| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $800: In 1955 Texas judge Drummond W. Bartlett allowed this for the 1st time in a murder trial, & presumably combed his hair & adjusted his robe television cameras |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $400: Referring to a type of aperture in large-format view cameras, group f/64 was cofounded in 1932 by this man Ansel Adams |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $200: A 2012 pilot program by police in Rialto, California used BWCs, body-worn these cameras |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | HERE'S THE THING $1200: Here's a vintage one of these instant-print cameras whose pictures people really did shake Polaroid |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | LIGHTS! CAMERA! $1000: In this-less cameras like Sony's Alpha 7, light hits a sensor directly & the image in the viewfinder is truer to the photo a mirror |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $6,600 (Daily Double): This American is legendary for the black & white landscapes he captured with his cameras Ansel Adams |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "OO"DLES OF WORDS $400: Before digital cameras, a photographer needed one of these places to develop film a darkroom |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PHOTOGRAPHY $600: The button you press on most cameras to take the picture is called this "release" the shutter |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: Some smartphone cameras use wee gyroscopes for OIS, "optical image" this, for clear images even if the phone shakes stabilization |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $2000: John Quiñones asks this title question on ABC by taping staged hypothetical situations with hidden cameras "What would you do?" |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | CAMERAS $400: On cameras they were once zirconium bulbs, but now they are electronic the flash |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | CAMERAS $800: In 2008 this brand introduced a PoGo camera that partnered with Zink, zero ink printing technology Polaroid |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | CAMERAS $1200: The hover camera is one of these that weighs half a pound & takes continuous video of you, using facial recognition a drone |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | CAMERAS $1600: For centuries this "camera" was just a box with a pinhole, but in the early 1800s it began to record images the camera obscura |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | BACK IN BLACK $800: It took more than a "moment", but this Rochester, N.Y. company emerged from bankruptcy & still sells cameras Kodak |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | "OOP"s $400: A fly ball in baseball that just clears the infield, or a mistake in front of live TV cameras a blooper |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | PRIVATE $1600: If you want to add to Britain's 6 mil. CCTV cameras, you need to ask the ministerial department called this office the Home Office |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS $600: Once Mariah Carey's "Idol" co-judge, she wanted to speak at her old school, but the principal nixed the cameras Nicki Minaj |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ACCESSORIES $800: In 1937, long before its instant cameras, Polaroid began making these sunglasses |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: Types of these cards used in digital cameras include MicroSD, SDHC & CompactFlash memory cards |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ANAGRAMS $1600: It'll take you a picosecond to come up with this type of surgery involving small tubular cameras endoscopic |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | "SCOPE" IT OUT $2000: In the pre-videotape era, these trademarked cameras were used to record TV shows onto 16mm film kinescopes |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | CAMERAS $400: These 2 verbs go together to describe cameras that don't make you fiddle with focus point and shoot |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | CAMERAS $800: A small type of camera that may be dashboard-mounted is named for this makeup item lipstick |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | CAMERAS $1200: A UV type of this accessory improves contrast, reduces haze & protects the lens a filter |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | CAMERAS $1600: Using an iPhone app, you can shake the phone to make your picture come out faster, like pictures taken with this co.'s cameras Polaroid |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | CAMERAS $2000: Use a tripod to prevent camera shake if this speed is slow, meaning a long exposure shutter speed |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | SOUNDS GEOMETRIC $1,400 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) Microsoft surface uses multiple cameras to find my finger position with this geometric technique where two known points lead to the location of an unknown triangulation |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | A HOST OF TV HOSTS $200: Julie Chen hosts this reality show in which strangers live together & the cameras record every moment Big Brother |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: In May 1977 Kenya limited the shooting on safaris to people using these cameras |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE LOSERS $600: Cameras caught Faith Hill shouting "What?" after this American Idol beat her as top female vocalist at the 2006 CMA awards Carrie Underwood |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | SCIENTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Augustin-Jean Fresnel used this treatment of light to make new lighthouse lenses; Edwin Land built a company on it polarization |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BRAND NAMES $400: The company that sold Nikkor lenses in the 1930s started selling cameras under this brand in 1946 Nikon |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | LET'S PLAY ODDBALL $800: 2 thieves stole a Canadian museum's surveillance cameras; too bad they didn't steal these accessories, too the tapes |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | MARKETING $1600: Consumer panel hired to say what they think of a product (especially telescopes & cameras?) a focus group |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | YOU'VE GOT COMPANY $400: Zeiss produces some of the finest of these for cameras, like the telephoto Planar T lenses |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALSO A MOUNTAIN $2000: This maker of Stylus cameras started out 87 years ago as a microscope manufacturer Olympus |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | THE DEANS LIST $200: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras Dean Martin |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $400: Equipped with cameras, these birds were used to conduct aerial surveillance during World War I pigeons |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | HANDY TECHNOLOGY $1000: With its Ofoto online service & Easyshare cameras, you'll never have to develop this company's film Kodak |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT... $400: ...these cameras distributed at parties, introduced by Fuji in 1986 disposable cameras |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | WELL EQUIPPED $1000: Hidden cameras, bugs & PC taps are classified as this type of equipment, from the French for "to watch over" surveillance |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP $1000: You might just find one of these Fisher-Price cameras used to make films like the one seen here PXL |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | BRAND NAMES $600: "Share Moments, Share Life" is a slogan of this brand of film & cameras Kodak |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | MODERN CONVENIENCES $800: Images on the PC are at your "finger"tips with these, like Sony's Mavica & Nikon's Coolpix digital cameras |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | CAMERAS $200: A signal that means cameras are running, or a traffic signal that cameras may catch you running Red light |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | CAMERAS $400: From its simple shape, it's the 3-letter name for the type of 19th century camera seen here Box camera |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | CAMERAS $600: This type of camera with a tiny aperture instead of a lens can be made from an oatmeal carton Pinhole camera |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | CAMERAS $800: It's the CC in CCTV, a security camera system used by many businesses Closed circuit |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | CAMERAS $1000: This No. 1 maker of cameras & lenses for the movie & TV industries only rents, doesn't sell its equipment Panavision |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | HI $400: The name of this area seen here means "spouting water", not "place of pale people with cameras" Waikiki |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | MARINE BIOLOGY $300: This French explorer devised special underwater cameras to document his adventures Jacques Cousteau |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: This "Annie Hall" actress went behind the cameras for the 1995 family drama "Unstrung Heroes" Diane Keaton |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | SWEDEN $200: As well as automaker Volvo, Goteborg is home to Hasselblad, a world-famous maker of these Cameras |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | THE RED-NOSED $200: Much of the boozing persona of this Matt Helm of the movies may have been just for the cameras Dean Martin |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | CAMERA $100: The names of TV cameras & videocassette recorders are combined in this device a camcorder |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | WEDDINGS $300: It's become popular to place single-use ones on each table to let guests help capture the event cameras |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | TECHNOLOGY $100: Number of bulbs in the Magicube that replaced a battery-powered flash on cameras 4 |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $400: Cameras traveled to the floor of this largest Great Lake to take the shipwreck picture seen here: (Edmund Fitzgerald) Lake Superior |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | OPTICS $100: During World War II this company invented an infrared filter; the instant cameras came later Polaroid |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: This Anne Rice vampire has very white skin "that has to be powdered down for cameras of any kind" Lestat |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | ESPIONAGE $600: In 1956 a program that deployed balloons with cameras over Russia ended & this new plane replaced it U-2 |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In April 1964, Ford introduced this new sporty car with a $2,368 sticker price the Mustang |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | CONGRESS $800: In 1952 this Speaker of the House from Texas banned television cameras from House committee sessions Sam Rayburn |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: During the 1960s & 1970s, this company sold 70 million Instamatic cameras Kodak |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | PHOTOGRAPHY $200: Most SLR or single-lens reflex cameras use this size film 35mm |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | CONGRESS $200: TV cameras were admitted to the Senate chambers in 1974 when N. Rockefeller was sworn into this job vice president |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | THE 1880s $300: In 1884 he patented roll film for cameras (George) Eastman |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | JAPAN $400: The Cherry, the first of these commercially produced in Japan, was made by a forerunner of Konica cameras |
| #1929, aired 1993-01-14 | VIETNAM $600: Cameras are banned in his tomb, tho he said "nothing is more precious than independence and freedom" Ho Chi Minh |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY $600: For longer exposures, many cameras have a "T" setting, which stands for this time |
| #1736, aired 1992-03-02 | THE UNIVERSE $1000: In 1991 Gaspra, the 1st asteroid photographed close up, smiled for this probe's cameras the Galileo probe |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: In 1982 this company introduced a new photo phenomenon:
disc cameras & film Kodak |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | CAMERAS $100: Sitting behind the lens, its speed can run from 30 seconds to 1/1000 of a second the shutter |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | CAMERAS $200: Not to carp on the subject, but this is the name given to a lens with a 180-degree view a fisheye lens |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | CAMERAS $300: The size in common to the film in old home movie cameras & the tape in Sony CCD video cameras 8 millimeters |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | CAMERAS $400: The first Kodak camera in 1888 advertised, "You" do this, "we do the rest" press the button |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | CAMERAS $500: This name came from an acronym for Nippon Kogaku, a Japanese optics company Nikon |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | TELEVISION $500: This '50s show was the 1st sitcom to use 3 cameras to film in front of a live audience I Love Lucy |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | TECHNOLOGY $1000: The image orthicon replaced Vladimir Zworykin's iconoscope in these television cameras |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Kodak stopped producing instant film & cameras due to infringement on this company's patents Polaroid |
| #993, aired 1988-12-21 | LAW $400: If a judge hears a case "in camera", it doesn't mean on the air but this in private (in his chambers) |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | CAMERAS $100: To frame the subject, one looks through this on most cameras the viewfinder |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | CAMERAS $200: A new video camera shoots in this process that requires special glasses to view 3-D |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | CAMERAS $300: The twin-lens reflex camera under this brand name was introduced in 1928 Rolleiflex |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | CAMERAS $400: This company made the Fun Touch, One Touch, Action Touch & Tele-Touch cameras Nikon |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | CAMERAS $500: Many consider this, whose name is New Latin for "dark chamber", the earliest form of the camera the camera obscura |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | LANDMARKS $200: One of Beijing's top tourist attractions, no cameras or tape recorders are allowed inside this tomb Mao's tomb |
| #884, aired 1988-06-09 | THE CAMERA $300: The 1st 35mm still camera, introduced in 1923, was invented to test film designed for these cameras motion picture cameras |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | TECHNOLOGY $600: Earliest Kodak cameras came loaded with film for 100 pictures, all in this odd shape when developed circular or round |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | ODD JOBS $500: Doug Jamieson, whose job is this, would prefer to keep cameras out of the courtroom court sketchist/artist |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | SCIENCE TRIVIA $1000: He used his theory of light to design lenses now used for lighthouses, cameras & binoculars Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | CLASSIC COMMERCIALS $400: Because of their TV ads for these, many thought James Garner & Mariette Hartley were husband & wife Polaroid cameras |
| #596, aired 1987-03-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: In 1888, their cameras cost $25, but by 1900, their least expensive camera cost a buck Kodak |
| #533, aired 1986-12-24 | NATURE $600: Concealed enclosure for shooting wildlife with guns or cameras a blind |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | POLITICIANS $800: Sen. Byrd wants them in the Senate chamber, but Sen. Long says they'll be a distraction cameras |
| #115, aired 1985-02-15 | TRADE CENTERS $400: Nicknamed "Film City", it leads the world in production of cameras & film Rochester |
| #91, aired 1985-01-14 | 1955 $100: Film & TV cameras were allowed for the first time in this president's news conference Eisenhower |
| #52, aired 1984-11-20 | TV TRIVIA $500: 1950s comedy that was first to be filmed with 3 cameras before a live audience I Love Lucy |
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