| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | RETRONYMS $1200: These 2 building materials are used to describe actual stores, as opposed to online retailers bricks & mortar |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | RATED "R" $800: A building for locomotive repair, or a big, wide boxing punch a roundhouse |
| #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 |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $200: There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs the Empire State Building |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE BIG BANGLADESH $1000: In the 1960s, Louis Kahn designed the Parliament building seen here in this capital Dhaka |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | BUILDING WOOD $1200: You'll smile big if you know this 4-letter word for a long, thick piece of lumber used to support a roof beam |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | A TRIP ON THE "L" $400: Big building on the back of the U.S. $5 bill the Lincoln Memorial |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | BIG CITY LIFE $400: The beginning of this regulation of land & building use dates from a 1916 New York City ordinance zoning |
| #4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE NOT SO GOOD OLD U.S.S. OF R. $2000: A big yellow building in central Moscow is this notorious Soviet prison Lubyanka |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | INNOVATIONS $400: Big construction projects often include Francois Hennebique's reinforced type of this building material Concrete |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | THE BIG APPLE $400: One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the city; this is the second tallest Two World Trade Center |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | THE BIG APPLE $600: A mast to moor dirigibles was added to this skyscraper, but only one ever moored successfully Empire State Building |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $600: Building & penal are types of these collections of laws Codes |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | THE BIG APPLE $100: There's a statue of a man hailing one of these at a corner of the Chase Manhattan Bank Building a taxicab |
| #1676, aired 1991-12-09 | NATIONAL PARKS $200: The "Big Room" chamber in these N.M. caverns has a ceiling as high as a 26-story building Carsbad Caverns |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | DOUBLE MEANINGS $200: The bottom floor when they're building a skyscraper or Steve Allen's theme (this) may be the start of something big ("This Could Be The Start Of Something Big" |
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