| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $800: Named for its bulging middle, this cast-iron stove was developed in the 19th century for heat & cooking the potbellied stove |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | BRITISH EXPLORERS $800: In 1610 he reached Canada's James Bay; his crew soon mutinied & cast him & 8 others adrift, never to be seen again Hudson |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: This book says "They cast pur, that is, the lot"--hence the holiday of Purim Esther |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $600: Judy Garland was originally cast to play the title sharpshooter in this musical but was let go a month into filming Annie Get Your Gun |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | ISLANDS $200: Monuriki, an uninhabited island of Fiji, became a tourist attraction after the release of this Tom Hanks film Cast Away |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | ELECTION LINGO $200: If you don't vote in person on Election Day, you've cast this type of ballot, whether by mail or by early voting an absentee ballot |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | THE 1970s $600: This woman was the first person Lorne Michaels cast when he was putting together "Saturday Night Live" Gilda Radner |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $800: The 1974 Senate race in N.H., with 220,000 votes cast, was won by 355, then after the first of these, by 10, then after another, by 2 recounts |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | TELEVISION $1000: Way back in season 2, he joined the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as Frank Reynolds & hasn't looked back Danny DeVito |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $4,000 (Daily Double): "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas" Jonah |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | GAME SHOW $800: In 2020, this former "SNL" cast member began hosting a new version of "Supermarket Sweep" Leslie Jones |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $1200: How do you do a corner kick in an oval office? In 2023, Jason Sudekis & the cast of this TV series visited the White House Ted Lasso |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $300: Though she was in her 20s at the time, she was well cast as Baby, a Dirty Dancing baby Jennifer Grey |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | "B" GIRLS $600: At the age of 11, she joined Justin & Christina in the cast of the new "Mickey Mouse Club" Britney Spears |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $300: An '80s cast member, this "J.Lo" returned to "SNL" in 2020 to play president trump's lawyer Alan Dershowitz Jon Lovitz |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $800: Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" became this Hitchcock film with Jimmy Stewart in the cast & in a cast Rear Window |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | THAT HOLLOW FEELING $600: The national museum of Ireland has a plaster cast of an early 1900s "ghost turnip" this; we use pumpkins a jack-o'-lantern |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $1000: The finale of "& Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit
"Come on /
All those things I shouldn't do /
But you dance, dance, dance /
And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'" "Can't Stop The Feeling!" |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $400: Appropriately, the Trundholm sun chariot was cast around 1400 B.C. in this alloy bronze |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $1000: This rebel son of David is killed by Joab & his men, cast into a pit in the woods & covered by a heap of stones Absalom |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $600: To bewitch someone or cast a spell upon them is to do this hex |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: The Hebrew name of this festival that often falls in March means "lots", which were cast as part of a plot against the Jews Purim |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $400: She's the female lead & basically the whole female cast in 1980's "The Blue Lagoon" Brooke Shields |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $400: Stoves & stomachs are made of this 2-word alloy formed in a mold cast iron |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $200: The longest-tenured cast member of "SNL", in 2022, he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Kenan Thompson |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $800: In 1914 he directed the first feature-length movie made in Hollywood & cast a Native American actress in a major part Cecil B. DeMille |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD WITH PADMA LAKSHMI $800: (Padma Lakshmi reads.) Though the French name of this appetizer board refers to meat, you should cast a wider net for what you place on it; add some Spanish Marcona almonds for some crunch charcuterie |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $800: Cast in bronze in 1904, this 6-foot naked dude is seriously going over stuff in his head in the gardens of a Paris museum The Thinker |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | NON-BOMB ROM COMS $400: In 2022 Diane Sawyer interviewed Hugh Grant, Laura Linney & much of the cast of this film, "20 Years Later" Love Actually |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $1000: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Several people suggested me for Harry Potter, including Maggie Smith, with whom I had just done a miniseries & who had already been cast to play this professor Professor McGonagall |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HOMOPHONES $600: Brahmins for one & to throw out a lure when angling a caste/cast |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | REUNION SHOWS $1000: A 2022 reunion of the Salt Lake City cast of this reality franchise found Jen Shah touching on some legal issues Real Housewives (of Salt Lake City) |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ROLE: MODEL $400: Former model Channing Tatum didn't cast fireballs as the title dancer in this 2012 film, but did generate heat Magic Mike |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | BIBLICAL DEMONS, DEVILS & SPIRITS $1600: The Book of Mark describes this follower of Jesus as having had 7 devils cast out of her Mary Magdalene |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $400: Snakes didn't get Samuel L. Jackson in "Deep Blue Sea"--a mako one of these did; Thomas Jane & Michael Rapaport could only watch a shark |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $800: On "Entourage" Vince Chase was cast as this movie superhero; Jason Momoa got the gig in real life Aquaman |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $1200: The subtitle of her book about making "The African Queen" is "How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall & Huston & Almost Lost My Mind" Katharine Hepburn |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $1600: Oscar winners Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis & Mel Gibson were entwined with this title 1984 ship The Bounty |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $2000: Joining Tom Holland & Chris Hemsworth for "In the Heart of the Sea", Ben Whishaw played this 19th century author Melville |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | SITCOMS $600: At Comic Con with the cast of this show, Matt Berry was asked, "Have people started yelling 'Bat!' at you?"; yes. Yes they have What We Do in the Shadows |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $800: Pre-"Taxi Driver", Scorsese cast her in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", where she asks another kid, "Wanna get high on ripple?" (Jodie) Foster |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | CLASSIC TV $600: Here's the cast of this classic show named for one of its stars; sadly, with Betty White's death, they've all passed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $2000: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Um, I'd basically only done one small part in a school play when, at age 10, I played the title character, as a boy, in a BBC adaptation of this Dickens novel, the author’s own favorite child; the part really was magical as it led to me being cast as Harry Potter David Copperfield |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $400: After nearly dying in a car wreck in 1961, Mel Blanc, in a body cast at home, voiced this guy, Fred Flintstone's best pal Barney Rubble |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | I GOT THE PART! $1200: After a groundbreaking choice to cast her on "Doctor Who", she said "The gender question is now going away" Jodie Whittaker |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | STEEL $800: When it comes to pots & pans, this 4-letter word comes before "iron"; the process is more intensive to do to steel cast |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $1600: Future Golden Girl Bea Arthur was Yente in the 1964 opening night cast of this musical set in 1905 Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | HISTORIC WORDS $400: Julius Caesar:
"The ____ is cast" die |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | IDOL TALK $400: In 988 Vladimir I, grand prince of this now-Ukrainian city, converted to Christianity & cast its pagan idols into the Dnieper River Kiev |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | NATIONAL-SOUNDING ITEMS $200: Before getting stranded in "Cast Away", Tom Hanks gives Helen Hunt one of these helpful gadgets, right off his keychain a Swiss Army knife |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $2000: Black sculptor Edmonia Lewis depicted exclusion in her art like this mother of Ishmael cast out into the wilderness Hagar |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | KENTUCKIAN ENTERTAINERS $1600: Louis "Grandpa" Jones was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry & a longtime cast member of this country music TV show Hee Haw |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | WITH YOUR BEST "SHOT" $2000: Small cast-iron balls used in cannons were known by this "fruity" name grapeshot |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $400: As "The Nutty Professor" Eddie Murphy |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $800: As "The Wedding Singer" Adam Sandler |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $1200: In "Meatballs" Bill Murray |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $1600: As "Joe Dirt" David Spade |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $2000: As Mila Kunis' best friend in "The Spy Who Dumped Me" Kate McKinnon |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | ANAGRAM PAIRS $600: All the actors playing Macavity, Rumpleteazer & the rest in a musical Cats cast |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE REALITY OF TV $800: The 2021 "Homecoming" of the L.A. season of this '90s MTV show had the cast including David & Tami relive the blanket incident The Real World |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $2000: In a Eugene Field poem, these "fishermen three" were told, "Now cast your nets wherever you wish, never afeard are we" Wynken, Blynken & Nod |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | LET FREEDOM SING $400: "Freedom" on her 2016 album "Lemonade" features Kendrick Lamar rapping, "Open our mind as we cast away oppression" Beyoncé |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $400: 1991:
Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon go on extreme walkabout Thelma & Louise |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $800: 2019:
Chris Evans & Ana de Armas have murder on their minds Knives Out |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $1200: 2012:
Anna Kendrick & Rebel Wilson stay in tune Pitch Perfect |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $1600: 1981:
All the director needed was the two guys seen here--plus a waiter & a bartender My Dinner with Andre |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $2000: 2021:
Gemma Chan & Salma Hayek deal with a pressing planetary issue Eternals |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $200: 2013, set in the 1840s & 1850s:
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Michael Fassbender 12 Years a Slave |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $400: 2017:
Sally Hawkins,
Doug Jones, who probably got wet a lot The Shape of Water |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $600: 1984:
Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd,
Sigourney Weaver Ghostbusters |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $800: 2014:
Michael Keaton,
Edward Norton,
Emma Stone Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $1000: 1999:
Haley Joel Osment,
Bruce Willis The Sixth Sense |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $1200: Tom Hanks' plane crashes & sinks at the start of this 2000 film, & that's just the beginning of his problems Cast Away |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PLATES, POTS & PANS $1000: Cast iron with 2 short handles, this round pot of European nationality slow-cooks stews & pot roasts a Dutch oven |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA $800: On since 2010 but cast job security? Iffy; Michael Rooker was Norman Reedus' brother, remember that? The Walking Dead |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FUNNY LADIES $800: The name of this original "SNL" cast member lives on in the name of a cancer support organization Radner |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | COMPOSERS $1200: Per the estate, English-speaking countries may only produce this composer's "Porgy and Bess" with a Black cast Gershwin |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | ANNE RICE $800: Rice wrote 4 books about this fairy tale figure who needs a prince to break the spell cast on her Sleeping Beauty |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VOTING USA $800: Bringing Sunday churchgoers to cast their votes after services is rhymingly called these "to the polls" souls |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys The Wiz |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $200: This company made special volleyballs with its name on only one side for "Cast Away" so a face could be painted on it Wilson |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm David Wade.) In 1982, "Boston Magazine" named the Bull & Finch Pub in Beacon Hill the best neighborhood bar; it inspired this sitcom where everybody knew your name & in 1993, the cast gathered there, to celebrate the final episode Cheers |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | BRITISH POETRY $400: This poem from 1667 contains the line "His pride had cast him out from heav'n, with all his host of rebel angels" Paradise Lost |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $800: "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into" this region, now in northern Israel Galilee |
| #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 |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE ALUMNI $200: In 2008 future Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cast a Kansas electoral vote for this Republican John McCain |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $600: In 2020, this actor was all over the Emmy cast including accepting his own for his supporting role of David Rose Dan Levy |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | LATIN PHRASEBOOK $1600: Famously spoken in 49 B.C. at the crossing of a river, "iacta alea est" means this "is cast" the die |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | LATIN PHRASEBOOK $2000: Found in your Playbill, this 2-word phrase refers to the cast of characters in the play Dramatis personæ |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $1600: In a Maya Angelou poem, "the dark" one of these old-time lamps "of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land" a lantern |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $800: The original Broadway cast's 1964 album of this musical with Zero Mostel as Tevye Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $2,600 (Daily Double): Its ensemble cast included William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Glenn Close & Meg Tilly The Big Chill |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: A 2014 movie with Peter Quill & his pals meets up with Tim Allen & his sci-fi TV cast to be a film we'd very much like to see Guardians of the Galaxy Quest |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $2000: The entire cast of this 1944 Hitchcock drama was 9 stars & an uncredited German sailor adrift in the title conveyance Lifeboat |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | FUNNY BUSINESS $1600: Starting way back in 2003 (& still going strong), he's the longest-tenured cast member of "Saturday Night Live" Kenan Thompson |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $2000: A Birmingham park is named for this Roman deity of the forge; the god himself is there in the form of a ginormous cast-iron statue Vulcan |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $1600: "Here we go, Wilson! You don't have to worry about anything, I'll do all the paddling" Cast Away |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: Thanks to the 23rd Amendment, on November 3rd, 1964, residents of this city cast their first votes for president Washington, D.C. |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | LOVE, ACTUALLY $800: You've cast this 11-letter spell on me; New Mexico is the "Land of" it enchantment |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | COMEDIANS $800: This future dater of the famous was just 20 when he joined the featured cast of "SNL" in 2014 (Pete) Davidson |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $800: While working in Rome, American sculptor Harriet Hosmer befriended these married British poets and cast their clasped hands the Brownings |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN $800: Before George Cukor directed her in "Adam's Rib" & "The Philadelphia Story", he cast this actress as Jo for the 1933 film adaptation (Katharine) Hepburn |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | I HAVE MY DOUBTS $800: If you cast a wary or cynical eye on things, you may be a this, like the ancient Greek philosophy adopted by Plato's school a skeptic |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1600: (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) New York didn't choose its electors in time and Rhode Island and North Carolina hadn't yet ratified the Constitution, but the vote was otherwise unanimous when every elector cast a vote for George Washington in this year 1789 |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | POLICE SQUAD $1000: (Dax Shepard presents the clue.) As a motorcycle fanatic, I was thrilled to write & direct the movie version of "ChiPs"--I even got to cast myself as Jon Baker of this state police agency the California Highway Patrol |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | CAST IT $400: "Friends": Chandler Bing Matthew Perry |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | CAST IT $800: The original "Star Trek": Mr. Spock Leonard Nimoy |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | CAST IT $1200: "This is Us": Randall Pearson Sterling K. Brown |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | CAST IT $1600: "Fawlty Towers": Basil Fawlty John Cleese |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | CAST IT $2000: "The Walking Dead": Rick Grimes Andrew Lincoln |
| #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 |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | CAST YOUR PEARLS $400: Griet, the title gal in 2003's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" Scarlett Johansson |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | CAST YOUR PEARLS $600: This lead singer as himself in the 2017 Pearl Jam concert film "Let's Play Two" Eddie Vedder |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | CAST YOUR PEARLS $800: Rafe & Danny, 2 fighter pilots triangulating with Kate Beckinsale in 2001's "Pearl Harbor" (Josh) Hartnett & (Ben) Affleck |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | CAST YOUR PEARLS $1000: Sherlock Holmes, opposite Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson in 1944's "The Pearl of Death" Basil Rathbone |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | FAMOUS TEXANS $800: Like a good Texan, he played high school football but an injury put him in a cast for six months so he turned to other pursuits (Patrick) Swayze |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $200: On NBC... oh man, I'll try to finish but now I'm crying--Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Logan Shroyer This Is Us |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $400: Time traveling on BBC America without the lead actress: Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Bradley Walsh Doctor Who |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $600: Some special FX: Patrick Wilson & Keith Carradine, both playin' Lou Solverson, dontcha know Fargo |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $800: On the CW: Camila Mendes & Cole Sprouse as teens, Robin Givens & Skeet Ulrich as grownups Riverdale |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $1000: HBO gets some very robotic performances out of Thandie Newton & James Marsden Westworld |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | GOT A DeVITO $600: In season 2 of this FXX sitcom, Danny joined the cast as the crusty Frank Reynolds It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $800: Real programs on this type of TV seen in "Wayne's World" include "The Mr. Science Show" & "Cast Iron TV" public access |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $400: Pumbaa, Nala, Zazu The Lion King |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $800: Marius, Young Éponine, Madame Thenardier Les Misérables |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $1200: The Pigeon sisters (not enough? okay...), Felix & Oscar The Odd Couple |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $1600: In a musical: Henry Higgins, Alfred P. Doolittle My Fair Lady |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $2000: Brick, Big Mama, Gooper Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | KNIGHT LINE $200: "A verray parfit gentil knight" describes one of a cast of characters created by this poet Chaucer |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $2000: When he wasn't scoring TV's "Peanuts" specials, this man recorded favorites like "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" (Vince) Guaraldi |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | NEW MILLENNIUM TV $400: In 2019 Meryl Streep joined the cast of this HBO drama as the mother-in-law of now-widowed Nicole Kidman Big Little Lies |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $1200: "Hughes" was chiseled off this poet's headstone so often by her admirers that the surname was then cast in bronze Sylvia Plath |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $800: As a series creator and actor, he has cast himself as the righteous Jesse Gemstone as well as the crass Kenny Powers Danny McBride |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $800: Roles in this opera include Suzuki, American Consul Sharpless & Trouble, the title woman's child Madama Butterfly |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $1200: Raimondo, chaplain to this noble house, urges Lucia to accept her arranged marriage Lammermoor |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $1600: In this opera Canio tells Nedda, more or less, "I'm funny how, like I'm a clown, I amuse you?" Then stabs her Pagliacci |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $2000: It makes sense that Manrico in this Verdi opera sings beautifully; he is "The Troubadour" Il Trovatore |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: A place where metal is cast in molds a foundry |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | TONS OF FUN $400: Mostly copper & weighing just over a ton, it was cast for the Pennsylvania Statehouse in the 1750s the Liberty Bell |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | EXERCISE $400: Many consider cast iron to be the original type of this gym weight that has an attached handle; now "ring" in! a kettlebell |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $200: To cast a ballot & to refuse to allow something vote & veto |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | REAL-LIFE METAPHORS $2000: Really, really old expression meaning that an irreversible step has been taken the die is cast |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG ENGLISH $2,500 (Daily Double): Completes a quote from Matthew 7:6: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your..." pearls before swine |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Dad loves his heavy new black skillet made of this type of "iron"; he seasons it with oil to keep it like new cast iron |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: In Exodus this ruler "charged all his people, saying, every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" Pharaoh |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $1000: Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm her as Secretary of Education in 2017 (Betsy) DeVos |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | THE MONTHLY MOVIE TITLE $1600: An all-star cast including Meryl Streep gathers for a funeral in this 2013 adaptation of a Pulitzer-winning play August: Osage County |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | SCI-FI STUFF $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Profiles in History in Calabasas, California.) The piece here is really green cast resin in crystal form, but in "Superman III", it was called this, & appeared onscreen with Christopher Reeve kryptonite |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | SCI-FI STUFF $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Profiles in History in Calabasas, California.) Seen in Dr. Zaius' private chambers, the Lawgiver statue from this 1968 film looks to be stone, but is actually made of cast & carved rigid polyfoam Planet of the Apes |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | NONFICTION $800: It's Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller about "an Olympian's journey from airman to cast-away to captive" Unbroken |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | TALKING DEAD $10,016 (Daily Double): "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" says this poet's tombstone in Ireland's County Sligo (William Butler) Yeats |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | REALITY TV $200: Snooki, Pauly D & the rest of the cast reunited for some fun in Miami & later Las Vegas for this show's "Family Vacation" Jersey Shore |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: Tim Burton cast this mother of his children as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd" Helena Bonham Carter |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | RHYMES WITH ALL $800: To cast one of these over things is to give them a gloomy atmosphere a pall |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | FIVE GUYS $1,400 (Daily Double): On his passing in 2018, the cast of "The Big Bang Theory" tweeted, "Thank you for inspiring us and the world" (Stephen) Hawking |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | FAMOUS "N"AMES $800: I predict you will name this man who cast horoscopes for Catherine de Medici's kids Nostradamus |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $2000: "Me, who am only Pippa,--old-year's sorrow, / Cast off last night, will come again to-morrow" Robert Browning |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | LIKES & RAVERS $600: Jane Lynch leads a cast of comedians in an audiobook reading funny review from this shopping site Amazon |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | OTHER LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $600: Pauley Perrette was still part of the cast when this crime drama celebrated its milestone 300th episode NCIS |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | A CHOICE 4-LETTER WORD $400: To cast a ballot to vote |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In 2018, a plaster cast was made of a horse just found in the volcanic ruins of this Roman city Pompeii |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $1000: For "On the Waterfront", Elia Kazan originally cast this singer who Kazan said "spoke perfect Hobokenese" Frank Sinatra |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $1600: A diary discovered in 1996 cast doubt on whether this American actually flew over the North Pole 70 years earlier Richard Byrd |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | CYBER MONDAY $1000: You can "cast" your phone's screen to your TV with this Google product Chromecast |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | THE DEEP SOUTH $1000: A statue of this Roman god of fire atop a mountain in Birmingham, Ala. is said to be the world's largest cast-iron statue Vulcan |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | CAST IRONS $400: In 2017's "Justice League", Jeremy Irons played this Batman butler Alfred |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | CAST IRONS $800: Jeremy's son Max Irons was Henry in this wolfish 2011 fairy tale with no "Little" in its title Red Riding Hood |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | CAST IRONS $1200: In 1994's "The Lion King", Jeremy Irons voiced this villainous cat Scar |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | CAST IRONS $1600: Jeremy Irons had a breakthrough role in the 1981 miniseries this place "Revisited" Brideshead |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | CAST IRONS $2000: Max Irons stars as a CIA analyst who stumbles on a plot in this show; the '70s film version had "Three Days of" this in its title Condor |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $800: The class of 2017 included the original 7-member cast of this show that debuted on NBC in 1975 SNL or Saturday Night Live |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $400: 1980:
Tim Curry as Mozart, Ian McKellen as Salieri Amadeus |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $800: 1963:
Kirk Douglas as Randle McMurphy, Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbit One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $1200: 1959:
Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger, Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger A Raisin in the Sun |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $1600: 1988:
John Lithgow as Rene Gallimard, B.D. Wong as Song Liling M. Butterfly |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | GETTING SPECIFIC AT GENERAL HOSPITAL $1000: (Maura West and Laura Wright give the clue as Ava and Carly from General Hospital.) "When I'm fully recovered, Carly, you won't be able to stop me"
"No matter how many operations you have Ava, your soul will still suffer from this necrosis of soft tissues, from the Greek & Latin for 'gnawing away'" gangrene |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IN THE "FOR" CAST $200: 1994:
Sally Field,
Tom Hanks,
Robin Wright Forrest Gump |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IN THE "FOR" CAST $400: 1992:
Clint Eastwood,
Gene Hackman,
Morgan Freeman Unforgiven |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IN THE "FOR" CAST $600: 2008:
Russell Brand,
Mila Kunis,
Jason Segel Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IN THE "FOR" CAST $800: 2006:
Hugo Weaving,
Natalie Portman,
John Hurt V for Vendetta |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IN THE "FOR" CAST $1000: 1971:
Sean Connery,
Charles Gray,
Jill St. John Diamonds Are Forever |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | DIRECTOR CAMEOS $2000: He cast himself as a man reading a newspaper in 1959's "Plan 9 From Outer Space" Ed Wood |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | GEORGE GERSHWIN $800: Despite pressure to use white singers in blackface, George Gershwin insisted on a black cast for this work set on Catfish Row Porgy and Bess |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $600: Meaning a large amount of people used on a project, it comes from promos for a movie that boasted 125,000 extras a cast of thousands |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | WHAT A YEAR! $800: 20 million voters could newly cast a ballot for president; one is seen here 1920 |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | EMOTION $1200: If you've seen Lewis Black do stand-up, you'll know why he was cast as the voice of this emotion in "Inside Out" anger |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | MOVIE WORDS $400: An actor playing a role vastly different from other roles he's known for is "cast against" this type |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $1600: A shindig for Ernest Borgnine & the rest of the cast a Marty party |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | "HORSE" TALK $2000: A Yeats poem says, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death." These 3 words horseman, pass by |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | LAUGH-IN AT 50 $200: This actress filmed her Oscar-winning role in "Cactus Flower" while she was still a cast member of "Laugh-In" Goldie Hawn |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | SAD! $400: Tom Hanks just wants some time with his girl after ages on an island in this 2000 movie, but she's moved on Cast Away |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: Frank Stallone as a timekeeper, Frank Stallone Jr. as a streetcorner singer, Butkus Stallone as a dog Rocky |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt & John Legend...no, I'm sorry! I mean Naomie Harris, Patrick Decile & Andre Holland! Moonlight |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: Dooley Wilson, Claude Rains & Peter Lorre Casablanca |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $1600: After metal has been cast, cut or drilled, this ragged edge remains burr |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | AT THE YARD SALE $600: Say! It's the original cast album of this Broadway hit, including the songs "The Wizard & I" & "March Of The Witch Hunters" Wicked |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | BROTHERS $200: Finn & Kurt became stepbros on this TV show after their parents got hitched; at the wedding, the cast sang & sang Glee |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $200: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Will Ferrell is a delight in this 2003 film whose cast also includes old pros like Ed Asner & Bob Newhart Elf |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | VOTE-CABULARY $800: It's a vote cast on another's behalf at a shareholders' meeting proxy |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | SHARKS & JETS $1000: The first jetliner, the Comet, came in 1949 from this British company that could be in the cast of "Gone With the Wind" de Havilland |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY $800: "Let him who is without sin" do this cast the first stone |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | COMPLETES THE OLD TESTAMENT QUOTE $400: "Cast thy ____ upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" bread |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $400: The Tate Geological Museum in Casper, Wyoming has a cast of a skull of this dinosaur "king" with battle scars Tyrannosaurus rex |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | BEEN THAT $200: Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin & Ben Affleck have all been cast as this CIA agent Jack Ryan |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | NOVELS $400: John Updike really cast a spell with this bestselling 1984 work The Witches of Eastwick |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | U.S. SENATORS $400: Fred Thompson supplemented his Senate salary by joining the cast of this TV procedural in 2002 Law & Order |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | PRO RUSSELL-ING $1200: Sweet Keri Russell was deliberately cast against type as a tough Soviet spy on this TV drama The Americans |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | "A" CAST $400: 1999:
Alyson Hannigan,
Jason Biggs American Pie |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | "A" CAST $800: 2013:
Amy Adams,
Christian Bale American Hustle |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | "A" CAST $1200: 1998:
Edward Furlong,
Edward Norton American History X |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | "A" CAST $1600: 2016:
Shailene Woodley,
Naomi Watts Allegiant |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | "A" CAST $2000: 1997:
Harrison Ford,
Glenn Close Air Force One |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $400: 2 ancient sculptures at the Cleveland Museum of Art show him being "swallowed" & "cast up" Jonah |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | JUST "ASP" ME $400: One shouldn't cast these damaging remarks on another's character aspersions |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $800: Matthew 13:45 says, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto" this, "that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind" a net |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | A VISIT WITH RITA MORENO $1600: (Rita Moreno presents the clue.) "Hey, you guys!" I won a Grammy for a cast recording of this '70s PBS show in which I played a little girl named Pandora The Electric Company |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | ABBREVIATED REALITY SHOWS $400: The one where an angry Teresa literally turned the tables on a cast mate:
"RHONJ" Real Housewives of New Jersey |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1200: The cast of this gritty show included Idris Elba as drug kingpin Stringer Bell The Wire |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | ALLITERATIVE TV ACTRESSES $800: Charisma Carpenter played Cordelia on "Buffy" & they liked her so much she made it to the cast of this spinoff Angel |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | THEATER TALK $1000: This 2-word Latin term is used to denote the cast of characters in a play dramatis personae |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | VEGAS-SET TV SHOWS $2000: The cast of "The Surreal Life: Fame Games" included Pepa (but hold the salt), brigitte Nielsen & this "Mini-Me" actor (Verne) Troyer |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | TV CHARACTERS $600: (Hi, I'm Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.) I was going to kill off this character at the end of Season 1, but once we cast Aaron Paul, we killed that idea instead Jesse Pinkman |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | 4-LETTER ENTERTAINMENT $2000: The part was written for a man, but Angelina Jolie was cast as the title CIA agent on the run in this 2010 film Salt |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MOVIE QUOTES $1600: 2000:
"Wilson!" Cast Away |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | SUPERIOR $400: In 1797 Charles Newbold patented a cast-iron one--better than wood, but farmers worried it would poison the soil a plow |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | POP MUSIC $1000: Former "SNL" cast member Rob Schneider is the father of this "Ex's & Oh's" singer Elle King |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | STABLE CHARACTERS $600: Naturally, a pure white horse with this name was cast as Armie Hammer's steed in the 2013 film "The Lone Ranger" Silver |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $200: In a classic '70s sitcom, newsroommates Gavin MacLeod, Edward Asner & Ted Knight The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $400: Tim Daly & Tea Leoni, dealing with the federal government Madam Secretary |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $600: Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer, navigating New York Broad City |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $800: Jim Caviezel & Michael Emerson, fighting evil in a high-tech way Person of Interest |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $1000: Noah Wyle & Moon Bloodgood began dealing with aliens in 2011 Falling Skies |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $1000: (Eric Braeden and Melody Thomas Scott give the clue as Victor and Nikki from The Young and the Restless.) "You expect me to believe you? Give you yet another chance? Are you serious?"
"I mean it this time, Victor; I'm off the booze for good. From this day forward I will be these 2 adjectives in the title of a 1988 Michael Keaton film" clean and sober |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | U.S. FIRSTS $1600: On Sept. 6, 1870 Louisa Swain became the USA's first recorded female voter when she cast a ballot in this future state Wyoming |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | PRAYERS $800: On this holiday of beginnings, Jews say tashlich prayers by a body of water into which sins are symbolically cast Rosh Hashanah |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | STRIKE OUT $1600: Remove the "out" from a rejected person & get this medical item cast (from outcast) |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | POTS & PANS $800: Grab a skillet made of this two-word alloy of Fe cast iron |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | STARTS & ENDS WITH DIFFERENT VOWELS $2000: It's the central dark spot of the shadow cast by the Moon or Earth during an eclipse umbra |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | FAMOUS BELLS $800: The original Tsar Bell in Moscow, cast around 1600, weighed almost 40,000 pounds & required 24 men to move this part the clapper (or the tongue) |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | FAMOUS BELLS $1000: Its inscription reads, "cast by George Mears of Whitechapel for the clock of the Houses of Parliament" Big Ben |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | MOVIE CAMEOS $200: (Dan Patrick reads the clue.) My good friend Adam Sandler has cast me in 9 of his films, including "Grown Ups 2" in which I played a gym teacher dressed as this 1980s Celtics legend Larry Bird |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $2000: Some erasures & calculations in his 1926 notebook have cast doubt on whether he was the first to fly over the North Pole Richard Byrd |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HAMILTON $200: In the show, this rival prophetically warns Hamilton, "Talk less, smile more, don't let them know what you're against or what you're for, you wanna get ahead? Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead"--he was right Aaron Burr |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | SNL ALUMNI $1200: SNL's first African-American cast member, he became a regular on "2 Broke Girls" (Garrett) Morris |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | IN SINK $1000: Food residue in the enameled cast-iron cookware from this brand whose name is French for "cauldron"; it's okay to let it soak Le Creuset |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | THEATER RHYME TIME $200: A swift complement of actors in a play a fast cast |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL $200: It was a 75-year journey, but "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" stepped out as this musical with an all-black cast The Wiz |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $400: Though probably cast in bronze earlier, the artifact seen here had this duo added around 1400 A.D. Romulus & Remus |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | TV $1200: In January 2014 Sasheer Zamata joined the cast of this show as its first black female cast member in 6 years Saturday Night Live |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | THE SIMPSONS SUPPORTING CAST $200: Herschel Krustofski is the real name of this kids' show host Krusty the Clown |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | THE SIMPSONS SUPPORTING CAST $400: Barney Gumble is one of the regulars at this bar Moe's |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | THE SIMPSONS SUPPORTING CAST $600: Clancy Wiggum holds this important job in Springfield police chief |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | THE SIMPSONS SUPPORTING CAST $800: Like his father before him, this man is the devoted assistant of Mr. Burns Waylon Smithers |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | THE SIMPSONS SUPPORTING CAST $1000: Kang is the drooling alien from this Halloween series of scary episodes "Treehouse of Horror" |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | METAL $1000: In 1252 in Kamakura, Japan, all 93 tons of the Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, was cast in this alloy bronze |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $2000: In 1967, she played the title matchmaker, leading an all-black cast on Broadway in "Hello, Dolly!" Pearl Bailey |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | TV MOVIES $1200: In 1997 Jack Lemmon & George C. Scott led a stellar cast in a remake of this jury drama 12 Angry Men |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS $400: Santiago &
Manolin The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS $800: Claude Frollo &
Esmeralda The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS $1200: Elinor & Marianne Dashwood Sense and Sensibility |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS $1600: Celie,
Nettie,
Shug Avery The Color Purple |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS $2000: Cecilia & Briony Tallis,
Robbie Turner Atonement |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | ASTROLOGY $1000: To know your horoscope, an astrologer needs your place & time as well as date of birth so he can cast this your astrological chart |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THEY SAID IT $800: This ruler, according to Suetonius:
"The die is cast" Julius Caesar |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | PLAY "M-E" $800: In 2010 Billie Joe Armstrong joined the cast of this show to sing his own songs "American Idiot" |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | THAT '90s SHOW $400: The cast of this sitcom included Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher & in supporting roles, Brooke Shields & Tommy Chong, man That '70s Show |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | ALADDIN ON BROADWAY $2000: (Jafar reads with an evil laugh.) I am Jafar, a powerful sorcerer & grand vizier to the sultan of this mythical land, the setting of "Aladdin" Agrabah |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ERNIE $400: As Stinky, Ernie Weckbaugh was a cast member of this group that also included Spanky & Alfalfa the Little Rascals (or Our Gang) |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | -OLOGIES $400: As a practitioner of this -ology, Nostradamus cast the horoscopes of Catherine de Medicis' children astrology |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | DINNER & A BROADWAY SHOW $800: The 1980 original cast of "Amadeus" had Tim Curry in the title role & Ian McKellen as him (Antonio) Salieri |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | WHAT'S IN THE BOX?! $400: Look! The original Broadway cast recording of this show! Let's listen to "You And Me (But Mostly Me)" & "All American Prophet" The Book of Mormon |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | ROLE REVERSAL $1200: She entranced us as a proper little witch but then cast a spell as a Valley Girl party animal in "The Bling Ring" Emma Watson |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | THE CAST OF FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH $400: Anthony Edwards went from Ridgemont on to medical school to play doctor Mark Greene on this NBC drama E.R. |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | THE CAST OF FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH $800: Before "Leaving Las Vegas", this Oscar winner had some "Fast Times" as Brad's bud Nicolas Cage |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | THE CAST OF FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH $1200: As Jeff Spicoli, this Oscar winner was learning about Cuba & havin' some food in Mr. Hand's class; gnarly, dude! Sean Penn |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | THE CAST OF FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH $1600: All right, Hamilton! Judge Reinhold later played detective Billy Rosewood in this 1984 Eddie Murphy picture Beverly Hills Cop |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | THE CAST OF FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH $2000: He played the scary football player Charles Jefferson, & in "The Last King of Scotland", the even scarier Idi Amin Forest Whitaker |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | -MANCY PANTS $400: A necromancy can mean this 5-letter magical word that is "cast" by wizards a spell |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $400: Okay, we can see it. A resemblance led some to call Todd, played by Jesse Plemons on this show, Meth Damon Breaking Bad |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $800: Trey Parker is busy on this show, playing Satan, Mr. Garrison, Starvin' Marvin & many others South Park |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $1200: The truth is right here! This "X-Files" star played Hannibal Lecter's psychiatrist Gillian Anderson |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $1600: Merritt Wever's Emmy speech for supporting actress on this Edie Falco show: "Thank you so much" (twice); "I gotta go. Bye" Nurse Jackie |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $2000: Jessica Walter, voicing Malory, mom of this spy: "Look at me! Chopping ice for a Tom Collins like a field hand!" Archer |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $400: When this Tennessee Williams play debuted in 1947, the cast included Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter & Jessica Tandy Streetcar Named Desire |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | HISTORIC TV $1000: "I Spy" made the TV history books in 1965 when it cast this African American in one of the lead roles Bill Cosby |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | TV DRAMA SERIES $200: Anthony Edwards & Julianna Margulies were in the cast when this medical drama debuted in 1994 ER |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $4,000 (Daily Double): Seen here are two of the original Broadway cast of this show, including Bonnie Raitt's dad, John; note the set Carousel |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | DESCRIBING THE TV CAST $400: A Colombian woman in a May-December relationship,
a professional party clown Modern Family |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE RODIN MUSEUM $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia.) Rodin was so successful at authentically sculpting the human body that he was accused of using molds from a live model in the piece known as "The Age of" this--also the material from which the statue was cast Bronze |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | DESCRIBING THE TV CAST $800: A waitress with a knack for making cupcakes,
a trust fund princess forced to become a waitress 2 Broke Girls |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | DESCRIBING THE TV CAST $1200: On Netflix:
A convicted drug mule,
a pacifist nun arrested for protesting at a nuclear site Orange Is the New Black |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | DESCRIBING THE TV CAST $1600: 2 KGB spies under deep cover in Reagan-era Washington, D.C. The Americans |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | DESCRIBING THE TV CAST $2000: A recently emancipated slave,
a man thrown off the board of Union Pacific Hell on Wheels |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS $400: 1998:
Jesus Quintana,
Walter Sobchak,
The Dude The Big Lebowski |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS $800: 2013:
Finley,
Evanora,
Glinda Oz the Great and Powerful |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS $1200: The 1975 film:
Magenta,
Columbia,
Janet Weiss The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS $1600: 1996:
Renton,
Spud,
Begbie Trainspotting |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS $2000: 2004:
Peter LaFleur,
Patches O'Houlihan,
Steve the Pirate DodgeBall |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $600: In this 1972 disaster epic, an ocean liner capsizes at sea & the all-star cast struggles to survive The Poseidon Adventure |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $800: The full cast of 2013's "All is Lost", the story of one man on a solo ocean voyage, is just this actor Robert Redford |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | STATUES $1200: The first equestrian statue cast in the United States shows Andrew Jackson during this war the War of 1812 |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | CELEBRITY REALITY TV $400: Cast members of "The Surreal Life" included Charo, Verne Troyer & this actor known for his role as a cop named Ponch Erik Estrada |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | GRAIL MIX $1000: In a 1954 film Paul Newman is a sculptor who must cast the grail in precious metal--make it "The Silver" this, if you will Chalice |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOINING THE TV CAST LATER $200: Sam Waterston joined this show in 1994, 4 years after its debut; Sam stuck around for 16 more years Law & Order |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOINING THE TV CAST LATER $400: Zou bisou bisou... latecomer Jessica Pare eventually married a Don on this drama Mad Men |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOINING THE TV CAST LATER $600: Later arrivals to this NBC medical drama included Mekhi Phifer, Parminder Nagra & John Stamos ER |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOINING THE TV CAST LATER $800: It took 3 years, but in 2004 we could report this drama introduced Lois Lane Smallville |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOINING THE TV CAST LATER $1000: In 2006 Ed Helms joined in the "documentary" being "filmed" on this sitcom The Office |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1856 this West Pointer cast his only vote for president before his own election--for Buchanan Ulysses Grant |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew strolls through the set of Cinderella in the Broadway Theatre in New York.) While Broadway's "Cinderella" has a clever & witty new book by Douglas Carter Beane, he drew on the original story by this French fairy tale author Charles Perrault |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO $600: That must have been some exorcism when Jesus cast 7 devils out of her Mary Magdalene |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | HOMONYMS $400: To throw a fishing net into the water, or the actors in a play cast |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | WICKED $200: I'm Elphaba--"Wicked" is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel subtitled "The Life & Times of" this character the Wicked Witch of the West |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $400: "Developed the first American cast steel plow"; inc. in 1868, "his business, is still in existence today" John Deere |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | ROBOTS $1200: To create the android Maria in this 1927 Fritz Lang film, a plaster cast was made of actress Brigitte Helm's body Metropolis |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | ICONIC PENTAMETER $2000: "I have set my life upon a cast, & I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field" Richard III |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | NEPO-TV-ISM $1200: This one of the "Friends":
Daughter of John, a cast regular on "Days of Our Lives" since 1985 (Jennifer) Aniston |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | MASTERPIECES FROM THE NORTON SIMON MUSEUM $1200: (Alex gives the clue from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) Modern viewers are really entranced by "Little Dancer, Age Fourteen", but when this artist first exhibited this work in 1881, it was cast in wax, not in bronze as it is now, & the public was a little bit put off by the realism of real clothing & a wig of human hair (Edgar) Degas |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | IN THE SPORTS MOVIE'S CAST $200: Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, Robert Duvall as Max Mercy The Natural |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | IN THE SPORTS MOVIE'S CAST $400: Cuba Gooding Jr. as Rod Tidwell, Jay Mohr as Bob Sugar Jerry Maguire |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | IN THE SPORTS MOVIE'S CAST $600: Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham, Frank Whaley as Moonlight Graham Field of Dreams |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | IN THE SPORTS MOVIE'S CAST $800: Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan, Ted Knight as Judge Smails; well...?! We're waiting! Caddyshack |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | IN THE SPORTS MOVIE'S CAST $1000: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe, Chris Pratt as Scott Hatteberg Moneyball |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | MUSICAL THEATER $800: This musical's original Broadway cast featured Barry Bostwick as Danny Zuko & Adrienne Barbeau as Betty Rizzo Grease |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $400: "The Waterboy" Adam Sandler |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $800: "Lost in Translation" Bill Murray |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $1200: "The Love Guru" Mike Myers |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $1600: "Horrible Bosses" Jason Sudeikis |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $2000: "Cabin Boy" Chris Elliott |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | TRAITORS & TURNCOATS $800: "He cast down the pieces of silver in the temple" & then hanged himself Judas (Iscariot) |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $1000: "Cast pearls before ____" swine |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | TRIOS $1600: Daniel 3 says Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego "were cast into the midst of the burning" this alliterative place the fiery furnace |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | MOVIES BY CAST $200: Keira Knightley & Jonathan Rhys Meyers in this soccer flick Bend It Like Beckham |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | MOVIES BY CAST $400: Chris Hemsworth as the hammering hero, Anthony Hopkins as some old god Thor |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | MOVIES BY CAST $600: Shia LaBeouf & Carrie-Anne Moss in this thriller about suburbia Disturbia |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | MOVIES BY CAST $800: Michael Cera & Kat Dennings as this duo with an "Infinite Playlist" Nick & Norah |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | MOVIES BY CAST $1000: Patrick Swayze & Jennifer Grey in this '80s movie Dirty Dancing |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | POMPEII $2000: The cast of the crying boy was made by filling the hole left in the ash with this substance used by sculptors plaster of Paris |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | IMPEACHED! $1200: Andrew Johnson won his Senate impeachment trial by a single vote; out of 54 cast, this many said "guilty" 35 |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: To lighten a ship, you might do this, cast overboard something that's not needed jettison |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | TV CAST OF CHARACTERS $200: Artie Bucco, Meadow, Tony & Carmela The Sopranos |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | TV CAST OF CHARACTERS $400: Tabitha, Darrin & Samantha Bewitched |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | TV CAST OF CHARACTERS $600: On Fox: Jess, Nick, Schmidt New Girl |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | TV CAST OF CHARACTERS $800: Fallon, Alexis, Blake Carrington Dynasty |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | TV CAST OF CHARACTERS $1000: Peter Dunlop, Kate Murphy & Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt Body of Proof |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | SCIENCE GRAB BAG $400: Cyanosis, a bluish cast to the skin, is caused by a lack of this gas in the blood oxygen |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | "ING"LISH $400: A mass of metal cast into a bar an ingot |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | SONG BIRDS $600: Rick Dees & his cast of idiots quacked up listeners with this "disco" fowl a duck |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The silver & black football team is cast in the first Indiana Jones movie the Oakland Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | BEASTLY COLLECTIVES $400: As well as a cast of thousands, you can have a cast of these birds of prey, like the kestrel or the peregrine falcons |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIKE A VESTAL VIRGIN $800: The Vestalia Festival ended when the temple was swept; the sweepings were often cast into this river the Tiber |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | NOT EXACTLY HUMAN $200: Per Bram Stoker, they cast no shadow; it's not that big a help in recognizing them, as they don't come out in daylight vampires |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | 5 ABOUT 5 $600: The cast of this late '90s TV drama featured a Fox (Matthew) & a Wolf (Scott) Party of Five |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | HISTORIC DAYS OF OUR LIVES $200: (The Days Of Our Lives cast delivers the clue.) Elvis, you are going too far with your latest nefarious scheme, it reminds me of...
I know, father--this man's scheming that made him leader of Norway on February 1, 1942; I kind of admire him Vidkun Quisling |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | HISTORIC DAYS OF OUR LIVES $400: (The Days Of Our Lives cast delivers the clue.) Now Will, your turbulent life & your confused paternity make me hope you can reach a point like March 24, 1522.
You mean when this founder of the Jesuits spent the night in prayer before leaving his wild youth behind?
You got it! Ignatius of Loyola |
| #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 |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | IRON, MAN $200: The irons used in this sport may be either "cast" or "forged" golf |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MOVIE QUOTES $1000: 1968: "How could this happen?... I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast--where did I go right?" The Producers |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | FBI TV $800: Joe Mantegna joined the cast when Mandy Patinkin left this show about an FBI unit that tracks serial killers Criminal Minds |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $2000: Daughter of Chris, she's the first second-generation cast member Abby Elliott |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | BROADWAY $1600: In 1942 the cast of this great tunesmith's revue "This Is The Army" formed the army's only integrated unit Irving Berlin |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: In August 2011 this Arizona congresswoman returned to the House floor to cast her first vote since being shot Gabrielle Giffords |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $400: Tom Hanks & several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film Cast Away |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | '90s NOVELS $1600: Anne Rice cast a spell on readers with her saga of the Mayfair family begun in this "timely" 1990 novel The Witching Hour |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | JERSEY TV $800: It's the nickname of "Jersey Shore" cast member Mike Sorrentino, who has it under control The Situation |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | E3 $200: A person who's busy on Election Day might cast his vote this way absentee |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: 2000: Chuck Noland, who is "Cast Away" Tom Hanks |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $800: "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas" Jonah |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | SCHWARZENEGGER $400: The logical choice was to cast this comic actor as Arnold's brother in "Twins" (Danny) DeVito |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | THE "L" YOU SAY $800: The cast of this series included Chris Noth, Benjamin Bratt & Dennis Farina Law & Order |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | QUITE THE CAST OF TV CHARACTERS $200: This title doc is a lifesaver, but Drs. Lawrence Kutner & Amber Volakis both died after working for him House |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | QUITE THE CAST OF TV CHARACTERS $400: Gil Grissom & Raymond Langston both went after the bad guys (with science!) on this show CSI |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | QUITE THE CAST OF TV CHARACTERS $600: Jamie-Lynn Sigler (played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler) & Mrs. Ari were characters on this HBO show Entourage |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | QUITE THE CAST OF TV CHARACTERS $800: Supporting roles on this show include Glenn Quagmire & Death, the latter voiced by Adam Carolla Family Guy |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | QUITE THE CAST OF TV CHARACTERS $1000: Lutz, Frank & Toofer help make a variety show on this TV show 30 Rock |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $400: Blair Brown,
Joshua Jackson Fringe |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $800: Jennette McCurdy,
Nathan Kress iCarly |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $1200: Tom Welling,
Erica Durance Smallville |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $1600: Jensen Ackles,
Jared Padalecki Supernatural |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $2000: Robert Buckley,
James Lafferty One Tree Hill |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | DRAMA CLUB TRYOUTS $2000: It's Salem, 1692 & we're having a witch hunt to cast John & Elizabeth Proctor & Abigail Williams in this Arthur Miller play The Crucible |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | GLEE SONGS $1200: The "Glee" cast gave its all when it covered this "Rhapsody" by Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | SAG AWARD FOR MOVIE CAST $400: 1995:
An orbiting drama that really gets off the ground Apollo 13 |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | SAG AWARD FOR MOVIE CAST $800: 1997:
A British tale & a tease of burly burlesque The Full Monty |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | SAG AWARD FOR MOVIE CAST $1200: 2008:
A story of game showmanship on the subcontinent Slumdog Millionaire |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | SAG AWARD FOR MOVIE CAST $1600: 2000:
A multi-arc drug-fueled trilogy Traffic |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | SAG AWARD FOR MOVIE CAST $2000: 2005:
A multi-arc L.A. collision Crash |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | APOCRYPHA NOW $400: "Bel & the Dragon" finds this hero cast into a lion's den, but the king lets him go after the lions leave him alone Daniel |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | HOLLYWOOD TO BROADWAY $1600: In 2009 the entire cast of "A Steady Rain" was Daniel Craig & this Australian as Chicago cops Hugh Jackman |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | ART 101 $1600: His Philadelphia museum houses more than 120 sculptures, including a bronze cast of "The Thinker" Rodin |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $800: In 2010 this British star of "Get Him to the Greek" was cast in the title role in a remake of "Arthur" Russell Brand |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | I WANT MY MTV $2000: Adam Sandler & Denis Leary were in the cast of this '80s game show set in host Ken Ober's basement Remote Control |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1600: Plutarch said that Julius Caesar quoted the ancient proverb "the die is cast" as he crossed this river the Rubicon |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | THE GOSPELS $200: He cast down 30 pieces of silver in the temple "and departed, and went and hanged himself" Judas |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | THE GOSPELS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sin committed by the woman about whom Jesus said, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" adultery |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $400: This happy play is set in Athens & a nearby wood where fairies cast their spells A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | OUT GROWTHS $800: The actors in a play cast |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $2000: Lock Martin, a 7'7" doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast as the robot Gort in this 1951 sci-fi film The Day The Earth Stood Still |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | HELLO, DOLL-Y $200: This type of doll represents a particular person; sticking pins in it is said to reinforce spells cast on that person a voodoo doll |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | JONAH'S DRUTHERS $200: Aboard ship in a storm, the men "cast" these items of chance; Jonah's came up, but he'd rather it didn't lots |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | MOVIE BY CAST $400: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'nique Precious |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | MOVIE BY CAST $800: Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger Bridget Jones's Diary |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ATOM $400: Early atomic theorist Democritus said this color results from smooth, flat atoms that cast no shadow white |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | SEERS $800: This seer wrote "Centuries" in 1555 & later cast horoscopes at the court of Catherine de Medicis Nostradamus |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | YEATS IS GREATS $800: A Yeats poem ends, "By his command these words are cut: cast a cold eye on life, on death." Then these 3 words "Horseman, pass by" |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | ON BROADWAY 2010 $1600: She was cast as Morticia for the 2010 Broadway musical of "The Addams Family" (Bebe) Neuwirth |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT $1000: This brand makes bats & racquets too, but since the movie "Cast Away" came out, it may be best known for volleyballs Wilson |
| #5890, aired 2010-04-02 | BIBLICAL WHO SAID IT? $1,000 (Daily Double): "Take me up. and cast me forth into the sea", for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you" Jonah |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | DIRECT TV $400: Cast members Mike Farrell & David Ogden Stiers both directed episodes of this hit show M*A*S*H |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTATION $600: "So they took up (him), and cast him forth into the sea" Jonah |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2009 $1600: We hope his cast mates threw him an "Office" party when he turned 30 on October 20 (John) Krasinski |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | WHAT A "CARD"! $200: To cast aside or get rid of discard |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $600: This old song says, "Alas, my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously" "Greensleeves" |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | STAR TREK $1200: This actor is the only member of the original cast who appeared in the 2009 film, where he encounters his younger self Leonard Nimoy |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | TEEN LIT $800: Zoey Redbird is the protagonist in this "dark" series of teen bestsellers by P.C. & Kristin Cast The House of Night |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | BIBLE QUOTES $400: "They brought" him, "and cast him into the den of lions" Daniel |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $400: Rodgers & Hammerstein fans who speak German listen to "Der Konig und Ich", the Austrian cast CD of this musical The King and I |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM $800: (Alex reads from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.) The ROM has a cast of a large pterosaur, which ruled the skies while T. rex roamed the Earth below during the Jurassic & this next period the Cretaceous |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $400: Tamyra Gray, who placed 4th in the 1st season of this TV singing contest, later joined the cast of "Bombay Dreams" American Idol |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ACTRESSES $400: This "Friend" was Claire on the "30 Rock" episode "The One with the Cast of 'Night Court'"; her life is far from the Pitts (Jennifer) Aniston |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS! $400: Richie Aprile,
Junior,
Big Pussy The Sopranos |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS! $800: Dr, Kerry Weaver,
Dr. Elizabeth Corday,
Dr. Abby Lockhart ER |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS! $1200: Horatio Caine,
Alexx Woods,
Frank Tripp CSI: Miami |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | 400 YEARS OF THE TELESCOPE $1600: This Corning glass used for cooking was cast to make the 200-inch telescope lens for Mount Palomar Pyrex |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS! $1600: Jack Donaghy,
Kenneth the Page,
Tracy Jordan 30 Rock |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS! $2000: Jonas Grumby,
Roy Hinkley,
Ginger Grant Gilligan's Island |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $200: Cheers to you if you will grace us with the name of this sitcom that cast Debbie Reynolds & Blythe Danner as moms Will & Grace |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN $1600: I said I'd found this type of cast gold bar, spurring others to look as well ingot (in spurring others) |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1000: The future is inevitable, at least according to this phrase translated from the Latin "iacta alea est" the die is cast |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | EXODUS $400: In 1:22 he says, "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" the pharaoh |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | BASKETMAKING $800: These pieces used to weave a basket share their name with a device that keeps broken bones in place splints |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | THE HOLY "C" $800: Joseph's brothers stripped off this garment that his father had given him & cast him into a pit the coat of many colors |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SPORTS CAST $400: In 1986, '87 & '88, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire & Walt Weiss won Rookie of the Year playing for this team the Oakland A's |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SPORTS CAST $800: Muhammad Ali regained his title from George Foreman by employing this rhyming ring strategy rope-a-dope |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SUSAN B. ANTHONY $800: Susan was fined for illegally voting in 1872--she cast her ballot for this president who was re-elected Ulysses Grant |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SPORTS CAST $1200: This 9-time U.S. & 5-time world champion figure skater got her start after seeing her brother play hockey Michelle Kwan |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SPORTS CAST $1600: At the age of 41 she competed in her fifth Olympic Games, the most of any U.S. swimmer Dara Torres |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | SPORTS CAST $2000: This racer who wrote the memoir "Every Second Counts" used a wind tunnel in training to minimize his drag Lance Armstrong |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | ART "C" CROSSWORD CLUES $800: A sculpture made from a mold (perhaps of a broken arm)
(4) a cast |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | 1983: THE YEAR IN ENTERTAINMENT $600: Its ensemble cast included Kevin Kline, Glenn Close & William Hurt The Big Chill |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | GUINNESS RECORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The most votes cast in a national election occurred in May 2004 when 387 million voted in this country India |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | YOU, THE VOTER $1600: Rhyming term for the law that lets you register to cast ballots in an election when getting a driver's license motor voter |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | 1980s TV $400: Tanya Roberts looked "heavenly" when she joined the cast of this series in November 1980 Charlie's Angels |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | EXPLOSIVES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds an explosive brick at the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology.) This 3-lettered nitrogen compound popular in demolition can be cast in liquid form, because it melts at 178 degrees, but won't explode below 464 TNT |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | THE BELLS ARE RINGING $800: In 1752 England's Whitechapel Foundry cast this at a cost of 150 pounds, 13 shillings, 8 pence the Liberty Bell |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $800: Damien Hirst decorated a cast of a skull with 8,601 of these gems & sold the darn thing for $100 million diamonds |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1200: Symbols of mystery, they're the mysterious doubles of the people who cast them shadows |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | SIX FEET UNDER $4,000 (Daily Double): From one of his works, this Irish poet's epitaph is "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" William Butler Yeats |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | ON THE STAGE $1000: All the original B'way cast, except Diane Keaton, bared all in a group nude scene in this musical about hippies Hair |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | SITCOM CENTRAL $400: Viewers finally got to see Wilson's face when the cast took their bows on this sitcom's last episode Home Improvement |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" comes from this Old Testament book Exodus |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $400: This kind of voting allows a senator to cast a vote in committee for an absent senator proxy voting |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $400: Ecclesiastes 11:1 says, "Cast" this "upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" thy bread |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | AMERICANA $400: Ironically, this symbol of America was cast in London in 1752 the Liberty Bell |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | THE SILVER SCREEN $600: Chris O'Donnell was originally cast as her son in "Prince of Tides", but she chose her real son instead Barbra Streisand |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $800: Rodin first gained attention for a lifelike statue later called "The Age of" this, the metal in which it was later cast bronze |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TV SHOWS BY CAST $400: Vanessa Williams,
Tony Plana,
Rebecca Romijn Ugly Betty |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TV SHOWS BY CAST $800: Tom Welling,
Allison Mack,
Annette O'Toole Smallville |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TV SHOWS BY CAST $1200: Cobie Smulders,
Josh Radnor,
Bob Saget (well, his voice, anyway) How I Met Your Mother |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TV SHOWS BY CAST $1600: James Woods,
Sarah Carter,
Jeri Ryan Shark |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TV SHOWS BY CAST $2000: Omar Epps,
Jennifer Morrison,
Robert Sean Leonard House |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $800: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I got one of my first big breaks when I was cast in the film "A & P", based on a story by this "Rabbit, Run" author John Updike |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: She learned that she had been cast as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" while working at a Cold Stone Creamery store Nikki Blonsky |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | ____ AND ____ MOVIES $1600: The czar-studded cast of this 1971 epic includes Tom Baker (of "Doctor Who" fame) as Rasputin Nicholas & Alexandra |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | THEATRICAL ANGELS $400: Alan Paul played Teen Angel in the original Broadway cast of this musical; Frankie Avalon did it on film Grease |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | LITERARY THEATRE $1200: John Updike's novel "The Witches Of" this place has cast a spell as a musical Eastwick |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2007 revival of this classic courtroom drama cast Christopher Plummer in the role inspired by Clarence Darrow Inherit the Wind |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | '80s MOVIE MEMORIES $600: Brownsville, Oregon was cast as Castle Rock in this 1986 film about 4 boys on a trek for a dead body Stand By Me |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | ODE TO THE WEST WING $400: The presence of the No. 2 man seems to cast a glow / within thy precincts, room with the initials V.P.O. Vice President's Office |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS $800: It's the Gospel that contains the line "In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues" Mark |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | POP GOES THE CULTURE $1600: This late comic was first cast as Sheriff Bart in "Blazing Saddles" but the studio balked due to his volatile reputation Richard Pryor |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | CAST $200: Col. Pickering,
Freddy Eynsford Hill,
Eliza Doolittle My Fair Lady |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | CAST $400: Nurse Ratched,
Randle P. McMurphy,
Dr. Spivey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | CAST $600: Murray,
The Pigeon Sisters,
Felix Ungar The Odd Couple |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | CAST $800: Che,
Eva,
Peron's mistress Evita |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | CAST $1000: Clifford Bradshaw,
The Kit Kat Girls,
Herr Schultz Cabaret |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | SUPERSTITIONS $1000: Cast in a play with Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti enraged the superstitious star by whistling & by naming this Shakespeare play Macbeth |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | NAME THE POET $400: "His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels" Milton |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | TV FINALES $400: Ted is the only one not to get fired, & the rest of the cast sings "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" on the way out of WJM The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | DAVID SPADE & NEUTERED $200: David Spade joined the cast of this sketch-comedy show in 1990 Saturday Night Live |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: In John 21, "when" he "heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him... & did cast himself into the sea" Peter |
| #5081, aired 2006-10-16 | THOU ART DA MAN! $200: "They brought" this Old Testament man, "and cast him into the den of lions" Daniel |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | GOSPEL TRUTH $1000: In Mark 1 Jesus "healed many that were sick... and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to" do this speak |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $600: These 3 friends of Daniel were bound & "cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace" Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | LET'S START A CLUB $400: (Sarah reads from the foundry of Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) About 10% of clubs that are cast for Ping are for this type of golfer, like Phil Mickelson or Mike Weir a left-handed golfer |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | LET'S START A CLUB $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lets off some steam in the foundry at Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) One of the final steps is pouring this 2-word, rust-resistant alloy at about 2,975 degrees Fahrenheit to cast it as the club head stainless steel |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | THE OAFISH $400: So far, this actor who played Joey is the only member of the "Friends" cast to star in a spinoff of the show Matt LeBlanc |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS "CAST" $400: For radio & TV, it was the "B" in CBS & that's no bull Broadcasting |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS "CAST" $800: We'd like to think this furniture piece isn’t used anymore during acting auditions the casting couch |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS "CAST" $1200: Hey, baby, you a Gemini? These twin brothers of Helen of Troy are, literally Castor & Pollux |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS "CAST" $1600: Thith type of Thpanish is the official language of Thpain Castillian |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS "CAST" $2000: To criticize or reprimand severely castigate |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $600: After this April 1775 battle John Adams said, "The die was cast, the Rubicon passed" Concord & Lexington |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | '80s MOVIES $1600: (Hi, I'm Joel Schumacher.) In 1985, I cast Demi Moore, Rob Lowe & Emilio Estevez in this film about young adults struggling to figure things out St. Elmo's Fire |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | CITY OF THE DAY: BIRMINGHAM $2000: Found in Birmingham, the world's largest cast-iron statue is a figure of this Roman god of metalworking Vulcan |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | MOVIE TERMS $600: In budgeting, featured cast salaries are "above" this; grips' salaries, "below" it the line |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | FIRST IN OUR HEARTS $800: The first of these cast for a woman was Roger MacBride's, going to 1972 Libertarian V.P. candidate Theodora Nathan an Electoral College vote |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | OFF-BROADWAY $2000: In 2006 the cast of this long-running hit embarked on an exuberant & noisy campaign to clean up New York City Stomp |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THOU CANST BIBLICALLY QUOTE ME $1,200 (Daily Double): "Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea" Jonah |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | THE SCHOOL PLAY: ROMEO AND JULIET $400: Those not cast in individual roles at least got to be part of this group that says the play's first lines the chorus |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | THE SCHOOL PLAY: ROMEO AND JULIET $3,600 (Daily Double): As the cast party broke up, the director quoted, "Good night, good night! Parting is such" this sweet sorrow |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | UNFORGIVEN $400: In Matthew 27:5 he "cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself" Judas |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | UNFORGIVEN $600: The name of this biblical son of Abraham who was cast away after the birth of Isaac now means "outcast" Ishmael |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | THE "BYRD"s & THE "BEA"s $1600: This West Virginian has cast more votes in the Senate than any other senator in history Robert Byrd |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $9,000 (Daily Double): "Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26 iron |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | TOM HANKS MOVIE ROLES $200: Stranded FedEx employee Chuck Noland Cast Away |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | SOUTH OF THE BORDER $800: Mexican star Alma Delfina is in the cast of "Te Amare en Silencio", the first original telenovela from this network Univision |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: This monarch said, "The die is now cast, the colonies must either submit or triumph" upon approving the Intolerable Acts King George III |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | THE "DI" IS CAST $400: On "ER" you're in trouble when your pupils are fixed & this, meaning expanded dilated |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | THE "DI" IS CAST $800: Expelled from the legal profession, not the pub disbarred |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | THE "DI" IS CAST $1200: From the Latin for "to squander", it means fallen into disrepair by neglect dilapidated |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | THE "DI" IS CAST $1600: Low-droning Australian Aborigine musical instrument made from a long wooden tube a didgeridoo |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | THE "DI" IS CAST $2000: A cedilla, circumflex or macron are these "marks" a diacritic |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $2000: Although this singer wanted to portray himself in a 1946 film biography, he was too old & Larry Parks was cast Al Jolson |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Tolstoy's first full-length novel, it includes a cast of more than 500 characters War and Peace |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s $800: Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots had a No. 1 hit in 1976 with this "fowl" song "Disco Duck" |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | HIRSCHFELD $1200: The cast of this kooky 1991 film is seen here The Addams Family |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | FRIENDS $400: The only cast member never nominated for an Emmy, she's had a successful film career with the "Scream" series Courteney Cox Arquette |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | JAMES THURBER $2000: Thurber joined the cast as himself for 88 performances of the Broadway play "A Thurber" this Carnival |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | FLY FISHING $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives her line a good cast wading in a stream.) Of the two most basic types of fly-fishing, this one in which your lure is underwater is simpler to cast wet (fly) |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | NON-P.C. WORDS FOR GALS $1000: It precedes "way", "cast" & "minded" broad |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | GLENN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $400: In 2005 Glenn Close joined the cast of this gritty cop drama The Shield |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | JACKS IN THE BOX $1200: In 1994 this "General Hospital" alum joined the cast of "Melrose Place" Jack Wagner |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | "PRINCE" $600: This was the name given to the ship cast in the starring role on "The Love Boat" the Pacific Princess |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | "C" IN COOKING $600: It's a scientific fact: your egg whites will beat higher in a bowl made of this metal prized by chefs copper |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | CHAPLIN $2000: In "Limelight" Chaplin cast as his partner this other great comic of the silent screen Buster Keaton |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Gershwin Theatre in New York.) The cast of "Wicked" sings about spending one short day in this place, a major metropolis in the land of Oz the Emerald City |
| #4723, aired 2005-03-02 | HINTS FROM HELOISE... TO ABELARD $200: "You teach and admonish rebels to no purpose, and in vain you cast pearls of divine eloquence before" these swine |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | HARLEM GLOBETROTTIN' $200: In a TV movie, the Globetrotters crash-landed on an island where they visited the cast of this '60s sitcom Gilligan's Island |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | GOOD CONDUCTORS $800 (Daily Double): This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines graphite |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | POP SINGERS ON BROADWAY $400: Frenchie Davis made news in 2003 by joining the cast of "Rent" after she was bounced from this TV series American Idol |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | NOVELS $200: The 1719 1st edition told of him "having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all... men perished but himself" Robinson Crusoe |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | OUR LADY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rings a mission bell.) The bell called "Mater Dolorosa" or "Our Lady of" these was cast from fragments found around Mission San Diego sorrows |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: This director cast his son Kyle in a bit role as a bass player in a blues band in "The Bridges of Madison County" (Clint) Eastwood |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | FROM THE LATIN FOR... $2000: ..."pour" or "melt", it's an establishment where metal is cast in molds foundry |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE! $3,000 (Daily Double): "Vulcan", the U.S.A.'s largest cast-iron statue, is seen here, looking down on this Southern city Birmingham, Alabama |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | RETITLED CINEMA $200: In this 2000 film, Taiwan saw Tom Hanks "Discover New Meaning of Life after Catastrophe" Cast Away |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | YOU BET YOUR "LIFE" $1000: A plaster cast made of a person's face a life mask |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | O FOR A $1600: The price for the group of actors in a play the cost for the cast |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | CHORES $600: It's into the bowels of this fiery mountain that Frodo must cast the ring to destroy it Mount Doom |
| #4623, aired 2004-10-13 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1200: In late 1774 he declared, "The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph" King George III |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | TENNESSEE $800: (This is Alison Krauss.) In 1993 I joined the cast of this Nashville institution & was its youngest member at that time the Grand Ole Opry |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | THEATRICAL ANGELS $1200: The original Broadway cast of this play based on a Thomas Wolfe novel featured Tony Perkins as Eugene Gant Look Homeward, Angel |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $200: Tell the theater troupe it's a single toss of a fisherman's line & bait a cast |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | BROADWAY $800: Dule Hill of "The West Wing" tapped his way into the original Broadway cast of this "noisy" Savion Glover show Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | "E"OGRAPHY $1000: Cast in a battle scene in "Lord of the Rings", NZ's army had to back out to keep peace in this Indonesian province East Timor |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Chapter One of her life with Neil Simon began in 1973, when she was cast in his play "The Good Doctor" Marsha Mason |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $1600: VP Garret Hobart cast the deciding vote against independence for these formerly Spanish Pacific islands the Philippines |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | FRANKLIN, BEN FRANKLIN $600: In 1744 Franklin was really cookin' when he invented a cast-iron one of these that you could install in your fireplace a stove |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | THE MOVIES: BUT WEIGHT, THERE'S MORE $400: He gained as well as lost weight for his role in "Cast Away" Tom Hanks |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | "I" REMEMBER $1200: This metal that's cast & wrought is even found in the sun iron |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | "E"PICS $1000: In this 1988 film director John Sayles cast himself as sportswriter Ring Lardner Eight Men Out |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): The "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" quotation concerned this crime adultery |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | PLAYING DOCTOR $800: In 1975 he joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" as B.J. Hunnicut, a gifted surgeon & practical joker Mike Farrell |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | DOME, SWEET DOME $600: Architect Thomas Walter completed the cast-iron dome of this Washington, D.C. building in 1863 the U.S. Capitol |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Kauai, Hawaii.) On November 22, 1963, while making the pilot for this Bob Denver series here on Kauai, the cast learned that JFK had been shot Gilligan's Island |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | A LITTLE LATIN $1000: When he crossed the Rubicon, Julius Caesar supposedly said, "Iacta alea est", which translates to this the die is cast |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | FARAWAY PLACES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Honolulu.) The statue of Kamehameha was cast in this city, just like the Statue of Liberty, & around the same time Paris |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | A BRAND NEW DAY $800: Looking for something Mattel could make for boys, Elliot Handler came up with this die-cast car line Hot Wheels |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | ONE KNOWS $600: One knows in January 2000 1 of the 3 Wilson volleyballs used in this film sold at auction for $18,400 Cast Away |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | B____G $1000: Mystery author Katherine Hall Page has put "The Body in the Cast", "The Body in the Kelp" & "The Body in" this the Bog |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | BIBLICAL WOMEN $800: The resurrected Jesus first appeared to this woman "out of whom he had cast seven devils" Mary Magdalene |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $1000: ...adjective from the name of a mid-16th century Florentine writer Machiavellian |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | CRACK OPEN A U.S. HISTORY BOOK $200: From 1789 to 1797 he cast only 2 vetoes, an average of 1 per presidential term George Washington |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $1000: Meryl Streep was in the orig. cast of the Sondheim musical based on this Greek play -- we're sure it was "ribbit"ing The Frogs |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the set of The Producers.) According to the cast of "The Producers", actors say this three-word phrase, instead of "Good luck" "Break a leg" |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF OPERA $2000: Perhaps the most "indomitable" of Benjamin Britten's opera, this 1951 work has an all-male cast Billy Budd |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | THINKING ABOUT COLLEGE $800: USC opened up a "Rainbow" of opportunities for this man, a drama student there when he was cast in "Roots" LeVar Burton |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $800: After stripping him of his coat of many colors, his brothers cast him into a pit, then sold him into slavery Joseph |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | NEBUCHADNEZZAR $1600: The king had these 3 youths cast into a fiery furnace for refusing to worship a golden image Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | OHIO ENTERTAINERS $800: This "Saturday Night Live" cast member would say yes, she's one of the Shaker Heights Shannons Molly Shannon |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1200: In Luke 8, Jesus is followed by Joanna, Susanna & this devoted woman out of whom devils were cast Mary Magdalene |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | THE "US" $2000: Remember the Titans? They were cast into this region below Hades by Zeus Tartarus |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | ODD WORDS $1600: This word that rhymes with rough is used for the skin of a snake that's been cast off slough |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | TV STARS $2000: In 2001 this actress, Borg babe Seven of Nine on "Voyager", joined the cast of "Boston Public" Jeri Ryan |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | THE "BLUE"s $1000: This Disney series features a whole new cast of Muppets including Ojo, Treelo & Tutter the mouse Bear in the Big Blue House |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | "Y" ME? $2000: This Irish poet's epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #4118, aired 2002-06-26 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: To cast a vote against someone; you can use a piece of billiards equipment to do it blackball |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $400: This "Golden Girl" had her own show in 1958 & 1977 & in 1999 became part of the cast of "Ladies Man" Betty White |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | SURPRISING ROCKERS $400: Seen here, Jesse L. Martin who plays detective Ed Green on this series, was in the original Broadway cast of "Rent" Law & Order |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | NOVEL QUOTES $400: "Evil: I am cast upon a horrible desolate island...good: but I am alive, and not drowned" Robinson Crusoe |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | ANIMAL HOUSE $1000: Eyas, tiercel, hen, cast hawk |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1200: In "Cast Away" Tom Hanks' character paints a face on a volleyball & gives it this name Wilson |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | TV STARS ON BROADWAY $1600: Once a Duke of Hazzard on TV, Tom Wopat is heard here on the 1999 cast album of this Broadway revival:
"Anything you can be, I can be greater /
Sooner or later, I'm greater than you..." "Annie Get Your Gun" |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | "AMERICAN" A $1200: (Hi, I'm Mackenzie Phillips.) I hung around Mel's Drive-In as part of the cast of this classic 1973 film American Graffiti |
| #4017, aired 2002-02-05 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from New Orleans.) New Orleans is world-famous for decorative art made from this metal, as you can see here at the Fataba Apartments (cast) iron |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | STAR WARS TRIVIA $400: This star of "Smokey and the Bandit" & "Evening Shade" was originally cast as Han Solo but dropped out Burt Reynolds |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | COMIC BOOK TO SCREEN $2000: This 1995 film cast Sylvester Stallone as a man who was the police, jury & executioner all rolled into one Judge Dredd |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | "PRIVATE" PRACTICE $1000: This Noel Coward comedy was first performed in 1930 with Coward & Laurence Olivier in the cast Private Lives |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC CAST $200: Duncan, Banquo, Macduff Macbeth |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC CAST $400: Bianca, Iago, Desdemona Othello |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC CAST $600: Cinna, Cassius, Cicero Julius Caesar |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC CAST $800: Goneril, Regan, Cordelia King Lear |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC CAST $1000: Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt Romeo and Juliet |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMIC CAST $200: Portia,
Antonio,
Bassanio The Merchant of Venice |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMIC CAST $400: Lucentio,
Bianca,
Katharina The Taming of the Shrew |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | TAXI $1000: This actress who played a cabbie had romances with 2 cast members & John Travolta Marilu Henner |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $800: Daniel Radcliffe, David Copperfield on "Masterpiece Theatre", is rolling along; he was cast as this hero on film Harry Potter |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | THE THEATRE $100: "Let the Sunshine In" on your original Broadway cast album of "Hair": this "Annie Hall" star sings on it Diane Keaton |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE $500: "From every mountainside" you'd hear tales about the "Survivor" cast in this country's Outback Australia |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | SYMBOLISM $400: Symbols of mystery, they're the mysterious doubles of the people who cast them shadows |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | TRU STORY $800: "The Muses Are Heard" is Truman's account of going to Moscow with the black cast of this Gershwin show Porgy and Bess |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | MOVIE REVIEWS $100: The Buffalo News called this Tom Hanks drama "the celebrity Survivor" & "a one man Gilligan's Island" Cast Away |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | CLIFFS NOTES AT THE MOVIES $100: Tom Hanks is Fed-Exed to a deserted island & befriends a volleyball Cast Away |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVES $200: In the fall of 1976, this star of "Fletch" became one of the first cast members to leave the show Chevy Chase |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVES $300: The show's original cast members were billed as these "players" "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players" |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVES $500: Cast member Nora Dunn boycotted the final show of the '89-90 season when this controversial comedian hosted Andrew Dice Clay |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | THE POLITICAL LIFE $300: From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place Absentee |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | 3 CHEERS FOR BRITNEY SPEARS $500: At age 11, Britney joined the cast of this TV "Club" for 2 seasons The Mickey Mouse Club |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | RADIO HISTORY $400: Brace Beemer was a studio manager at WXYZ Detroit when he was cast as this western hero heard here The Lone Ranger |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | TV CASTS $200: In 2000 this Oscar nominee joined the cast of "Ally McBeal" as a lawyer Robert Downey, Jr. |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | TV CASTS $500: In 2000 this rapper-turned-actor joined the cast of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as Richard Belzer's partner Ice-T |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | BEHIND THE ZODIAC $100: When you cast your eyes on this constellation, know that half of it may represent Castor Gemini |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | SEAMANSHIP $300: 2-word phrase for the entire ship's personnel; it's cried to get them "on deck" "All Hands" |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | IN CAESAR'S PALACE $400: In the palace swimming pool Julius might have practiced crossing this river & declaring "The die is cast" Rubicon |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | "GOLD"EN NUGGETS $400: For his role in "Cast Away", Tom Hanks won one of these awards in 2001 a Golden Globe |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | ROMEOS $800 (Daily Double): For his classic 1968 film, this Italian director cast Leonard Whiting as Romeo Franco Zeffirelli |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | ANIMAL PLANET? $500: It's a crude block of iron, or the type of iron cast in one Pig iron |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $400: Keith Carradine was a teenager when he was cast in this "American Tribal Love-Rock" musical in 1968 "Hair" |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | OOH, A COMEDIAN $600: After leaving "SNL", he joined the original cast of "Just Shoot Me" David Spade |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | '90s SITCOMS $300: Viewers finally got to see Wilson's face when the cast took their bows on this sitcom's last episode Home Improvement |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | TODD McFARLANE FIGURINES $300: A former cast member of "Saturday Night Live" shares his name with this scary movie character Michael Myers (Mike Myers) |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | MOVIE ROLES $200: (Hi, I'm Earl Brown.) Because we look so much alike, I was cast as Warren, this actress' brother in "There's Something About Mary" Cameron Diaz |
| #3702, aired 2000-10-10 | NONPRECIOUS METALS $400: Originally the "pig" type was cast in molds called pigs before being converted to steel Iron |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE STARS $300: This "Meatball" who joined the cast in '77 often performed a superslick lounge singer -- "Now get outta here!" Bill Murray |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE STARS $400: This original cast member later played the WZUP station manager on "Martin" Garrett Morris |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | REPRISE $100: Andre Braugher & Daniel Baldwin were among the cast members who returned for a 2000 TV movie of this cop show Homicide: Life on the Street |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | SEE THE USA $500: Highlights of New Orleans' Jackson Square include the cast iron balconies of the Pontalba Apts. & this cathedral St. Louis Cathedral |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: You can "cast stones" or "throw straws against" this, but it ain't worth the effort The wind |
| #3642, aired 2000-06-06 | DIVINATION $1000: For an actor to see if he's getting cast in the new Viking movie, he may cast these, letters of a Norse alphabet runes |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | GHASTLY OPERATIC DEMISES $200: "Dialogues des Carmelites" ends in 1790s Paris, so it's no surprise when much of the cast is killed with this device the guillotine |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | "BACK" WORDS $300: Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly in this 1985 comedy Back to the Future |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | WAYNES WORLD $200: (Hi, I'm Mike Farrell) I joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" after the departure of this actor who played Trapper John McIntire Wayne Rogers |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | MASONS $600: He led the cast of the 1959 film "Journey to the Center of the Earth", seen here: James Mason |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $200: While he rarely appears in the Senate, it's his job to cast the deciding vote when there's a tie vice president |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | TIME TO "D"ECIDE $500: Madame Tussaud's could tell you it's a wax or plaster cast of a mold taken from a nonliving face Death mask |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | PLAYING DOCTOR $200: In 1998 Eric Stoltz joined the cast of this medical drama as a surgeon with a background in Eastern medicine Chicago Hope |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $100: You shouldn't "cast" them "before swine", but you can give them for a 12th or 30th anniversary gift Pearls |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | HEAVENLY BODIES $300: Albert Brooks cast her as "The Muse" Sharon Stone |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | HARK THE ANGEL $600: This musical that opened in New York in 1972 includes a Teen Angel in its cast of characters Grease |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | BIBLICAL SPEAKERS $1000: "Take me up and cast me forth into the sea" Jonah |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: In 1982 this series was retitled "Little House: A New Beginning" & Shannen Doherty joined the cast as Almanzo's niece Little House on the Prairie |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $300: He was playing Rev. Fordwick on "The Waltons" when he was cast as the irreverent Jack Tripper on "Three's Company" John Ritter |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $400: This sitcom's last show of the '98-'99 season ended with the cast singing & dancing to "Brotherhood of Man" The Drew Carey Show |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | BROADWAY STARS $500: A broken foot delayed her, but Sandy Duncan finally joined the cast of this murderous musical in August 1999 Chicago |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | A "MAN"LY CATEGORY $800: These openings leading to the sewer are closed up with cast iron covers Manholes |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $400: She was 16 when she was cast to play Beverly Hills teenager Donna Martin Tori Spelling |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | THE BIBLE $600: He cast a "legion" of demons from a madman & put an end to his howling & raging Jesus |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | ON BROADWAY: 1970 $800: Anthony Quayle & Keith Baxter starred in this Anthony Shaffer mystery; the rest of the cast is another mystery Sleuth |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $500: In 1999 Lea Salonga returned to the cast of this musical that won her a Tony not salonga go (in 1991) Miss Saigon |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | JULIUS CAESAR $100: Julius declared "The die is cast" & crossed this river, provoking the Roman Civil War Rubicon |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | THE LIBERTY BELL $200: The Roman numerals MDCCLIII on the bell's waist denote that it was cast in this year 1753 |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | NAPOLEON $100: The cast-off mistress of revolutionary leader Paul Barras, she married Napoleon in 1796 Josephine |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $200: The presidential electors cast their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in this month December |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $300: In 1976 an elector from the state of Washington cast a lone vote for this man; 4 years later he received 489 votes Ronald Reagan |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1000: Kathleen Turner auditioned for "Oliver's Story", the sequel to this film, but Candice Bergen was cast instead Love Story |
| #3436, aired 1999-07-12 | NAME THE POET $600 (Daily Double): "His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels" John Milton (from "Paradise Lost") |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | SCULPTURE $300: Over 70 wax & clay works found in Degas' studio after his death were later cast in this alloy bronze |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | CLASSIC TOYS $100: In 1954 Lesney Products issued its first 4 tiny die-cast cars in this line Matchbox |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | IT'S A GROUP THING $600: Aykroyd, Belushi, Curtin, Morris, Chase, Radner & Newman the original Saturday Night Live cast |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | THE TEN COMMANDMENTS $400: Actor Henry Wilcoxon said this director of the film cast himself as the voice of God -- who better? Cecil B. DeMille |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | SITCOMS CHANGE $200 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jon Lovitz) In 1998 I joined the cast of this sitcom as Max Lewis, a man with a few insecurities NewsRadio |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $2,200 (Daily Double): When he directed "King Lear" onstage in the early '90s, he cast Emma Thompson as the fool Kenneth Branagh |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | A CAST OF THOUSANDS $100: Word completing the film titles "Cast a Dark...", "Cast a Giant..." & "Cast a Long..." Shadow |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | A CAST OF THOUSANDS $200: It's what you're trying to catch when you're fly-casting Fish |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | A CAST OF THOUSANDS $300: From Middle English for "to contrive", it's a guess at what the weather will be tomorrow Forecast |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | A CAST OF THOUSANDS $400: The closing theme of this TV show sings of "seven stranded castaways" Gilligan's Island |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | A CAST OF THOUSANDS $500: Julius Caesar said, "Iacta alea est", which is usually translated as this "The die is cast" |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $400: "Cast thy (blank) upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" Bread |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | THE CAST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS $400: This "Mannix" star was known as Touch Connors when he played an Amalekite herder in the film Mike Connors |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | ANIMAL GROUPS $300: If a drift of these mammals drifts into your yard, don't cast pearls before them swine (or pigs) |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Philadelphia museum devoted to this "Thinker" sculptor has a bronze cast of his "Burghers of Calais" Auguste Rodin |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | HE WAS IN THAT? $400: This young hunk wasn't a star yet when he was cast in the 1955 talking mule classic "Francis In The Navy": "Yeah, what the well-dressed boatswain mate wears when he impersonates an Army officer" Clint Eastwood |
| #3319, aired 1999-01-28 | TV FINAL EPISODES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Julie Pinson.) This long-running soap ended in 1989 with Helen Gallagher leading the cast in singing "Danny Boy" Ryan's Hope |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | JOHNNY GILBERT DOES SHAKESPEARE! $1000: Johnny was downright spritely in this role:
"If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you have slumbered here while these visions did appear..." Puck |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | RESOLUTIONS $800 (Daily Double): Senators Wayne Morse & Ernest Gruening cast the only dissenting votes against this August 7, 1964 resolution the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | JUDGE NOT $400: From the Latin for "to scatter", these calumnious expressions are "cast" on others aspersions |
| #3244, aired 1998-10-15 | MARTIN SCORSESE, ACTOR $1000: Scorsese joined Ethan Hawke & this "Easy Rider" star in the cast of 1995's "Search And Destroy" Dennis Hopper |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | THEATER $300: This Tony-winning Jonathan Larson play opened in London in 1998 with 4 members of the original cast "Rent" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | ANIMAL GROUPS $300: A group of hawks released by a falconer, or a group of actors performing in a play Cast |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | THE THEATER $800: Big Daddy's youngest son, he ends up in a cast after jumping hurdles while on a drunken binge Brick |
| #3198, aired 1998-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY QUOTES $400: In a 1774 letter this king wrote, "The die is now cast, the colonies must either submit or triumph" George III |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | THE BOOK OF REVELATION $800: Satan is cast into a lake of these 2 things, & "shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever" Fire & brimstone |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | 1980s FILM FACTS $1000: This offbeat director cast himself as a nutty psychiatrist in his own film "Hairspray" John Waters |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | CHAIRS $400: Popular in the Victorian era was outdoor furiniture made of the cast type of this Iron |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | THEATER ALFRESCO $1000: Featuring a cast of hundreds, the "Ramona" Pageant has been an annual event in Hemet in this state since 1923 California |
| #3176, aired 1998-05-25 | LITERARY EPICS $100: This poet cast himself as the protagonist of the "Divine Comedy" Dante |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PITCHES FROM THE CRYPT $500: This brewery runs commercials featuring John Wayne & the cast of "Bonanza" Coors |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | TV CAST CHANGES $100: In 1983 6' 2" Christopher Hewitt replaced the 3' 10" Herve Villechaize on this series Fantasy Island |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | TV CAST CHANGES $200: NBC revamped this series in 1997 by replacing Ron Eldard & Justine Bateman Men Behaving Badly |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | TV CAST CHANGES $300: George Carlin replaced this ex-Beatle as Mr. Conductor on PBS' "Shining Time Station" Ringo Starr |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | TV CAST CHANGES $400: Clayton Moore, who was replaced by John Hart as this hero, got his job back after the ratings went down the Lone Ranger |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | TV CAST CHANGES $500: Dabney Coleman played Ann Marie's neighbor on this series before Bernie Kopell That Girl |
| #3094, aired 1998-01-29 | LITTLE MOVIES $400: Richard Mulligan passed muster & was cast as General Custer in this Dustin Hoffman film Little Big Man |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | DIRECTING THEIR WIVES $400: Mel Brooks cast Anne Bancroft in this 1976 comedy but didn't give her a single line of spoken dialogue Silent Movie |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | THEY EARNED HALOS $400: She's the saint, though some call her a sinner, from whom Jesus cast out 7 demons Mary Magdalene |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | FILMS OF THE '80s $800: This film's superb cast included Glenn Close, William Hurt & Kevin Kline The Big Chill |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE BELLS $100: This city's second-most famous bell was cast in 1926 for Wanamaker's Department Store Philadelphia |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | ACTORS & ROLE $800: In 1994 Rosie O'Donnell was cast in this role in the stage version of "Grease"; in 1997 Lucy Lawless was Rizzo |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | THE BIBLE $1000: This king cast Shedrach, Meshach & Abednego into a fiery furnace Nebuchadnezzar |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | TV THAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $200: In 1993, for its 25th season, this children's show introduced a larger set & a disabled young cast member Sesame Street |
| #3027, aired 1997-10-28 | MOVIE STARS $300: This "Tasmanian Devil" played Robin Hood but was perhaps most perfectly cast as Don Juan Errol Flynn |
| #3027, aired 1997-10-28 | '60s TV $1000: Among the cast of this scandalous serial were Lee Grant, Gena Rowlands & of course, Mia Farrow Peyton Place |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | AMERICAN HERSTORY $1000: In 1941 she cast the sole vote in the House against entering WWII Jeannette Rankin |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | BILL PULLMAN FILMS $200: In this 1995 film, Pullman was cast as Christina Ricci's friendly "ghost therapist" dad Casper |
| #3002, aired 1997-09-23 | "SON"NY $500: To cast off junk, or to throw overboard, as from a junk jettison |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | MOVIE DEBUTS $400: This director did the right thing & cast Rosie Perez in her first film, "Do the Right Thing" Spike Lee |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | TV COPS $400: In 1998 Lauren Velez joined the cast of this hip big-city FOX police drama as detective Nina Morena "New York Undercover" |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | THE BIBLE $300: It's the book in which Pharaoh says, "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" Exodus |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: He cast Debbie Reynolds as his "mother" in a 1996 film Albert Brooks |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | MOVIE SEQUELS $800: Nearly 20 years after "The Last Picture Show", many of the cast members reunited for this sequel Texasville |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | BIBLICAL FASHION $400: Envious of Joseph, his brothers stripped him of this garment & cast him into a pit Coat (of many colors) |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | RELIGION $400: In Hinduism the ashes of the dead are cast into this river to insure safe passage from this life Ganges |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | BALLET $800: This "Rodeo" choreographer's 1940 ballet "Black Ritual" featured an all-black cast Agnes de Mille |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | TV STARS $300: This actor who plays Dr. Mark Greene on "ER" became the first cast member to direct an episode Anthony Edwards |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | SCULPTURE $600: George Segal's direct-cast plaster sculptures are usually this color white |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | '60s TV $500 (Daily Double): A prime time animated series in 1964, it was revived in 1996 with an updated cast seen here: Jonny Quest |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | MUSIC VIDEOS $300: The cast of TV's "Friends" appeared in this Rembrandts video, the show's theme song "I'll Be There For You" |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $400: In 1996 Sarah Jessica Parker joined boyfriend Matthew Broderick in the cast of this hit musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: In October 1996 Anthony LaPaglia joined the cast of this series as wily attorney Jimmy Wyler Murder One |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | TV INITIALS $200: In 1995 Kim Delaney joined its cast as Detective Diane Russell NYPD Blue |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | ACTRESSES $600: In 1981 she left the cast of "Barnum" to star in her first film, "The World According to Garp" Glenn Close |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: In 1792 this silversmith cast the first church bell made in Boston Paul Revere |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | OPERA $600: A buzzard flies overhead & inspires the cast of this Gershwin opera to sing "The Buzzard Song" Porgy and Bess |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | CLASSIC SITCOMS $100: Carroll O'Connor, star of this classic sitcom, joined the cast of "Party of Five" in 1996 All in the Family |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $1000: The starting team of the Chicago Bulls could fill the cast of this 1972 Jason Miller play; it only has 5 parts "That Championship Season" |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | OPERA $1000: This "Turandot" composer's opera "Sister Angelica" is set in a convent & has an all-female cast Giacomo Puccini |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | SEAN CONNERY FILMS $500: Although he's Scottish, the luck of the Irish got Connery cast in this 1959 Disney film about the wee folk Darby O'Gill and the Little People |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1,400 (Daily Double): John Oakhurst is a professional gambler who's cast out of Poker Flat in a famous story by this author Bret Harte |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $300: Jesus said the wicked will be cast "into a furnace of fire" where there "shall be wailing" & this gnashing of the teeth |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: After 5 years as Dylan McKay, Luke Perry left the cast of this show in 1995 Beverly Hills 90210 |
| #2757, aired 1996-09-03 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $300: Known for playing Ziggy Stardust, he donated a plaster cast of his face for the mannequins representing him David Bowie |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | SHAKESPEARE $800: The 2 titled ladies in the cast of "Macbeth" are Lady Macbeth & her Lady Macduff |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | GANGSTERS $400: This showman got a plaster cast of condemned murderer Albert Hicks for his American museum P.T. Barnum |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | THE BIBLE $1,000 (Daily Double): This Babylonian king cast Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego into a fiery furnace Nebuchadnezzar |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | COMMON BONDS $500: A glance,
a fishing line,
a vote to cast (things you cast) |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | POTS & PANS $400: It's the metal of choice for a caramelizing pot copper |
| #2696, aired 1996-04-29 | TV PERSONALITIES $300: Michele Lee was the only cast member who appeared on every episode of this prime-time serial 1979-1993 Knots Landing |
| #2682, aired 1996-04-09 | POP MUSIC $500: While touring with The Beach Boys, she was cast in a major role in "To Sir With Love" Lulu |
| #2674, aired 1996-03-28 | THE MOVIES $1000: Jeremy Irons & Meryl Streep headed the cast of this 1994 film based on a novel by Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | BIBLE QUOTATIONS $200: "Cast" this "upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" your bread |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: He was about 80 years old when he was cast into the lions' den Daniel |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | LATIN QUOTATIONS $500: As he crossed the Rubicon, Julius Caesar quoted the proverb "Iacta alea est" -- this is cast The die |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | MOVIE DEBUTS $300: Discovered at Dublin's Abbey Theatre, he was cast as Sir Gawain in "Excalibur"; "Schindler's List" came later Liam Neeson |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | THE BIBLE $600: Sin referred to when Jesus said, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" adultery |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: A carillon is a group of these cast items tuned to a chromatic scale bells |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | MOVIE RELATIVES $300: This director cast his own mother as astronaut Jim Lovell's mother in "Apollo 13" Ron Howard |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | THE "LONG" & THE "SHORT" OF IT $500: He was an Emmy-winning writer for "SCTV" before he joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" Martin Short |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | BARE FACTS $300: Some cast members appeared nude in the 1st Act finale of this "American Tribal Love-Rock, Musical" Hair |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | DINOSAURS $100: Podokesaurus is known only from a cast of a partial skeleton at this Conn. university's Peabody Museum Yale |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $400: Peter Bogdanovich cast this former Miss Teenage Memphis in "The Last Picture Show" Cybill Shepherd |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $1000: Edith Evans played the serpent in the 1923 cast of this playwright's "Back to Methuselah" (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | SHAKESPEARE $200: In 1936 Orson Welles directed an all-Black cast in this play, setting it in Haiti, not in Scotland Macbeth |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | WOMEN'S ACCESSORIES $1000: The profile on this type of pin may be carved from sardonyx or cast from Wedgwood pottery material a cameo |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | SCULPTURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Many of the figures Degas modeled in clay or this substance were cast in bronze after his death wax |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | CONNECTICUT $200: An East Haddam church boasts the hemisphere's oldest church one of these, cast in Spain in 815 bell |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | ART $500: American realist sculptor George Segal is known for his white figures cast in this material plaster |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: In 1983 this author directed a revival of his own "Death of a Salesman" in Beijing with a Chinese cast (Arthur) Miller |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This cast metal was used in building from the late 18th century until superseded by steel iron |
| #2379, aired 1994-12-29 | COMPOSERS $600: This composer's brother Fred played the learned judge in the original cast of his operetta "Trial by Jury" Arthur Sullivan |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | HOMOPHONES $300: The actors in a play or one of the hereditary groups that make up Hindu society Cast/Caste |
| #2323, aired 1994-10-12 | TV TRIVIA $500: A log of this series' cast of characters would include Catherine Coulson as the Log Lady Twin Peaks |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $300: In 1992 2,537 Nevadans cast their votes for this choice, an option available only in Nevada none of the above |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $500: Mishael was the original name of this man cast into the fiery furnace with Shadrach & Abednego Meshach |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1000: Justice Joseph P. Bradley cast the deciding vote that made him president over Tilden in 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1960 Richard Burton was cast against type as this "savage and deformed slave" in "The Tempest" Caliban |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | ODDS & ENDS $300: Day of the week on which you go to the polling station to cast your vote for president Tuesday |
| #2235, aired 1994-04-29 | ODDS & ENDS $400: Originally cast in London, it came to America in 1752 & has been recast twice the Liberty Bell |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | THE LIBERTY BELL $600: It was first cast in 1752 by Thomas Lester's foundry of Whitechapel in this city London |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THEATRE $400: Bert Convy, Jack Gilford & Lotte Lenya were in the original cast of this 1966 musical set in Berlin Cabaret |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: This dancer joined the cast of "Jelly's Last Jam" just 10 months after he nearly died in a highway accident Ben Vereen |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $600: Mark 3 says Jesus ordained this many people & gave them the power to cast out devils 12 |
| #2164, aired 1994-01-20 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $400: Morgan Freeman was in the original cast of this play & co-starred in the film with Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $1000: Peter O'Toole was to star in John Osborne's 1992 sequel to this 1956 play, but left the cast Look Back in Anger |
| #2141, aired 1993-12-20 | ECCLESIASTES $1000: Chapter 11 advises doing this with your loaf "for thou shalt find it after many days" cast (your bread) upon the waters |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | THE 1960s $400: In 1966 he got 1,405 out of 1,425 votes cast for president in the National Assembly in Taipei, Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | VERMONT $400: The Unitarian Church in Burlington once had a bell cast by this patriot Paul Revere |
| #2127, aired 1993-11-30 | GENESIS $300: His brothers said, "Come now therefore & let us slay him and cast him into some pit" Joseph |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST $200: Robert Preston,
Barbara Cook,
Pert Kelton,
Iggie Wolfington The Music Man |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST $400: Walter Matthau,
Art Carney,
Paul Dooley,
Carole Shelley The Odd Couple |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST $600: Donna McKechnie,
Priscilla Lopez,
Carole Bishop,
Sammy Williams A Chorus Line |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST $800: Lauren Bacall,
Len Cariou,
Penny Fuller,
Lee Roy Reams Applause |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST $1000: Alexis Smith,
Dorothy Collins,
Gene Nelson,
Yvonne De Carlo Follies |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | THE BIBLE $100: "Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became" this creature a serpent |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Kelsey Grammer, Dr. Fraser Crane on "Cheers", was once cast as Cassio in this tragedy Othello |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | POLITICIANS $1000: In 1992 this New York Senator won reelection by only 108,000 votes of the more than 5.8 million cast (Alfonse) D'Amato |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THEATRE $400: This Frenchman whose name is often followed by "Pere" liked to cast his mistresses in his plays (Alexandre) Dumas |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | U.S. CITIES $500: This Ohio city's Fountain Square includes a fountain cast by the Royal Bronze Foundry of Bavaria Cincinnati |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,500 (Daily Double): During the 1500s he visited Catherine de Medici's court & cast horoscopes of her children Nostradamus |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $300: During the war this Boston silversmith cast cannon for the Continental Army Paul Revere |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ART $1000: Like most of his works, this American sculptor's "The Diner" features figures cast from living models George Segal |
| #1926, aired 1993-01-11 | ANCIENT QUOTES $200: He quoted the proverb "The die is cast" when he crossed the Rubicon Julius Caesar |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | SCIENCE $300: At its brightest, this planet is the most brilliant object in the sky after the sun & moon & can cast a shadow Venus |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | COINS $400: For centuries these beverage leaves were cast into bricks & used as currency in China tea |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $600: Paul Newman appeared in the original cast of this William Inge play whose title could attract ants Picnic |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $300: In 1984 Janet Jackson joined the cast of this series set at the High School for the Performing Arts Fame |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES $1000: Mary Eure, this playwright's 2nd wife, was in the original cast of his play "Look Back In Anger" John Osborne |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $400: Bruce Dern & Rip Torn were in the original cast of this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth" Tennessee Williams |
| #1853, aired 1992-09-30 | THEATER $600: Jessica Tandy won a 1948 Tony for playing this role in the original cast of "A Streetcar Named Desire" Blanche DuBois |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | GENE KELLY MOVIES $500: Gene discovered Leslie Caron in the Ballets des Champ Elysees & cast her as his leading lady in this film An American in Paris |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | HORSING AROUND $500: Yeats' epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman," do this pass by |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | THE BIBLE $600: In Exodus, he said, "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" Pharaoh |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | MOVIE MEALS $800: Marie Dressler headed an all-star MGM cast in this 1933 version of a Kaufman-Ferber play Dinner at Eight |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: When this author's "Picnic" 1st opened on Broadway in 1953, its cast included Paul Newman William Inge |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: When this musical about a milkman returned to Broadway in 1990, Topol topped the cast Fiddler on the Roof |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | ACTORS & HISTORIC ROLES $200: The cast of this "landmark" film included Richard Boone as Sam Houston & Laurence Harvey as William Travis The Alamo |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | TELEVISION $300: Timothy Busfield was Pernell Roberts' son on this series before he was cast in "thirtysomething" Trapper John, M.D. |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | U.S. CITIES $500: A cast-iron statue of Vulcan overlooks this city, Alabama's largest Birmingham |
| #1677, aired 1991-12-10 | SHOES $300: A "Havana" uplift, or what a cast-off girlfriend might call Castro a Cuban heel |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $600: Ecclesiastes says, "Cast" this "upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days" bread |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | THE U.N. $200: In the last 46 years, this nation has cast the most vetoes in the Security Council with over 100 the Soviet Union |
| #1658, aired 1991-11-13 | FAMOUS LLOYDS $200: In 1980 this "Evita" composer won a Tony for Best Score & a Grammy for Best Cast Show Album (Andrew Lloyd) Webber |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $300: These 3 men were cast into a fiery furnace but "the fire had no power" over their bodies Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego |
| #1650, aired 1991-11-01 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $200: A person unable to go to his polling place on Election Day can cast this type of ballot absentee |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | SCULPTURE $300: After Degas' death, many of the statues he'd modeled in clay or wax were cast in this alloy bronze |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | OLD TESTAMENT $200: His friends were cast into the fiery furnace & he was cast into the lion's den Daniel |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $200: Eccles. 11:1 says cast this "upon the waters: For thou shalt find it after many days" bread |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ANAGRAMS $200: The original London cast of this musical included Elaine Paige as Grizabella Cats (from cast) |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | THE LIBERTY BELL $200: The Liberty Bell was cast twice in 1753 by John Pass & Charles Stow, founders in this city Philadelphia |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | ART $1000: At a Philadelphia art museum, you can see the first bronze cast of this Frenchman's "Gates of Hell" (Auguste) Rodin |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | WEATHER $200: From the Latin for cast down, it's any form of rain or snow precipitation |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | THEATRICAL TERMS $100: The performers in a play, or a framework for a fracture a cast |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | OLD TESTAMENT $200: Shortly after promoting him, Darius had him cast into a lion’s den Daniel |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | THE DONNA REED SHOW $200 (Daily Double): Member of the cast heard here:
"Johnny Angel / How I love him" Shelley Fabares |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN SETTINGS $400: It's set on "an uninhabited island", a long-winded cast shows up anyway The Tempest |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | TELEVISION $300: When Danny Thomas' show moved to CBS in 1957, she joined the cast as Kathy's daughter Linda Angela Cartwright |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $200: The book of Revelation says "The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and" this brimstone |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: In 1967 Pearl Bailey led an all-black cast in this musical Hello, Dolly! |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | FAMOUS GERMANS $800: German director Wim Wenders cast her in her 1st film, "The Wrong Move", & used her again in "Paris, Texas" Nastassja Kinski |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | DRAMA $1,500 (Daily Double): The Thomas Hart Benton painting seen here depicts the original cast of this T. Williams play: A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: The original cast album of this Broadway musical features a rose & a mask on the cover Phantom of the Opera |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | FASHION $800: The name for this pair of eyeglasses on a handle comes from the French for "to cast sidelong glances" lorgnettes |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | ANTIQUES $200: Cast iron, which is cast in a mold, antedates this type of iron, which is formed & worked by hand wrought iron (or forged iron) |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | PEOPLE $200: The cast of "L.A. Law" refers to these married co-stars as "The Tuckerberries" Michael Tucker & Jill Eikenberry |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | VOWELS $400: These 2 vowels have been cast as human blood types; that makes them typecast A & O |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | POETS $200: William Butler Yeats wrote his own: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" an epitaph |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | FROM THE LATIN $1000: When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he quoted the proverb "Iacta Alea Est" which means this "The Die is Cast" |
| #1235, aired 1990-01-05 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The "dramatis personae" is a literary list of these a cast of characters |
| #1235, aired 1990-01-05 | FILM FACTS $600 (Daily Double): He was originally cast as the Tin Man of Oz but reacted to the make-up so Jack Haley replaced him Buddy Ebsen |
| #1227, aired 1989-12-26 | ITALIAN HISTORY $1000: As he crossed the Rubicon, Julius Caesar said, "Iacta alea est", which means this "The die is cast" |
| #1226, aired 1989-12-25 | FOREIGN PHRASES $400: In Norwegian this useless action becomes "Kaste perler for svin" cast pearls before swine |
| #1223, aired 1989-12-20 | THE MOVIES $1000: The cast of this '39 George Cukor film consisted of 135 females, including Joan Crawford & Paulette Goddard The Women |
| #1219, aired 1989-12-14 | THE BIBLE $100: King Darius cast this prophet into a den of lions because he prayed to God Daniel |
| #1219, aired 1989-12-14 | 1962 $600: In 1962 Uganda became the 110th country to join the U.N., & this country cast its 100th veto the Soviet Union |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | THEATER $400: The original cast of this Agatha Christie play featured Richard Attenborough as a detective, not a rodent The Mousetrap |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | RHYME TIME $200: A rapid reeling out of fishing line Fast Cast |
| #1126, aired 1989-06-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: After this former star of "The White Shadow" left the cast of "Dynasty", he taught acting at Harvard Ken Howard |
| #1125, aired 1989-06-23 | WORDS $200: When this is cast on election day, you express your wish or vow, the original Latin meaning vote |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | TV "ADVENTURES" $300: Guy Madison & Andy Devine were the only regular cast members on this popular '50s Western The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | TV ACT IT OUT $500 (Daily Double): It's what the cast did while the following played:
"Well now it's time to say good bye to Jed and all his kin. / And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in. / You're all invited back next week to this locality / To have a heapin' helpin' of their hospitality" [smiling and waving] |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: Silent film director whose notorious 1922 murder was the subject of the best seller "A Cast of Killers" William Desmond Taylor |
| #1061, aired 1989-03-27 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: In 1988 this Fats Waller musical returned to Broadway with its original 1978 cast Ain't Misbehavin' |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | TELEVISION $100: Lori Loughlin was added to this show's cast to give John Stamos a girlfriend Full House |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | THE '50s $200: In exile, he told Argentine followers to cast blank ballots in a 1957 election, & they did (Juan) Peron |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | THE ADDAMS FAMILY $100: In 1977 the original cast was reunited in a TV special celebrating this holiday Halloween |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | ADVERTISING $100: IBM used cast members of this former TV series to sell its computers M*A*S*H |
| #966, aired 1988-11-14 | IN OTHER WORDS... $400: Toss one's loaves onto aquatic environments "Cast your bread upon the waters" |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $400: Besides Lady Macbeth, the other titled lady in the cast list of "Macbeth" Lady Macduff |
| #936, aired 1988-10-03 | 1983 $200: After 11 years, the cast of this show finally got to go home from the Korean War M*A*S*H |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | RELIGION $800: Jehovah's Witnesses believe Christ cast him out of heaven in 1914, hence the world's troubles Satan |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: If the decision's been made, one might say this "has been cast" a die |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | SCULPTURE $300: The "Cire Perdue", or lost wax procedure, is used to cast sculptures made of this copper-tin alloy bronze |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | THE CONSTITUTION $400: Article I, Section 3 states it's the only time the Vice President can cast a vote in the Senate in the case of a tie |
| #873, aired 1988-05-25 | JULIUS CAESAR $800: On January 10, 49 B.C., "the die was cast" for civil war when Julius Caesar crossed this the Rubicon |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | ANIMAL GROUPS $1000: Name for a group of hawks, even if they're not starring in Hitchcock's "The Birds" a cast |
| #807, aired 1988-02-23 | ASTROLOGY $400: To cast a chart, an astrologer must know these 3 things about you your birthdate, the time you were born & where you were born |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: The original cast of this prizewinner included Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter & Marlon Brando "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| #772, aired 1988-01-05 | IT'S GREEK TO ME $400: It's from "ostrakon", the potsherd a Greek used to cast his vote whether to banish someone to ostracize |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | MOVIE TRIVIA $600: He cast both his son & daughter, Sydney & Geraldine, in his last film "The Countess from Hong Kong" Charlie Chaplin |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | THE CARIBBEAN $400: Even tho Sun is up, Voodooists consider this time of day dangerous, since people cast no shadows noon |
| #708, aired 1987-10-07 | LEADING MEN $400: When Richard Dreyfuss left the cast of "All That Jazz", this man replaced him Roy Scheider |
| #708, aired 1987-10-07 | BIBLICAL TRIOS $800: The 3 men King Nebuchadnezzar cast into the fiery furnace Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | MOVIE ROYALTY $1000: Richard Harris headed the cast, but Alec Guinness lost his head as this king in "Cromwell" Charles I |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | BALLET $1,500 (Daily Double): The cast of this ballet includes 1 evil magician, several hunters & a gaggle of cygnets Swan Lake |
| #693, aired 1987-09-16 | ACTORS & ROLES $300: Walter Hill cast him as a cop in "48 Hrs." & as a Texas Ranger in "Extreme Prejudice" Nick Nolte |
| #689, aired 1987-09-10 | SHAKESPEARE $400: The cast of this comedy includes an Amazon queen, a bellows-mender & a flock of fairies A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #679, aired 1987-07-16 | OCCUPATIONAL NAMES $900 (Daily Double): She's the only original cast member on "Dallas" whose name fits this category (Victoria) Principal |
| #653, aired 1987-06-10 | HOLLYWOOD $200: George Takei is 1 of 3 cast members of this show to be honored on the Walk of Fame Star Trek |
| #635, aired 1987-05-15 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: Word which precedes jump, cloth, ax, & in our case, cast broad |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | OLD TESTAMENT $100: The Bible says to cast this "upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" bread |
| #568, aired 1987-02-11 | SPELLING $1,200 (Daily Double): Spelling of the following song's title:
"Took a walk and passed your house late last night / All the shades were pulled and drawn way down tight /From within, the dim light cast..." "S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E-S" |
| #547, aired 1987-01-13 | TECHNOLOGY $400: This alloy was cast into tools even before 3000 B.C. bronze |
| #547, aired 1987-01-13 | MOVIE ROYALTY $600: The French or the Egyptian actor cast as Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf in '36 & '68 versions of "Mayerling" Omar Sharif (or Charles Boyer) |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | THE BIBLE $100: Though King Darius didn't want to do it, palace intrigues made him cast Daniel into this the lions' den |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | THE BIBLE $200: Pharaoh ordered all baby boys of the Hebrews to be cast into it the Nile |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | THE BIBLE $300: King Nebuchadnezzar ordered Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego cast into this the fiery furnace |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | THE BIBLE $400: During a storm, he told the sailors to cast him into the sea to make it calm Jonah |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | THE BIBLE $500: According to Revelation, he will be bound & cast into a bottomless pit for 1000 years the devil (Satan) |
| #537, aired 1986-12-30 | TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $200: Tom Selleck was considered before this actor was cast in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Harrison Ford |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA $500: According to "Hamlet"s cast list, she's the daughter of the "Principal Secretary of State" Ophelia |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | U.S. CITIES $800: Standing 55' high, the statue of Vulcan in this southern city is largest cast-iron statue in world Birmingham (Alabama) |
| #498, aired 1986-11-05 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: After spotting this actor in the sci-fi film "Them!", Disney studios cast him as Davy Crockett Fess Parker |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | GILLIGAN'S ISLAND $300: Only cast member to come into the show with performances that "drew" 2 Academy Awards Jim Backus |
| #492, aired 1986-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His Robinson Crusoe might have had more fun had he been cast away with his Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | FAMOUS PARTNERS $200: Their supporting cast included Sid Fields, Mike the Cop & Joe Besser as Stinky Abbott & Costello |
| #467, aired 1986-09-23 | TV NOSTALGIA $300: Still in diapers when he joined the Today show cast in 1953, he sent the ratings climbing J. Fred Muggs |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | FOREIGN PHRASES $600: If "jacta alea est", this is cast the die |
| #456, aired 1986-09-08 | "LEWIS" & "CLARK" $500 (Daily Double): The 2 cast members of "Webster" who fit the category Emmanuel Lewis & Susan Clark |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | NEWSCASTERS $500: For TV movie, Daniel J. Travanti was cast as this legendary CBS newsman who also used a middle initial Edward R. Murrow |
| #406, aired 1986-03-31 | CZECH, PLEASE $400: This Czech director cast the music coordinator of "Amadeus" as a conductor in the film (Miloš) Forman |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | TV TRIVIA $100: Of the cast, only Shirley Jones & David Cassidy sang on albums inspired by this series The Partridge Family |
| #384, aired 1986-02-27 | ART $800: So real was his "Age of Bronze", this 19th century sculptor was accused of taking a cast from life Rodin |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | STARTS WITH "D" $500: Once it's cast, change is impossible the die |
| #346, aired 1986-01-06 | SCULPTURE $400: Using lost wax & green sand, not a couch, are 2 ways a artists do this to metal cast |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $200: Caesar said "The die is cast", upon crossing this river the Rubicon |
| #327, aired 1985-12-10 | BODIES OF WATER $400: North American Bay named for explorer whose crew mutinied & cast him adrift there Hudson Bay |
| #290, aired 1985-10-18 | NEW TESTAMENT $200: Jesus urged don't cast your pearls before them, lest they trample them under their feet swine |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: His directorial debut, "The Maltese Falcon", was one of several films in which he cast his father John Huston |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: Ironically, this symbol of American independence was cast in London in 1752 the Liberty Bell |
| #171, aired 1985-05-06 | ANCIENT WORLDS $1000: Country in which Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego were cast into a fiery furnace Babylon (Babylonia) |
| #138, aired 1985-03-20 | MOVIES $300: Wall coating that WWII Oscars were "cast" in plaster |
| #130, aired 1985-03-08 | WITCHCRAFT $300: As fishermen cast lines, witches cast these spells |
| #66, aired 1984-12-10 | SCIENCE $200: Common element whose refined forms include pig, cast or wrought iron |
| #61, aired 1984-12-03 | THE BIBLE $300: Jesus said that only "he that is without sin" could do this cast the first stone |
| #52, aired 1984-11-20 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1,600 (Daily Double): 1st done to accept a pugilist's challenge, in politics, it means "to enter the competition" throw one's hat into the ring |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | GEMS $200: Buck,
Bailey,
& what you shouldn't cast before swine Pearl |
| #17, aired 1984-10-02 | SINGERS & DANCERS $400: She took over for Anne Bancroft, who was originally cast to play Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | THE 20TH CENTURY $1,500 (Daily Double): In Dec., 1941, Representative Jeannette Rankin cast the only dissenting vote on this issue the declaration of war against Japan over Pearl Harbor |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | HOMONYMS $200: Hindu hierarchy or a play's actors a caste (cast) |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | BROADWAY $500: 100s of former cast members appeared onstage when it became longest-running show A Chorus Line |
