| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | A TV SERIES $200: Captains of the Enterprise:
William Shatner; this man from 1987 to 1994; then Scott Bakula Patrick Stewart |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THEY WROTE 'EM $1600: "Chorus of the Captains", a poem performed via video at the 2021 Super Bowl Amanda Gorman |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | LITERARY SHIPPING $2000: This word follows "Captains" in the title of a Rudyard Kipling tale about Atlantic Ocean fishermen out in the Grand Banks Courageous |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | "YA"S $1600: Sea captains & pirates are "woven" into the fabric of the 1835 book "An Old Sailor's" these tales yarns |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $800: "Captains Courageous" & "Kim" were penned by this 1907 winner Kipling |
| #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 |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $1600: Once, Royal Navy captains would call "panic stations" as a prelude to this other 2-word command abandon ship |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $400: Ship captains rely on this group; for Mardi Gras, it's spelled with a "K" at the start & an extra "E" at the end a crew/krewe |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $1600: Rudyard Kipling took a break from his stories of South Asia to pen this tale of New England fishermen Captains Courageous |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | LET'S GET ORGANIZED $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a military chart on the monitor.) In the U.S. Army, a major general commands a division; colonels, lieutenant colonels & captains each have assigned units & a lieutenant heads up this group of 16 to 40 soldiers, also the title of a 1986 Oscar-winning movie a platoon |
| #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 |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $5,000 (Daily Double): Looks like many brave officers are here! This Kipling tale is subtitled "A Story of the Grand Banks" Captains Courageous |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | PIRATES $1600: This canine term was used for naval captains sent by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish fleets in the Caribbean sea dogs |
| #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) |
| #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 |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $400: "A Remarkable Woman", about this late actress, says she saw Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous" 52 times (Katharine) Hepburn |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE GOOD $800: In May 1940 many "little ships" & their captains did good when they aided in the evacuation of this French port Dunkirk |
| #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 $800: On April 28, 1789 he wrote, "Just before sunrise, Mr. Christian" seized him & tied his "hands with a cord" Bligh |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $1200: Isaac Hull captained this ship to victory over the British frigate Guerriere during the War of 1812 the Constitution |
| #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 |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | SOUNDS LIKE A TECH BRAND $800: A former U.S. Navy rank between captains & admirals Commodore |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | AUTHORS $400: This Brit was living in Vermont in the 1890s when he wrote "Captains Courageous" & most of "Kim" Rudyard Kipling |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | A WHALE OF A BOOK $800: Ethan Hawley, descendant of whaling captains, is the protagonist of this author's "The Winter of Our Discontent" John Steinbeck |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $3,150 (Daily Double): In this animated film Fred captains the title transport to Pepperland Yellow Submarine |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1600: (I'm Maureen Dowd.) In my Pulitzer-winning commentary on the Clinton scandals, I wrote that this prosecutor was playing Captains Ahab & Queeg in pursuit of the president (Kenneth) Starr |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Long Jack is one of the crew on a cod boat that rescues Harvey Cheyne in the Grand Banks in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | FICTIONAL SHIPS $2000: In this 1897 Kipling novel, the schooner "We're Here" rescues teenager Harvey Cheyne near the Grand Banks Captains Courageous |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | WOLF $2000: In this 1904 Jack London tale, Wolf Larsen captains a ship called the Ghost The Sea Wolf |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | CONGRESSIONAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: A mammal that bites legs off sea captains, rams ships & in his spare time is an Illinois senator Moby Dick Durbin |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | COLLEGE SPORTS RIVALRIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 team captains in this football rivalry's first game both died in the Spanish-American War Army-Navy |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | "GEO"PARDY! $2000: This 1897 Kipling novel details a boy's coming of age on a fishing trawler Captains Courageous |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $1,500 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy gave his Best Actor Oscar for this 1938 film set in Nebraska to Father Edward J. Flanagan Boys Town |
| #4323, aired 2003-05-21 | FIRE ON FILM $400: 2 Culver City fire captains stood by nervously as the burning of this city was filmed for "GWTW" Atlanta |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1937:
Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure Captains Courageous |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY $200: Now a cyber-billionaire, one of his first commercial enterprises was Traf-O-Data in the early 1970s Bill Gates |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY $400: A millionaire by age 24, this oil tycoon was considered the world's richest man at his death in 1976 Getty |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY $600: After selling his networks to Time Warner for $7.5 billion, this mogul became vice chairman of the new company Ted Turner |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY $800: This U.S. family of chemical industrialists is descended from an economist who supported King Louis XVI DuPont |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): 5 brothers of this influential banking family were all made barons in 1822 Rothschild |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | FAMILIAR EXPRESSIONS $300: Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase "captains of" this to mean powerful businessmen industry |
| #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 |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $100: In an early account of Jamestown's first year, he made no mention of his rescue by Pocahontas John Smith |
| #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 $300: It took him & his crew 37 days to traverse the South American strait now named for him Magellan |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: In 1642 & 1643 this Dutch captain circumnavigated Australia without seeing it (Abel) Tasman |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $500: King Louis XVI gave this American a gold sword & made him a chevalier of France John Paul Jones |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | GREAT FEETS OF THE BIBLE $200: This Jericho conqueror had his captains put their feet on the necks of 5 captured kings Joshua |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | SPORTS $100: Co-captains of the 1992 Olympic basketball "Dream Team" were Magic Johnson & this Celtics star Larry Bird |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | OLD TESTAMENT $300: The 12 captains of Israel would alternate serving David for this part of a year a month |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $200: While crossing the Pacific, this Portuguese sea captain's first landfall was Guam on March 6, 1521 Magellan |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: On April 28, 1789, he & 18 crewmen were set adrift near Tonga; 48 days later he reached Timor (Captain) Bligh |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $600: Before becoming a naval hero in the Revolutionary War. he was briefly an actor in the West Indies John Paul Jones |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $800: In 1612 he published his "Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country..." (Captain) John Smith |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $1000: In 1804 he received a captain's commission for burning the Philadelphia in Tripoli's harbor Stephen Decatur |
| #2421, aired 1995-02-27 | FEBRUARY $100: On February 23, 1863, Captains Speke & Grant announced they had found the source of this river the Nile |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | TOC LEFTOVERS $600: Ship captains know they come in mooring, can, nun, sell, gong & lighted varieties buoys |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | FAMOUS TAYLORS $1000: She gave us the generational saga of "Captains and the Kings" (Janet) Taylor Caldwell |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: After this prince dies, Fortinbras says, "Let four captains bear" him "like a soldier to the stage" Hamlet |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | COMMON BONDS $300: Kirk,
Cook,
Kangaroo Captains |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | CAPTAINS $200: Captain Edward Smith commanded this ship on its first voyage that was also its last the Titanic |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | CAPTAINS $400: He was only 28 when he first appeared as the grandfatherly Captain Kangaroo Bob Keeshan |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | CAPTAINS $600: This future president was elected captain of his company during the Black Hawk War of 1832 Lincoln |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | CAPTAINS $800: Stephen Decatur won a captaincy in 1804 during the war against these pirates the Barbary Pirates |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | CAPTAINS $1000: Criminal captain Macheath secretly marries Polly Peachum in this John Gay work The Beggar's Opera |
| #1733, aired 1992-02-26 | LITERATURE $1000: "Captains Courageous" is set in the Grand Banks off the coast of this Canadian province Newfoundland |
| #1722, aired 1992-02-11 | ODDS & ENDS $800: In the phrase "Captains Courageous", Courageous is this part of speech an adjective |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | COLLEGE DEGREES $400: Captains of industry know than an M.B.A. is this Master of Business Administration |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | COMMON BONDS $300: Captain Pike,
Captain Kirk,
Captain Picard captains of the U.S.S. Enterprise on Star Trek |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: Saved from drowning, spoiled Harvey Cheyne is forced to spend a summer fishing in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | GHOSTS $300: Jack London novel in which Wolf Larson captains a schooner named "Ghost" The Sea-Wolf |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | APRIL $300: April is a bad month for ship captains; the Titanic sank in 1912 & in 1789 this ship's crew mutinied the Bounty |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | NOVELS $800: This seagoing saga is the only one of Kipling's novels with an American setting Captains Courageous |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | TV CAPTAINS $200: Captain Gallant's fighting force, called the Legion Etrangere the French Foreign Legion |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | TV CAPTAINS $400: With nary a word of warning to his ex, Faye, this Hill Street captain wed Joyce Davenport Capt. (Frank) Furillo |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | TV CAPTAINS $600: Captain Pike was in the pilot, but this captain replaced him in the series Capt. Kirk |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: First name shared by Captains Hook & Kirk James |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | U.S. HISTORY $300: Family of Naval Captains: Matthew opened U.S. trade with Japan; Oliver met & took the enemy the Perrys |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | CAPTAINS $200: Captain Merrill Stubing captains this ship The Love Boat |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | CAPTAINS $400: Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain, My Captain", is a tribute to this slain president Abraham Lincoln |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | CAPTAINS $600: On a $25/week prop budget, he was TV's "guardian of the safety of the world" for 5 years Captain Video |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | CAPTAINS $800: Top U.S. air ace in WWI, he later owned the Indianapolis speedway & was president of Eastern Airlines Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | CAPTAINS $1000: A Navy captain proudly wears this many stripes four stripes |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | LITERATURE $300: While living in VT., he wrote "The 7 Seas", "Captains Courageous", & the 2 "Jungle Books" Rudyard Kipling |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $200: Captain of the Jolly Roger & enemy of Peter Pan Captain Hook |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $400: Christopher Plummer played this "Sound of Music" patriarch the (Captain) Baron von Trapp |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $600: Some believe this legendary English pirate's treasure is yet to be found Captain Kidd |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $800: He discovered Australia, New Zealand & Hawaii Captain Cook |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $1000: Walt Whitman poem lamenting Lincoln's death "O Captain! My Captain!" |
