| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $1200: Some call it a bachelor's button, others call it this, also a shade of blue a cornflower |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $100: Larynx, liver, lung:
it's the one a person has two of lung |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $200: Scapula, spine, spleen:
it's the one a person has two of scapula (your shoulder blades) |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $300: Ulna, urethra, uterus:
it's the one a female has two of ulna |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $400: Alimentary canal, femoral canal, optic canal:
it's the one a person has one of alimentary canal (your digestive system) |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $500: Epiglottis, naris, testis:
it's the one a male has one of epiglottis |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | "BUT" $200: It's also known as your umbilicus the belly button |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | SHUT UP $400: We once said "button your lip"; now we use a slide fastener to hush people with this phrase zip it |
| #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 |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $1600: Dorian Gray hated the first part of this 2008 Brad Pitt movie, but it grew on him over time The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | "IN" BUSINESS $800: For Amalgamated Button, it means all their buttons or the buttons' value inventory |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $800: This 2-word item, pressed to summon help, was a real item used in WWII-era military planes a panic button |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: You can pick it up at a restaurant or push it down as a keyboard button tab |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This Quaker leader spent only 4 years in the colony & future state with his name on it, leaving for good in 1701 William Penn |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | MUSHROOMS $1000: The name of this widely eaten variety, Agaricus bisporus, implies that it's cute a button mushroom |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ONE-BUTTON TEXT MESSAGING $200: You can text the name of this TV network by using only the 2 on your phone; it's spelled on the button ABC |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | BUTTON IT! $200: Yours may be an innie or an outie a belly button |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | BUTTON IT! $400: In "Goldfinger" James Bond had 1 of these seats in his car to get rid of any pesky passengers at the push of a button an ejection seat |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | BUTTON IT! $600: President Ford introduced a new economic program in Oct. 1974 with "win" buttons, standing for "whip" this "now" inflation |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | BUTTON IT! $800: On this animated TV show, George & Jane got "button finger" from pushing too many futuristic devices The Jetsons |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | BUTTON IT! $1000: A type of shirt that symbolizes conformity, as in a 1960 Bob Newhart album title a button-down shirt |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | BUTTONS $1600: This type of flower with a round head has a name that sounds like it's only for single men a bachelor's button |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | "B" HAPPY $400: Your navel maneuvers will center on it your belly button |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | NOUN TO VERB $1,400 (Daily Double): When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online Google |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | PUSH THE "BUTTON" $400: Metaphorically, you "push" it when you react in haste; you can use an actual one to summon police the panic button |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | ACRONYMBLE $2000: It's based in Virginia:
DOD Department of Defense |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | MOM SAYS... $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) You are not going to school wearing that, young lady; it's exposing this body part, your umbilicus belly button |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | PIPE DREAMS $400: It's Frosty the Snowman's type of pipe; we hope the smoke doesn't get into his button nose & two eyes made out of coal a corncob pipe |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | "C"LOTHES $600: In the 50s it was trendy to wear this classic button-down sweater named for an Earl back to front cardigan |
| #3759, aired 2000-12-28 | THE HUMAN BODY $100: Whether an innie or an outie, it marks the spot where the umbilical cord was once attached belly button |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | SIMPLY SIMON $500: Roger Moore & Ian Ogilvy have both played this character, also called the Saint, on British TV Simon Templar |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | IT ACTUALLY HAS A NAME $400: This term for the disconnect button on a telephone shares its name with a plumber's tool a plunger |
| #3381, aired 1999-04-26 | NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE $1,809 (Daily Double): Arbil, designated the capital of the Kurds, was seized by this country's troops in 1996 Iraq |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | COMPUTERESE $100: It's the action of moving an image across the screen by holding the mouse button down Dragging |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | FASHION $200: It's the part of a button-down shirt that buttons down collar |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | SCIENCE $1000: In 1730 he was appointed lecturer in botany at Sweden's University of Uppsala Carolus Linnaeus |
| #2148, aired 1993-12-29 | WHAT IS IT? $100: The scar known as the umbilicus is also referred to as this "button" the belly button |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | GARDENS $300: It's a community near Atlantic City & the only property in the U.S. version of Monopoly not named for a st. Marvin Gardens |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | GENERAL SCIENCE $400: About 70% of this pungent gas produced is converted into fertilizer ammonia |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | GOLDEN OLDIES $300: It begins, "See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long" "Honey" |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: Oliver Wendell Holmes began this poem, "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high" "Old Ironsides" |
| #1500, aired 1991-02-22 | ANIMALS $400: The collared type of this mammal known for feeding on insects is also called the tamandua the anteater |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | GEMS & JEWELS $200: The button variety of this has a flat bottom because it may have been attached to the oyster's shell a pearl |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | "P"SCIENCE $300: The term for food poisoning is outdated since these compounds usually don't cause it ptomaine poisoning |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | TOYS & DOLLS $500: You can tell if a stuffed toy is a Steiff product if it has one of these in its ear a little metal (gold) button |
| #874, aired 1988-05-26 | COMPUTERS $400: The "boss button" takes this off your screen if the boss comes by, replacing it with data game |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | ORNAMENTS $300: An ornamental looped braid with button, it shares its name with a small green amphibian a frog |
| #462, aired 1986-09-16 | NUMBER PLEASE $400: The only number on a standard push button telephone with no letters over it 1 |
| #393, aired 1986-03-12 | TECHNOLOGY $500: Edison's earliest known invention, it was patented in 1869, but Congress "elected" not to buy it a vote button, a vote selector, so they know how to vote(an electric voting machine) |
| #390, aired 1986-03-07 | FLOWERS $1000: Sounding like a shirt fastener for a single man, it's the cornflower's other name a bachelor's button |
| #183, aired 1985-05-22 | GOVERNMENT $400: A representative government, or what Plato called his ideal state the republic |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | HISTORY $200: East Jerusalem was part of this country from 1948-67 Jordan |
| #163, aired 1985-04-24 | FIRST LINES $400: Man-on-the-street Louis Nye greeted him each week with "Hi-ho, Steverino!" Steve Allen |
| #41, aired 1984-11-05 | THE MIDDLE EAST $200: Anti-Iranian Arabs call this body of water "the Arabian gulf" the Persian Gulf |
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