| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $400: Both Americans & Europeans were jubilant on May 8, 1945, called this "Day" V-E Day |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $400: Now we know it as a magazine title, but back in the day it was a young man who attended a knight esquire |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $1200: A successful capitalist by day, he gave his pal Marx a yearly stipend of 350 pounds Engels |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $800: A working actor to this day, Henry Thomas was 10 when he filmed this Spielberg classic E.T. |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $800: This event brought joy two days before D-Day the liberation of Rome |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | E-COLLEGE-Y $1000: The foundation named for this holiday runs the Tree Campus USA program to recognize forest-friendly schools, like Bryn Mawr Arbor Day |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WE WILL ROCK YOU $200: Playing for over 160,000 E. Germans in 1988, he hoped "one day all the barriers will be torn down"; the Boss got his wish in 1989 Springsteen |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH? $800: Victoria Day (in Canada),
V-E Day May |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | RAINY DAY P.E. $200: I'm so good at catching the rubber ball in this game that all my teammates are getting back in dodgeball |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | RAINY DAY P.E. $400: In half-court basketball, you do this to start the game, pass the ball to the defender who passes it back to you checking |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | RAINY DAY P.E. $600: Rope climbing today! It looks so easy on the NBC show called this "warrior" American Ninja |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | RAINY DAY P.E. $800: We have to practice this "shapely" dance, because I haven't do-si-doed very much square dancing |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | RAINY DAY P.E. $1000: Badminton is fun indoors, where you are less likely to lose the "birdie", AKA this projectile the shuttlecock |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $200: The D.O.E. found that 4 extra weeks added to this period in 2007 saved 0.5% of electricity per day, 1.3 billion KWH in total Daylight Savings Time |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $800: This actor, an ex-TV P.I., was the specific general in A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" Tom Selleck |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | KICKING AXIS $1200: Gen. Jodl signed capitulation papers in Reims on May 7, 1945; May 8 has become known as this day V-E Day |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | WE'VE GOT MOMMY ISSUES $800: For Mother's Day 2016 E.W. chose "20 TV Moms We Love", including Lynette Scavo, a resident of Wisteria Lane on this series Desperate Housewives |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | WORDS THAT START LIKE THE DAY OF THE WEEK $1200: Last name of humorist James, collaborator with E.B. White on "Is Sex Necessary?" Thurber |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | FICTION $1000: This 2009 follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code" sold over 1 million copies in e-book & hardcover editions on the first day The Lost Symbol |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE LIBERTY BELL $400: The Liberty Bell was struck on June 6, 1944; the sound was broadcast on radios across the U.S. to announce this event D-Day |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | ENTERTAINMENT $400: On Sept. 19, 2014 E! dedicated a day of programming, including a "Fashion Police" marathon, to this late funny lady Joan Rivers |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | A FARSI LEXICON $400: If it's "jom'e" it's this day of the week & people are headed to the mosque Friday |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $600: Butterfield, I need that report on my desk by EOD Friday--tell me you know "EOD" is short for this end-of-day |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $400: Green with vegetation verdant |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $800: Local term for the open pasture land of South Africa veldt |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $1200: Early type of bicycle known as a "bone-shaker" velocipede |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $1600: Fine parchment made of calfskin vellum |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $2000: It's a mathematical quantity with both direction & magnitude vector |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $600: E.O.D. can stand for this, perhaps the time when taps is played end of day |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | GREENBACKS $1000: Every day this bureau, the B.E.P., produces millions of paper bills, with a face value over $400 million the Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SPELLING BEES $400: This honeybee can lay a thousand or more eggs a day Q-U-E-E-N |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $400: In November 1848, for the first time, it was the same for Americans in every state Election Day |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $800: In 1834 slavery was abolished in the British Empire as of August 1, long celebrated as this day Emancipation Day |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $1600: Fittingly, schools were not closed on April 5, 2009, which was this "and sharing day, U.S.A." Education |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $2000: In Japan before WWII February 11 was celebrated as this large political unit day Empire Day |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $5,500 (Daily Double): The U.S. Department of Energy has a website urging us to "Make every day" this April event Earth Day |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | TV TITLE PLACES $800: It premiered the day before "E.R.":
"___ Hope" Chicago |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | GEOGRAPHY "E" $600: This island in the South Pacific is named for the day of its discovery, a religious holiday Easter Island |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | A DAY IN THE LIFE $400: May 2, 1863:
He sends Stonewall Jackson on a brilliant attack at Chancellorsville Robert E. Lee |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | WHEELS OF MISFORTUNE $400: Ford proclaimed the 1957 launch date of this car "E-Day"; let's say sales were disappointing the Edsel |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: Gaines' Mill, in which he whupped McClellan, was his first major victory despite his 9,000 casualties in one day Robert E. Lee |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from France.) This date in 1945 is still observed in France each year to celebrate victory & liberation May 8th |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | MR. & MRS. MALAPROP $800: On "All in the Family", Edith Bunker referred not to V-E Day or V-J Day but this, um, relative VD Day |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | THE 5-YEAR PLAN $200: The AP's Edward Kennedy was fired for prematurely reporting this happy event of May 1945 V-E Day (or Germany's surrender) |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: With this word, we assume they meant a shutout in gin rummy & not the super on "One Day at a Time" S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-R |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | VOCABULARY $1600: It ominously follows "last" or precedes "day", & it's spelled with or without an "E" in the middle judgment |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | "E" CHANNEL $1600: In 1974 Spokane's Cannon Island was the site of this, which featured an environmental theme an expo |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | AMERICAN HEROES $400: The birthday of this top Confederate general is celebrated as Confederate Heroes Day Robert E. Lee |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | 3 LETTERS LONG $800: Between April & October, the hour of the day in Maine may be followed by these 3 letters E.D.T. |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | MINOR CLASSICS $1200: A Haydn symphony in E minor is named for this sad homophone of a time of day "Mourning" (morning) |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | TORRID STORY PROBLEMS $200: Jake phones Ann 8 times a day & Jeff beeps her 12 times a day, but Jerry e-mails her this amount, twice Jake & Jeff combined 40 |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | PAST TENSE $300: If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card belated |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | "E" MALE $400: Go ahead, make my day & tell me the name of this actor who played "Pardner" in "Paint Your Wagon" Clint Eastwood |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | LEE $200: In 1859 it took Robert E. Lee less than a day to suppress the uprising by this white abolitionist John Brown |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | RITUALS $400: Every Labor Day weekend people gather in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, build a giant one of these & burn it Man |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | CELEBRATIONS $400: Confederate Heroes Day is celebrated January 19, the birthday of this general Robert E. Lee |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | CELEBRATIONS $1000: This date on which WWII ended in Europe is a legal holiday in France May 8, 1945 |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | HISTORIC DATES $100: In 1945 May 7 was called V-E Day & September 2 was called this V-J Day |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | RED-LETTER DAYS $200: It's how we usually refer to June 6, 1944 D-Day |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: Some states combine this January federal holiday with Robert E. Lee Day Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday |
| #1944, aired 1993-02-04 | SPORTS $200: After 9 attempts, jockey Pat Day finally won this horse race on May 2, 1992 riding Lil E. Tee, a 16-1 long shot the Kentucky Derby |
| #1468, aired 1991-01-09 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: January 19, the birthday of this general, is also celebrated as Confederate Heroes Day Robert E. Lee |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | HOLIDAYS $1000: The 2nd Sunday in May is Mother's Day while the 3rd Saturday in May is this day Armed Forces Day |
| #743, aired 1987-11-25 | WORLD WAR II $100: While V-E Day was celebrated May 8, 1945, this was celebrated September 2, 1945 V-J Day (victory in [over] Japan) |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | 1945 $400: On May 8, Allied forces celebrated V-E Day, which stood for this Victory in Europe |
| #673, aired 1987-07-08 | REMAKES $400: Only film Alfred Hitchcock remade, with J. Stewart & D. Day in 1956 instead of 1934's L. Banks & E. Best The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| #609, aired 1987-04-09 | SPELLING $200: From Greek for "air" & "life", these exercises can start your day off with a jump A-E-R-O-B-I-C-S |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | 4-LETTER ROCK $200: How the singer who spells her name "S-A-D-E", pronounces it "shar-day" |
| #66, aired 1984-12-10 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Vowel missing from entire 50,000 word text of Ernest Wright's "Gadsby"
"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down to Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician." the letter E |
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