Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (285 results returned)

#21, aired 2023-11-29ALONG FOR THE RIDE $900: Based in Cairo, Anton's Egypt Tours provides visitors a chance to see the pyramids atop this desert mammal a camel
#8904, aired 2023-06-29PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $600: Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art holds Sultan Jaqmaq's gilded copy of this book, with explanations of the verses the Quran
#19, aired 2023-05-24IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $600: The Hanging Church & nearby Coptic Museum Cairo
#8860, aired 2023-04-28THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $1600: Around 970 Al-Azhar University was established in this North African capital as a center of Islamic learning Cairo
#8797, aired 2023-01-31SCI-FI & FANTASY $400: P. Djèlí Clark uses this subgenre named for Victorian-era technology for his "Dead Djinn" stories set in an alternate 1912 Cairo steampunk
#8779, aired 2023-01-05MODERN EGYPT $400: In 2022 this capital got its first walkway beside the Nile, along the route of the Corniche Highway Cairo
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1988 winner Naguib Mahfouz set many of his works like "Palace of Desire" in this North African capital Cairo
#8719, aired 2022-10-13WHERE ON EARTH? $400: The Coptic Museum & Tahrir Square: this city Cairo
#8683, aired 2022-07-13PRESIDENTIAL GLOBETROTTING $2000: Barack Obama's journey to Egypt in 2009 featured an address at Cairo University & a meeting with this president Mubarak
#8682, aired 2022-07-12THE ALEXANDER FILES $400: Coptic Orthodox Pope & Saint Alexander was appropriately patriarch of this coastal city in the 4th century A.D. Alexandria
#8636, aired 2022-05-09INTERNATIONAL RHYME TIME $400: Surrounded by a river, Gezira in Cairo a Nile isle
#8624, aired 2022-04-21WORLD CAPITALS $400: Its thriving movie industry was once dubbed "Hollywood on the Nile" Cairo
#8608, aired 2022-03-30JOIN THE CROWD $1000: The funeral of this charismatic leader in 1970 drew 5 million people to the streets of Cairo (Gamal Abdel) Nasser
#11, aired 2022-02-16AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: The Corniche is a long, glamorous seafront street in this city where Cleopatra lived & loved Alexandria
#8570, aired 2022-02-04DANCE PARTY $200: At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the "Street in Cairo" exhibit helped introduce this exotic dancing to America belly dancing
#8544, aired 2021-12-30MOVIE LANDMARKS $400: Central to "Stargate" are the pyramids of Giza just outside this world capital Cairo
#8379, aired 2021-04-15CAPITAL "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): This capital lies on the banks of the world's longest river Cairo
#8336, aired 2021-02-151821 $1200: A Frenchman in Cairo discovered some neglected plants, leading to the Egyptian type of this fabric cotton
#8257, aired 2020-10-13A BUNCH OF SQUARES $2000: The name of this Cairo square at the center of Arab Spring protests means "liberation" in Arabic Tahrir Square
#8165, aired 2020-02-21YOU KILLED ME! $1600: In 1981 religious extremists within his own military assassinated this leader in Cairo Anwar Sadat
#8112, aired 2019-12-10WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1000: The Coptic Museum Cairo
#8033, aired 2019-07-10ANCIENT EGYPT $1200: Before the one in Tennessee, there was this capital of ancient Egypt south of modern Cairo Memphis
#8018, aired 2019-06-19BIG RIVERS $1600: Capital cities on the banks of the Nile River include Cairo & this capital of Sudan Khartoum
#7911, aired 2019-01-21TEDDY ROOSEVELT, MEET JACKIE ROBINSON $200: In Jan. 1919 TR died & Jack Roosevelt Robinson was named for him in the town of Cairo, on this state's border with Fla. Georgia
#7910, aired 2019-01-18AFRICAN CAPITALS $200: Most locals call this capital on the east bank of the Nile "Masr" Cairo
#7852, aired 2018-10-30AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: This large north African capital city is known in Arabic as al-Qahirah, "the victorious" Cairo
#7750, aired 2018-04-27LANDMARKS OF AFRICA $800: This capital's mummy-rich antiquities museum dates back to 1902 Cairo
#7731, aired 2018-04-02OUR HISTORICAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT $5,400 (Daily Double): Cairo is in mourning, Oct. 6, 1981, with the news of this man's assassination earlier today Sadat
#7711, aired 2018-03-05AFRICAN CITIES $1200: Throngs of people were trying to get into Tahrir Square in this African capital in February 2011 Cairo
#7690, aired 2018-02-02WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $200: This city Down Under is the filling between Cairo & Capetown Canberra
#7639, aired 2017-11-23AFRICAN LITERATURE $1200: Naguib Mahfouz' novel "Midaq Alley" brings to life the bustling atmosphere of this largest north African city Cairo
#7636, aired 2017-11-20IN THE CITY $800: Gas mixture in Egypt's capital air (in Cairo)
#7595, aired 2017-09-22OMAR'S COMIN'! $800: This 1960s film legend died at age 83 in Cairo in 2015 Omar Sharif
#7583, aired 2017-07-26LUCKY 13th CENTURY $400: After the destruction of Baghdad in 1258, the Mamluks based their caliphate in this Egyptian city Cairo
#7542, aired 2017-05-30THE "I"s HAVE IT $1200: The first ship sunk by a remotely detonated explosive, the U.S.S. Cairo was this kind of vessel, named for its armor an ironclad
#7536, aired 2017-05-22WORLD TOUR $400: The 4,500-year-old pyramids of Giza are today just 10 minutes from the center of this capital Cairo
#7452, aired 2017-01-24IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $600: Tahrir Square, the HQ of the Arab League Cairo
#7441, aired 2017-01-09"G" CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The main campus of Cairo University is located in this suburb Giza
#7437, aired 2017-01-03CAPITAL CITY HOTELS $400: Isis Hotel, Ramses Hilton Cairo
#7418, aired 2016-12-07THE GREAT LOOP $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) On the western portion of the trip, loopers cruise several stately rivers including the Mississippi, the Tennessee & this one between Cairo & Paducah the Ohio
#7406, aired 2016-11-21GEOGRAPHY $400: This Egyptian capital is fan-shaped, fading off into the delta to the north Cairo
#7388, aired 2016-10-26"C"ITIES $400: In North Africa, it's Arabic for "the victorious" Cairo
#7344, aired 2016-07-14"O" $1600: The Siwa one southwest of Cairo has about 200 natural springs an oasis
#7326, aired 2016-06-20IN THE ____ OF BATTLE $400: Named for some big old structures nearby, the 1798 fight in which the French took Cairo: Battle of the ____ Pyramids
#7291, aired 2016-05-02AFRICANA $2000: If you visit this capital to see the Mahdi's tomb, know there's no Mahdi; Gen. Kitchener tossed his bones into the Nile Khartoum
#7274, aired 2016-04-07CAIRO $200: Cairo is at the bottom of the fan formed by this delta the Nile
#7274, aired 2016-04-07CAIRO $400: It's the simple, to-the-point name of a much visited attraction, one of whose galleries is seen here the Egyptian Museum
#7274, aired 2016-04-07CAIRO $600: The Cairo Metro opened in 1987 under this Egyptian leader whose name was taken off a station in 2011 (Hosni) Mubarak
#7274, aired 2016-04-07CAIRO $800: The Bazaar shop of Mahmoud Abd al Ghaffar is devoted to costumes for this sensual art dating back centuries belly dancing
#7274, aired 2016-04-07CAIRO $1000: Cairo was made a capital in 972-973 by al-Mu'izz, one of these Islamic leaders who claim succession from Muhammad a caliph
#7239, aired 2016-02-18MUSEUMS $400: The Egyptian museum in Cairo has mummies, sarcophagi &, of course, the solid gold funeral mask of this boy king Tutankhamun
#7144, aired 2015-10-08WHOSE LIFE IS IT? $800: Born Egypt, 1918, camped out for peace & a 1978 Nobel Prize, assassinated Cairo, 1981 (Anwar) Sadat
#7102, aired 2015-06-30WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: Under the 6th October Bridge in Cairo the Nile
#7041, aired 2015-04-06AROUND THE WORLD $600: This northern city is the most populous capital in Africa Cairo
#6970, aired 2014-12-26CITY-TITLED MOVIES $1600: Jeff Daniels as actor Tom Baxter steps out of a movie screen & into the life of a waitress in this Woody Allen film The Purple Rose of Cairo
#6869, aired 2014-06-26CAIRO $200: A centuries-old column on Roda Island in Cairo measured the height of this river's annual floods the Nile
#6869, aired 2014-06-26CAIRO $400: Daily, an estimated 3 million Cairo commuters use the Metro, Africa's first one of these transportation systems a subway
#6869, aired 2014-06-26CAIRO $600: Tahrir is the title Cairo place in this Oscar-nominated documentary about the recent upheavals in Egypt The Square
#6869, aired 2014-06-26CAIRO $800: At a research institute in Giza, tourists can learn how the ancient Egyptians made paper from this plant papyrus
#6869, aired 2014-06-26CAIRO $2,000 (Daily Double): The Citadel, one of Cairo's top landmarks, is a 12th century fortress built by this Muslim warrior Saladin (Salah al-Din)
#6807, aired 2014-04-01WORLD NEWSPAPERS $800: Al-Ahram, which features the pyramids on its masthead, is headquartered in this capital Cairo
#6771, aired 2014-02-10ANCIENT HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): In 439 A.D. Genseric the Vandal captured this North African city, which became the Vandal capital Carthage
#6757, aired 2014-01-21"C" THE WORLD $600: In these maps from 1965 & 1998, you can see the urban growth of this African city on a river Cairo
#6739, aired 2013-12-26LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI $200: The Ohio River joins with the Mississippi River at this city that's in southern Illinois, not Egypt Cairo
#6619, aired 2013-05-30IN THE CAPITAL CITY $200: Oct. 6, 1981: Anwar Sadat is assassinated Cairo
#6613, aired 2013-05-22AFRICA $400: Built around 1855, the first railroad in Africa linked Alexandria to this capital 100 miles away Cairo
#6600, aired 2013-05-03SEEKING ASYLUM $400: Iranian-Egyptian relations were frosted over by Cairo's grant of asylum to this man in 1979 the shah
#6566, aired 2013-03-18AFRICAN CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Located about 1,000 miles south of Cairo, it rose on the site of an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum
#6515, aired 2013-01-04AFRICAN CITIES $200: Several bridges, including El Tahrir, cross the Nile in this capital Cairo
#6500, aired 2012-12-14COLORFUL MOVIES $400: Set in the 1930s: "The ____ Rose of Cairo" Purple
#6385, aired 2012-05-25HISTORY $400: Napoleon & his troops captured Cairo in the 1798 battle of these landmarks the Pyramids
#6339, aired 2012-03-22TAKE ME TO THE NEAREST U.S. EMBASSY $1,200 (Daily Double): I'm in Port Said Cairo
#6270, aired 2011-12-16HISTORIC LEADERS' LETTERS TO SANTA $2000: "I built the temples of Abu Simbel, but what I'd like is to outlive my first dozen heirs & be preserved in a Cairo museum" Ramses
#6262, aired 2011-12-06NUMERIC PLACES $800: A Feb. 3, 2011 tweet said that a pro-democracy crowd had taken over the 6th of October Bridge in this capital Cairo
#6192, aired 2011-07-12WORLD HISTORY $600: This Cairo square was the heart of the 18 days of protest that toppled Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011 Tahrir Square
#6174, aired 2011-06-16CAPITAL RIVERS $400: Cairo the Nile
#6142, aired 2011-05-03HERE LIES... $2000: Anwar Sadat Cairo
#6110, aired 2011-03-18WHICH DIRECTION ARE YOU HEADED? $600: From Cairo to Ankara north
#6097, aired 2011-03-01WORLD CAPITALS $400: This African capital's environs include Gezira & Roda, 2 islands in the Nile Cairo
#5959, aired 2010-07-08WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Sphinx stands less than 10 miles from the center of this capital Cairo
#5937, aired 2010-06-08WOODY ALLEN MOVIE SYNOPSES $6,000 (Daily Double): Abused wife seeks refuge in movie theater, falls for the fictional leading man The Purple Rose of Cairo
#5772, aired 2009-10-20NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1988 Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz is best known for tales of this African capital Cairo
#5718, aired 2009-06-17INTO AFRICA $600: It's the North African capital considered the center of Coptic Christianity Cairo
#5692, aired 2009-05-12KICKIN' IT OLD SCHOOL $600: Cairo's Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 around this type of religious building mosque
#5567, aired 2008-11-18CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: First performed in Cairo, this Verdi opera was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt Aida
#5552, aired 2008-10-28WORLD CAPITAL HISTORY $800: This North African city was once a Roman fortress named Babylon; the Mamelukes made it an African capital Cairo
#5543, aired 2008-10-15AT THE MOVIES $1000: This actor played movie character Tom Baxter, who steps out of the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo" Jeff Daniels
#5523, aired 2008-09-17THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY $200: Cairo, Kampala, Cape Town Cairo
#5482, aired 2008-06-10A WORLD OF CURRENCY $600: To buy 16 ounces of cookies in Cairo, you'll need the Egyptian this pound
#5481, aired 2008-06-09MUSEUMS $1200: In 1902 the Egyptian Museum moved from this "pyramid" city to nearby Cairo Giza
#5417, aired 2008-03-11UNFINISHED OPERAS $800: Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city Cairo
#5367, aired 2008-01-01EGYPT $400: After the Sack of Baghdad in 1258 by the Mongols, a new line of Abbasid caliphs was formed in this Egyptian city Cairo
#5330, aired 2007-11-09FLOW-ERS $400: The volume of the Mississippi is doubled when this "stately" river flows into it at Cairo, Illinois the Ohio
#5301, aired 2007-10-01OCTOBER 1 $2000: 1970: 5 million people turn out in Cairo for his funeral Nasser
#5288, aired 2007-09-121977 $400: Egypt was planning a new town to be built near Cairo to be called the Tenth of this holy month Ramadan
#5271, aired 2007-07-09BORN TO BE KING $2000: Cairo, Egypt 1920 Farouk
#5261, aired 2007-06-25MEN O' WAR $2000: A suite at Cairo's Mena House Hotel is named for this British general in WWII Africa Montgomery (of Alamein)
#5246, aired 2007-06-04AN ECUMENICAL CATEGORY $1200: Cairo's "hanging church" is the site of services for this ancient group of Christians the Coptics
#5246, aired 2007-06-04THE SULTANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Tourist sites in this Mideast capital include Ramses Square & the Mosque of Sultan Hassan Cairo
#5195, aired 2007-03-23AFRICAN CITIES $200: In ancient times Giza, a suburb of this city, served as a large cemetery, or necropolis Cairo
#5176, aired 2007-02-26OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): The Franco-Prussian war delayed this Verdi opera's premiere: scenery couldn't leave besieged Paris for Cairo Aida
#5101, aired 2006-11-13WORLD CAPITALS $800 (Daily Double): The Sphinx lies just a few miles southwest of this capital Cairo
#5078, aired 2006-10-11EGYPTIAN HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks among some desert ruins.) While walking in this ancient Egyptian capital, you'll see Saqqara, which was its principal burial area Memphis
#5069, aired 2006-09-28WE NEED THE MONEY $1200: When shopping in Cairo, it's important to know that 100 piastres make up this unit of Egyptian currency the Egyptian pound
#5062, aired 2006-09-19MOVIE LOCATIONS $1000: 1985: Jeff Daniels steps out of "The Purple Rose of ___" Cairo
#5051, aired 2006-07-24CAPITALISM $400: Population 8 million, this capital & largest city in Africa was founded by the Fatimid Dynasty around 968 A.D. Cairo
#5028, aired 2006-06-21WHERE AM I? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks through a city park.) I’m on Tahrir or Liberation Square in this vast & ancient capital city Cairo
#5012, aired 2006-05-30MEMORABLE ROLES $2000: 1941: Joel Cairo & 1942: Ugarte Peter Lorre
#5005, aired 2006-05-19AFRICAN CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): They are the two capitals located on the banks of the Nile Cairo & Khartoum
#4965, aired 2006-03-24THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY $400: Cairo, Copenhagen, Canberra Copenhagen
#4942, aired 2006-02-21INTERNATIONAL THRILLER $800: NILE VALLEY, EGYPT 0915 HOURS (Agent Jimmy of the JCC checks in via camel phone.) I've been set up--Ahmad said he'd bring the package & meet me in this suburb of Cairo, but he never showed Giza
#4938, aired 2006-02-15THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a mummy display in Cairo, Egypt.) Considered the seat of thought & emotion, often, this organ was left inside the body cavity of Egyptian mummies the heart
#4928, aired 2006-02-01EGYPTIAN CINEMA $800: Indy seeks to solve a biblical mystery in this 1981 film that features a quest from Nepal to Cairo Raiders of the Lost Ark
#4913, aired 2006-01-11THE COLOR PURPLE $1200: A character steps out of a movie screen & into the lives of others in this Woody Allen comedy The Purple Rose of Cairo
#4889, aired 2005-12-08STREET SMARTS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a street in Cairo, Egypt.) Cairo's main thoroughfare, it would be the perfect street on which to drive a Rolls-Royce convertible the Corniche
#4852, aired 2005-10-18ANNUAL EVENTS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds up a lantern.) Lanterns are popular in Cairo's bazaar right now, as they're a symbol of this holy month of daylight fasting Ramadan
#4828, aired 2005-09-14ALSO A BATMAN VILLAIN $2000: His mask is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo King Tut
#4821, aired 2005-07-18LONG A-GO $400: During the Civil War he had headquarters in Cairo, Illinois & people from the area gave him a horse named Egypt (Ulysses S.) Grant
#4808, aired 2005-06-29MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) Ironically, this organ was considered of minor importance, crudely removed through the nose & often not preserved the brain
#4808, aired 2005-06-29MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) Among the many amulets placed within the linen wrappings of a mummy was this symbol of life an ankh
#4808, aired 2005-06-29MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) These stone coffins, like the ones built for Tutankhamen, were the final resting places of mummies sarcophagi
#4808, aired 2005-06-29MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) Named for a lesser-known Greek hero, these containers were used to store the removed viscera of the mummified canopic jars
#4785, aired 2005-05-27A VISIT TO ANCIENT EGYPT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from an exhibit in Cairo.) This mask is from Tut's tomb, which this British archaeologist found in 1922, saying everywhere the glint of gold (Howard) Carter
#4778, aired 2005-05-18CHEMISTRY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from beside a mummy from Cairo, Egypt.) To remove all the moisture from a body, natron, a variety of this, was applied both inside & outside the corpse salt
#4769, aired 2005-05-05WHAT THE "H" IS IT? $400: One popular activity in Cairo cafes is smoking using this device a hookah
#4756, aired 2005-04-18EGYPTIAN LIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) As in many Arab countries a standard greeting is "salam alekum" which literally wishes this to the other person peace
#4756, aired 2005-04-18EGYPTIAN LIFE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) I'm in Cairo's Khan El-khalili Bazaar, known here by this one-syllable Arabic name for a main market suq
#4756, aired 2005-04-18EGYPTIAN LIFE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a bookstore in Cairo, Egypt.) Browsing Cairo's many bookstores, you'll inevitably come across works by this author, the 1988 Nobel Prize winner (Naguib) Mahfouz
#4738, aired 2005-03-23THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY $400: Khartoum, Cairo, Kinshasa Cairo
#4735, aired 2005-03-18THAT'S ILLINOIS-ING $1200: Illinois' southernmost city, it shares its name with Africa's largest city (pronounced differently) Cairo
#4722, aired 2005-03-01EGYPTIAN RELIGION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) Priests overseeing the mummification ritual process often wore masks depicting this Egyptian god of embalming Anubis
#4714, aired 2005-02-17OPERA $1200: This Verdi opera was first performed on Dec. 24, 1871, in Cairo Aida
#4694, aired 2005-01-20CITY $1000: This suburb of Cairo is the third-largest city in Egypt Giza
#4612, aired 2004-09-28BAHRAIN $1000: In 1971 Bahrain joined this regional organization that was formed in Cairo in 1945 the Arab League
#4585, aired 2004-07-09WORLD MUSEUMS $600: This museum founded back in 1835 contains the gold coffin of Tutankhamen the Egyptian Museum
#4554, aired 2004-05-27WORLD CITIES $400: Egypt's most populous city, it lies near the head of the Nile delta Cairo
#4531, aired 2004-04-26CAPITAL CITY MUSEUMS $2000: The Coptic Museum Cairo
#4479, aired 2004-02-12WORLD CAPITALS $400: The mask seen here is in a museum in this capital Cairo
#4442, aired 2003-12-23CASINO ROYALE $600: Mummy & daddy might enjoy the casino hotels in this city, including the Ramses Hilton & the Nile Hilton Cairo
#4434, aired 2003-12-11READING PEOPLE'S MAIL $1,000 (Daily Double): His "Selected Letters" include missives from Damascus, Cairo, Aqaba, Jidda & Oxford Lawrence (of Arabia)
#4410, aired 2003-11-07PORTS ILLUSTRATED $1000: Gaze upon the blue, blue Mediterranean Sea in this Egyptian port city at the entrance to the Suez Canal Port Said
#4300, aired 2003-04-18SHADES OF GREEN $1600: The river that flows through Cairo Nile
#4289, aired 2003-04-03FOREIGN FOLKS $800: This world leader who worked toward peace in the Middle East was assassinated in Cairo in 1981 Anwar Sadat
#4267, aired 2003-03-04CAPITAL CITY HOTELS $600: The El Gezirah Sheraton, the Ramses Hilton Cairo
#4207, aired 2002-12-10OF THE NILE $100 (Daily Double): The Nile runs through Cairo & this other national capital city Khartoum, Sudan
#4168, aired 2002-10-16THE ROSES $1000: In this film, Woody Allen is a manager to blind xylophonists, piano-playing birds & has-been crooners Broadway Danny Rose
#4151, aired 2002-09-23CITY WALK $800: The 1,000-year-old Al-Azhar University in this Middle East capital is an important center of Islamic learning Cairo, Egypt
#4067, aired 2002-04-16CIVIL WAR STUFF $800: The USS Cairo was the first iron warship; it was completed before this Merrimack opponent the Monitor
#4032, aired 2002-02-26ALL ABOUT AFRICA $400: In 1996 this South African city's airport, code JNB, surpassed Cairo's as the busiest in Africa Johannesburg
#4021, aired 2002-02-11WORLD CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): The Arab League has its headquarters in this capital, Africa's largest city Cairo
#3923, aired 2001-09-26WORLD CAPITALS $400: Extending from north to south on the east bank of the Nile, this capital's main thoroughfare is Al Kurnish Cairo
#3886, aired 2001-06-25THE SOUTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY $300: Khartoum, Tripoli, Cairo Khartoum
#3863, aired 2001-05-23EGYPT BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS $200: This teeming capital of today is found very near the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis Cairo
#3856, aired 2001-05-14YASIR $100: Some say Arafat was born in Jerusalem in 1929; others, in Gaza; still others, in this capital of Egypt Cairo
#3854, aired 2001-05-10WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Lying on the east bank of the Nile, Tahrir Square is the center of this capital's downtown Cairo
#3850, aired 2001-05-04U.S. RIVERS $1,500 (Daily Double): It flows from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, where it empties into the Mississippi River the Ohio River
#3817, aired 2001-03-20A WORDLY CATEGORY $100: At about 7 million, this Iranian city is the Middle East's second most populous, after Cairo Tehran
#3774, aired 2001-01-18WHERE FOR ART $600: It claims on its website to have "The Largest Collection of Ancient Egyptian Material Outside Cairo" The British Museum
#3754, aired 2000-12-21GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING $1000: February 11, 1920 Cairo King Farouk
#3713, aired 2000-10-25MUSEUMS $200: In 1903 the Museum of Islamic Art was created from museum displays in this Egyptian city Cairo
#3706, aired 2000-10-16CAPITAL TOURISM $100: On a clear day you can see the pyramids from the Ramses Hilton in this city Cairo
#3693, aired 2000-09-27GERMAN CINEMA $400 (Daily Double): He acted in 9 German films before playing Ugarte in "Casablanca" & Mr. Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon" Peter Lorre
#3685, aired 2000-09-15CITIES $100: This city is so big, it covers parts of 3 of Egypt's adminstrative governorates Cairo
#3672, aired 2000-07-18BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $800: If he had lived there back in 1000 B.C., Robin Hood might have been "Prince of" this chief city of upper Egypt Thebes
#3653, aired 2000-06-21THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY $300: Cairo, Damascus, Amman Damascus
#3631, aired 2000-05-22THE MEDIEVAL DAILY NEWS $300: Education, 972: The new Azhor Mosque in this Egyptian city includes a university Cairo
#3622, aired 2000-05-09AIRPORT CODES $200: In Africa: CAI Cairo
#3560, aired 2000-02-11LITERARY TRILOGIES $400: "Palace of Desire" is the second novel in Naguib Mahfouz' trilogy about an Egyptian family in this capital city Cairo
#3547, aired 2000-01-25HOTELS $100: Le Champollion is the gourmet restaurant of this city's Le Meridien Hotel, on an island in the Nile Cairo
#3547, aired 2000-01-25WORLD CITIES $800: This Cairo suburb, near the Pyramids, is home to most of Egypt's motion picture industry Giza
#3539, aired 2000-01-13OPERA $200: Its 1871 premiere in Cairo was delayed due to the Franco-Prussian War "Aida"
#3527, aired 1999-12-28AFRICAN CAPITALS $100: 1 of 2 African capitals through which the Nile River flows Cairo or Khartoum
#3525, aired 1999-12-24DECEMBER 24 $600: Opera debuts on Christmas Eve include "Aida" in 1871 in Cairo & this Menotti opera in 1951 on TV "Amahl and the Night Visitors"
#3508, aired 1999-12-01MUSEUMS $200: In 1902 the Egyptian Museum moved from this "pyramid" city to nearby Cairo Giza
#3493, aired 1999-11-10UNDER THE "C" $200: This world capital's name is from the Arabic Al Qahira, "The Victorious" Cairo
#3461, aired 1999-09-27AFRICAN ISLANDS $400: Parts of this capital city lie on the islands of Gezira & Roda in the Nile River Cairo
#3457, aired 1999-09-21FOREIGN FUNDS $200: To buy 16 ounces of cookies in Cairo, you'll need the Egyptian this Pound
#3401, aired 1999-05-24MODERN AFRICAN WOMEN $400: This former first lady of Egypt earned her doctorate in English literature from Cairo University in 1986 Jehan Sadat
#3379, aired 1999-04-22WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE $600: It's the Cairo suburb where you'll find the landmark seen here (Great Pyramid) Giza
#3367, aired 1999-04-06ME, A PHARAOH $800: 2-word name for the site south of Cairo where Ramses II built 2 sandstone temples Abu Simbel
#3345, aired 1999-03-05LAKES & RIVERS $200: Regular steamship service is available on this river from Cairo to Aswan Nile
#3270, aired 1998-11-20MUMMY DEAREST $500: In 1994 the Royal Mummy Room in this city's Egyptian Museum was reopened after 13 years Cairo
#3214, aired 1998-07-165-LETTER CAPITALS $200: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a & El Giza Cairo
#3209, aired 1998-07-09STUDYING ABROAD $300: Learn all about Islam at Al-Azhar University in this Egyptian city Cairo
#3114, aired 1998-02-26WORLD POTPOURRI $800: There's a branch of the University of Cairo in this capital of Sudan Khartoum
#3095, aired 1998-01-30"C" THE U.S.A. $300: Alexander once ruled Egypt, so it's appropriate that this Illinois city is in Alexander county Cairo
#3065, aired 1997-12-19ANCIENT EGYPT $1000: Ancient Egypt's capital for centuries, its ruins supplied the stones used to build Cairo Memphis
#3049, aired 1997-11-27PILGRIMS $100: Thousands of pilgrims gather annually in Cairo & Damascus to join caravans to make the hajj to this holy city Mecca
#3037, aired 1997-11-11NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $300: This American city, not Egypt, is home to the world's fourth-largest pyramid, seen here: Las Vegas
#3003, aired 1997-09-24IRAQNOPHOBIA $100: This Iraqi president attended Cairo Law School in 1962 & 1963 while in exile Saddam Hussein
#2953, aired 1997-06-04WORLD "C"ITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): The Coptic Museum in this city is noted for its collection of ancient Coptic textiles Cairo
#2942, aired 1997-05-20FAMOUS PROFESSORS $800: This former U.N. Secretary General taught international law at Cairo University from 1949 to 1977 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#2930, aired 1997-05-02GEOGRAPHY $400: Famous for its pyramids, Giza is a suburb of this city Cairo
#2890, aired 1997-03-071997 ANNIVERSARIES $100: 1997 is the tenth anniversary of the opening of this Egyptian capital's subway Cairo
#2874, aired 1997-02-13WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this largest African city is Arabic for "The Victorious" Cairo
#2850, aired 1997-01-10WORLD TRAVEL $200: Among the hotels with casinos in this city are Shepheard's, the Ramses Hilton & the Nile Hilton Cairo
#2803, aired 1996-11-06WORLD CITIES $100: Residents of this African city are called Cairenes Cairo
#2774, aired 1996-09-26AUTHORS $200: Naguib Mahfouz' "Al-Thulathiyya" trilogy depicts the lives of 3 generations in this Egyptian capital Cairo
#2745, aired 1996-07-05CATHEDRALS & CHURCHES $200: The Abu Sarga church in this Egyptian capital occupies a site where the Holy Family is said to have stayed Cairo
#2739, aired 1996-06-27LIGHTHOUSES $500: An isthmus called the Heptastadium connected this island & its lighthouse with the city of Alexandria Pharos
#2715, aired 1996-05-24HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: In 1945, 7 Mideast countries signed a charter forming this organization headquartered in Cairo the Arab League
#2690, aired 1996-04-19WORLD "C"ITIES $200: The Nilometer on Rawdah Island in this city was built to measure the height of the Nile's floods Cairo
#2681, aired 1996-04-08MAN-MADE LAKES $1,500 (Daily Double): About 10% of this 350-mile-long lake evaporates, reducing the amount of Nile water downstream Lake Nasser
#2674, aired 1996-03-28ANCIENT EGYPT $500: The pyramid of Menkaure was the last of the major 3 built at this site southwest of modern Cairo Giza
#2664, aired 1996-03-14WORLD CITIES $200: This capital's elegant Corniche Highway runs along the eastern bank of the Nile Cairo
#2649, aired 1996-02-22BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1992 this Pittsburgh pickle maker established a factory in Cairo, Egypt Heinz
#2635, aired 1996-02-021950 $200: Ain Shams University was founded in this Egyptian capital Cairo
#2622, aired 1996-01-16WORLD HISTORY $200: In 969 the Fatimids conquered Egypt & made this city a center of the Muslim world Cairo
#2595, aired 1995-12-08ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Luxor is the modern town on the site of this ancient Egyptian capital Thebes
#2556, aired 1995-10-16WORLD CAPITALS $400: Tourist sites in this capital include Phmses Square & the Mosque of Sultan Hassan Cairo
#2547, aired 1995-10-03WORLD HISTORY $300: This Egyptian president graduated from the military academy at Cairo in 1938 Nasser
#2541, aired 1995-09-25WORLD CITIES $100: This Egyptian city is the most populous in Africa & the Middle East Cairo
#2538, aired 1995-09-20WORLD CAPITALS $100: A new opera house opened in this Egyptian capital in 1988 Cairo
#2520, aired 1995-07-14COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $100: Al-Azhar University in this Egyptian capital was established around the Al-Azhar Mosque Cairo
#2514, aired 1995-07-06WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1943 this Chinese leader met with FDR & Winston Churchill at the Cairo conference Chiang Kai-shek
#2459, aired 1995-04-2020th CENTURY OPERAS $600: "Marouf, cobbler of Cairo" is based on a story in this collection of old tales the Arabian Nights
#2400, aired 1995-01-27WORLD CITIES $400: Al-Qahirah, meaning "The Victorious", is the Arabic name for this Egyptian city Cairo
#2396, aired 1995-01-23WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1959 he fled to Cairo after trying unsuccessfully to oust Iraqi dictator General Abdul Karim Kassem (Saddam) Hussein
#2335, aired 1994-10-28EGYPT $200: Cairo gets only about 1 inch of this per year; the south gets even less rain
#2307, aired 1994-09-20THE MIDDLE AGES $600: Established in 640, this city at the south end of the Nile delta was first called Al-Fustat Cairo
#2280, aired 1994-07-01WORLD CITIES $400: When Napoleon seized it in 1798, this Egyptian city had been under the control of the Turks for 281 years Cairo
#2265, aired 1994-06-10THE WORLD PRESS $800: Al-Ahram, published in this city, is the dominant newspaper in the Arab world Cairo
#2215, aired 1994-04-01COMPOSERS $200: He did not attend the 1871 premiere of his opera "Aida" in Cairo Verdi
#2212, aired 1994-03-29AROUND THE WORLD $100: The Golden Pyramid is the top prize at this Egyptian capital's International Film Festival Cairo
#2201, aired 1994-03-14HISTORIC NAMES $800: The mummy of this king thought to be the pharaoh of Exodus can be seen in Cairo Ramses (II) (the Great)
#2154, aired 1994-01-06PEOPLE MOVERS $200: In 1987 this Egyptian capital began operating Africa's first subway Cairo
#2106, aired 1993-11-01HISTORIC NAMES $500: This king was born in Cairo on February 11, 1920 Farouk
#2101, aired 1993-10-25U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This river originates in Pittsburgh & flows into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois the Ohio
#2099, aired 1993-10-21WORLD CITIES $100: Suburbs of this African city include Heliopolis, Nasr City & Giza Cairo
#2091, aired 1993-10-11CHINESE HISTORY $1000: The 1943 Cairo Conference was the only time this Chinese leader met with Churchill & FDR Chiang Kai-shek
#2077, aired 1993-09-21THE 10th CENTURY $200: Al-Azhar University was founded in this Egyptian capital in 972 Cairo
#2046, aired 1993-06-28WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Tha main part of Cairo lies on 2 islands & the East Bank of this river the Nile
#2016, aired 1993-05-17WORLD "C"ITIES $200: You can visit the statue of Ramses II in Ramses Square in the northern part of this city Cairo
#1959, aired 1993-02-25WORLD CAPITALS $200: A major thoroughfare in this Egyptian capital is The Corniche, which runs along the Nile Cairo
#1945, aired 1993-02-051992 $200: In July this new Israeli prime minister went to Cairo to meet President Mubarak Yitzhak Rabin
#1915, aired 1992-12-25CAIRO $200: In 1987 the Cairo Metro opened, the first of these transportation systems in Africa a subway
#1915, aired 1992-12-25CAIRO $400: The Egyptian Museum features treasures recovered in the 1920s from his tomb, including his gold mask King Tut
#1915, aired 1992-12-25CAIRO $600: This suburb of Cairo is the home of Cairo University, the Botanical Gardens of Orman & the Sphinx Giza
#1915, aired 1992-12-25CAIRO $800: Cairo was built about 15 miles north of this first ancient Egyptian capital Memphis
#1915, aired 1992-12-25CAIRO $1000: An impressive Cairo landmark is the Citadel, a fortress built in the 1170s by this Muslim warrior Saladin
#1911, aired 1992-12-21THE COPTS $100: The head of the Coptic Church resides in this Egyptian capital city Cairo
#1908, aired 1992-12-16OPERA $800: This genius of Salzburg never finished his comic opera "The Goose of Cairo" (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart
#1907, aired 1992-12-15PEOPLE & PLACES $800: This league's headquarters is in Dahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt the Arab League
#1897, aired 1992-12-01THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER $600: This river joins the Mississippi south of Cairo Illinois, doubling the amount of freight traffic the Ohio River
#1894, aired 1992-11-26PEOPLE & PLACES $100: If you were born in this city, you're a Cairene Cairo, Egypt
#1877, aired 1992-11-03OPERA $200: On December 24, 1871 this opera premiered in Cairo, Egypt Aida
#1819, aired 1992-06-25ISLAM $2,400 (Daily Double): The most famous university in the Islamic world is al-Azhar in this capital Cairo
#1795, aired 1992-05-22WORLD CITIES $200: Major hotels in this city include Shepheard's & the Nile Hilton Cairo
#1786, aired 1992-05-11MUSEUMS $1000: There's a Coptic museum in Misr al-Qadimah, the old section of this capital city Cairo
#1683, aired 1991-12-18BODIES OF WATER $200: The Ohio joins it at Cairo, Illinois & doubles its water volume the Mississippi
#1632, aired 1991-10-08EGYPT $400: A suburb of Cairo, this city where the Great Pyramid is located, is Egypt's 3rd largest Giza
#1524, aired 1991-03-28LITERARY SETTINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy about this capital of his homeland has been called a "monumental masterwork" Cairo
#1523, aired 1991-03-27"C" IN GEOGRAPHY $500: The Ohio joins the Mississippi River at this southern Illinois city Cairo
#1474, aired 1991-01-17EGYPT $400: Established in 970, Cairo's Al-Azar is the chief Islamic one in the world University
#1458, aired 1990-12-26WORLD CAPITALS $100: The name of this Egyptian capital is Arabic, meaning "the victorious" Cairo
#1318, aired 1990-05-02RHYME TIME $200: What you could have filled at a pharmacy in Cairo an Egyptian prescription
#1301, aired 1990-04-09"C" CITIES $100: City on the banks of the Nile about 500 miles downriver from the Aswan High Dam Cairo
#1265, aired 1990-02-16WORLD LEADERS $1,200 (Daily Double): Anwar Sadat was assassinated in this city Cairo
#1220, aired 1989-12-15OPERA $400: This Verdi opera was commissioned by Ismail Pasha, khedive of Egypt, & premiered in Cairo in 1871 "Aida"
#1208, aired 1989-11-29TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: A hot spot in this suburb of Cairo is the Ramses night club on Pyramid road Giza
#1183, aired 1989-10-25WORLD CITIES $400: In 1979 the Arab League expelled Egypt & moved its headquarters from this city to Tunis Cairo
#1170, aired 1989-10-06MOVIES $200: Mia Farrow, Whoopi Goldberg & Prince have all starred in films with this color in the title Purple
#1167, aired 1989-10-03OPERA $400: "The Magic Flute" takes place in this ancient Egyptian city, not in Tennessee Memphis
#1102, aired 1989-05-23WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Ancient Egyptians never lived in this city near the Nile delta; Moslems founded it in 969 A.D. Cairo
#1057, aired 1989-03-21ANCIENT EGYPT $300: Menes, the 1st king of the 1st Dynasty, founded this capital city near present day Cairo Memphis
#1027, aired 1989-02-07WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: By the year 1340 this Egyptian capital had half a million people; more than any city in Europe Cairo
#1015, aired 1989-01-20EGYPT $1000: A popular way to see Cairo by night is to rent a felucca, which is this, & ask for one with a BBQ boat
#969, aired 1988-11-17LAKES & RIVERS $400: River that runs from Pittsburgh to Cairo--Illinois that is Ohio River
#958, aired 1988-11-02TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: Except when it's on tour, the most important King Tut collection is housed in this city Cairo
#894, aired 1988-06-23WORLD CITIES $200: Roda Island is 1 of 2 islands in the Nile that are part of this city Cairo
#887, aired 1988-06-14MUSEUMS $200: Ptolemy I was the daddy, not the mummy, of the famed museum & library in this city Alexandria
#863, aired 1988-05-11PEOPLE & PLACES $300: If you sang "Good Night, Cairene", you'd be addressing someone from this city Cairo
#746, aired 1987-11-30MOVIE TRIVIA $1000: In "The Purple Rose of Cairo", he played Tom Baxter, in "Radio Days", Biff Baxter Jeff Daniels
#693, aired 1987-09-16THIRD WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: The 2nd largest city in the Mideast, it's the capital of Iran Tehran
#642, aired 1987-05-26NORTH AFRICA $200: With nearly 6 million people, it's not only largest city in North Africa, but on the entire continent Cairo
#508, aired 1986-11-19EGYPT $500: Though founded in Cairo in 1945, in 1979 this organization suspended Egypt's membership the Arab League
#505, aired 1986-11-14WORLD HISTORY $400: About 1000 times as many people attended this man's 1970 Cairo funeral as attended his successor's Nasser
#355, aired 1986-01-17MOVIE TRIVIA $800 (Daily Double): 2 recent Woody Allen films with "Rose" in the title Broadway Danny Rose & The Purple Rose of Cairo
#336, aired 1985-12-23WORLD CAPITALS $300: The largest population center in the Mid-East, its Arabic name is "El Qahira", "The victorious" Cairo
#311, aired 1985-11-18"GUT"s $800: He, along with Joel Cairo & Brigid O'Shaughnessy, sought the Maltese Falcon Casper Gutman
#295, aired 1985-10-25WORLD POLITICS $200: Though, according to his family, born in Cairo in 1929, he now heads the PLO Yasser Arafat
#295, aired 1985-10-25FICTIONAL VILLAINS $400: Popular film & novel in which Kasper Gutman, Joel Cairo, & Brigid O'Shaughnessy appear The Maltese Falcon
#128, aired 1985-03-06WORLD CITIES $400: City that's home to Ramses II's mummy Cairo
#95, aired 1985-01-18WORLD CAPITALS $1000: The largest capital in the Sahara Desert Cairo
#35, aired 1984-10-26WORLD CAPITALS $200: Largest city in Africa & capital of Egypt Cairo

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#8707, aired 2022-09-27WORLD AIRPORTS: Africa's 2 busiest passenger airports are in these 2 countries; it's an 8-hour flight between them Egypt & South Africa
#6945, aired 2014-11-21SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre
#5954, aired 2010-07-01MONARCHS: Cairo's Al-Rifai mosque is the resting place of 2 Egyptian kings & of a 20th century ruler of this Mideast country Iran
#3879, aired 2001-06-14HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN: A Punch cartoon showed this man like an Ancient Wonder standing over Africa, one foot on the Cape, one on Cairo Cecil Rhodes
#1436, aired 1990-11-26WORLD GEOGRAPHY: In population, it's the largest city in Africa Cairo, Egypt

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