| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $800: The newest wing of NYC's American Museum of Natural History includes the Davis family vivarium of these; some may land on you butterflies |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $2,200 (Daily Double): Vladimir Nabokov was an avid collector of these, called babochkas or "bow ties" in his native Russian butterflies |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: Greek for "scale" & "wing", it's the insect order that includes moths & butterflies Lepidoptera |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $1000: Farfalle are these creatures, but please don't eat them butterflies |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THEY CAME TO AMERICA $600: Monarch butterflies go south to the state of Michoacán in this country & many michoacanos have come north to the United States Mexico |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | NOT CHICKEN FEED $800: These "regal" butterflies eat nectar, but as caterpillars, they love usually toxic milkweed leaves monarch butterflies |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $400: Bracelets featuring butterflies inlaid with gems, circa 2500 B.C., are made from this metal, at that time, more precious than gold silver |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPINELESS CREATURES $1200: Several species of colorful, fast-flying butterflies are named for this top naval rank admiral |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | OCEANS $400: The Arctic Ocean is home to creatures like snailfish, sea butterflies & a "bearded" type of this mammal seal |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | TESTING YOUR "ESP" $2000: Owl butterflies get their name from these large markings on their wings eyespots |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SCIENCE $800: For butterflies, the pupa is the third stage in this process metamorphosis |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $1000: Ailments in Operation include Broken Heart, Brain Freeze & these internal feelings of apprehensions Butterflies in the Stomach |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | ANIMALS $600: An example of this imitative process is when nontoxic butterflies evade predators by resembling toxic varieties mimicry |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | IN THE WEEDS $1000: Larvae of monarch butterflies eat this "weed" that gets its name from its cloudy white juice milkweed |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Butterflies emerge as adults not from a cocoon but from one of these structures whose name is from the Greek for "gold" a chrysalis |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $1200: Animals react to winter weather in different ways; monarch butterflies set off on this type of journey a migration |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | "Z"-POURRI $1200: Cactus-flowered & dahlia-flowered are 2 types of this flower that attracts butterflies to your garden a zinnia |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $2000: In "In the Time of Butterflies", rebels in this country pay the ultimate price for standing up to Trujillo the Dominican Republic |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SPRING MEDLEY $1000: Each spring, half a million sandhill ones hang out in Nebraska as they migrate cranes |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | SCIENCE STUFF $400: Lepidoptera is the order of insects that includes skippers & these 2 familiar groups moths and butterflies |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | INVERTEBRATES $400: Butterflies have taste receptors on their tarsi, or these, allowing them to determine if a leaf is a good place to lay eggs feet |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $1600: Shaped like a bow tie, this pasta has a name that means "butterflies" in Italian farfalle |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | BUTTERFLIES $400: Butterflies don't form a cocoon; their equivalent stage is this other "C" term a chrysalis |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | BUTTERFLIES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Several flyways merge into a single path over central Texas & guide these butterflies to their winter home 3,000 miles away in Mexico; the next generation will begin migrating north as spring arrives monarch butterflies |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | BUTTERFLIES $1200: The slender, more butterfly-like bodies of the hedylid type of these helped get them reclassified as butterflies moths |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | BUTTERFLIES $1600: Each of these on a wing has a network of ribs & crossbars; the gaps that are left diffract light, creating colors scales |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | BUTTERFLIES $2000: The highest butterfly species is way, way up in this landlocked Asian country's Shey-Phoksundo National Park Nepal |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | INVERTEBRATES $1000: North America has only 4 species of milkweed butterflies, including this "kingly" one known for its migrations monarchs |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | FLORIDA & FAUNA $800: The Miami blue type of this insect is endangered; Hurricane Andrew wiped out one of the last colonies butterflies |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | ORDERS OF MAMMALS $800: Chiroptera is made up exclusively of these, which may be fruit- or insect-eating bats |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | ADVENTURE TRAVEL $400: Many visitors make the 3-hour hike from the Mexican town of Angagueo to see the winter home of millions of these insects butterflies |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | SCALY CRITTERS $4,500 (Daily Double): Due to microscopic scales, the name of this order, including moths & butterflies, means "scaly winged" in Greek Lepidoptera |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | BUGS $800: The painted lady is a common one of these insects in the order Lepidoptera butterflies |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | COVER ME $800: An independent record label of yore, or a pupal covering for butterflies a chrysalis |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | A BUG'S LIFE $600: When this larvae grows up, it'll become one of these familiar butterflies that you may have seen in your backyard a monarch butterfly |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | GETTING NERVOUS $200: A queasy feeling may be called these insects in the stomach butterflies |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | DAYS OF YORE $1600: Legend has it that around 550 Byzantine ruler Justinian sent monks to China to smuggle out these lepidopterans silkworms |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: This plural word can refer to insects of the order Lepidoptera or to that queasy feeling of nervous excitement butterflies |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | LONG-RUNNING BROADWAY PLAY TITLES $1600: These "Are Free" Butterflies |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | IT'S NOT A MESS, IT'S A COLLECTION $800: A collection of these creatures mounted on pins may include hairstreaks & swallowtails butterflies |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | THE LIVING PLANET $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a bunch of jar-preserved specimens.) Butterflies, centipedes, scorpions, spiders, crabs, lobsters--these & millions of other creepy crawlers belong to this phylum that makes up more than 80% of all animal species, from the Greek for "joint foot" arthropod |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | ANIMAL TYPES $1000: Parnassian &
Gossamer-winged butterflies |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $400: A lepidopterist butterflies |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | "V" LOVE SCIENCE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an image of some butterflies on a monitor.) The monarch butterfly tastes bad to predators, so as a form of defense, this palatable but smaller butterfly mimics the monarch's coloration & pattern the viceroy |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | TATTOOED LADIES $800: On one shoulder, this "Transformers" star has a paraphrase of a "King Lear" line about butterflies Megan Fox |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $200: Some hawk moths hover just like these tiny birds for which they are sometimes mistaken hummingbirds |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $400: The larva of this "royal" butterfly feeds only on leaves of the milkweed plant the monarch butterfly |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $600: To avoid being eaten, some moths have a special organ to pick up high-frequency sounds made by these mammals bats |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $1000: Female moths & butterflies release these chemicals from special wing scales to attract males pheromones |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $1,800 (Daily Double): Due to its golden shimmer, the pupa is also called this, from the Greek for "gold" a chrysalis |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL GREAT MIGRATIONS $1200: It will take 5 months and 3 generations of butterflies to reach Canada--a journey they're starting in this warmer country Mexico |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | GOING GREENER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) Sony's green philosophy uses varied trees, like the California sycamore, important to hummingbirds & butterflies, & the coast live oak, resistant to this condition from the Middle English for "dryness" drought |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE $800: The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s butterflies |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | STORY PROBLEMS $800: If a lepidopterist spots 4 butterflies, each with 3 black spots & 5 yellow spots, he spots this many spots 32 |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY... $400: Quick! butterflies have this many wings 4 |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY... $800: Seen here are scores of these butterflies at their winter camp in Michoacan, Mexico monarchs |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY... $6,000 (Daily Double): A main job of butterflies is this task whose name is derived from the Latin for "fine flour or dust" pollination |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | PLAY ADJECTIVES $800: Leonard Gershe's "Butterflies are ____" Free |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | BUGS $800: These insects belong to the superfamily Papilionoidea in the order Lepidoptera butterflies |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $800: A 2004 conference on ways to detect when a country is making these included ideas like robot spy butterflies nuclear weapons |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | MIGRATION $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports in front of a map of the United States.) For these insects, autumn is a time to congregate in Michoacan, Mexico, where they're a major eco-tourist attraction monarch butterflies |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | NATURE STUDY $200: Skippers, moths & these insects make up the order Lepidoptera butterflies |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | DON'T BUG ME $400: Of fly, mate or eat, the activity butterflies can't do if their body temperature is below 86 degrees fly |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $400: Leonard Gershe's "Butterflies Are..." Free |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | "F"OOD WORD ORIGINS $1600: It's often described as bow tie pasta, but its name comes from the Italian for "butterflies" farfalle |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | NOTHING "BUT" $400: Examples include the two-tailed pasha & the zebra swallowtail butterflies |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | PLANT THE EVIDENCE $400: The lantana is valued as a plant for its ability to attract hummingbirds and these flutterers butterflies |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | MYTHELLANEOUS $600: In Zuni myth, a kachina named Paiyatemu attracted these colorfully winged insects when she played the flute butterflies |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | HI YA, IRIAN JAYA! $2000: Irian Jaya's Arfak Mountains Reserve is an important rainforest enclave for these large butterflies with an avian name the birdwing |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | INSECTS $800: Some butterflies do not feed on anything; instead, they live off food stored during this stage of metamorphosis larval |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | BIOLOGY $1600: Butterflies take in oxygen through these, breathing holes located on the sides of the abdomen spiracles |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $200: For thousands of years, the Chinese have used the cocoons of the Bombyx mori moth to produce this silk |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $400: Because hawk moths flap their wings so rapidly, they are sometimes mistaken for these small birds hummingbirds |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $600: Female butterflies & moths release pheromones to attract males, who use these organs to "smell" the chemicals antennae |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $800: This butterfly family is named for the way it flies, not for Alan Hale's character on "Gilligan's Island" skipper |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $1000: In the names of butterflies, this word immediately follows black, tiger & checkered swallowtail |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | TEACHER'S PET $200: Mr. Lepler is a lepidopterist, so he has a big one of these nets at hand to increase his collection butterfly net |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES $800: Over half of the insects listed as endangered in the U.S. are types of these, & many of them are blue butterflies |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | BUG LIT $2000: In this Leonard Gershe play, a blind young man falls for a his kooky neighbor Butterflies Are Free |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | PARDON MY FRENCH $600: (Sofia "leaves" us with the clue.) The butterfly farm
in St. Martin is also known as "La Ferme des" this -- the French word for butterflies papillons |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | BUTTERFLIES $200: Butterflies & moths differ in that most butterflies have knobs at the end of these; moths do not the antenna |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | BUTTERFLIES $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds a butterfly.) The word Lepidoptera, the scientific order of butterflies, comes from the Greek for "scale" & this wing |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | BUTTERFLIES $600: Because this species tastes bad to predators, the viceroy butterfly mimics its coloration as a protective device the monarch |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | SCIENCE $400: Lepidoptera is the order of insects that includes skippers & these 2 familiar groups butterflies & moths |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? $800: Signs seen at this "world" group's 1999 meeting in Seattle included one saying it "Kills Butterflies" World Trade Organization |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | WILDLIFE $200: Most adult butterflies feed on this which provides plenty of quick energy but little protein nectar |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | BUTTERFLIES $600: This butterfly seen here is toxic to birds due to the milkweed plants eaten when it was a caterpillar: a Monarch butterfly |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | BUTTERFLIES $800: These chemicals used to attract mates are released from special wing scales pheromones |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | BUTTERFLIES $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "gold", it's the sometimes gold-colored case or cocoon that encases the pupa chrysalis |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | CAPITAL TOURISM $200: Butterflies will flutter all around you at the Spyrogyra Butterfly Garden in this Costa Rican capital San Jose |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | SCHOOL FASHION $800: Prints of these insects were big in '99, whether swallowtails or monarchs we don't know butterflies |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | BEASTLY COMMON BONDS $200: Tiger swallowtail,
Queen Alexandra's birdwing,
great purple hairstreak butterflies |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | MUSIC $400: The name of this set of 12 Schumann piano pieces is French for butterflies "Papillon" |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SLAMMER CINEMA $800: 1973:
Butterflies aren't free for Dustin Hoffman Papillon |
| #3521, aired 1999-12-20 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $400: The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence Butterflies |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | BUTTERFLY POTPOURRI $200: Illegal logging in Mexico is endangering the lives of these "royal" butterflies that summer in Canada Monarch butterflies |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | BUGS $500: The 2 types of insects that make up the order Lepidoptera Butterflies & moths |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | "LET"s END THIS $1000: We can't see this type of light, but experiments indicate that bees & butterflies can ultraviolet |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $400: A steamy 1998 issue reports on sexual attraction in the orange sulphur species of this colorful insect butterflies |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | NEEDFUL THINGS $100: Most butterflies need them to smell; many humans use them to hear radio waves antennae |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | FLOWER $1000: Butterflies are especially fond of these flowers whose name sounds like you just can't wait for them to grow Impatiens |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | LET'S GET MARRIED! $500: Instead of throwing rice, some guests release these insects--painted ladies, for example butterflies |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | CANADIAN HODGEPODGE $300: Dozens of species of butterflies flit around Victoria Butterfly Gardens in this province British Columbia |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | BOTANY $100: Unlike these honey makers, most butterflies don't eat the pollen they collect bees |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | THE INSECT WORLD $300: The comma & the question mark are 2 angelwing species of these fluttering insects Butterflies |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | INSECTS $600: 4 stages make up the life cycle of butterflies & moths: egg, larva, adult & this one pupa |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | GENERAL SCIENCE $500: Members of this order that includes moths & butterflies have coiled proboscises Lepidoptera |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | ANIMAL PHRASES $100: When your nerves are rattled, you may feel like you have "butterflies" here in your stomach |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | "BUTTER" $500: Eileen Heckart won an Oscar for her role as an overprotective mother in this 1972 film Butterflies Are Free |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | INSECTS $300: These 2 insects make up the order Lepidoptera, the second largest order of insects moths & butterflies |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | INSECTS $1000: The thistle or painted lady is probably the most widespread one in the world butterflies |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | BOTANY $600: The milkweed is the only plant on which these regal butterflies will lay their eggs a monarch butterfly |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | CHARLES DICKENS $600: In "Bleak House" Dickens wrote, "I only ask to be free"; these insects "are free" butterflies |
| #1538, aired 1991-04-17 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $100: "Butterflies are..." Free |
| #1500, aired 1991-02-22 | ANIMALS $500: Some of the largest & most beautiful of these insects belong to the swallowtail family butterflies |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | BUTTERFLIES $100: A caterpillar spends most of its time crawling around doing this eating |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | BUTTERFLIES $200: Common name of the Polygonia interrogationis; there's one at the end of your response a question mark |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | BUTTERFLIES $300: As this species tastes bad to predators, the viceroy butterfly mimics its coloration the monarch butterfly |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | BUTTERFLIES $400: A lepidopterist can tell you a butterfly's wings are covered with these, lepis being Greek for it little scales |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | BUTTERFLIES $500: The 1st of the 4 stages of a butterfly's metamorphosis the egg stage |
| #1305, aired 1990-04-13 | INSECTS $100: While moths are nocturnal, these close relatives are diurnal, or "day-flyers" butterflies |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | ANIMALS $600: While some insects die or hibernate when winter approaches, monarch butterflies do this migrate |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | INSECTS $1000: Painted lady, great purple hairstreak & zebra aren't rock bands but types of these butterflies |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | BIOLOGY $100: One difference between moths & butterflies is that moths hold these horizontally while at rest their wings |
| #769, aired 1987-12-31 | AUTHORS $800: Author of "Lolita", Vladimir Nabokov had an interest in lepidoptery, the study of these butterflies & moths |
| #725, aired 1987-10-30 | INSECTS $200: While most butterflies fly during the day, these, their closest relatives, tend to fly at night moths |
| #724, aired 1987-10-29 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: Though "Butterflies are Free", college tuition wasn't, so she paid it by teaching dance classes Goldie Hawn |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | INVERTEBRATES $600: Wood nymphs, satyrs, & monarchs are all varieties of these scaly-winged creatures butterflies |
| #663, aired 1987-06-24 | "M"ENAGERIE $100: As adults, these lepidoptera are harmless, but the caterpillars love to feast on your clothes moths |
| #608, aired 1987-04-08 | STATE INSECTS $300: This Illinois state insect could be called the "emperor" of butterflies a monarch butterfly |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | COLLECTIBLES $500: In a 1965 movie they're what "The Collector" collected before collecting Samantha Eggar butterflies (moths) |
| #96, aired 1985-01-21 | NATURE $100: The larvae of moths & butterflies caterpillars |
