#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | I SENSE SOME NEGATIVITY $1000: Add an "E" to the end of a word for reluctant & you get this word meaning to despise loathe |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHAT THE "EFF"?! $600: Idiomatically speaking, it's the "grade" you get for trying hard--even if you sucked E for effort (or A for effort) |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $1600: Drink up! It can precede "whale", though the dolphin types get more press bottlenose |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | ABBREV. $1000: Remember your cell biology? E.R. is this membrane system with a name that's fun to say endoplasmic reticulum |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $200: The speedy dog breed the Whippet may have developed from this even faster breed Greyhound |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $400: This word now meaning sociable & outgoing comes from the Latin for flock gregarious |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $600: This symbol of the U.S. has an eagle on the front & an unfinished pyramid on the reverse the Great Seal |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $800: Traditionally made from pomegranates, this red syrup is an ingredient in Shirley Temples grenadine |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $1000: John Gardner wrote a novel from the point of view of this monster from an Old English epic Grendel |
#8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1200: Despite being brittle-boned Elijah Prince, I'm still firmly in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR $800: This film about an alien trying to get home turned 40 in 2022; Steven Spielberg calls it "my first love story" E.T. |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $1600: In dictionaries O.E. is Old English & O.H.G. is this European language used until about 1200 Old High German |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL... $400: Motto:
This 4-word phrase, signed into law by Eisenhower in 1956; "E pluribus unum" had been used unofficially In God We Trust |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | DON'T GET CONFUSED $200: Change an "A" to an "E" to go from immobile to this write stuff stationery |
#8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $1600: Long before Tokyo got its current name, it was known as this Edo |
#8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WHO "E" $1,000 (Daily Double): He edited the second & third of the 3 volumes of "Das Kapital" Engels |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | INTO THE J*E*T STREAM $400: A member of the Society of Jesus the Jesuits |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $2000: Drop the last letter from a biological term to get this word meaning "coined money" specie |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward debunk |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE $400: Get rid of the "E" in "E.T." & you have this adjective for the Earth terrestrial |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | DID YOU KNOW? $800: The generic name for this cloth bag comes from the same-named Belgian town where it was first made, though the E & L can get reversed duffel |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $200: Due to his propensity for digging trenches, Robert E. Lee got the nickname "King of" this card suit Spades |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | ON THE MONEY $400: Above "one" on the back of the $1 bill is this 4-word phrase In God we trust |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPELL IT LIKE THE BRITS $400: Your singing is lovely, Georgina; win "Britain's Got Talent" & Simon Cowell might hand you one of these for 250,000 pounds C-H-E-Q-U-E |
#8158, aired 2020-02-12 | DAYTONA 500 GRAND MARSHALS $600: In 2019, 5 years after recording 20.5 sacks & even 3 offensive TDs for the Houston Texans, this D.E. got his grand marshal on J.J. Watt |
#8142, aired 2020-01-21 | CHECK OUT THE CRITTER $400: Get an "E" for effort with this egg-laying Aussie mammal. Here are its babies called puggles echidna |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $1200: This motto was added to the backs of $1 silver certificates in 1957 & to $1 Federal Reserve notes in 1964 In God We Trust |
#2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If God wills, you know this Arabic expression for "if God wills"; T.E. Lawrence was an early adopter inshallah |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $800: "No no no no no, oo-eee-hoo, I'll tell you once more, before I get off the floor", this E.L.O. title "Don't Bring Me Down" |
#8075, aired 2019-10-18 | ENABLING COOKIES $400: A little elf told me that this brand makes E.L. Fudge, but obviously, that elf was slacking & should get back to work Keebler |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $800: A group of dropouts are trying to get their G.E.D.s in this film starring Tiffany Haddish & Kevin Hart Night School |
#8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WHISKEY BUSINESS $400: Most scotch is distilled twice; this type of whiskey, like Bushmills & Tullamore D.E.W., 3 times Irish whiskey |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | DROP A LETTER $400: Drop an "E" from a lavish meal to get this verb meaning to abstain from food fast |
#8014, aired 2019-06-13 | PRONOUN LOSS $400: Take "me" away from an old honeyed liquor & you get this, found in the pages of a magazine ad |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FILM TEACHERS $800: In "Night School" Tiffany Haddish uses extreme methods to help this comedian get his G.E.D. (Kevin) Hart |
#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 |
#7943, aired 2019-03-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: It's worth 23, it's from Yiddish meaning "dirt" or "filth" & you'e got a little on your shoe schmutz |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: Knowing all things, like God omniscient |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | I GOT NOTHING $400: Ships & planes continue to disappear into this polygon off the S.E. USA, including a plane reportedly missing in Dec. 2008 the Bermuda Triangle |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $400: An occultation is a type of this astronomical event eclipse |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $800: In science talk, it's a gamete an egg |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $1200: The adrenal & the thyroid are among these glands that regulate your body's processes by secreting hormones endocrine |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $2000: Wanna get away? From Earth's surface, this is about 6.96 miles per second escape velocity |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $4,200 (Daily Double): In physics, it's the ability of a deformed body to return to its original size & shape elasticity |
#7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $1000: To get a legal verb meaning "stop someone from bringing certain claims", put this letter before "stop" E |
#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 |
#7517, aired 2017-04-25 | WE'VE GOT CONTRACTIONS $1000: It's the literary 3-letter way to say "always" e'er |
#7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SHE'S GOT CONTRACTIONS $1200: An army-entering event or a baby-exiting one, this delivery process might involve prostaglandin E induction |
#7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $600: Flip 2 letters in a lumberjack's falling-tree yell & get this quality of the sound of a voice T-I-M-B-R-E |
#7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $800: Medical condition characterized by involuntary sleeping N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y |
#7471, aired 2017-02-20 | LET'S RAP, KIDS! $400: "They mad they ain't famous, they mad they still nameless... but we still hood famous, yeah, we still hood famous" Kanye West |
#7445, aired 2017-01-13 | SHORT & SWEET $1600: Add an "E" to the end of this sweet stuff & you get a word meaning cloyingly sweet saccharin |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE $600: Like Wile E. Coyote, I got this company's doom weapon crate, including kukri, mace & tomahawk Acme |
#7418, aired 2016-12-07 | NOTHING BUT NET $1600: In July 1996 these 3 letters first preceded .ca & you could get online news from P.E.I. to B.C. CBC |
#7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $400: You get one of these as a record for paying a bill; don't forget the silent letter R-E-C-E-I-P-T |
#7405, aired 2016-11-18 | I GET AROUND $1200: Elliott & E.T. make a memorable ride on one of these against a backdrop of the moon a bicycle |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | A CHANGE IS COMING $1600: Replace the "E" in what the Brits watch their BBC on & you get a counting word telly & tally |
#7198, aired 2015-12-23 | TECH COMPANY NAMES $400: This web-based e-mail service got its name by adding some vowels to "HTML" Hotmail |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | A FETA COMPLI $200: In 2005 the E.U. granted this country protected designation of origin status for its feta; see? those 2 can get along! Greece |
#7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $800: Insert "E" in this Tolkien race & you get a preteen number Elven |
#7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $1200: Put an "E" into this golf score & you get a type of fruit par |
#7162, aired 2015-11-03 | D.C. TV $600: Agent 86 & Agent 99 worked for the Washington-based intelligence agency CONTROL on this spy sitcom Get Smart |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | FOOD & DRINK $800: In an Italian restaurant, if you ask for "pane e burro" before the meal, you'll get this pair bread and butter |
#7036, aired 2015-03-30 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE "E" $1200: In this dice game, a large straight will get you 40 points Yahtzee |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | FRUITY MUSIC $1000: Also the name of a soda, this R.E.M. song says, "Follow me, don't follow me, I've got my spine" "Orange Crush" |
#6964, aired 2014-12-18 | A LITTLE T & A $800: The E-flat bass type of this instrument has a fourth valve so you can get extra low a tuba |
#6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHEN IN ROME... $2000: Get an "E" for effort pointing out this ancient hill of Rome where you can see the Santa Maria Maggiore church the Esquiline Hill |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | ADD A LETTER $2000: Add an "E" to a word meaning "reasonable" to get this underlying reason for doing something rationale |
#6827, aired 2014-04-29 | ARMY BRATS $1000: Robert E. Lee was the son of this soldier, seen here with one of the beasts that gave him his nickname "Lighthorse" Harry Lee |
#6808, aired 2014-04-02 | "SELF-E"s $600: The Offspring sang, "I know she's playing with me, that's okay cause I got no" this self-esteem |
#6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $200: Romeo's family name M-O-N-T-A-G-U-E |
#6714, aired 2013-11-21 | "E-Z-A" $2000: Lebanese political group aka the "Party of God" Hezbollah |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | O-E-O-E $1600: Drink up! It can precede "whale", though the dolphin types get more press bottlenose |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | INSIDE EDITION 25th ANNIVERSARY $600: Defeated after a run for mayor of NYC, he became an "I.E." contributor in 1990; 4 years later, he got the mayor gig Giuliani |
#6676, aired 2013-09-30 | ROCKET MUSIC $800: A movie bio of Andy Kaufman got its title from this R.E.M. song "Man on the Moon" |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE TALES OF HASSELHOFF, MAN $1000: In a 1998 TV movie, the Hoff played "Nick Fury: Agent of" this organization that got its own TV show in 2013 S.H.I.E.L.D. |
#6669, aired 2013-09-19 | TRY A SEPARATION $1200: Drop 1 letter from a word meaning "harsh" to get this word meaning to cut off a part from the whole sever |
#6620, aired 2013-05-31 | ADD AN E $2000: A proposal formally made to a deliberative assembly takes on an E to get in touch with 1 of its many types of feelings motion & emotion |
#6605, aired 2013-05-10 | HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL $400: You get a precious 9 extra minutes with this feature introduced on a G.E. alarm clock in 1956 the snooze |
#6602, aired 2013-05-07 | MY BROTHER'S IN THE SERVICE $400: He just got there & he's not an officer, so he's termed E-1, the "E" standing for this enlisted |
#6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HISTOR"E" $800: He got Karl Marx to learn economics Engels |
#6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HISTOR"E" $1,200 (Daily Double): In the 980s he managed to make Greenland sound pleasant enough to get fellow Icelanders to join him there Erik the Red |
#6415, aired 2012-07-06 | E BAY $800: The East Bay that produced punk musician East Bay Ray is the eastern shore of this California bay San Francisco Bay |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $400: In song it precedes, "where'd ya get those peepers?" Jeepers creepers |
#6336, aired 2012-03-19 | LOGO SECRETS $200: Next time you get a FedEx package, notice a right-pointing one of these between the second "E" & the "X" an arrow |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $800: In 1978 they put an R&B spin on "Got To Get You Into My Life" Earth Wind & Fire |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $1200: In the '90s this girl group had a string of hits including "Hold On" & "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" En Vogue |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $1600: "I Can't Get It Out Of My Head" that this Jeff Lynne group joined Olivia Newton-John on the "Xanadu" soundtrack ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $2000: In 1991 this 3-letter group got techno-funky with "Unbelievable" EMF |
#6325, aired 2012-03-02 | I GOT 3 LETTERS! $400: This 3-letter credential equal to a high school diploma, dating back to the 1940s G.E.D. |
#6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $200: Affect means to produce a change in; with this new first letter, you get a result E (effect accepted) |
#6210, aired 2011-09-23 | PAINT IN OILS $800: Get hold of "Marine Painting in Oil" by E. John Robinson to learn how to paint this 8-letter type of work a seascape |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1000: It's the 7-letter name for this traffic beater; too bad it never really got off the ground with the public the aerocar |
#6156, aired 2011-05-23 | SPELL IT RIGHT $800: It's got mass appeal R-E-Q-U-I-E-M |
#6145, aired 2011-05-06 | FROM D TO E $400: It can mean heavenly, perfect or pertaining to God divine |
#6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $800: Vulcan is the Roman equivalent of this Greek fire god (10 letters) H-E-P-H-A-E-S-T-U-S |
#6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $1000: This Hindu god of wisdom & good fortune has the head of an elephant (7 letters) G-A-N-E-S-H-A |
#6043, aired 2010-12-15 | AMERICAN POETRY $2000: This poet wrote, "next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth" E.E. Cummings |
#6042, aired 2010-12-14 | JACKIE PAPER $2000: This former G.E. CEO has co-authored "Straight From The Gut" & "Winning" Jack Welch |
#5993, aired 2010-10-06 | WE GET LETTERS $800: Like "Jeopardy!", this cable network uses an exclamation point in its name the E! Network |
#5904, aired 2010-04-22 | SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER $1000: You're missing out on steak because sprouts got you with this bacterium; curse you, Dr. Escherich! E. coli |
#5814, aired 2009-12-17 | IN A GOOD CAUSE $800: Add 1 letter to quality to get this quality that W.E.B. Du Bois fought for equality |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | THE GRAND FINAL"E" $400: If you broadcast an A&Q show called "Peopardy!" hosted by Alex Lebek, you may get a this & desist letter from us cease |
#5747, aired 2009-09-15 | FICTION PULITZERS $1200: This "News" got E. Annie Proulx the prize for 1994 The Shipping News |
#5733, aired 2009-07-08 | GET OUTTA MY DREAMS $600: My desire to buy a near-vowelless animal would come true with no A, E, I, O or U in this wildcat; down, kitty! a lynx |
#5585, aired 2008-12-12 | IT'S GOT MEANING $1000: "E" is for this 7-letter word meaning educated or wise: prove you are, now erudite |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | "E" GAD! $400 (Daily Double): The name of this herb, thought by many to shorten the length of a cold, is from the Greek for "hedgehog" echinacea |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | "E" GAD! $400: Give me an E--this Greek equivalent of the letter E epsilon |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | "E" GAD! $800: Found in yeast, zymase, which promotes fermentation, is this type of catalytic protein an enzyme |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | "E" GAD! $1200: 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of this Calvin Klein fragrance for all time Eternity |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | "E" GAD! $2000: In mythology Zeus pursued her in the form of a white bull, then carried her across the sea to Crete Europa |
#5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1600: "T.E.W.W.G."
by Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God |
#5174, aired 2007-02-22 | BEANTOWN TV $800: Julie Bowen, Candice Bergen and Rene Auberjonois get lawyered up on this David E. Kelley drama Boston Legal |
#5131, aired 2006-12-25 | SAVE THAT E-MAIL ADDRESS! $400: Got to ask information@ask.com what happened to this P.G. Wodehouse butler who used to work there Jeeves |
#5131, aired 2006-12-25 | SAVE THAT E-MAIL ADDRESS! $1000: I've got to contact education@seti.org so I can learn how to help with the search for this extraterrestrial life |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | CAN I GET YOUR LITERARY NUMBER? $2000: T.E. Lawrence wrote that this book has "No lessons for the world... it is filled with trivial things" Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $800: "A Room of One's Own" is a feminist essay by Virginia Woolf; this E.M. Forster work tells of Lucy, on vacation in Italy A Room With a View |
#5045, aired 2006-07-14 | ADD AN ELEMENT SYMBOL $800: Add the symbol of this element to the letters "B-R-I-D-E-S" & you get a Scottish island group helium (He) |
#5019, aired 2006-06-08 | EMISSARY TO AMERICA $400: E.-C. Genet, an 18th c. French minister to the U.S., undermined the neutrality policy of this pres., who got him recalled George Washington |
#5008, aired 2006-05-24 | ORIGIN OF THE SPECIOUS $200: Forwarding an e-mail supposedly sent by this Microsoft chairman got you $1,000 & a free copy of Windows Gates |
#4929, aired 2006-02-02 | IF THEY MARRIED... $800: Mary, co-host of "E.T.", weds Watergate "Deep Throat" W. Mark & hyphenates to get this sincere name Mary Hart-Felt |
#4917, aired 2006-01-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: This British adventurer liked to go by the initials T.E. instead of his given names Thomas Edward T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
#4860, aired 2005-10-28 | WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK $200: ___ & The E Street Band Bruce Springsteen |
#4826, aired 2005-09-12 | POETIC LINES $1200: "'E'll be squattin' on the coals givin' drink to pore damned souls, an' I'll get a swig in hell from" this Kipling character Gunga Din |
#4783, aired 2005-05-25 | WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY $600: Webster's got down to business with this term for the buying & selling of goods & services over the Internet e-commerce |
#4768, aired 2005-05-04 | I GET THEM CONFUSED $400: Peter Coyote was in "E.T.", this deputy defense secretary was nominated to head the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz |
#4724, aired 2005-03-03 | "R"OCK MUSIC $800: This alternative rock band's "Stand" served as the theme song to the sitcom "Get a Life" R.E.M. |
#4667, aired 2004-12-14 | MED. ABBREV. $400: 2 of the 3 illnesses for which a DPT vaccination provides immunity diphtheria & pertussis (or tetanus) |
#4618, aired 2004-10-06 | FROM A TO E $2000: Krazy Glue advises if fingers get stuck together soak them in this solvent, or a nail polish remover that contains it acetone |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | TAKE IN ORDER! $400: Now add this letter to get H. Rider Haggard's novel about an African sorceress E |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | TAKE IN ORDER! $600: Next add this letter for a ballpark opened April 17, 1964 A |
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 | "E"OGRAPHY $400: Get all your shots before you canoe down this small Congo river with the same name as a deadly hemorrhagic virus Ebola |
#4553, aired 2004-05-26 | "E" MALE $200: This 1921 Nobel Prize winner once remarked that "God is subtle but he is not malicious" Einstein |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | GIVE ME AN "E" $1600: Aristotle called it "the best provision for old age"; so get a good one an education |
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Queen of Soul" who got R‑E‑S‑P‑E‑C‑T as the 32nd president of the U.S. Aretha Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
#4377, aired 2003-09-23 | NON-VIDEO GAMES $600: If I open this game by sinking a left-handed hook shot & you miss the same shot, you get an "H" H-O-R-S-E |
#4373, aired 2003-09-17 | CAN I HAVE A WORD? $1600: Add one letter to etiquette to get this word for acceptable online behavior netiquette |
#4346, aired 2003-06-23 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $2000: German "God is Dead" philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm... N-I-E-T-Z-S-C-H-E |
#4334, aired 2003-06-05 | FROM A TO E $800: A song standard says, "You've got to" do this to "the positive, eliminate the negative" accentuate |
#4236, aired 2003-01-20 | U.S. MONEY $600: Legislation in 1955 ordered this phrase on all coins & currency; it was made the national motto in 1956 "In God We Trust" |
#3952, aired 2001-11-06 | E-COMMERCE $100: At dunkindonuts.com you can't buy donuts, but you can get this traditional accompaniment by the pound coffee |
#3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ON THE BEAT WITH ANDY SIPOWICZ $100: (Hi. I'm Dennis Franz. I play Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue.) This guy, an M.E. for short, tells Sipowicz how & why a corpse got that way medical examiner |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | KIDDY LIT $800: S.E. Hinton's first book, it got her "into" the publishing world The Outsiders |
#3833, aired 2001-04-11 | DAWN $500: "Dusk Of Dawn" was a 1940 autobiography of this first black American to get a doctoral degree from Harvard W.E.B. Du Bois |
#3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $400: Don't delay, spell... I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-T |
#3724, aired 2000-11-09 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: Subtract an "E" from 1,760 yards & you get this measurement for one-thousandth of an inch Mil |
#3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TELEVISION $800: It isn't quite as harrowing as "ER" when real people get makeovers on the E! series known as "Fashion" this Fashion Emergency |
#3692, aired 2000-09-26 | HARRISON FORD $800: Ford's cameo in this 1982 Spielberg film, written by his now-wife Melissa Mathison, got cut E.T. |
#3588, aired 2000-03-22 | PARTS OF A BUILDING $500: L-E-N-T-I-L spells a legume; rearranged & spelled this way, you get a supporting piece L-I-N-T-E-L |
#3535, aired 2000-01-07 | WE GET LETTERS $300: This cable television network uses an exclamation point in its name E! |
#3450, aired 1999-09-10 | "E" FOR EFFORT $300: This verb means to sneak off & get married Elope |
#3444, aired 1999-07-22 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $1000: E.M. Forster got the title "A Passage to India" from one of his poems Walt Whitman |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | E BEFORE I $100: You get it off a certain duck's breast Eiderdown |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | E BEFORE I $400: It can mean simply to exalt, or more often, to make a god of Deify |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | E BEFORE I $500: He's the Greek god of horses & earthquakes, as well as waters Poseidon |
#3423, aired 1999-06-23 | HAUTE CUISINE $300: If you order "spaghetti e polpette" in Italy, you'll get spaghetti & these Meatballs |
#3089, aired 1998-01-22 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $500: In Turkey you can get from Europe to Asia by crossing the Bosporus Strait at this sea just below it Sea of Marmara |
#2881, aired 1997-02-24 | SITCOMS $200: On this series CONTROL HQ was located underground at 123 Main Street in Washington, D.C. "Get Smart" |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | NAME THE POET $400: "next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth...." E.E. Cummings |
#2322, aired 1994-10-11 | U.S. CURRENCY $2,500 (Daily Double): All current U.S. coins bear 3 phrases & this single word liberty |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | MEN OF LETTER $400: For directing the Watergate burglary, he got a sentence of 2 1/2 to 8 years but served only 32 months E. Howard Hunt |
#1786, aired 1992-05-11 | SPELLING $600: In the 16th century it was an Indian village; now it's the capital of Florida T-A-L-L-A-H-A-S-S-E-E |
#1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $1000: G.E. scientist Bernard Vonnegut found this compound could be used to "seed" clouds silver iodide crystals |
#1134, aired 1989-07-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Visiting her birthplace at 10 E. Oglethorpe in Savannah, Ga. won't get you a merit badge Juliette Gordon Low |
#892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $400: Barry Goldwater said he chose this man as his running mate because "He drives Johnson nuts" William E. Miller |
#844, aired 1988-04-14 | ANATOMICAL SPELLING $800: The lower jaw M-A-N-D-I-B-L-E |
#787, aired 1988-01-26 | SPELLING $1000: Many religions believe God to be omnipresent, omnipotent & this, having total knowledge O-M-N-I-S-C-I-E-N-T |
#781, aired 1988-01-18 | UNCLES $200: 1960s television spy spoof that starred Stephanie Powers as April Dancer The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. |
#758, aired 1987-12-16 | STARTS WITH "E" $100: The Greek god of erotic love Eros |
#724, aired 1987-10-29 | SPELLING $1000: An eagle's nest A-E-R-I-E |
#662, aired 1987-06-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Nixon's Att'y-Gen. E. Richardson resigned & Watergate prosecutor A. Cox was fired on this night of the week Saturday |
#643, aired 1987-05-27 | FLORIDA $200: To find this, the state motto, look on any U.S. coin "In God We Trust" |
#620, aired 1987-04-24 | FAMOUS QUOTES $300: Of him, Francis Church said "Thank God, he lives, & he lives forever... Virginia" Santa Claus |
#609, aired 1987-04-09 | SPELLING $400: Spelling of the sea you'd see looking north from Tripoli M-E-D-I-T-E-R-R-A-N-E-A-N |
#575, aired 1987-02-20 | N.E.W.S. $300: Of Northwood, Eastwood, Westwood, or Southwood, the one who's "boss" in Carmel, CA. (Clint) Eastwood |
#483, aired 1986-10-15 | ODD COUPLES $600: She took off her clothes; he got to keep his sword at Appomattox Courthouse Gypsy Rose Lee & Robert E. Lee |
#473, aired 1986-10-01 | "RICH" & "POOR" $500: The Joe E. Lewis
aphorism which ends "as long as you've got money" Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor |
#467, aired 1986-09-23 | SPELLING $200 (Daily Double): This word is also spelled out in the song that includes the following:
"What you want..." R-E-S-P-E-C-T |
#462, aired 1986-09-16 | NUMBER PLEASE $400: The only number on a standard push button telephone with no letters over it 1 |
#441, aired 1986-05-19 | SPELLING $800: After a business trip, you'll have fewer hassles with the IRS if you save these R-E-C-E-I-P-T |
#288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $1000: Banned in St. Paul in 1946, this E. Caldwell novel was readily available across river in Minneapolis God's Little Acre |
#286, aired 1985-10-14 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: It's what the banner reads that's held in the mouth of the eagle on the presidential seal E Pluribus Unum |
#153, aired 1985-04-10 | ROCK 'N ROLL $100: 1, 2, 3, it could be Robert E. "Mr. Lee" |
#88, aired 1985-01-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $700 (Daily Double): State this song takes place in:
"...on the deck / With a spyglass in hand / Said the fog was so tarnald thick / That he could not find the land / O the E-ri-e was rising / And the gin was gettin' low / And I scarcely think we'll get a drink / Till we get to Buff-a-lo-o-o / Till we get to Buffalo" New York |
#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 |
#25, aired 1984-10-12 | SPELLING $200: How Aretha Franklin spelled what Rodney Dangerfield doesn’t get R-E-S-P-E-C-T |
#24, aired 1984-10-11 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $600: One of the Big 3 of the Confederacy carved on Stone Mountain in Georgia Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis or Stonewall Jackson |
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