| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: On this November holiday in Mexico, families gather to celebrate & remember their loved ones who have passed on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | "WORLD" $600: It's the 4-word idiom that describes the person seen here dead to the world |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $400: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, that tragedy helped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies the Lusitania |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $1000: In February 2011, this world leader refused to step down from power; he was dead by October Gaddafi |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | ZOMBIETHON $600: Glenn & Maggie were just a young couple trying to make it work in a zombie-filled world on this TV series The Walking Dead |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: In Guatemala this is the holiday to eat a 50-ingredient salad called fiambre at the graves of loved ones Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | WORLD FACTS $600: Hey, it's easy to kick back, relax & float on this body of water, 9 times saltier than the ocean & extremely dense the Dead Sea |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $800: On this holiday observed on November 1 & 2, families in Mexico gather together to remember departed loved ones the Day of the Dead |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a skeletal doll.) La Catrina, the skeleton figure who has become an icon of Day of the Dead celebrations, was an early 20th-century creation to mock elite Mexicans, but her origins can be traced to the underworld goddess of this pre-Columbian civilization the Aztecs |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | WORLD CULTURES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) With this belief in the return to earth of the departed, the ofrenda, or altar, that honors deceased loved ones & welcomes them back for a visit is part of the Mesoamerican influence on this autumn day celebrated in Mexico Day of the Dead |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | THE GRATEFUL DEAD $800: In 1978 the last of 3 Dead shows near this Wonder of the Ancient World was timed to coincide with a lunar eclipse the Pyramids |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | 11 O'CLOCK LITERARY NEWS $1200: Transsexual ex-NFLer Roberta Muldoon, from this "World"ly John Irving novel, was found dead after a jog The World According to Garp |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | THE LITERARY WORLD $200: This classic novel's opening line is "Marley was dead: to begin with" "A Christmas Carol" |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | "DEAD" TO THE WORLD $100: This type of street might have a sign that reads "No Outlet" Dead-end street |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | "DEAD" TO THE WORLD $200: It's a type of lock that has no spring Deadbolt |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | "DEAD" TO THE WORLD $300: One who gets into a concert for free, a fan of the Grateful Dead, or both Deadhead |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | "DEAD" TO THE WORLD $400: Comedy style associated with Buster Keaton Deadpan |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | "DEAD" TO THE WORLD $500: It's the term for mail the Postal Service can't deliver Dead letter |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: This text helped the soul, or ka, navigate a journey into a region called Amenti the Book of the Dead |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS: 60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state Hawaii |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | COUNTRY MUSIC LEGENDS: Before he was found dead January 1, 1953, the last single he released was "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" Hank Williams |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1826 Daniel Webster eulogized these 2 men, saying, "They took their flight together to the world of spirits" Thomas Jefferson & John Adams |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | ECOLOGY: Former Monty Python member John Cleese has joined a campaign to save this bird from extinction Parrot |
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