#17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $400: Austin Powers may be pop culture's greatest champion of this randy British verb; it even made the title of his sequel shag |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | MIRROR IMAGE WORDS $2000: An elite British secondary school & an item on a musical staff Eton & note |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL WORDS $800: This 4-letter British adjective means affectedly dainty or quaint twee |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: The British use this booze to mean "strange" rum |
#8252, aired 2020-10-06 | WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" (Ernest) Shackleton |
#7894, aired 2018-12-27 | NEWER WORDS $1600: This word used to describe the "seismic" influx of young British voters was Oxford Dictionaries' 2017 word of the year youthquake |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | SNIPPETS FROM MY COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS $1000: I leave you with the 1653 words of this British statesman: "You have sat too long here... in the name of God, go!" Oliver Cromwell |
#7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $400: It's British for potato chip & American for bracing or invigorating weather crisp |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The British pronounce this office worker & account keeper to rhyme with "mark" clerk |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: In "The Rivals", Richard Brinsley Sheridan created this Mrs. whose bungling of words has made her immortal Mrs. Malaprop |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: It's a composite of 2 old, posh British universities Oxbridge |
#7319, aired 2016-06-09 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: Signaling change, Tony Blair ended his first speech as party leader with these 2 words, followed by "New Britain" New Labour |
#7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $800: Named for a British dentist, it's an artificial tube implanted in a blood vessel to keep it open a stent |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Verily, it's the archaic British term that's used nominatively as the plural of thou ye |
#7045, aired 2015-04-10 | "MARK" YOUR WORDS $1200: When reporting a conversation, the British use single ones where we use double ones quotation marks |
#6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This British ending to the alphabet ain't dead, baby zed |
#6941, aired 2014-11-17 | DOUBLE "D" WORDS $800: Also called an offshore hake, this cod relative is often used in British fish & chips haddock |
#6761, aired 2014-01-27 | "-LY" WORDS THAT AREN'T ADVERBS $800: This noun meaning a record of debt; in a British interjection, it's followed by -ho! tally |
#6650, aired 2013-07-12 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: The British use this 9-letter word for what we call a vest waistcoat |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | WORDS WITH FRIENDS $400: This document says of the British, "We must...hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends" the Declaration of Independence |
#6364, aired 2012-04-26 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: The British borrowed this word for a table napkin from the French a serviette |
#6320, aired 2012-02-24 | WEBSTER'S LAST WORDS $600: I:
British comedian Eddie knows it's another word for the letter "Z" izzard |
#6044, aired 2010-12-16 | CURSE WORDS $400: After Eliza Doolittle uttered this sanguine British word, it was termed "the Shavian adjective" bloody |
#5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $200: 3-letter British term for a noisy quarrel a row |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $600: My 1-2-3-4-5 was British host David & my 6-7-8-9 means "to wound with the teeth" frostbite |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR WORDS $1000: From the French for "to disguise", it was "dazzle painting" to the British navy in WWI camouflage |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: In British slang this word alone means thank you; 2 together means good-bye ta |
#5296, aired 2007-09-24 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: Harry Potter knows that this synonym for sorcerer is also a British slang term meaning "excellent" a wizard |
#5295, aired 2007-09-21 | WORDS IN HISTORY $2000: It's a member of the British Conservative Party, m'lord a Tory |
#5101, aired 2006-11-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Manly first name of British plotter Fawkes & "Sesame Street" game-show host Smiley Guy |
#4889, aired 2005-12-08 | THANKS $1000: This British naval commander's dying words were, "Thank God, I have done my duty" Nelson |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | BRITISH FOOD WORDS $400: The starch in a British meal might be a "jacket", or baked, one of these a potato |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | BRITISH FOOD WORDS $800: Jack the Ripper is Cockney rhyming slang for this breakfast favorite kippers |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | BRITISH FOOD WORDS $1200: "Digestive biscuits" is British for these crackers we named after an American Graham crackers |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | BRITISH FOOD WORDS $1600: John Bull uses maize flour; Uncle Sam, this 8-letter word cornmeal |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | BRITISH FOOD WORDS $2000: A fruit's seeds become these in Britain, like Sherlock Holmes' case of the "Five Orange" ones pips |
#4635, aired 2004-10-29 | "PH"UN WORDS $400: Models of this British motorcycle include the Tiger, Bonneville & Daytona 600 a Triumph |
#4624, aired 2004-10-14 | "ICK"Y WORDS $600: Last name of the golfing great who was the first to twice win the British Open, Masters, PGA & U.S. Open (Jack) Nicklaus |
#4581, aired 2004-07-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: This British dependency is one of the southernmost points on the Iberian Peninsula Gibraltar |
#4258, aired 2003-02-19 | 20th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $1600: "So little done -- so much to do" were the 1902 last words of this British Empire bulider in Africa Cecil Rhodes |
#4171, aired 2002-10-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Seattle) Used in "Hamlet", it's the common British term for the vendor I'm buying from fishmonger |
#4123, aired 2002-07-03 | EMPIRES $200: In 1936 George V's reported last words were "How is the Empire?--we presume he meant this one the British Empire |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The British call sausages baked in batter this creature "in the hole" toad |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | WHAT WORDS SHOULD REALLY MEAN $800: This should mean a distant object, not an old British quarter-penny farthing |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $100: From their uniforms, British soldiers during the Revolutionary War were called these Redcoats |
#3329, aired 1999-02-11 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: This turn of the century British sci-fi author's last words were "Go away...I'm all right"; he wasn't! H.G. Wells |
#3214, aired 1998-07-16 | PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS $600: This term for artillery fragments is named for a British officer who invented a new kind of shell shrapnel |
#3162, aired 1998-05-05 | COLLEGE WORDS $500: 3-letter term for the head of a British college or the head of a Mafia family Don |
#3135, aired 1998-03-27 | WINNIE $2,200 (Daily Double): The 5 words that follow the lines spoken here in a June 18, 1940 speech:
"If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say..." "this was their finest hour" |
#3003, aired 1997-09-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $300: During the American Revolution, this term referred to an American who favored the British side Tory |
#2698, aired 1996-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: A British bar pub |
#2689, aired 1996-04-18 | BRITISH HODGEPODGE $500: A monument near Abbotsbury commemorates this man to whom Admiral Nelson spoke his dying words Sir Thomas Hardy |
#2587, aired 1995-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Popular term for a British policeman, or a type of hairpin a Bobby |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the basic monetary unit of Laos, or British for a bed kip |
#2111, aired 1993-11-08 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Killed at Trafalgar, this British commander's last words were "Thank God I have done my duty" Lord Nelson |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRITISH WORDS $100: These rubber boots are called wellies for short wellingtons |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRITISH WORDS $200: British theatregoers call it the interval intermission (*entr'acte) |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRITISH WORDS $300: Order candy floss at an amusement park & you'll get this fluffy confection cotton candy |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRITISH WORDS $400: Brits call this part of a car the silencer muffler |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRITISH WORDS $500: The ancient name for this city was Mancunium & a person from it is still called a Mancunian Manchester |
#1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $500: It only took about a year to write the half-million words in his work "The Outline of History" H.G. Wells |
#1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: The British got the words schooner, scour & landscape from this language Dutch |
#1500, aired 1991-02-22 | REVOLUTIONARY WORDS $600: In Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere advises, "If the British march tonight, hang" one of these "in the belfry arch" a lantern |
#1384, aired 1990-09-13 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This word meaning a noisy uproar is a corruption of Bethlem, a British madhouse bedlam |
#2, aired 1990-06-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: A public officer who keeps the peace, or a British policeman of the lowest order constable |
#1291, aired 1990-03-26 | 11-LETTER WORDS $500: British weight system based on a pound equal to 453.59 grams or 16 ounces Avoirdupois |
#1280, aired 1990-03-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $300: The large hairpieces worn by British judges gave rise to this slang term for "important person" big wig |
#1051, aired 1989-03-13 | REFERENCE BOOKS $500: In the preface to his 1747 dict., this British lexicographaer apologized to critics if he missed any words Samuel Johnson |
#960, aired 1988-11-04 | BRITISH HISTORY $1,700 (Daily Double): In 1936 this king uttered his last words, "How is the Empire?" George V |
#938, aired 1988-10-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: To the British, when followed by "up", it's a verb meaning "to make a phone call" ring |
#625, aired 1987-05-01 | "V" WORDS $400: British noble rank that is above a baron & below an earl a viscount |
#324, aired 1985-12-05 | "WIND" WORDS $500: The British call them windcheaters windbreakers |
#159, aired 1985-04-18 | LAST WORDS $1000: This British Restoration king's last concern was for his mistress: "Let not poor Nelly starve" Charles II |
#57, aired 1984-11-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Bathroom the British skip to the loo |