#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $200: The Castle of Good Hope dates to the 1660s in this city in South Africa Cape Town |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $400: It's home to the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange Milan |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $600: Froindlichst sells meatless patties in this German city on the Elbe Hamburg |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $800: This world capital is home to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Ankara |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The historic site Pedra do Sal in this second city has been called "the birthplace of samba" Rio de Janeiro |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $200: Village-sized but billed as Britain's smallest city, St. Davids is in this U.K. country with David as its patron saint Wales |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $400: More than 600,000 Argentinians live in this city near the shore of the Rio de the same name La Plata |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $600: Try some okonamiyaki savory pancakes in this city, often referred to as the "Kitchen of Japan" Osaka |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $800: An Azerbaijani oil baron built a replica of a Parisian palace for his wife in this capital city Baku |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $1000: The Atlantic port city Essaouira in this North African country was planned by an 18th century French architect Morocco |
#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $1,000 (Daily Double): Columbia is about midway between these 2 same-state Midwest cities that squared off in the I-70 World Series in 1985 Kansas City & St. Louis |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE LOCALS $1200: B.R. Ambedkar was a leader of the people called Untouchables, Dalits or SC, short for "Scheduled" this; he urged them to move to cities Castes |
#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $200: 2 cities with this name in different states lie on the Missouri River Kansas City |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The Lombard League, an alliance of Italian cities, was founded in 1167 to defend against this red-bearded Holy Roman Emperor Barbarossa |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $400: A Novocastrian is a person from this city-upon-Tyne Newcastle |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $800: This Latvian capital is pretty much at the geographic center of the 3 Baltic states Riga |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: We are marching to this city where the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, ending the Boer War Pretoria |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $2000: About a third of this city's 15 million people live on the Asian side, while the rest live in Europe Istanbul |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Fittingly, this capital is the Yukon headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Whitehorse |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It's not just the capital--it's also one of Morocco's 4 imperial cities Rabat |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $400: Chicago's throne-shaped theatre building with this kind of work in its name, opened with "Aida" in 1929 opera |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $800: Memphis harkens back to ancient times with a Bass Pro Shops in one of the world's largest of these, worthy of the mighty pharaohs pyramid |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $1200: Get a kick out of some kicks at the Giant Shoe Museum in Pike Place Market in this Western city Seattle |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Area 15 in Las Vegas houses art installations originally built for this annual festival held in the Black Rock Desert Burning Man |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $2000: This Manhattan hotel popularized by Warhol & Dylan calls itself "a decadent palace of peculiarity" the Chelsea Hotel |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $400: In the '60s it gave birth to the Motown sound Detroit |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $800: In 1786 it was chosen to replace Charleston as a state capital Columbia |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $1200: A small city of about 10,000, Wapakoneta, Ohio is famous for being the birthplace of this astronaut Armstrong |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $1600: Many a cruise leaves out of Port Everglades in this city, the seat of Broward County Fort Lauderdale |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Most city founders have been gone a while, but the man for whom this Nevada casino town is named, passed away in 2023 Laughlin |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $3,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 3, 1996 the Star Tribune & the Pioneer Press headlined a big stat for these 2 adjoining cities: -60 degrees Minneapolis & St. Paul |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: Cultural attractions in Bangkok include Wat Pho & Wat Arun, temples of this religion Buddhism |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $800: This Nepalese capital sits in a bowl-shaped valley near the border with Tibet Kathmandu |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $1200: The name of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of this nation, means "red hero" Mongolia |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $1600: You'll find Seoul stretching along the banks of this river the Han |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Historically a junction between East & West, this capital of Oman lies on a strategic waterway bordering Southeast Arabia Muscat |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $600: In 2023 this type of filing affecting housing was 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities eviction |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1600: Salmonella is bacteria; Salamanca is one of the cities where this saint of Ávila founded a convent St. Teresa |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: The African Union has its headquarters in this Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: South Africa has 3 capitals; Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial) & this one (legislative) Cape Town |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $1200: Everybody comes to this city also known as Dar Al-Beïda--everybody in Morocco, that is Casablanca |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $1600: Windhoek is the capital of this southwest African nation that gained independence in 1990 Namibia |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $2000: Libya's second-largest city, this port on the Mediterranean sadly made international news in 2012 Benghazi |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $400: Under the Moors this European capital was called Olissibona Lisbon |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $800: 4th century A.D. Roman emperor Jovian was born in Singidunum, now this Serbian capital Belgrade |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1200: This former name of Kinshasa reflects its nation's history as a colony of the Belgian monarchy Leopoldville |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Dushanbe, capital of this landlocked "stan", was called Stalinabad until 1961 Tajikistan |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961 in honor of its dictator, this city returned to its old name after his assassination Santo Domingo |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $400: Espoo & Lappeenranta are cities in this nation Finland |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $400: This north African capital's name reflects its history as one of 3 ancient neighboring cities Tripoli |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $400: In Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" an operative is sent to this onetime capital to help against Vietnamese Communists Saigon |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $800: Robert Southey's poem "The Battle of Blenheim" recounts a 1704 victory at Blenheim during this war over who would be king of Spain the War of Spanish Succession |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1600: "City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard takes place in the author's longtime home, this Midwest city Detroit |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor Casterbridge |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $1000: He takes Charles Darnay's place at the scaffold in "A Tale of Two Cities" Sydney Carton |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $400: Pune, one of this country's 10 most populous cities, is a sister city of Columbus, Indiana India |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | QUICK CITIES $400: Hosts the annual Campeonato Mundial de Baile de Tango Buenos Aires |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | QUICK CITIES $800: It shares its name with a type of light yellow-brown envelope Manila |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | QUICK CITIES $1200: Its 200-foot-high monument to Columbus is on La Rambla Barcelona |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | QUICK CITIES $2000: Nigeria's most populous Lagos |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | QUICK CITIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Nicknamed "Hollywood North", it's about 1,100 miles north of the real thing Vancouver |
#8965, aired 2023-11-03 | THE THIRD WORD $800: ...of "A Tale of Two Cities" the |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $400: In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city Moscow |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $800: This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia Tokyo |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1200: Athens hosted the first Modern Olympics in 1896; this other European capital hosted the second games in 1900 Paris |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $2000: It took until 1956, but finally a Southern Hemisphere city hosted--this one Melbourne |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $2,800 (Daily Double): This city between Lake Mälaren & the Baltic Sea hosted the 1912 Olympics Stockholm |
#8951, aired 2023-10-16 | KICKIN' AZTEC $1000: The Aztecs founded 2 cities where Mexico City now stands: Tlatelolco & this one, their capital Tenochtitlan |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $600: Seen here, this type of hat is named after one of Morocco's most populous cities fez |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $200: On the northwest shore of Lake Ontario, this city is home to about 10% of Canada's population Toronto |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $400: Some pilgrims go on their knees up the steps of Canada's largest church, St. Joseph's Oratory in this city in Quebec Montreal |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $600: Also the site of the largest mall in Canada, this oil city of Alberta is "The Gateway to the North" Edmonton |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $800: Flooding in 1950 in Winnipeg by this river of the north led to the building of floodways there to bypass the city the Red River of the North |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $1000: Fredericton is the capital of this Atlantic province New Brunswick |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE CONGO RIVER $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 capital cities, of the R.O.C & the D.R.O.C., lie across from each other on opposite banks of the Congo River Kinshasa & Brazzaville |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $600: The 4 largest cities in the U.S. by area are all in Alaska: Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and this city, also the most populous Anchorage |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $400: Craig Ferguson is a proud Glaswegian--a native of this city Glasgow |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $800: I found my thrill on Parliament Hill in this city with a visit to the Canadian Senate chamber Ottawa |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1200: The Georgian city of Batumi dates from around 1000 B.C. & is an important port on this sea the Black Sea |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1600: The massive Lower Usuma Dam was completed in 1990 to bring drinking water to Abuja, about to become this nation's new capital Nigeria |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): Today an art school stands at the place in this huge metropolis where Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 Mumbai |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | IN DENMARK $800: Copenhagenize is an urban planning firm specializing in making cities friendly to these transports, the way Copenhagen is bicycles |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | "M"PIRES $800: Tikal, Coba & Uxmal were all cities of this Mesoamerican empire (the) Maya(n) (Empire) |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $400: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C., but it wasn't built in a day Rome |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $800: This large South American city is nicknamed the "City of Kings" Lima |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $1200: This city on the Côte d'Azur is thought to be named in honor of the Greek goddess of victory Nice |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2022 it was the site of 2 FIFA World Cup venues Doha, Qatar |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $2000: Fiji's capital, it's home to the University of the South Pacific Suva |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $800: The final leg of this show had Derek & Claire get their Jack Daniel's on (at the distillery) before winning big after 16 cities The Amazing Race |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $400: Seen here are some of the colorful Inuit houses of Nuuk, the capital of this largest island Greenland |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $800: The burial place of the Medicis, the Church of San Lorenzo claims to be the oldest in this city Florence |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the sacred city of Kandy is in this island country Sri Lanka |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $1600: This city on the north coast of Colombia was named for one founded in 3rd century Spain by the North African general Hasdrubal Cartagena |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $2000: At 92 feet below sea level, Baku in this country is the lowest national capital Azerbaijan |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $4,200 (Daily Double): Though Geneva is pretty low as Swiss cities go, a Cold War meeting there was the first one called this top-level type a summit |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $400: On the Che trail in this country, the town of Vallegrande has the laundry room where Señor Guevara's body was washed Bolivia |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $800: Highlighted on the map, it's been a major religious center for more than 1,000 years Canterbury |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $1200: This seat of Meade County, South Dakota hosts a huge annual motorcycle rally Sturgis |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $1600: Just east of St. Petersburg, Russia is the lovely town of Shlisselburg on this river the Neva |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $2000: These 2 sister cities in the U.S. & France are settings in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" & "Das Boot" New Rochelle, New York & La Rochelle, France |
#8873, aired 2023-05-17 | "X" IN THE CITY $800: Indicated on the map & named for the 2 states it straddles, it functions as one community but two separate cities Texarkana |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $200: The design of this capital city that began construction in the 1950s is said to resemble a bird or an airplane Brasília |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $400: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for the country's first constitutionally elected president Sucre |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $600: Nieuw Nickerie & Nieuw Amsterdam are cities in this country Suriname |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $800: Most flights to & from the Galapagos Islands stop at or originate in this city, Ecuador's largest Guayaquil |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $1000: On the Atlantic coast, Maldonado is 70 miles east of this capital city Montevideo |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | 4 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS OR CONSONANTS $2000: This capital of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province is one of the southernmost cities in the world Ushuaia |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $400: In this Dickens novel, Sydney Carton loves Lucie Manette so much that he replaces her husband on the guillotine A Tale of Two Cities |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $600: "Then the Lord rained upon" these 2 sinful cities "brimstone and fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $400: The State Hermitage Museum is in this "saintly" Russian city St. Petersburg |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $800: In 1809 John Molson linked Quebec & this city by water with the first Canadian steamboat Montreal |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $1600: The worker bee is a symbol of this industrial city in northern England & represents unity since a 2017 bombing there Manchester |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Over 10,000 feet in elevation, this South American capital is one of the International Cities of Peace La Paz |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $2000: You can study physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in this city, like 1900 grad Albert Einstein did Zurich |
#8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $1200: The cities of the Achaean League situated on the northern part of this peninsula met defeat in 146 B.C. at the hands of Rome the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
#8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $400: "... It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $200: Now in Syria, Aleppo lies at a crossroads of great commercial routes about 60 miles away from both the Euphrates River & this sea the Mediterranean |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $400: In 1687 Venetians besieging Athens hit this temple with a mortar, setting off gunpowder stored inside; it's never been the same the Parthenon |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $600: Circa 330 A.D. the city once known as this got a new name under new emperor Constantine Byzantium |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $800: Copan, an important city of the Classic period of these people is in modern-day Honduras, near the border with Guatemala the Mayans |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): This town, named for a Greek hero was one of several destroyed by a 79 A.D. disaster Herculaneum |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | PLANES, TRAINS $1200: When it started service in 1862, the Flying Scotsman rail route took 10 1/2 hours between these 2 cities; now it does it in 4 London & Edinburgh |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $400: "I, Claudius",
"The Bicycle Thief" Rome |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $800: "Frasier",
"Singles" Seattle |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $1200: "Upstairs, Downstairs", "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" London |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $1600: "How to Get Away with Murder",
"Silver Linings Playbook" Philadelphia |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $2000: The sanguine start of "The Flight Attendant", most of "The Hangover Part II" Bangkok |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $2000: This Aristophanes play is named for the character who inspires the women of Athens & Sparta to end a war between the cities Lysistrata |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1,800 (Daily Double): These paired cities, "going after strange flesh, are... suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $400: Communities near this state capital include Greenwood & Speedway Indianapolis |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $800: This Italian name of a big city on a bay is from words meaning "new city" Napoli |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $1200: This city on Maryland's Severn River is the seat of Anne Arundel County Annapolis |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $1600: Seen here is the obelisk of this once great Egyptian Sun city Heliopolis |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $2000: This major port is the largest city in Crimea Sevastopol |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $1600: Greek cities of the 3rd century B.C. formed the Achaean League to expel invaders from this kingdom of Philip & Alexander Macedonia |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $200: Though Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, the seat of government is in this city The Hague |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: "Carmen" is set in this city; "The Marriage of Figaro" takes place nearby Seville |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: Seen here is some merrymaking in this capital of Bavaria Munich |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: Since 1578 a sacred 14-foot linen shroud has been preserved in a cathedral in this city Turin |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1000: Warsaw lies on both banks of this river, the longest in Poland the Vistula |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $200: In 1880 the British defeated indigenous forces in the Battle of Kandahar, now the second-largest city in this country Afghanistan |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $400: Open a bottle to toast this second city of Ireland, with a name meaning "marsh" Cork |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $600: Founded by King Olaf III Haraldsson, Bergen is the second-largest city in this country Norway |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $800: Mombasa on the Indian Ocean is this country's main port Kenya |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bulawayo in this nation is home to State House, built by Cecil Rhodes Zimbabwe |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $400: Founder of the Franciscan order, St. Francis of this city Assisi |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $800: A follower of St. Francis & a patron of the poor, St. Anthony of this city Padua |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1200: Egyptian martyr whose symbol is a spiked wheel, not a library book, St. Catherine of this city Alexandria |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1600: Canonized in 1671, the first saint of South America, Rose of this city Lima |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $2000: The first Pole to be made a saint, Stanislaus of this city, formerly the capital of Poland Kraków |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $2000: Francisco de Coronado found what was supposed to be the 7 Golden Cities of this; they turned out to be a simple Zuni pueblo Cibola |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $400: One of Canada's oldest cities, it's called the Gibraltar of America because its huge Citadel overlooks the St. Lawrence River Quebec City |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | COUNTRIES FROM WORDPLAY CATEGORIES $1200: Rhyming pairs:
Banjul & Lusaka are the capital cities of these 2 The Gambia & Zambia |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | IN THE ROOM $1600: This large upholstered couch that shares its name with the largest of the Quad Cities along the Iowa-Illinois border a davenport |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $400: Olympic Stadium in this city was the site of multiple gold-winning performances by Jesse Owens Berlin |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $800: This major river passes through the cities of Mannheim & Cologne the Rhine |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $1200: The cities of Würzburg, Bayreuth & Munich are all found in this largest German state by area Bavaria |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $1600: The site of a Roman fortress in the 1st century B.C., this city was the seat of federal government for 50 years until 1999 Bonn |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $2000: Hanover was the original home of the man who would become this English king in 1714 George I |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: As mentioned at the start of this book, Pithom & Raamses were 2 treasure cities built by the Israelites for the Egyptian Pharaoh Exodus |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $800: Despite his own rules against sorcery, this monarch traveled to the city of Endor to consult a witch Saul |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1200: Also the home of Mary & Martha, this town near Jerusalem is where Lazarus was raised from the dead Bethany |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1600: What was Sela, the "strong city" of Edom, is today somewhere in this country--maybe it's Petra Jordan |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $2000: Genesis recounts that this mighty hunter built the city of Nineveh Nimrod |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $200: This New Mexico City claims the title “Hot Air Balloon Capital of the World” Albuquerque |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $400: A suburb of Dallas, this city officially recognizes Rip Van Winkle's creator as its namesake Irving |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $600: Located in the heart of the Lehigh Valley, it's nicknamed the "Christmas City" Bethlehem |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $800: Once a large Quaker community, this California city bears the last name of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $1000: River surfing is a big deal in this second-largest Montana city that's also home to the University of Montana Missoula |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | RELIGION $400: Mathura on the Yamuna River is one of the 7 sacred cities of this religion Hinduism |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $800: Nieuw Nickerie & Lelydorp are among the largest cities in this country Suriname |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $400: Dating from before the city was built up, just a short drive outside this Kenyan capital is a national park bearing its name Nairobi |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $1200: From the Sky Tower, you get a bird's-eye view of this New Zealand city that sounds like a nation for birds Auckland |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $1600: Around 1400, this Belgian "B" city northwest of Brussels was among Europe's richest & built itself quite a city hall Bruges |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $2000: In London, it's an area of government offices, & by extension the civil service; in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the prime minister's office Whitehall |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $4,000 (Daily Double): You get a good look at this city from a gondola as it climbs the former Ericsson Globe, now renamed Avicii Arena Stockholm |
#8727, aired 2022-10-25 | FESTIVALS $1200: The USAFF stands for the U.S. Association of these "edgy" festivals of which Tucson & Cincy are but a few of the participating cities Fringe Festival |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $200: Alexandria was part of the District of Columbia until 1846, when it was returned to this state Virginia |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $400: Southwest of Birmingham in the city of Bessemer is an abode with this name reminiscent of a Lynyrd Skynyrd tune Sweet Home |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $800: This Tennessee city's iconic Sunsphere was built for the 1982 World's Fair Knoxville |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This largest Kentucky city was named for a king of France Louisville |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $1000: In 2022 this South Carolina city topped Southern Living's list of the South's best cities for the fifth time Charleston |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | GAME ON $300: Sweden's Mojang Studios is best known for this video game where you can build volcanoes or underground cities Minecraft |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | A VIEW TO THE BRIDGE $400: Completed in 1849, the Chain Bridge linked these two cities that would link as well to form Hungary's capital Buda & Pest |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $500: Cologne, Germany is one of many historic cities along this great river of Western Europe the Rhine |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE RICHTER SCALE $500: In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities the San Andreas |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: Major cities in New Hampshire include Dover & this port that also shares its name with a historic port of southern England Portsmouth |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $200: Things found in this city: The Joe Louis Fist statue as well as Ford Field Detroit |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $400: Wacker Drive is an impressive double-decker street in this city of big shoulders Chicago |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $600: Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts is home to this city's symphony orchestra Pittsburgh |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville Salt Lake City |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Named for a V.P. from Indiana, this Alaska city is home to the Goldpanners, who play an annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 P.M. Fairbanks |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $2000: The Lombard League was a medieval alliance of cities in the north of this present-day country Italy |
#8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $1600: Massawa & Assab are important port cities of Eritrea on the shores of this long body of water the Red Sea |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa the Phoenicians |
#8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FICTIONAL PLACES $1600: Norton Juster wrote up Dictionopolis & ran the numbers on Digitopolis, rival cities in this children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $200: This capital's name comes from its original Spanish settlement, Santa Fé de Bacatá Bogotá |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $400: The narrow streets of Cusco are still lined with mortarless stone walls built by these people the Inca |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $800: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for a former president of that country Sucre |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1000: The Chilean city of Calama is in this desert the Atacama |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1,600 (Daily Double): La Plata & Mar del Plata are cities in this country Argentina |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $1000: "Cities of the Interior" author
Ms. Nin Anais |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $200: 148,000 people make Bridgeport No. 1 in this state Connecticut |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $400: I'm goin' to this biggest city in Mississippi, I'm gonna mess around Jackson |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $600: The biggest cities of these 2 states on opposite sides of the nation have the same name Maine & Oregon |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $800: The biggest cities of these 2 "directional" states have the same name West Virginia & South Carolina |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1000: More than twice as populous as No. 2 Rapid City, this South Dakota city also has a water feature in its name Sioux Falls |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FLAGS OF FORMER COUNTRIES $800: Here's the flag of this former nation, where cities like Karl-Marx-Stadt once existed East Germany |
#8620, aired 2022-04-15 | TRIOS $1600: The "Golden Triangle" of the Texas oil industry is the cities of Orange, Beaumont & this "Port" one Port Arthur |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $800: Not Moscow but this capital 300 miles north of the Black Sea is the "mother of Rus cities" Kyiv |
#8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $200: In season 8 the Linz siblings covered 50 cities in 25 days to win this reality show's first family edition The Amazing Race |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | HISTORICAL NONFICTION $800: Annalee Newitz' "Four Lost Cities" that flourished & then perished include this one around a big wat or temple Angkor |
#8604, aired 2022-03-24 | AUSTRIA'S BORDERS $2000: One of the fastest-growing cities in Europe, this national capital is just over the Slovak border on the Danube River Bratislava |
#8602, aired 2022-03-22 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $1600: The Etruscan League was a dodecapolis, consisting of this many main cities 12 |
#8600, aired 2022-03-18 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): The cities of Providence & Newport lie at opposite ends of this bay Narragansett Bay |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $200: This city of 10 million hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics Seoul |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $400: This Swiss capital lies on the Aare River Bern |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $600: As the Coriolis force moves counterclockwise, afternoon brings a sea breeze called the Fremantle Doctor to this Western Australia capital Perth |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $800: We doff our caps to this metropolis, the oldest of Morocco's 4 imperial cities Fez |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $1000: Home to the largest religious college in Iran, this city was the base of Ayatollah Khomeini before & after his exile Qom |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $800: Aberdeen is one of only 5 cities in this Midwest state to have more than 20,000 people South Dakota |
#9, aired 2022-02-15 | A SEMESTER ABROAD $800: Get your anagram travel on by visiting these 2 Japanese cities, one a capital for 1,000 years & the other, not quite as long Tokyo & Kyoto |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $200: Considered "The Birthplace of California", it's home to the Padres & a world-renowned zoo San Diego |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: Incorporated in 1911, this city 30 miles northwest of Hoover Dam has had a busy 111 years Las Vegas |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $600: It's about 500 miles from this state capital to the larger city of the same name Charleston |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $800: Founded on a peninsula in 1565, it would become Spain's military & religious headquarters in North America St. Augustine |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): "Take a ride" in this oft-mispronounced Pennsylvania city named for the ancestral hometown of the Penn family Reading |
#8570, aired 2022-02-04 | "R" TOWN $200: In the names of California cities, this Spanish word precedes Cordova, Cucamonga & Mirage Rancho |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | TRANSPORTATION $800: The rapid transit system known by this 4-letter name connects the San Francisco peninsula with Oakland & other nearby cities BART |
#8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THE CAROLINAS $800: It's about 200 miles between these 2 capital cities of the Carolinas Columbia & Raleigh |
#8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $1600: This "A Tale of Two Cities" hero goes to his death in place of his lookalike Charles Darnay Sydney Carton |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | SNOW-POURRI $1200: Mount Snow, Vermont calls itself these mountains' most accessible ski resort from the big cities south of it the Green Mountains |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PLAYING PROFESSOR $200: This Harrison Ford character tells a class, "Forget any ideas you got about lost cities, exotic travel" Indiana Jones |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $400: Get a whiff of this city, the largest in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia Cologne |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $800: In Dublin, the Ha'penny Bridge spans this river the Liffey |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $1200: This capital city is located in the region known as Anatolia Ankara |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this second-largest city in Wales starts with a big bird Swansea |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $2000: South of Quito, this largest Ecuadorian city is seen here in all its colors Guayaquil |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $1200: Set at a fictional Ivy League university, "Dear White People" was filmed at this school's Twin Cities campus the University of Minnesota |
#8516, aired 2021-11-22 | HISTORICAL FICTION $3,600 (Daily Double): Published in 1859, this novel takes place in Paris & London during the French Revolution A Tale of Two Cities |
#8514, aired 2021-11-18 | IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES $600: You did not want to be in these 2 cities after the Lord says "their sin is very grievous" in Genesis 18 Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $400: An important industrial center, this city is also home to the Welsh central government Cardiff |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $800: Mohammed V Square is the central plaza in this city but you probably won't find any gin joints there Casablanca |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1200: Seen here is the coat of arms of this German city whose name derives from a 10th century stud farm Stuttgart |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1600: In 1961 Stalingrad was renamed this, for the river on which it lies Volgograd |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $2000: Argentina's second-largest city is named for this Spanish city; both are known for their leather Córdoba |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Like Rome, Edinburgh & Istanbul are known as cities of this many hills 7 |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $200: St. Louis, Missouri's sister cities include this city in Senegal St. Louis |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $400: In a 1938 tale the fictional cities of Thobos & Ashair are at war & this "ape man" is caught in the middle Tarzan |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | GEO TRIOS $800: North Carolina's Research Triangle consists of 3 university cities: Durham, Chapel Hill & this home of NC State Raleigh |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | GEO TRIOS $2000: Of South Africa's 3 capital cities, this administrative one is part of the municipality of Tshwane Pretoria |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $400: The name of this capital means "black pool", referring to the dark waters of the River Liffey Dublin |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $800: Galway is home to a national theater dedicated to works in the language called Irish this Gaelic |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $1200: It was a long way to this city for the English King John, who built a castle there when he was governor Tipperary |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $1600: Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal Waterford |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $2000: A town called Drogheda sits on this river that lends its name to a decisive 1690 battle Boyne |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | PUT IT IN THE PROVINCE $400: The cities of Gaspé & Rivière-du-Loup Quebec |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: By the 13th century Visby in Sweden had become one of the richest cities in Europe & an important member of this league Hanseatic |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought" Frankenstein |
#8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CITY TRANSPORTATION $400: Named for their resemblance to coconuts, cocotaxis roam the cities of this Communist island nation Cuba |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WE'LL GET TOGETHER $600: With many players serving in World War II, NFL teams from these 2 cities in the same state merged to form the Steagles Pittsburgh & Philadelphia |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | "G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE $800: One of the 7 holy cities of Hinduism, Varanasi has shrines, temples & palaces along the banks of this river the Ganges |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): This African capital due south of Sicily got its name from a region with 3 ancient Phoenician cities Tripoli |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $800: Cities around the globe have pixel-style street art by Invader, whose name is inspired by this 1970s arcade game Space Invaders |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | BORDERING THE USA $1000: Mexico's 2 largest cities on the U.S. border are Juarez & this one Tijuana |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAPPING THE MIDWEST $1200: They're the two cities here--one a territorial capital that was north of the Platte, & the other a state capital south of the river Omaha & Lincoln |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAPPING THE MIDWEST $2,000 (Daily Double): Cities along this river that shares its name with a state capital include Ottumwa & Fort Dodge Des Moines |
#8427, aired 2021-06-22 | SCULPTURE & STATUES $800: Several cities have Lorenzo Quinn's hurricane-inspired sculptures of this not-so-maternal figure hurling a globe Mother Nature |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $400: "Batman v Superman" placed this city right next to Metropolis Gotham (City) |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $800: Much of this 2006 animated film takes place in Radiator Springs Cars |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $1600: The climax of "The Empire Strikes Back" takes place here, high above Bespin Cloud City |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $2000: At one point in this 1946 film, Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville It's a Wonderful Life |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $2,500 (Daily Double): When Nicole Kidman & Matthew Broderick move to this town in a 2004 remake, the neighborhood wives seem a tad robotic Stepford |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NEXT IN LINE $1200: Salt Lake City,
Turin,
Vancouver... Sochi |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | PERU $800: One of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere, it was the capital of the Inca Empire when the Spanish arrived Cuzco |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Málaga & Murcia are 2 big cities in the southern part of this nation Spain |
#8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $800: "Islamic Empires" follows the rise of the religion from its birth in Mecca to modern cities like Doha in this country Qatar |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $200: It's been called Fordtown as well as the Motor City Detroit |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $400: This city on the Rio Grande is the sister city of Juarez, Mexico El Paso |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $600: The Florida Museum of Natural History is located in this university city, right on the campus Gainesville |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $800: Nevada's second-most populous city & one of the country's fastest growing is this community just southeast of Las Vegas Henderson |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Once a hat-making center, today this Connecticut city is known for its federal low-security facility housing female inmates Danbury |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: A 17th century fortress called the Kasbah des Oudaias overlooks this nation's capital, Rabat Morocco |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: Mombasa is a major port city of Kenya on this body of water the Indian Ocean |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $1200: The University of Johannesburg dates from the Transvaal Technical Institute, begun to aid this industry diamond mining |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $1600: After a 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca, Emperor Mansa Musa built a great mosque in this caravan city on the edge of the Sahara in Mali Timbuktu |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $2000: Southerton & Workington are suburbs of this Zimbabwean capital once called Salisbury Harare |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $400: This capital of Iraq was formerly called Madinat al-Salam, Arabic for "city of peace" Baghdad |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $800: Some of Kazakhstan's only water ports, Aktau & Kuryk are major shipping centers on this sea the Caspian Sea |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $1200: This capital of the Philippines is on Luzon Island Manila |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $1600: Dili is the capital of this nation that broke away from Indonesia in 1999 East Timor |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $2000: Israel's third-largest city, it overlooks the Mediterranean from Mount Carmel Haifa |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $400: The ruins of Pachacamac, an ancient American city later occupied by the Inca, lie just south of this world capital Lima |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $800: The ruined city of Vaishali in northeast India is said to be the place where this man preached his last sermon the Buddha |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $1600: Lacedaemon was the ancient name for this city on the Evrotas River ruled by a military oligarchy Sparta |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $2000: Now in this Central American country, the ancient Mayan city of Uaxactun was mysteriously abandoned by the 10th century Guatemala |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Now in this country, Persepolis was the capital from which Darius the Great ruled Iran |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $200: Despite what Ron Burgundy says, this city is named for a Spanish monk San Diego |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS $200: Known as the "Indiana Icicle", Charles Fairbanks has one of the largest cities in this state named for him Alaska |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $400: Named for the founder of the American Fur Company, this Oregon city has deepwater port facilities Astoria |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $800: Known for its Narrows Bridge, this city is on Puget Sound's Commencement Bay Tacoma |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $1000: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West is in this city, a resort suburb of Phoenix Scottsdale |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): Take the 580 from Reno to the 431 & you'll see the majesty that is this body of water Lake Tahoe |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $200: It makes sense to NBA fans that the museum dedicated to the 45th infantry, "The Thunderbirds", is in this city Oklahoma City |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $400: The corporate headquarters of 3M are in Maplewood, a suburb of this Minnesota city St. Paul |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $600: In 1939 San Antonio broke ground on this promenade, now one of its biggest attractions the River Walk |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $800: The U.S. Air Force Academy is just north of this city at the edge of the Rocky Mountains Colorado Springs |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $1000: This Indiana city is named for the stronghold built in 1794 by the general who won the Battle of Fallen Timbers Fort Wayne |
#8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $800: These 2 cities are the official capital & seat of government of the Netherlands Amsterdam & The Hague |
#8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $2000: This one of South Africa's 3 capital cities has a name meaning "fountain of flowers" Bloemfontein |
#8358, aired 2021-03-17 | HOPEFUL HISTORY $600: Now held in the same host cities as the related games, these international athletic competitions began in 1960 the Paralympics |
#8358, aired 2021-03-17 | THEY GO LOW $2000: The Elon Musk company aiming to put train & autonomous vehicle tunnels under major cities has this name that sounds pretty blah The Boring Company |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: This capital of Finland is on the Gulf of Finland Helsinki |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: The Stedelijk Museum is in this Dutch city Amsterdam |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: There are 4 A's (or 4 alphas) in this capital of Greece's Messenia region, known for its delicious olives Kalamata |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1600: Traditional boats for carrying a certain fortified wine, sail the Douro River, in what's known as the second city of this country Portugal |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $2000: Saratov & Astrakhan are cities along this long river the Volga |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $200: To accommodate "South Platters", the capital of Nebraska was moved in 1867 from Omaha to here Lincoln |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $400: No relation to the bubbly, this Illinois city is often paired with Urbana Champaign |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $800: This Ohio city is known for its zoo & the Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League Columbus |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $1000: This Midwestern city whose name begins with the state it's in is home to the NCAA Indianapolis |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $2,000 (Daily Double): This home city to Kansas State University shares its name with a Big Apple borough Manhattan |
#8342, aired 2021-02-23 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES $1600: Formerly French, this large nation has its main cities like Oran up near the Mediterranean & a vast, largely empty south Algeria |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $200: Fun places to visit in this California city include the Exploratorium & Ghiradelli Square San Francisco |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $400: Once the state capital, this city in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country ranks as one of the best places to retire Lancaster |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $600: West Virginia's capital & this Carolina port city of the same name are about 500 miles apart & named for different people Charleston |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Named for a Native American game, it's Wisconsin's largest city on the Mississippi La Crosse |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $1000: This city north of Anchorage rivals Juneau as Alaska's second-most populous city Fairbanks |
#8337, aired 2021-02-16 | IT HAPPENS IN GENESIS $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 cities get wiped out in Genesis 19 Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8333, aired 2021-02-10 | CROATIA $2,500 (Daily Double): The coastal cities of Pula & Zadar overlook this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean the Adriatic |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $200: They're sister cities, but you can't see Magadan in this country from your house in Anchorage Russia |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400 (Daily Double): It's about 800 miles from South Africa's executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast Cape Town |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400: East of Topeka, I-70 runs across a state line through two contiguous cities with this name Kansas City |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $800: These 2 national capitals lie little more than 100 miles apart across the 38th parallel Pyongyang & Seoul |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $1000: In 1872 these 2 cities on opposite sides of the Danube joined hands & names Buda & Pest |
#8325, aired 2021-01-29 | AROUND THE CARIBBEAN $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 capital cities are located on this Caribbean island: Marigot, which is French, & Philipsburg, which is Dutch St. Maarten |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $1000: The Congo (either of 2 cities) (1 of) Kinshasa (or Brazzaville) |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: Led from these 2 cities, the Western & eastern branches of Christianity were split apart by the "Great Schism" of 1054 Rome & Constantinople |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1600: Hamburg & Lubeck in Germany were 2 of the first cities allied in this medieval mercantile league the Hanseatic League |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Chris Frye from WOIO.) In 1967, Cleveland voters chose Democrat Carl Stokes over Republican Seth Taft, making Stokes the first African American to hold this office in one of America's major cities mayor |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $400: Near Lake Tahoe, this city named for a Civil War general became a gambling mecca after legalization widened in 1931 Reno |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $800: During Vaudeville the question was often asked of new acts, "Will it play in" this Illinois city? Peoria |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $1200: With thousands collected every year, each March Sweetwater, Texas hosts a roundup of these reptiles rattlesnakes |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $1600: This former mining town founded in 1859 is home to the Colorado Railroad Museum & a famous brewery Golden |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $2000: About midway between L.A. & San Francisco, Fresno was founded by this railroad co.; Leland Stanford was said to have picked the site the Central Pacific |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $200: A city of 7 hills, it's known for its sound, namely Puget--but also grunge Seattle |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Magic Kingdom south, it was once known as Jernigan but got a name change in 1857 & a Wet 'n Wild water park, a bit later Orlando |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $600: Peyton Manning repeatedly gave mid-game shout-outs to this city near the confluence of the Missouri & the Platte Omaha |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $1000: The American Quarter Horse Association is headquartered in this "yellow" Texas city Amarillo |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A very specific wooden post led to the naming of this southern state capital en Francais Baton Rouge |
#8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $400: Verses written in transit vehicles in NYC & other cities are courtesy of the Poetry Society of America & are called "Poetry in" this motion |
#8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): One of Puerto Rico's largest cities is named in honor of a descendant of this Spanish explorer Ponce de León |
#8299, aired 2020-12-10 | VERY PURITANICAL $1200: Trot trot to Boston, trot trot to Lynn; those were 2 cities in this colony founded in 1630 by Puritans the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
#8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $1000: Lucie Manette,
Madame Defarge A Tale of Two Cities |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | GEOGRAPHIC FOURS $1000: Of Australia's 4 most populous cities, 3 are in the east & this one is in the far southwest Perth |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $200: This nickname for New York City was used by Washington Irving; Bruce Wayne put it before "City" Gotham |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $400: Poughkeepsie is "The Queen City of" this river the Hudson |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $600: Slowly I turned... to this "Honeymoon Capital of the World" Niagara Falls |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Second only to New York City in population, this western port is the "Nickel City" Buffalo |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $1000: Sharing its name with a European capital, it was known as "Copper City" for its production of that metal Rome |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: Port cities on this sea include Makhachkala, Russia & Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan the Caspian Sea |
#8268, aired 2020-10-28 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): Major cities that share this name lie on the Kennebec River in Maine & on the Savannah River in Georgia Augusta |
#8259, aired 2020-10-15 | A PAIR OF PENCE $200: In 1859 he edited a twopenny weekly called "All the Year Round" & serialized his own "A Tale of Two Cities" in it (Charles) Dickens |
#8249, aired 2020-10-01 | GNAT GEO $400: 2019 high water on this river in cities like Natchez helped bring gnats out in force the Mississippi River |
#8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $400: Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River Green Bay |
#8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $800: A Southern California city & a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name Orange |
#8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $1200: Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation Baton Rouge |
#8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $1600: This "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros Brownsville |
#8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital Golden |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $400: Put a stopper in this second city of Ireland, found on an island in the River Lee Cork |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $800: Italy's financial capital, this second city of the nation is also the center of its fashion & publishing industries Milan |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $1200: Its second city of Pusan is located at the southeast tip of this nation's peninsula South Korea |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $1600: Barcelona is Spain's second-largest city & has about a fifth of the population of this region it's in Catalonia |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $2000: At one time a major Byzantine city, Split is today the second-largest city in this country that split from Yugoslavia in 1991 Croatia |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | IT'S A FACT $2000: Following the path of a civil rights march, the shortest national historic trail, 54 miles, extends between these 2 Ala. cities Montgomery & Selma |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THE ANDES MOUNTAINS $800: Over its some 5,000-mile range, the Andes are home to major cities like La Paz, Quito, and this other capital city Bogota |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | ROCK BANNED $2000: 1968: "There's just no place for" this Rolling Stones song in many cities in a year of political demonstrations "Street Fighting Man" |
#8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Norman Mailer's "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" reports on these events that happened in those cities in 1968 national conventions (Democratic and Republican) |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $200: Home of a famous tire yard fire, this memorable TV town is where the Simpsons live Springfield |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $400: On this show, the title character slayed them, she really slayed them in Sunnydale, California Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $600: A young Clark Kent struggled to find his way in Smallville, a town in this Heartland state Kansas |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $800: If you write about "Murder, She Wrote", include that it took place in Cabot Cove in this New England state Maine |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The Log Lady & the late Laura Palmer were residents of this fictional Pacific Northwest community Twin Peaks |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ROADS SCHOLAR $800: 9,000-mile Highway 1 completely circles this country, linking cities like Darwin & Adelaide Australia |
#8199, aired 2020-04-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Like many cities, this capital of Poland was almost completely destroyed during World War II Warsaw |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Of Morocco's 4 imperial cities, this capital is the only one on the coast Rabat |
#8193, aired 2020-04-01 | WE'RE ON A CRUSADE $2000: This order of knights began when travelers from Lübeck & Bremen, German cities, helped out at the Siege of Acre the Teutonic Knights |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TRANSLATED CITIES $200: The Meadows, Nevada Las Vegas |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TRANSLATED CITIES $400: Red Stick, Louisiana Baton Rouge |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TRANSLATED CITIES $600: River of January, Brazil Rio de Janeiro |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TRANSLATED CITIES $800: Eat, Germany Essen |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TRANSLATED CITIES $1000: Of the Monks, Iowa Des Moines |
#8181, aired 2020-03-16 | THAT'S WHAT I'M WALKING ABOUT $200: "V" is for these 2 British Columbia cities that host annual World Partnership Walks to fight global poverty Vancouver & Victoria |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $2000: Oakland University isn't in California, it's in this state's cities of Auburn Hills & Rochester Hills Michigan |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $200: Before it was renamed in 1804, this Haitian capital city was known as Port-Republicain Port-au-Prince |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $400: It's the full name of the English town nicknamed "The Home of the Bard" Stratford-upon-Avon |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $600: This city was named in 1565 by the Portuguese, who mistook its bay for the entrance to a river Rio de Janeiro |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $800: Once the capital of a Sinhalese kingdom, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is today the legislative capital of this island country Sri Lanka |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $1000: In Arabic the name of this major port city & seat of Tanzania's government means "abode of peace" Dar es Salaam |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | WORLD RIVERS $800: Dusseldorf & Mainz are important cities on this river the Rhine |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | TIME ZONE CITIES $200: Charleston, West Virginia Eastern |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | TIME ZONE CITIES $400: Salt Lake City, Utah Mountain |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | TIME ZONE CITIES $600: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Central |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | TIME ZONE CITIES $800: Las Vegas, Nevada Pacific Time |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | TIME ZONE CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Detroit, Michigan Eastern |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | WORLD TRANSPORTATION $2000: In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals Cape Town & Pretoria |
#8146, aired 2020-01-27 | NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES $600: By Dickens: "Knitting" A Tale of Two Cities |
#8137, aired 2020-01-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $200: HAD RUM,
North Carolina Durham |
#8137, aired 2020-01-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $400: NO CUTS,
Arizona Tucson |
#8137, aired 2020-01-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $600: TIGHT BURPS,
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh |
#8137, aired 2020-01-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $800: JAVELIN LOCKS,
Florida Jacksonville |
#8137, aired 2020-01-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $1000: CROUCH SPIRITS,
Texas Corpus Christi |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | STUMP TOWN $200: In the names of Iowa cities, this tree precedes Falls & Rapids Cedar |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | POLITICS $1,600 (Daily Double): Cities as big as L.A. & Dallas have this kind of mayoral election where there's no "D"' or "R" after the candidates' names nonpartisan |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | TALES OF THE CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): "Anna Karenina": these 2 cities about 400 miles apart St. Petersburg & Moscow |
#8129, aired 2020-01-02 | PLACES $6,000 (Daily Double): Home to its 2 most sacred cities, the Hejaz is a region in this country Saudi Arabia |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.) The Széchenyi Chain Bridge was the first to permanently span this river and connect the two old cities that form Hungary's capital. At the time, there was debate over Budapest versus Pestbuda the Danube |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1200: Valletta, Malta was named for the grand master of the Knights Hospitaller after they survived a 1565 siege there by this empire the Ottoman Empire |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1600: With room for 7,000 worshippers, Al Fateh Mosque in Manama, capital of this island kingdom, is the nation's largest Bahrain |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Founded in 1736 as a stopping place for ships between Europe and Asia, Port Louis is the capital of this island nation in the Indian Ocean Mauritius |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Roseau, Dominica was burned by the French in 1805 & suffered near-total destruction by one of these in 1979 a hurricane |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $400: 1958:
"Seven Hills of ____" Rome |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $800: 1964:
"The Umbrellas of ____" Cherbourg |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1200: 2007:
"The ____ Limited" Darjeeling |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1600: 1989:
"Jesus of ____" (not in the Holy Land) Montreal |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $2000: 1959:
"____, My Love" or "mon amour", if you prefer Hiroshima |
#8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE U.N. REPORTS $1000: "I.I"! A 2016 report found this financial issue had increased in 75% of the world's cities in the preceding 2 decades income inequality |
#8082, aired 2019-10-29 | COASTLINES $400: Cities along this U.S. state's ocean coast include Astoria & Brookings Oregon |
#8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: Sydney Carton takes the place of this doomed French nobleman in "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Evrémonde (Charles Darnay) |
#8066, aired 2019-10-07 | PLACES OF BUSINESS $1000: With shared spaces & private offices, this alliterative company helps business get done in more than 110 cities WeWork |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $400: It's where to go to groove to the Twin Cities Jazz Festival St. Paul |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $200: Ancient cisterns were basically rainwater barrels; in 79 A.D., some Pompeiians tried to hide in them from this disaster the eruption of Vesuvius |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $400: Located near the Hagia Sophia, the Basilica Cistern is a huge one Justinian I built under this city Istanbul |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $600: This tippy-top area of Athens employed wells & cisterns the Acropolis |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $800: Seen here are the cisterns of Carthage, which you can now see when you visit this country Tunisia |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $1000: This western U.S. city, fire-prone since the Shades Hotel burned in 1849, still has around 200 buried cisterns San Francisco |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $400: Da Nang,
Da Lat Vietnam |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $800: Lugano, Lausanne Switzerland |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $1200: Lagos,
Lafia Nigeria |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $1600: Beersheba,
Bat Yam Israel |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $2000: Aarhus,
Aalborg Denmark |
#8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $1600: Capital cities on the banks of the Nile River include Cairo & this capital of Sudan Khartoum |
#8013, aired 2019-06-12 | COLLEGE TOWNS $800: Let's raise a glass of bubbly to these 2 adjoining cities, home to the University of Illinois Champaign and Urbana |
#8012, aired 2019-06-11 | KEEP YOUR PLACES STRAIGHT $400: Cities with this name are home to the Basketball Hall of Fame & the Illinois Capitol Springfield |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $400: This capital is conveniently located near Spain's exact geographic center Madrid |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $800: Home to more than 1.4 million people, Novosibirsk is the main city in this 5-million-square-mile region of Russia Siberia |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $1200: If you're into bridges, this city has more than 400 of 'em, including the Rialto that crosses the Grand Canal Venice |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $1600: If you're gonna lie in the heart of something, make it the gold field of the Witwatersrand, like this huge South African city Johannesburg |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $2000: Lesser-known conquistador Pedro de Alvarado founded this capital that's named for Jesus San Salvador |
#7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CITY ADJECTIVES $9,812 (Daily Double): Cantabrigian means from one of 2 noted college cities named this Cambridge |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $400: A statue of a seated Genghis Khan graces an entrance to the government palace in Ulaanbaatar in this nation Mongolia |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $800: This Israeli city was founded in 1909 as a suburb of the ancient Mediterranean port of Jaffa Tel Aviv |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $1200: The only big city in a nation of small towns & villages, this Asian capital is located on the delta of the Chao Phraya River Bangkok |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $1600: Also famous for its textiles, this traditional center of Japanese culture & Buddhism was the capital for 1,000 years Kyoto |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $2000: Bishkek, which began as a fortress in 1825, is today the leading city of this "stan" Kyrgyzstan |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $400: Its nickname the "Crescent City" derives from its original layout in a bend of the Mississippi River New Orleans |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $800: The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge connects this Missouri town where Twain grew up with the state of Illinois Hannibal |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $1600: Sit down & put your feet up in this third most populous Iowa city Davenport |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $2000: John Deere plowed into this Illinois city, setting up shop in 1848 & it remains the world headquarters Moline, Illinois |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $2,500 (Daily Double): It's the northernmost state capital on the Mississippi St. Paul |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $600: It's not fully depicted in "A Tale of Two Cities", but it's the implied method of execution for the heroic Sydney Carton by guillotine |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $200: It's the "City of Big Shoulders" as well as the "Windy City" Chicago |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $400: Seen here is an aerial view of the very curvy Lombard Street in this West Coast city San Francisco |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $600: A type of oak tree appears on the official seal of this city where the Wolverines play their home games Ann Arbor |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city has one of the world's largest collections of space memorabilia Huntsville |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $1000: P.T. Barnum was once the mayor of this most populous Connecticut city Bridgeport |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $200: The famous "shores of" this African capital city are on the Mediterranean Tripoli |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $400: This Texas city that celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2018 got its name on a saint's feast day even before its official founding San Antonio |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $600: Discovery Drive, Exploration Drive & Genoa Place are streets in this state capital Columbus, Ohio |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $800: Take a stroll down the Molo Audace in Trieste & you can dip your feet in this 500-mile-long sea the Adriatic |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $1000: The resort city of Baguio was once the summer capital of this island nation the Philippines |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $400: A brief civil war took place in this capital after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917 Helsinki |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $800: Before 1918 Guangzhou was known by this name; a Chinese language still reminds us of it Canton |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $1200: A team name came from this word that preceded "67" in the name of a 1967 Montreal happening Expos |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $1600: In 1535 Lima was founded by Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes, meaning this City of Kings |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $2000: About 1,000 years ago, Casablanca was a village of these double-talk people the Berbers |
#7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AIRPORT CODES $1000: BWI--these 2 cities are the B & the W Baltimore and Washington, D.C. |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: This "Queen of the Danube" is found where the hills of western Hungary meet the nation's eastern plains Budapest |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $800: If you like cold beet soup & stuffed potato dumplings, you vill enjoy Vilnius, the capital of this Baltic nation Lithuania |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $1200: In its long history, the Zytglogge Clock Tower in this Swiss capital has also served as a guard tower & a women's prison Bern |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: The eventful history of this Balkan city includes being sacked in a Mongol invasion in the 13th century Zagreb |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $3,800 (Daily Double): You'll find NATO's world headquarters on Boulevard Leopold III in this capital city Brussels |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Ben Bailey with Local 4.) In 1837 Detroit became Michigan's first capital; 10 years later, this city took over, as it was much more centrally located within the state Lansing |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Rob Fukuzaki from ABC7.) The Rose Bowl, which has held crowds of 105,000 people, is in this California city whose population is about 135,000 Pasadena |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (I'm Patrice Sanders with Fox45 News.) In 1783 George Washington relinquished his command of the Continental Army here in the Maryland State House located in this city Annapolis |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10.) Beautiful people, unique buildings, warm water & white sand epitomize this world-famous Florida neighborhood with a directional name South Beach |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) One unusual landmark is Topiary Park--well, sorry, properly it's The Topiary Park, just like it's The Ohio State University in this city Columbus |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: According to the CIA World Factbook, these are the 2 largest cities in China by population Beijing and Shanghai |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $200: Country music fans get to meet & hear their favorite artists at the annual CMA Festival in this city--where else? Nashville |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $400: There's no mistaking this city's skyline as seen at twilight Seattle |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $600: KCK stands for this city just beyond the Missouri state line Kansas City, Kansas |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $1000: In 1950 this Southwest city ranked 99th in population; by 2010 it had risen from the ashes to No. 6 Phoenix |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): This New England capital shares its name with James Madison's Virginia plantation Montpelier |
#7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: The site of fighting in recent years, Aleppo in this country is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities Syria |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $200: This city in Maine--not the Oregon one--is sisters with Shinagawa, Japan, a city of 350,000 inside the borough of Tokyo Portland |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $400: Boring, Oregon & Dull, Scotland are informal sister communities; some wanted to say g'day to Bland in this foreign nation Australia |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $600: There once was a town called Spokane / but a long rhyme won't fit here, no, man / so just name this Irish sister city Limerick |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $800: Sisters can be so competitive! "You have the Lincoln Memorial, D.C.? OK! This city of ours has the monument of Lysicrates!" Athens |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $1000: In 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts became family with Les Cayes in this nation, 4 years after a terrible natural disaster Haiti |
#7853, aired 2018-10-31 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM $1200: With cities like Palenque, this civilization saw its peak from 250 to 900 the Mayan civilization |
#7847, aired 2018-10-23 | ZEBULON PIKE'S PIQUES $800: Pike thought he bought land for the U.S. near the Twin Cities of this state in 1805, but the Sioux seemed to disagree Minnesota |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $400: The largest cities in Maine & Oregon share this name Portland |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $800: This largest city in Alabama was named for the second largest city in the United Kingdom Birmingham |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $1200: The largest city in southern Germany, it's also the largest city & capital of Bavaria Munich |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $1600: Guayaquil is this country's largest city as well as its leading manufacturing center Ecuador |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $2000: This largest city in the U.S. Virgin Islands was named for the wife of a Danish king Charlotte Amalie |
#7827, aired 2018-09-25 | QUEEN CONSORT $1,000 (Daily Double): Cities in North Carolina, Virginia & Prince Edward Island are named for this consort of George III Charlotte |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $200: As the old saying goes, this city "wasn't built in a day" Rome |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $400: In 2016 a state of emergency was declared over lead contamination in this Michigan city's water Flint |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $600: This city on the French Riviera has been hosting its famous film festival for over 70 years Cannes |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Hanseong & Gyeongseong are former names of this world capital Seoul |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $1000: A huge Reformation monument stands in this city where Martin Luther stood before the diet in 1521 Worms |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $200: San Jose in this Central American nation is home to John F. Kennedy Park, memorializing his visit to the country in 1963 Costa Rica |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $400: With a name meaning "new flower", this city replaced Entoto as the capital of Ethiopia in 1887 Addis Ababa |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $600: This Malaysian capital lies in the country's tin & rubber belt; I used to wear one of those, but it chafed Kuala Lumpur |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Developed by King Norodom, this capital city lies at the confluence of the Mekong, Bassac & Tonle Sap Rivers Phnom Penh |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $1000: U.S. Students at a medical school in this Caribbean nation's capital St. George's were rescued during a 1983 invasion Grenada |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $1600: Extremely small parks in cities are named for this clothing part a pocket park |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The ancient world had 2 important cities named Thebes: one in Greece & one in this land Egypt |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $400: 1859:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" A Tale of Two Cities |
#7796, aired 2018-07-02 | SMALL-SCREEN CRIME FIGHTERS $600: Set in Washington D.C., "NCIS" spun off versions that take place in these other 2 cities New Orleans and Los Angeles |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $200: Host of the 2008 Summer Games, this city is set to host the 2022 Winter Games, becoming the first city to host both Beijing |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $400: Appropriately, the modern Olympics began with the 1896 Games in this city Athens |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $600: As a 1924 host, Paris was the setting for this film about runners Eric Liddell & Harold Abrahams Chariots of Fire |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $800: The 1976 Summer Games in this Canadian city were boycotted by 22 African nations Montreal |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $1000: Lake Placid's hockey arena is now named for this coach who miraculously won gold there Herb Brooks |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $400: It's Pennsylvania's fourth-largest city & its only lake port Erie |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $800: "There's no place like" this city on the Seward Peninsula, population about 3,500 Nome |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1200: Renee Zellweger hails from this Texas city that sounds like a girl's first name Katy |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $2000: On Maui the legendary, winding "Road to" this town takes you past waterfalls, rain forests & plunging pools Hana |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $2,200 (Daily Double): It's home to the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum & Hall of Fame Vail |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $400: The iconic gateway to this city's Chinatown is seen here San Francisco |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $600 (Daily Double): This third-largest Montana city is named for a feature of the Missouri River Great Falls |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $800: It might "rock" your world to take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory in this Colorado city Boulder |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $1200: The McKinley Museum & the Pro Football Hall of Fame are both in this Ohio city Canton |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $1600: The University of Oregon had its first classes in this city in 1876 Eugene |
#7785, aired 2018-06-15 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: Eritrea's vital region along this sea includes the major port cities of Massawa & Assab the Red Sea |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 400s B.C. Greek cities like Thebes & Megara had not a monarchy but this form of rule by a small group an oligarchy |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $600: In Genesis 19 these 2 cities near the Dead Sea have fire & brimstone rained down on them Sodom and Gomorrah |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HODGEPODGE $1000: From the 13th to the 15th centuries, this association of German cities dominated trade in northern Europe the Hanseatic League |
#7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: Flourishing from around 300 B.C., El Mirador in Guatemala was one of the largest cities ever built by these people the Maya |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): Chile had to pay millions after officials failed to warn coastal cities about this after a deadly 2010 earthquake a tsunami |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $200: On the Douro River, Porto lives up to its name in many ways, making & exporting the fine port wines of this nation Portugal |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: Wenceslas Square is a popular tourist area in this city on the Vltava River Prague |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: In Krakow, Poland you'll find the former factory, now a museum, of this righteous businessman (Oskar) Schindler |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: In 2017 65,000 had to be evacuated from their homes as a WWII bomb was defused in this Germany city am Main Frankfurt |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1000: Known for an 1814 treaty signing, this city is about 30 miles northwest of Brussels Ghent |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | ASIAN $800: The Red Sea port of Jeddah is more liberal than other big cities in this Middle East kingdom Saudi Arabia |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE AT BOWERY FARMS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Bowery Farms in Kearny, NJ.) It's projected that by 2050 two-thirds of Earth's population will live in cities far from traditional food sources; indoor vertical farming brings fresh produce to urban areas with this soil-free growing process, from Greek words meaning "water" & "labor" hydroponics |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | ETHNI-CITIES $800: In 2011 this European capital's 8.2 million people included 1 million ethnic Indians, Pakistanis & Bangladeshis London |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | ETHNI-CITIES $1200: 2 million revelers partied as this NYC borough's 2017 West Indian Day parade wound from Crown Heights to Flatbush Brooklyn |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | ETHNI-CITIES $1600: irishcentral.com says this city's metro area is the most Irish in the U.S., & Sully will fight you if you disagree Boston |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | ETHNI-CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Buenos Aires' many people of this European origin call themselves Tanos Italians |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: Tanzania's Dar es Salaam literally means "house of" this in Arabic peace |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: Like Rome, Ibadan in Nigeria was built on this many hills seven |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $1200: Throngs of people were trying to get into Tahrir Square in this African capital in February 2011 Cairo |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $2000: Its situation on an island makes Mombasa the ideal place for this country's biggest port city Kenya |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): Seen here are the red walls of this city that gave the country Morocco its name Marrakech |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: In 2017 Los Angeles joined other cities in replacing this holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day Columbus Day |
#7697, aired 2018-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Cities in Greece & Macedonia both have airports named for this man Alexander |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PORT-MAP-TEAU $400: 3 cities combine in the name of Dalworthington Gardens in this state Texas |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PORT-MAP-TEAU $800: Midway between 2 of the largest cities in Washington state, it contains a big airport SeaTac |
#7679, aired 2018-01-18 | JANE $1000: Her books like "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" argued for local planning & vibrant neighborhoods Jane Jacobs |
#7679, aired 2018-01-18 | BIBLICAL ART $1600: Here's Lot fleeing his former home as the Lord destroys these two wicked cities Sodom and Gomorrah |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | AIRPORT CODES $1000: RMG, REO & FCO all serve cities or towns with this name, in Georgia, Oregon & Italy Rome |
#7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MONGOLIAN $1000: The traditional life of pastoral these wanderers herding flocks is losing out as thousands move to cities nomads |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATELY BODIES OF WATER $600: Cities located on its banks include Fort Smith & Little Rock the Arkansas River |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $400: Named by UNESCO in 2004, this city is the literary & literal capital of Scotland Edinburgh |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $800: This major city is recognized for its excellence in publishing both Spanish & Catalan literature Barcelona |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state Iowa |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1600: Literature about this Pampas cowboy helped get Montevideo recognized the gaucho |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $2000: Thomas Bracken & Janet Frame are 2 authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront New Zealand |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POLICE YOUR AREA $600: More & more small cities have these door-busting teams; Paducah, Kentucky uses its team about twice a year a SWAT team |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Menominee & the Winnebago once lived on the site of this football-mad city situated on Lake Michigan Green Bay |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES $800: The statue of Adolph Coors seen here is in this Colorado city Golden |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES $1200: 2-word name for the N.J. city that's home to Thomas Edison's estate & laboratory West Orange |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES $1600: Skiing & Glacier National Park may lure you to this Montana city named for an aquatic creature Whitefish |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES $2000: Willa Cather drew her portraits of frontier life from her hometown, this Nebraska city named for an Oglala chief Red Cloud |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $200: The code for its airport is JAX Jacksonville |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $400: During the Civil War, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union troops Tallahassee |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $600: A resort-retirement community; its name is from the Spanish for "mouse's mouth" Boca Raton |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $800: The Gatornationals is a famous drag racing event in this city Gainesville |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $1000: This alliterative city in Broward County has been named one of the USA's best cities to live in--the trees in its name help Pembroke Pines |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NON -IA COUNTRIES $400: Pusan & Inchon are major cities in this country South Korea |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | THEY'RE HISTORY! $200: In 452 he & his Huns invaded northern Italy, sacking several cities Attila |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $200: "City of Angels, the Great City, the Residence of the Emerald Buddha" is just the start of the official name of this Thai capital Bangkok |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $400: The Ataturk Mausoleum & the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations are both in this capital Ankara |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $600: Its location among oases & its natural fertility earned this Saudi capital its name, from the Arabic for "meadows" Riyadh |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $800: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was born in this world capital Prague |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $1000: It replaced Rawalpindi as a national capital Islamabad |
#7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE 14th CENTURY $1,200 (Daily Double): Adding a word to our language, cities began keeping travelers from leaving plague-infected ships for this many days 40 |
#7585, aired 2017-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: Its 83 divisions include 21 "republics" & 2 "federal cities" the Russian Federation |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $400: The Puritans found safety when they settled this Connecticut city in 1638 New Haven |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $800: Founded in 1718, it was ceded to Spain in 1763, ceded to France in 1800 & sold to the U.S. in 1803 New Orleans |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $1600: An annual "Moby Dick" marathon takes place at this Massachusetts city's whaling museum New Bedford |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $2000: Founded in 1639, this Rhode Island town flourished thanks to its excellent harbor Newport |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Situated on the west bank of the Yamuna River, it was formally dedicated in 1931 New Delhi |
#7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: The vengeful Madame Defarge was created for this historical novel A Tale of Two Cities |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $1600: A school of art is named for the Flemish cities of Bruges & this Ghent |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | ICYMI $1000: The Australian Natl. Univ. created an algorithm in 2016 to help warn coastal cities of this dangerous event a tsunami |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE BIBLE $1200: Isaiah 1:10 tells these 2 cities to "hear the word of the Lord"; they didn't Sodom and Gomorrah |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $400: Keno Spa, Washington Spokane |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $800: Diagnose, California San Diego |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Reno Sky, New York Yonkers |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $1600: Seam, Arizona Mesa |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $2000: Seam, Iowa Ames |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Mayors have declared Chicago & S.F. to be these, which won't help the feds enforce immigration law sanctuary cities |
#7557, aired 2017-06-20 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $400: With Amarillo No. 1, this state has 4 of the Weather Channel's 10 windiest U.S. cities Texas |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | THE CONDEMNED MAN $400: Sydney Carton takes the place at the guillotine of the condemned Charles Darnay in this Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
#7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $200: Gopher it! This university was established in 1851 in 2 neighboring cities the University of Minnesota |
#7552, aired 2017-06-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: 1,000 years ago this city now outside Russia got the title "Mother of Rus Cities" Kiev |
#7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: A hill marking the site of an ancient city, it's found in the names of some Middle East cities, including one of Israel's largest tel |
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $2000: Twin cities on the border of the "Lone Star State" & the "Natural State" share this name Texarkana |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THUNDER & LIGHTNING $1000: Lying on the shore of Lake Superior, this Ontario city was created in 1970 from the twin cities of Port Arthur & Fort William Thunder Bay |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: If you're in front of the former Sears building seen here, you're in this city Seattle |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $800: In this Rhode Island resort town, you can visit such mansions as Rosecliff & the Breakers Newport |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Let's head for spring break at this "Fort" city known as the "Venice of America" for its many inland waterways Fort Lauderdale |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This Soap Box Derby city was co-founded in 1825 by Simon Perkins, an official with the Ohio Canal Fund Akron, Ohio |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $2000: This Georgia city is known as the "Sweet Onion Capital of the World" Vidalia |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | SITCOM CITIES $200: "Veep" Washington, D.C. |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | SITCOM CITIES $400: "2 Broke Girls" New York |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | SITCOM CITIES $600: "New Girl" Los Angeles |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | SITCOM CITIES $800: "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" Atlanta |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | SITCOM CITIES $1000: "Parks and Recreation" (a fictional city) Pawnee |
#7509, aired 2017-04-13 | SAY IT WITH CHOCOLATE $1000: In addition to its famous square in San Francisco, this chocolatier has ice cream & candy stores in several other cities Ghirardelli |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | LIGHTHOUSES $400: "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" is in this S. Amer. country near Ushuaia, one of the world's southernmost cities Argentina |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $400: When you're moving, a box for dolls comes in handy Oxford (in box for dolls) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $800: Before her beau arrived, Isabel fastidiously adjusted her bonnet Belfast (in Isabel fastidiously) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $1200: How proud Pa Isley would have been if only he had lived to see "Shout" become a classic song Paisley (in Pa Isley) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $1600: That's what happens when you treat Oscar differently from the other kids Cardiff (in Oscar differently) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $2000: At the library you'll find love poems & more filed under Byron Derby (in under Byron) |
#7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 2 TICKETS TO PARAGUAY $400: One of the oldest cities in South America, this capital was built on a high promontory in 1537 Asunción |
#7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Years before Coronado, a Moor named Estevanico searched for 7 wealthy cities he called this Cíbola |
#7481, aired 2017-03-06 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: The state capitol building, naturally, designed by Thomas Jefferson Richmond |
#7467, aired 2017-02-14 | TIME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER $1000: This alliterative country singer went bonkers in 2014 playing 10 shows in 10 cities in 24 hours Hunter Hayes |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $200: Antoni Gaudi helped design the fountain of Aurora in this Spanish city while he was still a student Barcelona |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $400: More than 20 million people live in this former capital of Nigeria Lagos |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $600: The song "Seven Nation Army" says, "I'm going to" this city, the most populous in Kansas Wichita |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $800: In 1881 Vincent van Gogh moved to this Dutch city, home to the royal family The Hague |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $1000: 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson seemed unfamiliar with this Syrian city, called Halab in Arabic Aleppo |
#7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The way cities around the world line up on lines of latitude can be surprising; for instance, Los Angeles, California lies only about two minutes north of this 3-letter Moroccan city Fez |
#7458, aired 2017-02-01 | CASINO $1200: Quad Cities is a Midwestern gaming hub with casinos in Bettendorf & this other trisyllabic Iowa city Davenport |
#7451, aired 2017-01-23 | NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $1200: Tulum National Park in the Yucatan has the ruins of one of the last thriving cities of this civilization the Mayan civilization |
#7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): Don't be phobic about giving us this name for the central market & meeting place of many ancient Greek cities agora |
#7444, aired 2017-01-12 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $2,000 (Daily Double): Dickens used Thomas Carlyle's "The French Revolution" for much of the background of this novel A Tale of Two Cities |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $400: It's the football-mad seat of Brown County, Wisconsin Green Bay |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $800: This southwestern Swiss city is divided into 2 sections by the Rhone River Geneva |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $1200: This Flemish city dates back to the 7th century when 2 monasteries were built on the site Ghent |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The main campus of Cairo University is located in this suburb Giza |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $2000: This Colorado city was founded in 1870 & named for the New York Tribune editor who supported the settlers Greeley |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | 19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS $1,700 (Daily Double): Marius Pontemercy, Gavroche Les Miserables |
#7435, aired 2016-12-30 | ALL IN THE FAMILY? $400: Bordeaux & Beirut are 2 of these in relation to Los Angeles sister cities |
#7435, aired 2016-12-30 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: With its excellent port facilities, Riga, Latvia was an important center of this league of merchant cities the Hanseatic League |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $400: The Tycho Brahe planetarium opened in this capital in 1989 Copenhagen |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $800: Malmo in the south of this country was once known as Malmhaug, or "sandpile" Sweden |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $1600: Each August productions of "Hamlet" take place on Kronborg Castle in this Danish town Helsingør (or Elsinore) |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Norwegian Olympic Museum is in this small town Lillehammer |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $2000: Whale & reindeer are on the menu in Longyearbyen, capital of this Norwegian island group also known as Spitsbergen Svalbard |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $400: For a stunning view of this Venezuelan capital, take the cable car up to the top of Pico el Ávila Caracas |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $800: Known to locals as Sampa, this Brazilian city is the most populous in the Southern Hemisphere São Paulo |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1200: From 1952 to 1955 Argentina's city of La Plata was named after this late beloved first lady Evita Perón |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1600: It's Chile's chief seaport & home to the Chilean Naval Academy Valparaíso |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $2000: The inner city of this Incan capital was laid out in the shape of a puma whose head was the fort of Sacsayhuaman Cusco |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates city of Ur to found a new nation Abraham |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: Acts 9 is about a journey to this city by Saul, later Paul, that doesn't turn out as planned Damascus |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $600: Built by King Omri as his capital, Samaria is found in what's now often called this directional region the West Bank |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $800: Several towns have been suggested for this Galilee locale where nuptials & miracles took place Cana |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1000: The Phoenician city of Sidon was home to this wicked queen of the First Book of Kings Jezebel |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $200: We bet you know that in population it's the largest city in Northern Nevada Reno |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $400: On the first anniversary of his death, a memorial to Michael Jackson was unveiled in this Indiana city Gary |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $600: Bill Clinton was born & spent his early childhood in this small Arkansas town Hope |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $800: It's home to Baylor University Waco (Texas) |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1000: The business center of "The Big Island", it's also the gateway to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hilo |
#7364, aired 2016-09-22 | POLYNESIA $2000: It's the most widely spoken Polynesian language; you'll hear it in the cities of Apia & Pago Pago Samoan |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ENDLESSLY ROCKING $600: 60 acts played for 16 hours for this 1985 London-Philly charity event; Phil Collins caught a plane & played in both cities Live Aid |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | "BEST" WISHES $1000: They're the opening 12 words of "A Tale of Two Cities" "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | QUICK AS THE DICKENS $1200: It's set during the French Revolution A Tale of Two Cities |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $400: The Franciscans' founder, St. Francis of this city Assisi |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS $400: This Charles Dickens novel that partly takes place in France got the Oprah nod in 2010 A Tale of Two Cities |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $800: Patron saint of Peru & all of South America, St. Rose of this city Lima |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1200: A patron saint of the Internet, but not of barbers, Spanish theologian St. Isidore of here Seville |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1600: 14th century mystic & patron saint of Italy, St. Catherine of this city in Tuscany Siena |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $2000: Bishop, patron of France & "The Glory of Gaul", St. Martin of this city Tours |
#7328, aired 2016-06-22 | MILAN $200: Many Italian cities feature this type of building, but only Milan's had D.H. Lawrence call it "an imitation hedgehog" a cathedral |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | JAPANESE CITIES $200: Yes, that's a roller coaster passing through the centerless Big O Ferris wheel in this capital of Japan Tokyo |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | JAPANESE CITIES $800: Koromo got this new name in 1959 to reflect the importance of its major employer, an auto manufacturer Toyota |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | JAPANESE CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This city was home to the royal family for 1,074 years, from the Heian Period to the Meiji Restoration Kyoto |
#7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HOW JUVENILE! $600: Youth "violence prevention" is part of what this org. offers in the Twin Cities; we hear it's "fun to stay" there the YMCA |
#7316, aired 2016-06-06 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE AGES $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the USS Intrepid.) Operated by British Airways, Concorde Alpha-Delta set a passenger airliner speed record in 1996 when it flew between these two cities in just 2 hours, 52 minutes, & 59 seconds New York & London |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | U.S. AIRPORT CODES $1200: Thurgood Marshall Airport has the code BWI, for these 2 cities "International" Baltimore & Washington |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $200: In 2015 the Pope said this city's shroud was "an icon of love" Turin |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $600: This seaport in Liguria lends its name to a popular type of salami Genoa |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $800: In 1987 this city & its lagoon were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site Venice |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $1000: Though Portugal claims him as a patron saint, St. Anthony is buried in this Italian city Padua |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $2,600 (Daily Double): The name of this city on a celebrated bay comes from the Greek for "new city" Naples |
#7303, aired 2016-05-18 | D.C. HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Washington originally included 2 port cities within its boundaries: Georgetown & this city that returned to Virginia in 1846 Alexandria |
#7302, aired 2016-05-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: We have no beef with this capital of Hyogo Prefecture being called one of Japan's most attractive cities Kobe |
#7299, aired 2016-05-12 | AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS $600: The cities of Padang & Bukittinggi are found on this Indonesian island Sumatra |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: This capital of Indonesia is home to about 10 million people Jakarta |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $800: The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines is a popular attraction in this city Taipei |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $1200: This capital of Bangladesh is in the heart of the world's largest jute-growing region Dhaka |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Dating from before the year 1, Tashkent, the capital of this "stan", is one of the oldest cities of Central Asia Uzbekistan |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Tango & Cheri are important Buddhist monasteries near Thimphu in this Himalayan nation Bhutan |
#7289, aired 2016-04-28 | ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $400: In "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes, women of Greece withhold their favors to force a peace between these 2 cities Athens & Sparta |
#7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORDS IN CHARLES DICKENS NOVEL TITLES $400: A shorter synonym for story a tale |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MUSIC CITIES, USA $400: This city is synonymous with grunges Seattle |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MUSIC CITIES, USA $800: Often called "the birthplace of jazz", it's also the birthplace of Harry Connick Jr. New Orleans |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MUSIC CITIES, USA $1200: Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of this city's music legends, & a statue of him stands on the shores of its Lady Bird Lake Austin |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MUSIC CITIES, USA $2000: In the '70s The O'Jays & Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes helped give this city its distinctive soul "sound" Philadelphia |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MUSIC CITIES, USA $4,000 (Daily Double): As host of the iHeartRadio Music Festival, this city hit the jackpot Las Vegas |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | THE THIRD WORD $1,800 (Daily Double): ...of "A Tale of Two Cities" the |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $400: Museums in this most-populous Russian city include one housed in Stalin's WWII bunker Moscow |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $800: With a population of about 300,000, the port city of Murmansk is the world's largest city north of this geographic line the Arctic Circle |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $1200: Russia not only has a city named Marx, it has one named this for his co-writer Engels |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $1600: Grozny is the capital of this republic in the Caucasus that's been fighting for independence since 1991 Chechnya |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1930s a ballet company as well as the city of Vyatka were renamed this for slain Communist Sergei Kirov |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | WORLD CITIES $400: This capital on the Vltava River was once the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia Prague |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | WORLD CITIES $800: This most populous city of India was built on what were originally 7 islands, including Colaba & Parel Mumbai |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | WORLD CITIES $1200: An 18th century tobacco factory made famous in "Carmen" is now home to this city's university Seville |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | WORLD CITIES $1600: This city is the center of Nigeria's thriving motion picture industry, often called Nollywood Lagos |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | WORLD CITIES $2000: The Confederation Chamber in Province House in this capital of P.E.I. is called the "Birthplace of Canada" Charlottetown |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | 2-WORD COUNTRIES $1200: Ostrava & Brno are cities in this country of Central Europe the Czech Republic |
#7252, aired 2016-03-08 | WHEN THINGS WERE ROTTEN $1600: Avalanches of this are not uncommon in poor areas of large cities; in 1993 one killed more than 30 near Istanbul garbage |
#7217, aired 2016-01-19 | THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES $800: Seen here being built, the Golden Gate Bridge links San Francisco to this county that includes cities like Mill Valley & Sausalito Marin |
#7216, aired 2016-01-18 | LAKES & RIVERS $600: Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities, lies on the west bank of this river the Tigris |
#7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WISCONSIN $1000: Cities by Lake Winnebago include Appleton, Oshkosh & this one, whose French name comes from its spot on the lake Fond du Lac |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $400: In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city Moscow |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $800: This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia Tokyo |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1200: In 2006, 30 years late, the debt was paid off for the stadium called "The Big Owe" & the rest of this city's games Montreal |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1600: This city between Lake Malaren & the Baltic Sea hosted the 1912 Olympics Stockholm |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $2000: It took until 1956, but finally a Southern Hemisphere city hosted--this one Melbourne, Australia |
#7205, aired 2016-01-01 | STATE CAPITAL RIVERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Mississippi River--2 cities at opposite ends of the river Baton Rouge & St. Paul |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $1200: You can visit the city of Bowling Green & the state university of the same name; they're both in this state Ohio |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $1600: For more than 40 years, Edison worked in this town with both a direction & a color West Orange |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This Alabama college town's name was inspired by a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village" Auburn |
#7192, aired 2015-12-15 | IT'S A LIE $800: European capital cities include Vaduz, Bucharest & Zurich Zurich |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $400: With 20 million people in its greater metro area, this Brazilian city is South America's most populous São Paulo |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Hanoi's old quarter consists of 36 streets; Hang Ma specializes in papermaking, but I also stopped off at Hang Bac for some silver & Hang Bun for some noodles, as each street traditionally matches up with one of these organizations of craftsmen guilds |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $1200: Brisbane is the capital city of this "royal" Australian state Queensland |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $1600: Banda Aceh in this country sustained heavy damage from the 2004 tsunami Indonesia |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1907 a 500,000-year-old "man" was found near & named for this southwest German city Heidelberg |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | CITIES ON THE RIVER $400: Nong Khai &
Phnom Penh the Mekong |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | CITIES ON THE RIVER $800: Varanasi &
Allahabad the Ganges |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | CITIES ON THE RIVER $1200: Parintins &
Manaus the Amazon |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | CITIES ON THE RIVER $1600: Kingston &
Trois-Rivieres the St. Lawrence |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | CITIES ON THE RIVER $2000: Toledo &
Aranjuez the Tagus |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $200: Now the capital of a different country, in the Middle Ages it was the capital of Russia Kiev |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $400: It succeeded Kandahar as capital in 1776 Kabul |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $600: It's found in a fertile valley of the eastern Himalayas Kathmandu |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | & THE HOLOGRAMS $800: Using holograms, this diva aka Mimi sang "Silent Night" in 5 different European cities in 2011 Mariah Carey |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $800: Indicated here, it's located only 20 miles from the equator Kampala |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $1000: This capital has the Petronas Towers, twin structures that are among the world's highest Kuala Lumpur |
#7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SPANISH CITIES $400: Spain's Cortes, or parliament, meets in this city Madrid |
#7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SPANISH CITIES $800: According to legend, this second-largest city was founded by Hamilcar Barca around 230 B.C. Barcelona |
#7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SPANISH CITIES $1200: No bull! This city's first bishop was San Fermin Pamplona |
#7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SPANISH CITIES $1600: A 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct serves as a symbol of this city that shares its name with a famous guitarist Segovia |
#7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SPANISH CITIES $2000: This home of El Greco is famous for its fine steel swords Toledo |
#7144, aired 2015-10-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Geneva & Lausanne are the largest cities on this lake also known as Genfersee & Lac Leman Lake Geneva |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $400: Joseph & Mary traveled to this city of Joseph's birth to be taxed by the Romans Bethlehem |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $800: Joshua killed everyone in this city except for Rahab & her family because they hid Joshua's spies Jericho |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $1200: The cities of Sodom & Gomorrah are believed to have been near this body of water the Dead Sea |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $1600: While a captive in this city, Daniel was given the name Belteshazzar Babylon |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $2000: The Gospel of Mark says that Jesus visited the Phoenician ports of Sidon & this Tyre |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | DICKENS BOOK BY CHARACTER $800: Dr. Alexandre Manette A Tale of Two Cities |
#7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THE "MAR" THE MERRIER $800: It's one of Morocco's 4 imperial cities Marrakesh |
#7101, aired 2015-06-29 | PENGUIN CLASSICS COVERS $600: Intrigue in London & Paris A Tale of Two Cities |
#7090, aired 2015-06-12 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1853 Sir Richard Burton became one of the few non-Muslim men of the time to visit these 2 "M" cities Mecca & Medina |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | CANADIAN CITIES $400: In 1992, this city's velodrome, once used in the Olympic Games, was transformed into an environmental biodome Montreal |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | CANADIAN CITIES $800: Residents of this Saskatchewan city are called Moose Javians Moose Jaw |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | CANADIAN CITIES $1600: An intersection in this provincial capital is the original western terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway Victoria, British Columbia |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | CANADIAN CITIES $2000: This Alberta resort was the first municipality to be incorporated within a Canadian national park Banff |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | CANADIAN CITIES $5,400 (Daily Double): The swan is a symbol of this Ontario city; each year, white & black swans are released into the Avon River Stratford |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $400: Next time you're in this city, stop by Duke's Bar, where the martinis inspired Ian Fleming to make them 007's drink London |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $1200: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Alexander McCall Smith's novels is in Gaborone, capital of this nation Botswana |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $1600: The intrigues & poisonings of this 1934 Robert Graves work take place in 1st century A.D. Rome I, Claudius |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $2000: Lawrence Durrell wrote an immense "quartet" of novels set in this African city Alexandria |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): L.A.'s corner of Hollywood Blvd. & Cahuenga, where this detective had an office, has been named Raymond Chandler Square Philip Marlowe |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $400: Randy Newman:
"Looks like another perfect day, I love" this city L.A. |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Billy Joel:
"Well, we're living here... and they're closing all the factories down" Allentown |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $1200: Jay Z & Alicia Keys:
"Now you're in" this city, "these streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you" New York |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $1600: Barry Manilow:
"At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of" here Havana |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $2000: Bruce Springsteen:
"Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wasting away on the streets of" this city Philadelphia |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Found in North Africa, it gets its name from an ancient district that included 3 cities Tripoli |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $400: We bet you know that the Truckee River winds its way through this Nevada city Reno |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $800: In Arizona it forms a metropolitan area with Phoenix & Glendale Mesa |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1200: It's no myth--for most of the last 15 years, this city has ranked as the safest in Michigan Troy |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1600: The most populated city in Central Oregon, it's a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts Bend |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $2000: This neighbor of Provo was named for the president of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad Orem |
#7042, aired 2015-04-07 | THE BOOK OF EXODUS $200: Exodus 1:11 says, "And they built for" this man "treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses" Pharaoh |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES $400: Located on the Han River, it hosted the 21st Summer Olympics Seoul |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES $800: Population 1.8 million, it's home to the National Opera & Ballet Theater of Belarus Minsk |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Have the wisdom to know that this capital lies at the geographic center of the Balkans Sofia |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES $2000: It's the westernmost capital on the African mainland Dakar |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES $5,200 (Daily Double): The oldest South American capital, it's located just south of the equator Quito |
#7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $800: Sydney Carton let his last words reverberate. Powerful stuff, he thought. Then he parkoured up the wall, to freedom! A Tale of Two Cities |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | PLACES IN SONG $2000: Bob Dylan:
"Stuck Inside Of ____ With The ____ Blues Again"
(2 different cities, please) Mobile & Memphis |
#7032, aired 2015-03-24 | U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS $200: O'Hare Chicago |
#7032, aired 2015-03-24 | U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS $400: Louis Armstrong International New Orleans |
#7032, aired 2015-03-24 | U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS $600: Logan Boston |
#7032, aired 2015-03-24 | U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS $800: George Bush Intercontinental Houston |
#7032, aired 2015-03-24 | U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS $1000: 14 miles from Manhattan, Liberty International Newark |
#7027, aired 2015-03-17 | "QUAD"-RUPLE JEOPARDY! $1200: Davenport & Bettendorf, Iowa, plus 3 (huh?) places in Illinois the Quad Cities |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $400: In 2004 President Roh Moo Hyun tried to move South Korea's capital from this city to Gongju Seoul |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $800: One of this Japanese city's most popular tourist destinations is the atomic bomb Genbaku Dome Hiroshima |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $1200: This Mongolian city is often described as the world's coldest capital Ulan Bator |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $1600: This country's 2nd-largest city, Mandalay, is known for a pagoda containing 729 stone Buddhist tablets Myanmar (or Burma) |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $2000: This Vietnamese city near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as the deepwater port for Hanoi Haiphong |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $400: It's home to the International Slavery Museum, but you may know it as the home of the Beatles Liverpool |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $800: This city on the River Cam is home to a univ. founded in the 1200s; the same-named one in Massachusetts has good schools too Cambridge |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $1200: Associated with a mean sheriff, this city on the River Trent used to have an "S" in front--ewww Nottingham |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $1600: The Thermae Spa has updated the millennia-old hot springs tradition of this city Bath |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $2000: The frame of a ship, or a Yorkshire port city of 250,000 people Hull |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $400: A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A. Vancouver |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $800: Nagoya, which in 1959 became L.A.'s first sister city, has some of the oldest shrines for this Japanese religion Shinto |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $1200: In the early 1700s immigrants from Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland founded this capital not on the mainland Taipei |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $1600: L.A. has 2 sister cities in Africa: Lusaka, Zambia & this pyramid city on the Nile Giza |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $2000: On Feb. 23, 2007 Mayor Villaraigosa signed a sister city agreement with Yerevan, capital of this country Armenia |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | "W"ORLD CITIES $400: In 1611 the Polish king & court were moved here from Krakow Warsaw |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | "W"ORLD CITIES $800: This hyphenated North Carolina city is home to Wake Forest University & Piedmont Baptist College Winston-Salem |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | "W"ORLD CITIES $1200: The first permanent settlement (1812) on the Red River grew into this Manitoba city Winnipeg |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | "W"ORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This Irish city on the Suir River is an export center for fruit, meat &' of course, fine crystal Waterford |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | "W"ORLD CITIES $2000: The Yangtze River runs through this capital of Hubei Province that's lent its name to a deadly flu virus Wuhan |
#6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $2000: Erech & Kish were cities of this earliest known civilization that flourished in Iraq in the 3rd millennium B.C. Sumeria |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $400: A neolithic skeletal pair were unearthed "embracing" near this city where Romeo & Juliet lived Verona |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the coast in Italy.) The U.S. has a naval support base at this southern Italian city; near here on September 9, 1943, about 500 Allied ships assembled for Operation Avalanche Naples |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $1200: The earth from this Tuscan city lent its name to a yellow-brown pigment & a "burnt" reddish-brown one Siena |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $2000: Over 700 years old, the Palazzo Vecchio was the seat of government of this city back when it was a republic Florence |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 a campaign was launched to change the name of this Sicilian town, associated with the Mafia due to U.S. pop culture Corleone |
#6993, aired 2015-01-28 | "EL" CATEGORY $400: Manoa & Omagua were said to be cities in this fabled country of gold El Dorado |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS $400: A decree from Louis XIV created this palatial city about 15 miles southwest of Paris Versailles |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS $800: This city has 2 racing circuits: the Circuit de la Sarthe & the Bugatti Circuit Le Mans |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After France surrendered to the Nazis in June 1940, the country was divided into a German-occupied area & an unoccupied zone with an administrative center in this spa town, by whose name the region would be known Vichy |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS $1600: Known for its wine, this major southwestern port once belonged to the English & was their main port on the continent Bordeaux |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS $2000: This city at the juncture of the Rhone & Saone Rivers is famous for its cooked dishes prepared with onions Lyon |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $200: We'll gamble you know that this East Coast tourist hotspot lies on 10-mile-long Absecon Island Atlantic City |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $400: This state capital is about 10 miles southeast of a "Great" body of water Salt Lake City |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $600: The metro area of this city includes Clay & Cass Counties in Missouri & Leavenworth in a neighboring state Kansas City |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $800: In 1858 land speculator Abraham Curry founded what became this capital, named for a frontier scout Carson City |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $1000: Check out the Truman show in this capital, specifically the Harry S Truman State Office Building Jefferson City |
#6958, aired 2014-12-10 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $2,500 (Daily Double): One a state capital, these 2 cities on Amtrak's Empire Service fill the bill Albany & Buffalo |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $400: Home to Disneyland, this city was founded by German immigrants in 1857 Anaheim |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $800: The 64-story U.S. Steel Tower in this city is one of the tallest buildings in Pennsylvania Pittsburgh |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $1200: This city, part of a metro area with Dallas & Fort Worth, was named for the Virginia home of Robert E. Lee Arlington |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $1600: Take a hike & get in touch with your spiritual side at Cathedral Rock in this Arizona city Sedona |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $2,600 (Daily Double): A Montana city is named for a peak called "Big" this Butte |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | GAMES $1000: Build roads & cities in the Mayfair board game called "Settlers of" this place Catan |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $200: Home to the Orange:
RACY USES Syracuse |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $400: On the Hudson River:
ANY LAB Albany |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $600: Great Lakes port:
FLUB OAF Buffalo |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $800: Very near Canada:
ALL AFAR GAINS Niagara Falls |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $1000: "Colorful" town possibly named for its abundant heavy fogs:
WHISTLE PAIN White Plains |
#6947, aired 2014-11-25 | WHAT'S IN THE BOX?! $600: I wasn't expecting a map of this country, with the cities of Namanga, Lodwar, & Mombasa highlighted Kenya |
#6939, aired 2014-11-13 | FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY $400: The metro area that includes these two twin cities on Florida's West Coast is home to almost 3 million people Tampa and St. Petersburg |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $200: The bright lights of this city are seen here Las Vegas |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $400: Mary Todd Lincoln was born in this Kentucky city, now a major center for horse breeding Lexington |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $600: That's a statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $800: The Olympics were held in the U.S. for the first time in 1904, hosted by this city that was also holding the World's Fair St. Louis |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $2,600 (Daily Double): British general John Forbes named this city for a certain William the Elder Pittsburgh |
#6919, aired 2014-10-16 | EUROPEAN RIVERS $2000: Cities on this important commercial waterway include Geneva, Lyon & Avignon the Rhone |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $400: Less than half of the people living in this busiest port on Canada's West Coast speak English as their first language Vancouver |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $800: It's the only big city in Uruguay Montevideo |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $1200: In 2014 this Spanish city honored El Greco on the 400th anniversary of his death with a series of exhibitions & concerts Toledo |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $2000: On an evening lantern hike, you can see the ski slopes used in this Austrian city's Olympics Innsbruck |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Morocco was named for this city known for its centuries-old red clay buildings Marrakesh |
#6912, aired 2014-10-07 | STRAITS $1,000 (Daily Double): Cities lying on this strait include Tarifa, Spain & Ksar Es Seghir, Morocco the Strait of Gibraltar |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $400: This city had Brazil's first Sambadrome, home to dancers strutting their stuff during each year's Carnival Rio de Janeiro |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $800: A statue of Leif Eriksson, a gift from the U.S., stands in front of Hallgrimskirkja church in this capital Reykjavik |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $1600: Colorful shops line
front street in Hamilton, capital of this British territory off the east coast of the United States Bermuda |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $2000: This Senegalese capital is the westernmost city of the African mainland Dakar |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): This South African city is often called "the mother city" because it was the first place in the nation settled by Europeans Cape Town |
#6889, aired 2014-07-24 | PRO SPORTS TEAMS $800: The 2 NHL teams based in national capital cities are the Washington Capitals & them Ottawa Senators |
#6887, aired 2014-07-22 | EVERY YEAR $2000: Tree City USA is a designation presented to qualifying cities from a foundation devoted to this holiday Arbor Day |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $400: Near the delta of the Indus River, the largest city in this country was formerly called Kolachi Pakistan |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $1200: Some 15 million Indians live in the metro area of this city once infamous for its "Black Hole" Calcutta |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $1600: Da Lat is in southern Vietnam; this city the French called Tourane is 300 miles north, on the coast Da Nang |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $2000: The old part of this Yemeni capital is surrounded by a 30-foot high wall Sana'a |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $3,600 (Daily Double): In 2010 this largest Chinese city overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port Shanghai |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $200: L'Enfant, but not L'Enfant Terrible, designed this U.S. city Washington, D.C. |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $400: You'll find Transylvania U. & Henry Clay's old home, now a museum, in this city Lexington, Kentucky |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $600: We hope you're on the Wright track to identify this city Dayton |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $1000: The Tibetan Cultural Center of this Indiana city was founded in 1979 by a brother of the 14th Dalai Lama Bloomington |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): This North Carolina city got its present name in 1913, & not for 2 brands of cigarette Winston-Salem |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $200: Once part of New Sweden, this Pennsylvania city is found where the Schuylkill River meets the Delaware River Philadelphia |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Bisons are a Triple-A minor league baseball team from this New York city Buffalo |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $600: This city of 2 million people--we have no problem Houston |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $800: Joplin in this state was not named for a musician but for a Methodist missionary Missouri |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $1,400 (Daily Double): The southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland, it had a population of only 343 when the railroad arrived in 1896 Miami |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | READ"ING" $800: This collection of essays by Joan Didion is a portrait of 1960s California Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | ON THE MAP $200: It's the foreign country closest to the French cities of Lourdes & Bordeaux Spain |
#6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $400: The Battle of the Coral Sea saw the sinking of this carrier that shares a name with Massachusetts & Kentucky cities Lexington |
#6828, aired 2014-04-30 | WE "R" THE WORLD $400: One of Morocco's 4 imperial cities, it's located on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the wadi Bou Regreg Rabat |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $400: From 1949 to 1990 it served as capital of West Germany Bonn |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $800: This city known for its "trials" is called the birthplace of the watch & the clarinet Nuremberg |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): The Farina Fragrance Museum in this city has on exhibit perfume bottles dating from antiquity Cologne |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $1600: In Augsburg, home of these "elder" & "younger" portrait artists, a high school bears their name Holbein |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $2000: The Karlstor, the Sendlinger Tor & Isartor are gates from medieval times that have been preserved in this Bavarian city Munich |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a map of the U.S.) The longest interstate is I-90, which runs 3,020 miles between these two large cities Boston and Seattle |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MOVIES' MAIN CITIES $200: "The Cooler" &
"Ocean's Eleven" Las Vegas |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MOVIES' MAIN CITIES $400: "Pretty Baby" &
"A Streetcar Named Desire" New Orleans |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MOVIES' MAIN CITIES $600: "Chinatown" &
"Crash" Los Angeles |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MOVIES' MAIN CITIES $800: "The Maltese Falcon" &
"Dirty Harry" San Francisco |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MOVIES' MAIN CITIES $1000: "Avalon" &
"Diner" Baltimore |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $1200: Danube cities in this country include Linz & Krems Austria |
#6803, aired 2014-03-26 | PENINSULAS $400: The cities of Lisbon & Leon are on this peninsula the Iberian |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $200: With a population of 104,000, this city indicated on the map is the smallest to boast an NFL franchise. Green Bay |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $400: This city seen here is its state's second largest. St. Louis |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $600: Courteney Cox & Fannie Flagg both hail from this most populous Alabama city Birmingham |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $800: From 1810 to 1812 Zanesville was the capital of this state Ohio |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $1000: A memorial on the site of the former South Fork Dam commemorates the devastating 1889 flood in this Pennsylvania city Johnstown |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | LANGUAGES $1600: This language of the Baltics is divided into 2 major groups associated with the cities of Tallinn & Tartu Estonian |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $400: Genesis 19:
In these 2 cities "the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MISSPELLED BANDS $2000: Cities where they played showes in 2013 included their hometown, Atlanta The Black Crowes |
#6746, aired 2014-01-06 | "U". "S". CITIES $200: California's capital Sacramento |
#6746, aired 2014-01-06 | "U". "S". CITIES $400: "Mother City of Georgia" Savannah |
#6746, aired 2014-01-06 | "U". "S". CITIES $600 (Daily Double): Twin city of Champaign, Illinois Urbana |
#6746, aired 2014-01-06 | "U". "S". CITIES $800: "S"eat of Onondaga County, between Albany & Buffalo Syracuse |
#6746, aired 2014-01-06 | "U". "S". CITIES $1000: Seat of Oneida County, between Albany & Buffalo Utica |
#6729, aired 2013-12-12 | McCARTHYISM $400: 1998's "Cities on the Plain" completed his Border trilogy; he's not exactly a laugh-a-minute novelist Cormac McCarthy |
#6728, aired 2013-12-11 | AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Andrew Sachs, who played a Spaniard among Brits on "Fawlty Towers", reads this 1859 "tale" of a Brit among the French A Tale of Two Cities |
#6719, aired 2013-11-28 | FEAT $200: In the 1930s the engineers of the Bay Bridge linking these 2 cities sank supports hundreds of feet to reach the bedrock San Francisco & Oakland |
#6712, aired 2013-11-19 | STAND BY YOUR STAN $400: Until the 2000s, cities like Herat & Kandahar in this country were not often seen in Western news Afghanistan |
#6693, aired 2013-10-23 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $1600: It's less than 30 miles between this pair of cities, Belgium's largest & its capital Antwerp & Brussels |
#6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FIRE! $800: Genesis 19 says, "the Lord rained upon" these 2 cities "brimstone and fire ...out of heaven" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#6677, aired 2013-10-01 | MAPPING THE NFL $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. with two cities marked.) Situated more than 2,700 miles apart, they're the northernmost & southernmost NFL teams the Seahawks & the Dolphins |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | ONE NATION $600: 9 provinces & 7 metropolitan cities, including Inch'on-Gwangyoksi South Korea |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $400: It's the gateway to California's "Wine Trail" Napa |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $800: If you've "bean" watching, you know that on "Glee" McKinley High is located in this Ohio city Lima |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1200: One of Pennsylvania's largest cities, it's also the state's only Great Lake port Erie |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1600: It's located where the Colorado River meets the Gila River in southwestern Arizona Yuma |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $5,000 (Daily Double): It's the biggest city on the "Big Island" Hilo |
#6670, aired 2013-09-20 | SAN ANTONIO $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from San Antonio, TX.) This area along the banks of the San Antonio is a top Texas tourist attraction as well as an inspiration to other cities trying to create green space the River Walk |
#6636, aired 2013-06-24 | RED STATES $800: Some of its larger cities, including Huntington & Wheeling, are on the Ohio River West Virginia |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1054 the "Great Schism" divided the power of the Catholic church between these 2 cities, in east & west Rome & Constantinople |
#6615, aired 2013-05-24 | I-20 $2000: A sampling of I-20 cities to visit in this state: Abilene, Ranger & White Settlement Texas |
#6613, aired 2013-05-22 | THE QUOTABLE DICKENS $800: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done" A Tale of Two Cities |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: Native son Christopher Columbus embodies the maritime tradition of this city Genoa |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: On a visit to this seaport, Hans Christian Andersen called it "the Paris of Spain" Barcelona |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: This Swiss city was known as the "Protestant Rome" Geneva |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | EUROPEAN CITIES $2000: Mozart lived for a time in this city on the Vltava river & wrote a symphony named for it Prague |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | EUROPEAN CITIES $2,400 (Daily Double): This Bavarian city traces its origins to a Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee Munich |
#6598, aired 2013-05-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew walks along the beach.) It's the good life in the three beach cities south of Los Angeles--Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach & this one, whose name means "beautiful" Hermosa Beach |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Her work with the Missionaries of Charity put clinics in the slums of 160 cities, treating millions by the time she died in 1997 Mother Teresa |
#6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: One of the Twin Cities puts out a single, singing "Loves Me Like A Rock" Saint Paul Simon |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $400: Special skills:
•protector of cities, the home, supplicants
•fathering kids (including Hebe & Helen) Zeus |
#6577, aired 2013-04-02 | THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED $600: The Atlas can't quite define this, but projects that by 2025 the world will have 447 of them of 10 million-plus people each cities |
#6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $200: George Square in this largest Scottish city has a very tall column with Sir Walter Scott atop it Glasgow |
#6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $400: It's the capital of the world's most populous country Beijing |
#6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $800: (Vanna White delivers the clue from Jamaica.)
Most cruise ships on Jamaica's northern coast dock at this port, whose name is Spanish for Eight Rivers Ocho Rios |
#6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $1000: Once an imperial naval base, this Siberian port is headquarters to Russia's Pacific Fleet Vladivostok |
#6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): This capital of Australia's Northern Territory lies on Beagle Gulf Darwin |
#6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE WRITE OF SPRING $2,000 (Daily Double): "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" is from the famous opening line of this novel A Tale of Two Cities |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $200: This world capital on the Gulf of Finland boasts a railway station designed by Eliel Saarinen Helsinki |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $400: A 2-time Olympic host, this New York village has a population of around 2,500 Lake Placid |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $600: Norway has hosted the Olympics twice--in Oslo in 1952 & in this small town in 1994 Lillehammer |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Most of its more than 14 million people are ethnically Han Beijing |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $1000: 30 miles east of the Yellow Sea, this city boasts the Changdok Palace, which dates back to 1405 Seoul |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $200: The Jaguars Jacksonville |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $400: The Blue Jays Toronto |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $600: The Kings (2 cities, please) Los Angeles and Sacramento |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $800: Byblos, from which we got the word "Bible", was one of the foremost cities of these ancient seafaring people the Phoenicians |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $800: The Grizzlies Memphis |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $1000: The Fire Chicago |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $200: Completed in 1926, Aloha Tower greets visitors to this city Honolulu |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $400: In recent years this Texas capital has ranked as one of the top U.S. cities for young adults Austin |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $600: St. Paul is the twin of this city that's 100,000 people bigger Minneapolis |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $800: This state's state fair is held in Shreveport Louisiana |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Once Virginia's capital, this city has made sure to keep its colonial feel Williamsburg |
#6523, aired 2013-01-16 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $200: Kansas:
population about 384,000 Wichita |
#6523, aired 2013-01-16 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $400: Missouri:
population about 463,000 Kansas City |
#6523, aired 2013-01-16 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $600: North Dakota:
about 107,000 Fargo |
#6523, aired 2013-01-16 | HAPPIER REWRITTEN NOVEL ENDINGS $800: "Wow, Carton! That 'I see the lives for which I lay down my life' speech was freakin' awesome! You can go. The execution's off!" A Tale of Two Cities |
#6523, aired 2013-01-16 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $800: Delaware:
about 71,000 Wilmington |
#6523, aired 2013-01-16 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1000: Maine:
about 66,000 Portland |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $200: Several bridges, including El Tahrir, cross the Nile in this capital Cairo |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $400 (Daily Double): The name of this largest Moroccan city combines 2 Spanish words Casablanca |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: This port is the southernmost of South Africa's 3 capitals Cape Town |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: Wooden 2-story verandas in this Liberian capital are an architectural link to the U.S. south Monrovia |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $1000: Named for a 19th century queen, this capital of the Seychelles has fewer than 30,000 people Victoria |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $200: We're livin' on the air in this city, home to the 49-story Carew Tower, on the north bank of the Ohio River Cincinnati |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Southern city was the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention Tampa |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $600: This city's metro area includes Lorain, Lake & Cuyahoga; visit 'em all! Cleveland |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $800: The art deco-style Union Depot & Phillips Oil "Philcade" suit this city in Oklahoma to a "T" Tulsa |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Orange you glad to know this city in Central New York supplied most of the salt needs of the U.S. until 1870 Syracuse |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $1000: 1 of 2 Pennsylvania cities other than Philadelphia in which the Second Continental Congress met York & Lancaster |
#6493, aired 2012-12-05 | 18th CENTURY PEOPLE $1600: This Russian's achievements included the founding of cities Peter the Great |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) This poet was so right in 1904 when he called Chicago "a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities" Carl Sandburg |
#6478, aired 2012-11-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $200: ORAL NOD,
Florida Orlando |
#6478, aired 2012-11-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $400: LONG LEASES,
California Los Angeles, California |
#6478, aired 2012-11-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $600: NO BRAG,
Maine Bangor |
#6478, aired 2012-11-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $800: A ZEN MOB,
Montana Bozeman |
#6478, aired 2012-11-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $1000: NEWT FORAY,
Indiana Fort Wayne, Indiana |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $400: Ironically, Madinat al-Salam, meaning "city of peace", is the former name of this Iraqi capital Baghdad |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $800: Cabaret Voltaire in this largest Swiss city is considered the birthplace of Dadaism Zurich |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1200: This largest city of Saskatchewan also starts with "S-A-S-K" Saskatoon |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1600: Seen here is a square in this Asian capital that you won't find jammed with tourists Pyongyang (North Korea) |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $2000: This chief port of Pakistan served as the country's capital from 1947 to 1959 Karachi |
#6463, aired 2012-10-24 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $2,000 (Daily Double): This novel set in London & Paris was first published serially in 1859 A Tale of Two Cities |