#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE! $200: I'm sold on walking across this bridge from Centre Street in Manhattan to Tillary Street on the other side of the East River the Brooklyn Bridge |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | MAKING NOISE $800: Residents of East Hampton on this island have waged a battle against the noise of weekenders' helicopters Long Island |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WHERE'D YOU "GO"? $1200: Just off its east coast is John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the USA's first undersea park Key Largo |
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1000: Popularly used for drapery & upholstery, this lustrous fabric is named for a city in the Middle East damask |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | "G"OING PLACES $2000: This place in India was dubbed "the Rome of the Orient", since it was a center for the Roman Catholic Church in the East Goa |
#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $200: After visiting Michael Jackson's family home in Gary, Ind., enjoy views of this Great Lake off I-94 East as you enter Benton Harbor Lake Michigan |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | PANHANDLE STATES $800: The Bitterroot Mountains, part of the Rockies, straddle this state's panhandle & Montana to the east Idaho |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | LOOK AT THE MAP $800: It's the geographically appropriate name for the troubled country seen here East Timor |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $800: Shared by 2 countries, the Valley of Cerdanya lies just east of Andorra high in these mountains the Pyrenees |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $800: In "Factory Girl" Guy Pearce played this artist whose first "factory" was a studio on East 47th Street Andy Warhol |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $200: It's a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast of Florida, or a cape that's a small part of it Canaveral |
#9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $400: By Steinbeck: "Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"' Of Mice and Men |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | U.S. NATIONAL FORESTS $600: This carnivorous plant can be found in North Carolina's Croatan National Forest, the only true coastal natl. forest in the East the Venus flytrap |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AROUND THE ATLANTIC $400: 20 degrees east longitude is the arbitrarily chosen boundary between the Atlantic & this body of water the Indian Ocean |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $400: Both the English & Dutch companies with this name began around 1600 with their minds on monopoly & monopoly on their minds East India Company |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $2000: In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble" the South Sea Company |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $600: The oldest bridge still spanning the Mississippi connects St. Louis with this Illinois city that has a logical name East St. Louis |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Historically a junction between East & West, this capital of Oman lies on a strategic waterway bordering Southeast Arabia Muscat |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $600: The Tian Shan Mountains separate Kyrgyzstan from this big neighbor to the south & east China |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $800: With a name meaning "right opinion", this Christian faith is practiced mainly in the Balkans, the Middle East & former Soviet countries Orthodox |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $9,200 (Daily Double): You'll find this Steinbeck title in Genesis 4:16 East of Eden |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $200: Nicknamed for his facial hair, this 18th c. buccaneer who terrorized the East Coast reputedly amassed a still-hidden treasure Blackbeard |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $400: From a Kikuyu word for "white mountain", it's an east African country & the first name of TV's Barris, creator of "black-ish" Kenya |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | TEX & THE CITY $400: The capital of Texas Zoo is naturally located in... Cedar Creek, a few minutes east of this city Austin |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | COUNTRY OVERLAPS $1200: Kabul's country safaris to East Africa to meet Dar es Salaam's Afghanistanzania |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $800: Formerly Calcutta, Kolkata is capital of "West" this state; the "East" part became its own country in 1971 Bengal |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $1000: Maine boasts this first national park established in the East which also happens to be first alphabetically Acadia National Park |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $1000: In this Long Island locale: Jay Gatsby's mansion, old sport West Egg |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES $1600: This Middle East nation is the "land of the Aryans" Iran |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $200: "Now when Jesus was born in" this town, "there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem" Bethlehem |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | RIDE INTO... $200: this country after crossing its border with Chile, then we'll head directly east & zip into Uruguay Argentina |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | RIDE INTO... $1000: the Strait of Tiran & on into this gulf at the top of the Red Sea, part of the very Middle-East-centric Q-no-U atlas the Gulf of Aqaba |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station Jack the Ripper |
#8988, aired 2023-12-06 | AFRICAN CUISINE $800: Doro wat, stewed chicken often eaten with injera bread, is a national dish of this East African country Ethiopia |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | NASHVILLE, GEOGRAPHIC $1600: Juniper trees mistaken for cedars led to the biblical name of this state park, east of Nashville Cedars of Lebanon State Park |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $200: Hanauma Bay, east of Waikiki the Pacific Ocean |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE $200: Have fun going to the top of this 630-foot monument, tallest in the U.S.; we looked east & saw the Mississippi River & Illinois the Gateway Arch |
#8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $400: 1990 was the end for this country whose districts included Neubrandenburg, Leipzig & Karl-Marx-Stadt East Germany |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $1200: The name of this East London dialect and accent comes from a Middle English word for a defective egg Cockney |
#8961, aired 2023-10-30 | TRIANGLES $400: The east side of this large, triangular citadel faces Red Square the Kremlin |
#8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: Under the Brooklyn Bridge the East River |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $800: In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling |
#8950, aired 2023-10-13 | BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $400: After finishing online, this big sis stopped by Indiana University East to pick up her BS on the way to a nearby tennis tournament Venus Williams |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1600: Mary, in 1936, I wanna make you wife number 2! I'm gonna unearth the world for you in East Africa! Louis Leakey |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): The majestic Victorian City Hall in East London, South Africa held the first hearing of the post-apartheid TRC, this commission Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $400: Lesser in name only, millions of these pink wading birds gather to breed on large lakes in East Africa flamingos |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS $200: The state with the most counties east of the Mississippi is this one, also the biggest U.S. peanut producer Georgia |
#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb |
#8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $400: Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, of this NFC East team: "Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs & have some fun" the New York Giants |
#8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FROM THE HEADLINES $200: The Washington Post, November 10, 1989: "East Germany opens" this "and borders" the Berlin Wall |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | ROAD $600: In Phoenix the Stack is the name for the interchange where I-17, going north-south, meets this east-west interstate I-10 |
#8906, aired 2023-07-03 | COUNTIES OF ENGLAND $1200: Essex County takes its name from an ancient kingdom of these people the Saxons |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $800: Covering all its directional bases, this capital of Northern Ireland has constituencies North, South, East & West Belfast |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $1,600 (Daily Double): Bordering Dover & Folkestone & Hythe, this district on England's east coast has a few ancient "Tales" to tell Canterbury |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | LET'S "T" UP THE MAP $800: East of Vietnam & an arm of the South China Sea, this gulf was the site of an international incident in 1964 Tonkin |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $800: In "Wall", the first part of Ken Follett's "Edge of Eternity", this then-country's Stasi headquarters prove menacing East Germany |
#8898, aired 2023-06-21 | DISCOVERY & INVENTION $1600: Written in Hebrew, the first of these was discovered east of Jerusalem by a shepherd boy in 1947; more would turn up in Masada the Dead Sea Scrolls |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | COUNTRIES IN SHORT $400: A tourism slogan for this Middle East country is the "Land of Creation" Israel |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | FOOD STUFF $400: Craving a taste of the Middle East? Enjoy this dish, deep-fried ground chickpeas often served in pita bread falafel |
#8879, aired 2023-05-25 | COASTAL WATERS $800: On Sudan's east:
this sea the Red Sea |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $1600: It turns out about as well for Caleb & Aron in this 1952 novel as it did for Cain & Abel in an earlier book East of Eden |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | YOU'RE SO SHELLFISH $1000: Used to make chowder, large East Coast hard-shell clams often go by this Native American name quahogs |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $1600: Just east of St. Petersburg, Russia is the lovely town of Shlisselburg on this river the Neva |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $1000: On the Atlantic coast, Maldonado is 70 miles east of this capital city Montevideo |
#8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City |
#6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $1600: In parts of the Middle East & Asia a payment that can be construed as a tip or bribery is known by this word from the Persian baksheesh |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $1600: James Dean starred in only 3 films--these 3 Rebel Without a Cause, Giant & East of Eden |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $1200: For killing his brother Abel, Cain was exiled to this land "on the east of Eden" Nod |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | POP MUSIC-PODGE $800: CBGB was a legendary East Village club where many punk & new wave acts got an early break, including them the Ramones |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 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 2023-04-25 | SEPARATION $1200: In this Missouri city known by a 2-letter moniker, Troost Avenue traditionally divides poorer east from richer west Kansas City (K.C.) |
#8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $200: The title of this Ken Kesey novel comes from a children's rhyme & follows "One flew east, one flew west" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
#8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $400: Let's break out the map of Romania, if we head east out of Arad, we can hit Sinaia & Sulina on our way to this sea the Black Sea |
#8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LEFTOVERS $800: Oddly, there's an Alcatraz East Crime Museum in this town more famous as the home of Dollywood Pigeon Forge, Tennessee |
#8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $1600: "Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He's been West before though" East of Eden |
#8845, aired 2023-04-07 | YOU TOTALLY RULED! $2000: A true "Undercover Boss" in Zaandam in 1697, Peter the Great was Pyotr Mikhaylov, learning shipbuilding at this trading company the Dutch East India Company |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | WATERFRONT PROPERTY $1600: The Pacific port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia is named for the first governor of this trading company the Hudson's Bay Company |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A RELIGIOUS SERVICE $400: In an Orthodox church, a priest with his back to you isn't rude or shy, he's facing this direction like the congregation east |
#8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $2,400 (Daily Double): At the 1776 Battle of Long Island, fog helped save the defeated Continental Army as it fled to Manhattan across this river the East River |
#8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands Abel Tasman |
#8833, aired 2023-03-22 | PLATEAUS $1200: The Bolaven Plateau of Laos lies east of this big river that runs the length of the country the Mekong |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE 1980s $600: Erich Honecker, leader of this country, is seen giving a speech in 1986; things weren't going well for him by decade's end East Germany |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | WORLD TRAVEL $1600: Cruise Wilhelmstrasse in a famously awful Trabant on a visit to what was once called this 2-word capital East Berlin |
#8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $400: In "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad, an East European spy is ordered to blow up this London observatory Greenwich |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $3,001 (Daily Double): On Aug. 30, 1999 almost 80% of the people of East Timor voted for independence from this country Indonesia |
#8822, aired 2023-03-07 | MARCH MADNESS $400: We have something in Storrs for you--Maya Moore had a pretty impressive run at this East Coast school, going 150-4 with 2 titles the University of Connecticut |
#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $800: Near Newark are communities known as East, South & West this Orange |
#8818, aired 2023-03-01 | BRIDGES $800: A feat of 19th century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge spans this river the East River |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $2000: This British company made treaties like the 1776 one of Purandar with the Maratha people of present-day Maharashtra state the British East India Company |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $2000: From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the Huron peoples were in conflict with this multi-tribe confederacy to the east the Iroquois |
#8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1200: If Jomo Kenyatta Airport is your destination, you're headed for this major city of East Africa that it serves Nairobi |
#8804, aired 2023-02-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: It's Guyana's smaller immediate neighbor to the east Suriname |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | DOCTOR WHO $1000: WHO South-East Asia Director Poonam Khetrapal Singh aims to eradicate NTDs, neglected these diseases of warm latitudes tropical diseases |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $800: This "national" sea is separated from the East China Sea on the south by the Tsushima & Korea Straits the Sea of Japan |
#8794, aired 2023-01-26 | THE "END"s OF THE EARTH $800: One posh & home to famed theaters & one notoriously poor, these 2 London districts are on opposite sides of the city's center the West End & East End |
#8794, aired 2023-01-26 | WHAT'S IN THE BOTTLE? $1000: Bottled sand art available for purchase in this Middle East kingdom; the city of Aqaba is famous for it Jordan |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | YOU WEAR ME OUT $800: Seen here is this beautiful garment of the Middle East & North Africa kaftan |
#8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $2,400 (Daily Double): Cathy Ames kills her parents & later abandons her newborn sons Aron & Cal Trask in this Steinbeck novel East of Eden |
#8786, aired 2023-01-16 | CIRCLES, SQUARES & DODECAHEDRONS $200: You'll find the National Museum of China on the east side of this square Tiananmen Square |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC 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) |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE 50 STATES $400: Connecticut is bordered to the west by New York & to the east by this, another 2-word state Rhode Island |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | HISTORICAL TV $2000: Nurses & nuns in London's East End deliver babies in the PBS import "Call" this person, based on a series of memoirs the midwife |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | WRITE FOOT $600: After landing in Oz, Dorothy is dismayed to see this woman's lifeless feet "shod in silver shoes with pointed toes" the Wicked Witch of the East |
#8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FLYOVER COUNTRIES $400: So sit back & relax as we leave Tunisia & head east along the Mediterranean coast over this country on our way to Egypt Libya |
#8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FLYOVER COUNTRIES $800: We've got the wind behind us as we cruise east out of Bosnia & Herzegovina to fly over this country on Romania's western border Serbia |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $400: The plateau of this disputed land is the major source of the rivers of South & East Asia Tibet |
#8769, aired 2022-12-22 | ATLANTIC ISLANDS $400: East Falkland is the larger of the 2 of that name & in 1982 was the scene of battles between these 2 nations Great Britain & Argentina |
#8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $400: On Dec. 16, 1773 this body of water sipped on 342 chests of tea formerly belonging to the British East India Company Boston Harbor |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | DUTCH TREAT $200: Until independence following World War II, this nation was known as the Dutch East Indies Indonesia |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: In 1271 this teen set out with his father & uncle on a journey from Europe to the Far East & into history Marco Polo |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | TV FINAL EPISODES $400: Coach Taylor moves from the East Dillon Lions to Philadelphia's Pemberton Pioneers in the finale of this series Friday Night Lights |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | COUNTRIES FROM WORDPLAY CATEGORIES $2000: Same till the last letter, both in the Middle East; their flags are seen here Iran & Iraq |
#8754, aired 2022-12-01 | WORLD MUSEUMS $1600: The Tango Museum, where the classic "La Cumparsita" was born, is not in Argentina but in this country to the east Uruguay |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | OUR DIVIDED NATION $400: In Manhattan, 96th Street is the historic dividing line between the Upper East Side & East or Spanish this area Harlem |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1600: This ancient trade route linking China & the West stretched 4,000 miles from Xi'an in the east to the Mediterranean Sea the Silk Road |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: An attraction on this East African island a bit smaller than Maui is the house where Freddie Mercury lived as a child Zanzibar |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A MATTER OF DEGREES $600: On a compass, 90 degrees is due this direction east |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | WHO LIVES IN... $800: This Upper East Side mansion? New York City mayor Eric Adams Gracie |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Popular in chowder, this East Coast variety of clam has the name of a fruit pit cherrystone |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | A TRIP ON THE GULF STREAM $300: The Gulf Stream becomes the North Atlantic Drift & keeps the west of this cold-sounding island country warmer than the east Iceland |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | FRONTIER FOLK $400: Trained back east by Harriet Beecher Stowe's sister, Harriet Bishop was a frontier one of these in a single room in St. Paul a schoolteacher |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | RIVER RUN $3,000 (Daily Double): Rivers that border Manhattan include the East River & these 2 "H" rivers the Hudson and the Harlem |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE TREATY OF PARIS $800: 1763:
The Treaty of Paris ends this country's claims to most of North America east of the Mississippi France |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | A CRASH OF SYMBOLS $2000: Found throughout the Middle East, the Hamsa symbol of protection is also called the "Hand of" her, a daughter of the Prophet Fatima |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $400: The elevator pitch for this 1952 novel is basically "Cain & Abel, but in the Salinas Valley" East of Eden |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $800: Founded in 1602 partly to aid the quest for independence from Spain, this trading company had a base in Batavia the Dutch East India Company |
#8732, aired 2022-11-01 | CATCH-2022 $200: On a Middle East trip, Joe Biden greeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with this gesture a fist bump |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1500: Don't fuggedabout this 16-mile-long body of water separating Brooklyn & Manhattan; Rikers Island is there the East River |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $300: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) I'll take a video & hum "Gonna Fly Now" while you run up the 72 stairs that lead to the east entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, recreating an iconic scene from this 1976 movie Rocky |
#8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $1000: Travelers well know the rest of the rhyming phrase that begins "East or west..." home is best |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $600: (Austin pours & garnishes a red cocktail in a Martini glass.) I really do tend bar at the Gaf East on 2nd Ave. in New York City, where of course we serve this classic geographically named cocktail made with vermouth & American whiskey a Manhattan |
#8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE EX-COUNTRY $200: On October 3, 1990 this Communist country in Europe lost its direction after reunification East Germany |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $200: The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West trails |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $400: "The Grapes of Eden" The Grapes of Wrath & East of Eden |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | LAKES & RIVERS $1000: This great river system of East-Central North America gets its name from a man martyred in 3rd-century Rome the St. Lawrence waterway |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $200: Roald Dahl wrote this book on East 81st Street in New York City, not far from where the journey of the big fruit ends James and the Giant Peach |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: The action begins in a children's tale when this character blows into London's Cherry Tree Lane on the east wind Mary Poppins |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $2000: Next to the ruins of Luxor & Thebes, this ancient temple complex is found on the east bank of the Nile River in upper Egypt Karnak |
#8692, aired 2022-07-26 | IDOL TALK $2000: In the 7th century this Middle East city was said to be home to as many as 360 idols, including the moon god Hubal Mecca |
#8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE LIFE OF PABLO $1600: His lavish estate east of Medellin called Hacienda Napoles had an airstrip & soccer field (Pablo) Escobar |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE MET: A VERSE $800: The museum has lots from the ancient Near East, this between-rivers region gave us yon beast Mesopotamia |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Originally referring to a type of barrier, it's another name for some of the toll roads on the East Coast a turnpike |
#8685, aired 2022-07-15 | 4,4 $600: This term for Maine is also the name of a magazine about that state Down East |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | ANTARCTICA $2000: This Antarctic research station has the same name as Russia's first manned ventures into space & means "east" in Russian Vostok |
#8681, aired 2022-07-11 | GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO OGDEN $1600: 25 miles east of Vegas, this man-made lake was just 37% full in 2021, sparking energy concerns for the American Southwest Lake Mead |
#8680, aired 2022-07-08 | GONE EXTINCT $400: The largest avian ever, the elephant bird of this island nation off the east coast of Africa could reach 10 feet high & 1,000 pounds Madagascar |
#8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $1600: The Stasi were a secret police force of this country that spied on its citizens & encouraged them to spy on each other East Germany |
#8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A DIP IN THE BAY $400: Named for an explorer, this bay touches the territory of Nunavut on its west & Quebec on its east Hudson Bay |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $1200: Philip of Macedon organized Greece's League of Corinth, which quickly decided on war against this empire to the east Persia (the Persian Empire) |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $1600: A former camp of de Soto, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union forces Tallahassee |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | IN THIS ECONOMY? $400: This Far East country has been hurt by sanctions like those imposed by the U.N. starting in 2006 for its nuclear tests North Korea |
#8662, aired 2022-06-14 | CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES $1000: The first lady's residence; some believe it was just east of Israel
(4 letters) Eden |
#8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ON THE COAST $1000: Incheon, on South Korea's West Coast, is a port on this sea north of the East China Sea the Yellow Sea |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BALLPARK FUN $1,000 (Daily Double): Traditionally, home fans of this A.L. East team give particular emphasis to yelling "O!" during the national anthem the Baltimore Orioles |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan Lake Huron |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY $2000: One of the world's newest countries, its "West"ern counterpart is administered by Indonesia East Timor |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $800: This waterway completed in 1825 helped connect the urban East to the newly settled lands of what was then the West the Erie Canal |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): This large historic city is 400 miles southwest of Tehran & 500 east of Beirut Baghdad |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES $800: In 1936, Beryl Markham was the first woman to achieve this solo flying east to west; Lindbergh had gone the easy way crossing the Atlantic |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES $1,400 (Daily Double): The Chakma people are the largest indigenous group of this country once known as East Pakistan Bangladesh |
#8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE 1960s $1200: In the Six-Day War, Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country, restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall Jordan |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $400: After a big Bible belt that kills his brother, he is marked & heads east of Eden Cain |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FREE AS A WORD $1200: Bob Dylan wrote, "I see my light come shining from the west unto the east. Any day now... I shall be" this released |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Named for a European queen, Charlotte Amalie is the capital city of this U.S. possession east of Puerto Rico the U.S. Virgin Islands |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | TEA TIME $2000: Not the British but the Dutch this company brought the first shipment of tea to Europe in the early 1600s East India Company |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | SITCOMS $400: This title 1970s sitcom family was "movin' on up, to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky" The Jeffersons |
#8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ON THE MEDITERRANEAN $1200: At the far east end of the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Iskenderun indents this country Turkey |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FLAGS OF FORMER COUNTRIES $800: Here's the flag of this former nation, where cities like Karl-Marx-Stadt once existed East Germany |
#8619, aired 2022-04-14 | GEOGRAPHIC VERSE $2000: This 19th century British poet & literary critic wrote the poems "East London", "West London" & "Dover Beach" Matthew Arnold |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $400: Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west Oslo |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | THE ORIGIN TRAIL $800: In the 1790s, Old East, still a residence hall was the entire campus of the University of North Carolina in this city Chapel Hill |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | NATIONAL DAYS $1600: In Austria, October 26 commemorates the declaration of permanent this in 1955, when the country was caught between East & West neutrality |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CAN I MAKE YOU A DRINK? $600: The virgin version of this East Coast "tea" would just be cola, lemon juice & sugar--a bit sweet a Long Island Iced Tea |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | NYC NEIGHBORHOODS $600: In 2017 phase 1 of expanding the 2nd Avenue subway included new stops at 96th, 86th & 72nd on the U.E.S., or this the Upper East Side |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $2000: This mercantile "Company" defeated the Portuguese in India in 1612, setting up trade deals with the Mughals the East India Company |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ROAD TRIP $1600: The Trans-Canada Highway runs almost 5,000 miles from St. John's in the east to this Vancouver island city in the west Victoria |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | WITH GORGE $600: Norway's Toka Gorge is always worth a look, about 25 miles east of this port city, first called Bjorgvin in 1070 Bergen |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $200: In the 1970s East Germany came up with ketwurst inside a roll as an alternative to this American fare hot dog |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | PARISH FROM THE EARTH $200: Louisiana has an East as well as a West this parish; the capital city is in the East Baton Rouge |
#8583, aired 2022-02-23 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $1600: World Powers:
This empire stretches from North Africa to southeastern Europe & well into the Middle East the Ottoman Empire |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $600: Michigan State University leads a Spartan lifestyle in this city on the Red Cedar River East Lansing |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | LAS VEGAS HOTEL NAMES $600: Like America, this northern African desert is about 3,000 miles from east to west the Sahara |
#14, aired 2022-02-17 | THE CROP REPORT $1000: In the King James Bible, this daughter-in-law of Naomi gleans "corn", unknown in the ancient Middle East Ruth |
#8578, aired 2022-02-16 | KID LIT $600: This novel begins with a minister, his wife & their 4 kids shipwrecked on an island in the East Indies The Swiss Family Robinson |
#8574, aired 2022-02-10 | OTHER COUNTRIES SEPARATED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE $600: In the Middle East they speak the Levantine type of this language, while Mauritania speaks the Hassaniya type Arabic |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | AROUND THE USA $600: In 2021 this bridge that spans the East River got a new 2-way bike lane the Brooklyn Bridge |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $200: 2 New York City gangs sing & dance in this top-grossing film of 1961 West Side Story |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $400: Yul Brynner wore the black hat in this 1973 movie; Ed Harris is a different man in black on the TV series Westworld |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $600: In a 2018 summer tune, "She used to meet me" here, "in the city where the sun don't set" Eastside |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $800: The Trask at hand is knowing James Dean starred in this 1955 film East of Eden |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $1000: Danny McBride was ex-Major Leaguer Kenny Powers on this HBO series Eastbound & Down |
#8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 5 RANDOM THINGS $1000: Viewable from the U.N. in the East River, one of New York City's smallest islands is named for this secretary-general from Myanmar U Thant |
#8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $600: Located 50 miles east of Louisville, it was the only Union state capital captured by Confederate forces Frankfort |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $400: Making their Top 40 debut in 1991, this vocal group told us, "Motownphilly's back again, doin' a little East Coast swing" Boyz II Men |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | THE LAKE SHOW $400: The east coast of the state of Michigan is known as the sunrise side because of daybreak over this lake Lake Huron |
#8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In the 13th century the Mongols destroyed the first East Slavic state, the "Rus", which had this city, not Moscow, as capital Kiev |
#8555, aired 2022-01-14 | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $2000: NAM:
this "Movement" established in 1961 for countries that didn't ally themselves with the East or the West Non-Aligned |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD $2000: The vast flatland known as the European Plain sweeps from the Pyrenees in the west to these mountains in the east the Urals |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HOW PROVINCIAL $200: East, Central & West this island are 3 of some 30 provinces of Indonesia... why do I suddenly want some coffee? Java |
#8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $1200: "East of Eden" is a classic by Steinbeck; "Exit to Eden" is a novel she wrote under the pseudonym Anne Rampling Anne Rice |
#8545, aired 2021-12-31 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY $1600: This nation is at the furthest end of the Malay archipelago:
East ____ Timor |
#8542, aired 2021-12-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $1600: The Javanese Wars of Succession involved local potentates & this Dutch entity the Javanese called "Kumpeni" the Dutch East India Company |
#8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $1000: These twins who ran a criminal empire in the east end in the 1950s were among the last prisoners to be held in the Tower of London the Krays |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW $200: East to west by birthplace:
Holliday,
Rivers,
Severinsen Docs |
#8525, aired 2021-12-03 | PULLING INTO "TOWN" $400: The South African parliament meets in this city that dates back to 1652 with the construction of a Dutch east India refreshment station Cape Town |
#8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19something $400: On August 12, 1961 Walter Ulbricht, leader of the East German Communist Party, ordered this to be created; it went up overnight the Berlin Wall |
#8521, aired 2021-11-29 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: In this city, head to the Forbidden City; if you're forbidden, relax at the Hilton on Wangfujing East Beijing |
#8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE MIDDLE EAST $400: The city of Erbil in Iraq is the capital of an autonomous region where the majority of the people are of this ethnic group Kurds |
#8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE MIDDLE EAST $800: This United Arab Emirates capital with a 2-word name occupies an island first settled around 1760 Abu Dhabi |
#8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE MIDDLE EAST $1200: The Taurus Mountains of Southern Turkey stretch from Lake Egirdir to this longest river in the region the Euphrates |
#8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE MIDDLE EAST $2000: For centuries, a terminus of the spice road of Arabia, this Yemeni city of 800,000 sits on the gulf that bears its name Aden |
#8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE MIDDLE EAST $4,000 (Daily Double): Halab is the name in Arabic for this largest city of Northern Syria, heavily damaged in the recent civil war Aleppo |
#8500, aired 2021-10-29 | LANDSCAPING $200: Planting tall trees on the east & west sides of your house can cut your costs for this summer need by 25% air conditioning |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | THE LANDLOCKED NATION $200: The Arabian Sea is 300 miles south of this often invaded but incredibly hard to conquer nation directly east of Iran Afghanistan |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | DID I MISS ANYTHING? $400: He returned to Venice from the East in 1295, having missed the rule of 2 doges Marco Polo |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $400: To get from Edinburgh to Gothenburg, go north & east across this sea the North Sea |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $1000: This river flows for more than 1,700 miles east across Africa, emptying into the Mozambique Channel Zambezi |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL WORDS $1000: This East Indian flatbread can be served with curry naan |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RIVERS OF ASIA $800: In some areas, mountains more than one mile high form the banks of this river that runs from Tibet to the East China Sea Yangtze |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RIVERS OF ASIA $2000: Long considered sacred, the Godavari River flows 910 miles west to east across India into this bay the Bay of Bengal |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $200: Though a Wild West icon, this youthful outlaw who also went by Henry McCarty was born on the East Side of New York City Billy the Kid |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LET'S SEA $800: The China Sea is divided into these 2 directional seas the East China Sea & the South China Sea |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OLD SYNONYMS $800: Sunrist was this direction east |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | WORLD WAR II $600: The 5-month battle of this city on the Volga halted the Nazi advance into Russia & turned the war's tide in the east Stalingrad |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $1600: In an attempt to quell unrest in 2006, Aussie commandos headed to Dili, capital of this island nation East Timor |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $1200: During the occupation of Japan, MacArthur was CINCFE: commander-in-chief for this 2-word directional term for the region the Far East |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $200: If you're in Central Asia, ask for shashlik; if you head down to the Middle East, ask for this 2-word skewered meat equivalent shish kebab |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | ARABIA $2,000 (Daily Double): This emirate, a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast, has taken a more independent line than its neighbors in recent years Qatar |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Dagestan is between the Caspian Sea on its east & this independence-seeking Russian Republic to its west Chechnya |
#8447, aired 2021-07-20 | GEOGRAPHY $2,400 (Daily Double): This pair of "larger" & "smaller" islands are in a group about 100 miles off the east coast of Spain Majorca & Minorca |
#8447, aired 2021-07-20 | PARTS OF THE OCEANS $2,600 (Daily Double): The Agulhas & East Madagascar Currents flow in this ocean the Indian Ocean |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | LET'S GO TO THE BEACH $400: Just east of the city bearing its name, this beach is between Biscayne Bay & the Atlantic Miami Beach |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $400: There's a direction & a paradise in this double-"E" Steinbeck title East of Eden |
#8439, aired 2021-07-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: The areas called East & West this were southern outposts of loyalty to the crown--especially St. Augustine Florida |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL $600: Both on the Upper East Side, Constance Billard School for Girls & St. Jude's School for Boys Gossip Girl |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAPPING THE MIDWEST $800: Directions from Minot to Grand Forks in this state: hop on US-2, go east for about 210 miles, stop North Dakota |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | SPORTS & SOCIETY $800: In 2020 California's East Fullerton Little League banned the name of this shamed 2017 World Series champion team the Astros |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | VOLCANO CITY USA $600: Just east of the Valles Caldera, this New Mexico City & national lab site helped create a different type of explosion in WWII Los Alamos |
#8417, aired 2021-06-08 | KEEP THE FAITH $1600: Southeast Asia has many temples of Cao Dai, which blends Buddhism, Taoism & this other ancient East Asian system Confucianism |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | THE COLONIAL WORLD $1000: Robert Clive led this company that had a quarter million men army; so, the Clive Museum benefitted with lots of Mughal artifacts the East India Company |
#8403, aired 2021-05-19 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $1000: This fault running down East Africa divides in Zambia, the western arm becoming the Luangwa Valley the Great Rift |
#8397, aired 2021-05-11 | GIVE ME A SEA $2000: With a maximum depth of only about 46 feet, the Sea of this, to the east of Crimea, is the world's shallowest sea the Sea of Azov |
#8390, aired 2021-04-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $400: West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, with its red & white candy stripes, shines from this state & is the furthest east in the continental USA Maine |
#8389, aired 2021-04-29 | LANGUAGES $1600: About 20 million in this East African nation speak Amharic Ethiopia |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | WHAT A HOARD! $1200: Though the owners won't say where, a hoard of gold coins worth millions was found in 2013 in this east California mountain range the Sierra Nevada |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: Dennis Lehane's "Prayers for Rain" is about a P.I. based in this East Coast city Boston |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $1600: Dili is the capital of this nation that broke away from Indonesia in 1999 East Timor |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | EUROPEAN GEO-GRAPHIC $1600: This mountain range swings in a 900-mile arc through East Central Europe the Carpathians |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $600: Cain ended up living in Nod, which Genesis says is here, giving this Steinbeck novel its title East of Eden |
#8376, aired 2021-04-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $600: On the East Coast it's Pat's vs. Geno's as to who makes a better one of these regional sandwiches Philly cheesesteak |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | DROPS IN THE OCEAN $800: I'll pass on vacationing on the East Siberian Sea in this ocean the Arctic Ocean |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $400: In 1616 Dutch sailors sighted Australia when they ended up too far east after rounding this cape the Cape of Good Hope |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $800: In 1770 this then-lieutenant mapped Australia's east coast & claimed it for Britain Cook |
#8364, aired 2021-03-25 | PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION $2000: A New York City tramway carries passengers between Manhattan & Roosevelt Island over this river the East River |
#8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" & "Little Gidding" make up the group of Eliot's poems called "Four" these Quartets |
#8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: What became this South African city started in 1652 as a Dutch East India Company refreshment station Cape Town |
#8342, aired 2021-02-23 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES $1200: Some in Puntland, part of this East African country, defend piracy as a response to illegal fishing & toxic dumping Somalia |
#8340, aired 2021-02-19 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $2000: Russia's most important port on the Pacific, it was founded in 1860 with a name that means "Ruler of the East" Vladivostok |
#8339, aired 2021-02-18 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $1600: Just prior to gaining its independence in 1971, Bangladesh was known by this 2-word directional name East Pakistan |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400: East of Topeka, I-70 runs across a state line through two contiguous cities with this name Kansas City |
#8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $2000: Romeo says, "But soft!", asks this question & continues, "it is the east, & Juliet is the sun" "What light through yonder window breaks?" |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | YOU CROSSED THE LINE $1000: ...zipping east out of Alberta to enter this Canadian province Saskatchewan |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1200: Appropriate first name of California settler Trask, dad to Aron & Cal in "East of Eden" Adam |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | PEAK AT THE MOUNTAINS $400: East of Santiago, Chile, Mount Tupungato is a 22,000-foot peak in this range the Andes |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | PEAK AT THE MOUNTAINS $800: Rising 19,340 feet along the East African Rift system is this peak of Tanzania Kilimanjaro |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $1000: After God expelled Adam & Eve from the garden, he placed these second-highest angels to the east of Eden to guard it cherubim |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | THAT'S SO "G-Q" $2000: This Native American language group is used along the East Coast from Canada to the Carolinas Algonquin |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | GINGERBREAD $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Wicklein Gingerbread Shop in Nuremberg, Germany.) At the intersection of several trade routes, Nuremberg acquired exotic spices like cloves, nutmeg & ginger from the East, via the network known as this road the Silk Road |
#8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $600: Nearly 70,000 shells filled the air in 2019 as viewers lined NYC's FDR Drive to see July 4th fireworks over this river the East River |
#8298, aired 2020-12-09 | "USA"! "USA"! $400: Someone vigorously fighting for a cause, not just in the medieval Middle East a crusader |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | GEOGRAPHIC FOURS $1000: Of Australia's 4 most populous cities, 3 are in the east & this one is in the far southwest Perth |
#8296, aired 2020-12-07 | BRIDGES $600: The NYC Dept. of Transportation tries not to do major work at the same time on the Brooklyn & this next bridge up the East River the Manhattan Bridge |
#8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $800: CBS News called the emptying of East Coast states before Hurricane Floyd "the biggest peacetime" this "in U.S. history" evacuation |
#8292, aired 2020-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This 12,000-square-mile plain of East-Central Africa is home to an annual migration of more than a million wildebeest the Serengeti |
#8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th CENTURY RAIDER? $800: In what's now this country, Emperor Skanda Gupta battled raids by the Hunas (Huns, but further east) India |
#8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This 700-mile-long river formed part of the boundary between East Germany & West Germany the Elbe |
#8280, aired 2020-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1951 Matthew Ridgway replaced this general as Allied Commander in the Far East MacArthur |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | A TOTAL SMOKE SHOW $2000: Haze was visible on the East Coast after the 1912 eruption of the volcanic Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in this now state Alaska |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $1,000 (Daily Double): Drive west from Maseru, capital of this country, & you arrive in South Africa--heck, drive east & you'll end up there as well Lesotho |
#8270, aired 2020-10-30 | IF YOU LIVED HERE $400: If you lived in the main city of upper Silesia in 1820, you lived in Prussia; in 1920, in Germany; today, in this country to the east Poland |
#8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HYBRIDS $2,400 (Daily Double): A favorite decorative motif of the Middle East, this mythical creature is also an in-house favorite at "Jeopardy!" a griffin |
#8249, aired 2020-10-01 | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY $600: Silent Cal took in the founding of CBS & the publication of this 1925 novel set in East Egg, Long Island The Great Gatsby |
#8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ISLAND NATIONS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Lush ecosystems off Africa's east coast have been fortified, partly thanks to one of the world's most resourceful environmental organizations, the Nature Conservancy, and its plan to restructure the debt of this nation the Seychelles |
#8245, aired 2020-09-25 | TRAVELING ON THE INTERSTATE $2,000 (Daily Double): I-10 is nearly a mile high east of Tucson but below sea level in this city founded by de Bienville in 1718 New Orleans |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THE NAVAJO $2000: The doors in these traditional dome-shaped Navajo dwellings always face to the east hogans |
#8236, aired 2020-09-14 | THIS AMERICAN CITY $1600: Named for a capital of Ancient Egypt, this city is on a bluff on the Mississippi River's east bank Memphis |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Budapest, Hungary on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge.) In 1945, the Chain Bridge was blown up by the Nazis as this army advanced from the east; but it was rebuilt and reopened for its 100th anniversary in 1949 the Red Army |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | A NATIONAL MONUMENT-AL CHALLENGE $200: O say can you see this national monument & historic shrine? You sure can, at 2400 East Fort Avenue in Baltimore Fort McHenry |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | I'M FULL OF "N.V." $1000: The Mayacamas Mountains to the west and the Vaca Range to the east, enclose this fertile region of Northern California Napa Valley |
#8225, aired 2020-05-29 | SAILING THE 5 SEAS $1600: In 1822 a Russian navy captain named this sea off his nation's east coast for a Danish explorer the Bering Sea |
#8223, aired 2020-05-27 | GEOGRAPHY $800: This major river runs all the way across northern Italy from the western frontier with France to the Adriatic in the east Po |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PEACE TALK $800: Deriving its name from the settling of a dispute, the Peace River flows 1,200 miles across British Columbia & this province just east Alberta |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $800: Port Said East Egypt |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $1600: "And" he "went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain |
#8215, aired 2020-05-01 | SPORTS MASCOTS $1000: The Cleveland Browns' Chomps, a Labrador retriever, is said to live in this bleacher section in the east end zone the Dawg Pound |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | A LANDMARK ADDRESS $1000: Relive 30 seconds of history at this site at 326 East Allen Street, Tombstone the Battle of the O.K. Corral |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | PENNSYLVANIA GEO $600: In 1954 the towns of Mauch Chunk & East Mauch Chunk were joined & named after this 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $1600: This structure fell on November 9, 1989, symbolically bringing an end to the political division between East & West the Berlin Wall |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | FILM SCHOOLS $1200: East Los Angeles College, not the University of Alabama, is where this Tom Hanks character shows his football prowess Forrest Gump |
#8193, aired 2020-04-01 | PLANETARY SCIENCE $400: On Venus one of these lasts 243 Earth ones & the Sun rises in the west & sets in the east a day |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: Ransom Eli Olds created 2 major car companies in this city Lansing |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | ANGELS $1600: Named after an archangel, this Spanish mission is located east of Los Angeles in a valley of the same name the San Gabriel Valley |
#8181, aired 2020-03-16 | NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Kangwon Province faces the East Sea, better known to us by this national name the Sea of Japan |
#8180, aired 2020-03-13 | "R" WE THERE YET? $800: Let's get together again at this Indian Ocean island & French overseas department east of Madagascar Reunion |
#8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $400: A Rocky Mountain state pahks its cah in front of an East Coast state & falls into this long state of unconsciousness a coma (Colorado & Massachusetts) |
#8172, aired 2020-03-03 | "LIST" BUCKET $600: A member of an ancient people of the Middle East, or a person with no interest in intellectual pursuits a Philistine |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | ISLANDS OF AFRICA $200: Found off the east coast, it's the world's fourth-largest island Madagascar |
#8167, aired 2020-02-25 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Argentines call these islands east of their mainland Islas Malvinas the Falklands |
#8165, aired 2020-02-21 | PULITZER-WINNING JOURNALISM $2000: In 2009 the East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Arizona won for a series on this local sheriff & his immigration enforcement Joe Arpaio |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | ESTABLISHING SOME BORDERS $400: Argentina & Bolivia to its east Chile |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | ESTABLISHING SOME BORDERS $800: As seen here, the South China Sea to its east & south Vietnam |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | ESTABLISHING SOME BORDERS $1600: Chad to its east, Mali to its west Niger |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | ESTABLISHING SOME BORDERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Egypt to its east, Algeria to its west Libya |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | "INNA" $400: At one time it was the Dutch East India Company's most profitable spice cinnamon |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | OFF TO THE LANDMARK $200: It was one of the first bridges to use steel for cable wire! On N.Y.'s East River, it almost sells itself! the Brooklyn Bridge |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE COUNTY LINE $400: Rev up your big ol' RV & go to this Wisconsin county south of Waupaca & east of Waushara Winnebago |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE COUNTY LINE $600: You can catch the 3:10 to this state's Yuma County, then keep goin' east to Cochise Arizona |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $2000: The coat of arms of this nation of islands off Africa's east coast has only one shell down by the seashore, & it's a turtle the Seychelles |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $400: In Spanish they're the Indias Occidentales the West Indies |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $800: In 1977 the Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach it the North Pole |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $1200: Celebrated April 27, Freedom Day, this country's national holiday, commemorates an event of 1994 South Africa |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $2000: The then Agricultural College of the State of Michigan was founded in what's now this city in 1855 East Lansing |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $4,000 (Daily Double): You'll find this state in Australia's lower right-hand corner New South Wales |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 2-week period in 2018, the East Coast was walloped by 3 of these storms named for the direction from which they came nor'easters |
#8138, aired 2020-01-15 | WORLD POLICE $1000: In 1991 the German government allowed access to personal files from this East German secret police force the Stasi |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | RIVER ISLANDS $400: Manhattan Island is bounded by the Harlem River, the East River & this river the Hudson |
#8123, aired 2019-12-25 | MAMA & DADA $800: David Sedaris, Bette Midler & Blue Man Group did early work at La MaMa, an experimental venue in the East Village in this NYC borough Manhattan |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $800: Straddling 2 continents, this city famous for its mosques & palaces has been called the place where "East meets West" Istanbul |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | WOMEN! $1600: The sultan of this Middle East country is assuredly proud of his all-female marching band Oman |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE $2000: It's learning acquired at a New York City correctional facility on an East River island Rikers Science |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | BENGAL $200: The area called Bengal is divided between India & this country to the east--makes sense Bangladesh |
#8107, aired 2019-12-03 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This 1952 Steinbeck novel about the Trask brothers is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain & Abel East of Eden |
#8106, aired 2019-12-02 | 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST $400: The giant wave here was captured on the east side of this island of about a million people where big waves are a way of life Oahu |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $800: In the 800s B.C. Assyrian armies began moving west of this 1,700-plus-mile river, eventually conquering most of the Middle East the Euphrates |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $800: About 378,000 square miles: also called the East Sea, it borders Sakhalin Island the Sea of Japan |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Two main islands--east and west, and about 200 smaller ones with the total land area about the size of Connecticut make up this disputed territory, about 320 miles off Argentina the Falkland Islands |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | THE 1960s $800: Popular in surfer culture, this energetic dance style shares its name with an ethnic group of East-Central Africa the Watusi |
#8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $400: Starting around 600 B.C. many Jews were deported east from the kingdom of Judah in what's known as the Babylonian this forced departure Babylonian Exile (or diaspora) |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | THE EASTERN CONFERENCE $600: Georgetown & Villanova compete in this NCAA conference the Big East |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | & SOMETIMES Y $400: A direction takes on a Y & rises as a single-celled fungal organism east & yeast |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 4-LETTER PLACES $1600: Niger is to the west & Sudan to the east of this African country Chad |
#8066, aired 2019-10-07 | DESIGNING WOMEN $1200: With balconies like rippling waves, Jeanne Gang designed the Aqua skyscraper in this city's Lakeshore East neighborhood Chicago |
#8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $1600: "Romeo and Juliet":
"It is the ____, and Juliet is the ____" "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" |
#8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $2000: A double double blank, from "Macbeth": "____ is ____, and ____ is ____" "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | GATES $1200: When John F. Kennedy visited this gate in 1963, East Germans put up red curtains so he couldn't see into East Berlin Brandenburg Gate |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | GATES $1600: Hell Gate, from a Dutch word, connects this "directional" river to Long Island Sound the East River |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | LETTER IMPERFECT $1200: The old East Coast accent like Katharine Hepburn's or William F. Buckley's was marked by dropping this letter R |
#8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician Disraeli |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | ENCLAVES $800: On the island of Timor, Ambeno is separated from the rest of East Timor by this nation Indonesia |
#8032, aired 2019-07-09 | STATE OF THE COUNTIES $600: Nez Perce County is on its west side & Teton County, on the east Idaho |
#8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $200: East Pittsburgh,
Nov. 2, 1920:
Election returns are the first commercial broadcast in this medium radio |
#8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE SAHARA DESERT $200: Sahara means "desert" in this language of north Africa & the Middle East Arabic |
#8017, aired 2019-06-18 | E BEFORE I $400: From the Arabic for "old man", it's a tribal or village leader in parts of the Middle East a sheik |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $1600: A rugged mountain pass is a gap, & an especially rugged gap is a notch, like this one just east of Burlington Smugglers' Notch |
#7998, aired 2019-05-22 | GEOGRAPHY $400: It's loosely defined as the area from North Africa to Arabia; George Mitchell was a U.S. special envoy to try to make peace there the Middle East |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: A land-grant school, it started out as East Alabama Male College; it got its colorful name in 1960 Auburn |
#7987, aired 2019-05-07 | THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD $400: We were a multi-tasking nation--the first earth for the east- & westbound route was turned in this middle year of the Civil War 1863 |
#7987, aired 2019-05-07 | THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD $2000: Other workers drank ditch water & got ill; Chinese workers drank tea & became 90% of the workforce of this co. heading east from California the Central Pacific |
#7980, aired 2019-04-26 | A FORK IN THE ROAD $400: At Barstow, Calif., take I-40 East to get to Needles or I-15 North to this more glamorous Nevada city of more than 600,000 Las Vegas |
#7980, aired 2019-04-26 | A FORK IN THE ROAD $1600: At Palmera Village in Panama, head east on the Panamerican highway for Panama City; go west for this neighboring country Costa Rica |
#7980, aired 2019-04-26 | A FORK IN THE ROAD $2000: Exit right on East Grand to get to Navy Pier if you're northbound on this Chicago "Drive" Lake Shore |
#7974, aired 2019-04-18 | IN JERUSALEM $800: In this brief 1967 conflict, Israeli forces captured East Jerusalem from Jordan, reuniting the city the Six-Day War |
#7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN $1200: At the edge of the Indian Ocean lies this island, whose east part, now independent, was invaded by Indonesia in 1975 Timor |
#7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN $1600: Founded in the 10th century, this largest Somali port was one of the first Arab settlements on the east African coast Mogadishu |
#7968, aired 2019-04-10 | ACROSS STATE LINES $1000: Heading east on I-94:
Montana,
North Dakota,
this Minnesota |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | TRAVELING $1200: The last locale of Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" to air was this historically immigrant-filled "Side" of Manhattan the Lower East Side |
#7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ON THE MOVE $800: Manhattan subway lines the 7, the L & the S travel east-west, also called this direction crosstown |
#7946, aired 2019-03-11 | Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1200: An aromatic gum resin of the Middle East myrrh |
#7943, aired 2019-03-06 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $1200: The port of Chi-Lung on the East China Sea serves this Taiwanese capital Taipei |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | YOU'RE AN ALL-STAR $800: Playing for the East, Bob Cousy had home-court advantage at the first NBA All-Star game, held in 1951 at this venue Boston Garden |
#7938, aired 2019-02-27 | SHOOTING BLANKS $800: 1904-05 fight in the Far East:
Russo-____ War Japanese |
#7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley |
#7928, aired 2019-02-13 | THE IDES OF FEBRUARY $200: On Feb. 13, 1989 these countries agreed to reunite East and West Germany |
#7925, aired 2019-02-08 | THE TITLE PLANET $400: For reasons of his own, W.G. Sebald about a walking tour of England's east coast "The Rings of" this Saturn |
#7924, aired 2019-02-07 | WORD RHYMES $1000: One from the Taurus Mountains of the Middle East a Kurd |
#7918, aired 2019-01-30 | THE PRESIDENTS, OF COURSE $3,600 (Daily Double): Ex-candy factory owner Petro Poroshenko leads this nation dealing with Russia & rebellion in its east Ukraine |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $200: Most locals call this capital on the east bank of the Nile "Masr" Cairo |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | STATES & PROVINCES $800: The port of East Chicago is not in Illinois but in this adjoining state Indiana |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | GOING "DUTCH" $3,000 (Daily Double): Founded in part to help the Dutch gain independence from Spain, this trading company's nearly 200-year run ended in 1799 the Dutch East India Company |
#7902, aired 2019-01-08 | THE VERY OLD EAST $400: This subcontinent collided with Eurasia some 40 to 50 million years ago India |
#7902, aired 2019-01-08 | THE VERY OLD EAST $800: A long, long time ago, protoceratops roamed what's now this desert of China & Mongolia the Gobi |
#7902, aired 2019-01-08 | THE VERY OLD EAST $1600: The Himalayas became Earth's tallest mountains during this geologic epoch just before our current one the Pleistocene |
#7902, aired 2019-01-08 | THE VERY OLD EAST $2,000 (Daily Double): Some 15 million years ago, what's now this country moved away from east Asia, & the same-named sea opened in its wake Japan |
#7902, aired 2019-01-08 | THE VERY OLD EAST $2000: This first known Homo erectus specimen was discovered in the 1890s in what's now Indonesia Java Man |
#7890, aired 2018-12-21 | FREE AT LAST $1200: East Timor, 2002, after 25 years of oppression by this neighbor Indonesia |
#7889, aired 2018-12-20 | HUGS & KISSES $1200: In 1979 Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev smooched Erich Honecker, head of this country that has rejoined another East Germany |
#7884, aired 2018-12-13 | GET IT STRAIT $400: The Korea Strait connects the East China Sea with this other country-named sea the Sea of Japan |
#7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $400: October 14, 1881:
A storm off the east coast of Scotland kills 189 fishermen on this sea the North Sea |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | STATE FACTS $1200: The largest New England state in area, it's the least densely populated east of the Mississippi Maine |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $200: Hellmann's on the east coast & Best Foods out west are different brand names for this same product, around since 1920 mayonnaise |
#7853, aired 2018-10-31 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM $400: In 841 this future capital was established by Viking invaders on the east coast of Ireland Dublin |
#7851, aired 2018-10-29 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: This bridge that spans the East River was the first to use steel for cable wire the Brooklyn Bridge |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | GLOBE TROTTIN' $200: Nicaragua has Honduras to the north & this sea to the east the Caribbean Sea |
#7838, aired 2018-10-10 | THE END OF THE ROAD $800: The east end of U.S. Interstate 10 is in this state Florida |
#7838, aired 2018-10-10 | THE END OF THE ROAD $1600: On the east, London's Horse Guards Avenue ends at the embankment named for her Victoria |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | GETTING COORDINATED $2000: "G.I." hope you know that 0 degrees latitude & 180 degrees longitude is just east of this group, part of Kiribati Gilbert Islands |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REINSTATE SONGS $400: In the title of a 1979 No. 1, Peaches & Herb were this, like East & West Germany 11 years later "Reunited" |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q $400: You're always part of the Wolfpack at this Raleigh school NC State |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q $1200: Neil Armstrong took more than one small step for himself attending this Big Ten university in Indiana Purdue |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q $1600: About 2,000 women attend this college in South Hadley, Mass., one of the Seven Sisters schools Mount Holyoke |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q $2000: Let's take a poll--does at least one of you 3 know this "Q" university is in Hamden, Connecticut? Quinnipiac |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q $5,000 (Daily Double): It's about a 50-mile drive from Penn to this other Ivy League school that fits the category Princeton |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | NEO GEO $800: The 17,500 islands of what was once the Dutch East Indies are now this nation of 260 million Indonesia |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | NEO GEO $1600: Before independence in 1971, Bangladesh was known as "East" this other country Pakistan |
#7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $200: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the East German Volkskammer led to the start of building this land-mark that night the Berlin Wall |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | ECO-READER $1600: "A Walk in the Woods" is Bill Bryson's account of rediscovering America by hiking this east coast footpath the Appalachian Trail |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | I READ THE NEWS TODAY $1000: In 2018 the U.S. east coast faced 50+ MPH winds, snow & temps. colder than Mars due to this 2-word type of "ordnance" storm bomb cyclone |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THAT'S SO RANDOM! $1600: They're the 2 states that border both Dakotas to the east & west Minnesota & Montana |
#7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $1000: His adventures began in Wales in 1888; he spent some time in the Middle East, then died in a motorcycle accident in 1935 Lawrence of Arabia |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | CLOTHING IN THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: This fine, lustrous fabric was from the Middle East, not from Far East Cathay silk |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | ISLAND HOPPING $2000: The South Pacific's Iles du Vent & Iles Sous le Vent translate as the islands of these 2 nautical directions Windward and Leeward |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SCRAMBLED WORLD CAPITALS $1600: The Middle East:
A DRY HI Riyadh |
#7763, aired 2018-05-16 | FER SURE, IT'S THE VALLEY, DUDE $1000: The Alleghenies are on the west side of the Shenandoah Valley; these "colorful" mountains, east Blue Ridge Mountains |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Just east of the Caspian Sea is the city-sized Tengiz supergiant one of these, part of Kazakhstan & part of Chevron oil field |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,500 (Daily Double): A large region of Turkey, also known as Asia Minor, is called this, from the Greek for "east" Anatolia |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit Uganda |
#7746, aired 2018-04-23 | 5-LETTER LANDS $800: East African land named for the 17,000-foot mountain in its middle Kenya |
#7746, aired 2018-04-23 | 5-LETTER LANDS $1200: This Mediterranean country comprises 5 islands east of Tunisia Malta |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: An arm of the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia separates Sweden from this country to the east Finland |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | EXPLORERS $1600: In 1741 this Dane sailed east from the Kamchatka Peninsula & on July 16 sighted Alaska's St. Elias mountains (Vitus) Bering |
#7742, aired 2018-04-17 | HIT THE BOOKS $800: Samuel P. Huntington on the struggle between East & West:
"The Clash of ____ and the Remaking of World Order" civilizations |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | COLLEGE SLASHES $1000: Drew University in Madison, near Elizabeth in this East Coast state, is slashing tuition 20% for 2018-19 New Jersey |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $1600: Brewster is west of the Pecos (County) in this state; Crockett is east Texas |
#7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $800: Geography:
Along the national scenic trail named for this line, spilled water might flow east, might flow west the continental divide |
#7737, aired 2018-04-10 | STATES' GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS $800: In Yavapai County, 55 miles east-southeast of Prescott Arizona |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $2000: They have a reservation in the Uintah Basin about 150 miles east of Salt Lake City the Utes |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | ASIAN $800: The Red Sea port of Jeddah is more liberal than other big cities in this Middle East kingdom Saudi Arabia |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | WRONG $1000: Jimmy Carter proclaimed in 1977 the greatness of this man has created "an island of stability" in the Middle East the shah of Iran |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $2000: The dodo once made its home on this island about 500 miles east of Madagascar M-A-U-R-I-T-I-U-S |
#7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENCY $1600: A supporter of westward expansion as vice-president, this big "D" later went east as minister to Great Britain George Dallas |
#7717, aired 2018-03-13 | STRAIT AWAY $5,000 (Daily Double): The south end of the East China Sea is the strait named for this island Taiwan |
#7712, aired 2018-03-06 | SLOVENIA & SLOVAKIA $600: We'll be blue if you don't know Slovakia's capital of Bratislava lies on this river, 35 miles east of Vienna the Danube |
#7705, aired 2018-02-23 | CHESTER A. ARTHUR $800: On May 24, 1883 President Arthur & other dignitaries helped dedicate this bridge that spans the East River the Brooklyn Bridge |
#7705, aired 2018-02-23 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $800: Changan Avenue runs east-west through Beijing with this square lying at the midpoint Tiananmen Square |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | VERY, VERY U.K. ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $800: Batley & Spen; Pudsey; this city, home to Robin Hood's law enforcement enemy East Nottingham |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | THE G8 $800: Until 1990 the group included this country that ceased to exist that year West Germany |
#7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: 1971 events at this prison east of Buffalo were one of the bloodiest clashes between Americans in the 20th century Attica |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | ASPIRATIONAL NATIONS $400: The Republic of the South Moluccas wants to take East Timor's lead & split from this country Indonesia |
#7695, aired 2018-02-09 | ISLAND NATIONS $800: 7 miles east of Venezuela is this island, the larger of the 2 that make up a nation Trinidad |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | WHAT A CROWD! $1000: In 1970, five million mourners crowded near Ramses Square for the funeral procession of this Middle East leader (Gamal Abdel) Nasser |
#7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE GLOBE $800: The globe's largest peninsula is this one found in the Middle East Arabian Peninsula |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PIRATES! $1200: After Brit John Avery plundered their fleet, the Mughals shut down some of this company's trading stations the British East India Company |
#7687, aired 2018-01-30 | AIR FORCE BASE $200: Named for the famous brothers & a WWI-era pilot, Wright-Patterson AFB is just east of this Ohio aviation city Dayton |
#7682, aired 2018-01-23 | SEAS OF THE WORLD $2000: This so-called sea is actually a shrinking saltwater lake in central Asia, east of the Caspian the Aral Sea |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | EUROPEA"N" GEOGRAPHY $800: The 5 degrees east longitude line runs through the Netherlands & this other European country Norway |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $2,000 (Daily Double): Just like the one in the Middle East, this Salt Lake City river empties into a very saline lake the Jordan River |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $1200: My Ukrainian and French-Canadian roots are backed by a DNA report by this number andme.com: 29% East European, 15% French-German 23 |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | AFRICAN ISLANDS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa.) The protected southwest remains mostly arid from January to March, when monsoons typically hit the east and northeast of this nation Madagascar |
#7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MONGOLIAN $1,200 (Daily Double): Dedicated in 2008, the 130-foot statue seen here just east of the capital depicts this great leader, a national hero Genghis Khan |
#7654, aired 2017-12-14 | STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS $600: Twin brothers Aron & Caleb Trask East of Eden |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | A TRIP TO ITALY $200: Italy's longest river, the Po flows 405 miles east to this sea the Adriatic |
#7646, aired 2017-12-04 | COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of north Africa.) From west to east across the top of north Africa, the first letters of the four highlighted countries spell out this word male |
#7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $200: In 2010 a brisk August day on the east plateau of this continent got down to minus 135.8 degrees Antarctica |
#7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1200: Under the name Batavia, this world capital was once the capital of the Dutch East Indies Jakarta |
#7628, aired 2017-11-08 | REDUNDANT GEOGRAPHY $800: East East (Asian country) East Timor |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $400: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Nancy) It is August 15, 1939 & "E.T." is at the Hollywood premiere of "The Wizard of Oz"
(Kevin) We interview Judy Garland, & ask how it felt literally bringing down the house on this character & then stealing her shoes the Wicked Witch of the East |
#7623, aired 2017-11-01 | OLD NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Until 2003 this Middle East nation used "The Land Of Two Rivers" Iraq |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $400: During the Civil War, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union troops Tallahassee |
#7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BAKER $800: He was the first & the last U.S. Secretary of State to visit East Germany James Baker |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NON -IA COUNTRIES $2000: Once known as Portuguese East Africa, it was settled by the Bantu almost 2,000 years ago Mozambique |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | TRANSPORTATION $800: This numerical NYC avenue's subway line opened in 2017 with stops at East 72nd, 86th & 96th Streets 2nd Avenue |
#7596, aired 2017-09-25 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: This company established in 1602 went oost, establishing trading posts on the Javanese shore the Dutch East India Company |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | TRANSYLVANIA $3,000 (Daily Double): To the north & east, Transylvania is bounded by these mountains that are a continuation of the Alps the Carpathian Mountains |
#7590, aired 2017-09-15 | SEAS $600: Named for its distinct color, this sea east of China averages less than 150 feet deep the Yellow Sea |
#7590, aired 2017-09-15 | SEAS $1000: This sea off Australia's east coast is named for invertebrate marine organisms the Coral Sea |
#7588, aired 2017-09-13 | FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $600: A mile east of the Rio Grande, this hamlet shares its name with a French area whose beaches became famous in 1944 Normandy |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE ORIENT EXPRESSION $800: In a Kipling poem this line precedes" and never the twain shall meet" East is East and West is West |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE ORIENT EXPRESSION $2000: "Orient' is from the Latin for "rising sun"; French for "rise" gave us this word for the area east of the Mediterranean the Levant |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | WE "LOVE" TO READ $1600: Teaching in London's East End inspired E.R. Braithwaite to write this 1959 book, later a Sidney Poitier film To Sir, with Love |
#7562, aired 2017-06-27 | OLD SCHOOL $400: Founded 1701 & located in a town just west of East Haven, Connecticut Yale |
#7557, aired 2017-06-20 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $800: Safaga on Egypt's east coast is a windsurfing & sailing destination on this sea the Red Sea |
#7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $1200: Erratic weather has been tied to this speedy air current in the troposphere varying from its west-east path the jetstream |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | EAST ON THE MAP $200: This nation was once a province known as East Pakistan & before that, East Bengal Bangladesh |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | EAST ON THE MAP $400: East Cape is the easternmost mainland point on this island, the world's second largest New Guinea |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | EAST ON THE MAP $600: It's home to Michigan State University East Lansing |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | EAST ON THE MAP $800: The area seen here; a Cal State campus in Hayward is named for it the East Bay |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | EAST ON THE MAP $1000: Ambeno, an enclave surrounded by Indonesia, is part of this country that gained its independence in 2002 East Timor |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | A LONG TIME AGO IN AMERICA $1200: Around 1000 A.D. this man explored the east coast of North America, sighting Newfoundland Leif Erikson |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | GERMAN HISTORY $600: In the 843 Treaty of Verdun, the Carolingian Empire was split into 3; Louis the German got the land east of this river the Rhine |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | GERMAN HISTORY $1000: When West Germany & East Germany united in 1990, this West German chancellor was leader of the new/old country (Helmut) Kohl |
#7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: A hill marking the site of an ancient city, it's found in the names of some Middle East cities, including one of Israel's largest tel |
#7542, aired 2017-05-30 | OTHER BRITISH ISLES $1000: Tourist attractions on this island due east of Charleston include Devil's Hole, a natural aquarium in a cave Bermuda |
#7539, aired 2017-05-25 | OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 1776 $800: The Treaty of Purandar was signed by the Maratha & the "Supreme Government" of this U.K. company the (British) East India Company |
#7538, aired 2017-05-24 | "HAT" BOX $1200: The U.S.S. Monitor sank off this East Coast promontory on New Years Eve 1862 Cape Hatteras |
#7535, aired 2017-05-19 | POETRY $1600: A stretch of East 127th Street in New York City has been named for this poet known for such poems as "The Weary Blues" Langston Hughes |
#7528, aired 2017-05-10 | ARCHIPELAGO-GO $400: The Malay Archipelago has also been called the East these the East Indies |
#7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $1000: Before he took on Cylons, he took on teaching math in East L.A. as Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver" Edward James Olmos |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The 2 main roads in this city are King Fahd Highway, running north-south, & Mecca Highway, running east-west Riyadh |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | LIVE TV $1200: Set at County General Hospital, this No. 1 drama of 1996-97 did a live show for the East Coast & then the West Coast ER |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME $1000: You could be wading in an east African lake as this, Phoeniconaias minor a flamingo |
#7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SOUTH AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Due east of Suriname, it's formally un Departement d'outre-mer French Guiana |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | StubHub SUBCULTURES $1200: At PAX East in 2017 you can watch play on the Fields of Justice in this alliterative arena game--book early! League of Legends |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $1600: For committing murder, he was exiled to "the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain |
#7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $2000: Neil Patrick Harris won a 2014 Tony for his role in this musical about a transgender punk rocker from East Berlin Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
#7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: In 1992 North Korea & South Korea proposed that this sea off their east coasts be called the East Sea the Sea of Japan |
#7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $800: A 131-foot statue of this conqueror looms over the steppe east of Ulan Bator Genghis Khan |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | IN THE FIRST PLACE $2000: This small Asian nation's independence day on May 20, 2002 made it the first new country of the 21st century East Timor |
#7453, aired 2017-01-25 | U.S. ISLANDS $400: East Sand Island in this river near Chinook, Wash. is home to a vast nesting colony of Caspian terns the Columbia |
#7453, aired 2017-01-25 | U.S. ISLANDS $600: This island shaped like a pork chop is to the east of Martha's Vineyard across Muskeget Channel Nantucket |
#7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) In July 1943, this U.S. general's Seventh Army swept through western Sicily, then turned east to help Montgomery's British Eighth Patton |
#7452, aired 2017-01-24 | HISTORY $800: This movement that spread across the Middle East began in late 2010 when protests in Tunisia led to the ouster of Pres. Ben Ali the Arab Spring |
#7448, aired 2017-01-18 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East Tube station Jack the Ripper |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HUMANITARIANS $1200: In 2007 this Middle East country's Queen Rania became UNICEF's 1st Eminent Advocate for Children Jordan |
#7439, aired 2017-01-05 | NATO $400: It joined NATO in 1955; in 1990 it dropped the directional part of its name West Germany |
#7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OCEANS $1200: The longitude meridian at 147° east, near Tasmania, separates these 2 oceans, actually part of one global ocean the Indian & Pacific Oceans |
#7415, aired 2016-12-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $2000: This site 90 miles east of Fresno was a WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans Manzanar |
#7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi is a memorable graphic novel about growing up in this Middle East country Iran |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $400: Utah's Uinta range, a part of this mountain system, is the only major range in the contiguous U.S. running east-west the Rockies |
#7391, aired 2016-10-31 | WHERE AM I? $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm going to get deep dish at Gino's East, just off of Michigan Avenue & Superior Street, opened in 1966 by two cab drivers & a pal who were frustrated by rush hour traffic in this city Chicago |
#7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HOW NOVEL $1200: This Steinbeck novel with a biblical theme was first called "Salinas Valley"; that's where it takes place East of Eden |
#7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $1600: Marco Polo dictated his far east adventures while in prison in this city, Venice's rival Genoa |
#7381, aired 2016-10-17 | THE TROPIC OF CANCER $2000: Going from Mumbai to al Fujayrah in the UAE takes you across the Tropic of Cancer in this gulf east of the Persian Gulf the Gulf of Oman |
#7376, aired 2016-10-10 | U.S. RIVERS $1200: This river that runs east-west, bisecting Alaska, is known for the Chinook salmon that spawn in its creeks the Yukon River |
#7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $1,600 (Daily Double): These mountains divided the war into 2 main theaters: east to the Atlantic & west to the Mississippi River the Appalachians |
#7367, aired 2016-09-27 | THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZES $400: This paper won the Breaking News Pulitzer for going 60 miles east to cover the San Bernardino terrorist attack The Los Angeles Times |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $9,400 (Daily Double): The oud, of the Middle East, is a member of this stringed instrument family with a 4-letter name a lute |
#7361, aired 2016-09-19 | GEORGE CLOONEY FILM ROLES $200: CIA agent Bob Barnes, who has experience in the Middle East Syriana |
#7358, aired 2016-09-14 | GEOGRAPH"E" $400: Seen here is the view from Queens looking over this body of water the East River |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | FIRST, QUEENS $200: Between the boroughs of Queens & Manhattan flows this "directional" river the East River |
#7342, aired 2016-07-12 | "BEN" THERE $1200: 3-nation group bordered by Germany to the east & France to the south Benelux |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $1200: In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the first horticulture lab in the U.S. at this school in East Lansing Michigan State |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | HIDING PLACES $2000: Somehow I am managing to endure the scorching heat in this Middle East capital Amman (in am managing) |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS $2000: I think I'll head to this European city of about 1.2 million... Huh? There's no place called that anymore? East Berlin |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | WORLD PIECE $800: This system stretches west to east from Nanga Parbat to Namcha Barwa the Himalayas |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | ISTHMUS BE YOUR LUCKY DAY $1600: Just east of the Gulf of Finland, the Karelian Isthmus was the on/off HQ of this leading Commie between 1906 & '17 Lenin |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | RESORTS $200: This N.J. resort's streets parallel to the ocean were named for bodies of water & the east-west streets for U.S. states Atlantic City |
#7324, aired 2016-06-16 | THREE CHEERS FOR THE RED, WHITE $2000: It's a former Soviet republic just east of the Black Sea Georgia |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | NEW IN SCIENCE $1200: In March 2016 an eclipse ended the day before it began as the Moon's shadow moved east across this line the International Date Line |
#7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TV MAPS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Allies lost the war, and a buffer zone splits North America, with the Japanese in the west & the Nazis in the east on this Amazon show based on a story by Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle |
#7313, aired 2016-06-01 | GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME $400: Oran on the sea /
Then off to Adrar for me /
Farther east, you got Syria /
But we're staying here in... Algeria |
#7311, aired 2016-05-30 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES $1200: There was once a place called Italian East Africa; now most of it is this Ethiopia |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NUMERICAL LIT $200: The title of this Ken Kesey novel completes the rhyme "One flew east, one flew west..." One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
#7307, aired 2016-05-24 | REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $400: The agreement that redrew the Middle East was known by the name of this "Minor" area of major importance Asia (Minor) |
#7301, aired 2016-05-16 | COUNTRY DISTINCTIONS $1,800 (Daily Double): These 2 neighboring Middle East countries share the lowest elevation on land, about 1,300 feet below sea level Israel & Jordan |
#7299, aired 2016-05-12 | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPARDY! $1000: "It is the east & Jeopardy! is the sun" Juliet |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | SWEET ISLE OF MINE $1200: East Wallabi Island Australia |
#7287, aired 2016-04-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1600: The east end of Long Island is AKA this area with a plural name & many wealthy occupants the Hamptons |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | FEMALE ATHLETES $400: In the 1980s Katarina Witt dominated women's figure skating competing for this country that no longer exists East Germany |
#7277, aired 2016-04-12 | BRIDGES $600: Opened in 1883, it spans the East River into lower Manhattan the Brooklyn Bridge |
#7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE HIMALAYAS $1600: In 2007 this tiny, isolated kingdom east of Nepal held the first elections in its history Bhutan |
#7270, aired 2016-04-01 | ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE $800: On Oct. 7, 1949 the Soviets announced the formation of this country, aka the DDR East Germany |
#7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AROUND THE USA $400: This heavily populated island was formed by 2 volcanoes: Wainae in the west & Koolau in the east Oahu |
#7257, aired 2016-03-15 | TV TIME $600: Barring NFL nuttiness, "60 Minutes" begins at this hour on the East Coast 7:00 |
#7255, aired 2016-03-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: About 140 miles east of San Francisco, you'll find this national park Yosemite |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | THE INDIAN OCEAN $3,000 (Daily Double): Northern extensions of the Indian Ocean include the Arabian Sea off India's west coast & this bay to the east the Bay of Bengal |
#7231, aired 2016-02-08 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: Eugene Dubois traveled to the East Indies in search of early hominins; he struck paydirt on this island in 1891 Java |
#7231, aired 2016-02-08 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: The name of this desert wind comes from sharq, an Arabic word for "east" sirocco |
#7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $800: "East of Eden" California |
#7230, aired 2016-02-05 | POP CULTURE WEBSITES $1200: The website of this NBA East team said they showed "fight and resolve" in the loss that took them to 1-22 the (Philadelphia) 76ers |
#7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WITH FOAM $1000: This sea just to the east of Italy is named for a once-flourishing port the Adriatic Sea |
#7217, aired 2016-01-19 | INTERNATIONAL ACRONYMS $800: ASEAN:
Association of these Nations Southeast Asian |
#7209, aired 2016-01-07 | A IS THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: It's an East Indian fig tree banyan |
#7197, aired 2015-12-22 | DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES $1600: Of the 5 nations with compass directions in their names, 3 use "South"; these 2 do not East Timor & North Korea |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | LITERARY DIRECTIONS $400: This 1952 Steinbeck novel tells the stories of 3 generations of the Trask & Hamilton families East of Eden |
#7192, aired 2015-12-15 | THE SEA "B"s $2,000 (Daily Double): From the mid-1880s to 1914, this sea east of New Guinea was under German control the Bismarck Sea |
#7184, aired 2015-12-03 | STATES' LOWEST POINTS $800: This state: 2,842 feet above sea level at Red Bluff Reservoir just east of Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | HOW THE EAST WAS WON $100 (Daily Double): Russian caravans got access to Beijing in a 1689 treaty with this dynasty that gave its name to a region Manchu |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | HOW THE EAST WAS WON $400: Ivan Moskvitin led the first overland group in Russia to reach this around 1639, 166 years before Lewis & Clark did the Pacific Ocean |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | HOW THE EAST WAS WON $800: Musket-toting Cossacks outgun the locals in a work depicting the 1580s conquest of this vast eastern region Siberia |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | HOW THE EAST WAS WON $1600: In the 1700s, Russia overcame resistance from the native Koryak & annexed this peninsula the Kamchatka Peninsula |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | HOW THE EAST WAS WON $2000: Asian nomads had a "beef" with this wealthy merchant family that colonized the steppes in the 1500s & 1600s the Stroganoffs |
#7170, aired 2015-11-13 | DESERTS $5,600 (Daily Double): The name of this desert of the Middle East is from the Hebrew for "dry" the Negev |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $1600: Heading east, the equator passes through the Maldives, & the next nation it reaches is this other island one Indonesia |
#7147, aired 2015-10-13 | MY KIND OF "TOWN" $400: You can sample dim sum in this area of San Francisco east of Nob Hill, with restaurants & shops on Grant Avenue Chinatown |
#7147, aired 2015-10-13 | NEW ENGLAND $400: (I'm Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank.) In the '90s I made millions from selling software in my headquarters in this university city, part of the East Coast version of Silicon Valley Cambridge, Massachusetts |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1200: Firsts for this new German chancellor in 2005 included first East German in the post (Angela) Merkel |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $1200: In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the 1st horticultural laboratory in the U.S. at this East Lansing school Michigan State |
#7129, aired 2015-09-17 | "E"-READERS $400: The original title of this Steinbeck novel was "Salinas Valley" East of Eden |
#7128, aired 2015-09-16 | HISTORY $800: In the 1950s the Mau Mau movement among the Kikuyu people battled Colonial rule in this East African country Kenya |
#7122, aired 2015-07-28 | PARISH THE THOUGHT, LOUISIANA $400: Parish-wise, there's East this capital city & West this capital city Baton Rouge |
#7118, aired 2015-07-22 | TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY $600: We begin in Odeborg, then we zip east to Skovde & north to Bjorbo, all on our "IKEA Quest 2015"! Sweden |
#7117, aired 2015-07-21 | PENINSULAS $400: Monsoons bring frigid arctic air in the winter & moisture from the East China Sea in the summer on this peninsula the Korean Peninsula |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $600: The old money & new money Long Island neighborhoods in this novel are East Egg & West Egg The Great Gatsby |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | THE WAY OF THE DODO $2000: Dodos inhabited this small island country just east of Madagascar Mauritius |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | A GLOBAL CATEGORY $400: From France in the west to Albania in the east, this mountain range spans a dozen countries the Alps |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE 16th CENTURY $1200: Called "the Magnificent" in the West & "the Lawgiver" in the East, he was Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566 Suleiman |
#7105, aired 2015-07-03 | A BRIEF ILLNESS $1600: The respiratory syndrome MERS is named for this region of the world the Middle East |
#7096, aired 2015-06-22 | THE MOST POPULOUS NATION $800: Central African Republic,
North Korea,
East Timor North Korea |
#7093, aired 2015-06-17 | PULLIN' INTO THE "BURG" $400: Now a state in east-central Germany, it was a "gate"way of dynastic power for the kingdom of Prussia Brandenburg |
#7092, aired 2015-06-16 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: Thomas Bruce, earl of this, went east to Greece to get some marbles; his son James went west & was gov.-gen. of Canada Elgin |
#7086, aired 2015-06-08 | WORLD FACTS $400: It's the smallest of the Great Lakes by surface area & the one farthest east Ontario |
#7083, aired 2015-06-03 | TOUGH DAY AT $1200: East Liverpool, Ohio on October 22, 1934 for this "Pretty Boy", gunned down by vengeful G-men (Pretty Boy) Floyd |
#7078, aired 2015-05-27 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $1200: This notorious political organization ran New York City from its headquarters at 141 East 14th St. Tammany Hall |
#7065, aired 2015-05-08 | STEPPE BY STEPPE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Great Steppe of Eurasia, which for millennia gave horsemen from the East a highway to Europe, is grassland, stretching 4,000 miles from China to the mouth of this river on the Black Sea the Danube |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: The central part of this city has 2 main districts: Karkh & Rusafah, which lie on the west & east banks of the Tigris Baghdad |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: The Andes rise east of this 4-letter coastal capital Lima (Peru) |
#7060, aired 2015-05-01 | WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS $2000: Its citizens called it the DDR; we called it this East Germany |
#7057, aired 2015-04-28 | WHERE YA FROM? $1600: A Canadian province:
Bluenose Nova Scotia |
#7053, aired 2015-04-22 | SOJOURNER $600: Pedro Paez' 20-year trek through East Africa in the 17th c. included seeing the source of its Blue branch the Nile |
#7048, aired 2015-04-15 | RIVER BANK ON IT $400: It turns so sharply on its trip through Paris that its west bank becomes its east, so locals say Right & Left Bank instead the Seine |
#7045, aired 2015-04-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This spacey Florida cape is just east of the Banana River Canaveral |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | "-EY" MAN $600: Term for a native of London's East End Cockney |
#7029, aired 2015-03-19 | WORLD PEAS $400: Aka the Bengal gram, in the Middle East it's mashed to make hummus chickpeas |
#7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAUGHABLE TELEVISION $1000: Players in this duo's "East/West Collegiate Bowl" included Bismo Funyuns, D'Pez Poopsie & Quackadilly Blip Key & Peele |
#7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 1865 $400: The Christian Mission, later renamed this, is founded by William Booth in London's East End The Salvation Army |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $400: In 2004 President Roh Moo Hyun tried to move South Korea's capital from this city to Gongju Seoul |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $800: One of this Japanese city's most popular tourist destinations is the atomic bomb Genbaku Dome Hiroshima |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $1200: This Mongolian city is often described as the world's coldest capital Ulan Bator |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $1600: This country's 2nd-largest city, Mandalay, is known for a pagoda containing 729 stone Buddhist tablets Myanmar (or Burma) |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $2000: This Vietnamese city near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as the deepwater port for Hanoi Haiphong |
#7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Tahquanemon Falls in this state's upper peninsula is the USA's second-largest waterfall east of the Mississippi Michigan |
#7020, aired 2015-03-06 | PRUSSIA $800: After the collapse of the Third Reich, parts of East Prussia, including Konigsberg, was annexed by this country Russia |
#7014, aired 2015-02-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SAINTS $2000: Control of this island nation of the east Caribbean changed hands many times before its 1979 independence St. Lucia |
#7013, aired 2015-02-25 | TENNIS "E" $1200: The most common grip used by beginners is this directional style the Eastern forehand style |
#7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1950s BESTSELLERS $800: This Steinbeck novel follows the destinies of 2 generations of California brothers East of Eden |
#7008, aired 2015-02-18 | DAVID MUIR REPORTING $1600: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2006 I reported from the Middle East on the 34-day war between Israeli forces & this Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $3,000 (Daily Double): This island nation with a directional name splits oil revenues with Australia, not its old master Indonesia East Timor |
#6998, aired 2015-02-04 | TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY! $1000: It's a pirate getaway as you'll enjoy a 3-day, 2-night stay at the port of Berbera in this East African country Somalia |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew pours a cold one from the tap at Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Gino's serves a brew inspired by Chicago called 312 Urban Wheat Ale, "312" representing this to Chicago residents the area code |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets ready to chow down on a slice at Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) A 2012 Bloomberg piece featured this mayor enjoying a slice of Gino's with business leaders for what the piece called a distinctly Chicago take on partisan battles & innovation in the Windy City Rahm Emanuel |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) On January 26, 1986, the crowd at Gino's East went crazy as this 300 pound-plus lineman scored on a 1-yard run to put the Bears ahead of the Patriots 43-3 in Super Bowl XX William "Refrigerator" Perry |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Every year, Gino's hosts Match Day, when students at the Feinberg School of Medicine at this nearby Big Ten university find out where their residencies will be Northwestern |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets ready to chow down on a slice at Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Nick Offerman, who plays this character on "Parks and Rec" (who knows a little something about meat), said that one slice of Gino's East stuffed sausage pizza is a bigger meal than an entire New York pie Ron Swanson |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $400: 1971:
Chancellor Willy Brandt (be specific) West Germany |
#6977, aired 2015-01-06 | A VEGAS HOTEL, OR... $800: One of the 4 quartiers of Monaco, 9 miles east of Nice, France Monte Carlo |
#6975, aired 2015-01-02 | PLACES THAT END IN "IA" $200: This country is bordered by Turkey to the north & Iraq to the east Syria |
#6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Hi. I'm Dr. Oz.) One of my favorite films is this 1967 movie with Sidney Poitier, who takes a teaching job in tough East End London To Sir, with Love |
#6972, aired 2014-12-30 | NATIONALLY CLAIMED $2000: 96th Street is the southern border of East Harlem, aka this Spanish Harlem |
#6969, aired 2014-12-25 | OFFICIAL NATIONAL NAMES $800: You'll find the "Sultanate of" this nation in the Middle East Oman |
#6966, aired 2014-12-22 | "HO"! "HO"! "HO"! $800: The Hulkster knows this traditional Navajo dwelling usually opens to the east to greet the sun a hogan |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $200: We'll gamble you know that this East Coast tourist hotspot lies on 10-mile-long Absecon Island Atlantic City |
#6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE END OF THE BOOK $1000: Lying sick in bed, Adam gives his son Caleb his blessing by saying the Hebrew word "timshel" East of Eden |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | LOWLY HISTORY $1200: A museum on New York City's Lower East Side is named for this type of lowly housing, often for immigrants tenement |
#6956, aired 2014-12-08 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $600: An Olympian figure & a Middle East canal Zeus & Suez |
#6940, aired 2014-11-14 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $600: The tide most certainly does not roll at this school established in 1856 as the East Alabama Male College Auburn |
#6936, aired 2014-11-10 | UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN $1600: Ocean:
Ninety East Ridge the Indian Ocean |
#6919, aired 2014-10-16 | EUROPEAN RIVERS $400: East of Belgrade this river flows through a narrow gorge called the iron gate the Danube |
#6916, aired 2014-10-13 | A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows notes and a map on the monitor.) Union soldiers found Robert E. Lee's handwritten plans wrapped around three cigars & lying in a field east of Sharpsburg, Maryland, four days before this bloody 1862 battle Antietam |
#6915, aired 2014-10-10 | "TOX" TO ME $2000: This attraction for history buffs is 25 miles east of Lynchburg, Virginia Appomattox |
#6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"! $400: This city about 25 miles east of Lake Michigan, was founded by a fur trader in 1826 Grand Rapids |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $1600: Colorful shops line
front street in Hamilton, capital of this British territory off the east coast of the United States Bermuda |
#6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $400: She was born Sophie Frederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst in Prussia in 1729; go east, young girl! Catherine the Great |
#6905, aired 2014-09-26 | & THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY $1600: Over 9,400 feet, Maromokotro is the highest point on this island 250 miles east of Africa's mainland Madagascar |
#6905, aired 2014-09-26 | & THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY $3,500 (Daily Double): The greatest north-south distance of this South American country is 2,731 miles; east-west, 2,684 Brazil |
#6896, aired 2014-09-15 | STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER $200: One has St. Louis, the other has East St. Louis Missouri & Illinois |
#6888, aired 2014-07-23 | 10 YEARS AGO: 2004 $400: For the first time since 1918, this East Coast team won baseball's World Series the (Boston) Red Sox |
#6884, aired 2014-07-17 | A KILLEE'S HEELS $400: Early in "The Wizard of Oz", you see red heels on this witch's corpse before they morph onto Dorothy's feet The Wicked Witch of the East |
#6882, aired 2014-07-15 | LET'S GO TO ALASKA $1200: This "Little" island lies in the Bering Strait less than a mile east of the International Date Line Little Diomede Island |
#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: "See No Evil", about the CIA in the Middle East, became "Syriana", which won an Oscar for this actor (George) Clooney |
#6874, aired 2014-07-03 | MR. SECRETARY $2000: Serving until 1975, Rogers Morton of Maryland was the last secretary of this department to come from east of the Mississippi Interior |
#6873, aired 2014-07-02 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $800: Frank Sinatra rests at Desert Memorial Park just east of this California resort city Palm Springs |
#6864, aired 2014-06-19 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1600: Mary, in 1936, I wanna make you wife number 2! I'm gonna unearth the world for you in East Africa! (Louis) Leakey |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | HONG KONG $600: Hong Kong is surrounded by this sea to the east, west &, of course, "south" the South China Sea |
#6860, aired 2014-06-13 | BOROUGH IN! $1600: In 2014 the Super Bowl was played at MetLife Stadium in this New Jersey borough East Rutherford |
#6851, aired 2014-06-02 | INDIA $1200: In 1615 Sir Thomas Roe reached the court of Mughal Emperor Jahangir & was granted trading rights for this firm the British East India Company |
#6849, aired 2014-05-29 | ON THE OLD MAP $200: 1990 was the end for this country whose districts included Neubrandenburg, Leipzig & Karl-Marx-Stadt East Germany |
#6848, aired 2014-05-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $600: In the 17th c. this country's East India Company took over the Moluccas & controlled the world clove trade the Netherlands |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | ON THE MAP $800: This region making up most of Turkey takes its name from the Greek for "east" Anatolia |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | THE FAR EAST $400: Venomous snakes are "milked" of their poison twice daily for snakebite antidotes at the Pasteur Institute in this Thai capital Bangkok |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | THE FAR EAST $800: May to November is the rainy season of this country--its coast gets 200 inches a year, but Phnom Penh gets less than 60 Cambodia |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | THE FAR EAST $1200: We shall return to this island nation & its large lakes like Lake Lanao on Mindanao the Philippines |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | THE FAR EAST $1600: The lowest point for North & South Korea is at this "national" body of water the Sea of Japan |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | THE FAR EAST $2000: In the Lao language the name of this Laotian capital means "city of sandalwood" Vientiane |
#6813, aired 2014-04-09 | STATE SCHOOLS $1,200 (Daily Double): This u. boasts "mesas to the west... the banks of the historic Rio Grande (&) the Sandia Mountains to the east" University of New Mexico |
#6807, aired 2014-04-01 | I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY $200: Before "Timor" East |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $400: The island of Socotra, 200 miles south of the coast, is part of this Arabian Peninsula nation Yemen |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $800: There's the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea & this national body of water indicated here the Gulf of Oman |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $1200: Indicated here is the location of this almost-17,000-foot peak Mount Ararat |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $1600: Recently damaged in the civil war, this city had been its nation's business capital & was once the end of the Silk Road Aleppo |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $2000: In June of 1942, Erwin Rommel captured this port city from the British, who took it back in November Tobruk |
#6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ISLAND PRISONS $3,000 (Daily Double): New York City's main correctional facility, it lies in the East River & consists of 10 separate jails Riker's Island |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | MOVIE SONGS $2000: "We're gonna do what they say can't be done" is from this "Smokey & The Bandit" song, later an HBO sitcom title "East Bound And Down" |
#6786, aired 2014-03-03 | ON THE MAP $1200: Azerbaijan borders this country on the east; an enclave of Azerbaijan also borders it to the southwest Armenia |
#6771, aired 2014-02-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $1000: Retells a biblical story:
"First Aron prayed silently for Cal" East of Eden |
#6771, aired 2014-02-10 | FAMOUS HOMES $2000: As of January 2014 Gracie Mansion at East End Ave. & 88th Street is this man's official residence Bill de Blasio |
#6765, aired 2014-01-31 | IN THE NATIONAL PARK $1200: Bright Angel Trail,
East Rim Drive the Grand Canyon |
#6764, aired 2014-01-30 | NFL STADIUMS $800: These 2 NFL teams play home games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey the Jets & the Giants |
#6758, aired 2014-01-22 | RIVERS $400: The Brooklyn Bridge & the Williamsburg Bridge both span this river the East River |
#6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $600: In "East of Eden" he wrote that the Salinas Valley was carpeted with poppies, like the ones seen here in Big Sur (John) Steinbeck |
#6750, aired 2014-01-10 | WINDOW QUOTES $2000: But soft! In "Romeo and Juliet", this question precedes "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" "What light through yonder window breaks?" |
#6747, aired 2014-01-07 | BREAKAWAY NATIONS $400: East Timor gained its independence from this nation in 1999 Indonesia |
#6747, aired 2014-01-07 | BREAKAWAY NATIONS $1200: Before a 1971 civil war changed things, this independent country was known as East Pakistan Bangladesh |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $200: Hanauma Bay, east of Waikiki Pacific |
#6729, aired 2013-12-12 | CHOP WOOD $800: The Wicked Witch of the East maliciously enchants his axe over his love for a munchkin maiden the Tin Man |
#6726, aired 2013-12-09 | WHICH DIRECTION? $400: Region in the U.K. where Norwich is:
____ Anglia East |
#6726, aired 2013-12-09 | PLEASE, NOT CHAPTER 11 $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 4:
"Clarence Endive was from East Egg, as I remember. He came only once, in white knickerbockers" The Great Gatsby |
#6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $2000: Under president Siad Barre, who left in 1991, this East African land had its last real government for many years Somalia |
#6718, aired 2013-11-27 | REMEMBER 1791? $5,000 (Daily Double): In August the Treaty of Sistova ended war between the Hapsburgs & this empire to the east the Ottoman Empire |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) As the U.S. expanded its territory westward,
this point moved from the east coast in 1776 to South Dakota in 1959 with the addition of Alaska & Hawaii geographic center |
#6686, aired 2013-10-14 | STATE THE STATE UNIVERSITY $400: In 1855 this East Lansing school opened as the first agricultural college in the United States Michigan State |
#6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $400: Completed in 1883, this bridge over the East River was built at a cost of $15 million (but I'll sell it to you for a cool 10) the Brooklyn Bridge |
#6661, aired 2013-07-29 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $600: This king's "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt" King Solomon |
#6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: A British territory, this island group about 700 miles east of the Carolinas is named for its discoverer Bermuda |
#6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $1000: East to west, the greatest distance across this country is 6,000 miles; north to south, 2,800 Russia |
#6642, aired 2013-07-02 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $400: This country's neighbors to the east include Iran, Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan Turkey |
#6637, aired 2013-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: By the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the French & Indian War, Britain got the land east of this river the Mississippi |
#6635, aired 2013-06-21 | ASIAN RELIGION $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.) Like almost all religious or other important structures in Cambodia, the Throne Hall faces this direction, so it's best photographed in the morning the east |
#6635, aired 2013-06-21 | SONGS GETTING AIR PLAY $1200: Far East movement was "Sippin' sizzurp in my ride, like three 6, now I'm feelin' so fly, like a" this a G-6 |
#6632, aired 2013-06-18 | DAS "K"APITAL $1200: Port Bell, this Ugandan capital's seaport, lies 6 miles east on Lake Victoria Kampala |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | "NORTH", "SOUTH", "EAST", "WEST" $400: "You are now free to move about the country" on this airline Southwest |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | "NORTH", "SOUTH", "EAST", "WEST" $800: In about 2,000 years, Gamma Cephei will replace Polaris as this the North Star |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | "NORTH", "SOUTH", "EAST", "WEST" $1200: Rikers Island is in this navigable tidal strait; the RFK Bridge spans it the East River |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | "NORTH", "SOUTH", "EAST", "WEST" $1600: Horace Greeley is generally credited with this 4-word phrase, but some say John Soule used it earlier "Go west, young man." |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | "NORTH", "SOUTH", "EAST", "WEST" $2000: This annual event began in 1987 to showcase the Austin music scene to industry pros South by Southwest |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1054 the "Great Schism" divided the power of the Catholic church between these 2 cities, in east & west Rome & Constantinople |
#6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: In Australia, Northern Territory is directly east of this 2-word state Western Australia |
#6622, aired 2013-06-04 | JANE AUSTEN IN POP CULTURE $800: 2 sisters go broke & move to East L.A. in the rhymingly titled fiim "From Prada to" this, based on "Sense & Sensibility" Nada |
#6618, aired 2013-05-29 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $2000: Its East Building, completed in 1978 in Washington, D.C., was designed by I.M. Pei the National Gallery of Art |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | STUFF ABOUT STATES $800: This original 13er is the largest state in land area east of the Mississippi River Georgia |
#6607, aired 2013-05-14 | WORLD ATHLETES $400: According to Forbes, this man born in east London is the world's highest-earning soccer player (David) Beckham |
#6607, aired 2013-05-14 | ON THE MAP $800: This strait named for an island connects the South China Sea with the East China Sea the Taiwan Strait |
#6603, aired 2013-05-08 | ISLANDS $1200: Inagua in this nation just east of Miami is home to more than 80,000 flamingos, the national bird the Bahamas |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | MINNE-CODA $200: Minnesota's Sawtooth Mountains end in the east when they reach this Great Lake (Lake) Superior |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | VLAD THE IMPALA $2000: Vlad is a proud member of a large herd that roams Serengeti National Park in this east African nation Tanzania |
#6581, aired 2013-04-08 | EUROPE $800: Walter Ulbricht was the longtime Communist despot of this European country East Germany |
#6581, aired 2013-04-08 | "CH"OW $1600: This medium-sized east coast clam has a hard shell a cherrystone |
#6580, aired 2013-04-05 | WORLD "S"ITIES $800: This city's main east-west street, Nanjing Road, begins at the Huangpu River & heads west Shanghai |
#6579, aired 2013-04-04 | MANHATTAN PROJECTS $400: Built over 13 years at a cost of more than $13 million, it spans the East River to connect Manhattan & another borough The Brooklyn Bridge |
#6573, aired 2013-03-27 | "I"-PODGE $600: When you cross it going east, you don't adjust your watch but your calendar, back one day the International Date Line |
#6572, aired 2013-03-26 | COMPACTS $800: When West Germany joined NATO, East Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union & 5 other nations formed this pact the Warsaw Pact |
#6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE QUEENS ENGLISH $1200: It's a little weird to say, but Queens is bounded on the west by this river the East River |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | EDICTS $1200: The Edict of Milan granting religious freedom in the Roman Empire was issued in 313 by Licinius & this ruler in the east Constantine (the Great) |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $1000: Honduras & this next-door neighbor to the south & east both have horizontally striped blue & white flags Nicaragua |
#6563, aired 2013-03-13 | FOUND IN GERMANY $800: This former Berlin Wall checkpoint, where you can see instruments of escape used by East Germans Checkpoint Charlie |
#6561, aired 2013-03-11 | THE HITTITES $1200: Hattusa, the Hittite capital from around 1650 B.C., was just east of this present-day Turkish capital Ankara |
#6558, aired 2013-03-06 | THE TONYS $400: He was appointed envoy for peace efforts in the Middle East after resigning as British prime minister Tony Blair |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: This Steinbeck novel features the gentle Adam Trask & his twin sons Caleb & Aron East of Eden |
#6552, aired 2013-02-26 | FACTS & FIGURES $600: Leaving Belgium, the greatest west-to-east distance across this neighboring country is 35 miles Luxembourg |
#6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $800: The best place to see tenrecs is on this large island off Africa's east coast Madagascar |
#6548, aired 2013-02-20 | ON THE MAP $1000: One of the world's newest countries, it gained its independence in 2002 East Timor |
#6545, aired 2013-02-15 | PORTU-GALS & GUYS $1000: Teresa Heinz Kerry was born to Portuguese parents in this then-Portuguese colony on Africa's east coast Mozambique |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $1000: 30 miles east of the Yellow Sea, this city boasts the Changdok Palace, which dates back to 1405 Seoul |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | COUNTRY FACTS $800: Go as far east as you can in South Africa & you'll wade into this ocean Indian Ocean |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Town, South Africa.) What's now Cape Town's vibrant Victoria & Alfred Waterfront began as a single jetty built for this Dutch company, whose name tells you it used South Africa as a stopover en route to Asia the Dutch East India Company |
#6522, aired 2013-01-15 | THE NEAREST CANADIAN PROVINCE TO... $1600: Hallock,
Minnesota &
Cavalier,
North Dakota Manitoba |
#6506, aired 2012-12-24 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1000: Martini, anyone? Zechariah says this mount is "before Jerusalem on the east" the Mount of Olives |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1200: I'm drawing a blank--just east of Detroit there's this city & its namesake "Farms", "Shores", "Woods" & "Park" Grosse Pointe |
#6496, aired 2012-12-10 | SOMEBODY CALLED FOR A DOCTRINE $800: This country's Hallstein Doctrine was a Cold War effort to keep other nations from recognizing East Germany West Germany |
#6496, aired 2012-12-10 | LANDMARKS $1200: Gutzon Borglum was the first sculptor to work on this Civil War monument 16 miles east of Atlanta Stone Mountain |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $2000: "Anyone who did not want to settle in the Salinas Valley was crazy. Adam did not rush at his purchase" East of Eden |
#6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $600: What's now East Oakland was once a city called this, like a borough southeast of Manhattan Brooklyn |
#6485, aired 2012-11-23 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: The sports teams of ECU, this school, inspire the saying "You can't spell parties without pirates" East Carolina University |
#6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon on the East Coast, is located on the eastern shore of this state North Carolina |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2000: A world capital since 1780, it's "The Venice of the East" Bangkok, Thailand |
#6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) In 1976, America was split straight down the middle; Jimmy Carter dominated the blue East, but the red West was solid for this man Ford |
#6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE FORMER EASTERN BLOC $1200: Many former East Germans are still said to suffer from Mauer im Kopf, this type of structure "in the head" a wall |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE $200: From the heavens, this East Coast structure looks like part of an enormous sun dial the Washington Monument |
#6452, aired 2012-10-09 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Common in the east, the yellow-bellied this is a member of the woodpecker family the sapsucker |
#6452, aired 2012-10-09 | GOIN' COUNTRY $1600: In June it's light almost 24 hours a day in this country about 200 miles east of Greenland Iceland |
#6447, aired 2012-10-02 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1600: Of the 3 films that starred James Dean East of Eden |
#6445, aired 2012-09-28 | 2-WORD RESPONSES $600: This 2-word term originally referred to the branch of the East India Co. run by staff not belonging to the military civil service |
#6445, aired 2012-09-28 | BAND NAME ORIGINS $2000: This "Like A G6" pop-rap outfit wanted its name to reflect the members' Asian backgrounds Far East Movement |
#6429, aired 2012-07-26 | LESSER-KNOWN GREEKS & ROMANS? $400: We can thank this culinary great for his signature chickpea dip popular in the Middle East Hummus |
#6428, aired 2012-07-25 | NASHVILLE, GEOGRAPHIC $2000: Juniper trees mistaken for cedars led to the biblical name of this state park, east of Nashville Cedars of Lebanon State Park |
#6416, aired 2012-07-09 | SEAS OF THE WORLD $1000: The Lincoln Sea stretches from Cape Columbia, Canada to Cape Morris Jesup on this large island to the east Greenland |
#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 |
#6410, aired 2012-06-29 | EVERYTHING CHANGES AROUND HERE $800: You may call it Bangladesh today, but before 1971 it had this "directional" name East Bengal (or East Pakistan) |
#6407, aired 2012-06-26 | JOHN STEINBECK $2000: John Steinbeck named one of the families in this novel after Captain Trask, a friend of his father East of Eden |
#6404, aired 2012-06-21 | "M.E." $200: Israel & Iran are in this part of the world the Middle East |
#6403, aired 2012-06-20 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $2000: After WWI the League "mandated" that Great Britain take charge of lands east & west of this river the Jordan |
#6401, aired 2012-06-18 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $400: Shemya Island in this group was a refueling stop for military aircraft flying the great circle route to the Far East the Aleutian Islands |
#6401, aired 2012-06-18 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $600: Most U.S. Marine Corps recruits east of the Mississippi train on this island off the coast of South Carolina Parris Island |
#6399, aired 2012-06-14 | CRADLES $400: Long Island, with the east coast's only prairie, was a hub of early flying & is home to the Cradle of this museum Aviation |
#6399, aired 2012-06-14 | ALMOST HEAVEN: WEST VIRGINIA $600: The city of Weirton in the narrow northern panhandle borders Ohio on the west & this state on the east Pennsylvania |
#6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS $1600: A recent artifact is a Sharia-compliant credit card issued in 2009 in this federation of states in the Middle East the UAE (United Arab Emirates) |
#6393, aired 2012-06-06 | PEACE $2000: It's been the capital of German East Africa & Tanganyika, & its name means "abode of peace" in Arabic Dar es Salaam |
#6392, aired 2012-06-05 | "AY"! $2000: East Indies is another name for this archipelago Malay |
#6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $400: He "stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind"; what a play! Moses |
#6385, aired 2012-05-25 | CAPITAL & COUNTRY: SAME FIRST LETTER $800: An east Asian peninsular city & country Seoul, South Korea |
#6380, aired 2012-05-18 | I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE $1600: The Pope approved his message for this holiday in 2012; it said, "May the risen Christ grant hope to the Middle East" Easter |
#6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE $1000: LBJ "is traveling throughout the Far East to make" these. "If it works, he may try it in" the United States friends |
#6370, aired 2012-05-04 | KNOW YOUR STATE BORDERS! $2,400 (Daily Double): Hannah's leaving Montana heading east into this state that borders Canada North Dakota |
#6364, aired 2012-04-26 | HOW'D THEY DIE? $400: The Wicked Witch of the East crushed by a house |
#6362, aired 2012-04-24 | A BYZANTINE CATEGORY $2000: Before invading the west, Byzantine Emperor Justinian made peace with Khosrow, king of this empire to his east the Persian Empire |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | THE PANAMA CANAL $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Panama.) Because of the way Central America curves, we've traveled east to west through the Panama Canal & ended up here in this body of water the Caribbean |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Civilizations in the Middle East & the Mediterranean basin began in the agricultural region with this 2-word nickname the Fertile Crescent |
#6347, aired 2012-04-03 | PROPOSED STATES $800: State Senator Bob Morton has proposed that Washington east of these mountains go its own way the Cascades |
#6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $1200: The collection of industrialist Henry Clay Frick is on view in a mansion at East 70th St. & this avenue 5th Avenue |
#6332, aired 2012-03-13 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Kazanlak, 100 miles east of Sofia in the Valley of Roses of this country, is known for its roses used in perfumes Bulgaria |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Documents relating to these agreements, the framework for peace in the Middle East, are at the Carter Library the Camp David Accords |
#6328, aired 2012-03-07 | BRIDGES $800: The Hell Gate Bridge from Wards Island to Queens spans a treacherous part of this river the East River |
#6325, aired 2012-03-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $2000: In 1782 King Rama I founded this capital on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River Bangkok |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $400: Ra's Nasrani or Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (Hebrew name Mifraz Shlomo) is at the tip of this peninsula the Sinai |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $800: According to the State Department, the Middle East or "Near East" extends west to this African monarchy Morocco |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $1200: Here are World Trade Center towers that overlook the Persian Gulf & Manama in this country Bahrain |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $1600: Among Arab countries, this one on the Mediterranean has the highest percentage of Christians Lebanon |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The cities of Ramadi & Fallujah have given nightmares to U.S. troops engaged in this Sunni-majority province, Iraq's biggest in area Al Anbar |
#6320, aired 2012-02-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Saginaw Bay on the east coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula is an inlet of this Great Lake Lake Huron |
#6313, aired 2012-02-15 | SKYSCRAPER CITY $200: Moana Pacific, East & West Towers Honolulu |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COUNTRY CONFUSION $1200: Mauritania is in northwest Africa; this island nation lies 500 miles east of Madagascar Mauritius |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | VOLCANOES $800: Ash from a 1947 eruption of Hekla in this island country landed as far east as Finland Iceland |
#6308, aired 2012-02-08 | COLLEGE "M" $2,500 (Daily Double): Founded in 1800, this liberal arts college has the Adirondacks to the west & the Green Mountains to the east Middlebury |
#6306, aired 2012-02-06 | CALL THE POLICE $1000: The NYPD calls its stations these; the 17th one is headquartered on East 51st a precinct |
#6305, aired 2012-02-03 | THE WRITER'S COLLEGE $400: Henry David Thoreau:
This school just east of his Concord hometown Harvard |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | COUNTRY GROUPS $1600: MENA is a somewhat vague acronym for the countries of the "Middle East &" here North Africa |
#6293, aired 2012-01-18 | THE LAND $600: Look east! Japan has long been known by this dawning nickname the Land of the Rising Sun |
#6293, aired 2012-01-18 | THE LAND $800: After killing Abel, Cain was banished to the sleepy-sounding land of this place, east of Eden Nod |
#6283, aired 2012-01-04 | OLD KING COAL $200: This European adventurer reported that coal was widely used in the 13th century Far East Marco Polo |
#6272, aired 2011-12-20 | CHECKING IT TWICE $2000: In the 1500s this circumnavigator was hurt twice in the East Indies & a third time fighting the Moors Magellan |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | WORLD OF WONDERS $1000: 12-20 feet high to keep the barbarians at bay, it ran 73 miles from Wallsend in the east to Bowness in the west Hadrian's Wall |
#6266, aired 2011-12-12 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In June 1940, France was split into German-occupied France & Vichy France; 2 1/2 years later, Germany gained control of a large part of continental France; Italy gained most of the area east of this river the Rhone |
#6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: At its northern end, this "colorful" sea branches into the Gulf of Suez on the west & the Gulf of Aqaba on the east the Red |
#6265, aired 2011-12-09 | FIRST LADIES $600: She prevented the British from burning Gilbert Stuart's painting of Washington, which still hangs in the East Room Dolley Madison |
#6261, aired 2011-12-05 | INDIAN FOOD $400: This East Indian flatbread has a palindromic name naan |
#6243, aired 2011-11-09 | QUICK LIT $400: This 1952 Steinbeck novel has a biblical title & a biblical story East of Eden |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | EXPORTS $1600: This country's exports to the Middle East were down 15% in 2006, backlash from caricatures of Muhammad Denmark |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | COUNTRIES OF AFRIC"A" $1,500 (Daily Double): Of the countries that fit the category, it stretches farthest east Somalia |
#6224, aired 2011-10-13 | ONE GOOD TURN $400: If you're driving west-northwest, it's the quickest turn to change your direction to east-southeast a 180 (or a U-turn) |
#6221, aired 2011-10-10 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $1000: The 50,000-rial note of this Middle East country is seen here Iran |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | NAME CALLING $200: Hey little short person, you don't mind if I call you this, do you?--like the ones in the east of the Land of Oz munchkin |
#6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Mediterranean region.) Legend says Zeus released two eagles, one from the east, & one the west; they met at the site of this ancient city, then considered the center of the world Delphi |
#6213, aired 2011-09-28 | TRIPLE THE FUN $800: On the East Coast "Tri-State Area" often refers to this trio, the 3rd, 5th & 11th to join the Union Connecticut, New York & New Jersey |
#6209, aired 2011-09-22 | "DA" $400: Found in the Middle East, it's considered by some to be the world's oldest continuously inhabited city Damascus |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | POLITICIANS $2,800 (Daily Double): Egon Krenz was the last Communist political leader of this country that was absorbed by its neighbor in 1990 East Germany |
#6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MEMBER NATIONS OF OPEC $600: Until it withdrew in 2008, the only far east nation in OPEC was this large one made up of thousands of islands Indonesia |
#6198, aired 2011-07-20 | THEY HELD UP $400: On Jan. 15, 1934 he held up the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indiana (& didn't stop to see a movie) John Dillinger |
#6194, aired 2011-07-14 | REPTILES $200: The American alligator can be found from Texas to as far east & north as this "Tar Heel State" North Carolina |
#6192, aired 2011-07-12 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles of this company established a post at Singapore Harbor for Britain the British East India Company |
#6190, aired 2011-07-08 | WASHINGTON $400: This biggest Washington city is pretty wet with Elliott Bay to the west, Lake Washington to the East Seattle |
#6190, aired 2011-07-08 | WASHINGTON $1000: The Cascade Mountains divide Washington east from west; North Cascades is one of these ways through them a pass |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | PREHISTORIC TIMES $800: Cultivation of this 3-letter tree fruit may have started in the Middle East over 10,000 years ago a fig |
#6186, aired 2011-07-04 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the 2-word term for the Rocky Mountain ridge that separates rivers flowing east & west the Continental Divide |
#6177, aired 2011-06-21 | CONTROLLED "BURN" $600: When it opened its doors as a private liberal arts institution in 1859, it was called East Alabama Male College Auburn |
#6172, aired 2011-06-14 | COOKBOOKS $800: A book by this chef & restaurateur features "recipes from Spago, Chinois, and Points East and West" Wolfgang Puck |
#6172, aired 2011-06-14 | "AW", SHUCKS $1000: This reddish grape grown in the east shares its name with a Native American tribe of South Carolina Catawba |
#6168, aired 2011-06-08 | THE '90s $800: This large Indian city on the Hooghly River was founded in 1690 by Job Charnak of the East India Company Calcutta |
#6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Once the name of a country, this is still the name of a lake in East Central Africa with a depth of over 4,700 feet Tanganyika |
#6150, aired 2011-05-13 | DETENTE-TION $2000: World leaders came to this city in 1975 to sign accords that people hoped would ease East-West tensions Helsinki |
#6146, aired 2011-05-09 | A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN $1600: Wapusk National Park, in this province one east of Saskatchewan Manitoba |
#6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LET'S PLAY CARDS $400: The 4 players in contract this are often called north, south, east & west bridge |
#6138, aired 2011-04-27 | FADE INTO BOLIVIAN $200: Bolivia's longest border is with this neighbor to the east Brazil |
#6131, aired 2011-04-18 | REAL HISTORICAL HOUSEWIVES OF D.C. $400: Only 6 rooms were finished when she moved in in 1800, & she ended up using the East Room to hang laundry Abigail Adams |
#6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $1600: Before his time at No. 10 Downing Street, he won election in 1983 as the MP for Dunfermline East Gordon Brown |
#6130, aired 2011-04-15 | MALLS OF AMERICA $1000: All hail this state's King of Prussia Mall, one of the largest shopping complexes on the East Coast Pennsylvania |
#6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1952 novel was based in part on the story of Cain & Abel East of Eden |
#6118, aired 2011-03-30 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: This N.C. peak, the highest east of the Mississippi, was named for the man who surveyed it, died on it & is buried at the top Mt. Mitchell |
#6110, aired 2011-03-18 | WHICH DIRECTION ARE YOU HEADED? $200: From Taegu, South Korea to Tokyo, Japan east |
#6110, aired 2011-03-18 | WHICH DIRECTION ARE YOU HEADED? $800: From Galway to Cork in Ireland south |
#6106, aired 2011-03-14 | COMPOSERS GO TO THE MOVIES $400: Elmer Bernstein of "The Magnificent Seven" fame was known as Bernstein west; this classical giant was Bernstein east Leonard |
#6103, aired 2011-03-09 | OF ORDER $600: U.S. cities, from west to east:
Newport News,
Milwaukee,
New Orleans New Orleans, Milwaukee, Newport News |
#6096, aired 2011-02-28 | FAR EAST MOVEMENT $400: Led by a man professing to be Jesus' brother, the Taiping Rebellion roiled this nation in the 19th century China |
#6096, aired 2011-02-28 | FAR EAST MOVEMENT $800: The U.S. fought a war in this Asian country where a nationalist Communist army had earlier fought the French Vietnam |
#6096, aired 2011-02-28 | FAR EAST MOVEMENT $1200: Japan's Satsuma Rebellion of the 1870s was the last attempt by this warrior class to regain its privileges the samurai |
#6096, aired 2011-02-28 | FAR EAST MOVEMENT $1600: A joint North-South declaration in 2000 began a new move for the reunification of this Asian peninsula the Korean Peninsula |
#6096, aired 2011-02-28 | FAR EAST MOVEMENT $2000: Political parties in this island country called Formosa by the Portuguese have asserted its de facto autonomy in recent years Taiwan |
#6095, aired 2011-02-25 | A WORLD OF FOOD $800: Tahini, the "butter of the Middle East", is a paste made from these seeds, an excellent source of iron & calcium sesame seeds |
#6083, aired 2011-02-09 | IOWA $400: Iowa's east & west borders are formed by water, primarily these 2 rivers the Mississippi & the Missouri |
#6080, aired 2011-02-04 | "Q" FOOD & DRINK $1200: It's the Native American name for the East Coast hard-shell clam quahog |
#6078, aired 2011-02-02 | HUMBLE & NOT-HUMBLE ABODES $1000: The Navajo usually built this one-room earth-covered dwelling with the entrance facing east a hogan |
#6069, aired 2011-01-20 | SPOKEN IN SOUTH AMERICA $200: English is official, but about half of Guyana is of East Indian descent, so many there speak these 2 Indic languages Hindi & Urdu |
#6059, aired 2011-01-06 | NO. 1 WITH A BULLET $1600: "The sound of the battle rang/ Through the streets of the old East Side" in "The Night" this town "Died" "Chicago" |
#6039, aired 2010-12-09 | OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) Even today the perfect summer read is this John Steinbeck novel of good & evil centering on the Trask family East of Eden |
#6035, aired 2010-12-03 | IN THE "O" ZONE $400: The seat of Weber county, this city is east of the Great Salt Lake Ogden |
#6029, aired 2010-11-25 | GEOGRAPHY $1600: What was once called Muslim East Bengal is today known as this Bangladesh |
#6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY $200: This city is the brightest area along the East Coast New York |
#6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1200: Salinas, California (east of... Frisco) was the birthplace of this author, who often referred to it in his work Steinbeck |
#5998, aired 2010-10-13 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of Clue Crew shows a map of the Middle East.) In 1914, historian James Breasted coined this 2-word term to describe the agricultural area that extends from the Nile Valley to the Persian Gulf the Fertile Crescent |
#5997, aired 2010-10-12 | FLAGS & ANTHEMS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a map of the Middle East.) Perhaps to distinguish it from neighboring Bahrain's flag, this country chose mauve for its dual-tone flag Qatar |
#5994, aired 2010-10-07 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT $600: Keep to the left side of the road when you visit these West Indian islands just east of Florida the Bahamas |
#5994, aired 2010-10-07 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT $1000: If you want to drive from Klerksdorp to Roodepoort in this country, head east & hang a left at Sasolburg South Africa |
#5987, aired 2010-09-28 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1600: Have a dilly of a time in Dili, the capital of this new nation East Timor |
#5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $2000: (Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) Though its title is a reference to the Land of Nod, this Steinbeck classic, a favorite of mine, is set in California's Salinas Valley East of Eden |
#5986, aired 2010-09-27 | WORDS FROM THE PERSIAN $600: It's a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East a bazaar |
#5978, aired 2010-09-15 | BACKWORDS $1000: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was the favorite poem of the Middle East leader with this title Emir |
#5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LIVING IN NYC $2000: In 1942 Fiorello LaGuardia & his family moved into this building at 88th Street & East End Avenue Gracie Mansion |
#5975, aired 2010-07-30 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: According to C.S. Lewis, it was bordered on the east by the Eastern Ocean & on the north by the River Shribble Narnia |
#5970, aired 2010-07-23 | IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY $600: From the airport, get in your Dooley rental car & head toward this "poetic" city 15 miles east Limerick |
#5969, aired 2010-07-22 | IN THE 21st CENTURY $1,200 (Daily Double): In January 2009 this former Senate majority leader was named a special U.S. envoy for the Middle East Senator George Mitchell |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $400: How about some Middle East fast food? This sandwich of fried chickpea balls & tahini sauce served in a pita a falafel |
#5955, aired 2010-07-02 | PAPA JOHNS $3,000 (Daily Double): One of his sons, John IV, wrote the memoir "The Other Side of Eden" John Steinbeck |
#5949, aired 2010-06-24 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: Around 1200 B.C. in the Middle East & 600 B.C. in China, the Bronze Age was replaced by this metallic age the Iron Age |
#5947, aired 2010-06-22 | WE GOTTA GO NOW $1600: Head to this island east of Sumatra to see the orangutans before they become extinct Borneo |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | OTHER GRAND CANYONS $400: Just south of Rochester in this state, Letchworth State Park is home to the "Grand Canyon of the East" New York |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $400: These 2 rivers meet north of the city of Basra the Tigris & Euphrates |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $800: Ras Mohammed National Park at the southern end of this peninsula was Egypt's first national park the Sinai Peninsula |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Omani peninsula of Musandam juts into this strait, an important route for oil tankers the Strait of Hormuz |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | 2001: A SPORTS ODYSSEY $1600: This AFC East team went from last to first place on its way to its first Super Bowl title the New England Patriots |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $1600: Israel's third-largest city, this port was built on the northern slopes of Mount Carmel Haifa |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $2000: This country's provinces include Nabatiyeh & Beqaa Lebanon |
#5936, aired 2010-06-07 | DOUBLE "C" $2000: This London street runs from Hyde Park corner in the west to a "circus", or intersection, in the east Piccadilly |
#5935, aired 2010-06-04 | IT BORDERS INDIA $600: On its extreme east, India borders this nation that changed its name following a coup in 1989 Myanmar (or Burma) |
#5934, aired 2010-06-03 | COLONIAL NAMES FOR COUNTRIES $400: Dutch East Indies Indonesia |
#5934, aired 2010-06-03 | COLONIAL NAMES FOR COUNTRIES $2000: Portuguese East Africa Mozambique |
#5926, aired 2010-05-24 | GAP $1000: Meaning "Gate of Tears", the Bab el Mandeb is a 20-mile-wide strait allowing passage from the Gulf of Aden into this sea the Red Sea |
#5925, aired 2010-05-21 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1600: In "Heroes Like Us" the hero's father works for this East German secret police the Stasi |
#5919, aired 2010-05-13 | COUNTRIES ENDING IN "E" $1000: This Asian island nation was ceded to the British East India Company in 1819 Singapore |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | ASTRONOMY & ASTROLOGY $400: Astrologically, houses that lie in the west are called occidental; houses that lie in the east, this oriental |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Canada's Ungava Peninsula is on the east side of this immense bay the Hudson Bay |
#5911, aired 2010-05-03 | NO WAY! IT'S NORWAY! $200: The original site of this city, Norway's largest, was east of the Aker River, which it now straddles Oslo |
#5909, aired 2010-04-29 | WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $1000: He's seen here in 1979 kissing the president of East Germany on the country's 30th anniversary Brezhnev |
#5908, aired 2010-04-28 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $1000: This paired musical instrument heard here is popular throughout Asia & the Middle East the tabla |
#5903, aired 2010-04-21 | BUSY AS A BEAVER $400: One of the 2 U.S. states with the beaver as the state animal: one's on the west coast & one's on the east Oregon (or New York) |
#5897, aired 2010-04-13 | THE TRUCK STOPS HERE $200: There are 8 private showers at the Flying J truck stop in Troutdale just east of this largest Oregon city Portland |
#5896, aired 2010-04-12 | IF YOU BUILD IT... $200: In the Middle East, the 992-foot Kingdom Center is this country's tallest building Saudi Arabia |
#5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION $400: You can have a great meal at James' townhouse on W. 12th St. in this NYC area; James won't be there, though Greenwich Village |
#5891, aired 2010-04-05 | THE 17th CENTURY $400: At the end of the century, the British East India Company founded this city, later famous for a black hole Calcutta |
#5891, aired 2010-04-05 | THE 17th CENTURY $1000: The Dutch East India Company sponsored his 1609 search for the Northwest Passage Henry Hudson |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $200: This 2-word term for 8 specific colleges in the east refers to the vegetation covering their older buildings the Ivy League |
#5884, aired 2010-03-25 | WEAK RHYMES $800: Tall East Indian timber tree with durable, hard wood the teak |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | THE CONTINENT WHERE YOU'LL FIND... $400: Ankara Asia |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | BORN IN EAST LA. $1600: Born near Opelousas, he's the Paul in K-Paul's Louisiana kitchen Paul Prudhomme |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | BORN IN EAST LA. $2000: Baton Rouge, La.-born Brandon Hamilton starred as a cornerback for the Edmonton Eskimos in this sports league Canadian football |
#5876, aired 2010-03-15 | STORY PROBLEMS $4,000 (Daily Double): A scout troop hikes 3 miles due north, 4 miles due east & straight back this far to their starting point 5 |
#5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS $400: To the west, Louisiana; to the east, Alabama Mississippi |
#5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS $600: To the east, Argentina; to the west, the Pacific Chile |
#5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS $1000: To the west, Thailand; to the east, Vietnam; to the south, Cambodia Laos |
#5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS $2,000 (Daily Double): To the south, Israel; to the east, Syria; to the west, the Mediterranean Lebanon |
#5872, aired 2010-03-09 | ALSO AN AIRLINE $600: "Chaste" ocean on the USA's East Coast Virgin Atlantic |
#5866, aired 2010-03-01 | RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: This grassy plain covers Russia from its border with Ukraine east to the Altai Mountains in Siberia a steppe |
#5865, aired 2010-02-26 | YEAR ONE $200: April 11, 1951:
Truman relieves this man of his commands in the Far East MacArthur |
#5864, aired 2010-02-25 | THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Boy Scouts of America at Camp Winton.) To be a first class scout, you have to able to find directions; one way is to place a stick in the ground & wait for the afternoon shadow, which will point this way east |
#5864, aired 2010-02-25 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $800: Visitors to Warminster, England should go to this ancient rock circle site 15 miles east Stonehenge |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: This capital was created when adjoining settlements, East Alabama & Alabama, merged in 1819 Montgomery |
#5860, aired 2010-02-19 | TO THE FAR EAST SIDE $200: This capital lies on a plain in northern China, about 100 miles from the Bohai Gulf Beijing |
#5860, aired 2010-02-19 | TO THE FAR EAST SIDE $400: 20 miles east of the Yellow Sea is this South Korean city whose name means "capital", which is convenient Seoul |
#5860, aired 2010-02-19 | TO THE FAR EAST SIDE $600: In 1972 the winter Olympics were held in this Japanese city on Hokkaido, near Otaru bay; beer me! Sapporo |
#5860, aired 2010-02-19 | TO THE FAR EAST SIDE $800: Known as "the roof of the world", this autonomous region of China averages more than 15,000' above sea level Tibet |
#5860, aired 2010-02-19 | TO THE FAR EAST SIDE $1000: Macau is one of 2 special administrative regions of China; this, Chinese-controlled since 1997, is the other Hong Kong |
#5856, aired 2010-02-15 | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM $600: 2 of the 3 rivers that flow around the island of Manhattan the Hudson & the East Rivers |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $1200: This resort island just 2 miles east of Java is predominantly Hindi while the rest of Indonesia is Muslim Bali |
#5837, aired 2010-01-19 | "EAST" $400: An elaborate meal well prepared & greatly enjoyed feast |
#5837, aired 2010-01-19 | "EAST" $800: It was the capital city of the former German Democratic Republic East Berlin |
#5837, aired 2010-01-19 | "EAST" $1200: Madame de Beaumont's classic tale "La belle et la bete" is known as this in English "Beauty and the Beast" |
#5837, aired 2010-01-19 | "EAST" $1600: One of the statues excavated by Thor Heyerdahl here is more than 30 feet tall Easter Island |
#5837, aired 2010-01-19 | "EAST" $2000: Charles & Maximillian Fleischmann started marketing this around 1870 yeast |
#5828, aired 2010-01-06 | DESCRIBING THE NOVEL $1000: The Trask at hand, California dreamin', raising Cain (& Abel, metaphorically) East of Eden |
#5822, aired 2009-12-29 | YOU'RE ALL WET $400: Wisconsin honeymooners may visit Big Manitou, at 165 feet one of the highest of these east of the Rockies a waterfall |
#5820, aired 2009-12-25 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE $400: Had fun going to the top of this 630' monument, tallest in the U.S.; we looked east & saw the Mississippi River & Illinois the Gateway Arch |
#5814, aired 2009-12-17 | "ARG"!!! $1600: John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park lies on the east coast of this Florida island Key Largo |
#5813, aired 2009-12-16 | EGG LIT $800: East Egg & West Egg are Long Island locales in this 1925 novel The Great Gatsby |
#5810, aired 2009-12-11 | INGRID BERGMAN $1000: In 1982 Ingrid won a posthumous Emmy Award for playing this Middle East leader Golda Meir |
#5807, aired 2009-12-08 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $800: In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet" (Rudyard) Kipling |
#5800, aired 2009-11-27 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The Columbia River Plateau lies to the east of this range, the Puget Sound-Willamette Valley Trough to the west the Cascades |
#5792, aired 2009-11-17 | FINLANDIA $800: Finland forms a symbolic N. border between Eastern & Western Europe: to the east is Russia; to the west, these 2 nations Norway & Sweden |
#5784, aired 2009-11-05 | PUBERTY RITUALS $1200: Happening in the east every day, it's the name of the ceremony of Apache womanhood the Sunrise |
#5779, aired 2009-10-29 | SEMITIC LANGUAGES $800: Tigrinya is mainly spoken in these 2 "E" countries of East Africa Ethiopia & Eritrea |
#5777, aired 2009-10-27 | "P.M." $1600: Longitude east & west is reckoned by this, which runs through Greenwich, England the Prime Meridian |
#5776, aired 2009-10-26 | WHERE $200: She's in Copenhagen, on a rock in the harbor just east of Kastellet Fortress The Little Mermaid |
#5765, aired 2009-10-09 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE $1600: This woman was "the first Chancellor who grew up in the old East Germany" Merkel |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | FILL IN THE STEINBECK TITLE $1200: "E.O.E." East of Eden |
#5761, aired 2009-10-05 | SEA YA $800: This sea, part of the Pacific, is divided by Taiwan into East & South parts the China Sea |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | EAST ASIA $200: Created by So-ami, a garden at Ryoan-ji outside Kyoto consists of rocks arranged on a bed of this sand |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | EAST ASIA $400: Before he was PM of this country, Samak Sundaravej hosted a TV cooking show, with recipes like larb tuna Thailand |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | EAST ASIA $600: In 2006 Business Week reported China has 300,000 millionaires & quoted Deng Xiaoping, "To get" this "is glorious" rich |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | EAST ASIA $800: Back when Myanmar was Burma, this capital was Rangoon Yangon |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | EAST ASIA $1,800 (Daily Double): Korea's West Coast, including Inchon, borders this arm of the Pacific Yellow Sea |
#5741, aired 2009-07-20 | CELEBRITY YEARBOOK SUPERLATIVES $200: Voted most popular at her East Nashville high school, in the '80s, she'd become the talk of the town Oprah Winfrey |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: After this war (1754-1763), Britain received all French land east of the Mississippi except New Orleans the French and Indian War |
#5734, aired 2009-07-09 | SHELLFISH $400: If they're from the East Coast, they may be eaten raw; West Coast ones like the Littleneck are usually too tough clams |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | BEASTLY BLUES $800: This East Coast state's official crustacean is the blue crab Maryland |
#5724, aired 2009-06-25 | EN-COMPASSING $400: The only compass point in a Steinbeck novel title east |
#5717, aired 2009-06-16 | ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $400: The one that is a state east of the Mississippi river Michigan |
#5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WELCOME TO LISBON $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Castelo de Sao Jorge in Lisbon, Portugal.) The Castelo de Sao Jorge was captured from the Moors in 1147 by a group of these people who were headed for the Middle East but detoured to Lisbon for money the Crusaders |
#5709, aired 2009-06-04 | EASY STREET $400: Trump has luxury condos at "New York's best corner": 59th Street & this avenue, 1 east of Madison Park Avenue |
#5702, aired 2009-05-26 | RUSSIAN TO THE BORDER $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The small Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, home to one of Russia's ice-free European ports, borders this Baltic state to the east Lithuania |
#5697, aired 2009-05-19 | LOOK OUT FOR PIRATES! $1,500 (Daily Double): In November 2008 pirates based in this East African nation captured a Saudi Arabian oil tanker & demanded $25 mil. Somalia |
#5690, aired 2009-05-08 | WORD ORIGINS $4,800 (Daily Double): This compass direction may come from the Proto-Germanic for "to the left of the rising sun" north |
#5688, aired 2009-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Golden Sands is a resort on Bulgaria's east coast along this sea the Black Sea |
#5683, aired 2009-04-29 | SEAS THE MOMENT $1600: Of North, South, East & West, the 2 that most frequently precede "China Sea" South & East |
#5681, aired 2009-04-27 | WRITTEN BY ANONYMOUS $2,000 (Daily Double): Work thought to be by an 8th C. East Anglican poet who fused Scandinavian history with Christian elements Beowulf |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | FICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala subtitled her "East into Upper East" "Plain Tales from New York and" this world capital New Delhi |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $400: This Steinbeck novel title comes from Genesis; Cain went there, to the land of Nod, after the murder East of Eden |
#5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $400 (Daily Double): In a speech in Missouri in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that this division had fallen between East & West an Iron Curtain |
#5673, aired 2009-04-15 | LIBYA, LIBYA, LIBYA $800: The WWII defense of Tobruk, Libya against this German general helped save the Middle East for the Allies (Erwin) Rommel |
#5668, aired 2009-04-08 | PRO CHEERLEADER SQUADS $800: In the AFC East:
The Flight Crew the (New York) Jets |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | CONSONANT-LESS COUNTRIES $800: In the Middle East,
EE Yemen |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: This capital city lies on the Han River, about 22 miles east of Inchon Seoul |
#5663, aired 2009-04-01 | LANGUAGES $800: Oromo is a major Cushitic language spoken in the northern parts of Kenya & this nation east of Sudan Ethiopia |
#5663, aired 2009-04-01 | FISH $3,000 (Daily Double): Thao, help me land this one! A 10-foot, 660-pound catfish unique to this longest river of southeast Asia the Mekong |
#5658, aired 2009-03-25 | TASMANIA MANIA $1,200 (Daily Double): It's the ocean to the east of Tasmania the Pacific Ocean |
#5643, aired 2009-03-04 | THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $400: In 1964 Hal Prince produced this musical set in an east European shtetl; it ran for 3,242 performances Fiddler on the Roof |
#5642, aired 2009-03-03 | THE AFRICAN PAST $2000: A major East Coast civilization from the eighth or ninth century used these shells, seen here, as currency cowrie shells |
#5634, aired 2009-02-19 | DO NOT COLLECT $200 $200: In 2008 a house on the East Side of this "Motor City" was listed for $1; it still took 19 days to find a buyer Detroit |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | EAST & WEST $200: It's the state immediately to the east of North Dakota Minnesota |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | EAST & WEST $400: It's the country immediately to the east of Haiti the Dominican Republic |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | EAST & WEST $600: It's the country immediately to the west of Egypt Libya |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | EAST & WEST $800: It's the province immediately to the west of Alberta British Columbia |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | EAST & WEST $1000: It's the state immediately to the west of South Australia Western Australia |
#5629, aired 2009-02-12 | BUILT IN THE U.S.A. $400: At least 20 died & many suffered decompression sickness building this East River landmark that opened in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
#5624, aired 2009-02-05 | THROUGH THE 1800s WITH SARAH POLK $400: Born in 1803 in Tennessee, Sarah later attended school in this state due east, husband James' birthplace North Carolina |
#5623, aired 2009-02-04 | BEYOND THE HORIZON $1600: Attu island in the Aleutians is only 560 miles due east of this Russian peninsula Kamchatka |
#5623, aired 2009-02-04 | BEYOND THE HORIZON $1,800 (Daily Double): Head due east from Washington, D.C. or New York City & you'll first hit this Southern European country Portugal |
#5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $2000: My travels took me to this Indonesian island's provincial capital of Denpasar where the winds blow hot, east of Java Bali |
#5612, aired 2009-01-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHIC ANSWERS $800: The Arabian Sea lies between India on the east & this peninsula on the west the Arabian peninsula |
#5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BIRTH, ART, DEATH $1600: Born 1912 in Wyoming,
"Lavender Mist",
died 1956 in East Hampton, New York Pollock |
#5594, aired 2008-12-25 | I LEARNED IT ONLINE $1600: I postponed my visit to this country, aka Timor-Leste, after a perusal of travel.state.gov East Timor |
#5584, aired 2008-12-11 | THE 50 STATES $800: Mount Mansfield, about 30 miles east of Lake Champlain, is this state's highest point Vermont |
#5579, aired 2008-12-04 | STREETCAR $200: Rent a streetcar for your birthday party at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in this state's East Haven Connecticut |
#5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: In 330 A.D. the capital of the Roman Empire moved from Rome to this city much farther east Byzantium |
#5569, aired 2008-11-20 | SUPERBAD $400: On Aug. 7, 1888 this murderer struck for the first time in London's East End Jack the Ripper |
#5560, aired 2008-11-07 | NAME THE BOOK $800: "Adam Trask was born on a farm on the outskirts of a little town which was not far from a big town in Connecticut" East of Eden |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This triangular bay of the Atlantic is bounded on the east by France & on the south by Spain the Bay of Biscay |
#5555, aired 2008-10-31 | DAYS OF RECREATION $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew moves some mah-jongg tiles on top of some others.) To start playing mah-jongg, the player who is the East Wind rolls the dice to determine who has the honor of opening this aptly named structure the wall |
#5555, aired 2008-10-31 | JUST SAY RENO $2000: Reno was founded in 1868 during the construction of this railroad that was moving east to link up with the Union Pacific the Central Pacific |
#5548, aired 2008-10-22 | PUT 'EM IN ORDER $1000: Novels:
"The Great Gatsby",
"East of Eden",
"Gone with the Wind" The Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind, East of Eden |
#5548, aired 2008-10-22 | OYSTERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a mollusk at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Oysters from this colorful location on Long Island's Great South Bay were so popular, the name is used for several East Coast oysters Blue Point |
#5547, aired 2008-10-21 | "M": A NATION $400: A tiny, hilly wedge, it lies 9 miles east of Nice, France Monaco |
#5544, aired 2008-10-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to a map of Southeast Asia on the monitor.) Malaysia consists of two regions--West Malaysia, on the Malay Peninsula, & East Malaysia, which occupies the northern part of this large island Borneo |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | SMALL STATE CAPITALS $1200: This small capital lies about 10 miles east of the Continental Divide & about midway between Butte & Great Falls Helena (Montana) |
#5537, aired 2008-10-07 | IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY $1000: East Timor Indonesia |
#5528, aired 2008-09-24 | INTERNATIONAL ETIQUETTE $800: This traditional Far East substitute for a handshake is more common in Japan & Korea than in China a bow |
#5527, aired 2008-09-23 | A LINE $800: The Curzon Line, proposed in 1919, became essentially the boundary between Poland & this country in 1945 Russia (the Soviet Union) |
#5524, aired 2008-09-18 | U.S. RIVERS $1600: Although 150 miles to the east, this river supplies most of San Diego's water the Colorado |
#5518, aired 2008-09-10 | WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGERS! $800: Hit the slopes at Badger Pass Ski Area in this national park in East-Central California Yosemite |
#5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BIOPICS $400: In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East Marco Polo |
#5513, aired 2008-07-23 | EXCEPT AFTER SEA $800: Delos, a small island of the Cyclades, is in this sea east of Greece the Aegean Sea |
#5510, aired 2008-07-18 | STATES' HIGHEST POINTS $1,600 (Daily Double): Boundary Peak, about 50 miles east of Yosemite National Park Nevada |
#5507, aired 2008-07-15 | I NEED A FARM VACATION! $400: We'll learn how to groom llamas if we stay at Hidden Acres Llama Farm in Jefferson in this Down East state Maine |
#5503, aired 2008-07-09 | ASIA $400: For its many canals, this Thai capital is known as the "Venice of the East" Bangkok |
#5503, aired 2008-07-09 | ASIA $1600: During WWII this city whose name means "rule the East" was the main Pacific port for supplies the U.S. sent to Russia Vladivostok |
Ananya Nrusimha, a sophomore from East Amherst, New York
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2014 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Howard Ray, a laser applications engineer from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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Season 30 1-time champion: $30,200 + $2,000.
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Lindsay Garces, an insurance underwriter from East Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 34 player (2018-06-20).
Last name pronounced like "GAR-sess".
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Andrew Lai, a medical student from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 34 player (2018-05-22).
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Graig Zethner, a computer engineer from East Meadow, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-07-26). \"Graig\" rhymes with \"Craig\". Graig won $1,000...
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John East III, a prosecuting attorney originally from East Haven, Connecticut
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Season 10 1-time champion: $14,000.
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Kit Carlson, an Episcopal priest from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 25 player (2008-09-29).
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Penny Citrola, an English language tutor originally from East Meadow, New York
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Season 29 2-time champion: $26,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: KnitWit
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Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts
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"She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Parker East, a performance artist from Tallahassee, Florida
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Season 29 1-time co-champion: $6,799 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: peast
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Nate Mull, a graduate student of political science from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2013-05-21).
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Jen Weaver, an office assistant from North East, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2008-10-30).
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Ryan Thrasher, a musician from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 25 player (2008-10-20).
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Pat Roche, a trainer from East Greenbush, New York
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Season 24 1-time champion: $13,700 + $1,000.
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Elizabeth Webster, an ESL teacher from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 31 player (2014-10-21).
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Jarret Izzo, a musician from East Amherst, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,401 + $2,000.
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Matthew Price, a higher education administrator from East Providence, Rhode Island
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Season 31 1-time champion: $22,400 + $1,000.
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Liz Slaby, a high school teacher from North East, Pennsylvania
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Season 20 player (2004-01-15).
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Corey York, an accountant from East Peoria, Illinois
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Season 27 player (2010-12-23).
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Maya Wright, a senior from Peachtree City, Georgia
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2023 High School Reunion Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 2018 Teen Tournament...
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Ben Coller, a history teacher from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 38 player (2022-07-12).
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Chris Belanger, a graduate student from East Greenwich, Rhode Island
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Season 13 player (1996-11-05).
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Katie Lombardo, a museum educator from East Hills, New York
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Season 35 player (2018-09-27).
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Joe Schuller, a financial specialist from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 7 player (1991-04-04).
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Bob Porowski, a data processing manager from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1991-09-02).
Bob died 2010-02-14 of colon cancer.
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Rachel Burns, a software analyst from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 36 player (2020-03-25).
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Lee Pritchard, a writer originally from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 3 1-time champion: $7,000. Lee won $7,565 on The Challengers...
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Jeri Zulli, an English professor from East Setauket, New York
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Season 39 player (2022-12-01).
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Dennis O'Brien, a computer programmer from East Meadow, New York
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Season 10 1-time champion: $16,201.
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Tom Druelinger, a financial analyst from East Aurora, New York
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Season 10 player (1994-06-17).
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Dave Rowswell, a high school art teacher from Cheyenne, Wyoming
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2019 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. At the time of the...
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Kelly Barbour, a junior from East Texas State University
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1991 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Sharyn Hay, a perinatal nurse originally from East Hartford, Connecticut
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Season 1 player (1985-04-29). Johnny introduced Sharyn as a prenatal nurse...
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Christina Leone, an operations assistant from East Hartford, Connecticut
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Season 37 player (2021-08-03).
Last name pronounced like "lee-OWN".
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Jill Beerman, a graduate student originally from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 2 player (1986-05-28).
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Lawrence Long, a nursing student and stay-at-home uncle from East Bend, North Carolina
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2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 38 3-time champion: $74,792 + $1,000.
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Lawrence Long, a nursing student and stay-at-home uncle from East Bend, North Carolina
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2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 38 3-time champion: $74,792 + $1,000.
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Sue Whelan, a teacher from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 11 player (1995-03-22).
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Sue Garfinkel, a housewife and a horse breeder from East Windsor, New Jersey
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Season 2 player (1986-05-01).
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Joanne Skelly-Gearhart, a nursing instructor from East Aurora, New York
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Season 3 player (1987-05-05). The introduction was missing from the recording...
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Kirsten Ruemenapp, a veterinary assistant from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-04-20).
Last name pronounced like "ROOM-eh-nahp".
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Amy Fulton Stout, a community college professor of literature from Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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Season 27 player (2011-04-15).
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Joe Vertnik, a senior from Mound, Minnesota
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2013 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Brock Putnam, a high school teacher from East Litchfield, Connecticut
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Season 12 player (1996-06-17).
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Marc Tracy, a writer for an online magazine from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-06-24).
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Steve Ahern, a bartender from East Haven, Connecticut
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Season 9 player (1993-03-25).
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Joel Pool, a real estate developer from Oakland, California
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2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 28 6-time champion: $116,800 + $1,000.
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
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"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Chris Knapp, a college professor originally from Lindsay, Oklahoma
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Season 1 player (1984-09-17). Although introduced as being "originally from" Lindsay,...
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Debra Johnson, a voice teacher from San Antonio, Texas
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Season 25 player (2008-10-27).
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Daphne Matalene, a magazine editor from New York, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,401 + $1,000.
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Amy Drittler, a university public relations director from Tazewell, Tennessee
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Season 28 player (2012-04-20).
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Leigh Barrett, a freelance writer from East Point, Georgia
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Season 19 player (2003-06-17).
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Susan Keller, an English teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 24 1-time champion: $8,000 + $1,000. Not to be confused...
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Clyde Ayer, an airline pilot originally from East Aurora, New York
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Season 4 player (1988-05-26)
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Celeste Cooper, an architectural drafter from East Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 19 player (2002-11-26).
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David Litt, a sales account manager from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 7 player (1990-11-21).
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Andy Yermack, a financial services compliance officer from East Rockaway, New York
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Season 20 player (2004-05-27).
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Kate Hoffman, a corporate librarian from East Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 30 player (2014-05-20).
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Dennis Hartin, a legal assistant from East Northport, New York
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Season 9 player (1993-07-01).
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Jim Hunt, a graduate student and Latin teacher from Syracuse, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-06-06). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Melissa Sexstone, a senior from East Syracuse, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
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Debbie Rothschild, a stay-at-home mom from New York, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-04-30). Won $50,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Kate Gran, an attorney from East Northport, New York
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Season 33 player (2016-12-30).
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Justin Scace, a writer and editor from East Lyme, Connecticut
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Season 33 1-time champion: $14,400 + $1,000.
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Bill Knuth, a high school special education teacher from East Lansing, Michigan
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2016 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant...
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Erik Best, a law student from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 18 1-time champion: $31,700 + $2,000.
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Colleen Mahoney, a sophomore from East Hampton, Connecticut
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2001 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 15 at the time of...
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Barbara Elem, a 3rd grade teacher from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 10 player (1993-09-22).
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Susan MacKay Smith, a writer from Boulder, Colorado
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Season 31 player (2015-02-16).
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Luis Sandoval, a production scheduler from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2006-04-18).
First name pronounced like "LOO-ees".
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Dan McLeod, a student from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Season 22 1-time champion: $26,801 + $2,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
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Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Glenda Niemiec, a payroll specialist from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 22 player (2005-12-02).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Gramma Glenda
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Amy Cash, a geology student originally from Elmont, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-05-29). The official Jeopardy! web site lists Amy...
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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
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"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Amanda Boitano, a 10th grade English teacher originally from Smithtown, New York
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Season 31 1-time champion: $30,401 + $1,000.
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Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
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Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
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"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Manny Maldonado III, a high school chemistry teacher from Horizon City, Texas
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,500 + $2,000.
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Carolyn Cracraft, a grad student at the University of California-Berkeley from Berkeley, California
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"She was a junior at the University of Chicago when she...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Pat Arnett, a structural engineer originally from Mattoon, Illinois
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Season 25 player (2009-01-12).
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Mai Do-Burrous, a stay-at-home mother from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-02-03).
Name pronounced like "MY DOE BUR-ohz".
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Diane Wing, a product management director from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 20 player (2003-09-10).
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Tanya Hayes, an auction house manager from New York, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-02-18).
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Markus Iturriaga, an IT administrator from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-07-29). Markus was formerly married to Season 28...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Tiombi Prince, an advocation support specialist from East Point, Georgia
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Season 32 2-time champion: $33,100 + $2,000.
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
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Maureen Abell, a family law and immigration lawyer from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-01-06).
Last name pronounced like "A-bul".
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Star Jones, an attorney, correspondent and co-host from The View
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"She's an accomplished attorney, legal correspondent and co-host of ABC's The...
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Ellen Goodman, a math teacher from East Meadow, New York
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Season 13 1-time champion: $12,201.
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Emily Bruemmer, a history and East Asian studies student from Orleans, Massachusetts
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Season 25 player (2009-07-24).
Last name pronounced like "BREM-mer".
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Benjamin Schwartz, a 12-year-old from East Providence, Rhode Island
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"When you were 11, did you host your own webpage on...
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Kevin Forsyth, a computer systems analyst originally from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 14 player (1997-12-10).
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Spencer Parker, a recent college graduate from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 13 2-time champion: $26,402.
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Nick Calton, a paralegal originally from New York, New York
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Season 23 1-time champion: $30,400 + $1,000.
Tied with Sara Terrell for his one win.
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Sinan Turnacioglu, a medical student from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 15 2-time champion: $9,800.
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Kevin Holbert, a linguistics student from Buffalo, New York
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Season 24 2-time champion: $39,823 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "HOLE-burt".
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Ann Rupel, a medical research assistant from New York, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-07-18).
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Jay Giller, a food buyer from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 18 player (2002-01-14).
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Paul Canty, a homemaker from Easthampton, Massachusetts
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Season 22 player (2006-01-27).
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Melissa Sexstone, a college junior from East Syracuse, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Kathy Bubbeo, a freelance editor from East Meadow, New York
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Season 17 player (2001-06-05).
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Jason Block, an Internet researcher from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 17 4-time champion: $36,701. Won $125,000 on Who Wants to...
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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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