#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THOSE WHO CELEBRATE $1200: In 1772 the British sent HMS Gaspee to patrol this bay; Rhode Islanders burned it & now celebrate by burning it again Narragansett Bay |
#8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $1,000 (Daily Double): After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 Henry Hudson |
#8929, aired 2023-09-14 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $2,200 (Daily Double): Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there Botany Bay |
#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | "DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE" $1000: Herb Caen referred to San Francisco as this place "by-the-Bay" Baghdad |
#8876, aired 2023-05-22 | WALKING IN A REDWOOD FOREST $1600: Growing alongside redwoods is this "bay" tree, linked to triumph by the ancients & used by the Pomo people for medicinal purposes a (bay) laurel |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $1500: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) The Warriors came to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1962, bringing this superstar 7-footer who averaged an incredible 44.8 points per game in his 1st season by the Bay Wilt Chamberlain |
#8755, aired 2022-12-02 | NFL TEAMS BY HOME STADIUM $400: The frozen tundra of Lambeau Field the Green Bay Packers |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): Founded by a royal charter, the company named for this body of water employed "voyageurs" who explored Canada by canoe Hudson Bay |
#8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A DIP IN THE BAY $3,500 (Daily Double): The Sunshine Skyway Bridge crosses this body of water, sheltered in part from the Gulf of Mexico by the Pinellas Peninsula Tampa Bay |
#8578, aired 2022-02-16 | FLICK PICS $400: Nic Cage by the Bay--pun intended The Rock |
#8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOTORIOUS $1600: In 2020 the FBI acknowledged that private citizens had broken a cipher sent by the 1960s Bay Area killer known as this the Zodiac Killer |
#8304, aired 2020-12-17 | MAN ABOUT TOWN $1200: Herb Caen wrote about this city for nearly 60 years, calling it "Baghdad-by-the-Bay" San Francisco |
#8299, aired 2020-12-10 | VERY PURITANICAL $1200: Trot trot to Boston, trot trot to Lynn; those were 2 cities in this colony founded in 1630 by Puritans the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | DJ, JAZZY $1200: Still going strong, the jazz festival of this bay & aquarium city in California was founded in 1958 by DJ Jimmy Lyons Monterey |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $600: This city was named in 1565 by the Portuguese, who mistook its bay for the entrance to a river Rio de Janeiro |
#8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $400: This song by Otis Redding mentions "the Frisco Bay" & "Watchin' the tide roll away" "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: Until about 1200, Lake Mälaren was a bay of this sea & was used by oceangoing vessels to reach Sweden's interior the Baltic |
#8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Drone technology has allowed for amazing footage from Monterey Bay, showing a blue whale gulping a bountiful feast of this, its favorite food krill |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $400: In Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City", the city is this one "by the bay" San Francisco |
#7907, aired 2019-01-15 | "WEST" WORLD $400: Long sought by explorers, it stretches from Baffin Bay to the Bering Sea the Northwest Passage |
#7870, aired 2018-11-23 | YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $2000: Seen here is the garage of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz, the 700-foot-long by 100-foot-wide this bay the hangar bay |
#7781, aired 2018-06-11 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $800: The Tides Inn resort hotel in Virginia is on a private peninsula by this bay the Chesapeake |
#7713, aired 2018-03-07 | HUMANS IN THE GALAPAGOS $1000: (Alex presents the clue from the Galapagos.) I'm at Post Office Bay on the island of Floreana--when sailors' messages to their families back home were intercepted right here by U.S. Navy captain David Porter & his crew, they indicated the positions of their ships, & that information helped destroy the British Pacific whaling fleet during this war the War of 1812 |
#7707, aired 2018-02-27 | RATING SYSTEMS $2000: The Little Man system for reviewing movies has been used by this Bay Area paper for years the San Francisco Chronicle |
#7689, aired 2018-02-01 | STAG, YOU'RE IT $2000: A famous 19th century image by Edwin Landseer is "Stag at" this, referring to being trapped, not the body of water bay |
#7644, aired 2017-11-30 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: "Flight of the Sparrow" recounts the real tale of a Puritan woman from this colony captured by Indians in 1676 the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
#7571, aired 2017-07-10 | MIXED GREENS $600: Led by this 2-time MVP quarterback, the Green Bay Packers won the first 2 Super Bowls Bart Starr |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $800: By 1892 this former fort in upper New York Bay had become the USA's main immigration reception center Ellis Island |
#7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ALL ABOOT CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Take the combined area of the Great Lakes, multiply that by 3, & you're still short of this bay named for an English explorer the Hudson Bay |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | "Y" GEOGRAPHY? $1200: This port on Tokyo Bay was destroyed in 1923 by the Great Kanto earthquake & again in World War II by U.S. bombing Yokohama |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SYDNEY $2000: This convict-unloading bay a few miles to the south is now ringed by Sydney's suburbs Botany Bay |
#7193, aired 2015-12-16 | ON THE GLOBE $1600: Golfe de Gascogne is what the French call this large bay of the Atlantic bordered by France & Spain the Bay of Biscay |
#7185, aired 2015-12-04 | CANADIAN LANDMARKS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Hopewell Rocks are formations created by tidal erosions on the upper shores of this bay the Bay of Fundy |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | CITY BY THE BAY $400: Cambridge, Maryland Chesapeake |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | CITY BY THE BAY $800: St. John, New Brunswick Bay of Fundy |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | CITY BY THE BAY $1200: Miami, Florida Biscayne Bay |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | CITY BY THE BAY $1600: Texas City, Texas Galveston Bay |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | CITY BY THE BAY $2000: Biarritz the Bay of Biscay |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1000: During the Battle of Manila Bay, this captain of the Olympia was told by Dewey to fire "when you are ready" Charles Gridley |
#6980, aired 2015-01-09 | COACHING IN THE NFL $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a football play animation on a monitor.) Here is the famous Green Bay Sweep designed by this head coach & winner of the first two Superbowls (Vince) Lombardi |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This colony, established by Pilgrims in 1620, celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621 Plymouth |
#6907, aired 2014-09-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $5 (Daily Double): First lit in 1792, Virginia's Old Cape Henry Lighthouse on this bay was the first authorized by the federal government the Chesapeake Bay |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | ALASKA'S GLACIERS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew comes to us from a boat near Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) The shorelines were completely covered by ice just 200 years ago; today's glaciers in Glacier Bay are remnants of the "LIA", or Little this, which started in the early 14th century the Little Ice Age |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | A ROUND OF GULF COAST $1000: By 1890 about 270 people lived in this "Sunshine City" at the tip of Pinellas Peninsula on Tampa Bay St. Petersburg |
#6562, aired 2013-03-12 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $6,400 (Daily Double): The Order of Giron Beach, created by Fidel Castro, is named for an area along this bay the Bay of Pigs |
#6480, aired 2012-11-16 | BAYS & GULFS $800: This Canadian gulf is connected to the Atlantic by the Straits of Cabot & Belle Isle the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
#6410, aired 2012-06-29 | BASEBALL TEAMS BY STADIUM $1000: Tropicana Field the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (Tampa Rays accepted) |
#6374, aired 2012-05-10 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $400: Bay & Daphne who, as infants, went home from the hospital with the wrong parents Switched at Birth |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CAPES $1600: The entrance to this Australian bay near Sydney is guarded by Cape Banks & Cape Solander Botany Bay |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $400: Maori rock carvings on the cliffs of Mine Bay in this country's Lake Taupo are accessible only by boat New Zealand |
#6235, aired 2011-10-28 | THE 1600s $2,400 (Daily Double): After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 Henry Hudson |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $1,200 (Daily Double): It remained a separate colony for most of its 71 years until it was absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 the Plymouth Colony |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | FOR THE HOME TEAM $600: This Super Bowl champion team is publicly owned by more than 110,000 of its rabidly loyal fans the (Green Bay) Packers |
#6165, aired 2011-06-03 | THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO $400: This tourist haven on the waterfront of the city is roughly bounded by Kearney & Bay Streets & Van Ness Ave. Fisherman's Wharf |
#6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BIG WORLD $1200: When measured by shoreline, this North American bay is the world's largest Hudson Bay |
#6049, aired 2010-12-23 | U.S. BAYS $2000: This lake's Buffalo Bay is shared by the U.S. & Canada with the U.S. part lying in Minnesota's Northwest Angle Lake of the Woods |
#6004, aired 2010-10-21 | WELCOME TO INDIA $800: The eastern states of Orissa & Andhra Pradesh are bounded by this body of water the Bay of Bengal |
#6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of New England on the monitor.) In May 1643, to discourage attacks by the Dutch & others, the United Colonies of New England was formed by 4 Puritan colonies: Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven & this one Plymouth |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | NFL RECORDS $400: Appropriately, it's the record number of safeties by a player in one game; L.A.'s Fred Dryer ate up Green Bay on Oct. 21, 1973 2 |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | AMERICAN CITIES $200: "Earthquake City" & "Baghdad by the Bay" are 2 nicknames of this California city San Francisco |
#5758, aired 2009-09-30 | IN THE NAVY $2000: At the Battle of Mobile Bay, this Union Naval officer won fame by saying, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" (David) Farragut |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | URBAN PLANNING $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a plot design, and green space appears along the road curves.) In suburban planning, additional green space created by curved streets & houses with varying setbacks is called this 4-letter word, also a small, sheltered bay a cove |
#5589, aired 2008-12-18 | PLANET "EARTH" $200: It's been estimated there's a 63% chance of a 6.7 or greater one of these in the Bay Area by 2037 an earthquake |
#5589, aired 2008-12-18 | LET'S GO TO SANTA $1200: Bounded by Point Dume & the Palos Verdes Peninsula it's the bay in TV's "Baywatch" Santa Monica Bay |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This triangular bay of the Atlantic is bounded on the east by France & on the south by Spain the Bay of Biscay |
#5549, aired 2008-10-23 | ONE-LETTER TAKE IN ORDER $2000: It precedes "Bay" on the Internet & also name the state capital spelled out by all 5 responses E & Boise |
#5447, aired 2008-04-22 | BACK IN '68 $1600: In 1968 work began on this project that stretched from the North Slope by Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez the Alaska Pipeline |
#5437, aired 2008-04-08 | VIRGINIA $800: Called the Eastern Shore, Virginia's part of the Delmarva Peninsula is split from the mainland by this bay the Chesapeake |
#5405, aired 2008-02-22 | SOUTH PARK $600: S. Montana's Electric Peak, named for the electrical charge experienced by climbers in 1872, is in this natl. park Yellowstone |
#5254, aired 2007-06-14 | MARYLAND $600: Maryland's eastern shore is separated from the main part of the state by this bay Chesapeake Bay |
#5203, aired 2007-04-04 | THE 1600s $2000: On Dec, 19, 1642 4 of this Dutch navigator's men were killed by Maoris at what was later named Massacre Bay (Abel) Tasman |
#5026, aired 2006-06-19 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): The Gironde, an estuary formed by a river confluence near Bordeaux, extends to this bay the Bay of Biscay |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | IT'S CANADA, EH $4,000 (Daily Double): The big bay between Canada & Greenland was discovered by & named for this Englishman (William) Baffin |
#4951, aired 2006-03-06 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $3,989 (Daily Double): The 1st military campaign medal Congress approved, the Manila Bay Medal was known by the name of this adm. Dewey |
#4929, aired 2006-02-02 | THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue standing on a train platform at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI.) The largest steam locomotive ever was the 132-foot, 6,200-horsepower "Big Boy" operated by this company formed to extend the railways to the West Coast Union Pacific |
#4800, aired 2005-06-17 | THE STANLEY CUP $1600: This team from the sunny South broke Canadian hearts by beating Calgary for the Cup in 2004 the Tampa Bay Lightning |
#4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WHERE HISTORY HAPPENED $1,200 (Daily Double): Corregidor, enveloped by this bay, was fortified by the Spanish in the 18th century Manila Bay |
#4771, aired 2005-05-09 | CNN 25: NATIONAL NEWS $1600: The Bay Area was hit by the quake whose aftermath is seen here, named for this mountain near the epicenter Loma Prieta |
#4767, aired 2005-05-03 | LET'S LEARN SCOTTISH GAELIC $1600: If you know cardhu ("black rock") & laphroaig ("beautiful hollow by the broad bay") you either love Gaelic or this scotches |
#4756, aired 2005-04-18 | 1970s POP MUSIC $400: In this hit Barry Manilow sings that "Time in New England took me away, to long rocky beaches & you by the bay" "Weekend In New England" |
#4728, aired 2005-03-09 | MLB TEAMS BY STADIUM $1000: Tropicana Field the Tampa Bay Devil Rays |
#4723, aired 2005-03-02 | GEOGRAPHER'S DICTIONARY $2000: It's a bay formed by a bend in a coastline, like the one "of Benin" a bight |
#4561, aired 2004-06-07 | CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $400: City by the Bay
(3, 9) San Francisco |
#4472, aired 2004-02-03 | PUERTO RICO $600: Now a popular tourist attraction, El Morro Fortress was built by the Spaniards to guard this city's bay San Juan |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT $1000: Minimata Disease, named for a Japanese bay, is caused by eating fish loaded with this element mercury |
#4384, aired 2003-10-02 | AMERICAN FOOD $1000: The steamed blue ones from Chesapeake Bay are served by the dozen in Baltimore restaurants crabs |
#4180, aired 2002-11-01 | THE 1960s $800: In 1968 work began on this project that stretched from the North Slope by Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (the Alaskan Pipeline accepted) |
#4177, aired 2002-10-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Otis Redding's No. 1 hit that's performed by a Scottish band on S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night Sitting on the Dock of the Bay City Rollers |
#4063, aired 2002-04-10 | GEOGRAPHIC "LAND"S $200: This state is divided into 2 parts by Chesapeake Bay & the Susquehanna river, which flows into it Maryland |
#4059, aired 2002-04-04 | WHERE, OH WHERE? $400: This vast bay can be considered an arm of the Atlantic or of the Arctic Ocean, to which it's linked by Foxe Basin Hudson Bay |
#3908, aired 2001-09-05 | BY THE BAY $100: Subic Bay lies just west of the Bataan Peninsula in this country the Philippines |
#3908, aired 2001-09-05 | BY THE BAY $200: Nuuk, the capital of this vast, cold island, is on a bay whose name means "bay of good hope" Greenland |
#3908, aired 2001-09-05 | BY THE BAY $300: 2-word place name in the NHL logo seen here Tampa Bay |
#3908, aired 2001-09-05 | BY THE BAY $400: Directional name for Alameda & Contra Costa Counties, for their relation to San Francisco Bay East Bay |
#3908, aired 2001-09-05 | BY THE BAY $500: This New Jersey city whose name starts with "bay" is between Newark & upper New York Bays Bayonne |
#3867, aired 2001-05-29 | CITIES BY HOTEL $500: Copley Square Hotel,
The Omni Parker House,
Back Bay Hilton Boston |
#3736, aired 2000-11-27 | U.S. CITY NICKNAMES $100: "Baghdad by the Bay",
"Golden Gate City" San Francisco |
#3713, aired 2000-10-25 | U.S. CITIES $400: Located at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, it was named by Spanish colonists for St. Joseph San Jose |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | LIGHTHOUSES $400: Virginia's Old Carpe Henry lighthouse on this bay was one of the first public works authorized by Congress Chesapeake |
#3411, aired 1999-06-07 | "BLUE" $400: Accessible only by boat, it's a natural limestone cavern in the Bay of Naples Blue Grotto |
#3391, aired 1999-05-10 | U.S. CITIES $200: At less than 950 feet, Mt. Davidson is the highest point in this "City by the Bay" San Francisco |
#3185, aired 1998-06-05 | CITY NICKNAMES $600: You may have left your heart in this "Baghdad by the Bay" city San Francisco |
#1, aired 1998-05-03 | BAGHDAD NOT BY THE BAY $100: In 1991 the U.S. & its allies bombed Baghdad to force Iraq to get its troops out of this country Kuwait |
#1, aired 1998-05-03 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $200: This "Call of the Wild" author had some wild times at Heinold's First & Last Chance Saloon in Oakland Jack London |
#1, aired 1998-05-03 | BAGHDAD NOT BY THE BAY $200: TV series that featured the Baghdad native seen here in doll form I Dream of Jeannie |
#3098, aired 1998-02-04 | '60s NO. 1 HITS $100: Sittin' on the top of the charts in 1968 was this hit by the late Otis Redding "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" |
#3062, aired 1997-12-16 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1000: Fed by steaming hot springs, the name of this capital means "Bay of Smokes" Reykjavik, Iceland |
#3059, aired 1997-12-11 | A "GOLDEN" TREASURY $200: It's the waterway into the City by the Bay Golden Gate Strait |
#3041, aired 1997-11-17 | BIG ISLANDS $200: The shore of this island is indented by numerous bays including Donegal Bay & Belfast Lough Ireland |
#2835, aired 1996-12-20 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: The Teatro San Carlo, one of Italy's largest opera houses, was built in this city by the bay in 1816 Naples |
#2830, aired 1996-12-13 | ISLANDS $1000: Tourist sites on this island in the Bay of Naples include the ruins of the 12 villas built by emperor Tiberius Capri |
#2749, aired 1996-07-11 | BAYS & GULFS $400: Sri Lanka is bounded on the west by the Gulf of Mannar & on the east by this bay Bay of Bengal |
#2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): The harbor of this Pacific Russian port is formed by Golden Horn Bay Vladivostok |
#2644, aired 1996-02-15 | LAKES & RIVERS $600: Brazil's Guanabara Bay was 1st called this by sailors who thought it was a river Rio de Janeiro |
#2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ESCAPES $500: In 1814 this pirate's base in Barataria Bay was destroyed by the U.s. Navy, but he escaped (Jean) Lafitte |
#2395, aired 1995-01-20 | POP MUSIC $400: In 1968 his "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" became the first No. 1 posthumous hit by a solo artist Otis Redding |
#2342, aired 1994-11-08 | FOOD $200: The fish stew called cioppino was created in this California city by the bay San Francisco |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | BAYS $100: It's the bay of the "City by the Bay" San Francisco |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | BAYS $600 (Daily Double): This bay near present-day Sydney was named for the varied vegetation found by naturalists with Capt. Cook Botany Bay |
#2286, aired 1994-07-11 | HODGEPODGE $100: Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, is published in this City by the Bay San Francisco |
#2133, aired 1993-12-08 | MARYLAND $1000: The William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge, better known by this name, connects East & West Md. the (Chesapeake) Bay Bridge |
#2121, aired 1993-11-22 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600 (Daily Double): The Bay of Ancon de Sardinas is shared by Colombia & this neighbor to the south Ecuador |
#2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 17, 1961 a force of about 1,500 exiled Cubans trained by the CIA landed at this site Bay of Pigs |
#1844, aired 1992-09-17 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This bay at Luzon Island in the Philippines is bordered on the west by the Bataan Peninsula Manila Bay |
#1750, aired 1992-03-20 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: It's connected to Oakland by BART & the Bay Bridge San Francisco, California |
#1649, aired 1991-10-31 | EXPLORERS $200: In 1611 this navigator was set adrift by mutineers in the Canadian bay named for him & soon died Hudson |
#1609, aired 1991-09-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Pliny the Elder was killed by the eruption of this volcano on the Bay of Naples in 79 A.D. Vesuvius |
#1591, aired 1991-07-01 | LANGUAGES $600: Erin islanders in Galway Bay are subsidized by the government for speaking this language Gaelic |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $600: This bay is bounded by Miami, Miami Beach & the Florida Keys Biscayne Bay |
#1476, aired 1991-01-21 | MARYLAND $200: Maryland is nearly divided in 2 by this bay the Chesapeake |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: The Bay of Plenty of this country was named by Cook for the copious food the Maoris there gave him New Zealand |
#1315, aired 1990-04-27 | NOVA SCOTIA $2,500 (Daily Double): Dikes make it possible to farm the marshland created by the world's highest tides in this bay the (Bay of) Fundy |
#1023, aired 1989-02-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,800 (Daily Double): 2 of 3 of the original 13 colonies founded by colonists from Massachusetts New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Connecticut |
#949, aired 1988-10-20 | RESORTS $1000: Until it was sold recently, the exclusive Caneel Bay Resort on St. John was owned by this family the Rockefellers |
#890, aired 1988-06-17 | CITY NICKNAMES $200: "Baghdad by the Bay", according to Herb Caen San Francisco |
#864, aired 1988-05-12 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Named by Captain Cook for the many plants along the shore, Botany Bay is on this continent Australia |
#843, aired 1988-04-13 | EXPLORERS $400: 2 of 3 bodies of water explored by & named for Henry Hudson (2 of) the Hudson Bay & the Hudson River (or the Hudson Strait) |
#740, aired 1987-11-20 | FOOTBALL $200: This team's first jerseys were provided by the Indian Packing Co. Green Bay Packers |
#599, aired 1987-03-26 | BOSTON $200: The Neponset, Mystic & Chelsea are really inlets fed by the bay, so the Charles is the only real one the only river in Boston |
#599, aired 1987-03-26 | BEATNIKS $1000: In April 1958, this S.F. columnist coined the term "beatnik" in his column, "Baghdad-By-the-Bay" Herb Caen |
#456, aired 1986-09-08 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Measured by its shoreline, it's the the largest bay in the Western Hemisphere Hudson Bay |
#433, aired 1986-05-07 | FOOTBALL $400: Coached by him, the Green Bay Packers won the first 2 Super Bowls Vince Lombardi |
#370, aired 1986-02-07 | GEOGRAPHY $200: It's bordered by the Bristol Channel, Cardigan Bay, the Irish Sea, & England Wales |
#146, aired 1985-04-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500 (Daily Double): Country you'd be in if you were traveling on the following:
"On the road to Mandalay / Where the flyin' fishes play, / And the dawn comes up like thunder / Out of China, 'cross the bay..." Burma |
#48, aired 1984-11-14 | REPUBLICANS $200: '70s president once offered contracts by Detroit Lions & the Green Bay Packers Gerald Ford |
Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
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"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Aaron Rodgers, the reigning NFL MVP from the Green Bay Packers
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"He's the reigning NFL MVP, leading his team to victory in...
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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Fideleon Damian, a Ph.D. student in history originally from San Francisco, California
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Season 26 player (2010-01-18).
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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John Munson, a self-proclaimed gadabout originally from Lakeland, Florida
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Season 25 player (2009-07-24). John managed to write his name on...
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David Brown, a fundraising intern from Palo Alto, California
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Season 29 2-time champion: $32,600 + $1,000. Son of Season 25...
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Judy Arnold, a technical writer from Sunnyvale, California
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Season 27 player (2010-12-14). Dilbert strip inspired by Judy. Jeopardy! Message...
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