#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AROUND THE ATLANTIC $1200: The city of Colón is this country's major Atlantic port Panama |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | WHAT A BODY $800: The colon is the major part of this "large" body tube the large intestine |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: A colonoscopy can diagnose cancer as well as this condition where pockets develop in the sides of the colon diverticulitis |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL $1200: Follow in Darwin's footsteps & study the wildlife on these islands also called the Archipiélago de Colón the Galápagos |
#8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FROM TV SHOW TO FILM $200: Not Jim Phelps but Ethan Hunt is the team leader played by this actor in the big screen versions of "Mission Impossible" Tom Cruise |
#8270, aired 2020-10-30 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $800: It's about 5 feet long & includes the cecum & the colon the large intestine |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $1000: Colón, founded in 1850 Panama |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $1000: The USS Massachusetts & the Cristóbal Colón, which exchanged fire outside Santiago de Cuba the Spanish-American War |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | THE IRISHMAN $2000: Concerned about colon cancer, Dr. Dennis Burkitt changed eating habits with his 1979 book "Don't Forget" this "In Your Diet" Fiber |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $1000: Back in 1917 the president of Argentina announced an Oct. 12 holiday called not Columbus Day but this "Dia" Dia de la Raza |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FOREIGN MONEY $800: This currency of El Salvador gets its name from Christopher Columbus the colon |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | AROUND THE CARIBBEAN $1600: This 5-letter Panamanian city sits on Limón Bay near the Caribbean entrance to the canal Colón |
#7815, aired 2018-07-27 | THE U.S. CONGRESS WITH NANCY PELOSI $1200: (Nancy Pelosi reads the clue.) Nonvoting members of Congress include Eleanor Holmes Norton representing Washington, D.C. & Jenniffer González-Colón serving this hurricane-devastated island Puerto Rico |
#7562, aired 2017-06-27 | GENRES $2000: "Siembra" from bandleader Willie Colón was once this genre's bestselling album salsa |
#7494, aired 2017-03-23 | WHERE IS IT? $2,000 (Daily Double): The Plaza de Colon, this world capital Madrid |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | I LIKE YOUR COLÓN $200: Descendants of those who worked on a big dig are the main populace of Colón, this country's major port Panama |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | I LIKE YOUR COLÓN $400: Currency traders know the "CRC" on their computer screens is this country's colón Costa Rica |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | I LIKE YOUR COLÓN $600: El Día de Colón is a Spanish name for a U.S. holiday in this month October |
#7324, aired 2016-06-16 | HISPANIC SINGERS $2000: "Siembra" by Willie Colon & this Panamanian actor, singer & politician is one of the bestselling salsa albums of all time Rubén Blades |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | COUNTRIES' PROVINCES $1000: Colon &
Darien Panama |
#7106, aired 2015-07-06 | ALSO A KEYBOARD KEY $1,600 (Daily Double): This part of the large intestine extends from the cecum colon |
#7060, aired 2015-05-01 | "OLO" $200: It can be a punctuation mark or a part of your digestive system the colon |
#7016, aired 2015-03-02 | IT BORDERS BRAZIL $200: Smell the coffee! This country's highest peaks are the nearly 19,000-foot Simon Bolivar & Cristobal Colon Colombia |
#7014, aired 2015-02-26 | THE BLUES $1600: The first Friday in March is Dress in Blue Day to raise awareness of cancer of this largest part of the large intestine the colon |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE $1200: Formal quotations are introduced by one of these punctuation marks a colon |
#6823, aired 2014-04-23 | THE BODY $800: After 50 you might want to get an -oscopy of this longest segment of the large intestine the colon |
#6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANATOMY $1,600 (Daily Double): The sigmoid section of this part of the digestive tract is named for its "S" shape the colon |
#6569, aired 2013-03-21 | CURRENCY SPECULATION $2000: Maybe El Salvador considered the cristobal as its currency before choosing this Colón |
#6569, aired 2013-03-21 | TAKING A "DIVE" $2000: Pain in the lower left side of the abdomen & fever are symptoms of this 14-letter inflammation of the colon diverticulitis |
#6491, aired 2012-12-03 | MOUNTAIN DO $1,500 (Daily Double): Appropriately, the highest mountain peak in this South American country is Pico Cristobal Colon Colombia |
#6470, aired 2012-11-02 | SCIENCE "C" STUFF $1200: Body talk:
a discussion of the ascending this:
it extends upward on the right side of the abdominal cavity: get it? the colon |
#5843, aired 2010-01-27 | LET'S PUNCTUATE $800: When writing a time of day in the U.S., it separates the hours & minutes a colon |
#5759, aired 2009-10-01 | PUNCTUATION $1,400 (Daily Double): Suspension points is another term for this indication of a pause an ellipsis |
#5621, aired 2009-02-02 | IT AIN'T BRAIN SURGERY $1600: Today we examine this 5-foot-long part of the large intestine, specifically, its S-shaped sigmoid part the colon |
#5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $400: Colon had treated me well, & I bid this Central American country & its divine waterway a fond adios Panama |
#5509, aired 2008-07-17 | FROM THE GREEK $5,000 (Daily Double): The punctuation mark is from the Greek for "limb"; the organ is from the Greek for "large intestine" a colon |
#5493, aired 2008-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Meaning "double point", the German doppelpunkt refers to this mark of punctuation the colon |
#5449, aired 2008-04-24 | MOVIE TAGLINES $200: 1993;
"A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins." The Fugitive |
#5343, aired 2007-11-28 | "MAC" OR "P.C." $400: It runs 41 miles from Colon on the Atlantic to Balboa on the Pacific the Panama Canal |
#5249, aired 2007-06-07 | ANATOMY $1600: It includes the ascending colon & the sigmoid colon large intestine |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS $1000: Pico Cristobal Colon Colombia |
#4749, aired 2005-04-07 | PANAMANIA $800: Fittingly, Cristobal is the port area of this city named for an explorer Colon |
#4704, aired 2005-02-03 | GRAMMAR $400: Used to mark a major division in a sentence, it shares its name with a section of your large intestine a colon |
#4577, aired 2004-06-29 | ANATOMY $800: Diverticulitis is a common disease of this 5-foot-long section of the large intestine the colon |
#4538, aired 2004-05-05 | EXPLORERS $400: After moving to Spain in 1485 he used Colon, the Spanish version of his name Columbus |
#4445, aired 2003-12-26 | PEAKING AT NAMES $1,200 (Daily Double): Appropriately, Pico Cristobal Colon is the highest peak in this South American country Colombia |
#4297, aired 2003-04-15 | MARKS $400: On the Internet, these three marks separate http from www a colon & two slashes |
#4255, aired 2003-02-14 | NECCO SWEETHEARTS $400: In 2001 a colon & right parenthesis were put together to create this design on a heart happy/smiley face |
#4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $400: In human anatomy the colon is part of this major body system digestive system |
#4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $800: In this form of literature, a colon is a certain sequence of feet poetry |
#4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $1200: Quantities being separated by the colon seen here hours & minutes |
#4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $1600: The Colon Classification system is used by some of these in India (We get Dewey-eyed just thinking of it) librarians |
#4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $2000: In math, a colon denotes this a ratio (or a proportion) |
#3782, aired 2001-01-30 | ARCHIPELAGOS $800 (Daily Double): Ecuador calls this island group Archipielago de Colon Galapagos Islands |
#3581, aired 2000-03-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "double point", the German doppelpunkt refers to this mark of punctuation the colon |
#3550, aired 2000-01-28 | A PERFECT LETTER $200: In a business letter, this punctuation mark often replaces a comma after the salutation a colon |
#3404, aired 1999-05-27 | NUTRITION $400: For proper colon health, it's been suggested that everyone get 20-35 grams per day of this, both soluble & insoluble forms fiber |
#3207, aired 1998-07-07 | THE COLON $200: The colon is the largest part of this "large" organ the large intestine |
#3207, aired 1998-07-07 | THE COLON $400: As its name indicates, the hepatic flexure is a bend in the colon just below this organ the iver |
#3207, aired 1998-07-07 | THE COLON $600: The colon is part of this "canal" whose name is from Latin for "to nourish" the alimentary canal |
#3207, aired 1998-07-07 | THE COLON $800: In a Mark Leyner title, "My Cousin" is this type of doctor, who treats diseases of the colon a gastroenterologist |
#3207, aired 1998-07-07 | THE COLON $1000: These 2 adjectives, for the first & third major segments of the colon, might also apply to climbers ascending & descending |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | TOUGH GEOGRAPHY $600: Provinces of this country include El Oro, Chimborazo & Colon or the Galapagos Islands Ecuador |
#2896, aired 1997-03-17 | ON-LINE LINGO $200: The emoticon made up of a colon, a hyphen & a right parenthesis stands for this happy face/smiley |
#2729, aired 1996-06-13 | THE BODY HUMAN $100: This part of the large intestine is divided into ascending, transverse, descending & sigmoid sections colon |
#2653, aired 1996-02-28 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $500: 9-letter surgical term for the creation of an artificial opening in the colon a colostomy |
#2634, aired 1996-02-01 | TAKE THE "EL" $600: This country's currency is the colon El Salvador |
#2598, aired 1995-12-13 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $300: When you write out the time in numbers, this punctuation mark separates the hours & minutes colon |
#2586, aired 1995-11-27 | ISLANDS $300 (Daily Double): Noted for their wildlife, these islands are also known as the Archipielago de Colon the Galapagos |
#2367, aired 1994-12-13 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: A famous opera house, Teatro Colon, is located in this Argentine capital Buenos Aires |
#2184, aired 1994-02-17 | COMMON BONDS $500: Krone,
colon,
quetzal monies |
#2037, aired 1993-06-15 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: This part of the large intestine is especially subject to diverticulitis the colon |
#1969, aired 1993-03-11 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Pico Cristobal Colon is the highest peak in this country named for Cristobal Colon Colombia |
#1964, aired 1993-03-04 | OPERA AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Teatro Colon has been called the most important opera house on this continent South America |
#1895, aired 1992-11-27 | ANATOMY $600: The appendix is attached to one end of this organ colon (or large intestine) |
#1732, aired 1992-02-25 | PUNCTUATION MARKS $500: You'll commonly find this mark before a list or after a business letter's salutation colon |
#1689, aired 1991-12-26 | COINS $800: The colon of El Salvador & Costa Rica was named for this explorer Christopher Columbus |
#1624, aired 1991-09-26 | THE HUMAN BODY $1000: This largest part of the large intestine includes sections called the transverse & descending the colon |
#1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: "Doppelpunkt", which is German for "double point", refers to this punctuation mark a colon |
#1454, aired 1990-12-20 | FOREIGN EXCHANGE $800: This monetary unit of El Salvador is named for Christopher Columbus the Colon |
#1301, aired 1990-04-09 | "C" CITIES $300: A Panamanian town, Cristobal, meaning "Christopher", is next to this town, whose name means "Columbus" Colon |
#1210, aired 1989-12-01 | THE HUMAN BODY $400: It's the widest part of the alimentary canal the stomach |
#1135, aired 1989-07-07 | INTERNATIONAL TRIVIA $1000: Known for their unusual wildlife, these Pacific islands are also called the Archipielago de Colon the Galapagos Islands |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | GRAMMAR $400: This punctuation mark is most frequently used after the salutation in a business letter colon |
#1041, aired 1989-02-27 | CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $400: In Spanish his name was Cristobal Colon, & in Italian, this Christoforo Colombo |
#900, aired 1988-07-01 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Colon & Balboa are the 2 major ports at either end of this the Panama Canal |
#871, aired 1988-05-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): It makes sense that the highest point in this South American country is the Pico Cristobal Colon Colombia |
#756, aired 1987-12-14 | MONEY $400: The currency of El Salvador & Costa Rica, the colon, is named in honor of him Columbus |
#712, aired 1987-10-13 | NOTORIOUS $200: Luis Colon, grandson of this explorer, was banished to Africa, apparently for having 3 wives Christopher Columbus |
#338, aired 1985-12-25 | THIRD WORLD CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Either of the 2 port cities on either end of the Panama Canal named for explorers Balboa (or Colon) |
#123, aired 1985-02-27 | HISTORY $200: The Spanish call him Cristobal Colon Christopher Columbus |