#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | ISLANDS $1000: Sapporo is the capital of this Japanese island that also has double letters Hokkaido |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | HOW MANY DOTTED LETTERS? $800: 2:
This capital of the Côte d'Or department cuts the mustard Dijon |
#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 |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: This capital of Belize starts with the same first 3 letters as the country Belmopan |
#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 |
#7826, aired 2018-09-24 | poetry $2000: she says her books like "milk and honey" have no capital letters because her mother tongue, punjabi, doesn't either Rupi Kaur |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CAPITAL LETTERS $400: There's an "S" in this capital of Algeria Algiers |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CAPITAL LETTERS $800: These 2 capitals of adjacent European countries both end in "est" Bucharest and Budapest |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CAPITAL LETTERS $1200: You get an "F" if you don't name this Sierra Leone capital (or if you do) Freetown |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CAPITAL LETTERS $2000: "G", I'll bet you can name this capital of Chechnya Grozny |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CAPITAL LETTERS $6,600 (Daily Double): This 7-letter Central American capital ends in the same 4 letters as its country Managua |
#6596, aired 2013-04-29 | "ON"WORDS & "UP"WORDS $200: WRITTEN ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS, LIKE THIS CLUE uppercase |
#6525, aired 2013-01-18 | TRIPLE DOUBLE LETTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1540 Hernando De Soto camped in the area of what's now this state capital Tallahassee |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Lome is the capital & largest city of this West African country whose name is also 4 letters long Togo |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | MULTIPLE-WORD CAPITALS $1200: The first 2 letters are silent in the name of this capital at the junction of the Mekong & Tonle Sap Rivers Phnom Penh |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | A WORD ODDITY $6,000 (Daily Double): This Asian city is the only world capital whose name in English has 3 dotted letters in succession Beijing |
#5147, aired 2007-01-16 | U.S. STATE NAMES $2000: The names of this state & its state capital both end with the letters "na" Montana |
#5106, aired 2006-11-20 | ONE "L" $800: When not lowercase, letters are this capital |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: You'd write this in capital letters to express great surprise, or to send a letter to Youngstown OH |
#5051, aired 2006-07-24 | PRONOUNS $400: The pronoun that is formed by the last 3 letters of New York's capital any (from Albany) |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2000: Bujumbura shares its first 2 letters with this small country of which it's the capital Burundi |
#4612, aired 2004-09-28 | BAHRAIN $800: Bahrain's capital, it shares most of its letters with a Central American country Manama |
#4270, aired 2003-03-07 | ENGLISH LESSON $200: Another term for upper case characters such as the ones that start a sentence capital letters |
#4127, aired 2002-07-09 | DOUBLE LETTERS $2000: This city in eastern Oklahoma named for a tribe of the Creek nation was once the capital of the Indian territory Muskogee |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | "UP" WORDS $600: Capital letters used in writing or printing uppercase |
#3561, aired 2000-02-14 | FICTION $400: Say a little prayer for this title character of a 1989 John Irving novel, who speaks in capital letters Owen Meany |
#3520, aired 1999-12-17 | BEING PUNCTUAL $100: In abbreviations of 3 or more capital letters, like NCAA, these marks are often omitted Periods |
#3363, aired 1999-03-31 | FIRST & LAST $800: A world capital,
10 letters:
M--------o Montevideo (Uruguay) |
#3032, aired 1997-11-04 | THE ALPHABET $1,400 (Daily Double): THEY'RE ALSO CALLED MAJUSCULES & YOU'RE LOOKING AT THEM capital letters (or upper case letters) |
#2465, aired 1995-04-28 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $800: Male is the capital of this island country whose name also starts with the letters Mal the Maldive Islands (the Maldives) |
#1030, aired 1989-02-10 | TYPING CLASS $400: If you engage the "lock" on your keyboard, you lock these in capital letters |
#925, aired 1988-09-16 | 9-LETTER WORDS $300: Term for capital letters, from printers' practice of keeping larger type in bins above smaller type uppercase |
#706, aired 1987-10-05 | DOUBLE LETTERS $400: 2 capitals of Canadian provinces fit this category:
Charlottetown,
& this capital of Manitoba Winnipeg |
#650, aired 1987-06-05 | WORLD CITIES $800: w/Same letters & syllables, names of Tokyo & this city show both have been Japanese "capital"s Kyoto |
#432, aired 1986-05-06 | POETRY $500: This poet dropped the capital letters in both his name & poetry E.E. Cummings |
#336, aired 1985-12-23 | WORLD CAPITALS $500: Putting its letters in alphabetical order, this capital is "AAACCRS" Caracas |
#185, aired 1985-05-24 | THE ALPHABET $500: More common name for "uncials" or "majuscules" capital letters |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#3127, aired 1998-03-17 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only state capital whose name has 3 sets of double letters Tallahassee |
#2698, aired 1996-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS: With 12 letters, it's the longest one-word state capital Indianapolis, Indiana |
#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 |