| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LIBRARIES $1200: The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar Cuba |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | ROAD SCHOLARLY $1600: This king known for his building projects created the Persian Royal Road that Alexander the Great used to invade Persia Darius |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $2,000 (Daily Double): On July 4th, 1929, Governor FDR dedicated a new building with this name, the infamous headquarters of Manhattan Democrats Tammany Hall |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $1600: In an 1851 letter, Daniel Webster called this Boston building "the Cradle of American Liberty" Faneuil Hall |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ROUND HERE $2000: The Aldar Headquarters building, 23 stories tall & presumably, 23 stories wide, too, is in this emirate, southwest of Dubai Abu Dhabi |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 4-LETTER HOMOPHONES $800: To quote an author
&
the location of a proposed building cite/site |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $1000: Climb all 2,909 stairs to level 160 of this building that opened in 2010; you probably should get permission & remember... hydrate! the Burj Khalifa |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $400: The Murchison meteorite that hit Earth in 1969 was found to contain organic compounds like these building blocks of proteins amino acids |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | ON WHEELS $1000: Made without brakes, track bicycles are designed for this type of building & here they are going around inside one a velodrome |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $600: As early as 1973 this suffix from a D.C. building was tacked onto "Wine" to describe a scandal involving fake Bordeaux gate |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $600: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries walls |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In 1818 Charles Bulfinch began as U.S. architect of this building; during his tenure he designed its rotunda the Capitol building |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $4,000 (Daily Double): Judo practitioners should know this term for land where building is prohibited & nature flourishes a green belt |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $2,800 (Daily Double): Taft talked of the building of this "controlled by Colonel Goethals & his fellow Army engineers" the Panama Canal |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $400: The Hearst museum of this -ology at Cal Berkeley has many Native American remains but is giving some of them back to tribes anthropology |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $800: The Hyrtl Skull Collection is among the medical treasures at the Mütter Museum in this U.S. city Philadelphia |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $1200: This Channel Island's zoo doesn't just display 'em live; you may see skulls & skeletons at the Durrell Discovery Centre Jersey |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $2000: It's the word for a bone depository, like the Wamba one in Spain an ossuary |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $7,000 (Daily Double): You'll think of mortality in a Rome church housing 3,500 skulls of friars in this order that makes me think of Italian coffee the Capuchins |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $200: Poet Robert stops by the woods on a snowy evening to chomp on a synonym for chomp & develops this chilly condition frostbite |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $400: An auto picks up golfer Nicklaus to become this crime carjack |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $600: To bound or leap drinks Macallan to play this kids' playground game hopscotch |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $800: A set of squares like our game board adds a fastener to get nothing done politically gridlock |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $1000: A harbor for a ship docks with a loose coat or robe to be this type of word, like spork or mockumentary portmanteau |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $800: In 2021 Mr. Steve Martin co-created this Hulu series where New Yorkers are just droppin' like flies Only Murders in the Building |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $200: With collections of art & archaeology, the Nigerian National this was founded by Kenneth Murray, grandson of the OED's 1st editor a museum |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $400: Chicago's throne-shaped theatre building with this kind of work in its name, opened with "Aida" in 1929 opera |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $400: Nigeria's tallest building is NECOM House, the "COM" for this industry telecom |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $600: Odion Ighalo got a Lagos mansion by playing this goal-scoring position in soccer; enjoy your studio apartments, midfielders striker |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $800: Two front doors are separated by a narrow hall in Face-Me-I-Face-You buildings, a phrase from this blended language Nigerian Pidgin English |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $1000: A palace said to have 34 entrances is the residence of the Oba of Lagos; Oba, a title of this late-in-the-alphabet ethnic group the Yoruba |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $800: From 1830, what's now Winchester Science Museum is the oldest surviving this type of building, part of a transport revolution a train station |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Victor Hugo urged the preservation of medieval architecture & his writing led to the restoration of this building from 1844 Notre Dame |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BOX OFFICE SLEEPERS $300: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Sleepless in Seattle" in 2023, this Big Apple landmark displayed a heart on its spire the Empire State Building |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $400: In 1904, photographer Edward Steichen captured a now-iconic image of this triangular New York City building at twilight the Flatiron Building |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $800: Delegates met in secret in this building's assembly room with the windows sealed despite the hot summer Independence Hall |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $1600: The almost 2,000-foot tall Makkah Clock Royal Tower in Mecca overlooks this sacred cube-shaped building the Kaaba |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $600: Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbor is home to this building, one of the most photographed in the world the Sydney Opera House |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $1000: A vaulted ceiling that follows the sloping sides of a roof is this type, like a grand building of Chartres or Cologne a cathedral |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CHICAGO $400: 2020 was the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking of the 100-story building & office space, then named for this retail company Sears |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CORNERSTONES $10,600 (Daily Double): The cornerstone for this U.S. school's oldest building, the Wren Building, was placed in 1695 William & Mary |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $400: 82 A.D.: Domitian adds a level of nosebleed seats to this amphitheater so more Romans can watch gladiatorbleeds the Colosseum |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $800: 1163: Pope Alexander III lays the foundation stone for this Paris cathedral; bells & bell-ringers come later Notre Dame |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $1200: 1941-43: 15,000 American workers labor day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex the Pentagon |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $2000: 1238: Muhammad Iba Al Amar begins work on this Moorish masterpiece the Alhambra |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $4,000 (Daily Double): 1902:
Daniel Burnham completes NYC's Fuller Building, now known by this household appliance name the Flatiron Building |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $400: Hansel could tell you that building one of these houses requires more sugar than timber a gingerbread house |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $1000: Theon seems to have lived at the same time that this Roman emperor was building his famous wall Hadrian |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $1200: Brutalism influenced the design of this D.C. building, named for a long-serving law enforcement official the Hoover Building |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BUILDING TERMS $200: A deadlight is one of these, designed not to open a window (a skylight) |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BUILDING TERMS $400: As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall a turret |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BUILDING TERMS $600: Because its supports are called balusters, an elaborate railing is called this a balustrade |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BUILDING TERMS $800: From their ruddy facades, it's the colorful name for eastern U.S. apartment buildings built in the 19th century a brownstone |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BUILDING TERMS $1000: This term for the grooves or channels in the shaft of a marble column is not related to music a flute (fluting) |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $800: Outside the building where this group meets is a statue with a tablet that reads "Lex", Latin for "law" the Supreme Court |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | WOOD $600: Pirates shiver when woodsmen yell this word from the Old English for "trees for building" timber |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | FRANK GEHRY $1200: The Gehry-designed Nationale-Nederlanden building seen here is informally known as this film dancing pair Astaire & Rogers (Fred & Ginger) |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $800: Take classes like "Environmental Design" & "Regenerative Building" at Yale's School of this Architecture |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $2000: This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes a house martin |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $800: Franz Joseph inaugurated the new main building of the university of this capital, the oldest university in the German-speaking world the University of Vienna |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | "SMOKE" $200: A building used for curing meat a smokehouse |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | TRAVEL TEXAS $200: Lined with statues & monuments, the Great Walk leads up to the Capitol building in this city Austin |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $800: Flooding in 1950 in Winnipeg by this river of the north led to the building of floodways there to bypass the city the Red River of the North |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $200: Home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the striking concert hall seen here is named for this man Walt Disney |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $400: In September 1930 former governor Alfred E. Smith laid the cornerstone for this building that would top off at 103 stories the Empire State Building |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $600: His 1930s design of the Johnson Wax HQ building in Wisconsin included the great workroom with its "lily pad" columns Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $800: On a clear day you can see Illinois, Indiana & Michigan from the skydeck of this building on South Wacker Drive the Willis Tower |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $1000: Originally the Union Gospel Tabernacle, it was home to the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974 Ryman Auditorium |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $800: This Bronx building has been called "The House that George Built"; it's next to where "The House that Ruth Built" once was Yankee Stadium |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $1600: "All the gods" were welcome when this Roman building was rebuilt by Hadrian between 118 & 125 A.D. the Pantheon |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | WORLD OF RELIGION $1000: The building of the Golden Temple in Amritsar was launched around 1604 by Arjan, the fifth guru of this religion Sikhism |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL! $600: In 1992, Israel got what's been called its finest public building to house this body that the government wanted to overhaul in 2023 the Israeli Supreme Court |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WORLD ROYALTY $800: Mad King Ludwig of this old German kingdom got his nickname for stunts like building Neuschwanstein Castle Bavaria |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Gollum plummets into the crack of Doom, causing Sauron to plummet from the top of the Empire State Building The Return of the King Kong |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | IN HIGH PLACES $400: From its observation deck, 1,465 feet above Toronto, you can feel this building sway in the wind the CN Tower |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $600: Seen here are some high-flying gargoyles on this Manhattan building the Chrysler Building |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: "The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered" by Ada Louise Huxtable calls this type of structure "where art & the city meet" a skyscraper |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES $1200: An L.A. prosecutor, explaining the difference: "Robbery is a crime against a person, while" this "is a crime against a building or thing" burglary |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $200: "Rubbin' a comb with wool or fur... strokin' a cat to make it purr, you're building up" this static electricity |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | GOING DUTCH $2000: Seen here is a colorful Dutch colonial style building in Oranjestad on this island Aruba |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | ARCHITECTS $200: Jean Nouvel says this building in Nantes, France is meant to convey the open impartiality of justice a courthouse |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $800: In this 1999 film Laurence Fishburne breaks the chains off his handcuffs before jumping out of a building & into Keanu's arms The Matrix |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | AROUND THE USA $1000: The Empire Quarry in Bloomington, Indiana is famous for providing this building material for the Empire State Building limestone |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANA $800: This building in Pelham, Mass. has been used for meetings since 1743; maybe you can fight it, unlike the city version Town Hall |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $200: A small building for tools, or to get rid of something or someone shed |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $1000: The "Father of Modern Makeup", he created the first makeup for film & today his historic building houses the Hollywood Museum Max Factor |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | SWEET 1616 $2000: Called England's first great architect, he began work on the Queen's House, England's first classical building Inigo Jones |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: From the Arabic for "hill", it's an artificial mound created by many generations building & rebuilding on the same spot a tell |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1600: In 1937 an honorary Oscar was named for this MGM "boy wonder" who died young, & oh--the building named for him is not far (Irving G.) Thalberg |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | TRAVEL USA $1000: Boston's Cradle of Liberty, this historic building is adjacent to a bustling marketplace Faneuil Hall |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $400: "The Jeffersons" an apartment building |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $200: "O.M.I.T.B." is short for this, a show & the podcast within it Only Murders in the Building |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TAKE A TOUR $200: An architecture tour of this city includes the Tribune Tower & the Wrigley Building Chicago |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $1200: The iconic building here is home to this body, headed by the person who's the U.N.'s main public face the Secretariat |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SLIDING INTO YOUR "D.M."s $1,800 (Daily Double): The dome on the capitol building of this Midwest city is gilded with 23-karat gold leaf Des Moines |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $800: Here is Winston-Salem's Reynolds Building, finished in 1929, two years before this similar-looking landmark with 80 more floors the Empire State Building |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $1200: "So Tyler and I are on top of the Parker-Morris Building with the gun stuck in my mouth, and we hear glass breaking" Fight Club |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $1000: Parking is tough in this rhyming region of China; a parking space in a luxury building there sold for $1.3 million Hong Kong |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | ANCIENT VIPs $2,000 (Daily Double): The Hanging Gardens was one of many building projects credited to this king of Babylon who also appears in the book of Daniel Nebuchadnezzar |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $200: A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building the U.S. Capitol |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $400: Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat William Penn |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $2000: There's a motion of the ocean in this word for the building blocks of the acids that control heredity nucleotides |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | TV, YOU SAY! $400: As Oliver, Martin Short has a shocking revelation on this Hulu show:
"Rock icon Sting is a dog-poisoning murderer" Only Murders in the Building |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $1600: Seen here in late 1979 is this building in Tehran that was at the center of news for the next year plus the U.S. Embassy |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOUTHERNERS $400: A building in rural Mississippi bears the sign that this queen of daytime talk shows & other media "faced first audience here" Oprah (Winfrey) |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $400: Kids, don't fall in a big hole being dug for this base of a building; here's the 90-foot deep one for L.A.'s Wilshire Grand foundation |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | "WORLD" $800: On June 29, 2016 Liberty Park opened at this downtown New York building complex the World Trade Center |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1672 Spain began building a large masonry fort on the shore of this city in Florida St. Augustine |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE $800: A Chicago building is named for this product, & to play on an old commercial, you're soaking it in Palmolive |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE $1200: The skyscraper on Broadway named for this budget retailer opened in 1913 as the world's tallest building the Woolworth Building |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $200: On a clear day you can see for miles from the 102nd floor of this landmark completed in 1931 by brave people like the ones here the Empire State Building |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $400: Burning the U.S Capitol building in 1814, the British fueled the fire with 3,000 books from this institution, small at the time the Library of Congress |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $1,200 (Daily Double): ...New York enjoy this 1,046-foot Art Deco skyscraper designed by William Van Alen & built between 1928 & 1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I SAID DANCE! $800: In "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)" Luke Bryan rhymes, "Spin me around this big ole" building, "Tangle me up like grandma's yarn" barn |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | BUILDINGS & BRIDGES $2000: The UK's tallest building, this London skyscraper, is so named because it looks like a big piece of glass the Shard |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | BUILDINGS & BRIDGES $7,000 (Daily Double): In Rome, the building called this is an ancient but active church; the one in Paris is a mausoleum the Pantheon |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $600: Title for Egyptian king Ramses the Great, remembered for his wars & building projects around 1250 B.C. pharaoh |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $800: A mound-building culture 1,000 years ago left monuments like the Marching these carnivores; you can see it from above in Iowa bears |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $1600: As well as a building material, it's a structure made of it; the Avila one is the oldest existing house in Los Angeles adobe |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE PARK $200: On July 5, 1986 800,000 hit Central Park to enjoy the N.Y. Philharmonic & the reopening of this tall landmark off downtown the Statue of Liberty |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | A SHORT CATEGORY $1600: Martin Short's 5-decade career includes a 2022 acting Emmy nomination as Oliver Putnam in this Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | BEN FRANKLIN $600: Ben's discoveries led to the lightning rod & to the end of the electrocution of more than a hundred of these colleagues of Quasimodo bell ringers |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $1200: On Jan. 1, 1802 he wrote of "building a wall of separation between church & state" Jefferson |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HOW TALL/LONG/HIGH? $1000: The bed of the biblical giant Og: 9 of these units long--a building elsewhere in the Bible is only 6 of them wide a cubit |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | LAWMEN & WOMEN $800: If you work at FBI HQ on Pennsylvania Avenue, you work in a building named for this G-man Hoover |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | BUILDINGS $400: The Lotte World Tower in the South has taken over from the Ryugyong Hotel in the North as this peninsula's tallest building Korea |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | USA $600: This 1,450-foot-tall building is a real high point of the ZIP code 60606 the Willis Tower |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | MISCELLANY $400: You'll be well over a mile high at the top of 714-foot Republic Plaza, this city's tallest building Denver |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | PITCH PERFECT $100: Talk about Go Blue!
Clayton Kershaw pitched well enough for this team in 2014 to win 21 games & the National League MVP award the Dodgers |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: Yo, this Philly building dating back to 1732 hosted the adopting of the Articles of Confederation Independence Hall |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | ____ & ____ $400: It's the criminal act of using force to gain access to a home or building without authorization breaking & entering |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | COLORFUL RESPONSES $900: These drawings are used to show how to construct something, like a building or a machine a blueprint |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | HODGEPOURRIPODGE $200: This 102-story structure on New York City's 34th Street is kinda hard to miss the Empire State Building |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | THE 17th CENTURY $400: 1667 saw the completion of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's great curving colonnade enclosing the piazza in front of this building St. Peter's Cathedral |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE TERMINAL LIST $400: This Turkish city's airport claims the world's biggest terminal building, sprawling over 15.5 million square feet Istanbul |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS $1200: In "It's a Wonderful Life", Bailey Building & Loan is described with this contemptuous term from the poker table penny ante |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "ALL" THINGS ASIDE $200: Some say you can't fight this, a municipal government building city hall |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | ROMANS $200: The Pantheon shows the durability of opus caementicium, the Roman version of this building material, that contains cement concrete |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | HETERONYMS $800: Something that pulls a vehicle behind it
&
a tall, narrow building a tower [TOE-ur] & a tower [TAU-ur] |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WEST VIRGINIA & REGULAR VIRGINIA $200: This office building in Virginia has nearly 18 miles of corridors but you can walk between any 2 points of it in about 7 minutes the Pentagon |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | SPORTS VENUES $200: This London stadium, home to England's national soccer team, boasts it has "more toilets than any other building in the world" Wembley |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WOOD $1600: This strong, durable 3-letter conifer is commonly used for building walls, floors & ceilings fir |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $800: Solid, like a certain building material
(8 letters) concrete |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100 $200: Home to NBC, the Comcast Building in New York City is popularly known as this number "Rock" 30 |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE NIFTY '50s $1000: With much of the funding from the Rothschild family, the cornerstone of this Israeli parliament building was laid in 1958 the Knesset |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | MASHED UP TV SHOWS $800: "What We Do in the Building" What We Do in the Shadows & Only Murders in the Building |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BELGIANS $2000: Victor Horta's 1890s Hôtel Tassel in Brussels has been called the first major building in this French-named style Art Nouveau |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | WORDPLAY-POURRI $200: Only one vowel:
The main building of a parish church |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Natalie Shepherd of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) The Milwaukee Art Museum now has wings designed by geniuses from both ends of Europe; in 2001, a new pavilion with a removable sunscreen, designed by Spain's Santiago Calatrava, joined the original building by this modernist from Finland (Eero) Saarinen |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | SECRET SERVICES $400: The U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division branch named for this building includes counter snipers on its roof the White House |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $1000: 2 of Jane's 6 novels were published posthumously--"Persuasion" & this one with a building for a title Northanger Abbey |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | SPANNING THE GLOBE $200: Home to the office of New Zealand's prime minister, the building seen here has this insect-dwelling nickname Beehive |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | U.S. BUILDINGS $200: The central courtyard of this sprawling Arlington County building is lined by 5 long walls of similar length the Pentagon |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | U.S. BUILDINGS $800: The 1,000-foot JPMorgan Chase Tower is the tallest building in this, Texas' most populous city Houston |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | U.S. BUILDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): A radiator cap design was fittingly incorporated into the corners of this Art Deco skyscraper in New York City the Chrysler Building |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | ASIAN MUSEUMS $200: Flagstaff House, an old Colonial building in Hong Kong, is now a museum devoted to this beverage & its accessories tea |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | CLOSE TO THE VEST $2000: It's a lobby or hall just inside a building's main door a vestibule |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $1000: In the 1880s, General Meigs designed the Pension Bureau building, now a museum; some called it "Meigs' Old Red" this Meigs's Old Red Barn |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1000: A large marble statue of this hero of the Revolution is outside the capital building in Montpelier Ethan Allen |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | RHYMES WITH THESE $1000: It's an ornate decoration just below a building's roof a frieze |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | CHILDHOOD HOMES $800: In 1942 the father of this baseball legend was the one doing the hammering, building a house in Mobile that you can visit today Hank Aaron |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2000: From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it" Pliny |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | LIBRARIES $400: Its present building was erected under Pope Sixtus V the Vatican Library |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $800: Kandinsky, a Muscovite, headed west to Germany, painting in Munich & teaching at this "house of building" school in Weimar Bauhaus |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A LOFTY CATEGORY $1000: Around 2500 B.C. Menkaure, a king of the fourth dynasty, began building a 215-foot-tall one of these a pyramid |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY'RE MULTI-TALENTED $400: She sang "Lose You To Love Me" before dealing with "Only Murders in the Building" on Hulu Selena Gomez |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | WE'VE GOT THE RECEIPTS $600: The human cost of building this waterway prior to its 1914 opening?
More than 5,600 lives the Panama Canal |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | COURSE SYLLABLES $400: 4 syllables:
This course on the art & technique of building & design architecture |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $400: Ray Bradbury's favorite place in his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois was this building at 1 Sheridan Road the library |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | MISMATCHED PAIRS $2000: Tall Emirati building & "See You Again" rapper the Burj Khalifa & Wiz Khalifa |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | BUILDINGS $400: Charlie Munger planned a building at Michigan & a future 4,500-bed one at UCSB, both much discussed for the rooms' lack of these windows |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | BUILDINGS $800: It's the geographic "Q" in the 1,058-foot Q1, Australia's tallest building Queensland |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | BUILDINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Each side of this U.S. building extends for 921 feet; its total perimeter is 4,605 feet the Pentagon |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | READ THE ROOM! $1200: nps.gov: In 1775 the 2nd cont. Congress "approved the resolution creating the Marine Corps" in the assembly room of this Philly building Independence Hall |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | CONDUCTORS $4,000 (Daily Double): On an 1887 cruise New York Symphony Society conductor Walter Damrosch met this tycoon & talked him into building a hall (Andrew) Carnegie |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $400: At Stanford, this presidential family has its name on a pavilion, a memorial building, a tower & an institute Hoover |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $600: A USC cinema building is named for this director who was rejected 3 times by the school & attended Cal State Long Beach instead (Steven) Spielberg |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | BIBLICAL PROPHETS $1200: Haggai encouraged people to get busy with this construction task & that they would be rewarded with abundance building the (second) temple in Jerusalem |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $1600: As a building in Venice sinks, Vesper Lynd is trapped underwater & James Bond can't save her in this 2006 movie Casino Royale |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THAT 1770s SHOW $1200: The "One (lantern) if by land & 2 if by sea" in this building were not meant to signal Paul Revere, but allies in Charlestown the Old North Church |
| #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 |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORD PAIRS $400: Pair of building materials used to describe a physical store as opposed to an online retailer brick & mortar |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | 7-LETTER ANAGRAMS $2000: A building for a legislature & having to do with vision capitol & optical |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BANK SHOTS $400: There's a pretty obvious reason that the United Overseas Bank building in Bangkok is known as this 5-letter building a Robot Building |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $600: 1993: "It's like that movie... 'An Affair to Remember'... she's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building" Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): There are sinister goings on at the Bramford apartment building, including Mrs. Woodhouse's pregnancy, in this Ira Levin classic Rosemary's Baby |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: This common building lumber product is made up of an odd number of veneers glued together plywood |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $400: M.I.T.'s domed Maclaurin Building is where this actor works as a janitor in a 1997 film (Matt) Damon |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN $1000: Grover Washington Jr. was so smooth with this title, "building castles in the sky", this title again, "you & I" "Just The Two Of Us" |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | TV $1200: This singer/actress tries to solve "Only Murders in the Building" Selena Gomez |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $1200: Irving Thalberg, who has a building named for him on our Sony lot, produced "A Night at the Opera" for this comedy team in 1935 the Marx Brothers |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AIRPORTS $1200: The Beehive at this London-area facility, code LGW, was the first airport building with an integrated railway station London Gatwick |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $400: A Hollywood landmark since 1956, the first circular office building was built to house this record label & its studios Capitol |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | LITERARY JOURNALISM $200: Norman Mailer won a Pulitzer for "The Armies of the Night", about the 1967 march on this Defense Department building the Pentagon |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FEDERAL AGENCIES $1600: In 1800 Congress hired a lone building watchman named John Golding, leading to the creation of the force known as this the Capitol Police |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | "EYE" $600: It's a building that is unpleasant to look at an eyesore |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In the mid-1800s Russia began building these routes with a 5-foot gauge, wider than the European standard railways |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Mies van der Rohe headed the College of Architecture & designed its building at IIT, short for this Chicago school Illinois Institute of Technology |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $1200: An occulus is a circular opening at the apex of a dome, like the one in the roof of this ancient building Pantheon |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | REVIVAL $2000: Baroque revival architecture is typified by London's criminal courts building called the "Old" this (it was New in 1907) Bailey |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | DUMB ANSWERS $1000: Also a Jethro Tull album title, this 4-word rhyming phrase includes a building material thick as a brick |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OVER BUDGET $800: The government of New South Wales held a lottery for 30 years to pay for this building whose budget went from $7 mil. to $102 mil. the Sydney Opera House |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OVER BUDGET $2000: Building in brick to replace facades, this network went $30 million over budget on new sets for "Eastenders" the BBC |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | COMPLETES THE IDIOM $600: The show is over:
"Elvis has..." left the building |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WINNING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS $400: "Building a Bridge to the 21st Century" Bill Clinton |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AMERICANA $1,000 (Daily Double): Unusually, one building of the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in West Virginia is made of this flammable mineral coal |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AMERICANA $1000: The USA's oldest continuously operating one, this building has linked Hinsdale, N.H. with the world since it opened in 1816 post office |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $1600: In 1838, 272 slaves were sold to keep this D.C. Jesuit U. going; now a building is named for one of them, Isaac Hawkins Georgetown |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $200: Very obviously, this building was named for its shape the Pentagon |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | TRYING ON SOME GENES $2000: It's the "T" in the representation G-C-A-T of the 4 nucleic acid building blocks of DNA thymine |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | AMERICAN FACTORY $800: These "planetary" rockets that took us to the Moon were made in the NASA vehicle assembly building in Florida the Saturn V rockets |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | LIGHTNING $800: The saying that lightning doesn't do this is not strictly accurate; the Empire State Building gets at least 25 hits a year strike twice |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | U.S. HISTORY $400: A dynamite-filled wagon exploded in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on this NYC street in 1920 Wall Street |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | ALLITERATIVE JOBS $1000: On 1970s sitcoms Schneider & Bookman were building superintendents, also known as these maintenance men |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | AMERICANA $600: 2021 marks the 90th birthday of this building which was already the world's tallest in 1950 when it added a 220-foot TV tower the Empire State Building |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DOUBLE "OU" WORDS $400: A building for holding legal proceedings a courthouse |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $200: In "Up from Slavery" Booker T. Washington goes to this Alabama town expecting to find helpful things like a building to teach in, but no Tuskegee |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SKYSCRAPERS $1200: The tallest building on the Korean Peninsula is the Lotte World Tower in this city Seoul |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SKYSCRAPERS $1600: The Shard is the tallest building in this nation Great Britain |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SKYSCRAPERS $2000: For the Seagram Building, his only NYC design, Mies van der Rohe contrasted the steel & glass with this 5-letter public area in stone the plaza |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | SCIENCE NICKNAMES $400: These alliterative organic molecules have been dubbed "the building blocks of life" amino acids |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $800: As well as the building where John Brown barricaded himself, this national historical park has peregrine falcons Harpers Ferry |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | FLAG-POURRI $1000: As sec. of this, Ryan Zinke had a flag run up atop the HQ every time he was "in" the building & down when he left Interior |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | ENDS IN "B" $800: Verb meaning to examine thoroughly, or to connect a building's water pipes plumb |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE SAME VOWEL, FRONT & BACK $1200: 7-letter general term for a massive building an edifice |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: This very large building in Virginia is headquarters to the Army, Navy & Air Force The Pentagon |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | PUBLIC SCULPTURE $1200: The famed limestone lions outside this Midtown Manhattan building are called Patience & Fortitude the New York Public Library |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | ENGINEERING $1600: (Erica Joy Baker presents the clue.) The first historically documented engineer, Imhotep created a new type of building with this pyramid named for its series of flat-terraced platforms a step pyramid |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | CODE WORDS $600: California's building code says this is "a primarily vertical structure containing one or more flues" a chimney |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This building material was once made with coal refuse & ash; hence its name a cinder block |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $800: The capitol building in this North Dakota capital is home to the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Hall of Fame Bismarck |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $2000: Ken Follett says his most popular book is this novel about the building of a cathedral in 12th century England The Pillars of the Earth |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | POLY ESTHER $800: Archaeologist Esther Van Deman's major work was titled "The Building of" these Roman waterways aqueducts |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | FORTIFY YOURSELF $1000: In the 1070s this monarch who'd been in power only a short while ordered the building of the Tower of London William the Conqueror |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AROUND 1001 $1200: Vikings, led by this man, started building a settlement in Vinland Leif Erikson |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | STREAMING SERVICE $400: The organization Save the Mekong opposes the building of dams to generate this type of power hydroelectric |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | U.S. FACT SHEET $200: At 77 million cubic feet, this Virginia office building is the country's largest the Pentagon |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MUSEUMS $800: Cape Town's Zeitz MOCAA was once this type of storage building; the atrium was shaped like a grain of corn in the architect's eye a silo |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | BRIDGES $1000: The Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge in this South American capital is named for the 20th century leader behind the building of the city Brasília |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | DAM BUILDING $200: Called "Gujarat's Lifeline", the Sardar Sarovar Dam in this country still took 56 years to complete India |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | DAM BUILDING $400: This civilization built some of the oldest dams still in use, including the Proserpina Dam at Mérida, Spain the Romans |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | DAM BUILDING $600: Now in danger of failing, the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River created the world's largest one of these by volume, 43 cubic miles a reservoir |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | DAM BUILDING $800: In the 1950s Switzerland's Mauvoisin Dam became the world's tallest one, replacing this American one the Hoover Dam |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | DAM BUILDING $1000: The Guri Dam near the Guyana border was built to ease this South American country's dependence on oil Venezuela |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | HISTORIC BELLS $200: Since 1954 the Japanese Peace Bell has rung near the Secretariat building at this organization's headquarters the United Nations |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | MOVIE SUM-UP $400: A cop saves his troubled marriage by visiting his wife in L.A. & killing a bunch of people in her office building Die Hard |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | AMERICAN SUPERLATIVES $800: Covering 98 acres, this aircraft company's Everett, Washington plant is the largest building by volume in the U.S. (& the world) Boeing |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | MILITARY MATTERS $200: Some in the military jokingly call this building "The Five-Sided Puzzle Palace" the Pentagon |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $400: The Era was a time of building roads & these aqueous transport arteries, such as the Lehigh one canal |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE U.S. $800: Completed in Philadelphia in the 1750s, this building was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979 Independence Hall |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ISLAND NATIONS $400: Starting in 1845, the building seen here turned out this familiar Cuban product by the millions cigars |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is outside Residenzplatz in Salzburg, Austria.) In "The Sound of Music" Nazi banners are hung from the old palace building in Residenzplatz, signifying this forced political union between German and Austria Anschluss |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul McCartney's Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building "Live And Let Die Hard" |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $400: The parts of a roof that stick out over the edge of a building form these eaves |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | CANADIAN PLACES $400: Completed in 1818, Province House in Halifax in this province is Canada's oldest Parliament building Nova Scotia |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $400: From its resemblance to a certain game, the skyscraper seen here is nicknamed this Building Jenga |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $2000: At one time or another, this famous apartment building was home to Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall & John Lennon the Dakota |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | PHYSICS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) After you safely drop an object off a building, when the downward force of gravity equals the upward force of air resistance, the falling object reaches a maximum speed, known by this two-word term terminal velocity |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Visit the art deco building in NYC where Erich Maria Remarque, author of this antiwar novel about WWI, lived until his death All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $200: The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | TV IN 2020 $200: The brick-building challenges are tough & host Will Arnett just might knock it all down on this toy brand "Masters" LEGO |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | "F" $200: The front of a building, or any type of deceptive display a facade |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | YOU KNOW THE DRILL $1600: Use a hammer drill to cut through this hard building material named for the bricklayer or stoneworker who constructed it masonry |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | SILICON VALLEY $1200: Mix up some of the Portland variety of this building material by combining calcium, silica, iron & aluminum cement |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | COLORFUL TERMINOLOGY $800: A drawing made in designing a building, or any plan, as in one "for success" a blueprint |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | OK BOOMER $400: Steve Case did OK, building AOL, short for this, into what was the nation's largest Internet service provider America Online |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $400: Boots & handbags are also sold at DSW, short for designer shoe this type of building warehouse |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $2000: Decorative molding along the top of a wall or building a cornice |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS $800: To leave a building or other location because it is not safe to stay there evacuate |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $200: How do you get to this building? Have your tone poem premiere there, like Gershwin in 1928... or just hop off the Q at 57th & 7th Carnegie Hall |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | THAT'S OLD SCHOOL $200: Built in 1752, Connecticut Hall is the oldest building on the campus of this university Yale |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $400: Around 1793 amateur architect William Thornton won the design competition for this domed D.C. edifice the Capitol Building |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | REQUIEM FOR A SKYLINE $1000: Demolished in 1999, the Jorba Labs near Madrid was often called this general 6-letter term for a sacred building in China a pagoda |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $1200: (Alex Trebek presents from the Harvard Lampoon Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.) As editor of the "Harvard Lampoon" in the 1970s he had the last word; today he hosts "The Last Word" on MSNBC Lawrence O'Donnell |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $2000: What is now NYU's Brown Building was the site of this tragic 1911 fire that killed 146 workers the Triangle Shirtwaist fire |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LUKE $2000: As depicted in the 1881 painting here, in Luke, Chapter 2, 12-year-old Jesus goes missing and turns up in this holy building a temple |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: From the same Latin root as "tenant", it's a rundown building where being a tenant is no fun a tenement |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TREES GROW ON MONEY $1600: On the reverse of the current U.S. $10 bill, trees frame this building the Treasury Building |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A MENU OF RESTAURANTS $400: This beefy building follows the names of Chicago's Chicago Cut & Minneapolis' Manny's Steakhouse |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | OFF TO THE LANDMARK $1000: There are over 160 stories in Dubai, & this 2,717' building has every one of 'em! This building ...it'll make you say gee, wiz! the Burj Khalifa |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $800: Road-building & irrigation--lots of infrastructure investment by this S. American people who ruled an empire of nearly 12 million the Inca |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | THE IRISHMAN $800: Dublin's Leinster House inspired James Hoban's design of this Washington, D.C. building the White House |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | HOMOPHONE CALLS $400: Remember: "A", for the city that is the official seat of government in a state; "O", for a state legislature building capital & capitol |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | THE DAM BILL $400: In May 1938 congress authorized building the Kentucky Dam, soon the largest dam run by this New Deal agency the TVA |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | UDDERLY MILK--OR NOT $200: Almond Breeze, an almond milk, provides 45% of the recommended daily allowance of this bone-building element calcium |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | POTPOURRI $400: Arlington has the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; the Brits have the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, found in this building's nave Westminster Abbey |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | STATUE OF NO LIMITATIONS $400: Until 1987 no building in Philadelphia rose higher than the statue of this Colonial founder atop city hall William Penn |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $400: A National Museum of Immigration at this site is housed in the original main building restored to its 1918-to-1924 appearance Ellis Island |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $1000: With the White House becoming unstable & dangerous, Harry & Bess start a 4-year reno in 1948 & move to this building across the street Blair House |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Commissioned in 1711 as a gift to encourage the pope's support for the building of an observatory, a series of astronomical paintings show the then-known planets, including Mars, Saturn, and this giant, with its bands of color Jupiter |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) This imposing desk was used by this imposing man who headed the Bureau for 48 years and for whom the headquarters' building is named (J. Edgar) Hoover |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $800: This last name of Rhode Island Senator Sheldon is also a famous building not far from the Capitol Whitehouse |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | AROUND THE USA $800: Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, is home to many structures, made of this five-letter clay building material adobe |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PLACE ON EARTH $600: Here's a building in UNAM in Mexico City that is the school's Institute of this Chemistry |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | THE JEOPARDY! SCHOOL OF ENLIGHTENMENT $1000: It can mean the lighting used to decorate a building, or someone's spiritual or intellectual understanding illumination |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $1600: This politician was assassinated in the Louisiana state Capitol building in Baton Rouge; his grave is in the gardens there Huey Long |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | ON THE GROUND FLOOR $400: The ground floor of "The Residence" in this U.S. building contains a diplomatic reception room & a chocolate shop the White House |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | ON THE GROUND FLOOR $600: The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission has given historic designation to this skyscraper's 5th Avenue Art Deco lobby the Empire State Building |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $600: Carrie Underwood is one of the honorees whose star is in front of this iconic building that looks like a stack of discs the Capitol Records Building |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | LIFE IN PLYMOUTH COLONY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, MA.) Arriving in Plymouth in December 1620, the Pilgrims spent several months on the Mayflower while building their new homes, initially using grasses and reeds, to make this type of roof, like back in England a thatched |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | "R"CHITECTURE $1200: This drawing of a proposed building can be much more detailed than a blueprint, including little people & trees a rendering |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | "R"CHITECTURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.) The Castle, the Smithsonian Institution's main building, was designed by this prolific 19th century architect, who would go on to design St. Patrick's Cathedral James Renwick |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | "R"CHITECTURE $8,615 (Daily Double): As a style, it was early 19th century British; as a building, it's the Atlanta Hyatt that began the hotel atrium era Regency |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | PLACES TO LIVE $400: By definition, 3 self-contained housing units all connected together in one building a triplex |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT $1,000 (Daily Double): The Department of Commerce headquarters building is named for this president who once served as Commerce Secretary Hoover |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | GARGOYLES $1000: The gargoyles on this Manhattan building named for an auto executive are less earthbound--they're eagles the Chrysler Building |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WOMEN $600: In 1989 Fay Wray visited the Empire State Building, the setting of the climax of this 1933 film that had made her a star King Kong |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "P" $1000: The main building block of coral is this tiny organism a polyp |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS $400: It can be a low story or balcony between 2 other floors in a building or theater mezzanine |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUILDINGS $800: Named after an ancient ruler & his tomb, it's a large building for above ground entombments a mausoleum |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUILDINGS $1200: Cincinnati's Ingalls Building was the first high-rise made of reinforced this; in 1903, a reporter waited all night for it to fall down concrete |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUILDINGS $1600: Also a main building of an airport, it's an installation at a harbor where oil or gas is stored a terminal |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | DROP OUT $800: Drop "out" from a word meaning "screamed" & you get this small storage building shed (from shouted) |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY $2000: When he died in 1852, Clay became the first American to lie in state in this part of the Capitol building the rotunda |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THIS IS "SU" $400: To break up a plot of land into several building lots subdivide |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | MUSEUM-PODGE $1000: Giorgio Vasari designed it as an office building; later it housed the Medici art collection & then became a museum Uffizi Gallery |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINISH LINES $400: After you climb 86 flights of stairs, the Observatory is the finish line in the ESBRU, or this building "Run-Up" Empire State Building |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $800: In the 1960s & '70s, signs with 3 triangles indicated that a building had one of these nuclear war sanctuaries fallout shelter |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: Partly from the Latin for "stones", this adjective for a building that is falling apart means it is missing stones dilapidated |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | ITTY BITTY CITY $1200: Arlington County, Virginia is home to a neighborhood called this "City", after a nearby Department of Defense building Pentagon |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | LIFE IN ANCIENT TIMES $200: The Babylonians controlled rivers by building a barrage of barrages, a term for a small type of this dam |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $1000: The Latin for "to come together" gives us this word for the building where a religious community lives a convent |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's less than 15 miles from Hersheypark to the capitol building in this city Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | FROM THE GREEK $800: From the Greek for "to hear", it's the qualities of a room or building that influence how well sound is heard in it acoustics |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972 J. Edgar Hoover |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AN EXPLOSIVE CATEGORY $1200: It's the term used for the process of destroying a building by using explosives to make it collapse inward on itself implosion (implode accepted) |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | WHAT A COINKYDINK $600: John Tierney was among the first to die building this on the Arizona/Nevada border; the last was his son, Patrick the Hoover Dam |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | RISE TO THE OCCASION $800: At the end of this film, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan finally meet on the observation deck of the Empire State Building Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BUILDINGS $400: Mummy told me the elevators in this Vegas hotel travel at a 39-degree angle to match their unusual building the Luxor |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BUILDINGS $1200: A building at the College of William & Mary is named for this 17th century British architect (Christopher) Wren |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BUILDINGS $3,000 (Daily Double): Some of the ornamentation on this NYC building on Lexington Avenue was meant to look like radiator caps the Chrysler Building |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | ALPHANUMERICS $1600: The building site of the Millennium Dome, aka this alphanumeric arena, skirts the Prime Meridian along the Thames O2 |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | NEWS SPEAK $1200: The term "hard pass" was in the news in November 2018--it's what reporters need to come & go in this building the White House |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | LONG AGO, IN THE 20th CENTURY $400: Construction on this NYC landmark began on March 17, 1930; framework rose 4 1/2 stories per week, for a lot of weeks the Empire State Building |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Both Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" & Bob Woodward's "Fear" mention this building in their subtitles the White House |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | TASTE SENSATIONS $800: Aging meat to break down proteins brings out the flavor umami, which comes from these building blocks of protein amino acids |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | TAKE "OUT" $200: It's police surveillance outside a building to observe or catch criminals a stakeout |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm outside South Africa's oldest building, the Castle of Good Hope in this city, named for its location on a peninsula Cape Town |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | ARCHITECTURE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a Hong Kong building on the monitor.) With feng shui in mind, some buildings in Hong Kong are designed with holes in the structures that are considered gates for these mythical serpents as they travel down from the mountains & out towards the sea dragons |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $3,000 (Daily Double): 4-letter name for the innermost & strongest building near the center of a castle the keep |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $400: Here it's a school building for athletic activities; in Germany, it's a school for students getting ready for college a gymnasium |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | DOCTOR $1600: This 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner gained fame for building a hospital in Africa Albert Schweitzer |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Age of Innocence" says the hue of this building material "coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce" brownstone |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | IT'S CHINA, JAKE $800: The ICC building in this former British colony was limited to 118 floors because it may not be taller than the mountains Hong Kong |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | "X" ENDS THE SPOT $1200: An addition to a building an annex |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS $1000: A Senate office building is named for him, Senate Republican leader from 1959 to 1969 Everett Dirksen |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | NEW YORK STATE OF MIND $600: The atrium seen here is in the New York City building named for this man--because of his finance news service, not his mayordom Bloomberg |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $400: New York City's Twin Towers were briefly the tallest in the world until this U.S. building surpassed them in 1973 the Sears Tower |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $1,000 (Daily Double): With the Burj Kahlifa, the world's tallest building is in the Mideast for the 1st time since this was surpassed in 1311 the Great Pyramid |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $1200: L.A.'s oldest jazz festival is held annually near these 100-foot towers bearing the name of an L.A. area the Watts Towers |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $1600: Almost 2,000 feet tall, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower in this country is right next to the Great Mosque Saudi Arabia |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $2000: At China's Tianze Hotel, you can stay inside 14-story replicas of 3 traditional gods from this dynasty that ended in 1644 the Ming dynasty |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1600: Student occupation of a Harvard building led to the end of this military education program at the school for 40 years ROTC |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $200: This 3-word phrase means to take care of things while someone else is away mind the store |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $400: We're doing this, wagering everything--if we lose, guess someone else will tend the cows betting the farm |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $600: To do this action of fixing barriers is to try to improve damaged relations with others to mend fences |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $800: Plans that are impractical are these edifices built high above the earth castles in the air (or in the sky) |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $1000: This structure made of very thin 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" rectangles is proverbially unstable a house of cards |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | ON THE ROAD $800: This distinctively narrow New York building is on 5th Avenue in Manhattan the Flatiron Building |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) A building, its setting, and its furnishings were inextricably related for this architect, who designed the prairie-style room and all of its furniture, which is placed exactly as he intended it Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ON THE SLAB $400: Square slabs of cobblestone, red sandstone & bricks are available for building use in this video game Minecraft |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | CENTURY 19 REAL ESTATE LISTINGS $400: By 1827 the 2 wings of this D.C. govt. building were joined & it got its first copper-sheathed dome; own some history! the Capitol |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | I'M NOT RETIRING! $1000: I look forward to 2020 & telling you about the next world's tallest building, the Jeddah Tower in this kingdom Saudi Arabia |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $400: This theatre owner was jailed for 39 days following Lincoln's death & forced to sell his building (John T.) Ford |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | DAY ONE $600: On July 1, 1976 the Smithsonian met the "lofty" goal of opening this museum's current building in time for the bicentennial the Air and Space Museum |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORDS USING ALL 5 VOWELS $1600: The initial stage of a new building's construction, or an adjective for something never done before groundbreaking |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Plummer Building named for Henry Plummer, M.D., is a landmark part of this Minnesota facility the Mayo Clinic |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | LET'S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! $600: Let's put him in the picture & make the man almost as tall as this Art Deco building completed in 1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ON THE MOVE $200: This word for an airport building or train station tells you you've reached the end of the line a terminal |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Often building suspense, it's the device of hinting at coming events, as when a doomed character's plant dies foreshadowing |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | WE'LL GO "R"s $2000: A train's repair building, or an exaggerated boxing punch roundhouse |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SEEN ON MY WALK TODAY $200: Such a unique building; with its faux medieval architecture, it must be the style called this revival Gothic |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | BASEBALL-ADJACENT FACTS $800: World Series goat Bill Buckner made a diving catch of a baby thrown from a burning building on this Larry David show Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS $800: In 1687 the Ottomans found that storing gunpowder at this Acropolis building was a ridiculously terrible idea the Parthenon |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | HISTORY $400: In 1931 the only dirigible to dock at this NYC building had a rough time, ending that idea the Empire State Building |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | AVIATION $1600: This Soviet-era design bureau that gave its name to the USSR's first jet fighter is still building planes MiG |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | GRAMMAR A-Z $200: P:
The building blocks of a sentence are subject & this, what is said of the subject the predicate |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | THE T LEAVES $800: The T runs off from a building where horses are kept & becomes this weasellike mammal with dark brown fur sable |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | I WANT TO GO NUTS! $400: Pistachios are rich in this bone-building mineral that also helps with muscle contraction calcium |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | PROFESSIONAL NICKNAMES $800: Building a house? You might need a chippie & a sparky, these 2 professionals a carpenter and electrician |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $200: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the East German Volkskammer led to the start of building this land-mark that night the Berlin Wall |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 19, 1995 2 homegrown terrorists bombed the U.S. Federal Building in this city Oklahoma City |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $800: The Ministry of the Interior building in Havana bears a sculpture honoring this revolutionary Che Guevara |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: At 1,396 feet, 432 Park Avenue in this city is the world's tallest all-residential building in our hemisphere New York City |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ILLINOIS AT 200 $400: Completed in 1973, it was the world's tallest building until 1996 Willis Tower (or Sears Tower) |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | HOUSE PARTY $400: Hansel could tell you that building one of these houses requires more sugar than timber a gingerbread house |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | HELLO, "B.B." $2000: Playthings, or essential components of a larger structure or project building blocks |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: Bastions are semicircular towers projecting from the walls of these medieval strongholds castles |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: The ancients liked these structures, from the Greek for "to view" & "on both sides"; one in Tunisia dates from around 238 A.D. an amphitheater |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: In Toronto on April 2, 1975, Paul Mitchell put in the last piece of this building's antenna & did a jig 1,800' up CN Tower |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1600: It's a large, circular room with a domed ceiling, like the one at the Lehigh University library a rotunda |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 600s Muslim forces captured Jerusalem & by century's end, they had built this gold-topped shrine the Dome of the Rock |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | ANCIENT STUFF $800: Working alongside the sculptor Phidias, Ictinus was the architect of this building in Athens the Parthenon |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | MAILING IT IN $200: If a friend is building a wall or a whole house, mail him this basic piece of material, standard size 3 5/8 & 2 1/4 x 8 inches a brick |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | A LONG ELEVATOR RIDE $2000: Push the button for floor No. 124 at this tallest building in the world, then gaze out over Dubai, where it's located the Burj Khalifa |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | A LONG ELEVATOR RIDE $4,000 (Daily Double): Even the elevator doors are Art Deco in this skyscraper, whose name honors an automobile builder the Chrysler Building |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $400: Landmarks along this Washington, D.C. route include the J. Edgar Hoover building & the National Archives Pennsylvania Avenue |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | WOOD $200: Wood suitable to be used for building, or a word used when a tree is falling timber |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $1600: The White House job called Chief this is a general manager of the building; Angella Reid was the first woman in the post Chief Usher |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | HISTORY ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Madison Adams with CBS 11 News.)The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is in this building that in November 1963 became instantly world famous Texas School Book Depository |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $1200: Home to the houses of Parliament, this palace was rebuilt in Gothic revival style after an earlier building burned in 1834 the Palace of Westminster |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $2000: You can see why an 1892 building at the University of Liverpool inspired this term for a university other than Oxford or Cambridge red brick universities |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR $200: Illuminated by thousands of lightbulbs, the building seen here was devoted to this new innovation for the home electric lighting |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR $600: The building at the fair where the Liberty Bell was on display was modeled after this famous building in Philly Independence Hall |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $800: Recalling a great moment in state history, bronze seagulls perch on a monument in this square named for a building Temple Square |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | SCULPTURE $800: Doctors' offices can have nice art & this organization put a 10-ton Louise Nevelson sculpture outside its D.C. building American Medical Association |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $600: Located in Buenos Aires, it's the type of building & museum seen here planetarium |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | WHERE & WHEN $600: The building of the white tower begins around 1078:
the city London |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | HOME SWEET HOME $1600: In 1889 a member of this family began building a little country home in N.C., the 250-room Biltmore House the Vanderbilts |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BUILDING, ROMAN $400: "Old" this basilica lasted from the 300s to the 1500s, when the "New" one replaced it St. Peter's |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BUILDING, ROMAN $800: Later used for other things, the Maison Carrée in Nimes was first this type of building a temple |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BUILDING, ROMAN $1200: Everyone knows about this emperor's wall in Britain, but he also built a library in Athens Hadrian |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BUILDING, ROMAN $1600: Victor Emmanuel II & Raphael are at rest in this Roman structure; Paris has its own the Pantheon |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BUILDING, ROMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Over 2,000 years after it was built, the Bridge of Alcantara in western Spain still crosses this river the Tagus |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $800: This ship-building civilization made of independent city-states began trading with Egypt around 3000 B.C. Phoenicia |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | HOLD MY BEER $600: In the 1960s the head of this Dutch co. tried to make its green bottle rectangular so it could be used as building material Heineken |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE $2000: The Imperial Diet, or main legislative body, had this German name, also applied to a building burned under the Nazis the Reichstag |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND $800: A statue of justice tops the London building known as this old place Bailey |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | LITERA-CHURCH $800: It's the planetary title of Ken Follett's historical fiction about the building of a 12th century cathedral The Pillars of the Earth |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | U.S. BUILDINGS $400: Cue the choir! In 2007 this Salt Lake City building reopened after a 2-year renovation the Mormon Tabernacle |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | U.S. BUILDINGS $600: A sculpture in this New York City building depicts its founder holding one of the nickels used to create his five-and-dime empire Woolworth (Building) |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | STATELY SONGS $800: In 1979 Ray Charles returned to the capitol building in the state of his birth to sing this song, his first No. 1 hit "Georgia On My Mind" |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE WISE MAN'S FEAR $1200: An old folk song tells of the wise man building his house on this, while the foolish man built his on the sand rock |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at the building housing the president's office in this administrative, not legislative or judicial, capital of South Africa Pretoria |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | KABOOM! $1,500 (Daily Double): The National Demolition Assoc. says this process of collapsing a building "is the most visible face" of the industry implosion |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: In 1783 the Russians began building this naval base & fortress in the Crimea Sevastopol |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | "OOP"s $600: In front of a residential building in the U.S. Northeast, it can be a single step or a flight of them as seen here a stoop |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | COLLEGE HIJINKS $800: Sometimes Aggies at this school need support, like in 1973 when a 40'-wide bra fronted an academic building Texas A & M |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | DIFFERING BY ONE LETTER $1000: To scatter & the first little pig's building material strew and straw |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | TOM HANKS MOVIE QUOTES $400: "She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building" Sleepless in Seattle |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | THE MAP OF CANADA $1000: Rising above the Saskatchewan prairie in this city is the largest provincial legislative building in Canada Regina |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | GRADE THAT WORD $800: This type of building with triangular front & back walls & a long sloping roof gets top marks an A-frame |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: If you're in front of the former Sears building seen here, you're in this city Seattle |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | GIMME SHELTER $400: This farm building can precede "spider" or "raising" a barn |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | GIMME SHELTER $1600: A wooden building such as a Native American medicine one a lodge |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BIOLOGY $400: These compounds are called the building blocks of protein amino acids |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On April 9, 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant in this Virginia village whose name sounds like a judiciary building Appomattox Courthouse |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1200: Lewis Hine's 1932 book "Men at Work" documented in photographs the construction of this NYC building in 1930 the Empire State Building |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | A VISIT TO THE CIA $200: (Alex reports from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, VA.) The Director's Gallery in the headquarters building contains portraits of every man who has led the CIA, including this one, who also served as president of the United States George H.W. Bush |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | ROCKS $1000: This word for a light-colored rock used in building comes from an old Roman name for Tivoli, Italy travertine |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WILL SMITH $1200: After escaping an alien ship with Jeff Goldblum in this film, Will announces, "Elvis has left the building!" Independence Day |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: As architect Louis Sullivan wrote, Chicago's Masonic Temple "raised its head" 22 stories in 1892 & this word "came into use" skyscraper |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: Dry masonry is stonework or brickwork done without this binding agent made with cement mortar |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: The type of Victorian architecture seen here is named for this molasses cake & features ornate woodwork gingerbread |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2000: A $100 million one of these cottages in Gstaad is part of the divorce award to Mrs. Dmitry Rybolovlev a chalet |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $3,000 (Daily Double): The Latin for "ship" gives us the name for this central part of a church the nave |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | WITH SCIENCE $1200: These "tides" form the building blocks of RNA & have nothing to do with the rise & fall of the ocean nucleotides |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: The state capitol building, naturally, designed by Thomas Jefferson Richmond |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | THE SUPREME COURT $800: One of the Supreme Court building dining rooms is named for this chief justice who served from 1801 to 1835 (John) Marshall |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $2000: The state capital building featuring murals designed by Thomas Hart Benton Jefferson City, Missouri |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $200: Picture it: Ed Sheeran wrote this hit about a memento of love while building a Lego X-Wing fighter in a hotel room "Photograph" |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | IN OLDEN TIMES $600: 5th century B.C.: Athenians carry out an ambitious building program on this hill with a name meaning "upper city" Acropolis |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: Airships also find shelter in this type of building; the one seen here is at Wingfoot Lake in Ohio a hangar |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | "V"OCABULARY $400: From the Latin for "entrance", it's a large reception area at the main door of a building a vestibule |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): After selling his fur business in 1834, he devoted himself to real estate, building the world's biggest hotel in NYC John Jacob Astor |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | OF INDUSTRY $200: The size of 75 football fields, the world's largest factory building is one in Everett, Wash. owned by this co. Boeing |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | SILENT N $800: A city might do this to an old building that is deemed unsafe condemn |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | SLIDESHOW BOB $5,000 (Daily Double): This inventor and engineer climbed a tree as a lad in 1899 and dreamed of building a craft that could reach Mars Robert Goddard |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | ALSO A CANDY BAR $400: Street where the Empire State Building & the Flatiron Building are located 5th Avenue |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | U.S. PLACES $2000: A walking tour of this "stately" Nevada city includes the Red Garter Saloon & the Territorial Enterprise Building Virginia City, Nevada |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | URUGUAY $2000: Uruguay has so many quarries of this that about 50 different types were used to build the Parliament building marble |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $1000: This slab of black rock now in the British Museum was used as building material by the Ottomans for Fort Julien, Egypt the Rosetta Stone |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LEGO $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) Popular sets from the building series include such landmarks as Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower & this World Heritage Site & masterpiece of Indian architecture the Taj Mahal |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | "J"EOGRAPHY $800: Naturally, magnolia trees surround the 1903 state capitol building in this city Jackson (Mississippi) |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | STRUCTURED $400: In part form the Old English for "commodities", it's a large building for storing inventory a warehouse |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $400: The mortar used to bind the stones of this 5,500-mile-long structure was made with rice flour the Great Wall of China |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $800: In 2011 Cornell researchers concluded that this NYC building is the most photographed in the world the Empire State Building |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $1200: Going from Virginia Beach to Wilmington, Delaware is 95 miles shorter via this 17.6 mile bridge tunnel the Chesapeake Bay Bridge |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $1600: This home of the Toronto Blue Jays has an 11,000-ton roof that can fully retract in less than 20 minutes the Rogers Centre |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $2000: The floor plan of each of these towers in Kuala Lumpur forms an 8-pointed star inspired by Islamic patterns the Petronas Towers |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $800: Take classes like "Ornament Theory and Design" & "Building Technology" at Yale's School of this architecture |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $2000: A 4,600-year-old Egyptian road is the world's oldest paved road; it was used to transport building materials to this pyramid site Giza |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | CLEVELAND $2000: This university formed by a 1967 merger has a new Frank Gehry building for its management school Case Western Reserve |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at the USA's oldest public building, the Palace of the Governors, in this city founded in 1610, the oldest city that serves as a state capital Santa Fe |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | MUSICIANS' SIGNATURE MOMENTS $200: On Jan. 30, 1969 this band played for 42 minutes on the roof of a Savile Row building The Beatles |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HORROR TV $400: The Art Deco Oviatt Building was used for exterior shots of this anthology series' "Hotel", the Cortez American Horror Story |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | MUSICIANS' SIGNATURE MOMENTS $400: On March 27, 1987 this band played "Where The Streets Have No Name" on the roof of a downtown L.A. building U2 |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: The 2016 Victorian Architecture Medal went not to a 19th-century styled building, but to the Geelong Library in Victoria in this country Australia |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | U.S. MUSEUMS $1200: Not surprisingly, the basement of this building in Washington, D.C. houses a museum of Lincoln memorabilia Ford's Theatre |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | SWEEPING THE NATION $400: For years after its 1931 completion, its custodians turned on lights to make it look like the upper floors were in use the Empire State Building |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | CITY HALL $1000: The building housing this burg's City Hall also houses the offices administering Cook County Chicago |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | INVENTION & INNOVATION $600: Mixing slaked lime & volcanic ash, the Romans made use of this cement-based building material in monuments & roads concrete |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | POLYNESIA $1200: In 1915 missionaries from this U.S. church began building its first Polynesian temple on Oahu the Church of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | "TEN"-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Empire State Building is in what was once this "meaty" area noted for vice & corruption the Tenderloin |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: At their national memorial in North Carolina, kids can see a kite-building demonstration & learn about flight the Wright Brothers |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Kidd O'Shea from ABC 7 News.) All vice presidents have worked out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, starting with this man, who in 1961 wanted an office in the White House but was moved next door as part of his sidelining by the administration Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE 1970s $200: The Sears Tower in this city began its 23-year reign as the world's tallest building Chicago |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | OUR GREAT COUNTRY $600: It was in this Philadelphia building that the Constitution was drafted in 1787 Independence Hall |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | FOO FIGHTERS $1200: "There goes" this person, "He's ordinary" in a song whose video showed a building on fire "my hero" |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES $200: Increasing sales, one building containing several movie theaters is known by this term a multiplex |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $400: The Library was originally housed in this building, which the British set on fire in 1814, destroying almost all its books the Capitol Building |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | MILAN $200: Many Italian cities feature this type of building, but only Milan's had D.H. Lawrence call it "an imitation hedgehog" a cathedral |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | MILAN $1000: You may never "tire" of seeing this company's building in Milan, or visiting its flagship PZero store there Pirelli |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | "T" MOBILE $1600: A 1988 film told of this "Man and his Dream" of building cutting-edge cars, like the one seen here (Preston) Tucker |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | ELLIS ISLAND $400: In 1890 Ellis Island doubled in size by using ships' ballast & dirt from the building of this transportation system the New York subway |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | SCULPTORS $1600: This Bulgarian-born sculptor's works include wrapping Berlin's Reichstag building in fabric in 1995 Christo |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW $600: Seen here, the Reynolds Building in North Carolina was an inspiration for this other building that went up two years later the Empire State Building |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | TEACHER VOCABULARY $2000: The same Latin word gives us a synonym for a building & this word for teaching that provides moral uplift edify |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | WHAT'S MY LION? $1200: In the 1930s mayor Fiorello La Guardia named the 2 marble lions in front of this building Patience & Fortitude the New York Public Library |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: Lake Texoma on the border of Texas & Oklahoma was created by the building of the Denison Dam on this river the Red River |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | WELCOME TO $400: Come tour this building where Dickens & Dryden are buried Westminster Abbey |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $2000: In the 1390s Yi Song-Gye began building this city to serve as the capital of Choson Seoul |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this Roald Dahl work, the title edible eventually comes to rest on top of the Empire State Building James and the Giant Peach |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | MUSICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The principal story of a large building or palace is called this instrument "nobile" the piano |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | CLEVER LOGOS $400: An imprint of Penguin, Gotham Books has a logo of 3 stacked books that form this type of building seen in New York City a skyscraper |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | "RTH" $800: In 1913, this five-&-dime magnate built what was then the tallest building in the world Woolworth |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | THE MAN UPSTAIRS $800: The building where "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels has a 17th floor office, or the title of another TV comedy 30 Rock |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $1000: "The Home of Free Speech" & "the Cradle of Liberty"--this historic building is now part of a bustling marketplace Faneuil Hall |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: This architectural style of the High Middle Ages mostly seen in cathedrals developed from the Romanesque & Byzantine styles Gothic |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: A gambrel type of this has 2 pitches on each side, such as seen on a barn a roof |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: Covering 8 Nevada acres, it's the not very ancient pyramid seen here the Luxor |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1600: Terrazzo floors usually feature chips of this stone embedded into a base marble |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2000: Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the only North American building designed by this Swiss architect Le Corbusier |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | DWELLING ON THE PAST $600: Since 1984 the Wadowice, Poland building in which this religious figure lived before WWII has been a museum Pope John Paul II |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | I NEED MY "SPACE" $600: Area in a building containing wiring or plumbing but with limited upright access crawlspace |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $400: B:
A towering building project in Genesis 11:4-9 Babel |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | STARTS WITH "S" $400: The New York Times called the 7-story Equitable Building of 1870 "the city's first" this skyscraper |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | ALSO PART OF A BOOK $800: A ceremony celebrating the opening of a building a dedication |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $400: (I'm David Barstow.) My Pulitzer-winning story about retired generals co-opted as analysts to sell the Iraq War was headlined this building's "Hidden Hand" the Pentagon |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | NUT-TRITION $200: Almonds are an excellent source of fiber & this bone-building element--got milk? calcium |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | PALACES $400: This "seasonal" palace has been called "St. Petersburg's most famous building" the Winter Palace for the Romanovs |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Niagara Escarpment was a challenge in the building of this canal the Erie Canal |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | LITERARY STRUCTURE $1000: Greed & arrogant pride are building blocks of the Pyncheon family in this 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne work House of the Seven Gables |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS $400: After his victory at Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon began building this structure to honor the French army the Arc de Triomphe |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $400: You ought to recognize this iconic art deco skyscraper the Chrysler Building |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $800: In 2015, this museum, named for the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, moved to a new building with a cantilevered entrance the Whitney Museum of American Art |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $600: Resembling a flying saucer, the Theme Building located here is a cultural & historical landmark LAX |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $800: One quote from him is "We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia" Lenin |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | ARCHITECTS $1200: Renzo Piano designed the Manhattan building that in 2007 became the new home of this over 150-year-old newspaper The New York Times |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | BUILDING THE COMPOUND WORD $400: Supporting rods in a bicycle wheel +
any human =
one who makes a statement for another spokesperson |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | BUILDING THE COMPOUND WORD $1600: Short & abrupt +
lawsuit =
carrier for papers briefcase |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | BUILDING THE COMPOUND WORD $2000: Ordinary +
abundance of money =
what Massachusetts officially is commonwealth |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | BUILDING THE COMPOUND WORD $5,000 (Daily Double): Time teller +
sagacious =
a direction clockwise |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | BUILDING TERMS $200: A deadlight is one of these, designed not to open a skylight |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | BUILDING TERMS $400: As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall a turret |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | BUILDING TERMS $600: From their ruddy facades, it's the colorful name for Eastern U.S. apartment houses built in the 19th century a brownstone |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | BUILDING TERMS $800: Because its supports are called balusters, an elaborate railing is called this a balustrade |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | BUILDING TERMS $1000: A horizontal beam that supports weight above a door, it sometimes follows "post &" lintel |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | "HOUSE" $2000: This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes the house martin |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | EVERY OTHER LETTER A VOWEL $600: From the French, it's a decorative front of a building, or an illusion facade |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ANCIENT TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Around 900 A.D. this Central American society's Classic Era collapsed & temple building ceased the Mayans |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ANCIENT TIMES $2000: Not the "Prince of Tyre", this Athenian statesman is known for building projects on the Acropolis Pericles |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE ____ OF ____ $200: This Washington, D.C. landmark's Thomas Jefferson building houses its main reading room the Library of Congress |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $600: This king of Ancient Egypt's 19th dynasty was known for his extensive building programs Ramses |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | WHAT'S THAT WEBSITE? $800: esbnyc.com
(a landmark) the Empire State Building |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | D.C.-AREA LANDMARKS $400: In the 1860s Constantino Brumidi painted the fresco for the dome of this building's rotunda the Capitol Building |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | MATERIAL $400: Reddish soil called laterite gets its name from later, Latin for this reddish building material brick |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | ICELAND $800: In 2015 an Icelandic group reconnected to its Norse past by building a temple to several gods including him, boss of the gods Odin |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | A WORLD OF ART $1200: The Rockefellers destroyed this Mexican's "Man at the Crossroads" mural for the RCA Building because it featured Lenin Diego Rivera |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $400: 82 A.D.: Domitian adds a level of nosebleed seats to this amphitheater so more Romans can watch gladiatorbleeds the Colosseum |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $800: 1163: Pope Alexander III lays the foundation stone for this Paris cathedral; bells & bell-ringers come later Notre Dame |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $1200: 1941-43: 13,000 American workers labor day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex the Pentagon |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $1600: 1902: Daniel Burnham completes NYC's Fuller Building, now known by this household appliance name the Flatiron |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $2000: 1238: Muhammad Ibn al-Ahmar begins work on this Moorish masterpiece the Alhambra |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | DISCOVERIES $600: On January 24, 1848 James Marshall discovered gold while building a mill for this man, & the rush was on! (John) Sutter |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | SUPERHERO DAY JOBS? $400: The new tower on the building named for this legendary publisher leaves many windows for Spidey to wash (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | A CAPITAL IDEA $2000: A statue of William Tell adorns the parliament building in this Swiss city Bern |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | PRESENTED IN 2D $600: An architect's face-on drawing of a building is an elevation; a top-down view is this simple 4-letter word a plan |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | ON THE BACK OF THE BILL $4,000 (Daily Double): $10 bill:
This building where you'll find the Salmon P. Chase Suite the Treasury Building |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE GREAT STATE OF MISSISSIPPI $1200: This Mississippi city was named for the trees that provided building timber but are also sung about for their honey Tupelo |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | WELCOME TO MY HUT $800: Chapter 3 of this novel is "Huts on the Beach"--Ralph & Simon are building them & the other kids aren't helping Lord of the Flies |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | THE PRESIDENT'S PLEASURE $600: He more than dabbled in architecture, designing Virginia's capitol building, among others Thomas Jefferson |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $600: In 1863 the Statue of Freedom designed by Thomas Crawford was placed atop this Washington, D.C. building the Capitol building |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, shows an enclosed clockwork model.) Clockmaker Joseph Pope was about halfway through his 12-year project of building a gear-driven model of the solar system that showed the relative motion of the planets & their satellites, when in 1781, this planet was discovered, but rather than start over, he didn't include it Uranus |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): This city's Museum of Science & Industry is housed in the only remaining building from the 1893 Columbian Expo Chicago |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | STAR-CHITECTS $1200: Rafael Viñoly's 432 this non-numbered avenue has a $95 million penthouse looking down on the Empire State Building Park Avenue |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | STAR-CHITECTS $1600: My architect has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R; he also has this last name, and designed Brazil's Congress building Niemeyer |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | WE "CU" $1200: Adjective for a building superintendent's duties custodial |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | "RU" FOR REAL $200: From August 1942 to February 1943, much of Stalingrad was reduced to this, rough fragments of building material rubble |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $400: The Court Building has bronze doors depicting scenes in this history of law, like him sealing the Magna Carta King John |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NEW YORK TIMES $200: Its 86th floor observatory is open 8 A.M. to 2 A.M., 365 days a year the Empire State Building |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | DAVID MUIR REPORTING $400: (David Muir delivers the clue.) On August 29, 2005 I reported from inside this building where at one point 30,000 people were seeking shelter before the levees even broke the Superdome |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $400: "Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the big woods" for this title home Little House on the Prairie |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $1200: Agatha Christie's "Murder at the Vicarage" introduced this spinster sleuth Miss Marple |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $1600: This debut novel from Dan Brown featured brilliant & beautiful mathematician Susan Fletcher Digital Fortress |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $2000: This Stella Gibbons novel is a satire of Thomas Hardy novels & British rural life in the 1930s Cold Comfort Farm |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $4,000 (Daily Double): Little Nell & her grandfather desperately try to hold on to this Dickens title building The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | STATE CAPITOLS $800: The state capitol building in this city once housed the first provisional government of the Confederacy Montgomery |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | STATE CAPITOLS $1600: A prime attraction of the capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is a series of murals painted by this native son Thomas Hart Benton |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE NEW $100 BILL $1600: To help those with visual impairments, a gold 100 on the back of the bill towers over this Penn. building Independence Hall |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: In the 1870s Francois Hennebique pioneered the use of reinforced this in building construction concrete |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: Music students are among the users of the exhibition hall seen here in this country's Anhui Province China |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: An alteration of a French word for "frame", it's the frame holding the panes of a window or door a sash |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1600: This simplest form of vault consists of a single continuous arch a barrel vault |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2000: In the early 1500s, this country's Manueline architecture used nautical motifs like chains & ropes Portugal |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | WHAT IT'S NOT $1000: It's not the building where the freshmen live, it's a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof a dormer |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | LATIN IN PLANT NAMES $600: Muralis means growing on this part of a building the wall |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $1000: Check out the Truman show in this capital, specifically the Harry S Truman State Office Building Jefferson City |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $600: In the 1933 film, King Kong climbs this skyscraper & bats down a biplane with his bare hand the Empire State Building |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | PARKS $2000: The 105-year-old Looff Carousel in this Washington city's Riverfront Park is housed in a building remaining from Expo '74 Spokane |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | OH, HI, OHIO! $2000: The 665-foot Great American Tower, this city's tallest building, stands at Queen City Square near Fourth & Sycamore Streets Cincinnati |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | PROOFREADING $800: A proof that shows a statement to be true by building an example is called this, like helpful criticism constructive |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | BRING IT $800: on a hike:
An Odwalla "Monster" drink with 20 grams of this muscle-building amino acid-based stuff protein |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | JUDGES $200: Columbia, S.C.'s this building is named for Matthew J. Perry, the first black federal judge from the Deep South federal courthouse |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | LINCOLN $400: You can visit this building at 35 Carlisle St., where Lincoln arrived in town the train station |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | THE RECKONING $800: This mobster developed Vegas gambling (yay!); skimmed funds in building the Flamingo (oops); killed in '47 (eesh) Bugsy Siegel |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | THE '30s $1000: On February 23, 532 Byzantine Emperor Justinian began the building of this house of worship the Hagia Sophia |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | BRIDGES $400: One pylon of this country's Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest road bridge, is higher than the Chrysler Building France |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | THE SMITHSONIAN FROM A TO Z $600: C:
Nickname of this building, home to the Smithsonian Information Center the Castle |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | FROM THE SPANISH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a short brick wall in Santa Fe, NM.) Requiring weeks for the bricks to dry, this method of building, that got its name from the Spanish, is common in arid climates like New Mexico adobe |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | LIVING AT THE WATERGATE $600: In 1996 this Supreme Court justice from N.Y. & Watergate resident had her purse snatched outside the building Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | LIVING AT THE WATERGATE $800: At the center of a pres. scandal herself, she left neighbors apology notes for the fuss she brought to the building in the '90s Monica Lewinsky |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | TV GUIDE SAYS $200: "An abandoned building is rigged to explode with McGarrett and Danny trapped inside" Hawaii Five-0 |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Chicago Board of Trade.) Chicago has long been the center of the American grain trade; in 1930, an aluminum statue of this Roman goddess of grains was placed atop the Chicago Board of Trade building to symbolize the city's agricultural roots Ceres |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | AMERICANA $400: Shhhh! The U.S. Poet Laureate works on the third floor of this institution's Jefferson building The Library of Congress |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE $800: Just before WWI, Conan Doyle suggested building this between Britain & France; 8 decades later, one was built a tunnel |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | "CHAR"MED, I'M SURE $1200: She was hired to clean, usually in a large building a charwoman |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $400: 191 Peachtree Tower Atlanta |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $800: Rainier Tower Seattle |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $1600: 111 S. Wacker Drive Chicago |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $2,000 (Daily Double): Heritage Plaza (formerly Texaco Heritage Plaza) Houston |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | PLASTIC SURGERY $400: A building or website can also get this, an operation to reduce sagging of the jowls & neck a facelift |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | STAMPS $1600: The "Made in America" series shows a riveter & a welder working on this Manhattan skyscraper Empire State Building |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | A CAMPUS TOUR $400: Sweet dreams in this building, from Latin for "sleeping place" (no, it's not the library) dormitory |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | MYTHS BUSTED BY MYTHBUSTERS $800: One of these dropped from the Empire State Building is unlikely to kill someone or to penetrate the ground penny |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | OH, LOOK AT THE TIME $1200: "Building" term for the post-Civil War period of 1865 to 1877, when a lot of it was needed Reconstruction |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $800: A N.Y. congressman from 1903 to 1907, this newspaper magnate returned to California & got into castle building (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | THAT'S SPOOKY $400: truTV claimed Abigail Adams is still hanging her laundry & Andrew Jackson "swears up a storm" in this building the White House |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FURNITURE $1600: Mies Van Der Rohe designed tubular types of these & said it's almost harder than designing a building chairs |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $600: This triangular NYC building is found at 5th Avenue & 22nd street the Flatiron Building |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | MICHIGAN ODDS & ENDS $200: Appropriately, this type of public building in Grand Rapids is named after astronaut Roger B. Chaffee a planetarium |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | WHAT A "CO"-INCIDENCE $1600: A covered entrance to a building usually supported with columns a portico |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | PLASTIC $400: That tyke building a droid tri-fighter out of these doesn't know the bricks are acrylonitrile butadiene styrene Legos |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | BIG STUFF $2,400 (Daily Double): The world's largest building by volume is this company's 472 million-cubic-foot factory in Everett, Wash. Boeing |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | THE COSTUME DESIGNS OF WILLIAM IVEY LONG $400: Roger De Bris says
he's supposed to be a Grand Duchess but looks more like the Chrysler Building in this Mel Brooks musical The Producers |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | ANAGRAMS FOR MILLIONAIRES $800: Endow a new chemistry building there:
"THROAT MUD" Dartmouth |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | WELCOME TO NASHVILLE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a building in Nashville, Tennessee.) Nashville is nicknamed "the Athens of the South" & fittingly features a full-scale replica of this Athenian temple the Parthenon |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | STRUCTURES $1000: Czar Alexander II ordered the building of this ballet theater that's named for his wife, Marie the Mariinsky |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | small state capitals $400: Many of the state government offices in this capital are housed in the Harry S Truman state office building Jefferson City |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: In 1964 this Russian-Jewish painter made a stained-glass window for New York's U.N. building Marc Chagall |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | OUT IN THE BACKYARD $400: This glass-enclosed building for growing plants gives a nice effect greenhouse |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | MONEY TALKS $400: The 2012 nickel:
The name of this building Monticello |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $1200: This government body met in the Curia Julia, a rectangular brick building situated in the Forum the Senate |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An emperor's visit to Britain in 122 A.D. led to the building of this defensive barrier that remained effective for almost 300 years Hadrian's Wall |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $800: Franz Joseph inaugurated the new main building of the University of this capital--the oldest university in the German-speaking world Vienna |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EXPLOSIVE IMPLOSIONS $800: Many unhappy returns - we're not that sure if Atlantans were so sad to see a building for this government department go down in 1994 the IRS |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS $400: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) Here in my ceremonial office in this old executive office building, I use a desk made in 1902 for this president & used by every vice president since LBJ Teddy Roosevelt |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $200: From the Latin for "to hear", it was a building where orators, poets & critics would speak an auditorium |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BUILDING $200: The elevators in this Paris landmark ascend on a curve Eiffel Tower |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BUILDING $400: The sunburst spire of this art deco NYC skyscraper was hoisted into position after being assembled inside the building the Chrysler Building |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BUILDING $600: This landmark on Salisbury Plain is an early example of post-&-lintel construction Stonehenge |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BUILDING $800: Dick Bowser designed the unique tram system that takes visitors to the top of this St. Louis landmark (Gateway) Arch |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BUILDING $1000: This amphitheater was built on the grounds of what was Nero's golden house Colosseum |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | 1930s ENGINEERING FEATS $400: On May 1, 1931 the lights were turned on in this NYC skyscraper with the press of a button in the White House the Empire State Building |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | "V"ERBS $400: To express an emotion, or to relieve building pressure vent |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | CAN I GET A NUMBER? $1000: 212 is the area code for the Empire State Building; this is the area code for the White House 202 |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | TOMB SERVICE $600: This wall-building emperor's cylindrical tomb in Rome later served as a fortress & is now a museum Hadrian |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | LITERARY OPENINGS $1200: Huxley:
"A squat grey building of only 34 stories. Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery" Brave New World |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | SEEN FROM SPACE $200: The building seen here is the headquarters of this Cabinet department the Department of Defense |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | INSPIRATION $400: A building at Japan's Senju Museum was inspired by this paper-folding art origami |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MOVIES WITH STRUCTURE $400: "Elvis Has Left the ____" Building |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a Classical/Revival style building in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, PA.) Madison & Jefferson were opposed, but Hamilton's vision of a strong central government, in economics as well as politics, won out & this financial institution was created in 1791, headquartered here in Philadelphia the Bank of the United States |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | U.S. LANDMARKS $1000: In the fall of 2013, this striking building that's home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrated its 10th birthday Disney Hall |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Huey Long's grave has an honored place on the grounds of this city's capital building Baton Rouge |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | WICKED $400: They call me "Wonderful" in the show & give me credit for the idea of building a wonderful road of yellow brick & a town of this color emerald (green) |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | THE ABCs OF NYC $400: ESB:
It was completed ahead of schedule & under budget the Empire State Building |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS $400: In this building, home to a church choir, a pin dropped at the pulpit can be heard at the back of the hall Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | TYPES OF RESTAURANTS $600: Places classified as "fast casual" include this burrito-building chain named for a chili, with over 1,500 locations Chipotle |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR $400: (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor presents the clue.) Getting Congress to put up the Supreme Court Building & establishing the Court's control over its own docket are just 2 contributions of this chief justice who also held another high office William Howard Taft |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | CASTLING $400: Today thought of as a prison in the bottom levels of a castle, originally it was the strongest building there the dungeon |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | SAN ANTONIO $400: The Alamo is where William Travis gained his fame; this building a 15-minute walk away is where Tim Duncan once gained his the Alamo Dome |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | IF YOU BUILD IT $200: This word meant a tall hat or a tall guy before it meant a towering glass building a skyscraper |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | WHAT AN ICE PARTY $200: This Minnesota capital's
winter carnival started building ice palaces
back in the 1880s. St. Paul |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | NEW INVENTIONS $2,900 (Daily Double): Being tested in 2013, Grasshopper is a reusable one of these as tall as a 10-story building a rocket |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | POTPOURRI $800: You know from trips to the ATM that Andrew Jackson is on the front of the $20; this building is on the back the White House |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | GOOD DEFINITION $400: An apartment building with exactly 3 units a triplex |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | UNIQUE NEW YORK $1000: Funeral masses for Babe Ruth & Toscanini were held at this building at 50th & 5th St. Patrick's |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A CASE OF A_D_D $400: Deserted, like a building abandoned |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati building that lets you see all the curating going on is the U.S.A.'s first of these a woman designed a museum |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS $400: It sounds like a building, but it's the name of the village that was the site of an 1865 surrender, now a historical park Appomattox Courthouse |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS $1600: One scroll, a mash-up of a few Old Testament books, is devoted to the building & operation of this edifice the Temple |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | POETRY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a poem on the monitor.) The shape of a mouse's tail develops as you read a piece from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," so it's this type of poem that shares its name with a building material concrete |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $2000: Its East Building, completed in 1978 in Washington, D.C., was designed by I.M. Pei the National Gallery of Art |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | WHERE IS IT? $200: The yellow oval room: in this building The White House |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | COLLEGE ACTIVITIES $800: The 2013 Easter Conference at this university was held at its Joseph Smith Building auditorium Brigham Young |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | GEORGE TOWN $200: A building at USC's Cinematic Arts Complex is named for this "Star Wars" filmmaker, a USC alumnus George Lucas |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | YOU SEE "L.A." $600: A designer of a building's grounds & gardens a landscape architect |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | CONSTITUTION USA WITH PETER SAGAL $200: In a Philadelphia summer, with the windows shut
for secrecy, the states worked out
the Constitution
in this building Independence Hall |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | NAVAL VESSELS $400: Spain used this type of ship in both war and peace; the San Diego Maritime Museum is building a replica of Cabrillo's galleon |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | NAVAL VESSELS $600: The USS Carl Vinson, this type of ship, is nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall aircraft carrier |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | MANHATTAN PROJECTS $600: In April 2012 the rising tower with the address 1 here surpassed the Empire State Building as NYC's highest point the World Trade Center |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | THANK "Q" VERY MUCH $400: Let's go swim in this empty pit where building stone was dug quarry |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | FATHER FIGURES $200: For designing the tallest of his era, like the Woolworth building, Cass Gilbert was "the father of" this type of structure skyscraper |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | I'LL TAKE YOUR CHARACTER $1200: With "Jane Fairfax", Joan Aiken is just one of the authors building on this woman's early 19th c. works (Jane) Austen |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | LABOR $2000: The Dept. of Labor is headquartered in a building named for this female secretary of labor who served from 1933 to 1945 Frances Perkins |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | SKYSCRAPERS $400: In 1930 this art deco building at 405 Lexington Avenue in New York City became the world's first to exceed 1,000 feet the Chrysler Building |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | SKYSCRAPERS $800: You can look over the Las Vegas Strip from the observation deck at the 869-foot level on this building the Stratosphere Tower |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | DOUBLE LETTER 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Spray-painted markings or initials on a building graffiti |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $1200: H.M. [Her Majesty's] Prison, which dates to the 1840s, is the oldest building in Road Town, the capital of this British island group the British Virgin Islands |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | AMERICAN ARCHITECTS $400: The Senate & house wings as we know them of this D.C. building were added by Thomas Walter in the 1850s the Capitol |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1600: In 1774 Parliament broadened this earlier act by allowing British soldiers to be housed in any occupied building the Quartering Act |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | END "SHIP" $800: The building seen here is a house of this worship |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $400: In July dense fog caused a B-25 bomber to crash into this building's 78th & 79th floors The Empire State Building |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | RHYME TIME $200: A wide & heavy rectangular block for building a thick brick |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | ROMAN ALONG $400: The building of this arena was begun by Vespasian around 70 A.D. & finished by his son Titus in 80 the Colosseum |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | I'M DYING HERE! $800: On Feb. 23, 1848 John Quincy Adams died in this building where he'd been working since 1831 the Capitol building |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | "AN" THE BEGINNING $800: With the stress on the first syllable, a building add-on; on the second, to incorporate another country's territory an annex |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | HOLD THE FORT! $800: Fort Abraham Lincoln was established in 1872 to protect the survey crews & workers who were building this as it advanced west across the Dakota Territory & beyond the (Transcontinental) Railroad |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | HOLD THE FORT! $2000: George Washington led the building of Fort Necessity in 1754 during this war the French & Indian War |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | ENDS IN "Y" $400: It can be the building housing an ambassador & his staff or the staff itself embassy |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | SKYSCRAPER CITY $200: The Trump building at 40 Wall St. New York City |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | ARMY BRANCHES $400: The fortification suggests this corps may be adept at building things the Army Corps of Engineers |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | "WHITE" MATTER $800: Architect James Hoban modeled this building after Leinster House in Dublin the White House |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 42 $600: Just west of Heinz Chapel is the 42-story Cathedral of Learning, the central building of this university University of Pittsburgh |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | DANCE COMPANIES $1200: The building housing this dance company opened August 20, 1856, in time for Czar Alexander II's coronation the Bolshoi |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $400: The Hanseatic League fostered safe navigation by training pilots & building many of these structures along the coasts lighthouses |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | PYRAMIDS $600: This San Francisco building's largest floor, the 5th, has 21,025 square feet; its smallest, the 48th, has 2,025 square feet the Transamerica Building |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | THE 5 SENSES $200: Though it sounds like an aged building for assembling goods, this system is just the sense of smell the olfactory system |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | EARLY AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION $400: St. Luke's church in Va. is the USA's oldest continually standing building made of this--the third little pig had it right brick |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | THE LAST "DROP" $800: To stand within the overhang of a building to hear something you shouldn't eavesdrop |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | MISSOURI LOVES COMPANIES $1000: The headquarters of this company, founded by two brothers, is in a Kansas City building the color of an eye shade H&R Block |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | "ED" $800: It's another term for a large, imposing building edifice |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | RANDOM HOUSE $400: The first cornerstone of this D.C. building located on 18 acres was laid in October 1792 the White House |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $400: Sessions of the convention took place in the assembly room of this brick building in Philadelphia Independence Hall |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | POLITICIANS $1600: In law school, Harry Reid worked night security in this building where he's now Senate majority leader the Capitol building |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HIDING PLACES $1000: No one will look for us in this attached building that can also mean an auto repair shop a garage |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | A HISTORY LESSON $1000: Louis XIV turned this building into a royal palace & the official residence of the court of France Versailles |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $600: The tragic headline for April 20, 1995: A deadly "car bomb attack in" this city "wrecks 9-story federal office building" Oklahoma City |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Will paid part of the cost of building this theater that opened in late 1599 the Globe |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | FLORA OF CENTRAL AMERICA $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Barro Colorado Reserve in Panama.) In damp tropical soils huge spreading root systems help trees resist toppling; such roots are called these, like exterior projecting supports of a building buttresses |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | 1933 $400: In California ground was broken for the building of this modern wonder the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | THE HARD STUFF $800: The most common plutonic rock in the Earth's crust, it makes a great building stone; don't take it for... granite |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | RAISE "A" GLASS $800: The Tokyo headquarters building of this company
is supposed to look like
a glass of beer with a head Asahi |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | "FOR" $200: A well-protected building, perhaps "of solitude" a fortress |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $800: A 9-foot statue of this actor graces the terminal building of the Orange County, California airport named for him John Wayne |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | SEE-ATTLE $1000: Appropriately, the building housing the EMP, short for this, looks like a smashed guitar Experience Music Project |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | U.S.A. TOUR $800: FYI, your tour of this government building at 320 West Colfax Avenue in Denver is absolutely free the U.S. Mint |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | BUSINESS SCHOOLS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Kenan-Flagler business school occupies a 191,000 sq.-ft. building on the Chapel Hill campus of this university the University of North Carolina |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $2000: In 1781 he returned to the U.S. & supervised the building of the America, the Navy's largest vessel John Paul Jones |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) From the front balcony of the Newseum, we can easily see its neighbor, the embassy of this longtime U.S. ally; it's the embassy that's closest to the U.S. Capitol building Canada |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | CITIZENSHIP $600: If you lose your passport in Oslo, you can get help in this building at 48 Henrik Ibsens gate the American Embassy |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | 4-LETTER VERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): As a noun, it's a building where grain is ground into flour; as a verb, it means to do the grinding mill |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $1000: Icy-sounding name of the decorative band, often in low relief, that runs below the cornice of a building a frieze |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | THE PANAMA CANAL $5,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Panama.) The labor of building the canal was made possible by the discovery that mosquitoes spread deadly diseases; screens, fumigations, & oiling standing water helped quickly eliminate this disease & drastically reduce malaria yellow fever |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | HAROLDRY $1200: In the silent film "Safety Last!", this comic dangles from the hands of a clock on a tall building Harold Lloyd |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | ALL "INN" $1000: A private place with limited access, perhaps in a religious building an inner sanctum |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: This building in Arlington, Virginia has 131 stairways, 19 escalators & 17.5 miles of corridors the Pentagon |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | ARCHITECTURAL TERMS $800: The arrangement & design of these in a building is called fenestration windows |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | THE 50 STATES $1600: (Alex Trebek walks along a river with grass, a bridge and a building in the background.) I'm in Cumberland, in this state; this city of 20,000 has a long history as a vital transport hub; it was the site of the first national road & also the terminus of the C&O Canal, which goes all the way to Washington, D.C. Maryland |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | CARPENTRY & CONSTRUCTION $200: A round of play in bowling, or the wooden skeletal structure of a building a frame |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | CARPENTRY & CONSTRUCTION $800: This elevated walkway around a building site shares its name with where models strut their stuff a catwalk |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | LET'S GET IN THE RV $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the RV Hall of Fame in Elkhart, IN.) In the 1930s, Hawley Bowlus started building streamlined metal campers; the design was soon taken over by this company, the oldest RV maker in existence, which still produces them Airstream |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | ENGINEERING $400: This building in Italy tilts 3.97 degrees off the vertical The Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | POTPOURRI $400: "Shaping a Life", "Building a Home" & "Creating a World" are on the U.S. postage stamp promoting awareness of this adoption |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | ENGINEERING $800: On April 28, 1869 laborers laid a record 10 miles of track in one day in the final stretch of building this the transcontinental railroad |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | OR GO HOME $600: To the penthouse of this alliterative building at 725 5th Avenue, if you're the star of a reality show filmed downstairs Trump Tower |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | PLOT $400: The gunpowder in the 1605 gunpowder plot was found under this building Parliament |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NICE "INK" $200: This building houses a surface used for skating a rink |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | MUSEUMS $800: The Syracuse, N.Y. museum devoted to this 19th century waterway is in a building once used to weigh boats the Erie Canal |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | MUSEUMS $2000: This Madrid art museum houses its treasures in the Villanueva Building & the Cason del Buen Retiro the Prado |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This building in our national capital was originally designed by Dr. William Thornton the Capitol |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | MISCELLAN"IUM" $400: Not just women but men over 50 also need at least 1,200 mg of this bone-building element daily calcium |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | MISCELLAN"IUM" $1200: Once the open main court of a Roman house, it's now a skylit central court in an office building or hotel atrium |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: This type of window that opens by means of a crank rhymes with a lower story of a building casement |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange.) The six Corinthian columns of the New York Stock Exchange facade are among the reasons the building is considered a masterpiece of this architectural style that drew inspiration from Greek & Roman models neoclassic |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | NICKEL & DIMED $4,000 (Daily Double): On the 2006 nickel this building looks basically the same as it always did, though the dome is a little sharper Monticello |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | "NEW" U.S. CITIES $400: The 33-story World Trade Center building rises at the south end of Canal Street in this city, y'all New Orleans |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | A MATTER OF SOME GRAVITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Building on the work of Galileo and Kepler, he published the first quantitative theory of gravitation in 1687 Newton |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE $400: His home at 19 North Square is the oldest building in downtown Boston Paul Revere |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | WORLD OF WONDERS $400: The versatile building seen here is the Monte Carlo this & Opera House Casino |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | WORLD OF WONDERS $800: Until 1954 it was the tallest structure in the world the Empire State Building |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | TAKING SPECIAL MEASURES $600: Please tell us you know that a hoppus foot measures this building material--& tell us chop chop lumber (timber) |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | TOYS & GAMES $600: Technic & Mindstorms are 2 of the lines of building sets from this brand Lego |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | SHADES OF GRAY $600: A mysterious Gray Lady is said to frequent the children's reading room of this public building in Willard, Indiana a library |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS $800: The levees USACE is building in the New Orleans area will use enough clay to fill 12 of this local structure opened in 1975 the Superdome |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | THE CONSTRUCTION CREW $600: If you're building with stone, call this expert; he might bring lunch in the same-named jar a mason |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's short for the room or building where experiments are done a lab |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SARAH TONE IN... $800: "Building A Mystery" & a TV ad for British Columbia tourism Sarah McLachlan |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | 20 FOR DUMMIES $1000: "Architecture for Dummies" calls this NYC skyscraper an "Art Deco fantasy" that's complete with hubcaps & hood ornaments the Chrysler Building |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | YOU SEE 'EM AT THE MUSEUM $600: Manet's "Before the Mirror" & Monet's "Palazzo Ducale" are in this unique NYC circular building the Guggenheim |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | TRIPLE THE FUN $200: The home-building materials of the 3 Little Pigs in the Disney version straw, wood & brick |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | SUBS $800 (Daily Double): In 1800, this inventor let off some steam building a copper-covered sub called the Nautilus Robert Fulton |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $800: Even though it's in Arlington, Va., the address for this building is 1400 Defense Pentagon, Washington D.C. 20301 the Pentagon |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | "SUPER" $400: This person is in charge of repairs & maintenance at an apartment building superintendent |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | LANDMARKS $2000: You'll flip when you check out the Wonderworks building in Pigeon Forge in this state Tennessee |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE MAKE MONEY $400: The first U.S. Mint building was in this city, then the nation's capital Philadelphia |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | McMEN $400: In 1831 at age 22, he tried his hand at building a reaper McCormick |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands on the lawn of a neoclassical building.) I'm at this famous home which in 1987 was named to the World Heritage Sites list along with the nearby University of Virginia Monticello |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram comparing sea level & various depths on the monitor.) Starting at sea level, here is the Empire State Building & the world's tallest building, compared to the full depth of this oceanic trench the Marianas Trench |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES $2,000 (Daily Double): "We must guard against feverish building of vast armaments to meet glibly predicted moments of... 'maximum peril'" Eisenhower |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | ARCHITECTURE $400: These overlapping pieces of material on roofs lent their name to a 19th century style of building shingles |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $400: History is riveting in "The Great Bridge", about the building of this American span opened in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $800: "The Path Between the Seas" covers the sweeping saga of the building of this from 1870 to 1914 the Panama Canal |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | THE POINT IS... $1000: this Beantown building the John Hancock Building (Tower) |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | CORNERSTONES $2,000 (Daily Double): The cornerstone for this Virginia school's first building, the Wren Building, was laid in 1695 the College of William & Mary |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | BERNINI $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) Bernini said his plan of a large oval connected to a trapezoidal space for the piazza of this building was meant to evoke the arms of the Church embracing its faithful St. Peter's Basilica |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | VIRGIN BERTHS $200: It took 62 seconds in 1911 for this ship's hull to slide from its building berth into Belfast's waters Titanic |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | SUFFIXES $800: When this suffix is added to a number, it means that a building has that number of units -plex |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $1,600 (Daily Double): In listing this citadel, UNESCO lauded Phidias, a sculptor who "transformed the rocky hill into a unique monument" the Acropolis |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | PLAY STATION $200: Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" is set in the 1920s in a tenement building in this capital city Dublin |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | ALPHABET HOMOPHONES $1000: A wing of a building at right angles to the main structure, or a right-angled bend in a pipe an ell |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | WILL U. $2,000 (Daily Double): The university named for this river is just across the street from Oregon's Capitol building the Willamette |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | POP CULTURE $1000: In 2010 this rapper born Clifford Harris helped coax a would-be jumper down from an Atlanta building T.I. |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | THINGS TO DO IN THE USA $1200: Going up! in this NYC skyscraper whose designer, William Lamb, was inspired by a pencil standing point-up the Empire State Building |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | STRIVING FOR AN "F" $600: 1-word term for a superficial appearance or the front of a building facade |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | NAME THE DECADE $400: The Empire State Building opens & the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast causes a panic the 1930s |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | WHAT THE TV TITLE MEANS $800: The building where the variety show "TGS with Tracy Jordan" is produced 30 Rock |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | WHAT THE TV TITLE MEANS $2000: The South Dakota building where the U.S. government stores all the supernatural objects it's collected Warehouse 13 |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diamond diagram on the monitor.) In a cut diamond, the band around the widest part is the girdle, the upper part is the crown, & the bottom area that reflects light is called this, like an exhibition building from the French for "butterfly" pavilion |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | HUMBLE & NOT-HUMBLE ABODES $400: A terrace is often part of this apartment found on the roof or top floor of a building a penthouse |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | HUMBLE & NOT-HUMBLE ABODES $600: From the Latin for "assembly", it's a building housing nuns a convent |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | IT'S AN HONOR $1,900 (Daily Double): A communications building at Sam Houston State University in Texas is named for this alumnus & former CBS News anchor Dan Rather |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | FROM THE GREEK $1200: Hold on to your shorts -- this building for exercises & playing sports is from the Greek for "to train naked" a gymnasium |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | SCENE OF THE CRIME $400: On Jan. 17, 1950 robbers made off with $2.7 mil. from the Brinks Building near this city's Charlestown bridge Boston |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1200: The Scottish National Monument, started in 1826 and still unfinished, is modeled on this ancient building the Parthenon |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $200: Guards thwarting a man's 2006 try at parachuting off this NYC landmark caused "emotional distress" (& a $30 mil. lawsuit) the Empire State building |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | GILT BY ASSOCIATION $200: If you're in London & looking for a gilt effigy of King Edward III, try this building Westminster Abbey |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: Temple Square & the Joseph Smith Memorial Building Salt Lake City |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $800: In this Bruce Willis movie, the villain goes out the window of the Nakatomi building, gun in hand Die Hard |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $2,000 (Daily Double): Now hanging in the Capitol, the 20th-century work seen here depicts a scene in this building in 1787 Independence Hall |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | TALL U.S. BUILDINGS $600: The tallest building in a state capital is the Bank of America Plaza on Peachtree St. in this city Atlanta |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | BACK IN THE '90s $200: In 1991 this Texas capital became the USA's first community with a green building program Austin |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1000: The Nazis may have contrived the February 1933 burning of this parliament building, giving them more control the Reichstag |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: In 1851 Joseph Paxton designed this building for a London exhibition using a prefab iron frame & glass panels the Crystal Palace |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | PLANTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Ecuador.) This typical 1940s house of a campesino, or field worker, is made from this giant grass associated with Asia but an important building material of Ecuador bamboo |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Simba climbs to the top of the Empire State Building with Fay Wray in his arms The Lion King Kong |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BUILDING A RECIPE $200: For our dish I'm sauteing this type of mushroom, actually creminis but called this when they get big & fat portobello |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BUILDING A RECIPE $400: For the sauce I'm making this 9-letter concoction that'll be ready when part of the port's volume has cooked off a reduction |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BUILDING A RECIPE $600: For a leafy garnish, I've cored a tomato & am stuffing it with this green from the Italian for "rocket" arugula |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BUILDING A RECIPE $800: Before baking, I'm brushing olive oil on our puff pastries described by this 10-letter term, as they lack yeast unleavened |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BUILDING A RECIPE $1000: I'm layering the pastry with mushrooms & sauce, creating this appetizer named for an emperor a Napoleon |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | THE "EYE"s HAVE IT $1200: A dilapidated old building an eyesore |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LIVING IN NYC $1600: Architect William Van Alen put radiator caps on the 31st floor of this art deco landmark at 405 Lexington the Chrysler Building |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LIVING IN NYC $2000: In 1942 Fiorello LaGuardia & his family moved into this building at 88th Street & East End Avenue Gracie Mansion |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | BILL CLINTON & THE CLINTON FOUNDATION $800: (Alex: Mr President?) My climate initiative brings together partners to make energy-saving retrofits to existing buildings, including this iconic skyscraper at 34th & 5th Avenue the Empire State Building |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | IN WHICH CANADIAN PROVINCE? $2000: The Leacock Building at McGill University Quebec |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | KING KONG $200: At the end of the original version, King Kong's dreams come crashing down to earth at this NYC landmark the Empire State Building |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | "ACE" $1000: A porch adjoining a building, like where Mummy often served tea terrace |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | TOYS & GAMES $600: Bionicle is one of the lines from this brand of building blocks Lego |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $1600: The Ohio House of Representatives makes state law in this building the State House |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | UNIQUE WORLD ARCHITECTURE $400: An 80-foot-high aquarium pillar is in the lobby of the Domaquare Building in this German capital Berlin |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $600: Carrier's Weathermaster HVAC unit, with capacity up to 100 tons, goes here on a building the roof |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | CONFUSE US $200: Changing the last vowel of a word meaning "seat of government" creates this building where lawmakers meet capital/capitol |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LANDMARKS $400: Irish-born architect James Hoban designed this Washington, D.C. building; he had to rebuild it after an 1814 fire the White House |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | ETCHED IN STONE $800: Outside the building where this group meets is a statue with a tablet that reads "Lex", Latin for "law" the U.S. Supreme Court |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | THE FORTUNE 500 $800: Perhaps reflecting the bust, for the first time in 15 yrs., no cos, from this industry; last year the list had Centex & Pulte building |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | RETRONYMS $1200: These 2 building materials are used to describe actual stores, as opposed to online retailers bricks & mortar |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | OH GIVE ME A HOME $400: ...that's built to withstand these, as mandated in Los Angeles building code section 8805 earthquakes |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $200: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the NYC art deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Walter Chrysler |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ISSUE NO. 1 $400: Action Comics No. 1 specifies that he can leap 1/8 of a mile & hurdle a 20-story building Superman |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | WHAT THE CURRENT TV TITLE MEANS $600: Nickname for the GE building in NYC where NBC is located 30 Rock |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | IF YOU BUILD IT... $200: In the Middle East, the 992-foot Kingdom Center is this country's tallest building Saudi Arabia |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | IF YOU BUILD IT... $400: The world's largest-capacity office building is this 29-acre structure outside Washington, D.C. the Pentagon |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | IF YOU BUILD IT... $600: From street level you have to look up 86 floors to observe this NYC landmark's observation deck the Empire State Building |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LOOK OUT BELOW! $800: I can almost hear the music coming from this building down under the Sydney Opera House |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | "ODE" TO JOY $800: To collapse inward, like a building being leveled in a controlled explosion implode |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | PASS THE SALT $800: One reason for building this waterway was to transport salt from deposits in Syracuse to the coast the Erie Canal |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | OWED ON A GRECIAN URN $5,000 (Daily Double): For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! & please take better care of it Pericles |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE $200: Try not to leave this Greek landmark in any more of a shambles than it already is the Parthenon |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | WOMEN'S GROUPS $200: Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. is part of a 3-building complex owned & operated by this lineage society the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | WHAT'S NEXT ON THE LIST? $2000: World's tallest building:
The Eiffel Tower,
surpassed by the Chrysler Building,
surpassed by... the Empire State Building |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | "O" NOUNS $600: A building that houses a telescope observatory |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | U.S. FIRSTS $400: In 1845 a Boston hotel became the first U.S. building to be warmed by this, also a "Pajama Game" song steam heat |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $800: Brutalism influenced the design of this D.C. building, named for a long-serving law-enforcement official the J. Edgar Hoover Building |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | ON THE MONEY $400: This building had to appear on a note--it's on the back of the $10 bill the U.S. Treasury |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | ON THE MONEY $2,600 (Daily Double): This Pennsylvania building graces the reverse of the $100 bill Independence Hall |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | YOU "AST" FOR IT $2,600 (Daily Double): Building material for a column, or a term describing smooth skin alabaster |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: Norman, Norwegian & engineer are sizes of these building blocks bricks |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | STABLER $1200: If you live in L.A. you know this word is used for reinforcing an existing building so it's stabler for the next quake retrofit |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | MUSEUMS $1200: Famed architect Philip Johnson called this man's Bilbao Museum "the greatest building of our time" Frank Gehry |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | AMERICANA $200: In 1885 America got its first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, in this "Windy City" Chicago |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | LIFE IN DES MOINES $400: You can't miss this building, finished in 1886 & regilded in 1927, 1965 & 1998 the Capitol |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | COLLEGE COLLAGE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Berkeley campus.) Several structures here at Berkeley, including this one, the Memorial Mining Building, were financed by & named for this newspaper baron's family (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $200: This huge beast's fall from the top of the Empire State Building is an iconic moment in movies King Kong |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | ABRAHAM $1,800 (Daily Double): Muslims believe that Abraham helped build this building in Mecca thousands of years ago the Kaaba |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | THE CON IS ON $800: Police had to remove buyers who were building toll barriers after George Parker sold this New York structure to them the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | "A" IN SCIENCE $400: Glycine is the simplest one of these, the essential building blocks of all proteins amino acid |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | MOTHER NATURE $800: In 1996 a cat named this dashed into a burning NYC building 5 times to pull her kittens out, & frankly, we do give a damn Scarlett |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | THE SCARLET LETTERS $800: This shade of red whose name includes a building block has been a Crayola color since 1949 brick red |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | U.S. COINS $400: On April 2, 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the building of the U.S. Mint in this Penn. city Philadelphia |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $800: In building, you get a rough look with beton brut, this material left just as it was poured cement |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | AS "IF"! $600: Any building, especially a large or imposing one an edifice |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | RING OF "FIRE" $400: A safety exercise to rehearse evacuating a building in the event of an emergency a fire drill |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $400: Oui, oui! Miro created a ceramic wall for the UNESCO building in this city in 1958 Paris |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | LET'S GO TO ITALY $800: This northern Italian city at the heart of the Po Basin is known for the Pirelli Building & its Fashion Weeks Milan |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | ARCHITECTS $800: In 1970 Paolo Soleri began building Arcosanti, an experimental town near Prescott in this state Arizona |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | KICKIN' IT OLD SCHOOL $600: Cairo's Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 around this type of religious building mosque |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This religious leader bought a building from the Univ. of Deseret, founded a school & named it for himself Brigham Young |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | I WANT TO RIDE THAT! $400: No tame little swing ride, the Starflyer in this Austrian city swings you as high as a 23-story building Vienna |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a money-printing press in Washington, D.C.) There might be $300 million in production at a given time in the building I'm in, the D.C. facility of this bureau The Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | IF YOU BUILD IT $800: At its opening, this NYC building was the largest marble structure in the U.S. & contained 75 miles of shelves the public library |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | IF YOU BUILD IT $1200: With 15 bedrooms, Pickfair in this L.A.-area city began the trend of building large celebrity-owned homes there Beverly Hills |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Capitol Building in Williamsburg, VA.) In April of 1781, this general, an American traitor, helped British forces seize Williamsburg & raise the English flag over the capitol Benedict Arnold |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | I LIKE YOUR STYLE $800: Like the Federal Reserve Building, the Pentagon is in this architectural style, adhering to Greek & Roman models Neo-Classical |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | AMERICAN NO MORE $2000: In 2008 the Abu Dhabi Investment Council paid $800 million for a 75% share of this NYC art deco skyscraper the Chrysler Building |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | 1899 $200: Fiat began building automobiles in this European country Italy |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Clip the "tag" off a German building & you've got this creator of forensic sleuth Tempe Brennan of "Devil Bones" (Kathy) Reichs |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: On March 25, 1961 Elvis Presley held a benefit concert in Honolulu for the building of this ship's memorial the Arizona |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This hyphenated term describes an athletic shoe designed for various activities like aerobics & muscle building cross-trainer |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | OF "E" DEN $600: The civil branch of this occupation is concerned with the building & maintenance of public structures engineering |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | FUN STUFF $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1901 Alexander Graham Bell began building tetrahedral box ones of these with the goal of lifting people kites |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | CHEESE $2000: Tyros is Greek for "cheese", & the crystals in aged cheese are tyrosine, one of these building blocks of protein amino acid |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | RATED "R" $800: A building for locomotive repair, or a big, wide boxing punch a roundhouse |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | TCM WITH ROBERT OSBORNE $800: (Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) For this 1993 film, Brad Pitt practiced fly-fishing on the roof of his Hollywood apartment building, sometimes catching the hook in his head A River Runs Through It |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | BUILT IN THE U.S.A. $400: At least 20 died & many suffered decompression sickness building this East River landmark that opened in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | THEY GOT IT ON eBAY! $400: A Colo. woman paid $455 for water from a cup this guy drank from in 1977; he left the building soon after Elvis |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | BUILT IN THE U.S.A. $1600: The first official flag of the U.S. was agreed upon in this building that has also served as the city dog pound Independence Hall |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | A DAY AT THE MUSEUM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Bilbao, Spain.)
What "The New York Times" called "the miracle in Bilbao", this building was made possible by computer design & a 1/10th-inch thick skin made of this material used on spacecraft titanium |
| #5622, aired 2009-02-03 | CROSSWORD CLUES "R" $1200: Room or building in the round
(7) rotunda |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | SKY HIGH $200: The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street New York City |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from New York.) From the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park, you can look up at this building where John Lennon lived the Dakota |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | BASKETMAKING $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from outside a building shaped like a picnic basket.) It's the last name of Dave, the company founder who had the idea for this building; people thought he was joking, but as you can see... Longaberger |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | DESCRIBING THE LANDMARK $400: 1,250 feet from sidewalk to roof; completed in 1931; not giant ape-friendly the Empire State Building |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | FARK.COM HEADLINES $400: He "denounces materialism from balcony of marble, gold-domed building... while wearing giant gold cross" the Pope (Benedict XVI) |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $800: At the end of this movie, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan meet at the top of the Empire State Building Sleepless in Seattle |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | NEWS OF THE WEIRD $800: A South Dakota building was wiped out when a resident tried to thaw frozen pipes with this flame-spewing object blowtorch |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | HUEY LONG & THE NEWS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1935 Huey was assassinated in this city's 34-story art deco building, then the South's tallest Baton Rouge |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | U.S. BUILDINGS $400: The Alaska Building was the first modern skyscraper in this city in Washington, not Alaska Seattle |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | U.S. BUILDINGS $800: There's no mistaking this uniquely-shaped building seen here the Pentagon |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | U.S. BUILDINGS $1200: The Palace of the Governors in this New Mexico city is the USA's oldest continuously occupied building Santa Fe |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | U.S. BUILDINGS $2000: Named for an automaker, this art deco skyscraper in NYC opened in 1930 (the) Chrysler (Building) |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | MADE $800: Building with bales of this is sturdy, unlike in "The 3 Little Pigs", & fire-resistant when packed to keep out oxygen hay (or straw) |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | A SHOT AT LOVE $1200: In 1632 Shah Jahan began building this Mausoleum for his favorite wife the Taj Mahal |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $1000: The Chicago Spire, estimated to be completed in 2010, will replace this as the USA's tallest building the Sears Tower |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | LIGHTNING YOUR LOAD $200: The safest place to be during a thunderstorm is in a building equipped with one of these, invented by Ben Franklin a lightning rod |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | GET THE POINT $600: This edifice the Chrysler Building |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | ORGANIZATIONAL NAME CHANGES $1200: Formed by these workers, the Service Employees International Union used to have "Building" before its name the janitors |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | IT'S A BIT CHILE TODAY $800: La Moneda, alliteratively called the "Presidential" this building, was bombed by Chile's own jets 9/11/1973 a palace |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $2000: (I'm Andrew Lloyd Webber.) The underground lair in which the Phantom lurks is based on fact; there really is a lake beneath this famous building the Paris Opera House |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG $6,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from inside the Capitol Building in Williamsburg, VA.) Founded in Jamestown in 1619, this group that met here in Williamsburg's capitol in the 1700s was the first representative legislative body in America the House of Burgesses |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew hangs out outside a storied building--UC San Diego's Scripps Revelle Lab.) Scripps Revelle Lab is named for Roger Revelle, whose 1960 class at Harvard influenced this Nobel Prize winner to investigate global warming Al Gore |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | BY THE NUMBERS $200: The Treasury Building is at 1500 & the White House at this number Pennsylvania Ave. 1600 |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | ART $800: Andy Warhol made an 8-hour film of one facade of this New York City landmark the Empire State Building |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | CORPORATE $400: In 1999 this shoe company named the largest building at its corporate headquarters after soccer great Mia Hamm Nike |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | SPACED OUT $1600: A telescope atop a 17-story building on an Arizona mountain is called the LBT; the "B" is this, meaning "using 2 eyes" binocular |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GOVERNMENT $600: There's a person called the "Architect of" this structure; he also maintains the Library of Congress building the Capitol |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | ON WISCONSIN $2000: On June 8, 1867 this architect began building a life for himself when he was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | LAMPLIGHTERS $800: On April 18, 1775 Robert Newman sneaked into this building to hang 2 lanterns the Old North Church |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | EARLY AMERICA $400: In 1610 the Spanish began building the Palace of the Governors in what is now this Southwest city Santa Fe |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ASTRONOMY $800: (I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.) Some with billions, others with trillions of stars, these are the fundamental building blocks of visible matter in the universe; they come in many varieties including spiral, irregular & elliptical galaxies |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS $400: Everyone out of the building now! It's no longer safe--we must do this! evacuate |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | MOVIE COMEDIES $800: (Here's Morgan Freeman.) My character's directive leads to Steve Carrell reading "Ark Building for Dummies" in this film Evan Almighty |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | HISTORIC CONSTRUCTIONS $200: The tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1931, it's currently the second tallest in the U.S. the Empire State Building |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | HISTORIC CONSTRUCTIONS $800: Completed around 1650, the main building seen here was built to serve as one of these a mausoleum |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | TALL STRUCTURES $200: This 1,046-foot-tall NYC building was one of the first to use stainless steel over much of the building's surface the Chrysler Building |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | TALL STRUCTURES $1000: On July 21, 2007 the Burj Dubai surpassed this nation's Taipei 101 to become the world's tallest building Taiwan |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | CLASS TRIP TO WASHINGTON $1200: The pediment seen here, adorned by sculptures & the words "Equal justice under law", is found on this building the Supreme Court |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | "YOUNG" $2000: In the 1890s, the building of steel plants spurred the growth of this Ohio city Youngstown |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $1000: A superficial appearance or the front of a building the facade |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Architecture's Pritzker Prize medal is based on designs by Louis Sullivan, "father of" this type of soaring building the skyscraper |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | SOUL FEUD $200: Controversy surrounded a 2003 ruling to remove from an Alabama judicial building a monument featuring these the Ten Commandments |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | LET'S BUILD AN "ARK" $1000: It's a family of tiny building blocks of matter quark |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS $2,200 (Daily Double): Phnom Aural Cambodia |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: "Men at Work" is a 1932 book containing Lewis Hines' 1930 photos chronicling the construction of this skyscraper the Empire State Building |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LOOSE CHANGE $800: Dolphins on a 1915 gold dollar symbolized the meeting of 2 oceans brought about by the building of this the Panama Canal |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | SON OF WOOD $400: Pirates shiver when woodsmen yell this word from the Old English for "trees for building" "Timber!" |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $400: In ancient times, the Pentelic quarries were a major source of this building material for Athens marble |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | LOTS OF STUFF $1200: On a building site, you're a brick layer, but a pipe one of these a fitter |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | TRANSPORTATION $600: 7-letter term for a place to plunk down your whirlybird, as on the top of an office building a helipad |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | IF YOU BUILD IT... $1600: From Italian for "round", it's a large & high circular hall in a building, usually surmounted by a dome a rotunda |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $500 (Daily Double): Construction of the Empire State Building began in 1930 on the site of this hyphenated hotel that moved to Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | TO THE "LEFT" HAND SIDE $1200: This 5-word phrase was used to clear venues following performances by the King of Rock and Roll Elvis has left the building |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | BRIT "B"ITS $400: After 3 terms & 10 years in office, he left the building, so to speak, & Downing Street in June 2007 Tony Blair |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Robert Mills, a Greek Revivalist architect, designed the U.S. Treasury building & this 555-foot-tall structure the Washington Monument |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: This city's state capitol, built in 1788, is considered the USA's 1st building of the classical revival style Richmond, Virginia |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | THEY'RE "GR"EAT! $1000: Famous work designed by this German is seen here (Walter) Gropius |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | THE COLOR PURPLE $1,500 (Daily Double): Day of the week in February 2006 when the top of the Empire State Building was lit purple, green & gold Tuesday |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600: The original Declaration of Independence is on display in this records depository building the National Archives |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $200: There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs the Empire State Building |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | WHERE AM I? $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands on yet another European riverbank.) I'm at the Crane over the Motlawa River, once used to load cargo & put up masts in this Polish ship-building city Gdańsk |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | QUAY TO THE CITY $1200: Govt. Building, on Lambton Quay in this New Zealand capital, is one of the world's largest wooden buildings Wellington |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BOOKS $800: Chapters in this Katherine Paterson book include "The Giant Killers" & "Building the Bridge" Bridge to Terabithia |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | A BIT ABOUT BALTIMORE $800: Outside the Federal Building is a statue of this native son, the first African American on the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | LEFTOVERS $400: Joan Miro designed 2 of these artworks for the UNESCO building in Paris murals |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | ON THE "M"AP $1200: There's a Shatner Building at McGill University in this city where William Shatner was born Montreal |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $200: Completed in 1931, this structure required 10 million bricks; a true stairmaster would climb its 1,860 steps the Empire State Building |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew will stands in front of a building that extends partway over a river.) I'm at the library of this president who says it symbolizes his efforts to build bridges from yesterday to tomorrow Clinton |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | MORE $1200: As a noun, it's an addition to a building; as a verb, it's to add land to your country annex |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS $2,200 (Daily Double): A statue of Ethan Allen stands within the portico of the state capitol building in this city Montpelier |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: David gave this son & successor advice & plans for building the temple in Jerusalem Solomon |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | CHECK YOUR OIL $1200: In 2004 producers said high prices partly result from not building any new ones of these in the U.S. since the '70s refineries |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE "SPACE" AGE $1200: Low area under the floor of a building for access to plumbing or wiring crawlspace |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | TALL STRUCTURES $200: When completed in 1965, the 648-foot Daley Center was this city's tallest building; more than 20 are now higher Chicago |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | TALL STRUCTURES $800: This San Francisco building's largest floor is the fifth, at 21,025 square feet; its smallest is the 48th, at 2,025 sq. feet The Transamerica building |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | BUILDING A CATEGORY $200: Beavers have been known to build these homes as large as 12 feet high & 20 feet in diameter lodges |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | BUILDING A CATEGORY $400: Though it's the apex of a branch of the U.S. govt., it didn't get a building of its own until 1935 Supreme Court |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | BUILDING A CATEGORY $600: In 1932 Churchill said, "That's the highest I've ever been up" when he viewed NYC from the top of this building Empire State Building |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | BUILDING A CATEGORY $800: This important part of a building can be gambrel or mansard roof |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: This play that won the 1956 prize is set in the upper part of a building in Amsterdam The Diary Of Anne Frank |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | STATE SUPERLATIVES $1000: Its Boeing manufacturing plant in Everett is the world's largest building by volume Washington |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE CATS IN THE HATS $400: The guy seen here, William Van Alen, designed this in New York from 1928-1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A BIRD! $600: If you see the rock species of this urban bird on a ledge, don't try to talk it down; it may just be building a nest a pigeon |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | GET TO WORK! $1600: Covering 29 acres, the world's largest office building is this structure in Arlington, Virginia the Pentagon |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $200: Inspired by this "30-Minute" chef, compaines are now using cooking classes as a management team building exercise Rachael Ray |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | TOURING THE TAROT DECK $800: Card XVI, this tall building can signal ruin, like the bankruptcy of a record store the Tower |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | FUN STUFF $800: Hey, gang, let's put on a show in this building, like in the musical "Summer Stock" the barn |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the State Capitol building in Lincoln, NE.) As in Washington, the vice president presides over the Senate, in Nebraska, this official presides over the unicameral legislature the lieutenant governor |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | WELCOME TO OLE MISS $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Mississippi) Perhaps because it was used as a hospital, in 1862 the campus's one original building was spared destruction by this man, who was at the start of his Vicksburg campaign Ulysses Grant |
| #5203, aired 2007-04-04 | POLITICAL LINGO $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the State Capitol building in Lincoln, NE.) I'm in the nation's only 1-house state legislature known by this 1-word term; Nebraskans chose it by popular vote in the 1930s unicameral |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In July 1962 this Soviet leader began building missile sites in Cuba; in October, the U.S. noticed them Khrushchev |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | FUTURE TV LISTINGS? $600: "Ty, Paul & the rest of the crew infuriate America by building a new home for Bill Gates & his family" on this show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | ALEX HAS LEFT THE BUILDING $200: Here's me "Russian" out of this fortified enclosure the Kremlin |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | ALEX HAS LEFT THE BUILDING $400: "Greece" was the word when I left this temple, seen here the Parthenon |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | ALEX HAS LEFT THE BUILDING $600: I'm taking the long way down to this landmark the Empire State Building |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | ALEX HAS LEFT THE BUILDING $800: I'm taking the expressway out of this building, San Francisco's answer to the Great Pyramid the Transamerica Building |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | ALEX HAS LEFT THE BUILDING $1000: After checking out Neville and Winston's former digs, it was time to leave this famous address 10 Downing Street |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | IT'S ALL ACADEMIC $400: Paul Rudolph, longtime head of Yale's School of this, designed the building that houses it Architecture |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $800: He started his company in 1984, building & selling computers out of his dorm at the University of Texas (Michael) Dell |
