| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $800: The title of a Lewis Carroll poem, it now means meaningless words or gibberish "Jabberwocky" |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $1200: "Dedication" in Hebrew, it can be spelled without a "C" & actually spans 8 days, but you still need to know it now Chanukah |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $1,300 (Daily Double): "C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year a cohort |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $200: It's the "I" in IQ, & it will be incredibly embarrassing for all of us if no one rings in now intelligence |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | TRYING TO GET SOME WORKS DONE $800: "The Calf Bearer" from the 500s B.C. discovered on this Athens elevation in 1864--sad that parts are missing, but now we can show it the Acropolis |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $1000: In the 1880s, General Meigs designed the Pension Bureau building, now a museum; some called it "Meigs' Old Red" this Meigs's Old Red Barn |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $400: Found in the liver, it helps make vitamin D; hope you have a lot more good than bad! cholesterol |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $4,000 (Daily Double): Hermes' wand, this symbol of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, is a staff with 2 serpents coiled around it the caduceus |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $400: The front section of a semi where the driver sits a cab |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $800: This word for a school ground is from Latin for "field" campus |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $1200: Get out the blowtorch--it's time to make this custard dessert creme brulee |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $1600: A judge in his private chamber, not in open court, is said to be "in" this in camera |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $2000: It's the typical sailors' & pirates' weapon seen here a cutlass |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | YOU CAN SEE IT ON PBS $2000: Set in early 20th c. England, this 2013 "Upstairs, Downstairs"y drama featured Jeremy Piven as the title "Mr." Selfridge |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of ancient Italy.) Around 300 B.C. Rome controlled the area seen here; within about 25 years it had conquered most of the Italian peninsula, including the Umbrians & these people occupying what is now Tuscany the Etruscans |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) From the front balcony of the Newseum, we can easily see its neighbor, the embassy of this longtime U.S. ally; it's the embassy that's closest to the U.S. Capitol building Canada |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | DOUBLE "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): From the name of an ancient Roman festival, it now refers to any riotous or drunken festivity bacchanal |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | ROOTS $800: To this day, a list is kept of the descendants of this Chinese thinker of the 500s B.C.--it now numbers 2 million Confucius |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the deck of the USS John C. Stennis.) An observation area for the flight deck is grimly called this bird's row; crashes are less common now than when it got the name a vulture |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | JEWISH HISTORY $800: Now the USA's largest Jewish movement, it began in the 19th c. to change Judaism by reducing ritual Reform |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | THE CIVIL WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): On May 25, 1862 Lincoln told McClellan to either attack Richmond or defend this city Washington, D.C. |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES $2,100 (Daily Double): If he could have gone home again, it might have been to his mother's Asheville, N.C. boarding house, now a landmark Thomas Wolfe |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER $2000: Peter Agre & Roderick MacKinnon (C'mon, it was just last year...) Chemistry |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $400: Now that you've got the hang of it, 1932's word was this, like the group that sang "My Sharona" K-N-A-C-K |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | SPEECH! $1000: Convicted in Athens in 399 B.C. he said, "It is now time to depart -- for me to die, for you to live" Socrates |
| #4026, aired 2002-02-18 | SONGS' LATER VERSES $200: 19th c. song whose second verse includes "Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam" "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | "C.D." $1600: It expanded with the threat of nuclear war & is now under the Federal Emergency Management Agency Civil Defense |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $400: Check it out! You'll find this landmark at Independence Ave. & 1st Street in Washington, D.C.; now keep it down! Library of Congress |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | WHERE THE "BOY"s ARE? $600: It's the title of the 1941 hit song heard here
"He was a top man at his craft /
But then his number came up /
And he was gone with the draft /
He's in the Army now /
A-blowin’ reveille..." "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)" |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $200: (Hi, I'm Wayne Brady of Whose Line Is It Anyway?) This comedian reportedly uttered the now classic line, "Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad" W.C. Fields |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | L.A. AREA MUSEUMS $1000: We just now heard it's the "C" in MOCA, a museum in downtown L.A. Contemporary |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | "U" GOT IT! $800: It was once "The Breadbasket of the Soviet Union"; now it's "The Breadbasket of the C.I.S." Ukraine |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | JOHN C. FREMONT $200: Thinking it was this chain's highest peak, he climbed what's now called Fremont Peak in 1842 The Rockies |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CANADA $400: Played by 19th c. soldiers during the long winters, it's now considered the national sport hockey |
| #1383, aired 1990-09-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $500: This country's capital was formerly spelled D-A-C-C-A, but now it's usually spelled D-H-A-K-A Bangladesh |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | ALASKA $500: In the early 19th c. this was Alaska's main export, but it's now a small percentage of the economy fur |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | GLASS $800: Now a region of Czechoslovakia, it was to 19th century glassmaking what Venice had been in the 16th c. Bohemia |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | SCIENTIFIC SPELLING $600: Temperature scale in which the freezing point of water is 0° C-E-N-T-I-G-R-A-D-E |
| #625, aired 1987-05-01 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $100: Of larger or smaller, area of D.C. now as compared to when it was first established smaller |
| #477, aired 1986-10-07 | LAW $800: Meaning a small-scale version of 16th c. bankers, the Fuggers, it's now another word for shyster pettifogger |
| #399, aired 1986-03-20 | NEIGHBORHOODS $800: Foggy Bottom, the D.C. neighborhood where this fed. dept. is found, is now synonymous with it the State Department |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | BRITISH HISTORY $600: Now people post it, but 12th c. knights wore it mail |
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