| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SO NICE, WE NEED THE ANSWER TWICE $200: Noelia performs a solo trapeze act at this Vegas venue Circus Circus |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $1200: To learn this basic circus skill, remember: if you start to lose your balance, lifting one leg can actually help tightrope walking |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | 3-LETTER, 3-LETTER $400: It refers to the main tent of a circus, or the circus itself the big top |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TIMES: NEW ROMAN $800: Talk about a circus! In 2023 historians were not happy after fans caused a 1.3 shake at a Travis Scott show at this Rome landmark the Circus Maximus |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | QUITE A SITE $600: In 1886 the circle got taken out of this landmark "Circus" with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue Piccadilly Circus |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1200: Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk death-defying |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $1200: "Circus Sideshow", completed in 1888, was this artist's first night painting using the pointillist technique Seurat |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | "HIGH" NOTES $400: It has its risks at the circus; insert "tension" & it has even more the high wire |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | HOSTEL $400: At the Circus Hostel in Berlin, there is a museum of this "Baywatch" actor who single-handedly ended the Cold War (jk, jk) Hasselhoff |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $400: Last name of Albert, born in 1852 & the oldest of 7 siblings including Otto & Charles for whom life was truly a circus Ringling |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | FIVE FOR FIGHTING $2000: His 1919 book "Fighting the Flying Circus" detailed his exploits in the 94th Aero Pursuit Squadron Rickenbacker |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A SPECIAL TRAIN CAR $2000: Sarasota's Circus Museum has the private luxury rail car of John from this fraternal family the Ringlings (the Ringling Family) |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | MERMAIDS $400: In the 1840s this circus showman exhibited a hoax called the "Feejee Mermaid" that was an ape torso sewn to a fish tail Barnum |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $200: This circus showman called himself the "Prince of Humbugs" P.T. Barnum |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $200: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this circus showman, but there's no proof he ever really said or wrote it P.T. Barnum |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $400: You could go to the July 23 festival of this sea god & hit his temple in the Circus Flaminius Neptune |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | TATTOOS $1200: Groucho Marx sang about "Lydia the" this circus performer; Maud Wagner was a real-life one a tattooed lady |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $600: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) Tracing its roots to 1980s Canadian street performance, this "circus of the sun" hit Las Vegas with its first permanent show Mystère in 1993 Cirque du Soleil |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | PLANTCRAFT $1600: This art of joining 2 plants to grow as one enabled Axel Erlandson to create the "Circus Trees" at Gilroy Gardens in California grafting |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | LET'S TAKE A WALK $400: There's tension in the wire & among the crowd when these circus performers take their walk high in the air a tightrope walker |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALSO IN THE CIRCUS $400: 2-word term for insurance or social programs designed to assist those that have "fallen" on hard times safety net |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALSO IN THE CIRCUS $800: This Adobe product helps you read a pdf pdq Acrobat |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALSO IN THE CIRCUS $1200: A secondary event, especially one that distracts attention from something of import a sideshow |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALSO IN THE CIRCUS $1600: Tolkien wrote that these were "for the Elven-kings under the sky" three rings |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALSO IN THE CIRCUS $2000: Foremost of the Muses, she was said to be mother to Orpheus Calliope |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | ROMANS $1000: With seating for 250,000 to watch the chariot races, this "biggest ring" was the largest Roman arena Circus Maximus |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | TV THEME SONGS $1200: Idris Elba played this London police detective to the strains of "Paradise Circus" by Massive Attack, sung by Hope Sandoval Luther |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: The opulent Sarasota mansion of circus man John Ringling is covered with stucco & this baked earth material terracotta |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM $400: For "A Little Night Music", not a circus, Sondheim wrote the song "Send In" these, "don't bother, they're here" the clowns |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | TONY-WINNING MUSICALS BY SONG $1000: 1995:
"Every Movie's A Circus", along with "As If We Never Said Goodbye" Sunset Boulevard |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | THAT'S WHERE THAT IS $1200: London: this meeting place & intersection between Coventry & Regent Streets with little to no live elephants Piccadilly Circus |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MISMATCHED PAIRS $800: A nickname for the circus & a Tennessee state song big top & "Rocky Top" |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | 1871--150 YEARS AGO $200: In Brooklyn this impresario opened his circus, calling it a traveling museum, menagerie, caravan & hippodrome (P.T.) Barnum |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | FAMOUS FAMILIES $800: Last name of siblings Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles & John, who in 1884 started the "World's Greatest Shows" circus Ringling |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | "CON" GAME $800: They're the circus performers seen here contortionists |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 3-RING CIRCUS $200: Staples offers 3-ring these that help keep all your papers in order at school binder |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 3-RING CIRCUS $400: The top 3 rings in its logo are blue, black & red; there are 2 more below the Olympics |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 3-RING CIRCUS $600: "Thr33 Ringz" was a 2008 album from this master of Auto-Tune seen here T-Pain |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 3-RING CIRCUS $800: The 3-ring canopy release system helps to make this risky pastime a bit less risky skydiving |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 3-RING CIRCUS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York.) The three rings circling the 1964 Unisphere here in Queens represent the three famous orbits at the time--the Telstar satellite, Yuri Gagarin's flight & this American's February 1962 mission John Glenn |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | OVERLAPS $2000: Atlantic food fish that runs the circus herringmaster |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | INITIALLY YOURS $400: In the 1870s this circus showman stepped right up to serve as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut (P.T.) Barnum |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE COMICS $800: Jeffy, seen here, is cartoonist Jeff Keane who has grown up & taken over this comic created by his dad, Bil The Family Circus |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | HISTORICALLY SHAMELESS $400: (Jeremy Allen White presents the clue.) Unashamed of his circus hoaxes, he described himself in 1869 as "preeminent among all who have sought to furnish healthful entertainment to the American people" (P.T.) Barnum |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | OUTSIDE OF ME $800: Circus wardrobe fun fact: the average size of these is 28EEEEE clown shoes |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $800: In 64 A.D. a fire broke out in Rome in the shops surrounding this large hippodrome, no doubt causing many to flee the Circus Maximus |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $1200: P.T. Barnum marked exits with "This way to" this fancy "E" word; folks left & had to buy a ticket to reenter egress |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $1600: WWI pilots sometimes fled a unit of the Jagdgeschwader known as this in English, a name familiar to Monty Python fans a Flying Circus |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $2000: In this Sara Gruen novel, later a movie, Jacob & Marlena plan to flee the traveling circus they both work for Water for Elephants |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | A FULL RIDE $1200: Remove the seats, panels, etc. & you can get 15-20 in a Mini Cooper for this alliterative circus automobile a clown car |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | SHOPPING $1000: Early on, this British brand belied its name by being in the basement of an Oxford Circus store Topshop |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | HUGH JACKMAN $600: Spectacular circus performances provide much of the action in "The Greatest Showman" with Hugh as this master impresario (P.T.) Barnum |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | THIS & THAT $600: Camping on the Vegas strip? No clowning, you can at the full service RV park associated with this casino with a double-talk name Circus Circus |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Similar to a Roman circus, this was an ancient Greek racecourse for horses & chariots a hippodrome |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | UNCOMMON $600: "Monty Python's Flying Circus" often encouraged us with "And now for something..." these 2 words completely different |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C. (John) Quincy Adams |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WE SAY JUMP $400: An allusion to old circus acts, "to jump through" these is to do exasperatingly hard tasks to reach a goal hoops |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | WEIRD FLEX $400: The name for these circus performers suggests that they twist & flex themselves into all sorts of weird positions contortionists |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: "The Family Circus" is a comic strip; this is the similar name of the magazine founded by Charles Merrill of Merrill Lynch Family Circle |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | EX-SPORTS $1200: Ancient Romans rooted for the red, white, blue & green teams that raced these around the Circus Maximus chariots |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $200: A group of street performers in Quebec became this circus troupe that puts on shows like Mystère Cirque du Soleil |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: Something a popular circus has, or the idea that a political party can accommodate diverse views a big tent |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BESTSELLERS $600: Rosie is the seemingly untrainable circus elephant in this bestselling novel by Sara Gruen Water for Elephants |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Late 19th century circus siblings who are the subject of Dostoyevsky's last, & some say greatest, novel Ringling Brothers Karamazov |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $200: This name for the one in charge of the big top is also an appropriate title for Sauron the ringmaster |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $400: Mario Zacchini, AKA the "human" this, once said, "Flying isn't the hard part, landing in the net is" a cannonball |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $600: Caught by his brother, in 1982 Miguel Vasquez did the first quadruple somersault using this apparatus a trapeze |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $800: Pierrot & grotesque are 2 of the white-faced these you may see at the circus a clown |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $1000: In 1902 Will Rogers joined Texas Jack's American circus as a bronco rider & trick artist using these a lasso |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Simultaneous entertainment under the big top gave us this expression for something full of tumult a three-ring circus |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | BLACKJACK $400: The $5 blackjack tables are a lower-budget option at this double-talk casino opened in 1968 on the Vegas Strip Circus Circus |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | TRANSPORTATION $600: Circus performer Wesley Williams rides a 25-foot-high one of these a unicycle |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | NEON $1200: The first neon sign in this London "Circus" advertised Bovril, a beef gloop the British love Piccadilly Circus |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ANCIENT BRO-MANS $800: I'm gonna be best in bro at the chariot races this weekend at the C.M., short for this hippodrome in Rome the Circus Maximus |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WEIRD WORDS $800: Up high at a circus, a funambulist has this job a high-wire walker |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | PUN-ISHING CLUES $1000: "Former circus big top enclosure", or the distance something encompasses ex-tent/extent |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE NAME OF THE JAMES $400: In 1881 circus impresario James A. Bailey merged his operation with this former competitor's P.T. Barnum |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $1600: Chariot races were held in this largest Roman stadium for almost a thousand years, the last being in 549 A.D. the Circus Maximus |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | 21st CENTURY FICTION $1200: People magazine called this 2006 Sara Gruen novel a "surprising portrayal of life in a traveling circus in the '30s" Water for Elephants |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TIME TO SAY GOODBYE $200: As this show ended in 2017 after 146 years, ringmaster Johnathan Iverson said, "Keep the circus alive inside you!" Ringling Bros. Circus (Barnum & Bailey) |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | BROADWAY, BABY $400: In 2016 the circus came to town; specifically, this circus that made its Broadway debut in "Paramour" Cirque du Soleil |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | INLANDER $800: Before he & his bros. bought the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1907, John of this last name was born in 1866 in McGregor, Iowa Ringling |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | INVERTEBRATES $800: The sea anemone's tentacles provide a protective home for this "circus" fish while the anemone dines on the fish's scraps a clownfish |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $600: Who was that payaso, this professional, that I saw you with at the Spanish circus last night? clown |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | COMMA SYMPATHIZERS $1600: E.B. White said this magazine he worked for used commas "with the precision of knives in a circus act" The New Yorker |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | HER HIT ALBUM $1600: "Circus"
(2008) Britney Spears |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | DE NERO $400: After Rome burned, Nero shifted the blame from himself to this sect, making sport of them in the circus Christians |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | FROM "S" TO "W" $1200: At a circus this small exhibition is sometimes offered in addition to the main attraction a sideshow |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | CIRCUS PERFORMERS $200: Seen here in a time lapse, one of the stars of Circus Xtreme, Gemma "The Jet" Kirby, shot to fame as a human one of these a cannonball |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | CIRCUS PERFORMERS $600: Big-shoed Pickelherring was a favorite German one of these merry-makers from days of yore a clown |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | CIRCUS PERFORMERS $800: This performer, like Dan Meyer on "America's Got Talent", must learn to relax his pharynx & esophagus a sword swallower |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | CIRCUS PERFORMERS $1000: In 1928 the crowds went wild for the American debut of this family of high wire acrobats & its human pyramid the Flying Wallendas |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | BORN IN CONNECTICUT $400: Before he ran off & ran the circus, he published a Danbury newspaper & was arrested for libel Barnum |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | FAMOUS ELEPHANTS $1600: In the late 19th century a circus elephant named for this bare-knuckle champ boxed with a glove on his trunk John L. Sullivan |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | THE ENTERTAINER $200: The person hosting & directing your attention at a circus performance the ringmaster |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | TAKE IT "EZ" $400: Richie, Chela, Tito & Armando, the Flying Gaonas, were one of the most prominent of these circus acts trapeze |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ECHO CATEGORY $2000: New York New York & this double talk hotel are at opposite ends of the Las Vegas Strip Circus Circus |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | WHAT'S EATING YOU? $400: Life is a circus for Pulex irritans, one of these wingless, bloodsucking insects that can hide in the folds of clothing a flea |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | THAT JUST WON'T FLY $400: Possible titles for Monty Python's BBC series were "Owl Stretching Time" & "A Toad Elevating Moment", but they chose this (Monty Python's) Flying Circus |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BARONS & BARONESSES $600: On April 21, 1918 this commander of Germany's flying circus was shot down & killed over the Somme the Red Baron |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | POP CULTURE FROM BARTLETT'S $1000: From Series 2, Episode 2 of "Monty Python's Flying Circus": this 5-word phrase about a surprise to all "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | DOWNTOWN CABBIE $2000: Pall Mall? Sure, guv, but it might get slow at this intersection of Regent & Haymarket-- it's a real circus Piccadilly Circus |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ANIMALS IN KIDS' BOOKS $800: Olivia, who "Saves the Circus" & "Forms a Band" a pig |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | FOOD & DRINK $400: One story of how this fruit drink got its pink version involves a circus vendor & a pair of red tights soaking in water lemonade |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | STAMPS $1000: A vintage circus poster stamp features a roaring tiger & this slogan of the Barnum & Bailey Circus "The Greatest Show on Earth" |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | CZECH COMPOSERS $800: Julius Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators" is now mostly associated with these less-fierce performers clowns (circus performers accepted) |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS $600: Guy Laliberte, founder of this world-famous circus, is the first Canadian to visit space as a private citizen Cirque du Soleil |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | MEDIA $800: Time said critics of the AT&T-DirectTV merger call it an example of "out-of-control media" this event consolidation |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | INITIALLY YOURS $400: In 1881 the Cooper & Bailey Circus merged with his "Greatest Show on Earth" P.T. Barnum |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHEN IN ROME... $1200: Bust out your Barnum & Bailey, combine that with some Latin & hit this chariot-racing arena said to hold 250,000 Circus Maximus |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | NICKNAMES $2000: Life was a circus for this "Prince of Showmen" aka "Prince of Humbugs" P.T. Barnum |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | WORKS OF ART $1200: "Circus Sideshow", completed in 1888, was this artist's first night painting using the Pointillist technique (Georges) Seurat |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | LONDON SPRAWLING $800: Run away & join this neon-lit intersection of 4 London streets first formed in 1819 Piccadilly Circus |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE BIG BUKOWSKI $1200: "We're all of us going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us" this "each other but it doesn't" love |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | FIRST RESPONSES $600: This creator of "The Family Circus" passed on the comic to his son Jeff (Bil) Keane |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | IT WAS AN ACCIDENT $400: Reportedly, 1,000 died when part of this "Big" 2-word Roman sports venue collapsed during gladiator games the Circus Maximus |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | SAFE WORDS $1000: Somersaulting circus performers tumblers |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $1200: About 100 years ago, a circus elephant named John L. Sullivan participated in this sport in an act with his trainer boxing |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | "DUM" IT UP $800: In a 1941 film, this circus performer is forced to join a clown act Dumbo |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | EUROPEAN FOUNTAINS $1200: The Eros statue in the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in this London "Circus" was one of the first to be made of aluminum Piccadilly Circus |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1200: Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk death-defying |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | TRADEMARKS $600 (Daily Double): This 5-word boast is the trademark of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $1600: A squadron of airplanes operating together, whether they're into Monty Python or not flying circus |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $400: To see the Lopez family wire-walk blindfolded, go to the Ringling Bros. one of these a circus |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WHAT'S YOUR BAILEY-WICK? $800: James Bailey:
The circus, merging with this impresario's "Greatest Show On Earth" in 1881 P.T. Barnum |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS $400: In 1859 Jules Leotard became the first daring young man to perform on this apparatus the trapeze |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS $800: In the 1700s Philip Astley standardized its diameter at 42 feet as the ideal size for a galloping horse a circus ring |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS $1200: David Smith Sr. once flew over 2 Ferris wheels, 201 feet up, as part of this act a human cannonball |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS $1600: This type of performer is a circus "wild man" with a gruesome act a geek |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS $2000: You'll enjoy the show less but learn more if you visit this organization's "How do circuses train animals?" FAQ PETA |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | ENTERTAINMENTS $1000: A saying in this circus activity is "the trouble is that the balls go where you throw them" juggling |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: One of this circus man's 1st exhibits was Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington (P.T.) Barnum |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | AT THE VEGAS HOTEL $1000: A midway,
an Adventuredome Circus Circus |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | TRUNK SHOW $1600: Tai played an elephant named Rosie in this circus-set romance based on a Sara Gruen novel Water for Elephants |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | LIVING IN TENTS $800: Showman J. Purdy Brown was the first to use this type of enclosure, in 1825 as he traveled around entertaining a circus tent |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW $800: After "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he found further comic success as hotel owner Basil Fawlty John Cleese |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | DOUBLE TALK $600: Vegas casino with a clown marquee Circus Circus |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | ROYAL WOMEN $800: After dating an elephant trainer & traveling with his circus, this Monaco royal married an acrobat Princess Stephanie |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Olivia, who "Saves the Circus" & "Goes to Venice" a pig |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | FLIGHT $600: The Red Baron commanded a unit called the "flying" this, for its brightly colored planes the Flying Circus |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | CANADA'S WALK OF FAME $1600: This Quebec-based circus troupe got a star in 2002 Cirque du Soleil |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GREEK IS THE WORD $1200: A Greek word meaning "one who walks on tiptoes" gave us this word for a circus performer or an Adobe product acrobat |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | BUZZ BANDS $800: Get out the tranquilizer gun! Time to round up the rampaging circus animal that's this band
"Oh, there ain't no rest for the wicked /
Money don't grow on trees..." Cage the Elephant |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1600: Business partners whose circus was purchased by the Ringling Brothers in 1907 Barnum & Bailey |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FUN RAISERS $1200: Like a 19th century song says, you can float "through the air with the greatest of ease" on this piece of circus equipment a trapeze |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | BUMPER STICKER HUMOR $800: "Cannibals won't eat" these circus performers... "they taste funny" clowns |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | ONE-WORD TV CLUES $600: Spam! (one word, but repeated dozens of times) Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LITERATURE $1200: One reviewer called this recent Sara Gruen bestseller "so much more than a tale about a circus" Water for Elephants |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | IF THEY MARRIED $800: The "House of the Spirits" author gets hitched to a circus sibling who bought out Barnum in 1907 & becomes... Isabel Ringling |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | "BIG" STUFF $800: If you're under this, you're at the circus the big top |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | WITH THIS "RING" $2000: This emcee at a circus is traditionally part announcer, part equestrian director a ringmaster |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | WHATCHAMACALLIT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on a monitor.) In the pronunciation of the word "circus", the "U" is an unstressed vowel & is marked with what looks like an inverted "e", called this a schwa |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | JOHN PHILIP SOUSA $1200: This 1893 march named for a national symbol served as the theme for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" "The Liberty Bell" |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | TIGERS BY THE TALE $600: In Angela Carter's "Lizzie's Tiger", this future ax-wielder goes to see a circus tiger Lizzie Borden |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This Stephen King novel says, "There was a clown in the stormdrain ... it was a clown, like in the circus or on TV" "It" |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | ART -ISMS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Seurat's painting of the "Circus Sideshow" uses this new Impressionist technique, featuring small dots & brush strokes that, from a distance, create blended color pointillism |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THE MUSES $1600: This patron of epic poetry is usually pictured with a writing tablet, not a steam-powered circus instrument Calliope |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $200: In 1825 Joshua Purdy Brown erected the first of these portable circus structures in Wilmington, Del. a big-top (or tent) |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $400: Not until 1982 did a performer publicly do this many somersaults from bar to catcher on the trapeze four |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $600: In 1907 these siblings purchased the Barnum & Bailey circus the Ringling Brothers |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $800: Many circus historians credit Isaac van Amburgh with being the first to put his head in this dangerous place the lion's mouth |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $1000: In 1947 this "flying" family perfected the 7-man pyramid on the high wire the Wallendas |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE FAMILY CIRCUS $400: Performers at the New Cole Brothers Circus recreate the 3-tiered, 7-man pyramid on one of these "lofty" things a high wire |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE FAMILY CIRCUS $1200: At the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus, the Arlise Troupe performs crazy stunts on these single-axle vehicles the unicycle |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE FAMILY CIRCUS $1600: John Ringling North worked on this Cecil B. DeMille film whose title describes his family's circus The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE FAMILY CIRCUS $2000: One of this group's presentation "Quindam", featured several siblings Cirque du Soleil |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | COMIC STRIPS $2000: "The Family Circus" follows the life of Mommy, Daddy, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly & this baby brother with a 2-letter name P.J. |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE FAMILY CIRCUS $3,000 (Daily Double): P.T. Barnum's famed conjoined twins, Chang & Eng were born in this country in 1811 Siam (Thailand accepted) |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | BIG APPLE CIRCUS $200: All the circus' dogs are pound and shelter rescues; Ben & Jerry here are this breed, from the German for "to splash" a poodle |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | BIG APPLE CIRCUS $400: The equestrian, Sultan, is seen here riding in this style that also describes the city of emperor Nero Roman |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | DOUBLE "C" $2000: This London street runs from Hyde Park corner in the west to a "circus", or intersection, in the east Piccadilly |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP $2000: When a 1952 Cecil B. DeMille circus film loses a letter, there aren't enough awards to give the pig Greatest Sow on Earth |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | SPOILER ALERT! $1000: 1932:
The unusual circus performers discover Olga's murderous plans & turn her into a "chicken woman" Freaks |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | MUSICAL BY SONG & SINGER $1200: "Oh, What A Circus"
by Che & Company Evita |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE! $600: The crushing foot used in this TV show's opening is from Bronzino's 1545 painting, "An Allegory with Venus and Cupid" Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | DONKEY $1200: In a Carlo Collodi tale, this protagonist turns into a donkey & is sold to a circus owner Pinocchio |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | ON THE RADIO $1200: You might think that this title track of Britney Spears' 2008 CD is a reference to the madhouse that is her life "Circus" |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | "NIGHT" SHIFT $400: I ate curry at bedtime & had one of these in which Richard Simmons & my grandmother chased me through a circus a nightmare |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE "SHOW" ME STATE $600: A minor attraction that is part of a larger one, like at a circus or carnival a sideshow |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | POLKA YOUR EYES OUT $1600: The "Circus Polka" composed by Igor Stravinsky for the Ringling Brothers was originally intended to be danced by these elephants |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | KIDS LOVE MUSEUMS $1200: At circus world in Wisconsin, you can visit the circus museum & ride a pony or this gray pachyderm, too an elephant |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | VACATION FUN $400: This place isn't just for gamblers--there are games & circus acts at Circus Circus & a roller coaster at New York New York Las Vegas |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | THE HELOISE WITH YOU $1000: Wash your dog with certain green soaps to avoid seeing these pests' "circus" fleas |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE "GREAT" $200: P.T. Barnum used this 5-word phrase to describe his circus in 1872 "The Greatest Show on Earth" |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | FICTIONAL MUNCHIES $800: This British TV show once featured candy selections known as crunchy frog & anthrax ripple Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | ALSO FOUND AT A CIRCUS $400: Subtract 2 symbols from the Olympic logo created in 1914 & you get this three rings |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | ALSO FOUND AT A CIRCUS $800: This product from Adobe lets you create & share documents in PDF form Acrobat |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | ALSO FOUND AT A CIRCUS $1200: Though named Marlin, Marlin in "Finding Nemo" was actually this type of fish a clownfish |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | ALSO FOUND AT A CIRCUS $1600: You'll go head over heels for these stemless cocktail glasses with thick bottoms tumblers |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | ALSO FOUND AT A CIRCUS $2000: Aussie Medicare features this, what the AHD defines as "a guarantee, as of professional or financial security" a safety net |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | POKING AROUND SPACE $400: Of a basketball, an SUV or a circus tent, the approximate size of Sputnik 1 a basketball |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | RHYME TIME $200: The scowl of a circus buffoon a clown frown |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES $200: No. 1: "Womanizer" from her "Circus" album scored this pop goddess her first chart topper in nearly a decade (Britney) Spears |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $200: The first week of August honors these circus performers & is appropriately followed by Smile Week clowns |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $1600: 1899's "Frank Melville's Trick" one of these circus animals shows the title creature stepping over 2 ponies an elephant |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | PAINT YOUR WAGON $200: If it's a circus wagon, paint it this traditional color red |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | NEWS OF THE WEIRD $200: A Moscow circus couple's divorce is tricky; she's still contractually bound to shoot this off his head with a crossbow an apple |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $800: A quarter of a million people crowded into this largest hippodrome to watch the chariot races the Circus Maximus |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | PETER, PETER $400: Christopher Knight, more recently of "Celebrity Circus", played Peter on this classic family sitcom The Brady Bunch |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | BRAND NAME SYMBOLS $400: This product's distinct circus wagon boxes have held 37 different caricatures since its 1902 founding Animal Crackers |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | ONE DAY YOU'RE "IN", THE NEXT YOU'RE "OUT" $1200: This term for a circus or carnival worker is also the title of an Elvis Presley film roustabout |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | JUST DESSERTS $600: Appropriately, a big top is on the package of these animal cookies from Mother's Circus Animal Cookies |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | ROME $2000: It's said Romulus founded Rome on this hill, found between the Circus Maximus & the Colosseum the Palatine |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | SOUSA'S $1000: This Sousa march was used as the theme to "Monty Python's Flying Circus" "The Liberty Bell" |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $400: An old man recalls his time with the Benzini Brothers Circus in "Water for" these large beasts Elephants |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | THE MISFITS $800: When these misfit brothers were "at the circus" in a 1939 film, "Lydia the tattooed lady" was there, too The Marx Brothers |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | FUN WITH BALLET $400: "Circus Polka" was originally choreographed for these huge circus animals; it's now danced by humans elephants |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | TRANSPORTATION $800: From 1985 to 2003, Milwaukee hosted a parade featuring dozens of these wagons from Baraboo circus wagons |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | LEONARD MALTIN ON DISNEY $1000: (Leonard Maltin wraps it up.) My favorite animated Disney film is this 1941 classic in which a lovable misfit becomes a high-flying circus star Dumbo |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $600: A man is searching for the novel "Knickerless Nickleby" in the bookstore skit on this British Show Monty Python('s Flying Circus) |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | BIRDS $500 (Daily Double): The long legs of the bird seen here give it this name, from a prop used by circus performers a stilt |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew watches a wire walker practice at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.) Moving the parasol in the air helps the wire walker keep the point known by this three-word term directly over the wire center of gravity |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $800: A fire-eater makes sure the flame is out before opening his mouth--otherwise a rush of this will revive it oxygen |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches a juggler pracice with clubs at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.) It's time to throw the next club when the previous club reaches this point, also an astronomy term for the greatest distance from Earth apogee |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $1600: Between its show & a conservation center, Ringling Bros. has the W. Hem.'s largest sustainable pop. of the Asian this elephants |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches some trapeze artists rehearse at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.) At the start of the trick, the trapeze artist has maximized her P.E., this; at the moment of the catch, she wants to maximize it again so she's not moving potential energy |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | IN MY FREE TIME $400: I could be a big wheel in the circus because I'm learning to ride this vehicle named for its one big wheel a unicycle |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | AMUSEMENTS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Circus Center in San Francisco, California) The first great wire walker was the Frenchman Blondin, who rose to great fame by walking over this landmark, once carrying a man on his back Niagara Falls |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | CIRCUS TALK $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew clowns around.) Clowns are masters of this look of reaction for the benefit of the audience; especially a double one a double take |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | CIRCUS TALK $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a juggler.)
Because of the way the balls go up the middle & down the side, a common juggling pattern has this watery name that reminds us of a Northwest mountain range cascade |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | CIRCUS TALK $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches the juggler play.) To us it's a structure at the end of an animal's limb; to a juggler it's a downward movement to catch an object a claw |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | CIRCUS TALK $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew watches people hanging around.) As the trapeze was invented in France, the catcher is sometimes called "porteur" & this person in a trick is called "voltigeur" the flyer |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | CIRCUS TALK $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches a balancing act.) Wire walking includes the highwire, the tightrope & this one that many people think is most difficult because any shaking is magnified slackrope walking |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | 5 "CC"s $1000: Seen here, it's London's version of Times Square Piccadilly Circus |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A sketch show's dead parrot lives to soar through a flaming hoop held by Cathy Lee Crosby on a '70s celeb variety show Monty Python's Flying Circus of the Stars |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | MOVIE PEOPLE $1200: This great 1930s choreographer ended his career in 1962 with a circus flick, "Billy Rose's Jumbo" Busby Berkeley |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $1600: "Da Vinci" Dan's circus comics Brown's clowns |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CLEANING UP $2000: Because of a clean-up effort, Bernard Rayner became the last to sell pigeon food in this British plaza Trafalgar Square |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | ON, WISCONSIN! $200: The first circus staged by these siblings was held in Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1884 the Ringling Bros. |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | LET'S TAKE A TRIP $400: The Adventuredome at this Vegas hotel spreads out over 5 acres; one of you "3, ring" in now Circus Circus |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $400: It's the type of bird being complained about
"It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late--" a parrot |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $800: It's the profession he's singing about
"I cut down trees /
I skip and jump /
I like to press wild flowers /
I put on women's clothing /
And hang around in bars..." lumberjack |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $1200: It's the packaged meat product that comes with the following
"...or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top and--" Spam |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $1600: It's the tribunal making an appearance here
"Our chief weapon is surprise--surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise--" the Spanish Inquisition |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $2000: It's the game show being played
"This is for 15 pounds, and it's to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton." Blackmail |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | A SHORT HISTORY OF VEGAS $800: 1968:
This double-named place opens as the first major "family-friendly" casino Circus Circus |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | COMEDIC CATCHPHRASES $600: A group:
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" Monty Python |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | COLLEGE-PODGE $200: A "College" for these silly circus performers opened in 1968 (& no, I am not a graduate) clowns |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | BASIC TRAIN-ING $800: Inspired by the train in this 1941 film, the Casey Jr. Circus Train opened at Disneyland in its first year, 1955 Dumbo |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | POTPOURRI $400: Lou Jacobs clowned around for this circus for 60 years, 1925 to 1985 Ringling Brothers |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | FORBES' BILLIONAIRES $800: Guy Laliberte, founder of this circus, may be the only fire-breather on the list Cirque du Soleil |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $800: In "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man", he played circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade W.C. Fields |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $2000: This 1960 Disney flick starring Kevin Corcoran in the title role was subtitled "Or Ten Weeks with a Circus" Toby Tyler |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | CIRCUS SLANG $400: This U.S. circus is so prominent that circus folks call it "Big Bertha" Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | CIRCUS SLANG $800: The rubberman is the person who sells these souvenirs balloons |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | CIRCUS SLANG $1200: It's the "bovine" term for a circus elephant, whether it's male or female a bull |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | CIRCUS SLANG $1600: Candy vendors are known as these, allegedly because a notable early one was a meat carver, too a butcher |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | CIRCUS SLANG $2000: Term for any dessert served in the cookhouse, or the kind of "honeymoon" Debbie Reynolds sang about in 1950 Abba Dabba |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | A FLY CATEGORY $200: To WWI British aviators, the Red Baron's group with its colorful planes was one of these, like Monty Python's a Flying Circus |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | P.C. $1200: Some say this busy road junction is the heart & soul of London Piccadilly Circus |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | IT HAPPENED IN THE '70s $800: When the fast food "meal" now called this debuted nationally in '79, it came in a circus wagon box a Happy Meal |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | "R" MAN $1200: There's a circus collection in the Sarasota Museum of Art named for this man (John) Ringling |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | RUSSIAN CULTURE $800: Cirque du Soleil's aerial cube was originated in Russia by members of this famed circus the Moscow Circus |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $1200: An earth-colored circus comic a brown clown |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | PBS' ELECTRIC COMPANY $1000: She's gonna live forever as an "E.C." short circus member & an Oscar winner for a song from "Flashdance" (Irene) Cara |
| #4591, aired 2004-07-19 | LOOK OUT! $600: The 16-ton weight featured in this '70s comedy series is poised above somebody & ready to.... Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | SUBWAY STOPS $800: This word follows "Oxford" & "Piccadilly" in tube stop names Circus |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | OF THE "RING"s $200: The master of ceremonies at a circus the ringmaster |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $1200: With a little imagination & his purple crayon, he can go anywhere: the circus, even outer space Harold |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | MONTREAL EXPOSE $600: Since 1984 over 37 million people have seen performances by this circus headquartered in Montreal Cirque du Soleil |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | ROYALTY $1000: Previously married to her bodyguard, in September 2003 this 38-year-old princess married a Portuguese circus acrobat Princess Stephanie (of Monaco) |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | SHRINE CIRCUS $400: The Shinto-styled Meiji shrine is in this world capital Tokyo |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | SHRINE CIRCUS $800: Tibetan Buddhists revere the Bodhnath Stupa, a shrine near this capital of Nepal Kathmandu |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | SHRINE CIRCUS $1,000 (Daily Double): Thomas A Becket's tomb in this English town became a shrine for pilgrims after he was canonized Canterbury |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | SHRINE CIRCUS $1600: For Muslims, this one-room shrine is the "House of God"; it's washed once a year & is covered in a silk cloth The Kaaba |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | SHRINE CIRCUS $2000: The Golden Temple in Amritsar is a shrine of this religious group the Sikhs |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | SURVIVORS $2000: Auguste Ciparis survived this volcano's 1902 eruption on Martinique & later toured with the circus Mt. Pelée |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | A BRITISH MONOPOLY SET $800: You won't find a circus on Marvin Gardens, but there's a famous one on this equivalent square in England Piccadilly |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | GREAT FIGURES $200: Ben Lusbie, who could sell 6,000 tickets to this in an hour, was an attraction just like the animals & acrobats (Barnum's) Circus |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | TOUGH JOBS $1000: 2 assistants left Jayde Hanson, this type of circus performer, who admits, "My concentration wavers" knife thrower |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | MARSHMALLOW MADNESS $400: This Spangler marshmallow classic candy is banana flavored, orange colored & 3-ring good! Circus Peanuts |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | '50s TV $2000: In 1971 Bert Parks hosted "Circus"; back in 1956 this man & dummy Jerry Mahoney hosted the similar "Circus Time" Paul Winchell |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | YOU'RE THE "TOP" $400: It's a synonym for circus big top |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | AT THE CIRCUS $200: Wolfgang Bartschelly was famous for playing piano while he kept these spinning on the ends of sticks plates |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | AT THE CIRCUS $400: Once, these performers were called benders or posturers depending on whether they bent forward or back contortionists |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | AT THE CIRCUS $600: Rather than this traditional object, Cirque de Soleil's creative studio uses a pit filled with 25,000 foam cubes net |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | AT THE CIRCUS $800: The standard international diameter of one of these is 13 meters, about 42 feet ring |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | AT THE CIRCUS $1000: Often featuring bears, it was the longtime official circus of the USSR Moscow Circus |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS $800: In Las Vegas have some fun "clowning" around at this hotel's fully enclosed Adventuredome Circus Circus |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His several "At the Circus" drawings from 1898 include "The Tandem", "Acrobats" & "Rehearsing" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS UP $800: Winston-Salem, N.C. is home to one of these circuses; it features teensy insects doing high dives & being shot from a cannon flea circus |
| #4286, aired 2003-03-31 | TV CATCHPHRASES $1000: "And now for something completely different" Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | GO FOR THE JUGGLER $200: These brothers who ran a famous circus bearing their name worked in it as jugglers & tightrope walkers Ringling Brothers |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Barnum & Bailey worked under a "big" one & we're not talkin' a spinning toy top |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | THINK ABOUT IT $1000: Seen here, the CCU, run by the Big Apple Circus, stands for this Clown Care Unit |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | FAMOUS JOHNS $800: This man's "Liberty Bell March" was used as the theme song for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" John Philip Sousa |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | THE "RING" CYCLE $800: Brotherly circus showmen Ringling Brothers |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | CELEB L.L.s $1600: In a 1986 "Circus of the Stars" this "Falcon Crest" hunk tamed some tigers, not South American camel relatives Lorenzo Lamas |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | ALONG I-80 $800: The Mandalay Resort Group has Circus Circus properties in Vegas & in this city on I-80 Reno |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: P.T. Barnum's circus partner, he took his first bow on July 4, 1847 (James) Bailey |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | ANIMAL CRACKERS $200: Though this circus entrepreneur's name is on the Nabisco box, he was never cut in on the profits P.T. Barnum |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | ENTERTAINING CRITTERS $600: Featured in the Van Amburgh Circus of the 1850s, Hannibal was a giant one of these animals an elephant |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $400: As a circus owner, she caused her daughter to go "Berserk" in that 1967 film; however, no wire hangers were used Joan Crawford |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $800: In 1936 this detective, then played by Warner Oland, was "at the Circus" Charlie Chan |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $1200: Jimmy Stewart plays Buttons the Clown (a surgeon in disguise!) in this 1952 De Mille circus epic The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $1600: In 1956's "Trapeze" this actor played an aerialist vying with Burt Lancaster for the attentions of Gina Lollobrigida Tony Curtis |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $2000: This 1932 MGM film was later re-released as "Nature's Mistakes" Freaks |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | INITIALLY YOURS $200: He exhibited the original Siamese twins, Chang & Eng, as well as Tom Thumb; what a circus! P.T. Barnum |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | COLOSSUS $400: Mohini, Mala & Bara are 3 of these grey colossuses in Germany's Circus Krone an elephant |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | CLOWNING AROUND $1000: Seen here, this Italian director of the 1971 film "The Clowns" ran away to join the circus as a child (Federico) Fellini |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | CIRCUSES $200: In the 1880s, circus owner Adam Forepaugh tried to compete with P.T. Barnum, who had this elephant as an attraction Jumbo |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | CIRCUSES $300: The Cristiani Brothers Circus specialized in this equestrian style that didn't saddle them with extra props bareback |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | CIRCUSES $400: Franco Knie, manager & elephant trainer of Circus Knie, has been romancing this Monaco princess Princess Stephanie |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | CIRCUSES $500: A circus formed in the 1930s combined the names of the Cole Brothers & this famous circus figure seen here Clyde Beatty |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $400: Number of "golden rings" in a Christmas song plus the number of rings in Ringling's circus 8 (5 + 3) |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $2,100 (Daily Double): This artist famed for his mobiles created a miniature circus that's in the Whitney Museum of American Art Alexander Calder |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | CIRCUS TALK $200: Circus folk call this animal a "convict" (no offense; just think of its appearance) Zebra |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | CIRCUS TALK $400: This 4-letter name is circus slang for a "clown"; it's also the role Matt LeBlanc plays on "Friends" Joey |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | CIRCUS TALK $600: To toot up means to get the crowd's attention with this object heard here Calliope |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | CIRCUS TALK $800: A fight on a circus lot is called one of these, also the name of Red Skelton's Kadiddlehopper Clem |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | CIRCUS TALK $1000: This word for the attention-getting talk used to lure customers inside became a synonym for exaggerated publicity Ballyhoo |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | TONY ORLANDO! $200: In 1980 Tony appeared in a Broadway production of a musical about this circus showman P.T. Barnum |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | BEAR WITH ME $100: Emil Pallenberg first trained bears in tightrope walking working for these brothers' circus Ringling Brothers |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | DIVA LAS VEGAS! $400: We've got nothing but "Respect" for this queen of soul who first played Caesars' Circus Maximus showroom in 1969 Aretha Franklin |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | PRETTY PICTURES $700 (Daily Double): His "Rose Period" lasted from about 1904 to 1907 & included paintings of acrobats & circus performers Picasso |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | CIRCUS CIRCUS $100: Major varieties of these circus performers include harlequin, tramp & whiteface clowns |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | CIRCUS CIRCUS $200: Type of circus sideshow denizen seen here the bearded lady |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | CIRCUS CIRCUS $300: Last name of the circus man P.T. Barnum teamed up with in 1881 Bailey |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | CIRCUS CIRCUS $400: Midge & Madge, who star in the Acme Miniature Circus, are 2 of these performing insects fleas |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | CIRCUS CIRCUS $500: This 1952 Cecil B. DeMille production was the "Greatest" of circus movies The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | COMIC STRIPPERS $400: Among others, Dolly,
Jeffy,
P.J., seen here The Family Circus |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | "CUS" WORDS $300: Philip Astley, who added acrobats & dancing dogs to his trick-riding show, is called "The Father of" this Modern circus |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: This "Rite of Spring" composer accepted such commissions as a dance for circus elephants Igor Stravinsky |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | U.S. CITIES $1000: (Hi, I'm Kristoff St. John of "The Young and the Restless") For many years, this Connecticut city where I grew up was the winter headquarters for the Barnum & Bailey Circus Bridgeport |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | HEY, MIKEY! $600: This world-traveler was an original member of Monty Python's Flying Circus Michael Palin |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | THE CIRCUS $200: For the Big Apple Circus, it takes a crew of 35 5 hours to set this up, & 3 hours to take it down the (big) tent |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | THE CIRCUS $400: The Flying Gaonas are famous for performing on this "flying" apparatus the trapeze |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | THE CIRCUS $600: Cirque du Soleil's Mystere show, seen here, is a highlight of the Treasure Island resort in this desert city Las Vegas |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | THE CIRCUS $800: You might learn to juggle or even ride an elephant at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo in this dairy state Wisconsin |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | THE CIRCUS $1000: In a 1999 TV miniseries, Beau Bridges played this great circus showman P.T. Barnum |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | POLITICAL TERMS $300: From the circus, a party that allows differing points of view is called a "big" one of these Tent |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | TENTS $400: 2-word term for the largest & main tent of a circus Big top |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | STREET SENSE $200: In the case of Piccadilly, it's 1-ring, not 3-ring Circus |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | BATMAN'S WORLD $200: A family of circus trapeze artists produced this orphaned son Dick Grayson/Robin |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN $100: The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus gave its first performance in 1919, in this famed NYC arena Madison Square Garden |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | GOULASH $1000: In the 1930s his Weary Willie Hobo character made his circus debut with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Emmett Kelly |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | CLOWN SONGS $400: His hit "I'm Still Standing" says, "If our love was just a circus, you'd be a clown by now" Elton John |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "The 158-Pound Marriage",
"The Cider House Rules",
"A Son of the Circus" John Irving |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | STEVEN SPIELBERG $100: As a child, the first film Steven ever saw was this Cecil B. DeMille circus extravaganza The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #3521, aired 1999-12-20 | DOUBLE TALK $100: You'll find this "big top" casino in Las Vegas Circus Circus |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | FUN WITH OPERA $400: Of a woman, an evil twin or a circus ape, what Sir Edgar's nephew turns out to be in "Der Junge Lord" A circus ape |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CIRCUS $100: "The Human Volcano" may be the most dangerous stunt performed by these "eaters" Fire eaters |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CIRCUS $200: A thick white type of theatrical makeup is named for these circus performers Clowns |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CIRCUS $300: Jonathan Lee Iverson is the youngest ringmaster ever for this circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth" Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CIRCUS $400: Funambulism is a fancy word for the art of "walking" this Tightrope |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CIRCUS $500: Circus Oz, which turned 21 in 1999, is a zany, satirical circus from this country that's nicknamed "Oz" Australia |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | ACTS $200: Che Guevara mocks a funeral procession by singing "O What A Circus" in Act I of this musical "Evita" |
| #3455, aired 1999-09-17 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: George Nissen invented this, a "bouncing table", after seeing how circus performers bounced into safety nets Trampoline |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | "F" WORDS $1000: It's the proper term for a tightrope walker in a circus Funambulist |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | COLLEGES $200: Irvin Feld founded a college in Venice, Florida in 1968 to train these performers for the circus clowns |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | CAREERS $400: For decades Mario Zacchini was a real "big shot" in the circus world with this type of act Human cannonball |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: Ladies & Gents...in the 1970s Bernice Collins took center ring as this circus' first black female clown Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | JOB BANK $400: Preceding "leader" it makes you head of a gang of thugs; before "master", head of a gang of circus acts ring |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | TOUGH TV $600: Micky Dolenz was billed as Micky Braddock when he played this "Circus Guy" Corky |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | COMMON BONDS $200: Key,
circus,
wedding rings |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | "ACK"! $100: A 1930 Marx Brothers film, or treats packaged in a box that looks like a circus wagon cage Animal Crackers |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | AROUNDA ROMA $200: The Circus Maximus was built for these races Chariot races |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $800: With the Italian documentary "The Clowns", this director explored his fascination with the circus Federico Fellini |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $1000: In a segment of 1956's "Invitation to the Dance", this dancer plays a clown in love with a circus performer Gene Kelly |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | ODE TO ENGLAND $600: Circle this London square & you'll see Nelson's Column there Trafalgar Square |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | U.S. STAMPS $400: Different types of these on stamps of the 1990s include lunch, circus & Conestoga Wagons |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | BELLS $400: This Sousa march was used as the theme to "Monty Python's Flying Circus" "Liberty Bell March" |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | REALLY OLD HISTORY $100: This city's Circus Maximus hippodrome could hold 250,000 people, about 1/4 of its population Rome |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | LET'S GO TO FLORIDA $500: The Wallendas' poles, rigging & costumes are on view at the Circus Museum in this Florida city Sarasota |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | VIDEO GEOGRAPHY $600: The London traffic junction & meeting place seen here Piccadilly Circus |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: The expression "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this circus showman P.T. Barnum |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | THE "BIG" SCREEN $200: In it, Paul Reubens' alter ego joins the circus Big Top Pee-wee |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | MUSEUMS $400: The Hertzberg Circus Collection in San Antonio includes memorabilia of this 19th C. little "general" Tom Thumb |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | LATIN CLASS $1000: Degrees of the word for "great" are "magnus", "maior" & this superlative applied to a circus Maximus |
| #3103, aired 1998-02-11 | CORKY THE CARNY $400: At Corky's carnival, this attraction uses the "human", not the "dog" type of its tiny performers a flea circus |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: This "Rite Of Spring" composer was commissioned to write the "Circus Polka" to be danced by circus elephants Igor Stravinsky |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LAST WORDS $200: "How were the circus receipts...at Madison Square Garden?" P.T. Barnum |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | THE CIRCUS $100: Trainers shout, "Tail Up!" when they want these performers to follow each other trunk to tail Elephants |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | THE CIRCUS $200: It's the familiar term for a circus' largest tent, where the main show appears the big top |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | THE CIRCUS $300: Pink is the most popular color of this fluffy confection made from spun sugar cotton candy |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | THE CIRCUS $400: Antoinette Concello's triple somersault helped make her the "Queen of" this "flying" apparatus trapeze |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | THE CIRCUS $500: This steam whistle organ draws crowds to circus parades because it can be heard from miles away:
[audio clue] calliope |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $400: This British comedy troupe's "Flying Circus" landed on American TV in 1974 Monty Python |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: Each summer Bridgeport, Connecticut holds a festival honoring this circus showman P.T. Barnum |
| #2991, aired 1997-09-08 | PHOTO OPS $200: This London "circus" takes its name from the home of a 17th c. tailor who sold a type of high collar Piccadilly Circus |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | INVENTORS $400: Inspired by circus safety nets, George Nissen invented this piece of gymnastics equipment Trampoline |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: "Fisher King" director Terry Gilliam created this British comedy troupe's surreal animations Monte Python (Flying Circus) |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | TOUGH STUFF $400: In 1910 Georges Claude created these lights, now popular in Las Vegas & Piccadilly Circus neon lights |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | VIVA LAS VEGAS $100: This hotel's pink & white big top is home to acrobats, daredevils & trapeze artists Circus Circus |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | CD-ROM GAMES $100: "Where's" this character? He's "Exploring Geography" & "At The Circus" in 2 Warner Active games Waldo |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | ART $800: This French impressionist's 1893 "Trapeze Artist At The Medrano Circus" was painted on cardboard Toulouse Lautrec |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: A Sept. festival in Seaside Heights, New Jersey features hundreds of these silly circus performers Clowns |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | BIRDS $300: These birds are so named because their long legs look like the poles circus performers walk on stilts |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: He said his 1994 novel "A Son of the Circus" "Isn't about India. I don't know India. I was there only once" John Irving |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $300: The last vehicle in a circus parade often carried this steam-powered musical instrument the calliope |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | ARTISTS $800: At his death in 1891, this pointillist was working on a painting of "The Circus" Seurat |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $200: In 1971 Irvin Feld sold this "Greatest Show on Earth" to Mattel; in 1982 he bought it back the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | FILMS OF THE '50s $200: More than 300 sets were built for this 1959 classic, including the 18-acre Circus Maximus Ben-Hur |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | ODDS & ENDS $100: Circus Vargas had this many rings until 1991; now it's a European-style one-ring circus three |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: This largest stadium in ancient Rome held about a quarter of a million spectators Circus Maximus |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | THE CIRCUS $100: In 1796 Jacob Crowninshield imported the first of these pachyderms exhibited in the U.S. elephants |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | THE CIRCUS $200: The forerunners of these circus performers can be found in commedia dell'arte & English pantomime clowns |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | THE CIRCUS $300: Some circuses, like Polack Bros., have specialized in appearing under the auspices of this masonic order the Shriners |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | THE CIRCUS $400: This man, the greatest modern animal trainer, was the son of Max Gebel, a theatrical set designer Gunther Gebel-Williams |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | THE CIRCUS $500: In 1941 M'Toto was brought to the Ringling Bros. Circus as a mate for this giant gorilla Gargantua |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: In 1907 the circus formed by this pair was acquired by the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | SCULPTORS $600: This mobile sculptor's "Circus" is in the Whitney Museum Calder |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE CIRCUS $100: Legend says Isaac van Amburgh was the first to stick his head here—we hope he got a "roar" of applause a lion's mouth |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE CIRCUS $200: King Tusk, a famous one of these animals, outweighs Jumbo by more than 1,000 pounds an elephant |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE CIRCUS $300: Baraboo, Wisc.'s Circus World Museum is on the grounds of the original winter home of these brothers' circus the Ringling Brothers |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE CIRCUS $400: Red Skelton's father, who died before Red was born, was one of these circus performers a clown |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE CIRCUS $500: In 1982 Miguel Vazquez became the 1st aerialist to accomplish a quadruple one of these in performance somersault |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $1000: Picasso's "Family of Saltimbanques" shows people who work for one of these spectacles a circus |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | ART $800: He painted Mademoiselle Lala hanging by her teeth in the circus, but he's more famous for his ballerinas Edgar Degas |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE CIRCUS $100: A funambulist walks on one of these, with or without a net a tightrope |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE CIRCUS $200: Ida, the only sister of these famous circus brothers, married railroad engineer Henry North in 1902 the Ringling brothers |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE CIRCUS $300: This enormous gorilla nicknamed "Gargy" created a sensation in the 1940s Gargantua |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE CIRCUS $400: Margarita Vazquez Ayala & her daughters are famous for juggling flaming torches while hanging by this their hair |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE CIRCUS $500: In 1968 showman Irvin Feld founded a "college" for these performers in Venice, Florida clowns |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | FICTION $400: This "Garp" author's "A Son of the Circus" centers on a surgeon, a Hindi film star & a killer (John) Irving |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | "TOP"s $100: This term for a circus dates back at least to the 1890s the big top |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | CIRCUS HISTORY $100: If this man hadn't changed his name, we would have had a Barnum & McGinnis Circus Bailey |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | CIRCUS HISTORY $200: These famous brothers started as performers; Al, the oldest, was a juggler & tightrope walker the Ringlings |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | CIRCUS HISTORY $300: Tragically, 2 members of this family died when their 7-man pyramid collapsed in 1962 the Wallendas |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | CIRCUS HISTORY $400: This Frenchman invented the flying trapeze act & had a snug one-piece garment named for him Jules Léotard |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | CIRCUS HISTORY $500: This animal trainer who had his own circus called his 1933 memoir "The Big Cage" Clyde Beatty |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | SHOW TUNES $500: Rodgers & Hart wrote "There's A Small Hotel" for this Billy Rose Circus musical, but it was cut Jumbo |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | A.K.A. $400: As a child actor in the '50s, this future Monkee starred in TV's "Circus Boy" under the name Mickey Braddock Mickey Dolenz |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1956, in Pittsburgh, this circus gave its final performance under the "Big Top" the Ringling Bros. (& Barnum & Bailey) |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: The only survivor of Mt. Pelee's 1902 eruption on this island later toured with the Barnum & Bailey Circus Martinique |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | U.S.A. $800: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in this city is famous for its circus galleries Sarasota, Florida |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In Carlo Collodi's story, Pinocchio turns into this animal & is sold to a circus a donkey |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | ARTISTS $400: This artist's Rose Period is characterized by paintings harlequins & circus performers Picasso |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | COMEDIANS $400: After performing on "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he starred in "Fawlty Towers" John Cleese |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | CIRCUS HISTORY $200: Clyde Beatty preferred to be called a lion trainer because this other term implies lions can be domesticated a lion tamer |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | CIRCUS HISTORY $400: In 1985 a statue of this huge elephant was erected in St. Thomas, Ont., where he died 100 years earlier Jumbo |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | CIRCUS HISTORY $600: These performers are called "Joeys" in honor of Joseph Grimaldi, who was the father of their art clowns |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | CIRCUS HISTORY $800: This big ape was known as Buddy before he was renamed for a giant in a 16th century satire Gargantua |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | CIRCUS HISTORY $1000: A former fire-eater named Guy Laliberte founded this highly unusual circus in Montreal in 1984 Cirque du Soleil |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | THEME PARKS $200: Dutch Wonderland in this state's Lancaster County has a miniature circus of over 5,000 characters Pennsylvania |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On July 16, 1956 this circus staged its last performance under canvas Ringling Brothers (& Barnum & Bailey) Circus |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | WE "R" HERE $800: It's a circus worker who sets up the tent, takes care of the animals & handles the equipment a roustabout |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | COMMON BONDS $200: Flea,
Maximus,
Piccadilly circus |
| #2226, aired 1994-04-18 | CHARLIE CHAPLIN FILMS $100: The first time these were awarded, Chaplin got 2 nominations & a special award for "The Circus" Oscars |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | THE CIRCUS $100: On April 3, 1793, the first circus in America was staged in Philadelphia with this president in attendance George Washington |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | THE CIRCUS $200: This circus is known as "The Greatest Show on Earth" Ringling Brothers, (Barnum & Bailey Circus) |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | THE CIRCUS $300: To ride this circus animal, you may need a large saddle called a howdah an elephant |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | THE CIRCUS $400: In the circus a standard one of these is 42 feet in diameter a ring |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | THE CIRCUS $500: This high-wire act was famous for its 7-man walking pyramid the Wallendas |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | CHARLTON HESTON FILMS $500: Heston was a circus manager & Jimmy Stewart a clown in this "Best Picture" of 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In an 1881 novel by James Otis, this boy runs away with the circus Toby Tyler |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | NOTABLE NAMES $500: "The Clowns", this film director's tribute to circus people, was made originally for Italian TV Fellini |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | TRAVEL $300: In 1993 Circus Circus opened Grand Slam Canyon, a theme park under a dome, in this city Las Vegas |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | RADIO COMEDY $200: Eddie Anderson, the son of a circus tightrope walker, played this role on Jack Benny's show Rochester |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This musical instrument is named for the muse of epic poetry; you might hear it at the circus a calliope |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $200: An oval racecourse for chariots, designed for "Maximus" fun the circus |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | POTPOURRI $300: This vehicle was first ridden by 19th century circus performers, who juggled on it a unicycle |
| #2037, aired 1993-06-15 | THE FUNNIES $200: An orphaned circus performer named Dick Grayson was this millionaire's ward Bruce Wayne |
| #1998, aired 1993-04-21 | COMPOSERS $400: Igor Stravinsky wrote "Circus Polka" for this "fraternal" U.S. circus the Ringling Brothers |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | FOUNTAINS $300: A statue commonly called "Eros" occupies a fountain in this London "Circus" Piccadilly |
| #1868, aired 1992-10-21 | LONDON $400: Legend says this place name is derived from the piccadill, a type of collar once sold in the vicinity Piccadilly Circus |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | CLOTHING $500: A loose dress shape created by Yves Saint Laurent, or a suspended bar seen at the circus a trapeze |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | PEOPLE $200: A NYC paper gratified this circus founder by printing his obituary 2 weeks before he died P.T. Barnum |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: His "Circus Polka was "Composed For a Young Elephant"; we don't know what "The Fire Bird" was for Stravinsky |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | SWEET TREATS $100: These cookies were introduced by Nabisco in 1902 in a small box imprinted to look like a circus cage Animal Crackers |
| #1736, aired 1992-03-02 | CLICHES $200: The saying "The show must" do this originated in the circus, not in the theatre go on |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | FAMOUS FOLKS $400: He created Weary Willie as a cartoon character before playing the role himself in the circus Emmett Kelly |
| #1719, aired 1992-02-06 | ART $200: He painted scenes from the circus world during his Rose Period Picasso |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | THE CIRCUS $200: Isaac Van Amburgh is credited with being the first to put his head in here a lion's mouth |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | THE CIRCUS $400: P.T. Barnum used this slogan to describe the circus he & William Coup opened in Brooklyn in 1871 the Greatest Show on Earth |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | THE CIRCUS $600: The long beard, striped pants & tall hat of 1860s clown Dan Rice may have inspired this character Uncle Sam |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | THE CIRCUS $800: Henry Gentry was famous for this type of animal "show", now slang for any small circus a dog & pony show |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | THE CIRCUS $1000: Miguel Vasquez was first to perform this number of somersaults on the trapeze four |
| #1707, aired 1992-01-21 | ODD JOBS $100: The person in charge of the performances at a circus ringmaster |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | 1956 $400: It announced in July 1956 that you'd no longer be able to come & see it under the big top Barnum's & Bailey's Circus |
| #1651, aired 1991-11-04 | LONDON LANDMARKS $200: The statue of Eros, in this circle, was a tribute to Lord Shaftesbury; the bow & arrow, a play on his name Piccadilly Circus |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | HISTORIC QUOTES $500: His last words were "How were the circus receipts today at Madison Square Garden?" P.T. Barnum |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Songs from this Billy Rose show include "Little Girl Blue" & "The Circus is on Parade" Jumbo |
| #1639, aired 1991-10-17 | MIDDLE NAMES $300: The middle name of John North, who kept a famous circus going after his uncle died in 1936 Ringling |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: Oleg Popov performs as one of the most famous circus ones in the USSR a clown |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | TRANSPORTATION $400: These vehicles, popular in circuses, are called giraffe cycles when they're over 6 feet tall unicycles |
| #1592, aired 1991-07-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $100: This London intersection may have gotten its name from the lace collars or pickadels sold there Piccadilly Circus |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | THE U.S. ARMED FORCES $300: The Navy's special forces who are trained for all-terrain combat, not for playing horns in a circus the SEALs |
| #1534, aired 1991-04-11 | COMPOSERS $800: He wrote "Petrushka" for Diaghilev & a circus polka for the Ringling Brothers Igor Stravinsky |
| #1528, aired 1991-04-03 | COMMON BONDS $300: Umbrella,
circus, pup tents |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | CLICHES $500: Probably originating among circus folk or traveling theater groups, it means "let's get moving" let's get the show on the road |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | MAGAZINES $500: "Circus" magazine is not devoted to the big top, but to this entertainment field rock & roll music |
| #1455, aired 1990-12-21 | THEATER $400: The "He" in "He Who Gets Slapped" gets slapped when he joins the circus as one of these a clown |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | DOUBLE TALK $500: In June 1990 this Las Vegas-based co. opened the world's largest resort hotel, the 4,000-room Excalibur Circus Circus |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | THE CIRCUS $100: Ringling Brothers' are 42 feet in diameter with wooden curbs 1 foot high circus rings |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | THE CIRCUS $200: The main circus acts are performed under this, the largest tent big top |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | THE CIRCUS $300: In 1927 J. Ringling chose this Fla. city as winter headquarters for the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus Sarasota |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | THE CIRCUS $400: In 1982 Michael Vazquez became the first trapeze artist to do this many somersaults in the air in public 4 |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | THE CIRCUS $500: Last name of the family of aerialists that was known for its 7-person pyramid stunt Wallenda |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | ALL NUMBERS $100: It precedes D, Rs & ring circus 3 |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $9,900 (Daily Double): 1-word title of the 1980 musical which featured the following:
"When the pills the doctor gave you turn your cold to the grippe /
When a stitch to save nine others comes apart with a rip /
When the rats invade your attic and start leaving your ship /
Follow my tip /
Come away on a trip /
Just join the circus..." Barnum |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EARLY AMERICA $100: In 1793 Geo. Washington attended the 1st U.S. circus in this city, then the nation's capital Philadelphia |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | ANCIENT ROME $800: Admission was free at this huge arena, estimated to have been 3 times the size of the Colosseum the Circus Maximus |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | FAMOUS QUOTES $500: Juvenal wrote a Roman's longings are limited to 2 things, "panem et circenses", meaning this Bread & circus games |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | CIRCUS MOVIES $100: In the classic Disney film, Dumbo's ability to do this makes him a circus sensation fly |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | CIRCUS MOVIES $200: Betty Hutton performed many of her own aerial stunts in this 1952 circus epic The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | CIRCUS MOVIES $300: He played circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade in "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" W.C. Fields |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | CIRCUS MOVIES $400: The elephant stole the show in this Doris Day musical based on Billy Rose's stage spectacular Jumbo |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | CIRCUS MOVIES $500: This former circus acrobat got to play a circus acrobat in the 1956 film "Trapeze" Burt Lancaster |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME $500: This late, great circus star once performed an act with 40 -- count 'em, 40 -- lions & tigers Clyde Beatty |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: It's Latin for 1 ring, not 3 circus |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | CIRCUS LINGO $100: He announces the acts & starts the show by blowing a whistle ringmaster |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | CIRCUS LINGO $200: In circus slang, it's any town where the circus plays, & it's usually for more than one night stand |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | CIRCUS LINGO $300: A Joey isn't a circus kangaroo but rather one of these performers clown |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | CIRCUS LINGO $400: The name of this cowgirl is used to mean a complimentary ticket or free pass Annie Oakley |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | CIRCUS LINGO $500: "Big Bertha" & "The Big One" refer to this great American circus Ringling Brothers (Barnum & Bailey) |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: When this man went into business with James A. Bailey, it turned into a real 3-ring circus P.T. Barnum |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | WISCONSIN $200: Baraboo, the former winter home of this company, is home to a circus museum Ringling Brothers |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | THE CIRCUS $100: In 1907 Barnum & Bailey's circus was sold to them the Ringling brothers |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | THE CIRCUS $200: There are 2 main types of these in the circus, Auguste & whiteface clowns |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | THE CIRCUS $300: A Moscow circus act features these animals trained in the art of juggling with the feet bears |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | THE CIRCUS $400: This "Entertainment Tonight" star hosts the ABC series "Great Circuses of the World" Mary Hart |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | THE CIRCUS $500: Type of act that was the specialty of the Wallendas the high wire act |
| #1082, aired 1989-04-25 | THE CIRCUS $200: The Ringling Brothers circus had one that measured 500 X 200 feet a tent (the big top tent) |
| #1082, aired 1989-04-25 | THE CIRCUS $400: Known for its dancing bears, this circus toured the U.S. in 1988 for the 1st time in 10 years the Moscow Circus |
| #1082, aired 1989-04-25 | THE CIRCUS $600: This "Great" circus family wowed audiences by forming a 7-person pyramid on the high wire the Wallendas |
| #1082, aired 1989-04-25 | THE CIRCUS $1000: The workers who do the odd jobs around a circus, including setting up & taking down the tents the circus roustabouts |
| #1070, aired 1989-04-07 | ART $800: This comedian, the son of a circus clown, paints portraits of circus clowns Red Skelton |
| #1060, aired 1989-03-24 | "LING" O $200: Circus siblings Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles & John the Ringling Brothers |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: The collars a tailor sold gave their name to this London "Circus" Piccadilly |
| #1021, aired 1989-01-30 | WORD ORIGINS $800: From the Greek for "a race track", Circus Maximus in Rome was an example of this type of equestrian arena hippodrome |
| #1009, aired 1989-01-12 | FOREIGN FILMS $1000: "The Clowns", this director's tribute to circus performers, was originally made for Italian TV (Federico) Fellini |
| #1003, aired 1989-01-04 | NUMERICAL PHRASES $100: Something wild, confusing or entertaining, like a Barnum & Bailey show three-ring circus |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | THE BIG TOP $200: Originally devised to mark a running course for horses ridden bareback, it's about 40 feet in diameter a circus ring |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | THE BIG TOP $400: This subtitle was 1st used to describe P.T. Barnum's circus in 1872 "The Greatest Show on Earth" |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | THE BIG TOP $500: Meaning "circus of the sun", it was founded in 1984 for the street musicians of Quebec City Cirque du Soleil |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | "AND" SO IT GOES $800: Monty Python's Flying Circus borrowed this catch phrase from BBC announcers "And now for something completely different" |
| #941, aired 1988-10-10 | MOVIE TRIVIA $100: In 1936 this Oriental detective, not Groucho, was "...at the Circus", "...Opera" & "...Race Track" Charlie Chan |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | PARADES $300: This had to be stoked up for the performance & traditionally came last in the circus parade the calliope |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | TRANSPORTATION $200: A flying circus was a WWI squadron or a show featuring this style of flying stunt or daredevil flying |
| #893, aired 1988-06-22 | FIRST LINES $500: "Baby cried the day the circus came to town..." "Don't Cry Out Loud" |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $300: Her dad Billy was a clown with Barnum & Bailey Circus, but she was a witch in "The Wizard of Oz" Billie Burke |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | THE CIRCUS $200: For Ringling Brothers, they're about 42 feet in diameter the rings |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | THE CIRCUS $400: Traveling circuses played under tents called this, with the main show under the big one tops |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | THE CIRCUS $600: Isaac A. Van Amburgh is believed to be the 1st man to put his head into this a lion's mouth |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | THE CIRCUS $800: "Unus" was noted for his ability to balance himself on this part of his body index finger |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | THE CIRCUS $1000: It's what they call the trapeze artist who's caught by the "catcher" flyer |
| #873, aired 1988-05-25 | MACY'S PARADE $200: The clowns in the parade are drawn from these ranks Macy's employees |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | BREAKFAST CEREAL $200: Lucky Charms, Freakies, & Circus Fun all have oddly-shaped bits made of this marshmallow |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | MUSICALS $400: It's said this circus musical produced by Billy Rose had opening night tickets 9 times the usual size Jumbo |
| #833, aired 1988-03-30 | FAMOUS HOMES $1000: John Ringling's estate in this Florida city has its own theatre & circus galleries Sarasota |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | DOUBLE TALK $100: Family-oriented Las Vegas hotel that's home to the world's largest permanent big-top show Circus Circus |
| #822, aired 1988-03-15 | CELEBRITY ODD JOBS $1000: A former circus fire-eater, he fired up critics with his acting in "Mona Lisa" Bob Hoskins |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | BRITISH TV $100: Cleese, Chapman, Idle, Palin, Gilliam, & Jones were collectively known as this Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | TOYS $500: In a Family Circus cartoon, Dolly asked if Mrs. Wiggs of the classic kiddy book was mother of these dolls Cabbage Patch dolls |
| #797, aired 1988-02-09 | TRANSPORTATION $100: It's the main form of transportation used to get the Ringling Bros. Circus from city to city train |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $200: In 1942, Stravinsky composed "Circus Polka" for the dancing elephants in this circus Barnum & Bailey |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | ANCIENT ROME $300: The first Roman circus, it was also the largest Circus Maximus |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BIG TOP $200: Latin for "ring", the word circus was used to refer to these ancient Roman races chariot races |
| #781, aired 1988-01-18 | CINEMATIC BATTLES $400: Bogie's "Battle Circus", set in a MASH unit in this country, was filmed 17 years before "M*A*S*H" Korea |
| #776, aired 1988-01-11 | SEE THE USA $100: The science museum in this Virginia capital called its 1987 Science Circus "The Greatest Earth on Show" Richmond, Virginia |
| #775, aired 1988-01-08 | MUSEUMS $300: Knott's Berry Farm's Museum of Miniatures features these "circus" insects in handmade costumes fleas |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $200: Almost crippled in a trapeze accident with a French circus, he recovered & was "crowned" King of Siam Yul Brynner |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): City in which you'd see the following transportation sign:
Oxford Circus Station Subway London |
| #674, aired 1987-07-09 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: If you buy "candy floss" at a British circus, you've bought this cotton candy |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: A.S. Denny's invention of this steam organ in the 1850s created quite a circus atmosphere calliope |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | AUTHORS $1000: Barnum & Bailey's Circus used to reenact the chariot race from this man's 1880 novel General Lew Wallace |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | ROMAN EMPERORS $200: Of Circus Maximus. Gluteus Maximus, or Pupienus Maximus. the 1 who was emperor Pupienus Maximus |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: A 19th century circus star gave his name to this, the 1-piece garment he designed & wore in his act leotard |
| #482, aired 1986-10-14 | HOMOPHONES $400: Run away from a tiny circus bug flee/flea |
| #456, aired 1986-09-08 | KIDS' TV $600: Years after playing a "Circus Boy", he made a "Monkee" out of himself Micky Dolenz |
| #450, aired 1986-05-30 | 1956 $200: The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus did this for the last time, in July in Pittsburgh play under a tent |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | BICYCLES $200: A German circus performer has made the Guinness record book for riding a bicycle with this distinction the smallest |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | THE FUNNIES $600: Dolly, Jeffrey, Billy & P.J. the kids in the Family Circus |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | SEA LIFE $200: Young females trained for the circus & called "seals" are really this sea animal sea lions |
| #413, aired 1986-04-09 | WISCONSIN $200: Big-top siblings who began their circus in Baraboo, Wisconsin in the 1880s the Ringling Brothers |
| #400, aired 1986-03-21 | LONDON LANDMARKS $200: A statue of Eros stands in the center of this neon-lit traffic round-a-bout Piccadilly Circus |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | THE CIRCUS $100: He was also 1st president to attend a circus, no lie George Washington |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | THE CIRCUS $200: Name for place to buy tickets, it comes from railroad car from which they were originally sold box office |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | THE CIRCUS $300: Animals called "bulls" by circus workers elephants |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | THE CIRCUS $400: One of its 1985 host ringmasters was Merv Griffin Circus of the Stars |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | THE CIRCUS $500: If they're sent into the arena all at once, it's called a "bust out" clowns |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This Roman site, Latin for "large circle" sat 250,000 people the Circus Maximus |
| #332, aired 1985-12-17 | TV COMEDY $300: English comedy show once called "Owl Stretching Time" Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #294, aired 1985-10-24 | POTPOURRI $600: In the circus they use a blowtorch to burn off this animal's hair so it won't scratch performers an elephant |
| #292, aired 1985-10-22 | THE BIG TOP $100: "Circus" is Latin for these, of which most large American circuses have 3 a circle (rings) |
| #292, aired 1985-10-22 | THE BIG TOP $500: Though winter quarters have moved to Venice, Fla., this site of Ringling Museum is still "Circus City" Sarasota |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | DOLLS $200: Popular prize on circus midways, artist Rose O'Neill modeled it on her baby brother Kewpie doll |
| #180, aired 1985-05-17 | FIRST, MIDDLE & LAST $1000: Desperate to get this animal trainer, "Ringling" bought entire German circus for $2 million Gunther Gebel-Williams |
| #177, aired 1985-05-14 | TRIVIA $400: Traveling show created in 1936 by Oscar Johnson & Edward & Roy Shipstad (Shipstad & Johnson's) Ice Follies |
| #175, aired 1985-05-10 | "BIG" $100: A giant gyroscope, or the largest tent in a circus the big top |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | LITTLE BIG MEN $800: Barnum's circus' midget whose stage name combined a military title & a fairy tale name General Tom Thumb |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | ODD JOBS $400: Circus performer who bends over backwards for you & into pretzel-like shapes, too contortionist |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | TRIVIA $400: As a cartoonist he created the clown Weary Willie, then went on to play him in the circus Emmett Kelly |
| #150, aired 1985-04-05 | LANDMARKS $400: London's equivalent of New York's Times Square Piccadilly Circus |
| #133, aired 1985-03-13 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): It featured a dead parrot, the Spanish Inquisition & this Sousa march Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | THE CIRCUS $200: Acrobat-turned-actor who used both skills for "Trapeze" Burt Lancaster |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | THE CIRCUS $400: No 2 are exactly alike & each is painted on an eggshell to be registered a clown's face |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | THE CIRCUS $600: This family's 7-person high-wire pyramid collapsed in tragedy in 1962 the Flying Wallendas |
| #52, aired 1984-11-20 | THE '50s $200: In August 1956, Ringling Brothers Circus performed its last show in one a big top (tent) |
| #45, aired 1984-11-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: Saint-Saens’ zoological circus that he wouldn’t allow published til after his death The Carnival of the Animals |
