#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $600: Cleaning up cow manure for a king, collecting golden fruit, swiping a girdle... sounds like scenes in "Animal House", but no the labors of Hercules |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | THREE DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS $1500: Giddy up! This Beach Boys song about a Chevy hot rod shares its title with a household cleaning product "409" |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPINELESS CREATURES $2000: Mariners curse the goose type of this marine invertebrate that clings to hulls & anchors barnacles |
#8651, aired 2022-05-30 | VERB + "ER" = NOUN $1000: A cleaning machine, or a metal or rubber disc that might be used in the pipes leading up to it washer |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: The not so fun game of cleaning up after a disgruntled card player has this number in its name 52 |
#8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ROBOTS $800: Robots like the Sunfish have been cleaning up reactors damaged in this 2011 meltdown in Japan Fukushima |
#7314, aired 2016-06-02 | DRINKING VESSELS $200: Tired of cleaning up his toddler's spills, Richard Belanger created this no-spill cup in 1988 a sippy cup |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | 2-LETTER ABBREVIATIONS $1000: Military duty cleaning up after a mess K.P. |
#7000, aired 2015-02-06 | AMERICANA $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Times Square in New York City.) This man, who became mayor in 1994, is credited with cleaning up Times Square (Rudy) Giuliani |
#6443, aired 2012-09-26 | CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSET $800: When you finish cleaning out your closet, you can have the goods picked up by this group by calling 800-SA-TRUCK Salvation Army |
#6361, aired 2012-04-23 | IN THE "SPRING" TIME $600: Tidying up your domicile on the equinox spring cleaning |
#6118, aired 2011-03-30 | UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS $1000: They're the sports teams of Fresno State as well as Georgia the Bulldogs |
#5928, aired 2010-05-26 | ECO SUAVE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew performs a science demonstration.) Hydrophobic sand doesn't absorb water because it's been treated with a compound of this element, Si; the sand does cling to oil, however, making it useful in cleaning up oil spills silicon |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | CLEAN THIS PLACE UP! $200: A bundle on a stick used for cleaning floors, or a similar-looking mass of hair a mop |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | CLEAN THIS PLACE UP! $1000: This name of doctors' green suits comes from the cleaning action usually done while wearing them scrubs |
#5124, aired 2006-12-14 | ENERGY $600: The EPA is cleaning up truck & bus exhaust by cutting the sulfur content in this fuel by 97% diesel |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CLEANING UP $400: To fight this, from the Latin for "stain", after surgery, John Charnley devised air tents to keep things sterile infection |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CLEANING UP $800: In 1887 Johnson & Johnson was incorporated in part to improve upon this man's study of antisepsis (Joseph) Lister |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CLEANING UP $1200: To be a cleaner of this, you may need to put on a HAZMAT suit & hope the criminal doesn't return to it a crime scene |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CLEANING UP $1600: In 1898 Caleb Johnson sold this soap named for 2 types of oil used to make it; later the co. merged with Colgate Palmolive |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CLEANING UP $2000: Because of a clean-up effort, Bernard Rayner became the last to sell pigeon food in this British plaza Trafalgar Square |
#4558, aired 2004-06-02 | LET'S CLEAN UP $600: For some light cleaning, it's the 2-word name of the item seen here a feather duster |
#4558, aired 2004-06-02 | LET'S CLEAN UP $800: Men wielding these windshield-cleaning implements are a negative indicator of quality of life in NYC a squeegee |
#4310, aired 2003-05-02 | SURVIVORS $800: In 1992 two of these weather phenomena named Iniki & Andrew left survivors cleaning up from Hawaii to Florida hurricanes |
#3123, aired 1998-03-11 | HAWN $200: In this 1980 film Goldie winds up cleaning an Army latrine with an electric toothbrush Private Benjamin |
#2888, aired 1997-03-05 | ART CLASS $200: After cleaning these, they should be stored bristles up paintbrushes |
#1959, aired 1993-02-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Cleaning up a great big mess is called "Cleaning the Augean Stables" after one of his labors Hercules |
#1783, aired 1992-05-06 | CLASSIC PLAYTHINGS $400: In 1955 Rainbow Crafts, a soap & cleaning goods maker, came up with this bright, moldable stuff Play-Doh |
#1611, aired 1991-09-09 | TV SITCOMS $300: The Jeffersons moved on up to Manhattan's East Side after George made a fortune in this business dry cleaning |
#558, aired 1987-01-28 | TV NOSTALGIA $600: James Beard's "I Love to Eat" opened with a shot of, not a recipe for, this famous Borden symbol Elsie the Cow |
#120, aired 1985-02-22 | THE HOME $100: Of the average shower & bath, the one that uses less water a shower |