#8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $400: (I'm Simu Liu.) In a 2021 Marvel film, I play Shang-Chi, who helps his family as a master of this Chinese martial art, whose name translates as "skill" kung fu |
#8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: This contemporary Chinese artist & activist made the film "Human Flow", about displaced people & refugees Ai Weiwei |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | VIRTUE SIGNALING $1000: This insect known for song & for returning after long periods symbolizes purity in Chinese art; it was supposed to live on dew cicada |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | SOUND GARDEN $800: I use wind chimes in my garden as part of this 2-word Chinese art that aspires to harmonious balance feng shui |
#8081, aired 2019-10-28 | EXERCISE $1200: This Chinese martial art has been called "meditation in motion"; balance is important in its series of fluid movements tai chi |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | CHINESE $400: This art of beautiful writing has long been revered in China as a supreme visual art form calligraphy |
#7502, aired 2017-04-04 | GARDENING $1200: For beginners to this Japanese art of growing dwarf trees, juniper & Chinese elms work particularly well bonsai |
#7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: In the "Bingfa" or "Art of War", this Chinese general laid out his battle strategies Sun Tzu |
#6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $2000: "Know the enemy & know yourself" is a lesson from this treatise, tactics from which were later used by Mao The Art of War |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | CHINESE ART $400: Pi yu is the dark green type of this stone, the most precious in Chinese art jade |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | CHINESE ART $800: This California city's Asian Art Museum has hundreds of Chinese ritual bronzes San Francisco |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | CHINESE ART $1200: These landforms, such as Kunlun, have long been featured in Chinese art; they're the home of dongtian, or "cave heavens" mountains |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | CHINESE ART $1600: This plant is so central to Chinese art that an idiom meaning "prepared" is literally "have a finished" one "in mind" bamboo |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | CHINESE ART $2000: This dynasty, 960-1279, produced great art & one emperor who was a master calligrapher (but lousy emperor) the Song Dynasty |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | THE CULTURE OF VIETNAM $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Ngoc Son Temple in Hanoi, Vietnam.) The surrounding water directing energy toward Ngoc Son Temple is an example of this 2-word Chinese art of creating harmonious surroundings feng shui |
#5774, aired 2009-10-22 | TAOISM $1000: This soft, flowing Chinese martial art rooted in Taoism is often practiced as a form of meditation & exercise tai chi |
#5716, aired 2009-06-15 | A NEW LINE OF BARBIES? $200: Barbie kicks butt as a master of the martial art whose name is Chinese for "skill", watch out for... Kung Fu Barbie |
#5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Chinese art of creating harmonious surroundings means "wind water" in Chinese feng shui |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | ART $400: This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases Ming |
#5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $800: He directed a landmark Chinese production of his play "Death of a Salesman" at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing Arthur Miller |
#5264, aired 2007-06-28 | THE ART OF ASIA $1,600 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA.) No matter what is depicted, putting a red seal as the finishing touch on a black & white painting is called adding an eye to this mythic beast the dragon |
#5264, aired 2007-06-28 | THE ART OF ASIA $2000: This fruit whose blossoms are seen here is one of the four gentlemen of Chinese art plum |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | THE WRITE STUFF $2000: Though probably by several Chinese authors, "The Art of War" is attributed to this author Sun Tzu |
#5000, aired 2006-05-12 | CHINESE CULTURE $1200: (A man goes through the motions while Jon of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA.) Tai chi is a soft-flowing Chinese martial art rooted primarily in this philosophy of Lao Tse Taoism |
#4979, aired 2006-04-13 | FITNESS $2,600 (Daily Double): The name of this meditative exercise & martial art comes from Chinese words for "fist of the great absolute" tai chi |
#3946, aired 2001-10-29 | ART-PODGE $100: This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases Ming |
#3680, aired 2000-09-08 | ART CLASS $400: This dynastic word is applied to Chinese art, especially porcelains, from the mid-14th to the mid-17th centuries Ming |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | ART WORLD BLOCKBUSTERS $600 (Daily Double): A tiger, not a horse, fetched $35,200 in 1986, the highest price ever for a piece from 1 of these a carousel (or a merry-go-round) |
#1373, aired 1990-07-18 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York was designed by this Chinese-American I.M. Pei |
#1116, aired 1989-06-12 | POTLUCK $500: The highest price paid for any Chinese ceramic work of art was for a 15th c. vase from this dynasty Ming |
#827, aired 1988-03-22 | ART $400: This Chinese dynasty which preceded the Manchu, or Ching was famous for its decorative arts Ming |
#374, aired 1986-02-13 | ART $800: Ancient Chinese artists were forbidden from depicting these appendages when painting women the feet |
#362, aired 1986-01-28 | ART $400: Probably at the outset, Chinese writing & this art form were almost identical painting |
#68, aired 1984-12-12 | ANCIENT WORLDS $400: The Chinese once regarded calligraphy as a branch of this art painting |
#6, aired 1984-09-17 | MEDICINE $400: Ancient Chinese art of needling you into good health acupuncture |