| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $1000: You get an "A" plus 7 letters in geometry, if you know it describes 2 angles with a common side & vertex; it can also just mean "next to" adjacent (angles) |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENTISTS AS PARENTS $800: If you sit that close to the TV & burn this eye part that receives images from the lens, don't come running to me the retina |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $500: As Charles Darwin could tell you, to do this is to gradually change or develop over time evolve |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $1,500 (Daily Double): This dessert of sponge cake, ice cream & meringue that's finished in the oven was created to honor an 1867 land purchase a baked Alaska |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | DATING/APPS $800: My abuela uses homemade tortillas for this app whose name is from Spanish for "cheese"--are you close to your gran? quesadillas |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $800: Popular tourist highlights on this Italian isle are the Blue Grotto & the Castiglione, a medieval castle Capri |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | "D" TOUR $800: Since the whole street is gated, you can't get up close to see the most famous residents on this street, so here's a peek Downing Street |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO THE END $1200: To do this "up" is to gather, as your strength; if you do it "out", you're leaving the military--like the WWI-era personnel muster |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO THE END $2000: When you see this notation in music, you've hit the final part of the movement the coda |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING $300: Something you are getting close to is just "around" this 4-letter twisty part of a river a bend |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING $600: Almost there! You're "in" this, as they say, like Chicago's Wrigley or Boston's Fenway the ballpark |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING $900: Expectorating is a fancy way to say this, involving a bodily fluid; if you're within its "distance", you're close to your target spitting |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING $1500: Grooms are said to carry newlywed brides over this entrance to a home; you're at one now figuratively with regard to winning the threshold |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING $13,000 (Daily Double): Doctor Strange tells Tony Stark, "we're in" this "now", a term for the final stage of a chess contest; so are you an endgame |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | DON'T GET... $600: ...too close to the edge if you're leaning to get a view from this, part of a World Heritage Site in Tuscany the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BODY PART PHRASES $600: When you "keep" someone at this distance, you're not sure of their intentions & don't want them too close to you arm's length |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $1000: Alex had tons of hardware supplies, including these, also called half-moon keys; he never knew what they were for, though Woodruff keys |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGNETS! $800: It's your lucky day as you name this magnet; it's strong magnetic field between the poles is due to the close proximity a horseshoe |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | FAMILIAL PHRASES $2000: This phrase from Shakespeare's "Henry V" now refers to any close-knit group, not just a military unit band of brothers |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HISTORIC ALLIANCES $1000: Around 1428 Texcoco, Tlacopan & this Aztec city-state formed the Triple Alliance Tenochtitlan |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $4,000 (Daily Double): These items were tolled, closed & extinguished in an old Catholic ceremony bell, book & candle |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | I SEE YOU THERE! $600: Don't get too close to the edge at Norway's Pulpit Rock 2000 feet above one of these bodies of water a fjord |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | LAWN TOMORROW $400: Freeze! this varmint--you tore up my lawn but I'll use liquid castor oil around your tunnel entry to ward you off the gopher |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $400: (Chuck Bryant reads the clue.) This pair surmised they had traveled 4,162 miles from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean; pretty close, guys--only off by about 40 miles Lewis & Clark |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $400: In a comedy act Anne Sullivan asked her questions like "Do you close your eyes when you sleep?" (her answer: I never stayed awake to see) Helen Keller |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS! $1200: (Glenn Close presents the clue.) I rank as number 7 on AFI's list of Top Villains, playing Alex Forrest in this 1987 thriller, but I prefer to think of her as a misunderstood woman, who is not going to be ignored Fatal Attraction |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FOREIGN ELECTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): Televised debates dubbed "The Road to Carthage" were a new feature in this country's 2019 elections Tunisia |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | WE MISS YOU, MISTER ROGERS $200: Of this 5-word signature query, Mr. Rogers said, "I suppose it's... an invitation for somebody to be close to you" Won't you be my neighbor? |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | PAY UP $200: If you've got pets, the extra-efficient "Ball Animal 2" one of these from Dyson might be worth it at close to $400 a vacuum |
| #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 | ILLEGAL BABY NAMES $800: In Sweden you can call your kid Lego, but not this 4-letter furniture store brand--too close to home, I guess Ikea |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | TV BY THE NUMBERS $200: Agnes Nixon created this soap opera that focused on the Buchanan & Lord families One Life to Live |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $1000: "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | YOU CAN SET YOUR WATCH BY IT $800: First a gavel, then a gong, now one of these is sounded each day at 4 P.M. to close trading at 11 Wall Street a bell |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | A SONG OF "YOU" $800: In this 2006 hit The Killers said you could "close your eyes & see the place where you used to live" "When You Were Young" |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | ROCK "ME" $2000: Police song that says, "Her friends are so jealous, you know how bad girls get" "Don't Stand So Close To Me" |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | SCRAMBLED HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS $1000: A caretaker:
CIGAR FLUSH Argus Filch |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. $6,000 (Daily Double): If you want to stand on the 40th parallel in this capital, go to Ataturk Forest Farm & Zoo; you'll be pretty close Ankara |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | BRIDGES $1000: If you want to match the International Orange paint color of this bridge, Sherwin Williams' Fireweed is close the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | ROCK ME GENTLY $600: This duo's Top 40 debut was a No. 1 hit as they sang, "Just like me, they long to be close to you" the Carpenters |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | PUNS $1000: These features on the mouth of a llama relative bring us close to the end of the world alpaca lips |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | DOWNTOWN CABBIE $400: Take you from your loft in Soho to a gallery across Houston in this "village"? Tell ya the truth, it'd be faster to walk Greenwich Village (or the West Village) |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $400: You could say that this drug used to treat angina is dynamite! (Or close to) nitroglycerin |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | LYRICISTS $2000: This nickname of "Over the Rainbow" lyricist E.Y. Harburg was a shortening of Young People's Socialist League "Yip" |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $11,000 (Daily Double): This instrument measures atmospheric pressure: its name is used to mean anything that indicates change a barometer |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY $1,800 (Daily Double): Marcus Luttrell wrote this memoir about being the only Navy SEAL to come home from Operation Redwing Lone Survivor |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | EVERY YEAR $1600: It's the holiday being celebrated in the 1833 Daniel Maclise painting seen here Halloween (All Hallows' Eve accepted) |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | ON THE WHEATIES BOX $1000: 1959: this swimmer & star of movies like "Million Dollar Mermaid" Esther Williams |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | LAKES & RIVERS $10,200 (Daily Double): Sharing the name of a city, it's the largest lake entirely within a Canadian province Lake Winnipeg |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | TENNIS TIPS $600: Getting close to the net gives you better angles on your volleys but leaves you vulnerable to this--look up! a lob |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | CLOSE QUARTERS $400: You had to figure there would be a lake for this state Minnesota |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | STOCK SYMBOLS $1,000 (Daily Double): This verb is the 3-letter stock symbol for Sotheby's BID |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | GEOMETRY $1,400 (Daily Double): Johannes Kepler used this geometric figure to describe the orbits of the planets, with the Sun as a focus ellipse |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | YOU'VE GOT MALI $1600: Nere & Kapioka are local names for these; you see fewer of them in northern Mali, toward the Sahara trees |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | CLOSE TO YOU $400: Alabama,
Georgia,
South Carolina Alabama |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | CLOSE TO YOU $600: Guam,
Iceland,
Jamaica Jamaica |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | CLOSE TO YOU $800: The Tropic of Cancer,
the equator,
the Tropic of Capricorn the Tropic of Cancer |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | CLOSE TO YOU $1000: The Mariana Trench,
Hudson Bay,
the International Date Line Hudson Bay |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Following Russia & China, which each border 14 other countries, this New World country is third with 10 Brazil |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | IT'S A NOISY PLANET $2000: Even a farm can be loud if you're too close to a truck or this vehicle that's also featured in events called "pulls" a tractor |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | MENTAL STATES $200: We hope you're not in one of these, a thick cloud close to the ground that can precede "bank" or "light" fog |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA $1,600 (Daily Double): (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) Speaking on opening night of the 2008 Democratic Convention, I noted that our meeting marked the 88th anniversary of women's suffrage & the 45th of this immortal & profoundly American speech "I Have a Dream" |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | GREAT DEPRESSIONS $1,800 (Daily Double): Part of the Great Basin, the Carson Sink is in this western U.S. state Nevada |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | MOCK TURTLE $400: Yo, leatherback, you're the only reptile that comes close to being homeothermic, also called this--weirdo warm-blooded |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | ZOOM IN FOR A CLOSE-UP $400: To start off, you're getting an aerial view of this state Massachusetts |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1950 play, a dressmaker's deceased husband & her new boyfriend both sport the title art on their chests The Rose Tattoo |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES $2000: "I know Congress had to... invite me & it could've been a close vote. So, Mr. VP, I appreciate you being here to break the tie" George W. Bush |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | BIBLICAL WHO SAID IT? $2000: "The dream of Pharaoh is one... the seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years" Joseph |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | "B" WEAR $1000: You don't have to be a Spanish separatist to enjoy these close-fitting bodices a basque |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $1200: A peasant might play his cards close to his jerkin, a type of this a vest |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | LITERARY BROTHERS $2000: In this E.L. Doctorow novel set around 1900, the radical sibling is known only as Younger Brother Ragtime |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | DAMAGES $1600: (Glenn Close reads the clue from a chair on the set of Damages.) Damages awarded by a court can be compensatory, to make up for a loss, or this type, in which society is letting you know you did very wrong punitive |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | IF YOU BUILD IT $400: You can see close to 300 resort art deco buildings in this state's South Beach Florida |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | HAVE A HEART WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue holding a real heart.) This valve, whose name is from the Latin for "three points", prevents the backflow of blood from the right ventricle into the right atrium the tricuspid |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SCIENTISTS AS PARENTS $800: If you sit that close to the TV & burn this eye part that receives images from the lens, don't come running to me the retina |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | CNN ON POLITICS $2000: (I'm Wolf Blitzer.) Federal Election Commission rules for 2007-2008 put a limit of this much for an individual gift per candidate per election $2,300 |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | CLOSE TO YOU $400: Earth's crust,
Earth's mantle,
Earth's core Earth's crust |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | CLOSE TO YOU $2000: The thermosphere,
the mesosphere,
the troposphere the troposphere |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | OH, I'VE GOT A 4-LETTER WORD FOR YOU $600: To avoid taking unnecessary risks, "play it close to" this piece of clothing the vest |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | PSYCHOLOGY $1200: It took 8 years for this 1899 Freud work to sell the initial 600 copies printed, earning him about $250 in royalties The Interpretation of Dreams |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | AT THE DENTIST'S OFFICE $2000: From the Latin for "to close", it's the alignment & spacing of your upper & lower teeth when you bite occlusion |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | 1970s NO. 1 HITS $200: 1970:
"(They Long To Be) Close To You" The Carpenters |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | NAME THAT YEAR $600: Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee 1977 |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | PHYSICS $2,500 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew performs an experiment.) I'll put a coin in the bowl, but you won't be able to see it until I pour in water, which causes this, from the Latin for "to break" refraction |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | BODY PARTS BY PREFIX $2000: Phlebo- blood vessel (or vein) |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): To urge, perhaps to drink certain sodas (4) coax |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | AMERICANA $200: To get a close-up peek at Pikes Peak, you have to be in this state Colorado |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | FICTION $2000: Isaac Asimov won a 1977 Hugo Award for this novelette about a robot named Andrew who lives to be 200 years old Bicentennial Man |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | "G" FORCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Coined in 1944 by politician Maury Maverick & derived from an animal noise, it means unintelligible nonsense gobbledygook |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | HISTORICAL TEXT MESSAGING $3,600 (Daily Double): 323 B.C.:
chrgd w/impiety. nt ltng thm sin 2x vs. phlsphy. off 2 chalcis. lyceum ltr Aristotle |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | "F"OOD STUFF $1000: You may call it Florentine fennel; Geppetto would know it by this Italian name Finocchio |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | A SIDE OF BACON $800: Similar to a Kellogg elf name, bits of diced & fried bacon rind are known as these cracklings |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | EMPLOYEE EVALUATIONS $400: "If you stand close enough to him, you can hear" this, like the Atlantic or the Indian the ocean |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Richard Strauss opera, the princess sends one of these to her cavalier--hence the title a rose |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2000: "Annie" is based on a comic strip; "Annie Get Your Gun" is based on this real-life girl who "shot" to fame in the 1800s Annie Oakley |
| #4829, aired 2005-09-15 | FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.) This inventor used a device that transmits a signal to a receiver to look for the bullet in President Garfield's body Alexander Graham Bell |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | GLENN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $2000: Glenn was the Marquise de Merteuil to John Malkovich's Vicomte de Valmont in this period film Dangerous Liaisons |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | THE JIMMY $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1922 he was the first pilot to cross the U.S. in under 24 hours Jimmy Doolittle |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | OFFICIAL ALASKAN STATE STUFF $2,600 (Daily Double): It was a "crowning" achievement in 1963 when this was named Alaska's state fish the king salmon |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | FROM THE FRENCH $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a hint or trace of something (sounds like of Campbell's) soupçon |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | LEFTOVERS $400: It's all you have to do to see the dots of color called phosphenes close your eyes |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | EXTREME TAKEOVER $4,000 (Daily Double): 1204:
Supposedly on their way to Jerusalem, Crusader knights sack this richest Christian city Constantinople |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | IT'S VEGAS, BABY! $1200: You can get really close to Brad Pitt at the Vegas version of this world-famous wax museum Madame Tussauds |
| #4591, aired 2004-07-19 | LOOK OUT! $800: Pilot error! Your flight path has you too close to a Caravan turboprop from this Kansas company Cessna |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | WEIRD & WONDERFUL GUINNESS RECORDS $1000: You'll need about 1,400 close friends to all sit down on these "cushions" at the same time to claim the record whoopee cushions |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | INSECTS $2,600 (Daily Double): About 30% of all animal species are these insects which include the whirligig & weevil families beetles |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | MY DEER $2,800 (Daily Double): When running, this deer species seen here shows off the feature for which it is named a white-tail (deer) |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: People "thick as" these are close or tight & you may want to hold on to your wallet thieves |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | SO. CAL. $400: On the Warner Bros. lot tour you can see the water tower that this cartoon trio calls home the Animaniacs |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | STATES' LOWEST POINTS $1,400 (Daily Double): The highest lowest point of the 50 states is 3,350 feet above sea level in Yuma County in this state Colorado |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $400: Ms. Close, to you (5) Glenn |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | BRITISH HEIR WAYS $2000: As Prince of Wales & Prince Regent, this future king was a close pal of Beau Brummell, & quite a dandy himself George IV |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | THAT '70s SONG $200: This Carpenters classic begins, "Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near" "Close to You" |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | HAPPY ENDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Social misfit Mia Thermopolis turns into a beautiful young woman fit for the throne of Genovia in this 2001 film The Princess Diaries |
| #4216, aired 2002-12-23 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: On July 8, 1853 Matthew Perry presented a letter from President Fillmore to the emperor of this country Japan |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | WEATHER SUPERLATIVES $2000: Arica, Chile in this desert may be the driest place on Earth; it had an annual rainfall of only .03'' during a 59-year period the Atacama |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In September 1776 Congress named Arthur Lee, Silas Deane & this man as commissioners to the court of France (Benjamin) Franklin |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | SONG LYRICS $400: Aerosmith:
"Don't want to close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep 'cause I'll miss you baby..." "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | SURPRISE ME, TREBEK! $800: Completes the Dorothy Parker line, "Men seldom make passes at..." "girls who wear glasses" |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED $200: Dad says you might get burned, so don't stand close to the rim of an active one of these geologic features volcano |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | ON YOU $200: It's the humerus name for the point on the elbow where your ulnar nerve runs close to the surface Funny bone |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | THEY WROTE THE SONGS $400: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" & "(They Long To Be) Close To You" Burt Bacharach & Hal David |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | THE SONGS OF THE CARPENTERS $200: Title that completes, "That is why all the girls in town follow you all around, just like me, they long to be..." "Close To You" |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | THEY'RE LYRICAL $400: Born in 1878, his middle initial M. stood for Michael George M. Cohan |
| #3569, aired 2000-02-24 | THE QUESTION IS... $800: Musical question whose answer is "Just like me, they long to be close to you" Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near? |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $1000: A 1987 Glenn Close film:
"I'm not going to be ignored, Dan" Fatal Attraction |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | "C" IN GEOGRAPHY $2,300 (Daily Double): The Malebo Pool, also known as the Stanley Pool, is a shallow lake formed by this river the Congo River |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | CINCO DE MAYO $400: Founded in the 13th century by the Kirghiz, it adopted its constitution May 5, 1993 Kyrgyzstan |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | U.S. MUSEUMS $800 (Daily Double): Wesley Peters, Frank Lloyd Wright's son-in-law, designed a 4-story annex to this NYC art museum the Guggenheim |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | ANATOMY $200: 2 muscles, the brachialis & this one, allow you to bend your arm at the elbow the biceps |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | POP & ROCK GROUPS $100: A performing arts center at Cal State Long Beach is named for the members of this "Close To You" duo The Carpenters |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1,000 (Daily Double): This 30th U.S. president is buried in the family plot in Plymouth, Vermont Coolidge |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: The Teutoburger Wald or Teutoburg Forest in this country is actually a range of hills Germany |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | KINGS & QUEENS $800 (Daily Double): Queen Liliuokalani composed this song: "Aloha ʻOe" |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | POP MUSIC $100: Their "Close to You" LP gave them the 1970 Grammy for "Best New Artist" The Carpenters |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | '40s FILM FACTS $500: This 1945 film was shot mainly in black & white, but the Metamorphic title portrait is in color The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | POTPOURRI $100: "Oh, I went down south for to see my Sal" singing this "all the day" Polly Wolly Doodle |
| #1952, aired 1993-02-16 | DRIVER'S ED. $300: A sign with 2 Rs on it doesn't mean Ronald Reagan is nearby but that you're close to one of these railroad crossing |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | JAPAN $300: Many Japanese bars feature karaoke, where patrons entertain themselves by doing this singing |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: In 1924 a miniature 35mm camera called the Leica was introduced in this country Germany |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | 1953 $1000: He had 2 firsts in his life in 1953, reaching the top of Everest & seeing the sea Tenzing Norgay (Tenzing the Sherpa accepted) |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): The Limited, Inc. owns this intimate apparel chain, the nation's top-selling lingerie label Victoria's Secret |
| #1725, aired 1992-02-14 | COLORS $500: This color shares its name with a condiment made from pulverized seeds mustard |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | NO. 1 HITS $300: 1 of 3 No. 1 hits for the Carpenters (1 of) "Please Mr. Postman", "Close to You" or "Top of the World" |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $1000: G.E. scientist Bernard Vonnegut found this compound could be used to "seed" clouds silver iodide crystals |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | FICTIONAL CLERGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Nathaniel Hawthorne character who had an "A" on the skin of his chest Dimmesdale |
| #1296, aired 1990-04-02 | SONGS OF THE '60S $200: Sonny & Cher's only No. 1 hit, they used to sing it at the close of their TV show "I Got You Babe" |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | 11-LETTER WORDS $500: British weight system based on a pound equal to 453.59 grams or 16 ounces Avoirdupois |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | U.S. HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In 1964 it was established as the "Domestic Peace Corps" VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) |
| #1248, aired 1990-01-24 | THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS $200: To take an up close & personal peek at Pike's Peak you have to be in this state Colorado |
| #1205, aired 1989-11-24 | MORTAL MATTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following 1989 hit about a man & his late father
"Every generation /
Blames the one before /
And all of their frustrations /
Come beating on your door..." "The Living Years" |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | DANCE $900 (Daily Double): In July 1988 she announced she was folding her 23-year-old dance company & joining the ABT Twyla Tharp |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | TRANSPORTATION $200: To drive too close to the car in front of you, or the word for the back door on a station wagon tailgate |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Washington, D.C. school is the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the U.S. Gallaudet |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Name of James Fenimore Cooper character introduced in "The Pioneers"; he appeared in 4 additional books Natty Bumppo |
| #1134, aired 1989-07-06 | SHEEP $800 (Daily Double): Name of the popular TV star seen here: Lamb Chop |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | QUOTES $500: "Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, and you all may be rulers of" this, wrote William Gilbert the Queen's Navy |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | BRITISH ROYALTY $1000: When George VI became king of England, she was 2nd in line to the throne Princess Margaret |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | THE ADDAMS FAMILY $500: Jeanette MacDonald's sister, she played Grandma Blossom Rock |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | RECENT HISTORY $1000: In 1980 this country was readmitted to NATO's military wing after threatening to close U.S. bases Greece |
| #911, aired 1988-07-18 | GOVERNMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): He was going to run for Ariz. gov. as a write-in for the Wild Party but said his fans can't write:
"I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice / I wanna be elected / I'm your yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce / I wanna be elected..." Alice Cooper |
| #894, aired 1988-06-23 | ROMANTIC LYRICS $400: "You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand, you don't have to stay forever, I will" do this I will understand |
| #884, aired 1988-06-09 | MUSICAL RELATIVES $200: 2 of the apartment complexes they invested in were named "We've Only Just Begun" & "Close to You" the Carpenters |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | GOVERNMENT $800: Adopted by Congress in 1913, this act completely reorganized the U.S. banking system the Owen-Glass Act (the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): 2 of only 3 presidents to attend college west of the Mississippi Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon (& Herbert Hoover) |
| #696, aired 1987-09-21 | FISH $500: Don't get close enough to call these bloodthirsty fish by their other name, the "caribe", or they may eat you piranhas |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | A.K.A. $400: Joyce Botterill, who found "Love on a Rooftop" with Peter Deuel, but married Burt Reynolds Judy Carne |
| #608, aired 1987-04-08 | LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE $200 (Daily Double): Shakespearean play from whose musical adaptation comes the following love song:
"Strange dear, but true dear / When I'm close to you, dear" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #606, aired 1987-04-06 | COMMERCIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Long before she "shot J.R.", Mary Crosby made her acting debut in an ad for this product Minute Maid orange juice |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: According to Humpty Dumpty, you can receive them 364 days of the year unbirthday presents |
| #519, aired 1986-12-04 | WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's about time we told you this word's from Old English "waeccan", to "stay awake or keep vigil" watch |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | ODD COUPLES $900 (Daily Double): She was Billie Dawn in "Born Yesterday"; he lived to see dawn at the O.K. Corral Judy Holliday & Doc Holliday |
| #408, aired 1986-04-02 | THE MILITARY $500: Degree you receive upon graduation from Annapolis bachelor of science |
| #398, aired 1986-03-19 | FISH $200: 1 of 2 predominant colors in oceanic fish living within 400' of the surface silver or blue (gray) |
| #364, aired 1986-01-30 | MUSICALS $600: Ziegfeld had his "Follies", Earl Carroll his "Vanities", & this man his "Scandals" George White |
| #345, aired 1986-01-03 | AFRICA $200 (Daily Double): Group which had a No. 1 hit with this 1982 song:
"It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you /
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do /
I bless the rains down in Africa /
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had..." Toto |
| #314, aired 1985-11-21 | AUTO SHOP $500: Used to open & close points & valves, they come in single or double overhead, if you're cool a cam |
| #186, aired 1985-05-27 | ECOLOGY $1000: In 1798, this Eng. clergyman warned of overpopulation Malthus |
| #179, aired 1985-05-16 | SPORTS TRIVIA $300: America's first organized sport, it can be "tracked" back to New Amsterdam in 1664 horse racing |
| #127, aired 1985-03-05 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: What you do to a "fado" in Portugal sing it, or dance to it |
| #115, aired 1985-02-15 | '60s SONGS $800: What "you never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips" indicates "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" |
| #78, aired 1984-12-26 | LITERATURE $800: While you had to beware of the Jabberwock & the jubjub bird, you had to shun this the (frumious) Bandersnatch |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | ANATOMY $3,500 (Daily Double): Prominent zygomatic bones, considered an attractive facial feature cheek bones |
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