#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | SCIENCE $400: Eccentricity measures how much this planetary path deviates from a circle its orbit (an ellipse) |
#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $600: Under P:
"A play in which the story is told without violence to the language" a pantomime |
#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $800: The Wilmot Proviso, which wanted no slavery in newly acquired Mexican lands, was a precursor to this political party the Free Soil Party |
#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | TOUGH VOCAB $1200: It can mean a horse carriage for rent; add -ed to mean made commonplace by frequent use a hackney |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $1000: "Backed by rap's archetypal hype man in Flavor Flav", this Public Enemy leader was a "Rebel Without A Pause" in 1987 Chuck D |
#9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SUPER BOWL STARS $1000: (I'm Bill Cowher.) In 2006, I coached a spunky Steelers squad to a Super Bowl win, the first win for Pittsburgh since this legendary coach won 4 titles beginning in 1975 Chuck Noll |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $400: There's a rivalry between Brussels & Liège about the better way to make these--they are more rectangular in Brussels Belgian waffles |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | U.S. FESTIVALS $500 (Daily Double): An ice sculpture contest is part of Winter Carnival at this northernmost Ivy League school Dartmouth |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WESTMINSTER-WINNING DOG BREEDS $600: When a good time turns around you must name this fast breed here, 1964's winner Whippet |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This composer created "A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close"; Chuck painted a portrait of him titled "Phil" Philip Glass |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | STAND-UP SPECIALS $1600: "Breaking the Rules" was a 1987 special by him, "a comedy combination of Chuck Yeager & Evel Knievel", said Robin Williams Sam Kinison |
#8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $400: Nolan Bushnell covered a lot of ground, founding both Atari & this kids' pizza place chain with a rodent mascot Chuck E. Cheese |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $800: His P-51 Mustang took out 5 German planes in a single dogfight in World War II; being first to break the sound barrier came later Chuck Yeager |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $2000: In a 1934 work, de Gaulle preferred a mobile army to this static defensive barrier set up vs. a German attack; Chuck was right the Maginot Line |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $300: Whether the second part of its name is "chuck" or "rump", this dish needs to cook an hour per pound & the old folks start ordering it at 5:00 P.M. pot roast |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $800: Converse has sold more than a billion pairs of the iconic "All Star" sneakers bearing the name of this basketball player & promoter Chuck Taylor |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WEST VIRGINIA & REGULAR VIRGINIA $1000: Charleston's Intl. Airport is named for this test pilot, a West Virginian who sounded off & made history in 1947 (Chuck) Yeager |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $200: This type of wagon was where food was served; its name referred to grub, & no one eats until cookie calls a chuck wagon |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | NOT A FEATURE $200: Not Donald but he is tormented by an all-powerful animator in the classic short "Duck Amuck" Daffy Duck |
#8682, aired 2022-07-12 | "TOP" OF THE POPS $1200: In "Roll Over Beethoven", Chuck Berry sang, "She wiggle like a glowworm, dance like" one of these a spinning top |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $200: Charles Dickens began writing this ghostly tale in October 1843 & published it, of course, in December A Christmas Carol |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $600: In the 1980s Chuck D began fighting the power in this hip-hop group with Flavor Flav, a man who always knew what time it was Public Enemy |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $1000: At first, "Martin Chuzzlewit" had poor sales, so Dickens added a section set in this country he'd just visited the United States |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $400: Later "The Rifleman" on TV, Chuck Connors was a Brooklyn Dodger & as a Celtic in 1946, became the first NBA player to shatter this the backboard |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $800: Often used for pot roast: ____ roast a chuck roast |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | SENATE COMMITTEES $600: A long-time member & sometime chair of the Finance Committee, in 2021 this 88-year-old Iowan announced he's running again (Chuck) Grassley |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC $2000: They heard Chuck D & this band revolutionize hip-hop with albums like 1988's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" Public Enemy |
#2, aired 2022-02-08 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $800: (Chuck Bryant reads the clue.) Making genetically identical offspring via a shared root system, a grove in Utah of the quaking species of this tree is considered one of the largest organisms in the world aspen |
#2, aired 2022-02-08 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $1000: (Chuck Bryant reads the clue.) In 2014, a so-called "hurricane" 600 miles wide arose in the ionosphere over the North Pole; the cyclone was composed of this substance dubbed "the 4th state of matter" plasma |
#8525, aired 2021-12-03 | ANIMAL MASCOTS $200: Chuck E. Cheese a mouse |
#8502, aired 2021-11-02 | UNPACK YOUR ADJECTIVES $4,100 (Daily Double): Meaning snakelike as an adjective, it refers to a green mineral as a noun serpentine |
#8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE GIFT OF GRAB $600: This birthday party place "Where a kid can be a kid" gives guests a chance to grab toys out of the crane claw machine Chuck E. Cheese |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) You can't miss the 1973 Cadillac convertible, owned by this rock pioneer, who influenced so many early performers, including The Beatles, & he drove the car in "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll", a documentary that celebrated his 60th birthday Chuck Berry |
#8447, aired 2021-07-20 | A BORING CATEGORY $200: This "colorful" company says its GC1800 cordless drill's "keyless chuck makes bit changing a breeze" Black+Decker |
#8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A VISIT TO PRAGUE $1600: In 1348 Charles IV of this "sacred" empire founded Charles University--go Chuck U.!--in Prague, his capital the Holy Roman Empire |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MEAN TWEETERS $400: Red, Chuck, Bomb & Matilda are these surly characters in a Rovio game app Angry Birds |
#8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HISTORY OF FLIGHT $1600: While flying over Rogers Dry Lake in California in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break this the speed of sound |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ALLITERATIVE BUSINESS $1200: This kids' restaurant & play place with a rodent mascot has offered a Sensory Sensitive Sunday once a month Chuck E. Cheese |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | "ROCK" &/OR "ROLL" SONGS $400: Chuck Berry's impossible 1956 title request of Ludwig van while "rockin' in 2 by 2" "Roll Over Beethoven" |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | DJ, JAZZY $400: Horace Silver's tune about L.A. DJ Chuck Niles isn't "the hippest guy in Hollywood"--it uses this 3-letter jazz word for "guy" cat |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | THAT'S POLITICS $800: In a 2008 presidential ad, Chuck Norris gave Huck facts & this governor gave Chuck facts (Mike) Huckabee |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW $800: About Mr. Bartowski, a computer repairman dragged into the spy life in the CIA Chuck |
#8066, aired 2019-10-07 | PLACES OF BUSINESS $600: This family-friendly pizza chain with a mouse mascot has more than 600 locations Chuck E. Cheese |
#8046, aired 2019-09-09 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton Fight Club |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | WRITERS' OTHER GIGS $2000: Early on, Chuck Palahniuk worked as a journalist & a diesel mechanic in this city with which he's associated Portland, Oregon |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $2000: The Hall inducted this co-creator of "Big Bang Theory" & "Two and a Half Men" (Chuck) Lorre |
#7773, aired 2018-05-30 | POLITICO $200: In 2016 this son of a Brooklyn exterminator became the leader of the Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer |
#7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MEMORIAL DAY $1600: On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West chuck wagons |
#7724, aired 2018-03-22 | MIDDLE INITIAL E. $200: He's the mascot for the pizza and play place where a kid can be a kid Chuck E. Cheese |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $1000: This '50s & '60s TV "Rifleman" played 2 seasons of pro basketball & 2 seasons of major league baseball Chuck Connors |
#7682, aired 2018-01-23 | CHARACTERS' FULL NAMES $400: Formally, the first 2 names of this mascot of a kids' restaurant chain are "Charles Entertainment" Chuck E. Cheese |
#7646, aired 2017-12-04 | AVIATION $3,000 (Daily Double): The day before flying at Mach 1 in 1947, he broke 2 ribs when he fell off a horse Chuck Yeager |
#7631, aired 2017-11-13 | '90s TV $800: One meme about this actor who was "Walker, Texas Ranger":
"Death once had a near-" him "experience" Chuck Norris |
#7613, aired 2017-10-18 | HAIL! HAIL! CHUCK BERRY $1000: This 1958 Chuck classic about a guitar-playing wunderkind went! went! to No. 8 on the charts "Johnny B. Goode" |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | GOVERNMENT & TV $1600: Seen here, Yvonne Strahovski played a CIA agent helping a nerdy newbie on this show Chuck |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | PARTY TIME! $200: Founded in 1854:
This U.S. party that also goes by a 3-letter nickname the Republican Party (or the GOP) |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | WHAT'S YOUR MOVIE OCCUPATION? $600: Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Jerry Maguire", ya know?! a football player |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $400: Utah's Uinta range, a part of this mountain system, is the only major range in the contiguous U.S. running east-west the Rockies |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: Exhibits at Pilgrim Hall in this Mass. city include William Bradford's wine cup & a cooking pot belonging to Myles Standish Plymouth |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "READY" WHEN YOU ARE $800: Pret-a-porter is French for this type of clothing ready-to-wear |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $800: After the Civil War this bestselling author spent time in the South & "Palmetto Leaves" is a book about her life in Florida Harriet Beecher Stowe |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: Bandleader Glenn Miller was also a virtuoso on this brass instrument trombone |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $1600: This "Magic Mountain" author left Germany for the same L.A. street where O.J. Simpson later lived Thomas Mann |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $2000: Written while she lived in France, "Tender Buttons" is a 1914 collection of poems by this American author & art patron Gertrude Stein |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | IT HAPPENED ON MEET THE PRESS $800: (Chuck Todd of Meet the Press gives the clue.) This controversial Wisconsin senator is seen here in a 1953 appearance; during another show, he rested a handgun unseen in his lap the whole program McCarthy |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | IT HAPPENED ON MEET THE PRESS $1600: (Chuck Todd of Meet the Press gives the clue.) This labor leader's appearance on July 9, 1961 had to be fitted in between a string of indictments Hoffa |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | IT HAPPENED ON MEET THE PRESS $2000: (Chuck Todd of Meet the Press gives the clue.) She was so impressed with how she looked when on "MTP" that she requested & was given a supply of the show's makeup (Indira) Gandhi |
#7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $600: In 1953 he had the right stuff when he set a world record by flying 1,650 mph in an X-1A rocket plane Chuck Yeager |
#7328, aired 2016-06-22 | START UP YOUR CARLOS $400: It's the better-known first name used by Carlos Ray Norris, a "Texas Ranger" on TV Chuck |
#7315, aired 2016-06-03 | MISSING MOVIE NAMES $1000: A comedic marriage of Adam Sandler & Kevin James:
"I Now Pronounce You ____ & ____" Chuck & Larry |
#7301, aired 2016-05-16 | "GAD"ZOOKS! $600: "Insect" term for a person who persistently annoys others with criticism a gadfly |
#7301, aired 2016-05-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $1000: Part of "The Taming of the Shrew" is set at this tamer's country house Petruchio |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | RANCHING AS IT WAS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, TX.) On a cattle drive that could last months, all of the food & equipment needed to prepare meals was carried on this transport that was likely named for the food served & not for its inventor the chuck wagon |
#7246, aired 2016-02-29 | NEBRASKANS $400: This Vietnam vet was elected a U.S. Senator for Nebraska in 1996 & made Secretary of Defense in 2013 Chuck Hagel |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | SOLE MEN $1,000 (Daily Double): His Basketball HOF bio says in 1921 he "hobbled into a Converse Chicago sales office complaining of sore feet" Chuck Taylor |
#6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THE MI"DD"LE $800: A duck's walk (not the one Chuck Berry did) waddle |
#6959, aired 2014-12-11 | NAME THAT SONG $1200: Chuck Berry's first Top 40 hit was this one about a girl in a Coupe de Ville "Maybellene" |
#6940, aired 2014-11-14 | NOT A POP GROUP, YET A POP GROUP $600: Scone or Rosetta;
a Jewish house of worship;
Chuck Yeager & the Red Baron Stone Temple Pilots |
#6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TOP 40 INSTRUMENTALS $2000: He tooted his own horn, a flugelhorn, on his Top 10 hit "Feels So Good" (Chuck) Mangione |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | POLITICAL PARTIES $400: Chuck Connors, Cesar Romero & Buddy Ebsen were on hand at L.A.'s Century Plaza to celebrate his 1984 presidential win Reagan |
#6836, aired 2014-05-12 | MAKE YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $1200: The + our 9th president's last name + a "diplomatic" term for a correct method of medical treatment The Harrison Protocol |
#6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Grammatically, in "When Al headbutted a lamppost, he got a concussion", "Al" is this of "he", & Al is stupid the antecedent |
#6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $4,800 (Daily Double): Adjective for the perfect embodiment of something, or something a Dionne kid must have quintessential |
#6801, aired 2014-03-24 | THE CHUCK WAGON $2000: This basketball promoter's signature is on a few hundred million pairs of Converse All-Stars Chuck Taylor |
#6766, aired 2014-02-03 | ON THE "M"ENU $800: This 2-word term means chemistry & physics have come to the kitchen; liquid nitrogen & lasers might be involved molecular gastronomy (or molecular cooking) |
#6753, aired 2014-01-15 | REALITY TV $400: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) I'm obsessed with the A&E reality series in which Barry & Dave bid on repossessed goods found in lockers or units that's called these "Wars" Storage Wars |
#6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) |
#6697, aired 2013-10-29 | CHUCK A... $200: Chuck a weapon called this, used by Aborigines; a good throw can send one 550 feet before it begins its return to sender a boomerang |
#6697, aired 2013-10-29 | CHUCK A... $400: Hurl a baseball well & you'll have a good WHIP, a newer stat short for these & hits per innings pitched walks |
#6697, aired 2013-10-29 | CHUCK A... $600: Heave a 16-pound sphere called this 74 feet & you'll have an Olympic record a shotput |
#6697, aired 2013-10-29 | CHUCK A... $800: Toss a heavy wooden pole called a caber at these "Games" held in Inverness, Scotland every summer the Highland Games |
#6697, aired 2013-10-29 | CHUCK A... $1000: Chuck a sporting item called this; a "leaner" against a stake counts for 1 point a horseshoe |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $400: This action star turned 73 in March 2013, or would have, but the calendar turned backward out of fear of him Chuck Norris |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | CROSSING THE PARTY LINE $200: In 2013 this Republican didn't get a lot of Republican love in the Senate but was confirmed as defense secretary Chuck Hagel |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | MEN AT WORK $200: He's been a Vietnam infantryman & a Republican senator & on Jan. 7, 2013 Pres. Obama nominated him as defense secretary (Chuck) Hagel |
#6591, aired 2013-04-22 | LAS VEGAS $800: In 1946 El Rancho Vegas started a tradition with this type of meal service, chuck wagon-style a buffet |
#6555, aired 2013-03-01 | WINGS $800: He flew faster than the speed of sound in a Bell X-1 that he named Glamorous Glennis for his wife (Chuck) Yeager |
#6502, aired 2012-12-18 | THE P-51 MUSTANG $1200: This sound barrier breaker flew a Mustang for most of his 12.5 aerial kills during World War II (Chuck) Yeager |
#6466, aired 2012-10-29 | HELLO, CLEVELAND! $2000: In 1999 this Chuck D group said, "Hello, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" & played at a new hip-hop exhibit Public Enemy |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BIRTHDAY PARTY LOCATIONS $400: This party place "where a kid can be a kid" used to have "pizza" in its name, now all that's left is the "cheese" Chuck E. Cheese's |
#6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE DAILY RUNDOWN $1,000 (Daily Double): Thursday, Nov. 26, 1863 was proclaimed as "a day of" this "and praise" thanksgiving |
#6379, aired 2012-05-17 | HAUL $1200: In trucking, it's been defined as a run that covers more than 1,000 miles a long haul |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | MILITARY NICKNAMES & SLANG $800: A full colonel is sometimes called a bird colonel because he has these insignias eagles |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 2010s TV $800: New Mexico drug kingpin Gus Fring lost a good deal of face on this drama Breaking Bad |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: The title pooch of "Good Dog, Carl" is this breed named for a German place Rottweiler |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ADLER-TIZING $1000: With Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler edited a 54-volume series called "Great Books of" this, "GBWW" for short Great Books of the Western World |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | QUOTATIONS $1000: Winston Churchill said this Secretary of State under Eisenhower was a "bull who carries his China shop with him" John Foster Dulles |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | SPRING AWAKENING $1600: This spring flower that belongs to the olive family shares a name with a Disney princess jasmine |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | A MOVIE & A MEAL $1600: For the "Moonglow" dance scene in this 1955 film, William Holden practiced his dance steps in Kansas roadhouses Picnic |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): By having operations in both Libya & Liechtenstein, a corporation is entitled to be called this multinational |
#6337, aired 2012-03-20 | CELEBRITY VETERANS $1200: This actor & martial artist was an Air Force man before becoming a "Texas Ranger" on TV Chuck Norris |
#6313, aired 2012-02-15 | ROCK DOCUMENTARIES $800: "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" is a celebration of this '50s rock pioneer Chuck Berry |
#6307, aired 2012-02-07 | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: There are 2 body parts in the name of this steak from between the short loin & the chuck a ribeye |
#6285, aired 2012-01-06 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS $1600: In Spanish please, it's the real first name of Chuck Norris & Charlie Sheen Carlos |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CHAMBER MUSIC $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands on stage as a string quartet plays the piece described in the clue at the Julliard School in New York.) Opus 33 No. 2 by Haydn, who created the modern string quartet, tricks you with multiple endings; he couldn't resist a good one of these, the nickname of the piece "The Joke" |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $2000: In math you get a difference by subtracting the subtrahend from this number the minuend |
#6266, aired 2011-12-12 | TAKING SPECIAL MEASURES $800: Used in surveying, this unit is equal to one hundredth of a chain a link |
#6266, aired 2011-12-12 | ALSO A PRESIDENT'S SURNAME $1200: Shallow, crossable part of a river Ford |
#6174, aired 2011-06-16 | LEGISLATIVE LEGACIES $1200: (Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) One of my proudest achievements as a senator was when this fellow New York senator & I secured $20 billion for New York's recovery after 9/11 Charles ("Chuck") Schumer |
#6128, aired 2011-04-13 | MGM WOULD HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME $400: Yvonne Strahovski plays a CIA agent on this TV show about a geek turned spy Chuck |
#6109, aired 2011-03-17 | AVIATION $600: In 1953 he set another world record flying 2 1/2 times the speed of sound in a Bell X-1A rocket plane Chuck Yeager |
#6072, aired 2011-01-25 | DEATH BY... $2,000 (Daily Double): Air crash of his MiG fighter plane while on a training mission near Moscow, March 27, 1968 Yuri Gagarin |
#6022, aired 2010-11-16 | TV $2000: USA's website for this action drama says, "When spies get fired, they don't get a letter from human resources" Burn Notice |
#5977, aired 2010-09-14 | ROCK 'N OLD $400: This rock pioneer who sang "Sweet Little Sixteen" in 1958 turned a sweet little 83 in 2009 Chuck Berry |
#5971, aired 2010-07-26 | WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? $400: A nickname for Charles Chuck |
#5806, aired 2009-12-07 | DEDICATED $4,000 (Daily Double): His "Cat's Cradle" is "For Kenneith Littauer, a man of gallantry and taste" (Kurt) Vonnegut |
#5788, aired 2009-11-11 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $200: If a woodchuck could chuck wood (it could happen!), it'd still also be known as this, even on February 2 a groundhog |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU $200: This guy seemingly kicked half of the Lone Star State in the face playing TV's Cordell Walker Chuck Norris |
#5662, aired 2009-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This "Fight Club" author's book "Rant" is described as the "oral biography" of a serial killer Chuck Palahniuk |
#5643, aired 2009-03-04 | CHANGE THE VOWELS $1000: Library to-do: chuck eat I beak check out a book |
#5490, aired 2008-06-20 | SOUNDS LIKE A GAME SHOW HOST $200: This rock legend is, to our knowledge, not a secret agent Chuck Berry |
#5373, aired 2008-01-09 | A CHARLIE IN THE BOX $800: Occasionally called Chuck, this comics character had violent battles with his local "kite-eating tree" Charlie Brown |
#5364, aired 2007-12-27 | CONGRESSIONAL BEFORE & AFTER $1200: To make a great hamburger, you process the meat between the neck & shoulder of a maverick Nebraska senator ground Chuck Hagel |
#5343, aired 2007-11-28 | PLAYING POSSUM $1200: Chuck Berry knows this "sweet little" number of days is the typical gestation period of a possum sixteen |
#5302, aired 2007-10-02 | USA NETWORK $400: If you're looking for a 4-hour block of this Chuck Norris series, USA is the place for you Walker, Texas Ranger |
#5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THE BRITISH INVASION $400: The first track on "The Beatles' Second Album" was a Chuck Berry song that told this composer to "roll over" Beethoven |
#5281, aired 2007-07-23 | ADVENTURES IN THE AIR $400: Hitting a speed of about 800 miles per hour, Chuck Yeager broke this barrier in October 1947 the speed of sound |
#5185, aired 2007-03-09 | DESCRIPTIONS & DEFINITIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Animator Chuck Jones quotes Mark Twain on this: "a long... sorry-looking skeleton with a gray wolf-skin" coyote |
#5176, aired 2007-02-26 | MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS $400: In 1814 & 1815 this island 6 miles off Tuscany was a sovereign state ruled by Napoleon Elba |
#5176, aired 2007-02-26 | HERE'S WALDO $600: On the quirky TV series "Twin Peaks", a pet bird named Waldo of this talkative species ends up mysteriously dead a myna bird |
#5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1937:
"A Biography Concerning Alfred Dreyfus' Defender" The Life of Emile Zola |
#5167, aired 2007-02-13 | LET'S GO SHOPPING $400: First off, I need a pair of this brand's Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers Converse |
#5107, aired 2006-11-21 | THAT '70s SHOW $400: Chuck Barris created & hosted this show, a sort of talent-free show The Gong Show |
#5065, aired 2006-09-22 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: Striking one of these metal discs, perhaps the tam-tam, yields a highly resonant sound; just ask Chuck Barris a gong |
#5034, aired 2006-06-29 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: It resembles a large cornet but is actually a bugle; Chuck Mangione featured it on his 1978 hit "Feels So Good" the flugelhorn |
#5031, aired 2006-06-26 | FOUNDERS $800: Every trendy home should have a mozzarella slicer from this retailer founded by Chuck Williams Williams-Sonoma |
#4990, aired 2006-04-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A SANDWICH $1200: The tagline for this Brad Pitt movie based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel is "Mischief, mayhem, soap" Fight Club |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $400: In 1866 rancher Charles Goodnight introduced this vehicle used for transporting provisions & cooking equipment a chuck wagon |
#4977, aired 2006-04-11 | SUPER BOWL MVPs $1000: After a last-second Colts FG in Super Bowl V, this team's Chuck Howley became the first MVP from a losing team the Dallas Cowboys |
#4924, aired 2006-01-26 | GRADUATE SCHOOL $1600: Portraitist Chuck Close earned a "Master of" these from Yale in 1964; glass master Dale Chihuly, from RISD in 1968 fine arts |
#4905, aired 2005-12-30 | THE MISSIVES OF OCTOBER $600: Oct. 14, 1947: Dear Bro, I hear that today this man traveled over 662 MPH in a Bell X-1 Chuck Yeager |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | DICKENS HEARS FROM HOLLYWOOD $400: I like it, Chuck; an orphan overcomes the odds, dig the "Bill & Nancy" angle... do it as a musical? Are you nuts?! Oliver Twist |
#4814, aired 2005-07-07 | ANIMAL AKA $200: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck on February 2nd when it's known by this name a groundhog |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | "PEPPER" $400: She first called Charlie Brown "Chuck" in a comic strip that appeared on August 24, 1966 Peppermint Patty |
#4777, aired 2005-05-17 | THE NIXON LIBRARY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA.) In 1970 this man dropped in at the White House, gave Nixon this gun & bullets, & asked to become a federal drug agent Elvis Presley |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | 1 FOR THE PRICE OF 2 $1000: Alfred & Helen Free developed a "dip & read" test so diabetics could check the level of this sugar in their blood glucose |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT... $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a desk at NYPD headquarters.) This future U.S. president sat at this desk when he was president of the board of police commissioners Theodore Roosevelt |
#4716, aired 2005-02-21 | "C.S.", I $1200: As a congressman he sponsored 1994's Brady Bill on handguns; now, he's New York's senior senator Chuck Schumer |
#4667, aired 2004-12-14 | TOM WOLFE $1200: "The Right Stuff" tells of how this man broke the sound barrier with 2 broken ribs from a drunken horseback ride Chuck Yeager |
#4593, aired 2004-07-21 | I'VE GOT A BEEF WITH YOU $800: The cut of meat between the neck & the shoulder blade; it also is a clamp between the bit & the drill chuck |
#4565, aired 2004-06-11 | FOR THE KID IN YOU $800: A party here, "Where a kid can be a kid", goes:
playtime--pizza--performance--cake--open gifts--90 minutes are up Chuck E. Cheese's |
#4486, aired 2004-02-23 | 1953 $1200: On December 12 this U.S. Air Force pilot set a speed record by flying his Bell X-1A rocket plane over 1600 MPH (Chuck) Yeager |
#4458, aired 2004-01-14 | HOLEY $800: You put your Dixon Ticonderoga into a hole called a "chuck" in this device pencil sharpener |
#4430, aired 2003-12-05 | THE MOVIES $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from a Fedex facility)
In a 2000 film, playing Fedex employee Chuck Noland, this actor said, "We live or we die by the clock." Tom Hanks |
#4409, aired 2003-11-06 | 2003 NEWS $1,000 (Daily Double): The design selected for the World Trade Center site included a tower of this symbolic height 1,776 feet |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | X LACKS $400: Send a paper message by phone; lose an "X" & you're left with a musical tone fa (fax) |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $400: 1 of the 2 Irishmen to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in the 1920s (1 of) William Butler Yeats or George Bernard Shaw |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | CAN I GET YOUR NUMBER? $1000: Number of months in a semicentennial 600 |
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 | AN OCTOBER FIRST FEST $2000: Oct. 1 is the feast of St. Remi, whose big moment was baptizing the king of these people at Reims in 496 the Franks |
#4382, aired 2003-09-30 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $2000: This "Fox" & his guerrilla band attacked the British & then retreated to South Carolina's swamps Francis Marion |
#4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Constitution Center.) The name of one of the 3 dissenters to the U.S. Constitution has given us this word that signifies unorthodox political boundary realignment gerrymandering |
#4356, aired 2003-07-07 | STARS' MEMOIRS $800: "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" Chuck Barris |
#4219, aired 2002-12-26 | BITS & PIECES $1000: This part of a drill that tightens the jaw around the bit has a special key chuck |
#4136, aired 2002-09-02 | HOMEMAKING $600: When I sweep these "hare-y" items out from under the bed, they're not nearly as cute as Chuck Jones' Bugs a dust bunny |
#4112, aired 2002-06-18 | GOVERNORS $2000: This marine who married Lynda Bird Johnson in a White House wedding in 1967 was elected gov. of Virginia in 1981 (Chuck) Robb |
#4085, aired 2002-05-10 | COLONIAL ARTS $800: In 1750 theater was banned in this then-colonial capital as a form of Mass. entertainment Boston |
#4085, aired 2002-05-10 | ABBREVIATED STATES $1000: State whose abbreviation is also a cabinet department that was formed in 1989 Virginia |
#4080, aired 2002-05-03 | 18 YEARS OF LEFTOVERS $1000: From Season 10:
This count who commanded a French force at Yorktown had almost become a priest Rochambeau |
#4060, aired 2002-04-05 | THEIR LAST TOP 10 HIT $800: "My Ding-A-Ling"
(1972) Chuck Berry |
#4050, aired 2002-03-22 | BASKETBALL COACHES $200: Chuck Daly got a championship ring in 1990 with the Pistons & this piece of jewelry 2 years later with the "Dream Team" an Olympic Gold medal |
#3966, aired 2001-11-26 | STORE TREK $600: This store, a place for cooks, was founded by Chuck Williams in the 1950s Williams-Sonoma |
#3922, aired 2001-09-25 | THE FIVE SENSES $800: You can have a lack of it in fashion, or use chemoreceptor cells to aid it at Chuck E. Cheese's taste |
#3730, aired 2000-11-17 | SOUNDS GOOD TO ME $400: This dramatic musical instrument heard here reached Europe in the 1700s
(and a Chuck Barris program later) Gong |
#3700, aired 2000-10-06 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $200: The thing is a cut of beef near the neck; the person is TV host Woolery Chuck |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | THE WHEEL THING $200: On a cattle drive, Cookie works out of this vehicle that carries his supplies Chuck wagon |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | NEW GAME SHOWS? $500: In 1999 Game Show Network revived Chuck Barris' "3's a Crowd" with this former "Growing Pains" star as host Alan Thicke |
#3495, aired 1999-11-12 | FUHGEDDABOUDIT! IT'S BROOKLYN $1000: In 1998 this Brooklyn congressman defeated Alfonse D'Amato for a seat in the U.S. Senate Chuck Schumer |
#3402, aired 1999-05-25 | BIG SCREEN BADDIES $800: A perennial good guy now, in Bruce Lee's "Return of the Dragon" this American TV star played a martial arts villain Chuck Norris |
#3396, aired 1999-05-17 | TONGUE TWISTERS $200: It's how much wood a woodchuck would chuck "if a woodchuck could" do this chuck wood |
#3329, aired 1999-02-11 | ALL "RIGHT" $500: Chuck Yeager had this title quality in a 1979 Tom Wolfe work The Right Stuff |
#3311, aired 1999-01-18 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $200: The author of "The Color Purple" takes on a Chuck Norris TV role Alice Walker, Texas Ranger |
#3306, aired 1999-01-11 | HOLIDAYS $200: "(Hi, I'm Chuck Woolery) You can send a card to your sweetheart or anyone in your 4th grade class on this February holiday" Valentine's Day |
#3283, aired 1998-12-09 | TREATS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Chuck Woolery.) Going on a date where both people pay is known as this type of treat Dutch treat |
#3256, aired 1998-11-02 | RING A BELL? $600: On Oct. 14, 1947 he flew a Bell X-1 aircraft 662 miles per hour Chuck Yeager |
#3237, aired 1998-10-06 | WRITERS' PRIVATE LIVES $200: Before he was famous he drove around with a license plate that read "Garp" John Irving |
#3237, aired 1998-10-06 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $500: A 41.94 carat diamond is named for this emperor; we assume his wife Carlotta was mad about it Maximilian |
#3237, aired 1998-10-06 | GORDON THE WINE SNOB $800: Gordon calls the bartender at the local tavern this, the French term for a wine steward Sommelier |
#3229, aired 1998-09-24 | DAYTIME TV $600: "Original Amateur Hour" host Ted Mack died within a month of the premiere of this Chuck Barris show The Gong Show |
#3218, aired 1998-09-09 | "Y"s GUYS $400: Think fast -- in 1997 Edwards Air Force Base in California named a street in honor of this retired general Chuck Yeager |
#3204, aired 1998-07-02 | "STUFF" $300: Chuck Yeager was a technical advisor & had a cameo in this 1983 movie The Right Stuff |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The lead singer of Hole appearing on Chuck Woolery's old show "Courtney Love Connection" |
#3046, aired 1997-11-24 | AROUND THE HORN $1,500 (Daily Double): From the German for "wing", this horn, heard here, was popularized by Chuck Mangione: the flugelhorn |
#3036, aired 1997-11-10 | "HIGH" SCHOOL $200: Chuck Taylor, from whom Converse named a line of these shoes, was a basketball star of the 1910s high-tops |
#3027, aired 1997-10-28 | '60s TV $500 (Daily Double): "(Hi, I'm Chuck Woolery) On this Allen Ludden game show, a contestant scored 10 points if she guessed right on her first clue" Password |
#3019, aired 1997-10-16 | MARTIAL ARTISTS $100: His 1983 character Lone Wolf McQuade was a maverick Texas Ranger; hmmmm, good idea for a TV show Chuck Norris |
#2984, aired 1997-07-17 | MUSICAL GROUPS $300: This outspoken rap group led by Chuck D. took its name from a song title that ended "Number One" Public Enemy |
#2861, aired 1997-01-27 | WEST VIRGINIANS $400: This first person to fly faster than the speed of sound was a fighter ace during WWII Chuck Yeager |
#2755, aired 1996-07-19 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $200: This princess of Monaco made her recording debut with the hit single "Comme Un Ouragan", "Like A Hurricane" Stephanie |
#2718, aired 1996-05-29 | FOOD & DRINK $800: It's made by tying 2 rib sections into a circle, ribs up, & putting little paper caps on the rib ends a crown roast |
#2664, aired 1996-03-14 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $100: Amarillo in this state is the home of Cowboy Morning, which features a wagon ride & chuck wagon chow Texas |
#2633, aired 1996-01-31 | POTPOURRI $1000: In 1976 the U.S. Mint issued a medal commemorating his flight through the sound barrier Chuck Yeager |
#2553, aired 1995-10-11 | AGRICULTURE $400: Of 7 days, 7 weeks or 7 months, the approximate time it takes to produce a broiler chicken 7 weeks |
#2553, aired 1995-10-11 | DEMOCRATS $600: In 1994 he became the first Speaker of the House to lose a reelection bid since 1862 Tom Foley |
#2552, aired 1995-10-10 | HOBBIES & CRAFTS $100: A receptarist would cut these out of the food section of the L.A. times recipes |
#2552, aired 1995-10-10 | FICTION $800: This 1981 bestseller by James Clavell was subtitled "A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong" Noble House |
#2551, aired 1995-10-09 | DRAMA CLASS $400: From the Latin for "talking alone", it's the kind of monologue Hamlet prefers a soliloquy |
#2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "The Old Man and the Sea", this Cuban fisherman finally hooks a marlin after almost 3 months Santiago |
#2411, aired 1995-02-13 | COMPUTERS $400: This term for a single point in a graphic image is short for "picture element" a pixel |
#2411, aired 1995-02-13 | THE CLASS TRIP TO WASHINGTON $400: Visitors may ride a subway that connects this building with the Senate & House office buildings the Capitol Building |
#2280, aired 1994-07-01 | GOVERNORS $1000: In April 1993 a plane crash claimed the life of this state's governor, George Mickelson South Dakota |
#2280, aired 1994-07-01 | ANIMALS $1000: The largest amphibian is the giant Japanese variety of this tailed creature a salamander |
#2261, aired 1994-06-06 | EXPLORERS $1000: When he died of a fever in 1542, his body was sunk in the Mississippi, the river he discovered Hernando de Soto |
#2114, aired 1993-11-11 | ROCK MUSIC $200: "Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll" was a 1987 documentary about this pioneer performer Chuck Berry |
#2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE GRAPHIC ARTS $300: Drafting is also known as this type of "drawing" & it uses a special pencil mechanical drawing |
#2038, aired 1993-06-16 | POTPOURRI $300: It’s a cookhouse on wheels, or a pet food that probably isn’t made in one a chuck wagon |
#1986, aired 1993-04-05 | OCEAN CREATURES $1000: Their association with sharks, attaching to them & feeding with them, is called phoresy a remora |
#1945, aired 1993-02-05 | THE INSTRUMENT PLAYED $200: Duane Eddy, Andres Segovia & Chuck Berry a guitar |
#1868, aired 1992-10-21 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: In November of 1966, James Lovell & Edwin Aldrin became the last to fly in this two-man spacecraft a Gemini |
#1867, aired 1992-10-20 | "T" BIRDS $300: The 12 Days of Christmas mentions 2 of these birds & the partridge in a pear tree turtle doves |
#1617, aired 1991-09-17 | WILD CATS $100: Its scientific name is panthera leo lion |
#1617, aired 1991-09-17 | COMPOSERS $400: Heitor Villa-Lobos helped develop a national style of music for this, his native country Brazil |
#1617, aired 1991-09-17 | CLOTHING $2,400 (Daily Double): A cloth worn under the chin & a piece of lace worn around the neck & shoulders form this phrase bib and tucker |
#1578, aired 1991-06-12 | "MY" SONGS $500: In 1972 Chuck Berry had his first & only No. 1 hit with this novelty song "My Ding-A-Ling" |
#1497, aired 1991-02-19 | TRANSPORTATION $300: A rolling kitchen for wranglers a chuck wagon |
#1484, aired 1991-01-31 | TRANSPORTATION $300: The plane that he flew to break the sound barrier was named Glamorous Glennis after his wife Chuck Yeager |
#1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 1983 MOVIES $200: While S. Shepard played test pilot Chuck Yeager in this film, Yeager himself had a bit part as a bartender The Right Stuff |
#1170, aired 1989-10-06 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $600: When this large metal disk was struck, Chuck Barris stopped the act performing on stage gong |
#1071, aired 1989-04-10 | POT CLUCK $400: When Republicans promised this in 1932, the cost of cluck was 8 times chuck a chicken in every pot |
#999, aired 1988-12-29 | RODENTS $500: Fish & wildlife technician Richard Thomas figured out the answer to this rodent riddle is about 700 lbs. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? |
#992, aired 1988-12-20 | THINGUMAJIGS $600: Part of a drill in which you insert a key to tighten or loosen its hold on the bit chuck |
#980, aired 1988-12-02 | MUSICIANS $800: This famous flügelhorn player is a protégé of Dizzy Gillespie Chuck Mangione |
#915, aired 1988-07-22 | CHILDREN'S SONGS $5 (Daily Double): Type of choral arrangement heard here:
"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
Row, row, row your boat..." a round |
#915, aired 1988-07-22 | WEATHER $400: The time lag between these 2 phenomena allows the calculation of distance between observer & storm the thunder & the lightning |
#906, aired 1988-07-11 | FRENCH LITERATURE $200: Characters in this 1845 Prosper Merimee work include a soldier, a cigar worker, & a picador Carmen |
#906, aired 1988-07-11 | ODD JOBS $300: A fellmonger removes this valuable substance from sheepskins wool |
#776, aired 1988-01-11 | THIS IS JEOPARDY! $100: With a cash total of $172,800, he's Jeopardy!'s biggest winner ever Chuck Forrest |
#760, aired 1987-12-18 | KIDDIE LIT CREATURES $800 (Daily Double): Seen here as drawn in a Chuck Jones cartoon, name of this Rudyard Kipling title creature Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
#698, aired 1987-09-23 | THE LAW $800: If a woodchuck could chuck wood but fails to honor an agreement to chuck, he could be sued for this breach of contract |
#612, aired 1987-04-14 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $600: His wife, born Anne Frances Robbins, is a 10th cousin to England's Princess Diana Ronald Reagan |
#510, aired 1986-11-21 | '50s TV $800: Besides hosting daytime's "The Price Is Right", Bill Cullen was a regular on this nighttime game show I've Got a Secret |
#509, aired 1986-11-20 | ANATOMY $300: Of the larynx, pharynx, or trachea, the one that serves as a passageway for both food & air pharynx |
#505, aired 1986-11-14 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: The British use the Eskimo word "anorak" for this parka |
#505, aired 1986-11-14 | DAYS IN SONG $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following headbreaking, not heartbreaking, song:
"It's getting late have you seen my mates /
Ma tell me when the boys get here /
It's seven o'clock and I want to rock /
Want to get a belly full of beer..." "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" |
#473, aired 1986-10-01 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: The typical number of seeds found in the hard inner pit of a drupe 1 |
#446, aired 1986-05-26 | FOOD & DRINK $100: Cowboy's term for food & for the wagon that brought it a chuck wagon |
#428, aired 1986-04-30 | MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTERS $200: Most of these half-men half-horses were wild & lawless a centaur |
#428, aired 1986-04-30 | LANGUAGES $400: Original language responsible for giving us the letter "Y" as a vowel as in "psychology" Greek |
#428, aired 1986-04-30 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Without it, a Shirley Temple just wouldn't be a Shirley Temple grenadine |
#428, aired 1986-04-30 | MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTERS $800: If you cut off a head, the Hydra would do this grow two back |
#428, aired 1986-04-30 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Constantly breaking down chemically, uranium changes to radium & ultimately to this mineral lead |
#375, aired 1986-02-14 | "BLACK" $300: Chuck Norris wears one...& we'd be the first to agree he deserves it a black belt |
#374, aired 1986-02-13 | #1 SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Amazingly this immortal rocker didn't have a No. 1 hit until 1972, w/ following:
"We got the new alma mater /
We must do our alma mater /
When I was..." Chuck Berry |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: By age 33, John MacLean, this type of thief, had stolen $150 mil. worth of goods by himself a burglar |
#354, aired 1986-01-16 | GAME SHOWS $200: Host in common to "Wheel of Fortune", "The Love Connection", & "Scrabble" Chuck Woolery |
#345, aired 1986-01-03 | GAMBLING $500: Game in which patrons bet on 3 dice turned in an hourglass cage chuck-a-luck |
#317, aired 1985-11-26 | TELEVISION $100: Tom Selleck was a bachelor who didn't win on this Chuck Barris show The Dating Game |
#279, aired 1985-10-03 | ZOOLOGY $200: Of a rat, a raven, & a spineless jellyfish the one which can be taught to count raven |
#279, aired 1985-10-03 | NEIGHBORHOODS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Village Stompers stomped around this part of Greenwich Village: Washington Square |
#278, aired 1985-10-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $500: If you put J. Arthur Rank's, Donald Duck's, & Chuck Barris' together, you might have a bonang gong |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | "UP" SONGS $200: Where you'd be going "by the old mill run... in the noonday sun" up the lazy river |
#276, aired 1985-09-30 | WEST VIRGINIA $400: Now a retired brig. gen., this West Virginian was 1st to fly faster than speed of sound Chuck Yeager |
#168, aired 1985-05-01 | FAMOUS PIGS $500: Heavyweight actor Chuck Mitchell played the owner of this raunchy bar destroyed in a 1982 film Porky's |
#96, aired 1985-01-21 | WILD WEST $100: Cattle drivers' traveling kitchen a chuck wagon |
#89, aired 1985-01-10 | FOREIGN PHRASES $800: Swahili for a "journey", it's come to mean a hunting trip a safari |
#89, aired 1985-01-10 | VEGETABLES $800: Garlic, onions & shallots are this part of the plant the bulbs |
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
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\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Chuck Forrest, a foreign service officer originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Marino, Italy
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Rezac, a cattle ranch hand from Emmett, Kansas
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Season 28 1-time champion: $25,200 + $2,000.
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Chuck Newell, an English teacher from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Season 23 player (2007-02-26).
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
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"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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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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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
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"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
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"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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"An actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Bob Blake, who has won...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Mark Lowenthal, an intelligence educator from Reston, Virginia
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"He won the 1988 Tournament of Champions while working for the...
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