#26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $1000: Born of ordinary Hawaiian milk caps, they are survived by millions of cardboard "slammers" lying unused in millennial closets Pogs |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $800: A 2021 article title: "Why Do Men Wear" these knit caps "That Don't Cover Their Ears?" Beanies |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $800: 1950s self-help, opening strong: "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!" (in all caps) "Have faith in your abilities!" The Power of Positive Thinking |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A '90s KID $800: Some kids in the '90s really loved this guy's style, seen here on Mark McGrath; not icy caps, but... frosted tips |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $800: Special cooling caps used during chemotherapy treatments are designed to prevent this balding (hair loss) |
#8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $600: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) On the 2022 finale of "ALL CAPS NBA", I sang "We Are The Champions" to introduce clips of this team's victory parade the Warriors |
#8765, aired 2022-12-16 | ORNAMENTS OF YORE $400: Both tam o' shanters & Balmoral caps are adorned with these double-speak fluffy balls pom poms |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $800: We doff our caps to this metropolis, the oldest of Morocco's 4 imperial cities Fez |
#8470, aired 2021-09-17 | LET'S VISIT MARS $2000: Mars' seasonal polar ice caps aren't frozen water but frozen this gas, the principal component of its atmosphere carbon dioxide |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | CONDIMENTS $1000: "Uncap real flavor", says this brand of hot sauce whose bottles have iconic round wooden caps Cholula |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | HATS AMORE! $1000: Samuel L. Jackson has his own line of this brand of caps that is an abbreviation of "knitted angora wool" a Kangol |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET $400: The Encyclopedia Britannica notes that break-dancers often wear these "sideways or backward" baseball caps |
#8087, aired 2019-11-05 | FROCK AROUND THE CLOCK $800: For 5 o'clock, maybe try this simple dress that has the same name as the key under "caps lock" a shift |
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $400: Make sure the caps lock key isn't on when entering a password that's this hyphenated adjective case-sensitive |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BUILDINGS $3,000 (Daily Double): Some of the ornamentation on this NYC building on Lexington Avenue was meant to look like radiator caps the Chrysler Building |
#7986, aired 2019-05-06 | THE PLANETS $400: Like Earth, this planet has polar ice caps--the Planum Boreum & the Planum Australe Mars |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | ON TV $2000: The title of this Netflix show about an early 20th c. British street gang that gets rich refers to their distinctive caps Peaky Blinders |
#7731, aired 2018-04-02 | PLANETARY FACTS $400: Its polar caps, which are believed to be carbon dioxide ice & water ice, grow in the winter & shrink in the summer Mars |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | AT THE "M"PORIUM $400: Congratulations, college grad! We've got your traditional outfit here, a robe & one of these caps a mortarboard |
#7353, aired 2016-07-27 | DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $400: The real Boone favored beaver hats, not these alliterative items, which he is said to have thought uncivilized coonskin caps |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | PROSPER $400: FORBES SAiD STEVE JOBS' BEST iNVESTMENT WAS BUYiNG THiS ANiMATiON COMPANY iN 1986 FOR $10 MiLLiON Pixar |
#7090, aired 2015-06-12 | KNOW YOUR PRODUCE $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is a fun guy with fungi.) When left to mature, cremini mushrooms develop caps that are large, flat, & dense & they were mostly unsellable, until the 1980s, when growers gave them this new name portobellos |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | IT'S A PLANET $600: Its frozen dry ice polar caps recede & advance with the planet's seasons Mars |
#6707, aired 2013-11-12 | GOING EMILY POST‑AL $800: In an e-mail, doing this is "the equivalent of shouting" using caps locks |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT $400: The first non-food item rationed was this; citizens were asked to turn in hoses, raincoats & bathing caps for recycling rubber |
#6662, aired 2013-07-30 | OLYMPIC SPORTS OBJECTS $800: This sport uses a ball that was once made from pig stomach; bathing caps are needed too water polo |
#6657, aired 2013-07-23 | A SON OF JACOB $1000: Comic actor Friedlander, he of the slogan-bearing caps Judah |
#6596, aired 2013-04-29 | "ON"WORDS & "UP"WORDS $200: WRITTEN ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS, LIKE THIS CLUE uppercase |
#6321, aired 2012-02-27 | EUROPEAN HOLIDAYS $1600: To celebrate St. David's day, the Welsh wear this onion relative in their caps or as a corsage the leek |
#6047, aired 2010-12-21 | A HAT-EGORY $600: The traditional academic costume worn at commencement ceremonies is a gown & one of these caps a mortarboard |
#5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LIVING IN NYC $1600: Architect William Van Alen put radiator caps on the 31st floor of this art deco landmark at 405 Lexington the Chrysler Building |
#5862, aired 2010-02-23 | FLICK ARRR! $400: Johnny Depp got gold caps for his turn as Captain Jack Sparrow in this 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean |
#5683, aired 2009-04-29 | DARTH VADER, D.D.S. $800: I wanted these "royal" tooth-shaped caps on my teeth; instead he gave me a mouth full of tiny black helmets crowns |
#5612, aired 2009-01-20 | YOU "GO" FIRST $200: Red caps are required for this position in water polo goalie |
#5523, aired 2008-09-17 | LITERARY VILLAINS' PERSONAL ADS $2000: I'm a brilliant academic but I tend to leave the deerstalker caps & hard drugs to a certain arch-nemesis Moriarty |
#5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ASTRONOMY $1200: Visible with binoculars (but less so in the planet's summer), they're the easiest Martian surface features to see the polar ice caps |
#5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) In the 2003 film "Pieces of April", I played an offbeat neighbor of this actress who had yet to meet & marry Tom Cruise Katie Holmes |
#5332, aired 2007-11-13 | I WANT CANDY $600: Meaning "no equal", it's another name for snow caps nonpareils |
#5140, aired 2007-01-05 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: Foils & caps are used to create these different-colored strands in your hair highlights |
#4909, aired 2006-01-05 | SCIENCE NEWS $1200: These DNA-bearing structures have caps called telomeres; learn to lengthen those & we'll all live forever chromosomes |
#4633, aired 2004-10-27 | ENTER & DESIGN IN, PLEASE $400: The "gargoyles" on this NYC skyscraper were designed to look like auto radiator caps the Chrysler Building |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | NEW YORK CITY $800: In honor of NYC's blaze-battlers, these 4 letters appeared on a lot of caps in 2001 FDNY |
#4595, aired 2004-07-23 | BIRD HUNTING $400: One of the cardinal rules of e-mail listed on insiderreports.com is to turn off your caps-lock a cardinal |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1780s William Herschel determined its axial inclination & found it had ice caps Mars |
#4017, aired 2002-02-05 | THE OTHER PLANETS $600: Winter in the northern hemisphere lasts about 150 days on this planet noted for its ice caps Mars |
#3978, aired 2001-12-12 | RACCOON $400: Allsands.com's "How to" section includes how to make these popular with the Davy Crockett wannabees coonskin caps |
#3870, aired 2001-06-01 | PACKAGING $600: Pill bottles with push-down caps are child-resistant; sealed ones mandated in 1982 are this-resistant Tamper-resistant |
#3780, aired 2001-01-26 | HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? $800: The finlike structures on the underside of mushroom caps are called these Gills |
#3335, aired 1999-02-19 | COMMON BONDS $400: Knee,
radiator,
Bic pen things with caps |
#2993, aired 1997-09-10 | NEW LATIN $800: An "exemplum simillime expressum" is just one of these, ma'am the fax |
#2910, aired 1997-04-04 | 1990s FASHION $300: Because of Spike Lee's 1992 film, baseball caps bearing this letter were in vogue in 1993 X (for Malcolm X) |
#2902, aired 1997-03-25 | WELL-KNOWN NAMES $200: Davy Jones was known for his locker & this TV Davy was known for his coonskin caps Davy Crockett |
#2718, aired 1996-05-29 | FOOD & DRINK $800: It's made by tying 2 rib sections into a circle, ribs up, & putting little paper caps on the rib ends a crown roast |
#2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POTPOURRI $200: This Army special forces unit is named for the distinctive caps worn by its personnel the Green Berets |
#2305, aired 1994-09-16 | FOOD $400: Careful! If you drink alcohol after eating ink caps, a type of these, you'll become very sick mushrooms |
#2225, aired 1994-04-15 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $500: Heloise saves these plastic items found in hotel bathrooms & uses them to cover bowls of leftover food shower caps |
#2135, aired 1993-12-10 | ASTRONOMY $400: The Facts on File Dictionary of Astronomy has entries for this planet's polar caps & volcanos Mars |
#2106, aired 1993-11-01 | FOOD $100: Prized by the Japanese for their caps, Shiitake & Matsutake are types of these mushrooms |
#2099, aired 1993-10-21 | GENERAL SCIENCE $400: Of 75%, 50% or 30%, the amount of the Earth's fresh water that's in glaciers & ice caps 75 |
#2088, aired 1993-10-06 | CAPS $100: A cone-shaped symbol of disgrace & stupidity dunce cap |
#2088, aired 1993-10-06 | CAPS $200: Car caps include gas, radiator & these on the wheels hubcaps |
#2088, aired 1993-10-06 | CAPS $300: One puts it on to ponder thinking cap |
#2088, aired 1993-10-06 | CAPS $400: It's an airport porter skycap |
#2088, aired 1993-10-06 | CAPS $500: They're dynamite detonators blasting caps |
#1978, aired 1993-03-24 | ARCHITECTURE $1,900 (Daily Double): William Van Alen designed this NYC skyscraper whose gargoyles resemble auto radiator caps the Chrysler Building |
#1632, aired 1991-10-08 | FASHION HISTORY $500: You didn't have to be part of an angry crowd, as the name implies, to wear one of these women's caps a mob cap |
#1574, aired 1991-06-06 | FASHION $600: In 1955, the boys were wearing coonskin caps, & the girls, these skirts named for dogs poodle skirts |
#1423, aired 1990-11-07 | ASTRONOMY $200: As can be seen thru a telescope, the sizes of this red planet's polar ice caps change with the seasons Mars |
#1419, aired 1990-11-01 | ATHENS $300: The color of the tasselled caps worn by the evzones who guard the parliament building red |
#1324, aired 1990-05-10 | HISTORIC TRIVIA $500: Ludovico Manin, the last person to hold this office in Venice, was deposed in 1797 Doge |
#1323, aired 1990-05-09 | ABBREVIATIONS $300: An antonym of "caps.", "lc" stands for this lowercase |
#1181, aired 1989-10-23 | SPORTS & GAMES $300: Teams in this aquatic sport wear either white or blue caps, while their goalkeepers wear red water polo |
#979, aired 1988-12-01 | DID YOU NOTICE? $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 American League teams with a mascot but no letters on its caps (1 of) the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays or Baltimore Orioles |
#971, aired 1988-11-21 | MARS $500: It's now believed they're made up of frozen carbon dioxide & water ice caps |
#903, aired 1988-07-06 | FADED FADS $100: In the '50s, the price of raccoon skins soared to $8 per pound due to demand for these coonskin caps |
#900, aired 1988-07-01 | EDS, EDDIES, & EDWARDS $200: The answer to his motto "How am I doing?" was positive enough to reelect him several times as NYC's mayor Ed Koch |
#662, aired 1987-06-23 | THE MILITARY $200: 973 dress white garrison caps were tossed in the air at this Hudson River site May 28, 1986 West Point |
#626, aired 1987-05-04 | BASEBALL $100: Major league team with the letters "SOX" on their caps Chicago (White Sox) |
#494, aired 1986-10-30 | RESTAURANTS $100: Windows on the World
caps this New York City landmark the World Trade Center |
#302, aired 1985-11-05 | RACCOONS $100: To keep up his image, he ordered extra coonskin caps when he got to Congress in 1828 Davy Crockett |
#163, aired 1985-04-24 | STUFFED $100: Their caps are stuffed as an appetizer a mushroom |
#141, aired 1985-03-25 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: 3-letter term for fashions that come & go quickly, such as hula hoops & coonskin caps a fad |
#91, aired 1985-01-14 | 1955 $200: This character's merchandising included soap & bikes as well as coonskin caps Davy Crockett |
#91, aired 1985-01-14 | WATER $200: Where 97% of all Earth's water is located the oceans |