| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ACTING UP AT JUILLIARD $2000: Alum Robin Williams set up a scholarship won by this woman, who made it from Group 32 to the lead in "Zero Dark Thirty" Jessica Chastain |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | FLAG TIME! $200: Naturally, the dark blue background of NATO's flag represents this body of water the Atlantic Ocean |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $400: This 1893 classic cooked up by Engelbert Humperdinck is largely set in a dark German forest Hansel and Gretel |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | TOUGH VOCAB $800: In Latin "fuscus" meant dark, hence this verb meaning to deliberately bewilder obfuscate |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FOOD & DRINK $400: A caffè Americano is this dark strong coffee diluted with hot water espresso |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | "O-U-R" SOMETHING $1200: Condolences to the dark-colored butterfly known as this type of cloak the mourning cloak butterfly |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $200: She followed up "Sharp Objects" with "Dark Places", in which a secret society wants to solve a 25-year-old murder Gillian Flynn |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $1600: In this John Cheever story, Neddy makes his way pool by pool to his own home but like his life, it's dark & empty "The Swimmer" |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $400: Michael Jackson warns about evil "lurking in the dark" & Vincent Price waxes poetic about grisly ghouls "Thriller" |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: Roland Deschain is the gunslinging protagonist of this Stephen King series The Dark Tower |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MILITARY SLANG $1000: This title of a 2012 film is military slang for "so late it's early" Zero Dark Thirty |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $2000: Barnabas Collins was the resident vampire on this Gothic soap of the 1960s & early '70s Dark Shadows |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $200: Bregagh Road in Northern Ireland, an avenue of beech trees known locally as Dark Hedges, was used as King's Road in this HBO series Game of Thrones |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $800: This nonfiction work by Eric Schlosser is subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" Fast Food Nation |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | FLAGS $400: The U.S. Secretary of the Navy has a flag: dark blue with one of these naval devices in the center an anchor |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AUTO BIOGRAPHIES $200: I've evolved over the years from a red convertible in comic books to the tumbler you saw in "The Dark Knight", I am this vehicle the Batmobile |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $500: Philip Pullman:
"The Golden Compass";
"The Subtle Knife";
"The Amber Spyglass" His Dark Materials |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $10,400 (Daily Double): Studies have shown that some shrews use this process, emitting high-pitched squeaks as a guide in the dark echolocation |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $1200: It can be something especially desirable, or a dark reddish purple color plum |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $1000: On January 30, 1968, CBS broadcast the reopening of this D.C. landmark; the stage had been dark for 103 years Ford's Theater |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE MOON $200: Note to Pink Floyd: though one hemisphere of the Moon always faces away from Earth, this nickname for it is inaccurate dark side of the Moon |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE MOON $600: Stargazers once thought the Moon's dark patches were oceans; today we know they're pools of this hardened volcanic substance lava |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | MOVIE SEQUELS $800: "The Dark Knight"
(2008) Batman Begins |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $600: 2000:
"Dancer in the ____" Dark |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $1200: Robert Frost wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have" this obligation "and miles to go before I sleep" promises to keep |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FUNGUS AMONG US $1500: Scientists use this internet-inspired pun name for the vast network of fungi swapping nutrients beneath the forest floor the wood wide web |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $800: (Justin Long presents the clue.) The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be Pet Sematary |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | OTHER RED, WHITE & BLUE FLAGS $1600: From 1748 to 1814, this nation flew the Danish flag; it added a dark blue cross within the white cross on the red field in 1821 Norway |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | PLEASE BEAR WITH ME $400: Wocka wocka! To voice this Muppet, Frank Oz said, "I had to flesh him out, so I made him desperately insecure" Fozzie Bear |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $600: In the screenplay to this film, Christopher Nolan co-wrote the line "Some men just want to watch the world burn" The Dark Knight |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "B" MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas... it's dark & we're wearing sunglasses"; "Hit it" The Blues Brothers |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $600: On the anthology "Miracle Workers" he has portrayed God, a peasant during the Dark Ages & an outlaw on the Oregon Trail Buscemi |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $400: Illuminating the dark chrysalis of space, M6 emerges in Scorpius & is called this insect cluster; its stars resemble wings butterfly |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $2000: It was lit when this Titan hung with mankind but it got real dark after Zeus cuffed him to that mountain Prometheus |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $600: Old tree cutting practices are being used in Lower Woods Reserve in the UK to bring back its population of these after-dark songbirds nightingales |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NATURE $1200: Granite commonly contains biotite, a dark, glossy type of this 4-letter mineral mica |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | RESTAURANTS $600: At Montreal's Onoir, all the dining takes place in this unique situation in the dark |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $400: Throwing unlikely people together, various situations including adversity & politics have been said to "make strange" these bedfellows |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $800: You wouldn't let your kids see a movie rated this nickname of 1930s baseball star Jimmie Foxx double X |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1200: Meaning made impure by additions, it's in the full name of the 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act adulterated |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1600: Nuta was the given first name of the creator of the dazzling country & Western style worn here, but he was better known as this Nudie |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $2000: This name for a Beethoven symphony is the sexy section of the bookstore with one letter removed Eroica |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $400: Kruger National Park is home to several large snakes, including this deadly type of mamba named for the dark lining in its mouth a black mamba |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEERS $1000: Sri Lanka's Lion Lager is 4.8% alcohol; Lion this dark, strong beer type is a powerful 8.8% Stout |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | A NEW COAT $800: The U.S. Navy issued these, double-breasted, hip-length & dark blue, to new recruits until 2019 a peacoat |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | PLEASE LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE $800: An image from a NASA probe shows the Great Dark Spot on this planet Neptune |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $400: Passionate & a bit on the dark side, "The Giaour" in a poem by this lord & romantic is truly a him-ic hero Lord Byron |
| #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 |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $2000: In this 2019 X-Men movie, Sophie Turner dealt with absolute power corrupting absolutely Dark Phoenix |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $800: As in "The Trial", this author uses a protagonist named K. in "The Castle"; a dark city with odd locals keeps K, busy Kafka |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | 5 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $1000: A type of earthworm that emerges after dark, or a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal as the memorably vile Louis Bloom nightcrawler |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | QUOTH THE TITLE $1200: Philip Pullman quoted Milton, "Unless the almighty maker them ordain" these "to create more worlds" His Dark Materials |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | HAIR OF THE DOG $400: On Labradors, this sweet coat color ranges from medium brown to dark brown chocolate |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | UNIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): It was a marriage of true minds when this pair wed in France on July 26, 1895; the bride wore a dark blue dress she could use in the lab Pierre & Marie Curie |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | YOU SEEM UPSET $400: The future's not so dark; no need to rhymingly be all doom & this gloom |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | FROM "E" TO "Y" $1600: The Macassar is one tree that yields this extremely dark heartwood ebony |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | SINGIN' IN THE RAIN $300: For the Weather Girls in 1982, it was raining these, "tall, blond, dark & lean" men |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | WHAT'S IN THE BOTTLE? $400: Different types of vinegar, including this dark, rich variety from Modena, Italy balsamic |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE MUSEUM OF FAILURE $200: Shake it like a this picture? Great! But its Instant Video Camera System? That "could only record 2 1/2 minutes of murky, dark video" Polaroid |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | POTENT "P"OTABLES $1200: This type of dark brown British beer is said to have gotten its name from the luggage carriers who drank it a porter |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | PURE BREAD $400: Rock on--dark & light rye bread rolled together is deemed this marble bread |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $600: His powerful performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" won him a posthumous Supporting Actor Oscar (Heath) Ledger |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SEARCH HIGH & LOW $800: Low:
A good word to describe a pirate's subsurface treasure, or dark, hollow eyes sunken |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $200: "A lower room in the keep of a castle... a close dark prison... commonly underground" a dungeon |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $1600: Look for leaping flames on the cover when you seek out "The Splendor Before the Dark", Margaret George's novel about this Roman emperor Nero |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | "D" IN SCIENCE $800: Still mysterious but described as a "repulsive force", it makes up 70% of the universe, way more than the same-named "matter" dark energy |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $100: Severus Snape is the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher at this school that Harry Potter attends Hogwarts |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | IN THE SCIENCE DICTIONARY $800: Galileo was among the first to observe these dark solar areas that appear in 11-year cycles sunspots |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $2000: Christian Bale stars in this 2012 sequel to a 2008 sequel to a 2005 movie The Dark Knight Rises |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $400: In this dark dance movie, Winona Ryder has leg issues as ousted prima ballerina Beth Black Swan |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $1000: "Time" & "Money" can both be found on this Pink Floyd album from 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $300: (Austin holds a glass full of a dark beer at his bar.) Tending bar at an Irish pub, I've poured many a pint of draft beer from this 260+-year-old Dublin brewery; there's a technique, here--it's not just flip & drip Guinness |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | U.S. COUNTIES $1600: Longfellow fans in the legislature gave South Dakota's most populous county this name of a "dark-eyed daughter" Minnehaha |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | NAME THAT HITMAKER $2000: "Dark Horse" &
"Wide Awake" Katy Perry |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS $400: He "will sleep till noon but before it's dark, he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park" Yogi Bear |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | 4,4 $200: A service branch is in the name of this dark color navy blue |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | DANGER! DANGER! $200: National Weather Service danger signs of this impending phenomenon include a dark, often greenish sky & a roaring noise a tornado |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | DRINK $1600: It's a dark & stormy night, so have a Dark 'n' Stormy cocktail made with ginger beer & this (dark) rum |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | WOOD $200: Thomas Chippendale preferred this dark reddish-brown wood from the West Indies; the British had dropped duties on it in 1733 mahogany |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SCI-FI TRILOGIES $400: The "Thrawn" trilogy, including "Dark Force Rising", is part of its "Expanded Universe" Star Wars |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | ETHNIC GROUPS $200: George Lopez subtitled his 2009 comedy special "tall, dark &" this word meaning specifically Mexican American Chicano |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1,000 (Daily Double): Now known to historians as the Migration period, the early Middle Ages were long known by this name implying ignorance the Dark Ages |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | I SEE YOU THERE! $800: It's dark, but I'm pretty sure that's you inside one of these naturally occurring volcanic tubes a lava tube |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE $400: ABC sang about a "Poison" one to the heart, while Avicii had a song about shooting "Broken" ones "in the dark" arrows |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $400: Your gardening group can learn about Detroit dark red--not a hit man but a sweet variety of this root veggie a beet |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $1200: "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris introduced this female telepath & a community of Louisiana vampires Sookie Stackhouse |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $600: Jimmy Doolittle's April 1942 air raid on this Axis capital raised Allied morale at a dark time in the war Tokyo |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $600: Vowels in the Korean hangul alphabet are divided into "bright" & "dark" types, representing this duality yin & yang |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $400: In "The Dark Knight", this character says, "Madness... is like gravity: all it takes is a little push" the Joker |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | GLOW-POURRI $400: Made with fluorescent inks, these posters glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet rays black light |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $1600: Shakespeare's sonnets 127 to 152 are addressed to a mysterious woman commonly called this, whose "eyes are raven black" the Dark Lady |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | THE LANDING $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2019 China's Chang'e 4 probe made the first landing here, a place not even glimpsed by humanity until 1959 the dark (far) side of the Moon |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | DON'T BE SO THIRSTY $600: A dark mustache on a BYU student may indicate she's been drinking this, the most popular beverage sold there after water chocolate milk |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | GET YOUR "M_B_A" $400: The black species of this snake is actually dark brown to gray a mamba |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | PICK A MAJOR $800: Also known as the Hourglass Sea & the Atlantic Canale, Syrtis Major is a big dark spot on the surface of this planet Mars |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | ADD A LETTER $1600: A synonym for dark & dirty takes on a letter & becomes a small boat dinghy & dingy |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $1600: The title of this Kathryn Bigelow film is military slang for a period of time before the sun comes up Zero Dark Thirty |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $2000: "One particular horse, called Nugget, he embraces... they stand in the dark for an hour" is a line from this play Equus |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STRIPES $1000: This dark pigment gives a zebra its black stripes melanin |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | THE VICTORIAN ERA $2000: The world's first postage stamp, this "dark" one, was issued & soon millions of letters were being sent every year the Penny Black |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $2000: In her novella "Anthem", humanity has entered a dark age of collectivism where using the word "I" is punishable by death (Ayn) Rand |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | ARKANSAS $200: Surrounding General Douglas MacArthur's birthplace, MacArthur Park melts in the dark in this capital city Little Rock |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | PRESIDENTIAL THIS & THAT $400: A long-shot compromise candidate in 1844, James Polk is considered the first of these "equine" winners a dark horse |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | READING THE DETECTIVES $1000: It was dark, & my head hurt. I was this guy from 7 Raymond Chandler novels, including "The Little Sister", & I needed a drink Philip Marlowe |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $800: Vistra, sorry to pick on you, but you had problems as this state where you're based froze in the dark in February 2021 Texas |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $1000: "Everyone was angry with" this woman, the titular first wife of a Daphne du Maurier novel, "when she cut her" mass of dark hair Rebecca |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | WORD ORIGINS $13,800 (Daily Double): This poison gets its name partly from the Greek for "dark blue" cyanide |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $400: In the Harry Potter books, he's the dark lord Voldemort |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $800: Traditionally the black keys on a piano are made of this hard dark wood ebony |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $1600: You get a "B" if you know it's the most common volcanic rock in the Earth's crust basalt |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $2000: In the early 1800s Joseph Niépce created some of the first photos using one of these, Latin for "dark chamber" a camera obscura |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $4,000 (Daily Double): This 14th century poet who gave his name to a type of sonnet is often credited with the term the Dark Ages Petrarch |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | PHYSICS $3,000 (Daily Double): General relativity meant there must be these waves, but they weren't directly detected until 2015, by the LIGO Observatory gravitational waves |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $600: "Black Thursday" saw panic selling on Oct. 24 of this year, leading to "Black Monday" & "Black Tuesday" & dark days in the USA 1929 |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | WHO DIRECTED IT? $1200: 1991's
"Point Break",
"Zero Dark Thirty" Kathryn Bigelow |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | WHO DIRECTED IT? $2000: "Red Hot Chili Peppers: Dark Necessities", "Booksmart" Olivia Wilde |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | INCONCEIVABLE! $400: Add a "Y" to this 4-letter word for gloom or a dark mist & you get a word for hard to understand murk |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $400: The name of this capital means "black pool", referring to the dark waters of the River Liffey Dublin |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | "ST" FOR A START $2000: This adjective means dark & hellish, like a journey to Hades Stygian |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | NUMERICAL ENTERTAINMENT $400: The cinematic hunt for bin Laden:
"____ Dark ____" Zero Dark Thirty |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | INSTRUMENTAL TO THE SONG $1200: Saxophonist on "Jungleland" (1975) & "Dancing In The Dark" (1984) (Clarence) Clemons |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | FICTION $600: "The Amber Spyglass" is the concluding novel in this Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $800: He didn't sing in "The Dark Knight" but serenaded Julia Stiles with "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" in "10 Things I Hate About You" Heath Ledger |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | HISTORICAL NONFICTION $400: A dark portrait of Victorian London, "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold examines the lives of the victims of this killer Jack the Ripper |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | QUITE A PARADOX $400: Olbers' paradox is the fact that the night sky is dark; why don't these light it up? stars |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $600: Products from this brand include school glue, glow in the dark glue & pre-made slime called "Gue" Elmer's |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $1600: A byproduct of sugar refining, it's a dark, viscous variety of molasses blackstrap molasses |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | NAPOLEON THE INNOVATOR $200: This reading system for the blind began as a challenge by Napoleon to find a way for soldiers to communicate silently in the dark Braille |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | NON-ALEXANDER HAMILTON $600: In 2019, she was nominated for a CinemaCon USA Ensemble Award for "Terminator: Dark Fate" Linda Hamilton |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $1000: A death eater & dark witch, Bellatrix Lestrange killed Dobby before being killed herself by Molly Weasley in this book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | FICTION $1200: "A Wrinkle in Time" starts with what might be called an infamous quotation, these 7 words that also open an 1830 novel "It was a dark and stormy night" |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $400: Start the weekend with a cocktail, like a deep, dark secret, made with kahlúa & the dark type of this rum |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIOCHEMISTRY $1200: Sustaining plant life on Earth, this process in the chloroplast is divided into the light reactions & the dark reactions photosynthesis |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | IN MY RECORD COLLECTION $400: This group's "The Dark Side of the Moon" Pink Floyd |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $1600: In a Maya Angelou poem, "the dark" one of these old-time lamps "of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land" a lantern |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction Light in August |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Embedded with stones that glow in the dark, the Van Gogh Path in the Netherlands was inspired by this painting Starry Night |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $1600: Dylan Thomas' best-known poem urges his father, "Do not" do this. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" go gentle into that good night |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | FINANCIAL SLANG $1000: This dark fowl is a term for a highly improbable but possible event, like the 2008 financial crisis a black swan |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 5 "E" $400: Prized for its dark luster, it's the type of wood seen here ebony |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1600: This bird is famous for its lovely song heard after dark a nightingale (a nightin-gale) |
| #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 |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | MY "SHOT" $800: Also the title of a 1964 Pink Panther film, this phrase refers to an uneducated guess A Shot in the Dark |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | FICTIONAL PLACES $800: Sauron, the dark lord of this land, has ambitions to rule all of Middle-Earth Mordor |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | PLANETARY EXTREMES $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the windiest planet, with storms like the Great Dark Spot observed by Voyager 2 Neptune |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | I GOT THEM HISTORICAL BLUES $600: There's a dark house over yonder / In Boston's North Square / The home this Founding Father rode from / A home still standing there Paul Revere |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $1200: Milton's "Unless the almighty maker them ordain / His dark materials to create more worlds" inspired the title of a trilogy by him Philip Pullman |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | SEEING RED $1600: Gemstones that are also types of red include the ruby & this 6-letter dark, clear mineral garnet |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | "BE"SOMETHING"ED" $2000: Lacking knowledge, unenlightened; literally, it refers to a traveler who must stop because it gets dark benighted |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $600: This animal of the weasel family, Neovison vison, has rich, dark fur once popular for coats mink |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | OXYMORONS $2,800 (Daily Double): This oxymoron refers to dark chocolate often in about the 60% cacao range bittersweet |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | UNIVERSE $1600: Amounting to 5 times the mass of regular, visible matter, it was long theorized but first directly detected in 2006 dark matter |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | GUYS NAMED DOUG $1000: "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" is a 1988 book by this British humorist Douglas Adams |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | FORGETFUL SEQUELS $1600: "Dark Fate", the latest film in this series, ignores all the sequels after "Judgment Day" Terminator |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | SAILING THE 5 SEAS $800: Odessa & Sochi are ports on this sea that looks dark in winter due to heavy fogs the Black Sea |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | CHANGE A LETTER $2000: Change a letter in the opposite of illuminated to get a word for unpleasantly damp & chilly dark & dank |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $1200: Best Supporting Actress: "The Help" (2011) & Best Actress: "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012) Jessica Chastain |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | PREQUELS $1200: "Age of Resistance", a TV prequel to "The Dark Crystal", was produced by Lisa, daughter of this man who directed the original film Jim Henson |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | THE ELEMENTS WITH STYLE $3,000 (Daily Double): You'll have that certain glow with this element discovered in 1669 & named for the way it glows in the dark phosphorus |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | THIS PLANET $1,600 (Daily Double): ...is noted for a dark gap called the Cassini division Saturn |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CAN I START YOU WITH SOME DRINKS? $400: A New Orleans specialty, a Hurricane traditionally contains both the dark & light types of this rum |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | 4,4 $400: Designation for the thigh & leg of a roasted chicken, as opposed to the breast dark meat |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $600: 2008:
"Why so serious?" Dark Knight |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | BEYOND MEAT $1000: This dark pigment determines skin & hair color melanin |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: Getting to the core of things, the oldest & strongest part of a tree is the hard dark center called this heartwood |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: This "dark" pandemic ravaged Europe between 1347 & 1351 the Black Plague |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $600: In a chemical reaction, sulfur combines with silver to create this dark coating tarnish |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | PARADISE BY $1000: "Dark Paradise" is a song on her album "Born To Die" Lana Del Rey |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $1600: This Dylan Thomas title is rhymed with "Though wise men at their end know dark is right" Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELTIES $200: "Friends of Superman" could send for a nugget of this, just a regular rock coated with glow-in-the-dark green paint kryptonite |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $2000: Written at age 87, this prolific author's final book was "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" Sidney Sheldon |
| #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 |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | ENTREPRENHEIRS $1000: It doesn't take an Oracle to know this last name of Megan, producer of Oscar-nominated films like "Her" & "Zero Dark Thirty" Ellison |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | WOMEN OF SCIENCE $5,000 (Daily Double): Vera Rubin confirmed the existence of this component of the universe, originally dubbed "missing mass" dark matter |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | DEEP STUFF $400: The Internet that has not been indexed by these is the deep web search engines |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: "Rug-cutting" 1984 Bruce Springsteen tune about Sophie Turner's title X-Men character who plays NBA hoops in Arizona "Dancing In The Dark" Phoenix Suns |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE DARK AGES $400: The onset of the Dark Ages is said to have come when the German Odoacer deposed the last ruler of this empire in 476 the Roman Empire |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE DARK AGES $800: Medical conditions of concern included being shot with an arrow by these spirit folk, not the friendly Christmas kind elves |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE DARK AGES $1200: Dark Ages guys Methodius & Cyril went down in history as the fathers of this system the alphabet |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE DARK AGES $1600: This illuminated book was probably taken to County Meath in Ireland in the 9th century the Book of Kells |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE DARK AGES $2,000 (Daily Double): Before it meant one who attacks received ideas, it meant one who opposed & even broke idols in the Byzantine Empire an iconoclast |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | I BLESS THE RAINS $200: Between a primary & secondary one of these in the sky is a region called Alexander's dark band a rainbow |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | LOVE SONGS $800: In "Perfect" he sings, "I'm dancing in the dark, with you between my arms, barefoot on the grass" Ed Sheeran |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | IT TAKES A VILLAIN $400: He says the movie line "You don't know the power of the dark side" Darth Vader |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MAKE LIGHT WORK $600: Take a mind-expanding journey at the live show called Paramount's Laser Spectacular, with the music of this "Dark Side" band Pink Floyd |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | '90s NO. 1 HITS $800: She was "Coming Out Of The Dark" sans Miami Sound Machine in 1991 Gloria Estefan |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $1000: This Australian actress starred in the 2018 horror "Hereditary" about a family with dark secrets (Toni) Collette |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | SCIENCE $400: Similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, this planet once had a Great Dark Spot storm system that was about the size of Earth Neptune |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $2,200 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) The Apollo missions brought back more than 800 pounds of moon rocks & showed that the dark, flat lunar areas known as seas are not water but this common volcanic rock that also makes up most of the oceanic crust here on Earth basalt |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $1000: This Oscar-winning actor is all sorts of bad as the man in black in "The Dark Tower", based on the Stephen King novels Matthew McConaughey |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $1600: Susan Orlean's book about him tells how he became a '20s film star, though his dark coat was difficult to light Rin Tin Tin |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | FLOATING HOLIDAYS $400: Chinese New Year begins between January 21 & February 20, on this phase of the moon, so it might be pretty dark out the new moon |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SCIENCE $1600: Some scientists think more than 95% of the universe is made up of what's called this "energy" & this "matter" dark |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK $400: Umbra is the Latin word for this dark area that can follow you around shadow |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $800: The dark void before creation (basically a huge mess) was called this 5-letter word chaos |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK $800: Crepuscule is another word for this 8-letter moment just before darkness falls twilight |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK $1200: In the first line of Poe's "The Raven", this dark adjective describes midnight dreary |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK $1600: Shakespeare's Portia says, "How far that little" this "throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world" candle |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK $2000: Preserved in Jerusalem, "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness" is one of the 7 original these Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $1600: The screen is dark for the first 15 seconds or so of this 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | PET SOUNDS $400: The peppermint kind of this seasonal treat has white & dark chocolate & candy cane pieces bark |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | COIN STAR $200: This type of bird swims in a lake under a star-filled sky on a Canadian commemorative coin that glows in the dark a loon |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | TRIPLE "O" RATED $800: This dark-colored tea's name is from the Chinese for "black dragon" oolong |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | A BIT OF THE OLD ULTRAVIOLET $1600: This dark pigment is your body's defense against the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation melanin |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): On March 1, 2007 170 Swiss troops accidentally wandered into & "invaded" this 62-sq-mi. nation--it was dark, OK?! Liechtenstein |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | FROM THE "PEN" OF WEBSTER'S THIRD $1000: "The shaded region surrounding the dark central portion of a sunspot" penumbra |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $600: This Philip Pullman series beginning with "The Golden Compass" cut Lyra's more adult feelings from the U.S. version His Dark Materials |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | TIME TO GO GREEN $1200: "In brightest day, in blackest night", this 2011 Ryan Reynolds superhero movie went dark, losing a reported $90 mil. the Green Lantern |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THAT'S SOME STRONG LANGUAGE! $600: Strong & sturdy, or a dark brew made from roasted malt stout |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $600: His work as Casey Ryback in "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" was overlooked by the Academy, as was the film itself Steven Seagal |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | NEWER WORDS $2000: Originally a Twitter joke, a "milkshake" this fowl describes a viral darling whose dark past quickly appears duck |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | PSYCHOLOGY $1600: A "dark triad" that leads to exploiting others is psychopathy, Machiavellianism & this selfish -ism inspired by myth narcissism |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | GIVE A LITTLE WHISTLE $800: If you're "whistling in" this, you're putting on a brave show in a tough situation the dark |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | B MINUS $400: "B" says goodbye to a dark color & now you have this, meaning "deficiency" lack |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | WORD ORIGINS $800: With large reflective eyes that seem to glow in the dark, this primate has a name meaning "ghost" or "specter" a lemur |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | GEOGRAPHY OF THE MOON $400: The Moon has many seas, but only one of these larger areas--it's a giant dark spot that could be from a cosmic collision an ocean |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | GETTING SPECIFIC AT GENERAL HOSPITAL $800: (Rebecca Herbst and Roger Howarth give the clue as Elizabeth and Franco from General Hospital.) "I'm a nurse, Franco, I can treat you medically, but permanent change is up to you"
"I'm trying, Elizabeth, but the draw of the dark side feeds on me like these spore-producing organisms that lack chlorophyll & are incapable of photosynthesis" fungi |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | READING $600: In "I'll Be Gone in the Dark", Michelle McNamara detailed her quest for the Calif. murderer she dubbed this the Golden State Killer |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | THE T LEAVES $800: The T runs off from a building where horses are kept & becomes this weasellike mammal with dark brown fur sable |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | SOCRATES, PLATO & ARISTOTLE $2000: According to "The Republic", we live in this dark place where we only see the shadows of reality the cave |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $200: A barbarous, ignorant era between the Roman Empire & medieval times, or any unsophisticated period the Dark Ages |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $800: His 1835 "Young Goodman Brown" shows a dark side of New England Hawthorne |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1200: The bag into which the very dark commemorative tablet goes the black plaque sack |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | COLLEGES OF OXFORD $2000: This author based Jordan College in the "His Dark Materials" series on his alma mater, Exeter College Philip Pullman |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: American daisy with dark center that was a leading U.S. suffragette black-eyed Susan B. Anthony |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | A QUESTION OF FILM $800: Recounting a memory of his father, Heath Ledger as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" utters this 3-word question "Why so serious?" |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | IT'S A DISASTER! $600: The 79 A.D. eruption gets most of the headlines, but the Dec. 16, 1631 event at this volcano killed 3,000 & had dark sky for days Mount Vesuvius |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | TELEVISION $800: Cole Sprouse dons an updated version of Jughead's hat on this dark take on the Archie comics Riverdale |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $400: Blackish spot on a hammerhead a dark shark mark |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | A SECOND SCREEN EXPERIENCE $200: We got the villain we deserved when Heath Ledger played the Joker in this sequel The Dark Knight |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | "HORSE" TALK $1200: An 1831 novel said, one of these, "which had never been thought of... rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph" a dark horse |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | GIVING YOU THE EARTH & THE MOON $600 (Daily Double): Latin name for the large, dark lunar plains that early observers thought were seas maria |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | ZERO $800: A good time for a raid, it's 3-word military slang for an unspecified time between midnight & dawn zero dark thirty |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $1200: Dark woods on the peaks give Montenegro its name, meaning this black mountain |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $200: In 1892 Edison's Light Company became this entity that is still a big deal today General Electric |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $400: Attempts to profit off this man's X-rays led to the tragic death of Edison's assistant Clarence Dally Röntgen |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $600: Edison stiffed this man to the tune of $50,000 & told him, "When you become...American, you will appreciate an American joke" Tesla |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $800: Edison on this: "What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil & coal run out before we tackle that" the sun |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $1000: To discredit the A.C. power system, Edison tried to make this tycoon's name synonymous with electrocution Westinghouse |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | A SHEEPISH CATEGORY $2000: A.E. Housman wrote of a "Lad" from this English county, home to a hornless, dark-faced sheep of the same name Shropshire |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MORE THAN ONE LIFE TO LIVE $400: Jason Dessen wakes up in someone else's life in Blake Crouch's book named for this theoretical "matter" dark matter |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | MOCKING JAY $800: "Only you, Farva, can make a dark man blush", says Jay Chandrasekhar in this 2001 cult cop comedy Super Troopers |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | 2-WORD SONG TITLES $1600: In 2013 Katy Perry was "coming atcha like a" this, perhaps James K. Polk "Dark Horse" |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | WINTER OLYMPICS PREVIEW $1000: The Games promise a new dimension with events like this flat-on-your-back sled event held after dark under floodlights luge |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | STAN LEE $400: Stan's many movie cameos include one as a mental patient in this deity: "The Dark World" Thor |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | FITNESS $1000: Elizabeth Cutler & Julie Rice created this indoor bike workout that's done in dark, candlelit rooms SoulCycle |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | SPOT CHECK $200: The umbra, the dark center of one of these phenomena, can be many times larger than the Earth a sunspot |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | PRECIOUS TIME $1200: This 4-letter word is defined as "the dark part of twilight" dusk |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | THEY WROTE IT $1200: The diary entry "That big, dark, hunky boy...came over and was looking hard in my eyes and it was Ted Hughes" Sylvia Plath |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FOREWORDS $600: Ang Lee writes that in this film Heath Ledger "makes the audience feel the emotions that his character cannot express" Brokeback Mountain |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | FROM PAGE TO MULTIPLEX $1600: Based on Stephen King, this 2017 film has Idris Elba as the gunslinger, in pursuit of Matthew McConaughey's Man in Black The Dark Tower |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE CHANDLER $1,200 (Daily Double): Chandler wrote, "Down" these paths a detective "must go"; the phrase became a 1973 Scorsese film title mean streets |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | PAINT BY NUMBERS $2000: "Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight" is a masterpiece of this Italian-named contrast of light and dark chiaroscuro |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | THE INUIT $600: Vital in the dark winter, the qulliq is traditionally fueled by the oil of this animal whose skin and bones were also key resources seal (the whale) |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | DRAMATIC TV DRAMA! $1600: Jude Law laid down the law to the faithful from a dark balcony on this show, saying, "I don't know if you deserve me" The Young Pope |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $600: "I woke up and heard the lambs screaming. I woke up in the dark and the lambs were screaming" (Thomas) Harris |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $200: A female with dark brown hair a brunette |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | POLITICAL CONVENTIONS $1000: At the 1844 Democratic convention, James Polk became this type of unexpected "equine" nominee a dark horse |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | TV IN THE STREAM $200: Take a look at "Black" this & it "reflects" a dark anthology series on Netflix mirror |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | SCARY READING $500 (Daily Double): You know the stuff that makes up 1/4 of the universe but we can't see it? Peter Straub put "A" before it to title this 2010 book A Dark Matter |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | ROCKS & MINERALS $800: Kilt Rock on the Isle of Skye is a sea cliff made up of this dark-colored volcanic rock basalt |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $2000: The name of this technique pioneered by Leonardo da Vinci means "light & dark" chiaroscuro |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LITTLE MYTH SUNSHINE $1600: Gnowee lights & climbs the sky in search of her son, lost in the dark, as a goddess of this Australian people the Aborigines |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | JESSICA $600: Before she was one of "The Fantastic Four", she was nominated for a Golden Globe as a TV "Dark Angel" in 2001 Jessica Alba |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $600: At Bladensbug, Md.'s "dark and bloody grounds", where dozens of D.C. gents once came to settle scores via this by duel |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | & "AWAY" THEY GO $600: Actress who was feline fine in "The Dark Knight Rises" Anne Hathaway |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | UNIVERSAL PICTURES $4,000 (Daily Double): Hubble images have helped scientists produce a 3-D map of this unseen stuff that makes up most of the universe's mass dark matter |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | SCIEN-"T"IFIC $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the moon on the monitor.) This line that separates light & dark sections of the moon's disk disappears when the moon is full... but it'll be back the terminator line |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | 5-LETTER FILM SYNOPSES $400: 1996:
Dark Dakota dealings detail death, dismemberment Fargo |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ALBUM COVERS $1600: On a black background, light goes through a prism & comes out a rainbow Dark Side of the Moon |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | A SHOW OF HANS $1600: He's composed music for more than 100 films, including "The Dark Knight" & "Interstellar" Hans Zimmer |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $400: He penned the lines "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | PUTTING THE "R" IN ENTERTAINMENT $400: This hit by Adele begins, "There's a fire starting in my heart, reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out the dark" "Rolling in the Deep" |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | MTV MOVIE AWARD FOR BEST VILLAIN $800: Playing the Joker in "The Dark Knight" won him an Oscar too Heath Ledger |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1200: This superhero spun his magic on Broadway in a musical subtitled "Turn Off the Dark" Spider-Man |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | LETTER PERFECT $2000: The element that can glow in the dark and has atomic number 15 is symbolized by this letter P |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | A MOVIE TO DIE FOR $600: At the end of "The Dark Knight", this character played by Aaron Eckhart dies in a fall Harvey Dent |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BOOKS $400: In this 2005 novel Bella tells Edward, "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars" Twilight |
| #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 |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SOAP? $600: In 1991 Ben Cross looked good for a 200-year-old as vampire Barnabas Collins on this remake of a '60s soap Dark Shadows |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | GOOEY CENTERS $200: Here are some cheesy-centered poppers made with these dark green chilies named for the capital of Veracruz, Mexico jalapeños |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | APOCALYPSE NOW $1600: This Max Brooks novel begins, "It goes by many names: 'The Crisis,' 'The Dark Years,' 'The Walking Plague'" World War Z |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | SCENE IT $800: 2010:
Natalie Portman flips the dark bird Black Swan |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | MIDDLE "G" $400: Hear the howls & clanking chains from this dark underground chamber used to hold prisoners a dungeon |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | PLANET EARTH $1,000 (Daily Double): This dark, organic substance found in soil & formed from decaying matter is good for plants; some might try to eat it with pita humus |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | ROCK "ME" $1600: "When the night has come and the land is dark", I'll be okay if you do this "Stand By Me" |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | CHICKEN DINNER $400: For beer can chicken, Bobby Flay likes to use this 5-letter type of strong, dark beer stout |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RECENT BESTSELLING BOOKS $800: Citizens united to buy copies of "Dark Money", about these brothers who used their wealth to change politics the Koch brothers |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | ENTERTAINING REDHEADS $800: Redheaded Jessicas include the animated Jessica Rabbit & this co-star of "The Help" & "Zero Dark Thirty" Jessica Chastain |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | I'M JUST A SAYING $1000: "All cats are gray" under this condition means beauty isn't so important in the dark (or in the night) |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $600: A dark beer, or one who handles your luggage at a railway station porter |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | CONNECT 4 $400: "Blowin' In The Wind",
"I Want You",
"Jokerman",
"Not Dark Yet" Bob Dylan (songs) |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN... THE BEETLES! $1600: The male of the American this beetle is a dark brown scarab, about 1 inch long, with a single upright horn a rhinoceros |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: "A Shot in the Dark" is one of the movies with Peter Sellers as this bumbling policeman Inspector Clouseau |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: 2012:
"I'm going to smoke everybody involved in this op, and then I'm going to kill bin Laden" Zero Dark Thirty |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | JUST "D.M." ME $400: This component of the universe is detected by its gravitational pull rather than by its luminosity dark matter |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | FRENCH FILM FEMMES $800: After portraying Piaf, she took a darker turn in "The Dark Knight Rises" playing Talia al Ghul Marion Cotillard |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | WHO WANTS A BEER? $1000: Here's the logo of this beer that also comes in dark & non-alcoholic versions St. Pauli Girl |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | TARZAN REVIEW BOOKS $600: Tarzan enjoy dark humor but ponder insanity of war after read bombardier snared in Air Force bureaucracy Catch-22 |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SYFY MOVIES $400: Syfy's take on medieval times is "Dark Relic", set in the Mideast in 1099, at the end of the first of these the Crusades |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | STARTS & ENDS WITH DIFFERENT VOWELS $2000: It's the central dark spot of the shadow cast by the Moon or Earth during an eclipse umbra |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | COLORFUL HISTORY $1200: In 1776 Benjamin Franklin sailed to France with this dark blue dye to sell to help fund the war effort indigo |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $2000: Although Van Buren was the frontrunner in 1844, this dark horse won the Democratic party nomination James K. Polk |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | HORROR FILMS $200: The dark past of Lakewood comes out in the 2015 MTV series based on this movie series that starred David Arquette Scream |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | MAKEUP $600: As its name implies, one of these, often in stick or cream form, is used especially to cover up dark circles & blemishes concealer |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | THE AUSSIE INVASION $2000: The Little River Band sang, "We'll go dancing in the dark, walking through the park &" doing this title "Reminiscing" |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | LITERARY VILLAINS $2000: Ray Bradbury wrote "The Illustrated Man" & this novel about the sinister tattoo-covered Mr. Dark Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| #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 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER NEW WORDS $800: It's the type of "money" contributed to nonprofits but really used for political means dark money |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | WHAT'S YOUR MOVIE NUMBER? $400: 2012:
SEAL Team 6 disposes of Osama bin Laden Zero Dark Thirty |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $800: Mid-World's last gunslinger searches for the title edifice in this fantasy series by Stephen King The Dark Tower |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | "ETTE" TOO $1000: A dark profile a silhouette |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | 5 SHADES OF GRAY $600: You might find this dark purplish gray atop a roof or underneath the felt on a pool table slate |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $2000: Collinsport, Maine Dark Shadows |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | FILM FRANCHISES $600: Robin is the first name of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character in this 2012 Batman film The Dark Knight Rises |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | 1920s FICTION BESTSELLERS $800: It was dark-haired Anita Loos who caused a sensation with "Gentlemen Prefer" these blondes |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | HUMAN BEHAVIOR $800: "Dark" verb meaning to exclude someone socially, like from membership in a club blackball |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | ALSO A MAGAZINE $1200: A dark, heavy wood from India ebony |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $2000: Some say that to achieve the look of his paintings, Vermeer must have used this device, Latin for "dark chamber" a camera obscura |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | THE WILD WEST $1600: This "dark" stagecoach robber left poems at the scene of his crimes, signing them as "The PO8" Black Bart |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | I SAY IT'S SPINACH $400: You can tell me it's this dark green vegetable with edible florets & an Italian name, but I'm still not gonna eat it broccoli |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POP CULTURE $1600: A roadie known as Roger the Hat provided the manic, dare we say lunatic, laughter on this 1973 Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $800: O foul & dark time! This infamous event was borne in Pudding Lane & did rage for 5 awfull days in September of 1666 the Great London Fire |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | HIT SONGS $400: In 1984 "Dancing In The Dark" was the first of several hits off his "Born in the U.S.A." Springsteen |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | MOVIE COSTUMES $1200: For this 2008 film Christian Bale got a new cowl that allowed him to turn his head The Dark Knight |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $1200: "I don't even like the theater!", said this 67-year-old sourpuss comedian about his 2015 bow in his own play "Fish in the Dark" Larry David |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | SHOWBIZ ALTER EGOS $1600: Cassandra Peterson dated Elvis & was in the Groundlings before creating this "Mistress of the Dark" Elvira |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | TALK ABOUT THE CLIMATE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a stormcloud moving over a mountain on the monitor.) Stormclouds tend to drop more precipitation on the windward side of a mountain range; when that happens, the dryer side is in what's called a "rain" one of these dark areas a shadow |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $400: On July 14, 1881 he entered a dark room & asked in Spanish, "Who is it?"; Pat Garrett responded with 2 fatal shots William Bonney (or Billy the Kid) |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $1200: Funeral songs or hymns; "we sang" them "in the dark, the day the music died" dirges |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | THE GROUP OF DEATH $1600: Taxi! "If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, then I'll follow you into the dark", sang this morbid band Death Cab for Cutie |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | LITERA-SEA $400: This "Iliad" poet often refers to "The Wine-Dark Sea" Homer |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | 3-NAMED ACTORS $1600: He's the Dark Lord of the Sith--well, the voice, anyway James Earl Jones |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | BIOGRAPHY $800: "Dark Lover" smolders with "The Life and Death of" this silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | STATE CAPITOLS $1200: On the grounds of the state capitol in Nashville, you'll find the tomb of this "Dark Horse" president & his wife James K. Polk |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | WOODEN PLOTS $800: "Dinosaurs Before Dark" is the first book in this series of kids' books by Mary Pope Osborne The Magic Tree House |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $200: A very dark tire-changing aid a black jack |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | TEXT TALK $400: I have no idea what you're talking about; I'm SITD, "still" this in the dark |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS $600: 2000:
"Dancer in the ____" Dark |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | THEY SAID IT ON TV $800: As Dexter he said, "He's all I've got; nothing else could love me... or is that just a dark lie the dark passenger tells me?" (Michael C.) Hall |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $1600: These 7 words penned by Edward Buller-Lytton have inspired an annual contest dedicated to bad opening lines It was a dark and stormy night |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | 5, 5 $800: Check out a fluorescent poster in a dark room using this device a black light |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WHO WROTE IT? $1600: "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark" Dante |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | SONG LYRICS $1000: Katy Perry:
"Make me your Aphrodite, make me your one and only" "Dark Horse" |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | WHOSE MOVIE TITLE? $600: A dark fairy tale:
his "Labyrinth" Pan |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | "IN" THE DICTIONARY $600: This color ranges from a deep violet blue to a dark grayish blue indigo |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | WHAT ARE YOU READING? $1600: "Dark Places", by this author of "Gone Girl" Gillian Flynn |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | ATTACK OF THE MOVIE MONSTERS $1000: Abe Sapien helps this well-"red" guy who went from the Dark Side to working for our side Hellboy |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $1200: This glow-in-the-dark element is the only one whose name ends in "us" phosphorus |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | EXPOSÉS $800: Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot" showed this president's reckless side John F. Kennedy |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | EXPOSÉS $1600: Subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal", this expose was made into a 2006 film Fast Food Nation |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | PLANES OF YESTERYEAR $600: Known by this dark avian nickname, Lockheed's SR-71 still holds speed records for a manned jet set back in 1976 the Blackbird |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | SPOILER MOVIE TITLES $1600: 2013:
Navy SEALs make a rough decision in Afghanistan Lone Survivor |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | OTHER LINES TO SING THE KIDS $200: "As your bright & tiny spark lights the traveler in the dark" "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MARKETING $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows pictures of a pod and a bottle on the monitor.) The vertical grooves of a cacao pod & the need for a bottle that could be differentiated from the competitors' bottles in the dark led to this company's design choice in 1916 Coca-Cola |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | SUN OF A BOOK $800: In the short story "Nightfall" by this prolific sci-fi writer, a planet with 6 suns goes dark Isaac Asimov |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | DINERS CLUB $1600: Chipotles are the dried form of these dark green chile peppers jalapeños |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | CHINESE ART $400: Pi yu is the dark green type of this stone, the most precious in Chinese art jade |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | FILL IN THE MOVIE TITLES $400: One's got Inspector Clouseau, the other Bjork:
"A Shot in the ____" & "Dancer in the ____" Dark |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SPOT ME $2000: Neptune has a great dark spot & a small dark spot & both are "anti-" these weather phenomena anticyclones |
| #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 |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | HINDUISM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew displays a calendar on the monitor.) Months in the Hindu calendar are subdivided into two fortnights; the dark fortnight occurs in this lunar stage, meaning the Moon is decreasing in illumination waning |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ELEVEN $800: This pit stop offers "Brazilian dark roast" coffee that's "guaranteed fresh" 7-Eleven |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | PLAYING BONNAROO $800: Night must have fallen in 2009 by the time he ended his set with "Dancing In The Dark" Bruce Springsteen |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $2,000 (Daily Double): This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | STEPHEN KING $600: "The Wizard and Glass" is one entry in this series The Dark Tower |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | COMIC STRIPS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: Superman's dark twin Bizarro |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | FIGURING OUT THE UNIVERSE $400: (Sarah gives the clue from the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.) The Sanford Underground Research Facility located deep in the Black Hills conducts experiments to detect this type of matter that makes up over one-fourth of the universe dark matter |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | FIGURING OUT THE UNIVERSE $1600: (Sarah gives the clue from the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.) The double-walled titanium cylinder acts as a thermos, so this gas, the "X" in the LUX experiment, stays liquid; scientists hope that some elusive dark matter will bump into an atom of it xenon |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $600: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite book is this Pat Conroy novel in which Tom Wingo leaves South Carolina to help his troubled twin sister in New York & ends up confronting his own dark past The Prince of Tides |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | MUSICAL RAP SHEET $2000: Cher, not Shakespeare, shot this title New Orleans fortune teller after catching her with her man "Dark Lady" |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | SLEEPING WITH THE "NME" $1600: A dark gray with a bluish or purplish tinge, resembling a weapon gunmetal |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1200: A British film director: "The Dark Side of Genius" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $400: Morgan Freeman played Lucius Fox, a valued employee of Wayne Enterprises, in this 2008 film The Dark Knight |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $800: The third "Transformers" movie had this 4-word subtitle Dark of the Moon |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $1200: Movie in which Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain had the memorable line "The dingo's got my baby!" A Cry in the Dark |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $1600: "The Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty co-wrote this movie that featured Inspector Clouseau A Shot in the Dark |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $2000: This 1982 film features a universe of Jim Henson creatures The Dark Crystal |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $800: Masked villain in "The Dark Knight Rises" Bane |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | HAVE A DRINK $200: Some recipes for a hurricane call for both the dark & light types of this rum |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $2000: Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The often parodied "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents" Paul Clifford |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | LITERARY OPENINGS $1600: King:
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" The Dark Tower |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | LET'S ALL CHANT $2000: The "Dark Side of the Chant" album features this Carl Orff work with a Latin title, used in menacing movie scenes O, Fortuna |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $2000: About her, Lennon & McCartney wrote, "nothing can come between us, when it gets dark I tow your heart away" Lovely Rita |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | MEDICINE $400: The sensation that a dark curtain is being pulled across the eye can indicate that this has become detached the retina |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $400: Richard Harris & others sang of this L.A. space "melting in the dark, all the sweet, green icing flowing down" MacArthur Park |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | APOCALYTERATURE $800: Over 1,000 pages long, this Stephen King novel sees 108-year-old Abagail face off against "the dark man" The Stand |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS $400: This Arizona city got its name from chuk-son, an Indian word meaning village of the dark spring at the foot of the mountains Tucson |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | WORDPLAY $600: "You don't know? Come on, take a dot in the shark" is an example of this a spoonerism |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | WHAT ARE YOU SELLING? $600: Flo, of the dark hair & red lipstick, wants drivers to try Snapshot from this insurance company Progressive |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | THANKS A LATTE $200: A caffe latte is made with a shot or 2 of this strong, dark coffee mixed with steamed milk espresso |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LITERARY FLORIDA $2000: John D. MacDonald explored Florida's dark side in "Pale Gray for Guilt" & other novels about this McHero Travis McGee |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | MOVIE TITLE OVERLAPS $800: "The Dark
_____
and Day" Knight |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $400: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have ___ to keep" promises |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | MOVIE TITLE ADD A LETTER $400: 2012:
Kathryn Bigelow directs the decade-long hunt for something to drink--mouths are dry in Afghanistan Zero Dark Thirsty |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | MOVIE TITLE ADD A LETTER $600: 2012:
At the end of a trilogy, Batman fights Bane while getting the shampoo out of his hair The Dark Knight Rinses |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | ALASKAN AQUATIC LIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a sea star while scuba diving in Alaska.) Pacific sea stars lack developed eyes, but at the tip of each arm are eyespots that help distinguish light from dark with the help of these light-focusing structures found in human eyes lenses |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $800: "In the dark all cats are ____" grey |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | MISSION $200: In this 2012 movie CIA officer Jessica Chastain makes it her mission to track down & kill Osama bin Laden Zero Dark Thirty |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | CHARACTERS IN THE BROADWAY PLAY $800: Otto Frank & Mr. van Daan, who live in dark times The Diary of Anne Frank |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | FLOWERY PROSE $400: Ah, the aroma from varieties of this flower, like the pure white Iceberg & the dark red Mr. Lincoln; I bought them in Pasadena a rose |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | THE SHORT FORM $800: The script for "Zero Dark Thirty" describes "helos" disappearing into the night helicopters |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | PEOPLESES $800: Northern plains people named for their dark moccasins Blackfoot/feet |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | CELEBS $1000: Chris Pratt, goofy Andy on "Parks and Recreation", played one of the members of this elite group in "Zero Dark Thirty" SEAL Team Six |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | 3 "T"s $1000: The "Joy of Cooking" recipe for this flavor pudding includes dark brown sugar & heavy cream but not liquor butterscotch |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ELEMENTS IN THE HUMAN BODY $600: Your bones don't glow in the dark, but they do contain this "light-bringing" element that makes up 1% of you phosphorus |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | ALL SCIENCE "E" $1600: (Alex reports from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) These marine iguanas are lying on the beach and exposing their dark backs to the sun because they are these, from the Greek for "outside" and "heat," unlike mammals like us, which are endotherms exotherms |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | "D" LICIOUS $600: Demonic term for a dark, dense baked chocolate item a devil's food cake |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK $400: Anne Hathaway is feline groovy as "cat" burglar Selina Kyle in this 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | HIGH FANTASY $800: A large white bear fronts the cover of the first book of the "His Dark Materials" series, known as "The Golden" this Compass |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BAND'S KILLER ALBUM FILLER $400: On "The Dark Side of the Moon": "The Great Gig in the Sky" Pink Floyd |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THE DARK NIGHT RISES $200: October is the dawning of the best viewing for this, the 11th sign of the zodiac Aquarius |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THE DARK NIGHT RISES $400: Made on Earth & orbiting the Earth every 90-93 minutes, it sometimes appears brighter than Venus the ISS (the International Space Station) |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THE DARK NIGHT RISES $600: Light from SN 1987A, one of these, lit up the night sky in 1987 after a journey of 160,000 years a supernova |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THE DARK NIGHT RISES $800: November is the main month for this king of meteor showers the Leonids |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THE DARK NIGHT RISES $1000: Mizar & Alcor in the Big Dipper's handle make up a "visual" one of these visible to the naked eye a binary |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from CERN in Switzerland.) Visible matter accounts for only 4% of the universe; via the LHC scientists look for particles responsible for this type of matter & energy that make up the other 96% dark matter |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1000: Cobalt is a silver-white metal; this is a hard, dark volcanic rock, common in the earth's crust basalt |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH O $800: This mint family herb should be stored in a cool, dark place for no more than 6 months oregano |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | "D" IN SCIENCE $400: To astronomers, the presence of this type of "matter" is descerned from its gravitational pull dark |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MOVIE MISSING LINKS $1000: Wait Until ____ Victory Dark |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | BREAD $400: This U.S. city precedes "brown" in the name of a sweet, dark steamed bread Boston |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | RECENTLY DIRECTED $2000: "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" was another stew of action & effects from this director Michael Bay |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | THE KITCHEN LIBRARY $600: This bestselling expose by Eric Schlosser is subtitled "The Dark Side Of The All-American Meal" Fast Food Nation |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | ITALIAN ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Caravaggio's "Deposition from the Cross" illustrates this technique that uses light & shadow to create 3-D effects; its name is from the Italian for "clear and dark" chiaroscuro |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | WITTY LINES $600: This fraternal funnyman quipped, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" Groucho Marx |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AROUND THE FOREST $200: Though it sounds like what you eat on a pita, it's actually the dark organic material in soils found in some forest floors humus |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | HELLO, CLEVELAND! $800: In 1977 this "Dark Side of the Moon" band said "Hello, Cleveland", playing a concert there to more than 80,000 fans Pink Floyd |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | BEAUTY QUEENS $1600: This movie star who appeared in 2012's "Dark Shadows" was a sun bunny who became Miss Orange County Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | ASTRONOMY $800: The Cassini Division is a dark gap between these structures orbiting the sixth planet the rings (of Saturn) |
| #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 |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | GIVE 'EM HEALTH! $1600: Prevention's "12 Ways to Lower" this "Naturally" include "Indulge in dark chocolate" & "Seek help for snoring" blood pressure |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | KATHY BATES GONE WILD $1200: Kathy chugged tequila in a jacuzzi with Ruth Fisher on an episode of this dark HBO drama Six Feet Under |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | RED, RED WINE $400: This popular French red gets its name because its grapes grow in dark bunches that resemble pine cones pinot noir |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | THE JOY OF INSECTS $800: These anopheles insects are especially attracted to dark colors mosquitoes |
| #6395, aired 2012-06-08 | THE LOVELY BEANS $800: This bean with an anatomical name & dark red skin is popular in chili con carne & red beans & rice kidney beans |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | "DAR" $1600: A longshot who wins, or a "Star Wars" comic book publisher a dark horse |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | COLOR ME BAD $400: Dark name for medieval plague the Black Death |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $400: Those into this subculture often have black-dyed hair & wear black clothes & dark makeup goth |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $800: Her "Out of the Dark" essays include "How to Become a Writer", "Our Duties to the Blind" & "What the Blind Can Do" Helen Keller |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | TECHNOLOGY MATTERS $800: On Jan. 18, 2012 some popular websites went dark in protest of SOPA, a bill to "Stop Online" this type of theft piracy |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | ROOM SERVICE $800: A grain focuser & an enlarger are equipment you might need for this room a dark room |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $1600: Element No. 88, it was once widely used on glow-in-the-dark watch dials--a curie-ously stylish but bad idea! radium |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SUPERHERO MOVIES $600: In 2008 this character's disappearing pencil trick was a memorable moment in "The Dark Knight" the Joker |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | DEJA VIEW $800: Before "Twilight" & "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", there was this Gothic series & its 1991 remake about Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | LET ME CALL YOUR ATTENTION... $200: This 4-letter adjective can mean "showing courage" or "typeset in thick, dark lines" bold |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | THE STORY OF O. HENRY $400: Though he rose to fame as O. Henry, he was born William Sydney this, also a type of strong, dark beer Porter |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $800: & lo, the world would go dark at midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, due to this alphanumeric event, & lo... it did not come to pass Y2K |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | MEET THE FLINT STONES $1000: Dark bands of flint are visible in these famous cliffs the Cliffs of Dover |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE PLANETS $400: Around 1675 Gian Domenico Cassini observed a dark gap in this planet's main rings Saturn |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE SUN BELT $1200: These dark areas appear so because they are 4,000 degrees cooler than the rest of the Sun's visible surface sunspots |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | SIBLING REVELRY $1600: The dark comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank" starred this actor as an assassin & this sister of his as his office manager Joan & John Cusack |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $200: The Jamaican fruit type of this emits high-frequency calls to orient itself in the dark a bat |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | SIDES $400: "Time" is on side 1 of this Pink Floyd album; "Money" is on side 2 Dark Side Of The Moon |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD $800: "Life is just a bowl of" these; one sour type is the dark mahogany red morello cherries |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | STEPHEN KING NOVEL PLOTS $800: Flu virus kills most people on Earth; survivors follow either Mother Abagail or the "Dark Man" The Stand |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | "TEA" PARTY $1000: A dark greenish-blue teal |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | IT'S SHOWTIME! $400: On Showtime 2, you could see what the housemates on this Julie Chen-hosted show were like "After Dark" Big Brother |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | ARBOR DAY READING? $1600: "Dinosaurs Before Dark" is the first book in this kids' series by Mary Pope Osborne the Magic Tree House series |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | "HU"! $400: A dark blue edible fruit, or Mr. Hound huckleberry |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | PACIFIC OCEAN LIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Maui Ocean Center.) To be hard to see from both above & below, many sharks have dark backs & paler bellies; this was named "counter-shading" by Abbot Thayer, an artist who helped the military develop this during World War I camouflage |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | AUTHORS IN HOLLYWOOD $2000: Perhaps writing the movies "The Little Foxes" & "The Dark Angel" wasn't so "heavenly" for this female playwright (Lillian) Hellman |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | WORLD AUTHORS $400: "Voyage in the Dark" author Jean Rhys was born in Dominica; her father was from this U.K. country Wales |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | NEIL, EARTHLING $2000: Before writing dark children's books like "Coraline" & "The Graveyard Book", he penned a bio of Duran Duran Neil Gaiman |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | ASTRONOMY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical photograph on the monitor.) Voyager II captured a photo of the storm called the Great Dark Spot on this ice giant; the clouds are believed to be condensed methane particles Neptune |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | COPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES $800: No jokering around! Gary Oldman's James Gordon got a promotion to commissioner in this 2008 film The Dark Knight |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | COMBINED STATE ABBREV. $400: Dark:
Indiana + Kentucky inky |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WHAT KIDS ARE READING THESE DAYS $800: This horror master's "Full Dark, No Stars" is a collection of creepy campfire tales (Stephen) King |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | "M.C." 5 $200: He's worth every penny as Alfred Pennyworth in "The Dark Knight" Michael Caine |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | CREATURE FEATURES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) Dogs' eyes seem to glow in the dark because light is reflected by a special layer of crystals called the tapetum lucidum that acts like a mirror; it's found between the sclera & this 6-letter eye part the retina |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | TEAM EDWARD $1600: These 4 words complete the now-cliched opening of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Paul Clifford": "It was a..." dark and stormy night |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $800: English major Lou Reed wrote lyrics like "Whiplash girlchild in the dark" for this 1960s band the Velvet Underground |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | COUNTY CULTURE $2000: A 2008 Tony award went to Tracy Letts' dark family comedy "August:" this Oklahoma county Osage |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | DO TRY THIS AT HOME $400: Whether its virgin or extra virgin, store it in a dark place; light as well as heat can spoil it olive oil |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $400: Stephen King: "The ___ Tower" Dark |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | PASS THE "URK"-Y $400: From the Old English for "dark", this adjective can mean gloomy or unclear murky |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | WHAT KIND OF PAINT YOU USING? $800: To create a glow-in-the-dark Halloween display; it's from the Latin for "light" luminous (or luminescent) |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | WRITERS ON THE MOVE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) This American novelist, more associated with whales, visited the Galapagos & mused on the tortoise as a symbol of the two sides of existence, with its dark topside & bright underside Herman Melville |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | NAME THE SEUSS TITLE $200: "I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train. Not in the dark! Not in a tree! Not in a car! You let me be!" Green Eggs and Ham |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | "CON"s $400: This water-loving South American snake that kills by constricting comes in 3 types: green, yellow & dark-spotted an anaconda |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | FOOD SPECIFICS $800: Pumpernickel refers to a dark type of this bread rye |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | MUSHROOMS $800: These large, dark edible mushrooms of Asia take their name from the Japanese for "oak mushroom" shiitake |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | "ERE"Y WORDS $2000: In Greek mythology, one must pass through this dark region of the underworld to reach Hades Erebus |
| #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 $600: A dark blue image of this spooky ancient riddler stares out from Egypt's 10-piastre note the Sphinx |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $400: This novel says, "the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | "NIGHT" & "DAY" $2000: Hyphenated film term for shooting footage in the morning or afternoon but making it look like it's dark day-for-night |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | ANTARCTIC WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew floats near a floe in Antarctica.) This seal here--the only type that eats warm-blooded animals--is named after a big cat due to the dark spots on its coat the leopard seal |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | DOMINOES $2000: Early pieces had white faces on ebony backing, resembling a priest wearing a domino, a dark this robe |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | BATMAN $600: This actor was the Batman in "The Dark Knight" Christian Bale |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | THE MOVIES $400: Maggie Gyllenhaal took over the role of Rachel Dawes in this 2008 Batman film The Dark Knight |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | FOOD SCIENCE $1,200 (Daily Double): From the French for "sour wine", this liquid will go bad over time, so it should be stored in a cool, dark place vinegar |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | ROCK BAND INITIALS $2000: nin.com is the official website of this dark outfit Nine Inch Nails |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | ASTRONOMY $600: Undetected murky stuff in the universe presumed to exist because of its gravitational effects dark matter |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | NATURE STUDY $1,600 (Daily Double): This monkey of the Amazon is so-named because the dark patch of hair on its head resembles a monk's hood a capuchin |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | HUSKY $800: A dry, dark beer from Guinness, or what you might become if you drink too many stout |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | PERKIN' UP $2000: For a real jolt, try crackheads, dark chocolate covering these Italian-sounding coffee beans espresso beans |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE TUDORS $1200: The king is quite smitten with this fifth Mrs. Henry VIII, but dark times are in store (Catherine) Howard |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | POLITICAL LINGO $200: 2-word term for a long-shot candidate for nomination, like James Polk in 1844 a dark horse |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | OFF THE RECORD $400: 1984:
"Glory Days",
"Dancing In The Dark" Born in the U.S.A. |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | ROCK $2,000 (Daily Double): Chert, a hard, dense sedimentary rock, is called jasper if it's brightly colored, & this if it's dark flint |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | HEALTH & BEAUTY $800: Watch for changes in these dark skin blemishes that are clusters of melanocytes, not rodents moles |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | PICK A PLANET $1,500 (Daily Double): It's never observable when the sky is fully dark Mercury |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | MEALTIME LIT $1600: After "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", he served up "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" Douglas Adams |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $400: Dark military offensive black attack |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | MMM, STEAK $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a meat cut diagram on the monitor.) Taken from the central section, this large choice steak cut is named for a type of old-time restaurant that also served dark ale Porterhouse |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | 2009 TV FAREWELLS $3,000 (Daily Double): After 72 years & more than 15,700 episodes, this soap opera went dark in 2009 Guiding Light |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials" begins with "The Golden" this Compass |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | VIDEO GAMES $800: In "Dark Tomorrow", you can battle crooks as this Caped Crusader Batman |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | TEEN LIT $800: Zoey Redbird is the protagonist in this "dark" series of teen bestsellers by P.C. & Kristin Cast The House of Night |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | A DATE $1600: Night has fallen, but we can play glow-in-the-dark this game at the putting edge mini-golf (or putt-putt) |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | UNIVERSE $1000: This type of "energy", a main constituent of the universe, is understood even less than this type of "matter" dark |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | POTPOURRI $200: Dark drinks like scotch have lots, vodka less, of impurities called congeners, a culprit in this nasty condition a hangover |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $400: In 1973 North Carolina went dark green & designated this its official state precious stone an emerald |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE MOON HITS $600: A prism refracts white light into the visible spectrum on this seminal 1973 album cover Dark Side of the Moon |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): This British poet wrote, "When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide" John Milton |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | SPIDERS, MAN! $600: Scientifically known as Lactrodectus mactans, this "dark" spider can have a deadly bite a black widow |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | KIDS LOVE MUSEUMS $2000: The Tactile Dome inside the Exploratorium is totally dark; you have to use this tactile sense to guide you touch |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: A little-known political candidate or Oscar nominee is called a "dark" this horse |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: This dramatist's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" was a reworking of his first play William Inge |
| #5721, aired 2009-06-22 | COUNTRY NAME ETYMOLOGY $1000: This new Balkan nation is named for the appearance of Mt. Lovcen or perhaps the dark forests around it Montenegro |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | DANCES WITH WOLVES $2000: He could have danced all night, in the dark, cheek to cheek, with Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow & Lauren Bacall (& he did) (Frank) Sinatra |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE DARK KNIGHT $400: In one legend this top knight disguises himself in black armor to help King Arthur after they've had a falling out Sir Lancelot |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE DARK KNIGHT $800: In this Monty Python film, King Arthur battles a very, very determined Black Knight Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE DARK KNIGHT $1,200 (Daily Double): Edward of Woodstock, Knight of the Garter & heir to the British Throne, is better known to history as this the Black Prince |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE DARK KNIGHT $1200: In "Ivanhoe", this crusader king disguises himself as the Black Knight to aid the hero Richard the Lionhearted |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE DARK KNIGHT $2000: In this author's "Morte d'Arthur", Sir Bewmaynes beats 3 brothers: the Black Knight, the Red Knight & the Green Knight Sir Thomas Malory |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $2000: I remember this 1966-1971 soap opera about vampires, witches & werewolves Dark Shadows |
| #5697, aired 2009-05-19 | WELL, "B"! $200: A family member who doesn't fit in is known by this dark, woolly term black sheep |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | I WANT TO RIDE THAT! $600: Six Flags Great America unleashed a roller coaster named for this bat-tastic 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | DARTH VADER, D.D.S. $600: Vader jokes that D.D.S. is "Dictator of the Dark Side" as well as "Doctor of Dental" this Science (or Surgery) |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE BUTLER DID IT $200: Franz the butler is initially comedic but takes a dark turn as a Nazi sympathizer in this '60s film musical The Sound of Music |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | SCIENTISTS $800: Some scientists predict this "seasonal" period of cold & dark weather would be the result of atomic warfare nuclear winter |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | FORTUNE-TELLING $600: "It's only a game--isn't it?" is a slogan of this board whose mysterious new version actually glows in the dark a Ouija board |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | HAUNTED HOUSEKEEPING $400: Get a duster with a telescoping handle; these arachnid structures can be high up in the dark rafters spider webs |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | WHEN POLITICIANS SPEAK $400: Asked about being a VP, he said he was in a N. Vietnam prison in the dark & fed scraps & he wouldn't want to do that again John McCain |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | DUMB STUFF I SAW ON THE ROAD $800: A cinema marquee says "The Dark Night", leaving this letter off the Batman title; Seriously? No one notices this? K |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | FOOD FOR THOUGHT $1000: Treat yourself to this food, especially to the "dark" type which enhances mood & brain activity chocolate |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | LATER $1000: Cavemen chipped this dark quartz rock into sharp tools & weapons; thousands of years later, it was used in firearms flint |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $200: Batman joins forces with Harvey Dent, Gotham's D.A., to fight the Joker in this 2008 flick The Dark Knight |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | REAL TO REEL $2000: In this movie Meryl Streep as Aussie mom Lindy Chamberlain exclaimed, "The dingo's got my baby!" A Cry In The Dark |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | THE DARK SIDE OF COMMERCIAL MASCOTS $200: To our knowledge, this company's "Pitcher Man" has never offered to help rebuild a wall he destroyed Kool-Aid |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | THE DARK SIDE OF COMMERCIAL MASCOTS $400: The Energizer bunny likely keeps his neighbors up all night playing this, his trademark instrument drum |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | THE DARK SIDE OF COMMERCIAL MASCOTS $600: How come Mayor McCheese didn't form a task force to catch this thief who'd swipe food with a "robble robble"? the Hamburglar |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | THE DARK SIDE OF COMMERCIAL MASCOTS $800: The little Coppertone girl has a right to be upset when this animal causes her wardrobe malfunction the puppy |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | THE DARK SIDE OF COMMERCIAL MASCOTS $1000: In the '80s Domino's warned us to "avoid" this red claymation fellow who had a jones for ruining pizza the Noid |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | ABSTRACT ART $2000: Don't adjust your set--"abstract painting", the work seen here, is by Ad Reinhardt of the movement called abstract this Abstract Expressionism |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | YOUR 5-CLUE NEWSCAST $600: At the movies, in July 2008 this flick made $158 milIion in its opening weekend;
holy box office! The Dark Knight |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $400: She poetiized, "Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say"; Jane Eyre could have used those thoughts Charlotte Brontë |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | CAVES $400: Australia's Jenolan Caves were first known as Binoomea, this type of "places", but in 1887 got electric lighting dark places |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | DANCE TO THE MUSIC $400: Courteney Cox & this guy were "Dancing In The Dark" in his 1984 music video, directed by Brian De Palma Bruce Springsteen |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $1200: William Inge:
"The Dark at the Top of the ____" Stairs |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | PUZZLING ANIMATION $1000: Tom Petty had a Top 40 hit with this "Long After Dark" "Change Of Heart" |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: "The Amber Spyglass" is the third book in the trilogy called "His Dark" these Materials |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | ZOOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): The collared species of this rodent known for its migrations has dark fur except in the winter, when it's totally white a lemming |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | SINGLE DADS ON THE TUBE $200: On this CW show, John Glover as single dad Lionel tried to push son Lex to the dark side Smallville |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | COOKING $200: Butterball advises putting the thermometer in this part of the turkey that provides dark meat the thigh |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: When this "dark" knight sacked Limoges, France in 1370, he killed more than 3,000 citizens the Black Prince |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: Film in which Daniel Day-Lewis searches for oil & citrus fruits with dark red flesh There Will Be Blood Oranges |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $1600: "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood" Italian |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | I KNOW THAT SONG $800: Song that starts, "When the night has come / and the land is dark / and the moon is the only light we'll see" "Stand By Me" |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena" (Mario) Puzo |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $200: The New York Times wondered if the death of this actor, who plays the Joker, will make "The Dark Knight" darker Heath Ledger |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | PEOPLE IN THE NEWS $1000: Erik Prince founded this co., a major presence in Iraq; it gets its name from the dark liquid at its N.C. headquarters Blackwater |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | MY, YOU'VE AGED $2000: In the 1850s Robert E. Lee was a dashing, dark-haired officer; by this year of Gettysburg, his hair was white 1863 |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1,600 (Daily Double): From the dark color they died their moccasins, the Siksika are also known as this the Northern Blackfoot Indians |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | THROWDOWN WITH BOBBY FLAY $1,200 (Daily Double): (Bobby gives a recipe for Mexican.) For chiles rellenos I use a dark one of these peppers for the richest flavor; its popularity is reflected in its name from Pueblo a poblano |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | KIDDY LIT $200: This dark horse shares stables with Merrylegs & Ginger Black Beauty |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | PASS THE CHOCOLATE $600: A 2007 study said that eating a little dark chocolate daily may reduce this, both systolic & diastolic blood pressure |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | PASS THE CHOCOLATE $1000: Good news:
Dark chocolate is rich in these antioxidant compounds whose very name sounds "flavorful" flavonoids |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $2000: Shakespeare is a character in Shaw's charming one-act "The Dark Lady of" these the Sonnets |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: Lyra Belacqua has an extraordinary adventure in this film, based on the first volume of the "Dark Materials" trilogy The Golden Compass |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: (I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.) We were just getting used to dark matter being 90% of the universe when in 1998 we were hit with this discovery, which is making the universe expand much faster than anyone had expected dark energy |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | FISH FRY $600: The tiger type of this fish can be a foot-&-a-half long at birth, with dark spots & stripes that fade as it ages a shark |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE $800: A granular activated version of this element is used in filters for gas masks & fish tanks carbon |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | WAR OF THE WORLDS $800: Lord Dark Helmet is dispatched to steal Planet Druidia's air in this Mel Brooks film Spaceballs |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | PURPLE PROSE $2000: Purple prose is exemplified by this hyphenated author's "It was a dark and stormy night..." Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $400: It's what happened to the people on the dark purplish-red boats when they crashed near a deserted island They were marooned |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | AN ART "C" CATEGORY $2000: Here we see mastery of this technique from the Italian for "bright and dark", used to create a 3-D effect chiaroscuro |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | "PUN" JAB $1600: William Gibson pioneered this sci-fi genre of characters in a dark, futuristic world dominated by computers cyberpunk |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: Scoria, a dark, glassy rock created from this, is heavier than pumice & has bigger holes lava |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | FOOD $800: Poblano is one type of this dark Mexican sauce made with chiles & chocolate mole |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1947 he published his first story collection, "Dark Carnival"; the "Martian Chronicles" came 3 years later Ray Bradbury |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $200: Dumbledore's Army is a small group of Hogwarts students who learn to defend against the Dark Arts in this film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | NATIONAL PARKS $200: This "huge" Kentucky park is home to eyeless fish--don't need to see in the dark Mammoth Cave |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | I WANT CANDY $400: "Joy of Cooking" has a recipe for dark chocolate this & credits Baltimore with the invention; I prefer vanilla or maple fudge |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $400: This Nabokov nymphet first appears peering over dark glasses Lolita |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | SCIENCE ADJECTIVES $800: Because they're most active after dark, opossums are described by this adjective nocturnal |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME $400: Edward Teach could teach you a thing or 2 about his buccaneering days as this "dark" pirate of the Caribbean Blackbeard |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Rowan Oak Home) Faulkner was using "Dark House" as a novel title but on this porch, his wife said there was something about the light in this month August |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $1200: The time of day described as "crepuscular" is when this is happening when it's starting to get dark |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | GEMS & JEWELS $800: Nephrite is the main source of this gem; it comes in white, red & dark green, which is the most valuable type jade |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | ROCKERS BANNED IN THE USSR $1600: I wonder if banning this "dark" group for "religious obscurantism" made them "paranoid" Black Sabbath |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | DOUBLE LETTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this dark Chinese tea that has been fermented before drying is from the Mandarin for "black dragon" oolong |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | BIOGRAPHIES $1600: A bio of Rosalind Franklin, whose photos were used by James Watson, is subtitled "The Dark Lady of" this molecule DNA |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | POP LYRICS $200: This Eagles classic begins, "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair" "Hotel California" |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of this "dark" Serbian terrorist group the Black Hand |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | ENDS WITH "UM" $400: Santa Rosa is a large, dark purple variety of this fruit a plum |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | ROMANIA $200: Romania has a 100-mile coastline on this "dark" body of water the Black Sea |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $400: The Jack-o'-lantern mushroom, whose cap & gills are this color, gets its name because it glows in the dark orange |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $1000: The name of this dark brown mushroom whose cap can be up to 10 inches across is Japanese for "oak mushroom" shiitake |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | BIRTHSTONES $1000: A plant with bumpy, dark green leaves is called this May birthstone "ripple" emerald |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | 1840 $1000: Britain issues this "dark" postage, the world's first stamp the Penny Black |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | LITERARY LONDON $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the canal in Regent's Park, London.) In this pioneering science fiction novel about an attack on London the protagonist finds Regent's Canal a spongy mass of dark red vegetation War of the Worlds |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | SHAPE UP $200: According to the food pyramid, you should be eating more of the dark green & orange colors of these vegetables |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | ROLE-PLAYING GAMES $1000: Arthur's death shatters peace in the 3 realms & a new struggle is on in the online RPG caled "Dark Age of" this Camelot |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | FILM SCHOOL $800: Viggo Mortensen gave up his sword & tresses to play a small town diner operator with a dark past in this 2005 film A History of Violence |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALBUMS $400: This 1973 Pink Floyd album includes "Time" & "Money" Dark Side of the Moon |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | AUTHORS' WORKS $600: "The Dark Half",
"The Tommyknockers",
"The Dark Tower" (Stephen) King |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | RECORD LABELS $800: While in India, George Harrison got the idea for this record label's mystical logo from a small tin box Dark Horse Records |
| #5134, aired 2006-12-28 | MILLER'S CROSSING $2000: He changed the world of comic books with "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" & "Sin City" Frank Miller |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | "E"-MALE $2000: His mother's unsolved murder was the subject of this crime author's 1996 nonfiction work, "My Dark Places" James Ellroy |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | OF THE SUN $800: In 1843 Heinrich Schwabe noted that the number of these dark areas varies in a periodic cycle sunspots |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE DUKES OF HAZARD $1000: In the 14th century John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, aided this "dark" prince during the 100 Years' War Edward, the Black Prince |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | ASTRONOMY $1600: Named for an astronomer, this dark "division" that separates Saturn's A & B rings is 2,920 miles wide Cassini Division |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | -SCOPES $1000: A snooperscope lets you see in the dark; change a vowel sound to get this version of it that goes on a rifle a sniperscope |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | FOOD-O $1200: The large dark brown crimino mushroom became much more popular when its name was changed to this portobello |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: Frost:
"The woods are lovely, ___ and ___ / But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" dark & deep |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | YOU TOLKIEN TO ME? $1000: The title "The Lord of the Rings" refers to this dark lord Sauron |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | PHOTOGRAPHY $800: This box whose name is Latin for "dark chamber" was used to produce large images before photography a camera obscura |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | FABLE $600: The more fabulous name for the round, dark areas of grass caused by fungi a fairy circle (or a fairy ring) |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | "D" BRIEFING $400: Oh, waiter! Contact Hades & have them ship in a serving of this rich, dark chocolate cake devil's food |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | SEASONAL ACTING $1200: This German actress & model starred opposite Inspector Clouseau in "A Shot in the Dark" Elke Sommer |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | PAINT IT BLACK $800: Edward, the son of Edward III of England, was known by this dark sobriquet the Black Prince |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | OLD WEST DESPERADOES $1600: After robbing stagecoaches, this "dark", dapper outlaw left poems he'd written signed "The PO8" Black Bart |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | OCCUPATIONAL WORDS $800: Dark, viscous material, or slang for a sailor a tar |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | HEALTH MATTERS $200: Best to avoid dark chocolate before bed; 2 oz. contain about as much of this stimulant as a cup of black tea caffeine |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1936 obit, a pupil said of her, "I pray for strength to endure the silent dark until she smiles upon me again" Anne Sullivan |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $2000: No need to travel down a dark desert highway to reach this themed inn in San Luis Obispo with a virginal name the Madonna Inn |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | BARTENDING $1600: This 6-letter drink has 1 oz. light, dark & anejo rum, as well as 2 teaspoons of 151 proof rum, but no human brains a zombie |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | A MICHAEL DOUGLAS FILM FESTIVAL $2000: 1996:
"Lions don't do this... they're doing it for the pleasure" The Ghost and the Darkness |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | THE BODY HUMAN $500 (Daily Double): Each day this dark purple, ductless 6-letter organ destroys about 200 billion red blood cells on purpose the spleen |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $200: The favorite book of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, is this author's "Interview with the Vampire" Anne Rice |
| #4921, aired 2006-01-23 | FILMOGRAPHIES $800: "Dark Victory",
"Of Human Bondage",
"The Petrified Forest" Bette Davis |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | VERY JANUARY $600: The birthstone for January is this often dark red semiprecious stone garnet |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | EASILY IMITATED $400: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" Groucho Marx |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | "CAR" TALK $1200: A cooking term meaning to heat or boil sugar until it turns dark brown to caramelize |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $600: Dark blue turkey sauce navy gravy |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | SEE "EO"s $600: A dark underground prison cell in a castle dungeon |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | THE QUOTABLE BEN STILLER $800: As a member of this "Royal" family, Ben asks, "Can we read it... is it dark?" & hears "Of course it's dark. It's a suicide note" the Royal Tenenbaums |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | WHAT A GEM! $1000: This organic gem is a soft, dark brown to black piece of fossilized wood jet |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | "UMP" IT UP $800: A dark rye bread that originated in Germany pumpernickel |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | DORM DECOR $1200: Evoke psychedelia with this type of poster whose fluorescent colors glow in the dark under UV radiation a blacklight poster |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | '60s POP QUIZ $400: In 1968 this film star turned pop star with the song heard here
"MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark /
All the sweet, green icing flowing down..." Richard Harris |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | THE PRE-PSAT $800: Ounce: gallon as
A) water: wine
B) light: dark
C) book: chapter
D) inch: yard inch: yard |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $2000: This dark volcanic rock is low in silica content but fairly rich in iron & magnesium basalt |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | ANIMAL QUOTATIONS $800: Benjamin Disraeli wrote that this "which had never been thought of... rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph" a dark horse |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | STATE THE ITEM $600: An American breed of chickens having dark reddish-brown feathers & producing brown eggs a Rhode Island red |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: From the Greek "kuanos", meaning dark blue, it's a color used in printing & photography cyan |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | CELEBRITY LIVES $400: "Dark Lover" by Emily Leider is the first fully documented biography of this early Hollywood heartthrob Valentino |
| #4815, aired 2005-07-08 | THE FIRST WORD $800: In Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Paul Clifford" It |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | A FOOD ATTITUDE $1000: In the dark of a movie theatre, you can "taste the sunshine" with this chewy Nestle chocolate candy Raisinets |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | GREEN "T" $200: You wouldn't want to meet this scary, royal, supposedly green creature in a dark alley a Tyrannosaurus rex |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | THE JETS $1000: In 1976 this "dark" reconnaissance jet set a world speed record of 2,092.29 mph the (SR-71) Blackbird |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | MOVIE: ____ IN THE ____ $1000: On the verge of blindness, Bjork must save her son from a similar fate in this Cannes Film Festival winner from 2000 Dancer in the Dark |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | RONALD REAGAN WAS AN ACTOR $2000: Reagan played Bette Davis' boozing high society pal in this 1939 film about a socialite dying of a brain tumor Dark Victory |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | LITERARY GREECE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the seashore in Greece.) A favorite description of the sea for Homer, as in book two of "The Odyssey", is to call it "dark as" this liquid wine |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | IT'S A JOB $200: Dark forearms from wearing a T-shirt are often called this rural occupation's "tan" farmer |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | 1970s ALBUM COVERS $600: 1973:
Against a black background, a prism bends a beam of light into a colorful spectrum Dark Side of the Moon |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | THE REEL WORLD $600 (Daily Double): The title of this 2002 film refers to Orthanc, which is in Isengard, & Barad-dur, in the dark land of Mordor (The Lord of the Rings:) The Two Towers |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | 2 CAN PLAY THAT GAME $400: It uses a table 5 feet wide, 9 feet long & 30 inches high that's stained a dark, non-reflective green ping pong |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | SIDEKICKS $1000: Lord Percy & Baldrick are the sidekicks on this Rowan Atkinson BBC series set in the Dark Ages Blackadder |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | NEPALESE HISTORY $400: The golden age of Licchavi rule was followed by 300 years of these ages, also a term used of medieval Europe the Dark Ages |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | ROCKS & STUFF $600: This agreeable-sounding metamorphic rock has alternating bands of dark- & light-colored minerals gneiss |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | GRAY'S ANATOMY $2000: Gray's says this largest ductless gland is "highly vascular" & "dark purple" spleen |
| #4631, aired 2004-10-25 | WHAT'S THE RUSHMORE? $800: It's the "dark" mountainous region where you'll find Mount Rushmore the Black Hills |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | MOVIE MUNCHABLES $800: Too bad the theater's so dark; you can't see these "everlasting" Willie Wonka jawbreakers change color Gobstoppers |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | I NEED BACKUP $400: Claire Torry is a backup singer but her vocals were up front for Pink Floyd's song "Great Gig in the Sky" on this album The Dark Side of the Moon |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | GEOLOGY $1200: The Hawaiian islands consist mostly of this hard, dark volcanic rock basalt |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | POPULAR SCIENCE TOP STORIES OF 2003 $400: A weighty issue, but researchers found that eating the "dark" type of this food daily can lower blood pressure chocolate |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | ____ ON... $7,200 (Daily Double): Byron wrote, do this, "thou deep and dark blue ocean" roll on |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | BULLY FOR ENGLAND! $2000: This "dark" resort with a pleasure beach claims to be Britain's most popular holiday destination Blackpool |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | INSECTIVORES $400: Insectivores are principally this, meaning they are most active after dark nocturnal |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | NONFICTION $200: Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot" examines this president's administration & private life JFK |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | CHARADES $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew makes a streching motion with her fingers.) Someone guessed "dark", so I'm trying to get them to this word in an Arthur Koestler title darkness |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | KING, QUEEN OR JACK $200: In checkers, the dark squares farthest from a player form this row king |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 2-DRINK MINIMUM $1600: Rhyming words for German dark beer & German white wine bock & Hach |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | BROADWAY LYRICS $600: Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect and do this, "so no one will suspect I'm afraid" whistle a happy tune |
| #4515, aired 2004-04-02 | CLASSIC CARTOON CHARACTERS $400: He "will sleep til noon but before it's dark he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park" Yogi Bear |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | NATIONAL "VELVET" $400: "Dark" mixed drink of stout beer & champagne Black Velvet |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | TV CHARACTERS $1000: Former Frisco police detective, now a P.I. afraid of the dark, heights, crowds & milk Monk |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | FLAGS $400: Israel's flag features 2 dark blue stripes on a white background & this symbol the Star of David |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | A TRIP TO THE MOON $600: The large dark areas of the Moon's surface are called maria or these seas |
| #4470, aired 2004-01-30 | READ AMERICAN $200: In 2003 he said he had completed the last 3 volumes of his "Dark Tower" series & had revised the first volume Stephen King |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: 1939 film in which Bette Davis said, "That's our victory -- our victory over the dark" Dark Victory |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN POETS $1600: He wrote, "What would you do if you were up a dark alley with Caesar Borgia and he was coming torgia" Ogden Nash |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $600: This color asparagus is grown in the dark white |
| #4412, aired 2003-11-11 | HERE COMES THE SUN $1600: The Maunder Minimum refers to the period from 1645 to 1715 when these dark areas on the sun were extremely rare sunspots |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | "STREET"s $800: In "O Little Town of Bethlehem", it's where "the everlasting light" shineth in thy dark street |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | A PAIR OF "I"s $800: Dark & meaty, it's used in Oriental dishes shiitake mushrooms |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | THE MOUSE $200: Like the house cat, the house mouse uses these facial appendages to feel its way around in the dark whiskers |
| #4380, aired 2003-09-26 | YUM YUM! $400: Introduced in 2002, Slimy Ghoul is a glow-in-the-dark dispenser for this 3-letter candy Pez |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: "Dinosaurs Before Dark" & "High Tide in Hawaii" are volumes in this "magic" series featuring siblings Jack & Annie The Magic Treehouse |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | LAGER RHYTHMS $800: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, could tell you that it's "the official beer of Halloween" Coors |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ROBERT FROST BITES $2000: "The woods are" these 3 things, "but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" lovely, dark & deep |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | SHORT ORDER SHORTHAND $200: "Draw one in the dark" & pour me one of these breakfast beverages black coffee |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | WHAT'S IN A CELEBRITY NAME? $800: This first name of author/illustrator Sendak is Latin for "dark-skinned" or "Moorish" Maurice |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | "C.C." SENOR! $1200: This endangered dark gray vulture of the southwestern U.S. can have a wingspan up to 10 feet California condor |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH $1000: "Dark" term for hints in a story that suggest what's going to happen later foreshadowing |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | BRITISH HEIR WAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): It isn't a deep, dark secret that this brave knight captured the French king at Poitiers in 1356 Edward the Black Prince |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | A COLORFUL CATEGORY $600: This "dark" epidemic that swept medieval Europe killed millions, including Laura, the beloved of Petrarch Black Plague (or Black Death) |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | POTLUCK $600: The name of this dark brownish red comes from the French word for "chestnut" maroon |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | HAIR $800: The tresses of "Dark Angel" Jessica Alba are featured in ads for this company's Feria L'Oreal |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1200: Stock up on cuckoo clocks & ham while visiting this "dark" wooded region of Germany Black Forest |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | "SA" $800: Sadly for this small, dark marten, it's prized for its fur sable |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | YOU GLOW! $400: 4-word adjectival phrase that's used as a synonym for "phosphorescent" glow-in-the-dark |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | '80s ROCK $600: Title of a 1985 Bruce Springsteen hit, or a book about him by Dave Marsh "Glory Days" |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | SAFARI SO GOOD $400: The biography "Dark Safari" tells the story of this man who sought Livingstone (Henry) Stanley |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | COSMOLOGY $2000: This particle whose name is Italian for "little neutral one" is a possible component of dark matter neutrino |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | POP MUSIC $600: This band's albums include "Animals", "A Saucer Full of Secrets" & "Dark Side of the Moon" Pink Floyd |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | STAIR-ING AT THE SCREEN $2000: Robert Preston & Angela Lansbury starred in the film version of this 1957 William Inge play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | THEME PARK FUN $600: Eek! The Mayan Mindbender is a thrill-ride-in-the-dark at Six Flags AstroWorld in this Texas city Houston |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE $1000: Many astronomers believe the Great Andromeda spiral galaxy has one of these "dark" collapsed stars at its center black hole |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | IT'S BEEN FUN $800: Stars shoot by when you ride this roller coaster-in-the-dark that made its Disney World debut in 1975 Space Mountain |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | THE HOMOPHONICS GAME $800: Ironically amusing dark bread wry rye |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena" Mario Puzo |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | NOT NO. 1 $2,000 (Daily Double): For Flirt & Reenie in a 1951 Broadway production of "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs", it was Tuesday Weld understudy |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | '38 SPECIAL $1600: In 1938 you could read something new about the Dark Continent, this Isak Dinesen work finished the year before Out of Africa |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | STOP STAIR-ING AT ME! $1000: Life is no "Picnic" for the Flood family in his 1957 play "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" William Inge |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | CENTRAL PARK $800: In the 1953 film "The Band Wagon" Fred Astaire & this leggy partner were "Dancing In The Dark" through Central Park Cyd Charisse |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | CLASSIC TV $800: This occult series featuring Darren McGavin premiered in September 1974, on Friday the 13th The Night Stalker |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | EDIBLE SPELLING $1200: Named after the capital city of Veracruz, these smooth, dark green peppers range from hot to very hot J-A-L-A-P-E-N-O |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $800: The Horn's Grinde is a peak in the northern part of this "dark" German region the Black Forest |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | TV ROOMMATES $400: (Hello, I'm Michael Weatherly of Dark Angel.) My first role on TV was as Theo Huxtable's roommate on this series The Cosby Show |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | ON OLD MAPS $1200: After sunset in Germany it was Danzig in the dark; now it's this Polish city Gdansk |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | "B.B." $800: Bruce Wayne trains a new dark knight in this animated spin-off from producer Paul Dini Batman Beyond |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Welcome to Dead House", No. 1 in this R.L. Stine series, is set in the creepy town of Dark Falls Goosebumps |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | FUN WITH COLORS $600: In geographic names, this dark color precedes Hills, Forest, & Sea Black |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING: THE DARK SIDE $5 (Daily Double): Burke & Wills were the first to cross this continent south to north; they died on the way back Australia |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING THE "DARK" SIDE $100: The leg & thigh of the chicken dark meat |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING: THE DARK SIDE $200: Francisco Pizarro was killed by a competing conquistador after looting & destroying this Peruvian empire the Incan Empire |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING THE "DARK" SIDE $200: A competitor who wins unexpectedly a dark horse |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING THE "DARK" SIDE $300: You'll find a developer, a stop bath & a fixer here the darkroom |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING: THE DARK SIDE $400: Pedro Menendez de Aviles founded this Florida city on his way to massacring a rival colony San Augustine (or St. Augustine) |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING THE "DARK" SIDE $400: This term referred to a supposed lack of learning in the period from the 400s to the 900s the Dark Ages |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING THE "DARK" SIDE $500: It's postulated this hypothetical substance accounts for gravitational forces observed in the universe dark matter |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING: THE DARK SIDE $800: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo died from complications of a broken leg on San Miguel Island off this state he explored California |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING: THE DARK SIDE $1000: The first European to travel the Mississippi: later his men killed him while trying to find the river in Texas La Salle |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | THEY GOT MILK, TOO? $200: The "Be a Dark Knight" milk ad featured this comic book superhero Batman |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | WORKING TITLES $600: He used "Dark House" as the working title for both "Absalom, Absalom!" & "Light in August" William Faulkner |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | AUDREY HEPBURN FILM ROLES $800: Susy Hendrix, a blind woman Wait Until Dark |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | SPACE $1,000 (Daily Double): It's a dark area in the photosphere of the Sun caused by a lower surface temperature a sunspot |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | BOOKS $400: This Philip Pullman series includes "The Golden Compass", "The Subtle Knife" & "The Amber Spyglass" His Dark Materials |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | SPEAKING CAJUN $300: Who was that masked animal? It was a chaoui, or this creature with 5 or 6 dark rings on its tail a raccoon |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | "SPACE" MOVIES $400: Characters in this 1987 movie parody include Lord Dark Helmet & Pizza the Hutt Spaceballs |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | MMM...PIE $1000: "Colorful" term for a pie made with a layer of dark chocolate custard topped with rum custard & whipped cream black bottom pie |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | A SLEEPY CATEGORY $400: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $600: It's a term for any domestic cat, especially a female; or a coat with dark stripes & blotches Tabby |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WILLIAM PENNED $600: In "Lord of the Flies" he explored the dark side of human nature William Golding |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | SCIENCE CLASS $100: Solar flares are associated with these dark areas that peak about every 11 years Sunspots |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | LADY OF SPAIN $300: Carmen Maura's roles in Pedro Almodovar films include one of these in "Dark Habits" Nun |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | WORLD OF ANIMATION $100: German Lotte Reiniger pioneered animation using these dark cutouts on a light background Silhouettes |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | FAMOUS JESSICAS $200: For a fall 2000 FOX-TV series, James Cameron picked her to be his "Dark Angel" Jessica Alba |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Philosophically speaking, "All" of these "are gray in the dark" Cats |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | AT THE BOOKSTORE $400: "Dark Eagle" by historian John Ensor Harr is called "A Novel Of" this traitor "And the American Revolution" Benedict Arnold |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS $600: 1904's "Piff! Paff! Pouf!" boasted chorus girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes in a dance named for this element Radium |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | "E" DOCK $200: This dark, hard wood family includes the persimmon Ebony |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | NAME THAT NEBULA $400: It's one of the largest dark clouds in the Milky Way -- put that in yours & smoke it Pipe Nebula |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | YES SIR, THAT'S MY SCIENTIST $100: Sir Alexander Fleming took a shot in the dark & discovered this in 1928 Penicillin |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $500: My cousin Vinny saw her in the 1998 revival of "Wait Until Dark", with Quentin Tarantino as her stalker Marisa Tomei |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | "BLUE" MOVIES $100: The dark side of sunny suburbia comes to the surface for Kyle MacLachlan in this kinky 1986 film Blue Velvet |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | FLOWER POWER $500: Term commonly found before "cereus" & "jasmine", plants whose flowers appear after dark Night blooming |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | RHYME TIME $600: It's Ben & Jerry's banana ice cream with walnuts & pieces of dark chocolate Chunky Monkey |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | JAMES K. POLK ME $200: Running for president as a relative unknown, Polk is considered the first of these swarthy animals Dark horse |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $100: An almost black hammerhead a dark shark |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $600: The infamous opening of Bulwer-Lytton's "Paul Clifford" is "It was" this type of "night" dark and stormy |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1000: (All right players, take a look at the monitor, and here's Bill Nye, the Science Guy:) The dividing line between the light and the dark side of the moon is called this [puts on shades, as lights go out] "I'll be back." the terminator |
| #3690, aired 2000-09-22 | IN A PIG'S EYE! $100: It can be the dark circular opening in a pig's eye or a young pig learning to be a hog Pupil |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1988:
"The dingo's got my baby!" A Cry in the Dark |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | PEOPLE IN SPACE $500: Astronaut Michael Foale was left in the dark in June 1997 after a supply ship punctured this craft's Spektr module Mir |
| #3617, aired 2000-05-02 | TV SHOWS $400: Barnabas Collins was a 200-year-old vampire on this serial that premiered in 1966 Dark Shadows |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | "FALL" $400: This Poe tale appropriately begins in the fall, on a "dull, dark and soundless day" "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $600: According to a 1957 William Inge title, it's where you'd find "the dark" At the top of the stairs |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | VEGETARIAN CUISINE $100: You can make a dark vegetarian stock from the red or black type of these legumes beans |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | 1890s SCIENCE $300: He was just trying to make things glow in the dark when he discovered X-rays in 1895 Wilhelm Roentgen |
| #3562, aired 2000-02-15 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1000: "Dark" nickname of Edward, the hero of the Battle of Crecy "The Black Prince" |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $800 (Daily Double): This 1889 novel contrasts American homespun ingenuity with the Dark Ages' superstition & ineptitude "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | THE SUN $600: These dark areas on the 6100-degree-Celsius photosphere have a temperature of about 4100 degrees Sunspots |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | STUCK ON YOU $500: This dark, sticky substance distilled from coal, wood tar or petroleum is used in paving & waterproofing Pitch |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | 1941 $300: It's like this, see, Bogie brightened this dark John Huston-directed film which premiered October 3 The Maltese Falcon |
| #3515, aired 1999-12-10 | GUINNESS $1000: This dark, hoppy type of beer has been the classic Guinness product for more than 2 centuries Stout |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: "The Gunslinger" is the first volume of this Stephen King series "The Dark Tower" |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | ACTING THE PART $400: As the evil Sgt. Barnes in "Platoon", this actor mirrored the dark side of Charlie Sheen's soul Tom Berenger |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | VEGGIES $100: The name of this dark green, elongated squash is from the Italian for "gourd" zucchini |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | NEPTUNE $300: Neptune's Great Dark Spot was named for its resemblance to this on Jupiter Great Red Spot |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | FADE TO "BLACK" $400: A member of the cobra family, this highly venomous African reptile is actually dark brown or gray most of its life a black mamba |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | 10 CDs FOR A PENNY $400: I bought this Beatle's "Dark Horse" & Ravi Shankar's "In Celebration", which he co-produced George Harrison |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | GEMS & MINERALS $1000: Antimony is the usual base of this dark eye shadow used by Middle Eastern women kohl |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Psychedelic "Dark Side of the Moon" rockers twice crowned heavyweight boxing champion of the world Pink Floyd Patterson |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | "HORSE" SENSE $400: A little-known, unexpectedly successful political candidate Dark horse |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | CALAMITY JANE $100: Jane had some "dark times" as a camp follower of an expedition to these South Dakota hills Black Hills |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | A CAST OF THOUSANDS $100: Word completing the film titles "Cast a Dark...", "Cast a Giant..." & "Cast a Long..." Shadow |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | DATE NIGHT $100: Estee Lauder's Uncircle is a treatment for dark circles under these Eyes |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | IT'S A LEAP $500: This "Leviathan" philosopher's last words concerned his "leap in the dark" Thomas Hobbes |
| #3381, aired 1999-04-26 | NATURE $500: In a popular science experiment iodine on a piece of potato turns it dark, indicating this substance is present Starch |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | THE 1950s $100: In 1959 its "dark side" was seen for the first time Moon |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | IN OTHER WORLDS $600: Instead of this, a shady Venusian might leave town "beneath one concentration of sulfuric acid particles" Under a dark cloud |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $800: "The First Dark Horse" James K. Polk |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | MINIVANS $1000: Perhaps you can sail the dark emerald seas in this Honda minivan that comes in dark emerald pearl Odyssey |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | '90s NONFICTION $300: Seymour Hersh's 1997 JFK expose was titled "The Dark Side of" this Camelot |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | CANINE & FELINE FILM TITLES $400: "A Shot in the Dark" was the first sequel to this 1964 Peter Sellers film The Pink Panther |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICANS $1000: Vera Rubin & W. Kent Ford used this name for the invisible substance whose pull holds galaxies together Dark matter |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | (5,5) $100: Very, very, very, very dark, like tar pitch black |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | SUGAR $300: Brown sugar is made by combining white sugar & this dark liquid Molasses |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | THE ELEMENTS $600: The red form of this element that glows in the dark is used in the production of matches phosphorus |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | SCARY AUTHORS $100: "The Dead Zone",
"The Dark Half",
"It" Stephen King |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | BIG SCREEN BLOODSUCKERS $600: The consumate vampire, this tall, dark & gruesome actor played a bloodsucker in 7 Hammer Studio films Christopher Lee |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | ON THE ROCKS $500: Some metamorphic rocks with light & dark-colored bands have this pleasant-sounding gname gneiss |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | IT'S A MYSTERY $1000: This "L.A. Confidential" author's "My Dark Places" looks into the real investigation of his mom's murder James Ellroy |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | CATCHPHRASES $600: The male heroes of early 20th C. British romance novels were often described with this 3-adjective cliche "Tall, dark and handsome" |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | MONKEY BUSINESS $100: Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey is this flavor of ice cream with walnuts & dark chocolate chunks in it banana |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | STAGE ACTORS $200: In 1998 this film director made his Broadway acting debut in "Wait Until Dark" & that's no "Pulp Fiction" Quentin Tarantino |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $600: Jekyll's dark half &
a worshipper at the Golden Temple in the Punjab Hyde & Sikh |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | ENDANGERED SPECIES $200: It's the dark endangered species seen here a black rhinoceros |
| #3193, aired 1998-06-17 | BRIT ROCK $600: This "dark" heavy metal band of the 1970s consisted of Bill Ward, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler & Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath |
| #3193, aired 1998-06-17 | TAKE THE CAKE $800: As you might gather from its name, this rich, dark chocolate layer cake is fiendishly delicious devil's food cake |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | NOM DE PLUME $600: Look in the dark recesses of your heart & tell me Jozef Korzeniowski's pen name Joseph Conrad |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | SONG STANDARDS $200: It begins, "When you walk through a storm hold your head up high and don't be afraid of the dark" "You'll Never Walk Alone" |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: These dark patches on the sun's surface appear & disappear in regular cycles sunspots |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $200: More bare than scare, this Mistress of the Dark's real name is Cassandra Peterson Elvira |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | CREEPERS & CRAWLERS $300: This dark lady, Latrodectus mactans, earns her more common name by killing & eating her mate a black widow |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE $400: Blind fish of the genus amblyopsis are also called this, for the dark formations where they live Cavefish |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | HEAVENLY MUSIC $1000: According to a Meat Loaf song, "Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see" this Paradise by the dashboard light |
| #3126, aired 1998-03-16 | RHYME TIME $100: Noah's boat, if he painted it black Dark ark |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT... $1,200 (Daily Double): Meaning of the meteorological symbol seen here: partly cloudy |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $500 (Daily Double): Dark Mount Lovcen gave this Yugoslav republic its name, meaning "Black Mountain" Montenegro |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | CITY QUOTES $800: Joris K. Huysmans held a dark view of this "City of Light": he called it "a sinister Chicago" Paris |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | POPES NAMED CLEM $400: Clement VI, pope from 1342 to 1352, gave sanctuary to Jews accused of starting this "dark" plague the Black Death |
| #3089, aired 1998-01-22 | ROBERT FROST SAYS... $500 (Daily Double): "The woods are lovely, dark & deep, but I have promises to keep" is followed by this line, repeated "And miles to go before I sleep" |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | YOUR OLD ALBUMS $800: This 1973 Pink Floyd album has sold over 20 million copies The Dark Side of the Moon |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | YOUR OLD ALBUMS $1000: He went solo to record albums like "All Things Must Pass" & "Dark Horse" George Harrison |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | LADIES DANCING $600: Now on "Friends", she's the young lady who danced with Bruce Springsteen in his "Dancing In The Dark" video Courteney Cox |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | IN THE KITCHEN WITH IVAN $400: To make ahkroshkah soup, Ivan needs kvass, a beerlike beverage made from a dark rye type of this bread |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | A LOAF OF BREAD $200: It was a German insult meaning dolt or blockhead before it became the name of a dark, German bread Pumpernickel |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | BIG "SHOT"s $800: It's the only one of Peter Sellers' 5 "Pink Panther" films without "Pink Panther" in the title A Shot in the Dark |
| #3031, aired 1997-11-03 | ANIMALS $400: The pocket gopher uses this almost hairless appendage as a sense organ to feel its way in the dark Tail |
| #3027, aired 1997-10-28 | STYLE $300: A horizontal blade on the back of a car, or a back-of-the-pack competitor who affects the outcome Spoiler |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | DWELLINGS $300: Manhattan is known for these handsome sandstone buildings named for their dark hue brownstones |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | SHAKESPEARE DARK $200: Legend says this play is cursed, so if you mention it in a dressing room, you may not get off Scot-free Macbeth |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | SHAKESPEARE DARK $400: George Orwell griped about this kingly tragedy: "One wicked daughter would have been quite enough" King Lear |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | SHAKESPEARE DARK $800: Horatio speaks of this play's "Carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts", & he should know Hamlet |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | SHAKESPEARE DARK $1000: In this monumentally gruesome play, Titus kills Tamora's sons & serves them to her in a pie Titus Andronicus |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | SHAKESPEARE DARK $2,000 (Daily Double): Laurence Olivier was accidentally hit by an arrow when he played this king on film, so his limp was real Richard III |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | SUN POTPOURRI $500: Around 1610 Galileo determined the sun's rotational rate by watching these dark areas shift position Sunspots |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | LITERARY FORMS $400: This term for a work of morbid or absurd humor is the title of a Peter Shaffer play set in the dark Black comedy |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | TV CARTOON THEMES $300: "He will sleep 'til noon, but before it's dark, he'll have ev'ry picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park" Yogi Bear |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | UNUSUAL TV CHARACTERS $500: Like Lysette Anthony on 1991's "Dark Shadows", Corinne Bohrer on 1989's "Free Spirit" was one of these Witch |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | THE MOON $200: 41% of the Moon's surface, it was unseen by humans until the USSR's Luna 3 photographed it in 1959 the dark side of the Moon |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | THE JACKSONS $200: She made her TV debut in "Dark Shadows" before becoming one of "Charlie's Angels" Kate Jackson |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | CONTESTS $500: For writing "It was a dark and stormy night", this Victorian has a bad prose contest named for him Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| #2971, aired 1997-06-30 | SHAKESPEARE THE MAN $200: Scholars have long sought the identity of the "Dark Lady" who tortures Shakespeare in these poems Sonnets |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | TEA POTPOURRI $200: The 3 main kinds of tea are green, oolong & this "dark", fully fermented one Black tea |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | FILMS OF THE '70s $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1971 film featured the memorable debut seen here:
"Whatcha all comin' back here in the dark?" The Last Picture Show (Cybill Shepherd) |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | RHYMES WITH JOCK $500: This strong, sweet German beer can be light or dark bock |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | ANIMALS $200: The largemouth species of this fish has a dark band along its side; the smallmouth species does not Bass |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | POP MUSIC $300: This group's 1995 album "Pulse" includes a live performance of all the songs from "Dark Side of the Moon" Pink Floyd |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | POP MUSIC $400: Her 1991 hit "Coming Out of the Dark" was about her tour bus accident of the preceding year Gloria Estefan |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: Jonathan Frid of TV's "Dark Shadows" starred in this "Platoon" director's first film, "Seizure", in 1974 Oliver Stone |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | SONG LYRICS $300: Springsteen sang, "You can't start a fire without a spark, this gun's for hire, even if we're just" doing this "Dancing In The Dark" |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | BEER $300: A black & tan mixes light-colored ale & this dark brew that made Guinness famous Stout |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: The famous spa town of Baden-Baden lies in this "dark" wooded region of Germany Black Forest |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $500: This yellow wildflower with a dark center is the state flower of Maryland Black-eyed Susan |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | SCIENCE $300: The number of these dark patches visible on the sun's surface varies from a few to several hundred Sunspots |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK $100: Fannie makes a relish from these dark red root vegetables, horseradish, lemon juice, sugar & salt Beets |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | "MONKEY" BUSINESS $300: It's the rhyming name of Ben & Jerry's banana ice cream with walnuts & dark chocolate chunks Chunky Monkey |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | ALMANACS $500 (Daily Double): A 30th anniversary tribute almanac to this TV show says Willie unchains Barnabas' coffin in episode 210 Dark Shadows |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | FOOD $500: Boil cane sugar to get light molasses; boil it again to get dark molasses; a third boil yields this Blackstrap molasses |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $600: In 1996 the sun went an exceptional 36 days without a visible one of these dark patches Sunspots |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1849, less than a week before his death, this first "dark horse" president was baptized Polk |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | HISTORY $300: In 1718 the British tracked down & killed this "dark" pirate in a North Carolina inlet Blackbeard |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | NAME THE POET $1000: "Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set and blew. 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.'" Robert Browning |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | ANIMALS $400: This dark fluid is secreted by cuttlefish & other cephalopods ink |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | TREES $1000: After Chippendale used this dark, rich wood for dining tables, its name became synonymous with them Mahogany |
| #2832, aired 1996-12-17 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $600: This dark green vegetable is the main ingredient in spanakopita, a Greek pie spinach |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | POTPOURRI $1000: Some historians consider this first "Dark Horse" the best president between Jackson & Lincoln James K. Polk |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | GEMS & JEWELRY $400: This sanguine March birthstone is dark green chalcedony spotted with red jasper Bloodstone |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | "C" CREATURES $400: The eggs of this squid relative are stained dark brown by the female's sepia the cuttlefish |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | TOUGH NURSERY RHYMES $500: Completes "As your bright and tiny spark lights the traveler in the dark, though I know not what you are" "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THE '96 FALL TV SEASON $500: Aliens invade Earth in this NBC series starring Eric Close & Megan Ward Dark Skies |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1845 this "dark horse" became the first man inaugurated as president under age 50 -- he was 49 James K. Polk |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $400: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #2720, aired 1996-05-31 | ACTRESSES $1000: Her 1967 film "Wait Until Dark" was produced by her then husband Mel Ferrer Audrey Hepburn |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | SOUPS & STEWS $300: All good gumbos begin with a dark roux, which is a long-cooked mixture of shortening & this flour |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | ASTRONOMY $1,500 (Daily Double): Some calculations suggest at least 90% of the universe consists of nonluminous material called this dark matter |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | BREADS & ROLLS $600: This heavy, dark bread originated in Westphalia, Germany pumpernickel |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "T" $800: It's the period between sunset & dark when the sun is just below the horizon Twilight |
| #2674, aired 1996-03-28 | THE MOVIES $800: Bette Davis gave a memorable performance as a socialite dying of a brain tumor in this 1939 film Dark Victory |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: Thomas Hobbes' last words were "I am about to take my last voyage, a great" one of these "in the dark" Leap |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $300: We assume this rich, dark chocolate dessert is the devil's favorite Devil's Food Cake |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,700 (Daily Double): Ludovico Sforza, a duke of this city, was so dark he was nicknamed Il Moro, "The Moor" Milan |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | BRITISH ROYALTY $1000: King Richard II was the son of the warrior prince known by this "dark" nickname the Black Prince |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1000: She danced in Antony Tudor's 1937 ballet "Dark Elegies" before she choreographed "Rodeo" Agnes de Mille |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | POLITICAL SCIENCE $300: Phrase for a long-shot candidate for nomination; Polk was the first to win the presidency a dark horse |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | SOAP OPERA HISTORY $100: Art Wallace based this '60s gothic vampire soap on "The House", a Goodyear Playhouse story he wrote in 1957 Dark Shadows |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | CLASSIC SONG LYRICS $300: "When you walk through a storm" do this "and don't be afraid of the dark" Hold your head up high |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | NATURE $500 (Daily Double): This large, flightless bird of Australia lays dark green eggs the emu |
| #2598, aired 1995-12-13 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: A dark color & a postal term combine as this form of extortion blackmail |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE PLANETS $200: Neptune is famous for its Great Dark Spot & this planet for its Great Red Spot Jupiter |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | FOOD $800: This heavy, dark rye bread is also known as Schwarzbrot, or black bread pumpernickel |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | DESSERTS $300: This old-fashioned cake made in a tube pan is made by alternating light & dark batter marble cake |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $500: The Morello variety of this fruit is sometimes preserved in syrup cherries |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | BOTTOMS UP! $800: The brown type of this fortified Spanish wine is dark & sweet sherry |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | FLOWERS $800: With its dark center disk, the yellow daisy is more commonly called this black-eyed Susan |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | GEMS & JEWELRY $400: The Victorians made dark red jewelry out of the pyrope type of this gem, mined in Bohemia garnet |
| #2523, aired 1995-07-19 | COLORS $400: It's a dark color & the name of a drawing crayon made from carbonaceous material charcoal |
| #2495, aired 1995-06-09 | TV TRIVIA $400: In the 1960s David Canary & Ruth Warrick of "All My Children" acted in this evening soap set in New England Peyton Place |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | STEWS $300: This creole stew thickened with okra begins with a dark roux, a mixture of flour & fat gumbo |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | FOOD & DRINK $400: Vieux acajou, which means "old mahogany", is a dark type of this liquor made in Martinique rum |
| #2480, aired 1995-05-19 | CHINESE FOOD $100: If kept moist in a dark place for 4-5 days, 1/2 cup of mung beans will yield about 3 cups of these sprouts |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1844 this "Dark Horse" candidate won the presidency over Henry Clay by only 40,000 votes (James K.) Polk |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | ORGANS $200: Elderly people sometimes have dark skin spots named for this organ the liver |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $300: Mydriasis, the dilation of this, occurs in the dark & after the consumption of alcohol pupils |
| #2422, aired 1995-02-28 | COMMON BONDS $500: Dark,
dressing,
delivery rooms |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | HORROR & SCI-FI TV $100: A Saturday night series on Nickelodeon asks, "Are You Afraid of" this the Dark |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $600: This "dark" region of Germany is especially famous for its smoked ham & cake Black Forest |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | MYTHOLOGY $600: Tartarus was a dark region far beneath this abode of the dead Hades |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | COLORS $400: This dark reddish brown derives its name from the French word for chestnut maroon |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | ANIMALS $400: The dark brown pelt of this Siberian animal, a type of marten, is one of the most valuable furs a sable |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | POLITICAL LINGO $100: "Equine" term for a little-known candidate who wins unexpectedly a dark horse |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ASTRONOMY $400: In this phase of the Moon, its illuminated side is invisible to observers on Earth a new moon |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $500: The "First Dark Horse" James K. Polk |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: This mountainous region of Germany was named for the dark fir & spruce trees that cover it the Black Forest |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | SCIENCE $200: This heavenly body's prominences include dark filaments & clouds of gas The Sun |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | POP MUSIC $200: This American rocker's 1st Top Ten hit in the United Kingdom was "Dancing in the Dark" in 1985 Bruce Springsteen |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | PHOBIAS $700 (Daily Double): Photophobia & scotophobia are fears of these antonyms dark & light |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | KINGS NAMED ED $800: Edward III's son Edward was known by this "dark" nickname the Black Prince |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | OPERA SETTINGS $400: Puccini set his opera "The Witches" in this dark, wooded area of Germany the Black Forest |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | POP MUSIC $400: Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" & "My Hometown" were released on this 1984 album Born in the U.S.A. |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | FOOD $200: These dark red-skinned beans are a popular ingredient in chili con carne kidney beans |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | FOOD FACTS $200: Although this dark, thick syrup can be made from beet sugar, cane sugar is preferred molasses |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS $400: Blonds outnumber "Dark Men" in this country Denmark |
| #2255, aired 1994-05-27 | KIDDIE LIT $400: Shortly before his death in 1989, Walter Farley finished writing his 21st book in this "Dark Horse" series The Black Stallion |
| #2243, aired 1994-05-11 | ASTRONOMY $800: Similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, this bluish planet has a Great Dark Spot Neptune |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | 1994 CALENDARS $400: Your days are numbered with this "Mistress of the Dark" Elvira |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | COOKING $500: One recipe for this pie filling calls for 4 pounds of beef, 2 pounds of suet & 3 pounds of dark brown sugar a mince(meat) pie |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOOD & DRINK $400: The light & dark batters in this cake give it a streaked appearance like the stone in its name marble cake |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | POTPOURRI $300: Some of this company's Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages glow in the dark Johnson & Johnson |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | ANCIENT EGYPT $100: The Egyptians called their country Kemet, or "black land", after the dark soil deposited by this river the Nile |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | SLANG $200: A conjecture is "a shot in" this the dark |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | FOOD & DRINK $300: The porter & stout types of this alcoholic beverage get their dark color from roasted malt beer |
| #2211, aired 1994-03-28 | QUOTATIONS $200: Frost wrote they're "lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep" the woods |
| #2211, aired 1994-03-28 | PHOTOGRAPHY $500 (Daily Double): The name of this earliest, crude type of camera is Latin for "dark chamber" camera obscura |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | THE CARIBBEAN $100: Barbados is renowned for making a dark type of this liquor rum |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | ANAGRAMS $500: Stephen King wrote about a Dark one Tower |
| #2184, aired 1994-02-17 | JUST DESSERTS $500: This dark liquid is the traditional sweetening of Indian pudding molasses |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | PLANTS $200: Common name of the Saintpaulia, a fuzzy-leafed plant originally from the Dark Continent the African violet |
| #2141, aired 1993-12-20 | MAMMALS $100: This "King of Beasts" has golden eyes that work well in the dark the lion |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | GEORGE & RINGO $400: For Ringo, it was Ring-O; for George, Dark Horse Names of their respective record labels |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | BIOLOGY $400: Luciferin is a substance found in certain plants & animals that causes them to do this Glow in the dark |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: Peter quotes Joel, who said "that before the final day, the sun will turn dark and the moon will turn into" this Blood |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | WORD ORIGINS $100: The "nickel" in the name of this dark bread is a German word for "goblin", not a coin pumpernickel |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | MAMMALS $800: A black panther is actually a dark one of these wild cats & can occur in the same litter as yellowish ones a leopard |
| #2061, aired 1993-07-19 | ASTRONOMY $400: The ancient Chinese thought these dark areas on the Sun looked like flying birds sunspots |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | SCIENCE $1000: Estimated temperatures on this planet range from 950° F. on the sunlit side to -346° on the dark side Mercury |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | BIOLOGY $1000: This dark pigment which normally colors skin & animal fur is absent or lacking in albinism melanin |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | QUOTES $100: Mark Twain said, "Everyone is" one of these heavenly bodies "and has a dark side which he never shows" a moon |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | ASTRONOMY $400: The event horizon is the boundary of one of these massive, dark objects a black hole |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | FOOD FACTS $400: The Detroit Dark Red & the Ruby Queen are 2 types of this root vegetable beets |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: One of Barbara Bush's distant cousins was this dark horse president who succeeded Fillmore Franklin Pierce |
| #2000, aired 1993-04-23 | CITY SONGS $100: "Lovers that bless the dark on benches in Central Park greet autumn in" this city New York |
| #1986, aired 1993-04-05 | SAN FRANCISCO MOVIES $400: In "Dark Passage", he played an escaped convict who hid in Lauren Bacall's San Francisco apartment Humphrey Bogart |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $400: It's military slang for coffee, or a thick, dark molasses blackstrap |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | FRUIT $400: With its firm, dark- fleshed fruit, it's the leading variety of fresh sweet cherries a Bing cherry |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | COSMETICS $300: If you want to look glamorous, shade the creases of these with a dark shadow eyelids |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | ASTRONOMY $600: In 1916 Karl Schwarzschild demonstrated that very massive bodies could become these "dark" objects black holes |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | THE SUN $800: These dark areas on the Sun range in size from about 500 miles to 50,000 miles in diameter sunspots |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | FISH $200: In cave fish these sense organs are either minute or absent because they live in the dark eyes |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | POTENT POTABLES $100: Some Mai Tai recipes call for both the light & dark varieties of this liquor rum |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | FASHION $800: The 3 dark colors in the plaid of the Black Watch are black, blue & this green |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | SAUCES $200: Roasted wheat or barley goes into this dark sauce that's ubiquitous in Japanese restaurants soy sauce |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | GEMS $600: A very dark shade of black has the name of this organic gem jet |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: This dark gray stone is used to make blackboards & billiard tabletops slate |
| #1868, aired 1992-10-21 | THE WILD WEST $1000: Dark nickname of the outlaw who sometimes left poems behind after he held up stagecoaches Black Bart |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | ASTRONOMY $800: To detect one of these "dark" objects, you must observe its gravitational effects on other objects a black hole |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | FOOD & DRINK $400: This dark, strong beverage is made by forcing steam through finely ground coffee espresso |
| #1846, aired 1992-09-21 | ANIMALS $100: The emperor is the only one of these birds that breeds during the dark polar winter the penguin |
| #1835, aired 1992-07-17 | MOVIE SEQUELS $600: This first sequel to "The Pink Panther" was loosely based on the French play "L'idiote" A Shot in the Dark |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | THE BLUES $600: Time of day that's a dark shade of blue midnight blue |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | COLORFUL FOOD $400: This "color" of chocolate is a mix of sugar, cocoa milk solids, lecithin & vanilla white chocolate |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: This explorer who went in search of Dr. Livingstone was the subject of a 1990 book, "Dark Safari" Stanley |
| #1782, aired 1992-05-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: A relatively unknown candidate for office is often described by this "equine" term a dark horse |
| #1779, aired 1992-04-30 | FILE UNDER "Z" $100: This drink is made with dark & light rum & any combination of fruit juices a zombie |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | ART $1,000 (Daily Double): Italian for "light & dark", it's the use of light & shadow in a sketch or painting chiaroscuro |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: Egyptian women favored this dark eye make-up made from soot, antimony or Galena, a form of lead ore kohl |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | SCIENCE $400: Dark areas on the Moon called maria were originally mistaken for these seas |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | COLORS $400: From the Latin word "talpa", it's a dark, brownish gray popularly used for shoes & purses taupe |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | RHYME TIME $100: A public recreation area devoid of light a dark park |
| #1736, aired 1992-03-02 | THE UNIVERSE $200: A dark band within the rings of this planet is known as the Encke division, sometimes called the Encke doodle Saturn |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $100: "A Shot in the..." Dark |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | INDIAN LIFE $300: It's believed this tribe's name came from the dark-colored moccasins they wore Blackfoot |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | READ THE LABEL $400: Brer Rabbit is a "New Orleans style" of this dark liquid used in baking molasses |
| #1705, aired 1992-01-17 | ROCK 'N' ROLL FACTS $200: This group's 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon" spent over 14 years on the Billboard charts Pink Floyd |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | POETS & POETRY $600: In a poem of the same title, Dylan Thomas warned, "Do not go gentle into" this that good night |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | VOCABULARY $300: This dog's name may derive from a Chinese word for dog; it's dark tongue is its "mein" attraction a chow |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | JOHN HUSTON $300: The last scene of this Huston film features Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe driving off in the dark The Misfits |
| #1677, aired 1991-12-10 | LAST WORDS $500: "Turn up the lights--I don't want to go home in the dark", this author said in a twist ending June 5, 1910 O. Henry |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | DANCERS $400: On May 18, 1990 the lights on Las Vegas' strip went dark for 10 minutes in honor of this late tap dancer Sammy Davis, Jr. |
