| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $800: Once a resident of Smiljan, he immigrated to the U.S. with 4 cents & later patented a polyphase system of A.C. dynamos Tesla |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $800: Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things water |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $200: The reading section of the S.A.T. includes 52 questions of this type multiple choice |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $400: A system of tunnels & bridges connects this capital with Malmo, Sweden Copenhagen |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | HISTORY $1200: This writing system arose in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. & disappeared early in the 1st millennium A.D. cuneiform |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $600: Until May 1, 2008 Washington, D.C.'s cabs didn't have these; they used a zone system instead meters |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | IN THE ENVIRONMENT $200: It's the name in common to Paris' subway & Washington, D.C.'s rail system Metro |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | SCIENCE & EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) According to "National Geographic", since 1995, there have been major collapses of sections A and B of the ice shelf named for this Norwegian explorer; an iceberg about the size of Delaware broke off section C in 2017 Carl Anton Larsen |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | "O-U" WORDS $1600: Studies suggest that a woman who uses this birthing support person is less likely to have a C-section a doula |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | TALK LIKE AN OLD SAILOR $1600: This term for the forward section of the upper deck can be shortened & spelled with 3 apostrophes the forecastle (or fo'c's'le) |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $400: The front section of a semi where the driver sits a cab |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | CHINESE EMPERORS $400: In the 200s B.C. Emperor Zheng connected a number of fortresses into what became this single system the Great Wall of China |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $1000: To discredit the A.C. power system, Edison tried to make this tycoon's name synonymous with electrocution Westinghouse |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | STREET SMARTS $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.) Reflecting the close relationship that exists between our two countries, Canada is the only one to have its embassy on a section of this stately Washington avenue that connects the White House to the U.S. Capitol Pennsylvania |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | BRIDGE ACROSS THE "C" $800: Going from Delmarva peninsula to S.E. Virginia, you're likely on the bridge & tunnel system that spans this bay the Chesapeake |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | GRADE THAT WORD $200: This abbreviation for a method of child delivery earns a middling mark C-section |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | KEEP IT 100 $200: Per their system of numerals, ancient Romans kept it this letter C |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | IN THE ZONE $800: Denver is in this zone, defined in the Federal Code of Regulations title 49, section 71 the Mountain Time Zone |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW $400: The first kitten born via this method was named C.C. by Texas A&M researchers; some say it's for "copy cat" cloning |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $400: The Sumerians used this system of writing cuneiform |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows two medical illustrations on the monitor.) At birth, most babies are set to come out head-first; however, 3 to 4 percent present with their feet or buttocks against the cervix in this position & may need a C-section delivery breech |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | ON THE LETTERHEAD $400: All hail this procedure of baby delivery by incision C-section |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | THE I.T. GUY $600: He took the class at Princeton on C.A., short for this, the design of a computing system computer architecture |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | ALPHANUMERICS $1200: This section of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code sets out the requirements for tax exempt status for charities 501(c)(3) |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $1600: Shouting, "I want to ride", Truth helped rid D.C.'s streetcars of the segregated system named for this character Jim Crow |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | BEYOND THE "C" $400: In states with the system of this "property", a spouse is entitled to half of what the other earned while wed community |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | THE "METRIC" SYSTEM $2000: Pertaining to the branch of math that deals with the measurement of triangles trigonometric |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | ADORABLE ANDORRA $1000: Britannica dates the end of this European "system" to the 12th c. but in Andorra to 1993 & a new constitution the feudal system |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $1600: This system of wedge-shaped writing originated in Sumer around 3000 B.C. cuneiform |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) I'm with one of the earliest locomotives of the U.S. railroad system--it looks like it could still run, doesn't it?--& it actually did in 1981 as it celebrated its 150th birthday; it was built in England, & it is named for this symbolic Englishman John Bull |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $2000: A system that reflects on a large scale the structure of a smaller system a macrocosm |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $1000: Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system borax |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $600: Reasons for having one of these: the baby's too big: it's in distress; it's not in a head-down position a C-section |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | LEFTOVERS $600: In 63 B.C. Tiro invented a system of this to record Cicero's speeches shorthand |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | WE ALL MAKE CHOICES IN LIFE $200: The math section of the S.A.T. a) is 70 minutes long; b) covers algebra; c) is mainly multiple choice; d) all of the above d) all of the above |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | ENGINEERING $1600: The first section of this waterway was dug around 400 B.C.; Kublai Khan added a link to Beijing in the 1200s the Grand Canal |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | RETRONYMS $1600: No C-section? Little or no drugs? Then the childbirth was this, aptly from the Latin for "birth" natural |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | ZOMBIELAND $400: & they thought alligators were bad! In 1984's "C.H.U.D." zombies haunt this city's sewer system New York |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ISSUE NO. 1 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) The Newseum has issue 1 of "The North Star", named for what slaves followed to freedom; in one article, this man said he'd been "shrouded in the midnight ignorance of that infernal system of slavery" Frederick Douglass |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1000: The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system cuneiform |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $400: Son of Philip II of Macedonia who became the world's largest coral system Alexander the Great Barrier Reef |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the USS John C. Stennis in San Diego, CA.) Cables stop 150-mile-per-hour aircraft in a 400-foot stretch with this system that transfers force using fluid--same principle as the brakes of your Pontiac hydraulics |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "C"-SECTION $400: It can precede break, maker & klatsch coffee |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "C"-SECTION $800: This bovine is also a verb that means to threaten, intimidate or bully a cow |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "C"-SECTION $1200: A scientific device of these devices, like Casio's FX-300MS, is helpful with logarithms & trigonometry a calculator |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "C"-SECTION $1600: This viral inflammation of the larynx & trachea is common in kids, especially from 6 months to 3 years croup |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "C"-SECTION $2000: This type of pony got its name from a Native American tribe of Oregon Cayuse |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew wears a body suit with position markers at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, CA.) C-3PO's moves are based on mine, because we're using IMOCAP, a groundbreaking system in which MOCAP is short for this motion capture |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $1600: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | THE EPA P3 EXPO $1200: (Jimmy reporting from the EPA P3 Expo in Washington, D.C.) A team from the University of New Hampshire is using camel power & a rope & washer system to replace gas power with green technology in the drip type of this in the fields of Niger, one of the world's poorest countries irrigation |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | BIRTH & DEATH $400: A cuneiform tablet dating to 2000 B.C. is the first known reference to this type of birth associated with a Roman leader a Caesarian section |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | THE REAL ESTATE SECTION $200: D.C.-you there!
132 rooms on 18 acres.
Boasts 140-guest dining room. Its main office is 1 of a kind! the White House |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | NAME THAT TUNE $800: C.W. McCall:
"We's headin' for bear on eye-one-oh, 'bout a mile outta Shakeytown, I says 'Pigpen, this here's Rubber Duck'" "Convoy" |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | SCIENCE $400: The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planet's ring system Saturn |
| #4669, aired 2004-12-16 | WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT? $200: In 1888 Nikola Tesla came up with the first practical system for generating & transmitting this type of current A.C. |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | U.S. "TOWN"S $1600: In 1950 Congress passed legislation to preserve the Heights area of this historic section of Washington, D.C. Georgetown |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $800: Of 2 areas of the Dewey 900s, E.C. Bentley wrote that this "is about maps, but biography is about chaps" geography |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | ENDLESS SUMER $800: Dating from around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians used this writing system seen here cuneiform |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | LETTER PERFECT $2000: Developed in the early 1970s, it's the main programming language of the Unix operating system C |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: (Cheryl gives the clue from Washington, D.C.) The Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., was named for this ruler in 1751 George II |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | DOC TALK $800: It's the C in a C-section Caesarean |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | "C"s $1000: That big division in Saturn's ring system? -- named for him Giovanni Cassini |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | SOMETHIN' TO "C" $600: The means of production are privately owned in this economic system Capitalism |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA $100: The USA's emergency 911 system was developed & first used in this "presidential" city Lincoln |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $500: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | PHYSICS 101 $800: In the 19th C. Rudolf Clausius coined this word for measuring increasing disorder in a system entropy |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | MY OH MAYAN $100: Correlating this system of measuring time to ours, the Mayan one starts in 3114 B.C. Calendar |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | CIVIL SERVICE $800: In this "system" rampant in the 19th C., election winners filled the government with their supporters "Spoils" system |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | ASTRONOMY $1000: At -235 degrees C. the surface of this planet's moon Triton is the coldest known place in the Solar System Neptune |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | AROUND THE LIBRARY $200: A widely used book classification system is named for this major Washington, D.C. library Library of Congress |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: The central character of the first section of this Arthur C. Clarke book is moon-watcher, a man-ape 2001 |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | "A" IN HISTORY $200: The initial section of this road, begun in 312 B.C., ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua the Appian Way |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | AGRICULTURE $800: In the 1700s C. Townshend discovered that turnips could be the 4th crop in a 4-field system of this crop rotation |
| #2265, aired 1994-06-10 | PREGNANCY $200: The C in C-section is short for this caesarean |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $800: The Old Stone House, thought to be the oldest surviving home in Washington, D.C., is located in this historic section Georgetown |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $200: Until the late 19th century about 75% of the women who had babies by this surgical procedure, died a C-section |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | ANCIENT GREEK SCIENCE $800: Around 280 B.C. Aristarchus figured this out about our solar system but people thought the idea stupid the planets revolve around the sun |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | MEDICINE $200: In the U.S. about 25% of all babies are delivered by this method, also called C-section a Cesarian section |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | USA $500: The State Department Building is in the section of Washington, D.C. known by this "misty" nickname Foggy Bottom |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | "C" IN MUSIC $400: He is the leader of the first violin section in an orchestra the concertmaster |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | "G"EOGRAPHY $200: Jack & Jackie Kennedy lived in this section of D.C. before moving into the White House Georgetown |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | "D.C." $800: A section of seats in an opera house, usually the tier above the orchestra the dress circle |
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