#8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
#7155, aired 2015-10-23 | POWER TRANSMISSION $400: This type of current is generally preferred for long-distance power transmission A.C. (alternating current) |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $200: A milk-giving bovine dairy cow |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $400: We love Dirk Taubert, M.D. & the other researchers who've reported in medical journals on the benefits of this sweet dark chocolate |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $600: If you were one of these stupid chicken sounds, you wouldn't be here dumb cluck |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $800: Italian for "from the head", it means to repeat a piece of music from the beginning da capo |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $1000: Once upon a time, theatergoers in this arcing row of seats were expected to wear formal clothes dress circle |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | BREAKING NEWS $2000: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) In 2002 I broke the story of a peace plan--a return to June 1967 lines & a Palestinian state for a full peace between Israel & the Arab world--proposed by this now-king of Saudi Arabia King Abdullah |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | EVERYTHING FROM C TO D $1000: In math: raised to the third power cubed |
#5383, aired 2008-01-23 | THE EPA P3 EXPO $1200: (Jimmy reporting from the EPA P3 Expo in Washington, D.C.) A team from the University of New Hampshire is using camel power & a rope & washer system to replace gas power with green technology in the drip type of this in the fields of Niger, one of the world's poorest countries irrigation |
#5383, aired 2008-01-23 | THE EPA P3 EXPO $2000: (Jimmy reporting from the EPA P3 Expo in Washington, D.C.) Using solar power to kill water-borne bacteria at temperatures below the boiling point, Rochester Institute of Technology's team saves energy while accomplishing this, named for a 19th century French scientist Pasteurization |
#5106, aired 2006-11-20 | I'M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP $600: Take a shot & guess this D.C. power broker's identity Vice President Richard Cheney |
#4147, aired 2002-09-17 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $400: Have belief in your power to spell... C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-C-E |
#3041, aired 1997-11-17 | POWER PLAYS $800: A famous D.C. address, it was the title of a 1976 musical; Lerner felt low when it flopped 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | POLITICAL LINGO $800: A fervent desire to hang on to political power, it sounds like a disease you'd catch on a D.C. river Potomac Fever |
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