| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Before his Rose Period, Picasso went through a period named for this color blue |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $1000: Porphyrophobia:
This, literally, also the title of a 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel the color purple |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS $1200: An octopus can change the pigment of its skin in one fifth of a second, despite the fact that all octopuses have this vision deficiency color blindness |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1600: "B":
This pigment gives bile its yellowish color & can lead to gallstones bilirubin |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: For hair color, it can describe Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner, or it can be an iconic series of Ferrari models a Testarossa |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $600: In "The Color Purple", the role of Mary Agnes, known as Squeak was played the singer who goes by this name H.E.R. |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $1000: Girls' names derived from the color white include Alba & this one, like a character in "The Taming of the Shrew" Bianca |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | SOUP'S ON $200: The name of caldo verde, a hearty Portuguese soup, means this color broth green |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | STARTS WITH "P" $1200: A fun color "hiding" in the bottom layer of hair is known as this, named like a game played with an infant peekaboo |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $2000: In 1999 Pantone named this peaceful 8-letter shade of sky blue its first color of the year & of the millennium cerulean |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: A Knoxville color that's also a hit country song is served as a high grade tea from Sri Lanka & India Tennessee Orange Pekoe |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | OCEANOGRAPHY $1600: There are about 6,000 species of this color algae, division Rhodophyta, including laver & dulse red algae |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FROM THE FRENCH $1000: The U & the E at the end of this adjective meaning indecent or off-color combine to make an "A" sound risqué |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $800: The purpose of Van Halen's rider saying no to the brown color of this candy was to ensure their complicated contract got read M&M's |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1,000 (Daily Double): Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one? amethyst |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $1000: Time to drink in this hearty reddish color... ohhhh yes... bold, with a hint of je ne sais quoi burgundy |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $200: The circle with the white "F" for Facebook is this color because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind blue |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $600: In the 1780s the Dutch Patriot movement briefly forced the house of this color from power & declared carrots treasonous orange |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $800: Unlike any human's, the great horned owl's driver's license would say its eyes are this color gold (yellow) |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $1000: A "fuchsia pink" & "purplish red" describe this color that has the French name of a fruit cerise |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | PUT ON YOUR HELMET! $1600: This daredevil, who strongly supported mandatory helmet laws, wore helmets inscribed with the phrase "color me lucky" Evel Knievel |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $200: Seen here, this insect's spots & bright color signal to predators that it will taste really bad if eaten the ladybug |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | FOR THE GRAM $1000: An account documenting the ruin of communities of color by practices like redlining is called this sinister policy "by design" segregation |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $1000: These can be purple to black in color, sour right off the tree, but good in a jam or pie elderberries |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $1200: It can be something especially desirable, or a dark reddish purple color plum |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | YELLOW STONE $1600: Named for its lemony yellow color, it's one of two birthstones for November citrine |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $200: If you "paint the town" this color, you're out having a good time red |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $600: Always in fashion is this type of coat; the name referring to the color & the hair it's traditionally made from camel |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FLOWERS $400: It's noted for the size & color of its autumnal flowers the chrysanthemum |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SCIENCE $200: The Lumières' autochrome color photo plate used a layer of dyed starch particles from these vegetables potatoes |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $800: Its school color is crimson & that's the veritas Harvard |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $400: This color appears in the names of two different MLB teams--one in the northeast, one in the Midwest red |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE EYES HAVE IT $800: The most common form of color blindness affects a person's ability to see shades of red & this color green |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $600: Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field... and don't notice it" (Alice) Walker |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $400: Degas often worked with these chalk-like sticks of powdered pigment whose name also means delicate in color pastels |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $600: A color or the fragrant flower seen here lilac |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $200: Modern cheerleading icon Lawrence Herkimer patented these classic cheer props with the advent of color TV in mind pom-poms |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $1000: 2013:
"____ Is the Warmest Color" Blue |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | "THE" MOVIE $1200: "The Color of Money" was a sequel to this 1961 movie The Hustler |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | POTPOURRI $800: Travel guides dubbed the area seen here this color coast; the name of the color comes from the country it's in the Turquoise Coast |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | FOUND IN ROY G. BIV $800: Due to fear of communism, in the 1950s this color was followed by "Legs" to make a new baseball team name Red |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FUNGUS AMONG US $600: Perhaps due to its reddish-brown color, a fungal plant disease shares its name with this pesky end product of iron oxidation rust |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE USTA $200: USTA youth tennis progression goes
red: age 5-7,
orange: 7-9,
green: 9-11,
the colors referring to this the color of the balls they play with |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | BOARD GAMES $500: In Monopoly, Boardwalk is in the same color group as this alliterative property Park Place |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | FRANKLY $600: Frank Ocean's first label album was "Channel" this color, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts Orange |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $1000: This slow-moving creature is common in the Pacific Northwest; its name is apt considering its yellow color a banana slug |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: From Greek for "color", it means pertaining to color, or to a musical scale that's been modified chromatic |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE SPORTING NEWS $1000: Named for the color of their uniforms, the All Blacks are New Zealand's national team in this, the national sport rugby |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $200: After writing for "In Living Color", Larry Wilmore was the "Senior Black Correspondent" on this Jon Stewart show The Daily Show |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $400: This actor-singer starred in the movies "Day Shift" & "Baby Driver" & crooned on "Slow Jamz" & "Gold Digger" (Jamie) Foxx |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $600: Her documentary "Halftime" covers the journey to her performance at the Super Bowl in 2020 Jennifer Lopez |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $800: Jim Carrey said, "Good afternoon, good evening & good night" in this 1998 film The Truman Show |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $1000: Seen here, this actor won his first Tony Award for his performance in "A Soldier's Play" David Alan Grier |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | WELCOME TO OUR FRUIT STAND $600: Yup, those are ready to eat: you can quote me, Bartlett these get lighter in color as they ripen pears |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $200: A bright color palette that was big in the '80s & has made a comeback on the festival scene is called this, like a noble gas neon |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | 5 ABOUT 4 $800: Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible, the one representing war rides this color horse red |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: This purplish red color is from the French word for "chestnut" maroon |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: The ribbon moray species of this fish is born male but later changes its color & its sex an eel |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: As with flamingos, the scarlet species of this bird of South America gets its color from the crustaceans that it eats an ibis |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | BIRTHSTONES $800: Composed of hydrated silica, this October birthstone is known for its play of color opal |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE $1000: It's the 2-word "global" name for the bridge's color, chosen to stand out from sea & sky international orange |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $400: In 2008 it became the first German political party with an ethnically Turkish leader the Green Party |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $600: This Pulitzer Prize-winner: Celie, who writes letters to God & to Nettie The Color Purple |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $800: Colorful name of the social insect seen here that commonly builds concealed nests underground a yellowjacket |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $1200: The Detroit Pistons' tenure at the palace of this suburb began in the championship season of 1988-89 & ended in 2017 Auburn Hills |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $1600: The Orange Free State is a historic region that became a province of this country in 1910 South Africa |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $2000: From the color of their cloaks, this order is also known as the Black Friars the Dominicans |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | THIS & THAT $1600: The name of this color of unbleached linen is French for "raw" ecru |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $200: Enzo Ferrari is said to have quipped, "Ask a child to draw a car, & certainly he will draw it" in this color, a Ferrari favorite red |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CAT BREEDS $1600: This color follows "Russian" in the name of a cat breed with grayish fur Blue |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $400: You are "in" this color if you're insolvent; try & fix that, will you? the red |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: Twist & fold your fabric, bind it with rubber bands & then color with groovy pigments in this activity tie-dyeing |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $400: In 1954 "Shane" got the award for Color this; "From Here to Eternity", for Black & White Cinematography |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $400: Philosopher's Path in Kyoto is a top spot to see Sakura, this tree's blossoms, burst with color during their spring festival cherry |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | NOVELS $5,600 (Daily Double): The mysterious Anne Catherick strongly favors a certain color in this novel by Wilkie Collins The Woman in White |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $200: Artists like Joan Miró used drawing sticks called these, also a term for any soft shade of color pastels |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FLYING COLORS $200: Benjamin Moore's paint called this, also an airline, is a dark sapphire; the airline's planes do have the appropriate tailfin color jet blue |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | "P"OTPOURRI $2000: More obscure than plum is this other dark purple color with a 4-letter name puce |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | FANCIFIED BEASTLY IDIOMS $1000: The Appaloosa with alternate pigmentation a horse of a different color |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $200: The color of the statue comes from oxidation of this metal; the museum has a model of the foot, in its original color copper |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $200: In song, "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, & everything you do, yeah, they were all" this yellow |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $400: This frothy mall beverage with egg whites as an ingredient bears the first name of a Mr. Fried Orange Julius |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $600: The amazingly named Remember Baker was part of this 1770s militia that was also called the Bennington Bob the Green Mountain Boys |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $1000: Gandhi's first campaign of non-violent resistance in British India focused on the Planters of this, a vat dye indigo |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $1,500 (Daily Double): The highest point in South Carolina, the 3,560-foot Sassafras Mountain is part of this Appalachian range the Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | HAIR OF THE DOG $400: On Labradors, this sweet coat color ranges from medium brown to dark brown chocolate |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This adjective means having only one color monochromatic |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | FASHION $1000: Look for clothes & shoes in this vivid purplish red named for an Italian town; Pantone named it 2023's color of the year magenta |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $800: Prop bets for this 2022 event:
How many ads will have a dog, & what color liquid will be poured on the coach the Super Bowl |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | POTENT "P"OTABLES $800: Grenadine syrup gives the color to this feminine gin & egg white cocktail a pink lady |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $800: Making Whoopi age several decades The Color Purple |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $1200: Originally self-published in 1970, this guide for job-hunters & career-changers has sold more than 10 million copies What Color is Your Parachute? |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WHITES & COLORS $800: Seen here is the flag of this country, the largest in Africa; green is the color of Islam & the white symbolizes purity Algeria |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $300: Australian writer K. Langloh Parker wrote of the brothers who became swans & then got feathers of this color from crows black |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $800: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Travel is the theme in what our teams came up with for this book that says, "You can steer yourself any direction you choose" Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $400: This legendary actor & his legendary blue eyes--which, by the way, were color blind--awaited "The Verdict" as Frank Galvin Paul Newman |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $400: Buccaneers abandoned people on islands this way that begins with a color marooned |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In the 1950s, she broke the color barrier in tennis & became the first Black American to win a Grand Slam tournament (Althea) Gibson |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In the novel of the same name, Alice Walker wrote, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by" this "in a field... and don't notice it" the color purple |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | HOBBY SUPPLIES $600: The item seen here, known as a color checker, is primarily used by these hobbyists a photographer |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: In 1947 he broke the color barrier & became the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball (Jackie) Robinson |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism (Alice) Walker |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: O. vulgaris, a species of this cephalopod, can change its skin color thanks to pigment-bearing cells octopus |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | HAIR $200: The name of this fairy tale girl who breaks into the home of the 3 bears suggests her hair color Goldilocks |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $200: Buying this traditional April birthstone?
Remember, cut, color, clarity & carat are its "4 Cs" a diamond |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "GO" INTO THE DICTIONARY $1500: A color between blue & violet indigo |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | AS CREDITED ON THEIR IMDb PAGE $400: Fly Girl on "In Living Color" & Ricki in "Gigli" Jennifer Lopez |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $600: Pumpernickel can get its color from this thick brown syrup that comes from raw sugar molasses |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | 40 YEARS OF USA TODAY $400: The New York times ("The Gray Lady") remarked on USA Today's "brazen" use of this, in all 4 sections from July 2, 1984 color |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: Most species of this color-changing lizard are native to Africa, like Botswana's flap-necked variety chameleons |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This word for a political aspirant comes from Latin for "white", the color of their togas in ancient Rome candidate |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $200: If you've been afflicted by the green-eyed monster, you're guilty of this jealousy |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $400: This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick the blue flu |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $600: If you're cowardly, you can be lily-livered or this other hyphenated term mentioning a nearby body part yellow-bellied |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | TROPHY HUSBAND $800: When he won Best Director at Cannes for "After Hours", he was married to Barbara de Fina, who produced his "The Color of Money" Martin Scorsese |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $800: This annoying condition is also known as conjunctivitis pink eye |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $1000: Seen here, this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life red tide |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | 4,4 $200: A service branch is in the name of this dark color navy blue |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MODEL BEHAVIOR $1600: The cosmetics line for women of color launched by this Somali-born model in 1994 is still going strong Iman |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | SOUNDS SMART $800: There are 2 "L"s in the middle of this word that can refer to spectacular color, sound or smarts brilliant |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | "X"s & "O"s $600: It's the natural color & appearance of your face complexion |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS $800: Made with espresso, it's named for resembling the color of a certain friar's habit cappuccino |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | RED ALL OVER $1000: This word for red wine, now especially Bordeaux wine, can also mean a reddish color claret |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM $200: In 2022 France passed a law that reduces nitrites, the chemicals that make cured ham this color inside instead of gray pink |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | SADJECTIVES $400: P.G. Wodehouse wrote, "I am all alone here and rather" this color traditionally used to describe sadness blue |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE $2000: It's used in photography & filmmaking to adjust color a gel |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $200: Per an Alice Walker novel, God will be mad if you don't notice it in a field the color purple |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | ANIMAL ANAGRAMS $800: In summer this weasel is the color of toast a stoat (from toast) |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEAR-POURRI $1000: On this Netflix show students of color deal with life at Winchester University Dear White People |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | ORANGES $600: Ignition Orange is a special edition color of this truck brand named for a male animal a Ram |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ADJECTIVES $800: It describes the brownish color of the quartz seen here, as well as some great U.S. mountains smoky |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | OUR BRAND'S ON THAT $1600: The 2600 "Video Computer System" for gaming, with a switch to select color or black-&-white TV Atari |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $800: As a gas, oxygen is colorless, but in liquid form it's this color blue |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | PURPLE REIGN $800: 1980s moviegoers were moved by this film that was "introducing Whoopi Goldberg as Celie" The Color Purple |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | ACCURATE $1200: Accurate archers at the Olympics try to hit the centermost ring on the target, which is this color yellow |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It describes a gradation of color, or color itself hue |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ACRONYMS $800: BIPOC:
an umbrella term for certain humans Black, Indigenous, & People of Color |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $600: Aubergine means eggplant or something of this color purple |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $800: Also the name of a big brown potato variety, this 6-letter word refers to a brownish color russet |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $1000: In heraldry, this word means "silver" or simply "white" & is the color of the unicorn here argent |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $1200: A gorget is a patch of distinctive color on this part of certain birds like hummingbirds the throat |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $200: In 1849 the last issue of a newspaper Karl edited wasn't black & white, but this all over; he defiantly used that color ink red |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | FUN WITH FLAGS $2000: The flag of Palau uses a similar design as, but a different color palate than, this country, independent since 1971 Bangladesh |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT WAS ALL PURPLE $800: In the 1890s purple became an official color for this entire Illinois university, not just the sports teams Northwestern |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | SURNAMES $400: A common Italian surname, Rossi comes from a word for this, be it hair color or complexion red |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | FASHION $200: The dress code for players at Wimbledon says tennis attire must be "almost entirely" this color, which does not include cream white |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | AN ORANGE CATEGORY $200: Tennessee orange is the primary color of the University of Tennessee; it's burnt orange for this school with the same initials (University of) Texas (at Austin) |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $2000: This Russian-born artist's color field painting "White Center" sold for more than $70 million in 2007 Rothko |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | GETTING ADJECTIVAL $600: Meaning dull, it follows "olive" to describe a dull color drab |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | THIS & THAT $1000: The colors of a southern Utah state park gave us this name after the famous brand of color film Kodachrome |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: During the French Revolution, Percy Blakeney uses as his secret identity the name of this flower; note the flower's bright reddish color the scarlet pimpernel |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | GEMS & JEWELS $800: An October birthstone is this one from the Sinhalese "turamali" with wider color variations than almost any other gem tourmaline |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $200: "Out of" this color means totally unexpected the (clear) blue |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | COMPANY COLORS $400: The A&W browns remind us of the color of this A&W product which predates the restaurant root beer |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | MOUNTAINS $200: China's Mount Huang translates as the mountain of this color yellow |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: James McBride got the title of this bestseller from his mother, whom he once asked, "What color is God's spirit?" The Color of Water |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $400: At the end of a D.H. Lawrence novel, this title thing "arched indomitable, making great architecture of light and color" The Rainbow |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: Alice Walker began this novel, "You better not never tell nobody but God" The Color Purple |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | WRITING THE GOVERNESS $1600: A rich heir hires a governess for his daughter in Michel Faber's novel "The" this color "Petal & the White" crimson |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $200: The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District still has 35 structures that date back to around 1900 in this mammoth national park Yellowstone |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $400: Take a glass bottom boat ride in this Springs in Florida, or a short car ride to D.C. from this Spring in Maryland Silver |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $600: This body of water stretches from Suez, Egypt to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait the Red Sea |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $1000: In a color clash, the highest elevations in this mountain range are in its Black Mountains of North Carolina the Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a city in New South Wales, a river in Southern Africa & a county in Southern California Orange |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | TV CATCHPHRASES $1000: "Homey don't play that" In Living Color |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | "D" NATURE OF THINGS $1000: Here's this showy flower in a beautiful plum color a dahlia |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $1200: The first live nationwide color TV broadcast was of this event on California streets January 1, 1954 the Rose Parade |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION $400: Myanmar's 2007 Saffron Revolution was named for the color of the robes of monks of this religion who participated Buddhists |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BIRD BRAINS $1000: The parrot called the African this color is renowned for its ability to communicate via human speech the African grey |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER $1200: If gray is not your favorite color, block filler is used to paint this type of "block" made from burned matter cinderblock |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): Set in rural Georgia, this novel told in the form of letters won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Color Purple |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MISSING POISONS UNIT $600: Without color, odor or taste, ____ ____ is symbolized CO & one way to avoid it is to have your chimney cleaned & inspected annually carbon monoxide |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | VOCABULARY $2000: Going back to the Latin for "small worm", it's a bright scarlet color vermilion |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $2000: Two-word phrase for the color & the resinous material seen here; both words contain the same 3-letter sequence black lacquer |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | COLOR ME GOOD $200: The indigenous people of this vast island call themselves Kalaallite Greenland |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | COLOR ME GOOD $400: In 1869 the "golden spike" was driven in to ceremonially finish the construction of this the Transcontinental Railroad |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | LET'S BOOZE IT UP $600: This cocktail, is vodka & Kahlua, without the light cream that would change its color & name a Black Russian |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | COLOR ME GOOD $800: Once called the slimehead, this fish that people dine on doesn't reproduce until its 20s, making it vulnerable to overfishing orange roughy |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | COLOR ME GOOD $1000: Completed around 1770, this work is Thomas Gainsborough's best-known portrait The Blue Boy |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | COLOR ME GOOD $7,400 (Daily Double): On Oct. 2, 1976 the game was over for Dave Wagstaffe of the Blackburn Rovers, the first English player ousted with this red card |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN $600: The L.A. Dodgers tweeted, "From playing legendary figures to becoming one, we'll never forget your iconic performance as" him (Jackie) Robinson |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | COOKING VERBS $400: Culinary words for adding a last bit of color or flavor (mmm... parsley) include finish & this -ish verb garnish |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TYPICAL JASON $200: Like more than half the world's people, & like all the world's people until 10,000 years ago, Jason has this color eyes brown |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | TAKE A FEW LETTERS $800: The letters of a U.S. Army rank that goes up to 5 stars can form this color green |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | BEACH-Y KEEN $600: Didn't use sunscreen? You could be described this way, a phrase using a color & a crustacean red as a lobster |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | HAIR'S THE THING $1600: It was the 2-word title of a 1931 film starring Jean Harlow, as well as her hair color Platinum Blonde |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $600: For the most part, Vermont's license plates have white lettering & numbers on this color background green |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $1200: If you're part of a royal family, you are "born to" this color purple |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | TV-POURRI $1600: Jamie Foxx as Wanda & David Alan Grier as Calhoun Tubbs were memorable portrayals on this early '90s TV show In Living Color |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | SHADES OF GREEN $1600: This nut of the cashew family is naturally pale green, as is the color named for it pistachio |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | IMPORTED FROM ITALY $400: It's no surprise that Alba in Piedmont is the name of the town that this color truffle comes from the white truffle |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | SEEING RED $2000: "Red, Yellow, Red" is one of this abstract artist's color field paintings Rothko |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | ELEMENT"IUM" $800: Greek for "color" gives us the name of this metal that will take a high polish chromium |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | DRESSES $200: For spring, try a dress in the purplish color of this 5-letter spring bloomer, Syringa vulgaris lilac |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ALL THE BOOZE $1000: A Last-Word cocktail combines gin, maraschino liqueur, lime juice, & this liqueur from France that gave its name to a color chartreuse |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $800: Want to get this color for 2009? Try mixing orange juice & champagne Mimosa |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $1600: The red-brown color for 2015 is the name of this fortified Sicilian wine often used in cooking marsala |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $2000: This greenish-blue December birthstone was the color for 2010 turquoise |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $2,500 (Daily Double): The color of the year for 2000 was Cerulean Blue, the subject of a famous rant by Meryl Streep in this 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | MONEY SLANG $1200: From the color of the ink on one side, paper notes during the Civil War were called these greenbacks |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | OLD OCCUPATIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): It wasn't just a purple color & flower, it was also a washerwoman lavender |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | GEOGRA-SEA, & ALSO LAKES $200: This Chinese sea got its name from the color of its muddy banks & silty water the Yellow Sea |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS $800: The color of the iris comes from this brownish-black pigment--the more there is, the darker the iris' color melanin |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1200: Oprah was one of the original producers of this musical based on an Alice Walker novel The Color Purple |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE PLANT WORLD $800: Lupine flowers that are out of this granular substance change color to signal bees to move on to a flower that has some pollen |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE PROBLEM IS... $1000: The topological problem of making these with 4 colors so that no 2 adjacent areas are the same color was solved in the 1970s the map problem |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $600: A black flag is scary enough, but a pirate ship flying this color flag meant "no quarter given", a very bad omen red |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | ALL ALLITERATION $800: Parsley, tarragon & chives give this salad dressing the color that's in its name green goddess |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $2000: Color-changing member of the weasel family an ermine |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: An orange handle on a coffee pot traditionally came to mean this kind of coffee because it was the color of Sanka labels decaf |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | COLORFUL LANGUAGE $3,000 (Daily Double): The final draft of an authoritative government report, is one of these, for the stuff it's printed on & its color a white paper |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $800: In "Pleasantville" Reese Witherspoon goes from black & white to color after reading this novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $800: When talking about bears in Spanish, this color is pardo; about sugar, moreno brown |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | FOOD & DRINK RETRONYMS $600: Before "polishing" began, most of the rice people ate was this color variety; now the term is used for a "whole grain" type brown |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | "AU" CONTRAIRE $800: As far as shades of purple go, I prefer lavender while my wife prefers this color with a name derived from the French mauve |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GAME THEORY $400: In Monopoly, buy heavily landed-on St. James Place, New York Avenue & Tennessee Avenue, the properties of this color orange |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: Aka a battleground or swing state, a state that is closely divided between Democrats & Republicans is this color state purple |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | SQUID PRO QUO $200: Spaghetti al nero di seppia is a traditional Sicilian dish in which the pasta's color is changed by this liquid (squid) ink |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | FISHING FOR THE RIGHT WORD $400: This fishy color is seen here salmon |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | CORNERSTONES $1600: According to tradition, this sacred cornerstone of the Kaaba achieved its color by absorbing the sins of worshippers the Black Stone |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR... $800: "Of one color" monochromatic |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | COLORFUL GROUPS $1200: This color order still around today was founded to support the principles of British King William III the Orange Order |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Blooms of the algae of Trichodesmium erythraeum give this body of water its color & perhaps its name the Red Sea |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $200: To maximize their ability to hear insects, spectral tarsiers tug on their ears before setting out on this nightly activity hunting |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $400: When the full moon gets too bright, an African owl named for this other mighty bird of prey, resorts to chasing its own prey on foot eagle |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $600: To get the ideal conditions for recording this phenomenon, a cameraman traveled miles on skis into a pitch-dark forest the Northern Lights |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $800: Adults are too heavy, but a young python can climb even the thinnest branches to seek prey in this upper level of a rainforest the canopy |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $1000: Prey animals usually avoid predators, but at night these big African antelopes actually follow cheetahs to keep them in sight wildebeests |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | WEARABLE TECH $1000: An experimental tattoo ink developed in Germany for diabetics changes color in response to the levels of this sugar glucose |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | CONDIMENTS $400: This sweet liquid gets its color & flavor from the nectar's source, not from the bee honey |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | COLORFUL SCIENCE $800: This color "shift" is the increase in wavelength of light emitted by a source moving away from an observer the red shift |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | COLORFUL SCIENCE $1600: When dipped in a solution with pH above 8.3. litmus paper turns this color blue |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $400: Chekhov's "The Seagull" opens with a man asking an unhappy woman, "Why do you always wear" this color black |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | PLANTS & FLOWERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The acidity of the soil can change the color of these flowers whose name is from the Greek for "water" hydrangeas |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $400: Cynthia Erivo won a Tony for playing Celie in this "colorful" musical The Color Purple |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | FOREST CLUMP $400: The Danube River may be famously blue, but it rises in a forest & empties into a sea both named for this color black |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | FOREST CLUMP $800: On Yemen's Socotra Island, there's a forest of this mythical animal's blood trees named for the deep red color of their sap dragon |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Robert Delaunay introduced vibrant color into Cubism & is known for his series of paintings of this French structure the Eiffel Tower |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $200: In "The Thin Red Line", Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn & Woody Harrelson fight this war's Battle of Guadalcanal World War II |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $400: Dancers clash over the lead role in a Tchaikovsky ballet in this 2010 thriller Black Swan |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $800: Walt Disney received a special Oscar for this 1937 film the Academy called "a significant screen innovation" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $1000: Director David Lynch explored the underside of small-town America in this disturbing 1986 film Blue Velvet |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $1,800 (Daily Double): The title of this 1999 film comes from the linoleum floor of death row The Green Mile |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A DAY AT THE RACES $800: The tradition of the yellow jersey being awarded during this race began in 1919; yellow was the color of the newspaper that sponsored it the Tour de France |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | SEEING RED $800: This pinkish red color is named for the external skeletons of certain marine organisms coral |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $800: ( Jonathan Elias presents from outside The Castle in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Jonathan Elias from ABC7: the architect of the Smithsonian's Castle said the color of the sandstone he used was close to ashes of roses; it was quarried in Maryland along this nearby river the Potomac |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: This yellowish brown is an eye color option on California driver's licenses hazel |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DYE ANOTHER DAY $400: Saints' days used to be marked on the calendar with a particular color, hence this term for any happy day a red-letter day |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $1,200 (Daily Double): When it comes to grading diamonds. the 4 Cs are cut, color, carat & this clarity |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $1000: Sometimes called "quaking", this tree brings glorious color to autumn in Colorado aspen |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | PLACES OF SUBSTANCE $1600: This alliterative Maryland place is named for the color of the mica flakes found in the local water Silver Spring |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | OUTSIDE OF ME $1600: This cosmetic with a metal in its name can be used to give a warm, healthy-looking glow, not a specific color bronzer |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $800: For his uniform color & his spooky elusiveness, Confederate raider John Mosby was "The Gray" this Ghost |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | COLORS $1000: A color, or a princely dynasty important in the Netherlands orange |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | CHANGE A LETTER $400: Change a letter in the color of money into the rapacious desire for said money green & greed |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS $2000: Today we learned about this alliterative rock noted for its beautiful color lapis lazuli |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SUGAR, SUGAR $400: Brown sugar gets its color & distinct flavor from this syrup molasses |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SUGAR, SUGAR $600: Consisting of sugar, flavoring & color, the brand Flossugar is used to make this concession stand favorite cotton candy |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS $400: An exhibition about colors in fairy tales at a Brothers Grimm museum was titled "Red Hood," this color "Beard" blue |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | WHO MADE THAT? $200: We write of its 4-color original pen Bic |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | GENERAL HOSPITAL $400: A code of this color is widely used to call out a medical emergency all over the facility code blue |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $800: You get a role & you get a role & she got the role of Sofia in "The Color Purple" Oprah |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | STOCK SYMBOLS $800: You can paint the town red or any color you want with this company, SHW Sherwin-Williams |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | SILICON VALLEY $1600: Valued as a precious gem for its color, this variety of quartz is predominantly silicon dioxide amethyst |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $1000: One of the topics covered in a Major League Baseball course at Arizona State is this player who broke the color barrier in 1947 Jackie Robinson |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | CATS $1000: The breed called this "brown" is not from Cuba but is named for its cigar-brown color the Havana |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | CHEMISTRY $1600: In a flame test, this element--atomic number 11--burns yellow; it's also often the basis of the yellow color in fireworks sodium |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $1600: The color of the packets on the right tells you they contain this compound saccharin |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | GREENS $800: In 1902 the army adopted this "drab" as camouflage color for a service uniform olive |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | GREENS $1000: This green color could also be called "alligator pear" avocado |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $600: Celebs began to walk a red carpet in 1961, but TV viewers may not have known because this didn't come to the Oscar telecast until 1966 color |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THAT'S A RED LINE $1200: Jenny Joseph's "Warning" begins, "When I am an old woman I shall wear" this color, "with a red hat which... doesn't suit me" purple |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | THE MANDELA EFFECT $1000: Some people think that chartreuse is a pink, but it is a mix of yellow & this color green |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | "R" WE THERE YET? $2000: If you go to this seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, remember to say the first syllable like the color Reading |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FLAG CREATORS $400: When Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag for gay pride in 1978, he added "hot" this color to the traditional 7 colors pink |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | WATERFALLS $800: The spectacular blue-green color of Havasu Falls in this natural wonder is due to the high content of travertine the Grand Canyon |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | CRAYOLA COLORS IN OTHER FORMS $400: To grow crimson in embarrassment, or a cosmetic used to add color to cheeks blush |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | BEYOND MEAT $1000: This dark pigment determines skin & hair color melanin |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier & became the first African-American to win the French & U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 & 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | SPECIES NAMES $400: Macropus rufus is this color kangaroo red |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | DANGEROUS COLORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Copper sulfate helped produce Scheele's this color, which gave some Victorians arsenic poisoning from wallpaper green |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | BEAUTY BRANDS $400: Hair color products from this company include Féria, Excellence Creme & Superior Preference l'Oréal |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $800: When CBS got FCC approval to broadcast in this in 1950, only about 2 dozen sets could receive it color |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | GEMSTONES! MEET THE GEMSTONES! $400: This variety of beryl shares its name with a 10-letter color aquamarine |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | GEMSTONES! MEET THE GEMSTONES! $5,000 (Daily Double): This birthstone is used in abrasives for polishing & grinding; the color pairs with gold as an official one for Florida State garnet |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1960s alliterative slogan has roots in an 1858 speech that mentioned "rich color" & "full broad features" "Black is beautiful" |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WORLD OF COLORS $1600: In Portuguese, this primary color: vermelho red |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Commissioned in 1711 as a gift to encourage the pope's support for the building of an observatory, a series of astronomical paintings show the then-known planets, including Mars, Saturn, and this giant, with its bands of color Jupiter |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word borrowed from French for "shade of color" means a small difference in many things, including colors a nuance |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THIS CATEGORY IS FULL OF VINEGAR $200: Made from Trebbiano grapes, this Italian vinegar is aged in barrels to get its dark color & sweetness balsamic |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $200: Despite the color, the aeronautical object seen here is commonly called this a black box |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WE SAY JUMP $200: Jump-starting 101: positive (red cable) to positive, negative (this color cable) to ground on the dead car black |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: This phrase comes from the color used on TV maps to show the areas Al Gore won in the 2000 presidential election blue states |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1200: Much of "The Color Purple" is made up of letters written by her to God Celie |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $200: The trials & tribulations of doctors play out at a Seattle hospital on this show Grey's Anatomy |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $400: David Attenborough narrated this "global" 2017 nature documentary series for the BBC Blue Planet |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $600: On this TV drama, master criminal James Spader is Red all over The Blacklist |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $800: Led by Kevin Costner, a ranching family in Montana faces off against those encroaching on their land in this series Yellowstone |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $1000: Inspired by stories of G.K. Chesterton, this show features a Catholic priest with a knack for solving mysteries in an English village Father Brown |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Como Park Zoo.) Flamingos, which can live 20 to 30 years in the wild and even longer in captivity, get their pinkish color from the food they eat, like shrimp or plankton, and at the zoo, nutritionally complete pellets that all contain a red-orange pigment similar to this one found in squash and sweet potatoes beta-carotene |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY $400: Indium is named for this deep blue color indigo |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FROM B TO A $2000: Color comes to a garden from this ornamental vine Bougainvillea |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | "T" BIRDS $1200: This small duck shares its name with a bluish-green color a teal duck |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | CLUE "N" RESPONSE $800: The name of this Clairol hair color brand emphasizes how simple it is Nice 'N Easy |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | PARTS OF SPEECHES $800: MLK, 1963:
"They will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of..." their character |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | AMETHYST $600: Don't heat up amethysts too much or they turn this color & become citrines orange (or orange-yellow) |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | LIFE IN ANCIENT TIMES $600: Chinese emperors dictated the color of clothes, so Tang dynasty commoners stripped down to their funky-colored this underwear |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | MOM & DAD CONFUSE ME $800: Dad said a guy he owes big-time is calling in these--but I need them to color my horsey picture! my markers |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | IF I WERE A TIBETAN MAN $1000: Tibetan religious teacher Tsongkhapa founded the Gelugpa sect, noted for their hats of this color yellow |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | SPORTING FIRSTS $600: The first flag waved at a NASCAR race is one of this color green |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | AN ALBUM COVER $400: On this 1984 soundtrack album, the artist is dressed in the title color, aboard a motorcycle of the title color Purple Rain |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | AN ALBUM COVER $1000: The cover of her 1995 album "Post" represents postcards home to Iceland; she even has airmail-color trim on her jacket Björk |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | "G.O." $1600: There's shiny lip color in this idiom meaning to minimize problems or unpleasant events gloss over |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | RED, DELICIOUS $600: Traditional borscht gets its vivid color from these deep red root veggies beets |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | RED, DELICIOUS $1000: This 4-letter cherry variety has a deep garnet color & a sweet taste Bing |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | COMPUTER CONNECTIONS $600: World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee gets questions like "Why are links" this color?--"There is no reason" blue |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | E BEFORE I $200: A pale brown color beige |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | COMMUNICATION $800: A popular 21st c. communications device was named for this fruit because of its color & the buttons resembling seeds a BlackBerry |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | COLORFUL PHRASES $400: If you're miffed at Muffy, you're "seeing" this color red |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | I'M READING YOU $800: "The Temple of My Familiar" & "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | CLUES ACROSS TEXAS $800: (I'm Robert Hadlock from KXAN.) You may think the yellow rose is the Texas state flower, but it's actually this one named for its color the bluebonnet |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $1200: From 1830, "The Red and" this color black |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | 1990s SONGS $400: "Her skin's the color of mocha" in this Ricky Martin hit from 1999 "Livin' La Vida Loca" |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1600: High-resolution digital images can contain millions of these tiny squares of color pixels |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | GRITTY $1600: The Anjou type of this fruit has gritty flesh & doesn't change color as it ripens a pear |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $400: In Sonnet 17, Shakespeare fears that his writings might turn to this color with age & "be scorn'd like old men of less truth" yellow |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HOMOPHONIC VERBS $400: Cease to be / change the color die/dye |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | ON THE CALENDAR $400: The first Friday in February:
National Wear this color Day raises awareness of heart disease in women red |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $1200: In 1915 Kazimir Malevich unveiled the artwork seen here, yet wrote that this & texture are the essence of painting color |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | MONET-PUNNY $200: The color of Monet? In 1905 the artist wrote that there were only 6, including cadmium yellow & cobalt this blue |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | THING 1 & THING 2 $400: As the name implies, this sealing base of paint should be thing 1 on your dry wood before the color coat primer |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | DOCTOR $1200: Helen Taussig is remembered for her work treating babies that were born this unusual color blue |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | CRAYOLA COLORS $600: This gem's name precedes "white" in the name of a Crayola color pearl |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | SINGLE-CONSONANT WORDS $1200: A variety of color, or an old word for a shout, paired with "cry" hue |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $400: This espresso drink gets its name from its resemblance to the color of a certain friar's habit cappuccino |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | COLORFUL LIT $200: Turned into a movie & a Broadway musical:
"The Color ____" purple |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | BEWARE! $1000: One of the fastest & deadliest snakes, this African species is actually brown; its name comes from the color of its mouth the black mamba |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | THINGS IN MUSEUMS $200: Trace amounts of boron give the blue color to this gem that Harry Winston donated to the Smithsonian in 1958 the Hope Diamond |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | WHAT'S IN YOUR BENTO? $1000: For color, my box has shiso leaves around the umeboshi, this fruit that's been pickled plum |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | EYE EXAM $5,000 (Daily Double): In the most common form of color blindness, a person has trouble distinguishing between these 2 colors red and green |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | SPECIAL DAYS $400: You might be "in the" or "tickled" this color on June 23, its national day pink |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1200: Called a sort of dress rehearsal, this space mission in May of 1969 sent the first color TV pictures of planet Earth Apollo 10 |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | TIME TO GO GREEN $800: Types of gem cuts include this one named for a certain gem; it's meant to intensify that stone's green color an emerald |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | HOW TO PLAY QUIDDITCH $400: A Snitch runner, who eludes both teams, must dress in this color, like the leader in the Tour de France yellow |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | CHARCUTERIE $400: Though chorizo comes from Spain, its red color comes from this spice associated with Hungary paprika |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | THE COUNTRY IN QUESTION $800: Cherry brandy gives the color to the cocktail seen named for this Asian nation Singapore |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | NOT FOR PROFIT $400: The color of its logo shows that Casting for Recovery has fly-fishing retreats for women coping with this diagnosis breast cancer |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | HITTING THE SAUCE $800: The traditional fry sauce from Utah is basically these 2 condiments mixed to make its pink color ketchup and mayonnaise |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $400: 1963:
"The Pink ____";
2018:
"Black ____" panther |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $800: "Purple ____" with Prince;
"Black ____" with Michael Douglas rain |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $1200: 1988:
"The Thin Blue ____";
1998:
"The Thin Red ____" line |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $1600: "White ____" with Cagney;
"Red ____" with Schwarzenegger heat |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $2000: Comedy time:
"Silver ____" with Pryor & Wilder;
"Blue ____" with Martin Lawrence streak |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $4,000 (Daily Double): On June 25, 1951 a CBS program called "Premiere" was the first TV broadcast featuring this innovation color |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | B MINUS $400: "B" says goodbye to a dark color & now you have this, meaning "deficiency" lack |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | COLORS $200: Legally, it's the color of most NYC taxis yellow |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | COLORS $400: Carmine is a shade of this color red |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | PATTERN RECOGNITION $2000: This word for a white& color checked pattern comes from a Malay word gingham |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | WORDS FROM ROMAN NUMERALS $400: Adjective for a bright color or a strong recollection vivid |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | FLOWERS $1200: The pansy is a hybrid of this flower that can have petals in white, lilac, or the color of its name violet |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | LONG MOVIES $800: A 2016 British film has this happening on a wall for 10 hours--the color is white, if you are wondering paint drying |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | PIECES OF 8 $200: In pool the eight ball is mainly this color black |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | THE L YOU DON'T SAY $400: This light yellowish-pink color sure sounds fishy salmon |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | IN THE DICTIONARY $6,000 (Daily Double): An image like the one seen here accompanies the entry under the letter "T" for this type of infrared imaging based on heat thermography |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | ISLE OF DOGS $1200: The two-color variety of this breed is named for artist Edwin Landseer, who memorably painted the dog as seen here the Landseer Newfoundland |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | GEMS & JEWELS $800: The top selling yellow gem--its name reflects its lemony color citrine |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | NEON $400: Neon lighting was introduced in France in 1910 & true neon signs are only of this color red |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | STRIPES ON THE FLAG $400: The Gambia's flag has stripes of red, green & this color that represents the Gambia River blue |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $800: An annoyed critic wrote of this -ism's 1876 show, "Trees are not violet...the sky is not the color of fresh butter" Impressionism |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | THE WORST PICTURE RAZZIE $1000: Come out to the coast, we'll have a few laughs...he starred in Worst Pics 3 years apart--"Hudson Hawk" & "Color of Night" Bruce Willis |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | FUNK & GAMES $600: To avoid getting bumped back to start, you can hide in your color's safety zone in this board game Sorry! |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | COLORFUL ORIGINS $400: "Album" & "blanket" come from words meaning this color white |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | COLORFUL ORIGINS $1600: This purplish color gets its name from a word for the mallow plant, which is often that hue mauve |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | O'BOY $200: This late night host: "Autumn in California, where the leaves change color if you use the right Instagram filter" Conan O'Brien |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THE OCTOPUS $800: An octopus has 3 hearts to pump its blood of this color throughout its body blue |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | IRISH HISTORY $6,800 (Daily Double): The Protestant society called this color "Order" is named for the king who defeated Catholic James II in Ireland in 1690 orange |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: Government body that protects the great outdoors & brings color & fabric swatches for the indoors Department of Interior designers |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | MNEMONICS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an illustration of the visible spectrum.) Remember the mnemonic & you'll also remember that the visible spectrum ranges from red, at an upper wavelength of 700 nanometers, down to this color, at 400 nanometers violet |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | MALE & FEMALE WORDS $800: This "boy" was a WWII pilot; this "girl" was a dancer on "In Living Color" flyboy and flygirl |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | ROCKS & MINERALS $800: An iron sulfide, pyrite looks this color in rocks but creates a black streak when rubbed across a surface gold (or yellow) |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $2000: The Venus in his "Venus of Urbino" painting has hair of the red-gold color for which his art was known Titian |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | COLORS $800: Careful--adding "ide" to this greenish-blue color produces a deadly poison cyan |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | COLORS $4,200 (Daily Double): This color obtained from a plant dye is also known as blue-violet indigo |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $800: Why bother with a color photo when the skin of this water mammal is grayish anyway? a manatee |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $400: Gray is tired from being used to color elephants & beige hates being called brown in the kids' book "The Day" these "Quit" the crayons |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THAT RAISES A RED FLAG $400: Tenn., Miss. & this state on their western borders are true red states--that color is their flags' main background Arkansas |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | DAILY BEAST $800: It's easy to see by the color why this critter is called an emerald tree this snake a boa |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | DETAIL $1000: Color of the "Ex" in the principal FedEx logo orange |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $1200: Found near Calais, Cap Gris-Nez translates as "Cape" these 2 words, for the color of its rocks gray nose |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | EDUCATIONAL ANAGRAMS $200: Where the magic happens:
MASS COLOR the classroom |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SPEAK EASY $200: This brand of at-home hair color from Clairol has been around for over 50 years Nice 'n Easy |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | THEY'RE IN THE BAND $1600: "Hold On"! In 2015 this "stately" band featuring Brittany Howard topped the Billboard 200 with "Sound & Color" Alabama Shakes |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | THE "GRE"s ARE COMING $800: It's a reddish-orange color, or a syrup made from pomegranates grenadine |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $1200: The graphic novel "Blue is the Warmest Color" was originally published in this language French |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | OWL NIGHTER $1200: To better hunt at night, most owls' eyes have retinas full of these cells that detect movement better than color rods |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | GO "BRA" $600: "Starting Here, Starting Now" ends the 1966 album "Color Me" this first name Barbra |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE TV CHARACTER IS HAVING A MOMENT $400: When Bill Bixby's eyes suddenly changed color, this title guy was on his way, & not in a good mood (the Incredible) Hulk |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORD ORIGINS $3,000 (Daily Double): Referring to the bright blue of the sky, this color comes from the Persian name for lapis lazuli azure |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE GLOBE $2000: The temple doors are a fitting color in this Asian capital city whose name means "red hero" Ulaanbaatar |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | JUST ONE CONSONANT $600: It's any variety of a color to dye for a hue |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LOGO A-GOGO $1000: A black prancing horse on a canary yellow background, the color of Modena, is the logo of this Italian car Ferrari |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | CRAYOLA COLORS $400: In 1996 the 100 billionth Crayola was molded in this color, the top prize at many a state fair blue ribbon |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | CRAYOLA COLORS $600: In 1990 Crayola retired this color, a synonym for "corn" maize |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | LIGHT HEADED $3,000 (Daily Double): Broken down into hue, saturation & brightness, it can be defined as the sensation felt as waves of light hit the retina color |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | POST "AP"OCALYPSE $400: A small, oval orange-yellow fruit, or its color an apricot |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | HISTORY TIME $800: He's the 17th-century English king shown here with his co-ruler--note what color he's wearing William of Orange |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | CLICHES MADE FANCY $600: "One equine unconventional in hue" a horse of a different color |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR $200: On "The Adventures of" this guy, he could change the show to color & leap tall buildings in a single bound Superman |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR $400: This show made the upgrade & later changed Darrin's too Bewitched |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR $600: Granny could tell you this hayseed hit had 3 black-&-white seasons & 6 in color The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR $800: People must have gotten a shock when this town and its folks like Barney went from black & white to color Mayberry |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | TV SHOWS THAT WENT FROM B&W TO COLOR $1000: The story you are about to hear is true; this cop show had a B&W run in the '50s, then came back in the '60s in color Dragnet |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | SOUNDS LIKE A LIQUOR BRAND $800: A gander whose color is between black & white grey goose |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE $400: For job hunters:
"What Color is Your ____?" parachute |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $1600: The basic style of the color field paintings by this Russian-born man is 2 or 3 soft-edged rectangles of color (Mark) Rothko |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | ETIQUETTE $200: At NYC's International Debutante Ball, all girls are expected to wear gloves & gowns, both of this color white |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | KNOTTY BY NATURE $400: The roots of a shrub called knotty rhatany were used to color this sweet red wine from the Douro Valley port |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | STATE CAPITAL HAIKU $800: South of Pawtucket /
Founded 1636 /
Best-loved color? Brown! Providence |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $4,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Degas did many works using this medium whose name is also used for subdued shades of color pastel |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | THOSE DARN FRANCISCANS $1200: Hey, Bobby--from the habits they once wore, a Franciscan order of Britain & Ireland is known as this color friars grey |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THAT'S OUR COLOR $200: UPS brown |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THAT'S OUR COLOR $400: Tiffany (robin's-egg) blue |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THAT'S OUR COLOR $600: Owens Corning, for insulation pink |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THAT'S OUR COLOR $800: Caterpillar yellow |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THAT'S OUR COLOR $1000: AstraZeneca, for Nexium purple |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | "THE" MOVIE $2000: "The Color of Money" was a sequel to this 1961 movie The Hustler |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | THE NEWSPAPER GAME $400: This national paper color codes its sections; the Life section is in purple USA Today |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | DELI-CACIES $600: This bread often gets its color and flavor from molasses pumpernickel |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | SEAS $600: Named for its distinct color, this sea east of China averages less than 150 feet deep the Yellow Sea |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $1200: The first U.K. TV broadcasts in color began with live coverage of these championships Wimbledon |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | REALITY TV $800: Bravo! Heather Dubrow helped color the world of southern southern California on this reality show The Real Housewives of Orange County |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | TRY COLOR $200: The first Crayola to get a name change was Prussian blue, which became this timely blue midnight blue |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | TRY COLOR $400: Aptly, the girl in "Peanuts" with this first name sometimes wore a purple dress Violet |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | TRY COLOR $600: The auburn hair seen here is a result of this plant dye henna |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | BOTANY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a table of hereditary traits on the monitor.) To study heredity, this botanist used seven pairs of distinctive traits, including pod color--green or yellow--and stem size Mendel |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | TRY COLOR $800: These 2 colors are in the name of an Irish song about a lad with a Protestant dad & a Catholic mom orange and green |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | TRY COLOR $1000: The iPhone 7 comes in a metallic pink with this 2-word name, also popular for jewelry rose gold |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | JOURNALING JOURNEYERS $400: A modern travel classic is William Least Heat-Moon's this color "Highways", the color they were on old maps blue |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | BEAR WITH US $1200: Some black bears that are actually light brown in color are called this, after a bark-derived spice cinnamon |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $2,500 (Daily Double): The neurological condition prosopagnosia is often called this blindness, for what isn't recognized face blindness |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | PANTS ON FIRE $600: A big trend of the '80s was denim treated with bleach to fade the color, creating this-washed jeans acid |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $2000: The spectrum of challenged books includes "The Color Purple" & this first novel by Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | 5 OF 7 DEADLY SINS, IN SOME FORM $400: Jealousy's cousin, this sin is often associated with the color green envy |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | THE 2016 SIENA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS $1600: The structures the Turkish strawberry farmer moves between are actually these despite their color greenhouses |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | ANATOMICALLY CORRECT $800: As we age, our red marrow is gradually replaced by this color marrow yellow marrow |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | FASHION $1200: In 1937 Elsa Schiaparelli's new color, a shocking shade of this, was the sensation of the fashion world pink |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | ACCESSORIES $1000: A signature color for this luxury company's Birkin bag is called "Orange H" Hermès |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $6,600 (Daily Double): In his still life paintings, this post-Impressionist sought "to render perspective only through color" (Paul) Cézanne |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $200: Cooking steak since 1964:
____ Angus Black |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $400: A hotel chain:
____ Roof Inn Red |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $600: Offering frothy fruit drinks:
____ Julius Orange |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $800: Helping home chefs:
____ Apron Blue |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $1000: Tart frozen yogurt from Los Angeles:
____berry Pink |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | "O"POURRI $1200: It's debatable how accurate the 2-word name of this food fish is in describing its color an orange roughy |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | POTLUCK $200: Shades of this color include fawn, russet & burnt umber brown |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BIOLOGY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a cat on the monitor.) More common in white cats is something called heterochromia where one eye is blue & the other is a different color due to a gene that prevents this pigment from reaching the blue eye melanin |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | SPEAKING ITALIAN $800: Don't fiddle around; "nero" translates to this color black |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | WHAT'S NOT TO LICHEN? $2,000 (Daily Double): Let's take a test; once used to color beverages, this substance that determines acids & bases is extracted from lichens litmus |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | WHAT'S NOT TO LICHEN? $2000: Dyes from lichens grown on rocks in the Hebrides were traditionally used to color yarns in the Harris type of this wool fabric tweed |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | NATURAL WONDERS $800: This Australian monolith is naturally gray but its iron content is causing it to "rust", resulting in its iconic red color Uluru (or Ayers Rock) |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1600: This Venetian's use of his iconic red color can be seen here in his 1548 work "Empress Isabella of Portugal" Titian |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | THEY COME IN FOURS $800: Diamonds are graded according to the 4 Cs: color, cut, carat & this, based on the stone's imperfections clarity |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | "BETA" TEST $400: AKA Provitamin A, it gives a bright orange color to vegetables beta-Carotene |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | THE HUMAN BODY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some optical diagrams on the monitor.) Most people have three types of this color receptor in their eyes, but some people, called tetrochromats, have four, allowing them to see millions more hues than the rest of us cones |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | '90s R&B HITMAKERS $1200: First, a hintt, & now--"Don't be shy girl, rescue me, I wanna sex you up, open up your heart & I'll set you free" Color Me Badd |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | COLOR THAT FLAG! $200 (Daily Double): China & Vietnam (2 colors) red and yellow |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | COLOR THAT FLAG! $400: El Salvador & Israel (2 colors) blue and white |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | COLOR THAT FLAG! $800: Cote d'Ivoire & Ireland (3 colors) white, orange and green |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | COLOR THAT FLAG! $1600: Hungary & Italy (3 colors) red, white and green |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | COLOR THAT FLAG! $2000: Luxembourg, Chile & Cuba (3 colors) red, white and blue |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | BRITISH ENGLISH $400: Slow down! What we call a yellow traffic light, the Brits call this color, like fossilized resin amber |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for Fiction for this novel The Color Purple |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BASKETS OF ADORABLES $1000: Despite the name, a cat with this color pattern is not a member of the turtle family tortoiseshell |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | POTENT POTABLES $200: To make a sea breeze, mix 2 parts vodka, 3 parts grapefruit juice & 1 part this juice--for the red color cranberry juice |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | EYE HEALTH $400: In 1942 fullback Andy Farkas used burnt cork as the first NFLer to cut harmful glare with what's now called eye-this color black |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | ANTARCTICA $800: Blood Falls, which flows into Lake Bonney, gets its color because it is rich in this element iron |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | DEEP BLUE "C" $1000: This color comes in front of the name of the North American wood warbler seen here cerulean |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,200 (Daily Double): Daltonism is a type of this, a problem with cone receptors color blindness |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | SHELLFISH $1200: Some of these shellfish, such as genus Crangon, change color to fit surroundings; maybe to cocktail-sauce red? shrimp |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | SHADES OF YELLOW $200: A hair color that could be platinum or peroxide blonde |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | SHADES OF YELLOW $800: The wildflower & copy paper color seen here goldenrod |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | SHADES OF YELLOW $1000: A type of transport; the color is AKA chrome yellow school bus yellow |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | WHAT COLOR IS THE DRESS? $200: Lovely shades of orange & yellow on a girl from Rajasthan Province in this country India |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | WHAT COLOR IS THE DRESS? $400: Blue, definitely blue on the woman in this large South African city that claims Soweto & Alexandra as townships Johannesburg |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | WHAT COLOR IS THE DRESS? $500 (Daily Double): A lovely shade of green worn by a girl of this "M" group of Kenya & Tanzania the Maasai |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | WHAT COLOR IS THE DRESS? $600: She's wearing a multicolored dress & taking a break from her samba on this Rio de Janeiro beach of song Ipanema |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | WHAT COLOR IS THE DRESS? $800: In white at a Swedish festival is a girl in the traditional dress of the Sami, also known as these people the Lapps |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AUSTRALIANA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Equal in size & volume to about 10 chicken eggs & dark green in color which helps camouflage it in a nest of grass & leaves, one of the largest bird eggs belongs to this big bird of Australia an emu |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | VARIETY PACK $800: The Latin word talpa, meaning "mole", gives us the word for this brownish gray color that resembles moleskin taupe |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | NATURE STUDY $2000: Seen soaring here is the blue-winged type of this duck with another color in its name the teal |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | YOU'RE THE BALM $400: In the alphabet soup of cosmetics, CC cream is for color correction; BB cream is this balm beauty balm |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | MEET THE BEAGLES $1000: One of the standard color combos for beagles is this pair, also a drink made with equal parts ale & stout black & tan |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | THEY SAID IT $800: Henry Ford said Model T customers can have any color they want "so long as it's" this black |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | LITERARY LINES $600: A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: "You better not never tell nobody but God" The Color Purple |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | LET'S CALL IT A "DAY" $2000: Originally it meant a religious holiday marked in color on a calendar a red-letter day |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A bluish color, or the dye that was also a major product of 18th century South Carolina indigo |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $1600: In this novel's final letter, Celie thanks God "for bringing my sister Nettie and our children home" The Color Purple |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | ONLINE LEARNING $2000: codecademy.com has a section on "HTML &" this 3-letter mechanism for adding color & style to web pages CSS |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | LET'S TRAVEL $400: In 2016 London's double decker buses, traditionally this color, went green... all-electric, that is red |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | FRENCH CUISINE $600: The light pink color of consomme Carmen comes from puree of this tomato |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | THE 2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS $800: Officials gave multiple lessons in chemistry as they tried to explain why the diving pool turned this color green |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | CAN I HAVE A WORD? $400: To rubricate is to highlight with this color, such as Jesus' words in the New Testament red |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | E BEFORE I, BUT NO C DO I SPY $600: It's the soothing color in use here beige |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | OF CAKE $600: This device used to decorate t-shirts can also be used to spray color on cake decorations an airbrush |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | "Z" IS THE FIRST LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): This outermost layer of a citrus rind contains the color & the flavor zest |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | TRANSPORTATION $400: It was the nickname-inducing color of Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker triplane red |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COLOR $200: Idiomatically, these 2 colors paired refer to something you want in writing black & white |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | NO DISCRIMINATION $200: The sequence "race, color, religion, sex" (they said sex) "or national origin" is in this 1964 federal law the Civil Rights Act |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COLOR $400: The first Crayola crayons in 1903 included this citrus fruit color orange |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COLOR $600: All colors on your computer screen are generated by a combination of these 3 colors red, green & blue |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COLOR $800: The innermost bull's-eye in Olympic archery is this color yellow (or gold) |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COLOR $1000: The carnation is from this family whose name is also a color the pinks |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: In 1863 he published the article "Men of Color, to Arms!", urging black enlistment in the army Frederick Douglass |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | SPIDERS $1200: Spider blood is this color because oxygen is carried by hemocyanin, not hemoglobin blue |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1000: Cheek makeup that's also a French color & to dig out roughly rouge and gouge |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | OFFICE SUPPLYING $400: The 4-color mini ballpoint pen Bic |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | SOUNDS LIKE A COLOR $400: Perused the words in a periodical read |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | SOUNDS LIKE A COLOR $800: On a spreadsheet columns go up & down; these run horizontally rows |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | SOUNDS LIKE A COLOR $1200: She was married in Berlin April 29, 1945 but never got a honeymoon (Eva) Braun |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | SOUNDS LIKE A COLOR $1600: A trigonometric function, for short tan |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | SOUNDS LIKE A COLOR $2000: A couple of hours from London by car and ferry, it's the holiday isle shown here the Isle of Wight |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | IN EXPLICABLE $600: A color or the fragrant flower seen here lilac |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing (Alice) Walker |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | WHO MAKES IT? $1000: Preference hair color L'Oreal |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | DESCRIBING THE TV SHOW $400: Things move fast in Central City; red really is the title hero's color; go west, young man The Flash |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $600: It's a synonym for color, or a shade of color hue |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS $200: It was officially designated as Harvard's color in 1910 crimson |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS $600: This "royal" color represents the teams of the College of the Holy Cross purple |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS $1000: The name of this Alabama school is also a reddish-brown color, but its official colors are orange & blue Auburn |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | 18th CENTURY ART $1200: In his self-portrait with his wife & daughter, this Brit gave them blue dresses; we guess he liked the color Gainsborough |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | LEFTOVERS $200: Palgan is Korean for this color, especially as you get farther north red |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FOR DRINKS $200: The Spanish-derived name of this punch made with red wine & fruit juice refers to its bloodlike color sangria |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $1600: The largest book in the Library measures 5 feet by 7 feet & features color images of this small Himalayan kingdom Bhutan |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | RESORTS $1000: The beautiful turquoise color of this Alberta lake is due to sunlight reflecting off glacial silt Lake Louise |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | DRINKING VESSELS $800: The 80-year-old Solo brand loves Toby Keith's song that goes this color "Solo cup, I fill you up, let's have a party" red |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | FROM FILM TO STAGE $400: In 2015 Jennifer Hudson made her Broadway debut as Shug Avery in this musical based on a novel & a film The Color Purple |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS $800: It's unknown why pink was chosen as the color for this "pink stuff", a stomach remedy that dates back to 1901 Pepto-Bismol |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | POTPOURRI $1000: These dried flowers are often used to add color to the mix pansies |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | BRIDGES $1000: If you want to match the International Orange paint color of this bridge, Sherwin Williams' Fireweed is close the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $1000: Cassoulet, a traditional dish from France's Languedoc region, features various meats & this color beans white |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $400: Heat sugar or syrup until it turns brown & you get this flavoring & color caramel |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $600: Named for its cigar-like color, the Havana Brown is a breed of this animal a cat |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | THAT JUST WON'T FLY $1600: This dancing group on TV's "In Living Color" could jump but not sustain any significant altitude the Fly Girls |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | TULIP MANIA $400: A white tulip is said to represent forgiveness; this color stands for perfect love red |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A light brown color, or a type of port wine tawny |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING $800: You look lovely in verde, this color green |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | YACHTS $200: In 1986 Malcolm Forbes had his new yacht Highlander painted this color (to represent money, of course) green |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Another's good fortune might make you this color "with envy" green |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Not exactly legal, not exactly illegal is this color "area" gray area |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: If you're "born to" this color, you're of royal lineage purple |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | SEEING STARS $400: Blue stars are the hottest with temperatures exceeding 30,000 K.; this color is the coolest at less than 3,500 K. red |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | TAKE MY PICTURE! $200: "Color transparencies" is another name for these & no, I don't want to see the ones from your vacation slides |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2016 EDITION $200: This U.S. paper currency features B. Franklin & a bell that changes color from copper to green as a security measure a $100 bill |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | FOUND IN ROY G. BIV $800: Due to fear of communism, in the 1950s this color was followed by "Legs" to make a new baseball team name red |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Sometimes done to color wood, it's also Helen Frankenthaler's technique of pouring paint & letting it run stain |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | A NEW BABY $200: Most Caucasian babies are born with eyes of this color blue |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | GOING STRAIGHT $1000: She came to prominence as a standup comic before earning an Oscar nomination for "The Color Purple" Whoopi Goldberg |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $1600: For more than 40 years, Edison worked in this town with both a direction & a color West Orange |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | I HATE QUOTES $1600: Congress says this 2-word phrase is an "offense involving actual or perceived race, color, religion", etc. a hate crime |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | NUT-TRITION $800: Pistachios get their green color mostly from lutein, which is essential to this one of the 5 senses vision |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | CRAIGS LIST $800: Giving it an amber color & a mellower taste, Rev. Elijah Craig is credited with being the first to age this liquor in charred barrels bourbon |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) The beads here have been specially treated so that indoors they're white, but when you take them outside and they're exposed to these invisible rays that can give you a sunburn, they change color ultraviolet rays |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | THE NEWSPAPER TRADE $800: In 1982 this paper was born, putting more color, maps & graphs on the newsstand & under the hotel room door USA Today |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | CHEMISTRY $2000: When placed in the flame of a Bunsen burner, copper produces a blue flame; sodium, this color yellow |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | MIAMI $1600: The color-filled Miami Beach architectural district is also known as the this architectural style District Art Deco |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: This adjective means having one color monochromatic |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | NEW EDITION $600: Color photos of the title pond & woods were part of the 150th anniversary edition of this work by Thoreau Walden |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | GEMS & JEWELRY $5,000 (Daily Double): This blue-green variety of beryl is routinely heated to make it bluer by removing the yellow color aquamarine |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | THE COLOR PURPLE $200: In Greek these veggies with dark purple skin are melitzanes eggplants |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | THE COLOR PURPLE $400: A tabloid version of the board game Clue made this purple-named character a billionaire video game designer Professor Plum |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | THE COLOR PURPLE $600: Elizabeth Taylor's eyes were often described as this shade of purple, as in the title of a "Doonesbury" collection violet |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | THE COLOR PURPLE $1000: Appropriately, Alice Walker has this gem that's the color purple as her birthstone amethyst |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | THE COLOR PURPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): The dried purple flowers of this shrub that's part of the mint family are used for scent or as a preservative lavender |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND $200: A product known as White Soap got too much air in one batch; the result was renamed this, still around today Ivory (soap) |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND $400: "Tan, don't burn" was once a slogan of this brand of sunscreen Coppertone |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND $600: This fancy brand of Dijon mustard has a rouge variety, flavored with Cabernet sauvignon & blackberries Grey Poupon |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND $800: This brand known for smokehouse almonds named itself for a rare gem Blue Diamond almonds |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND $1000: This Heritage brand calls itself "all weather" professional hairspray Aqua Net |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | 2 CONSONANTS, ONE VOWEL $1000: Pallid, or lacking color wan |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | FIRST AID STRATAGEMS $1200: If there is no danger of refreezing, soak the area affected by this in warm water until normal color comes back frostbite |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | TRUE BLOOD $200: The pigment that transports oxygen in the blood, it is in the red blood cells & gives blood its red color hemoglobin |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | COLOR MY WORLD $200: Idiomatically, one of these is misleading or distracting a red herring |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | COLOR MY WORLD $400: The main culprit in the greenhouse effect that's causing global warming is the rise of this gas in the atmosphere carbon dioxide |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | COLOR MY WORLD $600: In the 19-teens this soda was advertised as getting flavors from the groves of Southern California Orange Crush |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $800: In 2007 Hindu holy men protested the filth in this river; a scientist said it "had turned the color of Coca-Cola" the Ganges |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | COLOR MY WORLD $800: A possession whose care & upkeep are an excessive financial burden a white elephant |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | COLOR MY WORLD $1000: For what presumably runs through their veins, this phrase means members of the aristocracy blue bloods |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | 5 SHADES OF GRAY $400: A grayish white, or a tasty mollusk of that color oyster |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | 5 SHADES OF GRAY $1000: You'll never sink this color of the USS Iowa battleship gray |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the name of an Ivy League college newspaper as well as a color crimson |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | YOU SAID WHAT?! $3,000 (Daily Double): In a novel, Alice Walker wrote that it might anger God "if you walk by" this "in a field somewhere and don't notice it" the color purple |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | 5, 5 $1600: It's the type of art chart seen here a color wheel |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN COLOR $400: Ignored for almost 150 years, this U.S. military award was reintroduced on February 22, 1932 the Purple Heart |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN COLOR $800: The Bible's "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" is known as this the Golden Rule |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN COLOR $1200: This animal was once thought to bear the Devil's mark in its wool, which is perhaps why it came to symbolize disgrace the black sheep |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN COLOR $1600: Notorious name of a herbicide mixture of 2,4-D & 2,4,5-T, used in Vietnam Agent Orange |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN COLOR $3,000 (Daily Double): These, now meaning "Credit for deeds done", may have come from a measure of young Girl Scouts' achievements brownie points |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | ACIDS $800: This acid found in the bark of oak trees gives tea its astringency, color & taste tannic acid |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | THE BISHOP $1200: The bishop is the only chess piece that can never change this the color of the square it's on |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | THE MONGOLS $2000: Russians called Mongol invaders Zolotaya Orda, this 2-word phrase, perhaps from the color of their tents the Golden Horde |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | MIXED BERRIES $1000: A berry of the Pacific Northwest was named for the resemblance of its pinkish color to this fish a salmonberry |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | COLORFUL PLACES $2000: The Boers formed this in 1854; in 1995 a post-apartheid government kicked a color out of its name the Orange Free State |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: It sounds jarring, but it's putting blanched or steamed veggies in ice water to halt cooking & to enhance color shocking |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | WORDS CONTAINING Q $800: Off-color or suggestive of impropriety risqué |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | TAKE A PHOTO $600: In 1935 Kodak introduced this product line, the first commercially successful amateur color film Kodachrome |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | HUMAN ENDEAVOR $800: Countless people in India were saved from starvation by new strains of wheat in the 1960s this color revolution the Green Revolution |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | KNOW YOUR PRODUCE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off some potatoes.) Unlike the white-flesh potatoes, the purple ones are rich in anthocyanins, a pigment that gives them their color & also acts as this type compound, which fights free radicals antioxidants |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | FUN WITH COLORS $200: Possibly from the Latin for "sky", cerulean is a shade of this color blue |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON $600: The two most popular types of port are the tawny & this sweeter one named for its color ruby |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | FUN WITH COLORS $800: The color with the shortest wavelength in the visible spectrum, it appears next to indigo in a rainbow violet |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | FUN WITH COLORS $1000: A great horned owl has large eyes with irises of this color, which helps amplify incoming light yellow |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | 1960s QUOTATIONS $1600: In 1968 Jim Lovell described it as "essentially gray--no color... like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand" the Moon |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARROTS $1000: Natl. Geographic calls the African this color parrot "the most accomplished user of human speech in the animal world" grey |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $400: Mountains named for this color include Weissenstein, Dent-Blanche & Pizzo Bianco white |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: A day after touching down on this planet in 1976, Viking 1 took the first color photos of its surface Mars |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | LITERARY CAST OF CHARACTERS $1600: Celie,
Nettie,
Shug Avery The Color Purple |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | THE ELEMENTS $2000: The Ming Dynasty vase pictured here got its blue color from a glaze made with this element, No. 27 cobalt |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | BIRTHSTONES $1600: Fans of the color purple should like this February birthstone amethyst |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS $400: She was one of the Fly Girls on "In Living Color" back before we knew her as "Jenny from the Block" Jennifer Lopez |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT $400: A "green paper" covers an issue for discussion; this color paper is the basis for a bill to be put before Parliament white |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $800: Leukophobia:
This color white |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | COLORFUL ENTERTAINMENT $1200: Taylor Swift sang, "Losing him was blue like I'd never known... but loving him was" this title color red |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | EASTER ISLAND $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) Easter Island is volcanic in nature, & walks along its craters will turn up this volcanic glass that also lends its name to a color obsidian |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | BODY $800: The jejunum, the middle section of this organ, is a deep red color because of its rich blood supply the small intestine |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR REVOLUTION? $400: Iran, 2009, protesting election fraud:
This color of a better environment green |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR REVOLUTION? $800: The Republic of Georgia, 2003:
For the flowers carried by protestors rose |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR REVOLUTION? $1200: Iraq, 2005:
This regal color used to stain the finger of voters purple |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR REVOLUTION? $1600: Myanmar, 2007:
This spice named color of the robes of the Buddhist monks who opposed the junta saffron |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR REVOLUTION? $2000: Ukraine, 2004:
This color worn by the masses who overturned a fraudulent election orange |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | DON'T L ME $800: It's a color on Israel's flag white |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | HEALTHY COOKING WITH MICHELLE OBAMA $1000: (First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) Good for any meal, one of the winning recipes in the Kids 2014 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was for mini ones of these--Italian omelettes made with egg whites in a muffin tin--with veggies added for flavor, color & nutrition frittatas |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | JOHN LAW $2,500 (Daily Double): In his dissent to this infamous 1896 decision, John Marshall Harlan wrote that "our Constitution is color-blind" Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $400: AKA "hard coal"' it's steel gray to black in color anthracite |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | TIME TO GO EXPLORIN' $400: 982:
Greenland gets its name from this man with another color in his name Erik the Red |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: The 2013 documentary "Beauty in Truth" looks at the life of this "Color Purple" author & activist (Alice) Walker |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | HOW INNOVATIVE! $400: Matching swatches? The "everyday spectrometer" has a light filter that identifies the true this of any object color |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | HOME FURNISHINGS $600: Add some light & color to your room with a lamp in the style of this glassmaker & designer Tiffany |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | "Y.D." DO IT? $800: By color & size, it's how our sun is classified a yellow dwarf |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS $1000: 2013:
"____ Is the Warmest Color" Blue |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | STATE OF THE NOVEL $2000: "The Color Purple" Georgia |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $800: A deep red color, or what a pirate might do to a captive instead of giving him the deep six maroon |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | COLORFUL ANAGRAMS $400: A gem of a color turns into what a dog will do to a bone ruby & bury |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | COLORFUL ANAGRAMS $2000: A yellow-brown color named for a Tuscan city becomes a crazy word sienna & insane |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | THE NOVEL'S TITLE CHARACTER $400: This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out" Pippi Longstocking |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The name of this yellowish white color is from a word for "elephant" ivory |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | THE 50 STATES $1000: According to statute, the outer circle of its state seal is a color called golden poppy California |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | POTPOURRI $1600: Travel guides dub the area seen here this color coast; the name of the color comes from the country it's in turquoise |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | FROM "E" TO "U" $1600: It's the color of unbleached linen ecru |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $800: Oprah said that this Alice Walker novel was life-changing for her & she was honored to play a role in the movie The Color Purple |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | IN THE PINK $800: This Italian-born designer was known for her surrealist fashions & for her signature color, shocking pink (Elsa) Schiaparelli |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE BIG RED WON $800: In the struggle for the nascent USSR, the Bolshevik Reds bested the anticommunists known as this color Whites |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | ONLY ONE $200: Is a primary color: white, orange, blue blue |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOKS $400: This color comes before "illusions" in the title of a book on the "dirty secrets of clean energy" green |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | FOOD & DRINK $800: Risotto alla milanese gets its vivid golden color & flavor from this expensive spice saffron |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | "IN" THE DICTIONARY $600: This color ranges from a deep violet blue to a dark grayish blue indigo |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | CLOWNS $600: On "In Living Color" this Damon Wayans clown "don't play that" Homey |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | "V"OCABULARY $400: This vivid color is also called Chinese red vermillion |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | HIS LAST NFL TEAM $200: Sorry, Brett Favre, green is your color, not the purple you wore in your last 2 seasons with this team the Vikings |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $800: 1999:
From the color of its floor tiles, a nickname for death row The Green Mile |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | I'M BORED $400: This antonym of "sharp" means boring or not bright in color dull |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Kipling wrote, "He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in" this color "of emperors" purple |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In "She Stoops To Conquer", Oliver Goldsmith wrote of this color "Of Perfection" pink |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | THESAURUS WORDS $1600: A spud, or reddish-brown color Russet |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | READING RAINBOW $1000: Aldous Huxley's first novel, a social satire of British literati, is called "Crome" this color Yellow |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | MARINE BIOLOGY $600: The name of this tusked whale comes from the Old Norse for "corpse whale", referring to its whitish color a narwhal |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: This "choice" word is also the color gold in heraldry or |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | SAUCES $400: Sauce aurore gets its pinkish-red color from this puree tomato |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $800: This Astrid Lindgren character is described as having "hair the color of a carrot" Pippi Longstocking |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | THE CULLINAN DIAMOND MINE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us blue diamonds from a showroom at the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.) The Cullinan Mine is one of the main sources for prize blue diamonds. They result from the presence of boron, which absorbs light of this color. red |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $1200: Jenny Joseph's "warning": "When I am an old woman I shall wear" this color "with a red hat" purple |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | RING "TONE"s $1600: I love your dress; 18-5424 TCX in this color system really brings out your eyes Pantone |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | PONY EXPRESSIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): A nursery rhyme says, "I had a little pony, his name was" this; "I lent him to a lady to ride a mile away" Dapple Gray |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $400: Women with this color hair "make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the footprints" blonde |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | CELEBRITY VETERANS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Among the men who flew in the Avenger torpedo bomber in World War II was this Cool Hand Luke; color blindness in his famous blue eyes kept him from becoming a pilot, but not from flying in the Pacific as a tail gunner Paul Newman |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | BIOLOGY CLASS $800: While red bone marrow gets its color from developing red blood cells, yellow marrow gets its color from this fat |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $800: From 1982:
"Dear God, he beat me today because he say I winked at a boy in church" The Color Purple |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | GRANDSON OF WOOD $600: The AKC's standard says the color of an Irish Setter should be chestnut red or the reddish brown of this wood mahogany |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | I HAVE THE WINE $1000: For its color & the band that once recorded there, Chateau Miraval calls a wine of this type "Pink Floyd" a rosé |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | LIQUIDS $600: Due to its bright red color, a palm tree resin used as a colorant & medication is called dragon's this blood |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | PORTRAITS IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): He's the Italian hero pictured here--you might recognize him by the color of his attire Garibaldi |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | LITERARY OPENINGS $2000: Gibson:
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" Neuromancer |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | NONFICTION $1200: In 2012 the classic "Manual for Job Hunters" that asks this title question came out with its 40th edition What Color Is Your Parachute? |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | EVERYBODY MUST GET BIRTHSTONES $2000: January:
Its color is one of the school colors of Florida State University garnet |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | COLOR TV $200: "____ Is the New ____" Orange is the New Black |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | COLOR TV $400: "Murphy ____" Murphy Brown |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | COLOR TV $600: "____ Acres" Green Acres |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | COLOR TV $800: "____ Collar" White Collar |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | COLOR TV $1000: "____ Bloods" Blue Bloods |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | VOLCANOES $400: The Emerald Lakes on this country's North Island get their color from minerals from eruptions of Mount Tongariro New Zealand |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | "OU" 5-LETTER WORDS $800: The steelhead type of this is named for its steely blue color trout |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | WICKED $400: They call me "Wonderful" in the show & give me credit for the idea of building a wonderful road of yellow brick & a town of this color emerald (green) |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | "AZ" USUAL $1200: It's the color of the sky
seen here azure |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | REPHRASING CLICHES $200: "Color a metropolis crimson" paint the town red |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | SCREENS $400: Called the biggest advance in TV since color, HD, short for this, makes the picture much sharper high definition |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | MONSTER LIT $1200: Banish your fears with Ed Emberley's "Go Away, Big" this color monster Big Green Monster |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $400: South Africa renamed a province in 1995, dropping this color that once preceded "Free State" Orange |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | BUSINESS HISTORIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1916 Pullman Brown was chosen as the color of this company's vehicles UPS |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN LIVING COLOR $200: Of the 14,000 WWII soldiers who served in the 442nd battalion, 9,486 were awarded this medal the Purple Heart |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN LIVING COLOR $400: Ash, cadet & Davy's are 3 shades of this color gray |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN LIVING COLOR $600: "Kara's Flowers" didn't work, so the band with Adam Levine decided on this name instead Maroon 5 |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN LIVING COLOR $800: This deep-water fish named for its color & coarse texture can live to be 140 orange roughy |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN LIVING COLOR $1000: The 2 colors that come before "algae" in another name for cyanobacteria blue and green |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | RANDOM HOUSE DEFINES IT AS... $1000: (2 words) "a deep...color" or "woolen cloth of this color, used esp. for U.S. Army uniforms" olive drab |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | EGRETS ONLY $400: Egretta alba is known as the great egret or the great this color egret white |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | BIOLOGY $400: Protanopia is a type of this in which a person can't distinguish red from green color blindness |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | TIME FOR SOME HAIR CARE $1000: Barbicide, used by barbers to disinfect salon equipment, says it's "distinctly" this color blue |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | DRINKS $1200: This coffee drink is named for the resemblance of its color to that of a certain monk's habit cappuccino |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | CHROME $400: Due to its varied appearance, chromium takes its name from the Greek word for this color |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | THE YOGI BEARS $800: The yogi bears with dignity his robe of this primary color, like Buddha wore in "Siddhartha" yellow |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | COVERING YOUR BASES $400: In chemistry, a base is a substance that turns red vegetable dyes this color blue |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $800: In 1956 art director John Graham created this symbol to promote NBC's color programming peacock |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | WE'RE ON MARS! $1200: Mars's color is from being covered in this which may have been caused by water starting the oxidation of iron rust |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $800: On this painting: "To me it was merely a serene and subdued face... the complexion was bad...there are no people that color" the Mona Lisa |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | COLORFUL QUOTES $1200: Henry Ford on customers' Model T options:
"Any color--so long as it's ____" black |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $400: A nut roasted at Christmastime, or a horse with red as a base color chestnut |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $800: Roy Rogers' Trigger was this type of horse, with a golden coat and a white mane and tail palomino |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $1200: Tan or brown horses with black points on the mane, tail & ears are this type, like a coastal indentation bay |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $1600: The "strawberry" type of this horse has white hairs interspersed throughout a base coat of red roan |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $2000: A sandy or tan horse with all-black points is this type, like a deer hide worn by a frontiersman buckskin |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | RHYMING DICTIONARY $800: Background information or criticism; a sports analyst provides the "color" type commentary |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | LET'S ROCK $2000: Black jasper is used as this type of "stone": rub a gold alloy on it & the streak color tells you the gold content a touchstone |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | FABRICS $2000: A worsted fabric with each side a different color is named for this Roman god Janus |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | WARDROBE $800: Varying in length & color, the name of this semi-formal dress suggests it's perfect for happy hour a cocktail dress |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | YOU "R" WHAT YOU EAT $800: Add a little color to a green salad with this leafy Italian vegetable radicchio |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | MOVIE MONEY $200: Paul Newman won an Oscar for this sequel to "The Hustler" The Color of Money |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | MOVIE MONEY $600: Oliver Stone's follow-up to "Wall Street" had this subtitle Money Never Sleeps |
| #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 |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | TIME SPAN LANGUAGE $400: Church calendars once marked festivals in a certain color, hence this term for a special day a red-letter day |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | COLOR ME GOOD $200: Jet or raven black |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | COLOR ME GOOD $400: Charcoal or battleship gray |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | COLOR ME GOOD $600: Cobalt or Prussian blue |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | COLOR ME GOOD $800: Eggplant or lavender purple |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | COLOR ME GOOD $1000: Myrtle or absinthe green |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | ODD WORDS $800: Something resembling this proud bird's tail in color, design or iridescence is said to be pavonine a peacock |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | COLOR MY WORLD $200: Card for U.S. permanent residents green card |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | COLOR MY WORLD $400: Cross helping folks since 1863 the Red Cross |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | COLOR MY WORLD $600: Marlin, or Ridge Mountains blue |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | COLOR MY WORLD $800: Market, or bottom pie black |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | COLOR MY WORLD $1000: Jacket (it flies), or journalism yellow |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | WITH SCISSORS $400: The name of these sewing shears refers to their notched blades, not to a color pinking shears |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | WITH SCISSORS $1000: Finnish company Fiskars has sold over 1 billion pairs of the scissors introduced in 1967 with this color handle orange |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE RUM DIARIES $600: Day 24:
After distillation, I am clear & clean & am told I will gain color from aging in this customary wood oak |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | INKS & DYES $1200: Chamomile, turmeric & saffron have been used to produce natural dyes of this primary color yellow |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $600: The name of this reddish-brown color actually comes from the Latin word for "white" auburn |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | BODY WORKS $400: Skin color ranging from pale yellow to black is largely determined by the amount of this dark pigment in the skin melanin |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | STUPID FOOD ANSWERS $800: The blacker the color of these berries, the riper & sweeter the fruit blackberries |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | GET YOUR DUCKS $1600: There are blue-winged & green-winged types of this duck that's also a blue-green color a teal |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | STOPS $400: In 1920 the first 4-way 3-color one of these was placed at Woodward & Michigan Avenues in Detroit stop light (a traffic light accepted) |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | MISSOURI LOVES COMPANIES $1000: The headquarters of this company, founded by two brothers, is in a Kansas City building the color of an eye shade H&R Block |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | BEAUTY & MAKEUP $600: Add some color & pizzazz to your life with OPI's Shatter or China Glaze's Crackle brands of this nail polish |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | SUNDAY SCHOOL $200: Let's color in the scene from Luke 2 where angels announce Jesus' birth to these workers shepherds |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | CRAYOLA COLORS $400: In a current 120-crayon box, the first color alphabetically is this, like a certain nut almond |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | CRAYOLA COLORS $800: Look up! This color in Spanish is cielo azul sky blue |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | CRAYOLA COLORS $1200: Tickle me this color was introduced in 1993, piggy in 1998 pink |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | CRAYOLA COLORS $2000: The original 1903 Crayolas included red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet; this 7th rainbow color joined in 2000 indigo |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | THINGS THAT GO BLOOM $1600: In the 1880s near Zanzibar, John Kirk discovered the African type of this flower that's also a reddish-blue color a violet |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HOMOPHONES $2000: A gradation of a color, or to strike with an ax hue/hew |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | COLOR TV $400: In the '90s Dennis Franz won 4 Lead Actor Emmys working the beat on this drama NYPD Blue |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | COLOR TV $800: This sitcom detailed the lives of 4 older ladies living together in Miami in the mid-'80s The Golden Girls |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | COLOR TV $1200: Ex-Chicago Bull Ken Reeves coached hoops at Carver High on this '70s drama The White Shadow |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | COLOR TV $1600: Even after selling one of his paintings for $1 million, Eldin worked on the house of this '90s sitcom title woman Murphy Brown |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | COLOR TV $2000: Hermey the Elf wanted to be a dentist in this 1964 Classic Christmas TV cartoon Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | THE 14th CENTURY $1600: A narrative poem of the century is titled "Sir Gawain and" this color knight green |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | ROLE CALL $2000: 25 years after "The Hustler", he reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson in "The Color of Money" Paul Newman |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | PHOENICIA PHUN $800: The people of Tyre were known for the expensive dye of this color that was obtained from the Murex snail purple |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | EVERYONE'S AN ART CRITIC $400: An 1890 critique said "Sunflowers" is "powerful in color" but "the value of" his "other canvases... escapes us" van Gogh |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | TERRIERS $1600: Appropriately, the first champion of this breed was Martell's Sapphire Beauty, born in Ireland & named for her coat color the Kerry blue terrier |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGED $800: 89-year-old Liliane Bettencourt's $23.5 billion springs from this hair-color company, because she's worth it L'Oreal |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | COLORFUL PHRASES $2000: If you're of royal birth, you're "born in" this color purple |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | COMPANY NAMES $800: The color in the name of this hamburger chain signifies purity; the other word signifies strength & permanence White Castle |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | INSIDE THE BELTWAY $400: As part of their uniforms, beginners in judo & karate first wear belts of this color white |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | COLOR ME BAD $400: Dark name for medieval plague the Black Death |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | COLOR ME BAD $800: Herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas Agent Orange |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $200: In traditional productions of "Swan Lake", Odile's tutu is this color black |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POST-POPE $1200: This color smoke is the signal that a new Pope has been chosen white |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WHAT MAKES IT GO? $1000: This rocket named for the color of Alabama rock lifted the first U.S. satellite into space the Redstone rocket |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | TV WORLD $1600: This word, Greek for "color", comes before "key" in the name of an effect that's commonly known as using a green screen chroma |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | WILD CATS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows photographs of two cats on a monitor.) To distinguish between two North American cats, remember that the mountain lion is mainly one color with a very long tail, while this cat is spotted with a short tail a bobcat |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | COLORFUL BOOKS $200: In "The Same River Twice", Alice Walker wrote about the making of the film based on this novel of hers The Color Purple |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | MILITARY NICKNAMES & SLANG $400: It can mean "failed at flight school" or "lacking color" wash out |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | NONFICTION $800: Piper Kerman chronicles her year in prison in this color "is the New Black" Orange |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | HELLO, GORGEOUS! $200: Similar to rouge, this cosmetic used to color the cheeks means "to make red, as from shame" blush |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | THE 7 "C"s $1000: A diamond's cost is based on the 4 C's: carat weight, cut, color & this, of which flawless is one example clarity |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) Zebras spend a lot of time standing around on grassy plains, which would make them seem like easy prey, but to lions, they blend in with tall stalks of grass, because lions have weak color vision due to a shortage of these retinal cells cones |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | A BOOKISH CATEGORY $800: This 1982 novel by Alice Walker traces Celie's growth from self-hatred to independence The Color Purple |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | THE PLANETS $1000: Uranus has a blue-green color because this gas in its atmosphere absorbs the red wavelengths of sunlight methane |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $800: If blue or black aren't scientific enough for you, you can get jeans in the color of this element, C carbon |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $1200: You'll look like a king in the Elvis Grand Heritage lame suit from Rubie's Costume Company; it's this color gold |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $2000: I'll be most Ag-reeable if you slip into a Frederick's of Hollywood sequin skirt temptress dress in this color silver |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | DOG POUNDS $1600: 55-80 pounds:
The English this, not usually red-brown like the breed from a nearby island setter |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | THE BAND IS REALLY COOKING $1600: Booker T. & the MG's gave their tuna salad some color & flavor with this tune "Green Onions" |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC $200: This '60s "Nights in White Satin" band has another color in its name Moody Blues |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | ANY FIRST WORDS? $400: Meaning "first", it can precede color, election or health care primary |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | YOU MIGHT "B" HUNGRY $600: The color of this large cherry ranges from a deep garnet to almost black Bing cherry |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $800: Old Navy uses this adjective for solid-color shorts that are patterned when inside-out R-E-V-E-R-S-I-B-L-E |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY $800: A light yellow-brown; perfect color for an envelope, I say manila |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $800: "A" this "of a different color" a horse |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | SILENT LETTERS $600: C-H:
Named for a German botanist, this drooping flower seen here lends its name to a vivid, purplish-red color fuchsia |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | COLORS $200: Crayola has a fluorescent color called "unmellow" this yellow |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | COLORS $600: This neutral color can refer to the Confederate Army gray |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | COLORS $800: This secondary color is in the third line of "America The Beautiful" purple |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | CARTS, WAGONS & SLEDS $1600: A color & a woman's name combine in this term for a police wagon a Black Maria |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | BILLIARDS $1600: Snooker is played with 15 balls of this color & 6 balls of other colors red |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS $1600: Before items like the HP Color LaserJet 2600N, this term referred to people like Gutenberg a printer |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | SCIENCE $800: Lignin, a substance in wood, changes when exposed to oxygen; that makes white paper turn this color as it ages yellow |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | GO BLUE! $1000: My "mood"? This deep blue dye, used to color cotton & wool; a synthetic one is made from aniline, a coal-tar product indigo |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $400: Top ballerina Sarah Lane was Natalie Portman's dance double for this 2010 film Black Swan |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $800: (Janet Napolitano gives the clue.) In 2011, color-coded alerts were replaced by a warning system with information about particular terrorist threats, either elevated or this, meaning we think it will happen soon imminent |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $800: Ryan Reynolds gets a mystical ring that endows him with special powers in this 2011 film Green Lantern |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $1200: Henry Mancini got an Oscar nomination for the score to this 1964 Peter Sellers film The Pink Panther |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $1600: Amanda Seyfried donned the title cloak in this 2011 film Red Riding Hood |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $3,150 (Daily Double): In this animated film Fred captains the title transport to Pepperland Yellow Submarine |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $200: Christmas must be a bummer for you, having this condition & not being able to distinguish between red & green color blindness |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | PETRA $1000: (Alex presents the clue from Petra, Jordan.) There are a number of important tombs in the ancient city of Petra, like the one behind me, which is not named for a person, but because of the magnificent color striations, is named for this expensive fabric silk |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | CERAMICS $800: Jasperware, introduced by Josiah Wedgwood in 1774, is most commonly made in a pale shade of this color blue |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | COLOR PLEASE $200: The comb of leghorn chickens, including Foghorn red |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | COLOR PLEASE $400: Cornflowers, & cornflower shirts blue |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | COLOR PLEASE $600: Robin Hood's getup, traditionally: Lincoln this green |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | COLOR PLEASE $800: NASCAR's "one lap to go" flag white |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | COLOR PLEASE $1000: The bottommost color of a primary rainbow--remember the mnemonic violet |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $200: In 1949 Ed Seymour invented paint dispensed this way; aluminum was the first color spray paint |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $2000: (Hi. I'm CCH Pounder.) A favorite film of mine is this 1958 musical that featured the song "Bali Ha'i"; it was also the 1st film I ever saw in color South Pacific |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | WINE A LITTLE $200: This wine-growing region in eastern France shares its name with a deep reddish-purplish color Burgundy |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | PAINT IN OILS $1600: This technique of applying thin layers gives richer color than if you'd just mixed the paint; you can do it with ham, too glazing |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | SIBLING REVELRY $800: "In Living Color" featured siblings Kim, Marlon, Damon, Shawn & Keenen Ivory of this family the Wayans |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LOCAL COLOR $400: In the Irish language, this very Irish color is glas, & the political party is Comhaontas Glas green |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LOCAL COLOR $800: In a Paris shop, the English word "jaundice" may help you remember this French word for "yellow" jaune |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LOCAL COLOR $1200: Mavi is Turkish for this, the color of a landmark mosque there blue |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LOCAL COLOR $1600: This zona, Spanish for "pink zone", is a touristy part of Mexico City the Zona Rosa |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LOCAL COLOR $2000: German for "white", in Bavaria it's found before "Bier" weiss |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | NOVEL QUOTES $9,000 (Daily Double): 1995:
"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color" Wicked |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | THE WARDROBE $600: Similar to chinos, these pants get their name from the Urdu for "dust color" khakis |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | MAPS $400: Most maps typically use this color to depict bodies of water blue |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2,000 (Daily Double): A deep red color: as a verb, it means "to abandon on an island" maroon |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | THE COLOR PURPLE $200: Only 3 men received this military decoration during the Revolutionary War; 2 of the badges still exist the Purple Heart |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | THE COLOR PURPLE $400: This guy "is a dinosaur from our imagination, & when he's tall, he's what we call a dinosaur sensation" Barney |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | THE COLOR PURPLE $600: In song, "it was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin'" this; sure looks strange to me a purple people eater |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | THE COLOR PURPLE $800: This purple plant's name doesn't come from the Italian for "washing"; it's probably from a word meaning "livid" lavender |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | THE COLOR PURPLE $1000: When these flowers "last in the dooryard bloom'd", it was May, & they grew to a height of 20 feet lilacs |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | BUMMER WORDS, MAN $800: Am I this primary color between green & violet in the visible spectrum? Why, yes; yes I am blue |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | GOULASH $400: Cerulean, a shade of this color, is derived from a Latin word meaning "sky" or "heavens" blue |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | ART $800: A rich auburn is named for this Venetian artist, who favored that hair color in his paintings Titian |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | INVENTED IN THE 20th CENTURY $2000: Using a rotating red, blue & green disk, Peter Goldmark invented a version of this approved by the FCC in 1950 a color television |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | FACES $1600: This precocious little girl first appeared in the comics in 1933 as the niece of an aunt named Fritzi Nancy |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | A BUNCH OF EDVARD MUNCH $1600: Munch was one of the pioneers of this art movement, using color & line in a highly personal style to convey emotion expressionism |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | 4 HORSEMEN $1200: The second horseman, who symbolizes war & bloodshed, rides a horse of this color red |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | 4 HORSEMEN $3,000 (Daily Double): The third horseman, who symbolizes famine, rides a horse of this color black |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | THE WHITE STUFF $800: Get some color in your cheeks & ride a brown cow through the city of Whitehorse, the capital of this Canadian territory the Yukon |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | CRAZY EIGHTS $400: The 8-ball in pool is primarily this color black |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE EYES HAVE IT $1600: The eyes have these 2 types of receptor cells; one gives color vision, the other black & white vision in dim light rods & cones |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE LADIES' ROOM $1600: Paint the walls of the ladies' room in this, Pantone's color of the year for 2011; it also precedes "rose" in a Fats Waller title honeysuckle |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | IN COURAGE $400: It's a cosmetic used to color the cheeks rouge |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | PACIFIC OCEAN LIFE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Maui Ocean Center.) Mature green sea turtles are herbivores; that's why their body fat is green; young ones who haven't developed their color yet feed on creatures like jellyfish, so they're classified as these carnivores |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | ANCIENT EGYPT $1200: During the Old Kingdom, Egyptians would paint their eyelids this color using malachite, an oxide of copper green |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | FLOWERS $400: It's noted for the size & color of its autumnal flowers a chrysanthemum |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | A BITTER / SWEET SYMPHONY $400: The color of this sweet liquid is determined by the source of the nectar honey |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | THE IVY LEAGUE $800: Its school color is crimson, & that's the veritas Harvard |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | ART -ISMS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Seurat's painting of the "Circus Sideshow" uses this new Impressionist technique, featuring small dots & brush strokes that, from a distance, create blended color pointillism |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | CHEMISTRY $200: When lemon juice is dropped on blue litmus paper, the paper will turn this color red |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | INCA HOOTS? $1600: Peru's ferruginous pygmy owls are the color of this, which is formed by oxidation rust |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | IMMORTALITY $800: Immortelles are these that retain their color & shape when dried flowers |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | SO SAYETH THE TALK SHOW HOST $200: This "Late Show" guy: "Fall is my favorite season in L.A., watching the birds change color & fall from the trees" David Letterman |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | BASIC SCIENCE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some high-tech devices.) Both LCD TVs & mood rings use liquid crystals, however, the crystals in LCDs reflect color by using electricity & mood rings use this type of energy heat |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | WINE, WHITE WINE $2000: A pale greenish-yellow color indicates that a young white wine is still exhibiting small amounts of this plant pigment chlorophyll |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands before some paints)
When creating paint colors, adding black produces a shade, adding gray forms a tone, adding white creates this form of the original color, from the Latin for "to dye" a tint |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF $400: This "ground lion" reptile rarely changes its color for camouflage: it's usually signifying its emotional state chameleon |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | "STOP" & "GO" $600: In captivity this bird is fed a diet containing carotenoid pigments to maintain the color of its plumage a flamingo |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands under a sculpture.) The raven steals the Sun & escapes through a sooty smokehole to get his characteristic color; those shenanigans are typical of this crafty folklore archetype a trickster |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | COLORFUL FOODS $800: You couldn't get a better example of a certain light-orange color than this salmon |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | COLORFUL FOODS $1200: It's penicillium that gives these, like Gorgonzola, the color in their name blue cheese |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | COLORFUL FOODS $1600: This variety of kale has a color in its two-word name collard greens |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | 1901-1910 $200: In 1909 Henry Ford produced over 10,000 of this car, saying customers could get it in "any color...so long as it is black" the Model T |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | GO! $800: In Go, 2 players take turns placing stones of 2 different colors on a board; unlike in chess, this color goes first black |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | GO! $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a go board.) In go, a stone that's surrounded by the opponent's color is captured & removed; it's said to have lost its last this, also an unalienable right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence liberty |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | HAWAIIAN AGRICULTURE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from a coffee bean field on Molokai.) Coffee gets its flavor from the earth, & the nutrient-rich soil of Molokai, which gets its red color from this element, is ideal for growing coffee iron |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ROMAN NUMERAL WORDS $1600: Full of life, or when talking about color, strikingly intense vivid |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $400: To keep a picnic table pest-free, spray with water mixed with the oil from this plant; take note of its color lavender |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | HERBS & SPICES $2000: Once called Indian saffron because of its yellow color, it's used to color cheese & butter turmeric |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | ART 101 $400: An achromatic painting is one done in black, white & shades of this color gray |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | VETERANS DAY $600: Each November 11 a color guard executes "present arms" at 11:00 A.M. at this Arlington National Cemetery location the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | POP CULTURE $2000: "Miss Celie's Pants" & "Shug Avery Comin' To Town" are songs featured in this Broadway musical The Color Purple |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | COLORFUL QUOTES $200: "No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen, for there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the" this green |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | COLORFUL QUOTES $400: Hamlet replies to Ophelia, "so long? Nay then let the devil wear" this color, "for I'll have a suit of sables" black |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This neutral color is grigio gray |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | A COLORFUL CATEGORY $800: This color "noise" is a combination of all the different frequencies of sound; some people use it to help them sleep white noise |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: French for "flea", this 4-letter color is a dark brownish purple puce |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | THE COLOR OF MONEY $200: China's 100-yuan banknote shows this guy's head in red Mao |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | THE COLOR OF MONEY $400: Israel's 1968 5-lira banknote showed this scientist in green & white next to a blue & orange cloud of atoms Einstein |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | THE COLOR OF MONEY $600: A dark blue image of this spooky ancient riddler stares out from Egypt's 10-piastre note the Sphinx |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | THE COLOR OF MONEY $800: Ireland's 1999 10-pound note showed this author in green against the brown Wicklow Hills & blue Dublin Bay (James) Joyce |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | THE COLOR OF MONEY $1000: In 1982, this country issued a 5,000-zloty note featuring a green Frederic Chopin Poland |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | OPRAH'S AHA! MOMENTS $200: (Oprah reads the clue from a chair.) I told my audience about the thing I wanted most in my life, the role of Sofia in this movie; the moment I surrendered to the possibility it wouldn't happen was when I got the call from Steven Spielberg The Color Purple |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | BLOGS & BLOGGERS $400: This color is featured prominently, even for the links, on treehugger.com green |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | BUT WHAT AM EYE? $800: The more melanin & the closer it is to the surface, the darker the color of this 4-letter eye part the iris |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | 19th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $2000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Jordan.) The color of the sandstone in this ancient city in Jordan explains why, in the 19th century, John William Burgon called it "a rose-red city half as old as time" Petra |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $800: This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out" Pippi Longstocking |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: It's the color of malachite, a mineral from which copper is obtained green |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE AGE OF ASPARAGUS $600: Argenteuil in northern France is renowned for its delicate asparagus of this color white |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | FUN WITH COLORS $800: A pale tan, like the color of a certain oval-shaped nut used to make marzipan almond |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | ALL ABOUT ART $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a color wheel diagram on the monitor.) On the color wheel, complementary colors are opposite each other: red & green, yellow & purple, blue & this missing color orange |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | FANTASTIC MR. FOX $800: The fantastic Arctic fox changes color with the seasons, from gray or brown in summer to this color in winter white |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | SEE & SAY $1600: Say the name of these big trees; it has a color in it redwood |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | WIMBLEDON $200: In 1967 color TV was introduced to the U.K. when this network sponsored a tournament on centre court the BBC |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | REPTILES $200: The green anole is often mislabeled in pet stores as this color-changing lizard a chameleon |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | BANANAS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.) Bananas stay green while attached to the plant; picking one releases a gas that changes the fruit's color & turns its starch into this sugar, from the Latin for "fruit" fructose |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | TRADITIONAL ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $2000: The 35th warrants this, which is also the orangy color of the material in the necklace seen here coral |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | A CROCUS $1200: Crocus is a shade of this color, as are primrose & jonquil yellow |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | OCCUPATIONS $800: A pro sports broadcasting duo consists of a play-by-play announcer & the analyst called this man a color commentator |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ATOM $400: Early atomic theorist Democritus said this color results from smooth, flat atoms that cast no shadow white |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | RED FISH, BLUE FISH $1200: The bottom-dwelling fish named for this stinging arachnid can be red in color a scorpion |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | ON BROADWAY 2010 $2000: "Red" stars Alfred Molina as this abstract expressionist who painted rectangles of color, a suicide in 1970 (Mark) Rothko |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN $400: The Times reports that with their bright color, "Oriental" these & "American antiques go together like peas & carrots" rugs |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | WHAT ARE YOU, YELLOW? $800: The name of this flower seen here reflects its color & its shape a buttercup |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | PRIMARY COLORS $800: In the election of 1892, the Populist Party supported "free" this mineral (also a color) silver |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $1600: For February, you can choose this flower whose color matches the month's birthstone the violet |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | BOTANY $600: Field peas usually have reddish-purple blossoms; garden peas have blossoms mostly of this color white |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | MILITARY SPECTACLES $800: Any group of armed forces personnel who carry or escort the flag during a parade a color guard |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | GEMS & JEWELRY $800: This gem is named for being the color of sea water aquamarine |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | ON THE RADIO $800: "Sober" was a 2009 hit for this woman whose hair color no longer matches her name Pink |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | 21st CENTURY WOMEN $200: This talk show host made her film debut in "The Color Purple" & when it hit Broadway in 2005, she was one of the producers Oprah |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE STAR'S TV SHOW & MOVIE $1600: "In Living Color",
"Bruce Almighty" Jim Carrey |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | IT'S NO WHITE $400: Often used to describe a black & shiny hair color, it's also the name of a black bird a raven |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | IT'S NO WHITE $1,000 (Daily Double): Light goldenrod is also known by this name because it resembles the color of the seeds from which we get linseed oil flax |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | IT'S NO WHITE $1000: According to Webster's, the serpentine shade of this color is "paler than citrine" green |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1,000 (Daily Double): Because of its color, the ruby is associated symbolically with this planet Mars |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | PSYCHO 101 $200: As it would have been too gory in color, this director opted to shoot "Psycho" in black & white Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | PEOPLE STYLE WATCH $400: People noted this color of royalty; Vanessa Hudgens rocked it in a Dior dress & Brian Atwood shoes purple |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | MAGAZINES ON THE WEB $800: "Color-a-Room" & leaf through the "Plant Encyclopedia" at bhg.com, this magazine's online home Better Homes and Gardens |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | THEN THERE'S MAUVE $400: First obtained from aniline, the color mauve was the first commercially successful synthetic this a dye |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | THEN THERE'S MAUVE $800: Bella Donna Mauve is in the Color Riche line of these made by L'Oreal lipsticks |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | CYCLE BABBLE $800: The most coveted prize in the Tour de France is the maillot jaune, a jersey of this color yellow |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $200: God did make these, & some of them are Granny Smiths (little green) apples |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $400: Lincoln Green is also called this green, where you might see it were it not for the trees a forest |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $600: This old song says, "Alas, my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously" "Greensleeves" |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $800: This American political party that formed in 1874 favored an increase in paper currency the Greenback Party |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $1000: This play says, "Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster" Othello |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | THE SCIENCE OF AUTUMN $400: To change color, leaves slow down & stop production of this green pigment chlorophyll |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | CUTTING THE MUSTARD $1000: Prepared mustard gets its bright yellow color from this Asian spice that's also in curry powder turmeric |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | MONEY TALKS $1200: The color of copper led to the Americanism "not worth" one of these a red cent |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE LIZARD $400: He's the color-changing fellow seen here a chameleon |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | THE SCARLET LETTERS $200: It's Harvard's school color crimson |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | NATURE STUDY $800: This tall shrub is prized for the reddish dye obtained from its leaves that's used to color hair henna |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | THE SCARLET LETTERS $800: This shade of red whose name includes a building block has been a Crayola color since 1949 brick red |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | NAMED FOR THEIR LOOKS $1000: Tusk, tusk! This color is named for the tusk material it resembles ivory |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | THE NEW PUPPY $2000: You can get special shampoos to keep dogs like the bichon frise this color white |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a pink rock sample at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.) Because of its softness, rhodochrosite is not used in jewelry, but it's highly valued for its color; the name means this, also glasses used by optimists rose-colored |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | POTENT POTABLES, SOUTHERN STYLE $200: A classic Scarlett O'Hara cocktail contains a squeeze of this (remember the color of Scarlett's eyes) lime |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | POTENT POTABLES, SOUTHERN STYLE $800: A liqueur of this flavor (Kahlua, perhaps) gives that pretty muddy color to a Mississippi mud cocktail coffee |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | POISON IVY, OAK & SUMAC $400: Poison ivy isn't always green; its leaves are this color in early spring, & they may turn orange in the fall red |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | 4-LETTER RIVERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Lewis & Clark noticed the white color of this river & named it accordingly the Milk |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | WHATEVER! $800: For a spot on Oprah, Crayola made a special crayon of her favorite hue & called it this, also a movie title The Color Purple |
| #5721, aired 2009-06-22 | JACKIE ROBINSON $200: Jackie broke pro baseball's color barrier & joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in this decade the 1940s |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | LACE $800: It was originally made from pale silk, so even when it's dyed black, this type of lace bears the name of a fair hair color blonde lace |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | I'M GETTING HUNGRY $400: I'll wash my snack down with one of the Jones Soda Co.'s fun flavors, like Fufu Berry or this color Bubble Gum (as I'm a boy) Blue |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE "OC" $1000: It's a chocolatey brown color, or a flavoring of coffee & chocolate mocha |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | A GLASS OF PORT $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew presents from a Sandeman Winery cellar in Portugal.) Vintage port continues to age in the bottle, while this type of port, whose name refers to its brownish color, ages in wooden barrels tawny |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | SCRAMBLED EGGS $800: This bird's eggs are so pretty a color is named for them:
IN BRO robin |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $2000: Small natural streams & a brownish-gray color brooks & dun |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | ALBUMS THAT ROCK $1600: "In Your Honor",
"The Color and the Shape" Foo Fighters |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | COLLEGES IN OTHER WORDS $800: An Ivy:
To saute until color changes Brown |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | ART $800: Seen in the painting here, this Dutch artist loved the color yellow van Gogh |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | ALSO A COLOR $200: Area where the pin is a marker for the hole the green |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | ALSO A COLOR $400: Communist red |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | ALSO A COLOR $600: Indecent blue |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $600: Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field…and you don't notice it" Alice Walker |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | ALSO A COLOR $800: In the 17th century Frederick Henry, Count of Nassau, was also called the Prince of this Orange |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | ALSO A COLOR $1000: Before "Burbank" in a high-starch, fluffy potato russet |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | IT'S NOT SO $200: Though 4,500 miles long, it's not visible from space, as its materials are similar in color to the surrounding soil the Great Wall of China |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | UNWRITTEN DINING-OUT RULES $600: Tell Grandma you will buy her some packets of Equal (they're mainly this color); there's no need to pocket them blue |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | D(5 LETTERS)D $1200: Having spots of a different shade, tone or color from the background, like a mare dappled |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | WORDS FROM PLACES $1000: This color, a brilliant purplish pink, is named for a northern Italian city magenta |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ART HISTORY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of a painting.) Van Eyck filled his Arnolfini portrait with symbolism; both the color green & the woman's pose to exaggerate her stomach are meant to indicate this, though, sadly, she never had any children fertility |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | GEMS & JEWELRY $1000: Sunlight may change the color of this traditional November birthstone that's often a sunny shade of yellow topaz |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | PUTTING ON THE DOG $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is with a cocker spaniel.) In dog shows, some cocker spaniels are ASCOB,
which stands for any solid color other than this black |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew performs a science experiment with a purple Magic Marker.) Draw on chalk & put it in water to see the component layers of marker color; it's a demonstration of this range of lab techniques that separate & analyze, from the Greek for "color" & "writing" chromatography |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | THE QUOTABLE KEITH RICHARDS $600: "I've never turned" this color "in somebody else's bathroom, I consider that the height of bad manners" blue |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | COLORFUL TERMS $400: If you drink enough of this color champagne, you might also see its elephants pink |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | SHADES OF BLUE $200 (Daily Double): Saint Tropez & Cannes are on a coast named for this color the azure coast |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | SHADES OF BLUE $200: In 2003 Crayola retired teal blue & added a color named wild blue this yonder |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | SHADES OF BLUE $1000: Containing the name of a defunct kingdom, this iron blue tint was discovered by a color-maker in 18th century Berlin Prussian |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | AMERICANA $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Crayola factory in Easton, Pennsylvania.) In 1958, the 64-color assortment of Crayolas debuted; the box had this new built-in feature that later earned it a place in the Smithsonian a sharpener |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | SWEET! $800: A red cake named for this smooth fabric is really a chocolate cake--food coloring gives it the distinctive color velvet |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $600: Per the ingredients listed on the label, it provides the color in Coca-Cola caramel |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The topic of the paper he gave to the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society in 1794 was color blindness John Dalton |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | THE LOUVRE $200: Discovered on a Greek island in 1820, this statue would have had arms & been adorned with jewelry & color the Venus de Milo |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | THINGAMAJIGS $400: These sewing shears weren't named for a color but for a verb meaning to finish edges with a zigzag pattern pinking |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | GLASS & GLASSMAKING $600: To achieve this color of glass, cobalt oxide is added during the manufacturing process blue |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | PAINT YOUR WAGON $200: If it's a circus wagon, paint it this traditional color red |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | PAINT YOUR WAGON $600: Battle wagon is another name for a battleship, so paint it the color called battleship this grey |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | WE REWRITE HISTORY! $800: Jessica Simpson's oeuvre includes 1996's "The Same River Twice" &, of course, the Pulitzer-winning "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | GENERAL SCIENCE $800: Using spectrometry, you'll find that helium produces a bright line of this color yellow |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | IT'S GOT MEANING $400: This color means imperial, regal or princely; it can also precede "prose" purple |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE $800: It's the color in the name of New Hampshire's state bird, a finch, & a state flower, a lilac purple |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | HOW CAN WE MISS YOU IF YOU NEVER LEAVE? $200: Pines, firs & spruces stay a certain color all year, as they are this type of tree an evergreen |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | ALL MY "EX"ES $400: The natural color, texture & appearance of the skin, especially the face complexion |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | COLOR-FULL WORDS $200: Astronomer John Herschel developed the process to make this type of architectural drawing a blueprint |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | COLOR-FULL WORDS $400: At night this good-natured elf secretly helps out with housework a brownie |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | COLOR-FULL WORDS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points her remote, first at you, and then at her digital camera.) You don't see anything happening when you press your remote, but hold it up to a camera & you can see it's communicating to the TV using this spectrum of light infrared |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | COLOR-FULL WORDS $800: During the Middle Ages, the Arabs reintroduced to Europe this process of converting hides to leather tanning |
