| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | NON-CAT & DOG PETS $200: Snakes alive! A ball this can weigh about 5 pounds, but a Burmese can have a little more heft at 250 a python |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | NON-CAT & DOG PETS $400: Also called a water hog, this rodent is officially okayed as a pet in Washoe County, Nevada, as long as you get a permit a capybara |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | NON-CAT & DOG PETS $600: You can see why this type of frog here was named for this '80s video game, but feed it insects, not power pellets Pac-Man |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | NON-CAT & DOG PETS $800: The domestic population of this South American rodent is said to be traced to a dozen wild ones brought to the U.S. in 1923 a chinchilla |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | NON-CAT & DOG PETS $1000: Pet legal in some states, an axolotl is this type of amphibian; adults have lungs but keep larval features like external gills a salamander |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $1200: More than half of Mexico's population of this large kitty cat is found in the Yucatán region a jaguar |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $800: This woman knew how to "Paint The Town Red" purrfectly in 2023 Doja Cat |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $400: Maggie, to Brick in this play: "We mustn't scream at each other. The walls in this house have ears" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $400: This Vonnegut title refers to a game played with string Cat's Cradle |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | HORROR MUSIC $2000: "Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline" is from the theme song to this beastly film starring Nastassja Kinski Cat People |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $800: She's the faded glamour cat who sings "Memory" in "Cats" Grizabella |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $400: Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck black cat |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP MUSIC $1000: This rapper, is like, totally from the San Fernando Valley Doja Cat |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $800: 2 things about this 1971 guy--he's "the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" & "no one understands him but his woman" Shaft |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $300: Said to be inspired by Judy Garland, this Elton John hit is actually about giving up the fast lane for a quieter life "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $400: John Moisant made the first flight across this body of water carrying a passenger & his cat, soon renamed Paris-London the English Channel |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $2000: Kristen Roupenian's 2017 tale about a date gone wrong, it became a 2023 movie with new events dreamed up by the screenwriter "Cat Person" |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $600: "____'s Eye" by Margaret Atwood Cat's |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | DR. SEUSS EN ESPAÑOL $300: "El Gato Ensombrerado" The Cat in the Hat |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $1200: Taylor Swift named her cat Olivia Benson, after a character on this drama, one of her favorite TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $200: A stray cat is taken in and then set loose by Holly Golightly in this iconic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $500: This high-strung cat character who likes to bounce was based on a stuffed animal belonging to young Christopher Robin Milne Tigger |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $2,200 (Daily Double): The big cat who frees Narnia from the rule of the White Witch goes by this name Aslan |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | FOR THE GRAM $200: With more than 4 million follopurrs, Nala holds a Guinness world record for the most-followed this kind of animal a cat |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Besides her cat, a witch ends up giving a ride to a dog, a bird & a frog in the rhymingly titled "Room on the..." Broom |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $600: It comes "on little cat feet" according to Carl Sandburg, so let up on the gas fog |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $800: Han Solo's son paired with an edgy cartoon Chihuahua & cat Kylo Ren & Stimpy |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $500: "A talking cat requests proper footwear before playing a deceitful game to get himself & his owner ahead in life" "Puss in Boots" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS IS JEO-PURR-DY! $600: In this iconic Internet meme, an orange tabby named Fatso appears to play an Ensoniq Mirage synthesizer Keyboard Cat |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS IS JEO-PURR-DY! $800: Seen here, this breed of cat originated in the country now called Thailand a Siamese |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $200: On "The Simpsons", this cat gets second billing on his TV show where "they fight! & bite! &
Fight & fight & bite!" Scratchy |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | PICK A SIDE $400: The animated Sylvester the cat had the catchphrase, "sufferin"' this, actually a side dish featuring lima beans succotash |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $400: On June 19, 1978... ugh, a Monday... this tubby tabby introduced himself & "my cartoonist, Jon" to the masses Garfield |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $600: If you know Mr. Bigglesworth is the pet of this character in a 1997 film, we'll give you... one million... uh, $600 Dr. Evil |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $800: This character made petting a white Persian quite ominous in "You Only Live Twice" Blofeld |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $1000: Jennifer Hudson sang of being "all alone in the moonlight" in this role in 2019's "Cats" Grizabella |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $800: Kurt Vonnegut:
"____'s Cradle" Cat |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DOGS & CATS LIVING TOGETHER $200: Toy dogs like the Chihuahua can be trained to use these; experts say fill your dog's with the non-clumping stuff a litter box |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | TALK ABOUT... PUP MUSIC $1200: This "Peace Train" writer was direct, "I love my dog / Love my dog as much as I love you / But you may fade / My dog will always come through" Cat Stevens |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | MIXED GREENS $500: This "powder"-ful drink is made from finely ground green tea leaves:
CAT HAM matcha |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | SNEAKER BRANDS $800: Speedcat,
Drift Cat &
Neo Cat Puma |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $800: The Pollitts get together to celebrate Big Daddy's 65th birthday in this play; family drama ensues Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $400: This animal, gatto, got your lingua? a cat |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $800: (Justin Long presents the clue.) The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be Pet Sematary |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $2,000 (Daily Double): James Boswell recounted this British man of letters' affection for his cat Hodge, for whom he bought oysters Dr. Samuel Johnson |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $400: The striped & brindled coat of yon cat now hath its own name, this tabby |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $1200: This first daughter brought her Siamese cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, to the White House Amy Carter |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1957:
"A Feline Sporting a Bowler"; it's cute either way The Cat in the Hat |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $200: Some of this empress' favorite cats were said to be Russian Blues, naturally, & they had the run of the Winter Palace Catherine the Great |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $400: Inky cat footprints are found in the writings of this 19th century British founder of modern nursing who owned dozens Nightingale |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $600: Not satisfied with your basic kitty, Salvador Dalí owned Babou, one of these wild cats of Central & South America an ocelot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $800: This American author had a beloved pet named Catterina, who we hope was not the inspiration for his horror tale "The Black Cat" Poe |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $1000: This gorilla famous for learning sign language once adopted a kitten that she cared for & named "All Ball" Koko |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | ALSO A CANDY $1600: This purrrfect club of Whig leaders in London sounds just like a chocolate wafer bar a Kit-Cat |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | STARTS WITH "G" $800: Eugene Field's poem "The Duel" featured the Calico Cat & this dog a Gingham Dog |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: This wild cat seen here ranges from Argentina to South Texas an ocelot |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CARTOON CRITTERS $800: This title Manx cat is often addressed by his Chihuahua friend as "You eeediot!" Stimpy |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | CAR GO FAST $200: With a turbocharged V6, the XJ220 from this company was quick as a cat, topping out at 217 miles per hour Jaguar |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | BOOKS BY CHAPTERS $2000: "Ice-Nine",
"Tutored by Bokonon" Cat's Cradle |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $200: "Rubbin' a comb with wool or fur... strokin' a cat to make it purr, you're building up" this static electricity |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | MISHEARD LYRICS $600: In "We Will Rock You", this group did not sing, "You got mud on your face, you big disgrace, kicking your cat all over the place" Queen |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DADJECTIVES $1000: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" features this "Daddy" Big Daddy |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CAT BREEDS $400: An animal shelter in Montana in 1987 is the origin of the wavy furred breed called Selkirk this, Latin for "King" Rex |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CAT BREEDS $800: Keep your Persian cat brushed, as it has this feature that is also a name for the breed long hair |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CAT BREEDS $1,356 (Daily Double): This place associated with a tiger subspecies is also the name of a beautiful cat breed Bengal |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CAT BREEDS $1600: This color follows "Russian" in the name of a cat breed with grayish fur Blue |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CAT BREEDS $2000: This hairless breed got its start in Canada in the 20th century with a kitten named Prune a Sphynx |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $400: Obeys instruction "Eat me"; sees a cat that's all smiles; lets the cards fall where they may Alice |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $2000: The CDC advises pregnant women not to change cat litter to avoid this 5-syllable parasitic infection toxoplasmosis |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CHAT G-P-T $400: The Pallas's cat is called the world's this superlative; it's not just the face--it's only successful on a third of its hunts grumpiest (cat) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $400: A flexible entryway for a tabby & a thin hat a cat flap & a flat cap |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL $800: Here kitty, kitty! It's the wild cat seen here a lynx |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $400: A pet feline acts a little bit crazy in the Lilian Jackson Braun mystery "The Cat Who Went" these tropical fruits bananas |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | FANCIFIED BEASTLY IDIOMS $400: Release one Persian from a sack let the cat out of the bag |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CATS: THE NON-MUSICAL $200: Think fast! This big cat can take 3 1/2 strides per second & reach a speed of 70 mph a cheetah |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CATS: THE NON-MUSICAL $600: Smilodon for the camera! Known for its 2 extended chompers, this cat prowled around 40 million years ago a saber-toothed tiger |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CATS: THE NON-MUSICAL $800: A statistic commonly cited about this alliterative cat with a blotched, tortoiseshell-&-white coat is only one of 3,000 is male calico |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $200: Something very appealing to people is likened to this "feline" herb of the mint family catnip |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $400: 19th c. consumers liked buying from folks they knew, so Mr. Montgomery Ward might send a personal note if you ordered from this the catalog |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $600: This No. 1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up "Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $800: Someone full of big talk without being able to back it up is said to be "all hat, no" this cattle |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $1000: You're sitting in this idiomatic "seat" when you have a position of great advantage the catbird seat |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LET'S GET DIRTY $600: Synonymous with handheld vacuum for many, it's been picking up spilled cat litter & coffee grounds since 1979 Dust Buster |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | RAPPERS $1000: In 2022 she had her first solo No. 1 hit with "Super Freaky Girl", which samples "Super Freak" by Rick James Nicki Minaj |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $1000: It's a real cat fight at the Bayou Classic, with the Jaguars of Southern Univ. facing the Tigers of this state univ. of Louisiana Grambling State University |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | SCIENCE CRITTERS $1000: This Nobel-winning physicist came up with a thought experiment involving a cat & whether or not it's alive Schrödinger |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | FASHIONABLE ETYMOLOGY $400: Before it was a colorful cat, it was a cotton cloth from India calico |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: "Pussy cat, pussy cat" went to London because this person is there the queen |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A SIDE OF FABERGÉ EGGS $600: Made in 1885, the egg seen here has a yolk that held this 3-letter creature with its own ruby pendant egg a hen |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | PLENTY OF FISH $400: Originally from the Indo-Pacific, this venomous fish with a big cat in its name has become an invasive species in the Atlantic lionfish |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: Rudyard Kipling described him as "a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail" Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE WHOLE TOOTH $400: Alice in Wonderland encountered this creature that had "a great many teeth", which showed when it grinned the Cheshire Cat |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | MAGIC $800: It's the term for a witch's aide; it might take the form of a cat or a toad & was said to feed from a witch's mole or wart a familiar |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $400: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) To bring to life this 1957 book, we've got dishes distinctive enough to keep Sally & her brother amused on a rainy day The Cat in the Hat |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | A SHORT CATEGORY $1200: Shorthair cat breeds with former names of nationalities include the Abyssinian & this one that originated in Asia Siamese cats |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | OIL THINGS CONSIDERED $1600: Forever seeking to kidnap his sweetheart, Oil Can Harry was a villainous cat adversary of this rodent superhero Mighty Mouse |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | PAINT SAMPLES $10,000 (Daily Double): Don't try to pet the cat in a tricky canvas by Louis-Leopold Boilly, who invented this French term trompe-l'œil |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $600: This "feline" not only got "Freaky Deaky" with Tyga, she also told us to "Get Into It (Yuh)", so we did (yuh) Doja Cat |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $400: A clever, short song about a young cat a witty kitty ditty |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $800: In New Hampshire every pet dog & cat must be vaccinated against this disease at 3 months--oh, & every ferret, too rabies |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | PICTURE THE NO. 1 HIT $1000: It was a hit for Harry Chapin "Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | BRING ME A SOUVENIR! $200: From Japan, a maneki-neko good luck figurine depicting one of these with upraised paw a cat |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RHYMER'S DELIGHT $400: Feline conflict at the witching hour midnight catfight |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CATS THROUGH TIME $200: Bastet the cat goddess inspired these ancient people to fill cemeteries at Bubastis with mummified cats the Egyptians |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CATS THROUGH TIME $1000: Legend says the maneki-neko, or "lucky cat", raised a paw, an invitation to one of these warriors to enter a temple during a storm a samurai |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Lewis Carroll feline once used to flog sailors onboard a ship a Cheshire Cat of nine tails |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | HOME COMPUTING $400: Cat 6 is one type of this cable to connect a computer to the Internet; flat ones are easier than round ones to run under the rug ethernet |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | STORIES WITH HEART $400: A 2008 nonfiction bestseller told of this "Small-Town Library Cat (named for the decimal system) Who Touched the World" Dewey |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALPHANUMERICS $1200: This type of wild cat with many names has a superstar in P-22, prowling the canyons of the L.A. area for years puma (cougar or mountain lion) |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $300 (Daily Double): A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo! the Cat in the Hat |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $400: From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this a tail |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $800: Developed in what is now Thailand, this popular breed of cat comes in blue point, chocolate point & seal point varieties a Siamese |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $1000: This big long-haired breed is the official cat of the state in its name the Maine Coon |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Huckle Cat & Lowly Worm are just 2 of the inhabitants of the busy, busy world of this author & illustrator Richard Scarry |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $1600: The Infiniti QX60:
Ooh baby baby, it's this Cat Stevens classic "Wild World" |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK) $400: It was this two-word Internet sensation's "Worst Christmas Ever" in 2014 Grumpy Cat |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN $200: Ultrasound won't tell us litter size; for that we use this diagnostic technology that's several decades older X-ray |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN $400: Stage I of labor includes creating a cozy space, known as this avian-sounding activity; be sure to use your human's most costly clothes nesting |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN $600: When the offspring start trying to eat mom's solid food instead of suckling, it's time for this shift to independence weaning |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN $800: In the third stage of labor, this will emerge; Dr. M. prefers this plain English compound word to the fancy Latin "placenta" afterbirth |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN $1000: Dr. Mittens' patients are happy to hear that this royal noun becomes a verb when it refers to a cat giving birth queening |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $1600: "Cat's Cradle" by this author begins with a chapter called "The Day the World Ended" & goes on from there (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | POSSESSIVE PHRASES $1600: Seen here is this gem; its name also refers to its signature effect, also called chatoyancy a cat's eye |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ADJECTIVES $400: From Latin for "wild beast", it describes a wild, untamed animal, often an unsocialized outdoor cat feral |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | NUMERIC HOMOPHONES $400: Idiomatically, this verb links the cat to the canary & the dog to your homework ate |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $400: This disappearing cat is owned by the Duchess of Wonderland the Cheshire Cat |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $2000: Pixel the cat shows up in the Robert Heinlein work "The Cat Who" does this, which regular cats can't do Walks Through Walls |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WHAT EVER $400: This battery brand uses a cat in its logo Eveready |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | 2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $400: We won't string you along; it's this game Cat's Cradle |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $400: This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house" the Cat in the Hat |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: A symbol of bad luck & of Halloween, this common pet can also be hard to photograph--use diffused, not direct light a black cat |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | COLORFUL STATE SYMBOLS $1600: Maryland, cat: not a breed, but one with this multihued coat a calico |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | SCIENTISTS $2000: The 1935 work "The Present Situation of Quantum Mechanics" saw the first mention of this scientist's theoretical cat Schrödinger |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BEASTLY LIT $600: With sinister consequences, a cat named Church is brought back to life in this 1983 novel Pet Sematary |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CALL ME SOMETIME $600: She plays the owner of a cat cafe on the sitcom "Call Me Kat" Mayim Bialik |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | MUSIC OF THE 2000s $1600: Her "Hot Pink" & "Planet Her" were 2 of the top-selling albums in 2021 Doja Cat |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | FURNITURE $200: It's said you can be "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of" these, but you can relax in one on a summer evening rocking chair |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $400: Mixing animals: a wolf whistle is one type of this unwanted outburst a catcall |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $600: This is a very agile home invader a cat burglar |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $800: Models have turned this word for a narrow platform into a verb catwalk |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $1000: If a person has made you one of these, you've become an unwitting accomplice a cat's paw |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | BOOK CHARACTERS $1200: The Cat in the Hat unleashes the blue-haired, red-jumpsuited creatures known as this pair Thing 1 & Thing 2 |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI $800: ... for this animal "Who Walks Through Walls" in a Robert A. Heinlein title a cat |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | FANCIFIED PROVERBS $600: Inquisitiveness eliminated Snowbell curiosity killed the cat |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | OR TAKE THE "M" CATS $800: A recently created breed of small cat bears this name from "The Wizard of Oz" a munchkin |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | OR TAKE THE "M" CATS $1600: Tradition says this tailless cat originated on an island in the Irish Sea a Manx cat |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | OR TAKE THE "M" CATS $2000: Seen here, this lovely little cat is often referred to as a miniature version of the big cat called the clouded leopard the marbled cat |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $1000: "God Bless You, Mr. Cradle" God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater & Cat's Cradle |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | SONGS ON MY PLAY LIST $2000: The lead track from his 1970 album "Tea for the Tillerman" asked, "Where Do The Children Play?" Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | NONSENSE $1000: This 19th century giant of nonsense wrote of "The Owl & the Pussy-Cat" & also of nutcrackers running off with sugar tongs Edward Lear |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $600: A Merino a sheep |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This character known for its grin tells Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad the Cheshire Cat |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $200: This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991 (Elizabeth) Taylor |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | RECENT POP CULTURE $1600: She hosted the 2021 VMAs & won Best Collaboration for teaming up with SZA on "Kiss Me More" Doja Cat |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A proverbial phrase regarding a bit of sewing done now to save work later merges with a numerical brand of cat food a stitch in time saves Nine Lives |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | LESSER-KNOWN MARSUPIALS $200: Known to prey on poultry, the quoll is also called the native this & sometimes competes with domestic ones for food a native cat |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $200: Wreaking havoc: "Le chat chapeauté" The Cat in the Hat |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $800: Beginning in the 1920s, it was high praise to be the cat's pajamas or this rhyming insect phrase the bee's knees |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC $1000: "Get back, hognose bat, better get back to the woods" honky cat |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $2000: A cat named Orion wears a collar that contains a miniature galaxy in this 1997 comedy blockbuster Men in Black |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | FAIRY TALES: A CLOSER LOOK $1000: An anthropomorphic cat with an interesting fashion sense murders rabbits, kills an ogre & steals land for his friend "Puss in Boots" |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | ____ & ____ $200: This cat & mouse duo were at odds in the Big Apple in a 2021 live action/animated film Tom & Jerry |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $600: Orangey seen here signing a contract in 1951, later played this simply named role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Cat |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | PEACE $1200: A 2021 picture book commemorates the 50th anniversary of his song, "Peace Train" Cat Stevens |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $2000: Sweden's only wild feline is this short-tailed cat that's able to bring down much larger animals, like reindeer & roe deer lynx |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | AUTOMOBILES... ASSEMBLE! $600: The 2021 XF is quick as a cat... starting at 44 grand Jaguar |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $400: Originally used as an advertisement, "Chat Noir' in the iconic poster translates to this "Black Cat" |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | POETRY $1600: This Chicago poet wrote that "The fog comes on little cat feet" Sandburg |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $400: This singer's Purr & Meow! fragrances come in cat-shaped bottles Katy Perry |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $200: Sadly, this fast spotted cat hasn't prospered--it's endangered a cheetah |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $400: The puma is also known as the catamount & this other "c"at the cougar |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $600: Cats with this coat pattern caused by a genetic anomaly are almost always female calico |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $800: Naturally, the breed known as this Rex was discovered on a farm in Cornwall, England Cornish |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $1000: Neofelis nebulosa is the scientific name of this leopard with a strikingly marked coat the clouded leopard |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BEFORE BEAUTY $600: Here's an artist impression of one of these, an unconventional '50s cool cat a beatnik |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | THE COMICS $1000: Patrick McDonnell's comic strip has this canine name even though Mooch the cat is often seen with Earl the dog Mutts |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | POP MUSIC $2000: In this "feline" hit, Harry Chapin sings, "When you coming home, son?" "Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS $2000: There's a big cat in the name of these colorful Pacific reef dwellers with venomous spines lionfish |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | -ISMs $2000: CAT scans can help diagnose pulmonary these -isms, obstructions of arteries an embolism |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | WORKING WITH CLAY $400: Absorbent clay used to soak up grease spills in factories became this cat product when repackaged by Edward Lowe kitty litter |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | TV TITLE PAIRS $200: This title pair of an animated favorite were a psychotic Chihuahua & a dimwitted cat Ren & Stimpy |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | ON THE "HOUSE" $200: This adjective describes a cat that does his business in a box & not anywhere that he pleases house-trained (housebroken) |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | PHILHARMONIC CONVERGENCE $800: A clarinet represents the cat in this musical story for kids that premiered in 1936 Peter and the Wolf |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ACTUALLY, MONDAYS ARE PRETTY COOL $200: This website for sharing videos was registered on Monday, February 14, 2005; Keyboard Cat would debut later YouTube |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TV ON PBS $800: Season 1 episodes of this series included "The Crab Nebula"; season 47 had "Cat Tales" & "Polar Extremes" NOVA |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $400: You can find this wild cat, also called a puma, from Canada to Argentina panther |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | KING $1000: A 1546 English proverb says one of these "may look on a king", basically meaning everyone has rights a cat |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you seem smug, you look like "the cat that ate" this bird a canary |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | FUNNY TV SONGS $2000: Sung of this feline on "Friends": "You may not be a bed of roses, and you're no friend of those with noses... what are they feeding you?" "Smelly Cat" |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1000: In a 1939 T.S. Eliot poem, this cat "has lived many lives in succession" Old Deuteronomy |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CRASS WARFARE $2000: Legend says the Battle of Pelusium ended badly for this army, freaked out by their cat goddess Bastet painted on their foes' shields the Egyptian army |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | SLEEPY TIME $200: This word after "cat" means a short sleep; after "dog" it means a canine abduction nap |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $600: In a 1933 collection by this New Yorker & New Yorker contributor, she seems to have coined "scaredy-cat" Dorothy Parker |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | DOES THAT RING A BELL? $400: A fable gives us the phrase "bell" this animal, meaning a very dangerous task (especially for the rats) the cat |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $2000: Edward Lear's owl & pussy-cat "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" this a spoon |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | A "GRAPHY" DESCRIPTION $2000: The "T" in CAT scan, it's a method of using electromagnetic waves to produce an image of an internal structure tomography |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | THIS & THAT $600: Sanrio created this character with a feline name in 1974; her status as a cat--it's complicated Hello Kitty |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | POETIC CHARACTERS $800: The Pussy-Cat marries him in an Edward Lear poem & "they danced by the light of the moon" the Owl |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $400: A robber who gains entry by climbing a cat burglar |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $800: Avalon is the only incorporated city on this resort island off the coast of Southern California Catalina |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $1200: A subterranean burial chamber a catacomb |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $1600: Lepidopteran larva caterpillar |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $2000: It's a question & answer method of religious instruction catechism |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | CLARK $200: Cat's out of the bag! In 2019 he officially revealed Clark Kent as his secret identity Superman |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | WONDERLAND $1000: This feline says that unlike a dog, "I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry" the Cheshire Cat |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WILD THINGS $400: Kublai Khan kept this fastest cat as a pet; you can't & shouldn't the cheetah |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WILD THINGS $800: Red cat-bear is another name for the red this, which lives in the Himalayas & eats bamboo panda |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WILD THINGS $1000: This 5-letter so-called cat excretes a musk that is used in the making of perfumes the civet |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a book by Beverly Cleary, Socks is this pet, suddenly having to share the house with a new baby a cat |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | HERE'S THE PLAY $400: In this 1955 play Brick tells Maggie, "I don't want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch!" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | ALL THAT JAZZ LINGO $200: This 3-letter word means "in the know"; add "cat" to the end & it means a jazz fan hep |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | CAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $400: Meowth is a feline one of these "Pocket Monsters" in games from Nintendo a Pokémon |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | CAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $800: GSN's "Meow Mix Think Like a Cat Game Show" had challenges like "The Fast and the" this pun Furriest |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | CAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $1200: Mike Myers' feline outfit for this film was partly made from yak hair The Cat in the Hat |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | CAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $1600: This girl-powered supergroup gave us the album "Doll Domination" in 2008 The Pussycat Dolls |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | JAMES BOND $2000: Donald Pleasence & Christoph Waltz are among the actors who've played this cat fancier & Bond archfoe Blofeld |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | DADDY! PAPA! $2000: Burl Ives played Big Daddy in the Broadway & film versions of this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | WHAT TO WEAR $200: Try an animal print, like this cat, whether snow or clouded leopard |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | ANIMALS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Those aren't racing stripes; a mutation in the king type of this African cat blends the spots around its spine to look like stripes a cheetah |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | THIS IS LEOPARDY! $400: As you can see from the beginning of the leopard's name, this other cat gets some credit etymologically a lion |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | ISLAND PEOPLE $400: John Luther & Macavity the Cat are among the roles of this British actor Idris Elba |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents while sitting on a sofa with a dog.) Petting a cat or dog for 10 minutes has been shown to reduce the levels of this 8-letter stress hormone produced by the adrenal glands cortisol |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | DJ, JAZZY $400: Horace Silver's tune about L.A. DJ Chuck Niles isn't "the hippest guy in Hollywood"--it uses this 3-letter jazz word for "guy" cat |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | UH, PHRASING... $400: Meaning to "achieve a goal", "there's more than one way" to do this, but why bring the feline into it? to skin a cat |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | POETRY FOR PHYSICISTS $2000: Note the cat in the depiction of him, whose writing made a friend say, "I hope your physics is better than your poetry" Schrodinger |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | CATS $200: The ocicat looks like this wild cat species for which it is named the ocelot |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | CATS $600: Hairless cat breeds include the Peterbald & this one whose name sounds like the mythic monster that posed a riddle a Sphynx |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | CATS $800: This "kingly" word after Cornish or Devon in cat breeds indicates it has curly hair like a rabbit breed rex |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | KIDS BOOKS EN ESPAÑOL $200: "El Gato Ensombrerado" The Cat in the Hat |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | THE COMICS $800: Garfield the cat hates Mondays but loves this layered pasta dish lasagna |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | JACKAL $200: The jackal was called this big cat's "provider": it was thought to assist on hunts the lion |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $400: Bastet was a goddess in the form of one of these still-common domestic pets a cat |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $2000: In a children's classic by George Selden, Harry the Cat befriends Chester, "The Cricket in" this NYC location Times Square |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $2000: Brick, Big Mama, Gooper Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | LITERARY MASHUPS $400: "The Cat and Ham" The Cat in the Hat & Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS $1000: "Exit Stage Left" reimagines this cat from Hanna-Barbera cartoons as a Southern playwright in the 1950s Snagglepuss |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TAKING A VOWEL OF SILENCE $200: O:
In this spotted cat leopard |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Grinning enigmatic acquaintance of Alice in Wonderland seen in cross section by doctors the Cheshire Cat scan |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | COMEDIANS ON AUDIBLE $2000: This late, great comic shared some observations in "Napalm & Silly Putty" A cat can make any mistake appear intentional. You ever see a cat race across a room and crash into a glass door? Doesn't faze him at all. Whizz! Bam! "I meant that" George Carlin |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | "IO"-9 $200: Cat killer, or NASA rover curiosity |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | TV PETS $4,000 (Daily Double): On "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", her talking black cat had this name, also a historic New England village Salem |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CELEBRITY FAMILY TREE $2000: This tough guy actor from "The Dirty Dozen" & "Cat Ballou" was named for relative Robert E. Lee Lee Marvin |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | WHIPS & CHAINS $200: Me-ouch! It's the implement seen here cat o' nine tails |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | ANIMATED TV $1000: Darwin Watterson, an orange goldfish with arms & legs, is part of "The Amazing World of" this cat, also a Watterson Gumball |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | POP MUSIC $200: Here's a "Sign Of The Times"--he's a real Cheshire cat Harry Styles |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | THE COMICS $200: This fat cat may hate Mondays, but that didn't stop him from making his debut on Monday, June 19, 1978 Garfield |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: You'll find the Cheshire Cat (or at times only part of him) in this 19th century children's classic Alice in Wonderland |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | RHYMING PHRASES $400: It's the rhyming feline name for a complacent, rich person a fat cat |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | CAT IDIOMS $400: It's from the Latin for "careful" but it's what "killed the cat" who wasn't careful enough curiosity |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | CAT IDIOMS $800: To appear bedraggled is to look like something that arrived this way like something the cat dragged in |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | CAT IDIOMS $1200: If a secret has been exposed, it's where "the cat" is out of the bag |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | CAT IDIOMS $1600: A fleeting rise in a stock's price after a fall is this type of "bounce" dead cat |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | CAT IDIOMS $2000: Act assertively! "A cat in gloves" has this inability a cat in gloves catches no mice |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | IRISH PEOPLE? $1200: Catherine was her birth name & she wielded a whip with a specific number of cords Cat O'Nine-Tails |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In one version the last speech of a play by him says, "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | "URRY" UP $600: A singer & "American Idol" judge named her cat Kitty this Purry |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | I NAMED IT AFTER YOU $400: Jim Davis used this middle name of his grandfather to name his comic strip cat Garfield |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | UNLIKELY POP CULTURE PAIRINGS $2000: Not content to make us weep with her ASPCA ads, she sang "Cat's In The Cradle" in a mash-up with rapper DMC Sarah McLachlan |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | ACTORS & THEIR TV ROLES $1200: Kara Danvers' boss Cat Grant;
Ally McBeal Calista Flockhart |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | MONDAY NIGHT NON-FOOTBALL TV $1000: A cat-craving alien from Melmac was adopted by an American family on this sitcom ALF |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | BOOKS WITH ANIMAL POVs $1200: The title character in "Tailchaser's Song" is this kind of animal a cat |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | CAST IRONS $1200: In 1994's "The Lion King", Jeremy Irons voiced this villainous cat Scar |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | EPONYMOUSE $400: When hunting a wily suspect, detectives often play this type of game that mentions 2 creatures cat and mouse |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | TIMELY PHRASES $400: Tell co-workers you don't hit your stride until noon with a classic Sandra Boynton cat mug that says, "Not a" this a morning person |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: "There were once two cats from" this Irish town & "each thought that was one cat too many" Kilkenny |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | QUICK BOOKS $400: 1847:
Heathcliff is a bad cat Wuthering Heights |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | ANIMAL PLANET $2000: Here's Dalí with Babou, his pet one of these New World wildcats--he used to tell people it was a painted house cat an ocelot |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $400: No doubt your cat is this, not like rotting food but coddled & overindulged spoiled |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $800: Get out the brush--the Persian & Maine coon cat are this type of breed, not the best for allergy sufferers long-haired |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $1200: Like Morris the cat, Fluffy is this type of fussy eater that also starts with F finicky |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $1600: According to her website, the celebrity cat seen here isn't really this; she's a super-cute & cuddly kitty Grumpy Cat |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $2000: Your cat might be a little anxious, erratic, even this, like in the title of Stephen Baker's book on how to live with that type neurotic |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | THE SUN, THE MOON, THE STARS $200: The gas & dust of a dying star called the Cat's Eye Nebula were caught in a picture taken by this instrument the Hubble Telescope |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | YOUR STYLE $800: Gingham, along with percale & taffeta, is called this type of weave, like a cat with a striped coat tabby |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THAT RAISES A RED FLAG $1000: You'd think this British island would have a certain cat on its flag, but instead has the triskelion seen here the Isle of Man |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | TV ANIMAL ROUNDUP $200: Itchy & Scratchy on "The Simpsons" a mouse and a cat |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $600: Her poem "Lady Lazarus" says, "I'm only 30, and like the cat, I have 9 times to die" (Sylvia) Plath |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SHORT STORIES $2000: Feline title of Kristen Roupenian's 2017 New Yorker story that sparked a debate over dating "Cat Person" |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | NATURE $600: About the size of a large house cat, the red panda also goes by this name, known to users of Mozilla firefox |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $1200: The Sphynx cat was selectively bred so that it would have minimal this fur |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $800: He was an adolescent when he created his comic book character Fritz the Cat Robert Crumb |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $400: The film "What's New Pussycat?", about a guy women chase, had a title song by this guy women chased Tom Jones |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $800: Phoebe on "Friends" was known to warble about this feline Smelly Cat |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $1200: The feline in this Harry Chapin song was accompanied by "Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon" "The Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $1600: This quartet sang "Our house is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $2000: Members of The Cure wore kitty costumes in the video for this poppy tune, the band's first U.K. Top 10 hit "Love Cats" |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | I'LL PICK UP THE "TAB" $800: A striped cat, or a watered silk fabric a tabby |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES $800: An orange tabby named Morris the Cat is in commercials for this cat food brand 9Lives |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | MAMMALS $600: The Chinese call this native animal da xiong mao, meaning "great bear cat" a panda |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $400: "You shall have me assisting you in all. But will you woo this wild-cat?" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $400: This rare Indian cat is named for the activity it's engaging in here a fisher cat (or fishing) |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $800: Smaller than a house cat, the black-footed cat is native to the Kalahari on this continent Africa |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $1600: This little cat gets its name from the flat, grassy plains of South America, to which it's native a Pampas cat |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $2000: Seen here, the marbled cat of southeast Asia is often called the miniature version of this clouded big cat a leopard |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $1600: When this cool cat is out of dough, he becomes different parts of a chain a lynx |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | MUSICAL GUEST PERFORMERS $1200: Taylor Swift brought Lisa Kudrow onstage to sing "Smelly Cat" as this "Friends" character Phoebe |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | CLICHES MADE FANCY $800: "Insufficient space for twirling one expired feline" not enough room to swing a (dead) cat |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | CANINE COMPANIONS $1200: Billy West voiced Stimpson J. Cat & later in the series, this canine companion Ren |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | BEASTLY POETRY FILL-IN $400: "The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious ____" a curious cat |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | AIRPORT CODES $400: When Bill the Cat says, "ACK!" , he may mean the airport on this Massachusetts island Nantucket |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | MAMMAL PLANET $1600: Resembling the leopard, this New World cat is a great swimmer & can hunt in water, but prefers an ambush from land, disabling its prey with a bite from its powerful jaws a jaguar |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE $2000: It was the home of Milo & of Bill the cat Bloom County |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | UNPLUGGED $1600: You can bother your cat remotely with the Kittyo pet camera with one of these to make the red dot a laser |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | 1970s ALBUMS $1200: It was on his "Tea for the Tillerman" album that he first sang, "Oh, Baby, Baby, It's a Wild World" Cat Stevens |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $1200: A familiar TV & movie face, in 2003 she made her Broadway debut as Big Mama in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Margo Martindale |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | BOOK-POURRI $200: Look out! In a Dr. Seuss sequel title, this beastly character "Comes Back" the Cat in the Hat |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | TRANSLATE THE NOTED PAIR $600: Portuguese:
gato & cao, which is not a bovine cat & dog |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES $600: This tree-dwelling carnivore of Asia combines ursine and feline creatures in its name a cat-bear (or bear-cat) |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | MEN IN HATS $400: He's the cat in the top hat Winston Churchill |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | STOCK SYMBOLS ON THE DOW $400: CAT is the very hungry for business this company Caterpillar |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | ANIMATED FELINES $600: The first TV image produced by RCA in 1928 was a 13-inch papier-mâché model of this cat seen here Felix |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | ANIMATED FELINES $800: Lake Bell voiced fat cat Chloe in this 2016 movie about what your animals do when you're not around The Secret Life of Pets |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | ANIMATED FELINES $1000: After appearing as Geppeto's pet in "Pinocchio", this cat with the operatic name became Minnie Mouse's pet Figaro |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FIRST FAMILY FUN & FOLLIES $600: Often found blocking White House hallways, Slippers was Teddy Roosevelt's beloved 6-toed this pet a cat |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | ICYMI $200: In 2017 the Westminster Dog Show included this animal for the first time in its 140 years; what could go wrong? a cat |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | STAR TALK $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an image of stars on the monitor.) The European Southern Observatory released one of its largest images--a 2 billion pixel beauty showing the lobster nebula and this other one named for a feline feature a cat's paw |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | GOOD LUCK $1000: In Japan maneki neko is this animal in porcelain, waving its paws to bring a business luck a cat |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | PLAY DOUGH $1600: This character in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" says he's worth "ten million in cash an' blue chip stocks" Big Daddy |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | TV KILLERS $600: On "The Office" he killed Sprinkles, the cat of his sometime love interest Angela Dwight |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | BESTSELLING NONFICTION $1200: In "Making Rounds with Oscar", Oscar is one of these who comforts dying patients in their final hours a cat |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WHERE YA FROM? $2,000 (Daily Double): If you're from this English county, you're a Cestrian or a Cat Cheshire |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $400: "The Cat Who ____ Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein walks |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | DEBUSSY CAT $400: That Debussy cat was shaking things up when he made strings sound like the waves in "La Mer", which means this, dig? the sea |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | DEBUSSY CAT $800: Cool it, Daddy-O! Debussy said he was laying down "what imbeciles call" this style, like the French painters back then Impressionism |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | DEBUSSY CAT $1600: This time-marking device harshed Claude's mellow: he said it is for "those who don't hear music" a metronome |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | DEBUSSY CAT $2000: Man, the title character in this 1894 prelude is a half-man, half-goat creature of myth--crazy! Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | DEBUSSY CAT $4,000 (Daily Double): When he wrote the "Golliwog's Cakewalk", Debussy was hep to this piano style, a forerunner of jazz ragtime |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THIS CATEGORY IS JUST FLUFF $800: This Russian region gave its name to a fluffy cat breed introduced to the U.S. in 1990 Siberia |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $400: Author Richard Matheson eats egg rolls & notes that he was born in the year of this cat &, fittingly, went to the U. of Missouri the tiger |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BIOLOGY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a cat on the monitor.) More common in white cats is something called heterochromia where one eye is blue & the other is a different color due to a gene that prevents this pigment from reaching the blue eye melanin |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | YOUR IDIOM IS FOREIGN TO ME $200: A German idiom for "a pig in a poke" is "buying" this animal "in a sack"; time to let it "out of the bag" a cat |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Juliana Mazza with 22News.) Leaping from the pages of the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture are Thing 1 & Thing 2, agents of mayhem from this 1957 classic The Cat in the Hat |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | THE SAVAGE BEAST $1000: In 2014 this species of big cat terrorized the people of Northern India, with at least 10 kills Bengal tiger |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | GIMME A SLICE $400: CAT scans use X-ray images taken from many different angles to see this type of hyphenated slice of you a cross-section |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | GIMME A SLICE $600: In a poem, the owl & the pussy-cat "dined on mince & slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" 1 of these utensils a spoon |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BASKETS OF ADORABLES $1000: Despite the name, a cat with this color pattern is not a member of the turtle family tortoiseshell |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $200: Raining or not, the French names of these 2 animals are chat et chien cat and dog |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | SILENT "O" $1200: The antelope is a favorite food of this cat a leopard |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | "ME"MES $200: It's very literally a cat-ty remark a meow |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | KEYBOARD CAT $200: In 2016 at the old Tower Records, he shut down the Sunset Strip with a free show including hits like "Tiny Dancer" Elton John |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | KEYBOARD CAT $400: This jazzy Miss Jones with the Grammy-winning "Come Away with Me" returns to the keys on the 2016 album "Day Breaks" Norah Jones |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | KEYBOARD CAT $600: He's the British group leader & keyboard player seen here Chris Martin |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | KEYBOARD CAT $800: His video for "When I Was Your Man" is pretty much just this man, singing & playing his piano, the song's sole instrument Bruno Mars |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | KEYBOARD CAT $1000: When his 1963 album "The 12 Year Old Genius" hit No. 1, he was still "Little" Stevie Wonder |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $400: The striped & brindled coat of yon cat now hath its own name, this a tabby |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | GOING TO THE DOG'S BREED $1600: You eeeediot! Ren Hoek, partner of Stimpson J. Cat, was theees breed a chihuahua |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $600: Sandburg: "The fog comes on little ____ feet" cat |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | WHO MAKES IT? $600: Dog Chow & Cat Chow Purina |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | MOTOR VEHICLES $1000: The Arctic Cat brand of these recreational vehicles has been made in Minnesota for over 50 years snowmobiles |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | BORN IN THE '90s $2000: She played Sam on "iCarly" & on the spinoff "Sam & Cat" Jennette McCurdy |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | MASTERS OF SOCKS $400: This president & his family had a pet cat named Socks Bill Clinton |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $1,000 (Daily Double): "Time just outran me, Big Daddy--got there first" Tennessee Williams |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | A CRACKER $400: These treats from Pepperidge Farm like the Parmesan & Flavor Blasted Xtra Cheddar are sure to make your cat jealous Goldfish |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | PUNNY & NOT-PUNNY DEFINITIONS $1600: "Put a noisemaker back on the cat", or to rise up in insurrection rebel |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | BEASTLY LIT $800: "Thomasina" by Paul Gallico & "Socks" by Beverly Cleary a cat |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | "T" MOBILE $2000: The name of this compact SUV from Volkswagen suggests that it's part big cat & part lizard Tiguan |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | PETER AND THE WOLF $1000: "Peter and the Wolf" composer Prokofiev loved the clarinet & also this animal that enters stealthily to its sound the cat |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW $400: The first kitten born via this method was named C.C. by Texas A&M researchers; some say it's for "copy cat" cloning |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORDS IN CHARLES DICKENS NOVEL TITLES $200: Proverbially, it did in the feline The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | THE WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) It was tiaras all around in this Anne Hathaway sequel--one for Mia & one for her cat, Fat Louie; the yellow gems resemble pears because the fictional country of Genovia is famous for them Princess Diaries 2 (The Princess Diaries accepted) |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CAT & DOG BREEDS $400: Before 1830 all of these Alpine rescue dogs were shorthaired; the longhaired variety came from crossbreeding a Saint Bernard |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CAT & DOG BREEDS $800: This pup doesn't look as pugilistically minded as his name would suggest a boxer |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CAT & DOG BREEDS $1200: This cat from an isle in the Irish Sea has longer hind legs than front, giving it a rabbit-like gait a Manx |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CAT & DOG BREEDS $1600: The Lollipop Guild knows this short-legged breed is fast, takes corners well, & is generally Oz-some a Munchkin |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CAT & DOG BREEDS $2000: Named for an island near Sicily, it's thought to be the most ancient of the European toy breeds Maltese |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $600: Named for its cigar-like color, the Havana Brown is a breed of this animal a cat |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | FELINE LIBRARY $400: Thing 1 & Thing 2 are characters in this Seussical work about finding something to do on a rainy day The Cat in the Hat |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | FELINE LIBRARY $1200: Lampedua's "Il Gattopardo", this wild cat, became an epic film starring Burt Lancaster The Leopard |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | FELINE LIBRARY $1600: Winston Churchill is an unfortunate cat run over & buried in an ancient burial ground in this 1983 horror novel Pet Sematary |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $400: Perhaps due to a bias against the household chore, this Monopoly token was voted out & replaced by a cat in 2013 the iron |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $800: This name of a whip used for flogging tells you the number of lines tied to its handle a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $1200: Terrence Howard made his debut in 2008 as Brick in an all-black production of this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | FLORIDA & FAUNA $2000: Fewer than 100 are left of the Florida this cat, a puma subspecies--it prefers swampland like the Everglades panther |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | ZOOLOGY $1200: This swift African cat has claws that are not fully retractable, enabling it to grip the ground when running after prey a cheetah |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | 4 LEGS, 1 CLUE $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew feeds an okapi leaves at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, IL.) Though you won't hear them, okapis can communicate via subsonic calls; scientists think they do it so mothers can talk to calves without alerting their major predator, this spotted cat a leopard |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | IF THEY MARRIED $200: If the host of "So You Think You Can Dance" married the rapper of "Drop It Like It's Hot", she'd be... Cat Dogg |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $200: Alice thinks this cat looked good-natured, but "still it had very long claws & a great many teeth" Cheshire Cat |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $400: In a book by E.B. White, Snowbell the cat does not have this title mouselike boy's best interests at heart Stuart Little |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $600: She got a ginger cat named Crookshanks from the Magical Menagerie on Diagon Alley Hermione Granger |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | KIDDY LIT $400: The first thing this Dr. Seuss character says to Sally & her brother is "Why do you sit there like that?" The Cat in the Hat |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | PUNS $600: The tabby wanted to be a tiger, but she was only this, like a "Lion King" African mammal a mere cat |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | ADVERTISING ICONS $1000: A cat with 9 lives has represented this battery brand since the 1930s Eveready |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A TALK SHOW HOST $800: Have handy notes that say things like "angry cat" & "airport mixup", each to elicit this 8-letter personal story anecdote |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | WHAT A BEAST! $1600: This "hairless" breed of cat developed from a kitty born in Canada, not Egypt Sphynx |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | GEM $1600: Chatoyancy is the technical term for the luminous band of light seen in cut gemstones with this feline name cat's eyes |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: So as not to disturb his cat who slept on his left arm, southpaw Albert Schweitzer taught himself to be this ambidextrous |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | "CAT"EGORICAL $400: A larval butterfly a caterpillar |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | "CAT"EGORICAL $800: These launch devices on Navy aircraft carriers share their name with ancient military machines catapults |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | "CAT"EGORICAL $1200: Some versions of this 2-hulled sailboat of Polynesia can be 100 feet long catamarans |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | "CAT"EGORICAL $1600: From the Greek for "wash down", it's a sudden, catastrophic natural event a cataclysm |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | "CAT"EGORICAL $2000: Anatomical term for a person used to serve the purposes of another a cat's-paw |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | STILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: Grin & name this feline character who can disappear & reappear at will the Cheshire Cat |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $400: In 2013 this lasagna-loving cat celebrated his 35th birthday Garfield |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | POP MUSIC $1200: Cat on "Sam & Cat", she had a Top 5 hit in 2014 with "Break Free" Ariana Grande |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | YOUR OLD RECORDS $800: Photographer Jim McCrary put Carole King's cat in the cover photo of this 1971 album Tapestry |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | INDOOR & OUTDOOR CATS $200: After mating, the male of this big cat doesn't stay long with the female before he leaves for good, perhaps at 70 mph a cheetah |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | SAY CHEESE! $600: Seen here, a cool cat named Chester endorses this cheesy snack Cheetos |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | PLAY INTO FILM $2000: In 1958 this folk singer reprised his stage role as Big Daddy in the film adaptation of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Burl Ives |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | "TMI" $1000: Give your feline a nip of Nepeta, this refreshing herb genus catmint |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | SOFT ROCK $600: Now known as Yusuf Islam, he embarked on the Peace Train Tour in 2014 Cat Stevens |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | AMERICAN POETRY $1600: In a poem by Carl Sandburg, it "comes on little cat feet" the fog |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: On average, a house cat does this about 15 hours a day sleep |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | WHIP SMART $400: Britain's Army Act of 1881 banned the use of this numerical beast the cat o' nine tails |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1994 she published a book for kiddies called "The Chinese Siamese Cat" Amy Tan |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: An alcoholic ex-football star named Brick battles his brother for his father's fortune in this 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | I'M JUST A BILL $1000: "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" is a collection featuring this Bill Watterson comic strip duo Calvin & Hobbes |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | HEY, "BRO"! $400: A cat might instinctively know to use the litter box so it doesn't need to be trained to be this housebroken |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | LEAVES $200: This Lewis Carroll feline "vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin" the Cheshire Cat |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $800: "Maggie? Why are you so catty?" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $2000: Alice begins & ends the story by talking with Kitty, the offspring of this old cat Dinah |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | CAT-O'-FIVE-TALES $400: In this fictional E.B. White family, there are cat & mouse games between Snowbell & Stuart the Littles (the Little family) |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | CAT-O'-FIVE-TALES $1200: "The Cat" by this single-named Frenchwoman is about a Russian blue who's devoted to her master--but not to his fiancee Colette |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | CAT-O'-FIVE-TALES $1600: You can find a book of the Pentateuch in the name of this T.S. Eliot cat who has "buried nine wives" Old Deuteronomy |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | CAT-O'-FIVE-TALES $2,000 (Daily Double): Church, the cat in this Stephen King novel, is killed one day, then pops up the next day like nothing happened--typical cat Pet Sematary |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | CAT-O'-FIVE-TALES $2000: Robert Heinlein's "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" mentions a cat named Pixel, a reference to this physicist's cat (Erwin) Schrodinger |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | GOOD MOUSE KEEPING $1000: In an early newspaper comic, Ignatz Mouse was often the object of affection of this kooky feline Krazy Kat |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | '80s HAIR BANDS $400: "Look What the Cat Dragged In"--this "Toxic" Bret Michaels band Poison |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | 4 LEGS FOR YOU $400: The South American variety of this 4-legged cat can weigh 350 lbs.; some 2-legged Jacksonville ones can go 350, too a jaguar |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | CATS & DOGS $1200: Bast was the cat-headed goddess of this ancient culture, which also left thousands of cat mummies the Egyptians |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | CATS & DOGS $1600: You can tell a Sphynx cat by its lack of hair; a Manx, by its lack of this a tail |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | SONGS ON THE RADIO $2000: Nickelodeon's Cat Valentine, in 2013 she had her first Top 10 hit with "The Way" Ariana Grande |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A clever cat from "Shrek" puts combat troops in the fight overseas Puss in Boots on the ground |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | I'M JUST A SAYING $1200: "Dogs have owners, cats have" this 5-letter group a staff |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | OF SPECIES $1000: As it rarely feeds
on water creatures,
Martes pennanti
or penance martin
makes more sense
than this name fisher cat |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | CREATURE FEATURES $400: 1965 & 1997:
"That Darn _____" Cat |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | BEASTLY POSSESSIVES $800: "In" this beastly body part means very unlikely to happen if at all a pig's eye |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | BEASTLY POSSESSIVES $1000: Vonnegut volume about a possibly world-ending form of water called ice-nine Cat's Cradle |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | LITERARY QUOTES $400: Rudyard Kipling described him as "like a little cat in his fur and his tail" but "like a weasel in his head and his habits" Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $400: She was born Sophie Frederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst in Prussia in 1729; go east, young girl! Catherine the Great |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $800: Piscine nickname of the 1974 A.L. Cy Young award winner (yes, he had whiskers) "Catfish" Hunter |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $1200: She found "Big Trouble in Little China" before her days on "Sex & the City" Kim Cattrall |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $1600: This ancient Roman wrote poems in praise of the lady he called Lesbia & on the death of her sparrow Catullus |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $2000: Much of our knowledge of 19th-century Native Americans comes from paintings & drawings by him George Catlin |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | GENERAL SCIENCE $1000: Fog doesn't come on little cat feet, but it can come on one of these 7-letter low-level clouds a stratus cloud |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | POP MUSIC $1600: "I'm gonna be like you, Dad / You know I'm gonna be like you", he sang in the 1974 hit "Cat's In The Cradle" Harry Chapin |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | EVERY YEAR $400: In November 1927 Felix the Cat became the first character balloon to fly in this New York City parade the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | ON YOUTUBE $2000: Feb. 9, 2013 was the day this animal started to end the cat's viral reign as it sang on "I Knew You Were Trouble" a goat |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | A KILLEE'S HEELS $1000: At the morgue in this 1997 film, we see the murdered Arquillian's heels as well as his cat Orion; agents Jay & Kay investigate Men in Black |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | ADD A LETTER $800: Add an "H" to a feline to get this informal talk (& also the French for feline) chat |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NURSERY RHYME CATS $400: After the Owl & the Pussy-cat were married, "they danced by the light of" this the moon |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NURSERY RHYME CATS $1600: With a crooked one of these coins, the crooked man "bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse" a sixpence |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NURSERY RHYME CATS $2000: "The gingham dog and" this feline "side by side on the table sat" the calico cat |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2013 the stone paws of one of these creatures dedicated to Egyptian King Menkaure were found in Israel the sphinx |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | THE PUSSYCAT $400: Latin for "King", it follows Cornish & Devon in the names of cat breeds Rex |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | THE PUSSYCAT $800: The national cat of Russia is this type, & it does meow, not bark like a husky a Siberian |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | THE "BUL" PULPIT $2000: Type of reeds aka cat's tails bulrushes |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | COMMON BONDS $1000: A cat,
a Scottie dog,
a wheelbarrow Monopoly playing pieces |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): This feline with a fancy coat is the only New World resident traditionally classified as a big cat a jaguar |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | SCIENTIST SAYS $2000: "If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour... the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed" Schrödinger |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | POP QUIZ $800: It's a wild world for this convert to the Muslim faith, a 2014 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Cat Stevens |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | ARTS $200: Drummer Art Blakey was a real heavy cat in this style of music that preceded "Messengers" in his band's name jazz |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $1200: This 1955 play by Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | MAKE A FAMOUS PHRASE $400: OMG! The latest Mars rover landed on that feline Curiosity killed the cat |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | STEPHEN KING $200: The inspiration for this novel came when King's daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck Pet Sematary |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | NAMES IN NATURE $600: You'll notice that something is missing on this critter named for a British isle a Manx (cat) |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 2 FIRST NAMES $1000: He won a 1965 Oscar for his dual role as a gunfighter & his evil, noseless twin brother in "Cat Ballou" Lee Marvin |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | BLACK SOCKS $800: In Japan black tabi doesn't refer to a cat but to socks worn by these masters of clandestine martial arts ninjas |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | TV CARTOONS $800: "Big House Blues" was the first episode featuring this asthmatic Chihuahua & "eediot" cat Ren & Stimpy |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | YOU LIVE IN A ZOO $600: The "snow" type of this cat normally lives in Asia, but you can also see it at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle a leopard |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | THE LADY OF SHALLOTS $600: Cat Cora's chicken version of this dish named for a Russian count has shallots, sour cream & tarragon Chicken Stroganoff |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | IN THE FUNNY PAPERS $2000: Earl the dog & Mooch the cat are featured in this strip Mutts |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | GUINNESS $200: A grooming brush & ham slices helped a British feline set the record for loudest this by a domestic cat, 67.7 decibels a purr |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | HOOK $400: No good cat burglar should be without one of these a grappling hook |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | FRANKLY, MY DEAR $800: P.J. O'Rourke said this -ism was "the result of... women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex" feminism |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | A STORIED FORECAST $200: A story from Tennessee:
"Cat on a ____ Tin Roof" Hot |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | I SAW IT ON BUZZFEED $1000: BuzzFeed did an expose on the surly feline, real name Tardar Sauce, known as this meme Grumpy Cat |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | SPECIAL MONTHS $1000: June:
Adopt a shelter cat & awareness of this musical instrument--"Lady Of Spain", anyone? the accordion |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | MOVIES $400: This cat from the "Shrek" movies got his own film Puss In Boots |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $800: Elizabeth Anna Hart wrote about "Mother Tabbyskins", this type of animal a cat |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | .orgANIZATIONS $1000: cfa.org: the "Association" of these people, lovers of felines Cat Fanciers' |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | ANIMAL CARE $2,800 (Daily Double): Vets discourage this procedure unless absolutely necessary: it severs tendons & can make kitty a biter de-clawing |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $400: If his "Finnegans Wake" is hard to fathom, try this Irishman's kids' book "The Cat & the Devil" (James) Joyce |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | ALBUM COVERS $1600: 1971: Carole King sits barefoot on a window ledge with her cat Tapestry |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $200: "____ killed the cat" Curiousity |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $400: "When the cat's away, the mice will ____" play |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $600: "There's more than one way to ____ a cat" skin |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $1000: "A cat in ____ catches no mice" gloves |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | CHARACTERS IN THE BROADWAY PLAY $2000: Maggie, Gooper & Big Mama prowl around the stage Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | THEATER $1200: In 2013 Scarlett Johansson starred on Broadway as Maggie in this playwright's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | THE FAST & THE FURRIEST $800: As it zips around the eastern, central & southern African plains at 70 mph, it's hard to say this large cat "never wins" cheetah |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS $2000: The name of this young scientist on "Felix the Cat" has become slang for an egghead or nerd Poindexter |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BLENDER SETTINGS $400: A cat-o'-nine-tails, for example whip |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | DR. SEUSS ON THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS $600: A home invasion by this title animal traumatizes 2 kids & a fish, left alone by a mom who may be facing neglect charges herself the Cat in the Hat |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | CAT SCAN $200: Persian,
Uzbeki,
Afghani Persian |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | CAT SCAN $400: Jinx,
Dix,
Manx Manx |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | CAT SCAN $600: Turkish Coupe,
Turkish Sedan,
Turkish Van Turkish Van |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | CAT SCAN $800: Ethiopian,
Abyssinian,
Nubian Abyssinian |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | CAT SCAN $1000: Ragamuffin,
Hobo,
Urchin Ragamuffin |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK $400: Anne Hathaway is feline groovy as "cat" burglar Selina Kyle in this 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | MOVIE & TV DOGS $400: This TV cartoon chihuahua was always irritated by an idiotic cat named Stimpy Ren |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | GINGHAM STYLE $800: Chet Atkins provided music & Amy Grant, narration, on an audio version of "The Gingham Dog &" this animal the Calico Cat |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | SNEAKER-ING AROUND $1000: This "quick as a cat" company boasts the Bolt Faas 400 shoe, "inspired by the world's fastest man" Puma |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST $1200: Tigre americano, this largest New World member of the cat family, is now endangered a jaguar |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $1200: The Cheshire Cat,
the nonexistent Snark,
Tweedledee Lewis Carroll |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | SCRATCHY $400: Ted Nugent knows this "fever" is characterized by a swelling of the lymph glands cat scratch |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $400: Anything by this singer because she thanked her cat Kitty Purry in the credits of her 2008 debut album "One of the Boys" Katy Perry |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $800: Woah, woah, woah, the cat can sing along to this, Tom Jones' second top 10 hit "What's New Pussycat?" |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $1200: The cat is a fan of rockabilly, so play anything by this Brian Setzer trio, particularly its "Strut" The Stray Cats |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $1600: Before bed, the cat dreams big & puts on this Tokens classic also called "Wimoweh" "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $2000: Kitty can't help but rock out when she hears Florence + the Machine belt out the hit called these "Are Over" "Dog Days" |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | FOOD $600: A long thin cookie, langue-de-chat means this, probably a reference to its shape the cat's tongue |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | EXTRAS $400: Thai royalty were buried with this cat breed; the grave had holes for the cat to escape once the king's soul passed into it a Siamese |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | "CAT" OR "DOG"? $200: On "Jeopardy!", it consists of 5 clues the category |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | "CAT" OR "DOG"? $400: Trivial or undignified verse doggerel |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | "CAT" OR "DOG"? $600: To jump on top of another person, often in a group dog pile |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | "CAT" OR "DOG"? $800: Asserting an opinion in an authoritative manner dogmatically |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | "CAT" OR "DOG"? $1000: High-deductible health insurance only useful in case of utter disaster catastrophic |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BEASTLY ART $400: It's the feline seen here with Alice in John Tenniel's illustration the Cheshire Cat |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Sally & her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat the Cat in the Hat |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES $200: Starring Jane Fonda:
"____ Ballou" Cat |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | THE MAYA $600: Kinich Ahau, the Mayan sun god, was usually depicted with the features of this jungle cat a jaguar |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $2000: Little Nell, but not the proverbial cat, dies in this 1840-41 work The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | QUOTH THE POET $1200: "The owl and the pussy-cat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" (Edward) Lear |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | DR. SEUSS TITLES BY INITIALS $400: "T.C.I.T.H." The Cat in the Hat |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL ON YOUR CAR $1000: The combative cat seen here is on this car Peugeot |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | ARCHIPELAGOS $4,000 (Daily Double): Rising to only 206 feet, Mount Alvernia on Cat Island is the highest point in this nation off Florida's SE coast the Bahamas |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | SINGAPORE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a merlion fountain in Singapore.) The lion is the symbol of Singapore because a 14th century prince said he saw one when he first landed; as lions aren't native to Singapore, what he probably saw was this Asian big cat the tiger |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | LATIN PHRASES $200: Lapsus linguae, a sudden, unfortunate utterance, translates to this 4-word phrase slip of the tongue |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | I LIKE TO READ $1000: 2 dogs & a cat trek through the wilderness to find their way home in "The Incredible" this Journey |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS $400: In "Looney Tunes" cartoons, Granny's pets are this cat & this canary Sylvester & Tweety |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: This athletic shoe company's logo originally depicted a black cat leaping through a "D", for Rudolf Dassler, the founder Puma |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | ODE TRIP $600: Thomas Gray penned an "Ode on the Death of a Favourite" one of these, "Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" a cat |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $200: For centuries Indian rajahs trained this swift cat to hunt gazelles cheetahs |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | CRAZY TALK $1200: Misplaced every one of your aggies, cat's-eyes & commies lost your marbles |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS $1000: "Cat Among" these birds the pigeon |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | COMPLETE THE ANIMAL PHRASE $1200: "Nervous as a long-tailed ____ in a room full of rocking chairs" a cat |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | PUP-PARAZZI $2000: Theresa sits in the lap
of this actress, taking a break from starring in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Elizabeth Taylor |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | EVERY OTHER LETTER $800: This big black cat "_A_T_E_" monkeys, snakes & goats as part of its diet panther |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | RE-"TAIL" $800: Miss another question & I might take out this old navy whip with 9 knotted cords a cat-o'-nine-tail |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A domesticated cat with black & red markings is referred to by this "turtle" name a tortoiseshell |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | TALK LIKE A SAILOR $2000: If you know what 2-hulled vessel is "cat" for short, you can figure out this name for a 3-hulled vessel a trimaran |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | "RAY" OF HOPE $800: A homeless cat that wanders over to your house a stray |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | THE "KID" STAYS IN THE CATEGORY $800: They're soft, chewy & tart kid-shaped candies Sour Patch Kids |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | HARVARD ALUMNI $800: This Fed head graduated Harvard summa cum laude (1975) in economics (Natch) (Ben) Bernanke |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | CANADA'S MARITIME PROVINCES $800: Like a certain western U.S. state, Prince Edward Island is famed for growing these, as in the field seen here potatoes |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | CANADA'S MARITIME PROVINCES $2,000 (Daily Double): When the French ruled Canada, the region was known as this Acadia (Acadie) |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC $4,000 (Daily Double): The first rescue ship on site was this British liner that picked up more than 700 survivors, mostly women & children the Carpathia |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | WILD CATS $200: The prophet Jeremiah asked if this cat could change his spots the leopard |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | WILD CATS $600: While running, this fastest cat takes strides covering about 22 feet each, the same distance as a racehorse's a cheetah |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | WILD CATS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows photographs of two cats on a monitor.) To distinguish between two North American cats, remember that the mountain lion is mainly one color with a very long tail, while this cat is spotted with a short tail a bobcat |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: Socks, who is owned by the Brickers in a book by Beverly Cleary a cat |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER RAP SHEET $400: You could charge this Seuss feline with breaking & entering, willful destruction of property & animal (fish) cruelty The Cat In The Hat |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $1600: A "Sesame Street" grouch & a "wonderful" cartoon cat with a bag of tricks Oscar and Felix |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | THE SHORT FORM $1000: If you throw "Cat" around, you may hear from this Peoria company that trademarked it Caterpillar |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | RHYMING MOVIES $400: Mike Myers took on the feline role in this adaptation of a Dr. Seuss classic The Cat in the Hat |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | TOOT SWEET $1200: The bassoon represents grandfather & the clarinet is a cat in this Prokofiev "tale for children" Peter and the Wolf |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | "ICK"Y WORDS $1200: Difficult to please, like Morris the cat finicky |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | 2 FOR THE SHOW $800: Garfield the cat was animated in a film punningly subtitled "A Tail of Two" these Kitties |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | STRINGING ALONG $200: (Kelly & Jimmy of the Clue Crew present the clue.) Grab your string; it's time to play this kid's game with the beastly name cat's cradle |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | IN THE MAGAZINE $1600: Feline Groupie,
Potty Anxiety Cat Fancy |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | PLAY DATES $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1955 impatient Dodger fans got a title & the theater got this Tennessee Williams play about an impatient woman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $800: Kurt Vonnegut:
"___'s Cradle" Cat's |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | THIS & THAT $2000: In names of cat breeds, this "kingly" word follows Devon & Cornish Rex |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | SNAKES... WHY'D IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES? $200: Holy jumpin' cats! Here's an African sand cat squaring off with a sand viper in this 3-million-square-mile sandpile the Sahara |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | SNAKES... WHY'D IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES? $800: You can tell by its stripes that the deadly Australian snake here is named for this big cat a tiger |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | TIPS ON NETWORKING $200: Snarl along with "Big Cat Diary" & "Pit Bulls and Parolees" Animal Planet |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | PETS IN HISTORY $1200: This late British PM brought his cat Jock to cabinet meetings & thanks to his wishes, Jock V now lives at his home, Chartwell (Winston) Churchill |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $200: This animated feline is "the most daring swashbuckler, ladies man and all-around coolest cat" Puss in Boots |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | POP CULTURE $1200: We are "Royally Mad" about this British-born host (Cat) Deeley |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | TOP OF THE LIST $800: According to the Cat Fanciers' Assoc., the top breed of pedigreed cat is this feline with a Middle Eastern name Persian |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: Williams believed this was his best long play because of "the kingly magnitude of Big Daddy" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | LOOK WHAT THE CAT SCAN DRAGGED IN $400: CAT scans use this type of electromagnetic radiation, albeit at low doses X-rays |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | LOOK WHAT THE CAT SCAN DRAGGED IN $800: OK, Mom, you can stay while we give Timmy his CAT scan, but for safety wear an apron usually made from this metal lead |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | LOOK WHAT THE CAT SCAN DRAGGED IN $1,200 (Daily Double): CAT stands for computerized this tomography, because it moves across the body's transverse plane axial |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | LOOK WHAT THE CAT SCAN DRAGGED IN $1200: The scan process may include injecting you with contrast, a type of this 3-letter liquid similar to ink dye |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | LOOK WHAT THE CAT SCAN DRAGGED IN $1600: Excuse me, madame, it's time to use the CAT scan to measure your bone mineral density to see if you have this 12-letter condition osteoporosis |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $200: One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | HELLO KITTY $400: One theory says that this endearing cat sound is caused by the vibration of the false vocal cords a purr |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | HELLO KITTY $800: The Siberian is the largest of these, the largest member of the cat family a tiger |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | HELLO KITTY $1200: Because its smell is exciting to cats, this aromatic herb of the mint family is often used as a stuffing for cat toys catnip |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | HELLO KITTY $1600: The face of this fastest cat has black lines that curve from the eye's inner corner to the mouth's outer corners a cheetah |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | CLASSIC KIDS' POEMS $600: T.S. Eliot: "Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw--for he's the master criminal who can defy" this the law |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | ACT I, SCENE 1 $400: In the first scene of this Tennessee Williams drama, Maggie walks into the bedroom to change her dress Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $1200: Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash while Liz was making this film in which she played Maggie Pollitt Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ALICE $800: "The egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human... when (Alice) had come close to it, she saw... that it was" him Humpty Dumpty |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ALICE $1200: A common phrase in Lewis Carroll's day was "grin like" one of these; it grins in his story the Cheshire Cat |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | GRADE AVIS $1200: The St. Andreasburg type of this bird is noted for its singing; be the "cat who swallowed" one & earn a "C" a canary |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | UP IN THE AIR $1600: Pilots are leery of CAT, or clear-air this, which often occurs over mountains & around thunderstorms turbulence |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | CATS & DOGS $400: The California spangled cat was created by a breeder inspired by the sight of these wild African felines a leopard |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | CATS & DOGS $1000: This cat breed of Asian origin has a distinct vocal tone that can be endearing or annoying Siamese |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | MAGICAL MOUSE-TERY TOUR $400: Itchy (the mouse) & Scratchy (the cat) starred in "Skinless in Seattle" on a show within this Fox show The Simpsons |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | "HAWK" EYES $1200: This aircraft carrier named for a North Carolina site has been nicknamed "Battle Cat" the Kitty Hawk |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BOOK NAMES $800: Vicki Myron & Bret Witter:
"____: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" Dewey |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | CURIOUS $200: SpongeBob tells Gary, "Curiosity salted the snail", a play on this feline proverb Curiosity killed the cat |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | LET'S GET READY TO ROOMBA! $600: The Roomba took the tail off my rumpy-riser this cat type! ... My bad, it didn't have much of one to start a Manx |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | LITERARY CANINES & FELINES $400: In a poem by Edward Lear, the pussy-cat proposes to this bird the owl |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | PETS $400: The korat doesn't lose hair easily, so cat lovers who suffer from these can get a korat & ditch the Claritin allergies |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | SONGS ON TV SHOWS $600: Character who sang "Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?" Phoebe |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | NUMERIC PHRASES $600: This brand of cat food is "finicky about nutrition" 9Lives |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | NAME THE SEUSS TITLE $600: "No! Not in the house!" said the fish in the pot, "They should not fly kites in a house! They should not" The Cat in the Hat |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | TOP SELLER IN THE U.S. $600: Dry cat food:
This "mix" Meow Mix |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | SCI FI MOVIE SUMMARIES $1600: 1979:
After discovering that certain pods didn't contain peas, a gal & her cat are the last survivors of the Nostromo Alien |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | MUMMIES OF THE WORLD $2000: Preserved to accompany humans into the afterlife, cat mummies were popular in this Egyptian period named for a Greek the Ptolemaic Period |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (I'm Michael McKean.) A favorite of mine is this author's "Cat's Cradle", a book named for a children's game but dealing with the end of life on Earth Kurt Vonnegut |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | SAY WHAT, BOB? $1600: "You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat / Who carried on his shoulder" one of these cats--why? a Siamese cat |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | ANTARCTIC WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew floats near a floe in Antarctica.) This seal here--the only type that eats warm-blooded animals--is named after a big cat due to the dark spots on its coat the leopard seal |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a patient undergoing a PET scan at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.) Brookhaven studies the human brain using PET scanning; as in CAT scanning, the "T" is for this method of 3-D imaging tomography |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: In 1947 Ed Lowe gave a neighbor absorbent clay for her feline's box; he soon packaged the clay under this name Kitty Litter |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $1000: In a 17th century children's tale, the captain of the Unicorn sells this boy's cat to the king of Barbary Dick Whittington |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | AM I BLUE? $800: A Russian blue is this type of animal a cat |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | KITTY LIT $400: This Dr. Seuss feline said, "I always pick up all my playthings, and so... I will show you another good trick that I know" the Cat in the Hat |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | KITTY LIT $800: He told Alice, "We're all mad here, I'm mad, you're mad" the Cheshire Cat |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | KITTY LIT $1600: In this George Selden work, Harry Cat becomes friends with Chester, a cricket from Connecticut who goes to NYC The Cricket in Times Square |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | KITTY LIT $2000: Jennyanydots is the subject of "The Old Gumbie Cat", one of 13 poems in this collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | IT'S IN ARGENTINA $800: A subspecies of this type of large cat lives on the island of Sumatra a tiger |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | LIVING THINGS $1000: This endangered small cat of the Americas is making a comeback the ocelot |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | SAY "HEY", KID $400: In a nursery rhyme it precedes "the cat and the fiddle" "Hey Diddle Diddle" |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | A "LITTLE" READING $400: Snowbell the cat is not a fan of the title character in this E.B. White book Stuart Little |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CATS & DOGS $800: The rumpy type of this breed is the only cat born without a tail the Manx |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CATS & DOGS $2,500 (Daily Double): This Turkish cat was nearly extinct by the early 1960s; a Turkish zoo began a breeding program that saved them Angoras |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | SPY NOVELS $1200: Ian Fleming's "Thunderball" was the first to feature this villain often seen cuddling a fluffy white cat Blofeld |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | DANGER IN WONDERLAND $400: Don't let the smile fool you--this feline has razor-sharp claws & a cloaking device; terminate with extreme prejudice the Cheshire Cat |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | ELVIS LYRICS $200: "Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go, cat, go, but don't you step on my..." "Blue Suede Shoes" |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE LONDON STAGE $2000: In 2007 Jessica Lange took to the London stage as Amanda Wingfield in this Tennessee Williams drama The Glass Menagerie |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | LAST OF A DYING BREED $400: It's not so gr-r-reat that the last known member of the Balinese species of this big cat was killed in 1937 a tiger |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | MUSICIANS $200: After a near-death experience, this singer converted to the Islamic faith and took a new name: Yusuf Islam Cat Stevens |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | MINIONS $2000: To find what issues are troubling Muffins the cat, call this person, the title of Sonya Fitzpatrick's TV show Pet Psychic |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | STOCK SYMBOLS $400: If you're in the market for a backhoe loader (& who isn't?), CAT, this company, may have what you need Caterpillar |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | MARSUPIALS $800: The Virginia type of this New World marsupial is about the size of a house cat an oppossum |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $800: 1974:
"Harry &" this cat Tonto |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: The first mention of this scientist's theoretical cat was in 1935's "The Present Situation in Quantum Physics" Schrödinger |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | INTERNET FAVORITES $1200: Fatso from Spokane is the lovable "Keyboard" this animal Cat |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | TV TIME $800: On Fox Cat Deeley hosts this terpsichorean talent contest So You Think You Can Dance |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $1200: The Pollitts get together to celebrate Big Daddy's 65th birthday in this play; family drama ensues Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | ANGELS & DEMONS $2000: "Well-known" term for a demon who aids a witch & assumes an animal form, like a cat a familiar |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | DESCRIBING THE NOVEL $800: Lockwood tells the tale, Yorkshire putting, Heathcliff is one wild cat Wuthering Heights |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | CURSES $800: A black cat in 1969 & a fan's try for a foul ball (let him be, folks!) have been blamed for this team's woes the Cubs |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | ELTON JOHN: FIRST LINES $2000: "When I look back, boy I must have been green" "Honky Cat" |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | CELEBRATED ON HIS BIRTHDAY $200: Cat in the Hat Day,
March 2 Dr. Seuss |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ANIMAL SONGS $800: Harry Chapin:
"Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon. When ya comin' home, dad?" "Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | DEDICATED $4,000 (Daily Double): His "Cat's Cradle" is "For Kenneith Littauer, a man of gallantry and taste" (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | POLAR OBSESSION $1200: (Paul Nicklen presents the clue.) Known for its ferocity, the seal named for this big cat shows vast intelligence & is the only seal known to eat other species of seals a leopard |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $400: This sound of aggression from a domestic cat is also produced by vipers a hiss |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $1000: Starting around 1922, this phrase meant something excellent or desirable the cat's meow |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | WHATEVER $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew repeatedly drops onto the table a springed apparatus that lands on four feet, like a cat.) Cats are able to land on their feet because their flexible spines allow them to rotate in midair without violating the principle of conservation of this angular quantity momentum |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | TUNE "IN" $800: The name of this type of cat seen here suggests that it originated in Africa an Abyssinian |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | ENDS IN "SS" $800: The Sphynx cat is best known for this oddity hairlessness (or hairless) |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | CATS $400: The American consul in Bangkok sent First Lady Lucy Hayes a cat of this breed, the first in the United States Siamese |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | CATS $1200: The coon cat, which has large snowshoe feet, has this state in its full name Maine |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | CATS $2000: A mutation of the American shorthair is the American this, with crimped fur, much like a lamb's coat wirehair cat |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE MOON HITS $400: Cat Stevens was "being followed" by one of these in a Top 40 hit from 1971 Moonshadow |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | MOTHER NATURE $800: In 1996 a cat named this dashed into a burning NYC building 5 times to pull her kittens out, & frankly, we do give a damn Scarlett |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | TOUGH-POURRI $200: Students are allowed to bring a toad, a cat or an owl to this fictional boarding school Hogwarts |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | VISUALLITERATION $400: This cheerful literary feline left his smile behind when the rest of him disappeared the Cheshire Cat |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | SEX & THE KITTY $400: An unaltered female cat of reproductive age is called this, like Elizabeth or Latifah queen |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | ISAAC HAYES $400: Isaac topped the charts in 1971 with his theme for this "cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" (John) Shaft |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: One of the 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzers, in 1948 & 1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (or A Streetcar Named Desire) |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | TOON TUNES $600: 1955:
"The Siamese Cat Song" performed by Peggy Lee Lady and the Tramp |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | IF THEY MATED $1200: Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal, this cross between a male lion & a female tiger is the world's largest cat a liger |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | ADVERTISING ICONS $400: Morris the Cat was taken from a shelter & found a new home as this cat food brand's spokespet 9 Lives |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER REVIEWS $2000: (Frank Rich delivers the clue.) In the 1990 production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Kathleen Turner was radiant but the most memorable performance was by Charles Durning as this dying volcano of a patriarch Big Daddy |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | BEHIND THE SEUSS-IC $200: With talk of "Dick and Jane" books being too boring for kids to learn, Seuss delivered this purr-fect big seller in 1957 The Cat in the Hat |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE NATURE OF THE BEAST $400: From its main diet of rodents & birds, you might guess a serval is a type of this animal a (wild) cat |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | SCANDALOUS NURSERY RHYMES $800: I suspect steroids were involved when the cow jumped over the moon in this nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | SNAKES & ADDERS $1200: The mangrove snake's vertically elliptical eye pupils give rise to this other name for it (does it hiss or meow?) the cat-eyed snake |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | CELEBRITIES IN OTHER WORDS $1200: Sports star: big cat forest Tiger Woods |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $600: In his Broadway debut in 2008, Terrence Howard was solid as brick in this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | WHAT "R" WE? $1200: This cat breed is named for its propensity to lie limply in its owner's arms the ragdoll cat |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | AN "O'" CATEGORY $200: Feline-sounding flogging whip a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | PAINTINGS $800: This creature toys with a bird in William Holman Hunt's painting of seduction "The Awakening Conscience" a cat |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | _____IN' '80s MOVIES $1600: Nastassja Kinski unleashes the animal within:
"C____ P____" Cat People |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | COATS OF ARMS $200: On Guyana's coat of arms, a white shield is bordered by 2 of these felines, the largest cat in the New World the jaguar |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | BODY OF MUSIC $400: In a Rolling Stones song, "a Siamese cat of a girl" was "Under" this "Under My Thumb" |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $400: The pas de chat owes its name to the likeness of the movement to the leap of one of these a cat |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL $800: A popular pet:
gato cat |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | BATTER-Y $1200: Cat's tongues are a type of this made by pressing a thick batter through a pastry bag cookies |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | PET PROJECTS? $1200: Burt Reynolds:
"The Man Who Loved ____ Dancing" Cat |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | MAMMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This medium-sized, distinctly marked cat of Asia has the scientific name Neofelis nebulosa clouded leopard |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | MOVIE MUSICALS $1000: This guy (in a role like the one he'd played in "Cat Ballou") starred in "Paint Your Wagon" Lee Marvin |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | SPOTTED CREATURES $1000: Looking like a cross between a cat & a possum, the spotted quoll of Australia belongs to this order of mammals a marsupial |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GYPSIES, TRAMPS & THIEVES $800: In this 1968-1970 TV series, Robert Wagner played a reformed cat burglar working for the U.S. Government "It Takes A Thief" |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | I'M SERVING "T" $400: You fool! This hot drink was named for 2 characters in the novel "Life in London", not for a cartoon cat-&-mouse duo Tom and Jerry |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $600: The Pollitt Plantation in Mississippi is the setting of this Williams work Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $2000: Limerick Day, May 12, coincides with the birthday of this "Owl and the Pussy-cat" poet who popularized limericks (Edward) Lear |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | YOU'RE SUCH AN ANIMAL! $600: This fastest land mammal can reach 45 mph in 2 seconds flat; go cat, go! a cheetah |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | I'M GETTING "C" SICK $1200: Kitty clawed me, so I may have this mild disease, also the title of a Ted Nugent album cat scratch fever |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | HEAD TO THE "SHIRE", SQUIRE $200: Cat & cheese county bordering Wales Cheshire |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $600: 1979:
"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. Come on, Cat" Alien |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $400: This animal, gatto, got your lingua? a cat |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE $600: & then I saw him /
Right there & like that /
On Leap Day 2000 /
'Twas... the Cat in the Hat |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $600: Beastly "bounce" in stock prices that's a brief & insignificant recovery after a steep decline a dead cat bounce |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: This Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" set her novel "Cat's Eye" in Toronto Margaret Atwood |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: 2008's "The Purrfect Murder" is the latest in a series of mysteries by this activist & her cat Sneaky Pie Rita Mae Brown |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | VARMINTS $2000: It's also called a brush wolf, & I can't forgive the one that took our cat Fluffy when she got out one night a coyote |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | HELLO KITTY $1200: This color follows "Russian" in the name of a cat breed; it actually refers to various shades of gray blue |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | HELLO KITTY $1600: Eugene Field's poem "The Duel" tells of a fight between a gingham dog & this cat, a tortoiseshell & white coat pattern a calico |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | HELLO KITTY $2000: The riddle of this cat breed seen here: Is it a pet, or is it art? a Sphynx |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | RHYME TIME $200: A fat & sagging striped house cat a flabby tabby |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | FACTS FROM ALMANACS $600: The endangered species list includes this spotted African cat plus a fish & a frog named for it a leopard |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $800: Someone left the cat out in the rain in this 1961 film (P.S.--it was Audrey Hepburn) Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $1200: Fans of a 1940 Disney film know that Figaro the cat belongs to this woodcarver Geppetto |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $1600: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I could tell you a Thing One or a Thing Two about this film: I played Mr. Humberfloob & the voice of the fish in it The Cat in the Hat |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $2000: This villain's face was never shown in his first film, "From Russia with Love", but we did get a good look at his cat (Ernst) Blofeld |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | CAT SKILLS $400: Cats have a "nictitating membrane", a third one of these, which is used to clear dust from the cornea an eyelid |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | CAT SKILLS $800: Eating almost 3,000 kilos of meat a year, this cat is the largest land mammal with an all-meat diet a tiger |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | CAT SKILLS $1200: AKA vibrissae, these cat features can register minute shifts in air currents whiskers |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | CAT SKILLS $1600: Cats have more of these dorsal bones than humans; in between them are discs of pliable fibrocartilage vertebrae |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | CAT SKILLS $2000: The clouded variety of this large feline of Southeast Asia is known to perch & hide in trees a leopard |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Fanchette is "the most intelligent cat in the world" in the "Claudine" books by this "Gigi" novelist Colette |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WHAT A GEM! $800: AKA chrysoberyl, this gem produces a streak of light resembling the pupil of a certain animal when cut a certain way cat's eye |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | SCRAMBLED COUNTRY SINGERS $2000: She could have gone "Walkin' After Midnight" under the name
CAT SPYLINE Patsy Cline |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | NURSERY RHYMES ON THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS $400: Animal Control today swarmed over "the house that" he "built", finding a tossed dog, a worried cat & a dead rat Jack |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $800: To look guilty but smug is "to look like" this, an expression that mentions 2 pets the cat that ate the canary |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE CAT $200: Of all the varieties of cats big & small, the cheetah is the only one that can't fully retract these the claws |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE CAT $400: It's the full name for the domesticated kitty called a tortie a tortoiseshell |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE CAT $600: It's the tailless cat variety from an island south of Scotland a manx |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE CAT $800: This shorthaired "brown" cat is named for its color, which is said to resemble that of a Cuban cigar a havana |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE CAT $1000: This breed of domestic feline from Maine is the first truly American show breed a Maine coon |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | YOU ANIMAL $2,500 (Daily Double): Named for a fabric made in Baghdad, it's a cat with a striped or brindled coat a tabby |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | GOULASH $2000: The opinionated comic strip cat Garfield got his name from this cartoonist's opinionated grandfather Jim Davis |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | "TEEN" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: The talking cat on this sitcom was appropriately named Salem Sabrina, the Teenage Witch |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | MEDICAL SCHOOL $1600: Washington University School of Medicine is the birthplace of this scanner similar to a CAT scanner. It was first to reveal brain function PET |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $600: In the familiar proverb, it's when "the mice will play" when the cat's away |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | I'D LIKE TO Y A VOWEL $1200: The caracal is this type of cat a lynx |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | THE INTERNET $400: Names for this keyboard symbol include "cat's tail" in Finnish & "Strudel" in Hebrew the @ sign |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | LITERARY PETS $800: This poetic Eliot feline has "lived many lives in succession" & is named for the 5th book of the Old Testament Old Deuteronomy |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | PETS $200: With more than 70 million living with American households, this is the most common house pet in the U.S. a cat |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | JEPOETRY $600: Carl Sandburg:
"The Jeopardy! comes on little cat feet" fog |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | ALONG E-90 $1200: My cat wants me to look up its relatives in this capital of Turkey Ankara |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | KIDDY LIT $400: In a story by Mini Grey, this pair from "Hey Diddle Diddle" run off to NYC & find fame & fortune in vaudeville the dish & the spoon |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | AM I YOUR TYPE? $400: You can get the 2007 S-Type of this cat starting at $49,000 Jaguar |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | I'M BOARD $800: Creative Cat, Data Head & Word Worm are some of the 14 talent activities in this game named for the skull Cranium |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | LITERATURE FOR KIDS $400: "We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him!" This famous cat the Cat in the Hat |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | CATS & DOGS $800: The Bombay cat, a cross between a Burmese & a Black American shorthair, originated in this largest KY. city Louisville |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | CATS & DOGS $1200: In England, this cat breed was once known as a "foreign blue" a Russian blue |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CATS $600: The fact that a cat can land upon its feet without injury gave rise to this numerical concept 9 lives |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CATS $800: Shorthaired cats were derived from the caffre cat, which was domesticated by this ancient civilization Egypt |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CATS $1000: This Asian-named cat is produced by mating Siamese and longhairs, and then selectively breeding them Himalayan |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.) Though it has the name of an often fierce big cat, this type of shark is a menace to clams but not to people a leopard shark |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | DISCARDED LITERARY ENDINGS $400: This 1957 title feline made things splat / I called animal control, then that was that / That was the end of... The Cat in the Hat |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | MUSCLE CARS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a '59 Chevrolet Biscayne, shown from the rear.) For the '59 Biscayne, Chevy introduced new features like cat's eye taillights & fins named for this mammal's wings bat |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $400: Familiar Inca name for the cat some Americans call the Florida panther puma |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | THEY DIFFER BY ONE LETTER $1600: A big spotted cat's ballet suit a leopard leotard |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE CATS IN THE HATS $800: He's the only cat with a hat in the photo seen here Stalin |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | DR. SEUSS $1200: "The Cat in the Hat" was written in response to the literacy problem discussed in the 1955 book "Why" he "Can't Read" Johnny |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE CATS IN THE HATS $2000: The cat on the left is this detective who started the Army's Secret Service Pinkerton |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | LEWIS CARROLL $1000: This enigmatic feline "only grinned when it saw Alice... still it had very long claws and a great many teeth" the Cheshire Cat |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | NEWS QUIZ $2000: When this "Cat's Cradle" author died on April 11, the N.Y. Times called him a "darkly comic literary hero" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | "T" TIME $1600: In names of cat breeds, this nationality precedes "Angora" & "Van" Turkish |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | THE BILL CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR.) At the Library, you can see a touching tribute to the first cat & first dog of the Clinton family with these names Buddy & Socks |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | WITCHCRAFT $800: It's an "intimate" term for a cat or other animal that embodies the supernatural & helps a witch a familiar |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew cats around at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, NE.) When this little pussycat grows up, it may reach 250 fierce pounds, because it's this biggest New World cat the jaguar |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $800: There are Siberian and Bengal types of this, the largest member of the cat family tiger |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $1200: The Canada version of this cat, seen here, was designated a protected species in 1998 a lynx |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $1600: It's the fastest land animal over short distances, attaining speeds up to 60 miles per hour a cheetah |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $2000: Prized for its beautiful fur, this American wild cat, seen here, is an endangered species in the United States the ocelot |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | A ROYAL SUM-UP $1,000 (Daily Double): King from about 1347 to 1339 B.C.; got famous (again) in 1922; got a CAT scan in 2005 (to see how he died) King Tut |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | NURSERY RHYME ER $1000: Ah geez, the man's "all tattered and torn"... got a dog "that worried the cat that killed the rat... that lay" in this title place The House that Jack Built |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | OH, "MAN"! $400: The Manx cat is native to this landmass in the Irish Sea the Isle of Man |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | YOU'RE A BEAST! $600: One popular breed of cat bears the name of these mountains, the world's highest the Himalayas |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | CAT GOT YOUR MOVIE? $200: 2003:
A Seussical feline takes some kids on wild adventures The Cat in the Hat |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | CAT GOT YOUR MOVIE? $400: 1999:
The curmudgeonly kitty Snowbell plots against a mouse-boy Stuart Little |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | CAT GOT YOUR MOVIE? $600: 2004:
When Odie the dog is kidnapped, a fun-loving, Bill Murray-voiced tabby must rescue him Garfield |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | CAT GOT YOUR MOVIE? $800: 2004:
Patience Prince was the name of this "kittenish" character played by Halle Berry Catwoman |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | CAT GOT YOUR MOVIE? $1000: 2006:
Steve Martin solves mysteries as a bumbling French detective in this film The Pink Panther |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | THE STAMP ACT $600: Rhyming name of the Dr. Seuss creation featured in favorite children's book animals Fox in Socks |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | THE MACY'S PARADE: BEHIND THE SCENES $200: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands on a catwalk in a storeroom.) The first Macy's parade in 1924 included live bears--they scared the children, so in 1927 balloon animals debuted, including this silent cartoon cat Felix the Cat |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | MOUSE PADS $800: A cat named Oil Can Harry was the nemesis of this rodent who was introduced in the 1940s & lived in Terrytown Mighty Mouse |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | HAPPY HALLOWEEN $200: This animal joined Halloween after the 15th century fear of witches spread through Europe the black cat |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | "G" FORCE $400: In 2006 this comic strip cat turned 28 Garfield |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | THE "CAT" $200: The wormlike larva of a moth a caterpillar |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | THE "CAT" $400: Henny Youngman began his career as a violinist playing the "Borscht Belt" in these N.Y. mountains the Catskills |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | THE "CAT" $600: An audition open to everyone; it may bring a stampede of actors cattle call |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | THE "CAT" $800: The southern part of what's now China was called Mangi; the northern part was called this Cathay |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | THE "CAT" $1000: For Kant, to act according to principles that you'd like to see become universal is this type of "imperative" a categorical imperative |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | NEWMAN'S OWN $800: Newman played Brick opposite Liz Taylor's Maggie in this film adaptation of a play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: In "Alice in Wonderland", it "vanished quite slowly... ending with the grin, which remained some time" Cheshire Cat |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $2000: Any cat could tell you that she teaches transfiguration magic at Hogwarts Professor McGonagall |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | SPOKES-CHARACTERS $800: Chester Cheetah is the cool cat behind these snacks from Frito Lay Cheetos |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | TALES OF E.T.A. HOFFMANN $1200: Murr, who gave us his views on life, was Hoffmann's pet one of these a cat |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | PLAY BOY $400: "Sweet Bird of Youth"
&
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Old cat & mouse team who throw chairs at each other on a daytime talk show the Tom and Jerry Springer Show |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | RHYME THAT STUFF! $1200: You might pick up a cat by this part of its neck a scruff |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | BEASTLY LINES $1200: Thoreau asks, so what if we're inferior to past thinkers? "A living dog is better than a dead" this beast lion |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | SONG TITLES $600: Elton John:
"Honky ___" Cat |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | MOVIE CRITTERS $1600: 1997:
Mr. Bigglesworth a cat |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | PETS $400: 16th century essayist Montaigne wondered if this pet used him as a plaything more than he used her a cat |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $800: In 1975 Grape Ape & Mumbly teamed with this Hanna-Barbera cat & mouse duo but by December, the ape was out Tom & Jerry |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $200: At age 82 in 2005 this "Cat's Cradle" author had his first nonfiction bestseller, "A Man Without a Country" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | CAT $400: Now endangered, these fast felines were once common in India where a Mogal emperor kept a thousand of them as hunting cats cheetah |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | CAT $800: Proverbially, to stir up trouble is to put "the cat in among" these urban birds the pigeons |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | CAT $1200: Slender Asian variety of feline seen here a Siamese cat |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | CAT $1600: America's only natural breed of domestic feline is the large "coon cat" from this New England state Maine |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | CAT $2000: The tiger is Panthera tigris; the lion is Panthera this leo |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | A CATEGORY WITH "FIN"s $1200: Fussy when eating, like Morris the cat finicky |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof",
"The Silence of the Lambs",
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | "UNDER" $1200: Rip Torn originally had this job backing up the role of Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" & later got the role himself understudy |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | SOUND CHECK $600: You might hear this Afro-Asian big cat before you "spot" it a leopard |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | HEY, MUSCLES! $800: On a cat, the arrector pili muscles along the back cause this response to stress the hair stand up on the cat's back |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the North Carolina State Veterinary School.) The owner of a recipient cat must adopt the donor cat when North Carolina State University performs this veterinary procedure used in some cases of feline nephritis a kidney transplant |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BANGLADESH SLOWLY $400: The Sundarbans, a swampy area on the Ganges, is one of the last remaining preserves for this big cat a tiger |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | "N" THE BEGINNING $200: He's the rock 'n' roll guitar legend who infected us with 1977's "Cat Scratch Fever" Ted Nugent |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | A CAT-EGORY $200: We envy the Egyptian mau cat, whose eyes are the gooseberry shade of this color green |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | A CAT-EGORY $400: The first Cornish Rex cat was the offspring of a tortie & a white barn cat in this part of SW England Cornwall |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | A CAT-EGORY $600: Shulamith, a stray discovered in 1981, was the first American curl cat, named for its perky-looking pair of these ears |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | A CAT-EGORY $800: A relatively new breed of cat with very short legs bears the name of these little beings introduced in a 1900 book Munchkins |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | A CAT-EGORY $1000: The Balinese is basically a long-haired version of this other Asian cat a Siamese |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | BIG "ROCK" $800: Socks the cat, once America's First Feline, was born in this city Little Rock |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS $1600: This author was born in what was then Danzig; "Cat & Mouse", "Dog Years" & "The Tin Drum" make up his Danzig trilogy Günter Grass |
| #4909, aired 2006-01-05 | ADJECTIVAL ENDINGS $1200: Cat, child, life -like |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $800: Descendants of Hemingway's beloved 6-toed cat abound in his home on Whitehead Street in this Florida city Key West |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "CAT" GOT YOUR ANSWER $400: A saying or expression popularized through repeated use by a real person or character a catchphrase |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "CAT" GOT YOUR ANSWER $800: To yowl or argue loudly, like a feline in heat caterwaul |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "CAT" GOT YOUR ANSWER $1200: Including the areas of Barcelona & Tarragona, it's an autonomous region of Northern Spain Catalonia |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "CAT" GOT YOUR ANSWER $1600: A native American tribe of the Carolinas, it's also a variety of grape Catawba |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "CAT" GOT YOUR ANSWER $2000: "Terrible Swift Sword" & "A Stillness at Appomattox" are 2 of this historian's books on the Civil War Bruce Catton |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | WHAT A GEM! $200: Chrysoberyl is also known by this name because it resembles the pupil of a feline cat's eye |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | BEASTLY QUOTES $800: Carl Sandburg:
"The fog comes on" these little cat feet |
| #4877, aired 2005-11-22 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $1000: (Jeff Probst reads from Guatemala.) Many Mayan temples and works of art were devoted to this cat, Panthera onca, revered as a god of the underworld the jaguar |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: He's the funny man who played the title role in the movie version of "The Cat in the Hat" Mike Myers |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | TECHNOLOGY $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.) A cat born with a birth defect, whose model is seen here, is being fitted with this experimental device, from the Greek for "addition" a prosthesis |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | PANTHERS & BOBCATS $600: When it's black instead of spotted, this cat is often called a panther; there are albino ones, too a leopard |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | CATS & DOGS $800: The Sphynx cat is often referred to as this, also following "Mexican" in a dog breed name a hairless (cat) |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A WALK IN THE CLOUDS $800: Found in Southeast Asia, the clouded type of this large cat is named for the cloud-shaped patterns on its coat a leopard |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | TAKE-OFFS $400: This late author's representatives sued over "The Cat Not in the Hat", a rhyming account of the O.J. Simpson trial Dr. Seuss |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: In 1902 Kipling published a volume of these "Stories", including "The Cat that Walked by Himself" the Just So Stories |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $200: A carpet for a calico a cat mat |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | HIRSCHFELD $1600: Hirschfeld purr-fectly captured a sensual scene from this film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | GEOGRAPHIC DOGS $800: This small Mediterranean island lends its name to a cat breed as well as a dog breed Malta |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $400: Latin for "happy", it was the name of several popes & a "wonderful, wonderful cat" Felix |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | A BAD MOTHER $200: In the movie "Gone with the Wind", Rhett Butler tells her, "A cat's a better mother than you" Scarlett O'Hara |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | UNREAL ESTATE $1000: The Pollitt family plantation is overrun by "no-neck monsters" in this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | MEDICINE $200: Of cowpox, cat scratch fever, or kangarosis, the one you can't get kangarosis |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | PREDATORS $1000: The name of this small cat of the forest has the name of a big cat in it a jaguarundi |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | WORLD COINS $1600: Popular modern gold coins include the cat series introduced in 1988 by this island off England Isle of Man |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | BE A "HEP" CAT $400: Her first film was 1932's "A Bill of Divorcement" Katharine Hepburn |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | BE A "HEP" CAT $800: Inflammatory disease of the liver hepatitis |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | BE A "HEP" CAT $1200: The world record in it is 7,291 points the heptathlon |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | BE A "HEP" CAT $1600: The Greek god of fire, he also chained Prometheus to the rock Hephaestus |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | BE A "HEP" CAT $2000: A solid figure with 7 faces & 11 letters heptahedron |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $1000: The margay a mammal |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | KITTY LIT $400: This chatty cat belongs to the Duchess in "Alice in Wonderland" the Cheshire Cat |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | KITTY LIT $800 (Daily Double): He wrote an "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" (as well as that other famous "Elegy") (Thomas) Gray |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | KITTY LIT $800: In the poem "The Duel" there's a terrible spat between the Gingham Dog and this "Scrappy" cat the Calico Cat |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | KITTY LIT $1200: Claudine loves to read poems about kitties to Fanchette the cat in "Claudine and Annie" by this "Gigi" novelist Colette |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | KITTY LIT $1600: This woman's cat Sneaky Pie gets credit as her co-author on such mystery novels as "Murder, She Meowed" (Rita Mae) Brown |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | SOFT "CEL" $600: This New World cat can be 4 feet long, including the tail ocelot |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | A CATEGORY FROM SCRATCH $800: Used for flogging, it takes its name from the feline scratch-like marks it left on its victims a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | WHAT A COMEDIAN $800: You wouldn't be wrong if you knew this comic said, "Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect" Steven Wright |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | CATS $800: The largest domestic cat, it originated in New England & resembles a raccoon a Maine Coon |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | CATS $1000: A splinter group of Ragdoll cat breeders called their breed this, because it descended from street urchin cats Ragamuffin |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | CATS $1,200 (Daily Double): The tail status determines the 4 varieties of this cat: Rumpy, Rumpy Riser, Stumpy & Longy the Manx |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | MODERN QUOTATIONS $1000: Deng Xiaoping said in a 1962 speech, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it" does this catches mice |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | NEWSPAPER COMICS $1000: Ack! He's the health-challenged pussy & friend of Opus seen here Bill the Cat |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | THE SIMPSONS $400: Episodes of this violent cat & mouse duo include "The Sounds of Silencers" & "I'm Getting Buried in the Morning" Itchy & Scratchy |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | POP CULTURE $2000: New Jersey cartoonist Otto Messmer created this character, seen here Felix the Cat |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | "SAT"s $1000: "Curiosity killed the cat but" this "brought it back" satisfaction |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | YOU'VE GOT COMPANY $2000: You might feel the earth move under your feet using products from this company whose stock symbol is CAT Caterpillar |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | AROUND THE COLOSSEUM WITH COWARDUS $1000: Commodus was on the throne when this largest big cat started licking Cowardus, tragically scaring him to death a tiger |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $800: In 1988 this company sponsored one of the largest cat shows in the U.S., with 814 entries Purina |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | MED. ABBREV. $2000: A CAT scan is computerized axial this kind of imaging tomography |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | FRAIDY CAT $200: Suriphobia, fear of these, may set a housewife screaming while standing on a kitchen chair mice |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | NAME THE DECADE $200: Ford Motors goes public, Dr. Seuss pens "The Cat in the Hat" & Ronald Reagan weds wife No. 2 the 1950s |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | FRAIDY CAT $400: Gallophobia is not a fear of wine, but a fear of this country that produces a lot of wine France |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | FRAIDY CAT $600: "Erythrophobia is the fear of doing this", he said, showing some embarrassment blushing |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | FRAIDY CAT $800: Hey dude, surfers aren't cymophobic; they don't fear these, man waves |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | FRAIDY CAT $2,000 (Daily Double): A person with ornithophobia & apiphobia may avoid a talk on this subject feared by erotophobics the birds and the bees (or sex) |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | PITTSBURGH STEELERS, PIRATES & PENGUINS $800: Thomas Henderson said this Steeler QB "couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the C & the A", but he still won 4 Super Bowls Terry Bradshaw |
| #4650, aired 2004-11-19 | BEWITCHED $600: As a witch's familiar, Pywacket is one of these animals in the play "Bell, Book and Candle" cat |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | TANGLED UP IN "BLUE" $1000: Legend has it that this breed descended from the royal cat of the czars the Russian blue |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | FOREIGN ANIMAL NOISES $200: To the Germans & Vietnamese, these say wau wau when chasing a postman or a cat a dog |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | TITLE WAVE $800: Animal featured in the titles of Lillian Jackson Braun's mysteries a (Siamese) cat |
| #4623, aired 2004-10-13 | 4X4 $1000: Take a group & add a large wild cat to make a cluster of nerve cells ganglion |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: "Ding, dong, bell, the cat is in the well! Who put her in?" This "Little" guy Little Johnny Green |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | OTHER USES FOR ANIMALS $800: You can't beat this 9-tailed whip, or maybe you can a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Hunting & forest clearing (not a luxury automaker) have endangered this largest wild cat of the Americas the jaguar |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $1000: Jason Patrick & Ashley Judd are seen here in the acclaimed revival of this Tennessee Williams classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | CAT ANATOMY $200: When checking this at kitty's femoral artery, normally it should be from about 160 to 220 the pulse (the heart rate) |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | CAT ANATOMY $400: The eccrine type of these glands are down on the paw pads, because they're not that vital in keeping kitty cool sweat glands |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | CAT ANATOMY $600: In one theory, purring comes from membranes in the throat called "false" these vocal cords |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | CAT ANATOMY $800: Because they have this quality, cats' claws don't get worn down from walking like dogs' do retractability |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | CAT ANATOMY $1000: Of the 2 types of cells that change light into nerve impulses, cats are loaded with these, for better night vision rods |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | WELL, I'LL "B" $1000: Several James Bond movies feature this diabolical leader of SPECTRE caressing a white Persian cat Blofeld |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Release a Russian blue or reveal a secret letting the cat out of the bag |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | CATS $600: Britain's first cat show, in 1871, included black, blue & white types of this cat with a Mideastern heritage Persians |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | THE AMAZING COCKROACH $1600: Around 1916 newspaper writer Don Marquis created this typing cockroach & friend of Mehitabel the Cat Archy |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | FELINES, WO, WO, WO, FELINES $400: Mark Twain noted a striking difference between a cat & a lie: "A cat has only" this many "lives" 9 |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | FELINES, WO, WO, WO, FELINES $800: Of the snowshoe, the golf shoe or the tennis shoe, the one that really is a breed of cat the snowshoe |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | FELINES, WO, WO, WO, FELINES $1200: Legend says that the Manx cat lost this feature by slipping into Noah's Ark just as the door was closing a tail |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | FELINES, WO, WO, WO, FELINES $1600: Gus the Cat lived in the Carytown book store in this Va. capital for 19 years before going to cat heaven in 2001 Richmond |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1600: This 1955 play featuring Maggie, Brick & Big Daddy won the Pulitzer Prize Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | DR. SEUSS $1,200 (Daily Double): This Dr. Seuss book has been published in Spanish as "El Gato Ensombrerado" The Cat in the Hat |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | WILDLIFE $2000: The Canadian type of this cat has very large feet padded with extra hair in winter to chase down snowshoe rabbits lynx |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: The Cat in the Hat (2003) Mike Myers |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In October 2003, police in Monroe Township, Penn. looked for a cat burglar who stole these from a local shelter cats |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | CITY FOLKS $1000: This humorist & animal rights activist wrote the bestseller "The Cat and the Curmudgeon" Cleveland Amory |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | ENTERTAINING BIRDS $400: This canary with a wide-eyed stare is constantly on alert for Sylvester the Cat Tweety |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | 1980 $200: The IRS said the cost of maintaining a cat trained to alert these people to possible dangers is tax deductible the deaf |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | PRISONS $1000: This Lord Mayor of London, known for his cat, helped rebuild Newgate Prison, later home to William Penn Dick Whittington |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | BOX OFFICE BLOCKBUSTERS $1200: Peggy Lee purrs "The Siamese Cat Song" in this 1950s animation blockbuster Lady and the Tramp |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | PHOBIAS $800: A nebulaphobe is frightened of this, even when it "comes on little cat feet" fog |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | PLAY RIGHT $800: The feline name of this game using string may come from an alteration of the French words for Jesus' manger Cat's Cradle |
| #4432, aired 2003-12-09 | BLUES CLUES $400: (Hi, I'm Buddy Guy.) This cat from Cream who's not a bad blues player himself called me the best guitar player around Eric Clapton |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | DOG & CAT TALES $400: In the exciting sequel, this Dr. Seuss title character "Comes Back" The Cat in the Hat |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | DOG & CAT TALES $800: Beverly Cleary wrote "Socks" & this First Lady wrote "Millie's Book" Barbara Bush |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | DOG & CAT TALES $1200: A doggie turns up in his story "To Build a Fire" & in his novel "White Fang" Jack London |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | DOG & CAT TALES $1600: This 1843 Poe tale might have crossed your path The Black Cat |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | DOG & CAT TALES $2000: "Moses the Kitten" was one of the small creatures this vet wrote about James Herriot |
| #4420, aired 2003-11-21 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY $1000: A brief & insignificant rise in a stock price after a steep decline is a "dead" this "bounce" cat |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: Of the 37 breeds recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association, this long-haired breed is the most registered Persian |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Tom Wingfield brings Jim O'Connor home to meet his sister Laura in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | 3-LETTER ANAGRAMS $400: Pretend to be Rumpelteazer:
CAT act |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | DOG, CAT OR FISH $400: Abe Vigoda: 'Nuff said Fish |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | DOG, CAT OR FISH $800: After Steven & before Yusef, the singer of "Moon Shadow" used this first name Cat (Stevens) |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | DOG, CAT OR FISH $1200: A cynophobic would fear one of these a dog |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | DOG, CAT OR FISH $1600: A person, especially a swinging jazz player a cat |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | DOG, CAT OR FISH $2000: Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of State Hamilton (Fish) |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This rockabilly trio had a 1983 hit with "Stray Cat Strut" the Stray Cats |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | THE MOUSE $200: Like the house cat, the house mouse uses these facial appendages to feel its way around in the dark whiskers |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | COMIC STRIPS $400: In 2003 this lasagna-loving cat celebrated his 25th anniversary as a comic strip character Garfield |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | COMIC STRIPS $800: In a Mike Peters comic strip, Attila is Mother Goose's cat; he's Mother Goose's dog Grimm |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | MY AUNTIE THE POET $200: Auntie named her cat Emily, after this poet who died in 1886 Emily Dickinson |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | HERE PIG $200: It's not good when you "let the cat out of the bag" when you were expecting a "pig in" this a poke |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $2000: The name of this 2001 film about a weekend aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht is '20s slang for something great The Cat's Meow |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: To look smug & self-satisfied is to "look like the cat that swallowed" this the canary |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $600: Rip Torn started out understudying the role of Brick in this Tennessee Williams play & later took over the role Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: Dinah, the name of a real cat that belonged to the Liddell children, is the cat of this fictional girl Alice (of "Alice in Wonderland") |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | MUPPETATIONAL $400: The Muppets were regulars on this series 13 years before Toonces, the cat who could drive a car Saturday Night Live |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE $800: The black markings on the tawny coat of this South American wild cat are called rosettes the jaguar (ocelot accepted) |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | MUSICIANS $800: Seen here, this late night TV "cat" is also a noted jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks |
| #4338, aired 2003-06-11 | LITERARY QUOTES $600: "The Cat in the Hat" told the brother & sister, "You will see something new. Two things. And I call them" this Thing One & Thing Two |
| #4338, aired 2003-06-11 | PET PEEVES $1000: Muffin's mad that you won't let him out to fight this type of cat, from the Latin for "wild"--Muffin could take him! feral |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Huckleberry Finn is introduced, carrying a dead cat, in chapter 6 of this novel Tom Sawyer |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | WILD CATS $400: Also known as a cougar, this cat with a 4-letter name can spring up to about 20 feet in one leap puma |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | WILD CATS $800: The Sumatran is the only species of this cat that now lives on an island; the rest live on the Asian mainland tiger |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | WILD CATS $1600: This fastest cat only sprints for short distances; otherwise, its body temperature rises to lethal levels cheetah |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | WILD CATS $2000: Pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico & Central America worshiped this largest New World cat as a god jaguar |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | COUNTRY MATTERS $1200: We're not letting the Siamese cat out of the bag; in 1996 the baht, this country's currency, was in bad shape Thailand |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | I'M JUST RUNNING IN FOR... $200: ...some of the Iams brand of this for Mouser, my American bobtail cat food |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | BEFORE THEY WON OSCARS $1600: He played a man called Meatball in "The Caine Mutiny" 11 years before he horsed around in "Cat Ballou" Lee Marvin |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | LOCUTION, LOCUTION, LOCUTION $800: To be extremely nervous or agitated is to be like this title of a Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $2000: Believed to bring good luck, the korat is a rare, short-haired breed of this animal from Thailand cat |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | CATS ALL, FOLKS $200: This Asian carnivore is the largest member of the cat family & the only big cat with striped fur tiger |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | CATS ALL, FOLKS $400: Proverbially, this type of inquisitiveness is what "killed the cat" curiosity |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | CATS ALL, FOLKS $1000: One of the very few curly-haired varieties of cat, the Cornish Rex was developed in this country England |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | MUSIC FOR YOUR CAT $200: Kitty loves this 1972 Elton John song that says, "Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways" "Honky Cat" |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | MUSIC FOR YOUR CAT $400: Naturally, "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" is Kitty's favorite track on his album "Let's Dance" David Bowie |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | MUSIC FOR YOUR CAT $600: Kitty just swoons when she hears Tom Jones sing this title movie tune "What's New Pussycat?" |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | MUSIC FOR YOUR CAT $800: Your cat's least favorite song? "Misty", because of the line "Look at me, I'm" this as helpless as a kitten up a tree |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | MUSIC FOR YOUR CAT $1000: Your cat is not superstitious -- he loves crossing paths with her 1990 No. 1 hit "Black Cat" Janet Jackson |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF OPERA $400: In "The English Cat", a cat is a president of the R.S.P.R.--The Royal Society for Protection of these rodents rats |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | HAIRY $600: The name of this type of insect larva is from the late Latin for "hairy cat" caterpillar |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: Though it's not a feline, this creature sometimes has "cat" attached to its name civet (or civet cat) |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $1200: This color follows Russian & British in the name of cat breeds blue |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | FELINES $800: As this 2000 Ben Stiller movie showed, you can toilet train a cat Meet the Parents |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | FELINES $1000: The mother of this breed is considered to be a cat named Wong Mau, imported to the U.S. from Rangoon Burmese |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | KIDDY LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day" The Cat in the Hat |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | IT'S ALL A BUNCH OF LIES $800: In "Pudd'nhead Wilson" he wrote, "One of the differences between a cat & a lie is that a cat has only 9 lives" Mark Twain |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | COMIC & CARTOON CRITTERS $800: Heathcliff cat |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $600: Before he was the voice of Winnie the Pooh, Sterling Holloway was purr-fect as this "Alice in Wonderland" kitty the Cheshire Cat |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | MAMA & PAPAYA $400: Mama joked that this other name for the papaya makes it sound like little cat feet -- Mama wasn't funny pawpaw |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | HEALTH MATTERS $600: Characterized by chills & swollen lymph glands, this illness earned Ted Nugent his only Top 40 hit "Cat Scratch Fever" |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | I'M SUPERSTITIOUS! $600: If one of these animals crosses your path a superstition says you'll experience misfortune a black cat |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | HONKY "CAT" $200: Tiffany published its first one of these in 1845 (online shopping came a little later) catalog |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | HONKY "CAT" $400: This tough, thin cord is used to string musical instruments & tennis rackets catgut |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | HONKY "CAT" $600: It's a 2-hulled sailing boat catamaran |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | HONKY "CAT" $800: The name of this ancient war device is partly from the Greek for "hurl" catapult |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | HONKY "CAT" $1000: A book giving the basic principles of Christianity in Q-&-A form catechism |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | INNOVATORS $1000: Mr. Alter, who designed a type of catamaran or "cat", goes by this first name Hobie |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1200: Tennessee Williams' "Cat"-woman
(6) Maggie |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: The first large balloon to float along in this fall event was Felix the Cat in 1927 the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | ANIMAL QUOTES $600: "All right", said this animal: "and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail" Cheshire Cat |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $2000: This "Cat's Cradle" author said of his time at Cornell, "I was enrolled exclusively in courses I had no talent for" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | NURSERY RHYME RAP $1000: He's the cat who's gone to sea, silver buckles on his knee (shut your mouth) but, I'm talking about... Bobby Shafto |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | CITIZEN KANE $400: This actress whose career is caricatured in "Kane" was played by Kirsten Dunst in 2002's "The Cat's Meow" Marion Davies |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THEY DANCE RINGS AROUND YOU! $800: Gene Kelly's dance with Jerry the Mouse inspired her song-&-dance with MC Skat Cat in her "Opposites Attract" video Paula Abdul |
| #4161, aired 2002-10-07 | PULITZER-WINNING PLAYWRIGHTS $400: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | THE SIMPSONS $1000: "Why Do Fools Fall in Lava?" & "Spay Anything" are "animated" shorts with this violent cat & mouse team Itchy & Scratchy |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | ROCK OF AGES $1000: Harry Chapin's "son turned 10 just the other day" in this song, No. 1 back in 1974 "Cat's in the Cradle" |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | WAR & PEACE SONGS $800: 10,000 Maniacs covered this 1971 hit by Cat Stevens "Peace Train" |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | BEASTLY MOVIES $1600: 1965:
Jane Fonda turns from schoolteacher to outlaw Cat Ballou |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $1600: How you might be charged for each cat hum per purr |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $800: This Catskills author had a theory on where Columbus first landed: Cat Island (Washington) Irving |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1000: The Cat in the Hat could tell you his pen name was Dr. Seuss Theodor Geisel |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $2000: "Sagwa", a PBS animated series about a Chinese Siamese cat, is based on one of her children's books Amy Tan |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This Wonderland kitty "had very long claws and a great many teeth, so" Alice decided to treat it with respect Cheshire Cat |
| #4095, aired 2002-05-24 | GRIMM FAIRY TALES $2000: A donkey a cat, a dog & a rooster aspire to be the town musicians of this city Bremen |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Told that his room isn't big enough to do this, a Dickens character says, "I don't want to...I never do" swing a cat |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | CLICHES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: Remove a feline from a sack Let the cat out of the bag |
| #4067, aired 2002-04-16 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $400: In the '60s little girls pulled this "Chatty" doll's string & she said, "I love you" Chatty Cathy |
| #4067, aired 2002-04-16 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $800: Mind your paws on this structure seen here a catwalk |
| #4067, aired 2002-04-16 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $1200: A Mozart aria is this kind of list of Don Giovanni's conquests catalog |
| #4067, aired 2002-04-16 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $1600: Similar to "catastrophe", this world comes from the Greek for "flood" a cataclysm |
| #4067, aired 2002-04-16 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $2000: Inflammation of membranes in the nose & throat a catarrh |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BRIT LIT $800: This disappearing feline in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells Alice that "We're all mad here" the Cheshire cat |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | ORIGINS $800: Bast, an Egyptian goddess with a cat's head, had this many lives 9 |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | FELIX $200: Mischievous fellow seen here Felix the Cat |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | BEASTLY CINEMA $1600: 1958:
Pollitt family members claw & scratch each other for Big Daddy's money Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: "Behind the Music" noted the tragic irony when this activist "Cat's In The Cradle" singer died en route to a benefit concert Harry Chapin |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $800: 1871:
"____ and the Pussy cat" The Owl |
| #4017, aired 2002-02-05 | RHYME TIME $400: A feline run over by a steamroller a flat cat |
| #4017, aired 2002-02-05 | PLAY TIME $800: Laura collects glass animal figurines in this play by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | WHERE YA FROM? $800: In England:
Cestrian or cat Cheshire |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | SIMILAR SAYINGS $200: When you "let the cat out of the bag" you "spill" these beans |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | DRAMA & DRAMATISTS $200: "Whoever you are--I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" is from this Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CORPORAL PUNISHMENT $600: One superstition says that a trinity of trinities would be more efficient, hence the number of lashes on this whip a cat-o-nine-tails |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | PICTURE THE PREZ $1600: This "cat", seen here, served as president for only 6 months James A. Garfield |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $300: "____ ____ comes on little cat feet" The fog |
