| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE AIR THAT I BREATHE $1200: The main gas from an erupting volcano is this 2-word one that also forms clouds, but there's also less benign sulfur dioxide water vapor |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $800: These clouds are associated with blue skies, especially the humilis type; they look all fluffy but weigh over a million pounds cumulus |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $200: "A kid trades his cow for some magic beans & before you know it, a huge vine grows up to the clouds where an angry giant lives" "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $600: The cloud type of this releases a substance such as silver iodide into clouds to increase the chance of rain cloud seeding |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | SCIENCE $400: Cirriform describes icy these which have a wispy appearance clouds |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GETTING AN EYEFUL $800: When a storm reaches hurricane strength, an "eye" appears in the covering shield of these clouds, from Latin for "curl" cirrus clouds |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | GALACTIC VACATIONS $400: This planet offers the Great Red Spot & its whirling clouds will make you think you're vacationing in a van Gogh painting Jupiter |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | TRAIN-ING DAY $800: Argentina's Tren a las Nubes, or train to here, lives up to its name as it ascends nearly 14,000 feet the clouds |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED $8,000 (Daily Double): When relative humidity is greater than 100%, clouds can form, as we're at this 15-letter point supersaturation |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | PLEASE LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE $1200: Solar prominences such as those seen here are huge clouds of relatively cool matter in this fourth state plasma |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | IN THE AIR TONIGHT $1000: Air turbulence can create lenticular clouds if the temperature at the crest of the wave reaches this saturation point the dew point |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $2000: The fog that blanketed this Tennessee mountain during an 1863 fight led to the nickname "The Battle Above the Clouds" Lookout Mountain |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | 19th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1803 a British meteorologist published new names for these, including cumulus & cirrus clouds |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LET'S TALK GALAXIES $1000: These 2 "clouds" are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Large Magellanic & Small Magellanic |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $1600: This ancient Greek playwright wrote about 40 comedies, including "Clouds" & "Wasps" Aristophanes |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $3,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's Richard III mentions "the clouds that lour'd upon our house"--this ruling house with a white rose symbol York |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | PLANE TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): Great flying weather with no major clouds or haze is CAVU, "ceiling and" this "unlimited" visibility |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $400: "What gave my book... celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments... for drawing lightning from the clouds" Benjamin Franklin |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $400: The highest mountain in Greece, it's often snowcapped & obscured by clouds Mount Olympus |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JOHN GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND $400: On a sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away, John Goodman dropped by this kids' show to extol the virtues of triangles Sesame Street |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE ATMOSPHERE $800: Names of mid-level clouds start with these 4 letters, also a female singing voice alto |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | LET'S GET SCIENTIFIC $200: Separated by as much as 40,000 feet, stratocumulus & cirrocumulus are low & high types of this clouds |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | THROWING SHADE $800: Abbreviated cu, these puffy, dense clouds are good for periods of shade cumulus |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS $800: Edvard Munch's diary entry describing "flaming clouds" & "shivering with anxiety" inspired this iconic 1893 work The Scream |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $200: Silver iodide is often used to produce condensation for "seeding" these clouds |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $800: In 2021 one of these in Oregon covered 646 square miles & was causing dangerous pyrocumulus clouds a fire |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | VENUS $800: Venus is shrouded in yellowish clouds mostly made of this acid, H2SO4 sulfuric acid |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT $2000: Practical & grounded, she's described in this 3-word way & when my head is in the clouds, she "brings me" there down to earth |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | LAKES & RIVERS $4,800 (Daily Double): Clouds of dust from the exposed bed of Lake Texcoco add to the air pollution of this world capital Mexico City |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SEE, IT STARTS WITH "CL" $800: As it reaches into the sky, it makes sense for the highest peak in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains to be named for this object clouds |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $800: In 1991 a Vietnamese forager discovered a cave so big that these form within it; he saw them billowing out clouds |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | AVIATION $1200: Wind & clouds are 2 things pilots use to determine this "altitude" where they'll level off cruising |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | PLANET SHAMING $1000: Always covered by clouds of sulfuric acid. No silver linings Venus |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: In Southern California, morning low clouds & fog during the sixth month are part of this near-rhyming phenomenon June gloom |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | SPACE-PODGE $1000: One of the closest to Earth, the Helix is a ring-shaped one of these clouds of dust & gas a nebula |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | THE ATMOSPHERE $800: Lenticular clouds, which usually form near mountains, are also called these clouds, because they can be mistaken for the weird phenomena UFO clouds |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | A SERIOUSLY FLUFFY CATEGORY $600: Nephoscopes measure the speed & direction of these fluffy things clouds |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | THIS PLANET $200: ...is called Earth's twin, but it must be fraternal, as we don't enjoy the same thick clouds of sulfuric acid Venus |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SCI-POURRI $1000: The 3 most basic types of clouds are stratus, cumulus & this high, wispy type with a name meaning "curl" cirrus |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | "C"IENCE $600: These clouds, whose names begin with "C-U", were identified in 1802 & are associated with nice weather cumulus |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | HALL PASS $1,000 (Daily Double): Praise the Lord! The Fisk Jubilee Singers & the Mighty Clouds of Joy are members of this hall of fame the Gospel Hall of Fame |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TALK NERDY $2000: (Cara Santa Maria presents the clue.) Planetary scientist Amanda Hendrix believes that a better bet for a space colony than Mars is this largest moon of Saturn, which has clouds & a dense atmosphere Titan |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | IN THE CLOUD $400: Clouds contain both positively & negatively charged regions; that's why we see this during thunderstorms lightning |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ALMANAC 2019 $400: (Cara Santa Maria presents the clue.) A photo in the section on the solar system shows a view from Earth of the luminous band of stars & gas clouds in the night sky that gave this spiral galaxy its name the Milky Way |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | I "NV" YOU $2000: Cumulonimbus clouds are often described as having a top shaped like this anvil |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN STORIES $800: The Norse believed that after the giant Ymir died, his skull became the sky & his brains were flung into it, becoming these clouds |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | SCIENCE $600: This type of cloud that can ruin a picnic grows from cumulus clouds & the word grows from "cumulus" too cumulonimbus |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ALL EYES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a hurricane on the monitor.) When a tropical storm reaches hurricane strength, an eye appears in the storm's outer layer made of these wool-like clouds, from Latin for "curl" cirrus clouds |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $1000: In his comedy "The Clouds", this playwright poked fun at intellectuals like the sophists Aristophanes |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $400: In a fairy tale Jack climbs it to a magic castle in the clouds a beanstalk |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | WORD PUZZLES $200: Said of someone not paying attention:
cumulus
pate
cirrus their head is in the clouds |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This English landscape painter's 1816-1817 work "Flatford Mill" demonstrates his distinctive use of clouds & sky John Constable |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | ASTRONOMY $2000: This "cloud" of icy objects at the edge of the solar system begins at around 200 billion miles from the sun the Oort Cloud |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | SCIENCE $400: The cirrus ones of these on Earth are ice crystals; the ones on Neptune are probably methane clouds |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | STAR TALK WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $800: (Neil deGrasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) This planet is in the sun's habitable zone, but thick clouds of carbon dioxide trap solar radiation making it the hottest in our solar system Venus |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $2000: Developed in the 1940s, cloud seeding produces rain by saturating clouds with dry ice & this compound, AgI silver iodide |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE $2000: The ring is called a solar halo, and the two bright images on the sides get this canine term when light passes through icy clouds sun dogs |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | EPONYMOUSLY YOURS $1200: A 16th century Portuguese navigator lends his name to these galactic clouds that his crew first recorded the Magellanic clouds (Magellan accepted) |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | 1816 $400: Ash clouds from an Indonesian volcano led to 10 inches of snow in the U.S. in June, typifying the "year without" this summer |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM $200: 393 years after a bigger eruption, it was active again in 472, sending ash clouds as far away as Constantinople Mount Vesuvius |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | ____ IN THE ____ $800: An empty promise is like this dessert up where the clouds are pie in the sky |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | SCIENCE & GEOMETRY $400: It's basically a cone, but tornado-producing clouds aren't called cone clouds but these funnels |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | LAND IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM $2000: Maxwell Montes, discovered by cloud-penetrating radar Venus |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | JULES VERNE $1200: Though his mind was up in the clouds, in 1857 Verne began an earthbound job as one of these securities agents a stockbroker |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | RAINY SONGS $200: The clouds parted enough for Prince to take this tune to No. 2 in 1984; I only wanted to see you responding in the... "Purple Rain" |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | METEOROLOGY $400: In these discharges associated with cumulonimbus clouds, temperatures can reach 50,000 degrees lightning |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | THAT'S QUITE A MOUTHFUL! $1600: Look skyward to practice nephelognosy, the observation & description of these clouds |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | ASTRONOMY $1600: Our closest galactic neighbors are two little satellite galaxies known as "the Clouds of" him Magellan |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | WHAT A FOSSIL! $400: The Sioux thought the mammals that left brontotherium fossils made this sound by running across the clouds thunder |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism Socrates |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | GENERAL SCIENCE $1000: Fog doesn't come on little cat feet, but it can come on one of these 7-letter low-level clouds a stratus cloud |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | IT'S A PLANET $1000: Methane clouds in its atmosphere give it a distinctive look Neptune |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $3,200 (Daily Double): The snowy dome of this tallest volcano in the lower 48 states is often shrouded in clouds Mount Rainier |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SCIENCE IN THE WORLD $400: If cirrostratus ones are replaced by lower altostratus ones, rethink the picnic clouds |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the California Science Center in Los Angeles.) Flying above war-torn Rwanda in 1994, Endeavour used space-borne imaging radar to penetrate clouds over the Virunga volcano chain in an effort to help researchers track & protect this endangered species the mountain gorilla |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | TV SHOWS' THEME SONGS $400: "Sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away" Sesame Street |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | AMERICAN POETRY $600: He wrote about the USS Constitution, "The meteor of the ocean air shall sweep the clouds no more" Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some clouds on the monitor.) Long, wispy cirrus clouds are sometimes referred to by this name from their resemblance to a certain equine body part mares' tails |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | U.S. RIVERS $2,200 (Daily Double): The Hudson River rises at Lake Tear of the Clouds on the shoulder of Mount Marcy in these mountains the Adirondacks |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ALPHANUMERIC TERMS $3,600 (Daily Double): Its peak reaches 28,250 feet & is often surrounded by clouds K2 |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | NONMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1600: A nephograph is an instrument for photographing these in the sky clouds |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | LESSER-KNOWN GREEKS & ROMANS? $1600: This 6-letter guy always had his head in the clouds, the wispy kind to be exact Cirrus |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE AIR $800: Middle clouds 6,500 to 23,000 feet, are altostratus & alto-this cumulus |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $200: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds Airplane! |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | CANCELED! $200: These formed a "cover" overhead & forced the cancellation of a Feb. 7, 2010 Space Shuttle launch clouds |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | ANCIENT WISDOM $1000: This playwright observed in "Clouds" that "Old men are children for a second time" Aristophanes |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | VERSE CASE SCENARIO $2,200 (Daily Double): Longfellow: "Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life" these 4 words "some rain must fall" |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | ART $2000: The clouds undulate in van Gogh's painting called "A Wheat Field with" these trees cypresses |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | "A" IS FOR AUTHOR $800: ...of the ancient Greek comedy "Clouds" Aristophanes |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | 19th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: Names for types of these, including cirrus & nimbus were coined in 1803 by British meteorologist Luke Howard clouds |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | ASTRONOMY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical photograph on the monitor.) Voyager II captured a photo of the storm called the Great Dark Spot on this ice giant; the clouds are believed to be condensed methane particles Neptune |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | FOLK STORIES $400: Febold Feboldson, in an attempt to end one of these in Nebraska, built huge bonfires around lakes to make clouds a drought |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | GENERAL SCIENCE $1200: This Saturnian moon is the only one in the solar system known to have clouds Titan |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | IT'S RAINING $1600: To produce rain in drought-stricken areas, clouds are often "seeded" with AgI, an iodide of this element silver |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE ATMOSPHERE $200: The overall effect of these, especially thick stratocumulus ones, is to cool the Earth's surface clouds |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $2000: This British landscape painter financed his wedding with the painting seen here--note all the clouds John Constable |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | YOU "AST" FOR IT $800: When it's more than 90% covered by clouds, the sky is said to be this overcast |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | SCIENCE IS A BREEZE $400: A flow of air from ocean to land, often producing clouds; or a drink of vodka, grapefruit & cranberry a sea breeze |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | MY SPACE $600: The Magellanic Clouds are actually the 2 of these large assemblages nearest to us galaxies |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | HIGH SCHOOL -- ON FILM $2000: A secret school in the clouds for superhero kids is the main location of this film starring Michael Angarano Sky High |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! $200: Altocumulus & nimbostratus are middle types of these; is it weird I always see nuns when I look at them? clouds |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | A QUINTET OF QUOTES $400: In Act 1 of "The Beggar's Opera" you'll hear, "If with me you'd fondly stray, over" these "and far away" the hills |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | MY GALAXY $200: During his circumnavigating expedition around 1519, he observed the galactic "clouds" later named after him Magellan |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | DON'T SAY THE L-WORD $800: This phenomenon results from the accumulation of electrical charges in cumulonimbus clouds thunder |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, Japan.) At many Japanese temples like the very impressive Sensoji Temple, clouds of this, used for purification, fill the air incense |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | SHEER LUNAR SEA! $200: The "Sea of" these, whether altostratus or cirrocumulus clouds |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $1200: In "The Clouds" by Aristophanes, a man desires to send his son to study with this Greek philosopher Socrates |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $1600: High clouds may bring this type of damaging precipitation, especially to the "alley" for it in the Rockies hail |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew rains supreme at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Showing the density & motion of clouds, this type of radar named for an Austrian scientist can predict the formation of a tornado Doppler |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | INTRA-VENUS $400: Venus' surface is hard to view from Earth because it's completely covered in these clouds |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $1200: These, which may be described as softball-sized, begin in clouds as "embryos" to which frozen droplets adhere hailstones |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | RIVERS $400: Its upper part runs clear; it clouds up near Great Falls, Montana & gets muddier from there Missouri |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES $800: Put your head in the clouds with up to 330 people & sleep easy on the new 787 from Boeing, known by this peaceful name the Dreamliner |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | SHINY THINGS $400: Sirius,
Rigil Kent
or Antares stars |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | NOVELS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.) This Milan Kundera novel says "the saints were shaking their fists and lifting their stone eyes to the clouds. Prague was the most beautiful city in the world" The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | FAR OUT $200: From Earth 4 galaxies are visible without a telescope: the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds, Andromeda & this the Milky Way |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A WALK IN THE CLOUDS $200: In cloud names, "nimbus" means this, so get out your umbrella rain |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A WALK IN THE CLOUDS $400: It's the 2-word "agricultural" term for the causing of precipitation by humans cloud seeding |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A WALK IN THE CLOUDS $600: From the type of cloud it indicates, a horizontal line is this type of "symbol" (sounds like a big house or car) stratus |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A WALK IN THE CLOUDS $800: Found in Southeast Asia, the clouded type of this large cat is named for the cloud-shaped patterns on its coat a leopard |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A WALK IN THE CLOUDS $1000: The 2 galaxies closest to the Milky Way are the "clouds" named for this Portuguese explorer Magellan |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | SEEING THE LIGHT $800: "The sun's coming up"? No, this character says, "Envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east" Romeo |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | THE NIGHTTIME SKY $400 (Daily Double): Called the Earth's twin, this planet's surface features are obscured by thick clouds of sulfuric acid Venus |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: "The Battle Above the Clouds" was fought on this Tennessee mountain with a good view Lookout Mountain |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | I NEED MY SPACE $1,000 (Daily Double): These "clouds" named for a circumnavigating explorer are the nearest galaxies to our own Magellan/Magellanic Clouds |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: Bright blue clouds of methane surround this eighth planet from the sun Neptune |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $1600: The noctilucent type of these form at about 50 miles up & only between dusk & dawn clouds (luminous) |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In this Belgian surrealist's 1928 work "Threatening Weather", the clouds have the shapes of a tuba, a chair & a torso Rene Magritte |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | THE PLANETS $600: With thick clouds reflecting lots of light, this planet was once known as Lucifer & Phosphorus Venus |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | IRISH WRITERS $1600: His poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" says, "I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above" William Butler Yeats |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $2000: Even back in Ancient Greece the entertainment industry loved franchises; in 418 B.C. he wrote "Clouds II" Aristophanes |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | SCIENCE CLASS $800: The forked type of this runs unobstructed between the clouds & the ground lightning |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WAY OUT THERE $2000: Saturn's largest satellite, it's the only one in the solar system known to have clouds & a dense atmosphere Titan |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | CURLY $400: These wispy clouds take their name from the Latin for "curl" of hair cirrus |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | PUNS $2000: Funny in 1600 Dept.: When the king, acting fatherly, says, "Clouds still hang on you", Hamlet says, "I am too much in" this the son |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | THE CARS $200: Look! Up in the sky! Those clouds! A Chrysler Cirrus & a Dodge one of these a Dodge Stratus |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | FAMOUS ANCIENT GREEKS $600: In 423 B.C. Cratinus took the festival prize with the play "The Bottle", beating this author of "The Clouds" Aristophanes |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $100: "Sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet" Sesame Street |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | HOW HEAVENLY! $400: After classes of these were categorized numerically, number "nine" became a synonym for euphoria clouds |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | SOLAR SYSTEM TOUR $600: Looks like we've got a green light, folks -- oops, it's just the clouds of methane around this third-largest planet Uranus |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | NAME THAT NEBULA $400: It's one of the largest dark clouds in the Milky Way -- put that in yours & smoke it Pipe Nebula |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | TONY BENNETT'S SONGBOOK $400: My album "Here's to the Ladies" includes the following song made famous by this legendary lady:
"When all the world's a hopeless jumble and the raindrops tumble, heaven opens magically. When all the clouds darken up the skyway, there's a rainbow highway to be found" Judy Garland ("Over The Rainbow") |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1000: The clouds tell you why this work by Giorgione shares its name with a Shakespeare play The Tempest |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | POEM-POURRI $200: Wallace Stevens' "Farewell to" this state says, "Key West sank downward under massive clouds" Florida |
| #3605, aired 2000-04-14 | CLASSIC ALBUM ART $400: She painted her own portrait for her "Clouds", "Ladies of the Canyon" & "Turbulent Indigo" albums Joni Mitchell |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | AUTHOR'S DICTIONARY $400: When this is used objects or abstractions are endowed with human traits, as in "The clouds wept" anthropomorphism (or personification) |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | STORMY WEATHER $400: Produced by thunderstorm clouds, these lumps of ice bigger than 5mm are classified as hydrometeors hailstones |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | EYE ON THE UNIVERSE $200: A storm of ammonia clouds billowing 150 miles high is seen on this planet Saturn |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | POTPOURRI $500: Though he wrote about 40 plays in all, only 11, including "Clouds" & "Frogs", survive intact Aristophanes |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: When too much attention to detail clouds your judgment, you "can't see the forest for" these The trees |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | IN THE AIR UP THERE $100: Most of these are in the troposphere & there are over 100 different types, such as cumulonimbus clouds |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | SCIENCE $200: In 1803 Luke Howard coined names for types of them, including cumulus & stratus Clouds |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | SONG LYRICS $200: It includes the lines "What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again, I'm laughing at clouds..." "Singin' In The Rain" |
| #2889, aired 1997-03-06 | THE STARS $400: Seen between the stars of Orion's sword is M42, one of these clouds of hydrogen gas Nebula |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | GENERAL SCIENCE $100: Fractus, congestus & humilis are terms used to describe these aerial formations Clouds |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | THE PLANETS $300: Layers of sulfuric acid clouds completely obscure the surface of this neighboring planet Venus |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | ARTISTS $400: Between 1817 & 1822, John Constable made a series of studies of these sky features clouds |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | PLAYS $800: Michael Frayn's "Clouds" debuted in London almost 2,400 years after his "The Clouds" opened in Athens Aristophanes |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: In "A Walk in the Clouds", he's a WWII vet who poses as the husband of an unmarried, pregnant woman Keanu Reeves |
| #2656, aired 1996-03-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: The top of this highest peak on Honshu is often hidden by clouds Mount Fuji |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SCIENCE $800: Stars are born in these clouds of gas & dust nebulae |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | WEATHER $400: The name of these highest clouds comes from the Latin for "curl" or "tuft" cirrus |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | GEMSTONES $600: A kids' marble is made from this mineral with colors in stripes or clouds agate |
| #2495, aired 1995-06-09 | METERS $500: A ceilometer measures the altitude of these clouds |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | U.S. RIVERS $300: This river begins at Tear-of-the- Clouds Lake on Mount Marcy in northern New York State the Hudson |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | ART $1000: In 1965 she completed a 24-foot-wide painting called "Sky Above Clouds IV" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | NATIONAL PARKS $200: Lake of the Clouds, these New Mexico caverns' lowest point, lies 1,037 feet below the main entrance Carlsbad Caverns |
| #2384, aired 1995-01-05 | INVENTIONS $400: Reading Jules Verne's "Clipper of the Clouds" inspired Igor Sikorsky to invent this the helicopter |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Hail forms within clouds; this form of precipitation is raindrops that freeze as they fall sleet |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | SCIENCE $200: This heavenly body's prominences include dark filaments & clouds of gas The Sun |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | PHOBIAS $200: Even after looking at these from both sides now, a nephophobic will still fear them clouds |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $400: In 1946 it was discovered that this could be produced by seeding clouds with dry ice rain |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | CLICHES $100: An absent-minded person "has her head in" these—how heavenly clouds |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | WEATHER $100: They're classified by their shape & elevation clouds |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | PHYSICS $200: This electrical discharge in the atmosphere can be between clouds or between a cloud & the earth lightning |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $300: "Gray skies are gonna clear up"—do this; "brush off the clouds and cheer up"—do this "Put On A Happy Face" |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | GENERAL SCIENCE $200: High-altitude cirrus clouds are composed entirely of these crystals ice crystals |
| #2117, aired 1993-11-16 | ANCIENT WISDOM $1000: "Old men are children for a second time", observed this playwright in "The Clouds" Aristophanes |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $800: To produce rain, clouds are often seeded with crystals of this compound, formula Agl Silver iodide |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | IN THE SKY $100: It's the electrical discharge visible between clouds lightning |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | '40s FILM FACTS $100: Her husband Vincente Minnelli directed her musical numbers in "Till The Clouds Roll By" Judy Garland |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | WEATHER $300: This effect is seen around the Sun & Moon when they're behind transparent cirriform clouds a halo |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | -OLOGIES $100: Nephology is the branch of meteorology that studies these, nimbus or otherwise clouds |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | BANKING $800: If you have your head in the clouds, you may know MasterCard Int'l operates this ATM system Cirrus |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | CLOUDS $200: It's what "every cloud" has, at least according to the proverb a silver lining |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | CLOUDS $400: It's the device that creates a mushroom cloud an atomic bomb |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | CLOUDS $600: Term for a mass of clouds, or a group of elevators a bank |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | CLOUDS $800: This device was invented in 1911 to view the paths of subatomic particles a cloud chamber |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | CLOUDS $1000: Aristophanes' city built by the birds Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | THE 1830s $1000: In 1832 an expedition led by Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi at this Minnesota lake Lake Itasca |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $1000: G.E. scientist Bernard Vonnegut found this compound could be used to "seed" clouds silver iodide crystals |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | THEATRE $600: Ancient Greek who wrote "The Clouds", "The Wasps" & "Lysistrata" Aristophanes |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | WEATHER $500: Latin for "curl of hair", these wispy clouds can be blown into strands called mare's tails cirrus |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | RIVERS $100: Lake Tear of the Clouds is the source of this river, the longest in New York State Hudson |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | BROADWAY LYRICS $500: "Brush off the clouds & cheer up"; do this "Put On A Happy Face" |
| #1465, aired 1991-01-04 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): For 21 years now, this show's "Sunny days have been sweeping the clouds away" per its theme Sesame Street |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | "SILVER" $300: To produce rain, clouds are sometimes seeded with this chemical compound silver iodide |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | HOMOPHONES $400: To fly high above the clouds or something painful to the touch soar/sore |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | ASTRONOMY $1000: The 2 galaxies nearest to our own are known as these clouds the Magellan Clouds |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | WEATHER $600: These rotating cone-like clouds aren't called tornadoes until they touch the ground funnel clouds |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | WEATHER $300: Forms of this include forked, streak, ribbon & beaded lightning |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $300: During a storm this can occur in a cloud, between clouds or from a cloud to the ground lightning |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1500: Philosopher who was grossly caricatured in Aristophanes' "The Clouds" Socrates |
| #1327, aired 1990-05-15 | SCIENTISTS $600: 1st U.S. woman astronomer, M. Mitchell, found these solar phenomena are whirling cavities, not clouds Sunspots |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | WEATHER $100: Airplanes can trigger bolts of this when traveling through electrified clouds lightning |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | THE UNIVERSE $400: It's known for its prominences which are clouds, tubes & tongues of gasses The Sun |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | THE UNIVERSE $200: Horsehead, Trifid & Crab are examples of these clouds of interstellar matter Nebulae |
| #1182, aired 1989-10-24 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: While other clouds are mainly water droplets, high clouds are formed entirely of these ice crystals |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | COMPOSERS $800: "Till the Clouds Roll By", the film biography of this composer, includes scenes from "Show Boat" Jerome Kern |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | WEATHER $500: Stratus clouds at ground level are called this fog |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | WEATHER $400: In summer, about 100 of these small funnels appear ea. month under ordinary cumulus clouds off Florida waterspouts |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | WEATHER $800: From the type of storms they bring, cumulonimbus clouds are known by this booming term thunderheads |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | NEW YORK STATE $100: This river, the longest in the state, starts in the Adirondacks in Lake Tear of the Clouds Hudson |
| #934, aired 1988-09-29 | WEATHER $1000: In common formations, cirrus clouds are at the highest altitude, while these clouds are at the lowest stratocumulus (stratus) |
| #864, aired 1988-05-12 | SCIENCE $200: This discharge can be produced in snowstorms, sandstorms & volcanic clouds as well as thunderstorms lightning |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | VENUS $800: While ours mainly consist of water vapor, those of Venus mainly consist of sulfuric acid the clouds |
| #719, aired 1987-10-22 | WEATHER $200: Fog is simply these, so low they touch the ground clouds |
| #669, aired 1987-07-02 | WEATHER $800 (Daily Double): The word "sky" is from an Old Norse word for these objects in the sky clouds |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | O.R. $500 (Daily Double): Title & subject of the following:
"One of these days / I'm gonna climb that mountain / Walk up there among the clouds / Where the cotton's high / And the corn's a-growin' / And there ain't no fields to plow" "Old Rivers" |
| #414, aired 1986-04-10 | WEATHER $500: Storm-producing cumulonimbus clouds are popularly called these thunderheads |
| #292, aired 1985-10-22 | WEATHER $200: To replace "it looks like a big duck", in 1803 Luke Howard classified them as cirrus, stratus, etc. clouds |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | WEATHER $600: "Angelic" accompaniment to moon or sun caused by cirriform clouds in the troposphere a halo |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): He wrote the music for many of his films, including the following
"Smile, though your heart is aching / Smile, even though it’s breaking / When there are clouds in the sky / you’ll get by" Charlie Chaplin |
| #270, aired 1985-09-20 | TRIVIA $200: Where a child keeps his neon tetras, platies, & white clouds aquarium (fishtank) |
| #130, aired 1985-03-08 | WEATHER $300: Weather phenomenon studied by Judy Collins from "Both Sides Now" clouds |
| #107, aired 1985-02-05 | WEATHER $300: Most are mainly water droplets, but cirrus & cirrostratus are formed of ice crystals clouds |
| #102, aired 1985-01-29 | ARTISTS $500 (Daily Double): Post-impressionist celebrated in this '72 Don McLean hit:
"Starry, starry night / Flaming flowers that brightly blaze / Swirling clouds in violet haze" Van Gogh |
