| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1600: Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island in this state's Ocean County was designed by future hero of Gettysburg George Meade New Jersey |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $1600: The musical "My Fair Lady" was based on this play by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: The 2nd Armored, "Hell on Wheels", was the 1st army division commanded by father & son: this Gen. in 1940 & George S. IV in 1975 Patton |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $300: The lion Jad-Bal-Ja was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs as a companion to this guy of the jungle Tarzan |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $600: George W. Bush is seen here with his pal Barney, this national type of terrier a Scottie |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | WHAT'S "NEW"? $1200: This deliberately ambiguous language was invented by George Orwell for "1984" Newspeak |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $1000: While crossing the George Washington Bridge from N.J., drivers are greeted by a sign with these 4 words (it's been waiting for you) Welcome to New York |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CHICKEN SOUP $600: An ancestor of Alex Haley, he was played on TV by Ben Vereen Chicken George |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | PLAY TIME $2,000 (Daily Double): The play "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by this Irishman was considered so scandalous it was banned for years George Bernard Shaw |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | "G", LOOK AT THAT $2000: Seen here is a work of the Venetian Renaissance by this painter, whose name means "Big George" Giorgione |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: By Georges, this orator & firebrand of the French Revolution said, "I shall go to sleep in glory" before he got the guillotine Georges Danton |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $1200: As an investor who didn't want to hear bad things about Theranos, I was played by Sam Waterston in "The Dropout" George Shultz |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $7,200 (Daily Double): This evangelical revival of the 1730s & 1740s was led by such theologians as George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards the Great Awakening |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | BEATLES "S"ONGS $800: "I don't want to leave her now, you know I believe and how" "Something" |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LET'S GET DIRTY $800: "The Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television" was a routine by this late, great humorist George Carlin |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: "Known and Unknown" is by Donald Rumsfeld, who served Gerald Ford & George W. Bush in this job Secretary of Defense |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | TOUCAN $800: When this actor played George of the Jungle way back in 1997, he was joined on screen by Tookie Brendan Fraser |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SCIENCEY STUFF $400: Is that a Titleist? "Marine biologist" George Costanza helped a whale breathe by pulling a golf ball out of this aperture the blowhole |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $1200: The work of op artist Bridget Riley was influenced by studying Georges Seurat & this neo-impressionist style he created pointillism |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | THEIR '80s NO. 1 ALBUM $1200: His "Don't Be Cruel"
(& it's not Elvis) Bobby Brown |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire George Bernard Shaw |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | RHYMING PHRASES $800: On stage & film, it's what "stays mainly in the plain"... by George, do you have it?! the rain in Spain |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $300: A story goes that asked by his father if he'd chopped down a cherry tree, this boy admitted it, saying, "I cannot tell a lie" George Washington |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | MANDY PATINKIN $1000: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) I was a big fan of the late Stephen Sondheim & I am honored to have originated the role of the artist Seurat in this James Lapine-Sondheim musical that was inspired by a painting Sunday in the Park with George |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $400: Folks have awaited the next book by him after 2011's "A Dance with Dragons" but it takes as long as it takes George R.R. Martin |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $800: Once as famous as George Washington, Joseph Warren died in this 1775 Boston battle, an event immortalized in art by John Trumbull the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | IT'S A BUST! $2000: Here's a bust of this French premier by fellow countryman Rodin Georges Clemenceau |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $2000: Wife Geneviève outlived this "Carmen" composer by 50 years, but even after she stopped wearing black, stuck mostly to mauve (Georges) Bizet |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | 18th CENTURY CULTURE CLUB $5,000 (Daily Double): He composed some famous music for a 1717 royal boat trip down the Thames George Frideric Handel |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $2000: Arthur Hill won a Tony for originating the role of George in this play by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $1200: Fought for his people in Arizona; brought down by a (General George) Crook; died 1874 on a reservation Cochise |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $800: "Middlesex" is a 21st century novel by Jeffrey Eugenides; "Middlemarch" is a 19th century novel by her (George) Eliot |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $400: Khal Drogo & Dany are mentioned in chapter one of the Best Novella in 1997, "Blood of the Dragon" by this man George R.R. Martin |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | POTENT ETYMOLOGY $600: Started in part by George Clooney, this tequila brand is a portmanteau of the Spanish words for "house" & "friends" Casamigos |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1791 proclamation by President George ordered the first this of the District of Columbia; a young George would've done it himself a survey |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | A PRESI-DENTAL CATEGORY $800: In 2001 George W. Bush began his plainspoken "Toothpaste Diplomacy" by saying he & this Brit "both use Colgate" Blair |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $1600: A star in Chaplin's "The Kid", he earned millions, but it got spent by others; a law named for him protects the earnings of minors Jackie Coogan |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $1000: In "A Feast of Crows" by George R.R. Martin, this family of Jaime & Cersei rules from the iron throne Lannister |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $400: For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele A Farewell to Arms |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1200: "Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas The Dying of the Light |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | -OLA $1200: George Catlin sketched this Seminole war leader after he'd been captured by U.S. soldiers who had violated a truce Osceola |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 1821 $2000: The 4th British king of this name had a lavish coronation with dress inspired by the Tudor & Stuart eras George IV |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): The contradictory thought that some are more equal than others comes from a slogan in a satire by this man George Orwell |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | BOOKS BY PRESIDENTS $200: "Christmas in Plains" Jimmy Carter |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $200: The death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a deadly chain reaction in a novel by this author George R.R. Martin |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $800: Muriel the goat in this novel was probably inspired by George Orwell's own pet goat Muriel Animal Farm |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | MINCED OATHS $400: There were 6 British kings named this, but saying "By" him actually meant "By God" George |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | A ROYAL PAIN $800: The madness of this king, perhaps caused by porphyria, a buildup of natural chemicals, ended on Jan. 29, 1820 King George III |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | IT'S A FACT $1000: The term "Cold War" was first used in print by this British author in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb" George Orwell |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | THE $1 BILL $1000: George Washington is properly powdered and primped for the bill's main image from a portrait by this artist Gilbert Stuart |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 1917 $1200: "The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming" in this popular song of the day written by George M. Cohan "Over There" |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1,600 (Daily Double): (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) A third party candidate hasn't won a state in a presidential election since 1968 when this American Independent Party nominee carried Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and his native Alabama George Wallace |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1600: (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) New York didn't choose its electors in time and Rhode Island and North Carolina hadn't yet ratified the Constitution, but the vote was otherwise unanimous when every elector cast a vote for George Washington in this year 1789 |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $400: Oscar Wilde once quipped that this other Irish wit "has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $2000: In a children's classic by George Selden, Harry the Cat befriends Chester, "The Cricket in" this NYC location Times Square |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush Oliver Stone |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $1600: This author's "Middlemarch" includes a party hosted by Mr. Vincy on New Year's Day George Eliot |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FIGURES OF SPEECHES $4,000 (Daily Double): From a 1988 speech by a presidential candidate. "A brilliant , diversity spread like stars, like" this 5-word phrase a thousand points of light |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $3,000 (Daily Double): A full-length portrait of George Washington from this 18th c. artist is often admired by tourists at the White House Gilbert Stuart |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | CHAMELEON $200: "Karma Chameleon" was a No. 1 hit in 1983 for this alliterative U.K. band fronted by Boy George Culture Club |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THEY SAID NO! $2000: In 1918 this man refused a knighthood, saying King George V had betrayed the Arabs by not granting independence Lawrence (of Arabia) |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | SURNAMES $400: It's the occupational surname shared by Plymouth Colony governor John & scientist George Washington Carver |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $600: Paintings by George Rodrigue help provide this colorful nickname for conservative Democrats Blue Dog |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | HISTORIC TRANSPORTS $400: Large Durham boats for hauling iron were used by George Washington to cross this river in December 1776 Delaware |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library.) This 9mm Glock pistol was held by this former world leader when he was found hiding in a hole in the ground by American forces in 2003 Saddam Hussein |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library.) The Bush Library has a full-sized Oval Office, where you can sit behind a replica of this famous desk, also used by FDR & JFK, among others the Resolute desk |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | IN & AROUND ASIA $1600: Built to commemorate a visit by George V, The Gateway of India overlooks the harbor in this Indian city Mumbai |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | "SUPER" ENTERTAINMENT $1000: The third act of this play by George Bernard Shaw is not called "The Man of Steel" but "Don Juan in Hell" Man and Superman |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: George & Nick are professors in the college town of New Carthage in this play by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1976, more than 175 years after his death, this man was promoted by Congress to general of the armies of the United States George Washington |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | INVENTED IN THE 1800s $200: By African-American dentist George Grant, a wooden one of these that "elevated" the game of golf a tee |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BY GEORGE $200: George W. Bush:
"41: A Portrait of My ____" father |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BY GEORGE $400: George Eliot:
"The ____ on the Floss" The Mill on the Floss |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BY GEORGE $600: George Plimpton:
"____ Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback" paper |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BY GEORGE $800: George McGovern:
"____ Security and the Golden Age" social |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BY GEORGE $1000: George Bernard Shaw:
"Mrs. Warren's ____" profession |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $2000: Dismissed by de Gaulle in 1968, he returned to the "centre" of French politics, succeeding de Gaulle as president Georges Pompidou |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | STATES & PROVINCES $600: This province isn't really "New", it was chartered by King George III in 1784 & is one of Canada's original 4 provinces New Brunswick |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I GOT! $1600: A grant from the Open Society Foundations, created by this Hungarian-born billionaire to build democracy (George) Soros |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $200: "Visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by... Picasso and Georges Braque" Cubism |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | 5 SAINT'S DAYS $3,000 (Daily Double): April 23 is the feast of this saint feared by dragons everywhere St. George |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BAD ROMANCE $800: In this novel by George Eliot, Dorothea thinks she'll find happiness with the aging scholar Casaubon (nope!) Middlemarch |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | I COMPOSED IT $1000: Commissioned by England's King George II, "Music for the Royal Fireworks" Handel |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | GEORGE GERSHWIN $1600: (Kelly presents the clue beside a reproducing piano.) Similar to a player piano, a reproducing piano uses a roll to recreate a performance by a human pianist, which is how we're able to hear & see how George Gershwin played this famous piece of his Rhapsody in Blue |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $800: George II died at 76 in 1760, so maybe medicine improved by the time this great-great-granddaughter lived to be 81 Victoria |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $400: He had plenty of Tonys by then, but this composer finally won a Pulitzer in 1985 for "Sunday in the Park with George" Sondheim |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | MONARCHS FLUTTER BY $3,000 (Daily Double): He reigned in the United Kingdom from 1760 to 1820, with a few interruptions George III |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | DIMES $1200: Liberty on the 1796-1807 draped bust dime was based on a sketch by this George Washington portraitist (Gilbert) Stuart |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | OUR HISTORICAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT $1200: It's April 1865, and the nation turns to this new leader, spared by the failed nerve of Booth accomplice George Atzerodt Andrew Johnson |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | IN THE "D" TALES $2000: In this novel by George Eliot, the title character discovers that he is Jewish Daniel Deronda |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | POP CULTURE VILLAINS $400: Played by Rachel McAdams, Regina George was the leader of "the Plastics" in this 2004 movie Mean Girls |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: In 1967, after a military takeover by Colonel George Papadopoulos, this Greek king fled to Italy King Constantine |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS $400: George, a farm laborer & Curley, son of a ranch owner Of Mice and Men |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORY $2000: After WWII the U.S. adopted this policy of controlling Soviet expansion, a term used by dept. official George Kennan containment |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | CONTEMPORARIES $600: Insane George III was replaced by a regent in 1811, the year Jane Austen published this novel about the Dashwood sisters Sense and Sensibility |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | DENTAL PROBLEMS $400: At age 57 in 1789 he had only one tooth remaining & wore dentures of hippo ivory made by John Greenwood George Washington |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In the 1770s George Washington enlarged this house by adding smaller wings & erecting many outbuildings Mount Vernon |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | CATHOLIC GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): This American colony was chartered by George Calvert in 1632 as a refuge for English Catholics Maryland |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | TV SITCOM BY EPISODES $200: "The Puffy Shirt" &
"The Summer of George" Seinfeld |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $200: As Ms. Norbury in "Mean Girls", she asked, "How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George?" Tina Fey |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $800: He wrote of the Corsairs of the Umbar, seaborne raiders corrupted by Sauron J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | PRESIDENTIAL MUSIC? $800: "Atomic Dog" & "Nubian Nut" are solo hits by this giant of funk music George Clinton |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CLUES ACROSS OHIO $2000: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) The topiary park in Columbus is best known for a piece based on "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by this French painter (Georges) Seurat |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $600: In "Arms and the Man", by him, a fugitive soldier exposes some villagers' romantic ideas about war George Bernard Shaw |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | RELIGIOUS BOOKS $1200: (I'm David Gregory of CNN.) The title of my book "How's Your Faith?" came from that question being asked of me by this president when I covered the White House George W. Bush |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $400: This home was named by the president's half-brother for his commanding officer in the British navy Mount Vernon |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NEW BRUNSWICK $1200: This capital was laid out in by Tories in 1785 & named for the son of King George III --not the son's wife, Frederica Fredericton |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $800: "If there is one thing interesting--remarkable indeed--in the whole province, it's just our cherry orchard" Anton Chekhov |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LIT-POURRI $1600: This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was based on an ancient Greek myth recounted by Ovid Pygmalion |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | THE ____ OF ____ $600 (Daily Double): This one of the Ancient Wonders was toppled by an earthquake around 225 B.C. the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1200: Completed in 1941 during WWII, this Black Hills memorial wasn't formally dedicated until 1991 by George H.W. Bush Mount Rushmore |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | FRENCH HISTORY $2000: La Montagne, an extremist revolutionary faction in 1793 & '94, was led by Georges Danton & this man Robespierre |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THE PHONE $2000: In 1878 George Coy used teapot lids to build the first of these panels used by operators & soon they were "lighting up" a switchboard |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | THEATRICAL QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): In an Edward Albee play, Martha answers this question by saying "I... am... George... I... am" Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WRITERS BY INITIALS $200: A play-full Dublin native:
GBS George Bernard Shaw |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | RANCHING AS IT WAS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, TX.) Vital to the ranch at the turn of the century was the town blacksmith, whose main job was to make and repair tools, wagons & household items, first by heating iron to over 1,000 degrees in a forage, then hammering & shaping it on this metal block an anvil |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | RANCHING AS IT WAS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, TX.) Barbed wire has been called the invention that tamed the west by letting cattlemen keep their livestock in & farmers with crops keep the cows out; it brought an end to the freewheeling era known as "open" this range |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2,000 (Daily Double): In September 1814 major George Armistead resisted an attack by the British navy on this fort Fort McHenry |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | AUDRA McDONALD ON BROADWAY $200: (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) A new storm was brewing on Catfish Row when "Porgy and Bess", with music & lyrics by these brothers, was revived on Broadway in 2012 the Gershwins |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | BEASTLY BOOK BLANKS $800: "A Feast for ____s" by George R.R. Martin Crows |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LOST IN SPACE $400: In "Gravity" she drifts away for a while, but is rescued by George Clooney Sandra Bullock |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | FAMOUS BELLS $1000: Its inscription reads, "cast by George Mears of Whitechapel for the clock of the Houses of Parliament" Big Ben |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HAMILTON $600: "You cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by why so sad? Remember we made an arrangement when you went away, now you're making me mad", rants this king George III |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER $1200: George Orwell:
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking ____" 13 |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: In November 1861 this Union man became general in chief of all armies; by March 1862, he lost the gig George McClellan |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | BOOKS' SUBTITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): This number: "A Portrait of My Father" by George W. Bush 41 |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SEAS $800: George Takei said that Gene Roddenberry came up with his "Star Trek" character's name by seeing this sea on a map the Sulu Sea |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HOPE YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD SONG! $600: In 1990 he got his "Freedom" by singing, "all we have to do now, is take these lies, & make them true somehow" George Michael |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | THE BEAT OF THE DRUM $1000: This patriotic World War I song by George M. Cohan contains the lyric "The Yanks are coming, the drums rum-tumming" "Over There" |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | ARCHITECTS $2000: The Iowa courthouse seen here was designed by George Elmslie, a follower of Frank Lloyd Wright, in this flatland style Prairie Style |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | THE NORTH REMEMBERS $400: ...George de Long's North Pole venture sponsored by the same newspaper that had just sent this man to find Livingstone (Henry Morgan) Stanley |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | 2015 ANNIVERSARIES $400: In 2015, the Navy Reserve marks 100 years of service by citizen sailors, including this president, who joined the Reserve in 1942 George H.W. Bush |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | NON-TALKATIVE SHOW BIZ FOLK $800: The hairy look of this grunting Wookiee was inspired by George Lucas' pet dog Indiana Chewbacca |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $800: This general who was fired by Lincoln for not chasing Lee's army (again!) after Antietam:
"Not-So-Curious George" McClellan |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE IN ART $600: The future Lady Hamilton posed as Miranda from this play for a series of studies by George Romney The Tempest |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | TRANSPORTATION MILESTONES $1600: "You can be sure" that in 1869 he patented an air brake for trains that could be controlled by the engineer George Westinghouse |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | HERE BE DRAGONS $10,600 (Daily Double): One dragon defeat was by him, now the patron saint of England Saint George |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | UTOPIA $1200: Lutherans led by George Rapp left Pennsylvania to found a utopia in 1814 at New Harmony in this state Indiana |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $1200: (I'm Sarah Lane.) In 1947, George Balanchine created for ABT the one-act ballet "Theme and Variations" with music by this noted Russian composer Tchaikovsky |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | HODGEPODGE $200: Raise your hands for a man who goes by Krazy George; he claims to have introduced this at a 1981 baseball game the wave |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.)
Flying a TBM Avenger in 1944, this 20 year old naval aviator bailed out after his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over the island of Chichi-jima, making him the only U.S. president to have literally been shot down in combat George H. W. Bush |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | LYRICISTS $400: His lyrics after the death of his brother George include "The Man Who Got Away", music by Harold Arlen Ira Gershwin |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | BRITISH NICKNAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Last King of America" George III |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | TV SHOWS BY FAMILY $800: The Bluth family, including
George Sr.,
Michael &
George-Michael Arrested Development |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | WRITTEN BY $400: The Dorlcote Mill is "The Mill on the Floss" in a book written by this woman George Eliot |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $1200: "By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of men shooting themselves for your sake" (George Bernard) Shaw (in Pygmalion) |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | FRENCH LIT $1200: Here is Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, known by this pen name; she loved Chopin in more ways than one George Sand |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | ROPE $400: Muhammad Ali used this strategy by leaning against the ropes while George Foreman got tired punching him rope-a-dope |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): Appointed by Gerald Ford, he's the only man to serve as both C.I.A. director & U.S. president George H.W. Bush |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | JUST SIT RIGHT BACK $3,000 (Daily Double): The Montgolfier is a Louis XVI chair created by Georges Jacob with a back shaped like one of these a balloon |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | THE STEAKS $200: This steak sauce was created in the 1820s by the chef to England's King George IV A.1. |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONG $800: George, Winifred, Jane & Michael Banks:
"Cherry Tree Lane (Reprise)" Mary Poppins |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONG $2000: Lola, Pat, George & Ensemble:
"Sex Is In The Heel" Kinky Boots |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | INVENTIVE THINKING $800: The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his 1863 sleeping car was "a parlor by day and a first-class hotel room at night" (George) Pullman |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago Board of Trade.) He was the first U.S. President to appear here on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade; he ended his remarks on the state of the economy by saying, "Maybe I could learn a few new hand gestures" George H.W. Bush |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $2000: Much of our knowledge of 19th-century Native Americans comes from paintings & drawings by him George Catlin |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | WORD ORIGINS $5,600 (Daily Double): It was coined by George Orwell & means the capacity to accept 2 contradictory ideas at the same time doublethink |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | A VISIT WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS $1000: (George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) In 2010, this Iranian president ended an interview with me by assuring me that Osama bin Laden was in Washington; I believe I was right when I said he was wrong Ahmadinejad |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | ON THE "Q...T" $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) This prefabricated corrugated steel hut was developed for the U.S. Navy by the George A. Fuller company in 1941 to serve as inexpensive & quickly-assembled offices, barracks & storage facilities a Quonset hut |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | COLLEGES, NOT UNIVERSITIES $1600: Founded not by Roger but Ephraim, this Massachusetts school boasts alums like George Steinbrenner Williams College |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" was bought by an American & came stateside in 1924 (Georges) Seurat |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $400: This tome by David McCullough came to the screen with David Morse as George Washington John Adams |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Burgess Meredith was George & Lon Chaney Jr. was Lennie in this drama, produced by comedy legend Hal Roach Of Mice and Men |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | THEY GAVE ME A MEDAL $600: George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson & Oprah earned the Spingarn Medal, first given by this org. in 1915 the NAACP |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | JOKERS ARE WILD $400: By George, this standup comic said, "As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is" George Carlin |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: George Orwell called it, used by certain armies in military parades, "one of the most horrible sights in the world" goose-stepping |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | HEY, LAD-"E" $1600: She & Harriet Beecher Stowe corresponded by letter, discussing such things as her portrayal of Jews in "Daniel Deronda" George Eliot |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | IN THE BIG INNING $1000: George Burns (not the comedian) turned one of these in 1923, the first ever unassisted by a first baseman a triple play |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1837 he was killed in a duel by Baron Georges d'Anthes, who was expelled from Russia for the incident Pushkin |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | DIRECTIONAL PEOPLE $400: In 1900 he introduced the Brownie camera, intended for use by children & sold for one dollar (George) Eastman |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | GEORGE TOWN $1000: HBO's "Game of Thrones" is based on a bestselling series of books by this author George R.R. Martin |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $2000: We live in a world that has walls, & those walls have to be guarded by men with guns, like CBP, short for Customs & this Border Protection |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $400: Spice baskets are popular gift items you can purchase in St. George's, capital of this island invaded by the U.S. in 1983 Grenada |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | IMPEACHED! $800: Appointed by George Washington, Samuel Chase is the only member of this body to have been impeached the Supreme Court |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | WARDROBE $1600: In 2012 this jeans & apparel company founded by Georges Marciano & Brothers celebrated 30 years in retail GUESS |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | "TIN" MEN $600: He earned the "Fifth Beatle" nickname by producing all of the Beatles' albums George Martin |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | ACT I $1000: From Act I of this 1913 play: "I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers" Pygmalion |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | 2-WORD RESPONSES $1000: Jane Austen dedicated "Emma" to the future George IV, not by name but under this title prince regent |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | SUCH A LITERARY CHARACTER! $1000: Spymaster Karla is George Smiley's adversary in books by this man John le Carré |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | THE 1910s $1600: In 1918 Lawrence of Arabia shocked King George V by refusing this high honor that lets you be called "Sir" knighthood (knightship accepted) |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | MAD MEN $1200: The explosive devices planted by George Metesky, aka this, scared New Yorkers for 16 years but luckily killed no one the Mad Bomber |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | CONSTITUTION SIGNERS BY STATE $400: George Washington Virginia |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | PRESIDENTS BY KIDS $600: 2 stepkids: John & Martha George Washington |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | PRESIDENTS BY KIDS $1000: His 6 include Neil, Marvin & Dorothy George H.W. Bush |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | THE CELEBRITY TWEETS $1600: Mr. Sulu, phasers on stunning: "I'm going to violate Leviticus by wearing a cotton/polyester blend" George Takei |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | BY GEORGE $400: The music for "Porgy and Bess" George Gershwin |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | BY GEORGE $800: The 1993 book "Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State" George Shultz |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | BY GEORGE $1600: The novel "Silas Marner" George Eliot |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | BY GEORGE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Sophisticated Poll Watcher's Guide" (George) Gallup |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | BY GEORGE $2000: 1749's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" George Handel |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THEY GO BY THIER FIRST INITIAL $1600: G is for George:
Sent to prison for Watergate (G. Gordon) Liddy |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | ISLANDS $400: Alexander Island, one of this continent's largest, is connected to it by the George VI ice shelf Antarctica |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $800: He left the USSR in 1924 & joined Diaghilev's co. in Paris, becoming its leading choreographer, by George Balanchine |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE BIG "TEN" $1200: Ex-CIA head George, or a dogma held as true by members of a movement a tenet |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | SUBS $600: "Under Pressure", the first novel by this "Dune" author, details the dangerous mission of a 4-man sub crew in the 2000s Frank Herbert |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | ON MY DOG'S iPOD $200: The first song my dog downloaded was "Atomic Dog" by this funky member of Parliament George Clinton |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | JUST CHUTE ME $600: In 1934 Stanley Switlik & George Putnam made the 1st jump tower; the 1st public demo was by this woman, Putnam's wife Amelia Earhart |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | PLAY MATES $800: Martha & her husband George host Nick & his wife Honey in this play by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | 1811 $200: Insane & no longer fit to rule, this British king was replaced by his son, the prince regent George III |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | BITS $800: By George! He noted, "Football is concerned with downs... baseball is concerned with ups! Who's up? Are you up? I'm not up!" George Carlin |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | CORNERSTONES $2000: In June 1904 the cornerstone for the U.S. Naval Academy chapel was laid by this hero & admiral George Dewey |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | THE DAN, PATRICK SHOW $200: (Dan Patrick reads the clue from his studio.) In 1984, the 48 touchdown passes by this Dolphin quarterback obliterated the old single season record of 36 held by Y.A. Tittle & George Blanda Dan Marino |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $400: This film features the Soggy Bottom Boys, fronted by George Clooney O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the Union's center line at Cemetery Ridge was hit by 12,000 Confederates who suffered 42% casualties in the skirmish known as this man's "charge" (Gen. George) Pickett |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | STATE UNIVERSITY BY ALUMS $800: Walter Reed,
Edgar Allan Poe,
George F. Allen (who later was governor & a U.S. senator) Virginia |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | FAITH IN AMERICA $400: Illinois has the Diocese of Peoria, Diocese of Joliet & this of Chicago, headed by cardinal George archdiocese |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | BOOK BY CHARACTERS $1600: George Milton,
Lennie Small Of Mice and Men |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | POLL-POURRI $400: In 1963 he got the AAPOR Award, the highest bestowed by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (George) Gallup |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | LITERARY OBITUARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Long Island society mourns his loss. Murdered, in West Egg, by George Wilson The Great Gatsby |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel, Md., this Alabama governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer George Wallace |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: This sound, like that made by plucking a guitar, is the title of a 2009 album by George Strait twang |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | PUSH BY SAFIRE $600: In 2006 George W. Bush awarded Safire this "presidential" item, the highest honor given to civilians the Medal of Freedom |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | MILITARY FIRSTS $400: In May 1783 Elijah Churchill & William Brown became the first recipients of this medal established by George Washington the Purple Heart |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | PORTRAIT OF WHOM? $800: This English king in his coronation robes, a 1760 work by Allan Ramsay George III |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | KIDDY LIT $400: In Britain this simian created by H.A. Rey is called Zozo Curious George |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | REVOLUTIONARY ROAD $1200: He said, "Caesar had.. .his Brutus--Charles I, his Cromwell, and George III may profit by their example" Patrick Henry |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEWSEUM $1200: (Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) The Newseum is also home to the studio from which ABC's "This Week" is broadcast, hosted by this former Clinton administration advisor; I'm in his seat (George) Stephanopoulos |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | ART HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) To produce the optical effect he wanted, this artist painted a border, now partially obscured by the frame, using the complementary colors that are next to it in the painting (Georges) Seurat |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT $800: Confirmed in 2006, he was the last justice selected by George W. Bush Alito |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | THAT'S JUST DUCKY $200: This ducky superhero of 1970s comic books was brought to the big screen by George Lucas in 1986 Howard the Duck |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE PURLOINED LETTER $800: A 1783 letter signed by this general (& future president) was stolen in the 1940s but turned up at a 2006 auction George Washington |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | PLAYING JOURNALIST $400: In "Leatherheads", George Clooney vies for the affections of reporter Lexie Littleton, played by her Renée Zellweger |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $1200: A Bill of Rights motion by George Mason, author of this state's Declaration of Rights, was rejected Virginia |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | I LIKE...ME! $600: Bartlett's says this athlete's slogan, "I am the greatest", was inspired by wrestler Gorgeous George (Muhammad) Ali |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | RULE BRITANNIA $400: Incapacitated by illness & madness, he spent the last 9 years of his reign in seclusion George III |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | ADAM $1000: Some words from Wordsworth serve as the epigraph to this novel by George Eliot Adam Bede |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Disillusioned by the Spanish Civil War, this British author wrote against totalitarianism in "Animal Farm" (George) Orwell |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | GENIUS BY MUSE $800: Ballerinas Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil LeClercq, Suzanne Farrell... George Balanchine |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SPORTS CAST $800: Muhammad Ali regained his title from George Foreman by employing this rhyming ring strategy rope-a-dope |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | MEET YOU IN THE MIDDLE $400: Swiss
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mousse chocolate |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | DINOSAURS $800: In 2001 Chinese scientists said a group of these made by dinosaurs included one 1 1/2 yards long a footprint |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | 75 YEARS OF ESQUIRE $1000: Created by George Petty for Esquire in 1941, the beauty seen here was painted onto the fuselage of this famed World War II bomber Memphis Belle |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BY GEORGE $400: He co-wrote "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" George W. Bush |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BY GEORGE $800: His 1891 essay "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" promoted the realistic dramas of a fellow playwright George Bernard Shaw |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BY GEORGE $1200: In 1832 Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin used this masculine pen name for "Indiana" George Sand |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BY GEORGE $1600: In 1876 Mary Ann Evans used this masculine pen name for "Daniel Deronda" George Eliot |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BY GEORGE $2000: In 1938 Eric Blair used this masculine pen name for "Homage to Catalonia" George Orwell |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $1000: (Richard Roth reads from the U.N. floor.) Appointed by George W. Bush during a congressional recess, this U.S. ambassador to the U.N. stirred up for controversy when he served here in 2005 & 2006 (John) Bolton |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $1200: When King George VI visited this woman & her husband in 1939, she made news by serving hot dogs Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | "MAN"-LY LIT $1600: This play by George Bernard Shaw portrays Don Juan as the quarry, not the hunter Man and Superman |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $2000: Victories in the NW Territory by this brother of an explorer forced Britain to surrender the area in 1783 George Rogers Clark |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | SOLDIERS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 he became "General of the Armies", the highest rank held by any American except George Washington Pershing |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: A cabinetmaker by trade, he developed the railway sleeping car dubbed the "Pioneer" in the 1860s (George) Pullman |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE $200: According to Parson Weems, this man was incapable of being mendacious George Washington |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE $400: This U.S. general who loved horses & studied at a cavalry school helped protect the Lipizzaners in WWII George Patton |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE $600: His command of the 7th Cavalry ended on June 25, 1876 General George Custer |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE $800: In 1760 he became the last British monarch to be buried in Westminster Abbey George II |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE $1000: This South American capital was once known as Stabroek Georgetown |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | EXPLORERS $800: In 1798-99 George Bass & Matthew Flinders proved this current Australian state was an island by sailing around it Tasmania |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $2000: By the time her "Middlemarch" was published, she was generally recognized as the greatest living English novelist (George) Eliot |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | AND SIX $1600: A car driven by George Robson is one of only 2 Indy 500 winners to use an engine with only 6 of these cylinders |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | EXITING GEORGE W. BUSH'S CABINET $400: His August 26, 2007 Attorney General resignation letter to the President ended with "I remain by your side" (Alberto) Gonzales |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | IT HAPPENED IN SAN FRANCISCO $2000: This mayor was shot dead by a former city supervisor in 1978 George Moscone |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | THE COLOR PURPLE $400: Established by George Washington in 1782, it can also be given to P.O.W.s who've been mistreated Purple Heart |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | DREW BARRYMORE LOVES MUSIC $1000: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue.) Some of the most romantic songs of all time, including "Embraceable You", were written by these brothers George & Ira Gershwin |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | GOVERNORS $1200: A 4-time governor of Alabama first elected in 1962, he worked his way through law school by boxing professionally Gov. George Wallace |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BOOKS $1000: A book by George Selden related the adventures of Chester, this insect "in Times Square" a cricket |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2000: "T.M.O.T.F."
by George Eliot The Mill On The Floss |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $800: (Kelly reports again from the Library.) As a pilot in this branch of the service, Bush was shot down near the island of Chichi Jima on Sept. 2, 1944, and rescued by the crew of the Finback the Navy |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $3,500 (Daily Double): (Kelly reports one last time.) This teakwood gate was presented to George H.W. Bush by the emir of this country in appreciation for helping the country reclaim its freedom Kuwait |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | BOOK LEARNIN' $1200: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" in a 1945 book by this author (George) Orwell |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | "MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER" $200: Though he had no biological kids of his own, George Washington is known by this paternal nickname the Father of his Country |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | MORTAL MATTERS $2000: Once fired by Lincoln, this Union General took a New Jersey exit on Oct. 29, 1885 (George) McClellan |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: I wonder if this railroad sleeping car maker was asleep when he was hit by a strike in 1894 (George) Pullman |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | THEY'RE FROM USC $800: (I'm Julie Chen.) I host the CBS reality show "Big Brother", whose title was inspired by this British author (George) Orwell |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | LAST BUT NOT LEAST $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the last U.S. president not sworn in by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Lyndon Johnson |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | ORIGINAL PRANKSTA $2000: Unearthed in 1869, this 10-foot "giant" wasn't a prehistoric man but a hoax buried & "discovered" by George Hull the Cardiff Giant |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | LET'S GET BIZET! $200: Georges Bizet was born on Oct. 25, 1838 in this capital & was admitted to its conservatory by age 10 Paris |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ROYAL BRITANNIA $1,000 (Daily Double): He succeeded his mother & was succeeded in 1910 by his son George V Edward VII |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER! $400: His 1972 presidential bid was gaining momentum when he was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer George Wallace |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | WHERE IN LONDON AM I? $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a London park.) This famous London park is named for the title of the future George IV & was designed by his friend John Nash Regent's Park |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | OVER THE COALS $600: George Stephen created this company's backyard grill by putting a rounded lid on half a metal buoy Weber |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: In books by George Eliot, Adam Bede is a carpenter & this other title figure is a weaver Silas Marner |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | I GO BY "AL" $1200: Heading south from Washington, D.C., I go by this Virginia city where George Washington once drilled troops Alexandria |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | STATE GOVERNORS $600: By law, this ex-Texas governor can never be elected U.S. president again George W. Bush |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $1000: This 1977 Pink Floyd album was inspired by a George Orwell novel Animals |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | DUETS $1200: 1991:
"Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me" by Elton John & him George Michael |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | PHOTOGRAPHY $600: This businessman revolutionized photography in 1885 by selling roll film using a paper base George Eastman |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | ASK THE AUDIENCE $1000: The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J. (George) Gallup |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | SUPREME COURT BEFORE & AFTER $400: Rootin' tootin' Old West nemesis of Bugs Bunny who was nominated to the Supreme Court by George W. Bush Yosemite Sam Alito |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | COWBOYS & INDIANS $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Teton Nat'l Park in Wyoming.) Created by native son George Ostrom, this trademark of the state of Wyoming is abbreviated BH&R Bucking Horse & Rider |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: Replaced by Pres. Lincoln on November 7, 1862, he challenged the president as the Democratic nominee in 1864 (George) McClellan |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | 1956 $1000: George Metalious was fired as a small-town principal the year of the small-town expose "Peyton Place" by this wife Grace (Metalious) |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | HOLD THE FORT $1600: Built by George Washington's troops in June 1754, you might say it was the mother of invention Fort Necessity |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | LISZT $600: Liszt's music was influenced by this Polish pianist, who first met George Sand through Liszt (Frederic) Chopin |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BANGLADESH SLOWLY $800: Held August 1, 1971 at Madison Square Garden, the Concert for Bangladesh was organized by this Brit George Harrison |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $200: This Tuskegee scientist increased yields by alternating the planting of cotton & peanuts George Washington Carver |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | MANUEL LABOR $400: Longtime congressman Manuel Lujan was appointed Secretary of the Interior by this man in 1989 George H.W. Bush |
| #4829, aired 2005-09-15 | ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S iPOD $1000: Several songs by this country music legend appear on the first iPod, including "He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones |
| #4815, aired 2005-07-08 | BONDS $600: This term refers to bonds issued in U.S. dollars from foreign issuers, not to bonds issued by George Steinbrenner Yankee bonds |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | READ THE BOOK $2000: According to the title of a book by George Eliot, the Dorlcote Mill is on this river the Floss |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | YOU'RE FIRED! $400: Bob Lemon, Gene Michael & Lou Piniella were each fired twice by him; we won't get into the Billy Martin saga George Steinbrenner |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands before a portrait of George Marshall in the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.) George Marshall became Chief of Staff of a 200,000 man army on this date, when WWII began; by war's end, the number was 8 million September 1, 1939 |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | SECRETARIES OF STATE BEFORE & AFTER $800: "NFL Today" hostess & ex-Miss America appointed by the Gipper in 1982 Phyllis George Shultz |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | THE VIOLENCE $2000: Assassinated by a naval officer in 1628, English nobleman George Villiers was the first duke of this "palatial" title the Duke of Buckingham |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | DOUBLE "D"s $1,000 (Daily Double): Considered her masterpiece, this novel by George Eliot is subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life" Middlemarch |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | YOU GOT MY LITERARY NUMBER $1600: It's the classic 1949 novel by the writer born Eric Blair 1984 |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | AMERICANA $600: George Gershwin prepared to write this opera by studying Southern black culture on an island off the Carolina coast Porgy & Bess |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | SCULPTURE $2000: A 1788 marble statue of George Washington sculpted by this Frenchman stands in Virginia's State Capitol building Jean-Antoine Houdon |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE! $400: With hits like "All My Ex's Live in Texas" & "Blue Clear Sky", he's "Pure Country" George Strait |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE! $800: This record producer was known as the "Fifth Beatle" George Martin |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE! $1200: In his 1963 inaugural address this governor called for "Segregation forever!" George Wallace |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE! $1600: He was the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams 1966-1970 & of the Washington Redskins 1971-77 George Allen |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE! $2000: In 1990 a color remake was produced of this director's 1968 B&W zombie classic "Night of the Living Dead" George Romero |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER $400: George Marshall Peace |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | DO "TELL" $600: It's the governmental organization headed by George H.W. Bush from 1976 to 1977 the Central Intelligence Agency |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $1600: The last song George Gershwin composed, its title is followed by the line "not for a year, but ever and a day" "Our Love Is Here To Stay" |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | CELEBRITY TRIVIA $400: He owns the last letter ever written by George Harrison, which complimented him & asked for a Mini-Me doll Mike Myers |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | GOING "SOFT" ON US, EH? $800: It was pioneered around 1910 by dancer George Primrose when he kicked off his clogs soft shoe |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | SURPRISE ME! $800: This wife of George Burns said that she was so surprised by her birth, she "couldn't talk for a year and a half" Gracie Allen |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | UNLIKELY MOVIE SEQUELS $1200: Ashton Kutcher, as a friend of the skipper played by George Clooney, sails off to bring in one more catch in his memory The Perfect Storm |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | WASHINGTON SCHLEPPED HERE $200: The location of Washington, D.C. was actually chosen by G.W., & it's a nice little commute from this estate of his Mount Vernon |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | IT'S A GROUP THING $1600: When he was Texas Governor, George W. Bush sometimes was guarded by this group (not the baseball team) the (Texas) Rangers |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | SHAKESPEAREANA $1600: Coined by George Bernard Shaw, this adaptation of "idolatry" is the worship of Shakespeare Bardolatry |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | THE 1840s $400: This organization was begun in London in 1844 by George Williams to hold Bible readings for his coworkers; pools came later the YMCA |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | GRENADA $800: You can study this at St. George's University, like the nearly 650 American students rescued by the 1983 invasion medicine |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | COUNTRY $1000: (Hello there, this is George Jones.) This song, my first number one hit, was written by the Big Bopper & is another slang term for moonshine "White Lightning" |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | PRESIDENTS & CHERRIES $200: The story of him chopping down a cherry tree was first mentioned in a biography by Mason Weems George Washington |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | SAINTS $400: He's the saint portrayed here by 15th century painter Ucello St. George |
| #4421, aired 2003-11-24 | MOVIE GROUPS $400: Title group formed by Frank Sinatra's character in 1960 & George Clooney's in 2001 Ocean's 11/Eleven |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | PICK A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $1600: A play by George Kaufman & Edna Ferber set "Dinner at" this hour 8 |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | MUSIC MEN $800: "Rhapsody in Blue", a piece by this composer, was used as the title of a 1945 movie biography of him George Gershwin |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | LAKES $800: Fed by lakes Victoria & Edward, it's also known as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko Lake Albert |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | NICKNAMES GIVEN BY PRESIDENT BUSH $1600: Senator Olympia Snowe of this state got to have "The Big O" as a nickname Maine |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $400: This man with a tan dazzled us by singing "Razzle Dazzle" when he debuted in the musical "Chicago" in 2001 George Hamilton |
| #4338, aired 2003-06-11 | FILMED IN HAWAII $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Kauai.) George C. Scott came to Hawaii to film "Islands in the Stream", which was based on a novel by this author Ernest Hemingway |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | IS THERE A POINT TO ALL THIS? $800: Also known as Divisionism, this style of art was best exemplified by Georges Seurat Pointillism |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS -- NOT! $400: In 1929 engineer George Gillette remarked, "By 1940" this physics theory "will be considered a joke" Theory of relativity |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | HISTORIC BATTLES $800: During an 1884-85 revolt, an entire garrison led by Charles George Gordon was massacred in this capital city Khartoum |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | BRITISH HEIR WAYS $2000: As Prince of Wales & Prince Regent, this future king was a close pal of Beau Brummell, & quite a dandy himself George IV |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | HISTORIC MOMENTS $400: In a painting by his friend John Trumbull, he's seen here resigning his commission in 1783 George Washington |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH... $200: Luke Floorwalker was the hero of my script "Store Wars", a better tale than this director's "Star Wars" movie George Lucas |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH... $1000: My camera could only take shots of bald people, so I called it Kojak, but it didn't do as well as his Kodak George Eastman |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | "F" TROOP $1200: George Clinton is known for this pop music style characterized by syncopated rhythm & a heavy bass line Funk |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect "in Times Square" The Cricket |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | IT'S ALL A BUNCH OF LIES $200: Although written by Parson Weems, the line "I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet" is often attributed to him George Washington |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | HIGH COUP $3,000 (Daily Double): A coup led by Colonel George Papadopoulos overthrew this country's government in 1967 Greece |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1000: This Appalachian mountain pass was discovered in 1750 by Thomas Walker & named for the son of King George II Cumberland Gap |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | THE DIARY OF $800: "Last Flight", published by her husband George Putnam in 1937, was composed mainly of her diary entries Amelia Earhart |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.) These puppies here were worn by this "Master of Funk" on his 1983 "Atomic Dog" tour George Clinton |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | INNOVATORS $600: George Ballas invented the powered plant-cutting tool known by this alliterative name Weed Whacker |
| #4202, aired 2002-12-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Air Force general & George Wallace running mate celebrated by pole dancers in the spring Curtis LeMay Day |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $400: It's the classic heard here
"Early in the ev'nin', just about suppertime / Over by the courthouse, they're startin' to unwind..." "Down On The Corner" |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | WASHINGTON $1200: The highest summit in Washington state was given this name by George Vancouver in 1792 Mount Rainier |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | HAWAII $800: In the 1790s, cattle were brought to Hawaii by George Vancouver who served under this discoverer of the islands Captain James Cook |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | ORGANIZATION SYMBOLS & LOGOS $1000: By George, it was founded in 1990 & works through volunteer centers throughout the U.S. Points of Light Foundation |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | ROCKIN' STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This double album by Kiss was certified platinum Double Platinum |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | GEORGE M. COHAN $400: It's the self-introducing line of a Cohan song sung by jockey Little Johnny Jones "I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy." |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | ART $2000: The "Depression Bread Line" seen here at the FDR Memorial in Washington was created by this American sculptor George Segal |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $800: This Canadian province's famous Shaw Festival focuses on plays by George Bernard Shaw & his contemporaries Ontario |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | "SHOE"s $600: This smooth-soled variety of tap dancing was made famous by George Primrose the soft-shoe |
| #4099, aired 2002-05-30 | SCIENTISTS $800: The most common tater in the U.S. is a strain of the potato developed by this man Luther Burbank |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | PEOPLE FROM INDIA $600: This musician's album "In Celebration" was co-produced by George Harrison Ravi Shankar |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | AIMING TO SUCCEED $600: England's Queen Anne was succeeded in 1714 by the first king of this name, who barely spoke English George |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $1200: By sailing around it in 1798, George Bass proved this Australian state was an island Tasmania |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: This author of "A Poem by Phillis" counted George Washington among her admirers Phillis Wheatley |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | MONOPOLY $800: Monopoly was first produced by this company once run by siblings George & Charles Parker Brothers |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | SPIES & SPYING $800: Robert Townsend spied for George Washington by posing as one of these pro-British colonists Tory |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT STORE $1000: An upscale store brand was launched in 1826 by Samuel Lord & this partner (George Washington) Taylor |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | THE MUSICAL FABRIC STORE $800: George Winston wrote the music for an audio CD of this beloved bunny book by Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama is run by this U.S. agency NASA |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | BY GEORGE! $400: This actor's film credits include "The Hustler", "Dr. Strangelove" & "Patton" George C. Scott |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | BY GEORGE! $800: He's the only man to have served as U.S. president & U.S. ambassador to the U.N. George H.W. Bush |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | BY GEORGE! $1200: He's the former presidential candidate seen here George Wallace |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | BY GEORGE! $1600: Yes sir, he received the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the European recovery plan George Marshall |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | GEORGIE $400: He has 3 stars on Hollywood Boulevard; 2 by himself & 1 with Gracie George Burns |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | THE NIXON ERA $200: Forced to resign as director of this, William Colby was replaced by George Bush the CIA |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | BALD AMBITION $100: This bald "Seinfeld" character hit on a woman by saying he lived with his parents & was unemployed George Costanza |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | COLUMBIA $800: Columbia was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of this English king George II |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $500: In the 13th edition, the article on socialism signed G.B.S. was written by him (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | PRESIDENTS BY PARTY $200: Federalist Party
1789-1797 George Washington |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? $800: George W. Bush's springer spaniel Spot is the daughter of this dog once owned by Barbara Bush Millie |
| #3896, aired 2001-07-09 | OUT OF BUSINESS $200: This political magazine founded by JFK Jr. published its last issue in 2001 George |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | GEORGE W. - THE GUBERNATORIAL YEARS $100: A bill signed by Bush allowed Texans to carry these for the first time since the 1870s handguns |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $100: In 1999 he celebrated his 75th birthday by jumping from a plane over the grounds of his Texas library George H.W. Bush |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | U.S. HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Post held by General George C. Marshall when he announced his "plan" June 5, 1947 Secretary of State |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | SAINTLY WOMEN $200: In one story, St. Margaret was swallowed by Satan in the form of this beast; she should have called St. George Dragon |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | KENTUCKY $300: This city named for a French king goes back to one founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778 Louisville |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | NEW YORK CITY $300: You can get into the city from New Jersey by the George Washington Bridge or the Lincoln one of these tunnel |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | OFF-BROADWAY 2000 $800: Critics weren't all kind to a revival of "Arms and the Man" by this playwright & critic George Bernard Shaw |
| #3663, aired 2000-07-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $300: The site for the White House was chosen by James Hoban, Charles L' Enfant & this man George Washington |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | LET GEORGES DO IT $200: This president who made Georges Pompidou premier in 1962 was succeeded by him as president in 1969 Charles de Gaulle |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | MAGAZINES $200: "Not Just Politics as Usual" is the motto of this magazine founded by JFK Jr. George |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | "SUB" CATEGORY $300: The voices of John, Paul, George & Ringo were dubbed by actors for most of this film Yellow Submarine |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | POPULAR MUSIC $300: (Hi, I'm George Clinton) Funk music traces its beginnings to songs like "Out of Sight" & "Cold Sweat" by this legend James Brown |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | FAMOUS FACES $200: The husband & wife comedy team seen here; he outlived her by over 31 years George Burns & Gracie Allen |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | STATE PARKS $300: North Dakota's Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park was once a fort commanded by this lt. colonel from 1873 to 1876 George Custer |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | LITERARY EPITAPHS $1000: Died on safari after a short happy life. Placed here by his wife Francis Macomber |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | ODDS & ENDS $200: He played the Devil in the 1984 film "Oh, God! You Devil" (by the way, he also played God) George Burns |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $300: He showed that by planting peanuts & soybeans you could restore the nitrogen in the soil that growing cotton took out George Washington Carver |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE $200: The most famous structure designed by George Dance the Younger was this city's Newgate Prison London |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | LAWRENCE OF ARABIA $600: Lawrence owned 7 of these machines built by George Brough; he died after crashing one motorcycles |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | SUITE $400: Yes, my children, "Jeux D'Enfants" is a suite for piano by this composer of "Carmen" Georges Bizet |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: Although the charge up Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg is named for him, it was commanded by Gen. Longstreet George Pickett |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | WHOSE IS IT? $800: The Battle of the Little Bighorn, won by the Sioux, also has this "final" name Custer's Last Stand |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | V.P.s BY MIDDLE NAME $400: Herbert Walker George Bush (Sr.) |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: (Alex giving the clue) (Each spring) the Procession of the Golden Chariot in Mons, Belgium is followed by a mock battle between a dragon & this saint Saint George |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | "G.G." $200: This composer's "Porgy And Bess" is perhaps the most popular opera ever written by an American George Gershwin |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $100: On December 26, 1799 Washington was eulogized in Congress by this man known as "Lighthorse Harry" Harry Lee |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DAD TV $500: Jack Gallo Just Shoot Me! (played by George Segal) |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | MONKEY BUSINESS $300: He's the mischievous monkey in books by H.A. Rey & Margret Rey Curious George |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | BY GEORGE! $200: His best-known compositions include "Here Comes The Sun" & "Taxman" George Harrison |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | BY GEORGE! $400: This Kansas City Royal infielder led the American League in batting in '76, '80 & '90 George Brett |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | BY GEORGE! $600: A Pulitzer Prize winner in '77, this conservative columnist was the sports editor of his college newspaper George Will |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | BY GEORGE! $800: A "manly" 19th century realist, she penned works like "Adam Bede", "Felix Holt" & "Daniel Deronda" George Eliot |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | BY GEORGE! $1000: Many musical masterpieces sprang from the head of this 18th century George Handel |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE KENNEDYS $200: By George! He's the editor-in-chief of George John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | A WALK IN THE PARK $500 (Daily Double): This London park was named for the position held by the future King George IV Regent's Park |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | THE MOVIES $1000: This 1962 Cinerama epic had segments directed by George Marshall, Henry Hathaway & John Ford How the West Was Won |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | BOOKS BY PRESIDENTS $800: "Looking Forward: An Autobiography" George H.W. Bush |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BALLET IN THE '90s $500: In just 2 months in 1993 the NYCB presented 73 works by this late Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | MUSIC THE KIDS LOVE $300: "No Way Out" was a 1997 hit by this "Father Figure" & the family Puff Daddy |
| #3153, aired 1998-04-22 | FORTS $500: Fort Necessity was built by this future general & was the site of his only surrender George Washington |
| #3144, aired 1998-04-09 | 1980s FADS $300: Androgeny was exemplified by Eurythmics' Annie Lennox, & by this lead singer of Culture Club Boy George |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PUNCHY WRITERS $200: "By George" is an appropriate title for this boxer's 1995 autobiography George Foreman |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | CLASSIC SITCOM CHARACTERS $400: Sitcom character played since 1990 by the man seen here: (Jason Alexander) George Costanza (on "Seinfeld") |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | QUOTATIONS $800: The one written by George Eastman in 1932 said, "My work is done. Why wait?" a suicide note |
| #3126, aired 1998-03-16 | COUNTRY MUSIC STARS $400: By George! He performed his own stunts & roping in the 1992 film "Pure Country" George Strait |
| #3126, aired 1998-03-16 | '70s TV DETECTIVES $800: One of the many insurance investigators was this Polish-American played by George Peppard Banacek |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY $600: By allowing rebel forces to escape after Gettysburg, this Union general may have prolonged the war 2 more years George Meade |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $200: Spice baskets are popular souvenirs of St. George's, the capital of this country invaded by the U.S. in 1983 Grenada |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: George Ross, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was this seamstress' uncle by marriage Betsy Ross |
| #3072, aired 1997-12-30 | 1952 $200: In February George VI died & this woman was proclaimed Queen by the Privy Council Elizabeth II |
| #3047, aired 1997-11-25 | HE WAS IN THAT? $400: "Catch up" on this "ER" star's film career by renting "Return of the Killer Tomatoes!" George Clooney |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | FOOLISH PHRASEOLOGY $100: This wife of George Burns was so surprised by her birth, she "couldn't talk for a year and a half" Gracie Allen |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | TV TWINS $200: Name shared by Phoebe's twin (also played by Lisa Kudrow) & George of the Jungle's wife, possibly a twin Ursula |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 30 YEARS AGO: SEPTEMBER 1967 $1000: Michigan governor George Romney charged that during a trip to this country he was brainwashed by officials Vietnam |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | INVENTORS $400: Inspired by circus safety nets, George Nissen invented this piece of gymnastics equipment Trampoline |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington was saved from destruction by this First Lady Dolley Madison |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: He wrote his 1st play, "The Beloved Bandit" , by himself, before he teamed up with George S. Kaufman Moss Hart |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BY GEORGE $100: The first line in Encarta's article on him includes the words "Last Stand" in quotes George Custer |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BY GEORGE $200: He's the only George to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing's heavyweight division George Foreman |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BY GEORGE $300: He fired Billy Martin 5 times George Steinbrenner |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BY GEORGE $400: Name shared by a 1926 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright & a 1930s gangster nicknamed "Machine Gun" George Kelly |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BY GEORGE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 this king wrote, What would "Dear Grandmama....have thought of a Labour government" King George V |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Bill of Rights is based mainly on this state's declaration of rights, written by George Mason Virginia |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | 17TH C. LIT $1000: The first classical work translated in Colonial America was this Ovid work by George Sandys in 1626 "Metamorphoses" |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | OPERA $200: "Djamileh" is a comic opera by this composer of "Carmen" Georges Bizet |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | COUNTIES BY STATE $500 (Daily Double): Prince George,
Prince William,
Powhatan Virginia |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | BY GEORGE $200: "Something" was one of the few big Beatles hits written by this member George Harrison |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | BY GEORGE $400: This country singer has charted more than 25 No. 1 songs, including 1995's "Check Yes Or No" George Strait |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | BY GEORGE $600: "Romola" was her only historical novel George Eliot |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | BY GEORGE $800: In 1741 he completed his last opera, "Deidamia"; from then on, he concentrated on oratorios George Frideric Handel |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | BY GEORGE $1000: He first choreographed "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue" for the Rodgers & Hart show "On Your Toes" Georges Balanchine |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $1000: In a play by this man, Captain Shotover is the eccentric owner of Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MUSIC $1000: Among the albums by this New Age pianist are "December", "Autumn" & "Winter Into Spring" George Winston |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBERS $200: In this George Orwell classic, Big Brother is the dictator of Oceania "1984" |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | ARTISTS $800: His pointillist "Bathing Scene" was rejected by the 1884 Salon & shown at the Salon de Independants (Georges) Seurat |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: This Asheville, N.C. estate built by George Washington Vanderbilt has a 250-room house & its own winery Biltmore |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | QUOTATIONS $400: This boxer's slogan, "I Am The Greatest", was inspired by wrestler Gorgeous George Muhammad Ali |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $400: This February 1898 Havana event was recreated by Georges Melies the sinking of the Maine |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH P.M.s $600: He was educated by his uncle Richard Lloyd, the village cobbler, & took his name in his honor (David) Lloyd George |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | SECRETARIES OF THE INTERIOR $800: Appointed by this president, Manuel Lujan was the first Hispanic American to head the department George Bush |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | SCIENTISTS $1000: The system of mathematical logic devised by George Boole is called Boolean this algebra |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This D.C. school named for a president was founded by a group that included a pres.-- James Monroe George Washington |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | POLITICIANS $1,500 (Daily Double): Republican George Nethercutt represents this state's 5th District, a seat formerly held by Tom Foley Washington |
| #2703, aired 1996-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: This comedy about wooing a foul-tempreed female is based in part on the play "Supposes" by George Gascoigne The Taming of the Shrew |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "George's Mother" is a lesser-known novel by this author of "The Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | CARTOGRAPHY $200: Cartographers rely on data gathered by people in this profession, like George Washington surveying |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | CELEBRITIES $500: In 1995 she stood by her former man George Jones as they released their 1st duet album in 15 years Tammy Wynette |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $100: The lyrics for most of his songs were written by his brother Ira George Gershwin |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | INITIALS $500: Dramatist who was commonly referred to by his initials, G.B.S. George Bernard Shaw |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | PSEUDONYMS $200: Eric Arthur Blair was known by this pseudonym before & after 1984 (George) Orwell |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: This agriculturist's 1894 college thesis was entitled "Plants as Modified by Man" George Washington Carver |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $200: On August 18, 1988, George Bush said, "Read my lips", followed by these 3 words no new taxes |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,500 (Daily Double): This title realtor in a novel by Sinclair Lewis later appeared in "Elmer Gantry" (George F.) Babbitt |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: "Francois le Champi" is an 1848 novel by this woman who liked to wear men's clothes George Sand |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | HISTORY $100: By order of George VI, a less nationalistic 2nd verse was substituted in this British anthem in 1946 "God Save The King" |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | THE WHITE HOUSE $400: The oldest possession in the White House is a portrait of George Washington by this artist Gilbert Stuart |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | RECENT HISTORY $200: In 1994 George Pataki defeated this New York governor by 4% of the vote Cuomo |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | BRITISH ROYALTY $400: This 18th century king's erratic behavior may have been caused by porphyria, a metabolic disorder George III |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: When this play opened at NYC's Palace Theatre on August 21, 1983, Georges was played by Gene Barry La Cage aux Folles |
| #2444, aired 1995-03-30 | COLLEGES $1,000 (Daily Double): Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by a charter from this king George III |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $1000: Delacroix painted the "Garden at Nohant", a garden owned by this authoress with a masculine pen name George Sand |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | MIDDLE NAMES $200: Middle name shared by theatre critic George Nathan & tennis player Billie King Jean |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Camille Pissarro's work after 1884 was influenced by this pointillist's theory of optical mixture (Georges) Seurat |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | OPERA $600: The Friendship duet of Zurga & Nadir is a high point of "The Pearl Fishers" by this composer of "Carmen" Georges Bizet |
| #2392, aired 1995-01-17 | 1923 $100: This Italian fascist leader was knighted by King George V Mussolini |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY $100: On Jan. 20, 1994 he celebrated his 98th birthday by performing for a sellout crowd at Caesars Palace George Burns |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | BIBLICAL WORDETHS $500: "Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that" doeth this "out of the mouth of the Lord" proceedeth |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: Last name shared by "Murder in the Cathedral" author T .S. & "Adam Bede" author George Eliot |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | FOUNDERS $200: Now commonly called the Quakers, this group was founded by George Fox the Society of Friends |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | FIREWORKS $300: Appointed by John Lindsay, George Plimpton is this city's honorary fireworks commissioner New York City |
| #2268, aired 1994-06-15 | PRINCELY NICKNAMES $400: "Over There" is the most famous song by this "Prince of Broadway" George M. Cohan |
| #2268, aired 1994-06-15 | COMPOSERS $800: The title of George Crumb's "Echoes of Time and the River" alludes to a novel by this man Thomas Wolfe |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $600: The Gateway of India in this city was built to commemorate the 1911 visit by King George V & Queen Mary Bombay |
| #2209, aired 1994-03-24 | MUSEUMS $800: This German city's BMW-Museum features cars & motorcycles made by that company Munich |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: Because none of her children survived her, this British queen was succeeded by George I in 1714 Queen Anne |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: In a novel by this author, George Webber finds out that "You Can't Go Home Again" Thomas Wolfe |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | AUTHORS $200: Readers fell under the spell of Svengali in "Trilby", a novel by her grandfather George du Maurier Daphne du Maurier |
| #2166, aired 1994-01-24 | HOTELS BY CITY $200: Meridien Montparnasse,
Balzac,
George V Paris |
| #2163, aired 1994-01-19 | ART $400: Co-developed by Georges Braque, this abstract art style was first exhibited around 1908 in Paris Cubism |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | U.S.A. $200: Some of the trees still standing on this Virginia Estate were planted by George Washington himself Mount Vernon |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | ISLANDS $800: By the time the smoke & debris cleared from this Indonesian island in 1883, 2/3 of it had disappeared Krakatoa |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | U.S. HISTORY $500: In the 1860s George Westinghouse solved a major railway problem by inventing this the air brake |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | MOVIES $500: George Burns' first movie role since 1939 was as Al Lewis in this 1975 film written by Neil Simon The Sunshine Boys |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | SCREENWRITERS $200: "The Empire Strikes Back" was the only one of the 3 "Star Wars" films not written by this creator George Lucas |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | GEORGE & RINGO $300: George said this song was inspired by "O Happy Day", but others suggest "He's So Fine" "My Sweet Lord" |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: His "Water Music" was performed during an aquatic fete held by King George I on the Thames July 17, 1717 G.F. Handel |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: "The Irrational Knot" is one of several uncessful novels by this "Pygmalion" playwright George Bernard Shaw |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | NEW ENGLAND $400: Rhode Island's state house boasts a full- length portrait of George Washington by this native son Gilbert Stuart |
| #2099, aired 1993-10-21 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $100: The Declaration takes King George III to task for "depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by" this jury |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | APPLES $1000: Today most apples are grown by this method rather than from seeds grafting |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $1000: This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was inspired by a story in Ovid's "Metamorphosis" Pygmalion |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | TECHNOLOGY $400: C. Vanderbilt thought George Westinghouse's idea of stopping a train by this means a fool notion the air brake |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BY GEORGE $100: Legend says he admitted, "I can't tell a lie, Pa... I did cut it with my hatchet" George Washington |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BY GEORGE $200: Tarzan-like cartoon character whose theme song ended with "Watch out for that tree!" George of the Jungle |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BY GEORGE $300: This choreographer's book "101 Stories of the Great Ballets" includes many of his own ballets (George) Balanchine |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BY GEORGE $400: Comic who asked, "Do you ever get the feeling the whole world is a tuxedo, and you're a pair of brown shoes?" George Gobel |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BY GEORGE $500: He won a 1980 Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for "He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In 1991 this inquisitive monkey in books by H.A. Rey celebrated his 50th birthday Curious George |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: King George II started a tradition by standing at the "Hallelujah Chorus" of this Handel work the Messiah |
| #1926, aired 1993-01-11 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $200: Beginning with the show "Lady, Be Good!", the lyrics to nearly all his songs were written by his brother Ira George Gershwin |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | BY GEORGE $100: This brother of Meriwether Lewis' partner said, "I carry war in my right hand & in my left, peace" George Rogers Clark |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | BY GEORGE $200: 1916's "When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em" was his first published song; "Swanee" came a little later George Gershwin |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | BY GEORGE $300: Prince Andrew's maternal grandfather, he died 8 years before Andrew was born George VI |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | BY GEORGE $400: These 2 19th c. female novelists used the name George in their pen names George Eliot & George Sand |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | BY GEORGE $500: Lady Asquith said of this British prime minister, "He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it" Lloyd George |
| #1861, aired 1992-10-12 | SCULPTURE $200: This president's profile on three postage stamps was copied from a bust sculpted by Jean Houdon in 1785 George Washington |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: Inspired by a painting, this Sondheim musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Sunday in the Park with George |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | FAMOUS SPEECHES $600: The final draft of his farewell address was written by Alexander Hamilton George Washington |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | PEOPLE $400: The Quill and Scroll, an honor society for high school journalists, was founded by this American pollster George Gallup |
| #1748, aired 1992-03-18 | WORD ORIGINS $200: The term "Shavian" was coined by this writer to describe his life, works & ideas George Bernard Shaw |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | NOVELS $600: His book "North and South" ends with a 1787 antislavery quote by George Mason of Virginia (John) Jakes |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | "ISM"s $800 (Daily Double): It's the system of painting developed by Georges Seurat using tiny dots of color pointillism |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | U.S. CITIES $100: Founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778, this Kentucky city was named for a French monarch Louisville |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | LITERATURE $400: "Felix Holt, the Radical" is a political novel by this "Silas Marner" author George Eliot |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | FAMOUS QUOTES $800: Broadway composer who said, "Many a bum show has been saved by the flag" George M. Cohan |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: George Eastman arrived at the name of this company by making up words that started & ended with "K" Kodak |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | TV SITCOMS $300: This accountant played by George Wendt is 1 of 4 characters who have been on "Cheers" since its 1982 beginning Norm |
| #1541, aired 1991-04-22 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: By 1890, his company dominated America's sleeping car business (George) Pullman |
| #1533, aired 1991-04-10 | 1923 $200: This Italian leader was knighted by Britain's King George V Mussolini |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $300: In 1932 the U.S. War Department revived this decoration first established by George Washington the Purple Heart |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | QUOTES $400: Oscar Wilde said George Bernard Shaw "has no enemies, but is disliked by" these people his friends |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | THEATRE $800: The Paycock is Juno's weak-willed husband in the play by this Irish author Seán O'Casey |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: "Venerable" historian who completed a translation of the Gospel of St. John hours before his death Bede |
| #1463, aired 1991-01-02 | LITERARY MONSTERS $200: Greek for serpent, legend says they were fought by Siegfried & St. George dragons |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | COMPOSERS $200: The lyrics to many of his songs were written by his brother Ira George Gershwin |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | BY "GEORGE" $100: "My Fair Lady" is based on his play "Pygmalion" George Bernard Shaw |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | BY "GEORGE" $200: He wrote of his grand old life in "20 Years on Broadway & the Years It Took to Get There" George (M.) Cohan |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | BY "GEORGE" $300: This political columnist recently wrote a #1 bestseller on baseball called "Men at Work" George Will |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | BY "GEORGE" $400: In "A Winter on Majorca" she describes her stay on the island with her lover Chopin George Sand |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | BY "GEORGE" $500: "Adam Bede" was the first full-length novel Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name George Eliot |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT $1000: Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1988, Lauro F. Cavazos has kept this job under George Bush Secretary of Education |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "1984" was a 1949 book by Eric Blair written under this pen name George Orwell |
| #1372, aired 1990-07-17 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $200: "Babes in Arms" was one of many Broadway shows choreographed by this Russian-American known for his ballets George Balanchine |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | ART $400: Henri Matisse unwittingly coined this word when criticizing a painting by Georges Braque Cubism |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | MEDICINE $100: This test for cervical cancer was devised by & named for Dr. George Papanicolaou a pap smear |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | NICKNAMES $200: Bewhiskered western sidekick George Hayes went by this "talkative" nickname Gabby Hayes |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | 1981 MOVIES $100: This Harrison Ford movie was the 1st collaboration by George Lucas & Steven Spielberg "Raiders of the Lost Ark" |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | BY "GEORGE" $100: He survived a May 1972 assassination attempt in Laurel, Maryland George Wallace |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | BY "GEORGE" $200: She's the former First Lady of the Boston Celtics & the State of Kentucky Phyllis George |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | BY "GEORGE" $300: This producer-screenwriter from California created a popular character named Indiana George Lucas |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | BY "GEORGE" $400: He & his brother William Bundy held high government positions in the 1960s McGeorge Bundy |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | BY "GEORGE" $500: This tough-guy actor turned down the lead in "The Maltese Falcon" -- the rest is history George Raft |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: George Eliot's fictional weaver whose soul is saved by the child Eppie Silas Marner |
| #1212, aired 1989-12-05 | '50s TV $200: In this sitcom a banker was haunted by 3 ghosts--George & Marian Kerby & a booze-loving dog named Neil Topper |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | JAZZ $600: In 1976 this guitarist's "Breezin' " LP became the 1st record by a jazz musician to go platinum George Benson |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | ARTISTS $600: Sir Joshua Reynolds was knighted by this king in 1769 George III |
| #1166, aired 1989-10-02 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $1000: George Hamilton portrayed playwright Moss Hart in this loose adaptation of Hart's autobiography Act One |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | MUSICAL TEXAS TOWNS $200: In 1987 country music's George Strait went straight to this "yellow" Texas town "by Morning" Amarillo |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Former Miss America now selling chicken products under the "By George" label Phyllis George |
| #1089, aired 1989-05-04 | BEST SELLERS $400: "Gracie" was written by this man who loved Gracie George Burns |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | COUNTRY CROONERS $300: His 1969 hit "I'll Share My World With You" only reached #2; #1 was held by his wife, Tammy Wynette George Jones |
| #1039, aired 1989-02-23 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $100: The District of Columbia's flag was inspired by his coat of arms George Washington |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $800: His foster child, Eppie, chooses to stay with him at the end of this classic novel by George Eliot Silas Marner |
| #952, aired 1988-10-25 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1000: This 1984 musical was inspired by a painting, "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte" Sunday in the Park with George |
| #933, aired 1988-09-28 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: In 1917 the British royal family's name was changed to this by King George V Windsor |
| #931, aired 1988-09-26 | ART $1000: Artist George Segal is working on a series of these inspired by the paintings of his favorite artists sculptures |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This British poet, a notorious "Don Juan", kept his ringlets fresh by wearing curlers to bed George Gordon Lord Byron |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | BALLET $200: The ballet "Who Cares?" features songs by this composer, including "The Man I Love" & "I Got Rhythm" George Gershwin |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | ASTRONOMY $600: It was founded in 1904 by George Ellery Hale in the mountains above Pasadena, Calif. the Mount Wilson Observatory |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | 1962 $1000: Named premier by de Gaulle April 14, he resigned October 6, & was reappointed November 27 Georges Pompidou |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200: He was called "Ringlets" by his men & "Yellow Hair" by the Indians George Custer |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | ENGLAND $1000: Built by George IV, the royal pavilion at this seaside resort is an ornate Oriental palace Brighton |
| #865, aired 1988-05-13 | THE 19th CENTURY $500: Due to illness, this king was "represented" by the Prince of Wales from 1811 to his death in 1820 George III |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | NAMESAKES $400: The first one of these was designed by George Washington Gale Ferris Ferris wheel |
| #832, aired 1988-03-29 | COUNTRY CROONERS $100: He disdains the pop sound, so his songs like "Amarillo By Morning" are "straight" country George Straight |
| #830, aired 1988-03-25 | THE MOUNTIES $800: The Mounties weren't "Royal" until 1904, by this monarch's decree Edward VII |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | POLITICAL QUOTES $600: Lawrence J. Peter said this man was the 1st pres. "elected by a majority of 1--& nobody demanded a recount" Gerald Ford |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | KID STUFF $300: This inquisitive primate had his 50th birthday at Harvard in May 1987, hosted by his "Mom", M. Rey Curious George |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | IDAHO $600: On July 17, 1955 Arco, Idaho became the 1st U.S. city to be lit by electricity from this source nuclear power |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | WORLD CITIES $800: Found in an area colonized by the Norse in the 8th century, this city was home to John, Paul, George & Olaf Liverpool |
| #801, aired 1988-02-15 | ELIZABETHS $600: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, beloved widow of British king George VI, is best known by this title the Queen Mother |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | LONDON MONUMENTS $200: George G. Scott was knighted by Queen Victoria primarily for designing the ornate memorial to this prince Albert |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | TECHNOLOGY $500: In 1910, Georges Claude created a new form of lighting by passing electricity thru this inert gas neon |
| #768, aired 1987-12-30 | ALABAMIANS $1000: Famed Cherokee Indian scholar George Gist or Guess is better known by this name Sequoyah |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | TECHNOLOGY $800: Edison designed his movie camera to use the roll film invented by this man George Eastman |
| #727, aired 1987-11-03 | MUSICAL THEATER $600: By directing, writing & starring in "Little Johnny Jones", he gave his regards to B'way George Cohan |
| #709, aired 1987-10-08 | BY GEORGE $100: His 1981 hit "All Those Years Ago" was a tribute to John Lennon George Harrison |
| #709, aired 1987-10-08 | BY GEORGE $200: "God"like author of "How to Live to Be 100 or More" George Burns |
| #709, aired 1987-10-08 | BY GEORGE $500 (Daily Double): Composer of the following, though it said the only "levees" he knew were his neighbors in Brooklyn:
"
Swanee, how I love you, how I love you / My dear old Swanee / I'd give up the world to be / Among the folks in D-I-X-I-" George Gershwin |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | LIES $200: Of a lie or the truth, it's what the George Washington "I cannot tell a lie" story is a lie |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $1000: This famous "speech" by Washington in 1796 was printed in a newspaper, not delivered publicly Washington's farewell address |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | TRANSPORTATION $200: It's how George Higgs escaped from Erewhon & the Wizard left Oz by balloon |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | JUNE $1000: King George VI munched on hot dogs in June 1939 at a picnic given by this couple the Roosevelts (President & Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt) |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | TRAINS $100: By improving the railroad sleeping car, he managed to get it named after him George Pullman |
| #609, aired 1987-04-09 | ANIMAL LOVERS $300: Turned on by his tusks, Trish Van Devere fell for George C. Scott in TV version of this fairy tale Beauty and the Beast |
| #590, aired 1987-03-13 | THE FAMILY JULES $800: French equivalent of Sherlock Holmes introduced in 1931 by Georges Simenon Inspector Jules Maigret |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | LETTER PERFECT $400: Letter which is the nickname of the youth organization founded in 1844 by George Williams the Y |
| #536, aired 1986-12-29 | MOVIES $400: George Raft refused leads in "Dead End" "High Sierra" & "Maltese Falcon", in each case to be replaced by him Humphrey Bogart |
| #498, aired 1986-11-05 | BOTANICAL NAMES $400: He was Vice President of the U.S. from 1981-85 George Bush |
| #492, aired 1986-10-28 | SELF-DIRECTED $200: Woody Allen directed himself in this black-and-white 1979 comedy with music by George Gershwin Manhattan |
| #491, aired 1986-10-27 | LANGUAGES $500: George Bernard Shaw called them "2 nations separated by a common language" the United States & England |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | ACTORS & ROLE $100: British secret agent
played by Barry Nelson, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, & Sean Connery James Bond |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | '50'S TV $200: On his 1952 musical variety show, the orchestra was led by his brother George Liberace |
| #449, aired 1986-05-29 | 20th CENTURY ART $500: 1920 painting by George Grosz shows one of these machines Karel Capek named the next year a robot |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | WORLD WAR II $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 WWII figures played in title roles by George C. Scott Patton & Mussolini |
| #436, aired 1986-05-12 | SPORTS $500: In 1921, boxing's 1st million-dollar bout was won by this heavyweight Jack Dempsey |
| #432, aired 1986-05-06 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $500: By first name or last, he's alphabetically the 1st of the "Fab 4" George (Harrison) |
| #398, aired 1986-03-19 | FICTION $100: Motivated by kindness, George kills his slow-witted friend Lenny in this Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | BASEBALL $200: Most recent manager to be fired by George Steinbrenner & replaced by Billy Martin Yogi Berra |
| #355, aired 1986-01-17 | COMPOSERS $800: Composer of "Water Music" he's called "English" although German by birth George Frideric Handel |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | ARTISTS $200: Speared by St. George in Raphael's famous work the dragon |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | THE BEATLES $500: Beatle whose 1968 movie soundtrack, "Wonderwall Music" was 1st album released by Apple Records George Harrison |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | MEDICINE $400: George Washington is one of many whose death is attributed to “bleeding” by these leeches |
| #305, aired 1985-11-08 | DATED FILMS $200: A recent year as seen by George Orwell 1984 |
| #150, aired 1985-04-05 | THE '60S $500: Leader of the American Nazi party killed by an aide in '67 George Lincoln Rockwell |
| #144, aired 1985-03-28 | MEDICINE $200: Test for cancer of the cervix developed by Dr. George Papanicolaou a pap smear |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $500: Indian instrument popularized by George Harrison on the Sgt. Pepper album a sitar |
| #102, aired 1985-01-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Her father wrote "Trilby", her brother wrote "Raffles", she wrote "Rebecca" Daphne du Maurier |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | MUSIC $100: Name shared by brothers of Liberace & Ira Gershwin George |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | GAY BLADES $100: The mark left by George Hamilton's "gay blade" a Z |
| #11, aired 1984-09-24 | U.S. HISTORY $800: Only state carried by George McGovern in '72 election Massachusetts |
