| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $600: Cleaning up cow manure for a king, collecting golden fruit, swiping a girdle... sounds like scenes in "Animal House", but no the labors of Hercules |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $200: To make natural rubber, start by collecting latex by cutting slits in this layer of the rubber tree the bark |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $1000: New York City's Frick Collection is a monument to the art collecting of this materialistic era, also a Twain title the Gilded Age |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | WHERE IS IT, DOC? $800: Subungual hematoma, I'm afraid--blood collecting under this a nail |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $1000: It's the fancier word for the hobby of stamp collecting philately |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | HOBBY SUPPLIES $200: Collecting gaming cards? You might want these clear covers that share a name with a clothing part sleeves |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $200: Deltiology is the hobby of collecting these greetings from around the world postcards |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | COLLECTING $200: Helixophiles collect these & are likely quite popular at wine tastings corkscrews |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | COLLECTING $400: Referring to the stuffed, cuddly variety & not the live ones, an arctophile collects these (Teddy) bears |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | COLLECTING $600: Pannapictagraphists collect comic books & don't knock it--a copy of Action Comics #1 featuring this hero sold for $3.2 million Superman |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | COLLECTING $800: Phalerists collect military medals, badges & pins; this one, given for valor & bravery, was first awarded in the Civil War the Medal of Honor |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | COLLECTING $1000: This term for a collector of seashells can also refer to a scientist who studies them a conchologist |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | FARMING $800: Seen here is this task: collecting hay from the field & packaging it into nutritious winter dinners for livestock baling |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES $800: As a conchologist, you can stroll the beaches collecting whelks, cowries or these, named for Muslim or Sikh headwear turbans |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | A CONTAINER FULL OF WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "box", it's an underground reservoir for collecting rainwater a cistern |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | MAGAZINES $200: Topps Magazine (1990-1993) was a quarterly devoted to collecting these baseball cards |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME? $2000: Although very much associated with collecting coins, this is also a term for collecting medals or paper money numismatics |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN $800: If you're in the Maldives collecting grunters & croakers, you're hauling in these fish |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | HOBBIES $400: Collecting coins can be lucrative if you have one from 44 B.C. minted by Marcus Mettius showing this Roman Julius Caesar |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $200: A waste-collecting robot helps save Earth in this Pixar film Wall-E |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | FROM THE GREEK $1200: This fancy word for the hobby of collecting coins comes partly from the Greek for "currency" numismatics |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | DOLL COLLECTING $200: 2-word term for a jointed, posable male or female character an action figure |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | DOLL COLLECTING $400: To be called this term, a doll must have been made before 1930 an antique |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | DOLL COLLECTING $600: Name of the line from Funko with dolls from Belle to Aquaman, or the kind of culture it represents Pop! |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | DOLL COLLECTING $1,000 (Daily Double): For a collectible doll, "NM" stands for this almost perfect condition near mint |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | DOLL COLLECTING $1000: 19th c. Kammer & Reinhardt dolls often have wood bodies but heads of bisque, a type of this material porcelain |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STAMP COLLECTING $400: You need 3 "M"s to spell this kind of stamp issued to honor something special commemorative |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STAMP COLLECTING $800: It's the postmark that indicates a stamp has been used the cancellation |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STAMP COLLECTING $1,000 (Daily Double): Every collection knows the French identify their airmail labels with this 2-word phrase par avion |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STAMP COLLECTING $1200: The Philatelic Beacon is a newsletter for those who like to collect stamps that depict these structures lighthouses |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STAMP COLLECTING $2000: An FDI stamp is one of these, a term commonly associated with new stamps first day of issue |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | ANTARCTICA $400: Dry valleys appear where these have retreated & wind prevents snow from collecting glaciers |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $200: You'll want to hang onto your silver dollars in this hobby AKA numismatics coin collecting |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | ANTIQUES $200: Some historians date the passion for collecting antiques from when this buried Italian city was 1st excavated c. 1748 Pompeii |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | 2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING $2000: First names of the fairy tale-collecting Grimm Brothers Jacob & Wilhelm |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | DOUBLE TROUBLE $1600: Someone collecting a retirement pension & at the same time a salary is doing this double-dipping |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | ADVERTISING ICONS $400: Some people get a giggle out of collecting figures of this advertising icon the Pillsbury Doughboy |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | A DOLL'S HOUSE $3,000 (Daily Double): In doll collecting, M.I.B. isn't "Men In Black" but this desirable condition mint in box |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | HOLIDAY $800: The tradition of kids helping kids by collecting money for UNICEF on this holiday began in 1950 in Pennsylvania Halloween |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.) Here in the Delaware countryside, a member of this prominent industrial family spent decades collecting often-overlooked early American art before turning his 175-room mansion into a museum du Pont |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | "PHIL"-OSOPHY $400: It's the hobby of collecting stamps philately |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | CARTOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS $600: bsnh refers to a basin collecting the runoff for these, the upper tributaries of a river the headwaters |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | TASTE $200: I show my exquisite taste by collecting this genre of oil painting seen here a still life |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ACTION & INACTION MOVIES $1200: This animated title robot goes about collecting trash in the year 2700 & is a sucker for musicals WALL-E |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | COLLECTIONS $1600: Ralph Isham was more interested in his mss. than his mrs.--his passion was collecting these, including James Boswell's manuscripts |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: While collecting material for "The Fountainhead", she worked without pay as a typist for a New York City architect (Ayn) Rand |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | I'M DATING MYSELF $1200: Safe rock climbing requires a partner; rockhounding, also called this, I can do solo rock collecting |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | CHAIRS $1200: Dust bunnies may be collecting under Britain's coronation chair since this was returned to Scotland in 1996 the Stone of Scone |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | U.N. OBSERVANCES $800: Can't wait for Oct. 20, World Day for this science of collecting & arranging numerical facts & data statistics |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | P.O. $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the 9-letter word for the hobby of collecting stamps philately |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | COLLECTIBLES $1600: Conchology is the study & collecting of these natural objects shells |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | COLLECTIBLES $2000: Numismatics is a fancy name for this popular hobby coin collecting |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | STAMP COLLECTING $400: She's the subject of the world's first postage stamp, seen here & issued in 1840 Queen Victoria |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | STAMP COLLECTING $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a stamp on the monitor.) In the authentication process of certain stamps, detection fluid is applied to the back, revealing this type of transparent impression a watermark |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | STAMP COLLECTING $1600: From the Latin for "remind", it's a stamp, like the civil rights one seen here, issued to honor a person, place or event a commemorative stamp |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | STAMP COLLECTING $2,000 (Daily Double): The U.S. stopped issuing this type of stamp in the 1970s, when most domestic mail was being sent that way anyway airmail |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | STAMP COLLECTING $2000: The postmark on the stamp & envelope indicates it's one of these collectibles mailed on the day it was originally issued a first day issue (a first day edition accepted) |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | SPECIAL MONTHS $1,200 (Daily Double): National UNICEF Day is observed during this month, National UNICEF Month October |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | VOCABULARY $1200: It's an 11-letter word for coin collecting numismatism |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | SPHERES $1000: Blythe, California has an area for collecting these spherical crystal-filled rocks a geode |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES $600: As seen in the picture, Franklin Roosevelt enjoyed stamp collecting, this nine-letter hobby philately |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | THE HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $400: (Kelly stands in front of several vases.) Hoover began collecting these vases when he lived in this country, & was trapped there during the Boxer Rebellion China |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | LET'S CELEBRATE! $800: Collecting money for UNICEF on this holiday was begun in 1950 by a Philadelphia Sunday school class Halloween |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | I'M BORED $2000: How about taking up a new hobby like philately, which is the collecting of these stamps |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | LET'S GO TO TALLINN $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Tallinn, Estonia.) I'm just leaving the Russian Orthodox church named for this leader who stopped Swedish & German expansion Alexander Nevsky |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | MILITARY MATTERS $1200: Aiding the English win at Crecy were people collecting these off the battlefield for reuse after each French retreat arrows |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | VOCABULARY $2000: This process of collecting data at remote points comes from the Greek for "distance" & "measure" telemetry |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | JUST RELAXING $400: This synonym for "daydreaming" can also mean collecting tufts left on bushes by sheep wool gathering |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | GIRL SCOUT BADGES $1,000 (Daily Double): For the "collecting" hobbies badge, you might get stuck on philately & collect these items (postage) stamps |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | MODERN CONVENIENCES $1000: A crumb-collecting box with a hinged lid is called the "silent" type of this servant butler |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $200: Long-handled garden tool for collecting boas & pythons snake rake |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | HOT JOBS $1000: This job of collecting & analyzing numerical data applies to baseball as well as biology Statistician |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $400: Sam Wagstaff, a major collector of this visual art that uses silver, later turned to collecting silver photography |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | ANIMAL GROUPS $1000: We're not splitting these, we're collecting them into a group -- a husk Hares |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $200: Both England's King George V & FDR put their stamp of approval on this "king of hobbies" philately (stamp collecting) |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: The American Numismatic Association is the world's largest group devoted to collecting these Coins |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | ROCK COLLECTING $100: The crack, chisel & sledge types of these tools are useful in the field hammers |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | ROCK COLLECTING $200: It's the canine nickname for an amateur geologist rockhound |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | ROCK COLLECTING $300: Diluted in water, this chemical, HCI, can be used to dissolve calcite deposits on specimens hydrochloric acid |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | ROCK COLLECTING $400: This finishing process can be done by hand with silicon carbide or with a tumbling machine polishing |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | ROCK COLLECTING $500: A mineral has this property if it glows under ultraviolet light fluorescence |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | IN THE DICTIONARY $100: A bibliomaniac is obsessed with collecting these items Books |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | C IS FOR... $500: Coin, & this is the term for the collecting of coins Numismatics |
| #2696, aired 1996-04-29 | MUSIC $200: Bela Bartok & Zoltan Kodaly trekked around the hinterlands of this country collecting Magyar songs Hungary |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | MAKE YOUR MARK $100: There's a magazine devoted to collecting these celebrity signatures autographs |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | HOBBIES $400: This term for collecting postage stamps comes in part from Greek for "exemption from payment" philately |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | APOSTLES $600: Jesus found him sitting at the receipt of custom, which means collecting taxes Matthew |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: These brothers studied law at the University of Marburg before they started collecting folk tales the Brothers Grimm |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | ANAGRAMS $500: Nina's hobbies are pressing petals in a scrapbook & collecting these items of tableware plates (for petals) |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | ORGANIZATIONS $300: The American First Day Cover Society is one of many organizations devoted to this hobby stamp collecting |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | NONFICTION $800: An art enthusiast, this billionaire oilman wrote "Collector's Choice" & "The Joys of Collecting" Jean Paul Getty |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $300: Heloise makes a bug collecting cage with a half-gallon milk carton & an old nylon one of these a stocking |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | MONEY MATTERS $600: This division of the Treasury Department is responsible for collecting excise as well as income taxes the I.R.S. |
| #1892, aired 1992-11-24 | HOBBIES $200: Philography is the hobby of collecting these, whether it's Mozart's or President Bush's autographs |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: This Commerce Dept. agency is best known for collecting & publishing population statistics the Census Bureau |
| #1647, aired 1991-10-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: It's a person who makes his living collecting & analyzing numerical data a statistician |
| #1561, aired 1991-05-20 | SILLY SONGS $500: This song about collecting hard-shelled fruit in spring is sung to the same tune as "Mulberry Bush" "Here We Go Gathering Nuts In May" |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | SPELLING $500: In their free time, some students dabble in this hobby of stamp collecting P-H-I-L-A-T-E-L-Y (**P-H-I-L-A-T-E-L-I-S-M) |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | STAMP COLLECTING $200: Issued in 1840 the first adhesive stamp, the penny black of Britain, bore a portrait of this queen Victoria |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | STAMP COLLECTING $400: Some people collect only these envelopes with stamps cancelled on the first day of issue first-day covers |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | STAMP COLLECTING $600: A few drops of benzene should reveal this design or figure impressed into the stamp paper the watermark |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | STAMP COLLECTING $800: The bible of American philately is the standard catalogue published by this company Scott Publications |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | STAMP COLLECTING $1000: He was the only serious philatelist among our 40 presidents FDR |
| #1021, aired 1989-01-30 | ROCKS & MINERALS $200: "Canine" phrase used to describe rock collecting enthusiasts rock hound |
| #919, aired 1988-09-08 | MAMMALS $200: The bushy-tailed wood rat is also called this, from its habit of collecting things a pack rat |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | COLLECTABLES $200: N.Y. Magazine's "The Boychiks of Summer" was about collecting cards of Jewish players in this sport baseball |
| #596, aired 1987-03-23 | HOBBIES $300: Hobby whose tools include aerial nets, killing jars & pins bug (insect) collecting |
| #552, aired 1987-01-20 | FOOD & DRINK $500: Collecting a string of these pickled "gems" may get you pickled yourself pearl onions |
| #406, aired 1986-03-31 | COLLECTIBLES $400: This postal product is claimed to be 3rd largest collecting hobby postcards |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | COLLECTIBLES $400: These souvenirs from Europe might include a cuchara from Spain & a cuillère from France collecting spoons |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | COLLECTIBLES $500: In a 1965 movie they're what "The Collector" collected before collecting Samantha Eggar butterflies (moths) |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | TAX FACTS $200: Of half, one or three percent, the gov't. cost of collecting income tax one half |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | CHILDREN'S CLASSICS $100: Charles Perrault is among those credited with collecting this mama bird's rhymes Mother Goose |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | TELEVISION $500: Paul Anka's been collecting royalties for this for over 5,700 nights the Tonight Show theme |
