militant Islam" Iran Hostage Crisis |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | THE HISTORY BOYS $1600: Charlotte Corday is "like a star; cruel-lovely" in Thomas Carlyle's 1837 book titled this event The French Revolution |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | THE HISTORY BOYS $2000: The bestselling author of "The Johnstown Flood" & "1776" is also the narrator of the movie "Seabiscuit" David McCullough |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2006 "The History Boys" won for Best Play & this other show with "Boys" in the title won for Best Musical Jersey Boys |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | A DREW BARRYMORE FILM FESTIVAL $2000: (Again we draw on Drew for the final clue.) This movie in which I portrayed Beverly Donofrio was based on her memoir subtitled "Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good" Riding in Cars with Boys |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | TODAY'S HOROSCOPE $200: This "chaste" sixth sign of the Zodiac gets bold today! You're feminine, but you can play with the big boys! Virgo |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $800: Alumni, like some fraternity boys alum (or alumnus) |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | JEFF $800: This Jeff & his brother played brothers in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" Bridges |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | NO. 1 ALBUMS OF THE '90s $1000: With tracks like "Sabotage" & "B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak", a 1994 album by this rap group went to No. 1 The Beastie Boys |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | JERSEY BOYS & GIRLS $200: This Jersey gal was acting on "All My Children" when she was chosen as Regis Philbin's co-host (Kelly) Ripa |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | JERSEY BOYS & GIRLS $400: This illusionist really did take his name from a Dickens character (David) Copperfield |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | JERSEY BOYS & GIRLS $600: He was an expert on wasps before becoming an expert on sexual behavior & issuing his famous "Report" (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | JERSEY BOYS & GIRLS $800: If you know that this '50s Beat poet hailed from Jersey, just "Howl" (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | TRY, TRY AGAIN $1000: In the 1930s, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of these "Boys", Alabama went ahead and retried them, one by one the Scottsboro Boys |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | JERSEY BOYS & GIRLS $1000: The Depression photographer born in N.J. as Dorothea Nutzhorn is better known as Dorothea this Lange |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | PLACES IN SONG $1600: Their 1988 hit "Kokomo" mentions "Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take you to Bermuda, Bahama..." The Beach Boys |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | TEENS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $800: In one year, 5% of boys & 7.7% of girls studied reported getting these severe headaches often migraines |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | POP GOES THE MUSICAL $200: "Surf's down", said Playbill when "Good Vibrations", a musical full of this group's songs, wiped out in 2005 The Beach Boys |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALBUMS $800: In 1994 these rappers had "Ill Communication", a No. 1 album Beastie Boys |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Girls and Boys Town.) He sent his "Boys Town" Oscar to Father Flanagan, saying his "great human qualities were strong enough to shine through my humble efforts" (Spencer) Tracy |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | 'HUSKER DO $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) After becoming a parish priest in O'Neill, Nebraska, he founded Boys Town near Omaha Father (Edward) Flanagan |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $1000: She won a Golden Globe award for her performance in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | OBIE WINNERS $800: 1962-63, based on Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors": "The Boys From _____" Syracuse |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | OLD "HAT" $400: Last name of Ellison, killed in 1882 by 3 McCoy boys who were not long for this world Hatfield |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | JERSEY BOYS $200: Though in Arabic his first & middle names mean "little warrior", there's nothing little about this 7'1" Miami center Shaquille O'Neal |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | JERSEY BOYS $400 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Daniel Reichard, John Lloyd Young, Christian Hoff, and J. Robert Spencer from the Broadway hit Jersey Boys perform.)
"Big girls don't cry-y-y (they don't cry) /
Big girls don't cry (I wonder why) /
(Silly boy) Told my girl we had to break up /
(Silly boy) Thought that she would call my bluff /
(Silly boy) Then she said to my surprise /
'Big girls don't cry'"
"Jersey Boys" tells the rags-to-rock-to-riches story of this legendary group (Frankie Valli and) The Four Seasons |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $400 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Kate Reinders from the Broadway play Wicked helps with the clue.)
"Popular /
You're gonna be pop-u-lar /
I'll teach you the proper ploys /
When you talk to boys /
Little ways to flirt and flounce--woww! /
I'll show you what shoes to wear /
How to fix your hair /
Everything that really counts to be /
Popular /
I'll help you be pop-u-lar /
You'll hang with the right cohorts /
You'll be good at sports /
Know the slang you gotta know /
So let's start /
'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go"
"Wicked" is based on a modern novel inspired by this classic L. Frank Baum book that took us "over the rainbow" The Wizard of Oz |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | BY THE GRACE OF NANCY $800: A friend of the Hardy Boys, she is a teenage detective herself Nancy Drew |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | WELCOME TO OMAHA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a scenic fountain in Omaha, NE.) It opened in downtown Omaha in 1917 with 3 lads in juvenile court & 2 homeless newsies; it's now on 900 acres near the city (Girls and) Boys Town |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | NAMES OF THE '70s $800: Jimmy Carter's Press Secretary, he was named for 2 fictional boys named Jody, in "The Yearling" & "The Red Pony" Jody Powell |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | FOOD FACTS $800: In "Yankee Doodle" the men & boys in the camp are as thick as this food hasty pudding |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | NO. 1 U.S. BABY NAMES $400: About 4 1/4% of 1960s baby boys were named this, whether they rowed the boat ashore or not Michael |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | NO. 1 U.S. BABY NAMES $600: Perhaps a "Giant" acting icon helped this be the most popular name for 1950s boys James |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | SEANs, SHAWNs & SHAUNs $1000: He played a teen detective on TV's "The Hardy Boys" Shaun Cassidy |
| #5024, aired 2006-06-15 | POP CULTURE $1600: On "The Brady Bunch", Carol becomes the stepmom of these 3 boys following her marriage to Mike Greg, Peter & Bobby |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | '80s MOVIES $2000: Kurt & Mel both like Michelle in this 1988 movie Tequila Sunrise |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIES $600: "Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary" Dead Poets Society |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | REVOLUTIONARY HEROES $800: He lost command of his own Green Mountain Boys when the group was absorbed by the Continental Army Ethan Allen |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | DEAF & BLIND $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) This youthful soul gospel group was formed at what's now Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind in 1939 & original members still perform together in the 21st century The Blind Boys of Alabama |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | THE EAGLES $400: "The Boys Of Summer" was a solo hit for this Eagles drummer Don Henley |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | BEASTLY LIT $400: 1954:
Golding's bad boys battling for basic brute benefits Lord of the Flies |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $400: Phil Collins, Ted Nugent & The Fat Boys hit the Sunshine State on this '80s cop show Miami Vice |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | LADY LOOKS LIKE A DUDE $1200: She won her first Oscar playing Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry" Hilary Swank |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | LEWIS & CLARK $800: Named for a structural section, it's the type of boat the boys set off in; it ran aground on day 2 a keelboat |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | U.S. CITIES $2000: The boys from this city could tell you it's home to the New York State Fair Syracuse |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | SMALLVILLE $1000: Eden (pop. 1152) in this state was chartered to a group of Green Mountain Boys Vermont |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | ON BROADWAY $600: "Big Girls Don’t Cry" over "Jersey Boys", a musical bio of this '60s group that had its peaks & "Valli"s The Four Seasons |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PATENT $400: The first British patent was given in 1449 by Henry VI to make stained glass for this largest English boys' college Eton |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | MOTHER GOOSE $800: The only tune he could play was "Over The Hills And Far Away", but it "pleased both the girls and the boys" Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | "B" BOYS $200: This famous 18th century Kentucky frontiersman & hero is often depicted wearing a coonskin cap Daniel Boone |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | "B" BOYS $400 (Daily Double): This German received the first patent for a gas-fueled car on January 29, 1886 (Karl) Benz |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | "B" BOYS $400: This man's photos of Abe Lincoln & the Civil War helped fix the popular image of the U.S. in the mid-19th century (Mathew) Brady |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | "B" BOYS $600: This musician's works include the song "A Pirate Looks At 40" & the book "A Pirate Looks at 50" Jimmy Buffett |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | "B" BOYS $1000: A Moscow cathedral is popularly named for this saint known as a "holy fool" St. Basil |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | PLAY "BOY" $600: Still being published today, this adventure magazine for Boy Scouts debuted in 1911 Boys' Life |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | NAME THAT TUNE $400: The Beach Boys:
"Well East Coast girls are hip, I really dig those styles they wear" "California Girls" |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | THEIR FIRST BILLBOARD NO. 1 HIT $400: "I Get Around" The Beach Boys |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | SPICE GIRLS (AND BOYS) $400: It's the first name of "Troy" co-star Burrows, so her parents were probably "mad about" a yellowish spice Saffron |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | SPICE GIRLS (AND BOYS) $800: It was a "snap" for this "Swing Time" star to earn a 1992 Kennedy Center honor Ginger Rogers |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | SPICE GIRLS (AND BOYS) $1200: The "Today" Show got a little spicier when she became its news anchor in 1997 Ann Curry |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | SPICE GIRLS (AND BOYS) $1600: Barbara Bain's "bark" may have been worse than her bite as this spicy character on "Mission: Impossible" Cinnamon (Carter) |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | SPICE GIRLS (AND BOYS) $2000: Movie producer Neufeld, or a spice with a weapon name Mace |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | MC TREBEK IN DA HIZZ-OUSE $1600: "Your mom busted in and said 'What's that noise?', aw Mom, you're just jealous, it's" them The Beastie Boys |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $600: This writer's name precedes "and the Lost Boys" in the title of a biography by Andrew Birkin J.M. Barrie |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES! $2,200 (Daily Double): 2 pianos, 1 gorgeous blonde:
Steven Kloves,
David Grusin The Fabulous Baker Boys |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $200: Some sources say policemen were informally called this because of what their badges were made from cops (or coppers) |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS ARE BLUE $400: Of marital woes that led to a 1996 royal divorce, a biography said his "gaiety of spirit" was "stifled by melancholy" Prince Charles |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $400: 1st used in police work by Berkeley, Ca.'s chief August Vollmer in the 1920s, this tool measures pulse, B.P. & respiration a lie detector |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $600: Booking a suspect means entering his or her information into the daily record called the "police" this blotter (log accepted) |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS ARE BLUE $800: About his blues he wrote, "I traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage... began when I returned" Buzz Aldrin |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $800: Police now use speed guns with this technology first constructed by Theodore Maiman using a ruby rod a laser |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $1000: The bulletproof shields used by police depts. are called this type of shield, from the Greek for "to throw" ballistic |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS ARE BLUE $1200: This "Adonais" poet suffered from depression after several family tragedies Percy Shelley |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS ARE BLUE $1600: This artist's 1909 U. of Oslo murals were done after receiving electroshock & contain no scenes of personal anguish (Edvard) Munch |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS ARE BLUE $2000: He wrote a 1779 coronation mass though depressed over his mother's death, his failed relationship & unfulfilled goals Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | "Z" BOYS $400: This "Follies" producer who helped create the showgirl tradition used the slogan "Glorifying the American girl" Ziegfeld |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | "Z" BOYS $800: This German optician's name is on digital camera lenses, though he died in 1888 (Carl) Zeiss |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | "Z" BOYS $1200: This "Germinal" novelist defended the Impressionists in newspaper articles Emile Zola |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | "Z" BOYS $1600: This agrarian reformer who sided with Pancho Villa is considered a Mexican national hero (Emiliano) Zapata |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | "Z" BOYS $2000: This N.Y. free-jazz saxophonist heard here wrote tribute songs to Ennio Morricone, Sonny Clark & Ornette Coleman John Zorn |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | BOYS IN THE BAND $400: Larry Mullen, Jr.,
Adam Clayton,
The Edge,
Bono U2 |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | BOYS IN THE BAND $800: Nick Rhodes,
Andy, John & Roger Taylor,
Simon Le Bon Duran Duran |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | BOYS IN THE BAND $1200: John Paul Jones,
John Bonham,
Jimmy Page,
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | BOYS IN THE BAND $1600: Peter Buck,
Mike Mills,
Bill Berry,
Michael Stipe R.E.M. |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | BOYS IN THE BAND $2000: Phil Collen,
Rick Allen,
Rick Savage,
Joe Elliott Def Leppard |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | YOUNG ABE LINCOLN $200: Abe gained the respect of local ruffians when he held his own against one of the Clary's Grove boys in this sport wrestling |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | JOEL SCHUMACHER $2000: (Schumacher reads his clue.) The tagline of this movie I directed was "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire." The Lost Boys |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | '60s POP MUSIC $400: The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson provided backing vocals on this duo's 1963 No. 1 hit "Surf City" Jan & Dean |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $800: This biblical name climbed the ladder to become the most popular baby name for boys, 1993-2003 Jacob |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $400: While under indictment for murder, this vice president gave a famous farewell address to the Senate in 1805 Aaron Burr |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $800: His 1955 autobiography was titled "Four-Minute Mile" Roger Bannister |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $1200: "Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (A Bloom County Book)" is a collection of cartoons by this man Berke Breathed |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $1600: Despite international protests, this prime minister of Pakistan was hanged in 1979 Bhutto |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $2000: The surrender of this British general's forces at Saratoga in 1777 helped bring France into the war as a U.S. ally Burgoyne |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY IN SONG $1000: Sure, you studied presidents & state birds, but how the Beastie Boys & their "No Sleep Till" here Brooklyn |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: This place of pirates & Lost Boys adds Alaska's nickname & is home to the leader of jazz' Solar Arkestra the Never Never Land of the Midnight Sun Ra |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $600: Among the Ndembu, Victor Turner studied these transitional "rites", like isolation for young boys rites of passage |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $800: "A League of Their Own",
"Renaissance Man",
"Riding in Cars with Boys" Penny Marshall |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | HOT BABES $4,000 (Daily Double): This club founded for girls in 1910 first admitted boys in 1975 the Camp Fire Girls |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: In 1942, people from the Manhattan Project set up shop at a boys' ranch school in this N.M. community Los Alamos |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | G.I. JOE $200: Because '60s boys didn't play with dolls, Hasbro coined this 2-word term to describe Joe an action figure |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | I "WONDER" $2000: Michael Douglas was praised for his portrayal of a professor in this 2000 film Wonder Boys |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | 1970s ALBUM COVERS $400: 1978:
Mick, Keith & the boys smile & smirk in wig catalog ads Some Girls |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | THE VILLAGE $200: Founded in 1917 by Father Flanagan for homeless & abused waifs, it was made a municipality in 1936 Boys Town |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | KANSAS $1000: A Coffeyville museum tells of the 1892 attempted bank robbery by this gang & how they got shot up by the citizenry the Dalton Boys |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | STOCK SYMBOL SHOPPING $800: For auto parts:
PBY Pep Boys |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | PARENTING $400: A talking cricket warns him, "woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home!" Pinocchio |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | HIT TV THEME SONGS $400: Whatcha gonna do? This "Cops" theme song by Inner Circle peaked at No. 8 in 1993 "Bad Boys" |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | CINEMA TRIVIA $1600: Local boys Ben Affleck & Matt Damon were Fenway Park extras in this 1989 Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | MUSIC ON MY iPOD $400: I'm really into this band whose name means "Boys entering anarchistic state towards internal excellence" Beastie Boys |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | MUSIC ON MY iPOD $600: This band of brothers started their career in their dad's band
"I been lost in my own place and I'm gettin' weary..." Los Lonely Boys |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | THAT DON'T SOUND RIGHT $1600: First names of "The Pep Boys", in alphabetical order Jack, Manny & Moe |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | SEE "NN" $2000: In 1777 the Green Mountain boys had a hand in winning the Battle of this city in Vermont Bennington |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | U.S. FACTS & FIGURES $1000: Marley's ghost might be suprised to learn that this was the most popular name given to boys in 2002 Jacob |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | BULLY FOR ENGLAND! $1600: In '50s England these tough "Boys" dressed in a style reminiscent of Edward VII's time the Teddy Boys |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | NEIL DOWN $800: Neil Tennant is half of this British duo whose '80s hits include "West End Girls" Pet Shop Boys |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $1600: "It's getting late, have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here" "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS $200: The sordid life of Queen Victoria's grandson the Duke of Clarence led some to believe he was this 1880s killer Jack the Ripper |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS $400: Known as "Il Duce", as a boy he was expelled from school for stabbing another student Mussolini |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS $600: In 1525 this man ordered Cuauhtemoc, the last emperor of the Aztecs, to be hanged Cortez |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS $800: He was the queen's confessor before he became Spain's notoriously cruel first grand inquisitor in 1483 Torquemada |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS $1000: The 1977 execution of this murderer by firing squad was the first U.S. use of capital punishment in 10 years Gary Gilmore |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | SITCOM UNCLES $800: As Uncle Charley, William Demarest helped Fred MacMurray raise his boys on this '60s series My Three Sons |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | BALLET $400: In 1973 Twyla Tharp choreographed "Deuce Coupe" for the Joffrey Ballet with music by this group the Beach Boys |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | '70s MUSIC $800: A 1973 song says, "Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock & roll and" do this drift away |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: Edward Joseph Flanagan Spencer Tracy |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | POP "I" $1600: In 1994 this Beastie Boys album that included "Sabotage" & "Sure Shot" debuted at No. 1 Ill Communication |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | NAUGHT'S LANDING $1600: For the Beach Boys, "nothing can catch" this Chevy muscle car the Chevy 409 |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | SANDWICHES $400: Muffulettas & po'boys are sandwich specialties in this city, largest in its state New Orleans |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $800: (Former President Bill Clinton delivers the clue.) In July 1963, when I was a delegate to Boys' Nation, I was thrilled to shake the hand of this president at the White House JFK |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | TO EVERY THING THERE IS A SEASON $400: Song in which Don Henley could "see you, your brown skin shinin' in the sun" "The Boys of Summer" |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | TOYS & GAMES $400: Introduced as a doll for boys, this action figure was named after a 1945 WWII movie G.I. Joe |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $400: By the time this series ended, it was set in the '60s & The Fonz had become Dean of Boys at a high school Happy Days |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG $2,000 (Daily Double): When Joseph Haydn was 8, he joined this world-famous singing group The Vienna Boys' Choir |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $600: The Yankees' 2 big home run hitters in 1961 had this combined candy nickname the M&M boys |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | CORPORATE SYMBOLS $800: In this company's caricatures, the guy on the right is actually named Izzy, but is still identified as Jack the Pep Boys |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | THE BOYS IN THE BAND $200: Krist Novoselic,
Dave Grohl,
Kurt Cobain Nirvana |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | THE BOYS IN THE BAND $400: Adam Clayton,
Bono,
Larry Mullen, Jr.,
The Edge U2 |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | THE BOYS IN THE BAND $600: John Entwistle,
Roger Daltrey,
Keith Moon,
Pete Townshend The Who |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | THE BOYS IN THE BAND $800: Johnny Rotten,
Sid Vicious,
Steve Jones,
Paul Cook the Sex Pistols |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | THE BOYS IN THE BAND $1000: Mick Mars,
Nikki Sixx,
Tommy Lee,
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This leader of the Green Mountain Boys was a champion for the creation of the Green Mountain State Ethan Allen |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | THE BRITISH INVASION $400: On June 5, 1964 Mick, Keith & the rest of these boys gave their first U.S. concert in San Bernardino The Rolling Stones |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | A BRAND NEW DAY $800: Looking for something Mattel could make for boys, Elliot Handler came up with this die-cast car line Hot Wheels |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | POLITICALLY INCORRECT SONGS $400: "Gonna meet the boys on floor number two" for this title activity of a 1985 Motley Crue hit "Smokin' In The Boys Room" |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | ON THE "TOWN" $800: Father Flanagan founded it in 1917 Boys Town |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | '80s MUSIC $400: "Brass Monkey" & "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" were songs on their hit 1986 debut album The Beastie Boys |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1200: Tatum O'Neal is a girl pitching ace on a boys' Little League team in this 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | HOME BOYS $200: Bay Staters Massachusetts |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | HOME BOYS $400: Jayhawkers Kansas |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | HOME BOYS $600: Gophers Minnesota |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | HOME BOYS $800: Granite Boys New Hampshire |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | HOME BOYS $1000: Terrapins Maryland |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | NAME GAME $400: Around the time of this war, Kimberley was a popular name for British boys the Boer War |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $800: Hilary Swank won an Oscar for playing a girl who lives as a guy in small-town Nebraska in this 1999 film Boys Don't Cry |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $1,500 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy gave his Best Actor Oscar for this 1938 film set in Nebraska to Father Edward J. Flanagan Boys Town |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | BEFORE THEY WON OSCARS $800: She romanced Ian Ziering on "Beverly Hills 90210" before she found out that "Boys Don't Cry" Hilary Swank |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | THE BOY SCOUTS $800: Arthur C. Clarke, Alex Haley & John Knowles have written for this 90-year-old Scouting publication Boys' Life |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $400: In 1983 Prince has a "Little Red Corvette"; 20 years earlier The Beach Boys had this "fastest set of wheels in town" "Little Deuce Coupe" |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | MOTHER'S DAY $400: Minnie Schoenberg was mom to these famous boys & even performed with them for awhile The Marx Brothers |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMERS $200: "I Get Around" was the first No. 1 hit for this California group; "Kokomo" came 24 years later The Beach Boys |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | GILMORE GIRLS & BOYS $400: This L.A. landmark opened in 1934 on land owned by the Gilmore family with 18 vendors selling fresh produce the Farmers Market |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | GILMORE GIRLS & BOYS $800: Poet Dame Mary Gilmore fought for women's rights & the rights of the aborigines in this, her home country Australia |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | GILMORE GIRLS & BOYS $1200: Major League Baseball's top award to pitchers is named for this man who was born in Gilmore, Ohio in 1867 Cy Young |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | GILMORE GIRLS & BOYS $1600: The 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to Norman Mailer for a book on this convicted murderer Gary Gilmore |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | GILMORE GIRLS & BOYS $2000: Patrick Gilmore organized an 1869 concert that had 100 firemen on this "instrument" that's in the title of the following the anvil |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1938:
Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama Boys Town |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | CAR TUNES $600: This "Little" Beach Boys vehicle can "do a hundred & forty with the top end floored" "Little Deuce Coupe" |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $4,000 (Daily Double): Eloquent pacifist World War I film about German boys in the trenches All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | PHOBIAS $800: If Drew Barrymore were amaxophobic, she'd avoid doing this, with or without boys riding in cars |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | MOTHER GOOSE $600: "What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, and" these; "that's what little boys are made of" puppy dog tails |
| #4265, aired 2003-02-28 | ROCK & ROLL JEOPARDY! $1000: Acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz is the father of Adam Horovitz, AKA this group's King Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | STATE SONGS? $200: In 1985 Carl Wilson provided backing vocals when David Lee Roth covered this Beach Boys tune "California Girls" |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | THAT GOOD OLD '60s ROCK & ROLL $800: The Beach Boys sang that this "little one" "made my heart come all undone" "Surfer Girl" |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | LET'S DO A BROADWAY MUSICAL! $400: Let's put on this show: I'll play Captain Hook, you'll be Wendy & your creepy little cousins can be the Lost Boys Peter Pan |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | MOTHERS & FATHERS $200: Born in Ireland, he set up his home for homeless boys in Omaha in 1917 Father Flanagan |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | MISHEARD LYRICS $600: The Beach Boys:
"She's My Little Blue Scoop" "She's My Little Deuce Coupe" |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | WESTMINSTER ABBEY $800: In the fall of 1939 these talented boys had to be evacuated from the abbey to Sussex, but they were back in 1947 the choirboys |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $800: She wrote "Jo's Boys" in 1886, a second sequel to her 1860s novel Louisa May Alcott |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | '70s TV $600: In the '70s Shaun Cassidy & Parker Stevenson played these teen detectives the Hardy Boys |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | THE TOWER OF LONDON $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from London.) The ghosts of these two boys who died in 1483 haunt the bloody Tower; they stand silently, hand-in-hand, & fade into the stone the Little Princes |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | HERE'S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON $800: Teenage boys wept when this Black Crowe married film star Kate Hudson Chris Robinson |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | THE LAST BOY SCOUT $800: Published since 1911, it's the Boys Scouts' bimonthly magazine Boys Life |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | STATELY REBUSES $1000: What the Beastie Boys album gives you "License to" & what it does to your mom when you crank it up Illinois |
| #4164, aired 2002-10-10 | CERTIFICATES $200: From 1950 to 1999 the most popular name on these certificates for newborn boys in the U.S. was Michael birth certificates |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $1600: "Boys Don't Cry" star seen here in Versace, in 2001 Hilary Swank |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $2000: "Boys Don't Cry" co-star seen here in Yves Saint Laurent, in 2000 Chloe Sevigny |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | SHAKESPEARE $400: "Love goes toward love as school-boys from their books", says this young man to Juliet Romeo |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | POP PRINCES & PRINCESSES $800: Babyface contributed background vocals to this group's 2000 album "Black & Blue" the Backstreet Boys |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | ACTIVITIES $800: There are classes just for boys in this activity that begins with warmup at the barre ballet |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | IN THE NAVY $400: It's the official song of the U.S. Navy, my boys "Anchors Aweigh" |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | MUSIC $800: In the '80s this band had hits like "A View to a Kill" & "The Wild Boys"; in the '90s, "Come Undone" & "Ordinary World" Duran Duran |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | "BOY" MOVIES $400: 1938:
Spencer Tracy Boys Town |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | "BOY" MOVIES $1600: 1989:
Jeff & Beau Bridges The Fabulous Baker Boys |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | "BOY" MOVIES $2000: 1987:
Jason Patric & Kiefer Sutherland The Lost Boys |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | MAID FOR TV $400: She kept house for Mike Brady & his boys, long before Mike married Carol Alice |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | DEAD TV $800: In 1997's "Leaving L.A." this "Boys Don't Cry" star played a technician in the coroner's office Hilary Swank |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | PLAYBILL $800: What a record! Emanuel Azenberg has produced all of this writer's plays since 1972's "The Sunshine Boys" Neil Simon |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A BOY! $800: In 1979 girls were first admitted to Boys Town founded by this clergyman in 1917 Father Flanagan |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | LARRY, MOE OR CURLY $200: He's one of the Pep Boys Moe |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | THE CHORUS $800: In 1950's "What's Up, Doc?" he recalls his show biz start, singing, "OH, we're the boys of the chorus" Bugs Bunny |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | BOOZE-A-PALOOZA $1000: "Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy", said this Boswell pal (Samuel) Johnson |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $1600: A '70s compilation by The Beach Boys & a 1994 greatest hits CD by the "Queen of Disco" share this name Endless Summer |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TV THEME SONGS $1000: "Bay Boys" appeared on Inner Circle's 1987 album "One Way" long before it became the theme to this series Cops |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE WEARIN' OF THE GREEN $600: Led by Ethan Allen, they helped capture Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 The Green Mountain Boys |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | "B.B." $200: A.J. & Nick are 2 members of this pop group the Backstreet Boys |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | "T" TIME $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is dressed for a party.) The "Animal House" boys knew it's the name of this ancient garment. toga |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | LET'S ALL GO TO THE MOVIES $400: 2001's "Riding in Cars with Boys" starred this actress from 1995's "Boys on the Side" Drew Barrymore |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | O BROTHER $2000: Ira Allen joined this Revolutionary-era group to support his brother Ethan Green Mountain Boys |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | HONORARY DEGREES $1000: "Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye" when this singer doctored up an honorary degree from Iona Don McLean |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | CHILDREN'S SONGS $800: One of these "lives forever, but not so little boys" a dragon |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: It's the auto parts chain whose logo is seen here Pep Boys |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | 21 $200: Lock up your booze & shut away your daughters! Isaac of this singing trio turned 21 on Nov. 17, 2001 Hanson |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | '70s SONGS $2000: In 1977 Waylon Jennings sang about going to this Texas town "with Waylon & Willie & the boys" Luckenbach |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | FILMS OF THE '70s $300: George Burns & Walter Matthau are 2 cranky ex-vaudevillians who reunite for a TV special in this 1975 comedy The Sunshine Boys |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | THE MOVIES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the beach, dressed in a black wig; with Jimmy right behind her.) The tagline from this 1965 Frankie & Annette movie was "It's a game -- separate the girls & the boys into groups of two" Beach Blanket Bingo |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | RELIGION $300: During religious services, Jewish boys & men traditionally wear these skullcaps yarmulkes |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | FROM BOOK TO TV $300: Pamela Sue Martin, who played this sleuth, left her show when it was merged with the Hardy Boys' Nancy Drew |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | FILMOGRAPHIES $1000: "Grease 2",
"Amazon Women on the Moon",
"The Fabulous Baker Boys" Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | HEY, BEAUTIFUL $800: This actor led the Soggy Bottom Boys in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" George Clooney |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BEACH BOYS $100: Crockett & Tubbs were always cruising trendy beach hotspots on this influential '80s TV series Miami Vice |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BEACH BOYS $200: For awhile in "Beach Blanket Bingo" this actor romances Linda Evans, not Annette Frankie Avalon |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BEACH BOYS $300: A guest house on the beachfront estate of wealthy Robin Masters is the home of this title TV detective Magnum, P.I. |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BEACH BOYS $400: This actor rolls on the sand & in the surf with Deborah Kerr in "From Here to Eternity" Burt Lancaster |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BEACH BOYS $500: Fred Astaire's first dramatic role was in this 1959 post-nuclear war Nevil Shute drama set partly in Australia On the Beach |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | BOYS' "E" $200: A growing boy needs this high regard from him"self" as well as from others esteem |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | BOYS' "E" $400: The boys in Brooklyn know this treat is made with milk, seltzer & U-bet chocolate syrup an egg cream |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | BOYS' "E" $600: DWEMs, whose domination of curricula was challenged in the '90s, stands for "dead white" these "males" European |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | BOYS' "E" $800: Boys & girls were excited by a 2000 Newsweek with an "exclusive" one of these from the new Harry Potter novel excerpt |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | NASHVILLE $800: In one of their biggest hits, the Oak Ridge Boys sang that their "heart's on fire" for this girl Elvira |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | BOYS' "E" $1000: The boys at the boxing gym use equipment from this company, founded in 1910 & once a supplier to Jack Dempsey Everlast |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $300: As Josef Mengele, Gregory Peck sets out to breed a new race of Hitlers in this thriller The Boys from Brazil |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $200: Soap star Katherine Kelly Lang was in many of this group's music videos, as the modern "California Girl" The Beach Boys |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $400: Adam Yauch & Michael Diamond are 2 of the 3 "Boys" in this group The Beastie Boys |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $500: Shawn Stockman, Nathan Morris, Michael McCary & Wanya Morris are this "Boy" group Boyz II Men |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | STAGE NAMES $300: These "boys" go by the names King Ad-Rock, Mike D & MCA The Beastie Boys |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | NEW SUMMER "CAMP"s $200: Only boys with a certain first name can attend this camp with the same name as a Maryland retreat Camp David |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | MUSICALS! $200: The young orphan boys of the workhouse sing "Food, Glorious Food" in Act 1 of this '60s musical Oliver! |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL $200: Of King Ad Rock, Thugmuffin C, MCA or Mike D, the one who's not a member of the Beastie Boys Thugmuffin C |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | MUSIC OLDER THAN YOU $400: JFK was president when this California band hit the charts for the first time with "Surfin' Safari" The Beach Boys |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE $800: They didn't make crazy movies into Broadway shows, they took books like this Artful Dodger Dickens classic "Oliver Twist" |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $200: The place is the hometown of the Backstreet Boys; the person is the hero of "As You Like It" Orlando |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | B-BOYS $200: Shared a Nobel Prize with Sadat Menachem Begin |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | B-BOYS $400: "M*A*S*H"'s Radar O'Reilly Gary Burghoff |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | B-BOYS $600: Co-creator of "Hill Street Blues" & "NYPD Blue" Steven Bochco |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | B-BOYS $800: Oscar nominee for "Starman" Jeff Bridges |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | B-BOYS $1000: Leader of the Zulus & the Inkatha Freedom Party Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $800: He made his Broadway debut in "Slab Boys" with Kevin Bacon in '83, 12 years before starring in "Batman Forever" Val Kilmer |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | BOYS $100: In 2000 he played "Little Nicky", Satan's son Adam Sandler |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | BOYS $200: This singer was nicknamed "The Lizard King" Jim Morrison |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | BOYS $300: Grant Goodeve played David, the oldest of the Bradford children, on this series Eight Is Enough |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | BOYS $400: In 1999 this former "Daily Show" host replaced Tom Snyder on "The Late Late Show" Craig Kilborn |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | BOYS $500: This producer has been called "A boy genius in music, producing, assembling, marketing girl groups" Phil Spector |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | LET IT "B" $400: These "boys" rapped their way to the top of the charts with the 1986 album "Licensed to Ill" The Beastie Boys |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | WE'RE NO. 1! $300: "The Tower Treasure" is book No. 1 in a series of the adventures of these brothers Hardy Boys |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Dickens villain who teaches boys to steal may have been based on a real criminal, Isaac Solomons Fagin |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | "PEP" BOYS $200: This last name of NYC sports commentator Phil also precedes "Le Pew" & "Le Moko" Pepe |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | "PEP" BOYS $400: He trained at the Actors Studio before starring on "Banacek" & "The A-Team" George Peppard |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | "PEP" BOYS $800: He founded the Malibu university where Kenneth Starr was once about to become dean of law George Pepperdine |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | "PEP" BOYS $1000: We thought we'd sneak this 17th century diarist into the category even though his name has a long "E" sound Samuel Pepys |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | "PEP" BOYS $1,400 (Daily Double): It's odd that Charlemagne, the son of this 8th century ruler, was unusually tall Pepin the Short |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | BRANSON, HANSON OR MANSON $300: The Beach Boys song "Never Learn Not To Love" was co-written by this man Charles Manson |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | MEN ON FILM $300: "The Fabulous Baker Boys"
(1989) Jeff & Beau Bridges |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | "BACK" WORDS $400 (Daily Double): Paul McCartney wrote this 1968 song as a parody of the Beach Boys' style "Back In The U.S.S.R." |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $300: She uses her initials because it was feared that boys might avoid books written by a Joanne Kathleen J.K. Rowling |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | TRAVEL FUN $600: When in Austria, try to visit the Hofburg Palace Chapel for a performance by this youthful group heard here The Vienna Boys Choir |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | HISTORIC TABLOID HEADLINES $1000: Perhaps from a tabloid tablet comes "City-Founding Boys Nursed by Wolf!", about Romulus & this brother Remus |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $100: This federal police agency is abbreviated the DEA Drug Enforcement Administration |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $200: Encarta reports that with over 96,000 this state has more full-time law enforcement employees than any other California |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $300: Robert Stack & Kevin Costner have both played this crusading T-Man Eliot Ness |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $400: This international group founded in 1923 helps police in one country communicate with those of another Interpol |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $500: Guidelines for sheriffs & village constables were established in this important document in 1215 Magna Carta |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ANCIENT PLACES $200: This Greek city didn't allow deformed children to live & boys began military training at age 7 Sparta |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | SUMMER SONGS $100: This group's "Surfin' U.S.A." says, "We're waxing down our surfboards, we can't wait for June" The Beach Boys |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | PIG LIT $200: Piggy is one of the boys stranded on a desert island in his "Lord of the Flies" William Golding |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NAME GAME $200: It was the third most popular U.S. boys' name in 1999, & that's the "Gospel" truth Matthew |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | SINGING TV STARS $200: If you loved "Joanie Loves Chachi" (& who didn't?) you may have heard his 1983 album "The Boys Are Out Tonight" Scott Baio |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | LET'S DANCE $500: This character from "Li'l Abner" gave her name to a dance where the girls invite the boys Sadie Hawkins |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | MUSIC TO MY EARS $100: The Beastie Boys opened for her during the 1985 Virgin Tour Madonna |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | SEATTLE MEANS BUSINESS $200: This company had its genesis when 2 Seattle boys read an article about the Altair 8800 Microsoft |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TOYS FOR BOYS $100: Decorate your den with an NBA retired number banner, like this team's featuring Walt Frazier & Willis Reed New York Knicks |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TOYS FOR BOYS $200: This container is named for its purpose of keeping cigar tobacco moist a humidor |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TOYS FOR BOYS $300: True Temper distributes golf clubs with shafts of this metal named for mighty Greek gods Titanium |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TOYS FOR BOYS $400: If your office has burl walnut trim, you might want to get this company's XK8 Coupe to match it Jaguar |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TOYS FOR BOYS $500: The Flavorizer Bar is a feature of this company's Genesis Platinum gas grill Weber |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | SIMILES $300: In sports, the boys often say a tie is like kissing this person Your sister |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | RELIGION $200: Old traditions of the Jewish holiday Lag Ba-Omer include bonfires & 3-year-old boys getting this cut for the first time their hair |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | POP GOES THE BALLET $200: "Deuce Coupe" is danced to "Little Deuce Coupe", "Catch A Wave" & other songs made famous by this group The Beach Boys |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | COUNTRY MUSIC STARS $400: Hats off to this singer who gave a gutsy performance in "The Newton Boys" Dwight Yoakam |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $600: Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Oscars as Father Fitzgibbon in this film Going My Way |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: It was the standard wear for the men & boys exercising in the gymnasium nudity |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MOTHER GOOSE $300: He "kissed the girls and made them cry" & ran away "when the boys came out to play" Georgie Porgie |
| #3663, aired 2000-07-05 | WHERE IT HAPPENED $400: In Bennington, Vermont you can visit the site of the Catamount Tavern where this Ethan Allen gang met the Green Mountain Boys |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | KIDDY LIT $100: These brothers have delved into "The Secret of the Old Mill" & "The Tower Treasure" The Hardy Boys |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | THE OSCARS $800: This Best Actress winner for "Boys Don't Cry" said, "I pray for the day when...we actually celebrate our diversity" Hilary Swank |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | HEY, GOOD LOOKIN' $800: A co-star of Kiefer Sutherland's in "The Lost Boys", we don't know why he felt the need for "Speed 2" Jason Patric |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | CAPITOL RECORDS $600: "Shake Your Rump" & "Fight For Your Right" are on "The Sounds Of Science", a 1999 anthology by these "Boys" Beastie Boys |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | "BACK" WORDS $200: Oddly, this group's album "Millennium" was released in 1999 Backstreet Boys |
| #3601, aired 2000-04-10 | LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): This 1871 sequel is subtitled "Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys" "Little Men" |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | REBELS WITH A CAUSE $500: The Beastie Boys support the Milarepa Fund, which is trying to get this area free from China Tibet |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $300: "Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting" & "Scouting For Boys" are among the books by this former British soldier Sir Robert Baden-Powell |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | THE BOY SCOUTS $500: The Boy Scouts of America publishes the magazines Scouting & this one Boys' Life |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | POSSESSIVE LIT $1000: Thomas Hughes published this chronicle of life at an English boys' school in 1857 "Tom Brown's Schooldays" |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | HITS OF THE '90s $100: This 1996 dance hit was actually an English remix by the Bayside Boys using the Spanish chorus by Los Del Rio "The Macarena" |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | MY "BAD" $100: The theme to the TV show "Cops" asks them "Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?" Bad boys |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | TEEN PEOPLE $100: Having jumped in a lake during their Orlando photo shoot, these "Boys" sported the wet look on a 1998 cover Backstreet Boys |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | NO. 3 SONGS $400: In 1985 David Lee Roth reached No. 3 with "California Girls", 20 years after this group did the same The Beach Boys |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | ROCK MY WORLD $300: Of King Ad-Rock, Thugmuffin C, MCA or Mike D, the one who's not a member of the USA's Beastie Boys Thugmuffin C |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | CLASSIC POP $1000: The Beach Boys made "good" use of the strange musical device known as a theremin on this 1966 No. 1 hit "Good Vibrations" |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Daniel Pierce Thompson wrote an 1839 novel about these "Boys" led by Ethan Allen Green Mountain Boys |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | GOOSE... MOTHER GOOSE $300: Little boys are made of frogs & snails & these, eew... Puppy dog tails |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | BETWEEN $300: Novels:
"Little Women",
_____,
"Jo's Boys" "Little Men" |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | FICTIONAL BIG & LITTLE $200: Boys greased this legendary figure's frying pan by skating across it with hams on the bottom of their feet Paul Bunyan |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | ALL THE PRESIDENT'S KIDS $600: Both of Hoover's boys attended this university now attended by Chelsea Clinton Stanford |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | LITERARY EPITAPHS $1,000 (Daily Double): Fondly remembered by the boys of The Brookfield School. Goodbye... Mr. Chips |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | SPORTSTALK $400: "The Boys of Summer" Baseball |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | POP QUIZ $100: They've peppered the charts with hot hits like "Say You'll Be There" & "2 Become 1" Spice Girls |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | LITERATI $500: John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of one of these boys "with cheek of tan" "Barefoot Boy" |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | CLASSIC POP GROUPS $100: When this group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Mike Love gave the acceptance speech The Beach Boys |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | THE NAME GAME $100: Si Senor, in 1998 this Spanish form of Joseph was the most popular boys' name in California & Arizona Jose |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | COMMON BONDS $200: Balls,
baby boys,
bad checks Things that bounce |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | MUSICAL YOUTH $400: This group of "Boys" was named after an open-air market in Orlando, Florida where it was formed Backstreet Boys |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | BOOK SERIES $200: "Hits & Misses" is a super mystery pairing up the Hardy Boys & this girl Nancy Drew |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | IF THE SHOE FITS $500: Pointed shoes called winkle pickers were worn by these rebellious British "boys" of the '50s Teddy Boys |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | MIDDLE NAMES $300: This poet's middle name, Bysshe, didn't make the current Top 10 list of boys' names Percy Shelley |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: His epitaph reads, "Founder of Boys Town and Lover of Christ and Man" Father Flanagan |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | GANGSTER'S DICTIONARY $300: Roll out these "bones", boys, so we can play some games of chance Dice |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS $600: Michelle livened up the lounge act of piano-playing brothers Beau & Jeff Bridges in this film The Fabulous Baker Boys |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $400: By the time this sitcom ended, Fred MacMurray's character had become a grandfather to triplet boys My Three Sons |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | THE BRITISH INVASION $100: These bad boys began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" in the late '60s Rolling Stones |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Contemporary virtuoso cellist whose "boys" robbed banks in the 1930s Yo-Yo Ma Barker |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | FIX THE SPOONERISM $500: "When the boys come home from France we'll have the hags flung out" flags hung out |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | MR. MIKE $300: He became the lead vocalist of the Beach Boys in 1961 Mike Love |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | THEY REST IN NEBRASKA $400: Many "Our Fathers" must have been said when he died May 15, 1948 & was interred in Boys Town Father Flanagan |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | NAME THE MUSICAL $200: Nancy,
Workhouse Boys,
Fagin's Gang Oliver! |
| #3350, aired 1999-03-12 | A REAL PRINCE $100: Identical-looking boys trade places & a wacky mix-up ensues in this 1881 Twain novel "The Prince and the Pauper" |
| #3340, aired 1999-02-26 | POP IN '98 $600: Nick, Brian, Kevin, A. J. & Howie D. "hit the road" as this group The Backstreet Boys |
| #3328, aired 1999-02-10 | QUECHUA CATCHWORDS $300: Still popular with convenience store boys, these strips of dried beef have a Quechua name Jerky |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $500: An Alabama city gave its name to this group of 9 youths falsely accused of rape in 1931 The Scottsboro Boys |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE THEATRE $1000: This South African directed the 1982 New York production of his own play "Master Harold... and the Boys" Athol Fugard |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | HISTORIC NEBRASKA $100: Thousands receive care every year at this institution for homeless, neglected & abused children founded in 1917 Father Flanagan's Boys Town/Home |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | THE 3 TENORS $100: The boys first teamed up in 1990 for a concert at the Baths of Caracalla in this city Rome |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | HOLIDAYS $600: This November day on which girls court boys comes from the comic strip "Li'l Abner" Sadie Hawkins Day |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE NBA $400 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.) The first and last of my 1,815 NBA games were both against this team known as the "Bad Boys" of the league Detroit Pistons |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | NOEL $200: Noel Coward began his stage career as a child actor & even played one of the Lost Boys in this classic Peter Pan |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS $400: Shelley Winters played the mother of these madcap brothers in "Minnie's Boys", co-written by Groucho's son the Marx Brothers |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | FABULOUS BAKER BOYS $100: Perhaps best known for "Walking Tall", he's more recently been seen in "GoldenEye" Joe Don Baker |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | FABULOUS BAKER BOYS $200: He won one Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his New York Times column & one in 1983 for his autobiography Russell Baker |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | FABULOUS BAKER BOYS $300: Type of hit that won Frank Baker his nickname when he hit 2 in the 1911 World Series Home run |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | FABULOUS BAKER BOYS $400: Trumpet-playing Baker seen here Chet Baker |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | FABULOUS BAKER BOYS $500: He's the Baker who played drums for Cream Ginger Baker |
| #3276, aired 1998-11-30 | THE THEATER $300: When this play opened in 1972, Jack Albertson & Sam Levene played comedians Willie Clark & Al Lewis The Sunshine Boys |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | STAGE ACTORS $400: TV's "Odd Couple", they played an even odder couple in a recent Broadway revival of "The Sunshine Boys" Jack Klugman & Tony Randall |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | READING, WRITING & ROCK & ROLL $500: This 1963 Beach Boys hit featured cheerleading by the Honeys "Be True To Your School" |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | "GOOD" TIMES $400: This groovy song was a Top 10 hit for the Beach Boys in 1966 "Good Vibrations" |
| #3248, aired 1998-10-21 | ROCK SINGERS $200: This group's Brian Wilson adapted Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" as "Surfin' USA" The Beach Boys |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | COUNTRY BOYS $100: In 1998 he re-issued his first 6 albums as part of a specially-priced "Limited Series" box set Garth Brooks |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | COUNTRY BOYS $200: He starred with wife Lisa Hartman in the TV movie "Still Holding On: The Legend of Cadillac Jack" Clint Black |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | COUNTRY BOYS $300: Though he boasts of being an "Okie from Muskogee", he's really from Bakersfield, California Merle Haggard |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | COUNTRY BOYS $400: Sadly, this singer who had a hit with "Drivin' My Life Away" passed away in 1998 Eddie Rabbitt |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | COUNTRY BOYS $500: Young heartthrob seen here whose hits include "Rebecca Lynn" & "Love Is The Right Place" Bryan White |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | AND $300: Nancy Drew could tell you these are the Hardy Boys' first names Frank & Joe |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1991 Sarah Williamson became the first girl mayor of this Nebraska community Boys Town |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | UP LATE WITH DAVID LETTERMAN $400: Having the singing Hansons as ball boys is one of Dave's Top 10 ways to make this sport more exciting tennis |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | SOUTH PACIFIC $200: Recent fad inspired by the land divers of Pentecost Island, who use it as a rite of passage for young boys Bungee jumping |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | OKLAHOMA $400: In 1909 John Mitchell reportedly organized the first American troop of these boys, in Pawhuska Boy Scouts |
| #3189, aired 1998-06-11 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Boxing promoter whose boys lost the fight for the American colonies Don King George III |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | THE SON ALSO RISES $1000: His father was in "Lost Angels"; he was in "The Lost Boys" Kiefer Sutherland |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | 5 GUYS NAMED MOE $400: Moe Strauss founded this auto parts chain along with Manny Rosenfield & Jack Jackson Pep Boys |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | THE MOVIES $400: This actress did her own singing in "Grease 2" & "The Fabulous Baker Boys" Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #3171, aired 1998-05-18 | CLASSIC SONG LYRICS $200: "The men will cheer, the boys will shout, the ladies they will all turn out" when this happens "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | EXTRA CREDIT $600: Mike D, Ad-Rock & MCA of this rap group hosted 1996's Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco The Beastie Boys |
| #3167, aired 1998-05-12 | OH, THE HUMANITIES! $200: The humanities' origins include this ancient civilization's training of boys for citizenship in the polis Greece |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | "CHECK" PLEASE $300: Singer heard here with the Fat Boys, updating one of his hits:
("The Twist") Chubby Checker |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: This famous group, heard here, was founded 500 years ago, in 1498: the Vienna Boys' Choir |
| #3145, aired 1998-04-10 | ROCK BANDS $400: ("Fight for Your Right") The Beastie Boys |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | QUOTABLE POTENT POTABLES $500: In "American Pie", "them good old boys were drinkin'" these two things whiskey & rye |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This chronicler of boys rising from poverty never wrote the major novel he planned Horatio Alger |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | CALIFORNIA HERE I COME FILMS $800: In this 1995 film, Whoopi, Mary-Louise & Drew head to San Diego Boys on the Side |
| #3128, aired 1998-03-18 | "M" TV $200: In a "SNL" spoof of this kids' show Eddie Murphy said, "Ooo, look, boys & girls, an eviction notice" Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | "B" GIRLS $400: She had the ba-ba-ba-Beach Boys "rockin' and a-reelin'" in a 1966 hit Barbara Ann |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | ACTRESSES $800: This star brought "Beaches" & "For the Boys" to the screen through her All Girl Productions Bette Midler |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | TOP 40 BONUS $1200: "California Girls" The Beach Boys & David Lee Roth |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | RAP $400: They showed white "boys" can rap with the 1986 album "Licensed to Ill" The Beastie Boys |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | CAR TUNES $1,500 (Daily Double): Model of car mentioned in the song heard here: T-Bird (Thunderbird) |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA $100: When this Mouseketeer starred in "The Monkey's Uncle", she sang the title tune with The Beach Boys Annette Funicello |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | CELEBRITY ODD JOBS $400: The Fabulous Baker Boys might know she was a supermarket checker before becoming a superstar Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" to capitalize on the success of "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $300: Instructor's favorite "West End Girls" group Teacher's Pet Shop Boys |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $800: Led by Isiah Thomas, this team's "Bad Boys" won the NBA title in 1989 & 1990 Detroit Pistons |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | TEENS ON FILM $400: Actor who's smitten with older women Laura Dern in "Rambling Rose" & Winona Ryder in "Boys" Lukas Haas |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | "JERK"s $500: John G. Brennan & Kamal Ahmed, "Two Low-Lifes From Queens", are better known as this crank-calling duo Jerky Boys |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | CELEB STUFF $400: In a 1997 issue of "George", he said his cousins Michael & Joseph were "poster boys for bad behavior" John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | FAMOUS HALLS $500: The 1995 movie "Kids" was written by the grandson of Huntz Hall, one of these tough movie kids the Bowery Boys (or the Dead End Kids or the East Side Kids) |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | ROCK 'N' ROLL $800: Michael McDonald was a member of Steely Dan before joining this group in 1975 The Doobie Brothers |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | GUERRILLAS IN THE MIST $600: Ethan Allen first led this band of Vermonters against the government of New York the Green Mountain Boys |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | LITERARY DISGUISES $800: Shakespeare's male-disguised heroines, like Rosalind in this play, were originally played by boys "As You Like It" |
| #2982, aired 1997-07-15 | FILE UNDER "D" $800: Sung by Marlene Dietrich, "See What The Boys In The Back Room Will Have" is from this 1939 Western Destry Rides Again |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | SONGS $1000: The title of this wistful Beach Boys song is also the title of Brian Wilson's autobiography "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | THE BIBLE $400: Of her twin boys, Rebekah favored this one Jacob |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This Latvian city's Dome Cathedral sometimes hosts the International Boys' Choir Festival Riga |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | AUTHORS $800: "The Bishop's Boys", about this pair, is by Tom Crouch, a Smithsonian Air & Space Museum curator the Wright Brothers |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | FILMS OF THE '70s $800: In this 1976 thriller Laurence Olivier displayed his dental skills while asking Dustin Hoffman, "Is it safe?" Marathon Man |
| #2959, aired 1997-06-12 | SINGERS $1000: Singer Neil Tennant & keyboardist Chris Lowe form this duo The Pet Shop Boys |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | SPORTSWRITERS $500: Roger Kahn mourned Ebbets Field & the Brooklyn Dodgers in this 1971 bestseller The Boys of Summer |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Living in South America, Josef Mengele clones 94 potential Hitlers in this Ira Levin novel "The Boys From Brazil" |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: Congress granted his Green Mountain Boys the same pay as continental soldiers Ethan Allen |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $600: This wonderful author of Oz sometimes wrote books for boys under the pen name Captain Hugh Fitzgerald L. Frank Baum |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | COLORS $200: In a famous Gainsborough portrait, Jonathan Buttall wears this color associated with baby boys blue |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: This leader of the Green Mountain Boys was born in Litchfield, Connecticut Ethan Allen |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | COUNTRY SINGERS $100: Once known as the Country Cut-Ups, they're nicknamed the Oaks Oak Ridge Boys |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: This organization publishes Boys' Life Boy Scouts |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES $100: He told Walter Matthau in "The Sunshine Boys", "You know what you are, Willie? You're a 73-year-old schmo" George Burns |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ETIQUETTE $500: In weddings, small boys may serve as train bearers, or as this more common type of "bearer" Ring Bearer |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | POP MUSIC $300: Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean sang on this group's 1966 hit "Barbara Ann" The Beach Boys |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | TOUGH NURSERY RHYMES $100: An early version had 4 & 20 naughty boys in a pie; it was changed to these feathered friends Blackbirds |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | SCHOOLS $200: Father Flanagan High School is operated by this facility just west of Omaha Boys Town |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | MOVIE COSTUMES $200: She slunk across a piano in a slinky red dress in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | FILMS OF THE '80s $200: Prep school teacher Robin Williams teaches his boys to "Seize the Day" in this Peter Weir film Dead Poets Society |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | VERMONTERS $100: This leader of the Green Mountain Boys did not live to see Vermont become a state Ethan Allen |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | BOYS TOWN $100: In 1976 this Calcutta woman was awarded the Father Flanagan Award for service to youth Mother Teresa |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | BOYS TOWN $200: Completes the line on the town's famous statue of one boy carrying another, "He ain't heavy Father..." he's my brother |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | BOYS TOWN $300: When this movie comedy team visited in 1943, they bought the boys baseball uniforms Abbott & Costello |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | BOYS TOWN $400: Father Flanagan opened his first home for boys in 1917 in this Nebraska city Omaha |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | BOYS TOWN $500: In 1988 Bobs Watson & this actor visited Boys Town to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film Mickey Rooney |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | 1960s NO. 1 HITS $100: "Good Vibrations" in 1966 was this group's last No. 1 hit of the '60s The Beach Boys |
| #2682, aired 1996-04-09 | POP MUSIC $500: While touring with The Beach Boys, she was cast in a major role in "To Sir With Love" Lulu |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | POTPOURRI $300: Introduced in the mid-1960s, this boys' action figure became Hasbro's primary toy line G.I. Joe |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | POTPOURRI $200: In the U.S. these include the American Kennel, Boys and Girls, Lions & Sierra Clubs |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES $800: In this comedy Anne Page & some boys dress up like fairies to pinch Falstaff & burn him with tapers The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: On July 5, 1777 Britain's Burgoyne took back this fort the Green Mountain Boys took in May 1775 Fort Ticonderoga |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Jo's Boys" was her second sequel to "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this novel the nearsighted Piggy & sensitive Simon are killed before the boys are rescued Lord of the Flies |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES $200: N.Y. governor William Tryon put a reward of 100 pounds on the capture of this Green Mountain Boys leader Ethan Allen |
