| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ZIMBABWE $2000: Named for an African chief, this capital city is home to the National Archives & the University of Zimbabwe Harare |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This state capital is located at the confluence of two rivers, one of which shares its name Des Moines |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $800: This world capital is home to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Ankara |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $200: A 2022 population estimate by the Census Bureau lists this Lone Star capital as the 10th-largest U.S. city Austin |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking Dublin |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | STATE CAPITAL RIVERS $1200: The Willamette River Salem (Oregon) |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | STATE CAPITAL RIVERS $1600: The James River Richmond |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | STATE CAPITAL RIVERS $2000: The Kennebec River Augusta, Maine |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $800: An Azerbaijani oil baron built a replica of a Parisian palace for his wife in this capital city Baku |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: Once this capital's largest temple, the Olympieion, or temple of the Olympian Zeus, took nearly 7 centuries to build Athens |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $600: In 1983 this 7-foot wrestler defeated Big John Studd in a thrilling steel cage match in the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland André the Giant |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This nation's capital, Ljubljana, was destroyed by Attila the Hun in the 5th century but eventually rebuilt 700 years later Slovenia |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: This capital founded by Norseman Ingólfur Arnarson in 874 is heated by water piped in from nearby hot springs Reykjavik |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1000: This city on the Danube that became a national capital in 1993 lies near Austria & Hungary & once served as Hungary's capital Bratislava |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $2000: Funafuti is the capital of this nation Tuvalu |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $1000: It's about 2 1/2 hours going west on I-80 from Davenport to this state capital Des Moines |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | PORTS OF CALL $400: Cruises in this country will likely begin at the port city of Piraeus, just 7 miles from the capital Greece |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $1000: Teatro Astor Piazzolla, named for the composer & musician seen here, is in this South American capital city Buenos Aires |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $400: It's the capital of Sindh Province, Pakistan Karachi |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $800: This capital of Malopolskie Province can also be spelled with 2 C's Kraków |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $1,800 (Daily Double): It's the capital city on the Nile that fits the category Khartoum |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | LOOK AT THE MAP $400: This Mediterranean capital has endured for more than two millennia Algiers |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $200: The Fryderyk Chopin Museum & the Copernicus Science Center Warsaw |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: The Silver Pagoda & the Memorial Stupa to thousands of victims at the former Tuol Sleng Prison Phnom Penh |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Noryangjin Fish Market & Samsung's Leeum Museum of Art Seoul |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $800: St. Michael's Orthodox Cathedral & Marshal Tito's mausoleum Belgrade |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1,400 (Daily Double): Museo Botero &
Plaza de Bolívar Bogotá |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $800: Tiffany made a curtain of glass featuring the peaks of Iztaccíhuatl & Popocatépetl for this capital's national theatre Mexico City |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | TRAIL $200: Great Bend, Kansas was a stopping point on this historic trail that went from Missouri to the capital of New Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Nation's capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm the Washington Post traumatic stress disorder |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | ISLANDS $1000: Sapporo is the capital of this Japanese island that also has double letters Hokkaido |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | GETTING SEAL-Y $400: The seal for this U.S. capital near Troy & Schenectady includes the word "assiduity" Albany |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $800: The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water" Nairobi |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $800: This Latvian capital is pretty much at the geographic center of the 3 Baltic states Riga |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL $1600: Founded by a Norwegian missionary & formerly known as Godthåb, it's the capital & largest city of Greenland Nuuk |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Fittingly, this capital is the Yukon headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Whitehorse |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | QUICK GEO $1200: Capital city Charlottetown's province Prince Edward Island |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This Kenyan metropolis outdoes Denver by a few hundred feet in the mile high capital city club Nairobi |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It was the capital of Gran Colombia before it was the capital of (regular) Colombia Bogotá |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: This capital of Cambodia is at the junction of the Mekong & the Tonlé Sap Phnom Penh |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It's not just the capital--it's also one of Morocco's 4 imperial cities Rabat |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | ADVERTISING SLOGANS $1000: Capital One asks this 4-word question What's in your wallet? |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | PLACES TO VISIT $800: Head to this Thai capital to see the Grand Palace or the Emerald Buddha Bangkok |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $2000: According to legend, this prehistoric Greek city was Agamemnon's capital Mycenae |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $1,000 (Daily Double): "The accent is on the 'Can"', said the woman announcing the name of this newly chosen, yet-to-be-built capital in 1913 Canberra |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $600: Naples, Florida has been called the "capital of the world" for this paddle sport rising in popularity pickleball |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AROUND THE ATLANTIC $2000: Ponta Delgada on São Miguel is the capital of this island group that's about 1,000 miles west of Lisbon the Azores |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER $800: This part of the day is also what a nonprofit does when it deliberately spends its capital & ends its work sunset |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $800: In 1786 it was chosen to replace Charleston as a state capital Columbia |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1200: In 1954 a big new guy in town strolls around a world capital, rebuilding entire structures & repairing broken power stations Godzilla |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $100: Camille Pissarro painted over a dozen views of this European capital's boulevard Montmartre, only one of them at night Paris |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $200: With its famed ball season in full swing, January is the perfect time to visit this Austrian capital, "the City of Waltzes" Vienna |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $1000: In 2022 this world capital hit -9, its lowest temperature since 1918; well, it is an Iceland Reykjavik |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: Cultural attractions in Bangkok include Wat Pho & Wat Arun, temples of this religion Buddhism |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $800: This Nepalese capital sits in a bowl-shaped valley near the border with Tibet Kathmandu |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $1200: The name of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of this nation, means "red hero" Mongolia |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $1600: You'll find Seoul stretching along the banks of this river the Han |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Historically a junction between East & West, this capital of Oman lies on a strategic waterway bordering Southeast Arabia Muscat |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $3,200 (Daily Double): Reconstructed in the 1930s, the original Governor's Palace in this colonial capital was built from 1706 to 1722 Williamsburg |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: The African Union has its headquarters in this Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $1600: Windhoek is the capital of this southwest African nation that gained independence in 1990 Namibia |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $800: A port city on Tutuila Island, Pago Pago is the capital of this U.S. territory in the South Pacific American Samoa |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $400: Under the Moors this European capital was called Olissibona Lisbon |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $800: 4th century A.D. Roman emperor Jovian was born in Singidunum, now this Serbian capital Belgrade |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1200: This former name of Kinshasa reflects its nation's history as a colony of the Belgian monarchy Leopoldville |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Dushanbe, capital of this landlocked "stan", was called Stalinabad until 1961 Tajikistan |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961 in honor of its dictator, this city returned to its old name after his assassination Santo Domingo |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | TEX & THE CITY $400: The capital of Texas Zoo is naturally located in... Cedar Creek, a few minutes east of this city Austin |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $600: In the late 18th century, the first U.S. coins were minted in this city, the capital at the time Philadelphia |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: This state capital is near the western edge of the Inner Bluegrass Region Frankfort |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $100: Among some of its natives, this country's capital city is known as Baile Átha Cliath; we just call it "Dublin" Ireland |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $400: This north African capital's name reflects its history as one of 3 ancient neighboring cities Tripoli |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $400: The most populous city in India, this capital of Maharashtra state is also home to the country's leading stock exchange Mumbai |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | GAME SHOW $600: In 1959 this show with contestants from higher ed had "GE" in the title; more recently, "Capital One" College Bowl |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $800: Formerly Calcutta, Kolkata is capital of "West" this state; the "East" part became its own country in 1971 Bengal |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | LANGUAGES & THEIR FORMS $1000: The Zealandic dialect is spoken in this country's capital, while Jutlandic is spoken in the continental part of the nation Denmark |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $1200: You've probably talked to a call center in Karnataka's capital, this city known as the "Silicon Valley of India" Bangalore |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $1600: This capital of Madhya Pradesh state is known as the City of Lakes, but sadly also as the site of a Union Carbide disaster Bhopal |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $2000: Panaji is the capital of this 3-letter state, one of India's smallest & a possession of Portugal for more than 4 centuries Goa |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY TEST $400: Viangchan is an alternate spelling of its capital Vientiane Laos |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $400: In Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" an operative is sent to this onetime capital to help against Vietnamese Communists Saigon |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FINANCE TERMS $600: 2-word phrase for the profits made from selling an asset like your house or your Alexander Ovechkin rookie card capital gains |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The capital of the Lazio region, this city is on the Tiber River Rome |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Only about 20 miles from the border with Iran, Ashgabat is the capital of this "stan" Turkmenistan |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Dodoma was designated the new capital of this country in 1973, replacing Dar es Salaam Tanzania |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | RIDE INTO... $800: this capital on the Mediterranean whose name in Arabic is Tarabulus Tripoli |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $800: This capital of France's Loiret départements is old, not new Orleans |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $2000: On January 8, government buildings in Brazil's capital were stormed by supporters of this ousted president Jair Bolsonaro |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HELL $7,600 (Daily Double): Milton used this word for the capital of Hell; now it means wild confusion Pandemonium |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $800: The 1906 convention called for ratifications to be filed in this nearby national capital Bern |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | OKLAHOMA! $600: Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the tribal capital of this Native American nation Cherokee |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA! $900: Central to its lore, this creature appears on capital city Ljubljana's coat of arms; Daenerys Targaryen would approve a dragon |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $200: This composer was dreaming of a white Christmas right up until his death in 1989 at age 101 (Irving) Berlin |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $400: Her father Francis says at about age 3 she heard him in a long argument & said, "Cut" Sofia Coppola |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $600: Seen here, this breed originated around 800 B.C. a Lhasa Apso |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $800: Hostages who under stress grow emotionally attached to their captors are exhibiting this syndrome Stockholm syndrome |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: A vacuum cleaner salesman & spy named Jim Wormold is the protagonist of this Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $1600: Architect Oscar Niemeyer was an exponent of modern design in South America, like his own work designing this capital city Brasilia |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BELGIUM $400: This largest Belgian city is the seat of the European Union & known as the "Capital of Europe" Brussels |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $1600: When the Nabateans ruled Jordan from about 400 B.C. to 106 A.D., their capital was this city, carved from stone Petra |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $300: This Lone Star State capital moonlights as the "live music capital of the world" Austin |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $600: Home to General Dynamics electric boat, Groton, CT is the longtime "world capital" of these underwater vessels a submarine |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1200: If you like brats & getting barreled, head to Sheboygan in this state, the "world capital" of bratwurst & freshwater surfing Wisconsin |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1,500 (Daily Double): This Ohio city is the "rubber capital of the world" & the hometown of NBA icon LeBron James Akron |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1500: Once the "logging capital of the world", this city in Washington State is now best known as the setting of the "Twilight" saga Forks |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1600: In the early 14th century the Ottomans moved their capital to Bursa, which is in this Asian part of modern-day Turkey Anatolia |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSÉ? $200: You'll find San Jose, California about 90 miles southwest of this state capital Sacramento |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | A "LA" CARTE $800: It's the administrative capital of Bolivia La Paz |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $400: An ad for this film said, "It's that 'go-go' guy (Elvis) and that 'bye-bye' gal (Ann-Margret) in the fun capital of the world!" Viva Las Vegas |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $1000: Paid my respects at the Gandan Monastery in this capital city of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | RWANDA $1600: Now with a population of about 1.7 million, this city became the capital upon Rwanda's independence Kigali |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | STREET SMARTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This capital's Gran Vía was once named Avenida de José Antonio, after the founder of the Fascist Party Madrid |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize awarded not in Stockholm, but in this fjord-tastic neighboring capital Oslo |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $800: Franz Joseph inaugurated the new main building of the university of this capital, the oldest university in the German-speaking world the University of Vienna |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1600: Around the 1850s archaeologists unearthed the great library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, capital of this ancient empire the Assyrians |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | AIR APPARENT $400: Thousands died in 1952 in a notorious smoggy event in this European capital London |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | CAR MODELS IN OTHER WORDS $1500: Hyundai southwestern capital city with a Spanish name Santa Fe |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $200: If train A leaves Oamaru at 9 a.m. at 70 mph & train B leaves Timaru at 1 p.m. going 80, this will still be New Zealand's capital Wellington |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1200: Athens hosted the first Modern Olympics in 1896; this other European capital hosted the second games in 1900 Paris |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | KICKIN' AZTEC $1000: The Aztecs founded 2 cities where Mexico City now stands: Tlatelolco & this one, their capital Tenochtitlan |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES $4,000 (Daily Double): Ouagadougou, the capital of this country, is about 500 miles from the seacoast Burkina Faso |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | "L" ON EARTH $800: Maseru is the capital of this African kingdom Lesotho |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | DEMONYMS $500: It's how you might refer to a resident of Tirana, a capital city near the Adriatic coast--or to a resident of NY's state capital an Albanian |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $1000: Fredericton is the capital of this Atlantic province New Brunswick |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | NUN BUT THE BRAVE $800: In 1831 Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in this world capital to care for the poor & destitute Dublin, Ireland |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS $2000: Following the independence of Belarus in 1991, its capital Minsk became the headquarters of this organization, the C.I.S. the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $100: Ohio:
Cleveland,
Columbus,
Cincinnati Columbus |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $200: Arizona:
Tucson,
Scottsdale,
Phoenix Phoenix |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $300: Pennsylvania:
Scranton,
Harrisburg,
Pittsburgh Harrisburg |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $400: Tennessee:
Chattanooga,
Memphis,
Nashville Nashville |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $500: Florida:
Jacksonville,
Orlando,
Tallahassee Tallahassee |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE CONGO RIVER $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 capital cities, of the R.O.C & the D.R.O.C., lie across from each other on opposite banks of the Congo River Kinshasa & Brazzaville |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $200: This capital city of Iraq was founded around 762 A.D. Baghdad |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $1000: A granite shrine of Alexander the Great is in the temple of this capital of Al-Uqsur in Upper Egypt Luxor |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $1200: From 1915 to 1947 the Tirocchi sisters brought haute couture to this capital of a tiny U.S. state Providence |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $200: HNL:
Shaka, brah! Hawaii |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $400: LIT:
A wee city in this state Arkansas |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $600: MGM:
Not a studio, it's a southern thing Alabama |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $800: SAF:
Get enchanted there New Mexico |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $1000: BTR:
It's on the Mississippi Louisiana |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | A CAPITAL OFFENSE $400: It's a Braves new world here, where to win the game, you gotta have the runs Atlanta |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | A CAPITAL OFFENSE $800: The Pacers thrill their fans in this city Indianapolis |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | A CAPITAL OFFENSE $1200: College town where the 'Noles have been known to pile up the yards Tallahassee |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | A CAPITAL OFFENSE $1600: It's where Predators are on the hunt for NHL goals Nashville |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | A CAPITAL OFFENSE $2000: Charles Barkley's jersey was retired in this NBA city & state capital Phoenix |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $400: This capital city sits on both sides of the Spree River but the river isn't what divided it politically for decades Berlin |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | EUROPEAN VACATION $1000: Go face to face with some Art Nouveau architecture in this world capital in Latvia Riga |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $800: A capital expert:
STOIC OMEN an economist |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $1000: After a hurricane & a tidal wave hit Belize City in 1961, the capital was moved 50 miles inland to this city to avoid flooding Belmopan |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | LATIN AMERICA $1600: This capital of Honduras on the Choluteca River has a population of 1.5 million & a name from Nahuatl said to mean "silver hill" Tegucigalpa |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES $400: Buchtel College, opened in 1872, is now called the university of this "Rubber Capital of the World" Akron |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $800: In 1434 it supplanted Angkor Thom as the Khmer capital Phnom Penh |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | PUEBLOS MÁGICOS $1600: "X" marks the spot of this cobblestoned town renowned as the "silver capital of the world" Taxco |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $200: Time for Special "K" / Its name meant "impala hill" / Uganda love it Kampala |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $400: Hey, Kenya dig it? / Started as a water hole / 4 million now there Nairobi |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $600: Same name of nation / Ah, shake shake shake... shake shake shake... / Say the J not D Djibouti |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $1000: Off to Botswana! / Game reserve in a city / See the wildebeest Gaborone |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | GEORGIA ON MY MIND $1200: In 1864 Sherman's march to the sea ended with the capture of this port city, Georgia's colonial capital Savannah |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $2,400 (Daily Double): Western port city / It's named for a president / '90s Civil War Monrovia |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | GREEK GEOGRAPHY $800: Thessaloniki is the capital city of Central this region, also the name of Philip II's ancient kingdom Macedonia |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | MISSISSIPPI LEARNING $1200: Central location--huge! In 1821 Miss. put the capital at LeFleur's Bluff but would rename it this, honoring a future president Jackson |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | GREEK GEOGRAPHY $2,600 (Daily Double): The setting of plays like "Oedipus" & "Antigone", this Greek city shares its name with a capital city of Ancient Egypt Thebes |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1600: The massive Lower Usuma Dam was completed in 1990 to bring drinking water to Abuja, about to become this nation's new capital Nigeria |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | RECENT TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $800: "Art of the Swoon", "Capital R Rake",
"The Viscount Who Loved Me" Bridgerton |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | BRACE FOR LANDING $2000: Radar? Nope. You land manually in daylight only at Paro, not far from the capital of Thimphu in this Asian kingdom Bhutan |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | THE DANUBE $400: The Danube waltzes past this world capital that saw the birth & death of "Blue Danube" creator Johann Strauss Jr. Vienna |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Yerevan, the capital of this country, dates back to a settlement of the 700s B.C. Armenia |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $800: A cement quarry near Sucre, judicial capital of this country, is the site of numerous dinosaur tracks Bolivia |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $1600: This 215-mile-long Australian river shares a name with the capital of Queensland Brisbane |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $400: Wolfgang Mozart, beginning to decompose in 1791 Vienna |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $800: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, not that the event affected the entire world or anything Sarajevo |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $1200: Niels Bohr, quantum leaping in 1962 Copenhagen |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $2000: August Strindberg, going way heavy on the drama in 1912 Stockholm |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $6,000 (Daily Double): Suddenly ex-president for life Papa Doc Duvalier Port-au-Prince |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $3,200 (Daily Double): Due south of Egypt, this capital with about 6 million people began as an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WORLD "L" $2000: It's Angola's capital & chief seaport Luanda |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $800: The Tiger's Nest Monastery is in the Paro Valley, about 35 miles from Thimphu, the capital of this Himalayan nation Bhutan |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | CONSTANTINOPLE $800: In 1889 the Orient Express train ran 1,700 miles from this European capital to Constantinople Paris |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GET KOALA-FIED $800: Cece the koala is the mascot of Columbia College, a liberal arts school in the capital of this state South Carolina |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $200: We rule that Samuel Alito & Antonin Scalia came from this state capital Trenton |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES $1000: The university named for this scientist is based in the Northern Territory, where the capital is also named for him Darwin |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $800: Covering all its directional bases, this capital of Northern Ireland has constituencies North, South, East & West Belfast |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LOVE ISLAND U.K. $1200: George Town is the capital of this 3-island territory known for low taxes &--how to put it?--interesting handling of intl. money the Cayman Islands |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $2000: Fiji's capital, it's home to the University of the South Pacific Suva |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | TROPIC OF CAPRICORN NATIONS $800: 250,000-strong Gaborone is its capital & largest city Botswana |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | 2 PARTS MAKE A WHOLE $800: Proverbially patient person
+
Monsieur Cézanne = this state capital Saint Paul |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | YES, YOU CANAL $1600: The Moscow Canal links Russia's capital to this big river the Volga |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CITY HAPPENINGS $800: It was chosen as Upper Canada (Ontario)'s capital in 1793 but its name became York; in 1834 it got re-renamed back to the original Toronto |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CITY HAPPENINGS $1600: In 1861 it became both a capital & an ex-capital of the Confederacy; a century later, its buses made national news Montgomery |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | 3 THINGS ABOUT THE CITY $1000: A world capital; on the shore of the Río de la Plata; has a stadium called "The Cathedral of Polo" Buenos Aires |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $2000: WWII Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who served in the Philippines in the 1930s, had this "capital" nickname Manila |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | AROUND THE USA $600: The Mendenhall Ice Caves near this state capital glow with a spooky blue light Juneau |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN $2,000 (Daily Double): It's been peering down on the capital from its 32 rotating capsules for 2 decades the London Eye |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $400: Seen here are some of the colorful Inuit houses of Nuuk, the capital of this largest island Greenland |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $2000: At 92 feet below sea level, Baku in this country is the lowest national capital Azerbaijan |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | TO THE FORT! $2000: Fort-de-France is the capital of this French Caribbean island & department Martinique |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THIS WORLD $1600: In 1993 it became the capital of an independent Eritrea; it's still the capital Asmara |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | RECENT EVENTS $200: This world capital pulled back on its wild & weedy ways with a 2023 ban on smoking marijuana in its famous red light district Amsterdam |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $200: Site of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, Gandhi Smriti, now a memorial & museum New Delhi |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $400: Seen here, the city's most visited attraction, Schönbrunn Palace Vienna |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $600: The Hanging Church & nearby Coptic Museum Cairo |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $800: The Bob Marley Home & Museum Kingston |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The Zytglogge tower & astronomical clock, which inspired Einstein & his special theory of relativity Bern |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $200: Copley Square & the Old North Church Boston |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $400: The Beehive House & the Seagull Monument Salt Lake City |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $600: Camelback Mountain & the Desert Botanical Garden Phoenix |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $800: Corning Tower & the American Italian Heritage Museum & Cultural Center Albany |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $1000: Lefleur's Bluff State Park & the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument Jackson |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $2000: After ceding João Franco immense power, in 1908 King Carlos I was assassinated in this capital along with son Luís Filipe Lisbon |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $200: The design of this capital city that began construction in the 1950s is said to resemble a bird or an airplane Brasília |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $400: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for the country's first constitutionally elected president Sucre |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $1000: On the Atlantic coast, Maldonado is 70 miles east of this capital city Montevideo |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $1200: The 19th century man honored in name by Nevada's capital & the fashion expert/TV star of "Queer Eye" & "How to Look Good Naked" Kit Carson Kressley |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 4 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS OR CONSONANTS $2000: This capital of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province is one of the southernmost cities in the world Ushuaia |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | ORCHESTRAS $2000: Musicians in this capital city's Hibernian Orchestra are all volunteers under the capable baton of John Finucane Dublin |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | HEAVEN ON EARTH $800: Given its name in the reign of Emperor Jiajing the Temple of Heaven in this capital once had stables for sacrificial animals Beijing |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | THE GEODYSSEY $1600: Looking for his dad, Odysseus' son journeys to this capital of Laconia Sparta |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $800: Pétionville is a wealthy suburb of this Caribbean capital Port-au-Prince |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $200: Capitals don't get much closer than Providence & this one; it's about a half-hour train trip to Back Bay Station on the Acela Boston |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $400: The contiguous U.S. remains untrod if you go directly from Honolulu to this capital Juneau |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $800: In search of weather extremes? St. Paul was a brisk -34 in 1936 & this southwest capital topped out at 122 in 1990 Phoenix |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): Just like Peyton Manning did, head west from this second state capital in the name of a Super Bowl champion team to this first Indianapolis & Denver |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $1000: For his 50th, Piet Mondrian's pals in this capital feted him with a retrospective of his works at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $1000: It's a 29-hour, 2,000-mile drive from Oklahoma City to this state capital, the only other that begins with "O" Olympia |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | WORLD FACTS $400: This Syrian capital is often cited as being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world Damascus |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | TRAVEL USA $600: Your evening tour of our nation's capital includes his memorial seen here Jefferson |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: Lahore is the capital of this Pakistani province next to India Punjab |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $400: When the country's capital was moved there in 1868, Edo was renamed this Tokyo |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $600: The Château Frontenac Hotel was built in 1893 overlooking the St. Lawrence River in this provincial capital Québec City |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | U.S. "BURG"S $600: It's the only state capital that fits the category Harrisburg (in Pennsylvania) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | UNUSUAL MUSEUMS $1000: Croatia, which broke up with Yugoslavia in 1991, has a Museum of Broken Relationships in this capital city Zagreb |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $200: Big & Rich's "Comin' To Your City" notes this Missouri capital where they "woke up by the river", with Coronas possibly involved Jefferson City |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $800: Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, Old Town in this capital of Ecuador is something to see, & now you can Quito |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BACK IN THE 12th CENTURY $1200: The Crusaders captured this city on the Bay of Haifa & made it their capital Acre |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A TRIP TO ASIA $1200: Let's head to the Kota, or Old Batavia, in this world capital on the northwest coast of Java Jakarta |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A TRIP TO ASIA $1600: Oh, man! As you can see, the Mohammed Al Ameen Mosque is breathtaking in this capital city on the Gulf of Oman Muscat |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | TAKE ME TO CHURCH $200: Built to commemorate the defeat of the Tatars, St. Basil's Cathedral is in this capital city Moscow |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Over 10,000 feet in elevation, this South American capital is one of the International Cities of Peace La Paz |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $1600: Around 970 Al-Azhar University was established in this North African capital as a center of Islamic learning Cairo |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE NEW CAPITAL $400: In 1918 Moscow replaced this city to become the new capital of Russia St. Petersburg |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE NEW CAPITAL $800: The urban plan for this post-Rio South American capital was called "Plano Piloto" Brasília |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE NEW CAPITAL $1200: In 2019 the president of Indonesia announced the capital would be moved from Jakarta on this island to a new city on Borneo Java |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE NEW CAPITAL $2000: In the 1990s this country moved its capital from Almaty to Akmola, which was renamed Astana & then briefly named Nur-Sultan Kazakhstan |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE NEW CAPITAL $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1923 Kemal Ataturk helped make this city, home to the anti-Ottoman resistance movement, the new capital Ankara |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | DOWNTOWN ABBEY $1200: The Our Lady of Montserrat Abbey is in this capital city on Luzon Island Manila |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $800: Hungry in Hungary? The Michelin guide says Arany Kaviár in this capital has "creative, ambitious cooking" & yeah, some good caviar Budapest |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | ____ & ____ $600: Port of Spain is the capital of this Caribbean nation Trinidad & Tobago |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $800: The lasting legacy of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent includes the wall around the Old City of this world capital Jerusalem |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1200: In 1683 an Allied European Army relieved this Hapsburg capital from a 2-month siege by Ottoman forces Vienna |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $2000: Henry Kissinger helped diminish Soviet-U.S. tensions by negotiating the 1975 accords named for this northern European capital Helsinki |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1600: In Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop", Father Jean Marie Latour serves in this southwest U.S. state capital Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | VERMONT $200: Population about 7,800, it's the USA's least populous state capital Montpelier |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: This Indian capital was so named to distinguish it from the older city of the same name New Delhi |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $1200: September 1957 is when Gloria Ray & 8 other kids made news by going to Central High in this state capital Little Rock |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | PLANES, TRAINS $2000: Australia's Indian Pacific train runs from Sydney on the Pacific side to this state capital 2,000 miles to the west Perth |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $1200: Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, who captured this ancient capital from the Turks during World War I Jerusalem |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $400: Showing the Irish warts & all, J.M. Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" caused riots in this capital in 1907 Dublin |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $200: Simon Bolivar University, on the outskirts of this Venezuelan capital, began holding classes in 1970 Caracas |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | FOOD STUFF $800: Hot dog! Phelps, New York is the "capital" of this cabbage-based topping, & it's time to pile some on right now sauerkraut |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | WORLD TRAVEL $1600: Cruise Wilhelmstrasse in a famously awful Trabant on a visit to what was once called this 2-word capital East Berlin |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $200: The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was heard 3,000 miles away; that's like hearing something in L.A. when you're in this Rhode Island capital Providence |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LET'S VISIT NICARAGUA $200: In 1857 this city beat out León & Granada to become Nicaragua's capital Managua |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $800: Baltic capital 600,000 strong Riga |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | THE TECH BEAT $1600: Brightspace is a system schools use to provide remote classes, like SNHU & the U. of this state capital, online since '89 Phoenix |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | U.S. SIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Monsieur Jacques is the mascot of the frog capital of the world, Rayne in this state's Acadia Parish, & even gets a statue Louisiana |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $400: Communities near this state capital include Greenwood & Speedway Indianapolis |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $2000: In the 19th century Soren Kierkegaard & Hans Christian Andersen were both active in this capital city Copenhagen |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $2000: It's the capital of Georgia, the country, not the state Tbilisi |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $600: Daniel Boone's grave is in this Kentucky capital Frankfort |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $200: Though Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, the seat of government is in this city The Hague |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: Seen here is some merrymaking in this capital of Bavaria Munich |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $400: "Kirk" is a Scottish word for church, & Greyfriar's Kirk has stood for 400 years in this capital's Old Town Edinburgh |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | IN THE NATION'S CONSTITUTION $800: "The capital of" this country "shall be Sarajevo" & judges have to retire at age 70 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): Check out Akershus Fortress, begun in 1299, & a major landmark in this world capital Oslo |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | CONQUERS $800: With the help of crusaders who had stopped in Porto, in 1147 Afonso I took this city, later a capital, from the Moors Lisbon |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | CONQUERS $1600: In 1827, the ruler of this North African capital hit a French diplomat with a fly whisk, a pretext for the French to conquer the city Algiers |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BREST, BUDAPEST & BUCHAREST $400: The capital of Romania, Bucharest is on the Dambovita, whose waters feed this river the Danube |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Mother Teresa Airport doesn't serve Calcutta but Tirana, the capital of this nation Albania |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $1,000 (Daily Double): Talk about landmark legislation--a 1935 act authorized national historic landmarks & this Colonial Va. capital was among the first (Colonial) Williamsburg |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | THE 20th CENTURY BY COUNTRY $800: In 1939 the Nationalists enter the capital, ending the civil war Spain |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $200: Benjamin Harrison's home is now a museum in this Midwestern capital Indianapolis |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $400: Burning the U.S Capitol building in 1814, the British fueled the fire with 3,000 books from this institution, small at the time the Library of Congress |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $600: In the center of Scotland's Highlands region, this onetime capital of the Picts has the U.K. postal abbreviation "IV" Inverness |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $800: In December 1941 Hitler's armies reached the suburbs of this capital, but that's as far as they got Moscow |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $1200: Napoleon put a guard of honor around the home of Joseph Haydn after capturing this capital in 1809 Vienna |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $1600: The Vandals plundered this North African capital in 439, though the Romans had "destroyed" it 6 centuries earlier Carthage |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $2000: After a rapid offensive, this capital was captured April 30, 1975, leading to a name change Ho Chi Minh City |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | GEOLOGY $800: Also a word for a resident of Russia's capital, it's the most common form of mica muscovite |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORST CASE ONTARIO $800: The intraprovince rivalry between the national capital's Ottawa Senators & these provincial capital NHLers comes to a fever of hate the Maple Leafs |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $2000: The first Pole to be made a saint, Stanislaus of this city, formerly the capital of Poland Kraków |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | A SIGN OF SHAME $600: We can bleep out what you said when you forgot that state capital, but you still owe a buck in this container the swear jar |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | HOW MANY DOTTED LETTERS? $800: 2:
This capital of the Côte d'Or department cuts the mustard Dijon |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Helena is the seat of Lewis & Clark County as well as the capital of this state Montana |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $800: This Iowa capital began as a fort in 1843 & the Women's Army Corps began there a century later Des Moines |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center serves residents of this capital that hosted the 1st Whig Party convention in 1839 Harrisburg |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $7,000 (Daily Double): The Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce is found in this New England state capital Augusta |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name Constantine the Great |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $400: When Louisiana joined the Union in 1812, this city was the capital, but still decades away from its first Mardi Gras parades New Orleans |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $800: Let's not dance around things; the Dock Street Theatre is in this city that became South Carolina's ex-capital in 1786 Charleston |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $1200: Home to the flagship campus of the University of Alabama, this city was also the capital for 20 years, starting in 1826 Tuscaloosa |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $1600: It's about time you found your way to this city, part of Silicon Valley & California's first state capital San Jose |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $2000: Settled by Pennsylvania Dutch, this city has had many titles: county seat, state capital & on Sept. 27, 1777, our nation's capital Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: In 1726 the governor of Buenos Aires founded this city, now the capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $7,400 (Daily Double): The most populous city in New Zealand, it hasn't been the capital since 1865 Auckland |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | DELEGATES $3,200 (Daily Double): The Duke of Wellington & a Prussian prince were among the delegates to this 1814-15 congress in this capital Vienna |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | MODERN EGYPT $400: In 2022 this capital got its first walkway beside the Nile, along the route of the Corniche Highway Cairo |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | BRING IT! $800: For our potluck, please bring the chicken dish named for this capital, famed for emitting a stream of butter when you cut into it Kiev |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | MANY RIVERS TO CROSS $1600: The Vasco da Gama Bridge was completed in 1998 across this big river in a European capital the Tagus |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: Existentialist philosophy largely grew in the mid-20th century in this European capital where it's no doubt being discussed here Paris |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $800: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) I hope Alex wouldn't mind me saying that this city is not known for wild celebrations, but when Queen Victoria chose it as the capital December 31, 1857, it was on Ottawa |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $800: The 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani by a U.S. drone took place at the airport of this world capital Baghdad |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI $800: Have a capital time in this Wisconsin village big on its Swedish heritage that sits on Lake Pepin, the biggest lake on the river Stockholm, Wisconsin |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI $1000: Twin facts: It's a state capital in the Upper Midwest, & its 26 miles of Mississippi riverfront are more than any other city St. Paul |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Indira Gandhi International Airport serves this capital New Delhi |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | A CATEGORY OF CHANCE $1600: Yungas Road looks a little bit scary but to drive from Coroico to this Bolivian administrative capital, you might have to risk it La Paz |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in this capital of the United Arab Emirates is an architectural masterpiece Abu Dhabi |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE PARK $800: Check out the philharmonic of this world capital as it played its summer night concert on the grounds of the Schönbrunn Palace Vienna |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1600: A volcano rising nearly 20,000 feet & with a nearly symmetrical cone, Cotopaxi is just outside this capital of Ecuador Quito |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS ELSEWHERE $600: Streets are closed to traffic as people roller skate to Christmas Eve mass in this capital of Venezuela Caracas |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS ELSEWHERE $1000: North of Quezon City, San Fernando is the "Christmas Capital of" this nation, holding a Giant Lantern Festival in December the Philippines |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | AMERICANA $1600: This city that's home to the Naval Academy was briefly capital of the United States Annapolis |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $400: Cross the River Liffey using O'Connell Bridge & grab a stout or 2 at one of the welcoming pubs in this city Dublin |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $800: This capital lies astride the Molonglo River, whose name is from Aboriginal words meaning "the sound of thunder" Canberra |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $1200: The Cynics once taught along the banks of the Ilisos River in this capital; today, the Ilisos is underground Athens |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $1600: Known in the region as the "River of Nine Dragons", the Mekong flows through this Laotian capital Vientiane |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $2000: Petroleum products have been sent downstream from Bamako, the capital of Mali, on this river with the name of a neighbor nation the Niger River |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $200: This North Carolina capital was named in honor of a noted explorer in 1792 Raleigh |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: Named for Mahatma, Gandhinagar is home to 300,000 & the capital of Gujarat State in this country India |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | "P"OTPOURRI $1600: This word means wild craziness, like the capital city of hell in "Paradise Lost" pandemonium |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | COUNTRIES FROM WORDPLAY CATEGORIES $1200: Rhyming pairs:
Banjul & Lusaka are the capital cities of these 2 The Gambia & Zambia |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $200: "What's in your wallet?" Oh, it's a ticket to the Orange Bowl sponsored by this bank Capital One |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $600: The 2021 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl got served up in this state capital Boise |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: There are 300 islands in the bay on which this Finnish capital sits & a taxi boat will take you to many Helsinki |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: Douglas is the capital of this isle about midway between England & Ireland the Isle of Man |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $200: "The Big Pineapple" Honolulu |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $400: For its growing number of high-tech companies, "The Silicon Peach" Atlanta |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $600: "The Renaissance City" & "PVD" Providence |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $800: "The Live Music Capital of the World" Austin |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $1000: At the junction of 4 major interstates in the Midwest, "The Crossroads of America" Indianapolis |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | GEOGRAPHY $600: Chengdu is the capital of this province of China, home to 83 million & lending its name to a spicy cuisine Sichuan |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | WORLD MUSEUMS $2000: Naturally a skull of Homo senegalensis was part of the 2018 inaugural exhibit of this capital's Museum of Black Civilizations Dakar |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1988 winner Naguib Mahfouz set many of his works like "Palace of Desire" in this North African capital Cairo |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: In 1712, the capital of Russia was moved from Moscow to this port city; in 1918 after the Bolsheviks took power, it was moved back St. Petersburg |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $200: Now the reigning champion, France took the Cup in 2018 by defeating Croatia 4-2 at Luzhniki Stadium in this world capital Moscow |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $200: This New Mexico City claims the title “Hot Air Balloon Capital of the World” Albuquerque |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the capital of a state & the seat of Laramie County Cheyenne |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: In 2021 this capital of Saskatchewan broke a 137-year-old temperature record, dropping to -37.5 degrees Regina |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | ALL OVER THE MAP $600: When it comes to Iqaluit, headquarters of Baffin Region & the capital of this Canadian territory, we're having... Nunavut |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $800: Alex' hometown was this city, long known as the nickel capital of the world Sudbury |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | LESSER-KNOWN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Castries is the capital of this island country between Martinique & Saint Vincent, whose exports include bananas & beer Saint Lucia |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $800: The cross & sword represent St. George & St. Paul on the flag of the City of this, the historic center of the same-named capital London |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE TANGLED WEB $800: theredshtick.com gives humorous takes on the goings-on in this Southern state capital & its environs Baton Rouge |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NAME THAT BALKAN NATION $800: Pristina is its capital, though Serbia disagrees Kosovo |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $400: Dating from before the city was built up, just a short drive outside this Kenyan capital is a national park bearing its name Nairobi |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $200: In this city, if you're in the mood for piazza, try the Navona or the Santa Maria Rome |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $300: Visit Pineapple Fountain & Fort Sumter when you go to Charleston, which, no, is not the capital of this "Original 13" state South Carolina |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: This city that's home to the ruins of the Aztecs' great Templo Mayor showed off a replica of it in 2021 Mexico City |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $600: Enjoy Capitol Street & Capitol Market in Charleston, which, yes, is the capital of this state that was admitted in 1863 West Virginia |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Grab a tasty soondae & score some K-pop music in the Myeongdong District of this South Korean capital Seoul |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $800: The entrance to Père-Lachaise, the most famous one of these in Paris, is inscribed, "their hope is full of immortality" a cemetery |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): You'll find Lenin's tomb in this Moscow expanse Red Square |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | THE STRONGEST LINK $200: The Öresund Link, a bridge & tunnel connecting Malmö, Sweden to this Danish capital, opened July 1, 2000 Copenhagen |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: Crocker Art Museum & the Leland Stanford Mansion Sacramento |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $800: The Bishop Museum & the Battleship Missouri Memorial Honolulu |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1200: Tootsie's Orchid Lounge & Ryman Auditorium Nashville |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1600: Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park & the Thunderbird Arts Center Phoenix |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $2000: Fromagination & Camp Randall stadium Madison |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | REVOLTS $800: In 1680 this New Mexico capital was taken in the anti-Catholic Pueblo Revolt led by Popé; you know he insisted on that accented E Santa Fe |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $1000: This capital of South Australia was named for the wife of Britain's King William IV Adelaide |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YOU $500: Climb the Old Town Bridge Tower on the Charles Bridge, which dates back to 1357, & get a lovely view of this Czech capital Prague |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WHAT A BUTTE! $800: Crested Butte is this state's "Last Great Ski Town" as well as its wildflower capital Colorado |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $200: This capital of Minnesota was named for an apostle Saint Paul |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $1200: Its capital of Nicosia also goes by the Greek name Lefkosia Cyprus |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | "P"OTPOURRI $1600: This state capital has a population of just 14,000 Pierre |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $400: This city was still the capital when Jagiellonian University, Poland's oldest, was founded there in 1364 Kraków |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | A VIEW TO THE BRIDGE $400: Completed in 1849, the Chain Bridge linked these two cities that would link as well to form Hungary's capital Buda & Pest |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | REMEMBERING PAST LIVES $800: Vasco da Gama's 1st voyage departed this world capital in 1497 & returned 2 years later; 55 of the original crew of 170 survived Lisbon |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | IN THE PARK $1200: Each year, musicians flock to Zilker Park in this Texas capital to partake in its "City Limits" Austin |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | U.K. GEOGRAPHY $1600: This Welsh capital is at the mouth of the River Taff, which may account for its name Cardiff |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | "VERSE" $600: This hyphenated term is applied to investors who favor capital stability over volatility risk-averse |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | GEOGRAPHY $800: Lying halfway between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans, this province with Winnipeg as capital is considered the "Heart of Canada" Manitoba |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $200: Dad's Garage is an improv venue in this capital of Georgia Atlanta |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEG $2000: In 1924 Clarence Darrow gave a long speech against capital punishment, asking for leniency for this pair Leopold & Loeb |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | OFF TO NEW ENGLAND $400: Originally incorporated as Harrington, this city got its name in 1797 & 30 years later, became Maine's capital Augusta |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE RICHTER SCALE $400: A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints' Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone Lisbon |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | NEW HARLEQUIN ROMANCES IN 2022 $200: "Forbidden Nights in" this capital of Catalonia Barcelona |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Tropic of Capricorn passes through this Indian Ocean island nation about 300 mi. south of the capital, Antananarivo Madagascar |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY VIA KOKOMO $800: I wanna catch a glimpse of the acres of stalls at the Marché en Fer, or Iron Market, in this Caribbean capital, so here it is Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $800: This 8-letter word can refer to a person from a Balkan country or from New York's capital an Albanian |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES $400: This Down Under capital bears the name of an English dukedom Wellington |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES $800: From nearby steaming hot springs, "smoky bay" is the etymology of this Icelandic capital Reykjavik |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES $1600: Tashkent, the capital of this "Stan", comes from words meaning "stone village" Uzbekistan |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES $2,000 (Daily Double): "Wisdom" in Greek is the derivation of this Balkan capital city Sofia |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES $2000: Formerly Léopoldville, this African capital now bears the name of a village that once stood near the site Kinshasa |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | FLAGS $1000: The yellow on the flag of this state capital symbolizes the state's gold, the white, snow-covered mountains Denver |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | 2022 GEOGRA-FEE $600: It's about 200 miles north from Syracuse to this world capital; if you get 40 miles to the gallon at $5 per, that's a $25 trip Ottawa |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WORLD CAPITAL RHYME TIME $200: A Hungarian exam a Budapest test |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WORLD CAPITAL RHYME TIME $400: A Korean parchment curled up for storage a Seoul scroll |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WORLD CAPITAL RHYME TIME $600: A Lebanese matching jacket & trousers a Beirut suit |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WORLD CAPITAL RHYME TIME $800: Philippine flavoring from a tropical orchid Manila vanilla |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WORLD CAPITAL RHYME TIME $1000: Sudanese darkness or sadness Khartoum gloom |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $800: Take in different flavors of this island by reading some Pirandello as you eat glorious food in its capital of Palermo Sicily |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | WATERCOLORS $1600: Works from seminal Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira were celebrated in 2002 by the National Gallery in this capital Canberra |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | THE SOUTHERN U.S. $200: Natchez was an early capital of this state Mississippi |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A.D. $1200: In 1549 the first Governor-General of this Portuguese colony selected Bahia as its capital Brazil |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $200: Sanrio Puroland & the Ginza shopping district Tokyo |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: The Spanish Steps & the Pyramid of Cestius Rome |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Centro Cultural Kirchner; Monumento a Eva Peron Buenos Aires |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $800: The Muzey Kino & the Laika Monument Moscow |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1000: Emancipation Park & Trench Town Culture Yard Kingston |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | UNDER QUARANTINE $1200: A 1793 yellow fever epidemic struck this city, then the U.S. capital, forcing the government to evacuate to Germantown Philadelphia |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PRESIDENTIAL GLOBETROTTING $400: In 1947 Harry Truman made a visit to this capital city, meeting with Governor General Alexander & PM MacKenzie King Ottawa |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO OGDEN $800: Kings up through Alfonso XIII lived in the Royal Palace in this world capital Madrid |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO OGDEN $5,000 (Daily Double): This city of more than 4 million people is home to the Jamia Mosque & Kenyatta University Nairobi |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $600: Le Corbusier designed the Palace of Justice for Chandigarh, a regional capital built in the 1950s in this country India |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville Salt Lake City |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | "STAN" COUNTRIES $600: Home to about 3 million, this country's capital of Tashkent is the largest city in Central Asia Uzbekistan |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | MUNICIPAL MUSIC $800: With the help of Young Thug, Camila Cabello rocked this song that shares its name with the Caribbean capital where she was born Havana |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | HE WAS A SHOGUN $1600: This former capital has a replica of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, built around 1400 by the third Muromachi shogun Kyoto |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $400: For info on this state capital, check out The Redstick Blog Baton Rouge |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $800: This capital was named for the man called "Old Hickory" Jackson |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $1200: Just 15 years after becoming a state capital, it became the first capital of the Confederacy Montgomery |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $1600: A former camp of de Soto, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union forces Tallahassee |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $2000: The headquarters for the Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests are in this capital Columbia |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1600: At one time the capital of Upper Canada, this city was once named York, in honor of a duke of York Toronto |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $800: To make the national government more accessible to all Nigerians, in 1991, Abuja replaced this city as Nigeria's capital Lagos |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | COACH & HORSES $800: Coaches at Kentucky State in this state capital may want to explain why their team nickname is spelled Thorobreds Frankfort |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $2000: The Blue Nile & the White Nile join together just north of this capital city Khartoum |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SUN UP $1000: Retirees enjoying rather than withering? A new concept until Sun City opened near this state capital in 1960 Phoenix |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | ONE, TWO $200: In 2014 Jennifer Garner began wondering about the contents of your wallet in ads for this company Capital One |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $800: Oddly, Americans' first word of the invasion came from this capital, from sources like the news agency Transocean Berlin |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $200: The university of this is in Santiago, but national congress meetings are not; those are in Valparaíso Chile |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $600: This city has many ancient temples & the Hindu Akshardam one, completed in 2005 A.D. New Delhi |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $800: Sail over to the Kon-Tiki Museum & the Fram Museum featuring Amundsen's polar ship in this city Oslo |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1791 Mozart conducted the first performance of "The Magic Flute" in this city Vienna |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1000: We'd love to take one of the cars in its Royal Automobile Museum for a spin, maybe 3 hours north to another capital, Damascus Amman |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | THE MIDWEST $400: Sheboygan in this state is known as the "bratwurst capital of the world" Wisconsin |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | EUROPE $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1949 to 1990 this city on the Rhine River was a national capital Bonn |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $400: A university in Nacogdoches as well as a state capital bear the name of this Texan (Stephen F.) Austin |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $800: In the 1880s the empress of Ethiopia gave this capital a name meaning "new flower" Addis Ababa |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $200: This capital's name comes from its original Spanish settlement, Santa Fé de Bacatá Bogotá |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $800: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for a former president of that country Sucre |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | ASIAN MUSEUMS $600: Described as a discovery museum, Museum Siam is one of the newest in this world capital Bangkok |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | LET'S TAKE A WORLD TOUR $2000: The tower seen here is 1,381 feet high, but reflecting the name of the Asian capital it's in, has just this 2-letter name the KL Tower |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Making-Out-Road divorced this frontiersman & state capital name source Cheyenne style, leaving his stuff outside her lodge Kit Carson |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | GOING GLOBAL $2000: Nuku'alofa, the capital of this Pacific nation, was damaged by tsunami waves following a January 2022 volcanic eruption Tonga |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $200: The vault of the secret formula is part of the experience at the World of Coca-Cola in this city Atlanta |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: Now a museum, Iolani Palace in this capital was once home to royalty Honolulu |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: In Salt Lake City check out a performance by the world-famous choir at this religious edifice & the famous giant organ too the Mormon Tabernacle |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $800: The Golden 1 Center, home to this city's NBA team, has a Jeff Koons sculpture & a mural by the Royal Chicano Air Force Sacramento |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1000: A large marble statue of this hero of the Revolution is outside the capital building in Montpelier Ethan Allen |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: From 1947 until 1959 this city just northwest of the Indus River delta was Pakistan's capital Karachi |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $200: This capital was founded as Fort Nassau in the early 1600s Albany |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THEY NAMED A CITY FOR HIM $200: This capital & second-largest city of Wisconsin was named for the fourth U.S. president Madison |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THEY NAMED A CITY FOR HIM $400: To encourage German financing for its railroad, this capital was named in honor of German statesman Otto Bismarck |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Named for a European queen, Charlotte Amalie is the capital city of this U.S. possession east of Puerto Rico the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The nation's leading financial center, this northern Italian city is the capital of the Lombardy region Milan |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | YOU GOT NEXT $2,200 (Daily Double): As state capital:
Cahaba,
Tuscaloosa... Montgomery |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: The major daily in Texas' capital isn't the American Sportsman, it's the Austin American-this the American-Statesman |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $200: It was made the capital of China in 1949 Beijing |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Leveled during World War II, it was replaced as capital for nearly 30 years by Quezon City Manila |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Your plane has touched down at Jose Marti International Airport--welcome to this world capital Havana |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: When spelled as one word, this capital of Mongolia has 2 sets of double As Ulaanbaatar |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $800: Scottsdale & Tempe are suburbs of this state capital Phoenix |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $2,000 (Daily Double): Southwest of Tallahassee, this community got the same name as a Central American capital in 1909 when its people were excited about possible trade Panama City |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $200: Let's Czech in with this capital where Smetana & Dvorak both lived Prague |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $400 (Daily Double): Something to sink your teeth into... a signed document by Vlad the Impaler in 1459 is the first written appearance of this capital Bucharest |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $400: Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west Oslo |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $600: Completed in the 1490s, Nydegg Church is a landmark in this city, capital of both its nation & its same-named Canton Bern |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $800: Not Moscow but this capital 300 miles north of the Black Sea is the "mother of Rus cities" Kyiv |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $400: April 22, 1889 is the birthdate of this "City", capital of the Sooner State Oklahoma City |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $600: Jimmy Doolittle's April 1942 air raid on this Axis capital raised Allied morale at a dark time in the war Tokyo |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | 6 DEGREES OF SIR FRANCIS BACON $400: Bacon's hated rival Edward Coke was a mentor to Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island & this capital Providence |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Because it's sprawled across 14 islands, this Swedish capital is called "the Venice of the North" Stockholm |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $200: The Gulf of Finland causes a 50-mile gap between Tallinn & this capital of Finland Helsinki |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $400: It's about a 50-mile jaunt from Damascus, Syria to this Lebanese capital Beirut |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $800: A ferry service runs between Buenos Aires & this nearby capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $1000: It's about 140 miles from Rome to the capital of this serene republic that is surrounded by Italy San Marino |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | MAP QUEST $200: This state capital was founded by four way-out-of-staters, one from England, one from Georgia, one from Alabama & one from Iowa Helena |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $400: A son of this capital, Franz was baptized in what's now known as the Schubert Church & at 17 wrote & conducted a mass there Vienna |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $2000: Situated 4,200 feet above sea level on a limestone plateau, this city is the capital of Zambia Lusaka |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $6,600 (Daily Double): This island capital is said to have been founded in the 9th century by the Viking Ingólfur Arnarson Reykjavik |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | AUSTRIA'S BORDERS $2000: One of the fastest-growing cities in Europe, this national capital is just over the Slovak border on the Danube River Bratislava |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SEISMIC ACTIVITY $1200: Haiti's government reported 300,000 deaths after a 7.0 quake & multiple aftershocks hit about 15 miles from this capital in 2010 Port-au-Prince |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia Bogotá |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE $1200: The Rideau River got its name, meaning "curtain", from the falls that forms when it joins this one at a national capital the Ottawa River |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | EUROPE $800: This capital of Belarus was almost completely destroyed during World War II Minsk |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $1000: The assets you pledge as security for a loan are your this collateral |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $2000: 3 A's are the only vowels in the name of this capital of Eritrea Asmara |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $2,500 (Daily Double): This European city is alphabetically last among world capitals Zagreb |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $800: About 1,200 feet, the Fernsehturm TV Tower in this capital was built in the 1960s to showcase the socialist system Berlin |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | SAMS CLUB $200: In ads for Capital One, he has asked, "What's in your wallet?" (Samuel L.) Jackson |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | EPONYMS & TOPONYMS $400: Invented by Dr. Antoine Louis, this device bears the name of the French Doctor Who thought it more humane for capital punishment a guillotine |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $400: This Swiss capital lies on the Aare River Bern |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $600: As the Coriolis force moves counterclockwise, afternoon brings a sea breeze called the Fremantle Doctor to this Western Australia capital Perth |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AFRICAN EMPIRES $800: Legend says the Shona capital of Great Zimbabwe was once the home of this biblical queen the Queen of Sheba |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $800: Named for an explorer, this Big Ten capital city is at the junction of the Olentangy & Scioto rivers Columbus |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Home to a Big Ten school, this state capital was named for a president who died in the year of its founding, 1836 Madison, Wisconsin |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | PARISH FROM THE EARTH $200: Louisiana has an East as well as a West this parish; the capital city is in the East Baton Rouge |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 18th CENTURY $1200: In 1767 the invading Burmese army sacked the city of Ayutthaya, the capital of this neighboring land Thailand |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $200: This capital of South Korea changed hands 4 times during the course of the war Seoul |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $800: Both the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site & the Evel Knievel Museum are in this state capital Topeka |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $800: In 1998 the 9 teens who integrated Central High in this Southern capital in 1957 were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Little Rock |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $2000: In 1916 an Ontario city named for this foreign capital renamed itself for British field marshal Horatio Kitchener Berlin |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $1000: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) On April 4, 1865, Lincoln made a daring & dangerous visit to this newly captured capital, walking its still-burning streets to the cheers of jubilant former enslaved people Richmond |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | THE LYIN' IN WINTER $200: We used to walk 8 miles in the snow between Minneapolis & this capital city to get to school at Concordia University St. Paul |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | COUNTRIES ON THE EQUATOR $800: Ecuador takes its name from "equator" & this capital city is just south of the line Quito |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): The largest ghetto uprising of World War II was mounted in this capital in 1943 Warsaw |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Juba is the capital of this newest nation of Africa that seceded from its northern neighbor in 2011 South Sudan |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | A SEMESTER ABROAD $800: Get your anagram travel on by visiting these 2 Japanese cities, one a capital for 1,000 years & the other, not quite as long Tokyo & Kyoto |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | A SEMESTER ABROAD $1000: Off you go to this capital of Azerbaijan to see the centuries-old Palace of the Shirvanshahs Baku |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI $600: ... for this northern Italian city & fashion capital, site of Sforzesco Castle Milan |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $600: It's about 500 miles from this state capital to the larger city of the same name Charleston |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $800: Marx wrote that this "is money." This "is commodities" & had a lot more to say about it, the title of his longest work Capital |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ON THE MAP $1200: It's the name of the capital of Alberta, Canada & also of a northern suburb of London Edmonton |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ON THE MAP $1600: In 2019 Astana, capital of this "stan", was renamed Nur-Sultan after retiring leader Nursultan Nazarbayev Kazakhstan |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | THAT'S WHERE THAT IS $2000: This world capital: Azerbaijan Technical University--go A-Tech! Baku |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This South American capital was originally named for "Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds" or "Good Air" Buenos Aires |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: The Tigris River cuts through the center of this capital Baghdad |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This capital of Malta was named for a Grand Master of the Knights of St. John Valletta |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The Vardar River divides this capital of North Macedonia into old & new sections Skopje |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Guyana's capital was founded in 1781 & named for him, a far-off king at the time George III |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: Like our own capital city, this South American capital sometimes has "D.C." after its name Bogotá |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: The world's highest national capital, La Paz, Bolivia lies on the edge of this Andean region, from the Spanish for "high plain" the Altiplano |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | FLORAL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Fourth Raadsaal, a word meaning council chamber, is in this South African judicial capital Bloemfontein |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $400: Aer Lingus has a hub & its headquarters in this capital city Dublin |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $400: Enjoy the 360-degree views in the Atomium built for Expo 58 in this Belgian Capital & then the music in its De Munt National Opera House Brussels |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | "R" TOWN $400: This capital is about 160 miles north of Vilnius & 160 miles south of Tallinn Riga |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | UKRAINE DROPS $800: Shh! We're in the Monastery of the Caves, founded in the 11th century by St. Anthony & St. Theodosius in this capital Kyiv |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $800: It's a capital city on the Horn of Africa Addis Ababa |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): This city was once the capital of the United Provinces of Central America San Salvador |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: A natural history museum, the Koenig is in this city, once the capital of West Germany Bonn |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $600: The capital of this landlocked African nation is N'Djamena Chad |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): This world capital began hosting Holmenkollen ski jump competition in 1892 Oslo |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $200: A famous speedway was built to test cars for this city's many early 20th c. automakers, like the National Motor Vehicle Company Indianapolis |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $400: The first Pony Express rider reached this capital of a West Coast state on April 13, 1860 Sacramento |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $600: Located 50 miles east of Louisville, it was the only Union state capital captured by Confederate forces Frankfort |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $800: In 1683, this leader of a neighboring colony decreed the founding of Dover, Delaware (William) Penn |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $1000: Explorer Hernando de Soto & his men spent the winter of 1539-40 at what is today this southern capital Tallahassee |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $400: Our road trip begins in a state capital 80 miles outside San Antonio & we go to another on the Atlantic coast Austin & Boston |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $2000: It's quite a trek from the capital of New Jersey to the city that's home to Texas Woman's University Trenton to Denton |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THE CAROLINAS $800: It's about 200 miles between these 2 capital cities of the Carolinas Columbia & Raleigh |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $400: Today with about 15 million people, this city on the Hooghly River was capital of British India from 1772 to 1911 Calcutta (Kolkata) |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ALSO KNOWN AS $2,000 (Daily Double): This world capital is called "The Birthplace of Democracy" Athens |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | CEMETERIES $1600: Painter René Magritte is buried in Schaerbeek Cemetery just outside this European capital Brussels |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In the 13th century the Mongols destroyed the first East Slavic state, the "Rus", which had this city, not Moscow, as capital Kiev |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | 12-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: This capital on the island of Hispaniola was first called l'Hopital Port-au-Prince |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | 12-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1600: This capital on the island of Hispaniola was once called Nueva Isabela Santo Domingo |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | 12-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $2000: One of the world's largest churches, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is in this capital of Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BANK SHOTS $800: Saxo Bank is an online bank, but its headquarters designed by the Danish firm, 3XN, near this world capital are very 3-D Copenhagen |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | SUBURBS $800: Leon Trotsky's ashes are buried at his home, now a museum, in Coyoacán, a suburb of this capital Mexico City |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $800: Shimon Peres is a character in this J.T. Rogers play, named for a Scandinavian capital & its 1993 peace accords Oslo |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY $2000: Juba is the capital of this country that came into being in 2011:
South ____ Sudan |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | MOVIE LANDMARKS $400: Central to "Stargate" are the pyramids of Giza just outside this world capital Cairo |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | ARKANSAS $200: Surrounding General Douglas MacArthur's birthplace, MacArthur Park melts in the dark in this capital city Little Rock |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | ARKANSAS $400: If you call yourself the spinach capital of the world, you better have a statue of this character, & Alma, Arkansas does, in his own park Popeye |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): The ruins of the 17th century Fort Ceperou overlook this capital of French Guiana, which shares its name with a type of pepper Cayenne |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $600: Picasso's "Guernica" is in this capital, where it was sent only after democracy had returned Madrid |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | AVIATION $2000: At 17 hours & just over 9,000 miles, one of the world's longest flights is from Auckland to this capital of Qatar Doha |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): This "peaceful" city of 170,000 is the westernmost state capital in the contiguous United States Salem |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SANTASIA $2000: Santa's sleigh touches down on Honshu in this city of 1.5 million, Japan's capital from 794 to 1868 Kyoto |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $1200: This capital city is located in the region known as Anatolia Ankara |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: El Salvador's volcanoes include this one that has the same name as the capital & is about 7 miles away from it San Salvador |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $1,200 (Daily Double): This city can be said to be twice on the Mediterranean coast; one as a world capital, the other in Lebanon Tripoli |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 $2000: The TPLF, this Ethiopian region People's Liberation Front, captured the region's capital from government soldiers Tigray |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOUR DESTINATION AWAITS $5,000 (Daily Double): You down with VDG? I'd like to see Vasco da Gama Bridge, Vasco da Gama Tower & Vasco da Gama's tomb in this world capital Lisbon |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | OVERSEAS TERRITORIES $800: In 1998 the capital of this U.S. Pacific territory got a name change from Agana to the Chamorro name Hagatna Guam |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AIRPORTS $1600: Soekarno-Hatta International Airport serves this world capital Jakarta |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The oldest university in Scandinavia is in Uppsala, Sweden; the second oldest, in this capital a few hundred miles south Copenhagen |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | TRAIN STATIONS $400: In 2014 Waverley Station in this capital was adorned with quotes from Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novel it's named for Edinburgh |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | LAKES & RIVERS $4,800 (Daily Double): Clouds of dust from the exposed bed of Lake Texcoco add to the air pollution of this world capital Mexico City |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires Byzantium |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | THE CITY HAS FALLEN $400: This world capital to the British in August 1814 Washington, D.C. |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $4,000 (Daily Double): Temple Square in this state capital was designated a landmark in 1964 Salt Lake City |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE MIDDLE EAST $400: The city of Erbil in Iraq is the capital of an autonomous region where the majority of the people are of this ethnic group Kurds |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE MIDDLE EAST $800: This United Arab Emirates capital with a 2-word name occupies an island first settled around 1760 Abu Dhabi |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MISMATCHED PAIRS $600: Arkansas capital & Jim Henson series featuring Red, Gobo & Boober Little Rock & Fraggle Rock |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | POTENT ETYMOLOGY $200: "Stoli" for short, this vodka brand means "of the capital" in Russian Stolichnaya |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | WHEN BAY IS ON THE MAP $800: This Philippine bay that shares its name with the capital is almost completely landlocked Manila |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION $800: The Bulldozer Revolution is named for heavy machinery at the front of protests in this Serbian capital in 2000 Belgrade |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THIS IS THE WAY $200: It's pretty much a straight 8-hour shot up I-5 to go the 500 miles from San Diego to this capital Sacramento |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BRIDAL WAVES $800: The happy wavers seen here are enjoying the New Year's Day Junkanoo Parade in this capital of the Bahamas Nassau |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Georgetown is the chief port & capital of this South American country Guyana |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): Also known as the Golden City, Birnin Zana is the capital of this futuristic African nation Wakanda |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | GEO TRIOS $2000: Of South Africa's 3 capital cities, this administrative one is part of the municipality of Tshwane Pretoria |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $2000: The capital of a small Mediterranean island, it's where the Italian naval fleet surrendered to the Allies in 1943 Valletta |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $1,400 (Daily Double): The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs delta |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT $400: On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware; the battle of this now-state capital was the next day Trenton |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | PENINSULAS $1600: Located on Cape Verde Peninsula, this capital of Senegal is the westernmost city on the African mainland Dakar |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Southern state capital confection that's made of crystallized sugar Little Rock candy |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $400: The name of this capital means "black pool", referring to the dark waters of the River Liffey Dublin |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Seen here is a tsunami map of the great earthquake of this European capital that took place in 1755 Lisbon |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $3,800 (Daily Double): Oh, for an ocean breeze! In August 2020 the average high in this southwestern capital city was 111 degrees Fahrenheit Phoenix |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | "CITY" $200: In 1789 it became the first capital of the United States under the Constitution New York City |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | SUFFRAGETTE $400: A vocal critic of Mussolini's 1935 invasion, suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst is buried in this Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | LET'S VISIT CENTRAL EUROPE $400: Climb Gellert Hill in this capital of Hungary for great views of the entire city Budapest |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | LET'S VISIT CENTRAL EUROPE $2000: Breathe in the fresh air of the Little Carpathians & check out the castle that hovers over this Slovakian capital Bratislava |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Do you know the way to this capital of Costa Rica? If you do, check out its National Theatre, modeled after the Paris Opera San Jose |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: Belmopan, with a population about the capacity of Madison Square Garden, is the capital of this nation on the Caribbean Belize |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1600: Poet Rubén Darío is honored with a park & monument in this city that became Nicaragua's permanent capital in 1857 Managua |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | HELEN, NOT OF TROY $1200: sisterhelen.org is the website of anti-capital punishment nun Helen Prejean, famous for this, her first book Dead Man Walking |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | COME OUT TO THE COAST $1000: The name of its capital translates to "Freetown" in this coastal nation highlighted here, independent from France since 1960 Gabon |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD? $200: Venture capital is aka this capital; others have an "aversion" to the 4-letter word risk |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): This African capital due south of Sicily got its name from a region with 3 ancient Phoenician cities Tripoli |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $1600: In an attempt to quell unrest in 2006, Aussie commandos headed to Dili, capital of this island nation East Timor |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $2000: In 1927 the future King George VI came to this city of 6,000 people to inaugurate the new federal parliament Canberra |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | AMERICAN RIVERS $1600: Before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, the Pearl River flows through this capital Jackson, Mississippi |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Tuxtla Gutierrez is the capital city of Chiapas, the southernmost state in this nation Mexico |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT DISH? $1000: A "Chicago style" hot dog uses beef named for this world capital Vienna |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A VISIT TO PRAGUE $1600: In 1348 Charles IV of this "sacred" empire founded Charles University--go Chuck U.!--in Prague, his capital the Holy Roman Empire |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | & AWAY WE GO! $400: A visit to this New Jersey capital will include a look at the Douglass House, site of a council of war held by Washington in 1777 Trenton |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | & AWAY WE GO! $1000: We'll jet to the middle of a vast desert & find ourselves in this wealthy capital with a name meaning "a place of gardens" Riyadh |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF $400: The first U.S. Secretary of State, he helped arrange for D.C. to be the capital Thomas Jefferson |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | N.E. PORT $800: Portsmouth was this state's first Colonial capital & is its only seaport New Hampshire |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $1000: This state's "Chile Capital of the World" plate won America's Best License Plate Award for 2017 New Mexico |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: The founder of China's Yuan Dynasty, he constructed a new capital city in 1267 Kublai Khan |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | WORLD OF EMPIRES $1000: In 1747 the Durrani Empire's capital was in this Afghan city once taken by Alexander the Great, who was also called Iskander Kandahar |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAPPING THE MIDWEST $1200: They're the two cities here--one a territorial capital that was north of the Platte, & the other a state capital south of the river Omaha & Lincoln |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAPPING THE MIDWEST $2,000 (Daily Double): Cities along this river that shares its name with a state capital include Ottumwa & Fort Dodge Des Moines |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | AMERICA $200: Residents of this South Dakota capital pronounce it to rhyme with "ear" Pierre |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | A SIDE OF CHILE $400: This capital on the Mapocho River endured an 8.8 earthquake in 2010 Santiago |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS $1,800 (Daily Double): Georgia's capital Atlanta is a sister city to this national capital of Georgia Tbilisi |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: This capital of Saskatchewan started out as a hunters' camp called Pile O'Bones due to all the buffalo parts lying around Regina |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AT FREDDY'S $400: There were no rooms for Frederick the Great's wife in his Sanssouci Palace; her more modest home was in another part of this capital Berlin |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE $400: On the fringes of this world capital, a 17,200-foot volcano called Iztaccíhuatl will take your breath away Mexico City |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE $600: Lhasa, the capital of this autonomous region in southwestern China, sits serenely at 12,000 feet Tibet |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE $800: This southwestern state capital lies at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, about 1.3 miles above sea level Santa Fe |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE $1000: Located on the lower slopes of a volcano called Pichincha, this capital of Ecuador is up there at 9,350 feet Quito |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | VOLCANO CITY USA $400: Jackson Volcano, under the capital of this southern state, erupted 75 million years ago & formed a dome on which the city sits today Mississippi |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Among Eliel Saarinen's prominent works is the railway station in this capital Helsinki |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | SOME GOOD NEWS $200: In 2020 this Canadian province purchased a hotel in the capital of Victoria to house its homeless population British Columbia |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | FAILED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS $400: After a Kentucky congressman shot & killed a rep. from Maine in 1838, an amendment against this practice was proposed dueling |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river the Tigris |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | PERU $200: The presidential mansion in this capital city occupies the site where Pizarro's palace once stood Lima |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | PERU $800: One of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere, it was the capital of the Inca Empire when the Spanish arrived Cuzco |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THERE IS AN "I" IN TEAM $600: In 1997 this NBA team changed its nickname & dropped its Bullets; capital idea! the Washington Wizards |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY $1600: This capital of Newfoundland & Labrador is one of the oldest & most easterly in North America St. John's |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY $2000: St. George's is the capital of this Caribbean "Spice Isle" much in the news in 1983 Grenada |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: About 400 miles west of Moscow sits this other capital city that starts with "M" Minsk |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): You can give us either the French or English name of this African country whose legislative capital is Yamoussoukro Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | U.K. PLACES $800: Donegall Square is in the heart of this capital city Belfast |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | CAPITAL HILLS $200: This capital complex sits atop Borovitsky Hill the Kremlin |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | CAPITAL HILLS $400: A statue of Bohemian hero Jan Žižka sits atop of Vitkov Hill in this capital Prague |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | CAPITAL HILLS $600: Clinton Avenue & Ten Broeck Street run through the Arbor Hill neighborhood of this state capital Albany |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | CAPITAL HILLS $800: The word "palace" comes from the name of this one of Rome's seven hills Palatine |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | CAPITAL HILLS $2,000 (Daily Double): Local legend says this state capital's name was inspired by a view of the James River from atop Libby Hill Richmond |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: Named for a Danish queen, this capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands is on St. Thomas Charlotte Amalie |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $2000: More than half of this city that's now the capital of North Macedonia was destroyed in a 1963 earthquake Skopje |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE STOCK MARKET $600: In 2021 the wild ride of GameStop stock pitted small investors against the big boys who use this method & hope the price will fall short selling |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: This frontiersman who lent his name to Nevada's capital plays a role in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" (Kit) Carson |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE TUNNEL $800: Its country's biggest engineering project, the 17-mile Guadarrama Tunnel is on the Valladolid-Segovia-this capital rail line Madrid |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | SAINTLY NAMED $1200: Named for a saint of the 9th century, this alphabet is based on capital Greek letters the Cyrillic alphabet |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: A 17th century fortress called the Kasbah des Oudaias overlooks this nation's capital, Rabat Morocco |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DEMONYMS $400: A Haligonian isn't a "Star Wars" TV character, it's a native of this capital of a Canadian province Halifax |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $2000: Southerton & Workington are suburbs of this Zimbabwean capital once called Salisbury Harare |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | IN-CAR-CERATED $1000: The rally race named for this capital of Senegal features 12-hour shifts behind the wheel dodging camels & land mines Dakar |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | LET'S VISIT THE CITY $200: Palaces & museums line Unter den Linden, an avenue in this capital city Berlin |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | LET'S VISIT THE CITY $800: Check out Cottlesloe Beach & have a g'day in this capital of Western Australia Perth |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | LET'S VISIT THE CITY $1000: Begun in 778, the Buddhist temple Kiyomizu-Dera is in this city & former capital of Japan Kyoto |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A song of farewell to Italy's capital is titled this word, "Roma" Arrivederci |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $400: This capital of Iraq was formerly called Madinat al-Salam, Arabic for "city of peace" Baghdad |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $1200: This capital of the Philippines is on Luzon Island Manila |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $1600: Dili is the capital of this nation that broke away from Indonesia in 1999 East Timor |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $400: The ruins of Pachacamac, an ancient American city later occupied by the Inca, lie just south of this world capital Lima |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Now in this country, Persepolis was the capital from which Darius the Great ruled Iran |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $400: A system of tunnels & bridges connects this capital with Malmo, Sweden Copenhagen |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $800: A promontory of "Good Hope" is near this legislative capital Cape Town |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THE PRESIDENT'S AIRPORT $800: Looking for an ATM at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in this city? It's at door B Springfield |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $1600: This birthplace of Simon Bolivar has a population of 2 million Caracas |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): This capital lies on the banks of the world's longest river Cairo |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $2000: The second-southernmost capital in the world, it was affected by wildfires in 2003 Canberra |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | DOUBLE TALK $1600: It's the capital of American Samoa Pago Pago |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $400: The U.N. says this capital of Bangladesh is the world's most crowded city Dhaka |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $800: This name of Ghana's capital is derived from nkran, a type of ant prevalent in the area Accra |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $1200: Some girls who share a name with this Eastern European capital spell it with a "PH" in the middle rather than an "F" Sofia |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): Roads from this capital directly lead to Kandahar & to Uzbekistan & Pakistan Kabul |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | THE WORLD IN 1900 $800: Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia" premiered in this capital but ruling Russia had big problems with the patriotism within Helsinki |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HEMINGWAY $2000: (Ken Burns narrates the clue.) The third Mrs. H., Martha Gellhorn, was a fellow correspondent & the lovers bonded in this war-torn capital in the 1930s Madrid |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2000: From the capital of Italy, he's an archer & an impresario a Roman bowman showman |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | OVERLAPS $1200: Ontario capital city's long narrow sled Torontoboggan |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: As well as the capital, Kingston is also the commercial & cultural center of this country Jamaica |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: This capital of Belize starts with the same first 3 letters as the country Belmopan |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This capital of Latvia is the most populous city of the Baltic states Riga |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | DURING THE JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENCY $200: Adams was sworn in as president at Congress Hall in this city; 3 years later the capital & Adams would move to D.C. Philadelphia |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $400: Santiago is its official capital, but its legislature meets in Valparaiso Chile |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $800: These 2 cities are the official capital & seat of government of the Netherlands Amsterdam & The Hague |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $1200: In 2006 Myanmar's capital moved to Nay Pyi Taw, but this city is still its commercial capital Yangon |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $1600: Sucre is Bolivia's legislative capital; this city is the official one La Paz |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $2000: This one of South Africa's 3 capital cities has a name meaning "fountain of flowers" Bloemfontein |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a state capital, it beat out Golden to become the first city in the territory to connect to the Union Pacific railroad Denver, Colorado |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | EUROPE $400: From 1961 to 1989 this capital city was divided by a wall Berlin |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | EUROPE $2000: Experience stars & planets up close at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in this capital city Copenhagen |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LEADERS $800: On Jan. 18, 1943 Mordecai Anielewicz led the uprising in this capital against German troops trying to ship Jews to the Treblinka death camp Warsaw |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: This capital of Finland is on the Gulf of Finland Helsinki |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: There are 4 A's (or 4 alphas) in this capital of Greece's Messenia region, known for its delicious olives Kalamata |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | PORT "L" $400: This port on the Tagus River is the westernmost capital in Europe Lisbon |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | HISTORY ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS $400: Herodotus wrote that this ancient capital on the Euphrates was so big it had 100 gates (it had 8) Babylon |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | PORT "L" $2000: This big port was once the capital of Nigeria Lagos |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | GLOBETROTTING $2000: This Asian capital was given its current name by its ruling Nguyen Dynasty in 1831 Hanoi |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | GEOGRAPHY $400: This capital of Puerto Rico is the oldest city founded by Europeans that is now under U.S. jurisdiction San Juan |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: When artist Edi Rama became mayor of this Albanian capital, he had many of the drab buildings repainted in bright colors Tirana |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $200: To accommodate "South Platters", the capital of Nebraska was moved in 1867 from Omaha to here Lincoln |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $1200: Robert Louis Stevenson rode his horse Jack to Apia, now capital of this Pacific island nation Samoa |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | "T-N-T" $2000: A stop on ancient caravan routes, this capital is now the largest city in Central Asia Tashkent |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $1600: This eastern Mediterranean capital, a key port for 2,000 years, was the site of a 2020 explosion 1/20 the force of Hiroshima Beirut |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): The emperors of China had seasonal homes: Peking means "northern capital" & this city's name means "southern capital" Nanking |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $400: Once the state capital, this city in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country ranks as one of the best places to retire Lancaster |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $600: West Virginia's capital & this Carolina port city of the same name are about 500 miles apart & named for different people Charleston |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: One of the proposed names for what became this state capital was Missouriopolis Jefferson City |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | YUKON $1000: Whitehorse, Yukon's capital, began as a transit hub to Bonanza Creek in this gold rush region around 1898 the Klondike |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $400: With hiking & golf, Cave Creek in the Sonoran Desert is a tourist draw just north of this state capital Phoenix, Arizona |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $1200: The Gulf Prairie Cemetery was his 1st resting place when he died in 1836; fittingly, he was moved to the capital of Texas in 1910 (Stephen) Austin |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SYMBOLS $800: The pyramid on the reverse of the $1 bill represents endurance & the eye at the top is the eye of this, also a state capital the Eye of Providence |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | SUBURBS $1200: The suburb of Shin-Okubo is known as this capital's Koreatown Tokyo |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | CROATIA $400: The Gothic church of St. Mark's & the Baroque church of St. Catherine are both found in this capital Zagreb |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | BANKS FOR THE MEMORIES $400: This bank that asks "What's in your wallet?" traces its roots to an I.P.O. in 1994 Capital One |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | MAN'S PLAIN $200: Much of this capital of New South Wales lies on the Cumberland Plain, named for a British duke Sydney |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | CORNERSTONES $2000: In 2018 a cornerstone was laid in Tallinn, capital of this country, for a new memorial to victims of Communist crimes Estonia |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | ATLAS ALLITERATION $2000: This world capital is named for a lady who found a bronze Buddha there Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY $1000: The wavy pattern in the metal of the knife indicates that it is made of steel named for this Mideast capital Damascus |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400 (Daily Double): It's about 800 miles from South Africa's executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast Cape Town |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | AROUND THE CARIBBEAN $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 capital cities are located on this Caribbean island: Marigot, which is French, & Philipsburg, which is Dutch St. Maarten |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This southern capital is known as "The Big Peach" Atlanta |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | CORSICAN $400: He was born in Corsica's capital of Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, the same year the French took over Napoleon |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This capital's St. John's Church was the site of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" oration Richmond |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $800: The capitol building in this North Dakota capital is home to the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Hall of Fame Bismarck |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $200: The Amstel Amsterdam |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $400: According to legend, a medieval sorceress named Libuse founded this Czech capital around the 8th century Prague |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $400: The Chaobai & the Yongding Beijing |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $600: The Vistula Warsaw |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $800: The Yamuna (in Asia) New Delhi |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $1000: The Congo (either of 2 cities) (1 of) Kinshasa (or Brazzaville) |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CANADIAN PLACES $800: The Butchart Gardens is one of the prettiest spots near this provincial capital on Vancouver Island Victoria |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | POPES $1,000 (Daily Double): Before entering a seminary, Pope Francis once held a job as a bouncer in this capital city Buenos Aires |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CANADIAN PLACES $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1880s this Alberta city got the Canadian Pacific Railway, but in 1905 its rival Edmonton struck back as it became the capital Calgary |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | A CATEGORY FOR FREE $1000: The port of Freetown is the largest city & capital of this nation of western Africa Sierra Leone |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A very specific wooden post led to the naming of this southern state capital en Francais Baton Rouge |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AROUND 1001 $400: Sergius II became patriarch of this Byzantine capital, claimed the title ecumenical patriarch & had un-ecumenical relations with Rome Constantinople |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | OVER THE HILL $800: This capital is a few miles over the hill of Tara from the town of Kells Dublin |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SLOW TRANSPORTATION $1000: With gentle winds & lovely countryside to view from above, Canowindra is this transport capital of Australia ballooning |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: An 1842 attempt to move public records (& the capital) back to Houston caused the Texas Archives War in this city Austin |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | GEOGRAPHIC ETYMOLOGY $800: This European capital's name comes from a barrier built across a river flowing through it Amsterdam |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | GINGERBREAD $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Wicklein Gingerbread Shop in Nuremberg, Germany.) Here in Nuremberg, the gingerbread capital of the world, gingerbread is known as Lebkuchen, a word meaning "loaf" this cake |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | MARCO POLO SLEPT HERE $800: Early in his travels Marco stayed in the Crusader capital of Acre, now Akko in this country Israel |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | 10-LETTER NATIONS $1600: Titograd is the former name of Podgorica, the capital city of this former Yugoslav republic Montenegro |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $200: "N", 1963: Kenya gains its independence as the area of this capital grows more than 7 times in size Nairobi |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $400: "B", 1971: 2 municipalities, Thon Buri & Krung Thep, combine to form this Asian capital Bangkok |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $600: "I", 1959: Karachi is designated to be out as capital as this city, yet to be built, gets the nod Islamabad |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $800: "G", 1812: not named in honor of a D.C. college, this capital of Guyana, formerly Stabroek, gets its new name Georgetown |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $800: On Dec. 6, 1917 the explosion of a munitions ship near this Nova Scotia capital was heard hundreds of miles away Halifax |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $1000: "O", around 1300: Akershus Castle is built in this city; it's still there today, south of a street called Karl Johans Gate Oslo |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE NOT-SO-WILD WEST $600: Located then as now on Last Chance Gulch, the Lewis & Clark Library in this state capital was Montana's first Helena |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | VERY PURITANICAL $1600: A Puritan idea that land not being farmed was theirs to take led to the Pequot War, ended by the Treaty of this Conn. capital Hartford |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | A TRIP TO -BURG -TON -VILLE $3,000 (Daily Double): If you like your Christmas days around 90 degrees, then this world capital, home to the U. of the West Indies, is for you Kingston (Jamaica) |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | HISTORY: A LOOK BACK $600: In 1453 Sultan Mehmet II ended the Byzantine Empire by leading the Ottomans to the capture of this capital city, today's Istanbul Constantinople |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | TRADING PLACES $800: Germany's biggest stock exchange is in this financial capital on the Main Frankfurt |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | BRIDGES $1000: The Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge in this South American capital is named for the 20th century leader behind the building of the city Brasília |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $600: Slowly I turned... to this "Honeymoon Capital of the World" Niagara Falls |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $1000: Sharing its name with a European capital, it was known as "Copper City" for its production of that metal Rome |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | CITY WORDS $200: A capital Cuban cigar a Havana |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $200: You get really high up hang-gliding over Bogota, this country's capital--already pretty high up at nearly 9,000 feet Colombia |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $400: Seal Island just off this South African capital is a good place to swim with sharks--if you have a sturdy enough cage Cape Town |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $600: Class II-IV this type of rafting is available right in the heart of Oklahoma City on the Oklahoma River whitewater |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $800: On the Flight of the Gibbon tour near Bangkok, you can soar above the Thai rain forest on these inclined cables zip lines |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $1000: These 2 major airports make it tough to skydive over Paris--but there is a drop zone north of the capital Orly & Charles de Gaulle |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | PORTS $200: Piraeus' modern port is the gateway between this world capital & the numerous surrounding islands of the country Athens |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Connell & Marianne attend Trinity College in this world capital in Sally Rooney's "Normal People" Dublin |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: In the 7th century B.C., Sennacherib of this front-of-the-alphabet empire made Nineveh his capital Assyria |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | CENTRAL AMERICA $1000: Tegucigalpa, the capital of this country, was founded in 1578 as a base for gold & silver mining operations Honduras |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR $1200: We've landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport for a stay in this capital; we hear one night there makes a hard man humble Bangkok |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOGRAPHIC GATEWAYS $1600: This Manitoba capital is Canada's "Gateway to the West" Winnipeg |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $400: A stroll west over the Vltava River on the Charles Bridge takes you from this capital's Old Town to the Mala Strana Prague |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $1,000 (Daily Double): Drive west from Maseru, capital of this country, & you arrive in South Africa--heck, drive east & you'll end up there as well Lesotho |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | THE PRINCESS BRIDE $600: There were riots in this world capital in 1966 when its princess Beatrix wed a German diplomat who'd been a member of Hitler Youth Amsterdam |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: In ancient times this capital of Jordan was one of several settlements called Philadelphia Amman |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | A VIRTUAL TOUR $800: First stop, the Governor's Palace as you begin your tour of this Colonial capital of Virginia Williamsburg |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | IT ALL STARTS WITH A GREEK LETTER $600: The capital of Maharashtra State, it got its official name in 1995 Mumbai |
| #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 |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $400: Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa Tokyo |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $800: Google co-founder Sergey Brin Moscow |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $1200: Painter Gustav Klimt Vienna |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $2000: Audrey Hepburn & Jean-Claude Van Damme Brussels |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $5,400 (Daily Double): Playwriting President Vaclav Havel Prague |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | JAPANESE EMPERORS $1600: In the 8th century Emperor Kammu set the capital in this city, where it stayed for more than a millennium Kyoto |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | EUROPE $1600: The architectural style known as Jugendstil is prevalent in this capital of Latvia Riga |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | CITY NICKNAMES $800: As heard at the start of the song "Molly Malone", "Fair City" is a nickname for this world capital Dublin |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | CITY NICKNAMES $1000: The nickname "The Tiger City" for this 4-letter capital may date back to a poem by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Oslo |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | MICRONATIONS $800: For nearly 150 years, the tiny republic of Parva Domus has existed in the south of this Uruguayan capital Montevideo |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | NASCAR IN VEGAS $800: (Jimmie Johnson presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) I'm Jimmie Johnson; I know a little something about coming in first in the First State, having won 11 times at the International Speedway named for this state capital Dover |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | SPEED READING $1600: Oddly, "Never act in haste" is the moral of the 1892 adventure novel "The Dash for" this Sudanese capital Khartoum |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1600: The Middle Ages is usually defined as the period between the fall of Rome & the fall of this Byzantine capital Constantinople |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ISLAND NATIONS $600: The capital & largest city of Indonesia, it's on Java at the mouth of the Ciliwung River Jakarta |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $400: In 1800 the U.S. capital was moved to Washington, D.C. from this city Philadelphia |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | TUNNELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The world's highest vehicular tunnel is on I-70, 60 miles west of this state capital Denver |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $2000: 1950 winner "The Wall" by John Hersey is about an escape from the ghetto of 400,000 Jews set up by the Nazis in this capital Warsaw |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | ONE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet Oregon |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THE NAVAJO $1200: The Navajo capital shares its name with this rock, a nearby sandstone ridge with a see-through portal Window Rock |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | THIS AMERICAN CITY $1200: Its central location helped make it the capital of Maine in 1832 Augusta |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | THIS AMERICAN CITY $1600: Named for a capital of Ancient Egypt, this city is on a bluff on the Mississippi River's east bank Memphis |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital Golden |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1600: Much of the business district in this New Zealand capital lies on reclaimed land after an 1855 earthquake raised its harbor bed Wellington |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Florida A&M University in this state capital is the only HBCU in the state university system of Florida Tallahassee |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | ASIA $200: The center of the nation's film industry, this city is also the capital of India's Maharashtra state Mumbai |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | ASIA $600: Part of the Old Palace of the Malla kings, the Taleju Temple is found in this capital of Nepal Kathmandu |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $800: Italy's financial capital, this second city of the nation is also the center of its fashion & publishing industries Milan |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $200: Duke Kahanamoku Beach Honolulu |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $400: The United States Naval Academy Annapolis |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $600: Sutter's Fort State Historic Park Sacramento |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $1000: Dedicated to Christa McAuliffe & Alan Shepard, the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Concord, New Hampshire |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: Dating back to the 3rd Millenium B.C., the Iranian city of Rayy was sacked by Mongols in 1220 & the survivors moved to this new capital Tehran |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $2,000 (Daily Double): Hernando de Soto State Archaeological Site Tallahassee |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1600: The birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a landmark at 481 Laurel Avenue in this midwestern state capital St. Paul |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | TV IN 2020 $400: In the spinoff "9-1-1: Lone Star", Rob Lowe responds to emergencies in this state capital Austin |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $1,600 (Daily Double): Built in the 9th century, the castle named for this European capital looks out upon the Vltava River Prague |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THE ANDES MOUNTAINS $800: Over its some 5,000-mile range, the Andes are home to major cities like La Paz, Quito, and this other capital city Bogota |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS $1200: The NEMO Science Museum is just off the IJ waterway in this world capital Amsterdam |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $400: The Tigris River flows through this capital Baghdad |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $800: In troubled Venezuela, many have scoured the polluted waters of the Guaire River in this capital in search of anything of value Caracas |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This Wild West frontiersman got his name on a state capital in 1864 Kit Carson |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $1600: A tributary of the Rhine, the Aare River wraps around this city on three sides in a canton of the same name Bern |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $2000: This capital of Laos lies on the Mekong Vientiane |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $5,600 (Daily Double): Of the 4 capitals that stand on the Danube, 3 start with a "B": Bratislava, Budapest & this one further south Belgrade |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | CITY HOMOPHONES $1,200 (Daily Double): 4-letter low-carb diet, or Andean capital keto/Quito |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $1600: It's the state capital seen on the map here Hobart |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: Maputo is the capital & largest city of this country on Africa's southeast coast Mozambique |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Although this is Chile's capital, the national congress meets in Valparaiso Santiago |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Attractions in this capital include Rajpath (meaning "king's way") & the Baha'i Temple New Delhi |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rising out of a fjord, this capital city has an opera house that appeals to music lovers & skateboarders Oslo |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: New towers are changing the skyline of Amman, capital of this country Jordan |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $8,400 (Daily Double): Eucalypta, Kangaremu & Cookaburra were suggested names for this capital Canberra |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS $800 (Daily Double): A state capital in the Rockies bears the name of this Native American people once found in the region Cheyenne |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | POETRY $1200: This poet with a bias for lowercase letters did use capital E's for the initials of his first & middle names cummings |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | GARDEN SPOTS $800: The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in this capital London |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ROADS SCHOLAR $3,200 (Daily Double): At one end of Grafton Street in this European capital city is St. Stephen's Green; at the other, you'll find Trinity College Dublin |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Like many cities, this capital of Poland was almost completely destroyed during World War II Warsaw |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | WHERE YA GOIN' FOR SPRING BREAK? $800: Before we go to the beach, we'll check out the Bob Marley Museum in this world capital, on the site of a home the legend bought in 1975 Kingston |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ALL ABOUT APRIL $800: The 25th of April Bridge spans the Tagus River in this Iberian capital Lisbon |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): The U.S. last hosted the Summer Games in 1996 in this state capital Atlanta |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $700 (Daily Double): The British South Africa Company's Fort Salisbury later became Harare, capital of this present country Zimbabwe |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Of Morocco's 4 imperial cities, this capital is the only one on the coast Rabat |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: When the federal capital moved to this city in 1790, Pres. Washington used a legal loophole to avoid freeing his slaves Philadelphia |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | WE'RE ON A CRUSADE $400: In 1204 the fourth crusaders, angered by the Byzantines, sacked this city, their capital, & were later chastised by Innocent III Constantinople |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In 1786 this state's senate voted & Columbia beat out Washington as the name of the new capital South Carolina |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: This northern state capital bears the first name of Monsieur Chouteau Pierre |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is in the capital of this western state California |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: William Kennedy was born in this state capital & set a trilogy there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed" Albany |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | FOREIGN FLAGS $400: Here's the flag of this city, the Dutch capital Amsterdam |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | FOREIGN FLAGS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The emblem on Mexico's flag is based on a legend that an eagle perched on a cactus was the sign to where the wandering Aztec people should build their capital, named this, now the site of Mexico City Tenochtitlan |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The ancient capital of the legendary Tangun Dynasty that founded the Korean state; today it's a city of over 3 million Pyongyang |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | WE CAN BE HEROES $200: Miep Gies "fetches and carries so much" food for the family, wrote Anne Frank, hiding in the secret annex in this world capital Amsterdam |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $1200: In the series "Da Vinci's Demons" Leonardo capers about in this capital of Tuscany Florence |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | WALLS & BRIDGES $200: Check out the Moonlight Rainbow show on the Banpo Bridge spanning the Han River in this capital of South Korea Seoul |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | WALLS & BRIDGES $400: Roseman & Hogback are but 2 covered bridges in this county, the "Covered Bridge Capital of Iowa" Madison County |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Kansas Territory had this man as governor in 1858 and what's now a state capital is named for him (James) Denver |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: It was the capital of Poland for several hundred years until 1596 Krakow |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $800: This planned capital city was founded after World War II & today is home to more than 2.5 million Brasilia |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $2000: This capital of Suriname was ceded by the English to the Dutch by the 1667 Treaty of Breda Paramaribo |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $400: This popular breaded & fried veal dish is named for the capital of Austria wiener schnitzel |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $200: Before it was renamed in 1804, this Haitian capital city was known as Port-Republicain Port-au-Prince |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $800: Once the capital of a Sinhalese kingdom, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is today the legislative capital of this island country Sri Lanka |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Dead just 3 months after retiring, James K. Polk was buried at Polk Place in this state capital Nashville |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | @ $400: No visit to Iceland would be complete without a visit to the "Bay of Smokes", this capital city founded around 874 Reykjavik |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | CAPITAL ISLANDS $400: Backed by the Blue Mountains, Kingston is the capital of this island country Jamaica |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | CAPITAL ISLANDS $800: This city on Luzon became the Philippine national capital in 1946, took a break & was reinstated in 1976 Manila |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | CAPITAL ISLANDS $1200: The Caribbean capital city of St. John's is not on Barbuda but on this paired island Antigua |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | CAPITAL ISLANDS $1600: The capital, Cockburn Town, is on Grand Turk in this island group Turks and Caicos |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | CAPITAL ISLANDS $2000: This European capital is spread across the islands of Zealand & Amager Copenhagen |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | MONROE $600: Lt. Monroe crossed the Delaware with Washington to fight in the battle of this now-N.J. capital & got a near-fatal wound Trenton |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | PLACES $2000: Sweet! This South American judicial capital lies at 9,000 feet on the Quirpinchaca River Sucre |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $400: This city lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an inlet of the Aegean Sea Athens |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $800: In 1976 it became the capital of the reunified North & South Vietnam Hanoi |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $1200: Cáemgen in Gaelic, the 7th century's Saint Kevin is a patron saint of this capital city Dublin |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $1600: The official residence of King Mohammed VI of Morocco is the Dar al-Makhzen Royal Palace in this capital city Rabat |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $2,500 (Daily Double): Playwright August Strindbergs home, with rooms that he furnished like stage sets, is now his museum in this capital Stockholm |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | PARK CITY $600: Zilker Park is home to this 3-word music festival held every fall bearing the name of Texas' capital Austin City Limits |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA $1600: In 1957 the integration of Central High School in this state capital became international news Little Rock |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | DISPUTED TERRITORIES $1600: A winter capital of its maharajas, this place is paired with Kashmir in the name of an Indian union territory Jammu |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $1000: St. Stephen's Cathedral, AKA Stephanskirche, consecrated in the capital in 1147 Austria |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Brazilian dance that's the Canadian province where Halifax is the capital the bossa Nova Scotia |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | HOMOPHONE CALLS $400: Remember: "A", for the city that is the official seat of government in a state; "O", for a state legislature building capital & capitol |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | 1995 $1000: In March 1995 Russian troops captured this Chechnyan capital Grozny |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1200: Founded in 1531, this capital of a Mexican state bears the name of a province of Spain Guadalajara |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | "G"EOGRAPHY $8,400 (Daily Double): Rhino tracking at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve is something to try on a visit to this capital city Gaborone |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: One place that's a cut above to see the northern lights is this capital of Canada's Northwest Territories Yellowknife |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | WHERE YA FROM? $1000: A Paceño is from this South American capital La Paz |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | O IS THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: Just one more thing--this Asian capital city is home to Gangaramaya Temple Colombo |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WE WUZ ROBBED! $1000: This Belgian city is a world diamond exchange capital & was the site of a $100 million heist in 2003 Antwerp |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | DON'T DROP THE BALL $1200: A huge potato is lowered to celebrate New Year's in this state capital Boise |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | POND $400: Families feeding birds have led to the nickname "world's biggest bread soup" for Tjörnin Pond in this Icelandic capital Reykjavik |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $200: This Southwest U.S. state capital lies in the Northern Rio Grande Valley at about 7,000 feet above sea level Santa Fe |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $600: The Santa Lucia River provides much of the drinking water for this capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ALTERNATIVE SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $200: Sinterklaas arrives via boat from Spain (where he lives the rest of the year, why not?) & parades through this Dutch capital Amsterdam |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | ASIA $2000: During the Khmer Rouge's rule from 1975 to 1979, most of this capital's population was forcibly evacuated Phnom Penh |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.) The Széchenyi Chain Bridge was the first to permanently span this river and connect the two old cities that form Hungary's capital. At the time, there was debate over Budapest versus Pestbuda the Danube |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Nuremberg, Germany.) With some 50 million cookies produced each year in all sizes and shapes, Nuremberg, Germany is this Christmas treat capital of the world gingerbread cookie |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $800: I'm walkin' in this capital of Ancient Egypt, founded around 3000 B.C., but do I really feel the way I feel? Memphis |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THE SECOND-LARGEST CITY IN THE STATE $400: For those of y'all keepin' score: it's New Orleans, 344,000; this capital city, 230,000 Baton Rouge |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $200: The Daniel O'Connell monument on O'Connell Street Dublin |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: The Evita Museum Buenos Aires |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: The Anne Frank House Amsterdam |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $800: Gorky Park Moscow |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1000: The Coptic Museum Cairo |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | GEO, DUDE $400: Yo Broseph! We'll show respect in this capital as we visit the Peace Tower's Memorial Chamber honoring Canada's war dead Ottawa |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | REAL & UNREAL PLACES $1200: Unreal: Mildendo, which must be a small town, as it's the capital of this land in "Gulliver's Travels" Lilliput |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | REAL & UNREAL PLACES $1600: Unreal: Pandemonium or "All Demons", the capital of hell in this long poem Paradise Lost |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | BENGAL $2,000 (Daily Double): This capital of the state of West Bengal is spelled with 2 Ks; it used to be spelled using 2 Cs Kolkata (Calcutta) |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $1,312 (Daily Double): This capital city of 13 million sits on the northeast edge of the Pampas Buenos Aires |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE $1200: Gen. Joshua Guest is in London's Westminster Abbey for defending this capital city against Bonnie Prince Charlie's forces Edinburgh |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: This Yemeni capital lies at the foot of Mount Nuqum more than 7,200 feet above sea level Sana'a |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | WEIRD LEGAL NEWS $200: In 2009 maybe a teen should not have robbed a cop...at a police convention...& tried to flee via taxi...near this Penn. capital Harrisburg |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PILLARS OF THE EARTH $400: The one-pillared pagoda sits very precariously in this Vietnamese capital Hanoi |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1200: Valletta, Malta was named for the grand master of the Knights Hospitaller after they survived a 1565 siege there by this empire the Ottoman Empire |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1600: With room for 7,000 worshippers, Al Fateh Mosque in Manama, capital of this island kingdom, is the nation's largest Bahrain |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Founded in 1736 as a stopping place for ships between Europe and Asia, Port Louis is the capital of this island nation in the Indian Ocean Mauritius |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Roseau, Dominica was burned by the French in 1805 & suffered near-total destruction by one of these in 1979 a hurricane |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | WORLD CAPITAL AIRPORTS $200: Narita Airport Tokyo |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | WORLD CAPITAL AIRPORTS $400: Jomo Kenyatta International Nairobi |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | WORLD CAPITAL AIRPORTS $600: Toussaint Louverture Port-au-Prince |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | WORLD CAPITAL AIRPORTS $800: Schiphol Amsterdam |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | WORLD CAPITAL AIRPORTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Carthage International Airport Tunis |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $800: Juba is the capital city of this recently independent nation South Sudan |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | FEEL THE BERN! $400: On Nov. 28, 1848 the parliament of this country chose Bern as its federal capital Switzerland |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT $600: Founded in Africa in 1822, it's the only world capital (besides Washington, D.C.) that's named for a U.S. president Monrovia |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | YOU'VE HIT THE DAILY DOUBLE $200: The iconic double seen here means we can only be in this capital city London |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | LET'S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Amelia Earhart left New Guinea on July 2, 1937, with but three more stops on her worldwide quest--Howland Island, this future state capital, and Oakland Honolulu |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHERE DO YOU STAN? $2000: Home to more than 14 million, this city on the Arabian Sea was once Pakistan's capital city Karachi |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $200: This capital of Kenya lies at an elevation of 5,500 feet, making it a natural sister city to Denver Nairobi |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | MONGOL RULERS $1600: Now in ruins, Shangdu is the site of this khan's former great capital where Marco Polo visited him Kublai Khan |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 4-LETTER PLACES $1200: Founded in the 11th century, this capital lies at the head of a fjord Oslo |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 4-LETTER PLACES $8,000 (Daily Double): This capital of Hyogo Prefecture on Honshu is all the rage in beef Kobe |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | NOT THE CAPITAL $200: Of Australia, though it's the country's oldest city Sydney |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | NOT THE CAPITAL $400: Of Alaska, though it has 9 times the capital's population Anchorage |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | NOT THE CAPITAL $800: Of Germany, since 1990 Bonn |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | NOT THE CAPITAL $1000: Of Canada, though it was incorporated in 1862 with a royal name Victoria (British Columbia) |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD $1200: Conland Highway on I-91 was named for a publisher of the Courant newspaper in this New England state capital Hartford |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | NOT THE CAPITAL $1,500 (Daily Double): Of England, though it's home to the country's most popular & successful pro sports team Manchester |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: E.B. White mouselike boy in a southern state capital Stuart Little Rock |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | FUN FACTS $1600: Fact: Fun can be had in this Missouri town, "The Live Music Show Capital of the World" Branson |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NEAREST OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL $400: To Ottawa, Canada Washington, D.C. |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NEAREST OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL $800: To Canberra, Australia Wellington, New Zealand |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NEAREST OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL $1600: To Rabat, Morocco Lisbon, Portugal |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NEAREST OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL $2000: To Tokyo, Japan Seoul, Korea |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NEAREST OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL $4,000 (Daily Double): To Paris, France Brussels (Belgium) |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | EUROPEAN JOBS $800: People are employed to fish for discarded bikes in the numerous canals of this capital city on the North Sea Amsterdam |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | MUSEUM-PODGE $1,000 (Daily Double): The Vasa, a warship that spent 333 years under the sea, was salvaged & turned into a museum in this capital city Stockholm |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORLD CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $400: Yoko Ono Tokyo |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORLD CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $800: Giada De Laurentiis Rome |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORLD CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $1200: Placido Domingo Madrid |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORLD CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $1600: Arianna Huffington Athens |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORLD CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $2000: Natalie Portman Jerusalem |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | "GEN" KNOWLEDGE $1000: It's the seaport capital of the region of Liguria Genoa |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | "M" PORTS $200: This city's port on Biscayne Bay calls itself "Cruise Capital of the World" Miami |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CANADIAN TV SHOWS $1200: Showing bush pilots at work & at play, "Arctic Air" is set in this "colorful" capital of the Northwest Territories Yellowknife |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $2000: Until 1855 this Western Hemisphere capital city was known as Bytown Ottawa |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | GATES $2000: The Donuimun Gate in this capital was dismantled during Japanese occupation in 1915, so now it's called the Invisible Gate Seoul, South Korea |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | COMPANY ADS & SLOGANS $200: "What's in your wallet?" Capital One |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | A TOUR OF EUROPE $200: The Gum department store in this capital was where Soviet higher-ups got to shop for luxury apparel Moscow |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: Penacook & Rumford are previous names of this capital located on the Merrimack River Concord |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $800: Sacsayhuaman is a walled fortress near Cuzco, ancient capital of this empire the Inca |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | ANCIENT EGYPT $1200: Before the one in Tennessee, there was this capital of ancient Egypt south of modern Cairo Memphis |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | THE FIFA MEN'S WORLD CUP $800: Only 4 European teams competed in the first World Cup; the rest didn't want to travel all the way to this capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | GEOGRAPHY $2000: This capital of Slovenia has 2 sets of "LJ"'s in its name Ljubljana |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | "B" WHERE OF DOG $600: Check out the big eyes & beard on the Griffon, named for this Low Country capital Brussels |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $400: Winning 4-2, France claimed victory in the 2018 men's soccer World Cup final held in this Russian capital Moscow |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | "P"LACES ON THE MAP $1000: This South African city was the capital of the Transvaal Pretoria |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $200: Chill out by Taku Glacier, southeast of downtown Juneau (Alaska) |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $400: Honestly, the Lincoln Home National Historic Site is there Springfield |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $600: Get your choir on at the Latter-Day Saints Conference Center Salt Lake City |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $800: Plant yourself at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center Providence |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $1000: Three Mile Island is a powerful nearby site to see Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A BIT OF LIT $1200: Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution is called this, like an ancient capital Persepolis |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $400: Thomas Dekker's plays like "The Shoemaker's Holiday" portrayed daily life in this capital city London |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | RHYME TIME $2000: A presidential "no" in Ecuador's capital a Quito veto |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $1600: Capital cities on the banks of the Nile River include Cairo & this capital of Sudan Khartoum |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola Haiti |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PEACHY $600: The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl is a college football game played in this state capital Atlanta |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | IN & AROUND ASIA $3,000 (Daily Double): Sights in this capital city include the lovely silver pagoda & the ghastly Tuol Sleng Museum Phnom Penh |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | FAR FROM $1200: This American territory whose capital is Pago Pago is closer to New Zealand than to Hawaii American Samoa |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 3-WORD CITY NAMES $400: This state capital is south of Ogden & north of Provo Salt Lake City |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | 1- & 2-SYLLABLE HETERONYMS $2000: 1 syllable: masculine; 2 syllables: the capital of the Maldives male and Malé |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | CAPITAL "A" $400: Add "La Vella" to the name of this Pyrenees country to get the full name of its capital Andorra |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | CAPITAL "A" $1200: In 1664 the English changed its name from Beverwyck to this to honor James, Duke of it Albany |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | CAPITAL "A" $1600: Called City of Churches, this capital of South Australia has the country's oldest Catholic cathedral Adelaide |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | CAPITAL "A" $2000: The Dutch colonized this national capital in the 17th century, but the Dutch were Ghana by 1872 Accra |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | CAPITAL "A" $7,600 (Daily Double): It's home to the annual United States Sailboat Show Annapolis |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | GEOGRAPHY $800: This capital of Prince Edward Island was named for the wife of King George III Charlottetown |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $2000: Bolivia & this city, its capital, are both named for men known as liberators Sucre |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | LET'S PUT ON A MUSICAL $1600: "Kismet" is set in this world capital, so we'll need people to play mosque worshippers Baghdad |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $200: "The Mile High City" Denver |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $400: "The Big Peach" Atlanta |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $600: "Crabtown" Annapolis |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $800: "The Almond Capital of the World" Sacramento |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Cradle of the Confederacy" & "The Birthplace of Civil Rights" Montgomery, Alabama |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Lahore, this country's second-largest city, is the capital of the Punjab province Pakistan |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $400: This capital is conveniently located near Spain's exact geographic center Madrid |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $2000: Lesser-known conquistador Pedro de Alvarado founded this capital that's named for Jesus San Salvador |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | TRICKY TRAILS $2000: The temple complex at Batu Caves near this Malaysian capital can give you quite a workout Kuala Lumpur |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: Once the terminus of a famed wagon trail, this state capital is almost 7,000 feet above sea level Santa Fe (New Mexico) |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | EURASIA: Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name Yerevan, Armenia |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | GEOGRAPHY: The first city in Australia with a municipal government, this state capital bears the name of a queen Adelaide |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | RIVERS: A European capital got its name as a consequence of flooding on this river the Amstel River |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | WORLD HISTORY: This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico's WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation Addis Ababa |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: In English, name of 1 of the 2 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere Apia or Oslo |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | COUNTRY NAMES: The first current country to include its particular religion in its full name, it also has that religion in the name of its capital Pakistan |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA: A major seaport & formerly a world capital, this city has a name from Arabic for "house of peace" Dar es Salaam |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WORLD CITIES: This capital city founded in 1567 was where the founding statute of OPEC was adopted in 1961 Caracas |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | NOVELISTS: A 2012 book review noted subjects that "sparked his ire": capital punishment, big tobacco & "the plight of the unjustly convicted" John Grisham |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S THE SAME: The busiest passenger port in the U.K., it shares its name with a capital of one of the original 13 states Dover |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | U.S. CITY NAMES: Adopted in 1845, the name of this state capital is a feminized form of a big body of water Atlanta, Georgia |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA: A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Pizzo means protection money; the Addiopizzo movement was founded in this city in 2004 Palermo, Sicily |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | MODERN WAR: Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996 Sarajevo |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PLANNED CITIES: A recent immigrant, Lady Denman, wife of the governor-general, announced the name of this new national capital at a 1913 ceremony Canberra, Australia |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | WORLD CITIES: From Sydney, Australia go 7,000 miles east & less than 1/2 degree of latitude north to this capital also near the Pacific Santiago, Chile |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On this country's National Day, August 15, all 39,000 residents are invited to Vaduz Castle for festivities & drinks Liechtenstein |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: A national capital for less than 100 years, it's the westernmost capital in mainland Asia Ankara, Turkey |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Once a residence of rulers of Austria, this city on the Danube less than 20 miles from Vienna became a national capital in 1993 Bratislava |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | WORLD CAPITALS: Sharing its name with another ancient city on the sea, this African capital is called "Bride of the Mediterranean" Tripoli |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: It's the easternmost capital city in Central America Panama City |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE 50 STATES: In 1840 this New England state was home to 24 of the 100 most populous U.S. urban places; now, its capital is its only one in the top 100 Massachusetts |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | WORLD CAPITALS: In 1865 this city named for an early 19th century British hero became a British colonial capital Wellington |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | CANADIAN CITIES: City Hall in this Western provincial capital is on Victoria Avenue near the corner of Albert Street Regina |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Founded, according to tradition, in 11 B.C., this former capital lies about halfway between Paris & Berlin Bonn |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird Atticus Finch |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Remove 2 letters from within the 6-letter name of this capital & you get the name of a capital from a neighboring country Berlin |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS: From the name of the world capital it serves, DEL is the 3-letter code for the Asian airport named for her Indira Gandhi |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | STATE CAPITALS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI: The last 2 letters of this city's name are the U.S. postal abbreviation for the state that it's the capital of Albany |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | 1950s TRAVEL: In March 1958 Hilton opened a hotel in this Western Hemisphere capital but 2 1/2 years later was out of business there Havana |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | 2-WORD WORLD CAPITALS: From 1936 to 1941 this city was the capital of Italian East Africa Addis Ababa |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | AFRICAN CITIES: Also a judicial capital, this aptly named city is known for an annual rose festival that began in 1976 Bloemfontein |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1789 this doctor proposed 6 articles on penal reform to the French Assembly, including one on capital punishment Joseph Guillotin |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | WORLD CAPITAL SIGHTSEEING: The unfinished Victory over America Palace & the rundown Victory over Iran Palace are in this city Baghdad |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA: Getting its nickname from a capital, Dhallywood is the name for the film industry in this Asian country Bangladesh |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: It's the only state named for a woman & whose capital is also named for a woman Maryland |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | WORLD CAPITALS: It's the only world capital whose name is derived from an Algonquin word Ottawa |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STATE CAPITALS: A state capital since 1805, its name begins with the last 4 letters of the state's name Montpelier |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | WORLD CAPITALS: The world's highest international airport, at an elevation of over 13,000', serves this South American capital city La Paz, Bolivia |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: The Mopan River flows about 20 miles from the capital of this country Belize |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | EUROPE: Once a feudal state, it has the highest capital city in Europe at an elevation of about 3,300 feet Andorra |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS: In 1932 a 4,700-pound piece of the object that gave this capital its "small" name was moved to city hall Little Rock |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | HISTORIC HOMES: While the White House was being built, George Washington's executive mansion was in this city Philadelphia |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | CAPITAL CITIES: This is the most populous city on the world's most populous island; both begin with the same letter Jakarta |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | SOUTH AMERICA: This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country Brasilia |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | AFRICAN CITIES: The coat of arms of this South African city shows 2 cornucopias, pouring out flowers & water Bloemfontein |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | U.S. HISTORY: On Dec. 7, 1787 30 delegates at Battell's Tavern gathered & made history in what's now this state capital Dover |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | WORLD CITIES: Named for a saint & built in 1348, Vaclavske Namesti is the main square & center of cultural life in this capital city Prague |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | CITY NAMES: Cuba's second-most populous city & a South American capital share this name that refers to St. James Santiago |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | WORLD CAPITALS: Ruled at times by Persians, Mongols & Russians, Baku is the only capital that borders this body of water the Caspian Sea |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | FAMOUS BUILDINGS: Completed in 1943, this "city within a city" has outer walls over 900 feet long the Pentagon |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | STATE CAPITALS: This Midwestern capital was named for a man who was born in what is now Turkey over 2,000 years ago St. Paul |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | WORLD FAUNA: Platypuses are to this Pacific island what alligators are to Florida Tasmania |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1790 a deal made Washington the nation's capital; the room where it happened was at Jefferson's house & negotiators included Madison & this Cabinet member Alexander Hamilton |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | STATE CAPITAL GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 U.S. state capitals that begin with the letter "A", the one that is farthest north Augusta |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | STATE CAPITALS: Settled in the 1780s, it's the only state capital without a McDonald's Montpelier, Vermont |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only capital named for a signer of the Constitution Madison |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | CITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: A Hanseatic city, this port of 1.8 million is the largest European Union city that's not a capital Hamburg, Germany |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE: This capital city, which at 12,330 miles is farthest from Madrid, is named for a soldier who spent time in Madrid Wellington |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: At 200 miles, this capital of just over a million people is the continental capital closest to London Brussels |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | CAPITAL CITY WORDPLAY: Ending in the same 2 letters, these 2 are capitals of a nation that covers a continent & of a nation reaching onto 2 continents Canberra & Ankara |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: At 4,000 miles, the farthest-apart capitals of bordering countries are these 2 cities, one on a peninsula Moscow & Pyongyang |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | CAPITAL CITIES: One of the 2 world capitals that end in the letter "Z"; one is in Europe & one in the Americas (1 of) La Paz & Vaduz |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the Southern city in which the building seen here is located; counting the panels may help Austin |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WORLD CAPITALS: It's the capital city of the only country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea & the Black Sea Ankara |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Since a national split in 1993, it's the only world capital that borders 2 other countries--Austria & Hungary Bratislava |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | SAINTS ON THE MAP: In population, it's the largest U.S. city with the same Spanish name as a current Western Hemisphere capital San Jose |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: This French engineer once asked, "Why should we disguise the industrial nature of iron, even in the city?" Gustave Eiffel |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: Alphabetically, Zagreb is the last world capital; this capital of a former Soviet republic is second to last Yerevan |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | CAPITAL CITIES: These 2 world capitals are separated by only 250 miles of land & less than 1 degree of latitude, at 59º 17' & 59º 57' N. Stockholm & Oslo |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | WORLD CAPITALS: One of the 3 national capitals made up of 2 words that begin with the same letter (1 of) Addis Ababa, San Salvador, or Phnom Penh |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers" E.E. Cummings |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | PRESIDENTIAL RESTING PLACES: Only 3 sites have the remains of 2 presidents: 1 at Quincy, Massachusetts, 1 at Arlington & 1 in this state capital Richmond, Virginia |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SCIENTISTS: In 1711 Newton led the Royal Society in London & his greatest rival led the Academy of Sciences in this capital city Berlin |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | U.S. CITIES: Of the top 10 cities in population within city limits, this one of 1.4 million is the only state capital Phoenix, Arizona |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | ART & STATE CAPITALS: The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, home to the largest permanent collection of her works, is in this state capital Santa Fe |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | WORLD CAPITALS: Built about 50 years ago, it's the only world capital to start with the letter "I" Islamabad |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | THE RAILROADS: The railroad founded in 1859 by a Kansas state charter reached this state capital on February 16, 1880 Santa Fe |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | U.S. CITIES: Alphabetically first among the 150 most populous U.S. cities, it has become the "polymer capital of the world" Akron |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Although capital of its country, it is not the capital of the province in which it's located, nor is it the seat of government Amsterdam |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | SKYSCRAPERS: After a construction boom fueled by oil & gas money, this capital city now has Europe's tallest building Moscow |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | STATE CAPITALS: Forget Me Not, Glacier Avenue & Glacier Highway are streets in this state capital Juneau |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | WORLD HISTORY: After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled Brazil |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN CAPITALS: This West Central African capital grew out of a settlement that France established for freed slaves in 1849 Libreville |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | WORLD WAR II: On June 5, 1944 FDR said of the capture of this city, "One up and two to go" Rome |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | WORLD TRAVEL: If you want to visit this country, you can fly into Sunan International Airport or... or not visit this country North Korea |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only 3-word state capital Salt Lake City |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | OLYMPIC CITIES: It's the only U.S. state capital to have hosted the Summer Olympics Atlanta, Georgia |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This Asian nation is the only nation with the same name as its capital & the island on which it's located Singapore |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only state capital that bears the name of a U.S. vice president Jefferson City |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This country's largest lake shares its name with the country; its second-largest lake has the same name as its capital Nicaragua |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only state capital whose city limits lie on an international border Juneau, Alaska |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | STATE CAPITALS: Baton Rouge & this other state capital both have 2-word French names; neither is named for a person Des Moines |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | STATE CAPITALS: This Plains State capital of only 14,000 people is the only U.S. capital with no letters of its state in its name Pierre, South Dakota |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | STATE CAPITALS: One of the two state capitals whose names end with the Greek word for "city" (1 of) Annapolis or Indianapolis |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | WORLD CAPITALS: This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle Reykjavík |
| #5302, aired 2007-10-02 | TRAINS: As of 2006, you can take a 48-hr. ride between these 2 cities, with a stretch on the world's highest railroad Beijing & Lhasa |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Against bitterly divided Democrats, he won with the second-lowest percentage of the popular vote in history, 39.8% Abraham Lincoln |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | NATIONAL CAPITALS: This city's website calls it "the last divided capital in Europe" Nicosia |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | AFRICAN CAPITALS: To get the name of its country, add 2 letters to the end of this world capital city Tunis |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: For over a decade starting from 1807, this nation's capital was moved to a city in South America Portugal |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | PORT CITIES: It was Russia's third-largest city until it became the capital of an independent republic in 1918 Riga, Latvia |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: Chapter I of this book tells us: "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood..." Angela's Ashes (by Frank McCourt) |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | U.S. CITIES: Its name includes the county of which it's the seat & the state of which it's the capital Oklahoma City |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | CAPITAL CITIES: Home to the oldest cathedral & the oldest university in the Americas, this capital was founded in 1496 Santo Domingo |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | WORLD CITIES: Capital of the ancient Roman province of Galatia, it became a modern national capital in 1923 Ankara |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | STATE FACTS: This state & its capital were named for 2 dukedoms held by the same British man New York |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | THEATRICAL PREMIERES: The "Playboy Riots" took place in this world capital in 1907 following a theatrical premiere Dublin |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | STATE CAPITALS: This Southern capital was named for an ancestor of a 20th century poet known for his clever rhymes Nashville, Tennessee |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | OLYMPIC CITIES: It's the only national capital city of the Americas to have hosted the Olympic Games Mexico City |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | STATE CAPITALS: In the continental United States, this city is the southernmost state capital Austin, Texas (Tallahassee is a very close second, Baton Rouge, third) |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | U.S. STATE CAPITALS: This state capital is farthest away from any other state capital Honolulu |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | WORLD CAPITALS: Other than Washington, D.C., it's the only world capital named for an American Monrovia, Liberia |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS: This least populous state capital falls alphabetically immediately after Alabama's Montpelier, Vermont |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | WORLD CITIES: This capital city of 13 million located at 55.5 degrees north latitude is the most populous city in Europe Moscow |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CITY NAME ORIGINS: In 1517 the Portuguese modified the name of a port city of western Ceylon in honor of this man Christopher Columbus |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | CANADIAN CITIES: The name of this provincial capital means "queen" in Latin Regina, Saskatchewan |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: Lucio Costa designed this new capital in 1957 to hold 500,000 people; today it has more than 3 times that number Brasilia, Brazil |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | STATE CAPITALS: This Midwest city is the only state capital whose unabbreviated name starts with 3 consonants Springfield, Illinois |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | WORLD CAPITALS: Founded in 1840, this city is the world's southernmost national capital Wellington, New Zealand |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | ASIA: It's Asia's southernmost national capital Jakarta (Indonesia) |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | WORLD CAPITALS: A large bay bearing its name borders this capital settled by the Spaniards in 1571 Manila, Philippines (Manila Bay) |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: On May 2, 1936 "Peter and the Wolf" had its world premiere in this capital city Moscow |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | U.S. STATES: It's the only state whose name & capital city both consist of 2 words New Mexico (Santa Fe) |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | WORLD CAPITALS: This capital's name is from the Greek for "Three Towns" Tripoli, Libya |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | U.S. CITIES: Among its sister cities are Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Turin, Italy; & Toyota City, Japan Detroit |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | STATE CAPITALS: Chartered in 1781, it's the only state capital named for a French city Montpelier, Vermont |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | STATE CAPITALS: Add one letter to a word meaning a religious rite & you get this U.S. state capital Sacramento, California |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Phoenix lies on a river named for this substance found in the name of another state capital Salt |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only state capital whose name has 3 sets of double letters Tallahassee |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | THE CARIBBEAN: This capital, founded by Columbus' brother, is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | ROYALTY: A capital in the West Indies is named for this family name of William of Orange, King of England Nassau |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | WORLD CAPITALS: It's the world's northernmost national capital Reykjavik, Iceland |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: This European city is alphabetically last among the world's national capitals Zagreb, Croatia |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: The Jose Marti Monument is a 450-foot tower in the Plaza de la Revolucion in this capital Havana, Cuba |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | THE WESTERN U.S.: This state capital rose from the ruins of a Hohokam Indian settlement Phoenix, Arizona |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | WORLD CAPITALS: It's the easternmost mainland capital in the Americas Brasilia |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | SPAIN: This Catalonian city, once the capital of the Visigoths, may be named for a Carthaginian family Barcelona |
| #2720, aired 1996-05-31 | WORLD CAPITALS: This city called "The Mother of Russian Cities" is capital of a country other than Russia Kiev |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS: With 12 letters, it's the longest one-word state capital Indianapolis, Indiana |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS: Capital nearest which you'd find a monument called Mitad del Mundo, or "middle of the world" Quito |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | STATE CAPITALS: This state capital is on the site of a cross erected by Capt. Christopher Newport May 24, 1607 Richmond, Virginia |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | STATE CAPITALS: During the 1920s the Progressive Party was headquartered in this capital Madison, Wisconsin |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | STATE CAPITALS: This state capital was a compromise choice between North Platters & South Platters Lincoln, Nebraska |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | STATE CAPITALS: The name of this capital is an Anglicized form of the Hebrew word for "peace" Salem |
| #2452, aired 1995-04-11 | WORLD CITIES: It's the capital of South Africa located in the geographic center of the country Bloemfontein |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THE OLYMPICS: It was the last national capital to host the Summer Olympic Games Seoul |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | WORLD CAPITALS: This city was founded in the 6th century as a capital in the Tonkin Lowland Hanoi |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Name shared by a state capital & a president's home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains Montpelier |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | OPERETTAS: In this operetta, the title character has made flirting a capital offense; violators will be beheaded The Mikado |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | WORLD CITIES: Now a national capital, Gurkha kings made it their capital after capturing it in 1768 Katmandu |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Name shared by the southernmost province of Belgium, a country on its border & a capital city Luxembourg |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | WORLD CAPITALS: The capital of Albania is named for this other world capital Tehran |
| #2088, aired 1993-10-06 | WORLD CAPITALS: Uhuru Highway & Moi Avenue are important streets in this capital city Nairobi |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only state capital whose name ends with 3 vowels Juneau |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | U.S. CITIES: Name shared by cities on the Kennebec & Savannah rivers; one of them is a state capital Augusta |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | POETS' HOMES: The home of poet James Whitcomb Riley is a tourist attraction in this state capital Indianapolis |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | SOUTH AMERICA: The name of this capital city is a corruption of Rimac, the river on which it lies Lima, Peru |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | SOUTH AMERICA: The original name of this capital city translates as "Our Lady of Peace" La Paz |
| #2014, aired 1993-05-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: Roxas Boulevard in this capital city was formerly named Dewey Boulevard Manila |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | WORLD BUSINESS: In April 1992 McDonald's opened its biggest restaurant ever in this world capital Beijing |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | STATE CAPITALS: John Tyler, James Monroe & Jefferson Davis are buried in this capital's Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia |
| #1722, aired 1992-02-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: James River Corp., maker of Brawny towels & Dixie cups, is based in this state capital Richmond, Virginia |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | THE CIVIL WAR: It was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi never captured by Union troops Tallahassee, Florida |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | AFRICAN HISTORY: Taitu, the wife of Emperor Menelik II, gave this capital city its name; it means "new flower" Addis Ababa |
| #1597, aired 1991-07-09 | STATE CAPITALS: 1 of 2 state capitals that formerly served as capital of the U.S. (1 of) Annapolis or Trenton |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | TRAVEL EUROPE: Amusement park, known for its gardens, built in 1843 on the old ramparts of a capital city Tivoli Gardens |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | WORLD CITIES: Its name translates to "capital city" & for Japan it was, from 794 to 1868 Kyoto |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | U.S. CITIES: Marietta, Ohio, made capital of the Northwest Territory in 1788, was named after this person Marie Antoinette |
| #1500, aired 1991-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS: This capital completely surrounds a separate, independent country Rome |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | WORLD CITIES: Built between 1666 & 1667, the Castle of Good Hope is the oldest monument in this capital city Cape Town |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | HISTORIC NAMES: When the city of Podgorica became capital of Montenegro after WWII, it was renamed in his honor Tito |
| #1228, aired 1989-12-27 | WORLD CAPITALS: City that's the westernmost capital on the European mainland Lisbon, Portugal |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | STATE CAPITALS: Genoa, Italy gave this state capital a 20' statue which was put in front of City Hall Columbus, Ohio |
| #1188, aired 1989-11-01 | IN THE NEWS: In June 1989 this country changed its name to the Union of Myanmar & its capital to Yangon Burma |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | STATE CAPITALS: Lying at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo range, it's the highest state capital Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | WORLD CAPITALS: It's the only world capital on the Tigris River Baghdad, Iraq |
| #1071, aired 1989-04-10 | WORLD CITIES: With over 2 million people, it's the largest city in the West Indies Havana, Cuba |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE OSCARS: This 1951 musical is the only movie with a world capital in the title to win "Best Picture" An American in Paris |
| #947, aired 1988-10-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: Canada agreed to abide by this person's choice for its capital city, & in 1858, Ottawa was chosen Queen Victoria |
| #906, aired 1988-07-11 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: The World Bank & the International Monetary Fund are both headquartered in this national capital Washington, D.C. |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | RIVERS: 2 of the 3 European rivers that begin with "T" on which a national capital is located (2 of) Thames, Tiber or Tagus |
| #842, aired 1988-04-12 | EUROPE: This capital some 1500 miles from London has surpassed it as the most populous city in Europe Moscow |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | CAPITAL CITIES: While Qatar is the only country that begins with "Q", this is the only national capital that does Quito |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | U.S. CITIES: Before Washington, D.C., this city served longest as capital of the United States Philadelphia |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The only 2 countries whose capitals end in "K", their names both end in "land" Iceland and Thailand |
| #743, aired 1987-11-25 | WORLD CAPITALS: Only national capital of a foreign country named for a U.S. President Monrovia, Liberia |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | SOUTH AMERICA: 1 of 2 South American countries whose name & capital's name have the same # of letters (1 of) Peru & Paraguay |
| #566, aired 1987-02-09 | TRANSPORTATION: Guinness says world's largest fleet of taxis is found in this North American capital Mexico City |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | WORLD POLITICS: The 1986 Reader's Digest Almanac lists this city as "The Capital of the World" New York |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | STATE CAPITALS: The 1st letter in the alphabet that does not begin the name of a state capital E |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Capital of this English-speaking country is southernmost national capital in the world New Zealand |
| #393, aired 1986-03-12 | STATE CAPITALS: 2 of 4 state capitals with the word "city" in their name (2 of) Oklahoma City, Carson City, Salt Lake City or Jefferson City |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | THE AMERICAS: Westernmost national capital in the Americas Mexico City |
| #291, aired 1985-10-21 | MARK TWAIN: State capital where Mark Twain lived 20 yrs. & wrote "Tom Sawyer", "Huck Finn", & "Life on the Miss." Hartford, Connecticut |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | STATE CAPITALS: The closest state capital to the nation's capital Annapolis |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | EDUCATION: The first university in the Western Hemisphere was founded in 1553 in this Latin American capital Mexico City |
| #123, aired 1985-02-27 | WORLD CAPITALS: In less than 40 years, Karachi, Rawalpindi & Islamabad have all been its capital Pakistan |
| #94, aired 1985-01-17 | STATE CAPITALS: Most populous state capital, it falls alphabetically between Olympic & Pierre Phoenix, Arizona |
| #77, aired 1984-12-25 | WORLD CAPITALS: The closest foreign capital to Washington, D.C. Ottawa |
| #61, aired 1984-12-03 | EUROPE: The Soviet army was welcome in this capital in May of '45 but unwelcome in August '68 Prague |
| #60, aired 1984-11-30 | WORLD CAPITALS: Birthplace of Beethoven, it has been a capital only since 1949 Bonn |
