| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking Dublin |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? $800: Used for evening dresses & shoes, peau de soie means "skin of" this material silk |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $600: This publication that later Rockwell & rolled was named for being printed in time to make a weekend mail delivery in Philly The Saturday Evening Post |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $200: Poet Robert stops by the woods on a snowy evening to chomp on a synonym for chomp & develops this chilly condition frostbite |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $200: "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day" Genesis |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Type of evening in the title of a 1923 Frost poem snowy |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | I JUST WANT A LOVER LIKE ANY OTHER $200: Trust your friends--don't pass up this type of set-up evening, also the title of several TV shows including one Nikki Glaser hosted blind date |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BOOK CLUB $800: Sherlock's big brother, he could be found every evening at the Diogenes Club Mycroft |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $800: Jim Carrey said, "Good afternoon, good evening & good night" in this 1998 film The Truman Show |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | PAINTER SELFIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1960 his triple-selfie graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: An 1899 Saturday Evening Post article bemoaned the "lost art of" this, with everyone reading instead of talking to each other conversation |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Numeric sci-fi book about a metaverse, a singular evening of passion & the controversial right to use deadly force as self-defense Ready Player One-night stand your ground |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 1990s EMMY AWARDS $1600: A college football player, he scored an Emmy for coaching the game as Wood Newton on "Evening Shade" Burt Reynolds |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | TRAVEL USA $600: Your evening tour of our nation's capital includes his memorial seen here Jefferson |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $800: April 26, 2023 is the 90th bday of this funny lady whose Saturday night skits included "Rancid Harvest" & "Went with the Wind" Carol Burnett |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | OLIVE YOU $400: In Genesis, "The dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off" Noah |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1000: She was arrested the evening of Dec. 1, 1955; next morning, fliers calling for a boycott were all over town Rosa Parks |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AS THE FRENCH SAY $1200: "Good evening" is this 7-letter word combining the French for good & evening bonsoir |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $5,000 (Daily Double): Loosely based on historical events, this 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel is subtitled "The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE AGELESS DIANA ROSS $600: This co-star of TV's "black-ish" hosted the American Music Awards on a special evening when mom Diana got the Lifetime Achievement Award Tracee Ellis Ross |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: She once took First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a flight over Washington, D.C., both attired in evening gowns Amelia Earhart |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | GENRES OF POETRY $800: [under the evening moon] by Kobayashi Issa haiku |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | GENRES OF POETRY $1600: 6-letter genre of "Stopping By Fridge on a Hungry Evening" a parody |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: In 1916 this illustrator created his first of more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SCIENCE $400: Something's fishy, & it's this zodiacal constellation that reaches its highest point in the evening sky in November Pisces |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | MUSICALS BY LYRICS $800: "Can you feel the love tonight? The peace the evening brings..." The Lion King |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1000: "Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger" South Pacific |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | FURNITURE $200: It's said you can be "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of" these, but you can relax in one on a summer evening rocking chair |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | PANTS $800: Italian for "palace" gives us the name of these wide-legged pants worn as evening dress in the 1960s palazzo pants |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $1000: The Backstreet Boys & this boy band joined forces to usher in 2011
"Yeah, you /
Got the right stuff /
Ha, baby, yeah /
You're the reason why I sing this song /
Come on, y'all! /
Here we go!" New Kids on the Block |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | PLANETARY SCIENCE $800: Ancient astronomers finally realized Phosphorus, seen in the morning, & Hesperus, in the evening--both this planet Venus |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $400: This dog "Come-Home" first appeared as a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story; a novel followed, then radio, movies & TV Lassie |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $400: 2008: Not in attendance, she dominated the evening, winning 5 awards Winehouse |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $800: A chilly evening? Relax around this backyard accessory, burning wood like the portable model called the Solo Stove Bonfire a fire pit |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | GOOD DAY, SIR! $2000: Taika Waititi had a pleasant evening at the Oscars in 2020, winning for writing this WWII-era film about a very unlikely pair Jojo Rabbit |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | BUSINESSES $400: In 1901 the Saturday Evening Post ran the first ad of this tire company that featured its trademark wingfoot Goodyear |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 1821 $800: Long known as simply "The Post", this publication printed its first issue The Saturday Evening Post |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | DAY, DRINKING $800: Hoist a dram on the evening of January 25, the night Scotland celebrates this iconic poet Burns |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | WHAT'S THE GOSSIP? $400: In the 1950s the New York Evening this newspaper became a tabloid & "National" , eventually moving to Florida the Enquirer |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | ON THE COVER $1200: The December 6, 1924 Saturday Evening Post cover featured a Christmas scene by him Norman Rockwell |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | JOURNALISTS $1200: From 1962 to 1981 he ended CBS Evening News broadcasts with the signoff "And that's the way it is" Cronkite |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $200: "Wait until the evening before opening night", said Rossini of writing these instrumental pieces played before operas overtures |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $2000: It's French for "evening"; an 1887 book of manners says it's held at an early hour & is more about conversation than dancing a soiree |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $2000: In modern life this 8-letter word means "not having a romantic partner for the evening"; in "Richard II" it means "without end" dateless |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $400: Poets write of the evening "song" of this grasshopper relative, as in Archibald Lampman's "The homely" this "gossips at my feet" a cricket |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | MYTHICAL CREATURES $8,000 (Daily Double): Those who couldn't answer her riddle "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon, and 3 in the evening" were killed the Sphinx |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Egyptian sun god known as Khepri at dawn & Atum in the evening was known by this 2-letter name at midday Ra |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $1200: He wrote of the Little Match Girl who had "frozen to death on the last evening of the old year" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Blitz, Edward R. Murrow borrowed this 5-word phrase from Londoners who weren't sure they'd survive the evening Good night, and good luck |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $1000: Exodus chapter 16 recounts how flocks of these birds appeared one evening at sunset & fed the hungry Israelites quail |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | GALA $200: "Evening in the Stacks" galas, held in various communities, benefit local ones of these places libraries |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $800: His 1896 play "John Gabriel Borkman" takes place on a winter evening near Oslo (Henrik) Ibsen |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | NEWSPAPER NAMES $400: In 1901 this Denver daily dropped "Evening" from its name the Post |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THE SUN'S GETTING REAL LOW $1200: "The evening star" traditionally means this planet when seen as the sun sinks low Venus |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | FOR ME & MY GAL GADOT $800: While Tina Fey & Steve Carell are having this title evening in a 2010 film, they meet Mark Wahlberg & Gal Date Night |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | ON TV $600: Seen here, Jeff Glor became the new anchor for this network's evening news in 2017 CBS |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE NOVEL'S SUBTITLE $2000: Cormac McCarthy:
"The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THE B.G.s $200: Aboard this ship, Benjamin Guggenheim took off his lifebelt, put on evening clothes & wrote to his wife the Titanic |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | C.C. & ME $800: In 1993, she became the first female co-anchor of the CBS evening news Connie Chung |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MEALS $1000: Shakespeare's Falstaff asks, "Will you" do this "with me", a verb meaning "to eat the evening meal" sup |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | CAREER DAY $400: Good evening! Might I interest you in this job? It's from the French... bold, lovely... a steward specializing in wine a sommelier |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | RHYME TIME FASHION $600: A small handheld evening bag from Holland a Dutch clutch |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | ACCESSORIES $600: The length of these is measured in buttons; 16-button length is formal, as with a mousquetaire evening gloves |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | TRY COLOR $200: The first Crayola to get a name change was Prussian blue, which became this timely blue midnight blue |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | LASSIE $400: The 1938 short story that introduced Lassie appeared in this publication, with a Norman Rockwell cover The Saturday Evening Post |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | WHY I DRINK $400: Because it's this day whose evening Elton John once deemed "Alright For Fighting" Saturday |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): Act I of this play:
"A country road. A tree. Evening, Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot" Waiting for Godot |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | A DATE FOR THE INAUGURAL BALL $2000: Contrary to the picture, dancers kept their coats on at Grant's second, held on a freezing spring evening in this month, 1873 March |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | GEORGIA IN SONG $1600: Reba McEntire is among those who've sung about this title evening of murder injustice & power outage "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $400: This T.S. Eliot "Love" poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1990s MOVIE QUOTES $800: "Good morning! Oh, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" The Truman Show |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | IN OUR STARS $1200: What's frequently called the Evening Star isn't a star at all, but this bright planet, "Earth's twin" Venus |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | YES TO NOVEMBER $800: The image seen here appeared on the November 21, 1908 cover of this magazine The Saturday Evening Post |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | 'BYE, RACHEL! COUPLES $800: The Rachel Bilson/Adam Brody romance & this Calif.-set evening soap they acted in were canceled in rapid succession The O.C. |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | PLOTS OF 1970s NO. 1 SONGS $800: 17-year-old girl looks for her "king" on the dance floor on a Friday evening "Dancing Queen" |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN $400: The evening gown worn by this first lady to her first state dinner was created by Oleg Cassini, one of her favorite designers Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | CLOTHES $400: A cutaway was a part of men's dress for this time of day, which is why it's also called that time of day's coat morning |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING $1000: Making reservations for 8 PM, an hour hence? Open with this common expression literally meaning "good evening" buonasera |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | PRAYERS $1000: In Roman Catholic liturgy, lauds are morning prayers & these are evening prayers vespers |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | RADIO $1000: Radio term for the rush-hour morning & evening periods when people are likely to listen in their cars drive time |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: With the merger of a morning paper & an evening one, Marshall Field III created this Chicago newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $800: This artist created a triple self-portrait for a 1960 cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" Rockwell |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | NON-TALKATIVE SHOW BIZ FOLK $400: "Good evening! My name is Penn Jillette... My partner", this man--I'll be doing all the talking, thanks Teller |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | GOOD "EVENING" $400: It's a long, elegant woman's dress for formal occasions an evening gown |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | GOOD "EVENING" $800: Venus, shortly after sunset the Evening Star |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | GOOD "EVENING" $1200: Walter Cronkite became its anchor in 1962 the CBS Evening News |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | GOOD "EVENING" $1600: You can still subscribe to this, "America's magazine" The Saturday Evening Post |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | GOOD "EVENING" $2000: Dads know this PBS show with a 3-word title, featuring Arthur Fiedler & John Williams, premiered in 1970 Evening at Pops |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE ELITE ATE $200: Ludwig Bemelmans said this elegant fish roe appetizer "is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress" caviar |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $2000: With hundreds of performers in an evening, Victorian pantomime peaked at the theater named for this lane Drury Lane |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | "FIRE" $600: Term for a meteor brighter than Venus in the morning or evening sky a fireball |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $800: This poem's title has 7 words, like its last line "and miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THAT WAS ON TV $800: Addressing web commenters directly to write the govt. about net neutrality, this Brit began, "Good evening, monsters" John Oliver |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | RHYME 3 TIMES $1200: The evening meal of a less-fat champion a dinner of a thinner winner |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $2000: This 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel has the alternate title "The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | EYEBROW-BEATING YOU $400: This '30s movie star said, "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it" Groucho Marx |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $2000: On an evening lantern hike, you can see the ski slopes used in this Austrian city's Olympics Innsbruck |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SATURDAY EVENING POST COVERS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) Soon favoring photographs, one of the last paintings for which Rockwell used live models was for a 1936 cover depicting this type of singing group a barbershop quartet |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SATURDAY EVENING POST COVERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a Post cover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) The original "Boy on High Dive" painting from a 1947 cover now belongs to this "Lincoln" director, who says that we're all on diving boards during our lives & that taking the plunge is something we must face Steven Spielberg |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SATURDAY EVENING POST COVERS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a Post cover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) For a wartime cover in 1943, Rockwell got a phone operator from his hometown in Vermont to pose as this iconic character Rosie the Riveter |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SATURDAY EVENING POST COVERS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a Post cover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) Submitted for the New York World's Fair in 1939 was Rockwell's cover of a disheveled druggist, also known by this old-fashioned name an apothecary |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SATURDAY EVENING POST COVERS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a Post cover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) 1948's "Homecoming" cover was truly a friends-and-family affair: there's Rockwell, these are his three sons, and over here is this friend & fellow artist Grandma Moses |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | SERIOUS TV $1,000 (Daily Double): This man began seeing the news from every angle on his CNN evening show in 2003 Anderson Cooper |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $2000: "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | BARBARA WALTERS $600: In the 1970s Barbara broke new ground for women co-anchoring the evening news & co-hosting this morning staple (the) Today (show) |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: P.G. Wodehouse introduced this valet in a Saturday Evening Post story, "Extricating Young Gussie" Jeeves |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | THE ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) In 1916, "Boy with Baby Carriage" earned Norman Rockwell $75 & his first of more than 300 covers for this magazine The Saturday Evening Post |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $2,000 (Daily Double): This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $600: The 1996 crash of this airline's Flight 800 "broke the calm of a sultry summer evening... along the Long Island shore" TWA |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | PARTY $1000: From the French for "evening", this word for a party can also be followed by "dansante" a soirée |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | THE LAST CENTURY $400: "The most trusted man in America", he ended his tenure as anchor of the CBS Evening News in 1981 Walter Cronkite |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | HEALTH & NUTRITION $400: (I'm New York food writer Mark Bittman.) You can eat steak & good cheese, but you have to save them for the evening with the program I call VB6, short for this "before 6:00" vegan |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | EAT, DRINK $1200: It's the Friday evening
foodstuff seen here challah |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOE PARTY $400: Tom has a party & Jerry tries to stop it in the short "Saturday Evening Puss", directed by William Hanna & him Joseph Barbera |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | PUP FICTION $800: This iconic canine made her bow wow in a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story Lassie |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | THE ART OF GEORGIA O'KEEFFE $1600: O'Keeffe's observations of this planet in late afternoon inspired her "Evening Star" paintings Venus |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | AMERICANA $400: From 1916 to 1963, he painted more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | GROWNUPS ON TV $800: Scott Pelley is the serious-looking dude who anchors the "CBS Evening" version of this the news |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $800: 2 couples out for the evening, or a genealogical reference using both the Gregorian & Julian calendars double date |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | NEWSPAPERS $800: In 1910 the Miami Evening Record changed its name to this the Herald |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE... FAST! $2000: As the morning & evening star, this Mesoamerican deity was the symbol of death & resurrection
Q _ _ _ Z _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Quetzalcoatl |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | ART SUBJECTS $2000: Merritt is his daughter, hence "Evening at Merritt's Cottage" by this beloved artist who died in 2012 Thomas Kinkade |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | POP CULTURE $200: Good evening... in a 2012 film Anthony Hopkins portrayed this rotund director at the height of his scary powers Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | GIVING US THE TIME OF DAY $400: 2-word term for a woman's formal dress usually having a floor-length skirt an evening gown |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | HOW COLLEGES GOT THEIR NAMES $400: Formerly YMCA Evening College, this city's Golden Gate University got its name at the suggestion of a student San Francisco |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | RELATIONSHIP ISSUES $1200: A regular evening out to keep a marriage strong; one goes wrong for Tina Fey & Steve Carell in a 2010 film a date night |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | SECOND ROCK FROM THE SUN $1600: Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" begins, "Sunset and" this item in the sky that's really Venus the Evening Star |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In Japanese konbanwa means "good evening"; this means "good afternoon" konnichiwa |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | THE TONY AWARDS $400: On some enchanted evening in 2008, this musical won 7 Tonys, the most ever for a revival South Pacific |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A hip-hop greeting, or to eat the evening meal sup |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | NATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): The moonflower, whose blossoms open in the evening, is a fragrant variety of this a.m. flower the morning glory |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | A TOUCH OF ROBERT FROST IN THE AIR $1600: "My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near", says the frosty poem with this 7-word title "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $600: In some myths, Quetzalcoatl was identified with this planet, the Evening & Morning Star Venus |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | CLASSICAL GAS $1200: Mozart wrote this evening serenade in 1787 while working on "Don Giovanni" Eine kleine Nachtmusik |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | EVENING CONSTITUTIONAL $200: This "liberty or death" guy turned down an invite to be a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, saying he "smelt a rat" Patrick Henry |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | EVENING CONSTITUTIONAL $400: Rhode Island was the only state not to send delegates to the convention & the last of the 13 to do this, 3 years later ratify the Constitution |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | EVENING CONSTITUTIONAL $600: As it permitted this practice, William Lloyd Garrison branded the Constitution "a covenant with death" slavery |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | EVENING CONSTITUTIONAL $800: The 2 presidents to sign the document were George Washington & this one who was very involved in its formation James Madison |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | EVENING CONSTITUTIONAL $1000: Since 1952, all 4 pages of the Constitution have been on display behind protective glass at this facility in D.C. the National Archives |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | ENDS IN DOUBLE E $1000: French term for an evening party, perhaps a musical one a soirée |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | FRENCH CROSSWORD CLUES $800: Good evening (7) bonsoir |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | POETIC TITLE VERBS $400: "____ by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Stopping |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $7,400 (Daily Double): It's the answer to the Sphinx' riddle: "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon & 3 in the evening?" man |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | EARHART $800: Amelia once took this First Lady on a flight over Washington, D.C. while both were wearing evening gowns Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", he wrote that he had "promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" (Robert) Frost |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | TIMELESS TV $600: In 1948 Douglas Edwards became the first anchor of this network's Evening News CBS |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY $2000: One summer evening the song of this bird inspired Shelley to write his ode titled "to" it a skylark |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | BOOKS' OTHER TITLES $2000: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood" this: "the Evening Redness in the West" Meridian |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | A QUIET EVENING AT HOME $400: Grandma got her pectin today, so she's started putting up her delicious peach type of this jam |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | A QUIET EVENING AT HOME $800: Researching the family tree, Grandpa's back on the Swenson family forum on the website called this -alogy.com genealogy |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | A QUIET EVENING AT HOME $1200: The sweater Mother's knitting is coming along nicely but oops, there in the sleeve is a "dropped" this a stitch |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | A QUIET EVENING AT HOME $1600: A lively match at this board game is under way, & I do believe that's the Tartakower Variation on the Torre Attack chess |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | KATIE COURIC, WITNESS TO HISTORY $200: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In 2006, on my first broadcast as anchor of the CBS Evening News, I reported that this group that formerly ruled Afghanistan was "back with a vengeance" the Taliban |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | WAIT FOR IT... $7,000 (Daily Double): In this play, a boy says that the title character "won't come this evening, but surely tomorrow" Waiting for Godot |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | IN WHICH CANADIAN PROVINCE? $400: The Nine O'Clock Gun, which booms every evening to let Vancouver's citizens set their watches British Columbia |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | OLD DEUTERONOMY $400: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord" from Deuteronomy is part of Maariv, evening these prayers |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | NAME THAT SPEAKER $1200: 1940: "On Friday evening last I received from his majesty the mission to form a new administration" Churchill |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | FASHION $400: Often strapless & covered with beads, a clutch is one of these used in the evening a purse |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | CLASSICAL TV THEMES $800: The evening newscast by Chet Huntley & this partner used Beethoven's 9th for its theme (David) Brinkley |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | 21st CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 2006 she left the "Today" show to anchor the CBS evening news Couric |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: In 1992 tart-tongued Aurora Greenway returned in "The Evening Star", the sequel to this McMurtry novel Terms of Endearment |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | T.S. ELIOT $1600: This "Love" poem by T.S. Eliot says, "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | ASTRO-QUIZ $400: After the Sun & Moon, this planet, aka the "Morning Star" & "Evening Star", is the brightest object in the sky Venus |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | I THINK I LOVE HUGH $1600: In 2007 this Brit & Claire Danes met while filming "Evening"; in 2009 they got engaged Hugh Dancy |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | STAR-SPANGLED BANNER WORDS $400: The early evening when the sun is below the horizon twilight |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS $400: This Saturday Evening Post artist also did illustrations for editions of "Tom Sawyer" & "Huckleberry Finn" (Norman) Rockwell |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | WALTER CRONKITE $400: Cronkite anchored this network's Evening News from April 16, 1962 to March 6, 1981 CBS |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Poet who may lose a finger or toe to a bitter cold condition (after stopping by woods on a snowy evening) Robert Frostbite |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | FUN WITH FASHION $400: Made by combining natural minerals with quartz sand, these Swarovski products sparkle on evening bags crystals |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | BACK AT THE CBC $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from back at the CBC.) Starting in 1978 on this Canadian comedy TV series, Eugene Levy began spoofing me as a wacky game show host called Alex Trebell
"Good evening, everybody. Welcome to "Half Wits", the game show that's fun and at times extremely trying." SCTV |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | POETRY IN MOTION $2,000 (Daily Double): "His house is in the village though; he will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow" Robert Frost |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Former CBS Evening News host Douglas & former NPR morning host Bob Edwards |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | WOOD & WIND $2000: This Frost poem ends with "And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | WOMEN "R" US $1000: This symbolic woman was on the cover of the May 29, 1943 Saturday Evening Post Rosie the Riveter |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: In the Grimm tale "Jorinda and Joringel", Jorinda is turned into one of these birds known for singing in the evening a nightingale |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | MISCELLANY $600: In the Palauan language, sulang doesn't mean "goodbye"; it's this polite expression thank you |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $1600: The 1961 Grammy for Best Comedy Performance went to "An Evening with" him "and Elaine May" Mike Nichols |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | CLOTHES-MINDED $200: These parts of an evening gown bear the name of a pasta spaghetti straps |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | CLOTHES-MINDED $600: 4-letter term for a fancy fabric woven with metallic threads & popular for evening wear lamé |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: It's celebrated the evening before All Saints' Day All Hallow's Eve (Halloween) |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $400: Seen here, this city boasts a spectacular skyline, especially in the evening Seattle |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | VALENTINE'S DAY CUISINE $600: (Emeril Lagasse reads.) Make the evening really special with a luxurious parfait prepared with champagne cream & caviar from this fish, historically associated with the Caspian Sea sturgeon |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: "The sweep of easy wind and downy flake" appears in the poem "Stopping by Woods on" this type of "Evening" Snowy |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | OSCARS WILD $1200: He's the "SNL" guy (& you're not) who opened the 1988 show with, "Good evening Hollywood phonies"; he never hosted again Chevy Chase |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | I RESIGN! $400: His August 8, 1974 speech began, "Good evening. This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office" Nixon |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | YOU PICKED A FINE TIME $400: Deion Sanders knows this term for the evening hours when the largest audience is available for TV prime time |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | FUNNY OR DIE $1200: This director: "There are worse things" than death; "ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" Woody Allen |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | MAGAZINES $400: From its founding in 1821 & up to 1942, the Saturday Evening Post was sold at this price five cents |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | 20th CENTURY FASHION $1600: "Enchanted Evening", a pink satin gown worn by this somewhat plastic icon in the '60s, was produced again in 1996 Barbie |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | AMERICAN PAINTERS $400: The Feb. 13, 1960 Saturday Evening Post contained his cover story "My Adventures as an Illustrator" Norman Rockwell |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | CRITICISM WITH STYLE $400: This comic "brother":
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it" Groucho Marx |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | THE MIDDAY SUN $1200: The Egyptian sun god was known as Khepera at dawn, as Atum in the evening & by this name at noon Ra |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | RUSSIAN CINEMA $800: Many Russians watch the film "Ironiya Sudby", about a group of old friends, every year on this evening New Year's Eve |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | LET'S EAT CHINESE $1600: Spice up your evening with this Szechwan dish made with your choice of meat, peppers, dried chiles & peanuts kung pao |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: In a 1972 recording, "An Evening With" this author, she read excerpts from her famous diary Anais Nin |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | NAME THAT MUSICAL $400: "There Is Nothin' Like A Dame"
&
"Some Enchanted Evening" South Pacific |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | SATURDAY $200: In 1916, he sold his first of more than 300 Saturday Evening Post covers (Norman) Rockwell |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | IN THE HEADLINES $400: She reported & made news when she announced she'd leave NBC to anchor the CBS Evening News Katie Couric |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | DRESSING $800: The hour for mixed drinks, or the type of short evening dress appropriate then cocktail |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | BEASTLY LINES $3,000 (Daily Double): In William Collins' "Ode to Evening", this "weak-eyed" creature "flits by on leathern wing" a bat |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | RIDDLE ME THIS $800: Sphinx: What animal walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon & 3 in the evening? Oedipus: This man |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | BEASTLY LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): 1961:
A reptillion evening served up by Tennessee Williams The Night of the Iguana |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | VANITY $800: This "Evening Shade" star wigged out when it was revealed that he owed $7,500 to 2 toupee companies Burt Reynolds |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | BROADWAY SECRETS $1600: According to her daughter, Marlene Dietrich secretly romanced this man between matinees & evening shows of "The King & I" Yul Brynner |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | RHYME TIME $800: The evening assigned for the boxing match fight night |
| #4936, aired 2006-02-13 | ALLITERATION STATION $400: An evening where 2 couples go out together a double date |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | EVENING NEWS 1893 $400: A motion picture of these men has been produced but the shoeing scene may be too intense for youngsters blacksmiths |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | EVENING NEWS 1893 $800: The nation listened as this man took on the topic of civil service reform in his second inaugural address Grover Cleveland |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | EVENING NEWS 1893 $1200: For those vacationing out West, the Great Northern Railway has reached the Pacific in this state Washington |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | EVENING NEWS 1893 $1600: The tragic death of Peter Tchaikovsky should remind us all to boil our water to avoid this disease cholera |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | EVENING NEWS 1893 $2000: We can breathe easier now that Emma Goldman, an advocate of this system against all government, is behind bars anarchism |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | POETIC FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Robert Frost:
"Stopping by woods on a snowy ____" evening |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | VERMONT $1200: While living in Arlington, Vt., he featured many of its residents on his Saturday Evening Post covers Norman Rockwell |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | ISLAM $600 (Daily Double): The first one of the 5 of these is at fajr, "dawn"; the last at isha, "evening" prayers |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $2,000 (Daily Double): T.S. Eliot:
"Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: A swallowtail is a type of this, a man's formal coat that slopes toward the tails cutaway |
| #4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $400: On the evening of April 18, 1775 Robert Newman displayed 2 lanterns in this Boston structure the Old North Church |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | "HAPPY" NEW YEAR $200: Early-evening period of reduced drink prices at the bar happy hour |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | THOSE CRAZY GUGGENHEIMS $400: Benjamin Guggenheim made sure to dress in his evening clothes before going down with this ship in 1912 the Titanic |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | A JIM CARREY FILM FESTIVAL $600: "Good morning! And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" The Truman Show |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | '60s SITCOMS $800: One book calls this character "unctuous & oily to adults ('Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Cleaver') but a bully to... kids" Eddie Haskell |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | THUMB ENCHANTED EVENING $200: If you've got one of these, you've got a natural ability to make plants grow well green thumb |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | THUMB ENCHANTED EVENING $400: Abraham Lincoln once had this diminutive Barnum star & his wife over to the White House (General) Tom Thumb |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | THUMB ENCHANTED EVENING $600: It's a miniature version of an image on a computer screen that when clicked on will load the full-size image thumbnail |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | THUMB ENCHANTED EVENING $800: The "thumb" on the geographic mitten that is Michigan juts into this Great Lake Lake Huron |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In October 1729 Benjamin Franklin purchased this one-year-old newspaper that had a subscription list of 90 the Pennsylvania Gazette |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | GREAT OL' SONGS $400: "Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got" this fun |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | QUOTABLE MOVIES $400: 2001:
"Good evening, Clarice! Just like old times" Hannibal |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: In 1957 the New York Evening Enquirer expanded its scope & renamed itself this the National Enquirer |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | PEOPLE $400: This Asian-American woman once co-anchored the "CBS Evening News" Connie Chung |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | NOVEL TEASE $800: 1953:
"He flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #4412, aired 2003-11-11 | NEW HAVEN $1000: This Connecticut poet & insurance exec wrote a 20-page poem called "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" Wallace Stevens |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | "V" $800: From the Latin for "evening", it's a service of evening worship Vespers |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | "C"LOTHES $1000: This long, loose robe has been worn as a housecoat & an evening dress caftan |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | POEM $1000: 1923 poem that reads:
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | BEATLES HITS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "One Difficult 24-Hour Period's Evening" "A Hard Day's Night" |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | AN ARM $400: This prince made the evening news when he broke his right arm playing polo on June 28, 1990 Prince Charles |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | YESTERDAY'S NEWSPAPERS $800: In a war of London papers for this title time of day, the News folded in 1980, leaving the Standard standing evening |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | POTLUCK $800: It's the answer to the Sphinx' riddle: "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon, and 3 in the evening?" man |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: He lived for awhile at the Rue des Moulins bordello, & painted its ladies of the evening in their parlor Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | REPORTING THE NEWS $1000: This gossip & radio man greeted audiences, "Good evening, Mr. & Mrs. North & South America & all the ships at sea" Walter Winchell |
| #4265, aired 2003-02-28 | NAMES FROM THE PAST $800: Pythagoras found the morning & evening stars were the same body; once called Aphrodite, it's now called this Venus |
| #4249, aired 2003-02-06 | PAINTERS $800: This 1889 Van Gogh work showing the evening sky was painted from memory in an asylum at Saint-Remy Starry Night |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | HAIR TODAY $800: If Robert Frost was sharpening his razor outside in December, he might be doing this "by Woods on a Snowy Evening" stropping |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | LET THEM EAT CAKE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew puts in an evening as a dessert chef.) This dessert is a layer of cake & ice cream that's topped with meringue & then browned in the oven Baked Alaska |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | THE ME DECADE $1000: In 1976 he was teamed with Barbara Walters on the "ABC Evening News" Harry Reasoner |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CANADIAN PROVINCES $1,800 (Daily Double): The Evening News is published in New Glasgow in this province Nova Scotia |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | STAR WARS TRIVIA $400: This star of "Smokey and the Bandit" & "Evening Shade" was originally cast as Han Solo but dropped out Burt Reynolds |
| #3956, aired 2001-11-12 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: She once whisked Eleanor Roosevelt away for an airplane ride over Washington, both still in evening gowns Amelia Earhart |
| #3953, aired 2001-11-07 | MUSEUMS $1000: Saturday Evening Post covers are on display at the Rutland, Vermont museum devoted to this illustrator (Norman) Rockwell |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | SNL CATCHPHRASES $100: 3-word phrase that followed "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase..." and you're not |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | THE THEATRE $500: "A Grand Night for Singing" featured the songs of this duo, including "Some Enchanted Evening" Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | CLOTHES-MINDED $600: 4-letter term for a fancy fabric woven with metallic threads popular for evening wear lamé |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $400: James Ussher thought this was created in the evening of October 22, 4004 B.C. The world |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE $600: A man's formal evening coat with 2 long tails in back is named for its resemblance to the tail of this bird: swallow ("swallowtail") |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | SHOW TUNES $600: "Happy Talk",
"Some Enchanted Evening" "South Pacific" |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | BAG LADIES $100: Judith Leiber makes tiny evening bags from the skin of this largest bird Ostrich |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "The Evening Star" is Larry McMurtry's 1992 sequel to this 1975 mother-daughter novel "Terms of Endearment" |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW $500: This group was "Groovin" on a Sunday evening, not afternoon, when they appeared in 1966 The Rascals |
| #3724, aired 2000-11-09 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $200: PBS fans know that "Evening at Pops" refers to this city's Pops Boston |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | TV SETTINGS $500: Burt Reynolds' character Wood Newton was a football coach in this title town Evening Shade |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | OFF-BROADWAY 2000 $600: Todd Price produced the U.S. premiere of "Shadows in the Evening" by this witty Brit who died in 1973 Noel Coward |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | THEY WROTE THE SONGS $200: "Some Enchanted Evening" & "Edelweiss" Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | THE SONGS OF THE CARPENTERS $600: This song says, "And when the evening comes we smile, so much of life ahead" "We've Only Just Begun" |
| #3642, aired 2000-06-06 | AMERICA-PODGE $100: On the evening of Nov. 3, 1992 he learned he was the first runner-up in the U.S. presidential election George H.W. Bush |
| #3638, aired 2000-05-31 | "PHIL" IN THE ____ $200: "Magandang Gabi" means "Good Evening" in Tagalog, a major language spoken in ____ the Philippines |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $400: Suitable for early-evening parties, it's the "beverage" dress seen here: a cocktail dress |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | SCANDALOUS WOMEN $500: Born Martha, this Wild West gal, Wild Bill Hickok's pal, sometimes toiled as a lady of the evening Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary) |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | WILD WOMEN IN HISTORY $500: Kate Elder, a notorious lady of the evening, is best remembered as this dentist's companion Doc Holliday |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $1000: In the title of a story Fitzgerald wrote for The Saturday Evening Post, "Bernice Bobs" this Her hair |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE HOT "ROCK" $200: As well as the Saturday Evening Post, he created covers for Ladies' Home Journal & Look Norman Rockwell |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $300: This stout Rex Stout detective was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post Nero Wolfe |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | 2000 CALENDARS $300: The cover of Landmark's Norman Rockwell calendar shows one of the covers from this magazine The Saturday Evening Post |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | EGAD! MORE POET-TREE! $1000: Harlem poet who wrote "Rest at pale evening... a tall slim tree... night coming tenderly black like me" Langston Hughes |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | HISTORIC AMOURS $300: It's likely that Etta Place, the companion of this "Kid", was a lady of the evening rather than a schoolmarm the Sundance Kid |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | NAMES IN THE NEWS $300: He was co-editor of "60 Minutes" until 1981 when he left to anchor the "CBS Evening News" Dan Rather |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | WHERE WERE YOU IN '62? $300: It wasn't until almost 2 months after his coverage of John Glenn's flight he got the CBS Evening News anchor seat Walter Cronkite |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | ANIMAL GROUPS $500: In the evening you might watch for a watch of these nocturnal avian singers nightingales |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | MOVIE QUOTES $500: "Good morning! And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" The Truman Show |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $300: On a Saturday evening you might want to read his 1960 autobiography "My Adventures As An Illustrator" Norman Rockwell |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | U.S. HISTORY $600: The cover of the May 29, 1943 Saturday Evening Post featured this "Female War Worker" Rosie the Riveter |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | POET-TREE $400: He wrote "Tree at My Window" a few years after "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Robert) Frost |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | YES, "N"DEEDY $200: The name of this earthworm should tell you it creeps around in the evening an ightcrawler |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | FUN THINGS TO DO $100: For an unusual evening out, this Louisiana city's historic Voodoo Museum offers moonlight swamp cruises New Orleans |
| #3171, aired 1998-05-18 | "LITTLE" WOMEN $200: This mischievous girl with corkscrew curls appeared in the Saturday Evening Post for over 10 years Little Lulu |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | LITERATURE $200: His "Jungle Book" prose begins, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills..." Rudyard Kipling |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | THE FAB (18)50s $600: In 1852 the Albany Evening Journal coined this word to be used instead of "Telegraphic Dispatch" telegram |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST $100: Pre-"Peanuts", he sold some of his cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post Charles Schulz |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST $200: In the March 17, 1956 issue, Gary Cooper said, "In Westerns you were permitted to kiss" this "but never your girl" your horse |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST $300: Born in NYC in 1894, he painted 317 covers for the Post over 47 years Norman Rockwell |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST $400: The Post's history goes back to The Pennsylvania Gazette founded by this man Benjamin Franklin |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST $500: The 6 Earl Derr Biggers novels about this Chinese-American detective were first serialized in the Post Charlie Chan |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | COMING OUT $400: The young lady making an evening debut usually wears this color dress, as she eventually will down the aisle White |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | UNIVERSAL MONSTERS $100: (Good evening!) Men who've played me on Broadway & screen are Frank Langella in the '70s & this man in the '20s & '30s Bela Lugosi |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | BROADWAY LYRICS $200: It's "When you may see a stranger, you may see a stranger across a crowded room" "Some Enchanted Evening" |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | MUSEUMS $200: A museum in Rutland, Vermont displays many of his illustrations, including covers of The Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
| #2971, aired 1997-06-30 | MOVIE DEBUTS $600: Jennifer Grant, the daughter of Cary Grant & this actress, made her feature film debut in '96 in "The Evening Star" Dyan Cannon |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | FIRST LADIES $400: Sadly, she was declared insane on May 19, 1875 & tried to commit suicide that evening Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | OUTER SPACE $400: In 1997 this planet, a morning star until May, will be an evening star for the rest of the year Venus |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | RECENT MOVIES $500: Shirley MacLaine reprised her role as Aurora Greenway in this sequel to "Terms Of Endearment" The Evening Star |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | POETS & POETRY $800: You might read this New Englander's blank verse play "A Masque of Reason" "On A Snowy Evening" Robert Frost |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | HUSBAND & WIFE $200: Queen Victoria exulted over her honeymoon night with him, "I never, never spent such an evening!!!" Prince Albert |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | LITERATURE $400: "Buffalo Girls" & "The Evening Star" are among this "Lonesome Dove" author's recent novels Larry McMurtry |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | ON THE RADIO $1000: It's National Public Radio's early evening news magazine "All Things Considered" |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $200: This "Funny Girl"'s first New York show, "Another Evening with Harry Stoones", closed after 1 performance Barbra Streisand |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: Now cohost of "20/20", in 1976 she became the 1st woman to co-anchor the network evening news Barbara Walters |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | ETIQUETTE $500: "Colorful" designation of the most formal men's evening wear white tie |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | MAGAZINES $100: In 1963 Norman Rockwell painted his 317th & final cover for this magazine The Saturday Evening Post |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: To eat one's evening meal to sup |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | THE 1930s $400: This longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News became a UPI correspondent in 1939 Walter Cronkite |
| #2696, aired 1996-04-29 | TV PERSONALITIES $400: In 1993 viewer complaints led Burt Reynolds to announce he'd stop smoking cigars on this sitcom Evening Shade |
| #2691, aired 1996-04-22 | MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Speculate What Guest Is Showing Up for the Evening Repast" Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $1000: In this 1960 film, William Holden falls for lady of the evening Nancy Kwan in Hong Kong "The World Of Suzie Wong" |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $300: The tour of this former "Evening Shade" star's Jupiter, Florida Ranch includes a visit to his petting farm Burt Reynolds |
| #2659, aired 1996-03-07 | NEWSPAPERS $400: Published in 1783 & 1784, this city's Pennsylvania Evening Post was America's first daily newspaper Philadelphia |
| #2653, aired 1996-02-28 | THE MOVIES $600: Lily Tomlin & Jodie Foster played ladies of the evening in this director's "Shadows and Fog" Woody Allen |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | POETRY $400: He wrote "Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Frost |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: He painted ladies of the evening "at the Salon of the Rue des Moulins" in 1894 Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | TELEVISION $500: This housekeeper was based on Ted Key's cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post Hazel |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | POETRY $800: This Eliot poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | FLOWERS $1000: The oil from this evening flower is high in gamma-linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid Evening primrose |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | ART $400: He was just 22 when he illustrated his first Saturday Evening Post cover in 1916 Norman Rockwell |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | HELLO, DOLLEY $200: She hosted the first of these in Washington the evening of her husband's swearing-in ceremony the inaugural ball |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $200: Nox, a daughter of Chaos, is the personification of this time of day night |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | CLOTHING $400: A yukata, a cotton type of this Asian garment, is perfect for a summer evening walk kimono |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $500: In England this word referred to a law requiring people to cover their fires at an evening bell curfew |
| #2495, aired 1995-06-09 | TV TRIVIA $400: In the 1960s David Canary & Ruth Warrick of "All My Children" acted in this evening soap set in New England Peyton Place |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | NEWSPAPERS $500: The Deseret News is this state's largest evening newspaper Utah |
| #2482, aired 1995-05-23 | THE CATEGORY IS "FUN" $300: "Every morning, every evening," this; "Not much money, oh! But honey," this "Ain't We Got Fun" |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $400: Burt Lancaster compared love to "the morning and the evening star" in this 1960 film that won him an Oscar Elmer Gantry |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Arlington, Vt. has an exhibition of this Saturday Evening Post illustrator's works & a film on his life (Norman) Rockwell |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | THE EMMYS $100: In 1991 this actor received his first Emmy nomination & win for "Evening Shade" Burt Reynolds |
| #2400, aired 1995-01-27 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Of the 12 disciples, the one who wasn't present when Jesus appeared on the evening of his resurrection "Doubting" Thomas |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: In 1970 this magazine moved its editorial offices from Philadelphia to Indianapolis The Saturday Evening Post |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | THE COAT CLOSET $200: The coat named for this time of day is also called a cutaway a morning coat |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | THE COAT CLOSET $300: It's an evening coat that wraps around the body like the larval moth covering of the same name a cocoon (coat) |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | ARTISTS $200: Saturday Evening Post artist whose 1960 autobiography was titled "My Adventures as an Illustrator" Rockwell |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: This "Evening Shade" star's Institute for Theatre training is in Tequesta, Florida Burt Reynolds |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: This Nashville school has a collection of network evening news telecasts dating back to 1968 Vanderbilt |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: American poet who published "Dust of Snow" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 1923 Robert Frost |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: It's celebrated the evening before All Saints' Day Halloween |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | ENCHANTED APRIL $300: This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway on "Some Enchanted Evening" in April 1949 South Pacific |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | PHILADELPHIA $300: The Curtis Center houses a museum devoted to this Saturday Evening Post illustrator Norman Rockwell |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | MUSIC & DANCE $1000: "An Evening's Waltzes" is a ballet danced to 5 waltzes by this "Peter and the Wolf" composer Sergei Prokofiev |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | ARTISTS $400: His baseball painting "The Dugout" adorned the Sept. 4, 1948 cover of the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: Norman Rockwell's art appeared in Life, Boys' Life, Look & over 300 times on the cover of this magazine the Saturday Evening Post |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | SHOW TUNES $500 (Daily Double): This song from "South Pacific" ends with the words "Once you have found her, never let her go" "Some Enchanted Evening" |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | COCA-COLA $300: For a 1931 Coke calendar, he may have knocked out his artwork on a Saturday evening Norman Rockwell |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $300: "Evening Shade" co-star whose portrayal of Mark Twain was inspired partly by his own grandfather Hal Holbrook |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | HEARTTHROBS $300: Jay R. Ferguson plays Burt Reynolds' son Taylor, an ex-high school quarterback on this TV series Evening Shade |
| #2166, aired 1994-01-24 | BROADWAY SONGS $200: It's when "you may see a stranger across a crowded room" "Some Enchanted Evening" |
| #2161, aired 1994-01-17 | FASHION $500: This style of strapless purse ranges in size from the small evening bag to the large envelope bag a clutch |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: She asked Cary Grant, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening" Mae West |
| #2122, aired 1993-11-23 | DAYS OF THE WEEK $200: For Jews, the sabbath starts on the evening of this day Friday |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $500: This famous woman came up with the title "Evening Shade" for a TV series produced by two of her friends Hillary Clinton |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | SONG LYRICS $400: "Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got" this fun |
| #2090, aired 1993-10-08 | ENDS WITH "END" $200: The period from Friday evening to Monday morning the weekend |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | AWARDS $1000: In 1959 Hermes Pan won an Emmy for choreographing "An Evening with" this dancer Fred Astaire |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | ART $600: This 1885 painting by van Gogh depicts peasants at their evening meal The Potato Eaters |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE EMMY AWARDS $100: This "Evening Shade" star joked that he was going to mount his Emmy on the hood of his Mercedes Burt Reynolds |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | 1950s TV $400: "An Evening with" this dancer, which aired Oct. 17, 1958 & co-starred Barrie Chase, won 9 Emmys Fred Astaire |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: The story of this beloved collie was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 Lassie |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | ETIQUETTE $200: The most formal evening wear is this color "tie", but black tie is much more popular white tie |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | MAGAZINES $600: The National Portrait Gallery has a collection of this newsmagazine's painted covers Time |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | SONG STANDARDS $1000: Title adverb that follows "The evening breeze caressed the trees" tenderly |
| #1985, aired 1993-04-02 | ARTISTS $600: This Saturday Evening Post illustrator's portrait of Nixon hangs in the National Portrait Gallery Rockwell |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | MYTHOLOGY $400: It's the answer to the Sphinx' riddle, "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon & 3 in the evening?" man |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | THE WORLD PRESS $100: English-language newspapers in this country include the Daily Yomiuri & Asahi Evening News Japan |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | RECENT BOOKS $1,400 (Daily Double): An aging Aurora Greenway reappears in Larry McMurtry's "The Evening Star", a sequel to this novel Terms of Endearment |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | TV TRIVIA $200: Burt Reynolds plays Wood Newton, a high school football coach in this Arkansas town Evening Shade |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | OLD RADIO $300: His show began, "Good evening, Mr. & Mrs. North & South America & all the ships at sea" Walter Winchell |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | POP MUSIC $200: This Stones hit begins "It is the evening of the day, I sit and watch the children play" "As Tears Go By" |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | NEWSPAPERS $300: Founded in 1837, this Baltimore daily is published in both morning & evening editions (Baltimore) Sun |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | 1776 $100: On July 6 the Pennsylvania Evening Post devoted much of its 4-page issue to this document the Declaration of Independence |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Robert Frost ended this poem with "Good fences make good neighbors" “Mending Wall” |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Japanese kon ba wa means "good evening" & this means "good afternoon" konnichiwa |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | MUSEUMS $600: Works by this Sat. Evening Post illustrator can be found at a museum devoted to him in Stockbridge, Mass. (Norman) Rockwell |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | CLOTHING $100: One can be evening, night or dressing a gown |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | LEFTOVERS $100: In poetry it's a contraction of "evening" or "even" e'en |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | FASHION $500: Evening wear made of this fabric woven with metallic threads has been popular since the 1930s lame |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | BROADWAY LYRICS $300: "Some enchanted evening, you may see" this person "across a crowded room" a stranger |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $200: Saturday Evening Post "cover man" who covered his life in "My Adventures as an Illustrator" Norman Rockwell |
| #1747, aired 1992-03-17 | COLORS $1000: A deep reddish purple color is named for this dangling flower of the evening primrose family fuchsia |
| #1739, aired 1992-03-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: Michael Jeter of "Evening Shade" won a 1990 Tony for his performance in this musical set in a hotel Grand Hotel |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | NOTORIOUS $400: This Wild West dentist had a notorious girlfriend & lady of the evening called Big Nose Kate Doc Holliday |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | AN HOUR $500: Now referring to late afternoon or evening prayers, it was the 6th of the 7 canonical hours vespers |
| #1688, aired 1991-12-25 | PEOPLE $400: This star of TV's "Evening Shade" was once employed as a bouncer at NYC's Roseland Ballroom Burt Reynolds |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $200: It's with whom a ram would spend an evening, & we don't mean a cheerleader a ewe |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | THE 1940s $300: During World War II, Norman Rockwell came up with this riveting woman for a Saturday Evening Post cover Rosie (the riveter) |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | WISCONSIN $300: Reedsburg, Wisc. claims the largest art collection by this Saturday Evening Post illustrator Norman Rockwell |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | FASHION $200: Of evening, floor or midi, the longest dress length floor |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | CLOTHING $300: Type of evening wrap, whose name is from the Greek for "robe", not for "theft" as its name implies stole |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | NEWSPAPERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This man founded the New York Evening Post as a Federalist newspaper in 1801 Alexander Hamilton |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | ASTRONOMY $800: As the evening star, this planet has been called Hesperus Venus |
| #1491, aired 1991-02-11 | TV DANS $100: He left "60 Minutes" in 1981 when he took over for Walter Cronkite as CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: If a senorita greets you by saying "Buenas tardes", she's wishing you this good afternoon |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | MAGAZINES $300: A portrait of Benjamin Franklin appears above the table of contents of this magazine The Saturday Evening Post |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | FAMOUS PAIRS $800: Since 1983, America's first hour-long national evening news show has been co-anchored by this pair MacNeil & Lehrer |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: This illustrator of "Saturday Evening Post" covers received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 Norman Rockwell |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | BESTSELLERS $600: His fictional account of the news business is told in "The Evening News" Arthur Haley |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | FRENCH CLASS $100: French for "evening", it now refers to a party held in the evening soirée |
| #1408, aired 1990-10-17 | MAGAZINES $800: Started in 1821 in Philadelphia, it became something of a nat'l institution after Curtis bought it in 1897 The Saturday Evening Post |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | NOTORIOUS $600: Etta Place, who rode with this outlaw pair, was probably a lady of the evening, not a schoolteacher Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | TV NEWS $500: In April 1962 Walter Cronkite replaced this man on the "CBS Evening News" Douglas Edwards |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | RHYME TIME $500: A typical evening gown normal formal |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | GREETINGS $300: Milton Berle greeted his TV audience with the words "Good evening ladies and" these germs |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | SING-ALONG SONGS $100: "Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got" this Fun |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | MYTHOLOGY $600: In ancient Egypt the god called "Khepera" at dawn & "Atum" in the evening was known by this name at noon Ra |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | TV NEWSCASTERS $400: 1 of 2 persons to co-anchor the ABC evening news with Harry Reasoner in the 1970s (1 of) Barbara Walters (or Howard K. Smith) |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | PBS $600: Though not quite 19, this music show from Boston ran a 20th anniversary gala in June 1989 Evening at the Pops |
| #1216, aired 1989-12-11 | VAUDEVILLE $600: Tap dancer turned columnist known for his "Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. N. & S. America & all the ships at sea" Walter Winchell |
| #1215, aired 1989-12-08 | AMERICAN MUSIC $200: W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" begins "I hate to see" this "go down" the evening sun |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | MAGAZINES $1000: It's now published by the Ben Franklin Literary & Medical Society; Curtis sold it in 1982 The Saturday Evening Post |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: From the Latin for "night", this slow, lyric composition often suggests a reflective, dreamy evening nocturn |
| #1178, aired 1989-10-18 | HAIL AND FAREWELL $300: Walter Cronkite usually closed his "CBS Evening News" telecasts with this phrase "That's the way it is" |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | AMERICAN WRITERS $1000: This "Thanatopsis" poet was editor of the N.Y. Evening Post for 50 years William Cullen Bryant |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: In 1943 he could have stopped by the Pulitzers on a snowy evening to pick up his 4th for poetry Robert Frost |
| #1023, aired 1989-02-01 | FURNITURE $300: Type of cabinet introduced in 1925 & named for an early evening social habit popular then... & now cocktail cabinet |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: On SNL's "Weekend Update" segment, his trademark line was "Good evening, I'm" this actor "& you're not" Chevy Chase |
| #1005, aired 1989-01-06 | TRANSPORTATION $400: "In the morning, in the evening," this cruise line that's "got the fun" is world's largest Carnival |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | POETRY $400: Robert Frost poem that begins "Whose woods these are I think I know" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #979, aired 1988-12-01 | MAGAZINES $800: This magazine began publishing on August 4, 1821, but years later they concluded Ben Franklin had started it in 1728 The Saturday Evening Post |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $300: After Six, estab. in 1903, controls over half the market of this type of men's wear evening wear (formal wear, tuxedos) |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | THE 1987 OSCARS $300: Hosting the presentation, he greeted the audience with, "Good evening, Hollywood phonies" Chevy Chase |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | THE 1940s $300 (Daily Double): Musical which opened on Broadway April 7, 1949 & gave us the following song:
"Some enchanted evening...." South Pacific |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | THE PAUL McCARTNEY SONGBOOK $200: [Instrumental music plays.] "Tenderly" |
| #879, aired 1988-06-02 | TV GUIDE SAYS $400: "Jack's broken leg upsets Janet's plan for a cozy evening at home with a date" Three's Company |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | NORMAN ROCKWELL $400: The 1st was dated May 20, 1916 his first Saturday Evening Post cover |
| #844, aired 1988-04-14 | DANCE $1,500 (Daily Double): Musical from which the following dance number comes:
"Anytime you're ever quiet/ Any evening any time..." Me and My Girl |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | TV TRIVIA $100: Only 3 men to have held this position are Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, & Dan Rather anchormen for the CBS Evening News |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | ONE-WORD SONGS $500: "The evening breeze caressed the trees" this way "Tenderly" |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | DOUBLE TALK $200: "Little" comic character originally created by Marge for the Saturday Evening Post Lulu |
| #690, aired 1987-09-11 | AWARDS $400: In a single evening, this 1934 film became 1st film to sweep all 5 top Oscars It Happened One Night |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | ASTRONOMY $200: Under ideal conditions the green flash occurs in atmosphere seconds before this evening event sunset |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | "SOME" SONGS $200: The song from "South Pacific" that fits this category "Some Enchanted Evening" |
| #564, aired 1987-02-05 | AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): "Good Evening, Everybody" & "So Long Until Tomorrow" Lowell Thomas |
| #557, aired 1987-01-27 | ASTRONOMY $400: The terms "Evening Star" & "Morning Star" both most often refer to this same body Venus |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | LITERARY WOOD $400: Among his poems are "Birches", "The Sound of the Trees", & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost |
| #501, aired 1986-11-10 | JOURNALISM $600: L.A.'s Times Mirror Co. owns this Long Island daily with largest evening circulation in America Newsday |
| #478, aired 1986-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE $400: This title refers to the evening of January 5th, a week & 5 days after Christmas Eve Twelfth Night |
| #432, aired 1986-05-06 | SOUTH DAKOTA $200: After leaving the Today Show, this South Dakotan became anchor for NBC's Evening News Tom Brokaw |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | "BLACK" & "BLUE" SONGS $200: "When whippoorwills call & evening is nigh, I hurry" here "My Blue Heaven" |
| #413, aired 1986-04-09 | SEASONAL SONGS $100: Kenny Rogers met up with "The Gambler" on this kind of evening a summer evening |
| #351, aired 1986-01-13 | HUNTING $800: After the kill, you do this to game with a knife, not high heels & an evening gown to dress |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | ART $200: In 1916, he did his 1st of 318 covers for the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | '50's TV $300: In 1956, they teamed up to co-anchor NBC's evening news Huntley & Brinkley |
| #283, aired 1985-10-09 | HEADLINES $1000: "Happy the bride the Sun shines on", read "The Evening Star" when this "1st daughter" wed in 1906 Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| #185, aired 1985-05-24 | SWEET SONGS $300: According to McGuire sisters' '58 hit, this time can be in the morning, in the evening & at suppertime, too "Sugartime" |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | FAMOUS FOLKS $1000: Former Baptist preacher & LBJ White House press sec'y, now commentator on "CBS Evening News" Bill Moyers |
| #104, aired 1985-01-31 | AMERICAN ART $200: His April 1 Saturday Evening Post covers deliberately contained mistakes Norman Rockwell |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | ROCK 'N ROLL $200: Elvis' '60 musical question for someone sitting home on Sat. evening "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | THE NEWS $1000: He began his shows with, "Good evening Mr. & Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea" Walter Winchell |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | ASTRONOMY $400: The evening or morning "star" is really this planet Venus |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | TELEVISION $200: The greeting which opened each episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" "Good evening" |
