Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9068, aired 2024-03-27WORLD LITERATURE $2000: This Chilean author of "The Savage Detectives" has gained wide fame in English translation since his early death in 2003 Roberto Bolaño
#9066, aired 2024-03-25IAMB A POET $1200: Iam the "I" in "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain", & what do you mean I'm obsessed with death? Dickinson
#9065, aired 2024-03-22NONFICTION $400: The 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction went to a book about this man, whose 2020 death in Minneapolis sparked protests worldwide Floyd
#9063, aired 2024-03-20BESTSELLING BOOKS $200: "Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins" in this novel The Hunger Games
#9062, aired 2024-03-19SPEECHMAKING $800: Following this man's death in 1948, prime minister Nehru stated, "The light has gone out of our lives" Mahatma Gandhi
#9060, aired 2024-03-15TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners the Code of Hammurabi
#9056, aired 2024-03-11THE CIVIL WAR $2000: The last battlefield death of the war was Union Pvt. John Williams, who was killed at Palmito Ranch in this state in May 1865 Texas
#9052, aired 2024-03-05POETS & POETRY $1600: Published after his 1850 death, "The Prelude" is an epic poetic memoir by this Romantic Wordsworth
#9049, aired 2024-02-29LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $1000: Love: After his death in 1142, he would be buried next to his beloved Héloïse in Père Lachaise Abelard
#9046, aired 2024-02-26THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: Acts 7 reports that he was stoned to death for speaking what the council thought was blasphemy against God Stephen
#9045, aired 2024-02-23JUDGES $400: Caryl Chessman chose to defend himself in front of Charles Fricke, who did this more than any other Calif. judge ever & did it to Caryl too provide a death sentence
#9044, aired 2024-02-2240 YEARS AGO: 1984 $400: Bob Woodward's "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of" this comic offended some of its subject's friends & family John Belushi
#9044, aired 2024-02-22THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $600: A Vonnegut novel much about mortality: "Death" Slaughterhouse-Five
#9044, aired 2024-02-22BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death)
#9041, aired 2024-02-19PLANT LORE $800: Legend says a limb from one of these trees taken from Lebanon & now in Derbyshire fell at the death of Lord Carnarvon cedar
#9036, aired 2024-02-12GENIUS: MLK/X $1000: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) Since they marched together, went to jail together & even had a pillow fight together right before Martin's death, MLK & this minister are referred to as the civil rights twins on the show Ralph Abernathy
#9034, aired 2024-02-08THE MOURNING NEWS $1000: This British author kept 2 initials & a 5-letter last name as N.W. Clerk to write "A Grief Observed" about his wife's death C.S. Lewis
#9033, aired 2024-02-07AHHH, THE FRENCH $200: This national heroine of France was canonized on May 16, 1920, nearly 500 years after her death Joan of Arc
#9033, aired 2024-02-07AHHH, THE FRENCH $400: After Pierre's death, Marie Curie was appointed to his professorship in 1906 & became the first woman to teach at this U. in Paris the Sorbonne
#9031, aired 2024-02-05FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: After an attempted grave robbery soon after his death, Elvis Presley's body was moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to this estate Graceland
#9031, aired 2024-02-05IT'S GIVING... $400: A New York Times headline read this oil man's "gifts total $530,853,632", remarkably specific on the day after his death in 1937 (John D.) Rockefeller
#9031, aired 2024-02-05FINAL RESTING PLACES $800: Following her 1997 death, she was buried on a small island in a lake in Althorp Park, the Spencer family estate Princess Diana
#9031, aired 2024-02-05BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The unexpected death of a small town council member is a mystery at the heart of "The Casual Vacancy" by this author J.K. Rowling
#9030, aired 2024-02-02BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $400: At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency" "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
#3, aired 2024-02-02PICK YOUR POISON $400: The death cup & destroying angels are poisonous ones of these mushrooms
#9027, aired 2024-01-30HOT FOR CREATURE $1000: 100° spring water is no problem for the Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish in this morbid Western U.S. national park Death Valley
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Persuasion", the last book she completed before her death in 1817, was published posthumously Austen
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Everyone "walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death" is a typical cheery line from him in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Hardy
#9020, aired 2024-01-19FAMOUS FORGERIES $2000: On trial for selling a work by this Delft master to the Nazis, a Dutch artist avoided a death sentence by proving he'd forged it Vermeer
#9019, aired 2024-01-18THE PAST, PRESENTLY $1000: Numerical nickname for Mao's wife & her allies arrested after Mao's death for actions during the Cultural Revolution the Gang of Four
#1, aired 2024-01-12IAMB WOMAN $1200: She loved her iambs, as in "Because I could not stop for Death" Dickinson
#9014, aired 2024-01-11PARTS OF THE WHOLE $1000: Lhotse Face, the Death Zone, Khumbu Icefall Mount Everest
#24, aired 2024-01-09NON-MUSICAL THEATER $200: We never do learn what kind of product Willy Loman sells in this classic play, which opened on Broadway in 1949 Death of a Salesman
#24, aired 2024-01-09NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda
#9010, aired 2024-01-05OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $2000: This American woman went pro in 1916, founded a dance company in 1926, retired at 70 but choreographed until her death in 1991 Martha Graham
#9008, aired 2024-01-03JOHN GREEN $200: (John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course which offers hundreds of free educational videos on YouTube; in one video, I discuss this female poet from New England, just a bit obsessed with death, who began a poem, "I heard a fly buzz when I died" Emily Dickinson
#23, aired 2024-01-02OATHS $200: Though not in the Constitution, these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office so help me God
#9006, aired 2024-01-01PEOPLE $400: Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to take this woman's seat in the U.S. Senate after her death at age 90 Dianne Feinstein
#9005, aired 2023-12-29IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $400: The prizes bearing his name were first awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of his death Nobel
#9005, aired 2023-12-29LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann
#9004, aired 2023-12-28FOR THE GRAM $400: @depthsof this free encyclopedia compiles bizarre pages of the website like "Mozart & scatology" & "death by vending machine" Wikipedia
#9004, aired 2023-12-28WOMEN ON TRIAL $1600: Leslie Van Houten, a follower of this man, was retried in 1977 after her lawyer's mysterious death; she was released at age 73 Manson
#8997, aired 2023-12-19KING'S CROSSING $200: In a late 18th century National Convention vote he could not afford to lose, this French king was condemned to death, 387 to 334 Louis XVI
#8994, aired 2023-12-14A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $400: Bread, as the mainstay of the human diet, is known as this the staff of life
#8994, aired 2023-12-14A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $800: A source of rescue in a crisis; phone a friend is one example a lifeline
#8994, aired 2023-12-14A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1200: Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk death-defying
#8994, aired 2023-12-14A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1600: Though they sound like they sit on the beach, they're the senior British army regiment & first saw action in the 1600s the Life Guards
#8994, aired 2023-12-14A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $2000: One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him the Angel of Death
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $400: In 1966 this man stepped down from hosting the Western "Death Valley Days" to focus on his campaign for governor (Ronald) Reagan
#8992, aired 2023-12-12SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Avuncular Seinfeld relative who kvetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" Uncle Leo Tolstoy
#8990, aired 2023-12-08GEOGRAPHIC TITLES $200: "Death in ____" & "The Merchant of ____" Venice
#8989, aired 2023-12-07STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $400: 14th century European pandemic that destroyed Alderaan the Black Death Star
#22, aired 2023-12-06CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing": He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry
#8986, aired 2023-12-04I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT $1000: The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine &... Death
#21, aired 2023-11-29WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1200: Death by crucifixion has never been faced more cheerfully than in this comic troupe's sing-along, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" Monty Python
#8982, aired 2023-11-28A CAPITAL IDEA? $200: This composer was dreaming of a white Christmas right up until his death in 1989 at age 101 (Irving) Berlin
#8980, aired 2023-11-24FAMOUS GINGERS $400: This King of Rock was engaged to Ginger Alden at the time of his sudden 1977 death Elvis Presley
#8978, aired 2023-11-22THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $200: In 1793 Jean-Paul Marat was retired in the bath with one of these a knife
#8978, aired 2023-11-22THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $400: In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "take me out" but was anyway, via this a gun
#8978, aired 2023-11-22THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $600: In 1880 outlaw Ned Kelly was doing this around Melbourne hanging
#8978, aired 2023-11-22THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $800: In 1946, in order to avoid execution, Hermann Goering picked his this poison (cyanide)
#8978, aired 2023-11-22THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $1000: In 1861 Victoria's consort Prince Albert: this fever typhoid
#8975, aired 2023-11-17NAME THE JAMES $1200: After this author's death on January 13th, 1941, the wake wasn't for Finnegan, but for him Joyce
#8975, aired 2023-11-17PITHY QUOTES $2,400 (Daily Double): The King James Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept", refers to the death of this man Lazarus
#8970, aired 2023-11-10DESIGNERS $600: She took over control of her family's design house in 1997, after her brother Gianni's death Donatella Versace
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DEATH $200: From Latin, it means "after death", when an autopsy would be done post mortem
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DEATH $400: The Amanita genus of these includes some that are lethal to humans, including the death cap mushrooms
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DEATH $600: Docs recommend babies sleep on their backs or sides to ward off this, SIDS for short sudden infant death syndrome
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DEATH $1000: A final pose is depicted here by this French painter Jacques-Louis David
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DEATH $1,600 (Daily Double): The London space called this "Green" has a memorial to those, such as Margaret Pole, who were beheaded there Tower Green
#8967, aired 2023-11-07YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $2000: He's the Shakespearean character who muses, "...in that sleep of death what dreams may come..." Hamlet
#8964, aired 2023-11-02CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $400: Willy: "I'm tired." Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired" Death of a Salesman
#8964, aired 2023-11-02ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $1000: In 1944, 20 years after his own death, his oldest daughter Margaret died at an ashram in India Woodrow Wilson
#8964, aired 2023-11-02ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $3,200 (Daily Double): Last name of John who, before his death in 2013 at 91, was the oldest living child of a president Eisenhower
#8963, aired 2023-11-01I'M ON THE CASE $1200: Look into why these two Italian anarchists were tried in 1921, but not sentenced to death until 1927 Sacco & Vanzetti
#8955, aired 2023-10-20FAMILY DRAMA $400: His "All My Sons" centers on Joe Keller, whose shoddy plane parts led to the death of his son & other pilots in WWII Arthur Miller
#8955, aired 2023-10-20OLDE ENGLAND $400: Her reign from 1558 until her death in 1603 is often called the golden age of English history Elizabeth I
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WHO SAID THIS? $1000: In a 1775 speech he declared, "I know not what course others may take..." Patrick Henry
#8950, aired 2023-10-13FELONIOUS MONKS $1600: Friar Vicente de Valverde gave Atahuallpa the choice of death by fire or garrote; he chose the latter & this empire ended the Incan
#8948, aired 2023-10-11SURELY YOU JOUST $800: Today, joust fans, a bloody treat! Sir Harry has challenged Sir Gary to battle "à outrance", which means this to the death
#8948, aired 2023-10-11AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Mark Antony
#8947, aired 2023-10-10NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $2000: His long reign over Austria-Hungary ended with his death in 1916 Franz Joseph
#8944, aired 2023-10-05NUN BUT THE BRAVE $3,000 (Daily Double): 3-word title of Sister Helen Prejean's powerful account of being a death row counselor Dead Man Walking
#8943, aired 2023-10-04WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $800: Seen here the death of this Athenian philosopher was immortalized by Jacques Louis David in 1787 Socrates
#15, aired 2023-10-04ESTATE PLANNING $300: A key goal of estate planning is to minimize these; as Ben Franklin noted, they're the only thing as certain as death taxes
#15, aired 2023-10-04RISING UP $400: Mahsa Amini's death inspired protests against headscarves and the government in this Middle Eastern country Iran
#15, aired 2023-10-04ESTATE PLANNING $900: It's the agent who administers a person's estate after their death--not to be confused with an executioner, who causes it an executor
#15, aired 2023-10-04ESTATE PLANNING $1500: Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge in 2010 with this investing guru to inspire wealthy philanthropists in life & at death Warren Buffett
#8940, aired 2023-09-29BACK TO SCHOOL $200: English: his "Unfinished Tales", a collection of more Middle-earth material, was published 7 years after his death Tolkien
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FROM THE GREEK $800: The prefix "eu" means good, so this word comes from the Greek for "good death" euthanasia
#8937, aired 2023-09-26WHO "AR" THEY? $600: The mysterious 1921 death of Virginia Rappe ruined the career of this hefty comic actor (Fatty) Arbuckle
#8937, aired 2023-09-26CAVES $800: A New Haven, Conn. cave was the hideout of the judges who had signed this king's death warrant in 1649 Charles I
#8933, aired 2023-09-20NAME THAT PLAY $400: "I gotta show some of those pompous, self-important executives over there that Hap Loman can make the grade" Death of a Salesman
#8933, aired 2023-09-20THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt
#8931, aired 2023-09-1821st CENTURY NEWS $1600: At 11:35 PM EDT May 1, 2011 President Obama announced the death of this man in Pakistan bin Laden
#8930, aired 2023-09-15AGATHA ALL ALONG $200: At one point in this Agatha Christie book, the Karnak is anchored at Abu Simbel Death on the Nile
#8925, aired 2023-07-28TALKING ABOUT WOMEN $200: After her death, a newspaper recalled "those stricken hospitals of the Crimea through which the lady with the lamp passed" Florence Nightingale
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $400: He introduced a bill to limit the death penalty while a member of the Virginia legislature Thomas Jefferson
#8922, aired 2023-07-25STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $2000: Charles Sumner, a free stater nearly beaten to death on the Senate floor by a southerner Massachusetts
#8919, aired 2023-07-20THE DANUBE $400: The Danube waltzes past this world capital that saw the birth & death of "Blue Danube" creator Johann Strauss Jr. Vienna
#8919, aired 2023-07-20JOHN LENNON $800: For "Double" this, the last album released before his death, John & Yoko alternated songs Fantasy
#8916, aired 2023-07-17OPPENHEIMER $1,000 (Daily Double): (Matt Damon presents the clue.) Oppenheimer wasn't sure why he chose this name for a nuclear test site, but he did recall thinking of John Donne's poems of death & resurrection, including the sonnet that begins, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" the Trinity test site
#8915, aired 2023-07-14MODERN FANTASY LIT $1000: This "Remains of the Day" author wrote fantasy with "The Buried Giant", set years after the death of King Arthur Ishiguro
#8915, aired 2023-07-14WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: Following this king's death, David laments, "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!" Saul
#8913, aired 2023-07-12WALKING & TALKING $800: This Bible book gives us the line "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" Psalms
#8910, aired 2023-07-07A BRIDGE TOO FAR $800: A bridge in Bath crossing the River Avon was named for this prime minister after his death in 1965 Churchill
#8910, aired 2023-07-07HOTEL CALIFORNIA $800: A 4-diamond inn & oasis in the middle of nowhere is a high point of this lowest point in North America Death Valley
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Famed Roman talker Marcus Tullius, who ended up talking himself to death, was better known by this one name Cicero
#8907, aired 2023-07-04LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $1600: George Plimpton takes out an insurance policy against death & dismemberment in this 1966 book Paper Lion
#8904, aired 2023-06-29WRITING: MUSIC $1600: Published a year after his death in 1984, "Divided Soul" looks at this singer's spiritual & sexual sides Marvin Gaye
#8900, aired 2023-06-23ON BROADWAY $400: A 2022 revival of this play broke ground with Wendell Pierce as the first Black man to play Willy Loman on Broadway Death of a Salesman
#8899, aired 2023-06-2212-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure
#8897, aired 2023-06-20NONPROFITS $200: Helping minority kids go to college, the foundation named for this Brooklyn Dodger was begun in 1973, a year after his death Jackie Robinson
#8896, aired 2023-06-19GENERAL ASSEMBLY $500 (Daily Double): In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting Charles de Gaulle
#8895, aired 2023-06-16OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $800: The subtitle of this nonfiction work by a Catholic sister is "An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" Dead Man Walking
#8890, aired 2023-06-09WITH THIS RING $2000: Around 1850, Richard Wagner began writing a poem called "The Death of" this heroic character in the "Ring" cycle Siegfried
#8889, aired 2023-06-08HISTORY HYSTERIA $400: 400 people danced uncontrollably for days, some until death, in 1518's dancing plague in Strasbourg in this country France
#8888, aired 2023-06-07FOLLIES $800: On Oct. 25, 1854 into the Valley of Death rode this military group, led by the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who somehow rode out the Light Brigade
#19, aired 2023-05-24COMPOSERS $200: Scott Joplin published the haunting "Bethena, a Concert" this kind of dance music soon after the 1904 death of his wife waltz
#19, aired 2023-05-24WHAT'S ALL THIS? $2000: 5 sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" & "What the Thunder Said" "The Waste Land"
#8873, aired 2023-05-17GREAT BRITS $200: Following her untimely death, she was called "the foremost ambassador for AIDS awareness on the planet" Princess Diana
#8872, aired 2023-05-16CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $200: "Because I could not stop for death--he kindly stopped for me", "Me" being this poet on May 15, 1886 in Amherst (Emily) Dickinson
#12, aired 2023-05-16NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $400: Bernal Díaz, who sailed on the voyage that discovered the Yucatan, was a soldier who witnessed this Aztec leader's death Moctezuma
#8870, aired 2023-05-12HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $2000: Asking for comfort & guidance, do this, "fast falls the eventide", "in life, in death, O Lord" do this abide with me
#8, aired 2023-05-12GAMES, OLD & NEW $400: Named for a historic trek, there's now an online version of this game from 1971 in which death from typhoid & snakebite are commonplace Oregon Trail
#8, aired 2023-05-12GROWING UP X $1000: On the serious side, the exhibit includes a button bearing this equation that protested the lack of action or even talk about AIDS silence = death
#4, aired 2023-05-09LIBRARIES $200: Harvard's Widener Library honors Harry Elkins Widener, whose rare works were donated after his death in this maritime disaster the Titanic
#4, aired 2023-05-09"OF" PAINT $13,200 (Daily Double): This 1793 painting seen here depicts an event from July of that year Death of Marat
#1, aired 2023-05-08LITERARY DEMISES $600: In "The Green Mile", this death row inmate who has healing powers is innocent but is resigned to his fate Coffey
#8865, aired 2023-05-05IT'S A TV MYSTERY $800: Nicole Kidman played Celeste, whose abusive husband Perry was pushed to his death in this series based on a Liane Moriarty novel Big Little Lies
#8863, aired 2023-05-03, SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $200: "District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety" Katniss Everdeen
#8860, aired 2023-04-28THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $400: After this prophet's death in 632, armies spreading his word conquered large parts of the Middle East & North Africa Mohammed
#8857, aired 2023-04-25STATESMEN & WOMEN $2000: In one of his final posts before his death in 1895, this African American served as U.S. minister to Haiti Frederick Douglass
#8853, aired 2023-04-19A BOX OF MATCHES $1200: This claymation series on MTV featured famous people in wrestling matches, often with gory results Celebrity Death Match
#8849, aired 2023-04-13THE BOOK OF ROMANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet Virgil
#8845, aired 2023-04-07LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $400: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a Hemingway tale of life & death on one of these African expeditions a safari
#8845, aired 2023-04-07LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $800: A man awakens from a coma with the power to see a terrible fate awaiting humankind in this Stephen King work The Dead Zone
#8845, aired 2023-04-07LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1200: "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card is the 2nd book in the series about this character & his genocidal "Game" Ender
#8845, aired 2023-04-07LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1600: In Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop", Father Jean Marie Latour serves in this southwest U.S. state capital Santa Fe, New Mexico
#8845, aired 2023-04-07LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $2000: Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of" this character is the story of an inmate struggling to survive in a Soviet prison camp Ivan Denisovich
#8844, aired 2023-04-06SPEECHES $800: "It'll be" this "or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death", cautioned Malcolm X in a 1964 speech the ballot
#8842, aired 2023-04-04GOODNESS & MERCY $600: To phrase a coin, we're giving this word that means to decide not to put an enemy to death a quarter
#8839, aired 2023-03-30THE HISTORIC 1950s $2000: On the day of this British king's death in 1952, cinemas & theaters closed & the BBC suspended all programs except for the news George VI
#8837, aired 2023-03-28WORLD HISTORY $800: This good guy of Christmas carol fame was actually a duke of Bohemia; he was only declared a king (& a saint) after his death Wenceslas
#8832, aired 2023-03-21BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $1200: In 2025, game shows are to the death in "The Running Man", written by Stephen King under this pseudonym Richard Bachman
#8831, aired 2023-03-20CRY UNCLE $5,000 (Daily Double): In a letter to Tacitus, this man wrote of his elder uncle's death at Vesuvius from "some gross and noxious vapor" Pliny
#8829, aired 2023-03-16THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $800: A Sept. 11, 1973 coup led to the death of Salvador Allende & General Pinochet taking control of this country Chile
#8823, aired 2023-03-08IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $400: In 2000 a period of freedom in Syria upon the death of Pres. Assad I was called the Damascus this & lasted about as long as a season Spring
#8823, aired 2023-03-08LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1000: As told by Leonard Cohen, David sees this woman on a roof; his sin with her leads to the death of their child as punishment Bathsheba
#8816, aired 2023-02-27DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $400: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) One of my favorite co-stars was this actress; I had a teenage crush on her even though she played one of Harry's nemeses, the vicious Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange Helena Bonham Carter
#8815, aired 2023-02-24DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE $2000: A high school plane trip to Europe! What could possibly go wrong?; making death mad... problematic; hi, Mr. Bludworth! Final Destination
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): These Easterners were poised to invade Western Europe in 1241 when the death of their supreme leader called them back the Mongols
#8811, aired 2023-02-20TECH TALK $800: Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error the blue screen of death
#8804, aired 2023-02-09AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1600: In this first lady's autobiography, she tells of the time after her husband's death when she became a U.N. delegate Eleanor Roosevelt
#8800, aired 2023-02-03THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $400: Just after his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on New York's 52nd Street was renamed for this man who wrote "Fences" August Wilson
#8798, aired 2023-02-01HODGEPODGE $1000: After the queen's death, the names of Prince William's children now end with "of" this place instead of Cambridge Wales
#8797, aired 2023-01-31THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $2000: As well as directing, Ingmar Bergman wrote this 1957 classic featuring a chess game with Death The Seventh Seal
#12, aired 2023-01-26ALL THINGS IRISH $100: A disease of this tuber in the 1840s led to famine, death & a large emigration away from Ireland a potato
#11, aired 2023-01-192 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $3,000 (Daily Double): It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96 old age
#8788, aired 2023-01-18LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $400: Massachusetts kept this "Liberal Lion" in the Senate for nearly 47 years, until his death Ted Kennedy
#8788, aired 2023-01-18BLANK VERSE $1600: "I have a rendezvous with ____ at some disputed barricade" death
#8784, aired 2023-01-12CLASSIC ALBUMS $1200: "Life After Death" by this East Coast rapper was released in 1997, 2 weeks after he was murdered on the West Coast the Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie)
#8781, aired 2023-01-09SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $1200: A Tea Shop Mystery: the alliterative "Death by" this Indian variety Darjeeling
#8777, aired 2023-01-03AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $600: One of Albert Pinkham Ryder's best known works is the macabre-toned painting "The Race Track", or this "On a Pale Horse" Death
#8774, aired 2022-12-293-NAMED WRITERS $600: "I do not worry about dying" were the prophetic words of Federico García Lorca, who was put to death in 1936 during this conflict the Spanish Civil War
#8774, aired 2022-12-293-NAMED WRITERS $1000: Shortly before her death in 1924, this author of "The Secret Garden" wrote, "As long as one has a garden, one has a future" (Frances Hodgson) Burnett
#8773, aired 2022-12-28LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): wizardingworld.com tells us this villainous last name means "bad faith" Malfoy
#8771, aired 2022-12-26THE OFFICE $600: A popular office snack is the granola bar made since 1975 & named for this place we think is between Death Valley & Silicon Valley Nature Valley
#8770, aired 2022-12-23RIAN JOHNSON LOVES A WHODUNIT $400: (Rian Johnson presents the clue.) The 1978 version of "Death on the Nile" is so fantastic, as is Peter Ustinov, who is my favorite actor to play this famous Belgian sleuth Poirot
#8768, aired 2022-12-21PUTTING ON HEIRS $4,000 (Daily Double): The 1889 death of Archduke Rudolf, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, put this man next in line after Rudy's uncle; oops Franz Ferdinand
#8767, aired 2022-12-20WHAT A STEAL! $400: After his 1955 death this physicist could not have sung "If I Only Had A Brain", as some of it went to a pathologist's home in Wichita Albert Einstein
#8766, aired 2022-12-19"IN THE" $2000: The title of this book, published after Hemingway's death, alludes to Bimini & Cuba & inspired a song of the same name Islands in the Stream
#8764, aired 2022-12-15HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY! $400: Pay attention! In 2012 Andrew Garfield made his Broadway debut as Biff in this Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman
#8764, aired 2022-12-15HISTORY IN ART $1600: Benjamin West took artistic license in depicting "The Death of General Wolfe", an event from this 18th century war the French and Indian War
#8763, aired 2022-12-14THE "J.C"s $800: In 2022, Hollywood mourned the death of this legendary actor whose career touched 7 decades James Caan
#8758, aired 2022-12-07LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: In 2021 this national park reported its hottest-ever June, with an average day/night temperature of 102.8 Death Valley
#8758, aired 2022-12-07SEQUELS $1600: It's the fitting 2-word title of Jojo Moyes' sequel to "Me Before You", about Louisa Clark following the death of Will Traynor After You
#8756, aired 2022-12-05MYTH $1600: In Egyptian mythology, Seth, the evil god of disorder, killed this brother, the god of the underworld Osiris
#8753, aired 2022-11-30A GIANT CATEGORY $400: In this mythology, Ymir the giant, depicted here, was the first being & in death his eyebrows became the fence around Midgard Norse
#8746, aired 2022-11-21WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $2,600 (Daily Double): Left unfinished at his death, "Juneteenth", his second novel, was published in 1999 Ralph Ellison
#8742, aired 2022-11-15FIRST-TIME RESPONSES $1200: This type of cymbal keeps steady rhythm rather than providing the occasional crash; we've done that cymbal to death a ride cymbal
#8742, aired 2022-11-15NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $2000: We've got the Feb. 21, 1953 "Life is Worth Living" where Bishop Sheen predicts death for this Communist; 12 days later, bingo Stalin
#8740, aired 2022-11-11ELEGIES $2000: This "Invictus" poet also penned "Margaritae Sorori", an elegy in which death gets (& is) the last word Henley
#8736, aired 2022-11-07IN THAT NOVEL $7,000 (Daily Double): High-ranking Father Latour passes away in a Santa Fe cathedral Death Comes for the Archbishop
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $1500: On "Our Flag Means Death", Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet & Taika Waititi is this more notorious pirate Blackbeard
#8735, aired 2022-11-04HISTORY $2000: This Zulu warrior & chief used amabutho, or age-based regiments, to unite & control his kingdom before his 1828 death Shaka
#8734, aired 2022-11-03FILM FIGHT MARQUEE $800: 1978: Bruce Lee vs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Game of Death
#8733, aired 2022-11-02HISTORIC NAMES $600: A town in Russia was renamed for this cosmonaut, the first man in space, following his death in 1968 Gagarin
#6, aired 2022-10-30CLASSIC TV $600: Here's the cast of this classic show named for one of its stars; sadly, with Betty White's death, they've all passed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
#5, aired 2022-10-23HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $800: In the classic "Citizen Kane", following Kane's death, a reporter is sent out to uncover the meaning of this, his final word Rosebud
#8724, aired 2022-10-20A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: At his death in 1616, he left 10 pounds to the poor of Stratford & his second best bed to wife Anne Shakespeare
#8724, aired 2022-10-20A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $400: Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built this monument in memory of his favorite wife, who died in 1631 the Taj Mahal
#8724, aired 2022-10-20A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $600: After this sharpshooter wife passed away in 1926, Frank Butler reportedly stopped eating & died 18 days later Annie Oakley
#8724, aired 2022-10-20A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $800: Following his assassination in 1935, his widow Rose completed his term as senator from Louisiana (Huey) Long
#8724, aired 2022-10-20A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $1000: Henry VIII struggled to leave Catherine of Aragon, but it took death to part ol' Henry from this woman, wife No. 6 Catherine Parr
#8724, aired 2022-10-20POETS & POETRY $2,569 (Daily Double): It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." Paradise Lost
#8722, aired 2022-10-18CELEBRITIES $400: Variety called her one of pop culture's most famous mother figures; music fans were saddened by her death in 2022 Naomi Judd
#8721, aired 2022-10-17"IF" AT FIRST... $2000: In a rousing 1765 Patrick Henry speech criticizing Britain, these 4 words preceded "make the most of it" if this be treason
#4, aired 2022-10-16CURRENT EVENTS $500: Subjected to Islamist death threats since the 1980s, this author was savagely attacked at a speaking engagement Salman Rushdie
#8716, aired 2022-10-10HOW DID THEY DIE? $5,000 (Daily Double): His death in Vienna in 1791 has been attributed to rheumatic fever, strep throat, kidney failure & poisoning, among other things Mozart
#3, aired 2022-10-09WORDS OF LOVE $1200: A traditional wedding vow says, "For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to" do this cherish
#8713, aired 2022-10-05SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $400: This "morbid" Thomas Mann novella has the German title "Der Tod in Venedig" Death in Venice
#8711, aired 2022-10-03FILM NOIR $1200: The title of this classic 1944 noir refers to a life insurance policy that pays twice as much in a case of accidental death Double Indemnity
#8708, aired 2022-09-28THE RIGHT BROTHERS $1600: After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat Sullivan
#1, aired 2022-09-25YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HATE THIS $300: Ben Franklin assured us that "Nothing is certain but death and" these taxes
#1, aired 2022-09-25TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $400: ...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night! Hansel & Gretel
#8704, aired 2022-09-22MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $200: "The Green Mile" was this bad part of Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row
#8700, aired 2022-09-16HERSTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Roxana married this conqueror in 327 B.C. & after his death, killed another wife or wives & consolidated the throne Alexander the Great
#8698, aired 2022-09-14MUSIC $800: Ms. Rice knows con dolcezza or "with sweetness" is in his 6th symphony, which he conducted in St. Petersburg 9 days before his death Tchaikovsky
#8696, aired 2022-09-12THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $2000: "Murder by Death" & "Star Wars", one year apart Sir Alec Guinness
#8694, aired 2022-07-2840 YEARS OF USA TODAY $200: For issue 1 in 1982, as many a front page had Lebanon's pres. getting blown up, USA Today led with the death of this princess from Philly Princess Grace of Monaco (Grace Kelly)
#8694, aired 2022-07-28STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1200: This controversial end-of-life practice derives its name from Greek for "easy death" euthanasia
#8693, aired 2022-07-27A.D. $1600: 1616 saw the death of William Shakespeare at New place, in this place where he was born Stratford-upon-Avon
#8692, aired 2022-07-26MIDDLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Biblical middle name of the man said to be the richest person in the U.S. at his death in 1848 Jacob
#8691, aired 2022-07-25LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The "Chanson de" or "Song of" this hero tells of his death & the vengeance taken on the traitor Ganelon Roland
#8689, aired 2022-07-21THE MET: A VERSE $600: His painting "The Death of Socrates" is one of the museum's bigs; he's French, so say his name like that of singing actor Diggs David
#8688, aired 2022-07-20FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of this Hollywood icon's death at 36; she's only become more famous since her passing Marilyn Monroe
#8686, aired 2022-07-18ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $1200: "And when he had opened the fourth seal... I looked, and behold a pale" this: "and his name that sat on him was Death" horse
#8685, aired 2022-07-15WORLD OF OPERA $400: In the opera "Dead Man Walking", Sister Helen meets her pen pal, a death row inmate, at Angola Penitentiary in this state Louisiana
#8681, aired 2022-07-11WRITER, WRONGER $400: Terrible with money, this Mo. humorist invested in James Paige's multi-ton typesetter; he later fantasized about Paige's slow death Mark Twain
#8677, aired 2022-07-05A NOVEL DEATH $200: Spoiler for a 15-year-old book! this house-elf doesn't make it all the way through "The Deathly Hallows" Dobby
#8677, aired 2022-07-05A NOVEL DEATH $400: In 1990 John Updike put this title guy to "Rest" after running through 4 novels Rabbit
#8677, aired 2022-07-05A NOVEL DEATH $600: Did Bob Ewell fall on his own knife in this novel? Sheriff Heck Tate is fine with that explanation To Kill a Mockingbird
#8677, aired 2022-07-05A NOVEL DEATH $800: Sadly, the "Flowers for" this tiny Daniel Keyes character are for his grave Algernon
#8677, aired 2022-07-05A NOVEL DEATH $1000: After one character says this miss is "past her prime", this miss is a lot worse off than that Miss Jean Brodie
#8676, aired 2022-07-04TV $600: "Our Flag Means Death" features Taika Waititi as this pirate also known as Edward Teach Blackbeard
#8673, aired 2022-06-29HE WAS A SHOGUN $800: Tsunayoshi's "Laws of Compassion" (enforced by death) banned animal cruelty; he was called Inu-kobo, or this animal-shogun dog
#8670, aired 2022-06-242022 ANNIVERSARIES $200: 100 years ago, in November 1922 Howard Carter made this discovery, some 3,000 years after the death that caused its creation King Tut's tomb (King Tut's body as a mummy)
#8669, aired 2022-06-23PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $1200: The book was unfinished at his death, so he took the end of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to the grave Charles Dickens
#8669, aired 2022-06-23PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death Forster
#8669, aired 2022-06-23PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $9,000 (Daily Double): This author traded China for the Korean DMZ in "The Eternal Wonder", published 40 years after her 1973 death (Pearl) Buck
#8668, aired 2022-06-22HAIL TO THE CHEF $1200: Before his untimely death, he took TV viewers into "Parts Unknown" to explore food & culture around the world Anthony Bourdain
#8666, aired 2022-06-20PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The 2012 Tony for Best Revival of a Play went to this Arthur Miller classic Death of a Salesman
#8665, aired 2022-06-17WORDPLAY-POURRI $800: Change a letter: A convenient way to get your bills paid & an examination of a body after death autopay & autopsy
#8665, aired 2022-06-17HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $1200: 35 years after the death of this beloved Yankee first baseman, his widow Eleanor is seen at a 1976 game Lou Gehrig
#8662, aired 2022-06-14SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE $800: Andrew Bird called a song "Near" this "Experience Experience" Death
#8661, aired 2022-06-13BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $1,000 (Daily Double): The murder of Linnet Doyle aboard the Karnak, a steamer Death on the Nile
#8661, aired 2022-06-13HUNGARY $1000: In 1988, 43 years after his death in self-exile in New York, this composer's remains were returned to his beloved Hungary Bartók
#8659, aired 2022-06-09SILENT W WORDS $600: A determination of this type of death based on negligence can lead to a lawsuit wrongful
#8655, aired 2022-06-03A BIT OF LIT $1600: "The Last Tycoon" was left unfinished at this author's death F. Scott Fitzgerald
#8654, aired 2022-06-02WHAT BREED OF MOVIE DOG? $600: Daisy, John Wick's dog whose death leads to a killing spree a beagle
#8654, aired 2022-06-02THEATER $2000: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" didn't debut on Broadway until 3 years after his death Eugene O'Neill
#8653, aired 2022-06-01POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $2000: "So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death" James Hetfield
#8646, aired 2022-05-23HOW EPIC! $2000: Set in the 8th century, "La Chanson de Roland" recounts the deeds & heroic death of one of this king's vassals Charlemagne
#8645, aired 2022-05-20HISTORY PAINTINGS $2000: Britain's National Maritime Museum has a painting showing this captain's 1779 death at the hands of Hawaiians (James) Cook
#8643, aired 2022-05-18HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: On this silversmith's death in 1818, one paper said, "Seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable & useful" Paul Revere
#8640, aired 2022-05-13PLACES IN THE BIBLE $400: The prophet Elisha visits a sick king in this Syrian city but only foresees his death & another taking his place Damascus
#8639, aired 2022-05-12IN THE NATIONAL PARK $800: In California, Twenty Mule Team Canyon Death Valley
#8635, aired 2022-05-06MODERN ROYALTY $400: Akihito took over as emperor of Japan after the 1989 death of his father, this man Hirohito
#8634, aired 2022-05-05DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER $2000: 1980: A book about Gary Gilmore, a real-life death row inmate The Executioner's Song
#8632, aired 2022-05-03HISTORY $400: One of the crimes for which this French saint was sentenced to death in 1431: dressing in men's clothes Joan of Arc
#8629, aired 2022-04-28POETS & POETRY $800: One of Joseph Brodsky's best-known poems is "Elegy for" this "Death Be Not Proud" poet John Donne
#8623, aired 2022-04-20THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $400: "Into the Woods" finds Rapunzel trampled & a giant plummeting to its death from one of these a beanstalk
#8619, aired 2022-04-14CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS $800: Cole Sprouse says he got his first kiss in this type of vehicle & notes you could call it the kiss of death a hearse
#8618, aired 2022-04-13AROUND THE USA $400: To see a rare stone beach on Washington Island, Wisconsin, you must brave Death's Door, a strait connecting Lake Michigan and this bay Green Bay
#8608, aired 2022-03-30A DISH OF SCHUBERT $800: A year before his own death, in 1827 Schubert was a torchbearer at the funeral of this legendary composer Beethoven
#8608, aired 2022-03-30A DISH OF SCHUBERT $2000: Schubert's "Der Tod und das Mädchen", translated as this pair, was based on a poem by Matthias Claudius "Death and the Maiden"
#8600, aired 2022-03-18ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $1000: This title guy gets a death sentence--via beheading!--then overcomes his hoarding & sells his "500 Hats" to the king Bartholomew Cubbins
#8600, aired 2022-03-18SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba "Che" Guevara
#8599, aired 2022-03-17HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1600: Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad a caliph
#8594, aired 2022-03-10GUYS WHO WEAR GLASSES $400: Here's this trusted newsman wearing his glasses as he announced the death of John F. Kennedy Cronkite
#8594, aired 2022-03-10GUYS WHO WEAR GLASSES $2000: This Israeli fashion designer & creative director of Lanvin was mourned by celebrity clients at his death in 2021 Alber Elbaz
#8590, aired 2022-03-04SAMS CLUB $1000: 3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as "Comedy's Wild Thing" Sam Kinison
#8589, aired 2022-03-03ARTS NEWS $7,200 (Daily Double): In 2021 Gary Avis danced Virgil in a Royal Opera House production commemorating the 700th anniversary of this poet's death Dante Aligheri
#8587, aired 2022-03-01CAUSE OF DEATH $400: Frederic Chopin: this ailment "of the lungs & larynx", per his death certificate tuberculosis
#8587, aired 2022-03-01CAUSE OF DEATH $800: Philosopher William of Ockham, circa 1347: this disease that killed many other Europeans then too the black plague
#8587, aired 2022-03-01CAUSE OF DEATH $1200: Cartoonist Thomas Nast, working as a diplomat in Ecuador: this fever yellow fever
#8587, aired 2022-03-01CAUSE OF DEATH $1600: James K. Polk (the president who died the youngest aside from those assassinated): this water-borne disease cholera
#8587, aired 2022-03-01CAUSE OF DEATH $2000: Chester Arthur (the president who died the second-youngest aside from those assassinated): Bright disease, of this organ the kidney
#8584, aired 2022-02-24PARISH FROM THE EARTH $400: This parish has the same name as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte's death St. Helena
#8584, aired 2022-02-24PARISH FROM THE EARTH $1000: Spanish explorer Hernando spent time in what's now Louisiana before his May 21, 1542 death; this parish is named for him DeSoto
#8583, aired 2022-02-23NOTABLE PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): On her death in 2005, this civil rights activist became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rosa Parks
#17, aired 2022-02-22WE'VE GOT THE BLUES $1600: More than 20 years after his death at about age 27, the 1961 album "King of the Delta Blues Singers" made him newly famous Robert Johnson
#8580, aired 2022-02-18END YOUR RESPONSE WITH A PREPOSITION $800: Saying you look "like death..." these 2 words is not a compliment to your appearance warmed over
#12, aired 2022-02-16THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Y: The Last Man" having a Y chromosome is a death sentence, save for the guy with this name from Shakespeare Yorick
#11, aired 2022-02-16LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $800: "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight" is a line from this Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
#8577, aired 2022-02-15INTERNATIONAL PRISONS $1000: This German prison that housed Nazi war criminals was demolished after the death of Rudolf Hess, its last inmate Spandau Prison
#8574, aired 2022-02-10FROM THE BRITISH ROYAL WEBSITE $400: In April 2021 the death at age 99 of this longest-serving British consort was announced "with deep sorrow" Prince Philip
#5, aired 2022-02-10YOU'LL HAVE PEAKS & VALLEYS $400: Appropriately, the Funeral Mountains border this valley of the American Southwest Death Valley
#5, aired 2022-02-10OPERA $2000: In Richard Strauss' opera about this woman, her dancing leads to the death of John the Baptist Salome
#2, aired 2022-02-08MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $1600: Professor Sebald Brugmans pioneered methods to stop this, tissue death around a wound, & saved many after the Battle of Waterloo necrosis (or gangrene)
#2, aired 2022-02-08SHAKESPEARE $2,000 (Daily Double): The first scene of this late play ends with the line "The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death" The Tempest
#1, aired 2022-02-08"KN"OWLEDGE $2000: Ring a bell slowly & solemnly to announce a death knell
#8569, aired 2022-02-03THE 20th CENTURY $200: Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning Princess Diana
#8569, aired 2022-02-03IT'S A NATIONAL THING $1,000 (Daily Double): The Feb. 1588 death of its admiral, the Marquis de Santa Cruz, would loom large in the coming disaster that befell this big group the Spanish Armada
#8567, aired 2022-02-01KILLER TV SHOWS $400: Murders abound on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, which doesn't seem much like Eden in "Death in" this Paradise
#8564, aired 2022-01-27U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: California's Badwater Basin sounds as enticing as this equally offputtingly named valley where it's located Death Valley
#8563, aired 2022-01-26E BEFORE I $2000: In many states the death penalty may be imposed if a murder was especially this, "atrocious or cruel" heinous
#8557, aired 2022-01-18ESCAPIST LITERATURE $2000: The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
#8557, aired 2022-01-18ESCAPIST LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): 10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city Florence
#8556, aired 2022-01-1720th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: The May 24, 1934 Dallas Morning News had a hometown angle with the headline these "Dallas desperadoes shot to death in Louisiana" Bonnie & Clyde
#8555, aired 2022-01-14CHARACTER TEST $1600: This "A Tale of Two Cities" hero goes to his death in place of his lookalike Charles Darnay Sydney Carton
#8551, aired 2022-01-10BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $400: The founder of the Russian Communist Party, he was also leader of the USSR until his death in 1924 Lenin
#8551, aired 2022-01-10PARTS OF A POEM $4,000 (Daily Double): Also a punctuation mark, it's an address to a personification of something; "Death, be not proud" is an example an apostrophe
#8550, aired 2022-01-07METAPHORS $1000: President Eisenhower saw Stalin's death as a chance "to crack" this barrier & thaw out the Cold War the Iron Curtain
#8550, aired 2022-01-07HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $2000: In 1994, nearly 60 years after his death, his wife Anna passed away still proclaiming his innocence in the Lindbergh case Bruno Hauptmann
#8548, aired 2022-01-05LIT 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
#8543, aired 2021-12-29AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: A bullfight aficionado, he wrote about the subject in "Death in the Afternoon" Hemingway
#8537, aired 2021-12-21PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: Truly "The People's Princess", Diana crusaded against these weapons of war & after her death, 160-plus nations agreed to ban them land mines
#8534, aired 2021-12-16PROTEST SONGS $2000: A single of his, "A Change Is Gonna Come", was released just days after his tragic death in 1964 Sam Cooke
#8530, aired 2021-12-10U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: It's about 130 miles long & in July 2021, it reached about 130 degrees Death Valley
#8530, aired 2021-12-10GOING MEDIEVAL $1600: In the 14th century this Italian poet lost the love of his life, Laura, to the black death Petrarch
#8530, aired 2021-12-10ORGAN RECITAL $2000: The jejunum, part of this organ, gets its name from the Latin for "fasting" because it was often found empty after death the small intestine
#8525, aired 2021-12-03PULLING INTO "TOWN" $1200: This colony was established on May 14, 1607 but by 1610, starvation was a prime factor behind the death of 80% of its residents Jamestown
#8521, aired 2021-11-29PLAY CHARACTERS $200: "Death of a Salesman" takes place during the last few days of his life Willy Loman
#8516, aired 2021-11-22YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $800: In 1951 Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced this couple to death for espionage the Rosenbergs
#8515, aired 2021-11-19ESSAYS $600: A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Ebert
#8515, aired 2021-11-19ESSAYS $1000: Alice Walker's 1975 essay "Looking for Zora" sparked new interest in this author who was largely forgotten at her death Zora Neale Hurston
#8512, aired 2021-11-16THE X FACTOR $600: Luke Skywalker is at the controls of this vehicle when he destroys the Death Star the X-Wing
#8510, aired 2021-11-12200 YEARS AGO $200: Some surmise that arsenic in the wallpaper contributed to this leader's death on the island of St. Helena in 1821 Napoleon
#8509, aired 2021-11-11TREYS $1000: A prince among men, this man III ruled Monaco for 56 years, until his death in 2005 Rainier (III)
#8504, aired 2021-11-04EPONYMOUS -ISMs $400: It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy Confucius
#8504, aired 2021-11-04RE-CHARTED $2000: One of the many Prince songs that re-charted after his 2016 death was this opening track of "Purple Rain" "Let's Go Crazy"
#8499, aired 2021-10-28RED $800: In a short story, Poe wrote that this 2-word malady "had long devastated the country" the Red Death
#8493, aired 2021-10-20DRAFTS $1000: Lost on an island before "Lost", Simon is a bit of a precog in this 1954 novel, foreseeing his own death in an early draft Lord of the Flies
#8492, aired 2021-10-19ANNUS HORRIBILIS $200: In 1348 this "colorful" pandemic killed half the population of Florence, Italy & spread through North Africa the Black Death
#8492, aired 2021-10-19ANNUS HORRIBILIS $2,200 (Daily Double): In the space of a few weeks in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott's trek to this landmark ended in death, then Titanic sailed into history the South Pole
#8484, aired 2021-10-07CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $400: Not actually much development for this man who plots revenge against the Earnshaws, can't get past Cathy's death & also dies Heathcliff
#8482, aired 2021-10-05HERE COMES THE SONNET $1200: The immortal John Donne wrote, "One short sleep past, we wake eternally and" this "shall be no more" death
#8479, aired 2021-09-30LADIES & GENTLEMEN $800: The death sentence for treason had been suspended in 1553 for this lady--a teen, really--but after dad rebelled in '54... not so much Lady Jane Grey
#8478, aired 2021-09-29EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: In 2011, Czechs observed a period of mourning after the death of this president, poet & playwright (Václav) Havel
#8475, aired 2021-09-24NOVELS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought" Frankenstein
#8474, aired 2021-09-23ROLE PLAYERS $800: Machete &... what? You need more? Tyrannosaurus Death & Muerte (Danny) Trejo
#8473, aired 2021-09-22INSPIRED CHARACTERS $4,800 (Daily Double): Leon Rom, a leader of King Leopold's Congo death squad, is thought by some to have inspired this 1902 Joseph Conrad character Kurtz
#8471, aired 2021-09-20GREATS IN HISTORY $2000: After the death of his wife Julia, this member of the First Triumvirate turned against his father-in-law Julius Caesar Pompey
#8468, aired 2021-09-15NUMERICAL ENTERTAINMENT $1000: Groove metal band: ____ Finger Death Punch Five
#8467, aired 2021-09-14THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: After the death of Moses, Joshua leads the Israelites in their conquest of this promised land Canaan
#8467, aired 2021-09-1417th CENTURY NAMES $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1637 this poet wrote "Lycidas" to commemorate the death of a Cambridge schoolmate John Milton
#8462, aired 2021-08-10A TOUCH OF GLASS $800: A stained glass window depicts the death of Thomas Becket at this cathedral where he was slain Canterbury Cathedral
#8461, aired 2021-08-09HISTORIC NAMES $800: Her death & that of son Caesarion in 30 B.C. ended the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt Cleopatra
#8455, aired 2021-07-30OLDE MUSIC $400: "Die Zauberflöte" in German, this Mozart opera premiered in 1791, just months before the composer's death The Magic Flute
#8454, aired 2021-07-29HELLO, GOODBYE $800: Born around 247 B.C. & followed in footsteps of Carthaginian general dad Hamilcar Barca; conquered by death around 183 B.C. Hannibal
#8454, aired 2021-07-29A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $2000: Incomplete at his death, Albert Camus' novel "The First Man" is set in France & this country of his birth Algeria
#8450, aired 2021-07-23LOST VOICES $1200: Chris Farley recorded most of his lines as this title ogre before his death; Mike Myers replaced him Shrek
#8449, aired 2021-07-22ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great
#8447, aired 2021-07-20POETRY $400: This poet wrote "Adonais" on the death of his friend John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley
#8447, aired 2021-07-201876 $400: 3 years after its benefactor's death, this Baltimore university opened its doors Johns Hopkins
#8447, aired 2021-07-20POETRY $2000: A sonnet by John Donne begins with these 4 words & continues, "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful" Death be not proud
#8446, aired 2021-07-19PODCASTS $1000: This podcast company is behind such shows as "Dr. Death", "Dirty John" & "American Scandal" Wondery
#8444, aired 2021-07-15-OLOGIES $2000: From the Greek for "death", it's the study of death & dying thanatology
#8441, aired 2021-07-12AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $200: 8 decades after his death, a 2007 graphic novel told the adventures of this man, "The Handcuff King" Houdini
#8435, aired 2021-07-02FAMOUS NAMES $600: His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890 Vincent van Gogh
#8431, aired 2021-06-28NOVELLAS $2000: In English, "Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez is titled "Chronicle of" this a Death Foretold
#8429, aired 2021-06-24REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $200: In 2013 Idris Elba took the "Long Walk to Freedom" as this man, whose death was announced at the film's U.K. premiere Nelson Mandela
#8429, aired 2021-06-24BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC $1600: "Mercedes Benz" was the last song recorded by this woman before her untimely death in 1970 Janis Joplin
#8424, aired 2021-06-17DID YOU READ... $2000: ...this classic W.W. Jacobs short story that warns us, "The first man had his three wishes... the third was for death" "The Monkey's Paw"
#8421, aired 2021-06-14THAT'S HEAVY, MAN $400: Lolong, a 2,400-pound saltwater one of these reptiles with at least one human death pinned on him, died in 2013 a crocodile
#8421, aired 2021-06-14U.N. ANNIVERSARIES $2000: In 2011 the U.N. solemnly marked the 50th anniversary of the death of this beloved Swedish secretary-general in a plane crash Dag Hammarskjöld
#8417, aired 2021-06-08SUMMER MOVIES $2000: (Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) Voicing Snowball, I had an announcement to make in this 2016 animated film: "Death is coming to Brooklyn and it's got buck teeth and a cotton tail" The Secret Life of Pets
#8415, aired 2021-06-04DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: "Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him... lying on the floor was a dead man... withered" Dorian Gray
#8415, aired 2021-06-04DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: "The harpoon was darted... (he) stooped to clear it... but the flying turn caught him round the neck" Captain Ahab
#8415, aired 2021-06-04DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $600: Nobody at the fair "knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died" Charlotte
#8415, aired 2021-06-04DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $800: "On the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last... when morning came... Jo's place was empty" Beth (March)
#8415, aired 2021-06-04DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills" Lennie
#8411, aired 2021-05-31MOTHER! $800: In 1497 her reign in Spain turned tragic after the death of Juan, her only son Queen Isabella (I)
#8404, aired 2021-05-20GERMAN AUTHORS $400: From 1782 until his death in 1832, this "Faust" author lived & worked in the grand Weimar residence seen here Goethe
#8404, aired 2021-05-20IN OTHER RECENT NEWS... $1200: In fall 2020 the 1st blood test became available for this top-10 U.S. cause of death; diagnosis by symptoms is tricky & brain scans costly Alzheimer's disease
#8400, aired 2021-05-14HISTORICAL FICTION $800: This frontiersman who lent his name to Nevada's capital plays a role in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" (Kit) Carson
#8394, aired 2021-05-061920s GOOD READS $2000: Hercule Poirot must solve "The Murder of" this man found stabbed to death in his study Roger Ackroyd
#8392, aired 2021-05-04THE 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
#8391, aired 2021-05-03HISTORY $1000: His rivalry with Diego de Almagro led to Almagro's murder in Cuzco in 1538 & his own death in Lima 3 years later Pizarro
#8390, aired 2021-04-30TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $1000: It was far from bogus when these 2 title guys--& their old pal, Death!--returned to "Face the Music" in 2020 Bill & Ted
#8389, aired 2021-04-29MASTERPIECE/THEATER $200: Life hasn't turned out so well for Biff & Happy Loman in this play, which has a massive spoiler for a title Death of a Salesman
#8385, aired 2021-04-23AUTHORS $2000: This Brazilian author of "The Alchemist" deleted a children's book he was writing with Kobe Bryant after Kobe's tragic death (Paulo) Coelho
#8365, aired 2021-03-26FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1200: Beginning 100 years after this author's death, a mysterious stranger visited annually leaving cognac & 3 roses at his Baltimore grave Edgar Allan Poe
#8364, aired 2021-03-25THE PLAY'S THE THING $400: What Willy Loman tries to sell for the Wagner Company is not specified in this drama Death of a Salesman
#8363, aired 2021-03-24KINGS & QUEENS $1200: Seen here in a quick sketch by Jacques-Louis David is this woman on the day of her death Marie Antoinette
#8360, aired 2021-03-19AN HONORARY KNIGHT TO REMEMBER $1600: In 2009, the year of his death, this senator from Massachusetts was made an honorary knight Ted Kennedy
#8357, aired 2021-03-16POETS & POETRY $400: This Welshman was famed for his lyrical writing & his bouts of drinking; one binge preceded his death in 1953 Thomas
#8353, aired 2021-03-10LEADERS $800: On Jan. 18, 1943 Mordecai Anielewicz led the uprising in this capital against German troops trying to ship Jews to the Treblinka death camp Warsaw
#8351, aired 2021-03-08REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $400: H.L. Mencken: The "clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters... this story is obviously unimportant" The Great Gatsby
#8351, aired 2021-03-08COMPOSERS $800: The 1953 death of "Peter & the Wolf" composer Sergey Prokofiev was overshadowed by the death of this leader on the same day Stalin
#8345, aired 2021-02-26OPERA SONGS $1600: "Liebestod" ("Love-Death") is from this Wagner opera about a pair of doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde
#8343, aired 2021-02-24HORSE & WRITER $3,700 (Daily Double): Soon after his death in 1910, tourists began visiting his Yasnaya Polyana estate, where they saw his dog Belka & his horse Delir Tolstoy
#8341, aired 2021-02-22PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $600: Mayan artisans greatly prized turquoise & this gem, from which they made elaborate death masks jade
#8336, aired 2021-02-15MICHAEL WROTE $2,500 (Daily Double): "Dragon Teeth", published after his 2008 death, returned to the world of paleontology Michael Crichton
#8335, aired 2021-02-12SCIENCE $200: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) Diabetes was a death sentence until Dr. Frederick Banting discovered how to use & extract this hormone to treat the disease insulin
#8333, aired 2021-02-10WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $400: As this title BBC sleuth, Benedict Cumberbatch appeared to leap to his death, but it was not his "Last Bow" Sherlock Holmes
#8333, aired 2021-02-10WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $600: Whether cooked in a microwave or crushed by the Mir Space Station, this "South Park" kid has endured all manner of death Kenny
#8333, aired 2021-02-10WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $800: This Shakespeare character drinks a potion that imitates outward death, but the plan doesn't go as desired Juliet
#8323, aired 2021-01-27SCIENCE & NATURE $400: The death of a massive star can form this, a cosmic body of extreme gravity from which not even light can escape a black hole
#8323, aired 2021-01-27STATE CAPITALS $600: This capital's St. John's Church was the site of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" oration Richmond
#8323, aired 2021-01-27LITERARY VACATIONS $800: Hercule Poirot was dropped from the 1946 play version of this cruise-set novel & "Death" in the title became "Murder" Death on the Nile
#8323, aired 2021-01-27BOOKS BY PRESIDENTS $3,400 (Daily Double): His "Personal Memoirs", completed before his death in 1885 & "dedicated to the American soldier and sailor" (General) Ulysses S. Grant
#8317, aired 2021-01-19LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $1600: Mann up: "La muerte en venecia" Death in Venice
#8315, aired 2021-01-15TAKE NOTE $1000: Hours before her death in 1587, this queen wrote, "I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning" Mary, Queen of Scots
#8313, aired 2021-01-13FLAG TALK $600: The U.S. flag code says Old Glory "shall be flown at" this rhyming term upon the death of an important person half-staff
#8312, aired 2021-01-12NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: She had taken a major role in the family business even before her brother Gianni's tragic death in 1997 Donatella Versace
#8311, aired 2021-01-11NONFICTION $600: In "A Grief Observed", he left the land of Narnia to grapple with his feelings of loss after his wife's death C.S. Lewis
#8310, aired 2021-01-08HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s $1600: 3 months after his death, he had the first posthumous No. 1 single in history with "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" Otis Redding
#8309, aired 2021-01-07LITERARY KINGS $200: The death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a deadly chain reaction in a novel by this author George R.R. Martin
#8305, aired 2020-12-18LITERATURE $1200: This author's last finished work wasn't an adventure story, but the "Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" published after his 1870 death Alexandre Dumas
#8303, aired 2020-12-16U.S. FACT SHEET $400: The USA's driest point is in this national park in the Mojave Desert Death Valley
#8298, aired 2020-12-09COMMON LATIN $1600: "Amor" & "mors" are these 2 things of concern to many of us love & death
#8298, aired 2020-12-09DURING THE RENAISSANCE $2000: In 2020 museums marked the 500th anniversary of the death at age 37 of this artist with the name of an angel Raphael
#8297, aired 2020-12-08ENTERTAINMENT $600: "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone", is the subtitle of a restoration of this 1990 film, now with a new beginning & ending The Godfather Part III
#8296, aired 2020-12-07MOVIE GOOFS $2000: Continuity errors like changing weather in Rutger Hauer's death scene were fixed in Ridley Scott's "Final Cut" of this film Blade Runner
#8292, aired 2020-12-01JUMP $1200: In this movie based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Alice doesn't want to go with Magua, so she leaps from a cliff to her death The Last of the Mohicans
#8290, aired 2020-11-27ACTOR FACTS $400: Less than a year before this young actor's 1955 death, Dennis Stock took the photo of him known as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" James Dean
#8286, aired 2020-11-23RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE $200: Just before his death, Lenin wrote of his wish to remove this man from the secretary generalship but that didn't work Stalin
#8282, aired 2020-11-17COLOR FILMS $1,800 (Daily Double): The title of this 1999 film comes from the linoleum floor of death row The Green Mile
#8280, aired 2020-11-13CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: Sirhan Sirhan, for the 1968 assassination of this man: the death sentence, commuted to life in prison RFK (Robert Kennedy)
#8280, aired 2020-11-13CRIME & PUNISHMENT $1200: Nathuram Godse, who murdered this man in 1948 as he headed to a prayer meeting: death by hanging Gandhi
#8280, aired 2020-11-13A NOVEL CATEGORY $1200: In 1998 Iran declared it no longer sought Salman Rushdie's death over this novel The Satanic Verses
#8273, aired 2020-11-04HERE'S THE PLAY $800: David Frost gets a drunken late-night call from this other title man just before the final interview (Richard) Nixon
#8269, aired 2020-10-29U.S. HOSPITALS $800: After his death in 1873, this Baltimore philanthropist left his fortune to establish a university & hospital Johns Hopkins
#8268, aired 2020-10-28NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $2000: April 20, 1993: "Death in" this Texas city; "scores die as cult compound is set afire" Waco
#8267, aired 2020-10-27I'M POSTING THAT ON TELEGRAM $200: The death of this inventor of course brought telegrams, like Brigham Young's "My affections follow him to the spirit world" Morse
#8265, aired 2020-10-23A NUMBER BETWEEN 3 & 5 $1000: Pestilence, War, Famine & Death make up this biblical quartet the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
#8265, aired 2020-10-23MOVIE SUM-UP $2000: Death takes a chess holiday; your move, Max von Sydow The Seventh Seal
#8261, aired 2020-10-19POE "M" $200: In an 1842 Poe story a prince & his noble guests find that this title costume ball is no haven from "the Red Death" Masque
#8255, aired 2020-10-09THE WORK'S ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $200: "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" Russian
#8254, aired 2020-10-08DOCTOR, NO! $1200: Doc, no! Your predecessors treated syphilis with this liquid metal--one side effect was death mercury
#8251, aired 2020-10-05RADIO: THEN & NOW $2000: Following this radio inventor's death in 1937, stations in Italy, Britain & the U.S. observed several minutes of silence Marconi
#8251, aired 2020-10-05HEADS UP! & OFF! $2,600 (Daily Double): After his death in 43 B.C., this Roman orator made a final appearance on the speakers' platform at the Forum--well, his head & hands did Cicero
#8238, aired 2020-09-16SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $1600: Here comes the Barnes; where there's a will, there's a Hemingway; Romero the torero The Sun Also Rises
#8236, aired 2020-09-14DISCOVERY $600: In this year James Marshall discovered gold from the American River in California; the next year the rush was on 1848
#8236, aired 2020-09-14PRESIDENT & ACCOUNTED FOR $1200: This politician who said, "Being rich is bad, it's inhuman" had a TV show called "Hello President" before his death in Caracas in 2013 Hugo Chávez
#8235, aired 2020-06-12THE MADNESS OF THE KING $1200: Obsessed with ringing church bells, Fyodor I had issues; his child's death & being the son of this "rough" 1580s czar Ivan the Terrible
#8234, aired 2020-06-11AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep
#8234, aired 2020-06-11"THAN" WORDS $800: In Greek mythology this 8-letter figure is the personification of death Thanatos
#8234, aired 2020-06-11THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $2000: From tomber, French for "to fall", it was the cart that took those condemned to death on their last ride tumbrel
#8232, aired 2020-06-09WOMEN ARTISTS $2000: "The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction" is a recent series of works by this "Windy City" feminist artist Judy Chicago
#8229, aired 2020-06-04WE MISS YOU, MISTER ROGERS $800: In 1986 Mr. Rogers did a show to help children deal with grief & death after the explosion of this transport the Challenger
#8229, aired 2020-06-04BROTHER $1600: A couple months after this more famous brother's death, Frank gave himself up & was acquitted of murder & robbery Jesse James
#8226, aired 2020-06-01IN THE YEAR 2000 $400: Following the death of Charles Schulz, the final original strip of this comic was published in February Peanuts
#8225, aired 2020-05-29"Mc"PEOPLE $1200: In February 2020 the Duchess of Cambridge paid tribute to this designer on the 10th anniversary of his death, wearing one of his outfits Alexander McQueen
#8225, aired 2020-05-29RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $1600: Woody Allen's film "Love and Death" parodies Russian novels & its title echoes "Crime and Punishment" & this 1862 Turgenev title Fathers and Sons
#8224, aired 2020-05-28POEMS $1200: In Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", the narrator rides with death in one of these that "held but just ourselves" a carriage
#8223, aired 2020-05-27A WRITER'S LIFE $200: Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976 Agatha Christie
#8223, aired 2020-05-27A WRITER'S LIFE $600: Born 1919, came through the rye to fame in 1951, & we're not too sure what he did from 1965 to his death in 2010 Salinger
#8223, aired 2020-05-27CHANGE A LETTER $1600: A word meaning of short duration turns very sad as one denoting sharp sorrow over a death brief & grief
#8222, aired 2020-05-26STUDY GROUPS $800: Thanatologists--this bummer of a subject death
#8222, aired 2020-05-26FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $800: Michael B. Jordan played lawyer Bryan Stevenson & he was wrongly convicted death row inmate Walter McMillian in 2019's "Just Mercy" Jamie Foxx
#8221, aired 2020-05-25WORLD HISTORY $400: The Black Death that killed more than a third of the population of Europe in the 1300s was an epidemic of this infectious disease bubonic plague
#8218, aired 2020-05-20CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: Febold Feboldson sells sand from this sweltering California location to freezing gold prospectors Death Valley
#8218, aired 2020-05-20LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Visit the art deco building in NYC where Erich Maria Remarque, author of this antiwar novel about WWI, lived until his death All Quiet on the Western Front
#8216, aired 2020-05-18PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Before his death in 2017, he wrote dozens of plays and was one of the most produced playwrights in America Sam Shepard
#8215, aired 2020-05-01BOOKS OF THE DEAD $400: The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her (Emily) Dickinson
#8215, aired 2020-05-01BOOKS OF THE DEAD $800: Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland Auschwitz
#8215, aired 2020-05-01BOOKS OF THE DEAD $1200: Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death The Way of All Flesh
#8211, aired 2020-04-27ONE-WORD TV TITLES $1000: After their mom's death, 3 young women discover they have magic powers on this CW drama Charmed
#8207, aired 2020-04-21A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $800: John Coffey doesn't ride the lightning & instead gets a full pardon & is released from death row The Green Mile
#8206, aired 2020-04-20THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $200: 24 years after his death in Las Vegas, this rapper as well as actor had his "Greatest Hits" on the Billboard 200 in 2020 Tupac
#8205, aired 2020-04-17NOTE BOOKS $1200: "Death Note", about a Shinigami death god, is a classic of this 5-letter comic genre Manga
#8204, aired 2020-04-16"H.D." $800: It's the leading cause of death of women in the United States heart disease
#8204, aired 2020-04-16SONGS OF YOUR OLDER SIBLINGS $1600: Coldplay had a No. 1 hit in the U.S. & the U.K. with this title track of a 2008 album subtitled "Death & All His Friends" "Viva La Vida"
#8203, aired 2020-04-15SCHOLARSHIP $2000: In 1925 Leslie Hotson unearthed the 332-year-old record of the inquest into this "Dr. Faustus" playwright's death Marlowe
#8202, aired 2020-04-14CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES! $600: Via hologram, your commencement speaker will be this Greek philosopher famed for his speech before being sentenced to death Socrates
#8199, aired 2020-04-09EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: Shortly before his death in 1524, this explorer was appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India Vasco da Gama
#8197, aired 2020-04-07COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS $800: For the United States: this hot spot that can get into the 120s & beyond Death Valley
#8197, aired 2020-04-07FILM CHARACTERS $2000: Southern detective Benoit Blanc detects the facts behind the death of Harlan Thrombey in this "sharp" 2019 all-star film Knives Out
#8196, aired 2020-04-06MAMMALS $200: To ward off predators, it may feign death, hence the alliterative expression "playing" this marsupial a possum
#8187, aired 2020-03-24I WROTE THAT! $400: "'District twelve. where you can starve to death in safety,' I mutter" (Suzanne) Collins
#8179, aired 2020-03-12BEFORE & AFTER $400: He famously said, "Give me liberty or give me death" before wearing leather as the Fonz on "Happy Days" Patrick Henry Winkler
#8178, aired 2020-03-11PEOPLE $800: This Facebook bigwig wrote "Option B" about life after the sudden death of her husband (Sheryl) Sandberg
#8178, aired 2020-03-11A YEAR ENDING IN 0 $2000: 19 years after his death, Napoleon's remains were returned to France where he was given a state funeral & a new resting place 1840
#8177, aired 2020-03-10THE END OF THE EMPEROR $3,200 (Daily Double): Claudius' death in 54 A.D. was due to this type of foul play, very common in the TV miniseries "I, Claudius" poisoning
#8172, aired 2020-03-03IMPOSTOR! $1600: Word of this emperor's death in 68 A.D. was slow getting around, as Rome was plagued by 3 impostors known "pseudos" Nero
#8169, aired 2020-02-27CAST YOUR PEARLS $1000: Sherlock Holmes, opposite Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson in 1944's "The Pearl of Death" Basil Rathbone
#8169, aired 2020-02-27WOMEN OF THE WORLD $1200: This teenager & her younger brother Ptolemy XIII became co-rulers upon the death of their father Cleopatra
#8167, aired 2020-02-25THAT'S SO 500 YEARS AGO! $1200: As recorded by monks from 1485 to 1507, the leading cause of death for them was this disease of the lungs; plague was third tuberculosis
#8166, aired 2020-02-24CITY FILMS $800: 2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma sings on death row Chicago
#8158, aired 2020-02-12FROM THE LATIN $1000: A 10-letter examination of a body "after death" to determine how it happened postmortem
#8157, aired 2020-02-11"M"EN OF THE PAST $800: In June 1527 death was cunning & unscrupulous in taking this Italian political thinker Machiavelli
#8157, aired 2020-02-11POP GOES THE CULTURE $1200: Mr. Potato Head was not enough! In a 2019 deal, this toy brand added Peppa Pig & of course gangster rap label Death Row Records Hasbro
#8154, aired 2020-02-06& THEN THERE WERE NUNS $400: Letters published after her 1997 death revealed her years of spiritual torment & belief that she was reliving Christ's passion Mother Teresa
#8154, aired 2020-02-06FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES $3,000 (Daily Double): The Greeks use the motto "Eleftheria i thanatos", "freedom or" this death
#8150, aired 2020-01-31"&" $600: Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except" these 2 things death & taxes
#8149, aired 2020-01-30THE WORLD OF THE 1800s $600: Mocked by other docs, Ignaz Semmelweis used antisepsis to vastly reduce women's death rate during this event childbirth
#8145, aired 2020-01-24A BRUSH WITH DEATH $400: A cleaver in the head is part of Bellini's "Assassination of St. Peter" this, one who dies for his faith a martyr
#8145, aired 2020-01-24A BRUSH WITH DEATH $800: A Tahitian girl named Teha'amana stares at the viewer in his painting "Manaò Tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching)" Paul Gauguin
#8145, aired 2020-01-24A BRUSH WITH DEATH $1200: "The skeleton atop the canopy bed is a reminder of our mortality", said this woman who painted herself in "The Dream" (Frida) Kahlo
#8145, aired 2020-01-24A BRUSH WITH DEATH $2000: Jacques-Louis David painted "The Death of..." this Frenchman in 1793, the year of his assassination Marat
#8145, aired 2020-01-24A BRUSH WITH DEATH $4,000 (Daily Double): El Greco's painting of the Virgin Mary cradling her dead son is called this, like Michelangelo's famous sculpture of the same subject (The) Pietà
#8142, aired 2020-01-21BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Before her death, Sue Grafton had planned to write a final alphabet mystery, counting down to "Z is for" this Zero
#8138, aired 2020-01-15LITERARY MASHUPS $1000: "Death Comes for the Antonia" Death Comes for the Archbishop & My Antonia
#8137, aired 2020-01-14MYTHOLOGY $1000: At his death, this great hunter was changed into a constellation Orion
#8, aired 2020-01-14PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS $1600: In a 1901 novel a girl is seized by a Frenchman & "perhaps carried off to" this dreadful destiny a fate worse than death
#8136, aired 2020-01-13THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $400: His whale of a tale began in New York City in 1819 & ended there with his death in 1891 (Herman) Melville
#8136, aired 2020-01-13THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $4,000 (Daily Double): Just prior to his death in 2006, this bestselling novelist wrote a book for younger readers called "Shark Life" Peter Benchley
#6, aired 2020-01-09CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $1000: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In the film "The Last Station" I play this Russian author caught between his worshipers & family; the title refers to the setting of my death scene Tolstoy
#4, aired 2020-01-08NAME THE DECADE $800: The Black Death starts; the Battle of Crécy the 1340s
#3, aired 2020-01-08THE GREATEST OF ALL MINDS $400: Destined for greatness, Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, the 300th anniversary of this famed astronomer's death Galileo
#3, aired 2020-01-08THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $600: "The Good Earth", released in 1937 after his death, was the first film with the name of this MGM production head in the credits (Irving) Thalberg
#2, aired 2020-01-07NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT $800: (Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) William Maples was an expert in forensic anthropology, working on the bodies of the Romanovs, the Elephant Man & this U.S. president whose mysterious death in 1850 turned out to be less from arsenic & more from too many cherries (Zachary) Taylor
#8130, aired 2020-01-03THE MOTH $400: In this Thomas Harris thriller, the death's-head's hawk moth is used by the villain Buffalo Bill The Silence of the Lambs
#8128, aired 2020-01-01A LITERARY NEW YEAR $1200: He wrote of the Little Match Girl who had "frozen to death on the last evening of the old year" Hans Christian Andersen
#8128, aired 2020-01-01PEOPLE $2000: Upon the death of Daniel Inouye, this Vermont Democrat, in office since 1975, became the longest-serving U.S. Senator (Patrick) Leahy
#8126, aired 2019-12-30TV MOVIES $600: Later to play U.S. President Bartlet, in 1974 he played the title deserter facing death in "The Execution of Private Slovik" (Martin) Sheen
#8125, aired 2019-12-27BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $200: Traditionally the authorship of this book is attributed to Moses, but chapter 34 gives an account of his death Deuteronomy
#8125, aired 2019-12-27I PLAYED POIROT $600: In a 1978 film Peter Ustinov's Poirot discovered "Death on" this waterway the Nile
#8120, aired 2019-12-20WORLD STAMP NEWS $400: Drawings of the head of a bearded man & of the skeleton are 2019 U.K. stamps commemorating the 500th anniv. of this artist's death da Vinci
#8120, aired 2019-12-20WRITERS GO WAY BACK $600: This British dame sets the mystery in "Death Comes as the End" in Egypt way back in 2000 B.C. Agatha Christie
#8117, aired 2019-12-17TONY AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2012 this play about Willy Loman won Best Revival despite totally giving away the ending in its title Death of a Salesman
#8114, aired 2019-12-12THE PRESIDENT HAD MONEY TROUBLES $200: After Jefferson's death, owing what would be $1-2 million today, his heirs had to sell this beloved estate Monticello
#8112, aired 2019-12-10BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: Freddie Mercury approved the use of this song in "Wayne's World" just weeks before his death "Bohemian Rhapsody"
#8107, aired 2019-12-03CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: Foreshadowing later events, a man is crushed to death beneath the wheels of a train early on in this 1878 classic Anna Karenina
#8100, aired 2019-11-22IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $200: At 22 this Aussie native inherited a newspaper after his father's death; in 2019 he & his family were worth 11 figures Rupert Murdoch
#8100, aired 2019-11-22IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $4,000 (Daily Double): Last name of brothers Charles & David, worth around a combined $100 billion at the time of David's death in 2019 Koch
#8097, aired 2019-11-19HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: Britannica notes that this Russian ruler "had young lovers up to the time of her unexpected death...at...67" Catherine the Great
#8091, aired 2019-11-11"D.M." ME $800: Morbid Angel & Obituary are popular bands in this genre death metal
#8091, aired 2019-11-11REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUIS $800: Concino Concini, AKA the Marquis d'Ancre, was shot to death on the drawbridge of this palace (now a museum) on the right bank of the Seine the Louvre
#8091, aired 2019-11-11NON COMPOSE MENTIS $1600: Obsessed with death, Anton Bruckner attended this event for the long-dead Beethoven in 1888 & insisted on touching the skull being exhumed (an exhumation)
#8090, aired 2019-11-08REVELATIONS $800: Documents declassified in 2017 reveal Dallas' FBI office got a death threat against this man Nov. 23, 1963; he died on the 24th Lee Harvey Oswald
#8088, aired 2019-11-06THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL $2000: This playwright's semi-autobiographical "Chapter Two" is about a writer who remarries after his first wife's death Neil Simon
#8082, aired 2019-10-29BOOK NUMBERS $800: From "The Charge of the Light Brigade": "All in the valley of Death rode the ___" 600
#8081, aired 2019-10-28HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS $400: It's said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest orange & black
#8080, aired 2019-10-25ANCIENT ROME FICTION $1200: When the death of a popular politician threatens to destroy the Roman Republic, Gordianus the Finder must solve "A Murder on" this famous road the Appian Way
#8079, aired 2019-10-2420th CENTURY NAMES $400: She was Americans' etiquette authority up to her death in 1960 and even beyond Emily Post
#8077, aired 2019-10-22GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE'S ENDING $1200: From 1936, it warned how one puff of marijuana could lead to insanity & death Madness
#8074, aired 2019-10-17SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $800: In 1986, shortly before his death, this pop artist completed 6 "Fright Wig" self-portraits in acrylic & silkscreen ink (Andy) Warhol
#8071, aired 2019-10-14A BIG STATISTIC $400: Drowning is the most common death for those doing this, the most dangerous job in the U.S. as per a 2019 newspaper report fishing
#8069, aired 2019-10-104-LETTER PLACES $400: This Italian island honors Napoleon with an annual mass on May 5, the anniversary of his death Elba
#8067, aired 2019-10-08HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $200: 14th: Around 1347 the bacterium Yersinia pestis begins a European tour known by this "colorful" 2-word phrase black death
#8067, aired 2019-10-08HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 17th: On this woman's death in 1617, a London writer referred to her as "The Virginian Woman" Pocahontas
#8066, aired 2019-10-07THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $1200: Robert Kennedy's April 4, 1968 speech in Indianapolis on the shocking death of this man is now enshrined forever Martin Luther King Jr.
#8064, aired 2019-10-03AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $4,400 (Daily Double): The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103 Herman Wouk
#8063, aired 2019-10-02THIS IS "SU" $200: The next score wins in this 2-word overtime sudden death
#8063, aired 2019-10-02THE 17th CENTURY $400: Taking over for Elizabeth I after her death, he told parliament he was "an old and experienced king" James I
#8063, aired 2019-10-02THE NOT-SO-GOOD DOCTOR $800: Nicknamed the "Angel of Death", this Nazi doctor fled to South America after World War II Mengele
#8062, aired 2019-10-01LITERARY NARRATORS $1600: In "The Book Thief", the narrator isn't a who per se but this, knocking at the door Death
#8060, aired 2019-09-27BIOGRAPHERS $800: His "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." came out in 1791, 7 years after his friend's death Boswell
#8058, aired 2019-09-25STADIUM STUFF $800: Clemson's & LSU's stadiums both use this nickname, also a very dry region in California Death Valley
#8057, aired 2019-09-24READ ANY BESTSELLERS LATELY? $1000: This comedian may have decided "Life Will Be the Death of Me", but not before she made the bestseller list Chelsea Handler
#8057, aired 2019-09-24TED TALK $1600: On the morning of January 24, 1989 he was put to death in the electric chair at a Florida state prison (Ted) Bundy
#8054, aired 2019-09-19A "DROP" $1000: When you read in an old book about a death from this, it means what we now call edema dropsy
#8049, aired 2019-09-12IT'S HYPHENATED $400: According to the Flag Code, for 30 days after the death of a president, the flag should be flown this way at half-staff
#8049, aired 2019-09-12CANADIAN TV SHOWS $800: After witnessing the death of her double, a hustler is drawn into a clone-spiracy on this drama Orphan Black
#8049, aired 2019-09-12BEEN AROUND AWHILE $1200: To raise money for his army, King Charles I called the "Long" one of these in 1640; it lasted past the king's death in 1649 Parliament
#8049, aired 2019-09-12COUNTRY MUSIC $6,000 (Daily Double): (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) Before her untimely death, she saw her career take off beginning with her first No. 1 hit that she had been reluctant to record "I fall to pieces / Each time..." Patsy Cline
#8047, aired 2019-09-10TITL"ING" THE MOVIE $2000: In 1991 Julia Roberts was doing this before faking her own death Sleeping with the Enemy
#8046, aired 2019-09-09JACK LONDON $800: "The Star Rover" of 1915 revolves around this concept of rebirth as a man on death row recounts his past lives reincarnation
#8046, aired 2019-09-09THE 1820s $1200: "Sacr" bleu! French king Charles X's law named for this sinful crime, like stealing communion wafers, could impose the death penalty sacrilege
#8043, aired 2019-07-24INFAMOUS WOMEN $1600: Splish, splash, this French Revolution leader was taking a bath when Charlotte Corday stabbed him to death in 1793 Marat
#8042, aired 2019-07-23STARTS WITH A SILENT "K" $1000: Often following the word "death", it's a special tolling of a bell to signal a funeral knell
#8036, aired 2019-07-15KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $600: Death was a temporary setback for Bobby Ewing, killed off this soap in a hit-&-run; turned out Pam just dreamt that! Dallas
#8026, aired 2019-07-01QUEENS RULE! $1200: She reigned as queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504 Isabella
#8025, aired 2019-06-28POETEENS $1600: This Welshman was just 18 when he wrote "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" Dylan Thomas
#8023, aired 2019-06-26LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $1000: The third & last film in this labyrinthine series is based on the novel "The Death Cure" The Maze Runner
#8021, aired 2019-06-24SILENT LETTER BUT DEADLY $1000: A silent "C" is the second letter of this agricultural implement, Death's symbolic tool of the trade a scythe
#8015, aired 2019-06-14"O" IS FOR OPERA $1000: Unfinished at his death, his "Tales of Hoffmann" had to be completed by somebody else Offenbach
#8015, aired 2019-06-14ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET $1600: Tolstoy wrote "The Death of" this alliterative man whose life had been "most simple and most ordinary" Ivan Ilyich
#8008, aired 2019-06-05BOOK SERIES $2000: Published shortly before his death, Robert Jordan's "New Spring" is a prequel to this epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time
#8005, aired 2019-05-31RELIGION FOUNDERS $400: His death in 632 A.D. led to a dispute over whether Abu Bakr or Ali was his true successor Muhammad
#7997, aired 2019-05-211990s SONGS $800: With the death of Lauren Bacall in 2014, the list of stars mentioned in this 1990 Madonna song are all deceased "Vogue"
#7997, aired 2019-05-21PLAY TITLES IN THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $2000: Latin American thriller: "La Muerte y la Doncella" Death and the Maiden
#7993, aired 2019-05-15CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $3,600 (Daily Double): In Bergman's "The Seventh Seal", a disillusioned knight plays a game of chess with this opponent the Grim Reaper, or Death
#7991, aired 2019-05-13TELL $600: In the traditional William Tell story, this is the cause of death of the cruel governor Gessler shot with an arrow
#7978, aired 2019-04-24POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: This work by Norman Mailer tells of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who chose death by firing squad The Executioner's Song
#7977, aired 2019-04-23TALKING DEAD $10,016 (Daily Double): "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" says this poet's tombstone in Ireland's County Sligo (William Butler) Yeats
#7975, aired 2019-04-19THE END $400: Of this dynasty: The death of Elizabeth I in 1603 the Tudor dynasty
#7973, aired 2019-04-17IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU! $400: Before his untimely death, he helped popularize martial arts movies Bruce Lee
#7969, aired 2019-04-11AMERICAN POETRY $1600: Frank O'Hara's most famous poem is "The Day Lady Died", in which he reads about this jazz singer's death in 1959 Billie Holliday
#7967, aired 2019-04-09AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1976, more than 175 years after his death, this man was promoted by Congress to general of the armies of the United States George Washington
#7966, aired 2019-04-08HOTELS $1600: Agatha Christie stayed at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan & used it as a setting in this 1937 mystery Death on the Nile
#7965, aired 2019-04-05MONET-PUNNY $1000: It's not just canvas--there's paper Monet, like a drawing of this city known for its cathedral & for the death of Joan of Arc Rouen
#7960, aired 2019-03-29PAINT ME AS YOU SEE ME $2000: "Elvira Resting at a Table" is by this Italian artist who only gained fame after a tragic early death Modigliani
#7958, aired 2019-03-27HE WAS SENATOR & PRESIDENT $600: This Ohioan found the Senate "far more to my liking than" being pres. could be; scandal & death in office followed Warren G. Harding
#7957, aired 2019-03-26TO BE ELF-EVIDENT $600: Letterman's list of these cookie co. elves euphemisms for death include "bit the big morsel" & "gone to aisle three" the Keebler elves
#7954, aired 2019-03-21DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $200: Scrooge starts seeing ghosts following the death of this character Jacob Marley
#7954, aired 2019-03-21DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $400: Justice prevails as the villainous Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself near the end of this novel Oliver Twist
#7954, aired 2019-03-21DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $600: It's not fully depicted in "A Tale of Two Cities", but it's the implied method of execution for the heroic Sydney Carton by guillotine
#7954, aired 2019-03-21DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $800: An evil dwarf, Quilp pursues little Nell & her grandfather but drowns in the Thames in this "Old" work The Old Curiosity Shop
#7954, aired 2019-03-21DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $1000: In "Bleak House" the half-mad alcoholic Krook dies this odd way, bursting into flames without apparent cause spontaneous combustion
#7953, aired 2019-03-20NAMES FOR YOUR DOG $1200: Tough-guy names for dogs include Bruiser, Buster & this last name of "Death Wish" star Charles Bronson
#7951, aired 2019-03-18FIVE GUYS $1000: Prior to his death in 2012, this American artist trademarked the nickname "Painter of Light" (Thomas) Kinkade
#7950, aired 2019-03-15SIGNIFICANT OTHERS $1000: After his famous partner's death, this man competed the second & third volumes of "Das Kapital" (Friedrich) Engels
#7948, aired 2019-03-13WORLD LEADERS 1919 $1600: In August Jan Smuts said, "a wave of the deepest emotion has passed over" this country at the news of PM Botha's death South Africa
#7944, aired 2019-03-07DRUNK ON LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): Alcoholic Ben Sanderson decides to drink himself to death in Sin City in this John O'Brien novel Leaving Las Vegas
#7943, aired 2019-03-06THIS IS "MY" SONG $1200: "And I know she'll be the death of me, at least we'll both be numb", says this song by The Weeknd "Can't Feel My Face"
#7941, aired 2019-03-04EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1932 Italy issued a series of stamps honoring this hero of unification on the 50th anniversary of his death Garibaldi
#7941, aired 2019-03-04WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: Before her death at age 56, she wrote several bestsellers, including "Valley of the Dolls" (Jacqueline) Susann
#7939, aired 2019-02-28UNPHARAOHS $800: It looks suspicious that Ay became pharaoh upon the mysterious death of this teenage monarch Tutankhamen
#7937, aired 2019-02-26"INTER" $2000: From the Latin for "fought to the death", this adjective is used of fighting with a group internecine
#7934, aired 2019-02-21NOTORIOUS $800: Nicknamed the "Angel of Death", serial killer Charles Cullen committed his crimes while employed as one of these a nurse
#7934, aired 2019-02-21FIRST-TIME RESPONSES $1600: This white anesthetic called "milk of amnesia" was involved in the death of Michael Jackson propofol
#7930, aired 2019-02-15A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: She died in England in 1617 while preparing to sail back to Virginia with her husband John Rolfe Pocahontas
#7930, aired 2019-02-15A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $400: In the Old Testament this favorite wife of Jacob died after giving birth to Benjamin Rachel
#7930, aired 2019-02-15A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $600: With her family by her side, this wife of a Beatle lost her battle with cancer in 1998 Linda McCartney
#7930, aired 2019-02-15A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $800: His first wife Maria bore him 7 children, including Carl Philipp Emanuel, before she died in 1720 J.S. (or Johann Sebastian) Bach
#7930, aired 2019-02-15A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $1000: This Irish wit & playwright's estranged wife Constance died in 1898 shortly after his release from prison (Oscar) Wilde
#7926, aired 2019-02-11A CLASSIC SETTING $800: Gustav von Aschenbach leaves Munich for Italy in this Thomas Mann novella whose title is a spoiler Death in Venice
#7922, aired 2019-02-05CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES $400: Witch crushed to death. Victim's sister also killed. Killer sent to Kansas, not prison Wizard of Oz
#7922, aired 2019-02-05THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT $1000: Passover gets its name from when God passes over the Israelites' homes, sparing them from this final plague death of the firstborn
#7919, aired 2019-01-31"M.C." $2000: Speaking of death in a famous soliloquy, Hamlet was worried about shuffling off one of these a mortal coil
#7916, aired 2019-01-28INSURANCE $600: If an oops has you coming up minus a few fingers, check your policy for accidental death & this other "D" dismemberment
#7916, aired 2019-01-28INSURANCE $1,200 (Daily Double): A life insurance clause paying twice the face value of the policy for an accidental death is called this, also a film title double indemnity
#7915, aired 2019-01-25THE HODGEST OF PODGE $400: Oops! Coca-Cola vending machines in New Zealand mixed English & this language to say "Kia ora, mate", or "Hello, death" Maori
#7914, aired 2019-01-24POTENT POE TALES $400: "The Pit and the Pendulum" finds a man sentenced to death by this tribunal in Toledo the Inquisition
#7913, aired 2019-01-23NAMES IN MUSIC $600: Five Finger Death Punch got its name from a deadly move Uma Thurman used in this Tarantino movie series Kill Bill
#7913, aired 2019-01-23CRIMINOLOGY $800: "Justifiable" this can apply to the death of someone who was in the act of committing a felony homicide
#7913, aired 2019-01-23WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE! $2000: When unripe, the fruit of the ackee tree can cause this state of low blood sugar, leading to coma & death hypoglycemia
#7913, aired 2019-01-23CRIMINOLOGY $2000: In 2015 Justices Breyer & Scalia sparred over whether the death penalty has this "effect" on those considering murder deterrent
#7911, aired 2019-01-21POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $400 (Daily Double): "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" (John) Donne
#7910, aired 2019-01-18SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $400: In the 1860s he did experiments on how vowel sounds are produced; he stopped phoning it in on Aug. 2, 1922 (Alexander Graham) Bell
#7910, aired 2019-01-18SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $800: His life's work amounted to more than peanuts when he died in Tuskegee January 5, 1943 (George Washington) Carver
#7910, aired 2019-01-18SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $1200: Made a huge leap in the vaccination field (which he helped pioneer) in 1879; had milked life for all it was worth by 1895 Pasteur
#7910, aired 2019-01-18SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $2000: His first law of planetary motion details elliptical orbits around the Sun; the world stopped revolving around him in 1630 Kepler
#7910, aired 2019-01-18SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $5,000 (Daily Double): Wrote the book on plant classification--"Species Plantarum"--in 1753; pushing up daisies in 1778 Linnaeus
#7907, aired 2019-01-15TREATIES $800: In 843, nearly 30 years after his death, the Treaty of Verdun divided his empire among 3 grandsons Charlemagne
#7906, aired 2019-01-14THE STORY OF MY LIFE $2000: Before his death in 1909, this legendary Apache leader narrated "His Own Story" through an interpreter Geronimo
#7905, aired 2019-01-115 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This period of music that saw the first attempts at opera ended with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach Baroque
#7904, aired 2019-01-10NONFICTION $600: A bestseller long after Zora Neale Hurston's death, "Barracoon" is about the last one of these ships to reach America slave ships
#7903, aired 2019-01-09COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING $2000: Composed the "Wedding March"; died Nov. 4, 1847, 6 months after the sudden death of his sister & musical soulmate Fanny Mendelssohn
#7897, aired 2019-01-01ON THE ROAD $1200: Primm Boulevard in Primm, Nevada will take you to Whiskey Pete's Casino & this 1930s couple's "death car" Bonnie and Clyde
#7894, aired 2018-12-27CONFUSING LYRICS $600: In this Stephen Foster song, "it rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry, the sun so hot I froze to death" "Oh! Susanna"
#7893, aired 2018-12-26DEATH ON THE NILE $200: Nile these reptiles, which can reach 20 feet in length, are estimated to kill 200 people annually crocodiles
#7893, aired 2018-12-26DEATH ON THE NILE $400: This virus that kills both birds & humans was first isolated in Uganda in 1937 West Nile Virus
#7893, aired 2018-12-26DEATH ON THE NILE $600: These 3-ton-plus river-dwelling mammals have ferocious bites & are known to upend boats hippopotamus
#7893, aired 2018-12-26DEATH ON THE NILE $800: More than 5,000 French sailors died in the 1798 Battle of the Nile, one of this English admiral's great victories Nelson
#7886, aired 2018-12-17"RITE" YOU ARE $400: For Catholics near death, confession, anointing of the sick & communion make up these last rites
#7883, aired 2018-12-12FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: After her death, it was revealed that she'd had leukemia for 12 years, including her time as Israel's prime minister Golda Meir
#7883, aired 2018-12-12SEVEN DEADLY SYNONYMS $1600: This type of wound that kills you comes from the Latin for "death" mortal
#7883, aired 2018-12-12THE ARTS $7,000 (Daily Double): Here is Eugene Delacroix's depiction of the death of this Shakespeare character Ophelia
#7882, aired 2018-12-11POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $400: "Hadji Murad", about a Chechen separatist fighter, appeared after this writer's 1910 death in rural Russia Leo Tolstoy
#7882, aired 2018-12-11POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): After death, this horror author still talked about the Necronomicon in his novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" H.P. Lovecraft
#7880, aired 2018-12-07AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $400: This theatre owner was jailed for 39 days following Lincoln's death & forced to sell his building (John T.) Ford
#7879, aired 2018-12-06SINGLE-ARTIST MUSEUMS $1200: This poster specialist's museum in Albi, France was started from work donated by his parents after his 1901 death Toulouse-Lautrec
#7878, aired 2018-12-05REIGN, DEAR $400: India's Shah Jahan had this landmark built to honor his favorite wife, Mumtaz, after her 1631 death the Taj Mahal
#7874, aired 2018-11-29PEOPLE IN POEMS $400: Racecar driver Lewis Hamilton paid tribute to her on the 20th anniv. of her death, in a poem called "England's Rose" Princess Diana
#7873, aired 2018-11-28RIVERS OF CALIFORNIA $1000: The only river that flows into Death Valley, the Amargosa River is often called the "crown jewel of" this desert the Mojave
#7869, aired 2018-11-22AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $200: "____ on the Nile" death
#7866, aired 2018-11-19SHAKESPEARE GUYS $400: A comic sidekick who appears in 3 different plays; his death is mentioned in another Falstaff
#7864, aired 2018-11-15AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $200: He knew "not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death" Patrick Henry
#7861, aired 2018-11-12CLASSIC LITERATURE $1600: This Holocaust survivor based "Night" on his own experiences in Nazi death camps (Elie) Wiesel
#7855, aired 2018-11-02ROMAN EMPERORS $400: Trajan narrowly escaped death when one of these shook the city of Antioch in 115 an earthquake
#7853, aired 2018-10-31REPORTS OF MY DEATH... $200: "Where have you gone", this 1940s N.Y. Yankee legend? A January 1999 NBC obituary was 7 weeks premature Joe DiMaggio
#7853, aired 2018-10-31REPORTS OF MY DEATH... $400: Since a 2003 flub this "paper of record" uses the 2nd paragraph of obits to explain why it's sure the person is dead The New York Times
#7853, aired 2018-10-31REPORTS OF MY DEATH... $600: A radio report said James Earl Jones had left us in 1998 (actually, it was this similarly named assassin) James Earl Ray
#7853, aired 2018-10-31REPORTS OF MY DEATH... $800: CNN posted a no-bituary about this politician, "1941-2001... loyal point man for two Bush presidencies" Dick Cheney
#7853, aired 2018-10-31HALLOWEEN WITH GENE SIMMONS $2000: (Gene Simmons presents the clue.) Legend says that death awakens the dead with a fiddle on Halloween & invites the skeletons to this French-named dance of death danse macabre
#7851, aired 2018-10-29JOUST $2,000 (Daily Double): This 16th century astrologer's quatrain seemed to foretell the jousting death of the French king Nostradamus
#7850, aired 2018-10-26FICTION $2000: One of Britain's great mystery authors, she went back a couple of centuries for "Death Comes to Pemberley" P.D. James
#7848, aired 2018-10-24SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $400: This playwright penned the line "A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory" (Arthur) Miller
#7847, aired 2018-10-23PRISON $400: Suge Knight went to prison but not to this area that's the name of his record label Death Row
#7842, aired 2018-10-16IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY $800: Instagram @timothyosullivan is a downer with shots like "A harvest of death" from this July 1863 battlefield Gettysburg
#7842, aired 2018-10-16LIST $800: In the King James Bible, the horses of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse: White, red, black, this one ridden by Death pale
#7831, aired 2018-10-01AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: A sad moment in his autobiography is the death of his little boy, Kit Carson Cody Buffalo Bill
#7829, aired 2018-09-27RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY BOOKS $400: Dr. Mary Neal's account of her own near death experience after drowning is titled "To" this place "and Back" heaven
#7828, aired 2018-09-26NAME THE NOVEL $600: "Lecter shut Boyle up with a shot of the mace and as he wheezed...it was easy, with five judicious blows, to beat him to death" Silence of the Lambs
#7824, aired 2018-09-20THE T LEAVES $600: A type of wound that will be the death of you kills the T to be this synonym for ethical moral
#7822, aired 2018-09-18TOMB RAIDER $1600: On Feb. 17, 2009, the centennial of Geronimo's death, his descendants sued this Yale secret society for taking his remains Skull and Bones
#7820, aired 2018-09-141973: THE GROOVY & NOT-SO-GROOVY $3,000 (Daily Double): His death on Jan. 22, 2 days after Nixon's second inauguration, left no living ex-U.S. presidents LBJ
#7816, aired 2018-09-10HISTORY $1600: 2-word Latin term for the period of relative peace ending with the death of Marcus Aurelius Pax Romana
#7813, aired 2018-07-25NONFICTION $800: Her "Blue Nights" tells of coping with the death of her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Joan Didion
#7809, aired 2018-07-19MIDDLE "AGE" $2000: Romans 6 says these "of sin" are death wages
#7807, aired 2018-07-17CITING PRECEDENT $800: Roper v. Simmons said that for minors, this was cruel & unusual punishment, prohibited by the 8th Amendment capital punishment or the death penalty
#7803, aired 2018-07-11CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME $800: Be a 14th century knight or take a holiday as death; debate God's existence as you play a chess game within the game The Seventh Seal
#7802, aired 2018-07-10OPERA HEROINES $400: She throws away Don Jose's ring & in a rage, Don Jose stabs her to death outside a bullring Carmen
#7800, aired 2018-07-06BY THE NUMBERS $800: Wang Hongwen & Yao Wenyuan were half of this group that became unpopular & lost power soon after Mao's death the Gang of Four
#7798, aired 2018-07-045, 5 $600: This pandemic plagued Europe in the mid-1300s the Black Death
#7797, aired 2018-07-03THE ROBBER BARONS $400: Financier James Fisk, "The Barnum of" this NYC street, was shot to death by a business & love rival Wall Street
#7795, aired 2018-06-29DEATH OF A SALESMAN $400: "Death of a Salesman", which opened in 1949, earned this playwright a Pulitzer Prize & a Tony Award (Arthur) Miller
#7795, aired 2018-06-29DEATH OF A SALESMAN $800: One of the play's main themes & Willy's main goals is to achieve this "national" ideal & make it real the American dream
#7795, aired 2018-06-29DEATH OF A SALESMAN $1200: This actor, who played the lead in a "Salesman" revival, said he saw it reduce many suit-wearing grown-up men to tears Brian Dennehy
#7795, aired 2018-06-29DEATH OF A SALESMAN $1600: Characters in the play include Willy's wife Linda & 2 sons, Happy & him, a former high school football star Biff
#7795, aired 2018-06-29DEATH OF A SALESMAN $2000: This actor who starred in "Inherit the Wind" & "The Best Years of Our Lives" played Willy in the 1951 film version Fredric March
#7790, aired 2018-06-22POETS & POETRY $400: Ezra Pound said "Death of the Hired Man" was this poet at his best, daring to write "in the natural speech of New England" (Robert) Frost
#7789, aired 2018-06-21PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $400: This Dane's "The Little Match Girl" is no fairy tale: the protagonist freezes to death Hans Christian Andersen
#7789, aired 2018-06-21THE MALE MAN $400: On March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry ended a speech with "Give me" this 1st item, "or give me" this 2nd item! Now give me both! liberty and death
#7775, aired 2018-06-01CELEBRATIONS OF THE MONTH $2,000 (Daily Double): National Magic Day, on the anniversary of Harry Houdini's death October
#7773, aired 2018-05-30THE HILL $800: Lazarus is a character in a work by W.B. Yeats named for this hill of Jesus' death, AKA Golgotha Calvary
#7773, aired 2018-05-30MALE AUTHORS $1600: In "Rikki Tikki Tavi", he wrote, "Turn for turn and twist for twist... hah! The hooded death has missed!" Kipling
#7771, aired 2018-05-28BEACH SEASON $1600: Live sand dollars have velvety coats but lose them after death; the invertebrate shell, AKA this, washes ashore the exoskeleton
#7770, aired 2018-05-25EPIC FAIL $800: This epic hero triumphantly slays a dragon, but when he deceptively woos & wins Brunhilda, it leads to his death Siegfried
#7764, aired 2018-05-1721st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A nonfiction bestseller about death rituals around the world shares its title with this James Jones novel From Here to Eternity
#7763, aired 2018-05-16FER SURE, IT'S THE VALLEY, DUDE $200: You didn't need a jacket in the summer of 1996 in this California valley; 40 days saw temperatures top 120 degrees Death Valley
#7763, aired 2018-05-16THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $400: The Etruscan custom of staging fights to the death at funerals led to the arena combats of these fighters gladiators
#7758, aired 2018-05-09IN THE STATE MUSEUM $800: Napoleon's death mask Louisiana
#7755, aired 2018-05-04A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $200: During the time of the prophet Samuel, the Israelites lost more than 30,000 soldiers fighting this group the Philistines
#7755, aired 2018-05-04A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $400: Following Jesus' example, Paul brings back to life a man who fell out of a window in this New Testament book Acts
#7755, aired 2018-05-04A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $600: In Genesis 19 these 2 cities near the Dead Sea have fire & brimstone rained down on them Sodom and Gomorrah
#7755, aired 2018-05-04A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $800: In Numbers 16 Korah & his house are swallowed up by the earth for rebelling against this leader Moses
#7755, aired 2018-05-04THE LOOK OF CULTURE $1200: White pigment made from this metal caused nausea, & death, but pale was the look in 18th c. France lead
#7755, aired 2018-05-04A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $3,000 (Daily Double): The book of Daniel mentions false accusers in Babylon being devoured by these beasts lions
#7748, aired 2018-04-25BALL $800: No one survives a masked ball in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of" this colorful pestilence the Red Death
#7746, aired 2018-04-23HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $400: For years before his death in 1891, this master of the seagoing novel had a customs job on the river in Manhattan Melville
#7746, aired 2018-04-23EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: After the death of Charles II came the "War of the Spanish" this, 1701 to 1714 succession
#7746, aired 2018-04-23EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): During France's Reign of Terror, this wax modeler was forced to make death masks of freshly guillotined heads Madame Tussaud
#7742, aired 2018-04-17ACTING UP ON TV $400: In 2018 this show revealed the circumstances of the death of Jack, played by Milo Ventimiglia This Is Us
#7735, aired 2018-04-06WOMEN POETS $400: She began a poem, "Because I could not stop for Death--he kindly stopped for me" Emily Dickinson
#7735, aired 2018-04-06WOMEN POETS $1600: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "On the Death of" this poet mentions "that Harold's pilgrimage at last is o'er" Lord Byron
#7734, aired 2018-04-05BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,800 (Daily Double): His last 2 novels, "Omerta" & "The Family" were published after his death in 1999 Mario Puzo
#7732, aired 2018-04-03IT'S A DISASTER! $400: By around 1400 this was responsible for the death of about 40% of Europe's population--25 million people the Black Death
#7712, aired 2018-03-06"HORSE" TALK $2000: A Yeats poem says, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death." These 3 words horseman, pass by
#7704, aired 2018-02-22COLLUSION $1600: In 2015 Mohammed Morsi, former president of this nation, got a death sentence for colluding with Islamists Egypt
#7703, aired 2018-02-21YOU KNOW MY NAME $1000: Compiled by his widow Myrlie, the autobiography of this slain civil rights leader was published 43 years after his death Medgar Evers
#7702, aired 2018-02-20DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $200: Death elected to take this suffragist on March 13, 1906 Susan B. Anthony
#7702, aired 2018-02-20DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $400: On Jan. 30, 1836 this seamstress' flag was lowered to half-staff Betsy Ross
#7702, aired 2018-02-20DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $800: On April 12, 1912 it was good night, this Civil War nurse, the "Angel of the Battlefield" Clara Barton
#7702, aired 2018-02-20DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $1000: After March 6, 1935 this "Jr." Supreme Court justice no longer cared if you shouted "Fire!" in a crowded theater Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
#7702, aired 2018-02-20DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $3,000 (Daily Double): We don't think this vice president had any inkling he'd be a character on Broadway 180 years after his Sept. 14, 1836 death Aaron Burr
#7701, aired 2018-02-19MYSTERY & CRIME NOVELS $800: When a boy falls to his death, "Smilla's Sense of Snow" in this Scandinavian country helps prove it was murder Denmark
#7700, aired 2018-02-16ENDS IN "ELLA" $400: A short prose tale such as "Death in Venice" a novella
#7698, aired 2018-02-14EDISON: 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
#7697, aired 2018-02-13NOVEL "T"s $1200: Spoiler alert! Thomas Hardy's novel about this woman ends with her arrest & death Tess of the D'Urbervilles
#7697, aired 2018-02-13SAD! $1600: After his death, Gerard Butler's love letters sent to Hilary Swank end with this afterthought, the movie's title P.S. I Love You
#7696, aired 2018-02-12C.C. & ME $1200: In 2017 music fans were saddened by the death of this Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell
#7694, aired 2018-02-08ERA OR AGE. PERIOD. $800: Japan's Heisei Era began in 1989 upon the death of this man Emperor Hirohito
#7693, aired 2018-02-07"SECURITY" $800: If you're a man on death row in Tennessee, you're at the Riverbend this type of institution maximum-security prison
#7691, aired 2018-02-05LOVE ACTUARILY $2000: The death rate in healthy men was found to double if they'd experienced this sad event from Old English reafian, "to steal" a bereavement
#7690, aired 2018-02-02ROAMIN' CATHOLICS $2000: Born in Italy in 1850, this Sacred Heart founder was canonized after her death in Chicago Mother Cabrini
#7687, aired 2018-01-30FRENCH SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $1200: He taught physics at the Sorbonne until his death in 1906, when his wife took over the post (Pierre) Curie
#7685, aired 2018-01-26DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY $600: Per USA Today, the 2 most read news stories in 2014 were about events in Ferguson, Mo. & this comedian's death in California Robin Williams
#7685, aired 2018-01-26CREDITORS & PREY $1200: "Negative" this, from the Latin for "death", happens when a monthly loan installment can't even cover the interest negative amortization
#7684, aired 2018-01-25FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $400: This author left her familiar prairie settings for New Mexico in "Death Comes for the Archbishop" Willa Cather
#7680, aired 2018-01-19SERIAL KILLERS $800: Charles Dickens dragged out the death of Little Nell over installments of this "Old" novel The Old Curiosity Shop
#7679, aired 2018-01-18PEAK TV $800: "The Death Zone" is the first episode of the Discovery Channel TV series titled this mountain "Rescue" Mount Everest
#7679, aired 2018-01-18JANE $1000: Her books like "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" argued for local planning & vibrant neighborhoods Jane Jacobs
#7678, aired 2018-01-17IN THE "D" TALES $1600: This Thomas Mann novella mentions the "airy splendor of the...Bridge of Sighs, the columns of lion and saint on the shore" Death in Venice
#7675, aired 2018-01-12PUBLIC ANEMONE $2000: Greek myth says red anemones popped up from the blood of this really good-lookin' youth after his death Adonis
#7673, aired 2018-01-10YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE $800: In an early role, this actor played Mr. Death, sent to collect an old lady who refuses to face the end Robert Redford
#7670, aired 2018-01-05NIKOLA TESLA $1200: Tesla once claimed he'd been contacted by aliens & in 1940 declared he had developed one of these rays a death ray
#7665, aired 2017-12-29NO MORE COVER-UP $2000: One thread that unraveled the LAPD Rampart scandal: cops moonlighting as security for this "morbid" record label Death Row
#7657, aired 2017-12-19DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $1,000 (Daily Double): The Stage Manager says, "Doc Gibbs died in 1930", but a minute later the doc is chatting away in this play Our Town
#7655, aired 2017-12-15MAIN STREAM MEDIA $200: Hercule Poirot is on vacation in Africa in this mystery mainstay Death on the Nile
#7652, aired 2017-12-12____ING ON POETRY $400: "And, if God choose, I shall but ____ thee better after death" love
#7645, aired 2017-12-01THRILLERS & MYSTERIES $600: In "Apprentice in Death", the NYPD's Eve Dallas probes the sniper killings of 3 skaters at this area's Wollman Rink Central Park
#7644, aired 2017-11-30BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN $800: After his 1906 death, the Chicago Board of Trade shut down to remember this merchant Marshall Field
#7644, aired 2017-11-30BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN $1000: One estimate said this man's wealth near his 1937 death would be the equivalent of four times Bill Gates' wealth (John D.) Rockefeller
#7641, aired 2017-11-27KEEP IT DOWN $200: "Rosebud" is whispered by this character shortly before his death in a 1941 movie Citizen Kane (or Charles Foster Kane)
#7639, aired 2017-11-23REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE $200: In 1967 this Cuban citizen got himself shot to death by Bolivian soldiers Che Guevara
#7639, aired 2017-11-23REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE $400: I'm this man from Thrace who led a 90,000-man slave rebellion vs. Rome until his death in 71 B.C.--No! I'm this man! Spartacus
#7638, aired 2017-11-22THE AGE OF TREASON $1,200 (Daily Double): 17 when convicted of treason in the death of this man, Vaso Cubrilovic went on to be Yugoslavia's Minister of Forests Duke Franz Ferdinand
#7636, aired 2017-11-20PRISONS $2000: This Berlin prison was demolished after the death of its last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess Spandau
#7632, aired 2017-11-14WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE $2000: Making Bathsheba a widow, King David sent her husband, this Hittite, to his death in battle Uriah
#7631, aired 2017-11-13'90s TV $800: One meme about this actor who was "Walker, Texas Ranger": "Death once had a near-" him "experience" Chuck Norris
#7628, aired 2017-11-08BROADWAY 2017 $1600: Ben Platt won the 2017 Tony for his performance as a high school senior coping with a classmate's death in this hit musical "'Cause I'm tap, tap, tapping on the glass / Waving through a window..." Dear Evan Hansen
#7627, aired 2017-11-07MOVIE & TV DEATHS $1200: Rihanna & Aziz Ansari are 2 of the celebs to fall to a fiery death in this 2013 film This Is the End
#7622, aired 2017-10-31NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEES $800: This Italian educator received nominations in each of the 3 years before her 1952 death Montessori
#7621, aired 2017-10-30AVENGERS $600: Number of legendary ronin who avenged their master's death in 1703 47
#7618, aired 2017-10-25IN THE NOV. 14-20, 1998 TV GUIDE $200: "A mythological creature is suspected in a death. Ruben Blades, Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny" The X-Files
#7618, aired 2017-10-25FAIRY TALES $2,000 (Daily Double): An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have "banished death from my heart, with your sweet song" a nightingale
#7617, aired 2017-10-24THE PLAY'S THE THING $400: In 2012 people paid attention to Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman in this Broadway play Death of a Salesman
#7614, aired 2017-10-19THE CHANDLER $800: This 1939 Raymond Chandler title is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep
#7611, aired 2017-10-16BIOPICS OF BRITS $1200: Played by Tom Hardy in 2008, Britain's "most violent prisoner" renamed himself this after the star of "Death Wish" (Charles) Bronson
#7606, aired 2017-10-09TRANSLATE THE NOTED PAIR $200: Spanish: vida & muerte life & death
#7603, aired 2017-10-04AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac
#7602, aired 2017-10-03TV $600: "Death Works Overtime" was an episode of this drama that was set in a funeral home Six Feet Under
#7602, aired 2017-10-03LITERA-CHURCH $600: The little pueblo of Ácoma has a huge church "more like a fortress" in the novel "Death Comes for" this person the archbishop
#7601, aired 2017-10-02IT'S AN HONOR TO BE NOMINATED $1000: At her death she had just completed the costumes for "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"; they did not earn her a 36th nomination Edith Head
#7601, aired 2017-10-02HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $1200: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Believing that bacteria caused infection & death, this British surgeon performed an 1877 operation under controlled antiseptic conditions, revolutionizing medicine (Joseph) Lister
#7601, aired 2017-10-02THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $2000: "Death in Venice" German
#7598, aired 2017-09-27KILLER SHAKESPEARE $800: The death of the Greek warrior Patroclus at the hands of Hector in this play spurs Achilles to resume fighting Troilus and Cressida
#7594, aired 2017-09-21OPUS DAY $800: Saint-Saens based this "Danse" on a poem about death appearing at midnight to play a tune macabre
#7594, aired 2017-09-21"D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1873 borax was discovered at this California site, & in the 1880s the famous 20-mule teams began hauling it out Death Valley
#7592, aired 2017-09-19SONNETS $800: John Donne grappled with mortality in his Holy Sonnet 10, which starts with these 4 words "Death be not proud"
#7583, aired 2017-07-26BRITANNICA BYLINES $400: He conjured up the entry on conjuring for the 1926 edition, the same year as his untimely death Harry Houdini
#7582, aired 2017-07-25THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $2000: I decree the Mongol empire got broken into many parts after the death of this man in 1294 Kubla Khan
#7581, aired 2017-07-24ANIMAL FARM $2000: After finding the windmill in ruins, Napoleon blames it on this adversary & sentences him to death Snowball
#7579, aired 2017-07-20HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $1000: This English king's greatest achievement was Westminster Abbey, consecrated in 1065 just days before his death Edward the Confessor
#7577, aired 2017-07-18"G", WE LOVE ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In Christian art, a basket of fruit represents the circle of life, death & resurrection, while this yellow bird symbolizes the Passion of Christ because it fed on thorns & thistles a goldfinch
#7574, aired 2017-07-13AVIAN POETRY $1000: John Keats called this bird immortal; "Thou wast not born for death" a nightingale
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE "L" IT IS! $400: From the Latin for "death", this adjective means capable of causing it lethal
#7570, aired 2017-07-07I AM A BUDDHIST $2000: After death we enter this between-lives state; a 2017 novel is called "Lincoln in" it the Bardo
#7568, aired 2017-07-05HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $200: On April 21, 1910 reports of this author's death were not greatly exaggerated Mark Twain
#7565, aired 2017-06-3020th CENTURY NAMES $400: Sadly, 5 days after Princess Diana's death, this beloved woman died in Calcutta at age 87 Mother Teresa
#7555, aired 2017-06-16YOU'RE FIRED FROM THE MOVIE! $800: Attend the tale of this 2007 title barber who throws Mrs. Lovett to a fiery death in a furnace Sweeney Todd
#7555, aired 2017-06-16THE CONDEMNED MAN $2000: This Norman Mailer book tells how convicted killer Gary Gilmore lobbied for his own death by firing squad The Executioner's Song
#7550, aired 2017-06-09U.S. MOUNTAINS $200: Shortly after Ansel Adams' death, a mountain in this national park was named for him Yosemite
#7550, aired 2017-06-09AMPHIBIANS $1200: Special these in a toad's warts secrete poison that can cause paralysis or death in small animals glands
#7542, aired 2017-05-30OCCUPATIONS IN THE NEWS $400: The 1989 death of reformer Hu Yaobang sparked a 6-week occupation of this square Tiananmen
#7540, aired 2017-05-26FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Over a million flower bouquets were laid at Britain's royal palaces following her death on August 31, 1997 Princess Diana
#7539, aired 2017-05-25MORTAL MATTERS $400: This emblem of death is used as a warning sign on poisons, ya scalawag! skull and crossbones
#7539, aired 2017-05-25MORTAL MATTERS $600: Someone who dies intestate does so without one of these at the time of death a will
#7539, aired 2017-05-25MORTAL MATTERS $800: One kind of muscle stiffness you don't want is this 2-word Latin type that happens soon after death rigor mortis
#7534, aired 2017-05-18MOURNING ASSEMBLY $800: Millions descended on Tehran in 1989 after the death of this cleric & leader Ayatollah Khomeini
#7530, aired 2017-05-12IT'S A GROUP THING $1600: Appearing with the opening of the 7 Seals: conquest, war, famine & death the Four Horsemen (of the Apocalypse)
#7529, aired 2017-05-11BESTSELLING NONFICTION $400: Published just 2 weeks after his death, "A Life Well Played" features stories & anecdotes from this golf legend (Arnold) Palmer
#7529, aired 2017-05-11ONCE UPON A TIME $1000: This "poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet" tries to keep warm on New Year's Eve but ends up freezing to death the Little Match Girl
#7522, aired 2017-05-02PRESIDENTIAL KIDS $400: In 1995 he co-founded George, a political magazine; it ceased publication in 2001, after his death JFK Jr.
#7520, aired 2017-04-28CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES $1000: Shortly before her death, she launched a fragrance called Violet Eyes Liz Taylor
#7516, aired 2017-04-24MUSICIANS WHO DIED AT 27 $800: Tony Bennett's "Duets II" had a posthumous appearance by this British soul singer, 2 months after her death Amy Winehouse
#7516, aired 2017-04-24MUSICIANS WHO DIED AT 27 $1200: After her death via a heroin overdose in Hollywood in 1970, her album "Pearl" was released (Janis) Joplin
#7515, aired 2017-04-21THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After the death of Alexander the Great, his generals divided his empire into four kingdoms; Ptolemy I took over this one & founded its Ptolemaic Dynasty Egypt
#7515, aired 2017-04-21IT'S ALL SAM-ANTICS $2000: The last project he directed before his 1984 death wasn't another western, but a music video for Julian Lennon Sam Peckinpah
#7514, aired 2017-04-20BLACK $800: The Black Death that killed many in Europe in the 1300s is believed to have been caused by this type of organism, Yersinia pestis a bacterium
#7508, aired 2017-04-12HOW DO YOU... $200: Navigate Lhotse Face & Geneva Spur; survive Death Zone, reach Hillary Step; planting flag is optional how do you scale Mount Everest
#7507, aired 2017-04-11WAIT"ER" $1000: After a pope's death, the period when the faithful wait for a new pope is referred to by this 11-letter term the interregnum
#7505, aired 2017-04-07THE EXPLORERS CLUB $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the explorers club in New York.) Explorers club meetings begin with the ringing of this bell from one of the ships that in 1884 rescued the club's future first president Adolphus Greely & six surviving crew members; all were near death, having been stranded for three years on this large island 16 miles west of Greenland Ellesmere
#7504, aired 2017-04-06IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: Death rides this ashen horse in Revelation the pale horse
#7501, aired 2017-04-03"O" BROTHER $1000: On his brother Magnus' death in 1069, the III Haraldsson of this name became the sole king of Norway Olaf
#7499, aired 2017-03-30DEAD BUT STILL EARNING IN 2016 $400: You'd think this kids' author would not, could not make $20 million 25 years after his death, but he did Dr. Seuss
#7496, aired 2017-03-27ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $400: We couldn't do the category without showing the death face of this critter, the big faker an opossum
#7495, aired 2017-03-24OH, THE HORROR! $200: In the original film it's the night in 1963 when 6-year-old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death Halloween
#7493, aired 2017-03-22POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $1200: Here's the catch: this author's "Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man" was published after his 1999 death (Joseph) Heller
#7493, aired 2017-03-22POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $2000: A collection of this German's thoughts was published soon after his death in 1900 as "The Will to Power" Nietzsche
#7487, aired 2017-03-14WRITERS' VOCABULARY $2000: This word can refer to a punctuation mark or a type of imagery, like "O Death, where is thy sting" an apostrophe
#7486, aired 2017-03-13HOT PLACES $400: In 1994 Lake Havasu City in this state reached 128, the highest temp. ever recorded in the U.S. outside Death Valley Arizona
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (Hi. I'm Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived in this Hartford home from 1873 until her death in 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe
#7485, aired 2017-03-10DEATH SENTENCES $400: On rumors of his demise, he remarked, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" Mark Twain
#7485, aired 2017-03-10DEATH SENTENCES $800: In a 2005 commencement speech, this Apple CEO told students, "Death is the destination we all share" Steve Jobs
#7485, aired 2017-03-10DEATH SENTENCES $1200: Of his death at 84, widow Kathie Lee said he "lived an incredible life...had an incredible legacy" Frank Gifford
#7485, aired 2017-03-10DEATH SENTENCES $1600: Attributed to Clarence Darrow: "I have never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading" these obituaries
#7485, aired 2017-03-10DEATH SENTENCES $2000: A famous line from this play says, "To die will be an awfully big adventure" Peter Pan
#7482, aired 2017-03-07RELIGIOUS BOOKS $2000: In Paulo Coelho's "The Fifth Mountain", Elijah flees Israel when this wicked woman puts all non-Baal prophets to death Jezebel
#7482, aired 2017-03-07STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $2000: Soon after his death, Joseph Haydn's head was stolen by students of this once-popular skull shape science phrenology
#7481, aired 2017-03-06WAR STORIES $600: "In Country" is Bobbie Ann Mason's novel of a young woman coming to terms with her father's death in this war the Vietnam War
#7480, aired 2017-03-03CULTURAL "LIT"ERACY $1600: Dickens traumatized himself writing the death of this girl Little Nell
#7479, aired 2017-03-025-LETTER FILM SYNOPSES $400: 1996: Dark Dakota dealings detail death, dismemberment Fargo
#7479, aired 2017-03-02THE POET WRITES $400: "'Charge for the guns!' he said, into the valley of death rode the six hundred" Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#7477, aired 2017-02-28VALLEYS $400: Lincoln signed the bill protecting this Calif. valley in 1864 & Benjamin Harrison signed the bill making it a natl. park in 1890 Yosemite
#7475, aired 2017-02-24AMERICAN LIT $4,000 (Daily Double): "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" conveyed this poet's grief over the death of President Lincoln Whitman
#7472, aired 2017-02-21THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $1000: A director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on his death in 1873, he left $7 million to found a university & hospital Johns Hopkins
#7468, aired 2017-02-15SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $600: 6 months after his death, this rock icon's Minnesota home & studio complex was open to the public for tours Prince
#7464, aired 2017-02-09MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $800: The canals are frozen over as Det. Lotte Meerman tries to solve a really cold case in "A Cold Death in" this European city Amsterdam
#7461, aired 2017-02-06A FICTIONAL DEATH $200: Post-mortem the title character of this H.G. Wells novel can be seen, hands & feet first The Invisible Man
#7461, aired 2017-02-06A FICTIONAL DEATH $400: This author said, "I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people"; he was far from finished with the shocking George R.R. Martin
#7461, aired 2017-02-06A FICTIONAL DEATH $600: The bell tolls for Esmeralda, executed as a sorceress in this 1831 classic The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
#7461, aired 2017-02-06CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: After Bizet's death at age 36, Ernest Guiraud assembled 2 instrumental suites from this opera Carmen
#7461, aired 2017-02-06A FICTIONAL DEATH $800: This justifiably upset "Romeo and Juliet" character says, "A plague o' both your houses!" before he dies Mercutio
#7461, aired 2017-02-06A FICTIONAL DEATH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1991 John Updike won his second Pulitzer for this aptly titled final novel about Harry Angstrom Rabbit at Rest
#7458, aired 2017-02-01DE NERO $1200: Having had enough of Nero's antics, this august political body decreed his death; he fled the Senate
#7457, aired 2017-01-3118th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITIN' & SPEAKIN' $200: In 1774 he said, "I am not a Virginian, but an American"; the liberty or death thing came later Patrick Henry
#7457, aired 2017-01-31JOHN DONNE $400: A Donne sonnet says this, "Be not proud" for "one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and" this "shall be no more" death
#7454, aired 2017-01-26UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS $400: Edward V reigned for a few brief uncrowned months in 1483 before his death, said to be set up by this uncle of his Richard III
#7449, aired 2017-01-19IF THEY MARRIED $800: If Swedish actress Ekberg married the German author of "Death in Venice", she might still be lonely & say... Anita Mann
#7447, aired 2017-01-17COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the College Football Hall of Fame.) The belt here had little handles, so other players could lock arms and move down the field in one of these formations, later outlawed by the NCAA due to death and injury the flying wedge
#7445, aired 2017-01-13COMPOSERS $800: After his death, his unfinished "Turandot" was finished by Franco Alfano under the supervision of Toscanini Puccini
#7443, aired 2017-01-11THE BISHOP $200: Bridget Bishop was the first of 13 women, 7 men & 2 dogs put to death during the hysteria in this town in 1692 Salem
#7441, aired 2017-01-09ONE-"I"d WORDS $400: 4 stages of life were summed up in The Godfathers' song this, "School, Work, Death" birth
#7437, aired 2017-01-03AFTER THE CABINET $800: (Presidential daughter Jenna Bush Hager delivers the clue.) Secretary of War under Garfield & Arthur, this son of Abraham Lincoln was also minister to Britain & ran the Pullman Company after the founder's death Robert Todd Lincoln
#7437, aired 2017-01-03LITERATURE IN ACTION $1000: Brian Garfield's wife had her purse stolen, so Brian wrote this novel about a vigilante whose wife has been murdered Death Wish
#7435, aired 2016-12-30DOVE $200: No. 1 in 1984, this Prince hit reaches the Top 10 again in 2016 soon after his death "When Doves Cry"
#7435, aired 2016-12-30THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: After his death in 1226, "The Life of" this Italian saint told of his life of poverty & the founding of his order St. Francis (of Assisi)
#7433, aired 2016-12-28HISTORIC HOMES $1000: The home where this man lived until his death in 1791 has a prayer room known as the powerhouse of Methodism (John) Wesley
#7430, aired 2016-12-23ON EARTH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 the mountain now called Denali was named for this man, 5 years before his death Mount McKinley
#7428, aired 2016-12-21____ THE ____ $400: 19th century documents show pirates actually made victims do this, plunge to their death by stepping off a beam walk the plank
#7428, aired 2016-12-21HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS $400: Colonel Potter dresses as Santa in the "Death Takes A Holiday" episode of this sitcom M*A*S*H
#7425, aired 2016-12-16COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES $800: 40 years after his death, he still appears on some of China's paper money Mao (Zedong)
#7423, aired 2016-12-14WHAT A TV DRAMA KING $800: Hugh Bonneville's Lord Grantham had a bloody awful supper & a brush with death on this PBS period piece Downton Abbey
#7423, aired 2016-12-14DON'T HATE THE PLAYA $800: Racetrack Playa in this very hot California valley is home to 700-pound rocks that mysteriously move Death Valley
#7416, aired 2016-12-05WHO "AR" THEY? $1200: The mysterious 1921 death of Virginia Rappe ruined the career of this hefty comic actor (Roscoe "Fatty") Arbuckle
#7415, aired 2016-12-02BREAK-UPS $400: The hardships of the Civil War & the death of daughter Bonnie Blue finally took their toll on this iconic couple of page & screen Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara
#7414, aired 2016-12-01JOEL $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1913 until his death in 1939, Joel Elias Spingarn was a prominent administrator of this organization NAACP
#7409, aired 2016-11-24FROM A TO ALMOST Z $400: From the Greek for "seeing for oneself", it's the examination of a body to confirm the cause of death an autopsy
#7404, aired 2016-11-17EXTREME GEOGRAPHY $400: In July 1913 this appropriately named California valley recorded the highest temperature ever in the U.S., 134° Death Valley
#7404, aired 2016-11-17IT'S AMERICAN LIT $800: In an Arthur Miller play, Biff & Happy are the sons of this unhappy salesman Willy Loman
#7399, aired 2016-11-10THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $800: In this play why does a friar have a potion that can simulate death? Romeo and Juliet
#7399, aired 2016-11-10AMERICAN SYMBOLS $800: Following the death of George Washington a few days before, it was sounded on December 18, 1799 the Liberty Bell
#7395, aired 2016-11-04U.S. MOUNTAINS $600 (Daily Double): A Wyoming peak was named for this man soon after his 1924 death; there are said to be 14 points on its ridges Woodrow Wilson
#7392, aired 2016-11-01THAT'S AWFUL GRIMM $200: These 2 kids, near-victims of cannibalization, burn a woman to death & don't think twice about it Hansel & Gretel
#7392, aired 2016-11-01THAT'S AWFUL GRIMM $400: The final words in "The Death of the Little" this, a female domestic fowl-- "and then everyone was dead" the hen
#7389, aired 2016-10-27THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $400: "I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain" Arthur Miller
#7386, aired 2016-10-24THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1600: Nicholas Brody gave intel that led to the death of terrorist leader Abu Nazir on this drama Homeland
#7385, aired 2016-10-21A LITERARY MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH $400: A 1925 bestseller, "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" takes place after Helen returns to this Greek city-state Sparta
#7385, aired 2016-10-21A LITERARY MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH $500 (Daily Double): This 1883 Mark Twain memoir begins with a short history of Hernando de Soto & his first sighting of a river Life on the Mississippi
#7385, aired 2016-10-21A LITERARY MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH $1200: A man must come to terms with his own impending end in "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by this Russian Tolstoy
#7383, aired 2016-10-19CROSSED OFF WALTZ $1600: Saint-Saens' waltz in "Danse macabre" was fun to hear; death played one of these like in "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" a fiddle
#7380, aired 2016-10-14U.S. COINS $1000: Like FDR, less than one year after his death, he appeared on a circulating U.S. coin JFK (John Kennedy)
#7380, aired 2016-10-14THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $2000: This 3-named poet wrote "Thanatopsis", about the not-so-good feeling of ruminating upon death William Cullen Bryant
#7368, aired 2016-09-28WHO'S THE BOSS? $400: Agent Phil Coulson, who survived death on the big screen Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
#7368, aired 2016-09-28COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES $800: "Death Valley" is the home of the Tigers, this SEC team in "Red Stick" LSU
#7368, aired 2016-09-28COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES $1000: "Death Valley" is the home of the Tigers, this ACC team in South Carolina Clemson
#7365, aired 2016-09-234-LETTER U.S. CITIES $400: On the first anniversary of his death, a memorial to Michael Jackson was unveiled in this Indiana city Gary
#7364, aired 2016-09-22STARS & CAUSES $200: The death of her friend Rock Hudson from AIDS helped inspire this actress to co-found AMFAR Liz Taylor
#7362, aired 2016-09-20FRIENDS $2000: In 1961 this "J. Alfred Prufrock" poet became pen pals with Groucho; the 2 finally met just before the poet's 1965 death T.S. Eliot
#7356, aired 2016-09-12IT'S A PROCESS $800: John Paul II emphasized beatification & this, & soon after his death, the process was fast-tracked for him canonization
#7356, aired 2016-09-12BRITISH POETS $800: At the time of his death in October 1400, he was living in a leased house in the garden of Westminster Abbey Geoffrey Chaucer
#7356, aired 2016-09-12BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Founding father Patrick Henry's "choice" quote leads into the 1949 Tony-winning Best Play "Give me liberty or give me Death of a Salesman"
#7355, aired 2016-07-29SCARY-SOUNDING ANIMALS $1600: You may recognize the death's-head hawk this from its star turn in the "Silence of the Lambs" a moth
#7354, aired 2016-07-28DEPRESSING QUOTES $800: This Defense secretary under George W. Bush said, "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war" Rumsfeld
#7353, aired 2016-07-27DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $1200: After Boone's death in 1820, this Brit made him the subject of 7 stanzas of "Don Juan" Lord Byron
#7349, aired 2016-07-21THE 1970s $1000: He was elected president of Egypt in 1970, leading his country until his death in 1981 Anwar Sadat
#7349, aired 2016-07-21ON BROADWAY $2000: "Long" after playwright Eugene O'Neill's death, this tale of family dysfunction returned to Broadway in 2016 Long Day's Journey into Night
#7348, aired 2016-07-20MEN OF NOTE $200: The Showa period in Japan ended with this emperor's death in 1989 Hirohito
#7347, aired 2016-07-19THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $400: This 1978 novel character writes "The World According to Bensenhaver" as a way to cope with his son's death T.S. Garp
#7344, aired 2016-07-14FAMOUS GINGERS $400: This King of Rock was engaged to Ginger Alden at the time of his sudden 1977 death Elvis
#7344, aired 2016-07-14BIBLICAL EQUINES $2000: French engraver Gustav Dore made a real revelation, depicting Death on this horse, as mentioned in Revelation a pale horse
#7340, aired 2016-07-08STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN $400: Lying chiefly in Cali, this national park boasts the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere--282' below sea level Death Valley
#7338, aired 2016-07-06DEATH IN VENICE $400: Asked to retract his fables on his deathbed in Venice in 1324, this explorer said he had only told half of what he saw Marco Polo
#7338, aired 2016-07-06DEATH IN VENICE $800: Tintoretto finished his biblical painting of this subject just a few months before his death in Venice the Last Supper
#7338, aired 2016-07-06DEATH IN VENICE $1200: The early opera composer Monteverdi was music director at this cathedral in Venice from 1613 to his death in 1643 Saint Marco's (Saint Mark's)
#7338, aired 2016-07-06DEATH IN VENICE $1600: Before dying in Venice, Canaletto painted scenic views of the city for tourists, like the one of this bridge seen here the Rialto
#7338, aired 2016-07-06DEATH IN VENICE $2000: After his release from a mental hospital, this American "Cantos" poet lived out his days in Italy, dying in Venice in 1972 (Ezra) Pound
#7335, aired 2016-07-01WORDS IN JEOPARDY $1600: Verily, in the King James Bible, the 23rd Psalm says this word, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" yea
#7334, aired 2016-06-30THE SUPREME COURT $800: Furman v. Georgia, musing on the 8th Amendment's cruel & unusual punishment clause, led to a moratorium on this the death penalty
#7329, aired 2016-06-23FIRST FAMILY PETS $800: Perhaps sensing something was wrong, his Airedale Laddie Boy howled for 3 days prior to his death in August 1923 Harding
#7327, aired 2016-06-21THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY $1000: The Black Death that killed at least 25 million Europeans the 14th century
#7326, aired 2016-06-20JUST MISSED THE TITANIC $200: Even though he had made a deposit, this chocolate magnate avoided the "kiss" of death Hershey
#7325, aired 2016-06-17BECAUSE $800: "Because I could not stop for" him, wrote Emily Dickinson, "he kindly stopped for me" Death
#7324, aired 2016-06-16HISPANIC SINGERS $1600: At an awards show in 2015, Jennifer Lopez paid special tribute to this Tejano singer on the 20th anniv. of her death Selena
#7323, aired 2016-06-15DECOMPOSING COMPOSERS $400: After this Italian's death in Vienna on July 28, 1741, there would be no more seasons in his life, fall or otherwise Vivaldi
#7323, aired 2016-06-15DECOMPOSING COMPOSERS $800: After this man's death in Leipzig on July 28, 1750, there would be no more variations in his life, Goldberg or otherwise Johann Sebastian Bach
#7323, aired 2016-06-15DECOMPOSING COMPOSERS $1200: The last 2 items on a timeline of this German: 1882: premiere of "Parsifal"; 1883: death Wagner
#7322, aired 2016-06-14DAVID BOWIE $2000: David Bowie's first U.S. No. 1 album, it was released on his birthday in 2016, just 2 days before his death Blackstar
#7321, aired 2016-06-13HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $600: A public holiday in some countries, Vesak commemorates his birth, enlightenment & death Buddha
#7320, aired 2016-06-10HERE'S TO 50 GREAT YEARS $1000: 1250: The death of Frederick II ushers in the "Great" this, from the Latin for "between" & "reign" Interregnum
#7318, aired 2016-06-08HISTORY IN ART $1000: Benjamin West's "The Death of General Wolfe" depicts the 1759 battle of Quebec during this North American conflict the French and Indian War
#7307, aired 2016-05-24MAY I QUOTE YOU? $2000: J.K. Galbraith: This "ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And... with death as his greatest source of anxiety" money
#7300, aired 2016-05-13THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN $400: "In this world nothing can be... certain, except" these 2 things death & taxes
#7300, aired 2016-05-13EERIE $1000: In Victorian times loved ones were often immortalized in death photos called these, Latin for "remember that you must die" memento mori
#7298, aired 2016-05-11STOPPED BREATHING IN THE 1800s $2,400 (Daily Double): Broken by the death of his wife, he was das kaput, all on March 14, 1883 Karl Marx
#7296, aired 2016-05-09YOU'RE SO POSSESSIVE! $400: Celebrated in March, it marks the anniversary of the death of a 5th century bishop of Armagh Saint Patrick's Day
#7293, aired 2016-05-04ROMAN AROUND $1,400 (Daily Double): On Dec. 7, 43 B.C. this orator lost the power of speech... permanently Cicero
#7292, aired 2016-05-03A LIFETIME OF SERVICE $800: This basketball mastermind was associated with the Boston Celtics from 1950 to his death in 2006 Red Auerbach
#7281, aired 2016-04-18THEATRICAL QUOTES $400: In this play, Arthur Miller wrote of Willy Loman, "Attention must be finally paid to such a person" Death of a Salesman
#7281, aired 2016-04-18MARINE BIOLOGY $400: This weather warming phenomenon that occurs every 3-7 years caused the death of much coral in 1997 & 1998 El Niño
#7277, aired 2016-04-12NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $2000: His long reign over Austria-Hungary ended with his death in 1916 Franz Joseph
#7272, aired 2016-04-05ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $1,000 (Daily Double): Last name of John, who before his death in 2013 at 91 was the oldest living child of a president Eisenhower
#7267, aired 2016-03-29LITERARY DEMISES $400: After seizing the ring from Frodo in "The Return of the King", he falls to his death with a last cry of "Precious" Gollum
#7258, aired 2016-03-1619th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $1,800 (Daily Double): "'That's a fine death!' said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonsky" War and Peace
#7250, aired 2016-03-04DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! $400: Playing Death in "Meet Joe Black", he said, "Easy, Bill. You'll give yourself a heart attack & ruin my vacation" Brad Pitt
#7250, aired 2016-03-04DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! $800: The Grim Reaper played Clue & Battleship with this title duo as they took a "Bogus Journey" Bill & Ted
#7250, aired 2016-03-04DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! $1200: In this group's "Meaning of Life", Death says, "You always talk, you Americans... well, you're dead now, so shut up" Monty Python
#7250, aired 2016-03-04DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! $1600: Death, voiced by Norm MacDonald, told the Griffins, "I'll be back really, really soon" on this animated Fox show Family Guy
#7250, aired 2016-03-04YOU'RE HISTORY! $2,000 (Daily Double): France's Reign of Terror ended with the death by guillotine of this revolutionary leader on July 28, 1794 Robespierre
#7250, aired 2016-03-04DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! $2000: Max von Sydow plays chess against death in this Ingmar Bergman film The Seventh Seal
#7248, aired 2016-03-02REMEMBERING THE ALAMO $2000: A plea for help, this commander's "victory or death" letter was returned to the Alamo in 2013 for the 177th anniv. William Barret Travis
#7248, aired 2016-03-02THE LAST MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1996 Delaware's Billy Bailey became the last condemned murderer to be put to death in the U.S. this way hanging
#7246, aired 2016-02-29URBAN LITERATURE $2000: In this Thomas Mann novella, a writer on a holiday in a cholera-stricken city grows infatuated with a boy Death in Venice
#7242, aired 2016-02-23BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: In 2012 he made his Broadway debut as the amazing Biff Loman in "Death of a Salesman" Andrew Garfield
#7241, aired 2016-02-22LET'S HAVE DESERT $800: This 2-word area in the Mojave gets 2 inches of rain a year & has balmy 125-degree summer temps Death Valley
#7238, aired 2016-02-17SPEARS $1600: British lancers were killed charging up the "Valley of Death" in this battle of the Crimean War the Battle of Balaclava
#7233, aired 2016-02-10LET YOUR GREEK FLAG FLY $400: The nine stripes are said to represent the nine syllables of eleftheria I thanatos, the Henryesque motto, this "or death" liberty
#7231, aired 2016-02-08COLLEGE TOWNS $600: From 1936 until his death, Albert Einstein lived in a house on Mercer Street in this college town Princeton
#7230, aired 2016-02-05____UM $400: To feign sleep or death is "to play" this marsupial possum
#7223, aired 2016-01-27INFLUENTIAL NONFICTION $800: "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" by this astronomer wasn't published until 1543, the year of his death Copernicus
#7219, aired 2016-01-21CHINA TOWNS $2000: Guangzhou was the headquarters for the Kuomintang or nationalist party of this man from 1916 to his death in 1925 Sun Yat-sen
#7218, aired 2016-01-20BETWEEN 5 FERNS $200: A young girl named Fern saves a pig from certain death in this E.B. White novel Charlotte's Web
#7218, aired 2016-01-20THE WORLD ALMANAC 2016 EDITION $600: In 2012 Libya's all-time world record high temp. was invalidated & replaced by this U.S. spot's 134 degrees set in 1913 Death Valley
#7211, aired 2016-01-11NOTORIOUS $400: Anna Sage, the "Lady in Red", was with this bank robber at the Biograph Theater in Chicago, where he was shot to death (John) Dillinger
#7208, aired 2016-01-06FAMILY FEUD $400: This "Splendid Splinter" of Red Sox fame saw his family splinter over what to do with his body after his death in 2002 Ted Williams
#7208, aired 2016-01-06____ IN THE ____ $5,000 (Daily Double): This T.S. Eliot verse drama deals with the assassination of Thomas Becket Murder in the Cathedral
#7203, aired 2015-12-30WHAT A SUCCESSION! $2,000 (Daily Double): The war of this country's succession erupted in 1701 after the death of the childless Charles II Spain
#7192, aired 2015-12-15BAD GRAMMER $2000: On "Medium" Kelsey was death personified, haunting the visions of Allison DuBois, played by this blonde Patricia Arquette
#7185, aired 2015-12-04PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $400: "The Original of Laura", published 3 decades after his death, did not create the same literary sensation as his "Lolita" (Vladimir) Nabokov
#7185, aired 2015-12-04ART & HISTORY $1600: Jacques-Louis David painted "The Death of" this French political leader just days after his murder by Charlotte Corday (Jean-Paul) Marat
#7185, aired 2015-12-04PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: This author wanted his manuscripts burned on his death, but editor Max Brod ignored him & published "The Trial" in 1925 (Franz) Kafka
#7182, aired 2015-12-01HEY "EU"! $800: This controversial act is from the Greek for "good death" euthanasia
#7172, aired 2015-11-17"A"UTHORS $2000: This film critic won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his novel "A Death in the Family" (James) Agee
#7165, aired 2015-11-06THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $1200: "Now after the death of Moses", begins this, the first Bible book called by a man's name Joshua
#7163, aired 2015-11-04MERRIAM-WEBSTER NEW WORDS $1200: Colony collapse disorder refers to the death of these animals (honey)bees
#7161, aired 2015-11-02AESOP ASAP $1200: By some accounts Aesop was unjustly executed in this oracle city for stealing; his death cursed the city Delphi
#7157, aired 2015-10-27TIMELY LIT $1200: "Son of the Morning Star" is Evan S. Connell's study of this lt. col.'s death in June 1876 in Montana Custer
#7151, aired 2015-10-19BRUTE, EH? $800: In "Oliver Twist" this heavy beats his dog & bludgeons Nancy to death Bill Sikes
#7148, aired 2015-10-14CURSES $1200: After this actor's 1955 death driving his silver Porsche Spyder, parts of the car brought disaster to the owners James Dean
#7143, aired 2015-10-07BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Since Robert B. Parker's death, Ace Atkins has taken over writing the books about this detective for hire Spenser
#7140, aired 2015-10-02MEMOIRS $1200: In 2015's "American Wife", his widow Taya talks about their life together & coping with his death at a Texas gun range Chris Kyle
#7140, aired 2015-10-02MEMOIRS $1600: In "Night", this Nobel Peace Prize winner described the horrors he witnessed as a young boy in a Nazi death camp Wiesel
#7140, aired 2015-10-02PAGING DR. FREUD $2000: In mythology, he was the brother of Hypnos; in Freudian theory, it represents the death instinct Thanatos
#7139, aired 2015-10-0120th CENTURY COMPOSERS $2000: He also wrote a "Death Valley Suite", but he's better known for his "Grand Canyon Suite" (Ferde) Grofé
#7131, aired 2015-09-21FAMOUS LAST WORDS $1200: This legend of animation wrote a name on a piece of paper before his 1966 death--Kurt Russell; Kurt has no idea why (Walt) Disney
#7130, aired 2015-09-18PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $800: In 1884 Mark Twain offered him a $50,000 advance for his "Personal Memoirs", which he finished just prior to his death Ulysses Grant
#7118, aired 2015-07-22THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE AIR $200: Sure, this 5-letter item has a "death from above" rap, but Amazon plans to use it to achieve 30-minute delivery times a drone
#7114, aired 2015-07-16BIBLE BELTS $2000: In 2 Samuel, David gets this man drunk--& that's after sleeping with his wife & before sending him to his death Uriah the Hittite
#7108, aired 2015-07-08SHADOW PLAY $800: Psalms 23:4 begins, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of" this "I will fear no evil" the shadow of death
#7108, aired 2015-07-08AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $800: The Temple of Abu Simbel is one of the stops on a cruise in this 1937 mystery Death on the Nile
#7107, aired 2015-07-07CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: In the years preceding his 1827 death, he carried a slate on which people could write any remarks addressed to him Beethoven
#7107, aired 2015-07-07THE "VAN" POOL $800: He kicked butt in the movies "Until Death", "Wake of Death", "6 Bullets", I could go on... Jean-Claude Van Damme
#7107, aired 2015-07-07CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: This Russian piano master wrote his last major work, "Symphonic Dances", in 1940, 3 years before his death in the USA Rachmaninoff
#7104, aired 2015-07-02THE MONARCHS OF ENGLAND $2000: He's seen here in 1910, the year he became king following the death of his father, Edward VII George V
#7103, aired 2015-07-01IN THE DICTIONARY $600: This term for ending a life to end suffering comes from the Greek for "good death" to euthanize
#7100, aired 2015-06-26SAINTS $1000: St. Stephen earned sainthood the hard way, telling off the Sanhedrin before getting this to death, literally stoned
#7099, aired 2015-06-25THE WORKING DEAD $200: Surprisingly busy since her 1962 death, she had a good financial report in 2014: $17 million Marilyn Monroe
#7099, aired 2015-06-25THE WORKING DEAD $1000: More than 40 years after his untimely death, this movie legend kicked up $9 million over a 12-month span ending in 2014 Bruce Lee
#7090, aired 2015-06-12THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED $400: Her death on July 23, 2011 in London was attributed to alcohol poisoning Amy Winehouse
#7090, aired 2015-06-12A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK $800: Years after Isaac Bashevis Singer's death came the first English translation of "Shadows on" this urban river the Hudson River
#7090, aired 2015-06-12THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED $800: We hope this gravel-voiced Brit had "a little help from" his friends before his death December 22, 2014 Joe Cocker
#7080, aired 2015-05-29EX-MEMBERS OF THE BAND $200: 20 years after Jerry Garcia's 1995 death, 4 living members of this band announced 50th anniversary gigs in Chicago The Grateful Dead
#7080, aired 2015-05-29EX-MEMBERS OF THE BAND $600: This multi-instrumentalist quit the Rolling Stones shortly before his 1969 death Brian Jones
#7080, aired 2015-05-29TV MOVIES $1600: In "Death of a Centerfold", Jamie Lee Curtis played this starry-eyed Canadian teenager who became a Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten
#7078, aired 2015-05-27MURDERED TO DEATH $200: Painter Vincenzo Camuccini took a stab at the death of this man, based in part on a bust from the subject's time period (Julius) Caesar
#7078, aired 2015-05-27THE LATE 19th CENTURY $400: After the death of his cousin in 1889, this man became heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand
#7078, aired 2015-05-27MURDERED TO DEATH $400: In 1859 Rep. Daniel Sickles made the very first claim of temporary insanity after killing Philip Barton Key, son of this man Francis Scott Key
#7078, aired 2015-05-27MURDERED TO DEATH $600: This cannibalistic serial killer got 16 life terms; on Nov. 28, 1994, a fellow inmate ended term No. 1 (Jeffrey) Dahmer
#7078, aired 2015-05-27MURDERED TO DEATH $800: The prosecution said this Mass. woman tried to buy poison on Aug. 3, 1892, the day before the murders of 2 family members Lizzie Borden
#7078, aired 2015-05-27MURDERED TO DEATH $1000: In 1936 this murderer was himself killed by a fellow inmate with a razor; Leopold, his partner, made parole eventually (Richard) Loeb
#7077, aired 2015-05-26FAMILIAR NUMBERS $600: Poetically, "Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode" this number the 600
#7070, aired 2015-05-15THE PEN IS MIGHTIER $2000: Though this poet was noted for drinking, rabies rather than alcohol may have caused his 1849 death in Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe
#7065, aired 2015-05-08A. MILLER'S TALES $400: Arthur Miller's only Pulitzer Prize came in 1949 for this play Death of a Salesman
#7058, aired 2015-04-29LARGE & IN CHARGE $400: After her husband Albert's death in 1861, she put on weight & ballooned up to a 46-inch waist Queen Victoria
#7054, aired 2015-04-23NONFICTION $1200: In the fourth book in his "Killing" series, Bill O'Reilly writes about "The Strange Death of" this WWII general Patton
#7053, aired 2015-04-22NEW TO THE OED $600: This funereal 3-word term for the toughest bracket of a sports tournament like the World Cup group of death
#7052, aired 2015-04-21A SENSE OF STYLE $600: A recent exhibition in NYC showcasing "A Century of Mourning Attire" was called this, like a Meryl Streep movie Death Becomes Her
#7051, aired 2015-04-20PROLOGUES $800: The preface to this novel says, "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now" Twilight
#7044, aired 2015-04-09"L"ITERATURE $800: Garcia Lorca wrote one of these "for the Death of a Bullfighter" a lament
#7041, aired 2015-04-06FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: French for "stroke of mercy", it's a death blow, or any finishing or decisive stroke a coup de grâce
#7040, aired 2015-04-03IN LIFE $600: In the Holmes-Rahe life stress inventory, the death of a spouse is tops, while this similar outcome is second divorce
#7040, aired 2015-04-03SELFIE OF THE ARTIST $800: He completed the self portrait here in August 1889, less than a year before his death van Gogh
#7038, aired 2015-04-01INTERRED IN THE PANTHEON IN PARIS $400: On the 1952 centenary of his death, this creator of a writing system was moved to the Pantheon (Louis) Braille
#7038, aired 2015-04-01INTERRED IN THE PANTHEON IN PARIS $2000: WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin is interred for his courage & death at the hands of this Nazi group the Gestapo
#7038, aired 2015-04-01INTERRED IN THE PANTHEON IN PARIS $4,200 (Daily Double): A leading French writer of the Enlightenment, he was interred in 1791, a few years after his death Voltaire
#7037, aired 2015-03-31TV VIOLENCE $800: Tara is drowned & forked to death by her mother-in-law on the Season 6 finale of this motorcycle club drama Sons of Anarchy
#7034, aired 2015-03-26POE FOLKS $1200: This prince who tries to evade the Red Death in a secluded castle bears the name of a Shakespearean island dweller Prospero
#7033, aired 2015-03-25THERE'S NO STOPPING THEM $800: This poet who could not stop for death also noted, "We passed the fields of gazing grain--we passed the setting sun" (Emily) Dickinson
#7031, aired 2015-03-23DEATH OF A VEEP $200: This VP's divorce was granted on the day of his death, Sept. 14, 1836; no gunplay was involved in either case Aaron Burr
#7031, aired 2015-03-23DEATH OF A VEEP $400: This former New York governor died in New York City on Jan. 26, 1979 Rockefeller
#7031, aired 2015-03-23DEATH OF A VEEP $600: The first Democrat elected to the Senate from Minnesota since 1858, he died in Waverly on Jan. 13, 1978 Hubert Humphrey
#7031, aired 2015-03-23DEATH OF A VEEP $800: He died Nov. 23, 1814, but his name lives on whenever districts are redrawn (Elbridge) Gerry
#7031, aired 2015-03-23DEATH OF A VEEP $1000: This fiery veep from South Carolina died March 31, 1850 & was laid to rest in Charleston's Cemetery of St. Philip's Calhoun
#7029, aired 2015-03-19THE GROUP OF DEATH $400: In 1999 Eddie Vedder & this band grunged out a Top 10 version of this '60s tearjerker "Last Kiss" Pearl Jam
#7029, aired 2015-03-19THE GROUP OF DEATH $800: "Die Young, Stay Pretty", Debbie Harry advised as singer for this band Blondie
#7029, aired 2015-03-19THE GROUP OF DEATH $1200: "Death greets me warm", James Hetfield mourned in this band's "Fade to Black" Metallica
#7029, aired 2015-03-19THE 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
#7029, aired 2015-03-19THE GROUP OF DEATH $2000: This rhyming 80's band sang, "It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more, everybody's comin', leave your body at the door" Oingo Boingo
#7025, aired 2015-03-13THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $1000: Hitler reportedly offered a reward for the capture of this actor who'd joined the Army Air Force after Carole Lombard's death Clark Gable
#7024, aired 2015-03-12LYRICISTS $400: His lyrics after the death of his brother George include "The Man Who Got Away", music by Harold Arlen Ira Gershwin

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (159 results returned)

#9037, aired 2024-02-13SOUTHERN POLITICIANS: An article written after his 1935 death asked, "Will some crown prince arise to take his place?" Huey Long
#9005, aired 2023-12-29FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé
#8959, aired 2023-10-26FAMOUS FAMILIES: In 2020 a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, the last of 9 siblings in this dynastic family, died at 92 Kennedy
#8950, aired 2023-10-13ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco)
#8872, aired 2023-05-16AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus
#8846, aired 2023-04-10FAMOUS NAMES: In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida Walt Disney
#8798, aired 2023-02-01LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice
#8770, aired 2022-12-23AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline
#8725, aired 2022-10-2119th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off Madame Defarge
#8651, aired 2022-05-30IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier
#8631, aired 2022-05-02THEATER: In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play Julius Caesar
#8595, aired 2022-03-11SYMBOLS: This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978 Harvey Milk
#8583, aired 2022-02-23PLAY CHARACTERS: A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things" Willy Loman
#8572, aired 2022-02-0820th CENTURY FICTION: The author's foreword to this novel says, "When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Aswan to Wadi Halfa" Death on the Nile
#8554, aired 2022-01-13THE WORDS OF VICTOR HUGO: This object "is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral" the guillotine
#8528, aired 2021-12-0820th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi
#8480, aired 2021-10-01AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco
#8451, aired 2021-07-26NOTABLE NAMES: Following his death in 2018, his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey between the remains of fellow scientists Darwin & Newton Stephen Hawking
#8418, aired 2021-06-091960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding
#8401, aired 2021-05-17ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco
#8370, aired 2021-04-02EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel
#8360, aired 2021-03-19ARTISTS: The February 17, 1901 death of his friend Carles Casagemas made this grief-stricken artist change his color palette (Pablo) Picasso
#8229, aired 2020-06-04NOTABLE BRITS: On this man's death in a 1935 motorcycle accident, Churchill said, his "pace of life was faster & more intense than the ordinary" Lawrence of Arabia
#8039, aired 2019-07-18NOTORIOUS: The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law--in 1962, for this man Adolf Eichmann
#8029, aired 2019-07-04ON BROADWAY: This play opens in Vienna in 1823, 32 years after the death of its title character Amadeus
#8011, aired 2019-06-1020th CENTURY THEATER: The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line "He had the wrong dreams" Death of a Salesman
#8006, aired 2019-06-03SHAKESPEARE'S TIME: The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death Christopher Marlowe
#7983, aired 2019-05-01THE KING JAMES BIBLE: Of the 4 riders mentioned in Revelation 6, only this one is explicitly named Death
#7946, aired 2019-03-11PLAYWRIGHTS: Before his death in 2018 at age 91, he received 4 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize & was nominated for 4 Oscars Neil Simon
#7898, aired 2019-01-02BRITISH MEMOIRS: Before his death in 1996, this famous son wrote the memoirs "The Enchanted Places" & "The Hollow on the Hill" Christopher Robin Milne
#7828, aired 2018-09-26AUTHORS: After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y" Sue Grafton
#7823, aired 2018-09-1918th CENTURY AMERICANS: In a famous 1775 speech, he said, "Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!" Patrick Henry
#7795, aired 2018-06-2918th CENTURY NOTABLES: Researchers in London & Vienna now speculate that his 1791 death was due to a strep infection, not poisoning Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#7776, aired 2018-06-04AMERICAN QUOTES: In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new Constitution to these 2 things death & taxes
#7677, aired 2018-01-16NOVELS OF THE 1960s: The line "Once when you are born & once when you look death in the face" follows this title of a 1964 novel & an action-packed 1967 film You Only Live Twice
#7672, aired 2018-01-09THE FIRST CENTURY A.D.: Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar Pliny the Younger
#7588, aired 2017-09-13ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal
#7552, aired 2017-06-1316th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus
#7548, aired 2017-06-07BRITISH KINGS: Bearing Roman numeral I, he subdued Wales & was called the "English Justinian" for his legal reforms Edward I
#7454, aired 2017-01-2620th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: He said of his 1949 play & its main character, "I could write about failure only because I could deal with it...I knew how he felt" Arthur Miller
#7423, aired 2016-12-14AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck
#7408, aired 2016-11-23NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold
#7384, aired 2016-10-20QUOTABLE NOTABLES: She once said that death "is no more than passing from one room into another" but "in that other room, I shall be able to see" Helen Keller
#7352, aired 2016-07-26AMERICAN AUTHORS: On his 1849 death, it was said he was "regarded rather with curiosity than admiration" & "few will be grieved" Edgar Allan Poe
#7337, aired 2016-07-05FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1902, 25 years after his death, a New York Times article about a family reunion listed his direct descendants at more than 1,000 Brigham Young
#7332, aired 2016-06-28AMERICAN INVENTORS: Before his death in 1932, he donated over $100 million, including $50 million to the University of Rochester George Eastman
#7268, aired 2016-03-30OBITUARIES: On his death in 2015, his New York Times obit said he "built his stardom 90 percent on skill and half on wit" Yogi Berra
#7189, aired 2015-12-10LITERARY BRITAIN: After her death in 1943, the farmland & cottages of this author & animal lover were bequeathed to the National Trust Beatrix Potter
#7077, aired 2015-05-26ANCIENT TIMES: Aristotle said that an ancient Athenian law made uprooting one of these trees punishable by death an olive tree
#7065, aired 2015-05-08HISTORIC SITES: On August 15, 1941 convicted Nazi spy Josef Jakobs became the last person to be put to death here the Tower of London
#7001, aired 2015-02-0919th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron
#6980, aired 2015-01-09FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians Mark Twain
#6779, aired 2014-02-20AUTHORS: On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently" Thoreau
#6760, aired 2014-01-24GROUNDBREAKING NONFICTION: Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing" Silent Spring
#6755, aired 2014-01-17AMERICAN THEATER: This 1949 drama that ends with a requiem asks, "Why did you do it? I search & search & I search, & I can't understand it" Death of a Salesman
#6673, aired 2013-09-2520th CENTURY NAMES: Since his 1988 death, he's been inducted into the U.S. Hockey, World Figure Skating & National Inventors Halls of Fame Zamboni
#6582, aired 2013-04-09THE TONY AWARDS: Winner of Best Play in 1949, it's the only play to win the Best Revival Tony 3 different times Death of a Salesman
#6516, aired 2013-01-07AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS: A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can" Babe Ruth
#6496, aired 2012-12-101920s LITERATURE: The collapse of this title structure causes the death of Esteban, Uncle Pio, Don Jaime, Pepita & a marquesa the Bridge of San Luis Rey
#6478, aired 2012-11-14U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield
#6387, aired 2012-05-29CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS: A letter in this mystery says, "We are going... to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum" Death on the Nile
#6338, aired 2012-03-21FAMOUS NAMES: At his death in January 2010, he was called "the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous" J.D. Salinger
#6256, aired 2011-11-2816th CENTURY NAMES: In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral Nicolaus Copernicus
#6233, aired 2011-10-26DEATH OF AN AUTHOR: In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly F. Scott Fitzgerald
#6103, aired 2011-03-09BRITISH ROYALTY: After the death in combat of the previous king, he became the last one to win the crown while on the battlefield Henry VII
#6033, aired 2010-12-01FRENCH AUTHORS: Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault Albert Camus
#5948, aired 2010-06-23HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand
#5931, aired 2010-05-31ENGLISH POETS: Translator Edward Fitzgerald wrote that her 1861 "death is rather a relief to me... no more Aurora Leighs, thank God" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#5847, aired 2010-02-02FAMOUS AMERICANS: At his death in 1790, he left 200-year trust funds to the cities of Boston & Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin
#5797, aired 2009-11-24COMPOSERS: In 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death, a $10,000 prize was offered for the completion of his 8th Symphony (Franz) Schubert
#5731, aired 2009-07-06NAPOLEON: Napoleon died before some of his officers could sneak him to this U.S. state where his death mask now resides Louisiana
#5707, aired 2009-06-02GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream
#5676, aired 2009-04-20AMERICAN LEGENDS: Chippewa legend says Nanabojo grew angry at this person for tearing up trees & beat him to death with a fish Paul Bunyan
#5665, aired 2009-04-03AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN NOVELS: A manipulative widow goes husband-hunting in "Lady Susan", finally published in 1871, 54 years after her death Jane Austen
#5602, aired 2009-01-06HISTORIC STRUCTURES: Pope Sixtus' death in 1590 ended his plan to convert this, still in Rome today, to a wool factory to employ city prostitutes the Colosseum
#5578, aired 2008-12-03FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let" him "be and all was light" Isaac Newton
#5572, aired 2008-11-25IN THE NEWS 1952: Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas Eva Peron
#5507, aired 2008-07-15OLYMPIC CITIES: This city's Olympics were exactly 200 years after the death of the British cabinet secretary it was named for Sydney
#5496, aired 2008-06-30PLAYWRIGHTS: On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet George Bernard Shaw
#5403, aired 2008-02-20NOTABLE NAMES: At his death in April 1955, his brain was preserved & his ashes scattered in the Delaware River Albert Einstein
#5384, aired 2008-01-24RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller
#5373, aired 2008-01-09THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: First mentioned in a letter by Clement IV in 1265, this item worn by the Pope features an image of St. Peter in a boat a ring
#5325, aired 2007-11-02POETS: One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you" Sylvia Plath
#5213, aired 2007-04-18A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus
#5157, aired 2007-01-30IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY: On August 10, 2004, 2 days after her death at the age of 96, the Empire State Building dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in her memory Fay Wray
#5062, aired 2006-09-19BRITISH ROYALTY: Just prior to her death in 1536, she told Sir William Kingston, "I have a little neck" Anne Boleyn
#5058, aired 2006-09-13VICE PRESIDENTS: The 2 GOP vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency & were later elected president in their own right Theodore Roosevelt & Calvin Coolidge
#4792, aired 2005-06-07NOTORIOUS: In 1934 in Chicago, soon before his death, he had painful plastic surgery that left him looking pretty much the same John Dillinger
#4721, aired 2005-02-28COLLEGE LIBRARIES: Built in memory of a victim of this tragedy, Harvard's Widener Library was opened in 1915 the sinking of the Titanic
#4607, aired 2004-09-21FIRST LADIES: She survived the President by 39 years & was married to an archaeology professor at the time of her own death in 1947 Frances Folsom Cleveland
#4582, aired 2004-07-06HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN: Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim Captain Cook
#4574, aired 2004-06-24FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist
#4531, aired 2004-04-26PHRASES: It's the original meaning of the word "checkmate", or what many newspaper headlines said on August 17, 1977 "The King Is Dead"
#4113, aired 2002-06-19HISTORIC AMERICANS: On this man's death, FDR said, "All mankind are the beneficiaries of his discoveries in... agricultural chemistry" George Washington Carver
#3777, aired 2001-01-23FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his death in 1994 at age 81, Time magazine put him on its cover for a record 55th time Richard M. Nixon
#3647, aired 2000-06-13FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: At his death in 1727, he left over one million words he had written on alchemy & the occult Sir Isaac Newton
#3591, aired 2000-03-27FAMOUS WOMEN: This woman who made death masks of guillotine victims took the Bastille gate key after the 1789 storming Marie Tussaud
#3588, aired 2000-03-22HISTORIC PEOPLE: After his 1955 death, his papers were given to Jerusalem's Hebrew Univ. & his violin was left to his grandson Albert Einstein
#3553, aired 2000-02-02FINANCIERS: The Federal Reserve System was founded partly in response to his March 31, 1913 death J.P. Morgan
#3547, aired 2000-01-25THE TONY AWARDS: (Hi, I'm Brian Dennehy) This man won a Tony for writing the Best Play of 1949 and I had the honor of presenting him with a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 1999 Arthur Miller (wrote "Death of a Salesman")
#3509, aired 1999-12-02NOVELISTS: "Omerta", the title of the last book he completed before his death in 1999, is Sicilian for "code of silence" Mario Puzo
#3486, aired 1999-11-0120th CENTURY AUTHORS: His "Fictional Memoir" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death Ernest Hemingway
#3471, aired 1999-10-11FAMOUS SCANDINAVIANS: The painter who said, "Illness, madness and death were the dark angels who watched over my cradle" Edvard Munch
#3461, aired 1999-09-27FICTION: This 1937 mystery was written at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan "Death on the Nile"
#3395, aired 1999-05-14HISTORIC AMERICANS: This member of William & Mary's Class of 1762 founded a univ. that opened in 1825, one year before his death Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia)
#3361, aired 1999-03-291999 ANNIVERSARIES: A traveling exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of his death features his false teeth George Washington
#3184, aired 1998-06-041998 BESTSELLERS: 35 years after her death, she's the subject of a new collection of poems by her husband Sylvia Plath (husband is Ted Hughes)
#2986, aired 1997-09-01FAMOUS NAMES: At this man's death in 1997, Jacques Chirac called him probably the best known Frenchman in the world Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#2954, aired 1997-06-05AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires" Benjamin Franklin
#2931, aired 1997-05-05NOTABLE NAMES: On January 30, 1997, the 49th anniversary of his death, some of his ashes were scattered in the Ganges River Mohandas K. Gandhi
#2896, aired 1997-03-17JOURNALISTS: Before his death in 1920, he led America's Communist Labor Party, drew up its manifesto & edited its paper John Reed
#2882, aired 1997-02-25FAMOUS AUTHORS: Queen Victoria called his death "a very great loss. He had... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes" Charles Dickens
#2866, aired 1997-02-03DEMOCRATS: Bill Clinton is the first Democrat since this man to be elected president twice Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#2642, aired 1996-02-13EXPLORERS: For many years after his death in 1324, he was considered Europe's greatest liar Marco Polo
#2639, aired 1996-02-08FAMOUS NAMES: His 1958 article "The American Automobile--Designed for Death?" appeared in the Harvard Law Record Ralph Nader
#2624, aired 1996-01-18MEDICAL FIRSTS: The death of Denise Darvall in a traffic accident permitted this historic December 3, 1967 event the first heart transplant
#2617, aired 1996-01-09ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne
#2557, aired 1995-10-17U.S. STATES: After Alaska, this state has the greatest difference between its highest & lowest points California
#2537, aired 1995-09-19NOTABLE WOMEN: In 1995, 61 years after her death, she became the 1st woman entombed in France's Pantheon in her own right Marie Curie
#2532, aired 1995-09-12FAMOUS SPEECHES: Last word of a 1775 speech that includes "Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in illusions of hope" death
#2529, aired 1995-09-07NATURALISTS: Before his death in 1914 he studied forests in Russia, India & Australia, as well as the U.S. John Muir
#2428, aired 1995-03-08RULERS: At his death at age 62 in 1993, he was Europe's longest-reigning monarch King Baudouin
#2356, aired 1994-11-28BRITISH HEROES: At his death in 1852, he was interred in St. Paul's near Lord Nelson the Duke of Wellington
#2353, aired 1994-11-23DEMOCRATS: When Grandma Moses was born, this man was president; at her death, JFK was president James Buchanan
#2261, aired 1994-06-06BRITISH HISTORY: Over 300 years after his 1658 death, his head was laid to rest by his alma mater, a college at Cambridge Oliver Cromwell
#2257, aired 1994-05-31AUTHORS: Her last book "A Garland For Girls" was completed shortly before her death in 1888 Louisa May Alcott
#2248, aired 1994-05-18POETS: On his death, April 27, 1882, the church bells of Concord, Mass. tolled 79 times in his memory Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2168, aired 1994-01-26FAMOUS NAMES: Eisenhower said on his 1955 death that no other man contributed so much to the growth of 20th c. knowledge Albert Einstein
#2056, aired 1993-07-12PHILANTHROPY: At the time of his death in 1937, he had given over $500 million to charity John D. Rockefeller
#1942, aired 1993-02-02HISTORIC NAMES: A U.S. naval squadron brought back his remains from France in 1905, 113 years after his death John Paul Jones
#1896, aired 1992-11-30MUSICIANS: On his 1986 death he was called "arguably the only white jazz player to be the best on his instrument" Benny Goodman
#1867, aired 1992-10-20MEN OF SCIENCE: In 1927, a year after his death, his autobiography "Harvest of the Years" was published Luther Burbank
#1847, aired 1992-09-22THE SOVIET UNION: After this hero's death in 1968, the town of Gzhatsk was renamed in his honor Yuri Gagarin
#1838, aired 1992-09-09FAMOUS WOMEN: On her death, Will Rogers said her "consideration of others will live as a mark for any woman to shoot at" Annie Oakley
#1710, aired 1992-01-24THE BIBLE: The book of Genesis ends with his death "and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" Joseph
#1700, aired 1992-01-10AMERICAN DRAMA: This 1938 play's 3 acts are titled "Daily Life", "Love and Marriage" & "Death" Our Town
#1680, aired 1991-12-13THEATRE: Peter Shaffer omitted the death of Emperor Joseph II from the NYC production of this play Amadeus
#1593, aired 1991-07-03ROYALTY: At his death in January 1991, the king of this country was the world's oldest reigning monarch Norway
#1592, aired 1991-07-02FAMOUS NAMES: This survivor of WWII's Bataan Death March went on to become a world leader Ferdinand Marcos
#1569, aired 1991-05-30FINAL RESTING PLACES: More than 100 years after his death, he was reburied with honors at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1913 John Paul Jones
#1556, aired 1991-05-13BRITISH HISTORY: In 1661, 2 1/2 years after his death, his body was exhumed & hanged at Tyburn Oliver Cromwell
#1549, aired 1991-05-02WARS: As of February 1991 the V.A. was still paying death pensions to 5 widows of veterans of this war the Civil War
#1529, aired 1991-04-04FAMOUS AMERICANS: Upon his death in 1972, he became the 1st civil servant to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda J. Edgar Hoover
#1465, aired 1991-01-04U.S. PRESIDENTS: The 2 Presidents whose assassins were sentenced to death & executed James Garfield & William McKinley
#1459, aired 1990-12-27ANCIENT HISTORY: The group who fought over his empire after his death was called the "Diadochi", successors Alexander the Great
#1380, aired 1990-09-07FAMOUS WOMEN: Dying in 1903, she said, "It's the 27th anniversary of Bill's death. Bury me next to Bill." Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary)
#8, aired 1990-08-04SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES: The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death Lady Macbeth
#1371, aired 1990-07-16THE BIBLE: "The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life" Samson
#1325, aired 1990-05-11MEDICINE: His vaccine was announced safe in April '55, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death Dr. Jonas Salk
#1290, aired 1990-03-23AUTHORS: After his death in 1745, he was buried in St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin Jonathan Swift
#1238, aired 1990-01-10PLAYS: 1949 Pulitzer Prize play in which the title character commits suicide for the insurance money Death of a Salesman
#1175, aired 1989-10-13SHAKESPEARE: He appears in 3 of Shakespeare's plays & his death is reported in "King Henry V" Sir John Falstaff
#927, aired 1988-09-201978: Upon Golda Meir's death, this leader said, "I must, for history's sake, praise her as an honest foe" (Anwar) Sadat
#750, aired 1987-12-04FAMOUS BATTLES: In 1836, Wm. Travis ended his request for more troops to be sent here, with "Victory or death" the Alamo
#648, aired 1987-06-03WORLD STATISTICS: This continent currently has both the world's highest birthrate & the world's highest death rate Africa
#333, aired 1985-12-18RECENT HISTORY: Total number of men who have been U.S. President during the current British monarch's rule 8
#286, aired 1985-10-14THE BIBLE: Only 1 of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse specifically named in text of King James or Douay Bible Death
#275, aired 1985-09-27THE FLAG: After a former president's death, the flag is flown at half-mast for this many days 30
#87, aired 1985-01-08EUROPEAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1945, Admiral Karl Doenitz assumed this office in Germany Fuhrer (or dictator)

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