| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | REPORTING THE NEWS $400: In 2003 this neurosurgeon of Indian & Pakistani descent reported for CNN in Iraq but also did brain surgery on wounded soldiers (Dr. Sanjay) Gupta |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $1600: MTT, this longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, returned to the podium in 2021 following brain surgery Michael Tilson Thomas |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $1600: In 1949 Dr. Antonio Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize for his development of this once common but now discredited brain surgery (frontal) lobotomy |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | SURGERY $1200: I don't recommend this 8-letter surgical procedure that cuts nerve connections in the brain; it wasn't so big after the '50s a lobotomy |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | COMPOSERS $400: This "Rhapsody In Blue" composer was just 38 when he died in 1937 following brain surgery Gershwin |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | MESSING WITH YOUR BRAIN $800: Surgery may be needed for a case of hydrocephalus, aka this "on the brain" water |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | MESSING WITH YOUR BRAIN $1600: Surgery in which you don't need to cut is called this, as with the gamma knife & its focused beam of radiation noninvasive |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | PATRICK'S DAY $200: Feb. 1, 2007:
Cuts the cords as his twin sons are born; simpler than the brain surgery he performs on TV Patrick Dempsey |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPORTMANTEAU! $1200: Mega-jealous guy plus a "prefrontal" type of brain surgery Othellobotomy |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | IT AIN'T BRAIN SURGERY $400: Your arch of this is okay, but we'll still have to crack your chest to work on the thoracic part of this artery the aorta |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | IT AIN'T BRAIN SURGERY $800: Time for surgery to remove the vermiform this; when it's inflamed, no laxatives or purgatives should be taken the appendix |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | IT AIN'T BRAIN SURGERY $1200: Today we'll be poking around this organ that produces insulin, glucagon & digestive juices the pancreas |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | IT AIN'T BRAIN SURGERY $1600: Today we examine this 5-foot-long part of the large intestine, specifically, its S-shaped sigmoid part the colon |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | IT AIN'T BRAIN SURGERY $2000: We have to repair your torn ACL, this, which helps connect the tibia to the femur; you're out for the season the anterior cruciate ligament |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | PHYSICS, BRAIN SURGERY & ROCKET SCIENCE $400: Einstein published the special theory of this in 1905; the general theory of it was announced in 1915 relativity |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | PHYSICS, BRAIN SURGERY & ROCKET SCIENCE $800: Rockets produce 7 million pounds of thrust during takeoff of this vehicle, the space transportation system the Shuttle |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | PHYSICS, BRAIN SURGERY & ROCKET SCIENCE $1200: This branch of physics focuses on radioactivity; this type of family has a mother, father & children nuclear |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | PHYSICS, BRAIN SURGERY & ROCKET SCIENCE $1600: As you know, Dr., the frontal this in the brain is key to emotion & reason; stay away from the one on the ear this time lobe |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | ROBOTICS $800: In 1985 at Long Beach Memorial, robots first assisted in this type of surgery requiring pinpoint accuracy brain surgery |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT'S NOT BRAIN SURGERY $200: Tips for this at holiday time include have a long fork on hand & start at the thigh joint carving the turkey |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT IS BRAIN SURGERY $400: You'll want to biopsy that tumor to see whether it's malignant or this opposite benign |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT'S NOT BRAIN SURGERY $400: If that leak from your car is green, it's probably coolant; if it's black & slippery, probably this oil |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT'S NOT BRAIN SURGERY $600: You can remove ketchup stains with the white type of this, also a Heinz product vinegar |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT IS BRAIN SURGERY $800: You'll know the caudate nucleus because it's this color -- oops, so is much of the rest of the brain gray |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT'S NOT BRAIN SURGERY $800: If you're 160 lbs., 4 Bloody Marys in an hour would put you over this level, the blood alcohol limit in most states .08 |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT'S NOT BRAIN SURGERY $1000: With just one vanishing point, you can make a simple drawing using the one-point type of this perspective |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT IS BRAIN SURGERY $1200: Surgeons can now use eensy tubes to treat this event, also called a cerebrovascular accident stroke |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT IS BRAIN SURGERY $1600: Gamma knife surgery uses beams of this to destroy tumors radiation |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT IS BRAIN SURGERY $2000: A device called the surgiscope uses this type of image, abbreviated MR, to guide the knife magnetic resonance |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | BRAIN SURGERY FOR DUMMIES $200: It's an important first step in a craniotomy, even if the patient doesn't want the Vin Diesel look shaving the head |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | BRAIN SURGERY FOR DUMMIES $400: Tree surgeons use the chain type of this; brain surgeons use the gigli type saw |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | BRAIN SURGERY FOR DUMMIES $800: Pituitary surgery may be done by going in through this, the same way patients may have to pay the surgeon through the nose |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $200: He played the brilliant inventor of screw-top brain surgery in "The Man With Two Brains" Steve Martin |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "BRAIN" SURGERY $100: In "The Wizard of Oz" the Scarecrow sings this lament "If I Only Had a Brain" |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "BRAIN" SURGERY $200: It's done with indoctrination & persuasion, not soap & water Brainwashing |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "BRAIN" SURGERY $300: 1983 movie comedy with Steve Martin as cranial surgeon Michael Hfuhruhurr The Man with Two Brains |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "BRAIN" SURGERY $400: Rhyming term for a loss of intellectual talent to another company or country Brain drain |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "BRAIN" SURGERY $500: This Superman foe is really Vril Dox from the planet Colu Brainiac |
