| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $200: The real-life Alnwick castle was used for this reel-life fortress built by Godric Gryffindor & 3 others Hogwarts (Castle) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $400: Prince Adam of Eternia transforms into He-Man by raising his power sword & proclaiming, "By the power of" this castle Grayskull |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $600: This creator of Bertie Wooster wrote a series of stories about Lord Emsworth & family set at Blandings Castle Wodehouse |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $800: In this 17th century work, Great-Heart & Old Honest rescue Mr. Despondency & Much-Afraid, prisoners in Doubting Castle Pilgrim's Progress |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $1000: "The Castle of" this place, written in 1764 by Horace Walpole, is said to be the first Gothic novel in the English language Otranto |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | HISTORIC CASTLES $400: When visiting Segovia, northwest of Madrid, don't miss the Alcazar where she became queen in 1474 Isabella |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | HISTORIC CASTLES $800: Caernarfon Castle was the site for the investiture of him as Prince of Wales in 1969 (Prince) Charles (Charles III) |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | HISTORIC CASTLES $1200: Poland's Malbork Castle is the largest in Europe built with these rather than stones brick |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | HISTORIC CASTLES $1600: Home to the Vatican Observatory, this castle complex was first used as a summer papal residence in the 17th century Castel Gandolfo |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | HISTORIC CASTLES $2000: Built by the Knights of Saint John in the 1100 & 1200s, the crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers is in this Middle Eastern country Syria |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $1200: "G" is for this monstrous decoration used as a waterspout on castles of yore a gargoyle |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $400: A Scottish castle is home to this school of witchcraft & wizardry Hogwarts |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $800: This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place Kafka |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $1200: In this 17th century religious allegory, Christian & Hopeful are imprisoned for a time at Doubting Castle The Pilgrim's Progress |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $1600: A key antagonist in "The Chronicles of Narnia", she lives in a castle full of stone statues the White Witch |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $2000: Young Cassandra Mortmain lives in the rundown title structure in "I Capture the Castle" by this "101 Dalmatians" author Dodie Smith |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | OLD YORK $400: After this king won at Hastings, York was "seething with discontent"; he would soon march in & build 2 castles there William the Conqueror |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU $400: A Frenchman who's living in fantasy builds châteaux en Espagne, literally these in Spain; we build them "in the air" castles |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN $1000: Grover Washington Jr. was so smooth with this title, "building castles in the sky", this title again, "you & I" "Just The Two Of Us" |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | EUROPE $2000: This region comprising the northern half of Belgium has neat medieval castles Flanders |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $800: Plans that are impractical are these edifices built high above the earth castles in the air (or in the sky) |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: Bastions are semicircular towers projecting from the walls of these medieval strongholds castles |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | CASTLES $400: This city's Rosenborg Castle houses the Danish crown jewels & has one of the finest collections of Venetian glass Copenhagen |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | CASTLES $800: Bram Stoker is said to have based the castle of Dracula on Bran Castle in this region of Romania Transylvania |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | CASTLES $1200: The Crimea's Swallow's Nest Castle, seen here, has been hanging precariously over this sea since a 1927 earthquake the Black Sea |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | CASTLES $1600: Most weekends when she hasn't an official engagement, Queen Elizabeth II leaves London for this castle Windsor Castle |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | CASTLES $2000: Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria was built by King Ludwig to honor this composer whom he greatly admired Wagner |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | DON'T HOUND ME! $400: The tallest of dogs, it was bred in Ireland to guard castles & hunt the Irish wolfhound |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INSIDE SHAKESPEARE $800: We "play for" these, the large, strong towers in the centers of castles keeps |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | THE BIGGEST SCHMOOZER $800: A man's home is his castle, & yours is so amazing, it's like one of these French-named castles in Bordeaux a chateau |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | HARD TO "PORT" $2000: This large iron grating covered the entrance to many medieval castles the portcullis |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | CASTLES $200: The Scottish National War Memorial is found in the castle bearing the name of this capital city Edinburgh Castle |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | CASTLES $400: Neuschwanstein Castle, often described as a magical setting, is found in this country Germany |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | CASTLES $600: Once home to the Knights of the Sword, Riga Castle is today the official residence of the president of this Baltic country Latvia |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | CASTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Now a national monument, the Alhambra in this European country was begun by Moorish rulers around 1238 Spain |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | CASTLES $1000: Balmoral Castle is this present monarch's summer home Queen Elizabeth II (of Great Britain) |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | BRIDGES $200: In medieval castles a windlass was the mechanical winch used to raise & lower this a drawbridge |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | YOUR HOME AQUARIUM $600: In the tank these edifices are resin instead of stone; my aquarium has a replica of Warwick castles |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: A Sarasota, Florida company specializes in giant sculptures in this medium; it's not just for castles anymore sand |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | REAL CASTLES & PALACES $400: Joan Rivers was among the guests at Charles & Camilla's wedding reception in this castle Windsor Castle |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | REAL CASTLES & PALACES $800: As you can see, Neuschwanstein Castle is one of the most beautiful in this mountain range the (Bavarian) Alps |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | REAL CASTLES & PALACES $1600: Churchill, Stalin & FDR hung out in the Livadia Palace during this 1945 conference Yalta |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | REAL CASTLES & PALACES $2,000 (Daily Double): King John's Castle rises majestically above the banks of this river in the city of Limerick the Shannon River |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | REAL CASTLES & PALACES $2000: In the Yusupov Palace, an eerie wax figure of this mystic dominates the room in which he was poisoned Rasputin |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | WORDS $1000: The name of these small towers often seen on castles comes from Old French for "small towers" turrets |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: This Dutch city was best known for ruined castles until the 1991 European Union Treaty was signed there Maastricht |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | TURRETS SYNDROME $2000: Even the peaceful Swiss needed their castles, like Chillon on this lake seen here Lake Geneva |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | HOLIDAY $1000: If you travel to Morocco, "come with me to" the Berber castles known as these the Kasbahs |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | COMMON BONDS $2000: The Rhine Valley,
a chessboard,
Vernon & Irene's Dance School things with castles |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KINGS & THEIR CASTLES $200: Once the home of King Christian IV, Rosenborg Castle now houses this Scandinavian country's crown jewels Denmark |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KINGS & THEIR CASTLES $400: William the Conqueror chose the site of this huge castle, one day's march from the Tower of London Windsor Castle |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KINGS & THEIR CASTLES $600: King James V was not yet 2 when he was crowned king of this country at Stirling Castle in 1513 Scotland |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KINGS & THEIR CASTLES $800: Afonso Henriques, this country's first king, captured Palmela Castle from the Moors in the 12th century Portugal |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KINGS & THEIR CASTLES $2,200 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from outside Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany.) Sadly, this king of Bavaria, who built Neuschwanstein Castle, didn't live here long; he was declared insane & forced to leave Ludwig II of Bavaria |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | CONVERBS $1000: "You can't build" these "in the air & live in them" castles |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | A GAME OF CHESS $1200: In castling, you put one of these, also called castles, in a stronger attacking position a rook |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | LAWRENCE OF ARABIA $200: Lawrence first visited the Middle East in 1909 to research a college paper on the castles of these soldiers Crusaders |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II $200: It's the Queen's royal family name & the name of one of her castles Windsor |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | SKATING ON FILM $1000: This 1979 film shows what blind ambition will get you: "I forgot about the flowers" Ice Castles |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | CASTLES $100: Do this at Blarney Castle & you'll receive a lovely parting gift -- the gift of gab Kiss the Blarney stone |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | CASTLES $200: The "castle" built by this publisher sits on La Cuesta Encantada, "The Enchanted Hill" William Randolph Hearst |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | CASTLES $300: This English castle, badly damaged by fire in November 1992, reopened to the public in December 1997 Windsor Castle |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | CASTLES $400: You can see the royal crown of Scotland in a castle in this Scottish city, but you can't try it on Edinburgh |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | CASTLES $500: Overlooking the Alfama, the Castelo de Sao Jorge is thought of as the cradle of this European capital Lisbon |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | OVER THE RIVER $300: This type of movable bridge that protected castles is also used to permit river traffic Drawbridge |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | CASTLE $400: When you daydream, you're said to build "castles in" this The Air |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES $600: Castles offered great protection until the 1400s, when these large weapons came into use cannons |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: 2 miles from Innsbruck, you can see one of this country's best-preserved castles, Schloss Ambras Austria |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: Walker's castles Alice's palaces |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | UNDER THE "C" $600: They're on the Rhine, in the air & in the corners of a chessboard castles |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: A mirage that may resemble castles in the air is called a Fata Morgana, Italian for this Arthurian sorceresses' name Morgan le Fay |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | DANCERS $1000: In 1914 these married ballroom dancers published a book of instruction called "Modern Dancing" the Castles |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: The Normans built many of these with mottes & baileys around the country castles |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Medieval castles are often encircled by these deep ditches moats |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | DANCE $600: These married ballroom dancers popularized the tango in the United States the (Irene & Vernon) Castles |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | POP LYRICS $500: It contains the line "bows and flows of angel hair, and ice cream castles in the air" "Both Sides Now" |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | THE 10th CENTURY $400: This Spanish kingdom got its name from the many castles Garcia of Leon built in the 10th century Castile |
| #2013, aired 1993-05-12 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: Some of these fortresses were the motte & bailey style; a motte was a hill, a bailey, a walled court castles |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | BRITISH HISTORY $1,100 (Daily Double): Henry II, the first in this line of English kings, razed over 1000 unlicensed castles Plantagenet |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | CANADA $300: Craigdarroch Castle is 1 of 2 castles in this city named for a queen Victoria |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Portcullises, which were lowered to keep enemies out of castles, were commonly made of this metal iron |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ARCHITECTURE $100: These deep ditches filled with water were a feature of Norman castles moats |
| #1568, aired 1991-05-29 | HISTORY $200: This dynasty's name comes from one of its 1st castles, Habichtsburg, or Hawk's Castle, in Switzerland Hapsburg |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | VIVE LA FRANCE $400: The French word for "castles"; lovely ones dot the Loire Valley châteaux |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | CASTLES & PALACES $100: U.S. city that's home to Iolani Palace, or should we say Iolani Royal Palace Honolulu |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | CASTLES & PALACES $200: The Palazzo di Spagna or Spanish Palace isn't in Spain, but this capital city Rome |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | CASTLES & PALACES $300 (Daily Double): It has a famous stone inscribed, "Cormac McCarthy fortis me fieri fecit, A.D. 1446" Blarney Castle |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | CASTLES & PALACES $400: England's Edward I built castles including Caernarvon to help him control this country Wales |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | CASTLES & PALACES $500: The sultan of this country lives in the world's largest residential palace--it has 257 bathrooms Brunei |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | WEATHER $300: A Fata Morgana is one of these, often in the form of castles & usually over water a mirage |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | DANCE $600: Irene & Vernon "strolled" their way to fame with this dance the Castle Walk |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | OLLA PODRIDA $100: People who daydream are said to be "Building" these "in Spain" Castles |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | FRENCH PHRASES $200: The French don't build castles in the air but "chateaux en Espagne", which are these castles in Spain |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | BRIDGES $100: In the Middle Ages these retractable types were all the rage at castles with moats drawbridges |
| #1061, aired 1989-03-27 | ZOOS $400: In 1907 zoos began utilizing this feature of medieval castles to separate animals from patrons moats |
| #863, aired 1988-05-11 | DANCE PARTNERS $400: Born Vernon Blythe & Irene Foote, they were famous for their fancy footwork the Castles |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $200: In 1814, he signed his 1st abdication at the Chateau de Fontainbleau Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $400: Charles VII gave a chateau to "La Beaute", who was the 1st "official" 1 of these to a French king mistress |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $600: Architectural feature which tops many chateaux, it was named for architect Francois Mansart mansard roof |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $800: Playwright who penned part of "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" at the Chateau de Chambord Molière |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $1000: This castle on the River Dee is the British sovereign's private residence in Scotland Balmoral |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $200: Of Coca, Cola or Pepsi, the 1 that's a castle in Spain Coca |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $400: With 74 stairways, Chambord is the largest Chateau in this river valley famed for chateaux the Loire |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $600: In 1847, schoolboys fought American troops defending this capital city's Chapultepec Castle Mexico City |
| #677, aired 1987-07-14 | WEATHER $100: The expression "castles in the air" may "reflect" fact that these desert phenomena may also appear in the sky mirages |
| #647, aired 1987-06-02 | POTPOURRI $400: By the 11th c. the motte-&-bailey form of these buildings was widely prevalent castles |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $200: This royal family's name came from one of their 1st castles, "Habichtsburg", Hawk's Castle Hapsburgs |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $400: Bran Castle in Romania's Carpathian Mountains is touted to tourists as this man's home (Count) Dracula (Vlad Tepes) |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $600: A castle on this site some 21 miles west of London goes back to the time of William the Conqueror Windsor Castle |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $800: Contrary to its romanticized history, this Death Valley landmark was built by Albert Johnson Scotty's Castle |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | CASTLES & CHATEAUX $1000: The opulent Chateau d'Artigny was built by this 20th century French perfume king François Coty |
| #634, aired 1987-05-14 | TRANSPORTATION $100: Malcolm Forbes flies one resembling his Chateau de Balleroy; talk about castles in the air hot air balloon |
| #551, aired 1987-01-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: She called her '58 autobiography "Castles in the Air", even though husband Vernon died in a 1918 plane crash Irene Castle |
| #488, aired 1986-10-22 | ANGELIC SONGS $200: 1968 Judy Collins hit that begins, "Bows & flows and angel hair & ice cream castles in the air" "Both Sides Now" |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | POP MUSIC $500: She recorded, then performed at 1980 Oscars 2 themes up for Best Song, "Ice Castles" & "The Promise" Melissa Manchester |
| #121, aired 1985-02-25 | THE RENAISSANCE $400: These "castles" of the Loire valley are examples of French renaissance architecture chateaus |
| #107, aired 1985-02-05 | SPORTS MOVIES $200: Sport featured in "Ice Castles" ice skating |
