| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $600: Real Madagascar vanilla is one of the spices in this "original spiced rum" brand, & I totally mean to pull rank here Captain Morgan |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $2000: Daniel J. Travanti was in command as Captain Frank Furillo on this drama Hill Street Blues |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $800: Atop Massachusetts' Captain's Hill is a statue of this Pilgrim whose "Courtship" is the subject of a famous poem Miles Standish |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $400: Horatio Magellan are the first & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea Captain Crunch |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOOKS BY CHARACTERS $200: Hunting at sea,
Matt Hooper &
Captain Quint Jaws |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $800: This NFL team notes mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium! the Buccaneers |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1200: This Moscow-born captain of the Washington Capitals is seen with the only man ahead of him--for now--in career NHL goals Ovechkin |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $800: Asked if he knows what he's doing:
"Yeah. I've knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times" Captain America |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $400: Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson was introduced to the MCU in this 2014 "Captain America" sequel The Winter Soldier |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $800: Further from land than anywhere else on Earth, a South Pacific spot is called Point this, after a fictional captain Nemo |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | SCIENTISTS $800: Captain Robert FitzRoy had doubts inviting this naturalist aboard an 1831 voyage due to the shape of his nose Darwin |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $800: In Act I of this ordinal play, a ship captain informs Viola, "This is Illyria", which is in the Balkans Twelfth Night |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $400: In "Peter Pan", this pirate's arm was eaten by a crocodile that also swallowed a ticking clock Captain Hook |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $400: 2022:
Captain Pete Mitchell is back in the cockpit Top Gun: Maverick |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $800: It's a whirlwind courtship for this actress who plays Captain Marvel & this cartoonist behind The Far Side Brie & Gary Larson |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $400: "O Captain! My Captain!", its words full of grief / Whitman's lament to this commander in chief Lincoln |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $800: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man; now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $4,000 (Daily Double): A group portrait by Rembrandt:
"The ____ ____
(The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq)" The Night Watch |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $600: Alexander Smollett is the captain of the Hispaniola in this Stevenson adventure Treasure Island |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $1600: Aye aye! I got this style of chair for $129.99 at Walmart a captain's chair |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE GENE POOL $1000: He created Mr. Spock & Captain Kirk (Gene) Roddenberry |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $2000: This British naval captain "Endeavour"ed to sail around the Horn--& did in 1769 Cook |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $1000: "It's the world against us & us against the world", says Errol Flynn as this sanguine title pirate Captain Blood |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $400: For Disney's "Peter Pan", Hans Conried voiced dual roles: Mr. Darling & this evil pirate Captain Hook |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $1200: Not named for pirate William, but for an admiral who died on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor, here's the USS this, flying the Jolly Roger the USS Kidd |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $1600: In a book by Rafael Sabatini, "Captain Blood" is a feared pirate of this "Spanish" area of New World seas the Spanish Main |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $2000: Let's raise a glass of branded rum to this captain, a Welsh buccaneer who somehow ended up as deputy governor of Jamaica in 1674 Captain Morgan |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | 5 ABOUT 4 $200: A "four-striper" is someone of this U.S. Navy rank, the boss on board captain |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1,100 (Daily Double): Lord Drinian is captain of this title vessel in a book by C.S. Lewis the Dawn Treader |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1600: The irascible Captain Haddock is from this Belgian's "Tintin" stories Hergé |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | TV $600: Before he starred on "Castle" & "The Rookie", he was Captain Mal Reynolds on "Firefly" (Nathan) Fillion |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $600: In 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man", this actor gets unmasked by NYPD captain Denis Leary (Andrew) Garfield |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $200: W.E. Henley's "Invictus" concludes, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of" this my soul |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHY $600: The highest peak in New Zealand is this 12,200-foot mount named for an 18th century sea captain Mount Cook |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $200: Tuneage of the revolutionary era included this song composed by an army captain in one night in 1792 "The Marseillaise" |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: Including Palmerston & Pukapuka, this vast expanse of islands was named after a British captain who visited in 1773 (the) Cook (Islands) |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $800: In 2021 fans bid farewell to Jake Peralta, Captain Holt & the rest of the squad on this sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | '80s MOVIE COMEDIES $600: Roger Murdock & Captain Oveur, in this 1980 classic: "We have clearance, Clarence"; "Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?" Airplane! |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $1200: "GLOW" wrestler & Captain Marvel portrayer Alison Brie Larson |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands Abel Tasman |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | 5-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: Unstable skipper of the minesweeper U.S.S. Caine who faces a mutiny (Captain) Queeg |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | POSSESSIVE LIT $1000: This Italian army captain's "Mandolin" Captain Corelli |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: This American poet wrote, "O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done" (Walt) Whitman |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Peter Pan's enemy is the way you were fooled into completely believing a story Captain Hook, line & sinker |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | TV CATCHPHRASES $200: This Starfleet captain: "Make it so" Jean-Luc Picard |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $600: Steep cliffs line the shores of both the N. & S. Islands of New Zealand separated by this strait named for a British captain (the) Cook (Strait) |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $200: He's the roguish, rum-obsessed captain played by Johnny Depp in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise Jack Sparrow |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $400: After a lovely meal, time for drinks on this place where the controls are; the captain calls it the cockpit the bridge |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER $400: Georges St-Pierre used his signature "Superman punch" in a scene against this hero, but mostly worked with Chris Evans' stunt double Captain America |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $2000: Mortally wounded in action in Vietnam in 1967, Captain Riley Pitts became the first African-American officer to receive this the Medal of Honor |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE FRIEND ZONE $400: In the 1600s, you could have this kind of ship's captain, who was no use in storms; now we talk mostly about this kind of friend a fair-weather friend |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $1200: Meaning "comedy of the profession", this 16th-18th c. Italian form used stock characters like the lovers & the captain commedia dell'arte |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CONTRACTIONS $800: The apostrophe in this contracted rank takes the place of "tai" cap'n |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | THAT '70s OR '80s SHOW $1000: This TV legend kind of got busted from captain down to sgt. as T.J. Hooker, but he did get to jump on the hoods of moving cars! Shatner |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PICK A "CARD" $1200: Patrick Stewart has played this Starfleet captain in film & on television Captain Picard |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $200: This captain of the Bounty had a falling out with First Mate Fletcher Christian; mutiny ensued Captain Bligh |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $600: A bit of a stickler, this captain, leader of the Jamestown colony, said, "He that will not work shall not eat" John Smith |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $800: In the 1950s Captain Hyman Rickover selected this future president for his new nuclear submarine program Jimmy Carter |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): Capt. Preston was acquitted for his part in this March 5, 1770 event--it couldn't be proved he'd ordered British troops to fire the Boston Massacre |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $1000: Arthur Rostron captained this ship that rescued 705 Titanic survivors, including "The Unsinkable" Molly Brown the RMS Carpathia |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | 4-LETTER FOOD & DRINK $1000: In "Treasure Island" Captain Smollett tells the men they'll have this rum drink "served out for you to drink our health and luck" grog |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | LET'S TAKE A WALK $200: Captain Hook made prisoners do this, involving a board leading over the water; real-life pirates, not so much walk the plank |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $800: An 18th century British captain gave his name to these South Pacific islands, now a popular tourist destination the Cook Islands |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $400: Before it was published in book form, his "Treasure Island" appeared in a magazine under the pseudonym Captain George North Stevenson |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | CHARACTERS ON THE TV SHOW $600: Let's space out with Captain Janeway, Tuvok & Kes Star Trek: Voyager |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | PIRATES! $800: We him you not--the much-publicized 2015 discovery of this captain's "treasure" really just turned up lead & rubble Captain Kidd |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | PIRATES! $1600: In 2009 he was the captain of the first U.S.-flagged ship taken by pirates in more than 200 years (Captain) Phillips |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | THE WOUK MOB $200: In a novel by Herman Wouk, unstable Captain Queeg of the USS Caine faces this title event The Caine Mutiny |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $2000: Captain Miller,
Sergeant Horvath & Corporal Henderson in a '90s epic Saving Private Ryan |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ON A HOLIDAY $800: This English explorer got stabbed in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779 (Captain James) Cook |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED $200: It's an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft, captain a log |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | POP CULTURE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON $200: A 2014 film:
"Captain America:
The ____ Soldier" Winter |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $400: 1979: Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) regrets he's still only in Saigon Apocalypse Now |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | SUPER-DUPER SUPERS $400: Famous as Captain America, Chris Evans played this Marvel hothead in 2005's "Fantastic Four" the Human Torch |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | LITERARY SHIPPING $400: He's the captain of the whaling ship Pequod in "Moby Dick" Ahab |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $2000: Britain's National Maritime Museum has a painting showing this captain's 1779 death at the hands of Hawaiians (James) Cook |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $400: Davis Cup U.S. team captain from 1981 to 1985 Mr. Ashe Arthur |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | CAPTAIN AMERICA $400: It was during this war against the British that Captain James Lawrence said, "Don't give up the ship" the War of 1812 |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | CAPTAIN AMERICA $800: The first of 2 names in exploring, he went from ensign to captain in 5 years before becoming Jefferson's aide-de-camp Meriwether Lewis |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | CAPTAIN AMERICA $1200: Joy Bright Hancock, one of the first women with a naval commission, became a captain while in this WWII volunteer reserve unit the Women Accepted for Volunteer (the WAVES) |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | CAPTAIN AMERICA $2000: The USNA parade field is named for John Worden, who captained this ironclad that fought a famous battle March 9, 1862 the Monitor |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | CAPTAIN AMERICA $4,800 (Daily Double): Dean Acheson's memoir is dedicated to this former boss, "The Captain with the Mighty Heart" Harry Truman |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | CROSBY $600: Captain & center Sidney Crosby has led this NHL team to 3 Stanley Cup championships since 2009 the (Pittsburgh) Penguins |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Whitman: "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my ____ lies, fallen cold and dead" my Captain |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | OCEANS $600: A "point" in the Pacific that's the farthest from any land--1,670 miles--bears the name of this Jules Verne captain Nemo |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | FEB BE WARY $800: This sea captain should have been warier in February 1779; he was killed by locals after a kerfuffle at Kealakekua Bay Cook |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | TREES $1000: Captain Bligh had saplings of this tree aboard the Bounty during the voyage that was marked by mutiny breadfruit |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | MARVEL $1000: Captain Marvel gets some powers due to the Tesseract; others she has via an infusion of this alien race's blood thanks to Yon-Rogg Kree |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | ISLAND FOLK $1200: Tupaia was a Polynesian who guided Captain Cook as a star one of these, meaning he used the stars a navigator |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | ISLE "B" $400: Captain William Bligh discovered a group of South Pacific islands in 1788 & named them for this ship the Bounty |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | BOBBING FOR ACTORS $1600: As Alexander Pierce in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", this film legend didn't see eye-to-eye with Nick Fury Robert Redford |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEXT IN LINE... $400: U.S. Army ranks:
first lieutenant,
captain... major |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $400: 2013:
"Look at me. Look at me. I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" paid homage to President Lincoln, "fallen cold and dead" Whitman |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $200: "Thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!"; he should've cut bait & run, as his harpoon issues got much worse the next day (Captain) Ahab |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | POP CULTURE $400: 2021 saw the first stand-alone movie about this Marvel-ous title female, set during the time of "Captain America: Civil War" Black Widow |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | REALITY TV $400: Here's Captain Sandy, welcome aboard her yacht on this series, "Mediterranean" Below Deck |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $1600: This "Treasure Island" bad guy was a former sidekick of Captain Flint, "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed" Long John Silver |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This port on the Gulf of Mexico was founded by Captain Hardy & is co-seat with Biloxi of Harrison County Gulfport |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | THEY'RE SORT OF A BIG DEAL $200: General & colonel are higher up in the army, but an informal title is this rank "of industry" captain |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Ritter.) You know, it's always hard to find parking around Manhattan, but on January 15, 2009, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger saved 155 lives with an emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in this river on the West Side Hudson |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | DURING THE WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ADMINISTRATION $200: Richard Roberts, the 1st captain to cross the Atlantic in this type of vessel abbreviated SS, went down in one, the SS President steamship |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | NO MAN $600: On April 28, 1789 Fletcher Christian & crew said no to this captain's tough love, sending him off in a boat (Captain) Bligh |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $400: As part of a 2017 promotion, a pair of briefs with a 76-foot-wide waistband was made for this Dav Pilkey kids' book character Captain Underpants |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $2000: This person's "Play" by Charles Fuller about Sgt. Waters & Captain Davenport arrived on B'way in 2020, 38 years after winning a Pulitzer A Soldier's Play |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $1600: Before donning the Captain Marvel garb, she fronted the band Clash at Demonhead in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the world" Brie Larson |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $800: Captain Olivia Benson; Sergeant John Munch Law & Order: SVU |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $1000: Officer Joe Coffey; Captain Frank Furillo Hill Street Blues |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: Captain Haddock is the companion & Snowy is the dog of this teenage journalist created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé Tintin |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | THOMAS PAINE $1600: A "Captain America" movie got its title by contrasting this Paine phrase meaning someone who only fights when it's pleasant outside the summer soldier |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | POP CULTURE RELATIVES? $400: It's pretty obvious Captain America's alter ego & the man with a TV "Neighborhood" are both superheroes, so maybe cousins too? Steve & Fred Rogers |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $400: Seen here, Tom Hiddleston plays this Marvel trickster who has transformed himself into Odin & Captain America Loki |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $1600: One of Captain Flint's crew, Ben Gunn is marooned on this title island for 3 years Treasure Island |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: "The harpoon was darted... (he) stooped to clear it... but the flying turn caught him round the neck" Captain Ahab |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $800: These are a tradition on Tahiti; after months there, Fletcher Christian appeared before Captain Bligh covered in them tattoos |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD $400: In this 1965 film the captain calls off his marriage to the baroness & instead weds Maria in an abbey church with Alpine views The Sound of Music |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | BRITS IN BOATS $400: After being cast adrift by the rebellious crew of the Bounty, this captain & his men eventually made it to Indonesia Captain Bligh |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | UNIFORMITY $1200: Generally, on a pilot's uniform, 4 stripes on these, French for "little shoulder", denotes the captain, & 3, the first officer epaulets |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BEFORE & BAFTA $4,000 (Daily Double): Zombies from an AMC drama stand on desks & moan, "O Captain! My Captain!" to Robin Williams The Walking Dead Poets Society |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIPLING CHARACTERS $600: McAndrew in "McAndrew's Hymn" is a Scottish one of these on a ship, but doesn't say, "I've given her all she's got, captain!" engineer |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | ABBREV. TV $2000: OK, Boomer, it was created by & starred Bob Keeshan:
"CK" Captain Kangaroo |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | AROUND THE USA $400: This South Carolina resort island is named for English sea captain William, not for a hotel chain Hilton Head |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | BRAND MASCOTS $400: Jay Ward Productions created "Rocky & Bullwinkle" as well as this naval mascot of a sweetened corn & oat cereal Captain Crunch |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $1600: This 18th century historian served as a captain in the Hampshire militia & wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" Gibbon |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $2000: "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul", ends this poem whose title is Latin for "unconquered" "Invictus" |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $200: To his horror & shame, on May 7, 1915 the captain of this liner was saved & did not go down with the ship after a U-boat sank it the Lusitania |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $600: It's not Tom Hanks, it's this Maersk, Alabama captain seen with the lifeboat he was ultimately rescued from Captain Phillips |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $682 (Daily Double): Captain Joseph Hazelwood was in charge on March 24, 1989 when this oil tanker hit Bligh Reef, off Alaska's coast the Exxon Valdez |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $800: First name of C.S. Forester's creation Captain Hornblower of the Royal Navy Horatio |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $800: It's yo ho ho & a bottle of rum for this Welsh buccaneer who ransacked Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama in 1668 Captain Morgan |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $1000: In 1518 Rui Faleiro & this Portuguese explorer were joint captains looking for an all-Spanish route to the Moluccas Magellan |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | ANTARCTICA $1200: In 1773 this British captain crossed the Antarctic Circle; icepack kept his ship from reaching the continent Cook |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | TV $1000: Rob Lowe plays firefighter/captain Owen Strand on "9-1-1:" this Lone Star |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | MARITIME DISASTERS $1600: In 2012, the cruise ship called the Costa this ran aground off the Italian coast with the captain abandoning the ship the Costa Concordia |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | ALL KINDS OF BARS $1000: In the U.S. Army, Marines & Air Force, promotion from first lieutenant to this rank means getting a second bar captain |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | ALONG FOR THE RIDE $400: Time spent with Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle, helped this onboard naturalist evolve his views Darwin |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | INSANE CLOWN POSSE $1200: Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the murderous clown in "House of 1000 Corpses", directed by this White Zombie frontman Rob Zombie |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | JOCKS $200: Captain of the U.S. team in the last 2 Olympics, Aly Raisman has won 3 gold medals in this sport gymnastics |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver" Treasure Island |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SKIPPER $400: The short story "The Gold Bug" is about treasure supposedly buried by the pirate known as "Captain" him Kidd |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SKIPPER $5,000 (Daily Double): In a maritime fable Captain Falkenberg endlessly traverses the North Sea in this spectral craft The Flying Dutchman |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $1600: It's a general term for maps used by ocean navigators; there's a book of these "& Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages" charts |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $200: On June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky this pirate captain came ashore Johnny Depp |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $800: Brown was supported by transcendentalist writers like Emerson & this friend who gave a "Plea for Captain John Brown" Thoreau |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $400: A 1720s "General History of the Pyrates" spells this infamous "young" captain's last name with just one "D" Captain Kidd |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $2000: In a WWI-set novel by C.S. Forester, Rose Sayer & uncouth Captain Charlie Allnutt are thrown together on this title boat The African Queen |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $800: A ship's captain is cursed to sail the seas forever unless he can find a faithful wife in this Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MILITARY RANK LANGUAGE $200: The pilot of a commercial airliner captain |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: Captain
Hector Barbossa &
the Marquis de Sade Geoffrey Rush |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Hellbrunn Palace in Salzburg, Austria.) Sung by Maria and the Captain in the gazebo, recreated on a Hollywood stage, "Something Good" was one of two new songs written for the movie, the rest coming from the Broadway show, the last collaboration by this pair Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | NAME, RANK, NO SERIAL NUMBER $200: William Bligh officially got this rank one year after his 1789 misadventure captain |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | SAILING THE 5 SEAS $1600: In 1822 a Russian navy captain named this sea off his nation's east coast for a Danish explorer the Bering Sea |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | YO HO HO $800: Captain Quint in "Jaws" sang the lament, "Farewell, and adieu to" these women the Spanish ladies |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THEY DIDN'T SURVIVE THE FILM $200: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain, but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam" in this film Forrest Gump |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | FAMOUS NAMES $1200: This Wild West woman claimed she got her "catastrophic" nickname from one Captain Egan, whom she rescued from an ambush Calamity Jane |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES $1600: Marvel Movie metals: Wolverine's claws are adamantium & Captain America's shield is made of this Wakandan metal vibranium |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $800: Captain Cook brought this forbidding word into English from the south seas taboo |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $800: Michael Corleone, played by him, shoots down a rival mobster & a police captain Pacino |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $800: On landing in the Hawaiian islands, Captain Cook named them this, after an earl the Sandwich Islands |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $2000: In a 2013 film Tom Hanks takes Alabama to sea & must figure out how to deal with unexpected guests Captain Phillips |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | CHARACTERS IN MOBY-DICK $400: This obsessive captain shares his name with a biblical king of Israel Ahab |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | CAST YOUR PEARLS $200: Captain Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Johnny Depp |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | THAT'S SO 500 YEARS AGO! $400: On Sept. 20, 1519 this Portuguese captain led his 5-ship fleet towards South America without even using GPS! Magellan |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1000: Ramon Ferrer was the captain of this slave ship until his unwilling passengers rebelled & killed him in July 1839 the Amistad |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | OFFBEAT HISTORY $800: Cheers to this pirate captain, arrested in 1672 but later knighted by Charles II & made Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica Captain Henry Morgan |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) On his last voyage to search for the Northwest Passage, this captain discovered the Hawaiian Islands Cook |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | DAY JOB VU $1200: On Sept. 11, 2009, almost 9 months after an unusual landing, he was back in the cockpit for a flight from Charlotte to Atlanta Captain Sully |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | INSPIRING WOMEN $200: American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date September 11th |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE TOTALLY RAD 1980s $800: I was so stoked when this team USA hockey captain scored the winning goal against the Soviets in 1980's "Miracle on Ice"! Eruzione |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $400: Unlikely allies Jack Ryan & Captain Marko Ramius Tom Clancy |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $600: This children's character played by Bob Keeshan wasn't Australian; he was named for the large pouches in his coat Captain Kangaroo |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $4,000 (Daily Double): After arriving by submarine, this character claims the South Pole with a black flag bearing a gold "N" Captain Nemo |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $2000: Instead of Christmas the family in the movie "Captain Fantastic" observes the birthday of this linguist & left-wing social critic Noam Chomsky |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | IT'S CRUNCH TIME $600: The navigator of this food brand sails the milky seas on his ship, the S.S. Guppy Cap'n Crunch |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY $200: This British captain sighted New Zealand in 1769 & accurately charted its coast Captain Cook |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $400: Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his Lincoln |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | JACK LONDON $2000: The title of this novel refers to the brutality of ship's captain Wolf Larsen The Sea-Wolf |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LEFT ON THE BOARD $1200: In a 2019 movie this superhero punched an elderly woman on a train (but she had a really good reason) Captain Marvel |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | WHAT'D THE CAPTAIN SAY? $200: When the captain says to do this to the anchor, he wants it raised, not measured to weigh |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | WHAT'D THE CAPTAIN SAY? $400: This explosive-sounding part is a long spar at the foot of a sail a boom |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | WHAT'D THE CAPTAIN SAY? $600: A command to turn this 8-letter way means to head into the breeze windward |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | WHAT'D THE CAPTAIN SAY? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a bit on the monitor.) A bit is a sturdy post in a deck for fastening cables & ropes, so when the captain says, "Hold on to" this, it means to grab the last part of a line, not to hang on until no hope remains the bitter end |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | WHAT'D THE CAPTAIN SAY? $1000: The navigator factors in the effects of tide & current to answer the captain's request for the EP, estimated this position |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $400: You'd think after 56 years, there'd be a premium version of this cereal where its mascot gets his long-deserved admiral promotion Cap'n Crunch |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $600: J.M. Barrie wrote that this pirate was "cadaverous...his hair dressed in long curls which look like black candles about to melt" Captain Hook |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $800: Valentine's Day in Hawaii sounds perfect for most, but in 1779, this captain was killed in a dispute over a stolen cutter Captain Cook |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $1000: The 2003 novel "Gilligan's Wake" gives this TV character a backstory as a WWII PT boat captain hanging with JFK the Skipper |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $800: In this man's "Wife", Una marries the title whaling captain Ahab |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ENTERTAINMENT $200: Oh yes, Captain Kirk worked with Batman when he starred as "Alexander the Great", with Adam West as Cleander William Shatner |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | COMIC BOOK SIDEKICKS $200: Bucky Barnes fought alongside this hero in World War II Captain America |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | CHILDISH BAMBINO $600: Babe had this player leadership position for only 6 days before being stripped of it for going after a fan in the stands captain |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | V.I.P.! V.I.P.! $3,000 (Daily Double): 3 North American bodies of water--a strait, a bay & a river--are named for this English captain last seen in 1611 (Henry) Hudson |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | STATE SCHOOL, THAT GREAT SCHOOL $200: University of Tennessee alumni include Cormac McCarthy, Captain Lou Albano & this ex-QB who sells insurance on TV Peyton Manning |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | STAGE CRAFT $400: In 1991 J.K. Simmons as Captain Hook sailed on the pirate ship in this show on Broadway Peter Pan |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | STAGE CRAFT $9,812 (Daily Double): Captain Corcoran is in command of this title Gilbert & Sullivan ship the H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | "PORTER" $200: It's how Mr. Spock & Captain Kirk get from the ship to a planet's surface a transporter |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | A COLONEL OF TRUTH $800: It was far from a holiday in Cambodia for Captain Willard, in search of Colonel Kurtz in this film Apocalypse Now |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | INVENTORS $600: British sea captain John Ward made one of these in the 1850s by combining blocks of cork on a vest a life jacket |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | IN PERPETUITY $400: One legend about this ship has its captain forever sailing the North Sea, playing dice for his soul with the devil the Flying Dutchman |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $3,000 (Daily Double): Rafael Sabatini wrote a novel about this sanguine "Captain", a doctor turned pirate Captain Blood |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FAR OUT, MAN $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the Pacific Ocean on the monitor.) A spot in the Pacific is so remote that world space agencies use it as a dumping area because there's little chance of endangering humans; it's named Point this after a literary captain whose name means "no one" in Latin Point Nemo |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | OXFORD $600: Professors of theatre have included Diana Rigg, Tom Stoppard & this '90s captain of the Enterprise Patrick Stewart |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | EVERYTHING'S IN ORDINAL $800: It's the next rank under captain on a commercial ship first mate |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | COMIC "ON" $2000: Imbued with light energy, a son of Captain Marvel goes by this name, a word for a quantum of light photon |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | MAN OF THE CENTURY $400: Captain James Cook explored then the 18th century |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | '99 PROBLEMS $800: 1699:
This notorious "Captain" arrived in the West Indies & found out he was wanted for piracy Captain Kidd |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $600: January 13, 2012:
32 die when an Italian cruise ship sinks; its captain is later convicted of this lesser type of homicide manslaughter |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | RIVALRY $800: You will always remember today as the day that you named this captain who took down Barbossa with a single shot in 2003 Jack Sparrow |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: In 2018 this actor ditched his shield to go from Captain America to bad cop in "Lobby Hero" Chris Evans |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | TAKE A "NEE" $800: Captain Bligh suffered the wrath of a group of them mutineers |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | HALLOWEEN WITH GENE SIMMONS $1200: (Gene Simmons presents the clue.) In the original 1978 "Halloween", a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character Michael Myers |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WHERE YOU GOING? $800: Are you meeting Captain Jean-Luc in this French region that recently merged with Nord-Pas-de-Calais? Picardy |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey takes on the slave trade in the Gulf of Guinea in "The Commodore" by this author (Patrick) O'Brian |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | CONTEMPORARIES $1600: In 1698 Captain Kidd sailed the seas & this leader came home from a 17-month European tour to crush a revolt in Moscow Peter the Great |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | PARDONER $1600: Pres. Cleveland, an ex-sheriff, pardoned James Brooks, a cowboy-killin' captain in this Texas law-&-order force a Texas Ranger |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $400: In this 1981 film Jurgen Prochnow plays the captain of a WWII German submarine harassing Allied vessels Das Boot |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FICTIONAL DOCTORS $1200: Dr. Maturin is ship's surgeon & friend to captain Aubrey in this Patrick O'Brian novel that launched a series Master and Commander |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | LITERARY TYPES $800: The actions of a crewman under 18th c. captain George Shelvocke were an inspiration for this Coleridge poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | & THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES $1200: One theory says this Virginia port got its name from an English captain who brought news to settlers at Jamestown Newport News |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 15 MINUTES OF FAME $800: The Navy SEAL who wrote a book on killing Bin Laden also helped rescue a ship's captain from pirates of this nation Somalia |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $1000: Captain Willard journeys into the heart of darkness to find Col. Kurtz in this Vietnam-set film Apocalypse Now |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SAILING LIT $800: A strange ship called the Demeter brings this character to England, but its crew is gone & the captain is dead! Count Dracula |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE 2017 IG NOBEL PRIZES $600: Economics: For experiments, maybe on Captain Hook, on how contact with a live this affects willingness to gamble the crocodile |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $400: Abraham Lincoln lies "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on board the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, just yards from the spot where Captain "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on this river the Hudson |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | EXPLORERS $1200: In 1770 this British captain's ship the Endeavour almost sank when it got stuck on the Great Barrier Reef Cook |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | ALL AROUND YOUTUBE $600: The directors of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" shaped their film to avoid being mocked by this fake coming attractions show Honest Trailers |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | AIRLINES $400: In 2016 this airline transported a relic:
a feathered cloak & helmet given to Captain James Cook 237 years before Hawaiian Airlines |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NEWSPAPERS $600: After "JFK Jetblue Pilot Goes Nuts in Midair", this Rupert Murdoch tabloid subtly headlined "This Is Your Captain Freaking" The New York Post |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | HUMANS IN THE GALAPAGOS $1000: (Alex presents the clue from the Galapagos.) I'm at Post Office Bay on the island of Floreana--when sailors' messages to their families back home were intercepted right here by U.S. Navy captain David Porter & his crew, they indicated the positions of their ships, & that information helped destroy the British Pacific whaling fleet during this war the War of 1812 |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | OTHER WONDER WOMEN $800: This colorful sorceress sided with the Captain in "Captain America: Civil War" the Scarlet Witch |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | FEDORA $600: Here's the outfit, fedora included, that Captain Picard wore when he went into this virtual reality environment the Holodeck |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | DOUBLE "D"s $1000: This fish resembling the cod is also the name of the Captain who's a friend of Tintin the haddock |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | I'M JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU $1000: You like the Jason Bourne films, while I prefer classics like this one with Humphrey Bogart as a riverboat captain The African Queen |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE $200: This future starship captain freaks out on an airplane flight when he thinks he sees someone on the wing William Shatner |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | STAN LEE $600: (Stan Lee presents the clue.) In my first published comic book story back in 1941, I introduced this character's famous shield throw, which he still employs today Captain America |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: In "The Mysterious Island", a semi-sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", he dies & is buried at sea in his submarine (Captain) Nemo |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK $2000: Theodore Bikel played the Soviet captain who runs his submarine aground off New England in this 1960s comedy film The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | NEW ENGLAND $1000: This English explorer & captain gave New England its name after exploring the region in the 1600s Captain John Smith |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN $800: We'll be brief--this Dav Pilkey title hero just wears a cape & one other very important piece of clothing Captain Underpants |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | KEEP IT DOWN $1000: In "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", Garry Shandling whispers "hail" this to a conspirator hail Hydra |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $200: In the 1690s this captain was assigned to hunt pirates but became one, plundering instead of protecting ships Captain Kidd |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $400: hotels.com blatantly uses this medal-adorned military man in ad campaigns Captain Obvious |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $800: From Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Daryl Dragon got the nickname "Captain Keyboard" before joining this woman in a pop duo (Toni) Tennille |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $1000: In 2009 the Maersk Alabama, captained by him, ran afoul of pirates near the Horn of Africa Captain Phillips |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | ON "PIN"s $1600: In a work by Gilbert & Sullivan, Captain Corcoran commands this title vessel the H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): The unfortunate Captain Max Pruss was in command of this vehicle over New Jersey on May 6, 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | 3 STRAIGHT VOWELS $5,000 (Daily Double): In the NYPD it's the rank just below captain lieutenant |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | EPONYMS $1200: In the 1950s an Israeli army captain won a competition by creating this submachine gun named for him an Uzi |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | KIDDY LIT $200: She drank the cup of poison Captain Hook had intended for Peter Pan Tinker Bell |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $200: Advised to make a change in his life, this Mark Ruffalo character says, "That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry" the Hulk or Bruce Banner |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS $400: "I Was There Too" has as guests supporting actors like Clancy Brown, prison guard captain Hadley in this 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | MARVEL MOVIE MAGIC $1600: Super soldier serum was the stuff that created this title hero Captain America |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $1200: Dav Pilkey made the list with his cheeky series about the character seen here, named Captain this Captain Underpants |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $1200: The USA's top ace, Captain Joseph McConnell shot down 16 of these Russian-built jets, 3 on the same day MiGs |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | HETERONYMS $1000: To switch back & forth & a replacement team captain in the NHL alternate [ALL-ter-nit] and alternate [ALL-ter-nate] |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) In 1911, President Taft spoke at the dedication of Captain of Engineers Pierre Charles L'Enfant's new grave; he's one of only 15 soldiers from this war at the cemetery the Revolutionary War |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 1776 $400: In 1776 he captained the Resolution in search of the NW Passage but later should not have taken a Hawaiian vacation Captain Cook |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | TV SITCOM BY EPISODES $600: "Hostage Situation" &
"Captain Peralta" Brooklyn Nine-Nine |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | WORD ORIGINS $400: From the Middle Dutch word for "ship" comes this term for the captain of a small ship or boat skipper |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | TOM HANKS MOVIE QUOTES $600: "Listen up, we have been boarded by armed pirates" Captain Phillips |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): This sea captain "with a crucifixion in his face" seeks revenge, but not on a person Captain Ahab |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THIS CATEGORY IS JUST FLUFF $200: Captain Kirk almost sits on one of these fluffy furballs that found its way into his chair a Tribble |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | SPORTS TROPHIES $1600: Here's Colin Montgomerie with this cup he won as captain of the 2010 European team the Ryder Cup |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1600: In 2010 Air Force captain Daniel Welch began piloting this same plane his grandfather flew the B-52 |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WARNER BROS $400: Glenn Warner, Cornell's 1894 football team captain, go this nickname because he was older than most students Pop Warner |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | OLYMPIANS $1000: The triumphant 2016 U.S. women's gymnastics team had 2 holdovers from 2012: Gabby Douglas & this captain Aly Raisman |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: In 1608 this captain & a few other colonists left Jamestown & explored the Chesapeake Bay & its tributaries (John) Smith |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $200: This pirate of the Caribbean says, "My vessel is magnificent and fierce and huge-ish" Captain Jack Sparrow |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $400: Sherlock Holmes has Dr. Watson; Captain Hastings is the sidekick of this Belgian detective (Hercule) Poirot |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $600: This rum calls itself "the original party spirit" Captain Morgan |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $800: This Rembrandt painting is a group portrait of the company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq The Night Watch |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $1000: In some versions of the maritime legend, Vanderdecken is the captain of this spectral ship The Flying Dutchman |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | RENTING A CAR $200: How about this company that shares its name with Captain Kirk's craft? Enterprise |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1600: In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", it's Captain Nemo's submarine the Nautilus |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | ODD COMBINED RESPONSES $800: Army rank immediately above private 1st class + hopping marsupial of the family Macropodidae corporal kangaroo |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | NFL QUARTERBACKS $600: In the '70s this Cowboys quarterback was called "Captain Comeback" & "Roger the Dodger" Roger Staubach |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: Jeannie was a genie & we guess this Larry Hagman character was the one who dreamed of her Captain Tony Nelson |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | THE 1700s $400: Found guilty of piracy and murder, this captain was hanged in 1701 Captain Kidd |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: William Ernest Henley wrote, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my" this soul |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | LETTER-WORD $400: Walther Schwieger was the captain of this type of vessel that torpedoed the Lusitania a U-boat |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | POTENT QUOTABLES $1200: In "Treasure Island", the captain claims he is "a plain man"; this drink "and bacon and eggs is what I want" rum |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Lexington college hoops squad joins Hans & Fritz in the comics; their goal-- confounding der Captain the Wild Katzenjammer Kids |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CAPTAIN $200: In 1770 he sailed through a body of water Tasman thought was a bay & showed that New Zealand is made up of 2 large islands (Captain) Cook |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CAPTAIN $400: (Sarah gives the clue from Tahiti.) Charles Nordhoff & James Hall moved to Tahiti, found local brides & collaborated on the "Bounty" trilogy, the second book of which tells the tale of this captain's escape to Dutch Timor Captain Bligh |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CAPTAIN $600: Brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon captained these 2 ships for Columbus in 1492 the Niña and the Pinta |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CAPTAIN $800: In September 1608 he became president of the Jamestown Council John Smith |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CAPTAIN $1000: Here's the Milwaukee mansion of this captain, a beer baron (Frederick) Pabst |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CHARACTERS IN TV SHOWS $1000: Peter Pan, Robin Hood & Captain Hook live fairy tale lives on ABC Once Upon a Time |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MTV $800: Tyler Posey plays Scott McCall, co-captain of the lacrosse team & part of a pack on this MTV series Teen Wolf |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | A STUDENT OF FILM $1600: Set at John Hughes High, 2001's "Not Another Teen Movie" starred this actor, whom you may know as Captain America Chris Evans |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED $400: Captain Smith, you didn't bother to sound a general alarm after this ship hit an iceberg? You're fired! the Titanic |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | ROCK "ME" $800: "But she wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts
She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers" in this Taylor Swift tune "You Belong With Me" |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | ARCHIPELAGOS $1200: You might say that Manihiki in this group named for a British sea captain has the blessing of the black pearls the Cook Islands |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $400: In a eulogy for Lincoln: "O ____! My ____! Our fearful trip is done" captain |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | "TEN"-LETTER WORDS $800: In the U.S. Army, a first this ranks just below captain lieutenant |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | GEORGE CLOONEY FILM ROLES $400: Fishing boat captain Billy Tyne The Perfect Storm |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | THEATRE TITLE DUOS $1200: In a Sean O'Casey play, Juno is the wife of Captain Boyle, who is nicknamed this due to his gait the Paycock |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | SAILING JOBS $400: The officer ranking just below the captain, like Gilligan on TV the first mate |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | ADAPTATIONS 5 $600: A memorable line in this 2013 movie adapted from a nonfiction book: "I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | OF BOOKS & BOATS $200: Fame was fleecing for this captain of the mythological Argo Jason |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | OF BOOKS & BOATS $400: Captain Hook's ship in "Peter Pan", it shares its name with a pirate banner the Jolly Roger |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | OF BOOKS & BOATS $800: The Sealing schooner ghost is brutal Captain Wolf Larsen's ship in a 1904 tale by this man Jack London |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | POLITICS $200: Military-sounding term for a local leader who oversees a political party's activities in one precinct a captain |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | THEIR LAST TOP 10 POP HIT, SO FAR $800: "Do That To Me One More Time"
(1979) Captain & Tennille |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE MOVIE ACTOR'S ROLE $600: In this 1969 film Peter Fonda was marvelous as Captain America, man (no, not that one, man!) Easy Rider |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE! $800: Captain Jack, Will Turner & Elizabeth Swann sail off the edge of the map in 2007's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At" this place World's End |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | TV WEAPON OF CHOICE $400: Captain Kirk a phaser |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | VILLAINS IN THE COMICS $2000: The Red Skull debuted as Hitler's henchman in the March 1941 first issue of this comic Captain America |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | PIRATES $400: A story from the early 1900s says, "Undoubtedly the grimmest part of" him "was his iron claw" Captain Hook |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | THE 18th CENTURY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Easter Island.) When Captain Cook reached Easter Island in 1774, he found many of the great statues toppled & the Polynesian population decimated by this type of localized conflict a civil war |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | NEW ZEALAND $800: New Zealand's 5-dollar note features a penguin on the back & this explorer on the front Sir Edmund Hillary |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | WALT WHITMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Whitman paid homage to this man, "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Lincoln |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | YOU GET 95 YEARS $600: 1695:
This captain is commissioned to hunt pirates; he later becomes one Captain Kidd |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | LITERARY MILITARY $600: Horatio Hornblower came to the big screen with this word, Horatio's job, before his name in the title captain |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | WHAT A CHARACTER $400: Revenge against this creature is Captain Ahab's obsession Moby Dick |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THIRD $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) His third voyage went around the Cape of Good Hope, past Australia & New Zealand, up to Vancouver island, then the Bering Sea, & the final stop for this captain was in Hawaii in 1779 Cook |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | LIKE A SIMILE $400: You were "sleeping like" this, also a type of diary for a ship's captain a log |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | SUPERHERO NAME CHANGES $800: Disillusioned by government corruption, he dropped rank & became Nomad Captain America |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | SUPERHERO NAME CHANGES $1000: D.C. renamed Captain Marvel this, partially because readers already thought it was his name Shazam |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW $400: The New York Yankees,
2003-2014 (Derek) Jeter |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW $800: The America's cup-winning Courageous,
1977 Ted Turner |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW $1200: The U.S. Olympic basketball "Dream Team",
1992
(one of the 2 co-captains) Magic Johnson (or Larry Bird) |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW $1600: The U.S. Ryder Cup team,
1983 & '87 Jack Nicklaus |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW $2000: The Dallas Cowboys, 2015:
Dan Bailey, Barry Church, Sean Lee, Jason Witten & him Tony Romo |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THAT'S THE SPIRIT $200: Bacardi &
Captain Morgan rum |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: Beatty is the captain of the firemen in this Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | BALLPLAYERS IN UNIFORM $1200: During World War I, this ferocious Tiger made a peach of a U.S. Army captain Ty Cobb |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | LITERARY VILLAINS $400: This villain said a crocodile has followed him "from sea to sea... licking its lips for the rest of me" Captain Hook |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $200: This grad of the Starfleet Academy has been portrayed by Chris Pine Captain Kirk |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $400: In comic books Bucky Barnes was the sidekick of this super soldier Captain America |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $800: Bob Keeshan was Clarabell the Clown on "The Howdy Doody Show" before becomin this TV captain Captain Kangaroo |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $1000: This Air Force Captain in "Catch-22" hopes to get out of combat by proving he's crazy Yossarian |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $1,400 (Daily Double): He relieves Captain De Vriess of his duty in "the Caine Mutiny" Captain Queeg |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL $400: In this film Tom Hanks as Captain Miller tells his men, "Keep the sand out of your weapons... I'll see you on the beach" Saving Private Ryan |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | NHL TEAMS $600: For much of the '80s, '90s & 2000s, Mario Lemieux was their team captain the (Pittsburgh) Penguins |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $2000: This novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim tells the harrowing tale of a captain & his crew aboard a WWII German sub Das Boot |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THAT'S A WRAP! $1000: 1969:
Captain America & Billy have a really bad trip Easy Rider |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | RED-LETTER DAY $2000: On April 29, 1770 Captain James Cook arrived at this bay in present-day Sydney, Australia, naming it Sting-Ray Harbour Botany Bay |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $800: This Steven Spielberg title pirate is described by Smee as being "so deep he's almost unfathomable" Captain Hook |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $1000: "It's the world against us & us against the world", says Errol Flynn as this sanguine title pirate Captain Blood |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | HISTORY $1000: This Welsh buccaneer routed the Spanish in Panama City in 1671 & later served as deputy governor of Jamaica Captain (Henry) Morgan |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $1600: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) In 2011 I commanded the final mission of this space shuttle named for the ship commanded by Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery in the Pacific the Endeavour |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $200: In 2011 the doctor was in when Stanley played the man who turned puny Steve Rogers into this title hero Captain America |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | PLAY MS. "T" FOR ME $800: She & the Captain had a No. 1 hit with "Love Will Keep Us Together", but ultimately it didn't (Toni) Tennille |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | JULES VERNE $800: This seagoing captain is described as "an Indian, the Prince Dakkar, son of a rajah" (Captain) Nemo |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | HUMAN ENDEAVOR $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the California Science Center in Los Angeles.) The Space Shuttle Endeavour is 122 feet long and 78 feet wide, more than 20 feet longer & 50 feet wider than its 18th-century namesake commanded by this intrepid Englishman (Captain) Cook |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | ALONG CAME JONES $800: In 1999 Brian Jones & Captain Bertrand Piccard became the first to circle the globe nonstop in this a (hot air) balloon |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | THE VOYAGE OF THE BOUNTY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) After living the lush life in the South Pacific, the Bounty's crew found it difficult to return to the ship & this oppressive captain Bligh |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | THE VOYAGE OF THE BOUNTY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) A long-time friend of the captain, this first mate had planned an escape by raft, but several of the crew begged him to take the ship, and the mutiny began Fletcher Christian |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $800: "A Captain's Duty", a memoir by Richard Phillips, was the basis for this 2013 movie Captain Phillips |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | THE 4 SEASONS-ISH $1200: "Military" subtitle of the 2014 "Captain America" movie The Winter Soldier |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FACT: -OID $800: In a Herman Wouk novel, this captain of the USS Caine is paranoid (Captain) Queeg |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: A ship's cockpit is this enclosed area on the bridge, from which the captain controls the vessel wheelhouse |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $600: I boarded the good ship Rachel. Then I heard my captain's voice behind me! "I killed it. Killed it dead. & it was totally worth it" Moby-Dick |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | LITERA-SEA $1200: This fictional captain created by C.S. Forester was inspired by Horatio Nelson & Thomas Cochrane (Horatio) Hornblower |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | LITERA-SEA $1600: In this Jack London novel, Wolf Larsen is the captain of the Ghost, once a private yacht The Sea-Wolf |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | LITERA-SEA $2000: Patrick O'Brian's first novel about Captain Aubrey & Surgeon Stephen Maturin, it's set in the Napoleonic Wars "Master and Commander" |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | DONE & DONE $600: In the 1760s he was first mate on a slave ship; in 1777 he fought for freedom as captain of the Ranger John Paul Jones |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | NOT-SO-DESPERATE MEASURES $1000: This standard unit of length is equal to about 6,076 feet, captain a nautical mile |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | BAR SCIENCE $800: (Jon Taffer delivers the clue.) A customer needs to get what he asked for, so if the request is for a call drink like "Captain Morgan & Coke", never switch this type of drink named for the area under the bar well |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | NFL TEAM MASCOTS $1000: Captain Fear the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $800: This large island off Africa was a base for Captain Kidd &, later, a talking lion, hippo, giraffe & zebra Madagascar |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $800: Nursing in the Civil War / Was unlike what I did before / I wrote of "my captain" Lincoln / O the tears back I was blinkin' (Walt) Whitman |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1000: During the Battle of Manila Bay, this captain of the Olympia was told by Dewey to fire "when you are ready" Charles Gridley |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | MOVIE TITLE ADD A LETTER $800: 1979:
Captain Willard searches for Col. Kurtz, but the horror! There's a blizzard in Vietnam Apocalypse Snow |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME ACTOR $400: Film with Peter Sellers as Group Captain Mandrake, President Muffley & the title man Dr. Strangelove |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE END OF THE BOOK $800: The Hispaniola reaches Bristol & Captain Smollett retires Treasure Island |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | POP CULTURE RELATIVES? $1200: A "Star Trek" captain & a TV style expert Patrick & Martha Stewart |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Look at me--I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | DANIEL $800: Daniel J. Travanti was Captain Frank Furillo on this 1980s cop show Hill Street Blues |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS $400: In a 1500 letter, he wrote, "I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people" Columbus |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $800: Captain First Rank Marko Ramius ordered a sub to go (defect) in this Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $1600: This 1870 sci-fi captain claimed the South Pole with an appropriate flag Captain Nemo |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin first set sail in 1969 in this Patrick O'Brian novel Master and Commander |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $4,000 (Daily Double): He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!" Captain Hook |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | CHARACTERS IN BRITISH BOOKS $800: Captain Hastings first meets this detective at Styles Court & narrates a "Mysterious Affair" there Hercule Poirot |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | MOVIE SOUND FX $400: Aye aye, captain! We'll locate the hidden submarine soon enough using this device sonar |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | THE PLAYS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $800: "Heartbreak House" is set in the Sussex home of Captain Shotover on the eve of this war World War I |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE MOVIE AVENGER WHO... $1000: Was a role in "Easy Rider" Captain America |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! $2000: Characters in this Edna Ferber novel set in the Mississippi include Captain Hawks & Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome gambler Show Boat |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | SCIENCE OF THE SKIES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The ballistics impact lab fires a simulated bird made of gelatin at high speed to study & mitigate events like Captain Sullenberger's 2009 river landing, where a flock of these knocked out both engines Canada geese |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | DESCRIBING THE RECENT MOVIE $400: Alabama at sea; makes me rethink a trip to Somalia Captain Phillips |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | MIDDLE A $1600: This Navy rank just below captain sure sounds like it knows how to give orders commander |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN $800: Arrested in America, he was hanged in 1701 in London & his body dangled beside the Thames Captain Kidd |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN $2,000 (Daily Double): While plundering Portobelo, Panama this knighted pirate created a human shield of women, priests, & the mayor. Nice guy Captain Henry Morgan |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LITERARY SHIPPING $400: The neurotic Captain Queeg faces a mutiny aboard this ship the Caine |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LITERARY SHIPPING $800: The Nautilus is this mad captain's submarine Captain Nemo |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: This slave girl & her mistress Amneris are both in love with Radames, a captain in the Egyptian Army Aida |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $1600: In 1936, 47 years after his death, his body was moved from Molokai to Leuven, Belgium Father Damien |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds up a flag at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) You might want to commemmorate your trip to the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia with a "Don't Give Up the Ship" flag featuring the immortal words of Captain James Lawrence during this war the War of 1812 |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | ACTORS' ROLES $800: Captain Billy Tyne,
Michael Clayton George Clooney |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $400: When this musical premiered on Broadway in 1959, captain Georg Von Trapp was played by Theodore Bikel The Sound of Music |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | SUPER-HEAR-O $800: moe. is known for their song about this guy, aka the Star-Spangled Avenger Captain America |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | MAUI? WOWIE! $1600: Europeans first set foot on Maui in 1786; this Englishman sighted it in 1778 but couldn't find a landing spot (Captain) Cook |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | POP GOES THE CULTURE $1200: It's starship captain James Kirk's middle name Tiberius |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES $400: Sea captain "Black Peter" Carey is killed with this weapon a harpoon |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FRENCH POETS $400: Captain Rouget de Lisle wrote this one work that is remembered; it begins, "Allons, enfants de la patrie" "The Marseillaise" |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | ON MY HANDS $400: Famous ones of these on TV included Bunny Rabbit on "Captain Kangaroo" & Shari Lewis' Lamb Chop & Hush Puppy (hand) puppets |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CAPTAIN $200: John R. Hughes, "The Border Boss", was a legendary captain in this Lone Star State law enforcement group the Texas Rangers |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CAPTAIN $400: Captain William Ebdon
suggested the design
for this charitable organization's crest the Salvation Army |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CAPTAIN $500 (Daily Double): Sparking a debate about women in combat, in 1989 U.S. Capt. Linda Bray led troops under fire during the invasion of this country Panama |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CAPTAIN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew sits with a model ship at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.) Here's a replica of the Halve Maen, the ship on which this explorer sailed in search of the Northeast Passage in 1609 Henry Hudson |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CAPTAIN $1000: In 1973 this royal daughter married Captain Mark Phillips of the Queen's Dragoon Guards Princess Anne |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $400: The pirates in this 2013 film based on true events are not the jolly yo-ho-ho kind Captain Phillips |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | ROCK & ROLE $400: Captain Teague, Jack Sparrow's dad, in 2 "Pirates of the Caribbean" films Keith Richards |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $1000: This 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled "The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder" Brideshead Revisited |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | MORGAN TOWN $1000: In 1674 King Charles II knighted this Welsh buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $400: On Sept. 1, 1969 this young military captain deposed Libya's King Idris I (Mu'ammar) Gadhafi |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | LEGEND $1,000 (Daily Double): Legend has it Captain Vanderdecken still tries to round the Cape of Good Hope on this ship... & tries... & tries... the Flying Dutchman |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | DISNEY SIDEKICKS $1200: This sidekick of Captain Hook wishes to return to a simpler life of "scuttling ships... cutting throats" Smee |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $8,000 (Daily Double): The strange men playing 9-pins were said to be this British captain & his crew, who would visit the area every 20 years (Henry) Hudson |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $600: This character "piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage & hate felt by his whole race" (Captain) Ahab |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | PLAYING LINCOLN $1000: This tall "Moby Dick" actor played Lincoln in the 1980s TV miniseries "The Blue & the Gray" Gregory Peck |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | CELEBRATED JUMPING FROGS $200: He has played Bob Cratchit & Captain Smollett on film, but this Muppet says playing himself "is (his) favorite part" Kermit |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $800: Captain JFK swam three miles while towing an injured crewman to shore after the August 2, 1943, sinking of this boat the PT-109 |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400: Dispatched HMS Invincible to the South Atlantic under captain Jeremy Black Margaret Thatcher |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $1600: Loved by the ladies, he's been spurned by Oscar for playing a captain, a barber & a children's author Johnny Depp |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | TRAVEL BOOKS $400: In "Blue Latitudes", Tony Horwitz sailed on a replica of this English captain's ship to retrace his Pacific travels (Captain) Cook |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | OUR FOUNDING FATHERS $400: A captain in Knowlton's Rangers, this Conn. teacher volunteered to spy on the British in September 1776 (Nathan) Hale |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $2000: You'll be nibbling on bacon & chewing on cheese if you can name this beastly 1976 hit from the Captain & Tennille "Muskrat Love" |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $800: Captain George North was the pseudonym this author first used for "Treasure Island" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $1000: He played "Master and Commander" Jack Aubrey, Captain of HMS Surprise Russell Crowe |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $1600: To steer, as a captain may steer a ship through rough waters pilot |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: Edward J. Smith became captain of the Olympic in 1910 & of this sister ship 2 years later the Titanic |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $1600: Captain Juan Sebastian del Cano completed the world circumnavigation this man got the credit for Magellan |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $3,000 (Daily Double): In September 1835 Captain Robert FitzRoy anchored this ship in the Galapagos for a 5-week stay the Beagle |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | NEXT IN ORDER $400: In the U.S. Army:
second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain... major |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | WORLD HISTORY $400: This English captain called his 1587 raid on Cadiz, destroying much of the Armada, "singeing the King of Spain's Beard" Sir Francis Drake |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $8,000 (Daily Double): In January 1770 this explorer wrote, "Natives brought... the heads of the men they had lately kill'd" Captain Cook |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $1200: 1886:
David Balfour,
Captain Elias Hoseason Kidnapped |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $800: "O ___! My ___! Our fearful trip is done" captain |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | RANK $1000: Musical innovator
Beefheart captain |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | YES, "MASTER" $2000: William Ernest Henley wrote, "I am" this 5-word phrase, "I am the captain of my soul" ("I am) the master of my fate" |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: During the Battle of Manila Bay, this commodore told his captain, "you may fire when you are ready, Gridley" (George) Dewey |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | TALES OF HIGH ADVENTURE $400: In Jules Verne's "Adventures of Captain Hatteras", a group braves sub-zero temperatures to reach this place the North Pole |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | RECENT TITLE ROLE PLAYING $1200: "Captain America: The First Avenger" Chris Evans |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $2000: In Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, physician Stephen Maturin is the sidekick of this captain Jack Aubrey |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $400: 1994: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam" Forrest Gump |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | MOVIEMAKERS $800: In movie credits, "transportation captain" is often closely followed by about a dozen of these, whom he supervises drivers |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THE 18th CENTURY $200: 1701 saw Captain William Kidd hanged for this crime piracy |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | LITERARY WHOSE WHAT? $600: 1994:
His "Mandolin" Captain Corelli |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | SKIP IT $1200: If you skip a curling team, it means you're the captain & must be good at keeping your balance on this surface ice |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $2000: Queequeg,
Captain Vere Herman Melville |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | THE UNREAL McCOYS $1200: Captain Bill McCoy's bootlegging ship is anchored off the New Jersey coast in the first scene of this HBO series Boardwalk Empire |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | FILMS BY SUBTITLE $600: "The First Avenger" Captain America |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | SHEEP-POURRI $800: Ventriloquist Shari Lewis first appeared with this sock puppet on a 1957 episode of "Captain Kangaroo" Lamb Chop |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | ORDINAL NUMBER PHRASES $400: The U.S. Army rank just below captain first lieutenant |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | TV CV $1000: "Homicide" (Detective Frank Pembleton), "Last Resort" (Captain Marcus Chaplin) (Andre) Braugher |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $800: O Captain!
My Captain!
He played English teacher John Keating in "Dead Poets Society" Robin Williams |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | POLYNESIA $400: In 1774 this British captain wrote in his journal that the Marquesans were "the finest race of people in this sea" Captain Cook |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE RUM DIARIES $1000: Day 100:
While being mixed into a zombie, I had a great talk with this rum buddy named for a Welsh buccaneer Captain Morgan |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $2000: Characters in this operetta include captain Richard Warrington & Marietta d'Altena Naughty Marietta |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT 2012 $400: A great line in "The Avengers": this patriotic character saying, "Hulk--smash" Captain America |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AVIATION $1200: This WWII flying fortress was named for a southern city & the girlfriend of its captain, Robert K. Morgan Memphis Belle |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $800: A group portrait by Rembrandt:
"The ____ ____ (The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq)" Night Watch |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Captain's book to record events aboard ship log |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | SUCH A LITERARY CHARACTER! $800: "Peter flung my arm... to a crocodile" is a line from this captain in "Peter Pan" Captain Hook |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | DUTCH COURAGE $400: Rather than let his gunpowder-filled ship be captured, Captain Jan van Speijk did this to it, he & his crew still aboard blew it up |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | NUMERICAL NOVEL BY CHARACTERS $600: Guy Montag, Fire Captain Beatty Fahrenheit 451 |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | EARLY AMERICA $600: In 1699 this pirate was captured in Boston; he was hanged 2 years later, leaving legends of buried treasure behind Captain Kidd |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | EARLY AMERICA $1000: In June 1579 this British captain sailed into a harbor on the West Coast; San Franciscans say it was their bay (Sir Francis) Drake |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: In May 1787 Captain Arthur Phillip set sail from England to Australia with some 200 guards & 800 of these & their families prisoners (or convicts) |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1600: This dashing "Captain Blood" star died in 1959 at the end of a week-long binge Errol Flynn |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | OUR MUTUAL FIEND $800: On film this brutal captain was played by Charles Laughton & Trevor Howard--oh yeah, & Anthony Hopkins (Capt.) Bligh |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | JOHN STEINBECK $2000: John Steinbeck named one of the families in this novel after Captain Trask, a friend of his father East of Eden |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | ALMOST-FORGOTTEN WARS $2000: Spain & Britain fought the inconclusive "War of" this British captain's "Ear" in the 1740s Robert Jenkins |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | TENNESSEAN $400: After a religious conversion, a steamboat captain of this last name built an auditorium in Nashville Ryman |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | MADEIRA $1000: When this captain's ship Endeavour stopped at Madeira, naturalist Joseph Banks explored the unique flora Captain Cook |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This captain in "Moby Dick" has a wife & child waiting for him in Nantucket Ahab |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | MAY DAYS $600: In May of 1607 captain John Smith arrived at the Virginia site where he would help establish this settlement Jamestown |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | SPYING $1600: Captain Cumming went by this name as 1st head of MI6, & his successors followed suit though their names didn't match C |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | LITERARY VILLAINS $400: Talking to this villain, Smee says, "I have often noticed your strange dread of crocodiles" Captain Hook |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | TALE SHIPS $1200: After the ferry he was on sinks, a man is saved by the tyrannical captain of the Ghost in this Jack London novel The Sea-Wolf |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $1600: In this story, 2 friends & a servant go on a hunt for Captain Kidd's buried treasure "The Gold Bug" |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | CELEBRITY VETERANS $2000: This radio personality, and ex-Air Force Captain, has been known to have some stern conversations Robin Quivers |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | IN A BIG COUNTY $800: This Illinois county of more than 5 million people is named for a pioneer lawyer, not a sea captain Cook County |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $2000: Pay Paul Pierce: buy a replica of the No. 34 jersey he wears as captain of this NBA team the Boston Celtics |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | TV SHOW CHARACTERS $600: Captain McNeil,
Detective Crocker,
Detective Stavros Kojak |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | PIRATES $1200: In April 2009 the U.S. Navy rescued a ship's captain after pirates from this country held him captive Somalia |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: To combat scurvy on his voyages, Captain Cook used this briny shredded cabbage as well as lime juice sauerkraut |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In August 2011 this 17th c. pirate captain's flagship was found in waters off Panama; as yet, no rum has been found Henry Morgan |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | LAKES & RIVERS $1200: Crack open a Brazil nut & tell us of your time as a captain on the Rio Madeira, a major tributary of this river the Amazon |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | LITERARY CHARACTER PERSONAL TRAINER $200: Work those harpooning arms, or "Thus, I give up the spear" will be your last words! & work those calves ...OK, calf, anyway! Captain Ahab |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | MOVIE TITLE SUBJECTS $600: Captain, Loudy, Bitey, Stinky, Lovey, Nimrod
(2011) Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | "IGGY" POP $600: She played first mate to Captain Link Hogthrob Miss Piggy |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $1000: This Bogart character exclaims in court, "Ah, but the strawberries! That's... that's where I had them" Captain Queeg |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | CARTOON VOICES $800: In "Pocahontas" Mel Gibson was the voice of this English captain John Smith |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $1200: Aye aye! I got this style of chair for $99 at Walmart a captain's chair |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $400: Cook was 26 when he joined the navy; he'd spent the previous years mainly ferrying this fuel around the North Sea coal |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $1200: Cook's first visit to Australia was tagged onto a voyage to this South Seas island later visited by Captain Bligh Tahiti |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $1,600 (Daily Double): Young Cook's charts of this river's estuary were vital to the British victory at Quebec in 1759 the St. Lawrence |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $1600: On Jan. 17, 1773 Cook & crew became the first people to cross this geographic circle the Antarctic Circle |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $2000: In 1770, Cook made the map seen here, using "Ea Hei Nom Auwe" & "Toai Poonamo O" where atlases now use these two names the North and South Islands |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | FILM ALIAS $1200: Prior to volunteering for experimental research, he was Steve Rogers; now we know him as this Captain America |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | TRIAL PARTICIPANTS $200: British Captain Thomas Preston was a central figure in the trial regarding this unfortunate 1770 event the Boston Massacre |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | OPERAS WITH CHARACTER $1600: Daland, a captain of the high seas who meets a mysterious stranger The Flying Dutchman |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | LESLIE NIELSEN MOVIES $1600: Leslie was captain of the ship in this 1972 disaster movie--no wonder things turned upside down! The Poseidon Adventure |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | MILITARY RANKS $800: Kangaroo was one on TV captain |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $600: In this 1883 children's classic, a parrot named Captain Flint squawks, "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" Treasure Island |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $200: Captain Ahab's whaling vessel
(6) the Pequod |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $200: Captain Kangaroo's crew included this right-hand man, played by Hugh Brannum Mr. Green Jeans |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | JERSEY SURE $1600: New Jersey said sure, so the Camden home of this "O Captain! My Captain!" poet is a state historic site Whitman |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | PLAY MATES $2,000 (Daily Double): Captain Keller & his wife Kate think that Annie's methods are too harsh for their daughter in this drama The Miracle Worker |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Erich Korngold had this middle name, so he had to become a composer, of movie scores like "Captain Blood" Wolfgang |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | RE: GUN $1600: "The Gun" is a tale of the Napoleonic Wars by C.S. Forester, creator of this sea captain who also fights Napoleon Horatio Hornblower |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from about the National Geographic Explorer.) Today we're crossing 66 degrees, 33 minutes south latitude; it was 250 years ago that Captain Cook was the first to cross this same borderline the Antarctic Circle |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | THE REALITY OF TV $600: Captain Sig Hansen led the crew of the Northwestern on this Discovery Channel show; my fishing's a lot less risky Deadliest Catch |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $800: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) The island of South Georgia has no indigenous mammals, but reindeer were introduced here in 1911 to provide meat by Captain C.A. Larsen from this country Norway |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | NONCE WORDS $200: If the captain says the ship needs some swabification, you'd better find this 3-letter long-handled item a mop |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | START SPREADIN' THE BOOZE $600: This captain's brand took off when its founder bought a spiced rum recipe from 2 Jamaican pharmacists Captain Morgan |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | A CD CATEGORY $1600: The deluxe edition of his "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" includes a bonus disc of a 1975 concert Elton John |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $400: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man: now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | WHODUNIT $400: In "The Godfather", Virgil Sollozzo & Captain McCluskey Al Pacino |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | "PP"s ON EARTH $800: A student who habitually fails to attend class, or the captain of a naval vessel a skipper |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | LIT BITS $200: This captain's peg leg in "Moby Dick" is made from a sperm whale's jaw Ahab |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a boomerang at the Australian Museum.) Boomerangs often feature designs that reflect aboriginal culture & history; on the one I'm holding, the warriors, body of water & ship represent this man's landing at Botany Bay Captain Cook |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $400: William Hodges, official artist to this captain & explorer, painted "Tahitian War Canoes" in 1774 (Captain) Cook |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Captain William Mynors named this island in the Indian Ocean on Christmas Day, 1643 Christmas Island |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $400: This "Star Trek" captain is now the star "Tek" captain with his series of books that includes "Tekwar" (William) Shatner |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 2010 20th ANNIVERSARIES $600: In 1990 this captain created by Ted Turner started fighting eco-villains on TV Captain Planet |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | NEXT IN THE SERIES $400: In the U.S. Army:
First lieutenant,
captain... major |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $600: Gol-lee! When Billy Batson spoke this word, he became Captain Marvel shazam |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | POETRY $400: The poem "Invictus" concludes, "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of" this my soul |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | NO. 1 "LOVE" SONGS $400: The Captain & Tennille took this hopeful declaration to No. 1 in 1975 "Love Will Keep Us Together" |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | ALCOHOLICS EPONYMOUS $1000: This popular spiced rum is named for a buccaneer who terrorized the Caribbean & ended up a governor of Jamaica Captain Morgan |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $800: As Shakespeare was the Sweet this bird of Avon, Anna "Elegy on Captain Cook" Seward was this bird of Lichfield Swan |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | MOVIES AT SEA $800: A captain & his inexperienced crew patrol the Atlantic in a sub in this 1981 Wolfgang Petersen film with a German title Das Boot |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | ZAC(H/K) ATTACK $800: He'll forever be remembered as Troy Bolton, the captain of his high school's basketball team who can sing Zac Efron |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | SAY WHAT, BOB? $3,800 (Daily Double): In Dylan's "Desolation Row", for some reason Ezra Pound & this friend & protege "are fighting in the captain's tower" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $1000: In a 17th century children's tale, the captain of the Unicorn sells this boy's cat to the king of Barbary Dick Whittington |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | VILLAINS SPEAK $800: Peter Pan, I do not need 2 hands of flesh to destroy you, soon you & Tinker Bell too will feel my wrath Captain Hook |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | ARE YOU WELL RED? $800: This Tom Clancy thriller is about a Soviet captain who decides to defect--with his Typhoon-class submarine The Hunt for Red October |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | SURVIVAL AT SEA $2,500 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Better at navigating than handling subordinates, he was put adrift in a 20-foot boat in 1789 & sailed 3,600 miles from near Tonga to Timor Captain Bligh |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | THE HARDY BOYS $2000: Captain Thomas Hardy (not the author) kissed this mortally wounded admiral at the Battle of Trafalgar Nelson |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $800: 1954:
Crazy Captain Queeg faces rebellious sailors aboard ship The Caine Mutiny |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | COMPLETES THE POETIC LINE $1200: "But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and ____" dead |
| #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 |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | FLICK ARRR! $800: This 1991 film retold the story of Peter Pan & was named for Peter's pirate nemesis (Dustin Hoffman) Hook |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $400: In Nov. 2009 Eagles tight end Brent Celek celebrated a TD by striking the pose of this rum ad man; the NFL was not amused Captain Morgan |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | SIDEKICKS $600: Smee, a sidekick of this handicaptain, had a cutlass named "Johnny Corkscrew" Captain Hook |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | THE IMPRESSIONISTS $400: A few years after serving as a captain in the Franco-Prussian War, he painted "Dancer with a Fan" Degas |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $600: This 5-time Oscar nominee played captain Monica Rawling for a season on "The Shield" Glenn Close |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | HISTORICAL WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? $400: On Oct. 12, 1492 this captain thought he was on an island near Japan--not exactly Columbus |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | IT HAPPENED ON CHRISTMAS EVE $600: Christmas Island in the Pacific gets its name from its Christmas Eve 1777 discovery by this British explorer (Captain) Cook |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $200: Captain Oveur:
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" & "Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" Airplane! |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | COMIC BOOK VILLAINS $800: Captain Cold & Captain Boomerang were nemeses of this "Fastest Man Alive" Flash |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | HULL OF FAME $400: It was during this war against the British that naval captain James Lawrence said, "Don't give up the ship" the War of 1812 |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | RELATIONSHIPS $2000: In "Treasure Island", it's the relationship of the seafaring Smollett & Arrow captain & first mate |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | I'M SPORTING SOME 7s $400: This lucky 7 "spiced up" England's national soccer team as its captain from 2000 to 2006 (David) Beckham |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | IN MY NETFLIX QUEUE $1200: "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", starring this man as Captain Nathan Brittles John Wayne |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: In a Melville work, Billy Budd's last words are "God bless" this captain Captain Vere |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | TV REVEILLE $800: 1981:
Eileen Brennan as Captain Doreen Lewis Private Benjamin |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | CLASSIC LIT $400: Captain Nemo takes Pierre Aronnax on a yearlong submarine voyage in this Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | STAR TREK $400: In the original TV series, he played Captain Kirk William Shatner |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | STAR TREK $800: In the 2009 movie, he played Captain Kirk Chris Pine |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | THE TEENS $2000: Captain Thomas MacDonough's 1814 victory at this lake saved New York & Vermont from invasion Lake Champlain |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | EXPLORATION $1000: In 1769 this British captain charted the coast of Tahiti & then set sail for New Zealand Captain Cook |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | I LEARNED IT FROM WORLD BOOK $800: Herman Wouk won a 1952 Pulitzer for this novel about Captain Queeg & his rebellious officers The Caine Mutiny |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | IN THE MILITARY? $200: The head of a large business firm may be called this naval rank "of industry" captain |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | COMMERCIAL JINGLE LYRICS $2000: "...said the captain to the bosun, so look for the package with the ship that sails the ocean" Old Spice |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $1200: A riverboat captain (Bogart) & a missionary (Hepburn) use this title vessel to attack an enemy ship during WWI the African Queen |
| #5760, aired 2009-10-02 | MOBY DICK $200: This enigmatic & reclusive captain has lost a leg & possibly his mind Ahab |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | "MOTOR" HEAD $200: In "Easy Rider", Peter Fonda's was named Captain America his motorcycle |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | THE SECRET LIVES OF TEACHERS $800: Mr. Conklin was a captain when the U.S. Navy was attacked at this site in Hawaii in 1941--he's that old! Pearl Harbor |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1612 this English captain published "A Map of Virginia" John Smith |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | CHARACTERS IN CASABLANCA $1600: First name of Claude Rains' Captain Renault; it sounds like the beginning of a beautiful friendship... Louis |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $2000: "I am the master of my fate;"
I.A.T.C.O.M.S. I am the captain of my soul |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | NAME THE WORK $1,000 (Daily Double): Melville:
"Captain Vere was an exceptional character" Billy Budd |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | 20th CENTURY MILITARY NAMES $1200: Kristin Baker was the first woman to be named First Captain of this school's corps of cadets West Point |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS' E-MAILS $400: To: Maneating_Harpooner,
From: lSailor. Captain A's off his nut. Call me scared Ishmael |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | IN THE NAVY $1600: In 1992 Darlene Iskra took an opportune time to become the Navy's first female one of these, on the USS Opportune captain |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1,000 (Daily Double): On January 24, 1898 Captain Sigsbee was told to sail this battleship from Key West to Cuba to protect American interests the (USS) Maine |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | WRONG ACCENTS FOR LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying bu unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee" Captain Ahab |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", this captain is buried at sea in his submarine Captain Nemo |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | GIVE ME SOME SPACE! $1600: Captain Link Hogthrob was the captain of the Swinetrek on the "Muppet Show" sketches called these "in Space" Pigs |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "B-U-T" FULL $200: For a U.S. Navy captain in full dress in 1802, they were "yellow metal, with... anchor and the American Eagle" buttons |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | OLYMPIC HEROES $1200: This Pittsburgh Penguins great was the captain of Canada's 2002 gold-medal hockey team (Mario) Lemieux |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | SHATNER HAPPENS $800: Psycho killer Mike Myers wears Bill's face--a Captain Kirk mask, painted white--in this 1978 horror classic Halloween |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | SHATNER HAPPENS $2000: Bill's 2008 autobiography begins, "Call me... Captain James T. Kirk, or Sergeant T.J. Hooker, or" this guy this guy Denny Crane |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | A SHOT AT LOVE $2000: Longfellow wrote that Captain Miles Standish gave his blessing to this man who married his crush, Priscilla Mullens John Alden |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | EYE, CAPTAIN $200: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) When Lasik eye surgery is performed, a flap is made in the eye, folded back, & then the stroma, or middle section, of this eye part is reshaped using lasers the cornea |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | EYE, CAPTAIN $400: If any part of an eye's retina is pulled or lifted, it's described as this detached |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | EYE, CAPTAIN $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) This term for a clouding of the lens of the eye is also used for a rush of water over a cliff a cataract |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | EYE, CAPTAIN $800: What's so funny? Maybe the clear substance called the "vitreous" this that occupies about 80% of the eyeball humor |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): In Egypt this young Hebrew slave was owned by Potiphar, captain of the royal guards Joseph |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | EYE, CAPTAIN $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) This irregularity in the eye's surface bends the ray of light so that it can't be brought to a single focus, resulting in blurring astigmatism |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $200: On Oct. 28, 1492 this captain was in the Bay of Bariay off Cuba & not near the Asian mainland Columbus |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $400: He earned his commission as a kids' show host on CBS from 1955 to 1985 Captain Kangaroo |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $400: In 674 King Charles II made this captain the lt. governor of Jamaica: raise a glass of his rum to that Captain Morgan |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $600: The "news" is that a Virginia city bears the name of this captain who brought over the Jamestown colonists (Christopher) Newport |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $800: Love has kept this pop singing duo together since their 1975 wedding the Captain & Tennille |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1610 he set sail on his ship the Discovery; a strait & bay would later be named for him Henry Hudson |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $1000: In the 1770s he & his crew became the first Europeans known to have visited Hawaii--didn't end well, though Captain Cook |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $1200: Daniel J. Travanti tried to be "careful out there" as Captain Furillo on this show Hill Street Blues |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $1600: Every little breeze whispered Dom Deluise when he played Captain Chaos in this 1981 Burt Reynolds car race flick Cannonball Run |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $2000: "You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught" this captain, seen in a trilogy of films Jack Sparrow |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | DON'T SAY THE L-WORD $1000: In Britain's Royal Navy, it's the rank just below captain commander |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): A Norwegian sea captain is a character in this 1843 opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE $400: Det. Mike Lowrey,
Captain James West,
Hancock Will Smith |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | A BIT OF LIT $800: "God bless Captain Vere!" are the last words this Melville foretopman speaks before being hanged Billy Budd |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1200: This island is named for the captain of the British whaler L'Aigle, not the first mate of the Pequod Starbuck (Island) |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | JOHN STEINBECK $1600: Steinbeck's "Cup of Gold" told the tale of this British pirate whose name lives on in bottles of rum Captain (Henry) Morgan |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | HERE'S THE STORY $600: A surgeon/sea captain sets sail on a quartet of voyages in this work; has some trouble with his Yahoo account Gulliver's Travels |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | HERE'S THE STORY $800: A Gypsy loves Captain Phoebus in this story; guy really puts his shoulder into things The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: A 1790s engraving by Robert Dodd shows this "bountiful" captain & some of his officers being set adrift Captain Bligh |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | RANKS & TITLES $400: Going down the ranks of the Royal Navy, remember your 3 C's: commodore, captain, this commander |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | ORSON $200: Bizarrely, Orson Welles played Captain Ahab, Starbuck & Ishmael in a 1971 experimental film version of this Moby Dick |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ROMANCE & HISTORY $400: Her marriage to Napoleon was almost nipped in the bud when she dallied with a dapper captain in the 1790s Josephine (de Beauharnais) |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MADISON MEN $1000: President Madison promoted him to captain in honor of his victory in the Battle of Lake Erie (Oliver Hazard) Perry |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | THE SWEET 1600s $2000: Born aboard the Mayflower in the New World, he grew up to be a captain of militia--maybe a falconer too Peregrine White |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $200: In "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", he's the designer & master navigator of a submarine Captain Nemo |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: The Society Islands in French Polynesia got their name from a visit by Captain Cook & this society the Royal Society of London |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | OF THE SEA & SHIPS $800: Apollo 15's command module was named in honor of this ship commanded by captain James Cook the Endeavour |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $400: He was captain of the debating team at Whittier College in California Richard Nixon |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Whitman poem in memory of Abraham Lincoln, it's the title that precedes "Our fearful trip is done" "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | DRINK UP! $200: The Captain Morgan brand of this potent potable can be served hot & buttered rum |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $1600: Writer H.C. McNeile gave British crime-solver Captain Hugh Drummond this nickname "Bulldog" |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | WILL SMITH $400: Will helped protect the Earth from the scum of the universe as Captain Steven Hiller in this 1996 film Independence Day |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | BLIGH ME, CAPTAIN! $400: The most famous event in William Bligh's life was the 1789 mutiny on the Bounty led by this man Fletcher Christian |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | BLIGH ME, CAPTAIN! $800: Young Lieutenant Bligh sailed with Captain Cook but was no help when Cook died in what is today this state Hawaii |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | BLIGH ME, CAPTAIN! $1200: 3 years after the Bounty mutiny, in 1792 Captain William Bligh introduced this tree to Jamaica the breadfruit tree |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | BLIGH ME, CAPTAIN! $1600: 3 years after being named governor of this 3-word Australian state, Bligh was overthrown in a mutiny New South Wales |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | BLIGH ME, CAPTAIN! $2000: Before the mutiny, the Bounty Islands of this Pacific Nation were discovered by Bligh & his crew in 1788 New Zealand |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the George H.W. Bush Library in College Station, TX.) George H.W. Bush's Library has the mitt he used as captain of this school's baseball team; he also got a chance to meet Babe Ruth Yale |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | ROLE IN COMMON $2000: Lorne Greene &
Edward James Olmos Commander Adama |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | KEVIN-SENT $2000: He went from Hercules to outer space as the captain of "Andromeda" Kevin Sorbo |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | CLASSIC TV TOONS $1000: Adventures of "Tom Terrific" & his wonder dog Mighty Manfred first aired in 1957 on this Bob Keeshan series Captain Kangaroo |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | DEAR JOHN $2000: A conservative society is named for this U.S. Army captain killed by communist Chinese forces 10 days after WWII ended John Birch |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WRITE ON, SOLDIER! $1600: Edward Gibbon was a captain in the Hampshire Grenadiers before writing this epic of imperial decline The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | ACTING THE PART $1200: After playing a general named Maximus, this actor enlisted in the Navy as Captain of the HMS Surprise Russell Crowe |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL $1200: In 1941 this retired U.S. Air Corps captain formed the "Flying Tigers" Claire Chennault |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | POP CULTURE $1600: Sean Connery played one of the most Scottish-sounding Lithuanians ever as a sub captain in this film The Hunt for Red October |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $600: Ranking just above a captain, not behind him, it's a U.S. Navy admiral with 1 star a rear admiral |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | WHEN YOU GROW UP $600: On a fishing boat, you could boss around the deckhands as the captain's assistant, the "first" this mate |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1609 this captain was injured in a gunpowder explosion & lost his leadership role in Jamestown John Smith |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | ARCHIPELAGOS $800: This Pacific island country is named for a British sea captain, not "Happy Days" producer Garry Marshall Islands |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | POP-EYE $200: This Funky Bunch captain got some "Good Vibrations" when he was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for "The Departed" Mark Wahlberg |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | WIMPY $600: In this 1961 war novel, you'll find a captain who doesn't want to fly & a major who hides from his men Catch-22 |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Both General John Hunt Morgan & Captain William Quantrill led groups of men who carried this nickname Raiders |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $400: This treacherous pirate in "Treasure Island" has a pet parrot named Captain Flint Long John Silver |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | WORLD OF WARCRAFT $1200: Warships like the USS Missouri were armed with these missiles that bear the name of Captain Ahab's weapon harpoon |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $200: He's boldly written "Tek" & "Star Trek" novels & nonfiction books chronicling his days as Captain Kirk William Shatner |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LEAGUES $800: This legendary group included Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray & Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $2000: This versatile Aussie's roles include pianist David Helfgott, a pirate captain & the Marquis de Sade Geoffrey Rush |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | AUTHORS $1200: He wrote comic book stories for "Captain America" & "Captain Marvel" before hitting it big with "I, the Jury" Mickey Spillane |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | THE 1700s $1600: The painting seen here depicts this newsworthy fatality of 1779 Captain Cook |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | SURF'S UP $1200: This English sea captain & his crew discovered the natives surfing in Hawaii in the 1770s (James) Cook |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND $800: Aaargh! I can't wait to go on this classic ride now that Captain Jack Sparrow is part of the fun Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | FICTIONAL SHIPS $800: Captain Peleg told Ishmael that he & Captain Bildad were part-owners of this whaler the Pequod |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | FICTIONAL SHIPS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lieutenant Steve Maryk takes command of this destroyer-minesweeper from an unstable captain the Caine |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | EARS TO YOU! $1000: In 1731 this man's ear was cut off, later sparking a war between Spain & England Captain Jenkins |
| #5214, aired 2007-04-19 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): One of this state's largest cities is named for steamboat builder & captain Henry Schreve Louisiana |
| #5214, aired 2007-04-19 | BRIDE OF THE YANKEES $1000: In 1999 Diana, the widow of this 1970s catcher & team captain, threw out the first pitch at a Yankee game Thurman Munson |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | MISSING BODY PARTS $200: Captain Hook in "Peter Pan" a hand |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | LITERARY OBITS $200: A harpoon rope around his neck took this 1851 seafarer from us too soon (Captain) Ahab |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | YOU'RE A SUPERHERO $1200: The non-American superhero seen here is known as Captain this Captain Canada |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: In addition to the "Godfather" movies, he directed Michael Jackson's "Captain EO" (Francis Ford) Coppola |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | MUSICAL LIT $400: In an 1870 work, this captain plays solemnly on his organ as his sub heads toward the maelstrom (Captain) Nemo |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | SOLDIER, I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU $3,000 (Daily Double): Have another bar, first lieutenant; you're going up one rank to this captain |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | 1840 $200: Captain Charles Wilkes spots what will become Wilkes Land, a part of this continent Antarctica |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | EXCELLENT ADVENTURE $200: At the end of this novel, Jim has "the voice of Captain Flint still ringing in" his "ears: 'Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!'" Treasure Island |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | EXPLORATION $800: William Bligh served as master of the HMS Resolution during this captain's third voyage to the Pacific Captain Cook |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | EXPLORATION $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1769 this Brit found Tahiti by sailing west until he ran into it (Captain) Cook |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: Captain Kidd's buried treasure & a scarab beetle figure prominently in this 1843 Edgar Allan Poe tale The Gold Bug |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | I'M SURPRISED $800: Captain Kirk often ordered phasers set on this non-lethal surprising setting stun |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | BOSTON LEGAL $200: British Army Captain Thomas Preston was tried & acquitted for his part in this 1770 slaughter the Boston Massacre |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | MARVELOUS $200: He was created as a weapon against the Nazis Captain America |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | CELLULOID LOVE $1600: In this movie, Captain Renault boldly exclaims, "If I were a woman... I should be in love with Rick" Casablanca |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | COLORFUL CHARACTERS $400: Also called the sea cook, he leads mutineers against Captain Smollet on board the Hispaniola Long John Silver |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | POTENT POTABLES $800: This rum maker's website urges you to "Drink responsibly--captain's orders!" Captain Morgan |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | CLICHES $800: After a night of drinking with Tintin, Captain Haddock was looking a bit green around these the gills |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: In the Army, number of silver bars a captain has or silver stars a major general has 2 |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE BIG "O" $1200: Captain Beefheart is said to have a range of 4.5 of these octaves |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | WHAT'S UP, CLOCK? $400: In "Peter Pan", it swallowed Captain Hook's right hand & an alarm clock, so you could hear it coming the crocodile |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | DISCOVERY $400: Discovery is named for 2 ships, one sailed by Henry Hudson & one sailed by this man when he discovered Hawaii Captain James Cook |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | METS, GIANTS, RANGERS & KNICKS $1000: Watch 54 years of frustration end when this Ranger captain takes the ultimate NHL prize (Mark) Messier |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | FAMOUS CANADIANS $400: Aye, Captain; he was born in Vancouver & played Scotty on "Star Trek" James Doohan |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | SHIPS $1600: The flagship of Oliver Hazard Perry was named for this captain who said, "Don't give up the ship" James Lawrence |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | STATE FLAGS $1,600 (Daily Double): It's the only U.S. state whose flag includes the Union Jack Hawaii |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | CELEBS $800: He may have stepped down in 2006 as captain of England's national team, but nobody bends it like this soccer great David Beckham |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | COOL MOVIES $400: Yo ho yo ho, in 2006 Johnny Depp returned as this swashbuckler in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" Captain Jack Sparrow |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | 1950s MOVIES $400: "Ah, but the strawberries... that's where I had them!" says Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg in this film The Caine Mutiny |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | REVISED CANTERBURY TALES $800: Woe unto the decision to take a Hawaiian chief hostage in 1779; this naval legend was slain Captain Cook |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this state's volunteers in the War of 1812 Delaware |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | LITERARY E-MAIL ADDRESSES $400: fake_leg@moby-dick.net Captain Ahab |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | HULL OF FAME $400: The captain of this spectral ship is condemned to sail the seas until Judgment Day unless he is saved by love the Flying Dutchman |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | THE 18th CENTURY WORLD $800: Gisborne on Poverty Bay was the site of this Britsh explorer's first landing in New Zealand in 1769 (Captain) Cook |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | FICTIONAL MEN OF WAR $800: In this epic tale of men & war, Martin Sheen played Captain Benjamin Willard, a soldier sent on a assassination Apocalypse Now |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | A DAY IN JUNE $800: June 17, 1579:
This captain claims "Nova Albion" (possibly modern-day California) for England Sir Francis Drake |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | SUPERHERO BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Whitman "Leaves of Grass" poetic entry that, with patriotic shield in hand, battles the Red Skull "O Captain! My Captain! America" |
| #5024, aired 2006-06-15 | NFL BLITZ $800: (I'm Jerome Bettis.) This player on the visiting team calls heads or tails in the pregame coin toss the captain |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | THAT WAS ENTERTAINMENT $400: Mr. Bunny Rabbit, the bunny seen here, helped this TV host earn the love of children Captain Kangaroo |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | CAMEO CAMERA $1200: You'll find Jim Lovell as the captain of the Iwo Jima in this 1995 flick Apollo 13 |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | LOVE SONGS IN GERMAN $600: The Captain & Tennille:
"Liebe Halt Uns Zusammen" "Love Will Keep Us Together" |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | HIT ME $1200: In July of 1975, the musical act seen here topped the U.S. charts The Captain & Tennille |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $400: Cyril Ritchard hooked a 1955 Tony for playing Captain Hook in this musical Peter Pan |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | VERBS $1600: Appropriate last name of Captain William of 18th century Virginia, who promoted vigilante justice Lynch |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | WE "LOVE" TELEVISION $400: Hooray for Captain Stubing, who was played by Gavin MacLeod on this series The Love Boat |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING! $400: Groucho Marx played Captain Spaulding in this 1930 film adapted from a hit Broadway show of the same name Animal Crackers |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING! $800: In the 1950s the song "Hooray For Captain Spaulding" was the theme song for this Groucho Marx TV show You Bet Your Life |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING! $1200: While in character as the African explorer Captain Spaulding, Groucho wore this type of distinctive helmet a pith helmet |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING! $1600: At the center of the Captain's antics is a quest for one of these expensive items that has been stolen painting |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING! $2000: Groucho's line that he'll "try to make her" was cut from the final film following demands by this censorship office the Hays Office |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS $400: Mike Eruzione of Winthrop, Mass. was captain of the miraculous 1980 Olympic team in this sport hockey |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION $800: In January 1773 this British sea captain crossed the Antarctic Circle but never sighted land Captain Cook |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: In Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", this reclusive captain dies & is buried at sea in his submarine Captain Nemo |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | HERO & VILLAIN $2000: In a subsequent Jules Verne novel, we find that this marine commander is a rajah's son named Prince Dakkar (Captain) Nemo |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | EARLY AMERICA $400: In 1608 Captain John Smith was elected council president of this settlement Jamestown |
| #4883, aired 2005-11-30 | WHAT A (TV) CHARACTER! $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.) This TV astronaut worked at NASA's Kennedy Space Center & lived in Cocoa Beach, where he dreamed of Jeannie Captain Nelson |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | A CLOSE LOOK AT ART $800: In his "Night Watch", hierarchy is shown by the shadow of the militia captain's hand on an underling's coat Rembrandt |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | PERSONA $2000: President Loubet pardoned this Army captain in 1899 Dreyfus |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | THE GREAT & NEAR-GREAT $1200: In 1792 this British captain finally managed to bring breadfruit to the Americas Bligh |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $1600: (Jeff Probst reads the clue.) In 1774, Captain James Cook charted the islands that now compose Vanuatu & named them this for an island group off Scotland the New Hebrides |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WHERE AM I? $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew carries the Bunny Rabbit puppet from Captain Kangaroo through some archives.) I'm with a few of the 3 million objects in this museum of the Smithsonian, once the Museum of History and Technology the Museum of American History (the American History Museum accepted) |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | HISTORIC "D" TOUR $1200: In 1895 French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was sent there Devil's Island |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | HOP, SKIP OR JUMP $1000: The captain of a curling team the skip |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | OBJECTS $600: A hacker called "Captain Crunch" found one of these, in a cereal box, whose tone could manipulate phone lines a whistle |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | QUITE A DICKENS CHARACTER $400: Nickname shared by Captain Ahab's cabin boy & the narrator of Dickens' "Great Expectations" Pip |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | LABOR UNIONS $400: The Log is the monthly newspaper of a union of these sailors |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE "CAPTAIN" $400: This enigmatic seafarer in 1954's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was portrayed by James Mason Captain Nemo |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE "CAPTAIN" $800: Hans Conried voiced this villain in a 1953 Disney classic Captain Hook |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE "CAPTAIN" $1200: For his role as Manuel, Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for this 1937 fish story Captains Courageous |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE "CAPTAIN" $1600: Hooray for this Groucho Marx character from "Animal Crackers" Captain Spaulding |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE "CAPTAIN" $2000: Errol Flynn is a doctor who is forced to become a pirate in this 1935 action fest Captain Blood |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | APPROPRIATE NAMES $1600: The captain of the U.S.S. Constitution in her historic War of 1812 battle, it's also a part of the ship Isaac Hull |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | ISLANDS $200: This resort island off the coast of South Carolina was named for a British sea captain, not a hotelier Hilton Head |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $1000: At Manila Bay, Commodore Dewey said to this captain of his flagship, "You may fire when you are ready..." (Charles) Gridley |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | 1970s POP MUSIC $1200: It was Mike Love who gave Daryl Dragon this nickname "The Captain" |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | BUSH $1000: ...who served as an artillery captain in World War I Prescott Bush |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $2000: This British naval captain "Endeavour"ed to sail around the Horn--& did in 1769 Cook |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | THEOLOGIANS $2,000 (Daily Double): During King Philip's War, this minister acted as captain of the Providence Militia & fought the Indians Roger Williams (from Providence, Rhode Island) |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | FULL NELSON $600: He was a captain by 1779, the year he turned 21 Lord Nelson |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): The last words of this classic 1851 novel character are "Thus, I give up the spear" Captain Ahab |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $3,900 (Daily Double): Lincoln's election as captain of his company in this 1832 Indian war "gave me more pleasure than any I have had" the Black Hawk War |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | OPERAS BY CHARACTER $400: Dick Deadeye, a sailor;
Admiral Sir Joseph Porter;
Captain Corcoran H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | THE REEL WORLD $200: Captain Barbossa & his men attack the town of Port Royal in this high-seas adventure Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain (James K.) Polk |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | POP CULTURE $800: Jude Law plays the ace aviator mentioned in the title of this 2004 sci-fi film that's set in Gotham City Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1000: Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific Captain Cook |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY QUOTES $1200: This vessel under Captain Nemo was "cigar in shape" with "two hulls, one inside, the other outside" the Nautilus |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | IN MEMORIAM 2004 $1200: Before he was Captain Kangaroo, he was Clarabell the Clown on "The Howdy Doody Show" Bob Keeshan |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $200: Dutch Captain Willem Jansz is credited with the first known contact between Europeans & this indigenous group the Aborigines |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | THE FOUR-LEGGED ZOO $1,400 (Daily Double): One of these long-lived animals that died in 1966 was reportedly given to the King of Tonga by Captain Cook a tortoise |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $800: Among the many larger-than-life characters he created are Captain Wolf Larsen & Buck the sled dog Jack London |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | QUOTH THE RAVEN? $800: Why not this defunct title for a commissioned naval officer above Captain & Rear Admiral; quoth the raven... Commodore |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | PLAYS BY CHARACTER $400: Anne,
Helen,
Captain Keller The Miracle Worker |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S SMALL PARTS $1200: Those portraying a Norwegian captain in this play don't have to worry about memorizing a lot of lines Hamlet |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP $400: The H.M.S. Bounty: in 1787 before all the trouble William Bligh |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP $800: Looking for a NW Passage, sandwiched between a rock & a Hawaiian hard place:
The Resolution (Captain) Cook |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP $1200: A knighted Englishman:
The Golden Hind (Sir Francis) Drake |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP $1600: Pirate & War of 1812 hero:
The Pride Jean Lafitte |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP $2000: 3-time America's Cup winner:
Freedom & Stars and Stripes Dennis Conner |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STEELERS, PIRATES & PENGUINS $800: In 1718 the British Navy took a little too much off the top of this pirate, captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge Blackbeard |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THE UPPER CRUST $400: This prince was really in the swim when he was voted water polo captain at St. Andrews University Prince William |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $400: In a 2003 film he played "Master and Commander" Captain Jack Aubrey Russell Crowe |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | EITHER/OR $400: It's the first choice the visiting team's captain always has at midfield right before kickoff of an NFL game Heads or tails? |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | CREAM $600: Captain Parker's in Yarmouth is a 2-time winner of Boston Harborfest's competition in this creamy soup clam chowder |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | BEFORE I WAS ELECTED $800: Congressman Don Young of this state can list "Fort Yukon Riverboat Captain" on his resume Alaska |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The Captain & Tennile would "love" this capital of Oman Muscat |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | WINNER OF OUR DISCONTENT $3,500 (Daily Double): This governor of New South Wales, once a sea captain, was ousted by his officers in the 1808 Rum Rebellion Captain Bligh |
| #4609, aired 2004-09-23 | THE JOHNNY GILBERT "BLUE"s $1200: Witness the birth of "Captain Fantastic 2" with this song
"Laughing like children /
Living like lovers /
Rolling like thunder /
Under the covers..." "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $400: Troubled Air Force Captain John Yossarian Catch-22 |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | JAMES $800: This captain set out on his third voyage in 1776, one from which he'd never return James Cook |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | SPIRITED CINEMA $2000: Rex Harrison is a curmudgeonly sea captain's ghost haunting Gene Tierney's cottage in this 1947 classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew manipulates some ball bearings in the palm of one hand.) He's the 1951 novel character whose constant habit I'm imitating Captain Queeg |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | MILITARY TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $800: Captain Parmenter,
Chief Wild Eagle,
Corporal Agarn F-Troop |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $400: Frankly, my dear, Victorians were shocked when the captain in "H.M.S. Pinafore" said this swear word damn |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | DISNEY FILM CHARACTERS $800: A fierce pirate, he's afraid of crocodiles for a good reason Captain Hook |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 1951:
Boat captain Charlie Allnut Bogart |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | UNLIKELY MOVIE SEQUELS $400: Captain Algren (Tom Cruise) opens a humble noodle shop in Kyoto but is forced to return to the way of war The Last Samurai (2) |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | 5 "C.C."s, STAT! $800: Used by James T. Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise, it sold at auction in 2002 for $304,750 the captain's chair |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1600: Mad at his captain, this title Navy lieutenant dumps the captain's favorite potted plant overboard Mister Roberts |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | 2 "Q"s $800: In a 1930 film John Barrymore played Capt. Ahab & Noble Johnson played this character Queequeg |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $1600: Patrick O'Brian wrote 20 books about this British captain played by Russell Crowe in a 2003 film Jack Aubrey |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | THE SAILOR MAN $800: On June 14, 1789, after a 2-month, 3,600-mile voyage, he & 18 crewmen reached Timor in the Bounty's longboat Captain Bligh |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | THE SAILOR MAN $1600: On April 20, 1770 he reached the unexplored east coast of Australia, naming it New South Wales (Captain) Cook |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | COMEDY FILMS $2000: Kirsten Dunst had all the right moves as captain of a cheerleading squad in this 2000 film Bring It On |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | WHERE WOLF? $1600: Climb aboard! He's the captain of the Ghost in a 1904 Jack London story Wolf Larsen |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | COURT MONARCHS $800: Brooke Shields' grandfather Francis X. Shields was captain of this U.S. tennis team in 1951 the Davis Cup team |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | CLARK BAR $800: Though considered a co-captain with his partner Meriwether Lewis, he was actually a lieutenant William Clark |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | POP MUSIC PAIRINGS $400: ____ & Tennille The Captain |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | THE GENE POOL $2000: He created Mr. Spock & Captain Kirk Gene Roddenberry |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | QUOTATIONS $2000: Charles Dibdin rhymed, "Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for" this (hic) the bottle |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | A LUMPY CATEGORY $600: Lumpy Brannum played this important role on "Captain Kangaroo" Mr. Green Jeans |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | PEAKING AT NAMES $800: The highest peak in this island nation bears the name of Captain James Cook New Zealand |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | THE 18th CENTURY $200: This man was hanged for murder & piracy May 23, 1701 Captain Kidd |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS IN YALE $800: When said twice, it's a lemur in Madagascar or an affirmative to a captain aye |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES $200: He boldly went where no man had gone before playing the role of heroic Captain James T. Kirk William Shatner |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | SHOW ME THE WAY $1600: After Britain took his ship The Half Moon, he should have quit; but no, he got The Discovery & sailed off to his death Henry Hudson |
| #4401, aired 2003-10-27 | ROCK "AND" ROLL $400: Love keeps this pop duo, Daryl Dragon & his wife, together Captain & Tennille |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $1200: 1994:
Eric Roth for this story of a shrimp boat captain, among other things Forrest Gump |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | THE GOODYEAR BLIMP $600: (Sofia standing in front of the Goodyear Blimp) The blimp captain controls the elevators, the horizontal fins, & these steering devices, the vertical fins the rudders |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | POETRY $1200: His poem "O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln Walt Whitman |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | PIRATES $800: Some of his famous treasure has been found on Gardiners Island off Long Island Captain Kidd |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | WHAT'S ON TV TONIGHT? $1600: Scott Bakula captains a straship called this a century before Captain Kirk does the same Enterprise |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | TV ON TV $800: "Captain Video" was this character's favorite TV show on "The Honeymooners" Ed (Norton) |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: He left the French army a captain & moved to America where he was made a major general in 1777 Marquis de Lafayette |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | AUTHORS & THEIR RELATIVES $2000: Sir Gerald, the father of this "Rebecca" author, was the original Captain Hook in the 1904 play "Peter Pan" (Daphne) du Maurier |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $800: During a typhoon off the Philippines, Lt. Stephen Maryk relieves this captain of his command Captain Queeg |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | ALBUMS $1600: It completes the title of Elton John's 1975 album "Captain Fantastic &..." the Brown Dirt Cowboy |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | HISTORIC MOMENTS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls the shores of Waimea Bay, Kauai.) When this man arrived here on Kauai in the late 1770s, he was welcomed as the harvest god Lono Captain Cook |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | LOGICAL GEOGRAPHIC NAMES $800: Captain Cook stayed on this island, later used for nuclear testing, December 25, 1777 Christmas Island |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | TRUMAN $400: Harry Truman served with distinction as a captain of artillery during this war World War I |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | AYE AYE, CAPTAIN $200: A national park on this country's South Island is named for Captain Abel Tasman New Zealand |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | AYE AYE, CAPTAIN $400: In 1837 Captain Matthew Perry took command of the U.S. Navy's first ship powered by this steam |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | AYE AYE, CAPTAIN $600: This New World settlement was founded May 14, 1607 by a group led by Captain Christopher Newport Jamestown |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | AYE AYE, CAPTAIN $800: After his fleet took New Orleans in April 1862, this captain was promoted to rear admiral David Farragut |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | AYE AYE, CAPTAIN $1000: This British explorer of the Pacific Northwest has his own herb as well as an island George Vancouver |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $800: Some consider this 1932 novel, the first in a trilogy, a blight on Captain Bligh's character "Mutiny on the Bounty" |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | MUSEUMS $400: Built as a convent school, an Australian museum honoring this British sea captain has his cannon & anchor on display Captain James Cook |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $800: John McEnroe's middle name, it's the first name of his brother, also a Davis Cup captain Patrick |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam at Rembrandt's house.) Under a lean-to in this courtyard, Rembrandt painted 1642's "Sortie of a Company of Captain Banning Cocq", also known as this The Night Watch |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | LET'S DO A BROADWAY MUSICAL! $400: Let's put on this show: I'll play Captain Hook, you'll be Wendy & your creepy little cousins can be the Lost Boys Peter Pan |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | FOREIGN FILMS $400: This 1980s submarine classic starred Jurgen Prochnow as the captain Das Boot |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | ISLANDS $2000: The last name of English captain Robert Bylot's pilot, it was given to Canada's largest island Baffin |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $400: This handsome Canadian ensnared a lot of female hearts as Captain von Trapp Christopher Plummer |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | ANIMATED MOVIES $800: As captain John Smith, Mel Gibson sang songs in this animated film about an American Indian princess Pocahontas |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $800: In 1901 N.Z. annexed these Pacific islands named for a British sea captain; Rarotonga is the largest of the group Cook Islands |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | PLYMOUTH COLONY $1600: This son of William & Susanna White was born on the Mayflower & grew up to be a captain in the colony's militia Peregrine White |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In the 1690s pirate captain Kidd was a big macher in this NYC church named for Father, Son & Holy Spirit Trinity Church |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | COUNTRY MUSIC $1600: Named for a steamboat captain, this "Mother Church of Country Music" was home to the Opry for 31 years Ryman Auditorium |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ON THEIR TOMBSTONES $1000: "The celebrated navigator who first transplanted the breadfruit tree from Otahete to the West Indies" Captain William Bligh |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck Wolf Larsen |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | ENGLISHMEN $1200: As governor of New South Wales in 1806, he tried to suppress the "Bountiful" rum trafficking Captain Bligh |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | A WORLD OF PIRATES $800: Born around 1645, this pirate captain was sent to England for trial & hanged in 1701 Captain Kidd |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $2000: This South African playwright starred in his own autobiographical play "The Captain's Tiger" in 1998 Athol Fugard |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | PULP FICTION $200: He may no longer play Captain Kirk but he's kept the name alive in a series of "Star Trek" books William Shatner |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | MARINERS $400: William Bligh was the master of the Resolution during this captain's third Pacific expedition Captain James Cook |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | YOU'RE SCARING ME $800: This captain scared the locals in Jamaica in 1504 when he predicted an eclipse & it happened Christopher Columbus |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | HAWAII $800: In the 1790s, cattle were brought to Hawaii by George Vancouver who served under this discoverer of the islands Captain James Cook |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON $600: (Hi Ho, Kermit the Frog here) As Captain Smollet, I followed the map to this Robert Louis Stevenson island "Treasure Island" |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: In this 1982 film Captain Bryant calls androids "skinjobs" Blade Runner |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $800: On Nov. 7, 1504 this captain arrived back in Spain, his ocean voyaging done Christopher Columbus |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $800: Captain Nemo &
Phileas Fogg Jules Verne |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | VOYAGER $400: In 1774 this English captain reached 71 deg., 10 min. south latitude -- the most southerly point then achieved Captain Cook |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | SONGS OF THE '70s $1600: In 1975 the Captain & Tennille charted with this song in English & in Spanish ("Por Amor Viviremos") "Love Will Keep Us Together" |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | CAPES $1000: Knowing that Captain Cook named this cape on Washington's strait of Juan de Fuca "will get you nowhere" Cape Flattery |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | MILITARY PROMOTIONS $1000: Going down the ranks on the 7 seas, remember your 3 C's: commodore, captain, this commander |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE $1200: Bill Daily played Captain Roger Healey, this captain's best friend Tony Nelson |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | TROPICAL FRUIT $2000: Captain Bligh was on a trip to Tahiti to get trees of this tropical fruit when that whole mutiny thing went down breadfruit |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ON A PRINCESS CRUISE $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew takes her place as captain of the ship.) It's my turn to take over steering the boat or take the, this wheel or helm |
| #4090, aired 2002-05-17 | THE TV VAULT $1200: Heather Locklear played police captain's daughter Stacy Sheridan on this series T.J. Hooker |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Walt Whitman poem about the duo that sang "Love Will Keep Us Together" "O Captain! My Captain! & Tennille" |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | ENTERTAINMENT FIRSTS $1000: Errol Flynn's first fantastic swashbuckler was this "sanguine" classic Captain Blood |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | SHRIMP $1200: This "Courtship" fellow who came over on the Mayflower was once derisively called "Captain Shrimp" Miles Standish |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | THE ME DECADE $800: This duo took the song "Love Will Keep Us Together" to No. 1 in 1975 the Captain & Tennille |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE WEARIN' OF THE GREEN $400: He was the good-natured & innovative farmer on Captain Kangaroo Mr. Green Jeans |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | TIME FOR A PRINCESS CRUISE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from aboard the Golden Princess.) The captain & I are traveling 23 statute miles per hour, which is 20 of these knots |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF $600: His 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" tells the story of sea captain Wolf Larsen & his ship The Ghost Jack London |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | SPORTING PRESIDENTS $1600: He was the first baseman & captain of Yale's 1948 baseball team George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #4027, aired 2002-02-19 | TRUSTY SIDEKICKS $2000: Captain Arthur Hastings, chronicler of a literary detective's cases Hercule Poirot |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $2000: Ship's captain really, really doesn't want to hang a nice sailorboy; he does it anyway Billy Budd |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | HOW...? $1000: Say "Shazam!" & let a bolt of lightning hit you become Captain Marvel |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: A society is named for this Army captain who was killed by Chinese Communists in 1945 John Birch Society |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | HISTORY IN ART $1200: A 1790s engraving by Robert Dodd shows this "Bountiful" captain & some of his officers being set adrift Bligh |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | LITERA-SEA $300: This story of a defecting Soviet sub captain was the first novel from both Tom Clancy & Naval Institute Press "The Hunt for Red October" |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1778 this American captain & his crew looted the Earl of Selkirk's caste in Solway Firth, Scotland John Paul Jones |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $100: This captain's "five year mission" actually only lasted about 3 (until syndication & films) Captain Kirk |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $200: Let's give a hand to this villain, created in 1904 by James M. Barrie Captain Hook |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $300: Let's give a hand (no, a leg) to this seafaring captain created in 1851 Captain Ahab |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $400: Climb aboard the S.S. Guppy at this breakfast food mascot's website Cap'n Crunch |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $500: The secret identity of this patriotic shield-sporting Marvel superhero was Steve Rogers Captain America |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $600: William Hodges journeyed to the south Pacific as an artist to this captain & painted the portrait of him seen here Captain James Cook |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | THE REAL SLIM PICKENS $200: Slim Pickens was the B-52 captain who saddled up a hydrogen bomb in this 1964 Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: This 17th century English sea captain gave his name to a large North American bay, a river & a strait (Henry) Hudson |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $500: At 5:41 A.M. on May 1, 1898 Dewey told this captain of the Olympia, "You may fire when you are ready" Gridley |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | SEAN CONNERY $800: Connery escaped Bond-age (& Soviet Russia) as sub captain Marko Ramius in this film The Hunt for Red October |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Cole Porter's "Shakespearean" musical starring the actress who played "Star Trek" captain Janeway Kiss Me, Kate Mulgrew |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | CHARACTER REFERENCE $400: Beatty is the captain of the firemen in this futuristic novel that's been inflaming readers since June 1953 Fahrenheit 451 |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | A KATE-GORY $400: Before becoming a "Voyager" captain, she played a love interest of Sam Malone's on "Cheers" Kate Mulgrew |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE SKIPPER $200: 1851:
The Pequod Captain Ahab |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE SKIPPER $400: 1932:
The Bounty
(before the mutiny) Captain Bligh |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE SKIPPER $600: 1870:
The Nautilus Captain Nemo |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE SKIPPER $1,000 (Daily Double): 1951:
The Caine
(before the mutiny) Captain Queeg |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE SKIPPER $1000: 1904:
The Ghost Captain Wolf Larsen |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | EXPLORERS $700 (Daily Double): On his ship La Dauphine, this Florentine captain became the first European to sail into New York Harbor Giovanni Da Verrazzano |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | POP CULTURE $600: Since 1905, these brothers have shared their comic strip with der Captain und der Inspector The Katzenjammer Kids |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE END $1000: This captain & his ship disappear into a maelstrom at the end of a Jules Verne tale Captain Nemo |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | OUT FOR BLOOD $300: In this 1935 film Errol Flynn plays an Irish physician who's forced to become a pirate Captain Blood |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $300: This large inlet in Washington state was named for Captain George Vancouver's aide Puget Sound |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | WE'RE NO. 1! $400: On "Star Trek", when Captain Picard calls for Number 1, this officer comes running Commander Riker |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $600: Eileen Brennan reprised her movie role as Captain Lewis in this sitcom based on a Goldie Hawn film Private Benjamin |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | PEARLS OF WISDOM $400: Nicknamed "The Pearl", he was the captain of the Knicks in the late '70s Earl Monroe |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $800: (Hi, I'm Donny Osmond.) I provided the singing voice of Captain Shang for this 1998 animated Disney film Mulan |
| #3783, aired 2001-01-31 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $200: In an 1851 classic this man cries, "Towards thee I row, thou all destroying but unconquering whale!" Captain Ahab |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | LITERARY ISLANDS $800: William LeGrand & his servant Jupiter dig up the buried treasure of Captain Kidd on Sullivan's Island in this Poe tale "The Gold Bug" |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | EXPLORATION $200: When Captain Cook left England in July 1776, this future Bounty captain was master of his ship the Resolution Captain William Bligh |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | A STEW OF STEWARTS $100: He's brought a Shakespearean air to his role as "Star Trek" captain Jean-Luc Picard Patrick Stewart |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | EXPLORERS $1000: In 1521 Juan Sebastian del Cano took over for this slain captain & made a historic Indian Ocean crossing Ferdinand Magellan |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | EXPLORERS $1,500 (Daily Double): This captain discovered the Great Barrier Reef the hard way, by running the Endeavour onto it Captain James Cook |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHIES $300: This actor's life gets plenty of space in "Captain Quirk" William Shatner |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | HISTORY $500: Born aboard the Mayflower in the New World, he grew up to be a captain of militia, & maybe a falconer too Peregrine White |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | "LOVE" IS THE ANSWER $400: Captain Merrill Stubing was the main man onboard this title TV cruiser The Love Boat |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | THERE'S AN "A" $1000: Yes, captain, it's the small Madagascan primate seen here: Aye-aye |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | CLASSIC TV TITLE ROLES $200: Police captain Hal Linden Barney Miller |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: Sea captain cares more about his cargo of breadfruit trees than he does about his crew; crew senses this "Mutiny on the Bounty" |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: NASA honored this English navigator by naming the Endeavour & Discovery shuttles after his ships Captain James Cook |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | ANSWERS TO YOUR FINALS $600: 20th Century Literature:
First name of Jack London's sea captain Larson of the Ghost Wolf |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | 5 DECADES OF TV $600: In the '80s this captain played by Daniel J. Travanti ran the Hill Street police station (Frank) Furillo |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | POE-POURRI $300: There is no doubt the treasure in "The Gold Bug" was part of this pirate's booty Captain Kidd |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | WHERE IT'S "AT" $500: The Captain & Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love "Muskrat Love" |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $100: Jamaicans combine salt fish with ackee, a fruit introduced to the island as part of this captain's "bounty" William Bligh |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | BEHIND BARS $400: Look for the pirate on the label of the Captain Morgan brand of this Rum |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $600: Phonograph recordings of this operetta with Captain Corcoran & Dick Deadeye were popular in 1907 H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: Landing at Kauai in 1778, this captain named the area after the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Sandwich Captain James Cook |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | REALLY BAD DATES $500: This captain was killed in a skirmish with natives at Kealakekua Bay on Feb. 14, 1779 Captain James Cook |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | OLD HAT $400: Hat of choice for Groucho's Captain Spaulding Pith helmet |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | LOTS OF CHARACTER $800: Another captain he created was Captain Guy of the Julia in "Omoo" Herman Melville |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | "U" WHO $100: When the new "Love Boat" set sail in 1998, this "Vega$" star was in the captain's seat Robert Urich |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ACTING PRESIDENTS $200: Peter Sellers had 3 roles in this film, U.S. President Merkin Muffley, Captain Lionel Mandrake & this title character Dr. Strangelove |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | PRO WRESTLING $600: Wrestler Captain Lou Albano played her dad in the video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" Cyndi Lauper |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THE MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA $400: Captain Cook "rounded" it with little difficulty in early 1769 Cape Horn |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | SMITH, JOHN SMITH $100: While fighting in Hungary & Transylvania, Smith was promoted to this rank Captain |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | THE BIBLE $800: This son of Jacob served under Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's palace guard Joseph |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $200: This explorer's January 20, 1778 landing site in Hawaii is an historic landmark Captain James Cook |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Bob Keeshan's TV persona is unfairly tried by this type of tribunal Captain Kangaroo Court |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $300: James Mason played Captain Nemo in this 1954 Disney film Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | MOUNTAINS $800: Named for a famed English sea captain, this New Zealand peak is called Aorangi by the Maoris Mount Cook |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | RANKS & TITLES $100: Rank shared by Kirk, Kidd & Kangaroo Captain |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | FICTIONAL INDIANS $100: Peter Pan saved her from the clutches of Captain Hook Tiger Lily |
| #3562, aired 2000-02-15 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: 4-letter name shared by a character in Dickens' "Bleak House" & a Jules Verne captain Nemo |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | U.S. STATE NAMES $800: In 1629 Captain John Mason named it for his home county in England New Hampshire |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | RANK $400: In the Royal Navy, this important job is just below the rank of commodore Captain |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | BLOODY BUSINESS $800: His first role as a swashbuckler was in 1935 as Captain Blood Errol Flynn |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | LITERARY QUOTES $100: This captain offers gold to whomever "raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow" Captain Ahab |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | BOGIE MEN $300: Captain Queeg The Caine Mutiny |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | WORD PUZZLES $200: You'd better tell the captain this has happened:
MAN
BOARD man overboard |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | JAWS $100: The jaws of this creature helped give Captain Hook his name: Crocodile |
| #3522, aired 1999-12-21 | HE'S ALSO A PLANT $800: The Fitzroya was named for Robert FitzRoy, captain of this ship on which Darwin sailed (HMS) Beagle |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | DISCOVERY CHANNEL $400: In 1611 this captain of the Discovery couldn't keep his mutinous crew at "Bay" Henry Hudson |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | FAMOUS BEARS $500: Ursine terpsichorean from Captain Kangaroo's Treasure House Dancing Bear |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | 1690s AMERICA $400: On July 6, 1699 this pirate was captured in Boston Captain Kidd |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800 (Daily Double): This president's grandfather, James Knox, was a captain in the American Revolution James Knox Polk |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CLASSICS $800: He's the evil captain in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" Captain Nemo |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | QUICK BIOS $1000: Born in Scotland c. 1645; kicked booty for booty on the high seas; hanged in London in 1701 Captain Kidd |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | SILENT MOVIES $800: In this 1924 film, Ernest Torrence played Captain Hook & Betty Bronson the title role Peter Pan |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | AMERICAN POETRY $300: "Priscilla" was the original title of Longfellow's poem about "The Courtship of" this Puritan captain Miles Standish |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | STARBUCK $400: Starbuck openly spoke against this captain's mad quest Captain Ahab |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | CEREALS $500: This "nautical" favorite should fill your sails in the morning Cap'n Crunch |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | THE WILD WEST $200: As a captain in this fabled law enforcement group, Jack Hays was assigned to protect San Antonio Texas Rangers |
| #3436, aired 1999-07-12 | THE MOVIES $600: John Larroquette played Captain Stillman in this wacky 1981 comedy about misfits in the Army Stripes |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | MILITARY MOVIES $200: Eileen Brennan earned an Oscar nomination for playing Captain Lewis in this Goldie Hawn comedy Private Benjamin |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | WAR STORIES $200: In this Joseph Heller novel, Captain Yossarian pleads insanity in an attempt to get grounded from flying "Catch-22" |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | GUIDING "LIGHT" $200: In your gas oven you might find this continuous burner, captain pilot light |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | AS THE WORLD TURNS $400: This inlet of the Tasman Sea was the site of Captain Cook's first landing in Australia Botany Bay |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | JUST DESSERTS $1000: Sea captain Hanson Gregory & the Pennsylvania Dutch are both credited with putting the hole in this treat doughnuts |
| #3403, aired 1999-05-26 | WORLD HISTORY $500: This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands Vasco da Gama |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: The first Englishman to sail around the world, he later served in the British Parliament Sir Francis Drake |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | SAUL BELLOW'S LIBRARY $400: "An unimaginative sea captain sees his ship through a deadly storm" in this Joseph Conrad work with a stormy title Typhoon |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | FAMOUS VEHICLES $800: It was Captain Nemo's deadly submarine in the Jules Verne classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" Nautilus |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | FOREVER 39 $600: In 1768 at age 39 this captain left England on his first voyage to the South Seas James Cook |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | HIT TUNES $800: In 1980 this duo topped the charts one more time with "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST $800: In the 1890s Proust helped organize petitions on behalf of this Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | LIQUOR BY LABEL $400: Appleton,
Captain Morgan,
Bacardi rum |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,200 (Daily Double): In the 1770s this British sea captain received the Copley Medal for his efforts in preventing scurvy James Cook |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $400: After this captain began to fight, he won the Serapis but lost his own ship, the Bonhomme Richard John Paul Jones |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $500 (Daily Double): (Alex: I'm at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston.) A megaphone like this one might have been used during the sinking by this captain to shout commands Captain Edward Smith |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | RADIO DAYS $1000: Episodes of this aviator's adventure serial began with a clock striking 12 Captain Midnight |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | NEXT IN LINE, PLEASE $400: In the U.S. Army:
2nd Lieutenant,
1st Lieutenant,
Captain... Major |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | CLASSIC STAR TREK $500: Captain Kirk shares this name, his middle name, with a first century Roman emperor Tiberius |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | FANTASTIC VOYAGES $900 (Daily Double): Set adrift in a 1789 mutiny, he & 18 men sailed in an open boat over 3,500 miles across the Pacific to Timor William Bligh |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | TOM HANKS FILMS $100: Tom went through boot camp-style training for his role as Captain Miller in this WWII epic Saving Private Ryan |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | THE MOVIES $400: Hans Conried provided the voices of Mr. Darling & Captain Hook for this 1953 film Peter Pan |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | RESOLUTIONS $400: In July 1772 he commanded the Resolution on a voyage to the South Pacific in search of Terra Australis (Captain) Cook |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $200: He finally won an Oscar in 1952 for playing a raffish yet courageous riverboat captain Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen) |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $400: In a Herman Wouk novel, crazy Captain Queeg commanded this vessel Caine |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $600: The British captured this courageous captain Sept. 21, 1776 on his return from a spy mission Nathan Hale |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $800 (Daily Double): Killed by Communist forces 10 days after WWII, this U.S. Army captain has his own "Society" John Birch |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $1000: The courageous captain of this spectral ship is condemned to sail the seas until judgment day the Flying Dutchman |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | STARS OF THE SILENT SCREEN $400: John Barrymore played this role twice, silently in "The Sea Beast" & talking in "Moby Dick" Captain Ahab |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY "GAL"? $500: In 1570 British sea captain John Hawkins converted this type of merchant ship into a warship Galleon |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | TAKE A LETTER $600: Middle initial shared by "Star Trek"'s Captain James Kirk & Phineas Barnum T |
| #3287, aired 1998-12-15 | LITTLE DOG $800: The Schipperke's name can be translated as "little captain", reflecting its role guarding these ships |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | COMICS & COMIC BOOKS $400: Captain Marvel's looks were based on this movie star's; this was way before his "My Three Sons" days Fred MacMurray |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | SECRET IDENTITIES $300: TV's Billy Batson Captain Marvel |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $600: It's the title of the movie that featured the following:
"A poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln; now in this class you can either call me 'Mr. Keating', or if you're slightly more daring, 'O Captain! My Captain!'" Dead Poets Society (Robin Williams) |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | twentysomething $500: As Captain Kirk could tell you, the original "Star Trek" TV series was set in this century the twenty-third century |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | THEY USED TO BE TEENAGERS $800: Seen here as a youth, this son of a senator was captain of the football team at St. Alban's in Washington, D.C. Al Gore |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | "LING"O $600: Vocation of Melville's Captain Ahab & crew whaling |
| #3248, aired 1998-10-21 | ON BROADWAY, 1956 $400: Usumcasane in "Tamburlaine the Great" was played by this future starship captain William Shatner |
| #3240, aired 1998-10-09 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In the spring of 1699 this pirate visited Narrangansett & may have buried treasure there Captain Kidd |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | ISLANDS $400: New Zealand's Bounty Islands were discovered by this tough British captain in 1788 Captain William Bligh |
| #3236, aired 1998-10-05 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: George Vancouver once went to the bow of this captain's ship to be the man the farthest south in the world Captain James Cook |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | HORNBLOWER $200: Gene Roddenberry used Hornblower as a model in creating this captain of the Enterprise James T. Kirk |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | TALK LIKE A SAILOR $200: When the captain calls for "all" these body parts "on deck", he means everybody up top hands |
| #3213, aired 1998-07-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: He earned his captain's commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804 Stephen Decatur |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | DOWN UNDER $400: This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship the Great Barrier Reef |
| #3205, aired 1998-07-03 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $300: During the war this American naval hero & captain of the Ranger raided the coast of England John Paul Jones |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | WHERE THE "H" ARE WE? $100: Parker Ranch,
Kilauea Volcano,
Monument to Captain Cook Hawaii |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | VOYAGERS $1000: Literary captain who was master of the whaling ship Pequod Ahab |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | JANE AUSTEN $1000: In "Persuasion", Wentworth returns from sea with this rank & renews his courtship of Anne Captain |
| #3153, aired 1998-04-22 | TAKE "TEN" $200: She shared "Muskrat Love" with the Captain Toni Tennille |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $500: The Borg Seven of Nine & Captain Kathryn Janeway are 2 of the women aboard this Federation starship Voyager |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | HORATIO HORNBLOWER $600: He played Hornblower on film in 1951; 5 years later he was back afloat as Captain Ahab Gregory Peck |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | MORE OPERATIC DEMISES $1,300 (Daily Double): In a Melville-inspired opera, this young sailor is hanged from the yardarm of the H.M.S. Indomitable Billy Budd |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $200: A city & island in British Columbia are named for this sea captain who explored the area in 1792 Vancouver |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: In 1642 & 1643 this Dutch captain circumnavigated Australia without seeing it (Abel) Tasman |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land James Cook |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | BATTLE CRIES $100: Despite Captain Lawrence's final orders, it's what the crew of the Chesapeake did on June 1, 1813 give up the ship |
