| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $400: In a novel by Stephen King, she's a senior at Ewen High who is bullied by her peers (at their own peril) Carrie |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $800: This country singer collaborated with Leon Bridges on the song "If You Were Mine" Miranda Lambert |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $800: She starred on dramas like "The Leftovers" & "The Gilded Age" Carrie Coon |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $10,600 (Daily Double): She was the star of a 1903 vaudeville play titled "Hatchetation" Carrie Nation |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | STOP! $200: Around 1900 in Kansas, she wanted folks to stop drinking, so she began taking a hatchet to local saloons Carrie Nation |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser tells of a young woman's rise to become a successful Broadway actress Sister Carrie |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $300: "Cinnamon Buns" was Carrie Fisher's nickname for this character's iconic hairstyle Princess Leia |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: On this much-maligned instrument, the melody is played on the finger holes of the chanter bagpipes |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | CURLS GONE WILD $1000: This cartoonist created Frieda, the girl with the naturally curly hair Charles Schulz |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | HETERONYMS $1200: An injury, or coiled up tightly wound & wound |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | HETERONYMS $2000: A threshing machine, or to put together a combine or to combine |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: Sir Charles Wheatstone patented this instrument, that was largely replaced by the accordion a concertina |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | TALK ABOUT... PUP MUSIC $800: This country star Carrie-d on, singing "I close my eyes & I kiss that frog... the more boys I meet, the more I love my dog" (Carrie) Underwood |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $2000: In addition to liquor, this hatchet-wielding woman born in 1846 also railed against tobacco & corsets Carrie Nation |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | READING MUSIC $1000: In "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" this Sleater-Kinney & "Portlandia" singer/actress explores finding herself in music Carrie Brownstein |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $200: This country superstar & "American Idol" is a real Okie from Muskogee, where she was born in 1983 Carrie Underwood |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $200: She dedicated "The Princess Diarist" to George Lucas & Harrison Ford, among others Carrie Fisher |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | MANDY PATINKIN $600: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) For 8 seasons, I played Saul Berenson, Carrie Mathison's CIA mentor & later National Security Advisor on this drama Homeland |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: A small-town girl becomes a Broadway star, not a nun, in this first novel by Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $200: This "Star Wars" princess wrote "Wishful Drinking", based on her one-woman show Carrie Fisher |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CELEBRITY CAMEOS $900: James Earl Jones & Old Sheldon did a ding dong dash on this sitcom; Carrie Fisher was not amused Big Bang Theory |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FROM FILM TO TV $1600: In the TV version of "The Exorcist", Geena Davis was this character all grown up, but with a possessed daughter of her own Regan |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $1000: & Just like that, you learned TV's Carrie Bradshaw got married in blue Hangisi heels by this Spanish designer Manolo Blahnik |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $2000: In 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was ratified, Carrie Chapman Catt founded this, the LWV for short the League of Women Voters |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | DRINK UP POP CULTURE $1200: "Wishful Drinking" was a one-woman show & a memoir by this daughter of Debbie Reynolds Carrie Fisher |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | HALLS OF FAME $1600: This temperance advocate took in battered women at Hatchet Hall, her Arkansas home Carrie Nation |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $800: Carrie Bradshaw returned to TV screens in this follow-up to "Sex & the City" And Just Like That |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1200: As runner-up on the Season 10 finale of "American Idol", country star Lauren Alaina got to sing with her idol, this season 4 winner Carrie Underwood |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | AMERICAN FIVES $800: It's the only one of New York City's 5 boroughs that's not on an island the Bronx |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $2000: Seen here is this German couple, both of whom were composers; she was a piano prodigy the (Robert & Clara) Schumanns |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | AMERICANA $200: A bit confusingly, the first big attraction in the history of Florida's Gatorland was Bone Crusher, a 1/2-ton one of these a crocodile |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $800: In a fitting end to "Titanic", a much older Rose drops a blue diamond called this overboard the Heart of the Ocean |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: From the French, where it means "origin", it's the chain of ownership of an artwork provenance |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | BIBLICAL PROPHETS $1200: Haggai encouraged people to get busy with this construction task & that they would be rewarded with abundance building the (second) temple in Jerusalem |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | HOOK $2000: The fast ferry at Hoek van Holland, aka "The Hook", shuttles people to this big port city Rotterdam |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $4,000 (Daily Double): Evasive or shy, like the mistress in an Andrew Marvell poem coy |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | A LITTLE 5-NOTE MELODY $400: "B" natural: canoe is one type of this tree a birch |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOTHERS OF INVENTION $400: In 1938, using a film made of layers of soap, Katharine Burr Blodgett made glass non-this non-reflective |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOTHERS OF INVENTION $1,000 (Daily Double): The wife of Martin Cooper, "Father of the Cellular Phone", Arlene Harris developed this cell phone brand for seniors Jitterbug |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: In Venice, before a mandate made them black, these were lavishly decorated by their wealthy owners (the Venetian) gondolas |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THANKS VERMILION $1200: A Vermilion line called sindoor in the part of a Hindu woman's hair signifies this it means she's married |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1200: As the "Stanley", Henry Stanley, in part of a 1939 movie title, Spencer Tracy explores Sub-Saharan Africa seeking this doctor David Livingstone |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title group discusses "Emma" in Chapter One of this novel by Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $1600: William & Virginia give bedroom advice to Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte & Miranda Masters of Sex and the City |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $400: Perhaps a toast was not made when this woman married David Nation in 1874 & her single was back on the charts after a 1901 divorce Carrie Nation |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | CELEBRITY DAUGHTERS & FATHERS $400: Carrie & Eddie Fisher |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | AT HOME ON TV $1200: This "Sex & the City" heroine gave her address as 245 E. 73rd Street Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER $800: After 10 years of construction, this waterway officially opened November 17, 1869 the Suez Canal |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | FAMILY IS EVERYTHING $1600: The black & yellow panels in the state flag seen here are a heraldic symbol of this family that founded Maryland the Calverts |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | FAMILY IS EVERYTHING $2,000 (Daily Double): Prominent Boston families like the Cabots & Winthrops have been dubbed with this collective name from a caste of India the Brahmins |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | TRIPLE ALLITERATION $2,000 (Daily Double): One of this organization's missions is "calling out & addressing substandard marketplace behavior" Better Business Bureau |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | FAMILY IS EVERYTHING $2000: In 1478 the rival Pazzi family tried to overthrow this ruling family of an Italian city, including attacking them in a church the Medici |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $800: Change the 2 middle letters of "Carrie" to get this name from the Greek for "beautiful" Callie |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | SUFFRAGETTE $200: Carrie Chapman Catt led the battle for Tennessee's decisive ratification of the 19th Amendment; this city has bronzed her & four other leaders Nashville |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $600: "How Great" is this beloved hymn that began as a Swedish poem by Carl Boberg & has been recorded by Carrie Underwood & Elvis "How Great Thou Art" |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $800: This Sarah Jessica Parker character wrote the books "Menhattan" & "A Single Life" Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $400: The title teen's prom night is extra-excitiing in this 1974 debut novel Carrie |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | DREW'S CLUES ON FAMOUS FAMILIES $800: (Drew Barrymore presents the clue.) Billie Lourd comes from Hollywood royalty; her mother was Carrie Fisher & her grandparents were Eddie Fisher & this beloved entertainer Debbie Reynolds |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | GUITAR GODDESSES $1200: Carrie Brownstein, axe-slinger in this hyphenated "Riot Grrrl" band, made Rolling Stone's list of 25 underrated guitarists Sleater-Kinney |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1600: This temperance crusader gave lectures billed as "The Famous & Original Bar Room Smasher" Carrie Nation |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | FICTIONAL SCHOOLS $4,000 (Daily Double): Chamberlain, Maine's Thomas Ewen Consolidated High School hosts a memorable prom in this 1974 novel Carrie |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | ODD PAIRS $1600: Trinity portrayer from "The Matrix" & "national" grayish plant that drapes trees throughout the south Carrie Ann & Spanish moss |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $200: This show & its prequel "The Carrie Diaries" were based on books by Candace Bushnell Sex and the City |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | ACM AWARDS $400: In 2017 Keith Urban & this "American Idol" rocked the house with "The Fighter" Carrie Underwood |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | SUMMER READING $800: In the prequel novel "Summer & the City", this Candace Bushnell character discovers New York City Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | SHE PLAYED 'EM ON TV $800: Angela Chase on "My So-Called Life" & Carrie Mathison on "Homeland" Claire Danes |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | SHORT RUNS ON BROADWAY $400: Based on a Stephen King novel, this '88 musical featured a high school dance to remember but closed after only 5 performances Carrie |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $2000: Charlie Chaplin read this "Sister Carrie" author's poem "The Road I came" at his funeral & served as a pall bearer Dreiser |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $600: Carrie Underwood is one of the honorees whose star is in front of this iconic building that looks like a stack of discs the Capitol Records Building |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | REALITY SHOW BREAKOUTS $1000: An original judge on "Dancing with the Stars", she now also judges more broadly on "The Talk" Carrie Ann Inaba |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $200: "Star Wars" fans were crushed by her 2016 passing, followed a day later by her mother's Carrie Fisher |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $400: Andie MacDowell played Carrie, the American girl who captures Hugh Grant's heart, in this 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $600: In 2005 she became the first country singer to win "American Idol" Carrie Underwood |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $800: In a 1976 film, she played Carrie White, whose prom night was quite memorable Sissy Spacek |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $1000: Fred Armisen and this Carrie were costars and co-creators of "Portlandia" Carrie Brownstein |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: Carrie Chapman Catt founded this league in 1920 during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association the League of Women Voters |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | LET'S PUT ON A MUSICAL $1200: Sets we're going to need for "Carrie":
the White home, the pig farm & this festive event where things get bloody at the end the prom |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | TV SHOWS BY COUPLE $400: Carrie & Mr. Big Sex and the City |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | GROSS CONFESSIONS $400: This actress said, "I hated wearing that outfit & sitting there rigid straight, & I couldn't wait to kill" Jabba the Hutt Carrie Fisher |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | ACM AWARDS $800: At the 2011 awards Steven Tyler duetted with Carrie Underwood on this group's classic "Walk This Way" Aerosmith |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TALK NERDY $1,000 (Daily Double): (Cara Santa Maria gives the clue.) Caltech scientist Carrie Nugent explained how to track & predict the impact these would have if on a collision course with Earth; the method used in the movie "Armageddon" is not very practical asteroids |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | A REAL HORROR STORY $600: A N.Y. Times review said this Stephen King title character "runs psychically amok" & things go south for her & everyone Carrie (White) |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | THE STORY OF MY LIFE $400: Joely Fisher dedicated "Growing Up Fisher" in part to her mom Connie Stevens & to this late beloved half-sister Carrie Fisher |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser was reissued nearly a century after it was published to add back 40,000 words Sister Carrie |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | HUGS & KISSES $2000: The photo here was taken August 14, 1945, the day this was announced the end of World War II or V-J Day |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | POP CULTURE PAIRS $2000: This movie comedy duo rode camels in 1942 while on the "Road to Morocco" Bob Hope and Bing Crosby |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | SIGNATURE DRINKS OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1200: Carrie Bradshaw of "Sex & the City" made this cocktail a signature drink of the '90s the Cosmopolitan |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY $1200: In 2018 this "American Idol" winner & country star sang you can do a lot to cover stuff up, but you can't "Cry Pretty" Carrie Underwood |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | STRAIGHT TO BILLBOARD NO. 1 $1000: 2005:
This country beauty's "Inside Your Heaven" Carrie Underwood |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: Carrie Fisher auditioned for "Star Wars" & this horror film at the same time--the 2 directors were in the same room Carrie |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S LAST NAME $1600: King's Carrie White |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | I HEAR VOICES $200: The force will always be with this late, great woman who voiced Angela, Peter's brewery boss on "Family Guy" (Carrie) Fisher |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: Frances on "Divorce" & Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City" Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Middle Eastern entertainment with rapid gyrations of the hips that's a reality TV show judged by Len, Bruno & Carrie Ann belly Dancing with the Stars |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This Theodore Dreiser novel in which the title woman becomes a Broadway star was partly based on one of his siblings Sister Carrie |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE $800: "I lost my choo!" she said while running for the Staten Island Ferry on an episode of "Sex and the City" Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw) |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | MEMOIRS ON AUDIBLE $600: (He delves into some of the thrills and horrors of writing fiction.) Second and slightly more important was the fact that I didn't much like the lead character. Carrie White seemed thick and passive, a ready-made victim Stephen King |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE $800: Carrie Fisher's first memoir:
"Wishful ____" drinking |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | TV NICKNAMES $400: On "Sex and the City", Chris Noth played Carrie's elusive flame known as this Mr. Big |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | HOME SWEET HOME $3,000 (Daily Double): Her last home was a 14-room boardinghouse in Arkansas known as Hatchet Hall Carrie Nation |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | "U" LOVE MUSIC $200: "Jesus, Take The Wheel" drove this woman all the way to No. 1 on the country charts Carrie Underwood |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | THE SHOE MUST GO ON $800: On an episode of "Sex and the City", Carrie's shoes are stolen--a brand new pair by this ultra-pricey designer Manolo Blahnik |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS $600: Her mother is the domineering & ultra-religious Margaret White; don't wait up! Carrie |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | WE'VE GOT MOMMY ISSUES $400: In its Jan. 16, 2017 issue, People magazine paid special tribute to Carrie Fisher & this legendary mom on their passings Debbie Reynolds |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: In "The Princess Diarist", this late star revealed that she & Harrison Ford had an affair while making "Star Wars" Carrie Fisher |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | LITERARY CHICAGO $1200: Chicago "was the great, mysterious city which was still a magnet for" this Theodore Dreiser title woman (Sister) Carrie |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | PUPPETS $1200: Before he worked with Carrie & Bruno on "Dancing with the Stars", he co-hosted FX' "Breakfast Time" with Bob the Puppet Tom Bergeron |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $1600: A wronged-in-song Carrie Underwood: "Slashed a hole in all 4 tires, maybe next time he'll think" this title "Before He Cheats" |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS $800: In May 2005 she won "American Idol"; 6 months later, her debut album "Some Hearts" was released Carrie Underwood |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | ____ THE ____ $1600: "Sister Carrie" uses this dessert phrase that now means to surpass all others in a bad or unusual way take the cake |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | HOLIDAY DUETS $200: Through digital magic, Carrie Underwood sings "I'll Be Home For Christmas" with this late king of rock & roll Elvis Presley |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $800: This 1990 film in which Meryl plays a substance-addicted actress was based on a book by Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $400: Her album "Storyteller" dominated country album sales in 2015 Carrie Underwood |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $800: This actress sang a song about Life Day, "a day of peace", in the 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special" Carrie Fisher |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $1200: Carrie Brownstein & Corin Tucker named this hyphenated alt rock band after a road in Lacey, Washington Sleater-Kinney |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $1600: When Graham Nash wrote about this singer he was too shy to use her 1st name so he chose one that rhymed: "Carrie Ann" Marianne Faithfull |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $2000: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show's "Carry Me, Carrie" & "Cover Of The Rolling Stone" were penned by this poet & author Shel Silverstein |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Here with the clue is Angelica Thornton of KATU.) Covering a city block & housing a million volumes, Powell's Books covers the whole universe on its shelves, but it also has books of local interest, like this one by Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein that shares its name with their TV show Portlandia |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $600: Temperance leader:
"The Lady with the Hatchet" Carrie Nation |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | JUST MISSED THE TITANIC $1000: A publisher talked this "Sister Carrie" author into taking a less expensive ship Dreiser |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $400: "Blood Sport" is part one of this Stephen King novel; part two is "Prom Night" Carrie |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | WHY DO I KNOW THAT NAME? $1200: She taught us about shoes & sex as Carrie Bradshaw Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | WOMEN ON TV $800: This actress defending our "homeland" as CIA officer Carrie Mathison Claire Danes |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | I SING $1200: She's been named Academy of Country Music Female Vocalist of the Year six times in a row Miranda Lambert |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | 1-WORD STEPHEN KING BOOK TITLES $200: Ultra-religious mother + tormenting classmates = memorable senior prom Carrie |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ROARING '20s READER $2000: Unitarian minister Leon Birkhead served as an advisor to Sinclair Lewis while Lewis was writing this 1927 novel Elmer Gantry |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | COBBLERS $400: On "Sex and the City" Carrie was obsessed with the fancy heels by this high-end Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | FAMILY FOLIO $1200: Small-town girl moves to the big city & becomes an actress in the 1900 novel "Sister Carrie" by this author Theodore Dreiser |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | DEBUT NOVELS $400: Stephen King made his debut with this 1974 novel about the worst prom ever Carrie |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | SITCOM MOMS $800: (I'm Debra Messing.) This actress, singer & real-life mother of Carrie Fisher played my mom, Bobbi Adler, on "Will & Grace" Debbie Reynolds |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | POP $800: Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, she won the 4th season of "American Idol" in 2005 Carrie Underwood |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | COMEDIC TV PARTNERS $400: Carrie Brownstein Fred Armisen |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | AT LAST, SUN $1000: The movie "A Place in the Sun" was based on this Theodore Dreiser novel An American Tragedy |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | BAD MOTHERS FILM FEST $1600: At first Piper Laurie thought this '70s film was a comedy & played for laughs as a mom of a girl who had a bad prom Carrie |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | NOVELS $2000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser is the story of a small-town girl who comes to the big city Sister Carrie |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $400: "Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the big woods" for this title home Little House on the Prairie |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | RUNNING THE MAGAZINE $800: Here's a quiz: Helen Gurley Brown edited this magazine for 32 years, until 1997 Cosmopolitan |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | IT'S BUT A CONJUNCTION $800: As a conjunction this 4-letter word means alike or equally; as an adjective, it means one & the other both |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | SCIENCE OF THE SKIES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Researchers at the ballistics impact lab established with countless tests that a one-pound piece of insulating foam pierced the thermal protection system of this shuttle in 2003; the counterintuitive finding helped make the shuttle program safe to fly again Columbia |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | TV HANGOUTS $1600: The Mystic Grill in Mystic Falls The Vampire Diaries |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | COUNTRY MUSIC MOVERS & SHAKERS $1200: This Oklahoma native donated $1 million from her "Blown Away" tour to help tornado victims in her home state Carrie Underwood |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Drinks definitely were not on this pro-Prohibition woman Carrie Nation |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: Stephen King's first published book Carrie |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | POP QUIZ $400: Carrie Underwood starred in a 2013 live TV presentation of this musical The Sound of Music |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | SOCIAL LIFE $800: Sister Carrie lives in "a moderately well-furnished" this type of "house", not to be confused with a bawdy house boarding house |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | GETTING SCHOOLED ON TV $2000: Pre-"Sex And The City", young(er) Ms. Bradshaw went to 1980s Castlebury High on this show The Carrie Diaries |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | POP CULTURE $400: Chloe Grace Moretz was the title telekinetic teen in a 2013 remake of this horror movie Carrie |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | SITCOM ROLES $1200: Miranda Hobbes, Carrie-ing on in New York City Cynthia Nixon |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE PAUPER $600: He worked in a laundry to help pay the bills, at least until "Carrie" took off in 1974 (Stephen) King |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | ALL THE JINGLE LADIES $2000: This country idol hit the charts in 2008 with "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" Carrie Underwood |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES $400: "Carrie" &
"Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders" the 1970s |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | THE CELEBRITY BOOK AISLE $1000: Who better to pen the foreword to her 2013 memoir "Unsinkable" than daughter Carrie Fisher Debbie Reynolds |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | THE CHARACTER'S NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED $2000: "Sister Christian., was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis" Sister Carrie |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES $400: 2001:
Carrie on, New York Sex and the City |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $400: This actress' first screenplay was an adaptation of her own book "Postcards from the Edge" Carrie Fisher |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | RELATIVE-ITY $400: As a young actress in NYC, this future "Carrie" star lived with cousin Rip Torn Sissy Spacek |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | HISTORY $600: Her temperance newspapers included "The Smasher's Mail" & "The Hatchet" Carrie Nation |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | I WATCH THAT SHOW RELIGIOUSLY $400: I pray Carrie & Brody can somehow end up together on this drama... & that he finally turns out to be a good guy Homeland |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | MEDICAL PROCEDURES $1200: Carrie on "Homeland" had ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, on this organ your brain |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $600: This title gal from a 1974 novel is doused with pig's blood after being crowned prom queen Carrie |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $1200: Hidden storage place & early Spacek role a cache & Carrie |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CARRIE $200: In 2009 she hit the charts with "Cowboy Casanova" Carrie Underwood |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CARRIE $400: Debbie Reynolds is the mom of this actress & writer Carrie Fisher |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CARRIE $600: She's played the Manolo Blahnik-shod Carrie Bradshaw on TV & in film Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | STEPHEN KING $800: Be careful if you mess with teen misfit Carrie White, who has this ability to move things with her mind telekinesis |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CARRIE $800: "Hollywood Arms", a play by this comedienne & her daughter Carrie Hamilton, opened soon after Carrie died in 2002 Carol Burnett |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CARRIE $1000: She played Trinity in the "Matrix" films Carrie-Anne Moss |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | MOVIES BY CAST $600: Shia LaBeouf & Carrie-Anne Moss in this thriller about suburbia Disturbia |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | THE VOICE... $1600: Doing her own singing as young Juliette on TV's "Nashville" Hayden Panettiere |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | THE ACTOR'S RÉSUMÉ $800: Julie in "The Mod Squad" from 1999,
Carrie Mathison on "Homeland" Claire Danes |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | IN 1867... $1,000 (Daily Double): She wed a doomed physician suffering from alcoholism, perhaps contributing to her violent hatred of booze Carrie Nation |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | LOVE & MARRIAGE $800: Carrie Underwood is conveniently married to Mike Fisher, of the NHL Predators of this city Nashville |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | THEY INSPIRED THE CHARACTER $1600: He followed "Sister Carrie" with "Jennie Gerhardt", modeling the title character in part on his sister Mame (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | ACTRESSES $200: Most famous as Princess Leia, she had a one-woman stage show called "Wishful Drinking" Carrie Fisher |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | AFTRA $200: Bruno Tonioli & Carrie Ann Inaba are judges on this reality competition covered by AFTRA from its 2005 debut Dancing with the Stars |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $1000: In "The Best Awful", she continued the story of Suzanne Vale from "Postcards from the Edge" Carrie Fisher |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | HISTORIC DAYS OF OUR LIVES $600 (Daily Double): (The Days Of Our Lives cast delivers the clue.) Carrie, I'm really sorry I missed your wedding--I know you marrying Austin was a once in a lifetime event.
Yes, I felt like Mary I of England on July 25, 1554 marrying Philip II of this Catholic country Spain |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | FASHION $800: Carrie on "Sex and the City" worshipped the high-end women's shoes designed by this man, real first name Manuel (Manolo) Blahnik |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | AUTHORS $1600: The lack of success of "Sister Carrie", his first novel, sent him into a severe depression Theodore Dreiser |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | TV FOR "U" $2000: Poppy Montgomery stars as Carrie Wells, who remembers almost everything, on this CBS drama Unforgettable |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser tells of a young woman's rise to become a successful Broadway actress Sister Carrie |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | HERE COMES THE WEDDING MOVIE $400: A hasty plan to get married spins out of control, making Carrie a Bridezilla; Mr. Big jilts her on their wedding day in this film Sex and the City |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | I MARRIED A SINGER $400: Singer Gavin Rossdale:
No doubt, this singer & designer Gwen Stefani |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | FOOD FIGHT! $1200: In 2008 Lebanon threatened to sue this nation for violating its "food copyright" on hummus & tabbouleh Israel |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL $1000: Chester Gillette's murder of his pregnant girlfriend inspired this 1925 Thodore Dreiser novel An American Tragedy |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR $2000: Carrie Underwood,
in 2010 Mike Fisher |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | TV WHO AM I $400: Author of the New York Star's "Sex & the City" column Carrie (Bradshaw) |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | SHOP TALK $200: A Dallas-based store was founded in 1907 by Herbert Marcus, his sister Carrie & this man, Carrie's hubby Neiman |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "Meet Carrie before Sex and the City" says the cover of "The Carrie Diaries" by this author (Candace) Bushnell |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $800: The state song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", was written by the brother of this "Sister Carrie" author (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | ON SUCH A WINTER'S DAY $800: On Dec. 27, 1900 she staged her 1st big "raid" when she marched on a Wichita saloon & smashed all liquor bottles in reach Carrie Nation |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $800: Carrie Underwood & her Louisville Slugger: "B.H.C." "Before He Cheats" |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | LIT STUDENTS $800: In an early Stephen King novel, she has the last laugh at Ewen High Carrie |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | 3-LETTER ABBREV. $1000: Organization founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920:
LWV the League of Women Voters |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | COUNTRY FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $400: 2006:
"Jesus, Take The Wheel" Carrie Underwood |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | TAKE A STAB $600: In a 1976 horror film, this telekinetic teen uses her powers to "throw" cutlery at her uber-religious mom Carrie |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $400: This 1937 film tells us, "The Prince, who had searched far and wide, heard of the maiden who slept in the glass coffin" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "Y" ASK $1000: Originally a word for lamentation, it means whining complaint; will you please quit yours! yammering |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1,500 (Daily Double): He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871 Theodore Dreiser |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | NFL QBs OFF THE FIELD $1000: Carrie Underwood denied her song "Cowboy Casanova" was about this Dallas QB (& ex-boyfriend) Tony Romo |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | FACE THE MUSIC $400: You might have seen this country gal singing the National Anthem at the 2010 Super Bowl Carrie Underwood |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | HEY, THAT'S SHARP! $200: Some of the hatchets she used in her saloon-smashing have been donated to the Kansas historical society Carrie Nation |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $800: Before "Welcome Back, Kotter" aired, Travolta played one of this title girl's tormentors in a 1976 horror film Carrie |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: Her last name is Meeber; Dreiser said she was full of "the illusions of ignorance and youth" Sister Carrie |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | CELEBRITY BLOGS $800: This actress' ex, Paul Simon, "would sing me to sleep, which was... sweet or... annoying, depending on the album" Carrie Fisher |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | STOP! $400: Around 1900 in Kansas, she wanted folks to stop drinking, so she began taking a hatchet to local saloons Carrie Nation |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | NONFICTION $400: This actress' memoir "Wishful Drinking" talks about coming of age on the set of "Star Wars" Carrie Fisher |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | FILM SCHOOL $1200: 1976:
A telekinetic Sissy Spacek gets her revenge on mocking classmates & a loony mom Carrie |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | BOOK NAMES $400: Theodore Dreiser:
"Sister ____" Carrie |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | POP CULTURE $400: "Some Hearts", her debut CD, was the best-selling female country album of 2005, 2006 & 2007 Carrie Underwood |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | 3 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $1200: Annie Wilkes,
John Coffey,
Carrie White Stephen King |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | GEOGRAPHIC BANDS $2000: "The Final Countdown",
"Carrie" Europe |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | LITERATURE $400: His novel "Sister Carrie" sold fewer than 500 copies in its first edition (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | A DAMSEL IN THIS DRESS $1200: Carrie's got on American Apparel's dress named for this Channel Islands fabric & carries it well jersey |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | NON-MEMORABLE MOVIE QUOTES $600: (1977)
Carrie Fisher: "What?!" Star Wars |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SEX & THE CITY $200: Female; born 1965; moved to NYC, 1977; starred as Carrie on some TV show, 1998-2004 Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | CENTRAL PARK ENTERTAINMENT $200: Carrie & Mr. Big took a romantic carriage ride in Central Park in the "I Heart NY" episode of this show Sex and the City |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE LOSERS $600: Cameras caught Faith Hill shouting "What?" after this American Idol beat her as top female vocalist at the 2006 CMA awards Carrie Underwood |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $400: She poetiized, "Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say"; Jane Eyre could have used those thoughts Charlotte Brontë |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | PLANET "EARTH" $600: Their hit songs include "Boogie Wonderland" Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $2000: "So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, there never was a knight like" this Sir Walter Scott poetic hero Lochinvar |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: He wrote "Carrie" while teaching high school English at Hampden Academy in Maine (Stephen) King |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | HAD A WIFE & COULDN'T KEEP HER $600: Her second husband divorced her, also known as "Old Hatchet Face", soon after she started smashing saloons Carrie Nation |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2008 $800: This ballet star & Carrie's love interest on "Sex and the City" turned 60 in February Baryshnikov |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | GRAVE MATTERS $800: Her grave in Missouri is inscribed: "Faithful to the cause of Prohibition, she hath done what she could" Carrie Nation |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | THE 50th GRAMMYS $600: Kodo-inspired drummers backed this country songstress on her Grammy-winning hit "Before He Cheats" Carrie Underwood |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | I'M AN ANIMAL $800: A baboon's diet can include rodents, birds & even fawns of this "g"raceful small antelope a gazelle |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BACON $2000: From the Latin for "to lead", this method that goes from specific to general was the basis of Bacon's scientific method induction |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | "EGO" MANIAC $3,500 (Daily Double): A Spanish city, or Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $1200: Theodore Dreiser's own sister Emma had a fling with a married man, helping inspire this title woman Sister Carrie |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | WHAT A WEEK $1000: Carrie on "Sex and the City" really enjoyed this event that brings ships & thousands of sailors to NYC Fleet Week |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREEP $1600: Shirley MacLaine welcomes Meryl to rehab in this comedy written by Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | COUNTRY MUSIC $400: On winning top female vocalist at the 2007 ACM Awards, she thanked God, her fans & "American Idol" Carrie Underwood |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1200: "Sister Carrie"
(1900) Theodore Dreiser |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | CELEB BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Bet ya didn't know Keanu's Matrix squeeze wrote "You Can Take It With You" with George Kaufman in the 30s Carrie-Anne Moss Hart |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LEAGUES $1,000 (Daily Double): This organization was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt as an outgrowth of the women's suffrage movement the League of Women Voters |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | AN UMBRELLA CATEGORY $400: In 1899 she began her temperance work in Kansas wielding an umbrella; hatchets came later Carrie Nation |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1,400 (Daily Double): 2 flims with this title got Oscar nominations, one based on a Dreiser novel, the other on a Stephen King book Carrie |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY $800: With hits like "Jesus, Take The Wheel" & "Some Hearts", this country cutie has hardly been sitting "idol" (Carrie) Underwood |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: "Carrie"
(1974) Stephen King |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded this woman as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | BROWNIE POINTS $800: This mom of Carrie Fisher helped the Brownies recruit & retain members in the 1960s with the "Piper Project" Debbie Reynolds |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | LITERARY WHICH CAME FIRST $400: "The Green Mile",
"Carrie",
"Needful Things" Carrie |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | SITCOMBOS $800: Doug & Carrie Heffernan,
Arthur Spooner The King of Queens |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): Caroline Meeber is the title character of this 1900 novel Sister Carrie |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: A star of the "Matrix" movies, she was named after a Hollies song Carrie-Anne Moss |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | STEPHEN KING BOOKS $400: 1974 tale subtitled "A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power" Carrie |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | WHAT'S ON TV, KIDS? $200: The votes are in: winners on this show have included Ruben Studdard & Carrie Underwood American Idol |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $1600: In Chapter 1 of a Theodore Dreiser novel, this naive 18-year-old heroine meets--uh-oh!--a traveling salesman Sister Carrie |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | FRISKY PRESIDENTS $800: In an effort to keep his affair with Mrs. Carrie Phillips a secret, the RNC sent her on a paid trip to Asia in 1920 Harding |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | "DE" ARTS $200: The son of a surgeon, this director brought some gore to the screen in "Carrie" & "Scarface" (Brian) De Palma |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | NOVELS BEFORE & AFTER $400: Theodore Dreiser's classic about the actress who played Princess Leia Sister Carrie Fisher |
| #4723, aired 2005-03-02 | 21 $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a table at 21, holding a cocktail.) Cosmo in hand & wearing my Manolos, I'm at the table at 21 where this comedy's Carrie dined with Mr. Big Sex and the City |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | SPOUSE IN COMMON $800: Carrie Fisher,
Edie Brickell Paul Simon |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | AUNTIE $1600: On a fact-finding trip to Kentucky, this "Sister Carrie" author was entranced by singer "Aunt Molly" Jackson (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | GOING TO THE DOGS $200: Its nicknames include the spotted dick & the plum pudding dog the Dalmatian |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | COMMUNICATIONS $400: On Sept. 15, 1921 the federal government issued the first of these licenses a radio (broadcast) license |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | EDUCATION $800: Restored to its original look, the USA's first public one of these opened in St. Louis in 1873 a kindergarten |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: This actress wrote "The Best Awful", a follow-up to "Postcards from the Edge" Carrie Fisher |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | ARKANSASSY $1,000 (Daily Double): Hatchet Hall in Eureka Springs, Arkansas is this famous teetotaler's historic residence Carrie Nation |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | GODFATHERS OF SOLE $1000: On "Sex and the City", Carrie worships these stilettos designed by a Spanish cobbler Manolo Blahniks |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | OLD AMERICAN THEATER $400: In 1891's "Sensation in Paradise" Carrie Rogers was Tootsie & Clara Gilbert was this rhyming character Wootsie |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | 'BOUT 100 YEARS AGO $1200: A saloon in Kiowa, Kansas became the first target in her many attacks on liquor establishments Carrie Nation |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $200: Stephen King's first published novel was this tale of a tormented telekinetic teen Carrie |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | LITERARY HEROINES $1600: This Theodore Dreiser heroine becomes a star of the stage, but happiness eludes her Sister Carrie |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | LUNAR TUNES $400: In a 2002 episode of "Sex and the City", Carrie & Mr. Big danced to this Andy Williams classic "Moon River" |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | PEN NAMES $400: He wrote "The Fifth Quarter" under the name John Swithen, a musician at the prom in his novel "Carrie" Stephen King |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | PEN NAMES $2000: "The Prophet" was a pseudonym used by this "Sister Carrie" author on articles & columns Theodore Dreiser |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK $600: It's not me in the photo seen here, it's this determined turn-of-the-century teetotaler Carrie Nation |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | WHAT A BUNCH OF TV CHARACTERS $600: Doug & Carrie Heffernan,
Arthur Spooner The King of Queens |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Dee Snider band who sang "We're Not Gonna Take It" to Caroline Meeber in a Dreiser novel Twisted Sister Carrie |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A GIRL! $600: Proving once again that pig's blood & proms just don't mix, this Stephen King title girl puts mind over matter Carrie |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $800: Carrie,
Miranda,
Mr. Big Sex and the City |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | BACK TO THE 1960s $400: In 1964 Liz Taylor divorced this father of Carrie Eddie Fisher |
| #4019, aired 2002-02-07 | AND YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT $400: "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones", observed this author of "Carrie" & "The Shining" Stephen King |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | ACTORS WHO SING $800: Using the stage name Rainbo, she recorded a song about John & Yoko before starringin films like "Carrie" Sissy Spacek |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $1200: Peggy Harper,
Carrie Fisher,
Edie Brickell Paul Simon |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | INITIALS M.D. $800 (Daily Double): Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl in "Der Blaue Engel" Marlene Dietrich |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | IN THE TREASURY DEPT. $1000: When it invites you up to see its etchings, you'll see stamps & dollar bills the Bureau of Engraving & Printing |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $1000: In an essay, Twain said surely no language is "so slip-shod & systemless" as this one he called "awful" German |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | FASHION FORWARD $300: Once style editor for the New York Times Magazine, Carrie Donovan appeared in ads for this chain, spun off from The Gap Old Navy |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | SCANDALOUS WOMEN $600: During his 1920 presidential campaign, a big payoff kept Carrie Phillips quiet about her affair with him Warren G. Harding |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | EPITAPHS $300: "Faithful to the cause of Prohibition -- she hath done what she could" Carrie Nation |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: He scribed "The Green Mile" & "Carrie", but not while aping around the Empire State Building with Fay Wray Stephen King Kong |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Angie Anderson & Carrie MacDonald are the first women to wear the Hawkeye mascot costume of this university Iowa |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $1000: "The Financier" by this author of "Sister Carrie" was inspired by real financier Charles T. Yerkes Theodore Dreiser |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1000: Seen here, this woman did quite a "smashing" job during her crusade against liquor: Carrie Nation |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $100: "Postcards from the Edge" is loosely based on her life & her relationship with mom, Debbie Reynolds Carrie Fisher |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | LITERARY LOCALES $200: "Sister Carrie",
"McTeague",
"Native Son" United States |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $500: Shortly after the release of "Sister Carrie", his publisher withdrew it due to the book's "amorality" Theodore Dreiser |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $400: This "Sister Carrie" author modeled the heroine of his novel "Jennie Gerhardt" in part on his sister Mame Theodore Dreiser |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | "OO", SORRY! $400: Carrie Fisher made her film debut in this 1975 Warren Beatty-Julie Christie movie Shampoo |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | WILD WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: Just hearing the names of her newsletters -- Smasher's Mail & The Hatchet -- makes us cringe Carrie Nation |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $500: In "Carrie" & again in "Blow Out", Travolta was directed by this man Brian De Palma |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: His novel "Sister Carrie" was inspired by his own sister Emma, who ran off with a married man Theodore Dreiser |
| #3512, aired 1999-12-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: She was almost 6 feet tall & strong as an ox (she could have smashed saloons without her famous hatchet) Carrie Nation |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $1000: 18-year-old Carrie Meeber moves to Chicago & gets a job in a shoe factory in this Theodore Dreiser novel "Sister Carrie" |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | NOTORIOUS $500: Arrested over 30 times, she paid her fines with profits from selling souvenir hatchets with her name on them Carrie Nation |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | KILLER MUSICALS $600: The musical based on this Stephen King novel featured an incendiary high school prom Carrie |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | CELEBRITY DAUGHTERS & MOMS $400: Carrie Fisher Debbie Reynolds |
| #3376, aired 1999-04-19 | WHICH CAME FIRST? $500: "Pet Sematary",
"Carrie",
"The Shining" "Carrie" |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | "T"HEATER $600: This Lillian Hellman play focuses on spinster sisters Carrie & Anna Toys in the Attic |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | BRITISH BANDS & SINGERS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Graham Nash.) As a member of this group in the 1960s, I co-wrote their hits "Carrie-Anne" & "Stop, Stop, Stop" The Hollies |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | POTPOURRI $400: A device named for this woman drove around Mars Sojourner Truth |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | 1988 $600: On Broadway, "Carrie" & "Chess" closed quickly, but this musical with Michael Crawford was a hit Phantom Of The Opera |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: Drunk or sober, no one dared call this hatchet-wielding saloon smasher "Old Hatchet-Face" Carrie Nation |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | STEPHEN KING $200: This book, King's first published novel, hit the big screen starring Sissy Spacek in 1976 Carrie |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | BRIAN DE PALMA FILMS $200: 1976 classic about an unpopular but telekinetic teen girl "Carrie" |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200: She was "The Lady With the Hatchet" Carrie Nation |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENAGERS $200: In 1973, at age 15, she made her Broadway debut in "Irene", which starred her mom, Debbie Reynolds Carrie Fisher |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | FRIENDS $300: Carrie Fisher is a close friend of this actress who played the main character in "Postcards from the Edge" Meryl Streep |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | CARRYING ON $600: She wrote her & her mother's speeches for the American Comedy Awards & was on the 1997 Oscar writing staff Carrie Fisher |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $1000: Her books include "Delusions of Grandma" & "Postcards from the Edge" Carrie Fisher |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | AUTHORS $600: Published in 1915, "The 'Genius' " is a semi-autobiographical novel by this author of "Sister Carrie" Theodore Dreiser |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | LITERATURE $300: 18-year-old Carrie Meeber leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago in this Theodore Dreiser novel Sister Carrie |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: He's scared readers with such popular novels as "It", "Carrie" & "The Stand" Stephen King |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | ACTORS IN '50s FILMS $400: Carrie Fisher's parents, they co-starred in "Bundle Of Joy" in 1956, the year Carrie was born Eddie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | MOVIE DEBUTS $800: Amy Irving & Betty Buckley debuted in this 1976 Brian De Palma film about horror at a high school prom Carrie |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $400: This Carrie Fisher book about movie actresses was made into a movie in 1990 Postcards from the Edge |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | AUTHORS $600: Songwriter Paul Dresser, who changed the spelling of his name, was this "Sister Carrie" author's brother Theodore Dreiser |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $500: "Hey-Rub-A-Dub-Dub" is a 1920 collection of philosophical essays by this "Sister Carrie" author Theodore Dreiser |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | LITERATURE $600: Carolyn Meeber is the title character of this Theodore Dreiser novel Sister Carrie |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FIRST NOVELS $100: "Carrie" Stephen King |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FIRST NOVELS $200: "Sister Carrie" Theodore Dreiser |
| #2717, aired 1996-05-28 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $800: This blonde entertainer likes to introduce herself as "Princess Leia's Mother" Debbie Reynolds |
| #2708, aired 1996-05-15 | NOTABLE WOMEN $600: This temperance leader taught primary school before receiving her "divine call" to smash saloons Carrie Nation |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | LITERATURE $600: After "Sister Carrie" was suppressed by its publisher, he gave up writing fiction for 10 years (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | MOVIE DEBUTS $500: Carrie Fisher's first film was "Shampoo" & Ricki Lake's was named for this other hair care product Hairspray |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: It's the first name shared by Theodore Dreiser's "Sister" & Stephen King's telekinetic teen Carrie |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | HISTORIC WOMEN $400: The proceeds from some of her souvenir hatchets helped fund a home for wives of alcoholics Carrie Nation |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Theodore Dreiser heroine is 18 when she leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago Sister Carrie |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AMERICANA $300: She spent her last years in a Eureka Springs, Arkansas boarding house known as "Hatchet Hall" Carrie Nation |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | CRIME TIME $1000: The 1906 case of Chester Gillette drowning his girlfriend inspired this Theodore Dreiser book An American Tragedy |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1st Theodore Dreiser novel shocked the publisher's wife, who kept it from wide distribution Sister Carrie |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | STEPHEN KING FILMS $200: Among the actors playing teenagers in this 1976 King classic were Amy Irving & Sissy Spacek Carrie |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: The hostile reception of his "Sister Carrie" contributed to his nervous breakdown (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | 1911 $600: This famous temperance activist died June 9 in Leavenworth, Kansas Carrie Nation |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: "The Smasher's Mail" was among the propaganda she published during her anti-liquor crusade Carrie Nation |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $100: Almost 6' tall, she appeared threatening when she burst into saloons brandishing a hatchet Carrie Nation |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Before she became a novelist, she was best known as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" films Carrie Fisher |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: She dedicated "Postcards from the Edge" to her brother Todd & her mother, Debbie Reynolds Carrie Fisher |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1920, after the 19th Amendment passed, Carrie Chapman Catt founded this organization League of Women Voters |
| #2089, aired 1993-10-07 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $600: Married man George Hurstwood deserts his family for this Theodore Dreiser heroine Sister Carrie |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | NOVELS $800: This "Sister Carrie" author wrote 3 novels about Anne Frank Cowperwood, an unscrupulous financier (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Mark Hamill calls this novelist & "Star Wars" co-star "The Wicked Wit of the West" Carrie Fisher |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | AUTHORS $200: His novel "Carrie" was first subtitled "A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power" Stephen King |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | NONFICTION $1000: "An Amateur Laborer" tells of his unhappy, impoverished period after the publication of "Sister Carrie" Theodore Dreiser |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500: This Oscar nominee for "The Hustler" & "Carrie" played Catherine on "Twin Peaks" Piper Laurie |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | HORROR FILMS $100: "Christine" was a car, "Carrie" a girl & "Cujo" one of these dog |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | HISTORIC QUOTES $400: She said, "If saloons in Kansas are illegal, why can't I bust 'em?" Carrie Nation |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | LANGUAGES $100: The dialect of this city gradually became the national language of France Paris |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $400: In 1907 A.L. Neiman, his wife Carrie & this partner opened their first store in Dallas Marcus |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | U.S. STATES $800: This "Sister Carrie" author helped write Indiana's state song, "On The Banks Of The Wabash, Far Away" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Though the heroine of this 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser becomes a star, happiness eludes her Sister Carrie |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | WRITERS $200: "Sister Carrie" was Theodore Dreiser's first novel & "Carrie" was this author's Stephen King |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: After she was beaten up by the woman owner of a Montana bar, this crusader never used her hatchet again Carrie Nation |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $100: A 1988 musical based on his novel "Carrie" closed after 5 performances Stephen King |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | A MULBERRY POTPOURRI $500: This tropical tree was the bounty the HMS Bounty carried a breadfruit tree |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | THE 1991 OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): These "Rambling Rose" co-stars were the first mother & daughter ever nominated in the same year Laura Dern & Diane Ladd |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS $800: The title of this Theodore Dreiser novel is the family nickname for Caroline Meeber Sister Carrie |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In a Stephen King novel, she avenges herself on classmates using telekinetic power Carrie |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Frank Norris discovered this author's "Sister Carrie" while working for a publisher Theodore Dreiser |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In the 1890s she took to the vaudeville circuit to promote her campaign of "Hatchetation" Carrie Nation |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | UMBRELLAS $300: Her weapon was an umbrella when she attacked her first saloon in Medicine Lodge, Kansas Carrie Nation |
| #1618, aired 1991-09-18 | BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: She taped her novel "Postcards from the Edge"; according to the box, "She has been known to act in films" Carrie Fisher |
| #1611, aired 1991-09-09 | WEAPONS $400: A maliciously destructive critique or a bit of business for Carrie Nation a hatchet job |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | BESTSELLERS $200: Debbie & Eddie's daughter, who based "Postcards from the Edge" on her own life Carrie Fisher |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | NOVELS $400: "The "Genius" is this "Sister Carrie" author's most autobiographical novel Theodore Dreiser |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: She began her crusade against liquor in Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1892 Carrie Nation |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | DOWNEASTERS $200: He got an advance of only $2,500 for his first published novel, "Carrie" Stephen King |
| #1510, aired 1991-03-08 | LITERATURE $400: His first novel, "Sister Carrie" was published in 1900 (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #1491, aired 1991-02-11 | STEPHEN KING $1000: The kind of mystical power that allowed his first heroine, Carrie, to move things telekinesis |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | NOVELS $800: Though this Theodore Dreiser title character sounds like a nun or a nurse, she's really an actress Sister Carrie |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | FAMOUS COUPLES $300: Mario Cuomo's son Andrew & Carrie Kennedy, this man's daughter, married in 1990 Robert F. Kennedy |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: She was buried in Belton, Missouri in 1911, we don't know if they buried the hatchet with her Carrie Nation |
| #1305, aired 1990-04-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: "Casualties of War" was an exploration of Vietnam's horror by this maker of horror films like "Carrie" Brian De Palma |
| #1262, aired 1990-02-13 | MOVIES $100: Tom Hanks & Carrie Fisher were "Jeopardy!" fans in this black comedy of life in suburbia The 'Burbs |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WISCONSINITES $800: A native of Ripon, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt founded this org. in 1920 League of Women Voters |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | NOVELS $1000: At the beginning of this 1900 novel, the title character, Caroline Meeber, has left home Sister Carrie |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ACADEMY AWARDS $600: In 1989 he showed up to present for short films wearing the same dress as Carrie Fisher Martin Short |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | FIRST NOVELS $800: Stephen King's 1st published novel, it was made into a 1976 movie starring Sissy Spacek Carrie |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $500: Steve Martin said this Carrie Fisher novel "makes 'Moby Dick' look like a big, fat, dumb book" Postcards from the Edge |
| #1046, aired 1989-03-06 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: Her psychotic mother believed herself to be queen Victoria but she grew up to smash saloons Carrie Nation |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $600: This story of a prom queen with telekinetic powers was Stephen King's 1st best seller Carrie |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | FIRST NOVELS $600: "Sister Carrie" Theodore Dreiser |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This author of "The Octopus" was the reader at Doubleday who accepted Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" Frank Norris |
| #958, aired 1988-11-02 | CELEBRITY MARRIAGES $200: Carrie Leigh hopped out of this man's mansion & married an antique dealer, quick as a bunny Hugh Hefner |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | AMERICAN SONGS $300: Paul Dresser, who wrote "On The Banks Of The Wabash", was a brother of this "Sister Carrie" author Theodore Dreiser |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | GUINNESS FILM FACTS $300: A Shelley Duvall scene in this Stanley Kubrick 1980 thriller, set the record for most takes in a talkie--127 The Shining |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | EDS, EDDIES, & EDWARDS $400: Carrie's famous father Eddie Fisher |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $800: "The Lady with the Hatchet", & we don't mean Lizzie Borden Carrie Nation |
| #857, aired 1988-05-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $700 (Daily Double): Born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala., daughter of a Confederate officer, her autobiography inspired millions Helen Keller |
| #818, aired 1988-03-09 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS $400: This "Star Wars" star came down to Earth to play a caterer in "Hannah & Her Sisters" Carrie Fisher |
| #807, aired 1988-02-23 | TURN OF THE CENTURY $500: In the spring of 1900, she began her anti-liquor crusade in Kansas Carrie Nation |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Caroline Meeber is better known as this, the title of a Theodore Dreiser novel Sister Carrie |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | ACTOR & ACTRESSES $800: This "Star Wars" star wrote of drug dependency in "Postcards from the Edge" Carrie Fisher |
| #669, aired 1987-07-02 | FICTIONAL SISTERS $200: Theodore Dreiser's novel about Carrie Meeber Sister Carrie |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | REFORMERS $400: She appeared in the 1903 play "Hatchetation", which had a saloon-smashing scene Carrie Nation |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | PEOPLE $200: Carrie Fisher said of her divorce from this "1-Trick Pony" star: "Short people, short marriage" Paul Simon |
| #491, aired 1986-10-27 | AMERICANA $100: Expression "hatchet job" is said to come from this lady who was famous for carrying a hatchet Carrie Nation |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: T. Dreiser novel that went undistributed for 12 years since publisher's wife opposed its amoral heroine Sister Carrie |
| #400, aired 1986-03-21 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $100: Though she resorted to an insanity plea, this saloon-smasher was guilty of trespass in 1901 Carrie Nation |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | ACTORS & ROLES $100: Country bred star of "Carrie" & "Coal Miner's Daughter" Sissy Spacek |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $800: Published in 1900, his "Sister Carrie" was still banned in Vermont in 1958 Theodore Dreiser |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | MOVIES $100: Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, she was Princess Leia Carrie Fisher |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $200: Carrie Fisher's famous parents Debbie Reynolds & Eddie Fisher |
