#9258, aired 2025-01-29 | 3 OF A KIND $200: Hosea,
Philemon,
Colossians books of the Bible |
#4, aired 2025-01-24 | ANAGRAMED BIBLE PEOPLE $400: Roman boss in Judea:
ALE PIT Pilate |
#4, aired 2025-01-24 | ANAGRAMED BIBLE PEOPLE $800: Extremely senior citizen:
HULA THEMES Methuselah |
#4, aired 2025-01-24 | ANAGRAMED BIBLE PEOPLE $1200: Wasteful wastrel welcomed back:
DROOLING SAP prodigal son |
#4, aired 2025-01-24 | ANAGRAMED BIBLE PEOPLE $1600: King in the first verse of the book of Daniel:
ACNE HEN BUZZARD Nebuchadnezzar |
#4, aired 2025-01-24 | ANAGRAMED BIBLE PEOPLE $2000: Prophetess & military leader of premonarchic Israel:
ORB HEAD Deborah |
#9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $400: The book of Hebrews tells us the Ark of the Covenant contained Aaron's rod, the 10 Commandments & a jar of this special food manna |
#9252, aired 2025-01-21 | AUTHORS $1000: All hail this Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Demon Copperhead" & "The Poisonwood Bible" Kingsolver |
#9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $1200: Name changes in Genesis include Sarai to Sarah, Abram to Abraham & this guy's name changed to Israel Jacob |
#9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $1600: Matthew 26 recounts Judas Iscariot making his deal to identify & betray Jesus for this amount of money 30 pieces of silver |
#9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $2000: When the 39 books of the Old Testament in the King James Bible are listed alphabetically, they run from Amos to this prophet Zephaniah |
#9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $10,800 (Daily Double): In the NT we learn Peter's brother Andrew, who also became an apostle, had previously been a disciple of this religious figure John the Baptist |
#9248, aired 2025-01-15 | ____ & ____ $600: God "rained upon" Sodom & Gomorrah these 2 things, often now seen in the opposite order from the King James Bible's fire & brimstone (brimstone & fire) |
#9243, aired 2025-01-08 | YOU JUST GOT MONK'D! $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1939 Thomas Merton opened the Bible to Luke 1:20 & read "Behold, you shall be" this & he decided to become a Trappist monk silent |
#9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $200: In Genesis, "God blessed" humanity, saying "Make thee be fruitful, and" do this multiply |
#9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: "I am" these 2 letters, "the first and the last: and, what thou seest, write in a book" Alpha & Omega |
#9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $600: "These are also the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses" at this place Mount Sinai |
#9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1,000 (Daily Double): "And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with" this group, "and slew them with a great slaughter" the Philistines |
#9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: "And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, go view the land, even" this city Jericho |
#9239, aired 2025-01-02 | ANTONYMS: THE ANTI-SYNONYMS $1200: Fertile is 180 degrees from this word the King James Bible uses about Rebekah & Elisabeth when childless barren |
#9239, aired 2025-01-02 | ANTONYMS: THE ANTI-SYNONYMS $2000: An "ant"onym of modern & fresh, it describes the time before the flood in the Bible antediluvian |
#9229, aired 2024-12-19 | BOOMERS $800: In 1970 Annie Leibovitz got her 1st photo assignment from this magazine & boomer Bible: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane Rolling Stone |
#9224, aired 2024-12-12 | GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS $1200: This Georgia church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached bears the name of a memorial erected by Samuel in the Bible Ebenezer Baptist |
#9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $200: Exodus 20:8 commands, "Remember" this day "to keep it holy" the Sabbath |
#9213, aired 2024-11-27 | PICTURE THE FILM $200: A classic from 1980 Raging Bull |
#9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: "And the light shineth in" this, which "comprehended it not" the darkness |
#9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $600: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green" these pastures |
#9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: "Why beholdest thou" this 4-letter thing "that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" the mote |
#9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils" this phrase the breath of life |
#9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $400: Matthew 7:15 warns, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in" this 2-word attire, "but inwardly they are ravening wolves" sheep's clothing |
#9211, aired 2024-11-25 | ANIMAL QUOTES $1200: The Bible says it's "easier for" this "to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" a camel |
#9210, aired 2024-11-22 | OOPS! $400: The "Wicked" Bible of 1631 famously omitted this word from the 10 Commandments in the one about adultery not |
#9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $800: "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin" is in this Bible book Proverbs |
#9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $800: In the Bible the first line of Job explains that he was from Uz, & that he was "perfect and" this upright |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | 6-LETTER SYNONYM PAIRS $800: A tasting sampler, as of wines or whiskeys
&
the second book of the Bible flight & Exodus |
#9193, aired 2024-10-30 | WHERE TO GO WHEN... $1000: You're Cain in the Bible & you just "went out from the presence of the Lord":
"the Land of" this the Land of Nod |
#9192, aired 2024-10-29 | HISTORIC WOMEN $2000: In 1895, aged 80, this 3-named activist published her "Woman's Bible", which says the Old Testament proclaims female equality Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
#9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $400: Also called Didymus or the twin, he refused to believe his fellow Apostles after missing an important visitation (Doubting) Thomas |
#9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $800: This king gave his daughter Michal as a wife to David, but later married her off to another Saul |
#9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $1200: With a name perhaps meaning "man of the javelin", this son of Enoch lived almost 1,000 years Methuselah |
#9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $1600: This prophet whose name became a word for an angry rant: "They proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord" Jeremiah |
#9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $2000: Publius, a leader on this Mediterranean island, was kind to Paul, who was shipwrecked there, after Paul healed Publius' father Malta |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: The Bible tells us, "For wisdom is better than" these gems "and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it" rubies |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | THE NAME GAME $1600: This middle name of President Warren Harding was also the name of a first century rabbi mentioned in the Bible Gamaliel |
#9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $800: This third book of the Bible says rabbits, due to "divideth not the hoof", are "unclean"; first off, how dare you!? Leviticus |
#9169, aired 2024-09-26 | FAMOUS FATHERS-IN-LAW $800: In the Bible David succeeded this father-in-law as king of Israel Saul |
#9163, aired 2024-09-18 | THE HISTORICAL HOOSEGOW $1200: After being arrested, this OG player used a Bible & a bowl of pasta in his 1756 escape from the Leads, a Venetian hoosegow Casanova |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS $800: One of the books of the Hebrew Bible most represented in the scrolls is this one that has 150 chapters Psalms |
#9150, aired 2024-07-19 | 40 $1000: As told in chapter 16, verse 35 of this book of the Bible, the Israelites wandered for 40 years in the desert after leaving Egypt Exodus |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ENDS IN "GH" $1200: The Bible says, "Every man hath his sword upon" this part of the leg the thigh |
#9130, aired 2024-06-21 | ENDS IN DOUBLE "E" $2000: Fisherman father of the Apostles James & John in the Bible Zebedee |
#9129, aired 2024-06-20 | YOU CAN'T SPELL... $400: These Christians who take the Bible quite literally, without "amen" Fundamentalists |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $400: This widow with a Bible book named after her remarries but remains devoted to her first mother-in-law Naomi Ruth |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $800: In Acts 17 a woman named Damaris was receptive to a sermon in Athens by this apostle of Tarsus Paul |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $1200: The daughter of Herodias requested this gruesome gift from King Herod the head of John the Baptist |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $1600: This queen states, "If I perish, I perish" after agreeing to find a way to derail a murderous decree instigated by Haman Esther |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $2000: Jacob marries Leah after 7 years of hard labor for her dad; after 7 more years of work, he marries this sister of Leah Rachel |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE $600: The third son of Adam & Eve mentioned in the Bible, he was born after Abel was killed Seth |
#32, aired 2024-05-15 | A TOTAL BANGER $800: After "a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet... the wall of the city shall fall" in this Bible book Joshua |
#9100, aired 2024-05-10 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Pre-revolutionary France craved moralistic scenes like the painting seen here of a father doing this to his children reading the Bible |
#9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $200: In the Bible his "height was six cubits and a span", which some estimates peg at 9 or 10 feet tall, but the bigger they come... Goliath |
#22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $200: Referring to non-canonical Bible books, this adjective describes anything of dubious authenticity A-P-O-C-R-Y-P-H-A-L |
#9092, aired 2024-04-30 | A GAP ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS $800: On his C.V., this subject of a Bible parable probably would skip the time he "wasted his substance with riotous living" the Prodigal Son |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $2000: This Dutch scholar put out a 1516 translation of the Bible that made it more accessible & helped lead to the Reformation Erasmus |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | THE 14th CENTURY $2000: In the 1380s, this Oxford theologian led an effort that translated the Bible into English Wycliffe |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $2000: In this Bible book once alluded to by Samuel L. Jackson, "Another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord" Ezekiel |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $600: In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible Trent |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $200: Writer Prawer Jhabvala, helpful Dr. Westheimer Ruth |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $400: The real-world Mr. Law, the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $600: A Coen brother, a "Last of Us" father Joel |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $800: Reynolds of the visual arts, Bell of classical music Joshua |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $1000: Digital media titan Peretti, actor Hill Jonah |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 5 FOR THE ROAD $1000: You may have an enlightening moment on the "road to" this city, like Saul did in the Bible Damascus |
#9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: This devilish Philistine god mentioned in the Bible has a name meaning "lord of the flies" Beelzebub |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $400: A bestseller across the ages, this book gets its name from the Phoenician port city where paper used to make it was traded Bible |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | FROM THE LATIN $2000: From Latin for "to die", this fifth plague in the Bible killed "all the cattle of Egypt" murrain |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | ANAGRAMS $800: A book of the Bible:
YOU RENT DOME Deuteronomy |
#2, aired 2024-01-12 | JUST DESERTS $200: In this Bible book, the children of Israel "were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai" Exodus |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $200: "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day" Genesis |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $400: Living up to its name: "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning" Proverbs |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $600: "And I saw in the right hand of him... a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals" (Book of) Revelation |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $1000: "Ye shall not... print any marks upon you: I am the Lord" (so no tattoos) Leviticus |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $4,000 (Daily Double): "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas" Jonah |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $200: In the Bible, this person "looked back... and she became a pillar of salt" Lot's wife |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | FAMOUS OBJECTS $1600: The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin has one of the 21 complete, intact these, from the 1450s the Gutenberg Bible |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $200: In this Bible book: "And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth?" Genesis |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $400: Ecclesiastes 8: Do this & this & "be merry" eat & drink |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $800: This man told a friend, "Palladio is the Bible", as he was something of a fanboy for the 16th century Italian architect Jefferson |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $800: 1 Peter 4: "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of" these sins |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $1600: 2 Timothy 4: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have" succeeded in this retention of belief kept the faith |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $2000: Genesis 37: "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children... and he made him" this showy item a coat of many colors |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Matthew 21: "My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it" this burrow for burglars a den of thieves |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | YELLOW STONE $800: In the Bible brimstone refers to this yellow stone whose compounds can be quite stinky sulfur |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SLANG FOR LIQUOR $800: It can come before "sander" & after "Bible" belt |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT $200: The authors of the Bible's gospels: Matthew, Luke, John &... Mark |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A LITTLE "DEB"LL DO YA $800: You'll find her exploits extolled in the Bible's Book of Judges Deborah |
#8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PITHY QUOTES $2,400 (Daily Double): The King James Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept", refers to the death of this man Lazarus |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $600: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book the Book of Amos |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $100: One of history's first travel writers, the 4th-century pilgrim Egeria explored the Holy Land using this book as a guide the Bible |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | ROGET'S BUTT $600: A synonym for "butt", it's also "an unclean animal" according to the king James Bible ass |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $1200: During the 1604 Hampton Court Conference, this king accepted a request for a new translation of the Bible King James |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1200: Mentioned more than 40 times in the Bible, they were a people of Asia Minor & Syria the Hittites |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: One of the 2 middle verses of the King James Bible is this book 103:2, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" Psalms |
#8919, aired 2023-07-20 | YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $600: Folks in the Bible might have needed a raiment bag; today we use this for suits & dresses that must hang straight, not be folded a garment bag |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | 5 ABOUT 4 $800: Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible, the one representing war rides this color horse red |
#8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $800: This Bible book gives us the line "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" Psalms |
#8913, aired 2023-07-12 | DOUBLE-VOWEL PLACES $1,800 (Daily Double): The sea of this, a name big in the Bible, is really a freshwater lake that gets most of its inflow from the Jordan River the Sea of Galilee |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $400: For "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino actually rewrote the Bible for Jules Winnfield's quotation of this Old Testament book Ezekiel |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
#8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $1,000 (Daily Double): Pope Alexander VI, a member of this family, seemed to eschew the bible with his mistresses, children & murders of rivals the Borgias |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GIMME 5 $800: The Bible's Torah or Pentateuch is also known as "the 5 books of" this personage Moses |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | MIDDLE "G" $2000: St. Jerome gets the credit for this translation of the Bible that he completed around 405 the Vulgate |
#8874, aired 2023-05-18 | FLAGS OF SPANISH-SPEAKING NATIONS $1200: This Caribbean island nation flies a flag featuring a cross & a Bible the Dominican Republic |
#14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Mentioned in the Bible, the King's Highway joined Syria to this gulf at the north of the Red Sea Gulf of Aqaba |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $800: The titular "Book of Eli" turns out to be a Bible, but it's basically useless to Gary Oldman because it's in this format braille |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | ABBREV. $200: Eph. is one way to abbreviate this Bible book Ephesians |
#7, aired 2023-05-12 | THE SUFFERING OF JESUS $600: On the cross Jesus asked God, "Lama sabachthani?" translated in the King James Bible as "Why hast thou" done this forsaken me |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $800: The + a legendary king of the Geats + either of the 2 main divisions of the Christian Bible The Beowulf Testament |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $2000: In slang, "a whole" this means a long story, but in the Hebrew Bible, it's a scroll or the book of Esther megillah |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $200: "When they were in the field", this guy "rose up against" this guy "his brother, and slew him"; ye shall name them both Cain & Abel |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $400: This stone-slinging man also "smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive" David |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $600: "Then the Lord rained upon" these 2 sinful cities "brimstone and fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $800: The jawbone of an ass is an unusual choice for a weapon, but this guy "slew a thousand men" with one in Judges 15 Samson |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $1000: This first 2-part epistle says, "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned" Second Corinthians |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | I GOT THE RECEIPTS $800: Symbolically hot off the press, this book--one of roughly 50 left in the world--was auctioned in 1987 for $5.39 million a Gutenberg Bible |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $200: "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth" Genesis |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $400: "Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this child away, and nurse it for me" Exodus |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $600: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters" Psalms |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $800: "Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord" Acts (of the Apostles) |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $1000: "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand" the Book of Daniel |
#8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE BIBLE $400: The fifth commandment tells us to honor this duo: Nebat & Zeruah for King Jeroboam your mother & your father |
#8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE BIBLE $800: The First Book of Samuel recounts the encounter between these 2, big Philistine & smaller Israelite, in the valley of Elah David & Goliath |
#8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE BIBLE $1200: While Moses was up on Mount Sinai, Aaron crafted this using earrings, angering the Lord a golden calf |
#8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE BIBLE $1600: After the Last Supper, Jesus traveled to this garden to pray & was arrested there Gethsemane |
#8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE BIBLE $2000: St. Paul declares himself to be from the tribe named for this younger son of Rachel & Jacob Benjamin |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $200: His punishment for eating forbidden fruit: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground" Adam |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $400: If "a false" one of these "testified falsely against his brother... do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother" a witness |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $800: He is imprisoned on a false allegation when a woman grabs his garment (but not his coat of many colors) & says he made advances Joseph |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1000: As told by Leonard Cohen, David sees this woman on a roof; his sin with her leads to the death of their child as punishment Bathsheba |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1,800 (Daily Double): These paired cities, "going after strange flesh, are... suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $1000: A jubilee year as recounted in the book of Leviticus in the Bible every 50 years |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $800: Known as "The Bod", the Bodleian Library at this British university contains 4 copies of the Magna Carta & a Gutenberg Bible (the University of) Oxford |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $1600: Jesus was a regular shulgoer--the King James Bible says, "as his custom was, he went into" this "on the Sabbath day" the synagogue |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $2000: In the King James Bible John 3:16 says, "Whosoever believeth in him" will have this life everlasting |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | ____ & ____ $400: Biblical scholars are known to quote the Bible this specific way chapter & verse |
#11, aired 2023-01-19 | STARTS WITH A SILENT LETTER $1000: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want", begins No. 23 of these in the Bible Psalms |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | WHAT IN THE WHIRLED... $1000: In the King James Bible, the prophet Hosea ominously says that transgressors "shall reap" this a whirlwind |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $2000: In the Bible, Elijah led the struggle against worship of this Phoenician god that Ahab followed Baal |
#8754, aired 2022-12-01 | BIBLICAL DEMONS, DEVILS & SPIRITS $400: This Latin term for the Morning Star became linked with Satan when Isaiah used it for the fallen one in the King James Bible Lucifer |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $1200: 3 words that fill in the King James Bible quote from Genesis--"There were giants... in those days" in the earth |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HOW TALL/LONG/HIGH? $1000: The bed of the biblical giant Og: 9 of these units long--a building elsewhere in the Bible is only 6 of them wide a cubit |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: As mentioned at the start of this book, Pithom & Raamses were 2 treasure cities built by the Israelites for the Egyptian Pharaoh Exodus |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $800: Despite his own rules against sorcery, this monarch traveled to the city of Endor to consult a witch Saul |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1200: Also the home of Mary & Martha, this town near Jerusalem is where Lazarus was raised from the dead Bethany |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1600: What was Sela, the "strong city" of Edom, is today somewhere in this country--maybe it's Petra Jordan |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $2000: Genesis recounts that this mighty hunter built the city of Nineveh Nimrod |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $200: "Out of the mouth of" these "and sucklings hast thou ordained strength" babes |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $400: He "exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom" Solomon |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $600: From Deuteronomy: "Of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and" these "shall ye eat" scales |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $800: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way," the this "and the life" the truth |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $1000: From 2 Corinthians: "For we walk by" this, "not by sight" faith |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $200: In "the six hundred and first year", second month, 27th day, the earth was dried & this vessel's occupants could leave it the ark (Noah's ark) |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $400: Called "kings" in a Christmas carol, these visitors to the young Jesus brought a trio of gifts: gold, frankincense & myrrh the magi (or the wise men) |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $600: There was some serious sibling rivalry with these first 2 sons of Adam & Eve Cain & Abel |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $800: Matthew 5:5 says, "Blessed are" this group "for they shall inherit the earth" the meek |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $1000: This 5-letter word refers to the "bread from heaven" eaten by the Israelites as told in the Book of Exodus manna |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | ONOMATOPOEIA $800: "Bible" can precede this word, also a Disney rabbit thumper |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $500: In the King James Bible, "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah" these 2 things fire & brimstone |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | FROM THE LATIN $1,800 (Daily Double): This 9-letter word for the sacred writings of the Bible is from the Latin for "to write" scripture |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $200: "Let there be light"; Jared begat Enoch... "begat" appears a lot, actually Genesis |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $400: 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son" John |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $600: The title queen replaces Vashti; Haman replaces Mordecai on the gallows Esther |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $800: "I am... the beginning and the ending"; there is serious omega Revelation |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $1000: Chapters 21 & 22 are about the priesthood, the group also alluded to in the book's name Leviticus |
#8722, aired 2022-10-18 | MEASURING UP $2000: The King James Bible says Goliath stood 6 cubits & this, the distance between the extended tips of the thumb & little finger a span |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $1200: "You read the Bible, Brett?... Ezekiel 25:17... and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!" Pulp Fiction |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | THEY'RE JUST LIKE "US" $600: The name of this Bible book is from the Greek for "a going out" Exodus |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $200: He got stoned:
HAG TOIL Goliath |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $400: Old-timer:
HEALTH MUSE Methuselah |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $600: Big cats did no harm:
NAILED Daniel |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $800: Baptist parent:
BAIL THESE Elisabeth |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $1000: A Roman governor:
TAILPIPE SNOUT Pontius Pilate |
#8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BORROW $800: The Lord tells him to have his people borrow jewels from their neighbors (good luck getting them back after the Exodus, Egyptians) Moses |
#8708, aired 2022-09-28 | NATURALISTS $1600: Jack Miner, a pioneer of doing this, to track birds, began a tradition of adding Bible verses to create flying missionaries tagging (banding) |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $400: The second patriarch, Isaac was the only son from this father & mother Abraham & Sarah |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $800: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" is from this book of wise writings Proverbs |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $1200: This ancient city in southern Turkey was the birthplace of St. Paul Tarsus |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $1600: This queen told Solomon, "It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom" the Queen of Sheba |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $2000: The Gospels of Matthew, Mark & Luke are called by this adjective because their stories line up neatly when summarized the synoptic Gospels |
#8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HELP ME MOVE MY STUFF? $200: That Bible's not for the yard sale! It was printed around 1455 by this man & only 48 are known to survive; I think it might be valuable Gutenberg |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | HERE COMES 39 $1000: In the King James Bible, the Old Testament has 39 books, with Kings, Chronicles & this prophet each having a 1 & 2 book Samuel |
#8695, aired 2022-07-29 | JUST TAKE THE L $600: The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible label & Abel |
#8687, aired 2022-07-19 | UNDER QUARANTINE $1600: Numbers 5 mandated that the Israelites isolate anyone with the skin affliction the King James Bible calls this leprosy |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $400: David stood upon this "Philistine, and took his sword... and cut off his head therewith" Goliath |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $800: In Exodus, "Behold", this "burned with fire, and (it) was not consumed" the (burning) bush |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $1200: "And when he had opened the fourth seal... I looked, and behold a pale" this: "and his name that sat on him was Death" horse |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $1600: As Jesus "walked by" this body of water, "he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers" the Sea of Galilee |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $2000: Since no one had done this for 40 years, God told Joshua to get a knife & do it to the male Israelites circumcise |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $200: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in" these green pastures |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: It "goeth before destruction" pride |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $600: She said, "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge" Ruth |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: From Matthew 26, "The spirit indeed is willing, but" this the flesh is weak |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the entirety of John 11:35, often acknowledged as the shortest verse in the Bible Jesus wept |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: A Bible of sorts for members of the Red Guards, "The Little Red Book" is a collection of his quotations Mao (Tse-tung) |
#8674, aired 2022-06-30 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $400: In 1965 she began an inauguration day tradition of holding the Bible for the swearing-in ceremony Lady Bird Johnson |
#8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $1600: Methuselah had more of it than anyone else in the Bible longevity |
#8650, aired 2022-05-27 | I'LL HAVE THIRDS $600: This third book in the King James Bible says, "It shall be a perpetual statute... that ye eat neither fat nor blood" Leviticus |
#8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $400: The prophet Elisha visits a sick king in this Syrian city but only foresees his death & another taking his place Damascus |
#8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $800: 4 rivers flow from this earthly paradise, including the Gihon & the Pishon the Garden of Eden |
#8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $1200: Acts 21 tells us Tarsus in Cilicia was this man's hometown Saul or Paul |
#8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): This reluctant prophet boarded a ship bound for Tarshish that was soon caught in a storm Jonah |
#8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $2000: This Phoenician city was home to Hiram, who helped Solomon build the first temple by supplying workers & material Tyre |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $200: In this Bible book named for songs of praise, "Thou hast smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone" Psalms |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $400: After a big Bible belt that kills his brother, he is marked & heads east of Eden Cain |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $600: David smote Goliath with these 2 items, both of them beginning with the same letter a sling & a stone |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $800: Talking to this much put-upon Old Testament guy, Zophar says, "The bow of steel shall strike" the wicked man Job |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $1000: In the New Testament we hear of a man who is beaten, stripped & left for dead; some pass him by but this man "had compassion" the Good Samaritan |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | YOU GOT NEXT $200: In Bible books:
Mark,
Luke... John |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $3,200 (Daily Double): "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!" is the first complaint in this Bible book of complaints Lamentations |
#8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $1000: A Bible study group will have a lively discussion of this book that says, "I am Alpha and Omega" twice in its first chapter the Book of Revelation |
#8619, aired 2022-04-14 | BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS $200: In the Common English Bible, the first 3 words of the first verse of this book are "When God began" Genesis |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115 $400: Numbers is this number book in the King James Bible the 4th |
#8614, aired 2022-04-07 | QUOTE-POURRI $1200: In a Bible parable, a merchant "found one" this gem "of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it" a pearl |
#8604, aired 2022-03-24 | FAST FACT $200: These are the first 3 words in the first book of the King James Bible In the beginning |
#8593, aired 2022-03-09 | THE APOLLO PROGRAM $600: On Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 crew read aloud from this book of the Bible, as it is foundational for not just Christians Genesis |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | FEELING SHEEPISH $800: Trumpets of rams' horns, looking shofar-like, bring down the wall of this city in the King James Bible Jericho |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ANTONYMS $800: The King James Bible says Christ shall judge them, meaning the living, & the dead the quick and the dead |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $2000: Sections in this Barbara Kingsolver book include "Genesis" & "Exodus" The Poisonwood Bible |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $200: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young Abe Lincoln had only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician Euclid |
#14, aired 2022-02-17 | THE CROP REPORT $1000: In the King James Bible, this daughter-in-law of Naomi gleans "corn", unknown in the ancient Middle East Ruth |
#12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $1000: To collect solar wind particles, in 2001 NASA sent up this spacecraft that shares its name with a Bible book & a dad rock band Genesis |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | I BRAIN RADIO $400: At 14 this future DNA double helix discoverer went on radio's "Quiz Kids" for 3 weeks, beaten by 8-year-old Ruth Duskin (James) Watson |
#1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $200: This word for the 4 books that recount Jesus' life is from Old English for "good tidings" the Gospels |
#1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $400: The Jewish scriptures are traditionally divided into the Prophets, the Writings & this word meaning "law" the Torah |
#1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $800: Tradition says this king wrote the books of Ecclesiastes & Proverbs Solomon |
#1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $1000: The book of Tobit is among the works sometimes called this, from Greek for "to hide away" apocryphal |
#1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $1,600 (Daily Double): Galatians & Colossians are among the 21 books of the New Testament written in letter form & known as these epistles |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $400: Jesus is laughed at when he says, "The maid is not" this, "but sleepeth"; then "the maid arose" dead |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $800: Ecclesiastes 10 informs us "A feast is made for laughter &" this beverage "maketh merry" wine |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $1200: When God told this man that he would become a father to a son at age 100, he rolled on the floor laughing Abraham |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $1600: Be patient like this man, who was told "at destruction & famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts" Job |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $2000: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in" this, later an Edith Wharton title the house of mirth |
#8565, aired 2022-01-28 | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $200: Completed in Mainz, Germany around 1455, it was printed in 42-line columns the Gutenberg Bible |
#8563, aired 2022-01-26 | 10 OF A KIND $400: One of the 2 books of the Bible that list the 10 commandments (1 of) Exodus or Deuteronomy |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | ALSO A BROADWAY MUSICAL $2000: In the King James Bible, Mordecai & Reuben each got upset & did this to their clothes rent |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | ONE LETTER DIFFERENT $2000: A region in Israel mentioned in the Bible & an Italian scientist who got Inquisition-ed Galilee & Galileo |
#8545, aired 2021-12-31 | THIS & THAT $400: It's the second book in the King James Bible Exodus |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $1000: In 1925 Clarence Darrow called on this man, also a prosecutor, as an expert witness on the Bible in the Scopes trial Bryan |
#8528, aired 2021-12-08 | MORE THAN 100 $200: The Bible says this grandfather of Noah lived to be 969 years old Methuselah |
#8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2,400 (Daily Double): This Leon Uris novel portraying Israel's birth is about 10 times longer than the Bible book of the same name Exodus |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $200: A Rupi Kaur book of poetry is titled "Milk and" this, often paired in the Bible Honey |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, received a copy of this Oct. 31, 1517 document the 95 Theses of Martin Luther |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BIBLE NUMBERS $400: God spent this many days creating the heavens & the earth 6 |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BIBLE NUMBERS $800: David selected 5 smooth stones out of a stream before his encounter with this person Goliath |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BIBLE NUMBERS $1200: After fasting for this many days & nights, Jesus was tempted by Satan who challenged him to turn stones into bread 40 |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BIBLE NUMBERS $1600: Jacob ended up serving this many years to win the hand of Rachel 14 |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BIBLE NUMBERS $2,000 (Daily Double): As depicted in Genesis, there were this many people on Noah's Ark 8 |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $400: In the Bible God tells this person "For dust thou art & unto dust shalt thou return" Adam |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR $400: I swear on this so you know I'm telling the truth a stack of Bibles |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | IN THAT BIBLE BOOK $200: The burning bush appears to Moses Exodus |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | IN THAT BIBLE BOOK $400: Jesus gives the Sermon on the Mount Matthew |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | IN THAT BIBLE BOOK $600: Paul preaches in Rome Acts |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | IN THAT BIBLE BOOK $800: Haman plots to wipe out the Jews Esther |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | IN THAT BIBLE BOOK $1000: Jericho falls to the Israelites Joshua |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1600: The first 5 books of the Bible are known as the Torah or by this name from the Greek the Pentateuch |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT $200: John Quincy Adams didn't take his oath with his hand on a Bible; he used a law book that included this document that he read from (the) Constitution |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE $400: In chapter 1 Zechariah recounts a vision of these beasts, similar to a vision in Revelation of 4 of them being ridden (red or white) horses |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE $800: The name of this man who was thrown overboard & swallowed by a fish became a word for one who brings bad luck Jonah |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE $1200: For interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, this prophet was made ruler over a province of the empire Daniel |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE $1600: King David consulted with the prophet Nathan about his intention to build a structure to hold this chest Ark (of the Covenant) |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE $2000: Elijah crusaded against the worship of the Canaanite gods Asherah & this one Baal |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $400: Chapter 22 of this book of wisdom says that if you start children off on the right path, even when old, they will not stray from it Proverbs |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $800: Ham was his son Noah |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $1200: 2 mothers, 1 baby & this king must decide who gets it Solomon |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Later to lend his name to a free Bible donation society, this judge & hero had 70 sons Gideon |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $2000: St. Paul's epistle to the people of this ancient Greek city now in Turkey advises, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord" Ephesus |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NICE "MUL" IT $800: A great number; the Bible says love covers a this "of sins" a multitude |
#8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $400: According to this 1st gospel, at the moment of the crucifixion, bodies of saints came back to life & walked out of their graves Matthew |
#8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $800: Before bringing Jairus' daughter back to life, Jesus tells her weeping family she is not dead, but is only this sleeping |
#8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $1200: When Eutychus dies after falling out of a window listening to a sermon, the speaker, this apostle, brings him back to life Paul |
#8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $1600: King Saul gets a witch to summon this Hebrew prophet back to life for encouragement, but he only foretells doom for Saul Samuel |
#8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $2000: Before he was taken up into heaven in a whirlwind, this prophet revived the son of a widow he was staying with Elijah |
#8428, aired 2021-06-23 | IN A BOTTLE $400: 6 liters of wine fits in a bottle called this, the name of an extremely old guy in the Bible Methuselah |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $400: C.B. DeMille made 21 huge Sphinxes for a 1923 version of this Bible epic & now they're being dug from the dunes where they were left The Ten Commandments |
#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $1,500 (Daily Double): This book of the Bible mentions "a time to weep, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance" Ecclesiastes |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BIBLICAL BROADWAY $1600: Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" is based on this "occupational" book of the Old Testament Judges |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | SHADES OF GREEN $2000: Add 2 letters to the last of the Bible's 12 Minor Prophets to get the name of this green mineral malachite |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | THE BIBLE $200: In Exodus, God promises to "rain bread from heaven"; when the Israelites see it, they call it this manna |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | THE BIBLE $400: Biblical dreamers include Joseph & in the gospel of Matthew, the wife of this Roman governor (Pontius) Pilate |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | THE BIBLE $600: A version known as the "Wicked Bible" was printed in 1631 with the typo "Thou shalt commit" this sin adultery |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | THE BIBLE $800: The shortest verse in the King James Bible is John 11:35, these 2 words Jesus wept |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | THE BIBLE $1000: Not to be confused with Barabbas, this companion of Paul has sometimes been credited with writing the epistle to the Hebrews Barnabas |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LOSING YOUR RELIGION $400: Losing the second letter in a word for a sacred Bible hymn gets you this body part the palm |
#8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PREFIXES $1000: It's a little confusing, but the fifth book of the Bible begins with this prefix meaning "second" deutero |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $200: "And the Lord came down upon" this place, "on the top of" it... "and Moses went up" Mount Sinai |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $400: "Hath not the scripture said, that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of" this, "where David was?" Bethlehem |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $600: "Therefore is the name of it called" this; "because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth" Babel |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $800: "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into" this region, now in northern Israel Galilee |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $1000: "... And sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into" this country Egypt |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | LEGUMES $1600: In the King James Bible, the fates of Esau & Jacob turn on a pottage of these legumes lentils |
#8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1853 this 14th president was not sworn in--he was affirmed on a Bible Franklin Pierce |
#8397, aired 2021-05-11 | GIVE ME A SEA $400: Harking back to the Bible, other names for it include the Sea of Lot & the Sea of Sodom the Dead Sea |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | MODERN HEBREW $600: A word in the Bible for harp-like instrument gives us psanter, the modern Hebrew word for this other "P" instrument piano |
#8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FANTASTIC BEASTS $400: Now meaning any large beast, the behemoth of the Bible is sometimes identified as this amphibious African mammal hippopotamus |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $200: The waters are divided from the waters; cattle are given names; brother slays brother Genesis |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $400: The Lord lets Satan afflict an upright man, who ends up twice as rich as he'd been Job |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $600: The word is with God; a light shines in the darkness; Jesus resurrects Lazarus John |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $1000: Naomi has a devoted daughter-in-law; Boaz needs some gleaning done Ruth |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Tribes are counted, wander in the desert & reach the borders of the promised land Numbers |
#8364, aired 2021-03-25 | GOOD "BI" $200: Around 1850 in Kenya, missionary Ludwig Krapf translated this book into Swahili the Bible |
#8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $800: The Bible, including the book of Proverbs, gives us "gird one's" these loins |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $200: In Luke 2 they're "abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night" shepherds |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $400: In Matthew 4 Jesus is walking by the Sea of Galilee when he sees 2 brothers doing this job & recruits them fishing |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $600: Genesis 10 says Nimrod was "a mighty" this "before the Lord" hunter |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $800: Skeptical folks in a synagogue ask, "Is not this the"
____,
the son of Mary...? carpenter |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $1000: Jesus calls these old-time copyists hypocrites & tells them, "Woe unto you" scribes |
#8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BIBLE BABES $400: "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings", says this Old Testament book of sacred songs Psalms |
#8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BIBLE BABES $800: In Luke 2 an angel tells shepherds, "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in" this a manger |
#8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BIBLE BABES $1200: The pharaoh's daughter finds this babe floating in a river Moses |
#8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BIBLE BABES $1600: This prophet who warns Israel about the Assyrians says "Babes shall rule over" Jerusalem & Judah Isaiah |
#8345, aired 2021-02-26 | NUMBERS $800: Found in the last book of the Bible, it was a common telephone prefix in Reeves, La. but residents got the option to change it 666 |
#8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $400: The story of the Good Samaritan in the Bible's book of Luke is one of these simple narratives with a moral or religious purpose a parable |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1200: Of dubious authenticity, specifically like non-canonical Bible books apocryphal |
#8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $400: Asked "Where is Abel thy brother?" in the King James Bible, Cain replies with this 5-word question "Am I my brother's keeper" |
#8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $2,200 (Daily Double): John Yossarian &
Milo Minderbinder Catch-22 |
#8287, aired 2020-11-24 | RELIGION $400: In the Bible used by Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus was executed on a "torture stake"; other translations use this word a cross |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | BIBLE-POURRI $400: At the end of the Pentateuch, this leader of the Israelites "whom the Lord knew face to face" died in the land of Moab Moses |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | BIBLE-POURRI $600: Isaiah 31 says that like birds flying, the Lord will protect this city & deliver it from strife Jerusalem |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | BIBLE-POURRI $800: In I Kings 1:17, Bathsheba reminds David that this son of hers is to be the next king Solomon |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | BIBLE-POURRI $1000: Peter Bruegel the Elder portrayed this visit, recounted in Matthew 2 the visit of the Magi |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $5,000 (Daily Double): This South American capital is named for an event not mentioned in the Bible but declared dogma by Pius XII in 1950 Asunción |
#8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $2000: In the mnemonic "God's Excellent Love Never Dies", the first 2 words stand for these 2 Bible books Genesis & Exodus |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | MISCELLANY $1000: In the Bible, one of these units equaled 21.8 inches a cubit |
#8252, aired 2020-10-06 | YES WE "CAN" $1000: It's another name for the Bible's Song of Solomon the Canticles |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | GROUPS IN THE BIBLE $200: In the New Testament these 4 men are known as the evangelists Mark, Matthew, Luke and John |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | GROUPS IN THE BIBLE $400: This group adhered to an early form of Judaism; a "good" one shows up in a parable the Samaritans |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | GROUPS IN THE BIBLE $600: Jesus "called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose" this many "whom also he named Apostles" 12 |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | GROUPS IN THE BIBLE $800: One of the tribes of Israel, these descendants of one of Jacob's sons ministered in the temple as priests, aides & musicians the Levites |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | GROUPS IN THE BIBLE $1000: The painting here shows the newly short-haired Samson captured by these people the Philistines |
#8246, aired 2020-09-28 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $1000: From the Bible: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and" this upright |
#8245, aired 2020-09-25 | DOUBLE "E" FOR THEE $800: Mentions of these gentle people in the Bible are found in Psalm 22 & in Matthew 5 the meek |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | FONTS OF WISDOM $4,800 (Daily Double): The font for this historic book printed in 1455 has come to be known as textura the Gutenberg Bible |
#8228, aired 2020-06-03 | HOT STUFF! $1600: In this book of the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but the intense heat does not harm them the book of Daniel |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Historic New York City sports arena where Adam & Eve lived in the Bible Madison Square Garden of Eden |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $200: God reveals in Genesis, "Neither shall there any more be a" this "to destroy the earth" a flood |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $400: "So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water" this wine |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $600: "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy... for the time is at hand" is in this Bible book Revelation |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $800: Matthew 25:35--"For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a" this, "and ye took me in" a stranger |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $3,400 (Daily Double): In Exodus, "It is the sacrifice of the Lord's" this "when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses" Passover |
#8204, aired 2020-04-16 | IRREGULAR VERBS $800: The Bible says, "The Lord hath" done this to "thee to be a peculiar people unto himself" chosen |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | OLD DEUTERONOMY $1,000 (Daily Double): Deuteronomy 5 is one of the 2 places in the Bible where this important list is enumerated the Ten Commandments |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | YOU'RE QUITE THE PAIR! $1600: In the Bible, Abraham looked to these 2 places "and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: Verses like "The Shuhamites...were threescore and four thousand and four hundred" explain this book's name Numbers |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: St. John experienced this in a cave on the isle of Patmos & is said to have written the Bible book of the same name there Revelation |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1200: In the 4th chapter of this book, Peter & John are imprisoned in Jerusalem for preaching the gospel Acts |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1600: The Bible book named for this woman is read during Shavuot, the holiday observed 50 days after Passover Ruth |
#8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WE KNEAD THE BREAD $400: Chapter 12, verse 15 of this Bible book contains the line "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread" Exodus |
#8184, aired 2020-03-19 | THE PONY EXPRESS $400: Pony Express riders were given one of these books when hired & required to sign a pledge not to swear, drink alcohol or get into fights the Bible |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | FORTYSOMETHING $400: This 3-volume work completed around 1455 is sometimes called the 42-Line Bible the Gutenberg Bible |
#8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $200: In Exodus God says he wants to take the Israelites "unto a land flowing with" this pair milk and honey |
#8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $400: Part of John the Baptist's unusual diet were these, which some think are insects & others believe to be beans locusts |
#8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $600: An angel gives Elijah an amazing cake that sustains him on a 40-day journey to this peak where he meets God in a cave Mount Sinai |
#8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $1000: A painting by Nicolas Poussin shows the Israelites gathering this food that was provided from Heaven in the wilderness manna |
#8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the King James version, these 2 words complete Luke 11:3, "Give us day by day our..." daily bread |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HOW ABOUT DESERT? $400: This Bible book of songs features a desert: "Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb" Psalms |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $200: "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them" Genesis |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $400: "And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled" Exodus |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $600: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" Ecclesiastes |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $800: "Then (he) prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly" Jonah |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE? $400: "I am innocent of the blood of this just person" Pontius Pilate |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE? $800: "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other" Solomon |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE? $1200: "Suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground" Paul (Saul) |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE? $1600: "Let me die with the Philistines" Samson |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE? $3,000 (Daily Double): "Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God" Gabriel |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | DEUTERONOMY'S CLEAN & UNCLEAN ANIMALS $1600: When the King James Bible refers to the "hart" as clean, it means these forest dwellers a deer |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | SOFT WORDS $200: The King James Bible sayeth, "A soft answer turneth away" this synonym for anger wrath |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $400: Jesus tells him "The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice" Peter |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $800: Jesus laments that he would have gathered the children of Jerusalem as she gathers her brood under her wings a hen |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1200: Harry Potter likes the passage in Job that reads, "I am a brother to dragons and a companion to" these birds an owl |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1600: This tall flightless bird was supposedly uncaring about its own young, as in Job & Lamentations the ostrich |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $2000: The Lord told Moses, "I bare you on" these birds' wings eagles' wings |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $400: This 1611 book had what were known as "He" & "She" editions, after variants in the last words of Ruth 3:15 the King James Bible |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $200: Traditionally the authorship of this book is attributed to Moses, but chapter 34 gives an account of his death Deuteronomy |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $400: After the birth of Jesus, the Virgin Mary makes an offering of 2 of these birds doves |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $600: She betrays Samson for silver Delilah |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $800: This Persian ruler of the 500s B.C. is mentioned in the books of Ezra, Haggai & Zechariah Darius |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $1000: This daughter of Jacob & Leah is seduced by Shechem, leading to a horrible revenge by her brothers on his family Dinah |
#8111, aired 2019-12-09 | HAVE AN ARTSY CHRISTMASTIME $2000: This composer's 1734 "Christmas Oratorio" uses as part of its text Martin Luther's Bible translation Johann Sebastian Bach |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $200: In this Bible book "The children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea" Exodus |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $400: "And now abideth faith, hope," this third virtue charity |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $600: Romans 12 says don't get people back when they wrong you; just wait, because this "is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" vengeance |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $800: This book namechecks itself in the very first line: These sayings of "the son of David" Proverbs |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $1000: You say you want a revelation? Truly, verily, it's the very last word in that book; now can I get one? amen |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | THAT CODEX MOMENT $800: The Codex Vaticanus & the codex named for this mount are the earliest known manuscripts of the Bible Mount Sinai |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: It's a word that tells people you're in a group; in the Bible those who said "sib" instead of "shib" were slaughtered a shibboleth |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | THE INSECT WORLD $800: In the Bible 3 of the 10 plagues of Egypt were caused by insects: these swarmers were in at No. 8 locusts |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $400: This man tells Esau that he must "swear to me this day" to sell his birthright Jacob |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $800: In Isaiah 45:23 the Lord says, "unto me every knee shall bow, every" this body part "shall swear" tongue |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | NEW DINER SLANG FOR SANDWICHES $800: "Brother of Joseph" in the Bible a Reuben |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $1200: Denying Jesus for the third time, he "began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak" Peter |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $1600: Hebrews 6 says that when God made a promise to this patriarch, "because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself" Abraham |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $2000: The book of Jeremiah asks, "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto" this Canaanite god? Baal |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $600: Going back to the Bible, a minor drawback is sometimes likened to one of these "in the ointment" a fly |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $200: In John 1:3 the spirit of God is described as descending like one of these peaceful birds upon Jesus a dove |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $400: Ships in King Solomon's navy return home with some of these bright-feathered iridescent birds peacocks |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $600: This bulky warrior boasts that he'll feed David's body to the birds; oops! Goliath |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $800: Psalms 84 says this bird built "a nest for herself" near the temple altar, not Capistrano a swallow |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $1000: Exodus chapter 16 recounts how flocks of these birds appeared one evening at sunset & fed the hungry Israelites quail |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | HOW ANGELIC $1200: These 6-winged angels of the Bible are the highest ranked, above cherubim seraphim |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $200: When this man first meets God, he sees a bush on fire, but it doesn't burn up Moses |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $400: Here's a circa 1500 rendering of the miracle at a wedding in this town, where Jesus turned water into wine Cana |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $600: This leader had his army march around Jericho 7 times & blow their trumpets, & its walls came tumblin' down Joshua |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $800: In this book Herod binds the apostle Peter in chains, but an angel appears & the chains fall away Acts |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $1000: This man was thrown to the hungry lions in a sealed den, but in the morning he was miraculously unscathed Daniel |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | INTERNATIONAL PARKS $1200: The lands at Tel Megiddo National Park in Israel feature prominently in this last book of the Bible Revelation |
#8019, aired 2019-06-20 | 23 & YOU $800: In the King James Bible, these 5 words begin the 23rd Psalm "The Lord is my shepherd" |
#8007, aired 2019-06-04 | VWLLSS BBL BKS $200: XDS Exodus |
#8003, aired 2019-05-29 | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $1600: Remember the flood guy in the Bible--it's his son I'm after--no, not those 2, the one who makes me hungry, the middle son Ham |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: In Exodus this ruler "charged all his people, saying, every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" the Pharaoh |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: In Genesis 1 God encourages population growth, "saying, Be ____, and ____" be fruitful and multiply |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1200: "No man can" these 3 words; "either he will hate the one, & love the other; or else he will hold to the one, & despise the other" serve two masters |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1600: The book of Acts reports that this first Christian martyr "did great wonders and miracles among the people" Stephen |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $2,600 (Daily Double): Isaiah prophesied peace, when "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into" these pruning hooks |
#7995, aired 2019-05-17 | NOT THE MAMA! $1000: In the Bible Pharaoh's daughter paid this boy's own real mother to nurse him Moses |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $400: Many version of the Bible use the word "murder" in the 10 commandments, but the King James Version uses this shorter verb kill |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $800: St. Jerome translated much of the Bible into this language for the Vulgate Latin |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $1200: John Wycliffe had this brother sell his birthright to Jacob for bread and pottage; in other versions it's lentil stew Esau |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $1600: Many translations use this 4-letter word, as in seek God "with all thy heart and all thy" this; Robert Alter uses "being" soul |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $2000: The Message Bible brings "a prize-winning heifer" to the prodigal son's feast instead of this familiar phrase a fatted calf |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | ALPHABETICALLY SECOND $800: Of books of the Pentateuch in the King James Bible Exodus |
#7984, aired 2019-05-02 | OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $800: This word refers to a currency used today in Israel, or a weight of less than an ounce in the Bible a shekel |
#7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IN THE MIDDLE $200: If you tally it up in sequence, this Bible book is between Leviticus & Deuteronomy Numbers |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | APRIL FOOLERY $600: This Bible book has many fool maxims, such as "a fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards" Proverbs |
#7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $600: At 969, this son of Enoch was the Bible's longest-lived person Methuselah |
#7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $1000: Since 2005 the Bible has been the most searched book & No. 2 has been this somewhat more recent sacred text the Koran |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BOXING $1000: Published since 1922, this authoritative boxing magazine is called "the Bible of boxing" Ring magazine |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BIBLE PASSAGES $400: In Genesis 3:23 he passes out of Eden, never to return Adam |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BIBLE PASSAGES $800: He goes from Bethlehem to the Valley of Elah, where he wins a big fight with a big guy David |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BIBLE PASSAGES $1600: While journeying from Beersheba to Haran, he sleeps on a stone pillow & dreams of a ladder Jacob |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BIBLE PASSAGES $2000: This prophet goes from the port of Joppa to Nineveh, with a 3-day detour that must've been quite unpleasant Jonah |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BIBLE PASSAGES $3,000 (Daily Double): Saul is on the road to this city when a heavenly light knocks him off his feet Damascus |
#7953, aired 2019-03-20 | NAMES FOR YOUR DOG $1600: Is your dog the queen of the house? Call her this, the kingdom ruled by a visitor to King Solomon in the Bible Sheba |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | UNPHARAOHS $4,000 (Daily Double): The Bible says Pharaoh Shishak raided Jersualem & the temple, taking the gold shields this king had made Solomon |
#7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $800: Johannes Gutenberg didn't write it, but his Bible... huge the 15th |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $400: This queen arrives in Jerusalem packing spices, gold & gems & sets out to test the wisdom of King Solomon the Queen of Sheba |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $800: In Luke 2 Simeon tells her that her "child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel" Mary |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $1200: This festival honors Esther, a Jewish queen of Persia who saved Jews from the plotting of the evil Haman Purim |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $1600: Hannah was the mother of this judge & prophet with a first & second book to his name Samuel |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $2000: In Acts, after Tabitha dies, this early Christian leader brings her back to life Peter |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BIBLICAL FILMS $400: In "The Bible" John Huston, the film's director, also plays this ark-itecht Noah |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) This Bible belonged to Sergeant Francis Merrifield who carried it with him during the war, and inscribed in it his desire to bless God for sparing his life at this bloody battle in June 1775, during the Siege of Boston the Battle of Bunker Hill |
#7887, aired 2018-12-18 | 4th CENTURY BOOKSTORE $400: "Hymns on Paradise" by Ephrem the Syrian includes commentary on this book of the Bible in which paradise is lost Genesis |
#7881, aired 2018-12-10 | ETERNAL $600: In the King James Bible, John 3:16 speaks of this kind of "life", a synonym for "eternal" everlasting |
#7880, aired 2018-12-07 | A CHOICE 4-LETTER WORD $1600: The King James Bible says "The Lord set" this distinguishing sign "upon Cain" the mark |
#7874, aired 2018-11-29 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $2000: I swear on the Good Book that Zp stands for this Bible book Zephaniah |
#7871, aired 2018-11-26 | BIBLE BOOKS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Apollyon; the mother of harlots & abominations Revelation |
#7871, aired 2018-11-26 | BIBLE BOOKS BY CHARACTERS $1600: The Rose of Sharon & her beloved Song of Solomon |
#7871, aired 2018-11-26 | BIBLE BOOKS BY CHARACTERS $2000: Naomi, Boaz Ruth |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | SIBLING $600: Triple rhyme time dept.: slang for a pal as close as a sibling, or what Joseph is to Reuben in the Bible brother from another mother |
#7855, aired 2018-11-02 | ROMAN EMPERORS $1200: Tiberius was the Caesar of the King James Bible line do this "to Caesar the things that are Caesar's" render |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $800: Britannica says this John Bunyan allegory was at one time second only to the Bible in popularity Pilgrim's Progress |
#7842, aired 2018-10-16 | LIST $800: In the King James Bible, the horses of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse:
White, red, black, this one ridden by Death pale |
#7840, aired 2018-10-12 | SACK TIME $400: As mentioned in the Bible, wearing sackcloth & ashes was a sign of this somber condition mourning |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $800: Oral Roberts University's "The Pauline" these isn't about some lady's letters but about important Bible books epistles |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This book published in 1611 is the subject of the recent work "God's Secretaries" the King James Bible |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | BIBLE BOOK ABBREVIATIONS $200: Jg--
your ruling, please Judges |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | BIBLE BOOK ABBREVIATIONS $400: Le,
number 3 in the O.T. Leviticus |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | BIBLE BOOK ABBREVIATIONS $600: Ac:
Just add 2 letters! Acts |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | BIBLE BOOK ABBREVIATIONS $800: Ga:
Paul calls them foolish the Galatians |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | BIBLE BOOK ABBREVIATIONS $1000: Ne:
It follows Ez, Ezra Nehemiah |
#7779, aired 2018-06-07 | I'LL HAVE SECONDS $200: It's the second book of the Bible: head out! Exodus |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $400: This conjunction begins many a sentence, including verses 2 through 26 of Genesis 1 and |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $800: There's no "nudity" in the King James Bible, but this 3-syllable synonym appears 32 times just in Leviticus nakedness |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $1200: This city gets lots of play, from Joshua 10 through Revelation 21 Jerusalem |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $1600: Look! This frequent synonym for "look" comes before "a virgin shall conceive..." behold |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $2000: Thou wilt not fail to know this olde synonym for "will" that occurs in 9 of 10 commandments shalt |
#7766, aired 2018-05-21 | BIBLE STUDY $200: In Matthew, Jesus tells his disciples to teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of these 3 the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit |
#7766, aired 2018-05-21 | BIBLE STUDY $300 (Daily Double): Hey, this next-to-last book of the New Testament is just 25 verses long Jude |
#7766, aired 2018-05-21 | BIBLE STUDY $400: Cooking up a scheme, Jacob says this brother "is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man" Esau |
#7766, aired 2018-05-21 | BIBLE STUDY $600: In the 15th century Bible seen here, this book opens with an image of King David, said to be its author Psalms |
#7766, aired 2018-05-21 | BIBLE STUDY $1000: This book that speaks of vanity also says, "Much study is a weariness of the flesh" Ecclesiastes |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $200: "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night" Genesis |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: "Speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land" Exodus |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $600 (Daily Double): "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord" Job |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $600: "And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, come and see" Revelation |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find" Matthew |
#7760, aired 2018-05-11 | LET'S HAVE A GARAGE SALE $600: A copy of this book printed in mid-15th c. Germany has gone for over $5 million; maybe rethink tagging it for $8 the Gutenberg Bible |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $400: Anna was an aged prophet in this city who proclaimed the baby Jesus as the Messiah Jerusalem |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $800: Described as a helper in Christ, Priscilla accompanied this apostle on some of his missionary journeys St. Paul |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $1200: In the book of Judges, things got hairy for Samson, who fell for this woman "in the valley of Sorek" Delilah |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $1600: This heroine of the Purim story is depicted in a 1684 work also called "The Jewish Bride" Esther |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $2000: In Genesis Rebecca, the wife of Isaac, gave birth to these twin sons Jacob & Esau |
#7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $200: "For the love of ____ is the root of all evil" money |
#7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $400: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only ____ Son" begotten |
#7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $600: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every ____ under the heaven" purpose |
#7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $800: "I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy ____ and thy ____ they comfort me" rod and staff |
#7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $1000: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; ____, and it shall be opened unto you" knock |
#7721, aired 2018-03-19 | THE FLIES OF THE LORD $400: Zebub, the word for a fly used in the Bible, gave us this word for a demon Beelzebub |
#7721, aired 2018-03-19 | THE FLIES OF THE LORD $800: Though some say "a flaw in" this, the Bible verse where we probably got the expression specifically mentions flies the ointment |
#7709, aired 2018-03-01 | SEEING THINGS DIFFERENTLY $2000: Novels with multiple narrators' points of view include this Barbara Kingsolver "Bible" The Poisonwood Bible |
#7706, aired 2018-02-26 | YOU TWO $400: In the Bible, D&G:
Sling & stone vs. sword & spear David and Goliath |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $1600: This middle name of President Warren G. Harding is the name of a teacher of Paul in the Bible Gamaliel |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: In 1938 "Animals of the Bible" by Dorothy P. Lathrop became the first picture book to win this medal the Caldecott |
#7688, aired 2018-01-31 | ON STAGE $1000: Let's go to this Lillian Hellman show whose "small" title comes from creatures in the Bible "that spoil the vines" The Little Foxes |
#7672, aired 2018-01-09 | LAX LUTHER $1000: Luther wanted the Bible to be for all, not just the hoity-toity, so he translated it into this 10-letter "native" style the vernacular |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $1200: Marshall,
Appalachian Bible College West Virginia |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH $400: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed" in this Bible book Genesis |
#7664, aired 2017-12-28 | NOW GET OUT! $200: "The Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies" is in this Bible book Exodus |
#7655, aired 2017-12-15 | NON-AMERICAN GODS $1600: In the Bible Elijah got the better of prophets of this Canaanite fertility deity Baal |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | BIBLE STUDY $200: In the book of Matthew, to calm his disciples who are on a boat during a storm, Jesus does this walk on water |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | BIBLE STUDY $400: Used to refer to the first 5 books of the Bible, this Hebrew word is usually translated as "law" the Torah |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | BIBLE STUDY $600: In Genesis he is sold to Pharaoh's officer Potiphar & Mrs. P. tries to seduce him Joseph |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | BIBLE STUDY $800: Many find this N.T. figure foretold in Malachi: "I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way" John the Baptist |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | BIBLE STUDY $1000: Rembrandt painted this prophet, sad that his book says all the houses of Jerusalem were burned Jeremiah |
#7635, aired 2017-11-17 | MONSTER MASH $1000: The artwork here depicts Behemoth & this aquatic monster also mentioned in the Bible Leviathan |
#7633, aired 2017-11-15 | BOOK SMARTS $800: The 8 books recommended by Neil deGrasse Tyson for smart people include the Bible & this book about Yahoos Gulliver's Travels |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE $400: The widow of Phinehas had a baby named this, also a character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Ichabod |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE $1200: In 1 Kings 17:22 this happens to the son of the widow of Zarephath, thanks to the prophet Elijah he is brought back to life |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE $1600: Paul's first epistle to this Greek city's church says widows may remarry Corinth |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): A book of the Bible is named for this widow of Mahlon & ancestor of David Ruth |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE $2000: Making Bathsheba a widow, King David sent her husband, this Hittite, to his death in battle Uriah |
#7629, aired 2017-11-09 | WHERE & WHEN? $400: The King James Bible is first published:
Country, century England in the 17th century |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | AVENGERS $1000: In the Bible the Lord says, "Whosoever slayeth" this man, "vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold" Cain |
#7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AROUND THE JEOPARDY! LIBRARY $400: We hope violating a commandment is not how we came to have a Bible from this group that provides them free to hotels Gideon |
#7613, aired 2017-10-18 | BOOK-POURRI $800: Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent" is a novel of Dinah, Jacob's daughter, only briefly mentioned in this Bible book Genesis |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | ALSO A FRIENDS CHARACTER $600: In the Bible one of Jacob's 2 wives Rachel |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | A KING JAMES BIBLE $200: And it came to pass that in 1582 young James, then king of only this country, was kidnapped by nobles Scotland |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | A KING JAMES BIBLE $400: And behold! In 1603 James I succeeded this queen as England's monarch Elizabeth I |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | A KING JAMES BIBLE $600: Verily, James I was the first English monarch of this royal house Stuart |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | A KING JAMES BIBLE $800: Blessed are the peacemakers, & in 1604 James & Philip III called off the war between England & this country Spain |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | A KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: To everything there is a season, so in 1610 James dissolved this, with which he'd been quarreling Parliament |
#7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IRREGULAR VERBS $600: In the King James Version of the Bible, Arphaxad did it to Salah, Salah to Eber, Eber to Peleg... begat |
#7587, aired 2017-09-12 | MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $400: After seeing Moses' miracles, the ruler with this title called forth his own magicians to perform some of their own pharaoh |
#7587, aired 2017-09-12 | MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $800: This Babylonian king had his own group of magicians, but it was Daniel who interpreted his dreams Nebuchadnezzar |
#7587, aired 2017-09-12 | MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $1200: In the city of Paphos, this apostle blinded a sorcerer who tried to oppose him (Saint) Paul |
#7587, aired 2017-09-12 | MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $1,500 (Daily Double): This Phoenician princess & wife of King Ahab was accused of practicing witchcraft as queen of Israel Jezebel |
#7587, aired 2017-09-12 | MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $2000: This desperate king of Israel consulted the witch of Endor even though he himself had banned sorcery & magic Saul |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | LYRICS FROM BROADWAY $1,400 (Daily Double): "And God said, 'Joe, people really need to know that the Bible isn't two parts, there's a part three'" The Book of Mormon |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STRAIGHT FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: Exodus 1:1:
"Now these are the names of the children of ____, which came into Egypt" Israel |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STRAIGHT FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: Song of Solomon 2:1:
"I am the ____ of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys" rose |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STRAIGHT FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1200: Revelation 17:3:
"I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast... having seven heads and ten ____" horns |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STRAIGHT FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Lamentations 4:9:
"They that be slain with the ____ are better than they that be slain with hunger" sword |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STRAIGHT FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $2000: Daniel 3:23:
"And these three men...fell down bound into the midst of the burning ____ ____" fiery furnace |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE WISE MAN'S FEAR $400: This book of the Bible says, "A wise man feareth and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth and is confident" Proverbs |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE BIBLE $400: In Mark 1 he says, "There cometh one mightier than I after me" John the Baptist |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE BIBLE $800: Fittingly, in the King James version the New Testament ends with this 4-letter word amen |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE BIBLE $1200: Isaiah 1:10 tells these 2 cities to "hear the word of the Lord"; they didn't Sodom and Gomorrah |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE BIBLE $2000: Appropriately, "she weepeth sore in the night" & "the ways of Zion do mourn" are in this Old Testament book Lamentations |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE BIBLE $3,000 (Daily Double): In Romans 1 Paul says "I am debtor both to" the barbarians & these people from whom "barbarians" derives the Greeks |
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BIBLE STUDY $200: God chose this most righteous man & his family to survive the events of Genesis 7 Noah |
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BIBLE STUDY $400: This woman "out of whom went seven devils" became a follower of Jesus & was present at his crucifixion & resurrection Mary Magdalene |
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BIBLE STUDY $600: The passage "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son" is in this book John |
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BIBLE STUDY $800: The last book attributed to Moses, this fifth book is written in the form of a farewell address by him Deuteronomy |
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BIBLE STUDY $1,900 (Daily Double): The ark of the covenant was kept for a time in this city that's also the name of a Civil War battle site in Tennessee Shiloh |
#7541, aired 2017-05-29 | PAINTERS OF MOTION $2000: Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi went biblical, showing this Bible book gal gruesomely killing Holofernes Judith |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | WORDS WITH SILENT LETTERS $400: In the Bible No. 137 begins, "By the rivers of Babylon" Psalm |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | "GREEN" STUFF $600: In 2000 this punk-pop band issued "Warning"; in 2005 they put out "Bullet in a Bible" Green Day |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | THE 16th CENTURY $800: Commissioned by Gustav Vasa, the entire Bible was officially translated into this language for the first time Swedish |
#7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $200: It introduces Moses Exodus |
#7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: Its title has a silent first letter Psalms |
#7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: Gospel that begins, "In the beginning was the Word" John |
#7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1000: This book of the New Testament mentions Tertius the epistle of Paul to the Romans |
#7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $2,200 (Daily Double): The title woman is King David's great-grandmother Ruth |
#7512, aired 2017-04-18 | FROM THEIR INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $1000: "I have just taken the oath of office on the Bible my mother gave me just a few years ago" (Jimmy) Carter |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | WHAT'S NOT TO LICHEN? $1200: Some say a lichen called Lecanora esculenta was this "from heaven" eaten by the Israelites in the Bible manna |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $200: In Genesis 1 it's described as the "lesser light to rule the night" the moon |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: God confounded "the language of all the Earth" there Babel |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $600: Jesus told the tempter, "Man shall not live by" this "alone" bread |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: Death rides this ashen horse in Revelation the pale horse |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: The shortest Bible verse, it's John 11:35 "Jesus wept" |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $200: Here, Fra Angelico depicts this happening to Adam & Eve, like students who've misbehaved at school banishment (or being expelled from the garden) |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $400: 2 ancient sculptures at the Cleveland Museum of Art show him being "swallowed" & "cast up" Jonah |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $600: "The Penitent" this woman is the subject of a painting by van Dyck Mary Magdalene |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $800: At the Hermitage in Russia is Rembrandt's painting of David saying goodbye to this friend & son of Saul Jonathan |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $1000: The painting seen here depicts this event found in Matthew the Sermon on the Mount |
#7476, aired 2017-02-27 | 4, 4 $400: Complimentary synonym for the Bible the Good Book |
#7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $600: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831 Nat Turner |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $400: At the Burning Bush, God told him to take off his shoes, "for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground" Moses |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $800: This big guy told Saul's army, "Give me a man, that we may fight together" Goliath |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $1200: A 1640 painting is entitled "The Repentant" this once-bad woman who became devoted to Christ Mary Magdalene |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $1600: For committing murder, he was exiled to "the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $2000: His jealous rivals should have seen the handwriting on the wall when the lions failed to eat him Daniel |
#7445, aired 2017-01-13 | UP ON MT. LUSHMORE $400: Drunk for his 1865 inaugural as VP, he said, "I kiss this book in the face of my nation of the United States" & smooched a Bible (Andrew) Johnson |
#7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $800: Rita Hayworth was the wicked title character trying to get a head in this 1953 Bible pic Salome |
#7444, aired 2017-01-12 | YAS QUEEN $600: Who do you think you are, this royal who visited King Solomon's court at the head of a camel caravan in the Bible? the Queen of Sheba |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $200: "Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken" Genesis |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $400: "And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound" Revelation |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $600: "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother" Proverbs |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $800: "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome" Job |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $2,000 (Daily Double): "So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab" Deuteronomy |
#7435, aired 2016-12-30 | ALL IN THE FAMILY? $2000: In the King James Bible, these 3 words starting with a relative precede "for they know not what they do" "Father, forgive them" |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $400: In this address Jesus asks, "Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not...yet your heavenly father feedeth them" the Sermon on the Mount |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $800: Job 39 asks "Doth" this large predatory bird "mount up at they command and make her nest on high?" an eagle |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | YOU'RE THE BALM $1000: In the Bible, Jeremiah wonders, "Is there no balm in" this place; "is there no physician there?" Gilead |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1200: The osprey, vulture & cormorant are among birds said to be unclean in this 3rd book of the Old Testament Leviticus |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1600: This king's pursuit of his son-in-law David is compared to a partridge hunt in the mountains Saul |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $2000: In the wilderness God provided the Israelites manna & large quantities of this small plump game bird quail |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $200: This third gospel is the only one that mentions the Roman emperors Augustus & Tiberius Luke |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $400: When confronted by God for misbehavior in Genesis 3, Adam blames Eve & Eve blames this creature the serpent |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $600: The 26th of these biblical poems begins, "Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity" Psalms |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $800: The name of this villain in the Book of Esther comes before "tasch" in the name of a Purim pastry Haman |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $1000: Zechariah predicted the new king would arrive in Jerusalem on one of these animals, & Jesus later does an ass (a donkey accepted) |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | SLANG FOR LIQUOR $800: It can come before "sander" & after "Bible" belt |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | THE QUEEN $5,000 (Daily Double): Also known as Makeda, in the Bible she visited King Solomon the Queen of Sheba |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $2000: An alphabetical index of the principal words of a book; Strong's is a well-known one of the Bible a concordance |
#7389, aired 2016-10-27 | WOMEN OF NOTE $400: In the Bible, this woman says God "hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel" Eve |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates city of Ur to found a new nation Abraham |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: Acts 9 is about a journey to this city by Saul, later Paul, that doesn't turn out as planned Damascus |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $600: Built by King Omri as his capital, Samaria is found in what's now often called this directional region the West Bank |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $800: Several towns have been suggested for this Galilee locale where nuptials & miracles took place Cana |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1000: The Phoenician city of Sidon was home to this wicked queen of the First Book of Kings Jezebel |
#7381, aired 2016-10-17 | ABBREV. $800: Don't be sad--Lam. is this Bible book Lamentations |
#7378, aired 2016-10-12 | IN CONCLUSION $400: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen", reads the last verse of the Bible, in chapter 22 of this book Revelation |
#7367, aired 2016-09-27 | BIBLICAL RHYME TIME $1200: Sacred song from the 19th book of the Bible in praise of a healing ointment Psalm balm |
#7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $1200: In standup specials this "D List" comic "Does the Bible Belt" & was "50 and not Pregnant" Kathy Griffin |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $200: Part of this 1862 French novel tells of how prisoner 24601 became prisoner 9430 Les Misérables |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE ARE BIBLE BOOKS $400: 3 of the 4 Gospels are "synoptic", or similar in presentation; this fourth one is the outlier John |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $400: This 1978 novel character writes "The World According to Bensenhaver" as a way to cope with his son's death T.S. Garp |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $600: The title of this Jon Krakauer book about a fateful Everest ascent sounds like a good way to disappear Into Thin Air |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | SONG OF SOLOMON $800: The grandfather of 89 kids, Solomon Burke said his favorite Bible verse was "Be fruitful &" this multiply |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $800: This 1886 Stevenson novel concerns a lawyer, Mr. Utterson, & his connection to a reclusive physician Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $1000: Stewart O'Nan's "West of Sunset" chronicles the life of this troubled writer in 1937 Hollywood F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE ARE BIBLE BOOKS $1200: Habakkuk & Nahum are among the books of the "minor" these--hey, not everyone can be an Ezekiel or an Isaiah! the prophets |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE ARE BIBLE BOOKS $1600: If you turn! turn! turn! the pages of the Bible, you'll find this book right after Proverbs Ecclesiastes |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE ARE BIBLE BOOKS $3,210 (Daily Double): In "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister", Robert Browning rhymed this Pauline epistle with "damnations" Galatians |
#7344, aired 2016-07-14 | BIBLICAL EQUINES $400: This book of the Bible says Abraham used a donkey to carry the wood he would need to sacrifice his son Genesis |
#7335, aired 2016-07-01 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $1600: Verily, in the King James Bible, the 23rd Psalm says this word, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" yea |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | BIBLE BRIEFS $200: Idyllic eastern spot:
G.O.E. the Garden of Eden |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | BIBLE BRIEFS $400: In Luke 8:2 she had to deal with her own demons:
M.M. Mary Magdalene |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | BIBLE BRIEFS $600: It lays out the blesseds:
S.O.T.M. the Sermon on the Mount |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | BIBLE BRIEFS $800: A trio of sons:
C., A. & S. Cain, Abel & Seth |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | BIBLE BRIEFS $1000: Inscription on Jesus' robe in Revelation:
K.O.K. King of Kings |
#7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROME ANTICS $1600: This Bible book ends with Paul arriving in Rome & starting to preach there Acts (of the Apostles) |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $200: His mission is to save "two of every sort" of animal, "male and female" Noah |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $400: Right in chapter 1 of his book, he spent 3 days & nights in the belly of "a great fish" Jonah |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $600: His super-strength was temporarily gone by the time the Philistines "put out his eyes" Samson |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $800: You'll probably win the game if you have the incredible wisdom shown by this man in 1 Kings 3:27 Solomon |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $1000: At Jericho, Joshua's band includes 7 priests with 7 of these instruments "of rams' horns" a shofar (or trumpet) |
#7299, aired 2016-05-12 | TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW $200: Ethiopia's multi-colored flag is traditionally associated with the post-flood rainbow described in this Bible book Genesis |
#7299, aired 2016-05-12 | PUT IT THERE! $2000: This book of the Bible says, "Put not your trust in princes", but in the Lord Psalms |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $400: Proverbs warns that mocking your parents will result in these crowlike birds pecking out your eyes ravens |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $800: Of the 4 creatures God sent as plagues upon the Egyptians, the one that isn't an insect frogs |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $1200: In Genesis 32 this man gives his angry brother goats, camels & donkeys in an attempt to calm him Jacob |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In Mark 16 Jesus tells his followers that they will be able to handle these deadly animals without fear snakes |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $2000: This man is repaid for his faith when God gives him 14,000 sheep & 1,000 oxen Job |
#7276, aired 2016-04-11 | THE WAY WE "WOR" $1600: In the Bible, this herb is a symbol of bitterness wormwood |
#7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE BEST NEW THING IN THE WORLD $400: (Rachel Maddow delivers the clue.) Around 1455 the best new thing in the world was movable type, used in a 42-line Bible produced by this German printer Gutenberg |
#7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $400: (Peter Bergman gives the clue as Jack from The Young and the Restless.) Being a business mogul, patriarch & all around good guy isn't as easy as it seems, with rivals like Victor Newman, sometimes I want to be angry, bloodthirsty, amoral & this adjective, kind of like a Bible missing the book named for a wife of Boaz ruthless |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | "P"EOPLE OF THE BIBLE $200: Haggai, Obadiah & Elisha are counted among this clairvoyant coterie prophets |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | "P"EOPLE OF THE BIBLE $400: This official is remembered for washing his hands of Jesus Pontius Pilate |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | "P"EOPLE OF THE BIBLE $600: A branch of the Canaanites, this group formed city-states like Tyre & Sidon along the Mediterranean the Phoenicians |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | "P"EOPLE OF THE BIBLE $800: Seen here, his return was the subject of a late, great Rembrandt the Prodigal Son |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | "P"EOPLE OF THE BIBLE $1000: A New Testament epistle addressed to him is about an escaped slave who had returned to him Philemon |
#7248, aired 2016-03-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN POP MUSIC $200: Title of a Bob Marley album Exodus |
#7248, aired 2016-03-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN POP MUSIC $400: This Elton John title guy "is traveling tonight on a plane", heading for Spain Daniel |
#7248, aired 2016-03-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN POP MUSIC $600: In a band name it follows "Better Than" Ezra |
#7248, aired 2016-03-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN POP MUSIC $800: First word of Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World" Jeremiah |
#7248, aired 2016-03-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN POP MUSIC $1000: This band had a hit with "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" Genesis |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | KNOW THY BIBLE $400: His is the final name mentioned in the Bible, in Revelation 22:21 Jesus Christ |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | KNOW THY BIBLE $800: In Genesis God tells this woman, "Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" Eve |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | KNOW THY BIBLE $1200: After childbirth, offerings such as turtles & pigeons are required as per this third Bible book Leviticus |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | KNOW THY BIBLE $1600: Korah rebels against Aaron & this man Moses |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | KNOW THY BIBLE $2000: The resurrection of him by Jesus is shown here in a Caravaggio painting Lazarus |
#7225, aired 2016-01-29 | ANAGRAMMED BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $200: DENIAL Daniel |
#7225, aired 2016-01-29 | ANAGRAMMED BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: OX DUES Exodus |
#7225, aired 2016-01-29 | ANAGRAMMED BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $600: VIOLENT ERA Revelation |
#7225, aired 2016-01-29 | ANAGRAMMED BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: HER WEBS Hebrews |
#7225, aired 2016-01-29 | ANAGRAMMED BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1000: SEE SIGN Genesis |
#7218, aired 2016-01-20 | WALES $400: The publication of the complete translation of this in 1588 helped preserve the Welsh language the Bible |
#7214, aired 2016-01-14 | WHO READS $1200: Based in Baton Rouge, Tiger Rag magazine calls itself "the bible of" this school's sports teams LSU |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Franz Pforr was one of the 19th century Nazarenes, so called for their interest in the era of this book, as in Franz' work here the Bible (the New Testamanet accepted) |
#7209, aired 2016-01-07 | NINTH WAVE $800: In the King James Bible, the Ninth Commandment says "Thou shalt not bear false witness against" this person your neighbor |
#7208, aired 2016-01-06 | THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE $200: "And the Lord set a mark upon" this man, "lest any finding him should kill him" Cain |
#7208, aired 2016-01-06 | THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE $400: In Genesis this prized item of Joseph's wardrobe gets taken and dipped in blood the coat of many colors |
#7208, aired 2016-01-06 | THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE $600: Revelation says that this alliterative object was opened, there was a half-hour hush in heaven the seventh seal |
#7208, aired 2016-01-06 | THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE $800: Not just trumpets but "a great shout" brought down the walls of this city Jericho |
#7208, aired 2016-01-06 | THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1 Kings 3 God tells him, "I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart" Solomon |
#7177, aired 2015-11-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: This magazine edited by Anna Wintour is known as "high fashion's Bible" Vogue |
#7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BIBLE BOOKS $200: It's the first book of the King James Bible whose name doesn't end with an "S" Deuteronomy |
#7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BIBLE BOOKS $600: It has 150 chapters Psalms |
#7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BIBLE BOOKS $800: The 2 Hebrew Bible books named for women Ruth and Esther |
#7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BIBLE BOOKS $1000: In the Latin Vulgate Bible, it's Apocalypsis; in the King James, it's this Revelation |
#7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BIBLE BOOKS $1,600 (Daily Double): The 2 lofty positions that lend their names to Old Testament books judge & king |
#7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $400: Referring to a line of charismatic leaders of Israel, it's the only book title in the first 10 that's an occupation Judges |
#7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $800: This book of the Pentateuch has a Latin name & is mostly concerned with priests & their duties Leviticus |
#7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $1200: "Now after the death of Moses", begins this, the first Bible book called by a man's name Joshua |
#7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $1600: The Book of Numbers is this number book in the Bible the 4th |
#7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $2000: The ninth & tenth books are First & Second him Samuel |
#7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $200: Justice Ginsburg;
late screenwriter Prawer Jhabvala Ruth |
#7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $400: Pastor Osteen;
one of film's Coen brothers Joel |
#7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $600: Rock guitarist Buck;
shutterbug Parker Peter |
#7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $800: The real Mr. Law;
the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
#7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $1000: Nicaraguan President Ortega;
conductor Barenboim Daniel |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | HYMNS $1200: It's the line that follows "Jesus loves me, this I know" for the Bible tells me so |
#7132, aired 2015-09-22 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $200: This media source abbreviated WWD is often called "the fashion bible" Women's Wear Daily |
#7124, aired 2015-07-30 | CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS $800: Originating in the mid-16th century, their faith is based on the Bible & the Augsburg Confession of 1530 Lutheran |
#7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN COLOR $800: The Bible's "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" is known as this the Golden Rule |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | "NOM" $400: This Bible book is in the form of a farewell address by Moses to the Israelites Deuteronomy |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | BIBLE BELTS $400: Par-tay! "Song of" him says, "I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly" Solomon |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | BIBLE BELTS $800: In Genesis 19, this man's daughters ply him with wine; in their defense, they'd just seen mom morph into a salt lick Lot |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | BIBLE BELTS $1200: "Rejoice and be glad... thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked" seems out of place in this "mournful" book Lamentations |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | BIBLE BELTS $1600: Hey, that invitation didn't say BYOW! In John 2, Jesus livens up a wedding reception in this Galilee town Cana |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | BIBLE BELTS $2000: In 2 Samuel, David gets this man drunk--& that's after sleeping with his wife & before sending him to his death Uriah the Hittite |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | RETURN OF THE WOOD $1600: The King James Bible says Noah's Ark was constructed from this "beastly" wood--maybe cypress gopher wood |
#7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $400: In Exodus, God says he'll bring his people to a land flowing with these 2 things milk & honey |
#7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $800: Matthew tells us that "the spirit indeed is willing, but" there's this problem the flesh is weak |
#7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $1200: In a list of penalties in Exodus, this exchange precedes "tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" an eye for an eye |
#7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $1600: Revelation 1:8: "I am" these 2 things, "the beginning and the ending" the Alpha & Omega |
#7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): "He is brought as" this phrase, "and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth" a lamb to the slaughter |
#7106, aired 2015-07-06 | KNOWLEDGE $400: The King James Bible says, "of the tree of the knowledge of" these two opposites, "thou shalt not eat" good & evil |
#7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $200: By crowd vote, this convict was released instead of Jesus Barabbas |
#7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $400: This youngest son of Rachel fathered one of the 12 tribes of Israel Benjamin |
#7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $600: One of the 12 apostles, he's called Nathanael in John's gospel Bartholomew |
#7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $800: Son of Rahab, great-granddad of David & husband of Ruth Boaz |
#7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $1,400 (Daily Double): This Babylonian is slain the same night as his feast at which Daniel reads the writing on the wall Belshazzar |
#7082, aired 2015-06-02 | ZIGGURATS $800: This legendary tower of the Bible has been popularly associated with the ziggurat of Marduk Babel |
#7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $200: The Beat Generation Bible:
"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
#7070, aired 2015-05-15 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $1200: The Bible says to "lay up... treasures in" this place, "where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt" heaven |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BIBLE MVPs $200: This man earned his MVP status leading the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt Moses |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BIBLE MVPs $400: This fisherman was picked specifically by Jesus to be the "rock" of his new church Peter |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BIBLE MVPs $600: This wife of Abraham & mother of Isaac was favored by God as the "mother of nations" Sarah |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BIBLE MVPs $800: Jesus loved him enough to raise him from the dead in John 11 Lazarus |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BIBLE MVPs $1000: It was this MVP (most valuable prophet) who asked whether the leopard can change his spots Jeremiah |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $400: The 1st century Book of Jubilees lists this man's wife as Emzara; hope she could swim! Noah |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $800: The Bible doesn't name her, but Josephus gives us this name for Herod's dancing stepdaughter Salome |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $1200: Traditional Ethiopian lore names this royal female friend of Solomon as Makeda the Queen of Sheba |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $1600: The Babylonian Talmud identifies this patriarch's mother as Amthlai Bath Khrubu Abraham |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | AGRICULTURE $1600: The Bible commands that every 7 years, land should be left unused, lying this 6-letter word fallow |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $2000: The Gospel of Nicodemus names the thieves crucified with Jesus: him & Gestas Dismas |
#7053, aired 2015-04-22 | DEDICATIONS $400: A 1611 Bible translation was dedicated to this "most dread Sovereign" King James |
#7050, aired 2015-04-17 | BIBLE VERSUS $400: Joshua 6:
The Israelites vs. this city Jericho |
#7050, aired 2015-04-17 | BIBLE VERSUS $800: 1 Samuel 17:
This Israelite vs. this Philistine David & Goliath |
#7050, aired 2015-04-17 | BIBLE VERSUS $1200: 1 Samuel 4:
Philistines vs. Israelites, with the winner to get this fancy chest the Ark (of the Covenant) |
#7050, aired 2015-04-17 | BIBLE VERSUS $1600: Mark 11:15:
Jesus vs. these financial professionals the money changers |
#7050, aired 2015-04-17 | BIBLE VERSUS $2000: Revelation 12:
This archangel & his angels vs. a big red dragon Michael |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 1995 BESTSELLERS $800: In 1995 James Redfield wrote "An Experiential Guide" to this book; 2 years later came "The Celestine Vision" The Celestine Prophecy |
#7033, aired 2015-03-25 | READING RAINBOW $400: In the Bible we read that God told him, I will show you a rainbow for "a token of covenant" Noah |
#7026, aired 2015-03-16 | 19th C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $400: Jesper Harding, publisher of what's now this Philly newspaper, was for a time the USA's largest Bible publisher the Inquirer |
#7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THERE B 3 "B"s $1,200 (Daily Double): Deeply religious area of the South & Midwest the Bible Belt |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | NOT IN THE BIBLE $200: Bernice,
Bacchus,
Bartimaeus Bacchus |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | NOT IN THE BIBLE $400: Lois,
Lydia,
Luther Luther |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | NOT IN THE BIBLE $600: Alexander,
Amenhotep,
Agrippa Amenhotep |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | NOT IN THE BIBLE $800: Annas,
Atreyu,
Aquila Atreyu |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | NOT IN THE BIBLE $1000: Shadrach,
Shamash,
Shalmaneser Shamash |
#7011, aired 2015-02-23 | 3 M $200: If we had 10 in our show's Bible, the first would be "Thou shalt respond in the form of a question" commandments |
#7007, aired 2015-02-17 | ANGELS $5,000 (Daily Double): In the Bible Gabriel & Michael are 2 of these 7 special beings used by God to send messages & fight battles archangels |
#7004, aired 2015-02-12 | 1990s FICTION $1600: This bestseller by Barbara Kingsolver follows a missionary & his family in the Belgian Congo The Poisonwood Bible |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $400: Titled translation:
K.J.V. the King James Version |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $800: Presiding prefect who beheld the Man:
P.P. Pontius Pilate |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $1200: Book of love:
S.O.S. Song of Solomon |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $1600: Boat builder's boys:
H, S & J Ham, Shem & Japheth |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $2000: Fiery furnace survivors:
S, M & A Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego |
#6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OTHER BIBLE BOOKS $200: Part I of a 2004 "Bible" for this subject is "Parts of Speech"; Part II is "Dissecting the Sentence" grammar |
#6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OTHER BIBLE BOOKS $400: "Nautical", "Girls", "Tribal" & "Lower Back" are categories in the "Bible" of this art tattooing |
#6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OTHER BIBLE BOOKS $600: In titles these 2 words precede "The Bible" as well as "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Zen and |
#6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OTHER BIBLE BOOKS $800: Chapters in this professional's "Bible" include "Aperitifs" & "Tropical Drinks" a bartender |
#6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OTHER BIBLE BOOKS $1000: In the 1890s this daughter of Judge Daniel Cady published "The Woman's Bible" Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
#6998, aired 2015-02-04 | TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY! $400: You've won this book, made in 1455 & one of about 40 left in the world--luxuriate in the rarity! the Gutenberg Bible |
#6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $2000: First published in 1984, this "pregnancy bible" has spent more than 675 weeks on the New York Times best sellers list What to Expect When You're Expecting |
#6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ALL THINGS CONSIDERED $800: In the Bible, Satan tells the Lord, "touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face" Job |
#6981, aired 2015-01-12 | KIDS & THE BIBLE $400: In the Bible he's the first child born Cain |
#6981, aired 2015-01-12 | KIDS & THE BIBLE $800: These twins show up in Genesis 25 Jacob & Esau |
#6981, aired 2015-01-12 | KIDS & THE BIBLE $1200: Luke 15 tells the parable of this reckless offspring the prodigal son |
#6981, aired 2015-01-12 | KIDS & THE BIBLE $1600: Paul wrote, "When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child... but when I became a man, I put away" these childish things |
#6981, aired 2015-01-12 | KIDS & THE BIBLE $2000: This prophet with 66 chapters in his book gave his own son a mouthful of a name, Mahershalalhashbaz Isaiah |
#6976, aired 2015-01-05 | STRIKE THAT! $1000: In the Bible Jared Leto said, "There hath not come a razor upon mine head" Samson |
#6964, aired 2014-12-18 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $200: Alabama has an official state one of these, which was used to swear in Jefferson Davis Bible |
#6955, aired 2014-12-05 | 5 ALIVE $800: The last book of the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Bible Deuteronomy |
#6954, aired 2014-12-04 | GETTING ATTACHED $600: The Bible says the children of Israel had it tough "with hard bondage, in mortar, and in" this, which mortar binds together bricks |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | THE BIBLE $200: After creating the heavens & the earth, God rested on this number day 7 |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | THE BIBLE $400: The 4 gospel writers of the New Testament were Matthew, Mark & these 2 John & Luke |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | THE BIBLE $500 (Daily Double): The longest of these songs is number 119, with 176 verses psalms |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | THE BIBLE $600: An invasion of these amphibians was the second of the 10 plagues of Egypt frogs |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | THE BIBLE $800: This great & wise king built his temple around 1000 B.C. Solomon |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE BIBLE $200: The book of Acts begins with Jesus' ascension & ends with the story of this apostle Paul |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE BIBLE $400: The Old Testament was originally mostly written in Hebrew, with a few passages in this language Aramaic |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE BIBLE $600: Printers were fined for an error in the "Wicked Bible" of 1631 that commanded readers, "Thou shalt commit" this adultery |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE BIBLE $800: The 14 books called this are omitted from Protestant Bibles the Apocrypha |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE BIBLE $1000: The Jewish scriptures are the Ketuvim, or "writings"; Nevi'im, or "prophets"; & this, meaning "law" the Torah |
#6942, aired 2014-11-18 | HAREM SHUFFLE $2000: The Bible describes Solomon's harem, saying he loved "Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites... and" these -ites Hittites |
#6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE BIBLE FROM B TO Z $400: P:
Delilah betrays Samson to them the Philistines |
#6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE BIBLE FROM B TO Z $800: G:
Paul wrote an epistle to these people of Asia Minor the Galatians |
#6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE BIBLE FROM B TO Z $1200: Z:
This Old Testament book is last alphabetically Zephaniah |
#6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE BIBLE FROM B TO Z $1600: B:
Matthew calls him "a notable prisoner" Barabbas |
#6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE BIBLE FROM B TO Z $2000: U:
The handwriting on the wall was "Mene, mene, tekel", this word upharsin |
#6921, aired 2014-10-20 | JUST DESERTS $200: In this Bible book, the children of Israel "were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai" Exodus |
#6915, aired 2014-10-10 | RELIGIOUS & SECULAR HOMOPHONES $2000: A Bible book, or renowned orthopedic surgeon Frank Job / Jobe |
#6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NAMED IN THE BIBLE & THE KORAN $200: This 2014 movie would be "Nuh", except it was banned in many Islamic lands Noah |
#6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NAMED IN THE BIBLE & THE KORAN $400: Musa is this lawgiver Moses |
#6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NAMED IN THE BIBLE & THE KORAN $600: Beware of Iblis, this figure the Devil |
#6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NAMED IN THE BIBLE & THE KORAN $800: Jibril is this messenger Gabriel |
#6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NAMED IN THE BIBLE & THE KORAN $1000: This reluctant prophet is Yunus Jonah |
#6906, aired 2014-09-29 | HIPPO CAMPUS $1600: Excitement in Bible class as we learn this creature that "drinketh up a river" in Job is thought to have been a hippo Behemoth |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Best known for a different work, in 1833 he produced a "Common Version" of the Holy Bible "with Amendments of the Language" Noah Webster |
#6894, aired 2014-07-31 | JOURNALISM $400: "The Journalist's Bible" is the AP stylebook; AP is short for this oldest news-gathering agency in the United States Associated Press |
#6886, aired 2014-07-21 | "FIRST" $1000: This Bible book contains the line "So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David" First Kings |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $200: John 11:35 (the King James Version's shortest verse): he "wept" Jesus |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $600: Deuteronomy 5: "neither shalt thou bear" this 2-word phrase "against thy neighbour" false witness |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $800: Judges 15: he "said, with the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" Samson |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $1,000 (Daily Double): Joshua 6:1: "now" this city "was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel" Jericho |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $1000: 1 kings 2: "then sat" this man "upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established" Solomon |
#6873, aired 2014-07-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $200: Major divisions of plays, made up of scenes acts |
#6873, aired 2014-07-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1958 Leon Uris bestseller Exodus |
#6873, aired 2014-07-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $600: Last name of record-setting hurdler & San Francisco 49er Renaldo Nehemiah |
#6873, aired 2014-07-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Daughter of president Cleveland & putative candy bar namesake Ruth |
#6873, aired 2014-07-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: A dramatic disclosure or discovery Revelation |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $800: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book of... Amos |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | FOOD IN THE BIBLE $400: In Leviticus, God says thou shalt not gather every one of these "of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor" grapes |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | FOOD IN THE BIBLE $800: Miraculously, Jesus fed 5,000 people with just "five barley loaves, and two small" ones of these fish |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | FOOD IN THE BIBLE $1600: The King James Version tells us Esau sold his birthright for a pottage of these legumes lentils |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | FOOD IN THE BIBLE $2000: In a parable, Jesus told of this "least of all seeds" that, when grown, is the greatest among herbs the mustard seed |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | FOOD IN THE BIBLE $3,200 (Daily Double): After the Israelites crossed into Canaan & other sustenance was available, this food stopped falling manna |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | BOOKS OF THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE $200: "Judicum" Judges |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | BOOKS OF THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE $400: "Canticum Canticorum" Song of Songs |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | BOOKS OF THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE $800: An Old Testament guy:
"Abdias" Obadiah |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | BOOKS OF THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE $1000: There's "I Regum", First Kings, "I Samuelis", First Samuel, & "I Paralipomenon", this Chronicles |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | BOOKS OF THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE $1,800 (Daily Double): A New Testament guy:
"Jacobi" James |
#6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $1200: St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of this biblical mount has a fragment of a 4th century Bible (Mount) Sinai |
#6816, aired 2014-04-14 | 6-LETTER BIBLE BOOKS $200: Poems that praise God Psalms |
#6816, aired 2014-04-14 | 6-LETTER BIBLE BOOKS $400: Ibzan of Bethlehem & Tola the son of Puah were 2 of these just leaders Judges |
#6816, aired 2014-04-14 | 6-LETTER BIBLE BOOKS $800: Yeshayahu is the Hebrew name of this prophet Isaiah |
#6816, aired 2014-04-14 | 6-LETTER BIBLE BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): This epistle says, "a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law" Romans |
#6816, aired 2014-04-14 | 6-LETTER BIBLE BOOKS $1000: Purim celebrates her rescue of her people from a massacre Esther |
#6807, aired 2014-04-01 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $400: When this apostle saw Jesus walking on water, he said, "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water" Peter |
#6807, aired 2014-04-01 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $800: To King Hezekiah, "Thus saith the Lord, set thine" this "in order, for thou shalt die, and not live" house |
#6807, aired 2014-04-01 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $1200: "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed" this "with her already in his heart" adultery |
#6807, aired 2014-04-01 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $2000: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name" this Emmanuel |
#6807, aired 2014-04-01 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): A major theme of Ecclesiastes is stated in the second verse of the book: "All is" this vanity |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | RETRONYMS $600: This scriptural work is also called the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh the Old Testament |
#6796, aired 2014-03-17 | MISCELLANEOUS $200: She's the first woman mentioned in the Bible, but her name only appears twice in all of Genesis Eve |
#6796, aired 2014-03-17 | WE "BEG" TO DIFFER $400: In the Bible it meant to procreate begat |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | LANGUAGES $400: Wanting to make it accessible, Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language German |
#6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $200: "And he gathered them together into a place called... Armageddon" Revelation |
#6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $400: "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins" Proverbs |
#6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $800: "Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus" Esther |
#6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $1000: (The first book) "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" I Corinthians |
#6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $1,500 (Daily Double): "But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest" Jonah |
#6763, aired 2014-01-29 | KISSING COUSINS $1000: In the Bible, Isaac married this first cousin once removed Rebecca |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $200: Genesis 4:
He "rose up against" this man "his brother, and slew him" (both, please) Cain & Abel |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $400: Genesis 19:
In these 2 cities "the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $600: Matthew 14:
John the Baptist was beheaded during this man's birthday party Herod |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $800: Exodus 2:
"And when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand" Moses |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $1000: This man I:
"The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants" Job |
#6757, aired 2014-01-21 | RHYME LINE $600: A sort of secondary wife; in the Bible Saul had one named Rizpah a concubine |
#6756, aired 2014-01-20 | TEEING OFF $600: The King James Bible often uses this word for anger; Elihu's "was kindled" before he teed off on Job wrath |
#6748, aired 2014-01-08 | THE ORIGINAL T-PAINE $400: Thomas Paine's opponents bashed "The Age of" this as an "atheist's bible", but the work does talk about a creator Reason |
#6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE SHORT VERSION $2000: A Bible book:
PHM Philemon |
#6701, aired 2013-11-04 | PRECIOUS PHRASES $1200: The Bible asks, "Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above" these rubies |
#6690, aired 2013-10-18 | HERE COMES 30! $800: The King James Bible recounts Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus for this payoff 30 pieces of silver |
#6689, aired 2013-10-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: This ancient measure found in the Bible ranged between 18 & 22 inches a cubit |
#6680, aired 2013-10-04 | WORLDS & PHRASES $400: Chapter 3, verse 16 of this Bible book says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son" John |
#6678, aired 2013-10-02 | RED-DY $200: The parting of the Red Sea is described in chapter 14 of this Bible book Exodus |
#6676, aired 2013-09-30 | ASSUME THE PREPOSITION $200: This preposition starts the text of the King James Bible In (the beginning) |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE BIBLE $200: The Bible attributes more than 3,000 proverbs to this monarch (King) Solomon |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE BIBLE $400: At age 187 he had a son named Lamech & went on to live another 782 years Methuselah |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE BIBLE $600: Dating from the 300s A.D., one of the oldest bibles is a codex that's been in this library since at least 1481 the Vatican Library |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE BIBLE $800: Mentioned in Revelation 6, they are sometimes named as Conquest, Slaughter, Famine & Death the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE BIBLE $1000: New Testament authors love this O.T. prophet, like when Matthew 1 references his "a virgin shall conceive" Isaiah |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | HEAVENLY LANGUAGE $1,500 (Daily Double): This word found in the first chapter of the King James Bible means the vault of heaven the firmament |
#6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $200: Appropriately, the name of this first book of the Bible means "origin" or "beginning" Genesis |
#6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $1200: Called the Salt Sea in the Bible, this body of water lies in a deep fault called the Ghor the Dead Sea |
#6648, aired 2013-07-10 | "R" IS FOR RELIGION $1600: The name of this anticipated event is derived from a word in the Latin Bible meaning "we will be caught up" Rapture |
#6642, aired 2013-07-02 | GENESIS $800: The King James Bible is big on this 5-letter verb: "Cush" this word "Nimrod"; "Canaan" this word "Sidon"... begat |
#6636, aired 2013-06-24 | READING BY THE NUMBERS $800: This book of poetry & wisdom has 150 chapters, the most in the Bible Psalms |
#6629, aired 2013-06-13 | "NESS" $2000: In 1931 the religious group called the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society adopted this new name Jehovah's Witnesses |
#6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE BIBLE BOOK IMMEDIATELY BEFORE $600: ...Revelation (Hey...!) Jude |
#6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE BIBLE BOOK IMMEDIATELY BEFORE $1000: ...Lamentations (the prophet said to be doing the lamenting) Jeremiah |
#6611, aired 2013-05-20 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $400: Rapper Wyclef Jean is named for this 14th century man responsible for the first complete English Bible John Wycliffe |
#6606, aired 2013-05-13 | THE 17th CENTURY $1200: Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Bancroft supervised & oversaw the 1611 publication of this the King James Bible |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | BLANKING ON THE BIBLE $400: Mark:
"Now as he walked by the Sea of ____, he saw Simon and Andrew... casting a net into the sea" Galilee |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | BLANKING ON THE BIBLE $600: Exodus:
"The Lord said unto ____, see, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh" Moses |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | BLANKING ON THE BIBLE $800: Revelation:
"The seven angels which had the seven ____ prepared themselves to sound" trumpets |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | BLANKING ON THE BIBLE $1000: Genesis:
"____ said unto the Lord, my punishment is greater than I can bear" Cain |
#6569, aired 2013-03-21 | WITH DINAH $800: In the Bible Shechem defiled Dinah, daughter of this man & Leah; her brothers killed him Jacob |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING $800: This man gets "vomited out" in his book of the Bible Jonah |
#6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $1000: "It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables...and some good morals... and upward of a thousand lies" the Bible |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | GOLD RUSH $200: In the Bible, worship of this golden idol is an act of apostasy, the rejection of one's faith the golden calf |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $200: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed" Genesis |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $400: "The lord is my shepherd; I shall not want" Psalms |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $600: "And he saith unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand" Revelation |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $1000: "And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons" Jonah |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $1,200 (Daily Double): (The "first" part) "But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn" I Corinthians |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $800: Byblos, from which we got the word "Bible", was one of the foremost cities of these ancient seafaring people the Phoenicians |
#6528, aired 2013-01-23 | THE 15th CENTURY $800: This 1450s tome changed the course of culture & history the Gutenberg Bible |
#6522, aired 2013-01-15 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $600: St. Jerome was responsible for the Vulgate, a translation of the Bible into this language Latin |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | I'M BURNIN' FOR YOU $1200: William Tyndale, who completed his English translation of this in 1525, was burned in Brussels in 1536 the New Testament |
#6511, aired 2012-12-31 | IN BETWEEN $800: In the Bible:
Between Leviticus & Deuteronomy Numbers |
#6495, aired 2012-12-07 | BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY $200: A great fish swallows a reluctant prophet Jonah |
#6495, aired 2012-12-07 | BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY $400: Moas & boas are loaded onto Noah's ark Genesis |
#6495, aired 2012-12-07 | BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY $800: Shamgar, one of the title arbiters, kills 600 Philistines with an ox goad Judges |
#6495, aired 2012-12-07 | BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 friends are thrown into a fiery furnace Daniel |
#6495, aired 2012-12-07 | BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY $1000: Thomas doubts the other apostles have really met the risen Jesus John |
#6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 42 $1000: In the Bible, 42 children who teased this prophet & disciple of Elijah were attacked by bears Elisha |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK $400: It's the first book of the New Testament Matthew |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK $800: Of Isaiah, Jeremiah or Joel, the "minor prophet" Joel |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK $1200: It has a 3-letter title in the King James version Job |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK $2,000 (Daily Double): It says, "Salute Andronicus" & "Salute Asyncritus" (Paul's Epistle to the) Romans |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK $2000: It's the first named for a woman Ruth |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | "RE"-CESS $600: It's the "R" in RSV, a 1952 version of the Bible revised |
#6472, aired 2012-11-06 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $1200: During the 1604 Hampton Court conference, this king accepted a request for a new translation of the Bible King James |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | GHOST-POURRI $800: In the Bible, the ghost of Samuel told this king that he'd be defeated by the Philistines Saul |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Louvre in Paris, France.) The Louvre gift shop sells a 1,000-piece puzzle of Veronese's "The Wedding Feast at" this village... almost done! Cana |
#6450, aired 2012-10-05 | YOU HAD ME AT SHALOM $400: A memorial outside Israel's Knesset honoring Israel's fallen soldiers was inspired by the burning bush story in this Bible book Exodus |
#6445, aired 2012-09-28 | LAST "DANCE" $1600: A listing of the principal words of a book such as the Bible concordance |
#6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BIBLICAL WIFERY $800: Chapter 18 of this third book of the Bible contains detailed regulations on avoiding incest in choosing a wife Leviticus |
#6409, aired 2012-06-28 | MARX $1000: This 1867 Marx masterwork has been called "the Bible of the working class" Das Kapital |
#6407, aired 2012-06-26 | ANTONYMS OF BIBLE BOOKS $400: "Conclusion" Genesis |
#6407, aired 2012-06-26 | ANTONYMS OF BIBLE BOOKS $800: "Concealment" Revelation |
#6407, aired 2012-06-26 | ANTONYMS OF BIBLE BOOKS $1200: "Influx" Exodus |
#6407, aired 2012-06-26 | ANTONYMS OF BIBLE BOOKS $1600: "Last Commoners" Kings I |
#6407, aired 2012-06-26 | ANTONYMS OF BIBLE BOOKS $2000: "Joyful Utterances" Lamentations |
#6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $200: A huge upset as he "prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone"; I can't believe what I just saw! David |
#6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $400: He "stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind"; what a play! Moses |
#6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $600: His "wisdom excelled... the wisdom of Egypt", which is why he's been coach of the year so many times Solomon |
#6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $800: It's not the 1924 Notre Dame backfield, this is the real McCoy from Revelation 6, & that means the game is truly over the Four Horsemen |
#6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $1000: What an amazing comeback! John 11 reported he "hath been dead 4 days", but now he's up & going back onto the field! Lazarus |
#6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $400: The Wycliffe version of this is cited more than 9,000 times the Bible |
#6380, aired 2012-05-18 | I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE $1200: Eugene H. Peterson approved "The Message", a contemporary version of this, with all 66 books combined into one the Bible |
#6363, aired 2012-04-25 | ROMAN THE BIBLE $400: Acts 16 says that Silas & this other leader formerly known as Saul were Roman citizens Paul (the Apostle) |
#6363, aired 2012-04-25 | ROMAN THE BIBLE $800: Asked if giving tribute was lawful, Jesus said, "Render... unto" this Roman "the things which are" his Caesar |
#6363, aired 2012-04-25 | ROMAN THE BIBLE $1600: "See" here--these Jews said, if we leave Jesus alone, "the Romans shall... take away both our place and nation" the Pharisees |
#6363, aired 2012-04-25 | ROMAN THE BIBLE $2000: Mark recounts how Roman soldiers forced this man of Cyrene to carry Jesus' cross Simon |
#6363, aired 2012-04-25 | ROMAN THE BIBLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Cornelius, one of these Roman military officers, became one of the first converts to Christianity a centurion |
#6359, aired 2012-04-19 | YO' MAMA $2000: The Bible's Ishmael--call her this Hagar |
#6339, aired 2012-03-22 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: In the Bible, "there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire... and Elijah went up by" one of these "into heaven" a whirlwind |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | HORSETORY $1000: The horse has long been used in war; the Bible says it "saith among" the sound of these instruments, "ha, ha" trumpets |
#6322, aired 2012-02-28 | THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $800: The 220s cover the entire Bible, with 227 covering just the New Testament letters known by this name Epistles |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | BIBLE GUYS $400: "Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven" Samson |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | BIBLE GUYS $800: 2 guys: one was "a tiller of the ground" & his brother was "a keeper of sheep" Cain & Abel |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | BIBLE GUYS $1200: "In those days came" this man, "preaching in the wilderness of Judaea" John the Baptist |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | BIBLE GUYS $2000: "Jesus saith unto him... because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed" (Doubting) Thomas |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | BIBLE GUYS $3,000 (Daily Double): "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that" he "opened the window...which he had made" Noah |
#6315, aired 2012-02-17 | A WELL-STOCKED LIBRARY $400: With listings from Aaron to Zurishaddai, it's Harper's over 1,200-page dictionary of this book the Bible |
#6312, aired 2012-02-14 | A BIBLE BOOK FOR THEE $400: "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord" & there was much begat-ing Genesis |
#6312, aired 2012-02-14 | A BIBLE BOOK FOR THEE $800: The Lord gave a guy the business in a big way; his days "are spent without hope" Job |
#6312, aired 2012-02-14 | A BIBLE BOOK FOR THEE $1200: Seals, then trumpets, then "Babylon the great is fallen" Revelation |
#6312, aired 2012-02-14 | A BIBLE BOOK FOR THEE $1600: A rough fishing trip, then "Nineveh shall be overthrown" Jonah |
#6312, aired 2012-02-14 | A BIBLE BOOK FOR THEE $2000: "So Moses... died there in the land of Moab", then Joshua took over Deuteronomy |
#6299, aired 2012-01-26 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea the Dead Sea |
#6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $200: "Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste" Exodus |
#6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $400: "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake" Revelation |
#6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $600: "Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne" (in First this) Kings |
#6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $1000: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction" Proverbs |
#6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $2,600 (Daily Double): "They bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him" Job |
#6270, aired 2011-12-16 | CANADA ROCKS $800: In 2007 this Montreal group was "aflame" with creativity on their album "Neon Bible" Arcade Fire |
#6268, aired 2011-12-14 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $1000: Each year on the Jewish festival Simchat Torah, or "Torah rejoicing", the last part of this book of the Bible is read Deuteronomy |
#6260, aired 2011-12-02 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $800: Quoth the Bible, Noah released 2 birds from the Ark to test for dry land, a dove & one of these a raven |
#6259, aired 2011-12-01 | "MAJOR" CONCERNS $1200: In the Bible it's the collective term for Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel & Daniel Major Prophets |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | HAVE YOU HEARD THE "NEWS"? $1200: It's been "the Bible of Baseball" since 1886 The Sporting News |
#6241, aired 2011-11-07 | VERSE CASE SCENARIO $2,200 (Daily Double): Longfellow: "Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life" these 4 words "some rain must fall" |
#6235, aired 2011-10-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1000: This 4-syllable adjective can refer to non-canonical parts of the Vulgate Bible or to any documents of doubtful origin apocryphal |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE LAND OF THE BIBLE $200: Some think that it was in the area at the head of the Persian Gulf; Genesis 2:8 says God planted it "eastward" the Garden of Eden |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE LAND OF THE BIBLE $400: Genesis says the lord overthrew these 2 wicked cities, making the land look like a smoking furnace Sodom & Gomorrah |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE LAND OF THE BIBLE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the Jordan River in Israel.) In the Book of Joshua, as soon as the men carrying this holy object set foot here in the Jordan River, it dried up, allowing them to cross the Ark of the Covenant |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE LAND OF THE BIBLE $1000: The queen of this place, thought by modern scholars to be roughly present-day Yemen, blessed Solomon & the god of Israel Sheba |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE LAND OF THE BIBLE $1,500 (Daily Double): People of Shinar built a structure called this "because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth" the Tower of Babel |
#6219, aired 2011-10-06 | RIGHT "E" $600: Alphabetically, it's the first book of the Bible that starts with the letter "E" Ecclesiastes |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | THE OLD TESTAMENT--BEFORE THE DELUGE $400: The first specific animal mentioned in the King James Bible is this great sea mammal a whale |
#6200, aired 2011-07-22 | NAME THAT BIBLE GUY $200: When this man "saw many of the Pharisees... come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers" John the Baptist |
#6200, aired 2011-07-22 | NAME THAT BIBLE GUY $400: "He returned to the land of Egypt: and (he) took the rod of God in his hand" Moses |
#6200, aired 2011-07-22 | NAME THAT BIBLE GUY $600: He "put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it" David |
#6200, aired 2011-07-22 | NAME THAT BIBLE GUY $800: "Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew" Peter |
#6200, aired 2011-07-22 | NAME THAT BIBLE GUY $1,000 (Daily Double): He "said, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof" Solomon |
#6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $400: Genesis Exodus |
#6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $600 (Daily Double): Joshua Judges |
#6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $800: Mark Luke |
#6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $1200: Numbers Deuteronomy |
#6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $1600: Psalms Proverbs |
#6180, aired 2011-06-24 | STARTS WITH THE SAME 2 LETTERS $1200: In the Bible he made the Golden Calf, disappointing his brother Aaron |
#6176, aired 2011-06-20 | 27 IS HEAVEN $600: In the King James Bible, these are the first & last of the 27 books of the New Testament Matthew & Revelation |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $200: "And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years" Genesis |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $400: "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, who is on the Lord's side?" Exodus |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $600: "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother" Proverbs |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $800: "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas" Jonah |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $1000: "But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face" Job |
#6159, aired 2011-05-26 | BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS $400: Hey
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Law Jude |
#6159, aired 2011-05-26 | BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS $800: Maker's
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Sanchez Mark |
#6159, aired 2011-05-26 | BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS $1600: Losing
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Washington Isiah |
#6159, aired 2011-05-26 | BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS $2000: The Heidi
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of Riddick Chronicles |
#6159, aired 2011-05-26 | BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS $2,400 (Daily Double): Prime
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#6154, aired 2011-05-19 | BESTSELLERS OF THE 1950s $200: A new "Revised Standard Version" of this book topped the nonfiction charts in 1954 The Bible |
#6153, aired 2011-05-18 | ENDS IN "RE", NOT ER $1600: The Tyndale Bible translated a Greek passage meaning "shameful gain", as "filthy" this lucre |
#6151, aired 2011-05-16 | THAT'S EXPENSIVE! $200: "Antiques Roadshow" veteran Kenneth Gloss put a $25-35 million price tag on a 1st edition Bible printed by this man Gutenberg |
#6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LYRICAL MOP UP $400: The Beatles: "Rocky Raccoon checked into his room, only to find ___ ___" Gideon's Bible |
#6138, aired 2011-04-27 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: It's the first 3-syllable word in the text of the King James Bible beginning |
#6129, aired 2011-04-14 | PSILENT "P" $400: A sacred song or hymn, especially in a Bible book a psalm |
#6124, aired 2011-04-07 | "AZ" I WAS SAYING $600: In the Bible this husband of Ruth was the great grandfather of King David Boaz |
#6115, aired 2011-03-25 | I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT $200: The authors of the Bible's Gospels:
Matthew, Luke, John &... Mark |
#6115, aired 2011-03-25 | I "GET" IT $1200: In the Bible it means to make children beget |
#6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YAHWEH $400: In the King James Bible, Yahweh, the personal name of God, is rendered as this Jehovah |
#6106, aired 2011-03-14 | FROM HERE TO THERE $1200: Found in the Bible, the phrase "from Dan to Beersheba" refers to an area now within this country Israel |
#6081, aired 2011-02-07 | READ YOUR BIBLE $400: Rehoboam, king of Israel, was a son of this wise king by an Ammonite mother Solomon |
#6081, aired 2011-02-07 | READ YOUR BIBLE $800: In the Book of Mark, John the Baptist called this king an adulterer; oops! Herod |
#6081, aired 2011-02-07 | READ YOUR BIBLE $1200: As recounted in 1 Samuel, in Saul's time this marauding people drove the Israelites into living in caves the Philistines |
#6081, aired 2011-02-07 | READ YOUR BIBLE $1600: Following the unusual death of his wife, his daughters became the mothers of the Moabites & the Ammonites Lot |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $800: In the King James Bible, the Book of Psalms says, "Yea, though I walk through" this, "I will fear no evil" the valley of the shadow of death |
#6071, aired 2011-01-24 | ANCIENT "P"LACES $1200: The Bible calls Canaan this "land", a name you won't find on any map the Promised Land |
#6066, aired 2011-01-17 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK, ALPHABETICALLY $400: Galatians Genesis |
#6066, aired 2011-01-17 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK, ALPHABETICALLY $500 (Daily Double): John 3 Jonah |