| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | DON'T EAT THAT! $600: Types of these devices include atomic & grandfather clocks |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $400: Yokohama's Cosmo Clock 21 features a ginormous digital clock face at the center of this amusement park ride Ferris wheel |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $800: A clock on Prague's Town Hall Tower features wooden carvings of these followers of Christ the Apostles |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $1200: The clock tower in this city's Piazza San Marco was once used to spot incoming ships Venice |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $1600: The almost 2,000-foot tall Makkah Clock Royal Tower in Mecca overlooks this sacred cube-shaped building the Kaaba |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $2000: A clock keeping this time, from Latin for "starry", gains 3 minutes, 56 seconds a day over a standard clock sidereal |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $1000: In "Great Expectations", all the clocks in her house stopped at 20 minutes to 9, when she learned of her fiancé's betrayal Miss Havisham |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $600: Dali's "Persistence of Memory" features 3 of these objects appearing to wilt watches (clocks) |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $800: Melting clocks, yeah, yeah, we get it, but this art movement included poetry by Pierre Reverdy & was influenced by Bosch surrealism |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SCIENTIFIC NUMBERS $2000: The speed of light clocks in at 186,282 of this unit of speed miles per second |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | QUANTUM SCIENCE $1200: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) In 2022, the White House announcement of the first World Quantum Day cited contributions like these super-accurate timekeepers found on every GPS satellite atomic clocks |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $800: In the 17th century physicist Christiaan Huygens brought this swingin' device into clocks a pendulum |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "1984" begins, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking" this very odd number thirteen |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $400: Its great bell clocks in at just over 15 tons Big Ben |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | THE RULES OF THE GAME $200: With no game clocks on the field, only a referee such as Daniele Orsato keeps time soccer |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | INSTRUMENTAL TO THE SONG $400: He plays piano on "Clocks"
(2002) Chris Martin |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | GETTING CLOCK WISE $400: The Black Forest region in Germany is famed for these avian clocks cuckoo clocks |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | TIME $200: March 30, 1918 was the first day America's newspapers included a reminder to do this tonight set your clock ahead |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1600: Directed by Scorsese, this book-based film tells of an orphan who lives in a Paris train station & maintains its clocks Hugo |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $400: This traditional 4-word phrase tells you which way to set your clocks at the start & end of daylight saving time fall behind, spring forward |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | "SPRING" BREAK $400: This 4-word mnemonic tells you how to adjust your clocks when daylight saving time begins & ends spring forward, fall back |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | INSTRUMENT MAKERS $2000: In the 1930s this man turned his experiences making clocks & motors into inventing an electric organ Laurens Hammond |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $400: "Permanent Record" by this NSA contractor & Russia resident says as a child, he hacked the clocks at home so he could stay up late Snowden |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIOACTIVE $800: For some isotopes, this is just a few milliseconds, but isotope 243 of americium clocks in at 7,370 years a half-life |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CLOCKS $400: Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball title by the anemic score of 46-33 in 1939, long before this 1985 innovation shot clock |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CLOCKS $600: In Spasskaya Tower, the entrance to part of this Moscow fortification, you'll find the marvelous clock seen here Kremlin |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CLOCKS $800: Since 1924 its chimes have been routinely broadcast by the BBC Big Ben |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CLOCKS $2,800 (Daily Double): Athens' ancient Tower of the Winds measured time with a water clock when these weren't working--say, at night sundials |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1600: Leap seconds are sometimes added to clocks because this is slowing down the rotation |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | ELEMENTS $800: Atomic number 55, it's used in atomic clocks cesium |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | PLAYING IN THE BAND $200: A 1972 live version of "Playing In The Band" by this Jerry Garcia-Bob Weir group clocks in at more than 25 minutes the Grateful Dead |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | ANTIQUES $800: Weight-driven & later spring-driven, these made by Gustav Becker in the 1800s are prized & hung on walls clocks |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SEUSS SYNOPSIZES HIMSELF $600: It's the title animal / in a story about socks & Knox & bricks & blocks & ticks & tocks & chicks & clocks the fox |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | IT HELPS TO REMEMBER $200: 4-word mnemonic to remember how to adjust your clocks for daylight saving & standard time spring forward, fall back |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | CLOCKS $400: Japan is home to the largest one of these; it measures 18 feet in height & contains 629 billion grains of sand an hourglass |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | CLOCKS $1200: Once called a longcase clock, its name came from an 1876 song that said it was "taller by half than the old man himself" a grandfather clock |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | CLOCKS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Black Forest Clock Association provides a seal of approval guaranteeing the authenticity of these clocks cuckoo clocks |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | STAR TALK WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $400: (Neil deGrasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Our GPS satellites experience less gravity than we do here on Earth's surface so their clocks tick a bit faster... but engineers pre-correct the GPS time for Einstein's general theory of this relativity |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | ABBREV. $400: For clocks at longitude 0 degrees:
GMT Greenwich Mean Time |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | ROCK ME GENTLY $200: Chris Martin has led this Brit band through such gently rocking hits as "Clocks" Coldplay |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | TALL $1000: Amy Schumer's boss in "Trainwreck", this British actress clocks in at around 5'11" Tilda Swinton |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER $1200: George Orwell:
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking ____" 13 |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $400: A dystopian novel:
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" 1984 |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | TIME MANAGEMENT $2000: Smartphone clocks can drift 10 sec. a day; a Hong Kong scientist has a way to sync them with the flickering of this kind of light fluorescent light |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | ON TV 10 YEARS AGO $200: This show featured Jack Bauer, on-screen clocks & dialogue like "Where's the bomb?! Don't make me ask you again!" 24 |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $600: This "colorful" 1984 hit by Prince clocks in at over 8 1/2 minutes "Purple Rain" |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | LITERATURE QUOTES: ONE WORD OFF $1000: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking Grandma" "thirteen" |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | THAT'S NOT GNEISS! $1200: You're looking at this silica mineral, widely used in clocks & watches quartz |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | MEET THE FLINT STONES $600: Flint is a fine-grained variety of this mineral used in crystal-controlled clocks & watches quartz |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | COMMON BONDS $600: Cuckoo,
grandfather,
alarm clocks |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | NAME THE SEUSS TITLE $1000: "Socks on chicks and chicks on fox. Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks" Fox in Socks |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | WE'RE CUCKOO $800: Many cuckoo clocks have weights made into the shape of this reproductive part of a certain evergreen tree a pine cone |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | ZORBA, THE GREEK TUTOR $2000: The phrase "Ti ora ine", which means this, may help you at Cretan casinos; you must remember clocks are hard to find there What time is it? |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | HELLO, DALI $800: In "The Persistence of Memory", Dali shows 4 of these, some wilting, some not watches (or clocks) |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | NAME THE NOVEL $600: 1932:
"In the 4,000 rooms of the Centre the 4,000 electric clocks simultaneously struck four" Brave New World |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $2000: "Funeral Blues" by this British poet begins, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" Auden |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | LITERARY OPENINGS $800: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" 1984 |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | WHAT'S UP, CLOCK? $800: You can recognize Germany's House of 1000 Clocks by its water wheel & this type of clock on the side of the house a cuckoo clock |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | O' $2000: This flower, seen here, gets its name due to its afternoon bloom four o'clocks |
| #4935, aired 2006-02-10 | AMERICAN PRODUCTS ABROAD $400: Oxford House in Hong Kong clocks in as the home of the Asia edition of this newsmagazine Time |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | RELATIVITY AT 100 $1600: Section I.1 of the June 1905 relativity paper defines the use of these everyday devices within stationary systems clocks |
| #4874, aired 2005-11-17 | STUDENT LOANS $400: This Dostoyevsky novel about Alyosha, Dmitri & Ivan clocks in at about 900 pages, so I had to renew my copy The Brothers Karamazov |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | HALLMARK HOLIDAYS $800: Kiss-up alert: National Boss Day falls in this same month that clocks are set back an hour October |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE "C"ROSSWORD PUZZLE $1000: Used in atomic clocks, it melts at 83.3 degrees F.
(6) cesium |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | VOCABULARY TEST $1200: Pronounced one way, it's an injury; pronounced another, it can mean turned & tightened, like certain clocks wound |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | CONNECTICUT $200: At the Museum of these in Bristol, it gets very, very noisy on the hour, every hour Clocks |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | WREN $200: Young Christopher Wren translated into Latin William Oughtred's book on these clocks that don't work at night sundials |
| #4380, aired 2003-09-26 | ENDS IN "OO" $400: In 1738 Franz Ketterer created the first one of these clocks that chirp the time a cuckoo clock |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | LITERARY LINES $800: "1984" begins, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking" this odd hour 13 |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1200: Stock up on cuckoo clocks & ham while visiting this "dark" wooded region of Germany Black Forest |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | SELLERS $500: Strangely, this "colorful" German company sells its classic travel alarm clocks only in black & white Braun |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | CHINESE INVENTIONS $500: In the 8th century the mechanical clocks in China were driven by this water |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $800: "Good-by, good-by world. Good-by Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking..." Thornton Wilder (Our Town) |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" "1984" |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | "C" BIRDS $400: Encarta says its "two-note call has been invoked in many musical compositions as well as in... clocks" a cuckoo |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $400: Also meaning the main cause, the "main" one of these is found in clocks spring |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | NOTABLES RHYME TIME $200: Cousteau's timepieces Jacques' clocks |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | LEFTOVERS $300: Tacky, yes, but in a Best of Las Vegas survey, readers named these clocks as the best souvenir Dice clocks |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | A LITTLE DICKENS $300: All Miss Havisham's clocks are permanently stopped in this 1860 work Great Expectations |
| #3444, aired 1999-07-22 | CITY SOBRIQUETS $400: "The City Without Clocks" & "The Gambler's Mecca" Las Vegas |
| #3286, aired 1998-12-14 | OPERA $800: Concepcion's lovers hide inside clocks in her husband's shop in "L'Heure Espagnole" by this "Bolero" composer Maurice Ravel |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | DAYS OF BIRTH $100: If born on a Monday, you're fair of this, so you won't stop clocks Face |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | CITY NICKNAMES $800: It's the "City Without Clocks" that's west of the Mississippi Las Vegas |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1000: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984 |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | 17th CENTURY FASHION $200: The embroidery patterns on these were called clocks & when they ran it was time to replace them stockings |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | 18th CENTURY EUROPE $300: As early as the 1730s cuckoo clocks were made in this "woodsy" region of southwest Germany Black Forest |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | 1812 $800: In 1812 Seth Thomas set up his own factory to make these clocks |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | TIME $300: Season during which many clocks in the U.S. are set ahead an hour Spring ("Spring forward, fall back") |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $400: He's known for kids' books like "The 13 Clocks" as well as "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" James Thurber |
| #2627, aired 1996-01-23 | 17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $300: These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring Clocks |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | 20th CENTURY OPERAS $200: Concepcion's lovers hid inside clocks in this "Bolero" composer's opera "L'heure espangnole" Ravel |
| #2265, aired 1994-06-10 | 1949 $200: There were about 40,000 horologists making these in the U.S. clocks (watches) |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | DESIGN $400: Carriage clocks had these on top because they were designed to be carried on carriages Handles |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CLOCKS $100: It's the bedroom equivalent of the army's Reveille bugler an alarm clock |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CLOCKS $200: Time on the clock in "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" 1:00 |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CLOCKS $300: It's often punched by office workers a time clock |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CLOCKS $400: Farmers carving clocks for tourists in the Black Forest created this clock around 1775 a cuckoo clock |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CLOCKS $500: Within women it ticks off the years when they can conceive children the biological clock |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | MUSEUMS $300: Clocks & other timepieces are on display in this state at the Time Museum in Rockford Illinois |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | FORESTS $1,100 (Daily Double): The manufacture of toys & cuckoo clocks are among the industries in this German forest the Black Forest (the Schwarzwald) |
| #1733, aired 1992-02-26 | COMMON BONDS $200: Grandfather,
pendulum,
cuckoo clocks |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | SALVADOR DALI $1,500 (Daily Double): Title of the 1931 work seen here, one of his best-known works: The Persistence of Memory |
| #1201, aired 1989-11-20 | TECHNOLOGY $400: The two most common types of mechanical clocks are driven by weights or these springs |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | LEFTOVERS $500: This European capital named for bears has bear cookies, bear puzzles & bear clocks, if you can bear it Bern, Switzerland |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | RULES $200: This 4-word rule tells us how to adjust our clocks to begin & end daylight saving time spring ahead, fall back |
| #1125, aired 1989-06-23 | WORDS $1000: Striking clocks in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is an example of this from Greek for "backwards" & "time" anachronism |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | ANTIQUES $600: Called "long case" or "tall" clocks by antique dealers, they're popularly known as this grandfather clocks |
| #755, aired 1987-12-11 | TECHNOLOGY $200: In turn, they've used the sun, water or sand, weights, coiled springs, pendulums, etc.... clocks |
| #743, aired 1987-11-25 | ANTIQUES $400: A popular song of 1875 popularized this name for tall case clocks grandfather clocks |
| #640, aired 1987-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: With money from making these, Seth Thomas built a cotton mill & a brass rolling factory clocks |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | CLOCKS $100: It keeps time only when you turn it upside down, & just until the sand runs out an hourglass |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | CLOCKS $200: The face of a watch or the soap you might use if you had time for a shower dial |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | CLOCKS $300: Around 1400 B.C., Egyptians used this kind of clock that was supposed to leak a water clock |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | CLOCKS $400: It's a clock ⅔ the size of a grandfather clock a grandmother's clock |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | CLOCKS $500 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 components powering a clock that can be replaced by electricity springs or weights |
| #386, aired 1986-03-03 | CONNECTICUT $200: Thomaston, named for Seth Thomas, is where he set up his first factory making these clocks |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | ART TRIVIA $500: Objects melted over the landscape in Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" (pocket) watches (clocks accepted) |
| #324, aired 1985-12-05 | TRIVIA $400: It's done in all states except Arizona & Hawaii on the last Sunday in April daylights savings time (move the clocks forward) |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | HANDICRAFTS $100: Artisans in the Black Forest have been turning out these bird-brained time-pieces since 1730 cuckoo clocks |
| #149, aired 1985-04-04 | TIME $400: Number of wall clocks you'd need to have one for every standard time zone 24 |
| #12, aired 1984-09-25 | INVENTIONS $400: Edison suggested it be used to record phone calls & make clocks talk the phonograph |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | GEOGRAPHY $500: Clocks in Lima, Peru, read the same as in this U.S. time zone Eastern |
