| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $800: Asked to describe a perfect date, a pageant contestant in this film says, "April 25 because it's not too hot, not too cold" Miss Congeniality |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $400: Simile-titled hit by Foreigner about a lover who'll someday "pay the price" "Cold As Ice" |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $400: "In Cold Tiffany's" In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $200: In Norwegian, this local town's name means "luck", but for us, it sounds like it can literally freeze over Hel |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $600: In 1991 this island that's 3 times the size of Texas hit -93 at a weather station Greenland |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $800: In 2014 the average summer temperature--again, summer temperature--in Cold Bay in this state was 54.1 degrees Alaska |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $1000: In 2022 this world capital hit -9, its lowest temperature since 1918; well, it is an Iceland Reykjavik |
| #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 |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | PAINFUL MEMORIES $400: Turn off the lights, apply a hot or cold compress to your neck & have a little caffeine at signs of this possibly days-long headache a migraine |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | MAJOR "KEY" ALERT $800: A detox or rehab facility is a safer & more lasting way to quit an addiction than this one cold turkey |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $1200: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) One of the few Spielberg films not scored by the great John Williams was this 2015 movie, in which my friend, the masterful composer, Thomas Newman, enhanced the Cold War drama through his craft Bridge of Spies |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $600: 4 Kansas murders / Which led to conviction / In a new type of novel / That was somehow nonfiction In Cold Blood |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $1600: Director Carol Reed was nominated for an Oscar for this 1949 Cold War thriller set in Austria & starring Joseph Cotten The Third Man |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | OLIVE ME $400: Cold-pressed olive oil is naturally low in this & is classified by its ascending level of it acidity |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $200: Careful! This washing machine cycle using cold water and low spin speed is suggested for lingerie & silk neckties delicate |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $800: When you activate a light stick, the chemicals within react to produce this type of cold light luminescence |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $200: If you're frigophobic, you won't like your pease porridge this way cold |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $1200: In their first No. 1 hit, the Zac Brown Band served up "A Little Bit Of" this, "& cold beer on a Friday night" chicken fried |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | "A"DJECTIVES $800: This cold adjective from the north comes before "Blitz" in a Gatorade flavor Arctic |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MEDICAL MNENOMICS $300: This is gonna feel a little cold; treat an ankle sprain with "RICE": "rest", this "I" word, "compression" and "elevation" ice |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell" "Rocket Man" |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $800: This type of cold weather headgear takes its name from a battle site in the war where it was worn a balaclava |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Rowling's whiz kid has trouble with a certain rock & a "chilly" WWE star Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cold Steve Austin |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $200: Types of these include http-only, session & zombie, but none of them go very well with a glass of cold milk a cookie |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $800: Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can't take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite cold & heat |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THE OED DESCRIBES THE ANIMAL $400: Of the carp family, "native to China... commonly kept in ponds, cold-water tanks, or... glass globes" goldfish |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | HOSTEL $400: At the Circus Hostel in Berlin, there is a museum of this "Baywatch" actor who single-handedly ended the Cold War (jk, jk) Hasselhoff |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | COFFEE, NOW $200: One story says the inventor of this type of coffee was inspired by a shipment of beans accidentally soaked by seawater decaf |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $200: Monza Murcatto, thrown from a great height & left for dead, later gets revenge in Joe Abercrombie's "Best Served" this Cold |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $200: With nearly 30-inch legs, IKEA's Yngvar is this type of seat that's perfect for throwing back some cold ones a bar stool |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $400: Gore Vidal said he loathed this "In Cold Blood" writer "the way you might loathe... a filthy animal" Capote |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GREASE & ROAM $200: A rating of 10W-40 means a multigrade engine oil has a viscosity of 10 in cold weather, 40 in warm; the "W" stands for this winter |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $400: It was SZA szn on TikTok after she sang about "cuffing" a large man for the cold months on this NBC show Saturday Night Live |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $800: "You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're in then you're out" Katy Perry |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GO, CANADA $800: To beat the cold, much of downtown in this Olympic city in Alberta is connected by enclosed walkways 15' above the ground called the Plus 15 Calgary |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | 4, 4 $2000: "Saturday Night Live" is famous for beginning its shows with one of these, a scene that precedes the titles a cold open |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $1600: Had a cold, went out to buy veggies anyway; got pneumonia, died before 31st full day on the job (William) Henry Harrison |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NATURE $400: The red on the flag of the Northwest Territories stands for this cold, treeless ecosystem tundra |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $800: As Lilly Rush on this show, Kathryn Morris was a cop determined not to let forgotten crimes & victims stay that way Cold Case |
| #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 |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | SCIENTISTS $2000: In the Galápagos, the currents control the seasons: the garúa is the time of this cold current named for a German scientist the Humboldt Current |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | MISSION: IMPASSABLE $600: A twist on the Cold War barrier that divided Europe, it was the Pittsburgh NFL team's defense in the 1970s the Steel Curtain |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $2000: It's Vicks VapoRub for cold relief, a combination of menthol, camphor & this strong-smelling tree oil eucalyptus |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ADULT BEVERAGES $600: Da! This classic made with vodka, ginger beer & lime juice is often served in an ice-cold copper cup a Moscow mule |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | SHARPS & FLATS $1000: In Greek myth, the 3 stone-cold ladies collectively known as this were famed for their reptilian hairstyle but also had sharp fangs the Gorgons |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $400: An article in the New York Times about the gruesome murder of 4 in Kansas inspired Truman Capote to write this book In Cold Blood |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $600: In "Cold Pursuit", based on a Norwegian film, Liam Neeson gets revenge on bad guys using his job driving this big winter vehicle a snowplow |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $400: It's the liquid you "throw" on someone's plans or hopes to discourage them cold water |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $200: This chilly word can precede shoulder, daiquiri or yogurt frozen |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $400: This word precedes "hare" in the name of the animal shown, or "Dreams" in the title of Barry Lopez's book that mentions the critter Arctic |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $600: Outside, this tapered spike is formed by solid water; inside, one can be found on a Christmas tree an icicle |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $800: In 1998 Michael Keaton was nipping at your nose as this title guy, a dad brought back to life as a snowman Jack Frost |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $1000: The purchase of Alaska was derided as "Seward's Folly" & "Seward's" this kitchen appliance Icebox |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | BANKING & FINANCE $400: Talk about cold cash! Wells Fargo owns the only 2 of these machines in Antarctica--one is used just for its parts an ATM |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THE LONG-AGO 20th CENTURY $600: Announced in a 1947 speech, this president's "Doctrine" provided the basis for U.S. Cold War policy Truman |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | THE LANTHANIDES OF MARCH $1600: This phenomenon of current zipping unimpeded through matter is associated with cold; cerium materials may enable it at room temp superconduction |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | 4, 4 $400: It's defined as a short period of very chilly weather that occurs rather suddenly cold snap |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | POP CULTURE GOES TO MARS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell", sang Elton John in this hit "Rocket Man" |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | 3.7 TRILLION FISH IN THE OCEAN $400: To live in frigid waters, the icefish has blood glycoproteins that function as this, also a product made by Valvoline antifreeze |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LITERARY OVERLAPS $400: "The Spy Who Came in from the"
____
"Mountain" Cold |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $200: It ended with the Berlin Wall coming down & the Soviet Union breaking apart the Cold War |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $400: Ectothermic means this, a term describing animals like snakes & fish & some murderers cold-blooded |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $600: They were the Daisy Dukes of the mid-1970s & a big fad hot pants |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $800: Frequently free, it's a place in public where you can connect to Wi-Fi & access the Internet a hot spot |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $1000: Named for a hotel, an iconic open-faced turkey sandwich with Mornay sauce & bacon is called a Kentucky or Louisville this a hot brown |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $400: With zero inches of annual precipitation, the McMurdo Dry Valleys on this continent rank as the driest area on Earth Antarctica |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $800: South of Fez is the town of Ifrane, dubbed the Switzerland of this country Morocco |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: In 2021 this capital of Saskatchewan broke a 137-year-old temperature record, dropping to -37.5 degrees Regina |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $1600: One of mountain climbing's Seven Summits, Jaya Peak is on the Indonesian part of this big island New Guinea |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: It's permafrosty in this Russian place that's alphabetically last on the traditional Risk board Yakutsk |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: This 1997 novel finds Inman exiting from the Civil War & sojourning across a ravaged land back to his love Cold Mountain |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BODY PART PHRASES $200: Brides or grooms may succumb to these, a reluctance to wed, not a case of frostbite cold feet |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | A TRIP ON THE GULF STREAM $300: The Gulf Stream becomes the North Atlantic Drift & keeps the west of this cold-sounding island country warmer than the east Iceland |
| #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 |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | COMMON BONDS $600: Turkey,
front,
a cruel & unfeeling person's blood things that are cold |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | EUROPEAN EATS $1200: In Spain a classic tapas dish is this cold tomato soup sometimes served in a glass gazpacho |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $100: A British earl who ate cold meat & bread slices while sitting at a gambling table gave his name to this sandwich |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | SANDWICHES $400: A muffuletta, with cold cuts, cheese & olive salad, is a specialty of this U.S. city New Orleans |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SONG SNIPPETS $2000: "Thawed out what was scared and cold" "Like A Virgin" |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $200: "The Green Mile" was this bad part of Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $200: With a name meaning "cold", he's the animated guy with a corncob pipe & a button nose Frosty (the Snowman) |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $400: About temperature, this adjective can mean cold; when used regarding lettuce, it means fresh & firm crisp |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $600: This word is paired with an opposite in the name of a relieving cream to treat minor aches & pains of the muscles & joints icy |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $800: If your office is really "as cold as" this space for dry aging, it's well under 40 degrees a meat locker |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $1000: The food seen here is prepared "crudo", Spanish & Italian for this word raw |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $400: This president made a secret deal to take U.S. nukes out of Turkey, helping end the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $1200: In this year the U.S. & others boycotted the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1980 |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $1600: The Stasi were a secret police force of this country that spied on its citizens & encouraged them to spy on each other East Germany |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $2000: Abbreviated M.A.D., this theory deterred the use of nuclear weapons by suggesting there would be no winners mutually assured destruction |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $3,000 (Daily Double): Unearthed decades later a 1950 letter indicates happiness by Joseph Stalin that the U.S. was entangled in this war the Korean War |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | SPIES LIKE THEM $1200: His own spy days are part of "The Pigeon Tunnel" by this author of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" le Carré |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $800: Ironically, if you "put" something in this frigid 2-word place, it's kind of on the back burner a deep freezer |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HISTORIC ALLIANCES $600: Created during the Cold War in 1955, this alliance joined together several countries including Bulgaria & Albania the Warsaw Pact |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PRESENTING JEOPCOIN! $400: To store your Jeopcoins, we offer a cold one of these, like the one for cash in your back pocket, just $299.99 a wallet |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | WHAT A TOOL $1600: The "cold" type of this chipping instrument is so called because it's tough enough to cut cold metal a chisel |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SCIENCE $2000: The "Woodstock of Physics" was a 1987 conference on this phenomenon where electricity zips through certain very cold materials superconductivity |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | HERE COMES A BRONTE THESAURUS $1600: Charlotte's "Shirley" uses this word not to mean "shook with cold" but "broken in pieces" shivered |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | PETS $2,000 (Daily Double): As its very name speaks of sun-kissed islands, don't let this little songbird catch cold a canary |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $2000: This former state department official & accused spy leaves court in 1949 during one of his perjury trials, a big Cold War story Alger Hiss |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $400: Of course, there's a pumpkin spice version of this icy cold blended beverage from Starbucks a Frappuccino |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | MUSIC AS OF LATE $600: "Cold Heart", his 2021 hit with Dua Lipa, included lyrics from "Rocket Man" Elton John |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | TUNE RIVER $2000: It's the river that's "chilly & cold" as well as "deep & wide" in "Michael, Row The Boat Ashore" Jordan |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Whitman: "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my ____ lies, fallen cold and dead" my Captain |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | KICKIN' IT $200: You want to cease a foul habit abruptly? Time to "kick it" this "fowl" way cold turkey |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): Revenge is served cold--courtesy of an ex-prison inmate--in "The Dinner", chapter 63 of this Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: With subzero weather at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, vets suffered the long-term effects of this cold injury, including gangrene frostbite |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | PASS/FAIL $1000: A Cold War-era novel & movie popularized this term for a device that's supposed to prevent unanticipated disaster failsafe |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | WINTER $200: Paul A. Siple is the father of this measurement of how cold the air makes you feel based on work in Antarctica around 1940 windchill |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | RATTLE & HUM $600: These fitting loosely in the cylinders, especially when it's cold, can cause a rattle in your car engine the pistons |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | POTENT POTABLES $200: On a cold wintry night, warm up with a traditional hot buttered this drink rum |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | METAPHORS $1000: President Eisenhower saw Stalin's death as a chance "to crack" this barrier & thaw out the Cold War the Iron Curtain |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" paid homage to President Lincoln, "fallen cold and dead" Whitman |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | WINGS, BUT NO FLY $400: The wingback type of this was originally designed to keep the sitter free from drafts of cold air chair |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN AD JUNKED $200: An ad for cold medicine showing a partially bare Mickey Rooney was pulled before it aired during this February 2005 event the Super Bowl |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | SOUNDS SERIOUS $400: Cutis anserina is nothing to worry about; it's just this "fowl" reaction to cold or fear goose bumps |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | LOOKING FOR LUNCH $1000: A white version of this cold, Spanish summertime soup includes garlic, bread & almonds & is garnished with green grapes gazpacho |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $800: Extremely cold & difficult to store, this gas is prone to shortages, like one in 2019 that made life tough for Party City stores helium |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $400: In Italian cuisine, it's cold food you eat at the start of a meal antipasto |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $2000: John le Carre received a warm reception & international acclaim with this 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | SO VERY COLD $400: The speed of this is 70 feet per second slower at freezing than it is at 100 degrees Fahrenheit sound |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | SO VERY COLD $800: Not all motion stops at this lowest temperature--molecules still vibrate with zero-point energy absolute zero |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | SO VERY COLD $1200: When this current of high-speed winds moves in big waves, Arctic air can spill into mid-latitude regions, bringing winter cold snaps jet stream |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | SO VERY COLD $1600: Fish caught by Canadian Inuit would flash-freeze in the Arctic air, inspiring this inventor's food innovation Birdseye |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | SO VERY COLD $2000: In 1911 researchers discovered the resistance to electricity in mercury was zero at -452 degrees F., making it this superconductor |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE $400: It's proverbially done to "a cold":
6-5-5-4 feed |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE COMMON DEFENSE $1000: This meteorological term for a chilly mass of air is a common reason given by fishermen when the bass aren't biting a cold front |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1600: In cold weather, your breath is visible as mist if it cools to this point at which it is fully saturated with water vapor the condensation point (dew point) |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | SOUVENIR $800: You never saw this ox-like animal of Asia with a cold, did you? So try the nice warm Mongolian socks made from its wool a yak |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE 16th CENTURY $1000: This Ottoman sultan promised he'd eat breakfast in Vienna; after a few days of siege, he got a note saying his food was getting cold Suleiman |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $200: This cool admonition to calm down has been paired with Netflix chill |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $400: It's the geographic area above the circle of latitude at 66 1/2 degrees north the Arctic Circle |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $600: Meaning briskly cold, it's also a frozen dessert from Wendy's a Frosty |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $800: A poem by William Carlos Williams begins, "I have eaten the plums that were in" this, not the refrigerator--it was 1934 the icebox |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $1000: Originally a nautical term meaning closer to the wind, it means to be unfriendly or reserved, distant & uninvolved aloof |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $1600: Guns N' Roses sang that "It's hard to hold a candle" in this type of cold autumn deluge November Rain |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | UNDER THE USA $1000: Once a government relocation site, West Virginia's Greenbrier this was designed as a Cold War fallout shelter Bunker |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | FOWL LANGUAGE $200: Abrupt & complete withdrawal from an addictive substance cold turkey |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | WINDOWS & DOORS $1200: These skyscraper entrances invented by Theophilus Van Kannel act as air locks, preventing cold air from mixing with hot revolving doors |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | RANKS & TITLES $800: During the Cold War, a commissar was an official responsible for education & organization in this political party the Communist Party |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $800: Stella Gibbons parodied the rural gloom of Thomas Hardy in her best-loved book, "Cold Comfort" this place Farm |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | BLOW-POURRI $1200: Someone who can't make up his mind does this about an issue, like a wind of varying temperature blows hot & cold |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A SWAMPY SITUATION $400: Vasyugan Mire is found in the western plains of this large Russian region known for extreme cold Siberia |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE COLD $200: A hot day is a good time for this jiggly treat, "America's most famous dessert" Jell-O |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE COLD $400: Despite the name, there's no booze in the dish seen here a shrimp cocktail |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE COLD $600: The Dutch word "kool" doesn't mean cool, it means cabbage & led to the name of this chilled salad coleslaw |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE COLD $800: Try the yellow kind of this with varieties like yellow doll & crema Saskatchewan watermelon |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE COLD $1000: Though the rest of the world mostly knows the cold Andalusian style of this soup, some Spaniards eat it hot gazpacho |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | NIFTY NOVELS $1000: A Confederate Army deserter takes a long walk home to his beloved Ada in this Charles Frazier novel Cold Mountain |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | SCIENCE TIME $1600: Evergreens have waxy or leathery leaves to hold moisture, but this other main tree type holds moisture by losing leaves in the cold deciduous |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: Linus Pauling wrote a bestselling book called this vitamin "and the Common Cold" vitamin C |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | HISTORIC SURVIVORS $1200: (Jeff Probst presents the clue.) Though cold & tired when she reached the "Carpathia" from a Titanic lifeboat, she realized that some women had lost everything, so she rallied first-class passengers & raised $10,000 before the "Carpathia" reached New York; she was unsinkable indeed Molly Brown |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It was so cold in London in 1814 that a frost fair was held on this river that had frozen over the Thames |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BODY LANGUAGE $200: Someone who changes their mind about taking a trip or tying the knot gets cold these feet |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | ALLITERATIVE TV SHOWS $1600: A crime that wasn't solved is considered this, also the name of a CBS drama series that ran for 7 seasons a cold case |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | SCIENCE ABBREV. $600: At NASA, EOM means end of this--time for a cold one! mission |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Instead of calm or nonchalance, try this French phrase that means cold blood sang froid |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $400: One side in the Cold War was often called the "Eastern" this group the bloc |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | THE SANDWICH GENERATION $400: This corned beef & Swiss sandwich bearing a man's name can be served cold or grilled Reuben |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | IT'S HYPHENATED $200: In zoology, this hyphenated adjective refers to the body temperature of reptiles cold-blooded |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | A "DIAMOND" $1200: "Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charms in the end", Marilyn sang in this jewel of a song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | BERRY SPECIAL $2000: This "old" berry of the genus Sambucus goes into wine & is also used in syrups to reduce cold symptoms & boost immunity an elderberry |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | IT'S A FACT $1000: The term "Cold War" was first used in print by this British author in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb" George Orwell |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | EUROPE $1600: Freezing cold waves thrashed this country's black beaches consisting of plentiful volcanic sand Iceland |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | ELEMENTAL FACTS $800: Stumptown Coffee Roasters uses this elemental gas in a process that gives cold brew coffee a beer-like frothy head nitrogen |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family In Cold Blood |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FANGS A LOT! $2000: The protruding fangs of this mortal Gorgon known for her stone-cold gaze weren't even the most terrifying thing about her Medusa |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | WORDS COINED IN THE 1920s $400: A trademark name for tissue, it began making the rounds in the 1920s as a cold cream remover Kleenex |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? $200: 1976: "The Iron Lady of the Western world... a cold war warrior... well, yes" (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800: Mary Engle Pennington was an innovator in this, keeping milk & other stuff safely cold, & a VP of the American Institute of it refrigeration |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $600: Beating "Shoplifters" & "Cold War", "Roma" won the 2018 award in this Oscar category Foreign Film |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | SCIENCE $1600: Though its name makes you think of a cold one, this outer layer of the Sun is composed of ionized gas that's about 2 million Kelvin the corona |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $1000: These 3 stone-cold sisters of Greek myth who were less than photogenic had bronze hands & golden wings the Gorgons |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $400: The town of Oymyakon, Russia in this proverbially cold region plunged to a mind-numbing -90 degrees in 1933 Siberia |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $800: The coldest temp ever recorded on Earth, -144 F., was found by researchers studying satellite data of this continent Antarctica |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $1200: This U.S. state's Prospect Creek hit -80 in January 1971 Alaska |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1954 an historic contiguous USA low temp of -70 was recorded near Rogers Pass in this fourth-largest state Montana |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $2000: In Feb. 1947 temps reportedly fell to -85 at Fort Selkirk on this river that lends its name to a Canadian territory the Yukon River |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $400: Checkpoint Charlie was a heavily guarded crossing on this symbolic & physical barrier the Berlin Wall |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $800: In 1960 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union flying one of these spy planes a U-2 |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $1200: The situation where neither side will start a war because of the cost to itself is mutual assured this, MAD for short destruction |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $1600: The brief anti-communist period of liberalization in this country in 1968 was called the Prague Spring Czechoslovakia |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $2000: Soviet leader Gorbachev initiated policies in the 1980s of glasnost, "openness", & this, meaning "restructuring" perestroika |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | "INCH" WORD, "INCH" WORD... $800: The thick fur of this rodent helps it survive the cold temperatures that occur way up high in the Andes the chinchilla |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | FAIRY TALE POLICE REPORT $400: "Open & shut. He admitted to killing Cock Robin, in cold blood with bow & arrow" the Sparrow |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: An org. failing due to bad leadership is said to be a case of one of these cold-blooded vertebrates "rotting from the head down" a fish |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $400: Truman Capote:
"Cold" In Cold Blood |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | 1980s POP LYRICS $400: Madonna: "'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right" "Material Girl" |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PROVERBIALLY YOURS $1200: "Sine cerere et baccho friget Venus" means "without food and wine" this, represented by Venus, "grows cold" love |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | HIP-HOP FEUDS $1600: Very little we can quote from his "No Vaseline"--let's just say this man was feeling "cold" toward his ex-NWA bandmates Ice Cube |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | HOUSE & HOME $800: Benjamin Maughan invented one of these called the geyser; nowadays tankless ones have eradicated cold showers a hot water heater |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | PATRIOT GAMES $1600: On a cold 1982 day Mark Henderson used a small John Deere to make the kicker's job easier in what became known as the this machine game snowplow |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | IF IT WERE AN ACTION MOVIE $600: Audrey Tautou: "I tried to help people be happy. But your relative killed my mom. Now this French waitress is serving revenge...cold" Amélie |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | SOUP TO NUTS $1000: A French chef in New York gets the credit for creating this creamy potato-&-leek soup that's served cold vichyssoise |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH RHYME TIME $600: Oro frío cold gold |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | BAYOU TRAP-ISTRY $800: You can catch turtles as they're basking on a log in the Bayou sun, a habit due to being ectothermic, also known as this cold-blooded |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | MED. ABBREV. $1200: The common cold is known as a URI, or this type of infection an upper respiratory infection |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | THEORIES $800: This Cold War theory said if one country fell to communism, nearby ones would follow the domino theory |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | REAL-LIFE METAPHORS $1200: It's the brush-off you'd get from the person here a cold shoulder |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | FROM C TO D $1200: In a 1982 no. 1 hit The J. Geils Band sang, "My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold, my angel is" this centerfold |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | ANTONYMS $600: Katy Perry's opposites primer "Hot n Cold" rhymes, "we fight, we break up, we kiss, we" do this make up |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | MAKE IT SNAPPY $2000: In 2019 meteorologist Daryl Ritchison at NDSU, this university, said the minus-33 temps were "a cold snap" North Dakota State University |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | NEW MUSICAL SUPERGROUPS $1000: Cold War Springfield The Cold War Kids and Buffalo Springfield |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | DROP A LETTER $2000: Drop the "F" from a word meaning very cold & it comes this, stiff or unyielding rigid |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $200: In "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, a soldier makes a perilous journey home in the end stages of this U.S. war the Civil War |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | THE MORE "C"OMMON WORD $3,000 (Daily Double): Ectothermic cold-blooded |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE $800: "Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in the pot, nine days old" porridge |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | TALKING DEAD $10,016 (Daily Double): "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" says this poet's tombstone in Ireland's County Sligo (William Butler) Yeats |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ROCK ANIMALS $1000: The name of this "Look Good On The Dancefloor" band combines a cold environment & tropical animals the Arctic Monkeys |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Age of Innocence" says the hue of this building material "coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce" brownstone |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $800: This hit begins, "This hit, that ice cold, Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold" "Uptown Funk!" |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $200: This tragic Shakespeare title king has a cold night reflect on filial ingratitude King Lear |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $400: This play that opened on Broadway in 2018 had Elsa, Hans, Anna & Kristoff perform "Colder By The Minute" Frozen |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $600: "Humbug High" reimagined him as a ghost-plagued teen, taken on a Christmas journey Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $800: His 1896 play "John Gabriel Borkman" takes place on a winter evening near Oslo (Henrik) Ibsen |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $1000: Henry II tries to get Eleanor to give up Aquitaine in this "Winter" play The Lion in Winter |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $800: Very cold weather descends on 2 WASPy New England families in the 1970s in this Rick Moody novel Ice Storm |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | WHAT'S IN YOUR BENTO? $600: My angry wife made a shikaeshi bento, meaning "boxed lunch of" this payback term--of course it's served cold revenge |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUNNY "D" $2000: The "cold" season in this country on the horn of Africa has lows in the 70s Djibouti |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: A water hole called Enkare Nairobi, or "cold water", eventually became the capital of this country Kenya |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | THE STATE OF NATURE $600: The cold, clear waters of 1,900-foot deep Crater Lake Oregon |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | FOOD & DRINK $1000: Sauce Raifort, made from this condiment, is served cold as an accompaniment to prime rib horseradish |
| #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 |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | SIGNATURE DRINKS OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: For breakfast at Hogwarts, Harry, Ron & Hermione have this juice, ice cold pumpkin juice |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | IT WAS 10 MILES $600: Not one but 2 Civil War battles took place at Cold Harbor, a mere 10 miles from this Confederate capital Richmond |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | SOMETHING TO READ $800: After a Kansas family of 4 is murdered this 3-word title way, investigators track down the killers in cold blood |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | THE 1980s $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Plokstine Cold War Museum in Lithuania.) The silos at Lithuania's Plokstine missile base that once housed Soviet SS-4 rockets are empty; the missiles were destroyed under terms of this treaty, signed in 1987 by Gorbachev & Reagan & known by three letters for short the INF Treaty |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY $1600: This president is on Twitter again--"People are saying I'm ill. Tippecanoe is fine--no cold! Best month ever, that I can tell you" William Henry Harrison |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | THE 5 Ws IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: John le Carre's operative Alec Leamas goes on one last mission in this "chilly" thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $400: This U.S. president declared his "doctrine" in 1947 promising to help any country facing a Communist takeover Truman |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $800: In 1991 the USSR was dissolved & the flag nicknamed this for its 2 symbols was lowered for the last time the Hammer and Sickle |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $1200: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was resolved when this Russian leader blinked in his face-off with the USA Khrushchev |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $1600: Rhyming name for competition over the heavens; the women of "Hidden Figures" helped win it, per the book's subtitle the Space Race |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $2000: In 1956 Soviet tanks rolled into this European capital city, suppressing a short democratic revolt Budapest |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) What looks like smoke emanating from Falcon 9 before launch is super-chilled LOx, this liquid gas used as propellant; it's vented as pressure builds, & it's so cold that it actually condenses the atmosphere around the rocket oxygen |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | 3 CONSONANTS, NO VOWELS $400: Use it to exclaim that it's bracingly cold brr |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $200: Heard at this event "honoring" Charlie Sheen:
"You're the black sheep of a family responsible for 3 'Mighty Ducks' movies" a (Comedy Central) roast |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $400: Said one way, it means not extreme; another, to preside over a debate moderate |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $600: A non-abominable snowman, or a dessert at Wendy's a Frosty |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $800: This 5-letter word is both lukewarm & apathetic tepid |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $1000: We give the mild weather you might find in Florida a "B"-plus, this adjective balmy |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | LETTUCE BEGIN $400: Lettuce begin with a wedge salad, traditionally made with a hunk of this crisp, cold lettuce iceberg |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | SOUNDS LIKE IT TO ME $600: After a few hours in the hot sun, I'm ready to drink a cold beverage this way, also an engine sound chug |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a weather model on the monitor.) When frigid air moves under warm air, pushing it up & producing heavy rain or snow, it forms one of these 2-word zones a cold front |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | FIRST THING IN THE MORNING $200: Suggested benefits of a cold one include improving your circulation & that nothing worse can happen the rest of the day a shower |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $400: Clement Stone, b. 1902, began his fortune with cold calls (he called them gold calls) for these policies, the casualty type insurance |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $400: "A" is the only vowel in this cold-weather mask & cap combo a balaclava |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | THE BODY HUMAN $200: When you're cold or frightened, your arrector pili muscles make this "stand on end" your hair |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $400: Abraham Lincoln lies "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | SHUT UP $600: On your neck, this makes it less cold; on your car, it makes it less noisy muffler |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Cold sores, which may or may not be triggered by a cold, are caused by this 2-word virus herpes simplex virus |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | FOOD STUFF $800: This Swedish word is a buffet meal of various hot & cold meats & cheeses a smorgasbord |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | PASS/FAIL $600: This "In Cold Blood" author said, "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" Truman Capote |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | "HORSE" TALK $2000: A Yeats poem says, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death." These 3 words horseman, pass by |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | IT'S ALL A MIRAGE $1200: Mirages happen because light bends toward cold air, which has a higher index of this refraction |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $800: The first African-American actor to play the Phantom on Broadway, Norm Lewis donned the mask to perform this iconic song
"Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light..." "The Music Of The Night" |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | EVERYBODY'S A CRITIC $800: A reviewer said of this 1965 novel, "That isn't writing, it's research", a play on Capote's own pithy quote In Cold Blood |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | SOUNDS, INTERESTING $400: The noise level of this type of cold-weather recreational item has been reduced by over 90% since the 1960s a Ski-Doo (or a snowmobile or skimobile) |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Galápagos.) The rare Galápagos penguin--remember, we're close to the equator--thrives on the nutrient-rich, cold waters that well up from the depths of the ocean; thus, the warmer waters of this Spanish-named weather phenomenon can be disastrous to it El Niño |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ETYMOLOGY $800: This type of seasoned sausage usually eaten cold & in slices takes its name from the Latin for "salt" salami |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | SYMPTOMS $1000: Chronic fatigue & sensitivity to cold are symptoms that this endocrine gland in the neck is underactive the thyroid gland |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | "JACK" $400: The personification of icy cold Jack Frost |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "HOPE"FUL ENTERTAINMENT $1600: In The Who's "My Generation", "Things they do look awful c-c-cold", which leads to this wish "I hope I die before I get old" |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | IT WAS SO COLD... $200: Hitchhikers were holding up photos of this digit the thumb |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | IT WAS SO COLD... $400: I was happy to get the proverbial lump of this in my stocking coal |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | IT WAS SO COLD... $600: In Maine these critters, Homarus americanus, were throwing themselves into pots lobsters |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | IT WAS SO COLD... $800: One of these pointed hat-wearing ceramic dwarves knocked on my door & asked to come in a garden gnome |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | IT WAS SO COLD... $1000: A member of this 5-letter "Old Order" religious group purchased an electric blanket the Amish |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | "COMMON" KNOWLEDGE $400: Although hundreds of things can lead to one, rhinoviruses are the most frequent culprit the common cold |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $200: In 2010 a brisk August day on the east plateau of this continent got down to minus 135.8 degrees Antarctica |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $400: Oh yah, this seat of Cass County, North Dakota got down to minus 31 in January 2008, dontcha know Fargo |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $600: Danish meteorologists report July 2016 got a little nippy at Summit Station on this island:
23 below Greenland |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $800: Snag, in this Canadian territory famed for its gold rush, hit 82 below in 1947... without wind chill the Yukon |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $1000: In Pocatello in this state, the average low temp in January is a not-so-sweet 16 Idaho |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | STATE CAPITAL HAIKU $600: No roads lead to it /
Named for a gold prospector /
It gets quite cold there Juneau |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | FRENCH DIP $200: Francois went swimming in the Seine, even though I told him, "L'eau est froide", meaning this the water is cold |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $1000: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Nancy) The March 19, 1990 cover of Newsweek--"Rap Rage"--has rap gone too far?
(Kevin) With this "Funky Cold Medina" & "Wild Thing" rapper pictured below the headline, we'll say it--no. No, it hasn't Tone Loc |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | "ANT", MAN $400: Radiator liquid to fight those cold winter nights antifreeze |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Northerners who head for Florida as soon as the weather gets cold snowbirds |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KELVIN $800: On the Kelvin scale -459.67 degrees equals this 2-word term, & though "very cold!" is technically right, we won't accept it absolute zero |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | DELI-CACIES $800: In the mood for cold-smoked salmon? We've got this type of lox with a 4-letter name Nova |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $800: A bowl o' red straight from the fridge chilly chili |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1,000 (Daily Double): Cold War figure Francis Gary Powers Air Force |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | 1960s POP MUSIC $400: This Temptations hit begins, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I've got the month of May" "My Girl" |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SYNONYMS FOR COLD $200: North of latitude 66 degrees polar (or arctic) |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SYNONYMS FOR COLD $400: In 7 letters, below the Celsius freezing point subzero |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SYNONYMS FOR COLD $600: First name of this animated star with a fondness for pancakes Chilly (Willy) the Penguin |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SYNONYMS FOR COLD $800: Vanilla or chocolate, it's Wendy's version of a milkshake a Frosty |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SYNONYMS FOR COLD $1000: This entomological adjective for insects with fangs is found before "midge" biting |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | GOOD SOURCES OF CALCIUM $800: The curly type of this hearty member of the cabbage family thrives in the cold & is a good source of calcium & iron kale |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $400: This type of storm includes cold, 35+ mph winds & snow reducing visibility to 1/4 mile or less for at least 3 hours a blizzard |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: 18,399 feet down & probably pretty darn cold, the Molloy Deep is the deepest point in this ocean the Arctic |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | MASTERS OF DISGUISE $1200: Mexicos Zapatista rebels disguised themselves with these cold-climate items ski masks |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $1200: On this show Kathryn Morris cracked old unsolved crimes in Philadelphia Cold Case |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $1000: "Revenge is a dish best..." served cold |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | BOOKS FOR COOKS $1000: This savory meat jelly is covered in the cold buffet chapter of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" aspic |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | RELIGIOUS BOOKS $800: Alyosha embraces religious faith, but his sibling Ivan has rejected God as cold & cruel in this Russian novel The Brothers Karamazov |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: The CDC says this alliterative condition is "the main reason that children miss school and adults miss work" the common cold |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | TALK LIKE A CANADIAN $800: If it's cold in Calgary, put on your bunny hug, one of these items that are also popular Stateside a hoodie |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | 4, 4 $1600: Fearfulness about starting something new, like a marriage cold feet |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $800: The canals are frozen over as Det. Lotte Meerman tries to solve a really cold case in "A Cold Death in" this European city Amsterdam |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | DROPPIN' MAD BEETS $800: This classic Russian beet soup can be served hot or cold; top it with a dollop of sour cream borscht |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | FINE FEATHERED IDIOMS $1600: A fast, risky detox method cold turkey |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | A RUDE AWAKENING $800: This challenge to raise money for ALS ended in 2014, so why the cold shower, especially at 3 A.M.? the Ice Bucket Challenge |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE DRUMMER SINGS $1600: Meg White stepped out from behind the kit to croon "In The Cold, Cold Night" for this duo the White Stripes |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Beastie Boys could tell you "brass" this animal refers to weather that's really cold brass monkey |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: "In Cold Blood" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $200: On cold days, don a pair of these connected coverings worn on the sides of the head earmuffs |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | ANAGRAMMED SCIENTISTS' LAST NAMES $2000: Ran hot & cold:
FINE HEARTH Fahrenheit |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | TONY BENNETT $800: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In 1951 I recorded a cover version of "Cold, Cold Heart"; when it became a huge hit, this legendary country artist called me & jokingly asked, "What's the idea of ruining my song?" Hank Williams Sr. |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | HOLIDAY DUETS $400: Darius Rucker & Sheryl Crow are among the pairs who have recorded this chilly duet that begins, "I really can't stay" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $200: Relax, calm down, this 5-letter word "out", dude chill |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $400: It can mean "unfriendly", but not when talking about a famous snowman of that name frosty |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $600: Stiff or formal, it also precedes "-aire" in an appliance brand frigid |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $800: It's slang for an isolation cell in prison; Alaska was "Seward's" icebox |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $1000: To coagulate or curdle, it also means to change from a fluid state to a solid one by cooling congeal |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | POETRY $1600: "O attic shape!" & "Cold pastoral!" exclaims Keats in his "Ode on" this vessel a Grecian urn |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | OF CAKE $400: This "stately" dessert is sponge cake topped by ice cream & meringue! That's hot! & cold! Baked Alaska |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | A SONG OF ICE &/OR FIRE $1000: "You're as cold as ice, you're willing to sacrifice our love", says a song by this group with Lou Gramm & Mick Jones Foreigner |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | ERAS OF HISTORY $600: The Cold War is often said to have begun in this year when a war ended & the Cubs played in the World Series 1945 |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THINGS TO DO BEFORE $400: "Seasonal" verb meaning to prepare a car for cold weather by adding antifreeze, or to prep a house, using insulation winterizing |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | A SUMMER COLD $400: On July 16, 1967 this capital of Florida topped out at a surprisingly chilly (for them) 57 degrees Tallahassee |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | A SUMMER COLD $800: Legendary as the site of exile, this Russian region had a weird July in 2014; 90 degree temperatures, then snow Siberia |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | A SUMMER COLD $1200: In July 2015 average temps. in Montego Bay in this nation ranged from 96 to--yipes!--75, so hope you brought a shirt Jamaica |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | A SUMMER COLD $1600: In July 1960 this city founded in 1796 & divided by the Cuyahoga River was a bit chilly, averaging 67 degs. over the month Cleveland |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | A SUMMER COLD $2000: M.K. could stand for mighty kold or this observatory that dealt with a very un-Hawaiian-like 24 degrees in July of 2011 Mauna Kea |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | ROCKS $200: This master of suspense's 1969 film "Topaz" is a tale of Cold War defectors & double-dealing spies Hitchcock |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | TIME FOR SPACE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an astronomical illustration on the monitor.) The red region around a star is too hot for a planet to have liquid water, & the blue region is too cold; the green region, where conditions are just right for liquid water, is the habitable zone, nicknamed this for a storybook character Goldilocks |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | BODY PARTS IN SONG $800: Josh Turner has a song called "Cold" this shoulder |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT $1000: It means "to console", but when it follows "cold" in an alliterative phrase, it's not much consolation comfort |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: Conflict between the U.S. & the Soviet Union from the 1940s to the 1990s that's a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells the Cold War of the Worlds |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | A++ $200: I know the material cold--this is what I'm going to do to the test ace |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | DETENTION IN LITERATURE $400: Cold Mountain Penitentiary houses many killers in this Stephen King book, & most have a date with "Old Sparky" The Green Mile |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | ASIAN FOOD $2000: These Japanese noodles made from buckwheat can be served cold with wasabi or hot with toppings like tempura & mochi soba |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS $1000: This cough syrup calls itself the No. 1 pharmacist-recommended brand for cough, cold & flu combinations Robitussin |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | EXTINCT CREATURES $400: In 2015 researchers inserted this animals' genes related to its cold lifestyle into an Asian elephant, a close relative a mammoth |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE $800: In a popular saying, this "is a dish best served cold" revenge |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | THE OLD WEST $800: The Long Branch Saloon in this frontier city in Kansas served cold beer, tea, milk, lemonade & sarsparilla Dodge City |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | BRANDED $400: When fighting the cold war, use products like Nyquill & Vaporub from this brand Vicks |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | WALT WHITMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Whitman paid homage to this man, "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Lincoln |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | YOUR 5-COURSE MEAL $400: Soup of the day? This Andalusian one with veggies in a pureed tomato base, served cold gazpacho |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | ON THE LETTERHEAD $800: Before a govt. commission, Richard Feynman showed how cold weather damaged these space shuttle parts the O-rings |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | GEO-PARDY $800: Svalbard, meaning "cold coast", is an archipelago that's part of this country Norway |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | TV SETTINGS $1000: "Cold Case" & "thirtysomething": this city called an elegant but jaded lady Philadelphia |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | NURSE $1600: Nurses know cold limbs are one symptom of bacteria causing the septic type of this 5-letter word shock |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $800: This film opens with its 2 heroes, Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuryakin, on opposite sides in the Cold War The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare was hot & cold with these 2 plays that have seasons in the title A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale (A Winter's Tale accepted) |
| #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 |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | CYCLE ANALYSIS $1600: A bereft lover wanders through the cold in "Winterreise", an 1827 song cycle by this master of Lieder Schubert |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | LITERARY CRIME WATCH $800: This 1966 book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas" In Cold Blood |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) A spin device can cool a warm drink fast by spinning liquid from the center to the cold outer edge of the can, speeding up this heat-transfer process, also used in many ovens convection |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | COLD SCIENCE $400: Proteins in Antarctic fishes act as a type of this, like Prestone in your car antifreeze |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | COLD SCIENCE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a testing facility at NASA Glenn Research Ctr in Cleveland, OH.) To simulate the temperatures in space, a cold wall inside the testing chamber uses this substance, LN, that can cause frostbite on contact liquid nitrogen |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | COLD SCIENCE $1200: The "Medieval Warm Period" that began in the 10th century ended with the "Little" this 400 years later ice age |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | COLD SCIENCE $1600: This coat of ice formed when supercooled water freezes on contact is a homophone of a word used by poets rime |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | COLD SCIENCE $2000: As wind speed rises, so does heat loss from skin, leading to this, a number that the weatherman gives after winter temps wind chill |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $200: This 1966 Truman Capote book combined fiction with facts to tell about 2 drifters who murdered a Kansas family In Cold Blood |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT $1200: In 1989 chemists Pons & Fleischmann announced they had created a new energy source, cold this; it was soon debunked fusion |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | RAINY SONGS $800: "So never mind the darkness, we still can find a way, 'cause nothin' lasts forever, even cold November rain", they sang Guns N' Roses |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | HISTORIC HANDSHAKES $1000: During a thaw in the Cold War, Alexey Leonov & Thomas Stafford shook hands after these two spacecraft docked in July 1975 Apollo & Soyuz |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | ICELAND $1200: In October 1986 these 2 world leaders met in Iceland in an attempt to thaw tensions in the Cold War Reagan & Gorbachev |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | THE DESOLATION OF SMOG $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Smog episodes in urban areas are intensified when normally low-lying, warm air moves on top of a cold layer, creating this weather condition that traps pollutants (thermal) inversion |
| #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 |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | BACK THEN NO ONE KNEW $1000: ...the term "peace" this, the expected savings in military spending due to the end of the Cold War dividend |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TRAVELING $3,600 (Daily Double): A cold beer is just the thing to quench your thirst when cruising along this river in the capital of the Netherlands the Amstel River |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | LITERARY MEALTIME? $1000: In the title of Alice Childress' 1973 novel of teenage heroin addiction, this "Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich" a hero |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | FROM RUSSIA $400: During the Cold War, the CIA had this Pasternak novel printed in Russian & given to Soviet citizens as propaganda Doctor Zhivago |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | TV VIOLENCE $1000: This P.I. show was violent for its time--1967-1975--with Mike Connors, by one count, being knocked cold 55 times Mannix |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | WARBIRDS $1000: The Cold War era Soviet TU-4 was a copy of this U.S. bomber; several had landed in Russia after bombing Japan the B-29 |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | BY ANY OTHER NAME $200: Viral upper respiratory tract infection is a fancy name for this alliterative ailment the common cold |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | COMPUTER ACTIONS $400: This 4-letter word is "warm" when the computer's power is already on, "cold" when it's off boot |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | COLD WORLD OUT THERE $200: In July 1968 Plateau Station on this continent averaged -99.8 degrees; bottom of the world, Ma! Antarctica |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | COLD WORLD OUT THERE $400: You can freeze your Aspen off in Fraser in this state, with a year-round average of 32.5 degrees Colorado |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | COLD WORLD OUT THERE $600: You've been sent to Oymyakon in this 7-letter region of Russia, where it was a brisk -96 in January 1926 Siberia |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | COLD WORLD OUT THERE $800: Snag, in this Canadian territory, had a population of about 10 on a -81 day in February 1947 the Yukon |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | COLD WORLD OUT THERE $1000: Located in Lewis and Clark County, Rogers Pass in this large western state chilled out at -70 on Jan. 20, 1954 Montana |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $2000: This Stella Gibbons novel is a satire of Thomas Hardy novels & British rural life in the 1930s Cold Comfort Farm |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew pours a cold one from the tap at Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Gino's serves a brew inspired by Chicago called 312 Urban Wheat Ale, "312" representing this to Chicago residents the area code |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | HODGEPODGE $400: This cold soup is a puree of tomatoes & green peppers; in its homeland of Spain, cookbooks classify it as salad gazpacho |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | EARTH $200: This Kenyan capital gets its name from a Masai watering hole called "Cold Water" Nairobi |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: He spent a lot more time in Kansas than he would have otherwise to prepare "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | CREATURE COMFORTS $2000: Lungfish form a cozy cocoon for this, dormancy that protects against dryness like hibernation does from cold aestivation |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | THE TITLE WHO... $1200: A George Smiley novel:
"The Spy Who..." Came in from the Cold |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | MEMORABLE METAPHORS $1600: In "Nocturne", this woman known for her table talk wrote, "Cover with ashes our love's cold crater"; always so cheery! Dorothy Parker |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | CLOSE-UP $800: Defense secretary Robert Gates said he looked into this world leader's eyes & saw a stone-cold killer Vladimir Putin |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | SCIENCE MYSTERIES $400: In the not fully understood Mpemba effect, hot water sometimes does this faster than cold freezes |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | A VISIT TO TESLA $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Tesla Motors in Fremont, CA.) As the body of a Tesla comes together, several joining methods are used, including adhesive, cold metal transfer, self-piercing rivets & the resistance type of this metallurgic technique welding |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | NO LONGER AROUND $800: This clear malt beverage whose name is Russian for "winter" got the cold shoulder from Coors in 2008 Zima |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 3 "D" $400: Ectothermic, like reptiles (& murderers) cold-blooded |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $10,000 (Daily Double): The fur of this largest weasel family land animal is used to trim parkas because it doesn't mat or freeze in the cold a wolverine |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK $200: Help fight the Cold War in the third title in this series; "Black Ops" is rated M, so you'll have to wait for that... right? Call of Duty |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | WE'LL NEED YOUR "ID" $400: This adjective describes a very cold climate or a cold response frigid |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | IT'S A BIRD $400: Aka the pilomotor reflex, it's skin's response to cold or emotional stress goosebumps |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | TIME FOR A REVOLUTION! $2000: The Hungarian Revolution was in October of this Cold War year 1956 |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | TATER TOTS $800: The young taters want to be part of this "national" dish that includes bacon & vinegar & may be served warm or cold German potato salad |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $1200: "In Cold Tiffany's" In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $2,500 (Daily Double): In South Dakota, you can visit a launch facility for these cold war missiles with a Revolutionary War name Minuteman |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A tough way to get off a drug cold turkey |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | BLOWING MY MIND $2000: A cold, dry wind that's one of Provence's main local weather phenomena; the judge has declared it this a mistral |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) C-54 Skymasters carried most of the 2.3 million tons of cargo delivered between June 1948 & October 1949 as part of this Cold War program, nicknamed "Operation Vittles" the Berlin Airlift |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | EAR, NOSE OR THROAT $800: Tylenol Cold Sore ____ Throat |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: It's the Pritchetts vs. the Dunphys for some cold hard cash, & Richard Dawson's kissing all the ladies Modern Family Feud |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | 1990s FICTION $600: This debut novel by Charles Frazier was a take on Homer's "Odyssey" set during the Civil War Cold Mountain |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $1200: John Milkovisch made the aluminum siding at his Houston home from 50,000 of these former cold ones beer cans |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | COLD-BLOODED KILLERS $200: Research on this beast's vision led to a wet suit developed in Australia to look as unlike its usual prey as possible a shark |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | COLD-BLOODED KILLERS $400: This big constricting reptile gets its name from a mythical monster python |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | COLD-BLOODED KILLERS $600: Gustave, one of these said to be 20 feet long, has been blamed for dozens of deaths in Burundi's rivers & lakes crocodile |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | COLD-BLOODED KILLERS $800: Don't get bit by the snake called the gaboon this--it's got 2" fangs & lots of venom a viper |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | COLD-BLOODED KILLERS $1000: The dangerous Komodo dragon is the largest of these lizards, genus Varanus; if one asks for your hall pass, show it a monitor |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $400: Term for a hot spring that spews intermittent plumes of water & steam a geysor |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $800: Orwell coined this term when talking of a hypothetical nuclear stalemate between "monstrous super-states" Cold War |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $1200: Associated with menopause, a hot flash is a symptom of a decline in this hormone estrogen |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $1600: In 2013 this alliterative NYPD squad solved the 1991 Baby Hope murder Cold Case |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $2000: This retail chain says that for 25 years, it has offered "Music- & pop culture-inspired clothing" Hot Topic |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | STONE COLD JANE AUSTEN $400: In 2013, a London lake got a 12-foot statue of this Austen character (Mr.) Darcy |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | STONE COLD JANE AUSTEN $800: She's a wood... house! This title woman gets Harriet to reject a farmer's marriage proposal, but that turns out badly Emma |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | STONE COLD JANE AUSTEN $1200: Glenda Jackson brings this novel to life in audio book form Sense and Sensibility |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | STONE COLD JANE AUSTEN $1600: It's a day in the "park" & the price is right--the price being Fanny--in dealing with the Bertram family in this novel Mansfield Park |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | STONE COLD JANE AUSTEN $2000: This novel with a monastic title was sold to a publisher in 1803 but didn't appear until after Jane died in 1817 Northanger Abbey |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: Consisting of a final cold pool, a frigidarium was the third & last chamber of one of these public buildings a bath |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | I'M IN... $200: This, failure perhaps due to bleeding or a heart-attack to get blood to all the tissues; I feel cold shock |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | THE BEST DEFENSE $1000: The USA's cold war-era Skysweeper was this kind of artillery weapon anti-aircraft |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | THE NIXON YEARS $1000: Throughout Nixon's presidency, this old cold warrior was the leader of the Soviet Union (Leonid) Brezhnev |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $2000: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) When I reviewed this 2004 Denzel Washington remake of a Frank Sinatra Cold War thriller, I called it "Remembrance of Things Planted" The Manchurian Candidate |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Chilly period of international relations from the mid-1940s to 1991 the Cold War |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | 30 MINUTES OF EXERCISE A DAY $400: ...will reduce this, the pressure of modern living; it's been described as "the common cold of the psyche" stress |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | A STORIED FORECAST $1000: Orphan goes rural:
"____ Comfort Farm" Cold |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AROUND THE BODY $1200: This, skin drying & cracking due to cold & wind, can affect wrists & foreheads too, but lips seem to get it worst chapping |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | SCIENCE ROUNDUP $800: Usually starting in the upper respiratory tract, the common cold is caused by one of these microorganisms a virus |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER $400: My blood runs cold! "my angel is" this item bound into the middle of a magazine centerfold |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: Cold War policy of restricting the spread of communism by confining it geographically containment |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | LITERARY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING $400: Title adjective before "Mountain" in Charles Frazier's book about Inman returning home from the Civil War Cold |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE COLD WARS $400: The title of the painting seen here is "Washington at" this place Valley Forge |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | National Geographic Bee WINNING QUESTIONS $1200: The 1999 champ got in touch with his feminine side to give this Spanish name for cold temperatures in the eastern Pacific La Niña |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE COLD WARS $1200: On March 29, 1461 this side beat the Lancastrians in a blizzard in the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses York |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE COLD WARS $1600: Vets of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in this war called it the "Frozen Chosin" the Korean War |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE COLD WARS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lasting from December 16, 1944 to January 16, 1945, this critical WWII battle was fought in freezing mist & snow the Battle of the Bulge |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE COLD WARS $2000: At the 1242 Battle of the Ice, the Novgorodians defeated this Germanic knightly order atop a frozen lake the Teutonic Knights |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Perry Smith & Dick Hickock commit multiple Kansas homicides in this 1966 bestseller In Cold Blood |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: The name of this cold region is from the Greek for "of the bear" Arctic |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | WHATEVER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew does a demonstration.) The hot water in the bottle rises & floats in the cold; the same principle applies with an underwater volcano, except the hot water changes to this 5-letter emission, which causes an explosion steam |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | A DISH BEST SERVED COLD $200: This dish is raw beef topped with an egg yolk, so it won't keep long, not even in the fridge steak tartare |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | A DISH BEST SERVED COLD $600: Scandinavian is a salt-cured type of this, aka smoked salmon lox |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | A DISH BEST SERVED COLD $800: Dairy Queen makes a "peanut buster" version of this layered dessert a parfait |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | A DISH BEST SERVED COLD $1000: This Latin American appetizer is raw fish marinated in lime juice; the acid in the lime juice "cooks" the fish ceviche |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | KING LOUIS $1000: One legend about this potato soup is that king Louis XV had so many food testers that it was always cold when it got to him vichyssoise |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | STEPHEN KING $600: This nickname for death row at Cold Mountain penitentiary is also the title of a serial novel by King The Green Mile |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SILVER ANNIVERSARIES $800: Brr! this "creamery" opened its first store in Tempe in 1988 & calls every treat it serves a "creation" Cold Stone |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE LIFE OF A GENIUS $1600: Debunked in 1989? Maybe so, but you know you can create this room-temperature nuclear reaction cold fusion |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $2000: This author called his 1966 masterpiece "In Cold Blood" a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | HERE COMES THE JUDGE $2000: In the Old West, he dispensed justice (& "ice cold beer") from the Jersey Lilly Saloon in Langtry, Texas Roy Bean |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CONTENTS OF TABLES $800: This rich & creamy potato & leek soup is served cold & garnished with chives vichyssoise |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | SPEED WRITING $1200: Upset at the sight of this structure, John le Carre wrote "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" in 5 weeks the Berlin Wall |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | "DED" ENDS $400: "Chilly" term for a fish or a callous killer cold-blooded |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | SOMEBODY CALLED FOR A DOCTRINE $800: This country's Hallstein Doctrine was a Cold War effort to keep other nations from recognizing East Germany West Germany |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS, OH MY! $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us polar bears at Svalbard Island in Norway.) Polar bears are well-adapted to the cold; in addition to having hollow fur that traps heat, their skin absorbs a maximum of heat because it's this color black |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | ROBOTS & CYBORGS $1000: Gort visited Cold War-era Earth in this 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | THE SECRET OF "NYM" $800: Hot & cold, fast & slow, right & wrong, for example antonyms |
| #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" |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | BEAUTY & MAKEUP $200: To relieve puffy eyes, many people use black, green or herbal these as a cold compress tea bags |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | UP NORTH $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Svalbard, Norway.) The walrus has very little fur, so it relies on its thick skin & this subcutaneous layer of oil-rich fat as insulation from the cold blubber |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Capote book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area" In Cold Blood |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | ANCHORS AWEIGH $600: This name for a heavy garment worn by sailors in cold weather comes from a word for cloth, not a vegetable a peacoat |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | THE HAULS OF CONGRESS $400: La. Rep. William Jefferson was convicted after $90,000 in very cold cash was found inside this in his home his fridge (freezer, specifically) |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | PHYSICS $800: From the Greek for "icy cold", it's the science of extremely cold temperatures cryogenics |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Pacific shore in Oregon on a cold, windy day.) "Ocean in view! O! the joy!" Clark wrote, as their goal was in sight, probably on a day much like today; though they had failed to find the Northwest Passage, the expedition had learned much of the overland route & the course of this river, the largest to flow into the Pacific the Columbia |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $400: Bonanza, Idaho is now this abandoned type of "town" that faded away after the gold was gone a ghost town |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $800: Rising in our nation's Capital just a few blocks from here, it was once known as Jenkins Hill Capitol Hill |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $1200: On Feb. 3, 1947 a village in this territory bordering Alaska recorded -81.4 F., an all-time low for Canada the Yukon Territory |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $1600: Fodor's says that Paris is no longer deserted in this month as was traditionally the case August |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $2000: The iconic flag raising on Iwo Jima in 1945 took place on this hill (okay, "mount") Suribachi |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: Per its label, the topical medicine Vicks VapoRub aims to suppress this cold symptom a cough |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | OTHER USPS ABBREV. $1000: Spgs:
They're cold in the 89506 & hot in the 71901 springs |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | 2 Zs, PLEASE $200: A storm with dry, driving snows & intense cold; it's also delicious at Dairy Queen! a blizzard |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | MAPMAKING $400: On a weather map this type of front is usually indicated by a blue line with blue triangles a cold front |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | THE MARQUEE DE SAD $1600: Jude Law as a Civil War dropout & Nicole Kidman as the woman he tragically wants to come home to Cold Mountain |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | ALSO A GIRL'S NAME $800: To do this to almonds, place in boiling water very briefly, rinse in cold water, then remove the skin blanch |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $800: If someone's alternately passionate & indifferent about you, his feelings are said to "run" this way hot and cold |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | SOUP $600: In French, the name of this clear soup that can be served hot or cold means "to have made complete" consomme |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | A NOVEL DESCRIPTION $1600: An unjust 14-year imprisonment; vengeance served cold; listen up, Dumas! The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | TALES OF THE WINDY CITY $1000: A Hispanic girl grows up in cold Chicago in Sandra Cisneros' "The House on" this tropical-sounding street Mango Street |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | THE SOPHOMORE JINX $2000: "Mine Is Yours", the 3rd album from these "Kids", was hailed as a rebound from their 2nd, "Loyalty to Loyalty" Cold War Kids |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | PLAY DATES $1200: Aptly, this O'Neill play debuted in 1946, as the Cold War was heating (or chilling) up The Iceman Cometh |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | COMMON COLD $200: This 5-letter adjective refers to 2 places on Earth & is frequently used before "opposite" polar |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | "U-R" THERE $400: In winter, when it's cold enough, you can snowmobile across this Great Lake to get to Mackinac Island Huron |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | COMMON COLD $400: It can describe the chilled morning air or a pooch prone to biting nippy |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | COMMON COLD $600: Joy to the world! A band took its name from this phrase describing how chilled Aboriginies slept with pets for heat Three Dog Night |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | COMMON COLD $800: When used before "pace", it means really slow; otherwise, it refers to masses of ice glacial |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | COMMON COLD $1000: This word that r--er, that sounds a lot like "dime" refers to frost formed in fog rime |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: "Here we go round" this bush "on a cold and frosty morning" the mulberry bush |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | HOW DO YOU... $400: Get out of the cold, put waxy white fingers in 104- to 107-degree water treat frostbite |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANTONYMIC BOOK TITLES $1000: 1997:
"Hot Valley" Cold Mountain |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $7,800 (Daily Double): Meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes popularized this 5-letter term for the place where warm & cold air masses meet front |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | FRENCH FIXINS $600: From Provence & pretty as a Pixar, this eggplant dish simmered in olive oil can be served hot or cold ratatouille |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $400: "Feed a cold &..." starve a fever |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | WHAT'D YOU CATCH? $1600: A cold, while fishing nearly 200-square-mile Flathead Lake in this northern state Montana |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | NATIONAL FOOD DAYS $1000: On December 6, some people celebrate St. Nicholas; others, this cold Spanish soup gazpacho |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | MEANINGFUL STAGE NAMES $400: Wrestler Steve Williams adopted this surname in tribute to Lee Majors' superhuman TV character Austin |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PAN AM IN THE '60s $1000: (I'm Margot Robbie.) In our show I appear on the cover of Life; in 1968 Pan Am flight attendant Susan Sicari really did make the cover along with the Aeroflot counterpart as Pan Am began the 1st regular air link with this Cold War capital Moscow |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | ARCTIC WILDLIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Svalbard Islands in Norway.) As an adaptation to their cold environment, these sensory organs on walruses aren't external, but they can still detect input from up to a mile away ears |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $400: "Shades of Gray" &
"Cold Mountain" the Civil War |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | LIFESAVING AT BONDI BEACH $400: (Kelly gives the clue from Bondi Beach.) In cold weather, hypothermia causes the body to lose heat faster than it can be produced; in hot weather, lifesavers often have to treat this opposite condition, from Greek for "overheating" hyperthermia |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $800: It's the northernmost state capital; it can get real cold there too Juneau |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | THE DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES $800: She was "Cold Hearted" at No. 1 in September 1989, long before she joined "American Idol" (Paula) Abdul |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | SPECIAL "T"s $600: These Spanish appetizers run the gamut from simple items like olives to more elaborate things like cold omelets tapas |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | ON THE LABEL $1200: This light beer brand comes in a "cold activated can"--"When the mountains turn blue, it's as cold as the Rockies" Coors Light |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: She had us at "Cold Mountain" Renée Zellweger |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | ARBOR DAY READING? $1200: In the title of a bestseller by Olive Ann Burns, this word comes between "Cold" & "Tree" Sassy |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | THIS CATEGORY IS MURDER $200: The senseless murder of the Clutter family in 1959 prompted this man to pen "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Instead of counties, this state has boroughs (or is it brrr-oughs?) Alaska |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | TREES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a botanical photo on the monitor.) Broad rings on a tree indicate years of sunshine & rain; narrow rings indicate cold or this weather condition, from the Middle English for "dryness" drought |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | RUSSIAN FOOD & DRINK $400: This beet soup can be served hot or cold but it should always come with a dollop of sour cream borscht |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | TAKE YOUR VITAMINS $800: Linus Pauling's 1970 book was on "Vitamin C and" this ailment; by 1979 he'd moved up to "Cancer and Vitamin C" the common cold |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | NEWSMAKERS OF 2010 $800: Anna Chapman & 9 fellow moles were returned to Russia in this alliterative type of trade right out of the Cold War a spy swap |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | SOUP TALK $1200: Don't send it back: this soup from the Andalusian region of Spain is supposed to be cold gazpacho |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | BEER GOOGLES $400: Google Coors, cold & window & find out about the packaging that shows these mountains blue the Rockies |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WORLD OF WAR FACT $1200: World Book says this 20th century so-called war that lasted decades was actually an "intense rivalry" the Cold War |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | VS. $800: Antonio Prohias, a Cuban refugee, spoofed the Cold War in this Mad magazine comic strip Spy vs. Spy |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | METAPHORS BE WITH YOU $1600: As far as the Cold War goes, the Iron Curtain dealt with the Soviets & this curtain dealt with China the Bamboo Curtain |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | EASTERN STANDARD RHYME TIME $2000: The area around South Beach when it's cold & sticky Miami clammy |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEGA-EVENTS $400: The Cold War was effectively over on Nov. 9, 1989 when large jubilant crowds tore down this symbol of world division the Berlin Wall |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | PIZZA $800: "Cold Pizza" was a morning show that debuted in 2003 on this sports cable network ESPN |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | IT'S ALL SCIENCEY & STUFF $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew drops a sugar cube into each of two glasses of water.) Sugar cubes dissolve faster in hot water than in cold, because when water is heated, these move faster & further apart, making room for more sugar ones water molecules |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | LAKE POET-RY $2000: Do not go gentle into this "ursine" Canadian lake /
Rage, rage against the cold; it can be just too much to take Great Bear Lake |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $400: "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" got him the Edgar John le Carré |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | ARIZONA $400: The Agua Fria river might be better for its scenery than for a swim, as its name means this cold water |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | YEATS IS GREATS $800: A Yeats poem ends, "By his command these words are cut: cast a cold eye on life, on death." Then these 3 words "Horseman, pass by" |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $600: "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is ____ news from a far country" good |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | SPY NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Le Carre introduced British agent Alec Leamas in this 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | YOU'RE TRIPPING $2000: Magellan's crew thought natives of this Argentinian area had big feet; they had stuffed their moccasins to keep out the cold Patagonia |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $600: The children seen here are practicing the Cold War drill known by this 3-word term duck and cover |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: A cracker is named for this 19th century man who advocated cold showers, hard mattresses & unsifted flour (Reverend) Graham |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | GROOMING & CLEANING AIDS $800: "Chilly" name for a mineral oil compound used to remove cosmetics & soothe the skin cold cream |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | KNIT IT $200: Orenburg in Russia is famous for knitted these, scarf-like square covers for the head & shoulders in cold winters babushka |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | WHAT, ME WORRY? $400: Yes, I should've worn long pants to ski--but my purple legs aren't symptoms of this cold-induced tissue damage frostbite |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $1000: Detective Lilly Rush,
Detective Scotty Valens,
Detective Nick Vera Cold Case |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | COMPLETES THE POETIC LINE $1200: "But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and ____" dead |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | THE COUNTRY AS DESCRIBED BY THE ONION $600: This country represents 25% of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young & it boasts "a warm, cold people" Canada |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | THE SCIENCE BUG $1600: Fossil beetles near the South Pole suggest that the Antarctic was once this type of flat area, cold but with life a tundra |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | HELL $400: A land of mist & cold, Niflheim was the lowest region of hell in this 5-letter mythology Norse |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $200: This company's VapoRub is a topical ointment to help with that cough Vicks |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $400: The Plus line from this plop, plop fizz, fizz brand offers relief from cold symptoms Alka-Seltzer |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $600: "Dr. Mom" recommends this brand's cold & cough syrups Robitussin |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $800: This herbal remedy used to treat colds comes from a plant also known as the purple coneflower echinacea |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $1000: Linus Pauling wrote the 1970 bestseller called this "and the Common Cold" Vitamin C |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | BRAND "X" $400: This brand's packages were originally labeled "sanitary cold cream remover" Kleenex |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $400: Type of old crime that the Philadelphia Homicide Squad endeavors to finally solve Cold Case |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | COMIC BOOK VILLAINS $800: Captain Cold & Captain Boomerang were nemeses of this "Fastest Man Alive" Flash |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | STABLER $800: Carboxymethyl cellulose & locust bean gum make this cold, sweet treat more stable ice cream |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | ORGANIZATIONS $1600: The veterans group for this Cold War alliance's military forces is based in New Brunswick NATO |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GALAPAGOS WILDLIFE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) Contending with cold water & hot land, the Galapagos penguin is the only species to occur north of this line, the midpoint of the Tropics the equator |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? $200: Cool cats know all the words to this Jimmy Buffett song that comes with a "big kosher pickle & a cold draft beer" "Cheeseburger In Paradise" |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | GOING GREEN $1000: Say goodbye to cold showers & save energy by installing a tankless one of these a water heater |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | THE RUSSIAN $800: This Cold War fixture died in 1982 Brezhnev |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | TASTES OF TOKYO $1200: This crustacean, ama-ebi, is cultivated in the cold waters in the Sea of Japan & is sweet, so it's eaten raw shrimp |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | TASTES OF TOKYO $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew chows down in Tokyo, Japan.) The Japanese equivalent of pasta is these buckwheat noodles that are eaten cold or hot soba |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Extreme cold can bring on hypothermia & this condition, when areas of skin & underlying tissue freeze frostbite |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | THE GODFATHER OF SOUL $2000: James sang, "When you kiss me, when you mess me, hold my hand, make me understand, I break out--in" this a cold sweat |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | NATURE STUDY $400: The Emperor species of this cold-water bird dives deeper than any other bird, up to 1,800 feet the penguin |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | COLD CALLS $400: North of this line, each year has a day without sunrise & a day without sunset the Arctic Circle |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | COLD CALLS $800: Snow appears white because of the large number of surfaces that do this to light reflect it |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | COLD CALLS $1200: The first day of the year when ice in rivers & harbors loosens is called this, also a term for an easing of hostility thaw |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | COLD CALLS $1600: The shape of a snowflake is determined by 2 things in the cloud it's formed in: the moisture content & this the temperature |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | COLD CALLS $2000: 11-letter process in which ice turns to vapor without melting sublimation |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $600: The Times noted that this "Russia House" author left the Cold War behind for his new novel "A Most Wanted Man" John le Carré |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | AN ALLOCATION OF ALLITERATION $800: Kathryn Morris of CBS might be able to help you identify the name of these unsolved homicides cold cases |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | EAT IT $800: Naturally, Whole
Foods' 365 Organic line includes this type of oat, fruit & nut cold cereal granola |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | SEAFOOD $400: This celebrated seafood stew from Provence contains several types of fish & shellfish bouillabaisse |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | SEAFOOD $800: This word for herring & other fish that have been cold-smoked is from the same root as "copper" kippers |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | THE MIRACLE OF VINEGAR $400: A traditional remedy for a chest cold is a compress of brown paper soaked in vinegar of this fermented fruit juice cider |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Poet who may lose a finger or toe to a bitter cold condition (after stopping by woods on a snowy evening) Robert Frostbite |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | DUCK! SOUP $200: Get down! It's this Russian beet soup usually served with sour cream; it's cold, but it could stain borscht |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | AT THE DRUGSTORE $600: Breathe easier during a cold with Vicks' Cool Mist Ultrasonic one of these; it's "whisper quiet" humidifier |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | RIDING THE "RAIL"S $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video of a jetliner on the monitor.) When water particles from jet exhaust mix with cold air in the atmosphere, it forms lingering visible streams called these contrails |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew activates a light stick.) When you activate a light stick, the chemicals will then react to produce this type of cold light luminescence |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | TV GEOGRAPHY $1000: Lilly Rush of this city's P.D. tries to find the killer of each "Cold Case" Philadelphia |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | CLIFF NOTES $400: Inman is a Confederate soldier trying to get home in this Charles Frazier novel Cold Mountain |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA $400: Cold & volcanic island nation of the North Atlantic Iceland |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE $200: It's not nice to give someone the "cold" this, epaule in French shoulder |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | BEHIND THE SEUSS-IC $1000: Some libraries took this book with the Yooks & Zooks off the shelf for its references to the Cold War The Butter Battle Book |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $200: The Cold War between the U.S. & the Soviet Union is said to have begun in this year a major hot war ended 1945 |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $400 (Daily Double): In a speech in Missouri in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that this division had fallen between East & West an Iron Curtain |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $400: Ponds is a popular brand of this product for softening & cleaning the skin cold cream |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $400: The USA's long involvement in this country included an effort to prop up President Diem in 1961 Vietnam |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $800: Boundary between air masses characterized by changes in precipitation & temperature cold front |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $800: Declaring it permanently neutral, Western & Soviet forces withdrew in 1955 from this German-speaking nation Austria |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $1000: Tool nickname for the Soviet flag, lowered for the last time over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991 hammer & sickle |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $1200: The senseless, brutal murder of the Clutter family is at the heart of this work In Cold Blood |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $1600: The hypothetical mixing of atomic nuclei at a low pressure & near room temperature cold fusion |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $2000: Pro wrestler Steve Austin's nickname Stone Cold |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | SCIENTISTS $800: Some scientists predict this "seasonal" period of cold & dark weather would be the result of atomic warfare nuclear winter |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | STEPHEN, KING OF WRITING $400: Cold Mountain Penitentiary's "colorful" name of the corridor from the cells to the execution room the green mile |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | MUSICAL HEART CONDITIONS $800: The title of this song, Paula Abdul's third consecutive No. 1 hit in 1989, refers to a guy who's a snake "Cold Hearted Snake" |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | COMEDY TONIGHT $800: In 2008 David Letterman said it was so cold, this accused Wall St. Ponzi scheme operator looks forward to Hell (Bernard) Madoff |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | HE SAID, SHE SAID $1600: This "In Cold Blood" author said, "Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard & shot it" Truman Capote |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | THE TEMPEST $800: The cold phase of the weather-causing phenomenon El Niño is referred to as "La" this Niña |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | CHOW $1000: Oui! An hors d'oeuvre of raw cut-up vegetables served with a cold dip goes by this French name crudites |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GOOD EATS WITH ALTON BROWN $1000: So, you wanna freeze some broccoli, but you also wanna make sure that it stays bright green months on down the line? Well, you might want to employ this hot water–cold water process blanching |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | FUNDRAISING $600: Chilly alliterative term for phoning someone to ask for money without any prior notice cold call |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | THE AUDACITY OF BOB HOPE $600: "It's so cold" in this city "that politicians have their hands in their own pockets" Washington, D.C. |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | FICTION SCIENCE $400: In 1989 Fleischmann & Pons claimed they'd found a "cold" way to start this process--nope cold fusion |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $200: 2005, it return to bestseller list after long time, about 1959 Kansas murders, Tarzan horrified yet can't put book down In Cold Blood |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | ELVIS COSTELLO $800: Elvis was nominated for an Oscar & a Grammy for "The Scarlet Tide", a song from this 2003 Jude Law Civil War film Cold Mountain |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS $400: The lights hanging off the roof here are meant to resemble these things that can form in cold weather icicles |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: This cold-induced condition can progress dangerously from tingling to gangrene frostbite |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | ODE TO A SITCOM $1200: War & blood, blood & war / Hot Lips near cold corpses/ Comedy amidst pathos, thy name is Hawkeye M*A*S*H |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | I'M GETTING "C" SICK $400: I consider myself a unique, special person, so I'm appalled that I'm sniffling with the "common" one of these a cold |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | AUF WIEDERSEHEN $800: This physicist's temperature read extremely cold on any scale on Sept. 16, 1736 Fahrenheit |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | IN MEMORIAM 2008 $1000: This Oscar-winning director's very literary output included "Cold Mountain" & "The English Patient" Anthony Minghella |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | HOW NOVEL! $800: He oxymoronically described his 1966 book "In Cold Blood" as a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | MICROSCOPY $2000: Common nosy agent of infection seen here working on your cells a rhinovirus |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | "E" GAD! $400 (Daily Double): The name of this herb, thought by many to shorten the length of a cold, is from the Greek for "hedgehog" echinacea |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | STRIKE FORCES $1600: A holdover from the Cold War, the Spetsnaz are some of this country's elite special forces Russia |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: This "ice cold" part of an entablature fits in between the cornice & architrave frieze |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | HEY, JUDE LAW! $400: Renee Zellweger is down on the farm as Jude heads back to North Carolina in this 2003 film Cold Mountain |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | SIX FEET UNDER $4,000 (Daily Double): From one of his works, this Irish poet's epitaph is "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" William Butler Yeats |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | COLD HARD CASH $200: Scheduled for release in late 2008, the last of the commemorative state quarters will honor this state Hawaii |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | COLD HARD CASH $400: Minted from 1979 to 1981, the coin featuring her was the first depicting a woman that went into general circulation Susan B. Anthony |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | COLD HARD CASH $600: His quincentenary was celebrated with a coin in 1992 Columbus |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | COLD HARD CASH $800: In 1997 this Brooklyn Dodger got a commemorative coin as quick as you could say his name Jackie Robinson |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | COLD HARD CASH $1000: A "Benjamin" issued by it would have meant a $2 note, which showed its sec'y of state Judah P. Benjamin the Confederate States of America |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | HAVE SOME WINE $1000: You don't have to pull the feathers off this "chilly" pink sparkling wine originally from Germany Cold Duck |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | THE "OLD" DOMINION $200: Avian term for an abrupt quitting of an addictive habit cold turkey |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | WHO MIGHT HAVE SAID IT? $3,000 (Daily Double): A president in 1841:
"Honey, did I talk too long when it was so cold? Ah-choo!" William Henry Harrison |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | COLD $200: Of 12°, -12° or -112° F., the lowest-ever recorded temperature in Hawaii, back in 1979 12 degrees |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | COLD $400: At a place appropriately called Northice on this largest world island, temps dropped to -87° F. in Jan. 1954 Greenland |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | COLD $600: The coldest annual mean temp over 30 years in the U.S. was 9.3° F. in this state's town of Barrow Alaska |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | COLD $800: Charlotte Pass in this 3-named state holds Australia's cold-temperature record with -9° F. in 1994 New South Wales |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | COLD $1000: In 1954, temps at Rogers Pass in this "Treasure State" plunged to -70° F., a continental U.S. record Montana |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | HELLO, DELI! $2000: Something smells fishy--must be this chopped fish patty mixed with crumbs & eggs & served cold in a jellied broth gefilte fish |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | I'M FEELING BOOKISH $400: A phrase in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" became the title of this Capote crime book In Cold Blood |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | I'M FEELING BOOKISH $2000: In a 1932 Stella Gibbons novel, a curse binds the Starkadder family to this "chilly" title farm Cold Comfort Farm |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | HATS $200: Cold & wet conditions led him, in 1865, to make the "hat that could tame the American West" a Stetson |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $1200: Act II of "Major Barbara" opens at one of this "Army's" shelters, on a cold January morning the Salvation Army |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | TRANSPORTATION $600: During the Cold War, 2 different families escaped over the Berlin Wall using these lighter-than-air vehicles hot air balloons |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | LOTS OF STUFF $1600: A cold-causing agent, its name combines the Greek & Latin words for "nose poison" a rhinovirus |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: Using beeswax, olive oil, rose petals & water, Galen invented this skin cleanser with a "frigid" name c. 200 A.D. cold cream |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $2000: In meteorology, when a cold one has a close encounter with a warm one & takes it over, it's called an occluded one a front |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WHERE IS THAT, COMRADE? $200: Though frozen up to 6 months of each year, the Ob River is an important trade route in this cold, vast region Siberia |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | "M"MMMM $600: Meaning "froth" or "foam", it can be sweet or savory, hot or cold, or can be put in your hair mousse |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | PULP NURSERY RHYME $400: Some of it was hot; some, cold. I guessed this food had been in the pot for 9 days, like the coffee in my office porridge |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: She learned that she had been cast as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" while working at a Cold Stone Creamery store Nikki Blonsky |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | DOCTORIN' $400: A cold that lasts longer than a week may indicate inflammation of these airspaces in the skull sinuses |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew is back on the map at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Fronts are boundaries where different air masses meet; alternating red & blue lines depict this type of front with little or no movement a stationary front |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ETHIOPIAN CUISINE $400: Similar to steak tartare, kitfo is a cold ground beef dish that is served this way uncooked (or raw) |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | OLIVE OIL $400: It's pure & delicious! The oil that's the cold-pressed result of the 1st pressing of olives is extra this virgin |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A dangerous substance like asbestos that's a Madonna hit in which a "boy with the cold hard cash is...Mr. Right" hazardous Material Girl |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1600: (Jon reports again.) The Bush Library has a replica of the office at Camp David where on Feb. 1, 1992, President Bush & this Russian president pledged to end remnants of Cold War hostility Yeltsin |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | SCIENCE $200: ( Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a science lab.) The heat from the lamp causes the snake to dance, as hot air is less this five-letter term than cold air & therefore rises & spins the snake dense |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | THE 21st CENTURY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Cheyenne Mountain.) Since the end of the Cold War, the only emergency closing of these 25-ton blast doors at NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain complex was on this 21st-century date September 11, 2001 |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | COLD MOVIES $400: Peter Billingsley watches Flick get triple-dog-dared into sticking his tongue to a flagpole in this film A Christmas Story |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | COLD MOVIES $800: In the '70s, he was a hockey player in "Slap Shot" & faced a future ice age in "Quintet" Paul Newman |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | COLD MOVIES $1600: The Uruguayan rugby team has a bad day & not enough seasoning in this 1993 Ethan Hawke film Alive |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | COLD MOVIES $1,800 (Daily Double): This sequel starts on the icy planet of Hoth The Empire Strikes Back |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | COLD MOVIES $2000: The end of this John Carpenter South Pole-set film finds Keith David & Kurt Russell shivering & paranoid The Thing |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $600: "Cold Mountain":
Jude Law,
Nicole Kidman,
Renee Zellweger Renee Zellweger |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | MIDWAY $2000: In the 1950's & '60s Midway was home to crews who flew radar aircraft in this Cold War detection line the DEW line |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | HYPO-POURRI $400: Prolonged exposure to the cold causes this condition in which the body's temperature drops below 95 degrees hypothermia |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays with his own beaker.) The cold of the ice causes the air in the balloon to do this, from the Latin for "to draw in" contract |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | AMERICAN POLITICAL IDOL $1200: That March 4, 1841 inaugural address in cold drizzle took about 2 hours; mark my words, it'll be the death of him William Henry Harrison |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | IN YOUR CABINET $200: It's the "nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep you ever got with a cold... medicine" NyQuil |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | WORD ORIGINS $600: The name of this class of cold-blooded creatures comes from a word for "to creep" the reptile |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BEER COUNTRY OF ORIGIN $400: A cold Dos Equis or 2 might help get you through some of the hot nights in this country where it originated Mexico |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | IT'LL BE A COLD DAY IN HELENA $200: Of 25,000, 250,000 or 500,000, the approximate population of Helena, Montana 25,000 |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | IT'LL BE A COLD DAY IN HELENA $400: Helena sprang up after 1864, when this was found in Last Chance Gulch; the gulch is now the main street of Helena gold |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | IT'LL BE A COLD DAY IN HELENA $800: Royal "city" nickname of
Helena... &
Buffalo... &
Seattle... &
Cincinnati... the Queen City |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | IT'LL BE A COLD DAY IN HELENA $1000: 10 miles west of Helena is this 2-word geographic feature, the crestline of the Rockies the Continental Divide |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | IT'LL BE A COLD DAY IN HELENA $3,400 (Daily Double): Helena is the seat of a county named for these 2 men who passed through the area in 1805 Lewis & Clark |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | "WARM"ING $400: Proverbially, if you have cold hands, you also have this warm heart |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | STORM $400: This 2000 film was based on Sebastian Junger's bestseller about a hurricane that meets a cold front The Perfect Storm |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | TO MAKE A SHORT STORY SHORT $1600: In this author's "To Build a Fire", a man needs to, in extreme cold, but it goes out Jack London |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | A NICOLE KIDMAN FILM FESTIVAL $800: Nicole waits for her Confederate soldier boy to return from the war Cold Mountain |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | A ROMANTIC DINNER $1200: Now mi corazon, the soup; this liquid Spanish delight of chopped tomatoes, onions & spices, served cold gazpacho |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | A VISIT TO DENMARK $2,000 (Daily Double): This country gave Denmark the cold shoulder in 1944 by declaring its independence after 564 years of Danish rule Iceland |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | DEFENDING THE U.S. $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.) By carving out 700,000 tons of granite, the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was built as a protected command center over this over 40-year so-called war the Cold War |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | LITERARY OPENINGS $800: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" 1984 |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $1600: Over 5 feet tall, Pachydyptes ponderosus was a prehistoric one of these cold-weather birds a penguin |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | LET'S GO CAMPING! $800: The mummy variety of this camping equipment is perfect for cold weather sleeping bag |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $200: This brand of toy cars roared into the world in 1968 Hot Wheels |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $400: These very tight short shorts were popular in the early 1970s hot pants |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $600: "Liquid" expression meaning "to dampen the enthusiasm of" to throw cold water on |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $800: Alec Leamas is the title character of this novel, John le Carre's first masterpiece The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $1000: A nursery rhyme says, "If your daughters do not like" these, "give them to your sons" hot cross buns |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel In Cold Blood |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1990 after signing the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, this president declared the Cold War over George H.W. Bush |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Romantic poet who wrote, "St. Agnes's Eve--ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold" (John) Keats |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | ANIMALS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with a kitten.)
It's the two-word term for these animals that reflects their natural cold habitat in the mountains of Asia snow leopard |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | LANGUAGE SKILLS $1600: Seen here is this word that you should have down cold before visiting Russia, where you'll be downing it cold vodka |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | WELCOME TO OMAHA $1600: In a museum near the city you can see missiles of the S.A.C., this part of the Air Force that ended with the Cold War the Strategic Air Command |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | BABEL-ING ON $600: When you want to show deliberate indifference in Greece, throw 'em a cold omos, this body part the shoulder |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: A friend since childhood, she helped Truman Capote research "In Cold Blood" before publishing her own novel (Harper) Lee |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES $400: Country where "Dracula II: Ascension" & "Cold Mountain" were mainly filmed Romania |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | RHYMES WITH MONEY $600: Type of nose for those with a cold runny |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | NAME THAT COUNTRY $1200: It's big... and it's cold Russia |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: Cornelia, daughter of Gen. Nathanael Greene, was conceived while he was billeted at this cold Penn. site Valley Forge |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | COLD PLAY $400: For 1923's "Icebound", about Maine, Owen Davis was the fifth winner of this prize for drama the Pulitzer |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | COLD PLAY $800: In a 1963 play Shelley Winters reminisced, "I'd lay ...on my back, and swish my arms up and down" & make this title item snow angels |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | COLD PLAY $1200: This Scandinavian's "John Gabriel Borkman" takes place on a winter night in a snowstorm Ibsen |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | COLD PLAY $1600: "Go where the snow never melts away" is from the song "Lost Horizon" in the musical named for this place Shangri-La |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | COLD PLAY $2,000 (Daily Double): This James Goldman play is set in a castle at Christmas, 1183 "The Lion In Winter" |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | LUNAR LOCALES $200: The Mare Frigoris is the Sea of this Cold |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: Philip Seymour Hoffman was him, writing "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | CONNECT UP WITH CONNECTICUT $200: It's the spice in Connecticut's state nickname that you might sprinkle into your eggnog on a cold Connecticut night nutmeg |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | EDIBLE HOMOPHONES $400: I must have offended people to get this kind of reception when I arrived at the cookoff chilly (chili) |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | I'M TOMMY LEE JONES! $800: The trail rarely went cold with me on the case as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in this 1993 big screener The Fugitive |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $2000: As part of a voyage through the Northwest Passage, this Norwegian reached Nome in September 1906 Amundsen |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | RHYME GIVER $400: To shake from cold, or to shatter something, like "me timbers" shiver |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | MEET T.S. ELIOT $3,000 (Daily Double): Practical cats know that Eliot was nicknamed after this animal because his cold manner seemed like playing dead the possum |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | WHAT HAVE "V" HERE? $400: When it's time for the zazuski, be ready for fancy Russian hors d'oeuvres served with this beverage ice cold vodka |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | EMISSARY TO AMERICA $800: Vijaya Pandit saw both sides of the Cold War as ambassador of this country to the U.S. & USSR in the 1940s India |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | POPPY CULTURE $2000: Despite being named for this cold country, the poppies seen here are warmly received in the United States Iceland |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE WGA's TOP 101 SCREENPLAYS $1000: Graham Greene made the list at No. 33 with this ordinal Cold War thriller The Third Man |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | AUTO FOCUS $400: Incorporated in 1915, it designed its cars to withstand Sweden's rough roads & cold temperatures Volvo |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | YOU DO KNOW JACK $600: The personification of very cold wintry weather Jack Frost |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | SLOTH $800: Sloths are heterothermic, more commonly termed this; their body temperature can vary by 20 degrees a day cold-blooded |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $2000: The Philadelphia homicide squad that investigates old, unsolved crimes Cold Case |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | 1960s ROCK LYRICS $1600: "On a cold and gray Chicago mornin', a poor little baby child is born" here, "and his mama cries" "In The Ghetto" |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | HONEST AL TREBEK'S USED CARS $600: Never mind this carmaker's Jetta--I see you top down, stone cold chillin' in its model called the Thing Volkswagen |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: "The Constant Gardener" is based on a novel by this master of the Cold War spy thriller John le Carré |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | ALL YOU NEED IS "LAV" $400: This Turkish pastry has paper-thin dough & chopped nuts & is served with a cold honey syrup baklava |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | RHYME TIME $1200: President & later Chief Justice's cold currents of air Taft's drafts |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | FRENCH SAUCES $1600: The name of the sauce chaud-froid means this; it's prepared one way but served the other hot-cold |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Founded as a railway settlement in Kenya in the 1890s, its name comes from the Masai for "cold water" Nairobi |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | TRUMAN CAPOTE $400: 3 days after the Clutter family was murdered in this state, Capote arrived there to research "In Cold Blood" Kansas |
| #4909, aired 2006-01-05 | BOTTOMS UP! $800: This "water of life", served icy cold, traditionally accompanies the Swedish smorgasbord aquavit |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | GET OUT YOUR PHRASEBOOK $1600: "Mer er Kalt" means "I'm cold" in this language that gave us the word "geyser" for a hot spring Icelandic |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | STRUCTURES $800: The U.S. Air Force Museum's Cold War gallery is, appropriately, in a 200,000-square-foot one of these a hangar |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Ordinary viral infection of the nose & throat that symbolized the conflict between the U.S. & Russia the common cold war |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $800: A historic site in South Dakota contains the launch control facility & a silo for 1 of these Cold War ICBMs a minuteman missile |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | ON THE MAP $600: It can get cold in this country, around 40 degrees in July in Puerto Montt Chile |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | AUTUMN WORDS $1200: A small bite, a small sip or a touch of cold in the air one autumn night nip |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | INTERNATIONAL "C"UISINE $1200: On French menus, potage froid au concombre is a cold soup made from this gourd cucumber |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | BORN $800: He made his very first exploration into the cold world on July 16, 1872 in Borge, near Oslo, Norway Amundsen |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $800: A pampero is a sudden cold summer wind in this second-largest South American country Argentina |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $400: His empire collapsed after he died of a fever in 323 B.C.; guess he forgot to feed a cold Alexander the Great |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OLIVE ME $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew wanders through an ancient olive pressery on Naxos, Greece.) Cold-pressed olive oil is naturally low in this, & is classified by its ascending level of it acid |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | PAINTERS $2000: This 16th century Flemish painter depicted a cold landscape in "Hunters in the Snow" Bruegel |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER $400: In this show, Tony Manero is headed for the disco when he discovers--
Oh, no! A cold sore!! Saturday Night Fever Blister |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | NATURE $800: Much of this cold, treeless plain in the Arctic is covered by a thick growth of lichens the tundra |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | PILOTS $600: "Operation Overflight" is his account of his famous Cold War flight over the USSR Francis Gary Powers |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | MOVIE SONGS $1600: "You Will Be My Ain True Love"
(2003) Cold Mountain |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST SONGS $2,000 (Daily Double): No. 89 is this 1966 hit that John Phillips came up with on a cold winter's night in Manhattan "California Dreamin'" |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | MEDICAL MILESTONES $800: This type of surgery introduced in 1961 uses extreme cold to perform a "bloodless" operation cryogenic (or cryosurgery) |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | "COLD" CASE $400: Post-WWII conflict between the U.S. & Russia the Cold War |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | "COLD" CASE $800: A selection of sliced meat for sandwiches cold cuts |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | "COLD" CASE $1200: Adjective used to describe ruthless killers & ectothermic animals cold-blooded |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | "COLD" CASE $1600: A fever blister a cold sore |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | "COLD" CASE $2000: Abrupt withdrawal from addictive drugs cold turkey |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | GIVE AN "NCH" $800: It can mean to make white, or to boil fruit or vegetables briefly, then plunge them into cold water blanch |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $1600: If your house isn't running hot & cold, check this device that regulates the temperature a thermostat |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | THE 1980s $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Berlin, Germany.) The most visible symbol of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall was torn down by the citizens of Berlin in this year 1989 |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | MISSING VOWELS $200: Cold nation: RSS Russia |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE VEGETABLE GARDEN $1600: Insulated from cold, carrots, parsnips & other veggies classified as these have a long growing season root vegetables |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | MAYBE YOU HAVE TO BE A NUCLEAR PHYSICIST $1600: In the center of stars, the hot version of this process is going on; a cold version is still a dream fusion |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | GENERAL ED. $400: This cold region of Russia makes up about 75% of the country's land area Siberia |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $800: It might come back to you that this Civil War movie was based on a novel by Charles Frazier Cold Mountain |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | BRINGING HOME THE BACON $200: Served hot or cold, this "European" style of potato salad is made with vinegar & bacon German |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | THE CIA $1600: This 1950s CIA director was a stern Cold Warrior like his brother the Secretary of State Allen Dulles |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | LITERARY ANALYSIS $400: Exceedingly charming & cold-blooded; psychopathic; recommend isolation; oh yeah, he's a cannibal Hannibal Lecter |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | ANCIENT ROMAN STAND-UP COMEDY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from an open mic in a small club.) I tell you it was so cold today... (How cold was it?) It was so cold, I wished we were back in 64 when he was emperor. Hot times, if you know what I mean! Nero |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | '80s SONGS $1600: This Pat Benatar song says, "You come on like a flame, then you turn a cold shoulder" "Fire And Ice" |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | DR. SEUSS MEETS THE BARD, REDUX $1600: "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! I haven't been this cold in weeks!" King Lear |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | MOVIE MUSIC $200: 2 songs from this Civil War epic were nominated for Academy Awards in 2004 Cold Mountain |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | RUBY $800: On Feb. 29, 2004 she won an Oscar for playing a woman named Ruby Renée Zellweger |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Scientists call planets that are neither too hot nor too cold to support life this, after a fairy tale girl Goldilocks |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | NAME THAT MOVIE $600: 2003:
"If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me..." Cold Mountain |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | LEADING MEN $800: He plays Inman, who struggles to get home to Cold Mountain Jude Law |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | SHOW TIME $2000: Sort of documentary versions of "CSI" include A&E's "Cold Case Files" & Court TV's show These "Files" forensic |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | CAR TALK? $400: A heavy scarf (against cold, not noise) a muffler |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | WINE FOR DUMMIES $1000: "Quack" open a bottle of this sweet, sparkling wine meant for people who were raised on soda pop Cold Duck |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | 5 "C.C."s, STAT! $2000: Quite limited sympathy or Stella Gibbons' fictional farm Cold Comfort |
| #4520, aired 2004-04-09 | WHAT AILS YOU? $400: Are you always cold & tired? Have you gained some weight that you can't get rid of? This gland could be underactive thyroid |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | PEOPLE $600: May 8, 1989:
Chemist Stanley Pons stirs up science "with His Stunning Claim to Have Achieved" this cold fusion |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | MADONNA SONGS $400: A "commercial" hit:
"Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right" "Material Girl" |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE $200: Naturally, the Inuvialuit & other groups of these people froze their food to preserve it through winter the Eskimos |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE $400: Get those wings de-iced when taking off from the airport at Wainwright, Alaska, on this ocean the Arctic Ocean |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Squaw Valley, California.) I'm modeling this type of garment whose name comes from Russian for an animal's pelt a parka |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE $800: Of the lower 48, this largest Rocky Mountain state recorded the coldest temperature, -70 Montana |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE $1000: Also called pergelisol, it's the term for ground that's frozen; most of Greenland is covered with it permafrost |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | MOVIE LOCATIONS $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew in Berlin) The opening credits of this 1965 Richard Burton Cold War drama unspooled here at Checkpoint Charlie The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | NOVEL TEASE $800: 1953:
"He flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | A THANKSGIVING FEAST $200: In cold water, changed often, turkey takes about 30 minutes per pound to do this (not drown) thaw |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | POP MUSIC $1600: This Temptations song says, "When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May" "My Girl" |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | "A" MEN $600: This "Stone Cold" wrestler shares his name with TV's "Six Million Dollar Man" Steve Austin |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | PILOT TALK $800: It's not frosting on the cake, it's a bad wing condition you experience in cold weather icing |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | A SOLDIER'S STORY $2000: In Charles Frazier's novel, a wounded soldier hikes across the Blue Ridge Mountains toward this title peak Cold Mountain |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | LAGER RHYTHMS $400: London pubs have "extra cold beer" for Yanks; most Brits drink beer at a temperature called this cellar temperature |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "C" IN SCIENCE $400: Amphibians & fish are described as being poikilothermic, more popularly called this cold-blooded |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | REFRESHER COURSE $1200: Diced hard-boiled eggs are sometimes added to this cold tomato soup from Andalusia gazpacho |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | ANYTHING GOES $1200: Young Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" was inspired by this author of "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | COMMON BONDS $200: A ball,
a fish,
a cold things you catch |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $200: This organ in frogs has only 3 chambers: 2 atria & 1 ventricle heart |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $400: Earthworms have no lungs or gills; they breathe via this skin |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $600: The leatherback is the only living species of this that has free ribs & vertebrae turtle |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $800: This endangered poisonous lizard of the American Southwest is protected by law in Arizona, Utah & California the Gila monster |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $1000: This small U.S. rattlesnake is named for its peculiar way of locomotion through the desert sand sidewinder |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | TOP-RATED TV SHOWS $2000: After this TV movie that got a 46 rating on November 20, 1983, we're grateful we're not in Lawrence, Kansas The Day After |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | "SPY" MOVIES $2000: Richard Burton earned an Oscar nomination for this film version of a John le Carre novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #4331, aired 2003-06-02 | HAVE YOU HEARD THE WORD? $2000: The name of this cold, treeless region where reindeer thrive comes from a Russian word for "flat-topped hill" tundra |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | NEW DELI $2000: This deli name for cold-smoked salmon refers to a Canadian province nova (Nova Scotia) |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $1000: "Cold hands..." warm heart |
| #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 |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $1200: A Cold War launch site for these "timely" missiles in South Dakota shot onto the list in 1999 Minutemen |
| #4292, aired 2003-04-08 | TEATIME $600: Popular in the South, it's made by setting cold water & teabags in a pitcher outside & leaving them to infuse sun tea |
| #4288, aired 2003-04-02 | COLORFUL LIT $800: Much of this Stephen King serial novel takes place at Cold Mountain Penitentiary "The Green Mile" |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: This over 100-year-old group sells the "From My Cold Dead Hands" bumper sticker NRA (National Rifle Association) |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | "D" TALKS $1200: This 3-word phrase was coined during the Cold War as a schoolchild's defense against a nuclear attack "Duck and Cover" |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | GETTING SCIENTIFIC $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew) It's the process undergone by the moisture in your breath when it reaches cold air outside & becomes visible condensation |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | MAD $1000: The Cold War nuclear balance was known as "MAD", mutually assured this destruction |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $400: 1967:
Drifters Scott Wilson & Robert Blake have a killer time in Kansas In Cold Blood |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $1000: Graham Parker sang, "I get left in the cold 'cause I will search the world for" this deceiving stuff fool's gold |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $200: If you're frigophobic, you won't like your pease porridge this way cold |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | RAPS $800: This "cold" rapper also starred in the films "Friday" & "Barbershop" Ice Cube |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | KIDDY LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day" The Cat in the Hat |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | TEXAS TECH $800: Staley McBrayer of Fort Worth moved newspaper printing from the "hot" to the "cold" variety of this typesetting |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | VETERINARY AFFAIRS $200: Contrary to myth, this part of a dog doesn't need to be cold, but should usually be moist nose |
| #4202, aired 2002-12-03 | THE NEW YORKER $400: After his "In Cold Blood" ran as a 4-part series, he never published in The New Yorker again Truman Capote |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | FRIENDS IN HISTORY $200: Chandler helps Peary & Henson discover this on April 6, 1909 after he asks, "Could it be any more cold?" North Pole |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | HOMEMAKING $400: If you're washing greasy dishes, use cold water as you run this device the disposal |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | "Y" ME? $2000: This Irish poet's epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | HYPHEN $1,000 (Daily Double): More common adjective for an animal described as an ectotherm; some killers are described as it, too cold-blooded |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | PRODUCTS $1600: Warner-Lambert makes Actifed as well as this cold, cough & sinus product whose main ingredient is pseudoephedrine Sudafed |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | "HOT" STUFF $1000: On a cold day warm up at Panda Express with a bowl of this spicy & vinegary soup hot & sour soup |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | THE COLD WAR YEARS $200: This Caribbean Communist leader met Khrushchev for the first time during the 1960 U.N. General Asembly Castro |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | THE COLD WAR YEARS $400: The launching of this in 1957 shocked the west as it showed the Soviets had the edge in space technology Sputnik |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | THE COLD WAR YEARS $600: These 2 words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 by an act of Congress under God |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | THE COLD WAR YEARS $800: President Eisenhower first laid out this "Theory" of Communist expansion during a 1954 press conference Domino Theory |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | THE COLD WAR YEARS $1000: Congressional opponents of this Cold War "Plan" to aid postwar Europe called it "Operation Rathole" Marshall Plan |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | THE ELEMENTS $1000: This element used to galvanize steel is also used in lozenges to treat a cold--go figure! zinc |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | COOL! $200: "Fowl" term for an abrupt withdrawal from the use of an addictive substance cold turkey |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | COOL! $400: In 1947 Herbert Swope coined this 2-word phrase describing the political struggle between the U.S. & USSR "Cold War" |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $1000: It's a 6-letter term for a heated enclosure for growing plants in cold weather; you also might have one "of crime" a hotbed |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? $2000: This L.A. landmark will be closed for renovation from 2002 to late 2004, leaving stargazers out in the cold the Griffith Observatory |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | WORLD OF WEATHER $400: Americans grouse about cold winds from Canada; Bulgarians, about cold winds from this even larger country Russia |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | DOUBLE TALK FOOD & DRINK $600: It's the Hawaiian term for a platter of hot or cold appetizers pupu |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: Joseph Johnston caught his death of cold at the 1891 funeral of this union general who had accepted his surrender General (William T.) Sherman |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | RELAX $1600: From the French for "relax", it was the relaxation of Cold War tensions between the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. detente |
| #4028, aired 2002-02-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Disneyland ride that promotes global peace & matches featuring Stone Cold Steve Austin & the Undertaker It's a Small World Wrestling Federation |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | WINTER $1000: Physical process your breath undergoes so that you can see it on cold days condensation |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | OH, "I" GET IT $400: Two-word name
for the popular method
of cold-weather transport
seen here ice skating (ice skates) |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | I EAT A... $500: ...creamy potato & leek soup served cold that's called this vichyssoise |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | COW TIPPING $100: You can use extreme heat or the newer method of extreme cold for this type of iron to mark your cattle a branding iron |
| #3959, aired 2001-11-15 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $200: The longer they survive, the more snowmen must suffer from thermophobia, the fear of this heat |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $1000: Set during the last days of the Civil War, this debut novel by Charles Frazier is often compared to the "Odyssey" Cold Mountain |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | ICELANDIC HOTSPOTS $400: These 2 world leaders met in Iceland in 1986 to ease the heat generated by the Cold War Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: Put on some soft howling music during this season of the year when wolves mate winter |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | BODY LANGUAGE $400: The kind of icy extremities an apprehensive bridegroom gets cold feet |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | TW"EEN"S $200: This was invented to remove cold cream but was remarketed as the "handkerchiefs you can throw away" Kleenexes |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | MARS $400: Meteorites from Mars have been found on this cold continent at the bottom of the world Antarctica |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | POOCH PROVERBS $300: "A dog's nose and a maid's knees are always" this cold |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | BY THE BAY $200: Nuuk, the capital of this vast, cold island, is on a bay whose name means "bay of good hope" Greenland |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | TRU STORY $400: This book about the murder of a farm family blurred the genres of literature & crime reportage In Cold Blood |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $400: Trees figured in many of his poems, like "Birches", "Dust of Snow" & "Good-Bye and Keep Cold" Robert Frost |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | NATIONAL FOODS $400: For a picnic in Hamburg pack plenty of this tuber treat mixed with bacon & vinegar; eat it hot or cold! German potato salad |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | WORD PUZZLES $200: Better wear your parka when it's this cold:
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DEGREE
DEGREE
DEGREE three degrees below zero |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | GOURMET $600: A summer favorite, vitello tonnato is this meat served cold in a tuna sauce veal |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | THE JOY OF SIX $1000: In '77 this Lou Gramm-led group was hot when they hit No. 6 with "Cold As Ice" Foreigner |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 50 YEARS AGO $400: This country legend's "Cold, Cold Heart" hit No. 1 on the country charts on March 17, 1951 Hank Williams |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | "TILE" IT $100: A cold-blooded vertebrate Reptile |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | HAIR DON'TS $100: Don't go out in winter with hair in this condition -- you won't actually catch cold, but Mom will worry wet hair |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $300: Joel Knox is the teenage hero of this "In Cold Blood" author's novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms" Truman Capote |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | WHY? $400: To punish Vronsky for turning cold to her, & to escape from everything Why does Anna Karenina kill herself? |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | AKA $300: Steven Williams wrestles under this name worth at least $6 million "Stone Cold" Steve Austin |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | AS WE KNOW IT $600: Aberican Heritage defides it as a viral infection idflabing bucous bebrades liding upper respiratory passages Common cold |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | BODY LANGUAGE $200: To show someone your indifference, give them the "cold" one Shoulder |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | I KNOW THAT SONG $300: "They can beg and they can plead but they can't see the light... 'cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right" "Material Girl" |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | OUT FOR BLOOD $500: Truman Capote called this book about the murder of a farmer & his family a "nonfiction novel" "In Cold Blood" |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | TRANSPORTATION $400: In other news...a stowaway from Tahiti recently survived a death-defying airline flight to L.A. while hiding here Wheel well |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE WEATHER FORECAST $200: Expect cloudy days when a cold one of these catches a warm one & forms an occluded one Front |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" "1984" |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK $200: "The children say" this cold-hearted guy "could laugh and play just the same as you and me" Frosty the Snowman |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | THAT'S SOUP-ER $100: A nursery rhyme says that this soup made with peas can be enjoyed hot, cold or in the pot 9 days old Pease porridge |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | I'M NOT REALLY A SCIENTIST $1000: Elisabeth Shue masters cold fusion & Val Kilmer tries to steal the secret in this 1997 film The Saint |
| #3720, aired 2000-11-03 | SANDWICHES $200: Babe, beware: it's the cold sandwich eaten most by Americans Ham |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This "ice cold" part of an entablature fits in between the cornice & architrave the frieze |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: If you don't mind the cold, you can pan for this metal at Tankavaara in Finland gold |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | PRO WRESTLING $800: Steve Austin got this nickname when his then wife insisted he drink his tea while it was still hot "Stone Cold" |
| #3643, aired 2000-06-07 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S HUSBANDS $400: He played "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" in 1965 Richard Burton |
| #3643, aired 2000-06-07 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: "Cold" writer seen here who died in 1963: Robert Frost |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | THE FOUR SEASONS $800: The excerpt heard here depicts this dental event caused by winter cold: Teeth chattering |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $200: In November 1959 he arrived in Holcomb, Kansas to begin 6 years of research for "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #3617, aired 2000-05-02 | ANIMALS $400: In a boon to lab research, in 1956 it was found that this "golden" rodent could be infected with the common cold hamster |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | POPULAR MUSIC $300: (Hi, I'm George Clinton) Funk music traces its beginnings to songs like "Out of Sight" & "Cold Sweat" by this legend James Brown |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | IN THE W.C. $400: Een France eet ees what comez out when you turn zee andle marked "F" cold water (froid) |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | FOOD-O $300: This popular Spanish soup of chopped veggies is served cold Gazpacho |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | OPTIMISTS $1000: In 1989 scientists raised energy hopes when they claimed this nuclear reaction at room temperature cold/nuclear fusion |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | BANNED AS PETS IN NYC $100: It'll be a cold day in New York before the Department of Health allows you to keep one of these Polar Bear |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | POLAR EXPLORATION $200: Robert Peary was surprised to hear these natives accompanying him complain of cold noses Eskimos |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | WEATHER CHANNEL $200: On a weather map a line with little triangles is this type of front a cold front |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | NUCLEAR PHYSICIST'S DICTIONARY $400: It's the hypothetical fusion of atomic nuclei at a lower temperature & pressure than now required Cold fusion |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | LITERARY MANHATTAN $400: Hope you were invited to the famous Black & White Ball this "In Cold Blood" author gave at the Plaza Hotel Truman Capote |
| #3492, aired 1999-11-09 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $400: This cold bottled beverage from Starbucks comes in 3 flavors: coffee, vanilla & mocha Frappuccino |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | ACTING THE PART $1000: As The Denver Kid in a 1978 western spoof, Don Knotts was armed with "Hot Lead" & these title appendages Cold Feet |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | WAR STORIES $100: "Andersonville",
"Cold Mountain" Civil War |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $100: An earthworm has 10 of these, so the beat goes on & on & on & on... hearts |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $200: This designation for oysters came from an ancient Roman term for the 2 halves of a folding door bivalves |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $300: The Egyptian type of this snake has long moveable ribs that stretch out loose skin to form a "hood" cobra |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $400: The tuatara, a reptile of New Zealand, is known for its 3rd one of these, located on top of its brain eye |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS $500: What we call a turtle may also be a tortoise or this other "T" terrapin |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | ON THE DELI TRAY $400: Look for rye bread on the tray near this cured beef cold-cut with a name from the Yiddish pastrami |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | WHERE IS IT? $800: The cold, mineral-rich region of Siberia is found in this country Russia |
| #3419, aired 1999-06-17 | FILM FOLK $1000: Scott Wilson & Robert Blake portrayed the doomed killers in this shocking black & white classic In Cold Blood |
| #3403, aired 1999-05-26 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $100: The dwarf variety of this cold-blooded killer is seen here a crocodile |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | RUSSIAN CITIES $200: Novosibirsk & Omsk are the 2 main cities in this large, cold Russian region Siberia |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | THE COLD WAR $100: In the 1970s Linus Pauling advocated huge doses of this to battle the common cold vitamin C |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | THE COLD WAR $200: Over 100 kinds of viruses cause colds, infections of the upper part of this tract respiratory tract |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | THE COLD WAR $300: Quigley & this Chicago company have come up with a bubble gum cold treatment for kids Wrigley |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | THE COLD WAR $400: Of stress, enlarged tonsils or wet feet, the one which experts say would most likely lead to a cold stress |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | THE COLD WAR $500: Its "Plus" version for colds comes in sparkling original, orange & cherry flavors Alka-Seltzer |
| #3381, aired 1999-04-26 | "C.D."s $200: This pink sparkling wine from Germany originally included champagne Cold duck |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | NAMES IN THE NOOSE $1,500 (Daily Double): Killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickock, whose crime inspired this Truman Capote book, were hanged in 1965 "In Cold Blood" |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $400: A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $1000: As Rev. Clayton Brooks, Dick Van Dyke led a townwide effort to quit smoking in this 1971 film Cold Turkey |
| #3350, aired 1999-03-12 | TALES $800: It's Charles Frazier's bestseller about a wounded Confederate soldier struggling home Cold Mountain |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | HIPPOCRATES' MEDICAL GUIDE $1000: Hippocrates taught that cold sweats occuring with an acute one of these indicates death Fever |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | DOESN'T RHYME WITH SQUAT $100: One of your choices when your sink has 2 knobs to turn on the water Cold |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MUSICAL WEATHER $500: Rainy songs from this band include "Box Of Rain" & "Cold Rain And Snow" The Grateful Dead |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE COLD WAR $100: Some date the end of the war to December 25, 1991 when this country was dissolved Soviet Union/USSR |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE COLD WAR $200: By the end of the Cold War the population of this "sleeping giant" was over 1 billion China |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE COLD WAR $300: At the 20th party congress in February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev savagely denounced this late leader Josef Stalin |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE COLD WAR $500: The Red Scare of the 1950s destroyed many careers, including that of this father of the atomic bomb Robert Oppenheimer |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE COLD WAR $800 (Daily Double): Gamal Abdel Nasser started a Cold War crisis when he nationalized this on July 26, 1956 Suez Canal |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | NO. 1 HITS $500: No. 1 songs from her "Forever Your Girl" album include the title track & "Cold Hearted" Paula Abdul |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | PLANTS & TREES $500: The leaves of this tree are used in cold remedies & to feed koalas Eucalyptus |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | OXYMORONS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the Shakespearean play that features the speech heard here:
"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, /
... cold fire, sick health, /
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! /
This love feel I, that feel no love in this." Romeo and Juliet |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | RAIN $800: At a warm one you get regular rain; at a cold one, thunderstorms a front |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THAT'S COLD! $100: A popular dessert, it's a frozen mixture of milk products with at least 10% milk fat Ice cream |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THAT'S COLD! $200: Water freezes into ice at 32 degrees Fahrenheit & this many degrees Celsius 0 |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THAT'S COLD! $300: Though made from snow, these traditional Eskimo shelters are kept warm with heaters Igloos |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THAT'S COLD! $400: Temperatures can reach minus 90 degrees in this large eastern area of Russia that makes up 75% of the country Siberia |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THAT'S COLD! $500: Because of the cold, not much grows above this arbored "line" near the tops of mountains Tree/timber line |
| #3276, aired 1998-11-30 | PEOPLE EAT THAT? $400: Larousse reports that the moray type of this is served cold, with garlic mayonnaise eel |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | TASTE TREATS $200: Whether you like it hot or cold, borscht is a Russian soup made from these root vegetables beets |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | WEATHER $400: A boundary between 2 dissimilar air masses, it may be cold, warm or stationary Front |
| #3256, aired 1998-11-02 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $200: The punishment at the end of the novel "Crime And Punishment" is servitude in this cold region Siberia |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | IT'S A BREEZE $500: Dry & cold, the Mistral blows through this river valley in southern France the Rhône |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | BOOKS OF THE '60S $400 (Daily Double): 1966 was a bloody year with Capote's "In Cold Blood" & this Asimov tale of a trip through the bloodstream Fantastic Voyage |
| #3213, aired 1998-07-15 | FOOD STUFF $400: An Englishman might "win one for" this flattened, cold-smoked herring the kipper |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | A CHOIR OF ANGELS $200: In a J. Geils Band song, it's the reason "My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold" my angel is a centerfold |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | "C" OF LOVE $200: If you didn't show up for a blind date, you have these kind of "feet" cold feet |
| #3171, aired 1998-05-18 | IMPRESSIONS $300: Back when authors were recognizable, Rich Little did him "In Cold Blood" as Dickens' Tiny Tim Truman Capote |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | THE PENN. $100: It was this cold historic site that Von Steuben reorganized our army in February 1778 Valley Forge |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | HEAVENLY MUSIC $1000: According to a Meat Loaf song, "Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see" this Paradise by the dashboard light |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $2,000 (Daily Double): The heroine of this musical tells of her life in the following:
"I was born in a ditch by a /
Mother who left me there /
Naked and cold and too hungry to cry..." The Man of La Mancha |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | WORD ORIGINS $600: Derived from the Latin for "salted vegetables", this cold dish might be enhanced with a little oil & vinegar salad |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $400: In the Who song "My Generation", this line follows & rhymes with "Things they do look awful cold" "Hope I die before I get old" |
| #3094, aired 1998-01-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Harper Lee helped him research an article which developed into the work "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | "C"OMMON BONDS $1000: Ice,
cold,
Devonshire cream |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | OATHS $400: Term for Cold War-era oaths required of federal employees, union leaders & teachers Loyalty oath |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | LITERARY TEARJERKERS $200: In a H.C. Andersen tale, a girl has no luck selling these on a cold New Year's Eve Matches |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | TELEVISION $300: In 1996 Anthony Edwards & Eric Roberts starred in a TV adaptation of this Truman Capote tale In Cold Blood |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | COOKING $500: In novels it means to pale, as with fear; in cooking, to place food in boiling, then in cold water blanche |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | NAME THAT COUNTRY $200: Cooked sheep's head is eaten there; it gets really cold; Reykjavik is the capital Iceland |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | GET SOME SUN $1000: The sun's energy comes from this nuclear reaction at 27,000,000 deg. F. -- clearly not the cold type fusion |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | FOLKLORE $600: Proverbial lore says, "Feed a cold and" do this, although we're not sure what it means Starve a fever |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE 1980s $500: On March 23, 1989 2 chemists in Utah announced they had perfected this process -- n"ice" try Cold fusion |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | POTENT POTABLES $300: This "chilly" beverage is often made of sparkling burgundy & champagne Cold Duck |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $1000: This star of TV's "Jake And The Fatman" directed the 1965 Joey Heatherton thriller "My Blood Runs Cold" William Conrad |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1000: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984 |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | AUTHORS $600: The success of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" allowed him to quit the foreign office to write full time John le Carré |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | QUOTES $200: To Emily Dickinson, this genre "Makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me" Poetry |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | ANIMALS $100: In 1956 it was discovered that hamsters could be infected with this "common" human malady the common cold |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $400: Soba are a Japanese type of these made from buckwheat flour & served hot or cold noodles |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | CULINARY NICKNAMES $100: This cold remedy is also known as Jewish penicillin chicken soup |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | FOOD $200: Piled high with cold cuts & condiments, the Dagwood Sandwich is named for a character in this comic strip Blondie |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | SCIENTISTS $600: While a professor at Stanford in 1970 he published "Vitamin C And The Common Cold" Linus Pauling |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | THE DAKOTAS $100: In 1997 the Dakotas were declared disaster areas as the cold hit -80 degrees including this factor Wind chill factor |
| #2927, aired 1997-04-29 | LITERATURE $1000: He said it took him "Five years to write 'In Cold Blood', and a year to recover" Truman Capote |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | HERBS & SPICES $400: Menthol, an ingredient in some mouthwashes & cold medicines, comes from the oil of this herb peppermint |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | PSYCHOLOGY $600: Early psychologists identified 4 basic skin sensations: warmth, cold, pressure & this Pain |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | "NON" SENSE $200: Truman Capote based "In Cold Blood" on real events & called it this kind of novel Nonfiction |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | FOOD $300: To test if an egg is fresh, put it in a bowl of cold water; if it does this, it's old Float |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | PHOBIAS $200: A frigophobic is afraid of this, so a Frigidaire would be off limits the cold |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | ANIMALS $200: If a weasel pops by for lunch in the cold winter, you'll notice its coat is this color White |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | GERMAN CUISINE $1000: This fruit is the main ingredient in the cold soup kirschkaltschale Cherries |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Russia's Lena River lies within this large, cold eastern region of the country Siberia |
| #2770, aired 1996-09-20 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $300: Don't cry, but when its skin is "thick and tough, coming winter cold and rough" an onion |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $100: This drink consists of brandy or other liquor mixed with sugar, spices & heated water a hot toddy |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $200: Any auto thief can tell you that you do this by short-circuiting the ignition system hot-wiring |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $300: A deliberate snub a cold shoulder |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $400: In 1969 Sly & the Family Stone had a hit with this "seasonal" song "Hot Fun In The Summertime" |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $500: John le Carre wrote this 1963 novel while an officer in the British foreign service The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | COOKING $400: Craig Claiborne uses yellow tomatoes to make a "golden" type of this cold Spanish soup gazpacho |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $100: These reflecting devices won't steam up if you first run an inch of cold water in the tub mirrors |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | SOUPS & STEWS $200: Diced hard-boiled eggs & croutons are popular garnishes for this cold Andalusian soup gazpacho |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | FOOD $1000: Whether served hot or cold, this Russian beet soup should always be garnished with sour cream borscht |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | U.S. STATES $100: Alaska's state fossil is this mammoth; hey, it's cold there the woolly mammoth |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: McMurdo Sound provides a sea approach to this cold continent's interior Antarctica |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | INCREDIBLE EDIBLES $200: Joy of Cooking suggests jellying these pig extremities & serving them cold with remoulade sauce Pigs' Feet/Knuckles |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | PROVERBS $300: Completes the proverb "cold hands,..." a warm heart |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $400: Considered the first victim of the Cold War, a right wing society is named for him John Birch |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | DINING OUT $100: This kind of bar may have iceberg or romaine, cold veggies & dressings on it a salad bar |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | COLD SPORTS $100: There are penalties in this sport for fighting, tripping & slashing with the stick hockey |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | COLD SPORTS $200: Depending on the user's height, they can be 6-7 feet long & 3-4 inches wide skis |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | COLD SPORTS $300: In 1984 & 1988 she took home the gold medal in ladies' figure skating Katarina Witt |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | COLD SPORTS $400: A well-known course for this 2- or 4-man sport is the Mount Van Hoevenberg Run in Lake Placid bobsled |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | COLD SPORTS $500: In this sport granite stones are sent down a broom-cleaned, 46-yard-long, 14-foot-wide ice rink curling |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | THE COLD WAR $200: In a 1945 telegram to Truman, Churchill first used this 2-word term for a line dividing east & west the Iron Curtain |
