| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $2000: Term for a type of large white blood cell that digests invading micro-organisms & also "eats" cell debris a macrophage |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HEALTH OBSERVANCES $2000: June 19 is the world day for this inherited blood disease that occurs mainly among people of African descent sickle cell anemia |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $2000: "C" "C":
2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself the cell cycle |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | MIND THE GAP $2000: Gap junctions allow communication between cells as molecules pass from this semifluid cell substance to another cytoplasm |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | NATURE $1600: Found in bodies of water & other moist environments, these single-celled algae have cell walls made of silica diatoms |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: Casgevy for sickle cell disease is the first FDA-approved therapy using the genome editing therapy known by this acronym CRISPR |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MINING FOR "ORE" $600: A germ cell, perhaps for a plant a spore |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LIFE SCIENCE $2000: This 5-letter word for a virus that infects a bacterial cell is sometimes prefixed by "bacterio" a phage |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SCIENCE $2000: A 1957 Scientific American article called this "Mighty" organelle the "Powerhouse of the Cell" the mitochondria |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIO PICS $1600: Look, it's twins, here is this process of one cell duplicating into two genetically identical daughter cells mitosis |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIO PICS $2000: Longer than cilia, they're the parts of the bacteria cell providing motility here flagella |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | TOUGH SCIENCE $1200: An Italian anatomist gave his name to this "apparatus" inside a cell that modifies & transports proteins & lipids Golgi |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $1600: This lecherous protagonist narrates "Lolita" from his prison cell, while awaiting trial for murder Humbert Humbert |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ABBREV. $1000: Remember your cell biology? E.R. is this membrane system with a name that's fun to say endoplasmic reticulum |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: Oddly, the Colonel's recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans' TVs & cell phones the KFCC |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | BIOLOGY $1200: It's the thin, watery outer layer of an amoeba cell, or in the movies, ghost slime ectoplasm |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | BIOLOGY $2000: When a male & female gamete get together, they form a fertilized egg cell called this a zygote |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $2000: When it comes to blood, this literally means "red cell" an erythrocyte |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | CHEMISTRY $1200: Named for Luigi Galvani, galvanic cells are also known as this type of cell, named for another Italian voltaic |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ALSO AN NFL TEAM $200: Weakening cell phone batteries need them chargers |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | MEDICATIONS $800: Types of drugs used in this approach to treatment include alkylating agents (mess with cell DNA) & mitotic inhibitors (stop cell division) chemotherapy |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $600: In the 17th century Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" for the biological structures he saw using this recently invented instrument a microscope |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $1600: These treelike fibers usually carry nerve impulses to a neuron's cell body dendrites |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: In biology, it's a thin outer layer of a cell; osmosis is the passage of a fluid through a semipermeable one a membrane |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $1200: A teen discovers she can communicate via cell phone with her recently deceased boyfriend in Dustin Thao's bestselling "You've Reached" him Sam |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | BIOLOGY $1600: A villanelle is a type of poem; this is a structure in a cell with a specific function, like mitochondria or vacuoles an organelle |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | BIOLOGY $9,000 (Daily Double): In the cell cycle, it follows metaphase; alphabetically, it comes first anaphase |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | HISTORIC DATES $600: On Sept. 20, 1932 Gandhi began one of these in a jail cell; his British captors gave in a few days later a hunger strike |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GOTTA KNOW YOUR SCIENCE $1600: The name of this part of a cell is from the Latin for "empty" vacuole |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $600: In 1996 one of these named Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell a sheep |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BELGIANS $1600: Using this new type of microscope in the 1940s, scientist Albert Claude helped create the modern map of the cell the electron microscope |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | DISEASES $1600: Mary Styles Harris helped lead the fight against this type of anemia; its trait is in about 8% of African-American births sickle cell anemia |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $400: This show's "Cell Block Tango" is danced in Cook County Jail Chicago |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | THE NUREMBERG TRIALS $1600: (Sarah presents the clue.) "The record discloses no excuses for this man" was the court's verdict on this notorious Nazi & Luftwaffe chieftain who cheated the hangman by taking cyanide in his cell Hermann Göring |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | LET'S TALK SCIENCE $1000: Hundreds of copies of this type of DNA, mtDNA for short, are outside the nucleus of the cell, helping ancestry.com trace your mother's line mitochondrial |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FIRSTS $2,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 13, 1983 the first call on a commercial cell phone was made to a grandson of this inventor Alexander Graham Bell |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $1000: 2 very different things, plexiglass & the artificial blood cell, were invented at this Montreal university founded in 1821 McGill |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | LAS VEGAS HOTEL NAMES $400: Lighters--or maybe cell phone flashlights--out! This interjection from the French means "again" encore |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | SCIENCE $1600: From words meaning "container" & "to mold", it's the semifluid region within a living cell excluding the nucleus cytoplasm |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1000: It's defined as the sum of all chemical reactions that take place in each cell & provide energy for activities metabolism |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOTHERS OF INVENTION $1,000 (Daily Double): The wife of Martin Cooper, "Father of the Cellular Phone", Arlene Harris developed this cell phone brand for seniors Jitterbug |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $1600: It can be a type of cell division or a figure of speech meiosis |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | A____ $800: Duracell's Coppertop is this type of dry cell battery alkaline |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ALSO IN YOUR BATHROOM $600: Biological cell mass like cartilage or muscle tissue |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Many health plans now cover this 12-letter practice of consulting with your doctor via your cell phone or computer telemedicine |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | ANATOMY CLASS $800: This long, slender fiber that projects from a nerve cell carries impulses away from the cell body an axon |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | "D" NATURE OF THINGS $400: In mitosis, one cell splits into 2 genetically identical ones with this familial name daughters |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN $2000: Thanks to his sturdy cell, Ludger Sylbaris survived the 1902 volcanic ruin of Saint-Pierre on this Caribbean island & was later pardoned Martinique |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | U.S. FRANCHISES $800: Completes the name of the business started in 2009 after the founder cracked his cell phone screen: uBreak... uBreakiFix |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SCIENCE $1200: Also called thrombocytes, these cell fragments found in the blood are involved in clotting platelets |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $1200: Fort William in Calcutta is seen here around the time a small cell inside became infamous under this name the Black Hole of Calcutta |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | THE CELL $400: In plant cells, the permeable plasma membrane is surrounded by a sturdier cell this, which helps prevent wilting wall (the cell wall) |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | THE CELL $800: Among the simplest organisms is the alga called tetrabaena, which has this many cells four |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | THE CELL $1200: Making up the brain's gray matter are about 100 billion of these specialized cells neuron |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | THE CELL $1600: Peroxisomes are structures with the job of breaking down fats; the ones in this human organ also help produce bile acids liver |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | THE CELL $2000: These 2 forms of cell division differ in how many chromosomes are in the new cells, a full set or a half set mitosis & meiosis |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF SUFFIX $600: Medically, it follows "erythro" & "leuko" to mean a cell -cyte |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | TRYING ON SOME GENES $1200: Later suspected in doping, the gene therapy repoxygen was developed to treat this disease by increasing the red blood cell count anemia |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | MEDICAL MILESTONES $1600: In 1949, Linus Pauling & colleagues showed that this disease as illustrated here is caused by abnormal hemoglobin sickle cell anemia |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | A WORD FROM THE GREEK FOR... $2000: For "first" & "form": the living part of a cell including the nucleus the protoplasm |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIOCHEMISTRY $1600: Bee venom contains nasty substances like cell destroyer phospholipase A & this itch maker first isolated in 1910 histamine |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | THE HUMAN BODY $1200: Adipose cell is another name for this cell fat tissue |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | HOMOPHONES $200: To offer something for purchase, or the basic structural unit of an organism sell/cell |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SCIENCE $600: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) In 1996, a team at Roslin Institute in Scotland used a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce the first clone of an adult mammal, a Finn Dorset sheep named this Dolly |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $400: These rod-shaped structures in a cell's nucleus carry its genetic information chromosomes |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | BIOLOGY $1600: From Greek for "to join", it's the cell formed by the joining of a male & a female gamete a zygote |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $800: Instead of seeds, non-flowering plants like ferns, use these one-cell units to reproduce spores |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $200: Found in almost every living cell, DNA stands for this deoxyribonucleic acid |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The functions of a liver cell can be split into 5 major categories, one of which is changing fat & protein into this glucose |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | IDIOMS $200: A part of a garment is mentioned in this phrase that means "I accidentally called you from my cell phone" pocket dial |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | ENZYMES & AMINO ACIDS $2000: mRNA, short for this type of RNA, leaves a cell's nucleus carrying instructions for amino acids to form a protein messenger |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician and philosopher (Blaise) Pascal |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | I'D RATHER HAVE $800: I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $2,000 (Daily Double): A Raquel Welch poster does a lot more than just hang on the wall in Andy Dufresne's prison cell Shawshank Redemption |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $400: This chemical is the messenger that carries the genetic code to the parts of the cell that make proteins mRNA, Messenger RNA |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | FORTYSOMETHING $600: Each human cell normally contains 46 of these chromosomes |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ELECTRICITY $1200: A wet cell is a battery containing ions in one of these that's a liquid; in a dry cell, it's a paste electrolyte |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | A UNIQUE SYNONYM $1600: Confinement in a separate prison cell by oneself solitary |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | MEDICAL MATTERS $1600: Red blood cells should be round but instead are crescent shaped in this type of anemia sickle cell anemia |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | WHAT'S IN YOUR BRAIN? $800: The main parts of a neuron are the cell body, an axon & these, branching out to receive input the dendrites |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | I WON'T BE IN TODAY $400: From her, in 1921: I'm traveling to get presented with a gram of radium by President Harding, but I'm available on cell! Au revoir! Marie Curie |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | THE SYNDROME SYNDROME $800: A person born with the most common type of this condition has an extra copy of chromosome 21 in each cell Down syndrome |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BIOLOGY $1200: In invertebrates, this outermost layer of the skin is usually only one cell thick the epidermis |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MAKE LIGHT WORK $400: The light type of this is a basic tool of cell biology, magnifying specimens hundreds of times a microscope |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | WE INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crews presents by a video monitor.) Bacteria will burst apart if the work of constantly renewing their cell walls is interrupted like by this first antibiotic discovered in 1928 penicillin |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $400: When an egg cell in a flower fertilizes itself, it's called "self-" this pollinating |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | THE LIVING WORLD $1200: German biologist Walther Flemming coined this term for cell division, not for the piggies on his own feet mitosis |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | FROM THE GREEK $2000: This word for a sex cell with half the genetic material needed for a complete organism is from the Greek for "marriage" a gamete |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | 23 & YOU $400: Almost every human cell has 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $1600: It's the one-word name for a red blood cell erythrocyte |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | OUT-OF-OFFICE E-MAILS $1200: In 1973 he was "Out of office as vice president; available on (hopefully not in) cell" Spiro Agnew |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | SCIENCE CENTRAL $2,200 (Daily Double): The nucleolus is really central as the most prominent structure in the nucleus of this a cell |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | A NASDAQ FACT $400: This car company has a facility called Gigafactory 1, designed to reduce battery cell costs in a big way Tesla |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | THAT'S SO "P.C." $1000: It's a small room where violent patients or inmates are held so they can't hurt themselves a padded cell |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | COUNT $600: This count determines how many erythrocytes & leukocytes you have on average a blood count |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | CONFUSING LYRICS $400: "Don't touch me please, I cannot stand the way you tease", warns this Soft Cell song, then a few "touch me, baby"s "Tainted Love" |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This 4-letter word for a place of confinement originally referred to a monk's quarters a cell |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | AP BIOLOGY $200: The original 2 chains, it's thin, it's chainlike & its found in every living cell on Earth RNA and DNA |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: In the U.S. basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of this skin cancer |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | PAPER TERMS $1600: It's a soft & gauzy type of paper, or a cell structure in the body of an animal or plant tissue |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | PLAYING THE PALLADIUM $2000: You may have palladium in your pocket; cell phones use it in the ceramic type of this "C" device that stores electricity a capacitor |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | LITERARY L.A. $800: "I'm Losing You", "I'll Let You Go" & 2003's "Still Holding" are Bruce Wagner's showbiz trilogy named for this device a cell phone |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | YOU GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING $200: To an M.D., an RBC is one of these, also called an erythrocyte a red blood cell |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | MYOPIC BIOPICS $1,500 (Daily Double): The 1953 biopic of this man shows Tony Curtis dying in the water torture cell illusion, not from peritonitis Harry Houdini |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | LOVE SONGS, NOTHING BUT '80s LOVE SONGS $1600: "This tainted love you given, I give you all a boy could give you, take my tears & that's not nearly all... tainted love" Soft Cell |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ARTS & SCIENCES $1000: Asexual reproduction, a cell duplicating itself, is nature's version of this controversial practice cloning |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | THINGS HAVE CHANGED $800: In 1960 the 5-year survival rate of this white blood cell cancer averaged just 14%; today it's over 60% leukemia |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | THE NEW DEAL $200: The act creating this agency didn't mention TV but did mention mobile service--not as in cell phones, as in 2-way radios the FCC (or the Federal Communications Commission) |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | SCIENCE TERMS $1200: Term for a protein that helps move molecules from one cell to another; Scotty, have you got it working yet?! a transporter |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BIOLOGY $1600: 2 genetically identical daughter cells are produced in this process of cell duplication mitosis |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1200: Found in front of "group" or "cell", it refers to a small body detached from an original larger one splinter |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | TECH TALK $1200: This item that identifies a particular cell phone user now comes in nano size, about 12 x 9 millimeters a SIM card |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $800: It's slang for an isolation cell in prison; Alaska was "Seward's" icebox |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1981 Ananda Chakrabarty received a patent for a life form made of just 1 this a cell |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | COMMUNICATION IS KEY $200: Last name of the man who published a reading system in 1829 based on a "cell" of 6 dots Braille |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | WOMEN OF NOTE $800: This actress invented technology that would become part of cell phone security, & it's Hedy, not Hedley (Hedy) Lamarr |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE $600: 75 would be users of this communication device a cell phone |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | OBVIOUS BROADWAY $200: This show's "Six Merry Murderesses" do the "Cell Block Tango" in Chicago's Cook County Jail
"They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming all along..." Chicago |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIOLOGY $1600: An epitope is the site on an antigen like a bacterium where this protective type of protein binds & attacks an antibody |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | CARROT $1600: Purple carrots contain anthocyanins, which act as these particles to help prevent cell decay antioxidants |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | PUNNY & NOT-PUNNY DEFINITIONS $1200: "Before a cell phone message", or a reason for taking action pretext |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | XENON $1600: Xenon is used to create fluorouracil, which is used to treat the basal cell type of this condition skin cancer |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | THRILLED TO THE MARROW $1200: Megakaryocytes are giant marrow cells that form the small blood cell fragments used in clotting called these platelets |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | DODGE PODGE $200: What a cell phone with a low battery needs a Charger |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | VIDEO GAMES $2000: The spirit of Tom Clancy hovers over the games about this title group & grizzled agent Sam Fisher Splinter Cell |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | THE BODY ELECTRIC $1200: Saul's brother in "Better Call Saul" suffers from EHS, electromagnetic this, so leave your cell phone outside hypersensitivity |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | 4-LETTER SCIENCE $800: As with yeast, a single one can be a complete organism a cell |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2016 EDITION $800: Only Arizona & Montana allow doing this while driving for all motorists texting |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | POST GAME $600: A mature reproductive cell a gamete |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | RHYME SCENE $600: White cell-producing organ the spleen |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | PRIVATE $2000: Cell phone location tracking is one possible violation of privacy tracked by the EFF, short for this foundation the Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | JUST PASSING THROUGH $600: Most of these smallest blood vessels are so small that only 1 blood cell can pass through them at a time capillaries |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | BIOLOGY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a cell diagram on the monitor.) Inside an animal cell, besides the nucleus, there are different organelles, including these powerhouses of the cell that convert food to usable energy mitochondria |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | TECH SAVVY $200: If this happens to your cell phone, try leaving the frame & battery in uncooked rice it getting wet |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AT THE MONASTERY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Georgia.) The original home of the Holy Spirit monks was an old barn, & visitors can see these where they lived; it's a term that can refer to any individual room, not just for a prisoner a cell |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | FEELING CHARITABLE $1000: Help victims of domestic violence by donating old these to Shelter Alliance, a program run by GRC Wireless cell phones |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS $200: allmovie.com's review of "Run All Night" noted "the constant hissing of threats into cell phones" by this Irish actor (Liam) Neeson |
| #7054, aired 2015-04-23 | SCIENCE TERMS IN FRENCH $200: This part of a cell that contains the chromosomes is "le noyau" the nucleus |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FACT: -OID $1000: A haploid cell, such as a sperm or egg, is defined as having only one copy of each of these genetic units a chromosome |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | REMEMBER 2014? $1,000 (Daily Double): The Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to search these, now "a pervasive and insistent part of daily life" cell phones |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | "V"ERBS $400: Please have your cell phones on this, to shake rapidly vibrate |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $200: In this H.G. Wells novel, Griffin is a scientist obsessed with theories of light refraction & cell transparency The Invisible Man |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONG $800: "When You're Good To Mama" &
"Cell Block Tango" Chicago |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | GREEN SCENE $1600: Abbreviated PV, this type of solar power cell converts sunlight into electric energy photovoltaic |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | SCIENCE $800: An osteoblast is a cell that provides the collagen needed for a new one of these a bone |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | HOW IT WORKS $1600: These devices get their name because coverage areas are divided into small sections, so many users can share a frequency a cell phone |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | ETIQUETTE $800: When you're at the dinner table, turn off this Apple device introduced in April 2010, even if you're winning at Fruit Ninja an iPad |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BRITISH ENGLISH $600: Instead of "cell phone", the Brits use this adjective, reflecting the fact that you can take the phone with you mobile |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $1200: In "Die Fledermaus" Frosch the jailer comically has problems keeping Alfred from doing this in his cell singing |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $1600: This 5th wife of Henry VIII practiced laying her head on a block in her jail cell so as not to do the wrong thing on the scaffold Catherine Howard |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | A CHEMISTRY SET $1600: These 2 common antonyms precede "cell battery"; one type is in your car, the other, in your flashlight wet & dry |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $1600: A trip through a leaf shows the lattice of this substance, the basis of plant cell walls cellulose |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | "V"OCABULARY $1600: The amoeba's food is struggling in one of these empty areas within the cell a vacuole |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | VIDEO GAMES $1600: Tom Clancy lent his name to this shooter series that might leave your finger smarting Splinter Cell |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | IT WAS THE '90s $200: It was before I had a cell phone, so when I said, "hit me on the hip" I meant contact me via this device a pager |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | NAMES IN NATURE $600 (Daily Double): They have only one cell each but can take pride in their name. from the Greek for "first animals" protozoa |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PHYSIOLOGY $400: Almost the entire dry weight of a red blood cell consists of this protein hemoglobin |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | A "CY" OF RELIEF $2000: This term refers to all the material enclosed within a cell membrane except for the nucleus the cytoplasm |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $1200: In 1910 physician James Herrick became the first to identify this blood disease that affects many African Americans sickle-cell anemia |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | ONE EXTRA LETTER $200: One, you might say, is where pancakes come from; the other is an energy-producing cell batter & battery |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | SCIENCE 101 $1200: Prophase, metaphase, anaphase & telophase are stages of these 2 forms of cell division mitosis & meiosis |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A CASE OF A_D_D $1200: An automaton, or a type of cell phone an android |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | BIOLOGY 101 $800: Also called thrombocytes, these disklike cell fragments are important in the clotting process platelets |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | SOWING "OTE"s $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) When two gametes like an egg & a sperm unite, they form a fertilized egg cell called this; once it divides, it's considered an embryo a zygote |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | 15 LETTERS OR MORE $2000: Serotonin is this type of chemical that carries signals from one nerve cell to another a neurotransmitter |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $800: To save a cell phone that's been dropped in water, remove the battery & SIM card, pat dry & cover it with the white type of this rice |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $800: In the version that's combined with "Where Did Our Love Go", this Soft Cell hit goes on for 9 minutes "Tainted Love" |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE HUDSON RIVER $400: Seen here is the original cell block of this institution on the banks of the Hudson Sing Sing |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | RHYME HELL $600: It can be a small room in a monastery as well as in a correctional facility a cell |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | STOCK SYMBOLS $1000: This cell phone company trades on the NYSE as MMI; the "MI" stands for Mobility, Inc. Motorola |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | "D" SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): It's either of the 2 cells formed when a cell divides--each one is a genetic duplicate of the parent cell a daughter cell |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | UPDATING THE NOVEL $2000: "We'll track the cell phone signal of the chief choir boy, Jack Merridew. The lads will be off that island by supper" the Lord of the Flies |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | SPYING $400: A spy for one country who says he's working for another, or a Tom Clancy splinter cell video game double agent |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG $600: A "tea leaf" is one of these & might wind up in a "flowery dell", a prison cell a thief |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WE'LL LEAVE TONIGHT $2000: On Oct. 15, 1946, the night his execution was ordered, this No. 2 Nazi took a 1-way trip via poison in his Nuremberg cell Hermann Göring |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | "ILE" BE BACK $800: We call it a cell phone, but the chaps in Britain call it this a mobile |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $2000: Cell biology: The main function of these organelles is to produce energy in the form of ATP mitochondria |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) This occurs when the nucleus of a disk protrudes through the surrounding cell & puts pressure on a spinal nerve a herniated disk |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $600: This 2-letter Korean company makes a sweet cell phone called the Chocolate Touch LG |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | CHEMISTS $400: He improved a smokeless lab burner & in 1841 invented the carbon-zinc electric cell (Robert) Bunsen |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | AGING GRACEFULLY $1000: This alphabetically second-to-last element is an antioxidant & good for cell repair zinc |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BONING UP $800: This fatty substance inside the bones is a major site of blood cell production the marrow |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: The average life span of these receptor cell groups in the mouth is 8-10 days tastebuds |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of another apparatus.) A device that uses microchips to detect one cancer cell in a billion may supersede this technique of taking tissue samples from living patients & may lead to finding cancers before tumors form a biopsy |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | FRANKS $2000: Franks without "natural" casings were likely housed in this, the main constituent of plants' cell walls cellulose |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | THE PARTING OF THE FCC $800: An FCC FAQ--"Is there any evidence" these devices "cause cancer?" No, but the FCC is still monitoring it cell phones |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | LET'S GET SMALL $2000: From the Greek for oblong, this protozoan is only one cell big, but ten letters long a paramecium |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | SEX CELLS! $200: It's the Latin name for a female sex cell ovum (or ova) |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | SEX CELLS! $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a cell dividing on the monitor.) Human sex cells are created via this genetic process, in which one parent cell splits into four daughter cells meiosis |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | LET'S PLAY TEXAS HOLD-EM $2,000 (Daily Double): Rushed from his Texas prison cell, he died of cancer in 1967 in the same hospital as the man he killed in 1963 Jack Ruby |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | POLL-POURRI $200: As of 2010, almost 30% of U.S. households can be reached only on these, perhaps skewing pollsters' samples cell phones |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $800: This cell phone company made the radio that relayed the first words from the moon Motorola |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | SILENCE $800: No cell phone use is permitted on "quiet cars", begun in 2000 on this service's Philly-Washington run Amtrak |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Tainted Love" band's pocket communicator Soft Cell phone |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A CAPSULE CATEGORY $200: Let's prep one of these--cell phone, credit card, Fritos; that should tell folks in 2110 what our society was like a time capsule |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | ON THE PHONE $800: Back in 1997 Philippe Kahn jerry-rigged a camera & cell phone & used it to send pictures of this proud event the birth of his daughter |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | ON THE PHONE $2000: This easy-to-use cell phone is named for a dance of days gone by the Jitterbug |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | GOING GREENER $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) Some energy on the Sony lot is generated by the sun's photons striking the solar cell surface, making these jump from one atom to the next, creating a chain reaction which can be harnessed electrons |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | ELVIS LYRICS $600: "Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to the..." "Jailhouse Rock" |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookhaven National Laboratory.) Department of Energy scientists at Brookhaven are prepping cell samples for a lab that simulates the environment of space in partnership with this government agency NASA |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | "OID" VEY $1000: Because it carries 2 sets of chromosomes, a zygote is this type of cell diploid |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES $600: Shortness of breath--must be a heart attack. No, histoplasmosis. Of course!--this red blood cell insufficiency anemia |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | CELEBRITY BLOGS $200: In March 2009 this ex of Kid Rock & Tommy Lee blogged on her views about stem cell research Pam Anderson |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $800: Specialized white blood cells called lymphocytes begin as this type of cell in the bone marrow a stem cell |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $1600: These blood cell fragments are also called thrombocytes platelets |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | "RED" SCIENCE $800: An erythrocyte a red blood cell |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | RHETORIC $1200: As well as cell division, meiosis means this 14-letter term, like "LeBron James is a decent player" understatement |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | DETENTION $2000: In 1865 he was put in leg irons in a damp Fort Monroe, Virginia cell; his citizenship was posthumously restored in 1978 Jefferson Davis |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | IT'S A PROCESS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a microscopic movie on the monitor.) The name of this process comes from the Greek for "thread" for the threadlike appearance of chromosomes during cell division mitosis |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | HAUNTED AMERICA $800: Guards & visitors have reported hearing screams & cell doors clanging at this former prison aka "The Rock" Alcatraz |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | CYBERIA $1200: You can watch video on cell phones, on TV or over the Internet with this player QuickTime |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | BACK TO BUSINESS $800: No-contract & pay as you go plans are selling points of this cell phone company started by Sir Richard Branson Virgin Mobile |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a washi, or paper, factory in Kyoto, Japan.) This material from plant cell walls is the basis of papermaking; soaking fibers in a strong solution dissolves more of it, resulting in softer washi cellulose |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | AN ALLOCATION OF ALLITERATION $400: If your cell phone reception is lousy, call back on this a landline |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | FOLSOM PRISON BLUES $1600: This '60s radical psychologist & LSD advocate was imprisoned at Folsom for a time in a cell next to Charles Manson (Timothy) Leary |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | ENERGY FROM EVERYWHERE $800: To boost fuel cell technology, RISO is working to safely produce & store this, atomic No. 1 Hydrogen |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1200: Catherine Zeta-Jones did ads for this telecom firm, the first to offer cell service on both sides of the Atlantic T-Mobile |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | FUN WITH FASHION $800: Also a synonym for "amulet", this type of trinket now hangs on handbags & cell phones as well as bracelets a charm |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ONE-BUTTON TEXT MESSAGING $400: Friendly greeting spelled out on your cell's 4 button hi |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | TIME FOR A "NAP" $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a micrographic animation on the monitor.) In the nervous system, when an impulse gets to the end of a nerve, cell neurotransmitters shoot across one of these spaces a synapse |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s $600: Linus Torvalds is the father of this operating system used on cell phones & supercomputers Linux |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "Cell Block Tango",
"When You're Good To Mama" Chicago |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE $800: A German theory that these devices might disorient bees isn't widely accepted, so don't dump your Sprint plan just yet a cell phone |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | SCIENCE HISTORY $400: Using the ultramicroscope, Jean Perrin estimated the size of this as one hundred millionth of a centimeter an atom |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | GENOME-ENCLATURE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a graphic on the monitor.) An exact copy of biological material, it can be of a DNA segment, a cell or a complete organism a clone |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | HEALTH MATTERS $200: One type of self-examination covers the whole body; it's for basal cell carcinoma & other forms of this skin cancer |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | HEALTH MATTERS $600 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew shows some animated blood cell models on the monitor.) Instead of being biconcave discs, red blood cells are distorted into a particular shape & don't carry oxygen well in patients with this disease sickle cell anemia |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | POTENT PORTABLES $600: Cansha hear me now, shweetie? Franmara, Inc. has a 3-oz. flask shaped like this ...$24.99 & no roaming charges! a cell phone |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LIFE SCIENCE $2000: This 5-letter word for a virus that infects a bacterial cell is sometimes prefixed by "bacterio" a phage |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | MUSICAL ADJECTIVES $800: Soft Cell sang, "Once I ran to you, now I'll run from you" in an '80s song about this title kind of love Tainted |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew tries to sell you a cell from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) The W44S multimedia phone combines Sony's multimedia, like digital TV, with the phone technology of Ericsson, based in this country Sweden |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $2,000 (Daily Double): Stephen King would know this term for an area where cell phone reception drops out a dead zone |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | "LAND" OF OPPORTUNITY $400: A secreting cell mass a gland |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | GEEK SQUAD $400: (A Geek shows off an EVDO card.) An EVDO card gives you anywhere-broadband Internet access via a cell phone provider that uses 3G technology; 3G stands for this third generation |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE DAIRY CATTLE CENTER $600: (Jimmy and Cheryl report from the Babcock Hall Dairy; Cheryl gives the clue.) DMI, or dry matter intake, correlates with good milk production; cows especially need this component of plant cell walls sometimes called bulk or roughage fiber (or cellulose) |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | NEW MEDIA $1600: On your cell phone screen, you can shrink down to size artists like Big Pun & this Latino rapper-- they're "Twinz" Fat Joe |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | WHO MIGHT HAVE SAID IT? $200: The leading man on "24": "I can't believe this cell phone works in this lead-lined bunker. Who's our carrier?" Jack Bauer |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | NOTORIOUS $2000: In the 1950s this "Red-light Bandit" wrote a book "Cell 2455, Death Row", his address while waiting for his execution Caryl Chessman |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | ADD A LETTER $800: Add a letter to "neuron" & instead of a nerve cell, it's this subatomic particle neutron |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | THE VATICAN ONLINE $800: You'll learn that you may not use cell phones or felt-tip pens when researching in the Secret these Archives |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: "By my authority as executive I threw Merlin into prison -- the same cell I had occupied myself" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | I ONLY HAVE "I"s FOR YOU $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a simple cell diagram on the monitor.) As opposed to the dizygotic type of twins, where 2 eggs develop into 2 genetically different cells, in the monozygotic, or this type, the genetics are exactly the same identical |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | NERDVANA $2000: The energy source called this cell uses 2 chemicals & an electrolyte to get continuous power instead of storing a charge a (hydrogen) fuel cell |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | SCIENTISTS $2000: This man who figured out the movement of particles in a liquid gave the cell nucleus its name (Robert) Brown |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $1600: A single updraft or downdraft in a cloud; a severe thunderstorm may be multi- or super-it cell |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | CABLE CHANNELS $2000: "Dexter" & "Sleeper Cell" are original series on this channel Showtime |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | NUTRITION $5,401 (Daily Double): Tea, grape juice & blueberries are all rich in substances called anti- these that help prevent cell damage oxidants |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | SCIENCE $1200: This type of "cell" sounds like it causes disease, but it refers to a gamete, such as an egg cell a germ cell |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | NERVE-ANA $1200: This basic unit of life is often tiny, but the nerve type in a giraffe can be 9 feet long cell |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY $400: The "Pearl" model of this Research In Motion device is an e-mail client, media player, camera & cell phone the BlackBerry |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | PHYSICS $1600: An "electric eye" alarm detects a break in the beam of light not with a simple "electric" cell but with this type of cell photoelectric |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN $1600: Joey Harrington eats & breathes football; we bet this on his cell phone is the NFL films music ringtone |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | SCIENCE CLASS $400: In a human being, each cell has about 25,000 of these basic units of heredity genes |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | PLASMA PHYSICS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton.) In generating fusion energy, scientists are experimenting with this lightest metal, also used in cell phone batteries lithium |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | WHO SAYS $600: Research shows no increased risk of brain cancer from using these, but they do cause traffic accidents cell phones |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | BIOLOGY $400: Some of these smallest blood vessels are so tiny that only one blood cell can pass through at a time capillaries |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | TECH-KNOW $1000: You don't need to go to this cell phone company's "hotspot" if you want to talk with your "Sidekick" T-Mobile |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE REPLACEMENTS $1000: This cell-division process in which a cell's nucleus replicates is vital for repair & replacement of worn-out cells mitosis |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2006 $600: It can be music or a sound effect, but it lets you know you have an incoming cell-phone call a ringtone |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | STRUCTURES $200: Once essential in hot, dry forest weather, this type of structure is less necessary in an age of aircraft & cell phones a fire tower |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $400: The title of this film based on a Stephen King novel is a colorful nickname for death row The Green Mile |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $800: She sashayed out of the "Casino" to play a death row inmate in "Last Dance" Sharon Stone |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): The scenes of Perry Smith being interviewed in jail in this 2005 film were shot in Manitoba, not in Kansas Capote |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $1200: Eddie Murphy gets a 2-day parole to help Nick Nolte track down a murderer in this 1982 hit 48 Hours |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $2000: Michelle Pfeiffer was a jailbird--or is that jailflower?--in this "pale" 2002 mother-daughter drama White Oleander |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | EVERYTHING FRENCH $1200: In July of 1789 this salacious marquis screamed from his cell that he & his fellow prisoners should be freed from the Bastille Marquis de Sade |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | "BIO" SCIENCE $800: 2 men at the U. of Washington's Department of this won the 1992 Nobel Prize for studying cell protein regulation biochemistry |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | BESTSELLERS $400: He dedicated his 2006 novel "Cell" in part to "Night of the Living Dead" director George Romero Stephen King |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | LIFE SCIENCE $400: Ganglia, gorups of cell bodies of these nerve cells, are outside the vertebrate central nervous system neurons |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MARCH $400: On trial for war crimes, he was found dead in his cell in The Hague March 11, 2006 Milosevic |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | TIME LAPSE $1600: You're watching a cell go through this process, Greek for "thread" mitosis |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | CELL-PHONING IT IN $200: Atlanta-based & with more than $19 billion in 2004 revenue, it's "one" this telecom "sensation" Cingular |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | CELL-PHONING IT IN $400: Tony Stewart was the 2005 champion of the cup named for this company Nextel |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | CELL-PHONING IT IN $600: This company is associated with the sound heard here T-Mobile |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | CELL-PHONING IT IN $800: Can you hear me now? In 2005 this company was No. 14 on the Fortune 500 Verizon |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | CELL-PHONING IT IN $1000: "Q" rating check: there's a "u" in "cellular" but not in the Denver-based company known by this 1-word name Qwest |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | BIOLOGY $1600: Microorganisms called euglena have a flexible pellicle, or membrane, in place of a rigid one of these a cell wall |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: This woman slipped a .38 revolver to Clyde Barrow in his prison cell in 1930, leading to his escape Bonnie Parker |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | BIOLOGY $1200: Cell division begins in this part of the cell, either by mitosis or by meiosis the nucleus |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | BIOLOGY $2000: An amoeba is a 1-celled shapeless mass of this, a term defined in 1839 as the basic material of life protoplasm |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $800: This appendage of a neuron transmits impulses away from the cell body an axon |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | SEE "EO"s $600: A dark underground prison cell in a castle dungeon |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | CELL $200: You can shoot videos & play music with a Walkman phone from Ericsson in partnership with this company Sony |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | CELL $400: Nextel's merger with this company should give the competition a run for their money Sprint |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | CELL $600: Started by SBC & Bellsouth, it's now a "one of a kind" company with its purchase of AT&T Wireless Cingular |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | CELL $800: This cellphone maker has jumped back to the No. 2 spot worldwide by a Razr's edge Motorola |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | CELL $1000: This company beat out Qwest to buy MCI & become a telecom colossus Verizon |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew looks into a microscope.) You can see why a form of this cancerous disease in which the body makes too many lymphocytes is called "hairy cell" leukemia |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | "S"CIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): This implement-shaped type of red blood cell is thought to be the result of a mutation in Africa long ago a sickle cell |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | TECHNOLOGY $2000: It's the basic geographic unit of wireless phone service a cell |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | DISEASES $1600: Joint pain & fever are results of this 3-word blood disease occurring chiefly among African Americans sickle cell anemia |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | KID LIT $1,400 (Daily Double): This young detective didn't have a cell phone & a hybrid car when she debuted 75 years ago, but she has 'em now Nancy Drew |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $400: In 1985 Russian computer scientist Alexey Pajitnov created this maddening video game that features blocks Tetris |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CORN $2000: A main constituent of corn husks & stalks is this tough cell wall material that's made into fibers like rayon cellulose |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | THAT'S SO "LAME" $2000: A thin membrane or layer, as of bone, tissue or cell walls lamella |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | BIOLOGY $1200: Familial name for the 2 new cells resulting from cell division daughter cells |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | HANDY TECHNOLOGY $400: "N-Gage" with this company's cell phone, wihch is also a portable game Nokia |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | THE THINGS OF NATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): The largest single living animal cell on Earth is the yolk of this creature's egg an ostrich |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | YESTERDAY'S HOTTIES $800: This actress who played opposite Victor Mature in "Samson and Delilah" invented the technology used in cell phones Hedy Lamarr |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | C IS FOR... $1000: Cellulose, a carbohydrate that makes up this part of a plant's cell the cell walls |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | BIOLOGY $400: "Skin" term for the layer of cells on the upper & lower surfaces of a leaf; it may be one cell thick the epidermis |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DUDE, WHERE'S MY CARB? $600: The main component of the cell walls of plants, this complex carbohydrate is what termites eat cellulose |
| #4631, aired 2004-10-25 | SEARCH: LIGHT $200: This type of photoelectric cell converts sunlight to energy solar |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | THE HOLE TRUTH $800: A "Judas Hole" is the term for the tiny viewing port in one of these; you can watch the man who betrayed you through it a cell door |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $200: The person you share your space with can be your cellie or, based on the type of bed you sleep on, this word your bunkie |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $400: It's the period when prisoners are restricted to cells after a disturbance lockdown |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $400: 6 elements make up 99% of a cell's weight: carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur & these familiar 2 hydrogen & oxygen |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $600: It's the common (printable) 4-letter term for a solitary confinement cell the hole |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $800: Hot Kansas summers & no A/C in the cells got this federal prison its nickname "The Hot House" Leavenworth |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $800: The synthesizers called ribosomes are about 50% protein &, as you might guess, 50% this substance RNA |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $1000: If you mark off each day on the wall, & you serve exactly 40% of a 5-year sentence, you end up with this many marks 730 (or 731) |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $1600: By this process, water moves through cellular membranes to equalize pressure osmosis |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew motions to a diagram on a chalkboard.) During cell division, structures called spindles attach these to one end of the cell chromosomes |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a cell at a chalkboard.) Though its name is from the Latin for "empty", this cavity in a plant cell holds a solution that's important for life a vacuole |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | DEAR JOHN $1600: His "Pilgrim's Progress" was a real best-celler, much of it having been written from his prison cell John Bunyan |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | COMMUNICATIONS $1200: To communicate by doing this, you can speak lyrics over a beat, or tap a code on the wall of your jail cell rap |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS $2,200 (Daily Double): In December 2003 Joe Horn was fined $30,000 by the NFL for using one of these after making a touchdown cell phone |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | BIOLOGY $1000: In cell division, mitosis splits the nucleus & cytokinesis splits this liquid cushioning the nucleus cytoplasm |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | M $1000: One of these divides during its M phase cell |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | BIOLOGY $2000: This type of cell division takes place in 4 steps: prophase, metaphase, anaphase & telophase mitosis |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | TECH TOPICS $400: A rule that went into effect November 24, 2003 allows a cell phone user to keep this when switching carriers telephone number |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1,000 (Daily Double): This impulse-conducting cell consists of a cell body, several dendrites & one axon the neuron |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | VENICE, AT LAST $800: On a Halloween night in the 1750s, this seducer made a daring escape from a cell beneath the Doge's Palace Casanova |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $200: In 1957, "everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to" this title tune "Jailhouse Rock" |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $400: Sean Penn was in the pen in this 1995 film directed by Tim Robbins Dead Man Walking |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $600: (Hi, I'm Paul McCrane from ER.) I appeared as a prison guard in this Morgan Freeman film based on a story by Stephen King The Shawshank Redemption |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $800: This harrowing 1978 film that made Brad Davis a star wasn't exactly a Turkish delight Midnight Express |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $1000: Ashley Judd finds out that she can't be convicted twice for killing her husband in this 1999 drama Double Jeopardy |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS $400: "Cell Block Tango" &
"All That Jazz" Chicago |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | NEW VIDEO GAMES $200: You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices a cell phone |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | ENERGY $2000: Automakers are experimenting with these, a 2-word term for a device that converts chemical energy into electricity fuel cell |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | REEL LIFE QUOTES $1200: 2000:
"I may die tonight in this cell or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave" Gladiator |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | SCIENTIFIC PREFIXES $800: An astrocyte is a cell shaped like this a star |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "C" IN SCIENCE $2000: In order to duplicate itself in cell division, one of these splits into 2 identical strands called chromatids chromosomes |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | DRIVING $200: Tom & Ray of "Car Talk" use the slogan "Drive Now, Talk Later" to alert us to the danger of these using cell phones while driving |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | THE SCIENCE SECTION $200: The X-Men know it's a change in a DNA molecule of a cell that's passed on to an offspring cell mutation |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | SCANDINAVIANS $200: Somehow a pulp & paper concern begun by Finn Frederik Idestam in 1865 evolved into this cell phone giant Nokia |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | IT'LL TAKE AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT $800: A 2002 act made it illegal to reprogram one of these to a new number unless you're the manufacturer cell phone |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | ON THE PHONE $600: By our informal estimate, this question from the "Scooby-Doo" theme song also begins 70% of cell phone calls "Where are you?" |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | GOING WIRELESS $400: The Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone combines a cell phone with one of these multifunction organizers PDA (personal digital assistant) |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | LETTER PERFECT $200: It's Duracell's largest general-purpose battery D cell |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | LAST PAGE OF THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY $1600: A cell formed by the union of 2 gametes zygote |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Anatomical architectural terms include hip, cell, groin & this, a projecting band along a vault rib |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | THE PHONE $600: This Internet service provider can be on your cell phone with its "Anywhere" program AOL |
| #4265, aired 2003-02-28 | CHEMISTRY CLASS $200: This man whose name is on a laboratory burner invented a carbon-zinc electric cell Robert Bunsen |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | HEY, BABY, I'M PREMED $800: As a kid I thought this was a disease, instead of cell division that produces identical daughter cells mitosis |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | NOVEMBER 2001 $200: Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. said they did this with a cow, then 2 days later said they did it with a human embryo cloning |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | '80s MUSIC $1600: In 1982 this group hit the Top 10 with the song heard here
["Tainted Love"] Soft Cell |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | ALCATRAZ-A-MATAZZ $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets put in her place on Alcatraz.) From the Latin for "alone", it's the type of cell I've been put into, either for punishment or for my own protection solitary |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | SINNERS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from a building on an infamous island.) This "Birdman of Alcatraz" raised canaries at Leavenworth, but wasn't permitted birds here in his cell at Alcatraz (Robert) Stroud |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY $1200: Linus Pauling rightly predicted that this blood disease producing strangely-shaped hemoglobin was genetic sickle-cell anemia |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: Nearly 25 percent of U.S. teens now own one of these phones, so there's no excuse for not calling home a cell phone |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | CHEMISTRY $800: This Italian's dry cell battery of 1800 consisted of a stack of pairs of silver and zinc disks Alessandro Volta |
| #4028, aired 2002-02-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Kerouac novel in which Sal Paradise has a fit of anger towards another driver & beats him with a cell phone On the Road rage |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | LONDON $1200: Hey, if you get locked in the Tower of London, ask for a tower cell with a view of this river the Thames |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME $800: This blood cell deficiency condition's name is from the Greek for "being without blood" anemia |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE $200: Boy, it was so quiet you could have heard... a pin drop |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE $400: I can use whatever you bring me -- it's all just...for the mill grist |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE $600: You know what they say -- it isn't..., it's the size of the fight in the dog the size of the dog in the fight |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE $800: Wow, you've taken care of it already?! You don't let the grass... grow under your feet |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE $1000: I know you want to say what you think, but you catch more flies with honey... than with vinegar |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | IT'S ALL IN THE DNA $200: In most cellular organisms, DNA is carried by these threadlike structures in the nucleus of a cell chromosomes |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK $800: (Dr. Baltimore reads.) This infectious agent that lives inside a cell & causes disease can be 100 times smaller than a bacterium virus |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | SKOOL DAZE $700 (Daily Double): Jack was sent to the principal after telling the science teacher one of these held a prisoner instead of a nucleus a cell |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | ISRAEL $200: Carried by roughly 40% of Israelis, they were popularized by a 2.5-cents-a-minute offer in 1994 cell phones |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | SCIENCE $200: While we have 23 pairs of these in each cell, the fruit fly makes do with 4, only 1 of them sex-related chromosomes |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | SCIENCE $800: From the Latin for "parchment", this semi-permeable barrier surrounds a cell's cytoplasm membrane |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | "V" ARE NOT AFRAID $500: A submicroscopic entity that only lives in a cell of another living organism Virus |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | MOVIE VILLAINS $200: Serial killer Vincent D'Onofrio torments Jennifer Lopez & other women in this creepy 2000 film The Cell |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | GENETICS $200: Each human cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes, 1 of them this type rated XX or XY Sex chromosome |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | THAT'S AMAZING! $800: This country that has Helsinki as its capital has almost one cell phone for every 2 people Finland |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | LIFE SCIENCE $300: These disease-causers have a nucleic acid in a protein shell, but not even a single cell Viruses |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | STRING $200: A joke goes, modern kids play cell phones by using 2 of these with no string between them Tin cans |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | CHEMISTRY $1000: It's the passage of water through a cell membrane; the "reverse" type is a desalination process osmosis |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $400: This substance found in the cell walls of plants & trees is used to make paper & plastics Cellulose |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | PHYSICS $800: Term for any liquid used to conduct current inside a cell or battery Electrolyte |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | CHANGES $400: From Latin for "change", this type of change in DNA causes sickle cell anemia Mutation |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $500: It's estimated that 1 in 12 African-Americans has the trait for this blood disease sickle cell anemia |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | POWER SOURCES $500: In the early 1900s this American inventor developed the alkaline cell battery Thomas Edison |
| #3436, aired 1999-07-12 | SONGS $100: It's what "everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to" "Jailhouse Rock" |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | BODY PARTS $400: The smallest human cell is this cell originating only in the male Sperm cell |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED $100: Ghosts may account for a mysterious chill in cell 14-D of this former California island prison Alcatraz |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | SCIENCE $800: In this process of cell division, unlike mitosis, a cell divides & halves the number of chromosomes Meiosis |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX $600: This cell that is produced when a sperm fertilizes an egg measures 0.1 mm in diameter Zygote |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | WILLIAM HURT FILMS $1000: Hurt could have used a cell phone in this 1985 film set in a South American prison Kiss Of The Spider Woman |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | QUOTATIONS $200: In August 1997 Steve Jobs told him via cell phone, "Thank You. The world's a better place" Bill Gates |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | KILLER MUSICALS $1000: Velma & her fellow murderesses sing the "Cell Block Tango" in this Bob Fosse musical Chicago |
| #3249, aired 1998-10-22 | POLITICIANS $600: In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, this party's candidate, ran for U.S. president from his jail cell Socialist Party |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | MARCH OF TIME $100: Once home to Al Capone & a birdman, it closed its cell doors March 21, 1963 Alcatraz |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: From the Greek for "yoke", it's a cell formed by the union of 2 gametes a zygote |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | FROM THE LATIN $500: From the Latin for "to hide", it's the small room where a monk hides away from the world a cell |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | SIMPLE SCIENCE $200: Number of sides on a honeycomb cell or on a snowflake 6 |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | MEDIEVAL BESTSELLERS $800: As he wrote much of "Le Morte d'Arthur" in prison, that would make it a best cell-er Sir Thomas Malory |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Most of a cell's water passes through the plasma membrane by this process Osmosis |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | it's microscopic $100: In an animal cell, it's where the chromosomes are contained the nucleus |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | it's microscopic $500: The parts inside a living cell move in this semifluid substance whose name in part means "cell" Cytoplasm |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BIOLOGY $300: In plants & invertebrates, this outermost layer of protection is usually just one cell thick Epidermis |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BIOLOGY $400: It's the process by which an organism or cell takes in oxygen & expels carbon dioxide Respiration |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | OH "MI" $300: The process of a cell with 46 chromosomes spilitting into 2 cells, each also with 46 chromosomes Mitosis |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | THE BLOOD $400: In AIDS this virus destroys the CD4 lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell HIV |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $200: Cell occupant
(8) Prisoner |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ELECTRICITY $500: In an electric cell, electrodes are inserted into a conductive liquid called this Electrolyte |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | INVENTORS $200: This German chemist for whom a gas burner is named developed a zinc-carbon electric cell Robert Bunsen |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | SCIENCE $100: The largest cell is the 3-inch diameter yolk of this bird's egg Ostrich |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | NUTRITION $3,000 (Daily Double): Antioxidants like beta carotene prevent cell damage by these products of oxygen breakdown free radicals |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | LITERATURE $800: To research this novel, Irving Stone stayed in Van Gogh's asylum cell Lust For Life |
| #2869, aired 1997-02-06 | SCIENCE $200: In 1665 Robert Hooke described & named this structural unit; bacteria have only one Cell |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | LEFTOVERS $400: Liver cells break this red blood cell pigment into substances including iron & bilirubin hemoglobin |
| #2832, aired 1996-12-17 | LIFE $1000: Meaning "diminution", this cell division process cuts the number of chromosomes in half Meiosis |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BIOLOGY $600: An ootid is a cell that matures into this Egg |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | PHYSICS $400: A fuel cell converts chemicals directly into this type of energy Electrical |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | BIOLOGY $600: Dendrites are projections from this type of cell the nerve cells |
| #2739, aired 1996-06-27 | SCIENCE $400: Haploid refers to a cell with one set of these, diploid to a cell with two sets chromosomes |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: James Herrick was the first to identify this blood disorder that afflicts many black Americans sickle cell anemia |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | SCIENCE $400: A triploid cell has this many times the number of chromosomes as a haploid 3 times as many |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | SCIENCE $200: After a new queen bee emerges from her cell, she goes on a mating flight with these bees the drones |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | THE BODY HUMAN $300: In a single red blood cell, there are more than 300 million molecules of this iron-rich pigment hemoglobin |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | THE BODY HUMAN $1000: A neuron consists of 3 parts: the cell body, the dendrite & this tubelike nerve fiber that carries messages the axon |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: This simple sugar is the body's chief source of energy for cell metabolism glucose |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | LIFE SCIENCE $500: About 1 in 400 African-Americans has this hereditary disease affecting the hemoglobin sickle-cell anemia |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | BIOLOGY $600: The 2 main processes by which a cell divides are meiosis & this mitosis |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1960, after 8 stays of execution, this author of "Cell 2455, Death Row" was executed at San Quentin Caryl Chessman |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ESCAPES $100: In the 1910s, this magician was famous for his escape from the "water torture cell" Houdini |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | SCIENCE $800: An anode is the negative electrode of a dry cell battery; this is the positive electrode a cathode |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: For work on the biochemistry of cell growth, Rita Levi-Montalcini won this medicine prize in 1986 the Nobel Prize |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | ANATOMY $1000: Organ that contains special cell clusters called the islets of Langerhans the pancreas |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $600: This central part of a cell was discovered by Robert Brown of Brownian motion fame the nucleus |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BIOLOGY $400: It's the part of a living cell that contains the chromosomes the nucleus |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BIOLOGY $1000: Nerve impulses in the body are transmitted from cell to cell by dendrites & these fibers axons |
| #2153, aired 1994-01-05 | IRON $800: It's the component of a red blood cell that contains iron hemoglobin |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | THE BODY HUMAN $200: The body's cell metabolism is controlled by hormones from this gland in the front of the neck Thyroid Gland |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Irving Stone's research for this novel included a story in Vincent van Gogh's asylum cell Lust for Life |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "body", it's a free-moving cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte a corpuscle |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | ANATOMY $400: These blood vessels are so tiny that only 1 blood cell can pass through at a time capillaries |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $500: This disease that usually afflicts Blacks results from a flaw in the hemoglobin molecule sickle-cell (anemia) |
| #1935, aired 1993-01-22 | BLOOD $1,771 (Daily Double): People with this red blood cell substance, found in 1940, are "positive", those without it, "negative" Rh |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | ELVIS SONGS $100: "Ev'rybody in the whole cell block was a-dancin' to" this The "Jailhouse Rock" |
| #1874, aired 1992-10-29 | GASES $200: The main purpose of a red blood cell is to carry this gas from your lungs to the rest of your body oxygen |
| #1841, aired 1992-09-14 | SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): This play opens on a ship & ends in front of a cell The Tempest |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | NATURE $400: In most invertebrates & young plants, this outer layer of skin is only 1 cell thick the epidermis |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $200: From its resemblance to cell splitting in biology, the splitting of an atom is called this fission |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | SCIENCE $400: During cell reproduction, one of these splits into 2 identical strands called chromatids chromosomes |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | BIOLOGY $500: In humans, they're the two main processes of cell division meiosis & mitosis |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | SCIENCE $800: The cytoplasm in a cell is divided into the ectoplasm & this endoplasm |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | BIOLOGY $200: Humans have 23 pairs of these per cell, corn has 10 & the fruit fly 4 chromosomes |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | THE BODY HUMAN $1000: From a word meaning "tree", these threadlike branches of a neuron carry signals to a nerve cell body dendrites |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | SCIENCE $1000: This negative electrode of a dry cell battery is composed of zinc the anode |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | "X", "Y" & "Z" $600: This cell is formed the union of 2 gametes a zygote |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $600: The Latin for "poison", it needs to be in a living cell to reproduce Virus |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | BIOLOGY $300: With walls as thin as one cell, they connect arteries & veins capillaries |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | SCIENCE $600: A fuel cell converts chemical energy directly to this kind of energy electrical energy |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | SCIENCE & NATURE $500: Erythrocyte is the scientific name for a red blood cell & this is the term for a white one leukocyte |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | SCIENCE $200: In vertebrates, it's the process of reproducing an entire organism from a single cell cloning |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | THE NERVOUS SYSTEM $600: It's the other name for a nerve cell a neuron |
| #1578, aired 1991-06-12 | SCIENCE $300: It's the main constituent of the cell walls of plants cellulose |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | BIOLOGY $200: The 3 substances in cell walls that make up the woody tissue of trees are pentosan, lignin & this cellulose |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | BOTANY $600: Diatoms are single-cell varieties of these water plants algae |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: Sickle cell anemia affects the shape of these cells the red blood cells |
| #1509, aired 1991-03-07 | THE HUMAN BODY $100: Organs are composed of tissues, & tissues are composed of these basic units of life a cell |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | BOTANY $1000: Found in the cell walls of some plants, this carbohydrate helps jelly gel pectin |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | POETRY $300: Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" this cage |
| #1436, aired 1990-11-26 | COLORFUL PHRASES $400: In India, this cell was the pits the Black Hole of Calcutta |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $1000: Though his "Cell 2455, Death Row" became a best seller, it didn't save him from execution Caryl Chessman |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | FOLK SONGS $500: Legend says this song's about a train whose light shining on a prisoner's cell could set him free "Midnight Special" |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | BIOLOGY $600: It mitosis 1 cell becomes 2; in meiosis a single cell produce this many daughter cells 4 |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | BIOLOGY $1000: A healthy red blood cell in your body has about 300 mil. of these oxygen-carrying molecules hemoglobin |
| #1326, aired 1990-05-14 | BIOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1956 scientists determined a normal human cell has this many chromosomes 46 |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | BIOLOGY $200: The size of this cell in human females is 1 millimeter; in an ostrich, about 15 centimeters an egg cell |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MEDICAL MATTERS $400: This sugar is the body's chief source of energy for cell metabolism glucose |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | HISTORY $600: On the isle of Ste. Marguerite you can see the cell where Louis XIV held this mystery man for 11 years the man in the iron mask |
| #1262, aired 1990-02-13 | MEDICINE $600: An exact copy of a cell, a gene or an organism is called this a clone |
| #1231, aired 1990-01-01 | BIOLOGY $200: The 1st section of the cell to divide, it does it by mitosis, meiosis, or rarely, amitosis the nucleus |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | GLANDS $500: This gland that controls cell metabolism has 2 lobes, 1 on each side of your trachea the thyroid gland |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1000: Imprisoned for an anti-war speech in 1919, this socialist ran his 1920 campaign for president from his jail cell Eugene Debs |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | BIOLOGY $400: The basic cell of the nervous system the neuron |
| #1041, aired 1989-02-27 | STARTS WITH "B" $100: A type of collapsed star, or a cell where many collapsed in Calcutta black hole |
| #978, aired 1988-11-30 | ANATOMY $400: An axon is the extended fiber of this type of cell neural (nerve) cell |
| #943, aired 1988-10-12 | GENETICS $200: Latin for "little nut", the center of a cell was named this because it looked like a little nut in a shell the nucleus |
| #898, aired 1988-06-29 | HISTORICAL DRAMAS $200: The last scene of this Arthur Miller play is set in a Salem jail cell in 1692 The Crucible |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | BIOLOGY $400: The part of a cell where chromosomes are found nucleus |
| #857, aired 1988-05-03 | BIOLOGY $200: Number of daughter cells a single cell produces after its first act of standard mitosis 2 |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | MICRO-ORGANISMS $800: This class of single cell fungus multiplies asexually by budding yeast |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | SCIENCE $800: A diploid cell's nucleus has these aligned in pairs chromosomes |
| #842, aired 1988-04-12 | BLOOD $200: From the Latin for "body", it's a blood cell a corpuscle |
| #806, aired 1988-02-22 | BOTANY $400: It's the principal constituent of most plant cell walls cellulose |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | BIOLOGY $500: (The) Enzyme production of a cell is controlled by these parts of a chromosome genes |
| #727, aired 1987-11-03 | ANATOMY $400: Only visible when a cell divides, they carry your genes chromosome |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | "D.C." $1000: In these, the chemical producing the current is made into a paste so the contents will not spill a dry cell battery |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | BIOLOGY $300 (Daily Double): A single human sperm or egg cell contains this many chromosomes 23 |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | BIOLOGY $1000: Except for the nucleus, this semifluid makes up most of a cell cytoplasm |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | "B" IN HISTORY $600: Some say over 100 British prisoners suffocated in this Indian cell in 1756 the Black Hole of Calcutta |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | "WHITE" $200: It's also called a leukocyte a white blood cell |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $1000: Alphabet letter designation of the cell usually attacked by the aids virus T cell |
| #609, aired 1987-04-09 | TECHNOLOGY $600: Term for a computer compatible with an IBM PC, or a new frog grown from a cell of the original a clone |
| #540, aired 1987-01-02 | 1960 $400: After a record 8 stays of execution, this author of "Cell 2455 Death Row" was finally executed (Caryl) Chessman |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | BOTANY $1000: Cotton is over 90% of this cell wall material made by plants from glucose cellulose |
| #503, aired 1986-11-12 | SCIENCE $800: To cure Parkinson's, scientists are now trying cell grafts in this part of the body brain |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | SCIENCE $200: He invented the zinc-carbon electric cell but not, most say, the burner that bears his name (Robert) Bunsen |
| #446, aired 1986-05-26 | INSECTS $200: This mass of hexagonal wax cells has walls only 1/80-inch thick, but can support 30 times its weight a honeycomb |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | SCIENCE $1000: Normal number of pairs of chromosomes humans have in every cell in their body, except sex cells 23 |
| #372, aired 1986-02-11 | MEDICAL SCHOOL $1000: What you need to get if your doctor orders a CBC, it's Dracula's favorite assignment a complete blood count |
| #334, aired 1985-12-19 | POTPOURRI $1000: Last entry in "Z" volume of Encyclopedia Americana, it's a cell formed by union of 2 sexual cells a zygote |
| #280, aired 1985-10-04 | SCIENCE $100: Most living organisms have millions, but a prisoner only has one a cell |
| #168, aired 1985-05-01 | PUNISHMENTS $800: Poe narrator's punishment for believing Montresor really wants to show him a cask of Amontillado being bricked into a cell (or cellar, being walled up) |
| #139, aired 1985-03-21 | BIOLOGY $400: The process of making a replica object from a single cell of the original cloning |
| #92, aired 1985-01-15 | HOMOPHONES $400: Home to a prisoner or an order to your broker cell/sell |
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Brad Haag, an MBA student from Santa Monica, California
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Season 23 1-time champion: $16,199 + $2,000.
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Tanya Obreiter, a cell biologist from Frederick, Maryland
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Season 33 2-time champion: $63,210 + $1,000.
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Ilana Cohen, a grad student in molecular and cell biology from Seattle, Washington
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Season 26 player (2010-06-10).
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Rick Kent, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 3-time champion: $67,202 + $1,000. Rick won $5,000 on...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
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"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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