| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE CLOTHES CLOSET $200: The skirt's uneven hemline is called this, not because it's a little square of fabric, but because of the way the points fall a handkerchief skirt |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | STATE MOTTOES $600: Kentucky's motto, "United We Stand" followed by these 3 words, has a lengthy history dating as far back as Aesop Divided We Fall |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $1000: Heirs get split one by one in this 2023 Netflix miniseries based on a Poe short story & starring Mary McDonnell as Madeline The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $400: With a Bananarama-riffic title, this Taylor Swift song dominated the fall in 2023, staying at No. 1 for weeks "Cruel Summer" |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $2000: In 1884 General Charles Gordon wrote that if help didn't come soon, "the town may fall", the town being this African city Khartoum |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $1200: This "official blanket with sleeves" sold 4 million in the 2008 holiday season after its fall introduction a Snuggie |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $600: Barbara Loden, seen here, played a character based on Marilyn Monroe when this playwright's "After the Fall" premiered Arthur Miller |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | FESTIVALS $400: It's held for about 2 weeks each May, & in 2023 awarded its Palme d'Or to "Anatomy of a Fall" the Cannes Film Festival |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1200: It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630 the Hijrah |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $1000: Edward Gibbon wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"; William Shirer wrote "The Rise & Fall of" this sinister regime the Third Reich |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Brussels museum has a "Landscape with the Fall of" him, later than the famous one, this time with Daedalus still up in the air Icarus |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1200: Unemployment is supposed to fall as inflation rises & vice versa; under Pres. Ford, both rose & economists coined this word stagflation |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $2,000 (Daily Double): Corpus Christi & Whitsunday are examples of this type of feast that can fall on different dates in different years a movable feast |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $500: When he conducted, this "Swan Lake" composer held his chin with one hand because he feared that his head might fall off Tchaikovsky |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $200: Patrick McHenry was in the news, as he filled in in this job for 3 tumultuous weeks in the fall of 2023 Speaker of the House (pro tem) |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | TREES $500: Meaning "to fall off" in Latin, it's the word used to describe non-evergreen trees & baby teeth deciduous |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CYBERSECURITY $600: Don't click on that link, dummy! You could fall prey to this common scam, which "lures" you into revealing private info phishing |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THE OCEAN $800: Harmonic analysis helps predict the rise & fall of these, but it's tough to account for local variations in shore & seafloor tides |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LONG TIME $1600: Humanism was an integral part of this period in Europe sometimes said to have ended with Rome's fall in 1527 the Renaissance |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FROM THE FRENCH $400: The flying Montgolfier brothers used this word for a fabric device that slows your fall a parachute |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $400: In the epic "Argonautica", Eros' arrow makes Medea fall in love with this man Jason |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | ECON 101 $800: "Diminutive" term for selling unowned stock shares on the gamble that the price will fall to short |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $400: An autumn dance reception area a fall ball hall |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE $1,000 (Daily Double): Wish you weren't here! Our raft is nearing the drop of this tallest Venezuelan cataract! See you next fall! Angel Falls |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $800: It's a type of sound containing every frequency our ears can detect; listening to it helps some people fall asleep brown noise |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $2000: This author's "Things Fall Apart" is set in an Igbo village (Chinua) Achebe |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $2000: This "vulpine" Lillian Hellman play set in 1900 sees southern gentility fall prey to greed & revenge The Little Foxes |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISHISM $1200: No, I didn't just fall off the turnip lorry truck |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | SONG BIRDS $600: "I'll raise you like a" this mythical bird, sang Fall Out Boy, who rhymed it with remix a phoenix |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | TAKING STOCK $400: The rise & fall of the stock market, in good times & bad, is represented by these 2 animals bear & bull |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In this play Puck has some handy juice that makes a sleeper fall in love with the next person he sees A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SOME "HARD" SONGS $800: In a reggae classic by Jimmy Cliff, this title precedes "the harder they fall, one and all" "The Harder They Come" |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | QUI"ZZ"ICAL $2000: Mentioned in the book of Daniel as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, this ruler was killed during the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. Belshazzar |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $600: Alexis' mid-1600s reign saw peasants get tied to land & landlords & fall into slavery as this class serfs |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | DISNEY ENDINGS $800: Judge Frollo suffers a great fall from a cathedral in this 1996 flick The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | DISNEY ENDINGS $1600: In this 1986 classic Basil of Baker Street survives a fall from Big Ben, but the evil Ratigan is not so lucky The Great Mouse Detective |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $400: Obeys instruction "Eat me"; sees a cat that's all smiles; lets the cards fall where they may Alice |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | MUSIC OF THE MONTH $400: "Gloria" & maybe fittingly "I Fall Down" are but 2 of the rock & roll servings on the U2 album named for this month October |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE UNIVERSE WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $1000: (Neil deGrasse Tyson presents the clue.) I take a special interest in this smallest of Uranus' five major moons; with its high cliffs & low gravity, if you dropped a rock, it would fall for ten minutes; in fact, my wife & I gave my daughter the same Shakespearean name Miranda |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | NOVEL COUNTRIES $1600: Chinua Achebe's
"Things Fall Apart" Nigeria |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $2000: After the fall of Rome, this eastern branch of the Goths founded a kingdom in Italy led by Theodoric the Great in 493 the Ostrogoths |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | YOU LOSE $800: If you're "searching for" losses by this chess champ, you'll find in 1964 he did fall to John Dedinsky in 17 moves Fischer |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $400: Stephen Dando-Collins examined "The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor" him "and His City" Nero |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BE ARTHUR $3,000 (Daily Double): Marilyn Monroe was the basis for the character of Maggie in his play "After the Fall" Arthur Miller |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SHALL FOLLOW ME $1000: Proposed by Truman, it theorized that the fall of a noncommunist state to communism could spread to neighboring states the Domino Theory |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $400: Roderick, Madeline & their place itself don't make it to the end; after all, it is "The Fall of" this the House of Usher |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | BLOSSOM $600: A Gerbera this, give me your answer do; I'm half crazy, all for the love of seeing you grow in sand & bloom spring through fall a daisy |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | PARTY ON! $200: This verb can mean to attend a party uninvited, or to fall asleep from exhaustion after one crash |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $200: Historically in a village in India, this watering hole was a center of communal life as women came to fill up a well |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $400: Kids, don't fall in a big hole being dug for this base of a building; here's the 90-foot deep one for L.A.'s Wilshire Grand foundation |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $600: To geologists a maar is a crater caused by this type of activity; some end up as lakes volcanic |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $800: An entry to the underground world to do excavating for profit, here's a proverbial abandoned one a mine shaft |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $1000: It's 10 feet wide & 260 deep, so don't fall into Australia's Standley this "C" word--a chi word in Greek Chasm |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $400: Olympic Peninsula Apple & Cider Festival the fall |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $1000: Duck hunting season (not wabbit season) starts in Louisiana & Minnesota fall (the autumn) |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | SACRIFICIAL ROLES $800: In "Endgame" this Avenger makes a heroic sacrifice & takes a terrible fall in order to obtain the Soul Stone Black Widow |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $800: In 1953 he informed newsstands that "Stag Party--a brand new magazine for men--will be out this fall" Hugh Hefner |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $200: If you're neglected, you may fall through these; in 2020 President Obama said our health systems allow it to happen to the poor the cracks |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $1000: This Elizabethan playwright's Dr. Faustus asks for his soul to turn into water & "fall into the ocean, ne'er to be found"; no deal Marlowe |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HUFF & PUFF $800: Seen here, Bridalveil Fall in this national park is also known as Pohono or "Spirit of the Puffing Wind" Yosemite National Park |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): At this New York battle in the fall of 1777, nearly 6,000 British troops surrendered to Colonial forces Saratoga |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BODY PART PHRASES $400: To fall in love in a surprisingly complete manner is to do so this way, mentioning body parts on 2 extremes head over heels |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $500: This South African leader:
"The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall" Mandela |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | AUTUMN $100: In 2022 a possible 7th game of this, baseball's "Fall Classic", would be played Nov. 5, the latest date ever a World Series |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A PRISONER OF YOUR OWN DEVICE $600: secretrickroll.com allows my annoying friend to create sneaky links to Rick Astley singing this song; I always fall for it "Never Gonna Give You Up" |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | TRAVEL IDIOMS $1000: To have your first drink after abstaining for a long time is to do this tumble to fall off the wagon |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $1200: In 1453 the fall of the city then called this marked the end of the Byzantine Dynasty Constantinople |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $600: Did Bob Ewell fall on his own knife in this novel? Sheriff Heck Tate is fine with that explanation To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ON A HOLIDAY $200: Martin Luther spooked the Catholic church when he chose this fall day in 1517 to proclaim his 95 Theses Halloween (October 31st) |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: As an adjective, it means hasty; as a verb, it can mean to fall steeply or vertically, like rain precipitate |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE MORAL OF THE FABLE $600: A cockfight victor crows to show he's won, attracting a hungry eagle; as the saying has it, this quality goes before a fall pride |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $1000: Her bestsellers include "Big Little Lies" & "Apples Never Fall" Moriarty |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: This ancient Israeli fortress was the site of a 1st century siege after the fall of Jerusalem the Masada |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | GOING "PRO" $2000: In the "Communist Manifesto", it's said that the fall of the bourgeoisie & the victory of this worker class is inevitable the proletariat |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | SUBTITLED NONFICTION $600: "Parents, Children and the Search for Identity" is the subtitle; the title completes the proverb "the apple doesn't fall far..." From the Tree |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | PADDING THE SHOW $400: A padded couch pillow, or what you do to protect yourself from a fall cushion |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $400: R.J. Reynolds & Liggett & Myers were 2 of the companies created when the trust for this crop was broken up in 1911 tobacco |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $800: The movie trust nicknamed for this inventor limited most films to 2 reels & was dissolved in 1917 Edison |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $1600: The breaking up of Standard Oil of N.J. into 34 companies gave this man stock that made him the richest man in the world J.D. Rockefeller |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $2000: This 3-letter event has ruined trusts as well as banks; in 1907 an $8 mil. one on the Knickerbocker Trust led to the panic of 1907 a run |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $5,000 (Daily Double): This 4-word phrase was used back in 1984 as Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust was rescued by the govt. due to its size too big to fail |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | RHYMES WITH THESE $800: Idiomatically, these may "fall on deaf ears" pleas |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE $400: This scientist told an early biographer that "the notion of gravitation came into his mind... occasion'd by the fall of an apple" Newton |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $600: A quantity of liquid, or to allow to fall drop |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WESTERNS $600: Seen here, he played Rufus Buck, just out of prison & ready to collide with an old rival in the 2021 Western "The Harder They Fall" Idris Elba |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | LAWN TOMORROW $800: Growing well in fall & spring & hardy in winter, this lawn grass is named for a state but is actually native to Europe Kentucky bluegrass |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | PUT A "RING" ON IT $200: Clocking a phrase to remember twice a year, this precedes "fall back" spring forward |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2000: From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it" Pliny |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THAT'S SO CLICHÉ! $800: It "doesn't fall far from the tree" the apple |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $200: On Feb. 11, 2001 Three Rivers Stadium, long home to this baseball team, got taken out of the game via implosion the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $400: This Greek guy of myth should have taken dad's advice & not flown too close to the sun with waxen wings, as when they melt... Icarus |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $600: This Broadway musical is about trying to make a flop, but the curtain didn't fall on it until the 2,502nd performance The Producers |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $800: In Exodus the depths of this body of water "have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone" the Red Sea |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $1000: Sadly, on May 3, 2003, this beloved New Hampshire granite landmark seen here collapsed & fell the Old Man of the Mountain |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective for a defective argument begins with one of the 4 seasons fallacious |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Rise & Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors" is the subtitle of a recent history of this medieval order of knights the Knights Templar |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | SPECIAL DAYS $800: This fall festival in Hinduism involves lighting lamps to invite the presence of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth Diwali |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $200: 2019:
For her musical question "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" Billie Eilish |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $400: From the Latin for "fall off", it's the process by which radioactive radium emits radiation decay |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | A CONFRONTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $200: The bigger they are, the harder they fall, & this big guy falls hard, via a "stone sunk into his forehead" Goliath |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 201 $1,800 (Daily Double): The discovery of the receptor for this toxin was announced in fall 2001, around the time it was part of a terrorism scare anthrax |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | THE "C" TEAM $600: Because of them you'll be seeing red if you're in Lincoln, Nebraska on a fall Saturday the Cornhuskers |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $800: A warning in "As You Like It": "Do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in" this intoxicant wine |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | MODERN SHORTHAND $400: F.U.D. stands for fear, uncertainty & this; don't fall victim doubt |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NONFICTION $600: Edward Gibbon's historical work "The Decline and Fall of" this was published in 6 volumes between 1776 & 1788 Roman Empire |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FUNNY LADIES $600: Order in the court! If she ever tires of being funny, she has a law degree from the University of New South Wales to fall back on (Rebel) Wilson |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1200: This hero of Virgil's famous work escapes with a handful of survivors after the fall of Troy Aeneas |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | TIME TO FALL INTO AUTUMN $200: Baby Boo & autumn gold are varieties of this gourd that's popular during fall holidays a pumpkin |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | TIME TO FALL INTO AUTUMN $400: An early version of this tradition was in Nov. 1911 when the U. of Missouri's athletic director had alumni visit for the Kansas game homecoming |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | TIME TO FALL INTO AUTUMN $600: As fall begins in North America, so does this zodiac sign Libra |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | TIME TO FALL INTO AUTUMN $800: In the 8th century November 1 emerged as this holy day to honor the entirety of the canonized All Saints Day |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | TIME TO FALL INTO AUTUMN $1000: From the Latin for "fall off", this adjective describes trees that lose their leaves in fall deciduous |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $2000: A line in this play: "If Troy be not taken till" Ajax & Achilles "undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of themselves" Troilus and Cressida |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THE WEEKEND $600: On a fall Sunday, you can head to "Duuuval" County to check out QB & mane man Trevor Lawrence, who plays for this NFL team the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS $400: Appropriately, the last track of her "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" is "Goodbye" Billie Eilish |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | TV ROLES $2000: Lee Majors played a stuntman who had a side hustle as a bounty hunter on this 1980s series The Fall Guy |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | TAKE A FEW LETTERS $400: In the season we also call fall, you can catch this 4-letter fish tuna |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | PARTY IN THE BACK $800: Got my king cake, mask, beads & pralines! I'm ready to party & celebrate this, which will fall on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Mardi Gras |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BOOKS OF 1990 $1200: "Barbarians at the Gate" is an expose of the fall of this giant food company behind brands like Oreo & Ritz Nabisco |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2000: In 1996 the NYC parade for this fall day was down to 15 blocks & a few spectators; in 2009 30,000 participants marched 34 blocks Veterans Day |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $400: Wisconsin's state mammal, this weasel family member stores up body fat in summer & fall for long winter sleeps a badger |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $1200: Here is painter Jean-Pierre Houël's depiction of the fall of this fortress to revolutionary forces in 1789 the Bastille |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE $400: Jim Harrison's
"Legends of the ____" Fall |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1200: Celebrating unattached people, China's biggest shopping holiday is singles day, on this fall date with lots of 1s November 11th |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $400: For the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted "The Fall of Man" & "The Expulsion from" this place the Garden of Eden |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SOUVENIRS $200: Daruma dolls, which right themselves when tipped over, are associated with a Japanese phrase meaning "fall down seven times" do this "eight" get up |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | IN OTHER RECENT NEWS... $1200: In fall 2020 the 1st blood test became available for this top-10 U.S. cause of death; diagnosis by symptoms is tricky & brain scans costly Alzheimer's disease |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE STOCK MARKET $600: In 2021 the wild ride of GameStop stock pitted small investors against the big boys who use this method & hope the price will fall short selling |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | THAT'S FIT TO PRINT $1000: The first published novel by this author of "The Moonstone" was 1850's "Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome" Wilkie Collins |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | I'LL FIGHT YOU! $200: "The Greatest", this boxer asked, "How tall are you?" so I can "know in advance how far to step back when you fall in four" Muhammad Ali |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | FINISH THE POETRY LINE $800: An apocalyptic vision by W.B. Yeats says, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot" this hold |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON SPEAKING $4,400 (Daily Double): Father to a Supreme Court justice, this poet wrote, "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall" Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | LITERARY SETTINGS $2000: Decades after his Nigerian-set "Things Fall Apart", this author's "Anthills of the Savannah" is set in fictional Kangan Chinua Achebe |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | SPACE-Y SAYINGS $800: Referencing an object we're used to seeing fall, this 8-letter type of "rise" means impressively fast meteoric |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $1600: This 18th century historian served as a captain in the Hampshire militia & wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" Gibbon |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: The "IT" in finance's REIT tips over backward, believing that it'll be caught investment trust fall |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER $1600: Churchill described the fall of this future city-state to the Japanese in 1942 as the "worst disaster... in British history" Singapore |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | SCIENCE "D"ICTIONARY $800: Term for the temperature at which water vapor in the air begins to condense & fall the dew point |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $400: Before a big jump in a 1969 film, the Sundance Kid says, "I can't swim" & this character says, "The fall will probably kill ya" Butch Cassidy |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | IN THE PRESIDENT'S CABINETS $1000: Herbert Hoover had the Commerce gig; Albert Fall was crooked in the Interior Harding |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: In fall grab your beer stein & head to Munich for this 2-week-long celebration Oktoberfest |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $800: Term for the limited allocation of goods on the WWII home front; for gasoline & coffee, it began in fall 1942 rationing |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A WINDY CATEGORY $1200: The song "The Wreck Of" this ship talks of the Witch of November, a late fall wind that plagues the Great Lakes the Edmund Fitzgerald |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $2000: Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" takes its title from this man's poem "The Second Coming" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $1200: Dagny, you will fall in love with John Galt even though you are a stand-in for Ayn Rand's vision of capitalism Atlas Shrugged |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $400: This traditional 4-word phrase tells you which way to set your clocks at the start & end of daylight saving time fall behind, spring forward |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WHERE HAVE I SEEN THOSE STAIRS? $800: You can visit the Georgetown stairs in Washington from the end of this 1973 thriller, but don't fall down them like Father Karras did The Exorcist |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) "Go Canada" In 2018, Monique Richard overcame a fall into a crevice to be the first woman to solo summit this mountain, Canada's tallest Mount Logan |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1600: The Middle Ages is usually defined as the period between the fall of Rome & the fall of this Byzantine capital Constantinople |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $400: Each fall Alabama & this S.E.C. football archrival meet in "The Iron Bowl" Auburn |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $800: Though as zodiac signs they're in January, February, March & April, these 2 constellations are best viewed in fall in the N. Hemisphere Aries & Aquarius |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $2000: From tomber, French for "to fall", it was the cart that took those condemned to death on their last ride tumbrel |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES $1200: Mary Baker Eddy founded this religion after spiritual healing helped her recover from a serious fall Church of Christ Scientist |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $400: "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon" him, "and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh" Adam |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $1600: "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's" this fall in love |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | A FULL RIDE $2000: In 1975 the last C-130A Hercules to leave Vietnam before the fall of this city flew hundreds of desperate people to Thailand Saigon |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $400: AKA Padfoot, this man didn't let taking the fall for Peter Pettigrew get in the way of being a good godfather to Harry Potter Sirius Black |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | "SPRING" BREAK $400: This 4-word mnemonic tells you how to adjust your clocks when daylight saving time begins & ends spring forward, fall back |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $2000: Some of Carson McCullers' works fall into the genre of "Southern" this, also an old architectural style Gothic |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | THAT'S GOTTA HURT! $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Usually the result of a fall, a Colles fracture, or what we commonly call a broken wrist, is a break in the distal end of this slightly shorter of the two forearm bones the radius |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Of 500 colonists in this first English settlement in N. America in fall 1609, fewer than 1/5 would survive the coming winter Jamestown |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | DIVING $4,000 (Daily Double): Most dives fall into 3 basic body positions. the tuck, straight & this one, also a type of fish the pike |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | GIVING OUT "IOUS" $1600: Stevie Wonder sang, "very" this, "ladder's 'bout to fall"; now touch your nose for luck superstitious |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | ART, FLEMING $600: In 1450 Haarlem's Dieric Bouts depicted "The Fall into" this place of suffering Hell |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $2000: Someone who descends quickly from public approval has undergone this religious-sounding tumble a fall from grace |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | * $1000: Gibbon's notes in "Decline and Fall of" this include a burn on an ancient historian, "Ammianus is so eloquent, that he writes nonsense" the Roman Empire |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $400: "The Fall of Athens" is the 37th & final chapter in Donald Kagan's book named for this war the Peloponnesian |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | PARK CITY $600: Zilker Park is home to this 3-word music festival held every fall bearing the name of Texas' capital Austin City Limits |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | TREES $200: Unusual for a conifer, larch trees do this each fall like deciduous ones drop leaves |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $2000: These 3 words precede "the centre cannot hold" in Yeats' "The Second Coming" Things fall apart |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1200: "Wolf Hall" is the first in a planned trilogy of books about the rise & fall of this adviser to Henry VIII (Thomas) Cromwell |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA $800: This national park may be near the end of alphabet, but its 1,430-foot upper fall is tops in our book Yosemite |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ASTROLOGICAL TERMS $800: The 4 cardinal signs of the zodiac are the signs that begin seasons, like Libra for fall & this one for spring Aries |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | RHYMES WITH A SEASON $400: A complex like Westfield Citrus Park in Tampa a mall |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $400: The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands on, yet St Mark's Campanile in this city, seen here, collapsed in 1902 & had to be rebuilt Venice |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $800: In the 1860s the poles used in creating this communications link fell down when Buffalo used them as scratching posts the telegraph |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | SPEAK TO ME OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1000: If you're wise to what's going on, you didn't just fall off this alliterative root-vegetable transport the turnip truck |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $1200: In 1871, Communards brought down a famous column in this city, but it's been rebuilt Paris |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $1600: In 1969 & 2017 famous trees of this type with a Native Amer. name fell in Calif.; it's bad to cut a driving tunnel through a tree sequoia |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $2000: Archaeologists debate whether this city's walls fell due to an earthquake or siege tactics, as in Joshua 6 Jericho |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | CHARACTERS IN THE AENEID $400: The main character, Aeneas survives the fall of Troy & is destined to be the ancestor of this great civilization Rome |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE 2010s $400: Felix Baumgartner was over 120,000 feet up when he made this type of alliterative parachute jump in 2012 free fall |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $400: Circleville, Ohio is famous for its fall festival feting these gourds; the biggest one in 2018 was over 1,600 pounds a pumpkin |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $800: Fall is perfect for this type of activity that the two kids in this painting are enjoying a hayride |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $1200: 1978's "Autumn Sonata" was the last feature film for this actress who won her first Oscar for "Gaslight" in 1945 Ingrid Bergman |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $1600: The American Meteorological Society defines it as "a period, in mid- or late autumn, of abnormally warm weather" Indian summer |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $2000: Don't fear the reaper or this person, found in Keats' "To Autumn", who gathers the grain the reaper has left behind the Gleaner |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUILDINGS $1200: Cincinnati's Ingalls Building was the first high-rise made of reinforced this; in 1903, a reporter waited all night for it to fall down concrete |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | DROP OUT $400: Drop the "out" from a synonym for "budding" & you get this season when it might happen spring (from sprouting) |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $1600: "Then fall", me Caesar |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $6,000 (Daily Double): (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) Before her untimely death, she saw her career take off beginning with her first No. 1 hit that she had been reluctant to record
"I fall to pieces /
Each time..." Patsy Cline |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE "B" THAT POWERS $800: NASA uses "solid rocket" these to help the main engines in the early going; they fall back to Earth & are reused boosters |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | DOCUMENTARIES $1200: Featuring new interviews with Ma Anand Sheela, this Netflix docuseries tells of the rise & fall of a utopian commune in Oregon Wild Wild Country |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ROCKS & MINERALS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows crystalline structures on the monitor.) Crystals fall into seven systems based on the arrangement of the axes they form; the three axes are equal length & all perpendicular in this this symmetric one, known by a 5-letter adjective cubic |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $800: In this book Herod binds the apostle Peter in chains, but an angel appears & the chains fall away Acts |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $1600: The circles in the five pillars of the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Arizona are designed to line up on this fall date November 11th |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $600: In "The Fault in Our Stars", Hazel & Augustus fall in love at a support group for people afflicted with this cancer |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a wagon at the Mercer Museum.) This type of pioneer wagon curved up at the ends so goods wouldn't fall out on bad roads--it's named for the area where it was developed in southeast Pennsylvania, not far from here a Conestoga wagon |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | MY CABINET JOB $20,000 (Daily Double): A few names, if one isn't enough:
Albert Fall (who very much did), James Watt, Sally Jewell Secretary of the Interior |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $400: Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of" this entity covers more than 1,000 years of history the Roman Empire |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | CANADIANA $200: Each fall in the Arctic, a herd of these deer--as many as 250,000--travels south to feed in forested regions caribou |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | TICK...TICK...BOOM! $400: A precision-guided bomb with controls that direct its fall is this "clever" type a smart missile (or a smart bomb) |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | NONFICTION $1000: "Bad Blood" covers the rise & fall of this woman & her blood-testing company Theranos, once the darling of investors (Elizabeth) Holmes |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WE WILL ROCK YOU $400: In 2018 this band "didn't have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high, high hopes" Panic! at the Disco |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $2000: Andy Hurley,
Patrick Stump,
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | LET'S GO TO THE WILDLIFE REFUGE $400: Oregon's Finley Wildlife Refuge was created for these honking birds that come down from Alaska & Canada every fall Canada geese |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Germany observes November 9 to remember the fall of this the Berlin Wall |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | POP CULTURE COMMON BONDS $800: "Shiny Happy People",
"Man On The Moon",
"Fall On Me" R.E.M. |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | CAT IDIOMS $1600: A fleeting rise in a stock's price after a fall is this type of "bounce" dead cat |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRUE CRIME BOOK SHELF $200: "The Wizard of Lies", which was made into an HBO film, tells of the rise & fall of this financier & Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK $2000: With music & lyrics by Burt Bacharach & Hal David, this Broadway show features the song "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" Promises, Promises |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NONFICTION $1,200 (Daily Double): A book about this body is subtitled "The Rise & Fall of America's Favorite Planet" Pluto |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE STORE WAS CLOSED! $400: Colin Hanks' documentary "All Things Must Pass" tells about the "Rise and Fall" of this iconic record store chain Tower |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $800: In Luke 2 Simeon tells her that her "child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel" Mary |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | THE HUMAN BODY $2000: Scientists identified the MT1 receptor as the part of the brain where this hormone helps you fall asleep melatonin |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1600: As Lili von Shtupp, Madeline Kahn appears to fall asleep singing Mel Brooks' "I'm Tired" Blazing Saddles |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $3,600 (Daily Double): This Poe story's title is realized as the narrator flees the "House" as it cracks & is torn asunder "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | NEVER GONNA GIVE U UP $400: This adjective for a not-celebrated "hero" is also a TV show chronicling the rise & fall of musical acts Unsung |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | A SIMPLE FLICK OF THE WRIST $600: In a fall at age 11 Shaquille O'Neal broke both wrists, a factor in his famous problems with this skill in basketball free throw |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $1600: In the play "Almost, Maine", people fall in & out of love while watching this celestial display the Northern Lights |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Paula Ebben from WBZ.) The home here in Fall River, Massachusetts once belonged to Lizzie Borden's family & it was here that, according to a rhyme, Lizzie "took an ax & gave her mother 40 whacks; when she saw what she had done, she gave her father" this many 41 |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Fall From Grace" looks at "The Truth & Tragedy of" this disgraced early 20th century Chicago baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | RECENT NONFICTION $200: "The Rise & Fall of" these creatures that ruled Earth for 150 mil. years says a new species is discovered every week dinosaurs |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | UN-BUSINESS $1000: This clothing company's shirttails fall between the belt & the bottom of the zipper, so no need to stuff them in UNTUCKit |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2000: This 1958 Chinua Achebe novel depicts the struggles of the Igbo people in Nigeria before independence Things Fall Apart |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | WORD ORIGINS $200: From French words meaning "defense against a fall", it slows your fall when you jump from a plane a parachute |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: A fall on an outstretched hand may fracture the scaphoid, one of these wrist bones the carpals |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | POP CULTURE $800: For fall, the cornucopia of pumpkin spice-flavored offerings include Cheerios & these Hostess snack cakes Twinkies |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: "When" this transpires "the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all" when the bough breaks |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | CITING THE PRESIDENT $1200: "I do not expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease to be divided" Lincoln |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | I GIVE YOU EVERYTHING... $600: The 1453 fall of Constantinople ended this empire whose name has come to describe something intricate Byzantine |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Lake Ontario is 326' below Lake Erie, so serious water will fall at some point in this river connecting the 2 lakes the Niagara River |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | TRUST US! $800: Michael Fassbender takes the ultimate trust fall--a leap of faith--in this "killer" 2016 film based on a video game Assassin's Creed |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | GARDENING $1200: Bigger than seeds, they store plants' food in winter; plant some in fall & you'll see snowdrops in spring bulbs |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | BATTLES $800: Losing 1282's Battle of Orewin Bridge saw this kingdom led by Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd fall to the English Wales |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | O NO! $1600: To sag from lack of support loses the support of its second "O" & ends up meaning "to fall" droop and drop |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | INSIDE THE PARK $400: Bridalveil Fall &
Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias Yosemite |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | HOW ARE "THINGS"? $2000: Yeats used this 3-word phrase before "the center cannot hold"; Chinua Achebe used it as a title things fall apart |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall was convicted of bribery in leasing out oil reserves in Elk Hills, Buena Vista & this site the Teapot Dome |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | DECADES OF CLASSIC TOYS $800: A plastic family of toys in the 1970s, the Weebles were said to wobble, "but they don't" do this fall down |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | "R"IVERS $2000: The name of this Virginia river where many Civil War battles took place is Algonquin for "rise & fall of water" the Rappahannock |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | BALLET $400: "Fall River Legend" is based on her real-life murder trial of the 1890s Lizzie Borden |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | A BANNER YEAR $1200: Celebrants stand on a crumbling wall in this year 1989 |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: Profession of George Woolf, sadly killed in a fall at Santa Anita a jockey |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | 'TIS THE SEASON $1000: To go out of consideration, or collapse next to a Longfellow inn fall by the wayside |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | STATE FLAGS $400: Completes the state motto found on Kentucky's flag & seal:
"United we stand..." divided we fall |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ROBERT SIEGEL SIGNS OFF $200: (Robert Siegel reads the clue.) One memento I've kept is a framed chip of this; I was rushed to the scene in November 1989 to cover its stunning fall the Berlin Wall |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | VICTIM OF GRAVITY $400: This word that rhymes with summit may describe a fall from the summit plummet |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | VICTIM OF GRAVITY $2000: As well as to fall, it can mean to be tossed around to get dry tumble |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | "P" IN PHYSICS $1200: It's any object that after being given an initial velocity is allowed to fall under the effects of gravity alone a projectile |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: In Greece, when these fall out, children don't put them under the pillow; they throw them on the roof for good luck teeth |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | MOVIE & TV DEATHS $1200: Rihanna & Aziz Ansari are 2 of the celebs to fall to a fiery death in this 2013 film This Is the End |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | OCTOBER: SPORTS FANS' HEAVEN $800: It's World Series time, with this team that lost to the Cubs now having gone the longest without a fall classic title Cleveland |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF $4,000 (Daily Double): William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of" this numerical abomination the Third Reich |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | 3 STRAIGHT VOWELS $1200: This fall off a surfboard while riding a wave is also called a donut a wipeout |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | "M"PORTANT PAINTERS $1600: In "Golconda" by this Belgian artist, men in overcoats & bowler hats fall from the sky like rain Magritte |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | FROM THE LATIN $2000: From the Latin for "to fall" comes this object of medical students' attention cadaver |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | 5 OF 7 DEADLY SINS, IN SOME FORM $1000: Proverbially, it "goeth before a fall" & currently, it goeth in your response pride |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | DOUBLE LETTER FUN $800: They follow each other & are home to a solstice & an equinox, respectively summer and fall |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $400: After the fall of Yorktown, he drafted a letter of abdication but never presented it to Parliament King George III |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $400: The new hit of the 2013 fall TV season was this show with James Spader as "Red" Reddington The Blacklist |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | BOOK BINDINGS $1000: Needful ____ Fall Apart things |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 1776 $600: In a work by Edward Gibbon from 1776, this pair of problems precedes "of the Roman Empire" The Decline and Fall |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "The Song of Hiawatha" says, "From the water-fall he named her" this, "Laughing Water" Minnehaha |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | MARITIME FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE $2000: The relative calm in this West African country after the fall of Charles Taylor has made it a popular F.O.C. nation once more Liberia |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | IT HELPS TO REMEMBER $200: 4-word mnemonic to remember how to adjust your clocks for daylight saving & standard time spring forward, fall back |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | A FALLEN CATEGORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) Inertia causes the eggs to seemingly defy logic and fall straight down; it's all part of this guy's first law of motion Newton |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Albert Fall, Harding's Interior secretary, got into "hot water" after taking a bribe related to this Wyoming locale Teapot Dome |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | WITH SCIENCE $1200: These "tides" form the building blocks of RNA & have nothing to do with the rise & fall of the ocean nucleotides |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | "FALL"/"OUT" $400: What happens to people who are ignored in a system, or to your coin that rolls through the grate it falls through the cracks |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | "FALL"/"OUT" $800: Piscine metaphor for someone in an unfamiliar situation a fish out of water |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | "FALL"/"OUT" $1200: The dude who gets the blame, rightly or wrongly the fall guy |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | "FALL"/"OUT" $1600: Parachuting from a failing aircraft, or rescuing a struggling company bailing out |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | "FALL"/"OUT" $2000: If you're just like one of your parents, sometimes we say "the apple doesn't" do this fall far from the tree |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | A MOVIE TO DIE FOR $600: At the end of "The Dark Knight", this character played by Aaron Eckhart dies in a fall Harvey Dent |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SEASONAL SONGS $1000: Fall Out Boy played on the name of a video game:
"Grand Theft ____" Autumn |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an image on the monitor.) The edge of plateau where multiple streams drop to a plain below is called this 4-letter line, for the cataracts that form there a fall line |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU $400: In free fall, many skydivers assume the position named for this fourth Greek letter delta |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | DOME, DOME ON THE RANGE $400: 2 main Muslim holy sites were built on the Temple Mount after the fall of the Second Temple: the Al-Aqsa Mosque & this one the Dome of the Rock |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | FOOD FESTIVALS $200: Italy has several fall festivals devoted to these fungi; black ones can be bought for around $1,000 a pound truffles |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | VERY CLEVER $1200: Change 1 letter in "rube" to get this, which a rube might fall for a ruse |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: The 9 1/2-month siege of Petersburg resulted in the fall of Richmond & this Virginian's surrender Robert E. Lee |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | AMERICA SINCE 1900 $1000: This 1920s scandal erupted when Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leased govt. oil fields to private individuals Teapot Dome |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In the fall of 1951 she got her first job as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" at the Washington Times-Herald Jackie Kennedy |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | CATCH THESE MEN $1000: Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a hole near this city, his hometown Tikrit |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | HISTORY BOOKSHELF $1600: Published in 1788, his "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" runs 1,312 pages in the abridged edition Edward Gibbon |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | THE CRUSADES $2000: In 1291 this city on Israel's northern coast became the last Crusader State to fall to the Muslims Acre |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | DECOMPOSING COMPOSERS $400: After this Italian's death in Vienna on July 28, 1741, there would be no more seasons in his life, fall or otherwise Vivaldi |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | CURRENT EVENTS $200: Oman, they got troubles & the main one is the fall in the price of this since 2014 oil |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | MUSICAL THEATER $2000: Dionne Warwick had 2 hits from this musical--"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" & the double-talk title tune Promises, Promises |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1000: Winter, spring, summer & fall, it was Paul Scofield as Thomas More A Man for All Seasons |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | MISSING LINKS $200: Fall from ____ period grace |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SYFY MOVIES $600: Let the "CHiPS" fall where they may--he starred in "Chupacabra vs. the Alamo" Erik Estrada |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This epic poem by Milton is the story of Adam & Eve's fall from grace Paradise Lost |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | POP SONGS OF 2015 $400: Watch out, Radioactive Man! This band sang, "She wants to dance like Uma Thurman, bury me 'til I confess" Fall Out Boy |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | INFLUENTIAL NONFICTION $1200: Arnold Toynbee's 12-volume "Study of" this school subject provoked debate on the decline & fall of civilizations History |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | 2 WORDS, 7 LETTERS $1200: American Airlines says that for Caribbean travel, the fall is this cheaper travel season off peak |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | THAT'S THE THEORY $3,200 (Daily Double): On April 7, 1954 Pres. Eisenhower spoke about this theory regarding the effects of the fall of French Indochina the domino theory |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | 4 LEGS, 1 CLUE $1000: Oh, deer! In the fall, bulls of this species aka the wapiti fight for harems that can number up to 60 the American elk |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | CLASSICAL MUSIC VENUES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports outside David Geffen Hall.) As of fall 2015, this orchestra performed its glorious music at David Geffen Hall, formerly Avery Fisher Hall the New York Philharmonic |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1000: (I'm Carolyn Ryan.) In 2009 I was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for breaking news coverage of this New York governor & his stunning fall from grace (Eliot) Spitzer |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | HORROR FILMS $400: In this 1984 Wes Craven classic, a girl warns her boyfriend, played by Johnny Depp, "Whatever you do, don't fall asleep" Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND $2000: "In Adam's fall, we sinned all" was a couplet used in the textbook called "The New England" this Primer |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | "RIME" TIME $800: Carleton College's fall 2015 one of these calendar divisions began September 14 a trimester |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | ECON 101 $800: Russia after the fall of Communism was called a "kleptocracy" by some, meaning politicians did this a lot steal |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | ECON 101 $1000: "Diminutive" term for selling unowned stock shares on the gamble that the price will fall short sale |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A BOUNTIFUL TABLE $1200: A fall favorite is soup made from this squash that has a dairy product in its name butternut |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | FLOWERS $800: Dorothy & her friends encountered a field of these flowers that made them fall asleep poppies |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | FALL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: National Knock Knock Joke Day coincides with this holiday in which there's a lot of door knocking going on Halloween |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | FALL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Wright Brothers Day, December 17, commemorates their historic 1903 flight from near this North Carolina town Kitty Hawk |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | FALL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Explore the calendar & you'll discover that this federal holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October Columbus Day |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | FALL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: In Taiwan Teachers' Day, September 28, falls on the birthday of this great teacher & philosopher Confucius |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | FALL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: On November 30 the people of Scotland celebrate the feast day of this patron saint St. Andrew |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | WHAT A CLICHÉ! $2000: The kid is just like his pa; guess "the apple doesn't" do this fall far from the tree |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | POP $1600: This band Wentzed to No. 1 with the album "American Beauty/American Psycho" in 2015 Fall Out Boy |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | SEE THE POP HIT $1000: A classic country hit of 1961 "I Fall To Pieces" |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | LIT BLITZ $800: "Man's disobedience" & "the prime cause of his fall" are the subjects of this 17th century man's most famous poem (John) Milton |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR $2000: After the fall of Acre in 1291, the Knights Templar moved their headquarters to this large island west of Syria Cyprus |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | WATER SCIENCE $2000: These natural pools whose water levels rise & fall exist in lava depressions in Hawaii tide pools |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | JULY $2000: On July 18, 1944, after the fall of Saipan, this Japanese prime minister resigned (Hideki) Tojo |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | COMPARING $800: Boxer Bob Fitzsimmons gets credit for the line that contains "bigger" & this other comparative harder |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | OFFICIAL STATE MOTTOES $200: This 6-word phrase about sticking together is Kentucky's state motto "United we stand, divided we fall" |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | THE ARTFUL ROGER $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a sculpture on the monitor.) "Nydia, the Blind Girl of" this city by Randolph Rogers shows Nydia moving through its ash-lined streets; the broken Corinthian capital at her foot represents the city's fall Pompeii |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | MOVING FORWARD IN SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): This verb can mean "to cause to happen" or "to fall from the sky", the way snow does precipitate |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $500 (Daily Double): Just because this Dickens novel has 2 consecutive "Z"s in the title doesn't mean you will fall asleep reading it The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | PRETTY CITY $800: Cole Porter loved this city "In The Springtime" & "In The Fall" Paris |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | BRANDS OF JEANS $600: Early ads said, "Fall into" this jeans store The Gap |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | TOOL TALK $400: It's the part of a gun that by its fall causes a discharge hammer |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | A. MILLER'S TALES $2000: "After the Fall" is set at this airport in 1962, before it was renamed for JFK Idlewild |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TRAVELING $200: In Bali, this luxury hotel chain calls its suites "Royal Villas", Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall Four Seasons |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | "BB" FUN $600: As a verb, it meas to fall back from a flood stage ebb |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | THE VIETNAM WAR $200: The film "Last Days in Vietnam" details the fall of Saigon & the too-long-delayed evacuation of this facility the American embassy |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $800: In the fall of 1861 this service delivered its last piece of mail the Pony Express |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: (I'm Elon Musk, C.E.O. of Spacex) My belief in the importance of space travel & planetary colonization for the survival of the human species was influenced in part by the epic depiction of the rise & fall of civilizations in this author's "Foundation" series Isaac Asimov |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | SINGERS ON POSTAGE STAMPS $1200: Hank Williams & this "I Fall to Pieces" singer were featured in a 1993 Country & Western series Patsy Cline |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | CELEBRITY SIBLINGS $1000: First names of the Mara sisters; one was the girl with the dragon tattoo & the other had a "House of Cards" fall on her Rooney & Kate |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1600: Tom Wolfe wrote about the fall of Wall Street master of the universe Sherman McCoy in this, his first novel Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | RIBBONS $1000: With a 1,612-foot drop, Ribbon Fall in this national park is the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the United States Yosemite |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: "A Streetcar Named Desire":
spring, summer & early fall in this city New Orleans |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $400: From the Middle English for "fall of dew", it's a light rain in which the water droplets are less than .5 mm in diameter drizzle |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Consisting of 24 books, this ancient poem tells of a homecoming after the fall of Troy The Odyssey |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | VOGUE $600: This month was in the title of a documentary chronicling the prep that went into Vogue's 2007 Fall Fashion issue September |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | BLOOMIN' NON-ONIONS $600: We'll plant bulbs of this in the fall; come spring, we'll enjoy varieties like Darwin, parrot & triumph tulips |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | PLAY BILL $1200: This folklore cowboy rode a cyclone that created the Grand Canyon & his fall created Death Valley Pecos Bill |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | CELEBRITY ORIGINS $1000: (I'm George Stephanopoulos.) Like many Greek-Americans before them, my parents settled in Massachusetts & I was born in this city, site of an infamous double murder in 1892 Fall River |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | TEXAS WINE $400: The Hill Country's Fall Creek Vineyards says its Chenin this has notes of pear, peach & honeysuckle blanc |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | 7-11 $800: July 11, 1979:
President Carter apologizes to Australians for having this space station fall on them in pieces Skylab |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | LITERARY CLERGYMEN $1200: In this Colleen McCullough novel, Meggie Cleary & parish priest Ralph de Bricassart fall in love The Thorn Birds |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | PROPERTIES WITH NO ADDRESS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates by dropping marbles into two graduated cylinders filled with clear liquids.) When marbles are dropped into water & glycerin, the marble in the glycerin takes longer to fall because this property, the resistance to flow, is greater viscosity |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | YOUR HORROR-SCOPE $600: "This is the dawning of the age of" this sign but not for you--you'll fall ill after swimming in polluted water Aquarius |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | POP MUSIC $2000: This "Save Rock & Roll" band takes its name from the sidekick of Radioactive Man, a superhero on "The Simpsons" Fall Out Boy |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | TWO OF A KIND $1600: In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, Roderick confesses that his not-dead-yet twin sister Madeline has been laid in the family tomb "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1000: Each fall silver eels migrate to this "sea" within the North Atlantic to breed, some traveling across land the Sargasso Sea |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | HISTORIC DAYS $1200: May 29, 1453 the fall of Constantinople |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | ELEVATION DESTINATION $1000: The snows of this Tanzanian mountain fall mainly on the 19,340-foot Kibo summit Kilimanjaro |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $400: A dancer called "The Accused" uses an axe in "Fall River Legend", based on 1892 murders she was charged with Lizzie Borden |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | POULTRY IN MOTION $1000: This Marvel Comics hero is a stranger in a strange land, but he did manage to fall in love with human model Beverly Switzler Howard the Duck |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $1200: The planets are in this alliterative state in the gravitational field of the Sun free fall |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | COMING UP IN 2014 $600: Some see great importance in the fact that this event leading to a red moon like the one seen here will fall on Passover an eclipse |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1956 he published "La Chute", or "The Fall"; the next year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature (Albert) Camus |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Igbo proverbs are found throughout this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel that sounds like a bad game of Jenga Things Fall Apart |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | TIME TO END IT "ALL" $200: To plummet to fall |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | FLAVOR OF THE MONTH $800: A fall favorite from Starbucks is this flavor spice latte pumpkin |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | YES, NOVEMBER! $200: It's one of the 2 zodiac signs that fall in November Sagittarius (or Scorpio) |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | U.S. LANDMARKS $1000: In the fall of 2013, this striking building that's home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrated its 10th birthday Disney Hall |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | OUTDOOR DRAMAS $200: This state "is for lovers", like the Eastern boy & Appalachian girl who fall in love in its state outdoor drama Virginia |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | INDOOR DRAMAS $400: Martha said she'd murder me if my sneezes made this fluffy French egg dish fall, but I couldn't hold back a souffle |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | ONE-WORD SHOUT OUTS $200: Freshly cut tree about to fall! timber! |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | ROCK & ROLL CALL $1600: Pete Wentz & Joe Trohman are 2 of the boys in this "boy" band Fall Out Boy |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | SCIENCE 101 $2,000 (Daily Double): Defined as 10-400 nanometers on the spectrum, these rays fall between visible light & X-rays ultraviolet |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | WORDS OF STEVIE WONDER $800: "Very" this, "writing's on the wall, very" this, "ladder's 'bout to fall" superstitious |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | POLITICAL JARGON $800: Middle-class suburban women with kids kicking the ball around fall into this demographic soccer moms |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | OF CALAIS $1000: A column in Calais commemorates the return of this number King Louis after the fall of Napoleon the XVIII |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID $1600: This type of event that Che advocated "is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall" revolution |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: It took Edward Gibbon 1.5 million words over 6 volumes to pen the "History of the Decline and Fall of" this the Roman Empire |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | QUOTH THE POLITICIAN $800: In 1983 Labour politician Neil kinnock said, if this woman wins, "I warn you not to fall ill ...not to grow old" Margaret Thatcher |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | QUOTH THE POLITICIAN $1,400 (Daily Double): He said, "since they whose duty it was to wield the sword of France have let it fall... I have taken up the broken blade" Charles de Gaulle |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | SONGS BY THE WOMEN OF COUNTRY $400: Patsy Cline:
"I Fall To ____" Pieces |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Green riffed on a line from "Julius Caesar" for the title of this novel about 2 teens with cancer who fall in love The Fault In Our Stars |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | NATURE $200: Sharks can have as many as 5 rows of these, which fall out & grow back teeth |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WATERFALLS $800: Entering the valley of this national park, you may fall in love with Bridalveil Fall Yosemite |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | AMERICANA $600: O. Henry called this fall holiday "the one day that is purely American" Thanksgiving |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | AMERICAN REGIONALISMS $400: Whether it's a trash mover, a toad strangler or a gully washer, a hard one of these is about to fall a rain |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $800: After the fall of France in 1940, this general told his country, "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war" (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | RHYME TIME $800: According to the title of a novel by Marc Blatte, this Lewis Carroll character "was pushed" Humpty Dumpty |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | THE QUOTABLE KEATS $1200: Keats called it the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun" autumn/fall |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | NOTES FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL $600: In "The Deadlocked Election of 1800", James R. Sharp outlines the fall of this dueling vice president Aaron Burr |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | FILL IN THE FILM FRUIT $800: "Beverly Hills Cop": "We're not gonna fall for a _____ in the tailpipe" banana |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $2,400 (Daily Double): Umberto Eco wrote a parody of this novel, having Umberto Umberto fall for the aged Granita Lolita |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | LOVE $600: A song by this composer says, "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's fall in love" Cole Porter |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | SAMURAI: THE WARRIOR TRANSFORMED $800: (Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) Some scabbards were decorated with blossoms of this fruit tree; they fall at their moment of greatest beauty & so to the samurai represent an ideal death cherry blossoms |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $800: Fitzgerald met her at a country club in July 1918 but noted in his ledger that he didn't fall in love with her until September 7 Zelda |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | BOOK OF THE CENTURY $600: 20th:
This actress' spiritual memoir "Don't Fall Off the Mountain" Shirley MacLaine |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | NATURAL DISASTERS $1000: Sort of a dry avalanche, it's a fall of earth & rocks down the side of a mountain a landslide |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | NET FLICKS $400: In a 2004 film tennis players Kirsten Dunst & Paul Bettany fall in love while competing in this Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | MACADAMIA $600: The way growers usually tell that macadamias are ripe is they wait until the nuts do this fall to the ground |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | ANCHORS AWEIGH $400: These wide pants were made to roll up above the knee when swabbing the decks & to remove easily when you fall overboard bell-bottoms |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | DOMESTIC AFFAIRS $200: The documentary "Client 9" chronicled "The Rise and Fall of" this New York governor Eliot Spitzer |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $1000: "Belisario" takes place in this eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the west the Byzantine Empire |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | WOMEN ON TV $200: In the fall of 2011, these sisters, Zooey & Emily, both had shows on Fox the Deschanel sisters |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE 20th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $1000: Physics: showing that on icy paths, "people slip and fall less often if they wear" these over their shoes (under's OK, too) socks |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $400: An autumn dance reception area a fall ball hall |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $400: In October 2010 this group's Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh & Timothy B. Schmit hit the road for a fall tour the Eagles |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | LOOK OUT BELOW $400: You can see the fall colors around this largest city in Maine Portland |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: This waterfall in Yosemite National Park is the highest continuous fall in North America at 1,612 feet Ribbon Falls |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | TOYS & GAMES $800: These roly-poly figures "wobble, but they don't fall down!" Weebles |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FUN RAISERS $2000: Look, ma! No plane & no parachute! A Vegas wind tunnel lets you experience indoor this, aka bodyflight skydiving |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | GEORGE STRAIT TO NO. 1 $1000: "Let's Fall" this way "Together" To Pieces |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | VERSE CASE SCENARIO $2,200 (Daily Double): Longfellow: "Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life" these 4 words "some rain must fall" |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | FALL GUYS $400: He was born in the fall of 1918 & fell out of the vice presidency in the fall of 1973 Agnew |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | FALL GUYS $800: This Daredevil was born in the fall of 1938, 36 years before his fall into the Snake River Canyon Evel Knievel |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | FALL GUYS $1200: He was born September 29, 1758 & fell to enemy fire on the quarterdeck of HMS Victory in the fall of 1805 (Lord) Nelson |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | FALL GUYS $1600: Born in the fall of 1837, Tokugawa Yoshinobu was the last Japanese ruler with this title shogun |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | FALL GUYS $2000: Born in the fall of 1764, he took the fall for inciting a 1789 mutiny Fletcher Christian |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | POSTHUMOUS POP HITS $2000: 1995:
"I Could Fall In Love" Selena |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | MAGAZINES $3,000 (Daily Double): The documentary "The September Issue" showed Anna Wintour prepping for this magazine's 2007 Fall Fashion issue Vogue |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | NOTIONS $600: In this theory Truman thought a nation's fall to communism would cause neighboring nations to follow suit the domino theory |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | WAYS TO LOSE MONEY $200: It rhymes with dwindle, & your money will dwindle if you fall for one a swindle |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | POLITICIANS $2000: Shortly after the fall of the Czar, the Bolsheviks overthrew this modern prime minister in late 1917 Alexander Kerensky |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | JULIUS CAESAR SALAD $400: In 2008 a marble one of these was found in a French river, apparently thrown there right after Caesar's fall a bust |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | "SUPER" $200: In this 1986 video game, Luigi & his sibling are trying to rescue Princess Toadstool Super Mario Bros. |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | GOOD OLD PLANET EARTH $600: In hardness, pellets called graupel that fall from the sky are partway between snow & this hail |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | THERE WILL BE "RAM"IFICATIONS $1000: Rickety, like an old house about to fall down ramshackle |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | MOVIE DEMISES $800: In "Legends of the Fall", "It was a good death" as he gets killed by the grizzly he wounded as a kid Brad Pitt |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | AN APPLE FOR TEACHER $800: Apples fall into 3 broad categories: dessert, cooking & the kind named for this juice of the apple cider |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $800: Erin Arvedlund's "Too Good to be True" follows the rise & fall of this Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $400: In 1974 this beat poet for "The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971" (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Around this event in the fall of 2010, nytimes.com ran a "word train" to gauge readers' moods--no. 1 was "disgusted" the mid-term election |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | HOMER (SIMPSON)'S ODYSSEY $400: In "The Homer They Fall", after learning he can withstand any blow to the head, Homer becomes a pro one of these a boxer |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | NOVEL "T"s $2000: Chinua Achebe's first novel, about the leader of an Igbo community, is called these "Fall Apart", a line from Yeats Things |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | ALL ONE SYLLABLE $200: It's a big or main branch of a tree; when it breaks, things will fall the limb (or bough) |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | LEGAL "E"s $2000: This clause in a union contract says that wages will rise or fall depending on a standard such as cost of living escalator |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $2000: His home Beauvoir, where he wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government", is a landmark in Biloxi Jefferson Davis |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) The keys weigh much more than the paper clips & fall to the ground, but a pencil acts as this support, pulling the clips sideways, where gravity & friction stop the keys' descent a fulcrum |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | SO SAYETH THE TALK SHOW HOST $200: This "Late Show" guy: "Fall is my favorite season in L.A., watching the birds change color & fall from the trees" David Letterman |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | EVERYDAY HEROES $600: In 2003 firefighter Gary Carella & his team saved a man from a 170' fall over Horseshoe Falls, part of this landmark Niagara Falls |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | TEAM EDWARD $400: English rationalist historian Edward Gibbon is remembered for his "History of the Decline and Fall of" this the Roman Empire |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | SEASONAL QUOTES $2000: In 1950 Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "but I miss you most of all, my darling, when" these "start to fall" "The Autumn Leaves" |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $2000: A fall from a subway platform in 1943 left this "St. Louis Blues" composer completely blind (W.C.) Handy |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | I TRIED TO WARN YOU $800: Freshly cut trees, or a warning by a lumberjack that a freshly cut tree is about to fall timber |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | 2 Es, THEN ONE E $1200: You may wobble or even fall down if you're this, physically weak or frail feeble |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MOVIE VERBS $800: Bogart pulled no punches: "The Harder They ____" fall |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 2010 20th ANNIVERSARIES $400: October brought the 20th anniversary of this, celebrated each year on Tag der Deutschen Einheit German Unification |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | GAME & REALITY SHOWS $600: Celebs can samba away with the money or fall flat on their face in front of host Tom Bergeron Dancing with the Stars |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THAT'S A RAP $2000: On "Love The Way You Lie", Eminem raps, "Now you get to watch her leave out the window/Guess that's why they call it" this window pane |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY $1600: In 2007, Reese told "E.W." about her big fall movie in which her Egyptian-born husband suffers this title transfer by force Rendition |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | HELLO, I'M JOHNNY CASH $600: In a 1963 hit I recounted my fall into one of these--ouch! it burns, burns, burns! a "Ring Of Fire" |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | GOOD OLD SOUTHERN EATS $200: Vegetables that fall under this colorful generic term are mustard, spinach & turnip greens |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | ANNUALLY OBSERVED $800: Celebrated in Asia in the fall, Diwali is an annual festival of lights of this religion Hinduism |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LEGENDARY! $400: In a Homeric epic, he's ordered home to his kingdom in Ithaca after the fall of Troy Odysseus |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | FEELS LIKE "FALL" $200: Precipitation below 32 degrees Fahrenheit snowfall |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | FEELS LIKE "FALL" $400: Somebody who takes the blame for somebody else's mistake, or a Lee Majors TV show a fall guy |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | FEELS LIKE "FALL" $600: This comic tumble is literally onto your rear, because the word comes from slang for that part of your anatomy pratfall |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | FEELS LIKE "FALL" $800: An unforeseen difficulty, or a game show I hosted in the early '80s Pitfall |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | FEELS LIKE "FALL" $1000: Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace" appears as part of this 1839 tale The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | STAY! $1600: Winter, spring, summer & fall, this Boston hotel at 200 Boylston Street overlooks the Public Garden & Beacon Hill the Four Seasons |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CLASSIC GAME COMING ATTRACTIONS $600: They came to explore a new land--one of lollipop woods & gingerbread men. This fall they'll curse their visit to... Candyland |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | ALTHING $400: There are this many members of the Althing--they'll always fall one short of filling an entire checkerboard sixty-three |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | BOOK SMART $400: "The Smartest Guys in the Room" tells of the rise & fall of this Houston-based energy company Enron |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | SONNETS & SONNETEERS $400: About this season Josiah Conder wrote, "The light yellow leaves of fading trees come dancing down all ways" fall (autumn) |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: "Pride goeth before ____" (& don't say "a fall") destruction |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE ATMOSPHERE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Fossil fuel-burning industries emit sulfur dioxide & nitrogen oxide, which combine with water in the atmosphere & fall as this nasty stuff acid rain |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | TIME IS ON YOUR SIDE $1600: Shine on if you see this closest full moon to the fall equinox a harvest moon |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $1200: Choices for August include this flower; don't fall asleep in a field of them poppies |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | CHARACTER ASSASSINATION $800: This writer didn't flat out say, "Roderick Usher's own house fell on him", but the implication is clear (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS $1600: Bernard Fall wrote "Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of" this place lost by the French to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | NONFICTION $800: 2009's "Last Lion" is subtitled "The Fall and Rise of" this political brother Ted Kennedy |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | BAND NAMES $2000: This group's name came from the younger sidekick of Radioactive Man on "The Simpsons" Fall Out Boy |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | IN THE CABINET $400: Interior Secretary Albert Fall took a fall in this 1920s scandal Teapot Dome |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "Green Acres" star goes existential (& French) as the author of "The Fall" Eddie Albert Camus |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | CLASSIC SITCOM EPISODES $800: "The Rise & Fall of Sergeant Schultz" Hogan's Heroes |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | BOXING MOVIES $800: Ex-heavyweight champ Max Baer appeared in 1956's "The Harder They Fall", the last film of this actor, sweetheart Humphrey Bogart |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE $800: Wish you weren't here! Our raft is nearing the drop of this tallest Venezuelan cataract! See you next fall! Angel Falls |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $1600: In 1986 he topped the charts with "Glory Of Love" as a solo artist & "The Next Time I Fall" in a duet with Amy Grant Peter Cetera |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL $300 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) This ruined fortress atop a mesa is where thousands of Israeli soldiers have taken an oath swearing that it shall not fall again Masada |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $200: This huge beast's fall from the top of the Empire State Building is an iconic moment in movies King Kong |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $400: "Nothin' But A Good Time" at these Broadway awards in 2009; rocker Bret Michaels was leveled by a piece of scenery Tonys |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $600: Wile E. is the first name & middle initial of this cartoon character who plummets off cliffs pursuing a bird Wile E. Coyote |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $800: This actor's new rap career included falling off the stage during a Las Vegas show in 2009 Joaquin Phoenix |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: This skateboarder known as "The Birdman" can't quite fly--he's suffered a dozen concussions Tony Hawk |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | TREES! $1600: The thin, papery leaves of this tree of the genus Fagus turn gold in the fall; knowing that is no day at the... the beech |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | CELEBS $1000: Ashlee Simpson married this Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | NONFICTION $800: "Their Finest Hour", Volume II of his WWII history, is divided into 2 sections: "The Fall of France" & "Alone" Churchill |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | QUESTION, MARK $400: In a Shakespeare play, he says, "Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall!" Mark Anthony |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | FIX THE SPOONERISM $800: Sometimes paperwork just disappears; it seems to crawl through the fax fall through the cracks |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | DOUBLE, DOUBLE $800: Featuring joined reeds that vibrate together, double-reed instruments fall into this orchestral class woodwinds |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | NOVEL-TIES $800: The title of this 1813 Austen novel comes from the second chapter of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" Pride and Prejudice |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | S.O.S. $1,100 (Daily Double): If you fall into deep water without a life jacket, there's no time to send an S.O.S.--it's time to do this "S.O.S." sink or swim |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | POET-TREE $1200: "The woods decay, the woods decay and fall... and after many a summer dies the swan", wrote this lord in 1860 Tennyson |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | POISON IVY, OAK & SUMAC $400: Poison ivy isn't always green; its leaves are this color in early spring, & they may turn orange in the fall red |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | BALLETS ALEX COULD STAR IN $1000: I'll watch out for the ax when I play the young pastor who comforts this accused heroine in "Fall River Legend" Lizzie Borden |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $800: (I'm Frank Rich.) I transitioned from theater critic to critic of the Bush Admin., as in my book subtitled "The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to" this 2005 natural disaster Hurricane Katrina |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | STATES BY STATE PARKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Fall River Heritage State Park Massachusetts |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ECON 101 $200: Ursine term for an investor who expects share prices to fall bear |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | POP GOES THE CATEGORY $600: His return to bicycle racing took a fall when he fell & was injured during a race in March 2009 Lance Armstrong |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | I WANT TO RIDE THAT! $200: The Pitt Fall is a scary free fall ride at Kennywood, near this second-largest Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | YOUR HAIR $200: It can mean a hairpiece, a precipitous descent of water or a season of the year fall |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | NOT LITERALLY $200: Your friend didn't "literally fall off the face of the Earth"... unless he can defy this force that keeps him grounded gravity |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | I LED THAT CABINET DEPARTMENT $2000: Harold Ickes,
Albert Fall,
James Watt the Department of the Interior |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | SCANDALOUS NURSERY RHYMES $200: Perhaps too much eggnog threw off this character's equilibrium when he had a great fall off a wall Humpty Dumpty |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THIS WILL SLAY YOU $400: This woodsman's tool is said to "fall" when a worker is fired an axe |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WORDS IN TOURNAMENT $400: Things get dull when you "fall into" this furrow in the ground a rut |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | _____IN' '80s MOVIES $2000: Famous fall doesn't kill big ape; he only needs transfusion:
"K____ K____ L____" King Kong Lives |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Collective term for the leaves of trees, particularly in the fall foliage |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | THE 1960s $200: 1963 protests by members of this religion, some of whom immolated themselves, led to the fall of South Vietnam's govt. Buddhists |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | I RAN FOR PREZ IN 2008 $600: This "Law & Order" Tennessean didn't go all the way, but he's got a nifty acting career to fall back on Fred Thompson |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | A LITTLE "B" BOP $200: "When" this large branch "breaks, the cradle will fall" bough |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | WAXING POETIC $4,000 (Daily Double): Byron's 1814 ode to him says,
"Nor till thy fall could mortals guess
Ambition's less than littleness!" Napoleon |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $800: Christopher Cross sang, "If you get caught between" this & NYC, "the best that you can do is fall in love" the Moon |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in a park.) In the song "Danke Schoen", you'll find the lyric "I recall" this 4-word phrase, & that's what I'm experiencing now "Central Park in fall" |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | OMG! $1200: Trojan prophet Helenus told the Greeks Troy wouldn't fall unless Palladium, this wise goddess' statue, was stolen Athena |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | AN HOUR OF TV $800: This fall '08 Fox show kicked off with a plane landing at Logan Airport with no one on it alive Fringe |
| #5555, aired 2008-10-31 | HAVE A RETREAT $1,400 (Daily Double): Following the fall of France in this year, the Royal Navy evacuated over 300,000 troops from Dunkirk 1940 |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR $200: Albert Fall was the 1st man guilty of this type of crime done as a Cabinet secy.--we don't know about misdemeanors a felony |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $800: Chapter 1 of this novel is "I am born"; but (uh-oh!) by chapter 4, "I fall into disgrace" David Copperfield |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 20th CENTURY CHINA $1000: The democratic revolution led by this man led to the 1911 fall of the Qing dynasty & the end of Chinese feudalism Sun Yat-sen |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $400: The Book of Lamentations is a series of 5 acrostic psalms bemoaning the fall of this city Jerusalem |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | FOR "ME" $1000: A value below which 50% of subjects fall, or a strip down the middle of the road the median |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | HYDRO LOGICAL $800: 13-letter collective name for any & all forms of water that fall from the sky precipitation |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | KING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE $800: Vincent Pilkington set a record by plucking one of these in 1 min. 30 sec., but no word if he fell asleep soon after a turkey |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $2000: Oxford University's fall term is named for this -mas, not Christmas; it's a saint's Sept. 29 feast day Michaelmas |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | STARTS WITH FEB, TREBEK $600: It's the latest date in February on which the first Sunday of the month can fall the 7th |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | REUNIONS $200: In 1989 the fall of a wall reunited this world capital after 28 years Berlin |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | KEEP "FALL"ING $200: In 1856 P.T. Barnum boasted he'd go over this in a 30-foot-wide rubber ball-- didn't happen Niagara Falls |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | KEEP "FALL"ING $400: In "Paradise Lost" book I, line 392, Milton begins to list & describe these disgraced denizens of hell the fallen angels |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | KEEP "FALL"ING $600: Female anatomical tubes named for an Italian doctor Fallopian tubes |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | KEEP "FALL"ING $800: Descent with an unopened parachute as the first part of a jump freefall |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | KEEP "FALL"ING $1000: This 6-word state motto of Kentucky implies a need for solidarity "United we stand, divided we fall." |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | "EAST" $400: Egon Krenz was briefly the head of this country during the fall of the Berlin Wall East Germany |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | SOUNDS LIKE A GAME SHOW HOST $800: Newlyweds know that he wobbled as coach of the Jets in Super Bowl III but didn't fall down Weeb Ewbank |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | TENNIS $1000: This Californian gave birth in June 2007 & returned to the pro tour that fall Lindsay Davenport |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | ANIMATION THAT'S A PUZZLE $1600: People might get hypnic jerks when doing this fall asleep |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | "OUT" IS IN $800: In surf slang, it's to fall off your surfboard, you hodad to wipe out |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | BALLET $400: In the 1948 ballet "Fall River Legend", this character is hanged although in real life she was acquitted Lizzie Borden |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | IT HAPPENED ON APRIL 2 $2000: 1453:
Mehmed II begins his siege of this city; it would fall 8 weeks later Constantinople |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | THE CALENDAR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2007 the Fourth of July was a Wednesday; in 2008, it will fall on this day Friday |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | EVERYDAY SCIENCE $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew topples some dominoes.) Once dominoes start to fall, they continue without further outside influence--an example of this self-sustaining sequence a chain reaction |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ARTHUR MILLER $200: Arthur Miller's marriage to her was mirrored in his play "After the Fall" Marilyn Monroe |
| #5410, aired 2008-02-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN ROUND-UP $800: This character's last line is "Then fall, Caesar" Julius Caesar |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TO EVERYTHING THIS IS A SEASON $200: Munich's 16-day (or so) annual beer festival staggers to an end in this season fall |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES $1000: (Ken finishes off the category.) My film "Unforgivable Blackness" chronicles the rise & fall of this champion who fought for freedom, & not just with his fists Jack Johnson |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | FROM A TO E $2000: Next time you fall on your behind, be grateful for this cushioning tissue of fat cells just below the skin adipose |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | MISSING LINKS $800: Fall by the ___ Inn Wayside |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | KANSAS CITY, KANSAS HERE WE COME $800: The Wall Street Journal reports that KCK is undergoing this, also a type of medieval festival held there each fall a renaissance |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WRITE ON, SOLDIER! $1600: Edward Gibbon was a captain in the Hampshire Grenadiers before writing this epic of imperial decline The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CHIPS $400: This saying about ignoring the consequences goes back to the lumber industry's devil-may-care woodcutters let the chips fall where they may |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | TO INJURY $800: In 1821 this poet had a hard time counting the ways she loved thee, what with injuring her spine in a fall Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | BELOVED POLAND $800: After the fall of the Communists in 1989, Poland joined NATO in 1999 & this economic group of nations on May 1, 2004 the European Union |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | HEATHERS $1000: Heather Thomas (not Heather Tom) buddied up with stunt man/bounty hunter Lee Majors on this "80s series The Fall Guy |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | YOU'VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER $400: This beautiful queen's affair with a knight of the Round Table foreshadowed the fall of King Arthur's kingdom Queen Guinevere |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS $400: Barney Frank reps this state's 4th, which includes Newton, Taunton & part of Fall River Massachusetts |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with beakers.) In a force-&-movement experiment, the reason the water doesn't fall out of the cup is because this force pushing up against the card is greater than the weight of the water air pressure |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | HAVE SOME "T" $200: I didn't just fall off a truck of these globe-shaped veggies with purple tops, you know--but have some anyway a turnip |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | AMERICANA $1,000 (Daily Double): Counties in this state named for people killed at the same site include Floyd, Travis & Bowie Texas |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | YOU GET A D MINUS $400: The rise & fall of ocean waters loses a D & transforms into neckwear tide & tie |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | FAMOUS TROJANS $1600: This son of Priam was raised as a shepherd after his mom learned in a vision he would cause the fall of Troy Paris |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | READ YOUR BIBLE $600: Jeremiah spoke of the fall of Marduk when he predicted the downfall of this empire Babylon |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | THE 21st CENTURY ROCKS $1200: "Dance, Dance" for this band heard here
"Dance, dance, we're falling apart to half time..." Fall Out Boy |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $800: Shows named for & starring these 2 movie pooches debuted in the fall of 1954 Lassie & Rin Tin Tin |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | LET'S GET BIBLICAL $400: In the book of Joshua, this city is defeated when its walls fall down after trumpets are sounded Jericho |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $400: The "essence of" this chef from Fall River, Massachusetts is that he likes to "kick it up a notch" Emeril Lagasse |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | LITERARY BROTHERS $1200: Alec Waugh's first novel was "The Loom of Youth" in 1917; this brother's was "Decline and Fall" in 1928 Evelyn Waugh |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY $1200: Neil Davis was one of the few journalists to film & report directly on the Fall of Saigon in this year 1975 |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | LET'S CHECK OUT SOME COLLEGES $1200: This Ivy Leaguer seems nice... New Haven in the fall, fine drama school (Jodie Foster! Streep!) Tuition $33,030? Holy Eli! Yale University |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | SCIENTISTS $400: A law of falling bodies associated with this Italian says that they fall at the same speed regardless of their mass Galileo |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS? $200: Last year it was Da Vinci; this fall it's nothing but dots & dashes with the... the Morse Code |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS? $1000: In Australia, water is going down drains backwards (to us). This fall, Mel Gibson takes on the reason why--this "Effect" Coriolis |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE FALL $200: In October 1967 in Tehran, he crowned himself Light of the Aryan Race, among other things the Shah (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi) |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE FALL $400: Headed by Chief Justice Charles T. Wells, the Supreme Court of this state was in the news in November 2000 Florida |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE FALL $600: In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean country, officially to protect American medical students there Grenada |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE FALL $1000: In 1918 this date in autumn brought the signing of the armistice ending World War I November 11 |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE FALL $1,800 (Daily Double): On Nov. 8, 1519 the sight of his forces made the Tenochtitlaners feel like they'd "eaten stupefying mushrooms" (Hernándo) Cortés |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | WRESTLING $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew grapples with another clue from the University of Iowa.) To get one of these--& win the match--the shoulders have to be pinned to the mat for 1 second--2 seconds in high school a fall |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | VERBS $800: Not spring or fall but this verb can mean either "to spice" or "to make more experienced" season |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | THE FALL $400: In Feb. 1990 Buster Douglas knocked the mouthpiece (& the stuffing) out of this suddenly ex-heavyweight champ Mike Tyson |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | THE FALL $800: In 1978, though he outweighed Leon Spinks by 27 pounds, he lost a 15-round decision & the heavyweight title Muhammad Ali |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | THE FALL $1200: In 1981 John McEnroe found resistance wasn't futile & snapped this Swede's 5-year Wimbledon win streak Bjorn Borg |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | THE FALL $1600: In 1919 Man O' War lost his only race to a 100-to-1 shot with this apt 5-letter name that means "to disturb" Upset |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | THE FALL $2000: In the 10 years before a loss to Rulon Gardner at the Olympics, no one had scored a point vs. this sport's A. Karelin Greco-Roman wrestling |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | STARTS & ENDS WITH W $1000: In nature, this word can follow "black"; on fall Sundays, it can follow "football" widow |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | ISAAC-LY $800: You don't have to have an apple fall on your head to think of this scientist seen here Isaac Newton |
| #5095, aired 2006-11-03 | AUSSIE $1000: In an Australian saying, when these birds named for their call "call, the rain will fall" the kookaburra |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | MOTION IN POETRY $200: Longfellow pointed out that "into each life" this "must fall" some rain |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | STATE FLAGS $200: Kentucky's flag shows 2 friends embracing, exemplifying the state motto "United we stand," followed by this divided we fall |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | PHYS ED $400: This game with a military name can be pretty funny if the rope breaks tug of war |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | "SS" THE SITUATION $600: From the Greek for "bottomless", it's a vast chasm abyss |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | PLAY BOY $800: "After the Fall"
&
"The Crucible" (Arthur) Miller |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | "ITE"S NOT IN THE BIBLE $400: These objects that fall from the heavens to smite the Earth are often fragments of asteroids meteorites |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | DOUBLE MEANINGS $800: You always fall for my ___ sacrifice; too bad I'm so broke my chess set is in ___ pawn |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | SEASONAL ACTING $1600: Lee Majors made a name for himself after "The 6 Million Dollar Man" playing Colt Seavers on this action series The Fall Guy |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MARCH $1600: One of the 2 astrological signs that fall in March Pisces (or Aries) |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | TUTU MUCH! $400: It's the adjective for tutus that fall below the calf (or for the poetry of Keats & Coleridge) romantic |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | TALES $800: A Winston Groom sequel sees this title man involved in the Iran-Contra affair & the fall of the Berlin Wall Forrest Gump |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | DUETS $2000: In 1980 these 2 former members of the New Christy Minstrels teamed up for "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer" Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | LITERARY SISTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): While in a cataleptic trance, Roderick's sister Madeline is buried alive in this Poe story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | MELANCHOLY SITES OF FORMER GRANDEUR $800: Amid the wreckage of this city's capitol, Edward Gibbon decided to write of its decline & fall Rome |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | NURSERY RHYME PREVIEWS $600: He arrives in a nightgown after 8 o'clock, wondering if your kids are in bed; this fall, is your family safe from... Wee Willie Winkie |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | WALK THE LINE $800: Likening U.S. Grant to an axman, Roscoe Conkling said he'd "hew to the line of right, let" these "fall where they may" the chips |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | ISLANDS $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Tinos in Greece.) In 1715, Tinos became the last island to fall to these conquerors from across the Aegean the Turks |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | TEA TIME $600: Manufacturers classify tea in 3 main types; the flavor, color & aroma of this type fall between black & green tea oolong |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $200: This sandy Vegas hotel is seen here going bust in 1993 the Dunes |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $400: Built in 1975 but never formally occupied, the Hilton in this capital of Lebanon is seen coming down in July 2002 Beirut |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $600: In 2004, Greg "The Bull" Luzinski set off the final bull blast at Veterans Stadium in this city Philadelphia |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $800: The most buildings shot in a single-implosion sequence record, shown here, was set in this Puerto Rican city in 1998 San Juan |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $1000: In 1998, the 2.2-million-square-foot Hudson's Department Store was taken down in this Midwest U.S. city Detroit |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | THE VATICAN'S INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS $800: There was no monkeying around when this man's "History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" made the list Edward Gibbon |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | SPORTING EVENTS $2000: The "All Star Game of Thoroughbred Racing", & racing's richest event, it's held each fall at a different track the Breeder's Cup |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | DROP AN O $1000: Sag from weakness, then fall droop & drop |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | PLAY $200: Shakespeare:
An Egyptian & a Roman fall in love Antony and Cleopatra |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | A CLOSE LOOK AT ART $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew poses with a seascape.) W.H. Auden wrote, "Everything turns away quite leisurely from a disaster" in Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of" this mythical flier Icarus |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $800: "Unforgivable Blackness" is subtitled "The Rise and Fall of" this first black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | THE BRADY BRUNCH $200: "Oh, my nose!", Marcia exclaimed, after bumping into the oven door & causing this light, fluffy egg dish to fall flat a soufflé |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | NATURE STUDY $200: Most oak & maple trees are deciduous, meaning this happens every year their leaves fall off |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | 17th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $400: Because plague closed this university, Newton went home to Woolsthorpe, where he saw that apple fall Cambridge |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | HITCHCOCK $1600: Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman fall in love & ferret out Nazis in Brazil in this classic Notorious |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | '80s TV $400: 1 of the 2 shows that debuted in the fall of 1988 with a Murphy in the title Murphy Brown (or Murphy's Law) |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | THIS MOVIE IS A DISASTER! $400: Cows fly & trucks fall from the sky as Bill Paxton leads a team of storm chasers Twister |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | UNIVERSITY LATIN CLASS $1200: "Fiat justitia, ruat coelum", "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall", is the motto of this school at UBC the law school |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | THE WORLD OF NAT KING COLE $800: Five-word song title that precedes the lyric line heard here
"It will be forever..." "When I Fall In Love" |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | OFFICIAL STATE SEALS $600: "United We Stand" appears on the top half of Kentucky's state seal & these 3 words appear on the bottom "Divided We Fall" |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | ENDS IN "EE" $1000: In his 12-volume "A Study of History", he traced the rise & fall of 26 civilizations (Arnold) Toynbee |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: He explained the genesis of his masterpiece in the following passage
"It was on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Edward Gibbon |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | YOU'RE A DOLL! $1000: In fall 2000 a glamorous Elizabeth Taylor doll could be purchased with this "gem" of a fragrance White Diamonds |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $1600: The Bolsheviks took over Russia in the fall of 1917, removing this moderate socialist who had become P.M. in July Kerensky |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG $1000: This part of your body is your "Chevy Chase" (Chevy Chase wouldn't want to fall on his) your face |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | ALL ABOARD! $400: Hop aboard the Green Mountain Flyer for a scenic tour of this state's fall foliage Vermont |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $1000: Entombing his still-living sister Madeline, always a social faux pas, wasn't this Poe boy's best move Roderick Usher |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | REMEMBERING ARTHUR MILLER $1600: This scathingly personal drama portrayed Marilyn Monroe as a singer named Maggie After the Fall |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | "C" IN COOKING $200: Emeril puts bacon, leeks & chunks of potatoes in his Fall River version of this New England soup clam chowder |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | CLEAN 4-LETTER WORDS $800: The rise & fall of the ocean water, or a detergent that has cleaned clothes for more than 50 years Tide |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | SKI YOU LATER $1000: The most direct route down the slopes is called this "line", which might worry an unsteady skier the fall line |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | '70s NONFICTION $1000: Theodore H. White's "Breach of Faith" detailed "The Fall of" this man Nixon |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | HELLO FODDER $800: People from the North sow them in spring; Southerners sow them in fall; reckless youths sow wild ones oats |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | "J" WALKING $400: Kick out these door supports & your transoms will fall down the jambs |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | THE OLYMPICS $2,400 (Daily Double): One difference between this hyphenated sport & freestyle is that opponents can't grasp or use the legs in a fall Greco-Roman wrestling |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | JOE THE FARMER $200: Joe's wife worries he'll fall out of this fodder storage area in the top of the barn the (hay) loft |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | PRECIOUS STONES $600: You might need one to pay your hospital bills if you take a fall on a double this ski trail diamond |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | RHYME TIME $400: In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice there's no chance he'd ever fall off his wall Humpty Dumpty |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | 4 $200: "Seasonal" quartet in the lyrics of "You've Got A Friend" winter, spring, summer & fall |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | COLLEGE COLLAGE $400: Each fall this university holds its raucous pep rally known as the "Gator Growl" the University of Florida |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | ON THE "LAM" $1600: Consisting of 5 poems, it bemoans the fall of Jerusalem Lamentations |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | FOLK MUSIC $2000: Glenn Yarbrough, formerly with The Limeliters, had his only Top 40 hit with this title song of a 1965 Steve McQueen film "Baby The Rain Must Fall" |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | "EXTRA" HELPINGS $400: For many students, the yearbook, chess club & school newspaper fall under these "activities" extracurricular |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | SCHOOL OF ROCK MOVIES $1000: (Hi. I'm Vivica Fox.) I played one of Frankie Lymon's wives in this movie bio, also the title of Frankie's biggest hit Why Do Fools Fall in Love |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | DR. SEUSS $1000: This turtle king stacks up all the other turtles to build a towering throne only to fall down from the top Yertle (the Turtle) |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | TV TITLE ROLES $2000: Lee Majors
1981-86 The Fall Guy |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | "B" PREPARED $400: (Hi, I'm Chris Matthews) Working for the San Francisco Examiner in November 1989 I reported on the historic fall of this structure the Berlin Wall |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | 1961 $400: She releases the hit songs "Crazy" & "I Fall to Pieces" Patsy Cline |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER $200: Home field advantage in baseball's fall classic was decided in midsummer by this event the All-Star Game |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD $400: The roof of Istanbul's Hagia Sofia is sheets of this heavy metal, so don't let it fall on you lead |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" on glimpsing the title home in this Poe tale The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS $200: Remember the proverb, this "goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" pride |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | TAKE IN ORDER $800: Oops, "I fall down, go" this boom |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GO FORTH ON AUGUST FOURTH $800: Aug. 4, 1892:
She allegedly axes her father & stepmother to death in Fall River, Massachusetts Lizzie Borden |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | U.S. "TOWN"S $2000: Don't fall behind when crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson in this village in Westchester County Tarrytown |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | PLAY RIGHT $600: In this toy game, the goal is to knock away blocks of plastic ice without letting the plastic man fall Don't Break the Ice |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | BELOVED POEMS $400: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ..." rain must fall |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | BRITISH ROYAL PAINS $400: William III died in 1702, 2 weeks after a bad fall from one of these while in Richmond Park a horse |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | FIX THE LYRIC $800: The Doors:
"'Til the stars fall from the sky for you and I" "'Til the stars fall from the sky for you and me" |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | ITALIAN ART $2000: A sculpture of his in Rome seems to fear that the church built by his rival, Borromini, will fall Bernini |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | "A" MEN $400: It wasn't his diet that killed him but sadly, a fall on an an icy sidewalk in April 2003 Dr. (Robert) Atkins |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | TULIPS $400: Normally, you should buy & plant your tulip bulbs in this season fall |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | NON-VIDEO GAMES $200: This singing game in which we "all fall down" may have originally referred to a deadly plague of the 1300s Ring Around the Rosie |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | THE "DOOR"s $600: Don't fall for this one! It's a hinged or sliding portal in a floor trap door |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | SEASON $200: In the U.S., Halloween & Thanksgiving Day are celebrated in this season the fall |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | SEASON $400: These 2 seasons begin with an equinox spring and fall |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): Agnes de Mille's ballet "Fall River Legend" was based on the case of this accused murderess Lizzie Borden |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | ONE LEAF TO LIVE $400: It's believed that sugar buildup in tree leaves forms anthocyanins, causing this to happen change colors |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1200: Many of the scenes in this Brad Pitt film were shot at the Stoney Indian Reserve near Calgary, Canada Legends of the Fall |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | ANYTHING GOES $400: Naval engineer Richard James invented this classic toy after watching a spring fall from a table Slinky |
| #4338, aired 2003-06-11 | DEM BONES $800: A sharp blow or even a fall can cause this bone, also called the kneecap, to become dislocated patella |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | LET'S ROCK $2000: In 1990 Rod Stewart sang, "All my dreams fall like rain on" one of these "Downtown Train" |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS $1,000 (Daily Double): People who work with this type of truck have to be careful not to fall off a tine forklift truck |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Autobiographical Arthur Miller play on a Poe mansion's tumble After the Fall of the House of Usher |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | GOING COUNTRY $400: In 1975 the fall of Saigon ended the war in this country Vietnam |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $800: A long-awaited snow begins to fall at a ski lodge at the end of this 1954 yuletide classic White Christmas |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | WATERFALLS $800: Fed mainly by melting snow, Ribbon Fall in this national park is sometimes dry for part of the year Yosemite |
| #4286, aired 2003-03-31 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $200: Referring to her Oscar win for "Norma Rae", she said, "All I could think of was: don't fall down" Sally Field |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $400: In the familiar nursery rhyme, she went boom right after Jack Jill |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $800: If you think about it, you've really got to wonder what he saw in Fay Wray in 1933...I mean, think about it King Kong |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $1200: "Yeah, sure...I'm a 10-foot Philistine warrior & he's a little punk shepherd twerp named Dave -- Ow!" (boom) Goliath |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $1600: If Rhett & Scarlett hadn't bought this girl that damn pony, Rhett might never have said that famous last line Bonnie Blue |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $7,800 (Daily Double): Son of Daedalus, his first flying lesson is generally considered something of a failure Icarus |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | IT'S ALL A BUNCH OF LIES $600: In 1925 he wrote, "The great masses of the people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | ALL IN YOUR MIND $1600: By definition, a hypnagogic hallucination occurs while you're about to do this fall asleep |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: This country's "Six Dynasties" period stretched from the fall of the Han in 220 to 589 China |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: It follows pit, prat & rain fall |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: THE BODY $2000: Fall "behind" in French class & you'll miss this term for "the behind" derriere |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | FALL TV 2002 $200: John Ritter stars in a series based on the book this many "Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" 8 |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | FALL TV 2002 $400: Aaron, this title person, picked Helene, a school psychologist The Bachelor |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | FALL TV 2002 $600: This '60s series was revived with Forest Whitaker doing the Rod Serling intros The Twilight Zone |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | FALL TV 2002 $800: This '60s series was revived with Gary Cole as Uncle Bill & Tim Curry as Mr. French Family Affair |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | FALL TV 2002 $1000: On "Birds of Prey", Helena Kyle is the daughter of Batman & this master criminal Catwoman |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | GET INTO SHAPE $400: As of fall 2002 Whoopi is no longer the center one square |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | EROS MYTH $400: In the epic "Argonautica", Eros' arrow makes Medea fall in love with this man Jason |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | WESTMINSTER ABBEY $800: In the fall of 1939 these talented boys had to be evacuated from the abbey to Sussex, but they were back in 1947 the choirboys |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | STOOGES $1600: This French emperor's leadership in the Franco-Prussian War led to the fall of Paris & the 2nd Republic Napoleon III |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | STOOGES $3,000 (Daily Double): General Henri Navarre's failure to recognize a fully mobilized Viet Minh led to the fall of this hamlet in May 1954 Dien Bien Phu |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | STATES OF THE UNION $1600: Commonwealth whose state seal ["United We Stand, Divided We Fall"] is seen here Kentucky |
| #4207, aired 2002-12-10 | CLASSIC DRAMA SERIES EPISODES $200: "Fall of the House of Ewing" Dallas |
| #4205, aired 2002-12-06 | '40s FICTION $800: This novel about a politician's rise & fall earned Robert Penn Warren a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 "All the King's Men" |
| #4204, aired 2002-12-05 | DOING HARD RHYME $800: After his fall, up he got "and off did trot as fast as he could caper" Jack (of "Jack and Jill") |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: The first large balloon to float along in this fall event was Felix the Cat in 1927 the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | MONTHS $400: The 2 months in which Easter can fall March & April |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: If you start with 99 bottles of beer on the wall, it's the first prime number you'll be left with after some fall 97 |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THE THIRD CATEGORY $200: William Shirer wrote "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" & also the collapse of this country's Third Republic France |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | THE SIMPSONS $1000: "Why Do Fools Fall in Lava?" & "Spay Anything" are "animated" shorts with this violent cat & mouse team Itchy & Scratchy |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | OH JOY! IT'S OPERA! $1600: A story by Edgar Allan Poe inspired Philip Glass' opera "The Fall of the House of" this Usher |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | FRENCH DERIVATIONS $800: This device that helps you land safely after jumping out of a plane is French for "prepare to fall" a parachute |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | FAIRY TALES $1000: Oops! Visiting this long-tressed gal, the prince is blinded in a fall Rapunzel |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | GONE FISHING $600: Like short-billed dowitchers, shoals of Pacific sardines do this in the fall & winter migrate south |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | 5 "EASY" PIECES $1000: Linda Ronstadt took this Buddy Holly song to No. 5 in 1977 "It's So Easy To Fall In Love" |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | STAGECOACH $800: A tip from the Omaha Herald for coach riders in 1877: "Don't ...lop over on your neighbor" when doing this fall asleep |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | WHAT, KIM AGAIN? $2000: She duetted with Kenny Rogers on "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" Kim Carnes |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | A & _ $400: "Jeopardy!" would fall under this game show format, the reverse of normal A&Q |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | HUMPTY DUMPTY $400: After Humpty's fall, they tried to put him together again all the king's horses & all the king's men |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | LOUSY SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Fall into one of these furrows made by wagon wheels & it's 3 letters, 3 points rut |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | NOVEL QUOTES $800: "Ralph wept for the end of innocence...and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy" The Lord of the Flies |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | KENTUCKY $400: It completes the state motto, "United we stand..." "...divided we fall" |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | LAUNCH $1000: In fall 2001 this satellite radio service offering drivers an alternative to AM & FM was launched XM |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | THE SPORTING LIFE $2000: In 1952 the great Willie Hoppe retired from this sport--we hope he had a cushion to fall back on pool (billiards) |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | TIME $200: In the U.S., daylight saving time starts & ends in these 2 seasons spring & fall |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $1200: This alliterative term is defined as a descending motion subject only to gravity free fall |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: Bobbing for apples is a traditional contest on this fall holiday Halloween |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | AMERICAN HEROES $400: This man seen here won admiration across the country in the fall of 2001 (Rudolph) Giuliani |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? $800: By shooting arrows that made folks fall in love, this son of Venus made some people very, very happy Cupid |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | POE-TRY $1,500 (Daily Double): Lines in this poem include "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of the night" & "How they ring out their delight" "The Bells" |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | READING $600: "Heavier Than Heaven" is a recent biography recounting the rise & fall of this late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | 11 O'CLOCK LITERARY NEWS $400: All the king's horses & men were stumped today as to how to rebuild this egg-shaped man injured in a fall Humpty-Dumpty |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | "MARK"DOWN $600: Literary character heard here
"Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch /
Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space." Mark Antony |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | GO WITH THE FLOW $1000: Flowing from Harlan County, Kentucky to the Ohio, careful you don't fall into the gap near it Cumberland |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | SLANG $800: (Sofia "rocks" the clue.) In rock-climbing slang, to fall hard to the ground is to do this, also part of a volcano. Aaaah! crater |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | EVE $1200: After the fall, God's punishment of Eve included the pain of this childbirth |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $400: His 1964 play "After the Fall" dealt with his relationship with Marilyn Monroe, to whom he was once married Arthur Miller |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | THE FALL 2001 TV SEASON $100: "Criminal Intent" is NBC's latest spin-off of this series Law & Order |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | THE FALL 2001 TV SEASON $200: The agency in CBS's "The Agency" & behind ABC's "Alias" the Central Intelligence Agency |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | THE FALL 2001 TV SEASON $300: This actress "Blue" off "NYPD" & headed to "Philly" Kim Delaney |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | THE FALL 2001 TV SEASON $400: Mr. Holland on film, he became Max Bickford on TV Richard Dreyfuss |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | THE FALL 2001 TV SEASON $500: Rose McGowan is the new Halliwell sister on this WB series Charmed |
| #3956, aired 2001-11-12 | LITERATURE $200: Completes the title of Edward Gibbon's masterpiece "The History of the Decline and Fall of..." the Roman Empire |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | FORWARDS & BACK-WORDS $800 (Daily Double): To arrange the video & audio of a film & the rise & fall of the ocean edit & tide |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | SONG LYRICS $400: Aerosmith:
"Don't want to close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep 'cause I'll miss you baby..." "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | FOOD & DRINK $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew ready to fall backwards into a swimming pool.) I'm about to take this drink company's famous plunge from TV ads Nestea iced tea |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ART ATTACK $400: Students looking at "Fall of the Angels" in a Rome museum noticed this problem, as it didn't match the guidebook photo it was upside down |
| #3937, aired 2001-10-16 | TV PAST & PRESENT $800: In the fall of 2000, Tim Daly hit the road on an updated version of this series last seen in 1967 The Fugitive |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | SEASONAL STUFF $100: Autumn is also called fall because it's when these fall leaves |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew does his darndest to topple at an exhibit at the California Science Center.) On the high-wire bike, a weight lowers the rider's center of this, so it's almost impossible to fall! ...Whoa! gravity |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Fall River, Massachusetts is part of the metropolitan area of this state capital Providence |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: VH1 show about the rise, fall & comeback of Prof. Harold Hill, who sang about 76 trombones Behind the Music Man |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | WORDS TO THE "Y"s $100: A female nickname, or a fall guy a patsy |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | MOVIES OF THE "YEAR" $800: Tracy & Hepburn play columnists who fall in love in this movie, their first pairing Woman of the Year |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS $1000: Albert Fall, Herbert Hoover & Henry Wallace were all members of his cabinet Warren G. Harding |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | PAST TENSE $100: Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall" sat |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | '60s TV $400: In the fall of 1961 this collie and this moose went head to antlers Sundays at 7 Lassie and Bullwinkle |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | DOUBLE "E" $300: They're the periods each fall, winter & spring when TV ratings are collected so that ad rates can be reset sweeps |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | THE 15th CENTURY $400: The Byzantine Empire came to an end in 1453 with the fall of this capital city to the Ottomans Istanbul (Constantinople or Byzantium) |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | 100 YEARS AGO $200: In the fall, the USA's Columbia defeated Britain's Shamrock II to win this trophy America's Cup |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVES $200: In the fall of 1976, this star of "Fletch" became one of the first cast members to leave the show Chevy Chase |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | TAKE THE KIDS! $300: If your kids can't fall asleep, take them to this city's Neon Museum; it's open all night long Las Vegas |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: It "goes before a fall" & before "Prejudice" in a Jane Austen title pride |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | MEMORABLE MNEMONICS $100: Completes the clock-changing mnemonic "Spring forward..." fall back |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | 4 SCORE $400: Quartet preceding the line "All you have to do is call, and I'll be there yeah, yeah, yeah you've got a friend" Winter, spring, summer or fall |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | VENEZUELA VITALS $400: Discovered in 1935 & found in Canaima National Park, they fall over half a mile Angel Falls |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | NOTORIOUS FACES $200: She's the accused murderer from Fall River seen here: Lizzie Borden |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | FAMOUS JESSICAS $200: For a fall 2000 FOX-TV series, James Cameron picked her to be his "Dark Angel" Jessica Alba |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | WATERFALLS $600: One of the most spectacular sites in this national park is Bridalveil Fall, which drops a misty curtain of water 620 feet Yosemite |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | CELEBRITY ODD JOBS $200: Before he was one of the "Legends of the Fall", he dressed up as a chicken for the El Pollo Loco fast-food chain Brad Pitt |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | MILITARY MATTERS $200: Upon hearing the order to "Fall In!", you should line up & "come to" this Attention |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | CHEMISTRY $600: This creator of the Periodic Table directed the Bureau of Weights & Measures in St. Petersburg from 1893 to 1917 Dmitri Mendeleev |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | BEAR WITH ME $500: Bart the Bear terrorized Anthony Hopkins & Alec Baldwin in "The Edge" & Brad Pitt in this film Legends of the Fall |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | GOING TO A BETTER PLACE $200: If Arthur Miller had written "Before the Fall", it would be set in this garden Eden |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | IF THEY WERE MUSICALS... $700 (Daily Double): As a musical, this Poe tale ends with Roderick & Madeline singing, "Our house, in the middle of a lake" "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | FUN DATES $600: This federal holiday can fall on any date from February 15 to February 21 Presidents' Day/Washington's Birthday |
| #3748, aired 2000-12-13 | ELSEWHERE IN 1776 $100: Edward Gibbon published his first volume on its "Decline and Fall", 5 more would follow Roman Empire |
| #3748, aired 2000-12-13 | DEAD LANGUAGE $500: From the Latin for "to fall", it's a dead body, especially one prepared for dissection Cadaver |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | WARREN G. HARDING $400: Albert Fall, Harding's secretary of this cabinet dept., took the fall for the Teapot Dome scandal Interior |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: After the screenplay for "The Misfits", he wrote "After The Fall" Arthur Miller |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | FAMOUS FRENCHMEN $600: This "La Mer" composer once planned an opera based on "The Fall of the House of Usher" Claude Debussy |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Unlike most of its pine family relatives, the larch is classified as this, as it loses its needles each fall deciduous |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | FUR-BEARING CREATURES? $1000: After the "Roman Empire", he might have tackled "The Decline and Fall of the Planet of the Apes" Edward Gibbon |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $400: To fall in great quantities, like confetti in a parade rain |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | CALVINISM $200: Calvinists use this word, also a name for a season, to describe Adam & Eve's disobedience the Fall |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | APPLE $400: In 1687 he gave a unified description of the motion of the moon & the fall of an apple Isaac Newton |
| #3640, aired 2000-06-02 | HITS OF 1964 $300: This hit whose intro is heard here topped the charts in both England & the U.S. in the fall of 1964: "Oh, Pretty Woman" |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | THE FOUR SEASONS $400: The concerto for this season depicts peasants celebrating the harvest Fall |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | FIRST NOVELS $300: This "Brideshead Revisited" author's career was ascendant when he published his first novel, "Decline And Fall" Evelyn Waugh |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | BOASTING $100: This champion boasted, "They all will fall in the round I call" & "It ain't braggin' if you can do it" Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES $200: Fall into this retailer that also operates the Banana Republic & Old Navy stores The Gap |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | "FALL" $100: A meteor, according to Perry Como a falling star |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | "FALL" $200: In 1961 the Civil Defense Department required that signs showing the locations of these be posted fallout shelters |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | "FALL" $300: Lee Majors' role from 1981 to 1986 The Fall Guy |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | "FALL" $400: This Poe tale appropriately begins in the fall, on a "dull, dark and soundless day" "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | "FALL" $500: Lizzie Borden was tried in this Massachusetts town Fall River |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | ROCK ALL OVER $600: "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" focused on this punk band's rise & fall The Sex Pistols |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | BOOKS OF 1970 $200: "Don't Fall Off the Mountain" is a memoir from one of the lives of this actress Shirley MacLaine |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | SNL ALUMNI $200: This just in to "Weekend Update" -- this "Fall Guy" was SNL's first breakout star Chevy Chase |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | "EAT" IT $600: It can mean to fall back, or a safe, secluded place retreat |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | EUPHEMISMS $1000: It's done to an error or a course, & it refers delicately to a fall in stock prices Correction |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | READERS $100: Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" is read by this hunky "Legends of the Fall" star Brad Pitt |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | 1994 $800: With a December release, this actress seen here caught the public eye: Julia Ormond ("Legends of the Fall") |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | LINCOLN'S CABINET $1000: John Usher was secretary of this in 1863, 2 years after Albert Fall, a later secretary, was born The Interior |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: On February 25 this Asian nation celebrates the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 Philippines |
| #3492, aired 1999-11-09 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $600: In the electromagnetic spectrum, these rays fall between x-rays & visible light Ultraviolet rays |
| #3484, aired 1999-10-28 | DAVID BOWIE $200: A 1972 Bowie album chronicled "The Rise and Fall of" this glam-rock persona "and the Spiders from Mars" Ziggy Stardust |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | SEASONS $400: The Walden Inn of Indiana considers its apricot & dried cranberry tart a classic of this season Fall |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | 1970s LEADERS $1,400 (Daily Double): The fall of this city came April 30, 1975 when president Dong Van Minh surrendered it Saigon |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | SILENT "GH" $100: When this breaks, "The cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all" Bough |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | SINNERS $200: When this "lucky" mobster took a fall, Frank Costello became acting head of his family Charles "Lucky" Luciano |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $200: His role as a suspected killer in the 1999 revival of "Night Must Fall" was a far cry from Ferris Bueller Matthew Broderick |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $200: Pres. Harding's interior secretary Albert Fall spent 9 months in prison for his role in this scandal Teapot Dome |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | EXPRESSIONS $400: In 1880 Roscoe Conkling declared President Grant would "hew to the line of right, let" these "fall where they may" the chips |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: A hotel in Scandinavia is destroyed every spring & rebuilt every fall as it is made out of this ice |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | THE UNLUCKY 13th CENTURY $200: This Mongol died in 1227 after a fall from his horse Genghis Khan |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | MOVIE MANIA $500: Juliette Lewis & Giovanni Ribisi are 2 mentally challenged people who brave the odds & fall in love in this film The Other Sister |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: "Happy" Three Dog Night song about baseball's fall classic "Joy to the World Series" |
| #3372, aired 1999-04-13 | THE RAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): (Al Roker presents the clue.) When I predict this, from Middle English for "to fall", expect slow-falling raindrops less than .02" across drizzle |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Luigi Moretti designed buildings for Mussolini & this Washington, D.C. complex that led to Nixon's fall Watergate |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | STOCK SYMBOLS $800: In the mall you may fall into this store, GPS The Gap |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | WHERE WERE YOU IN '62? $400: This Space Age animated family made their network debut in the fall of '62 The Jetsons |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | JOCKS ON FILM $800: This film's title is the second half of an old boxing expression The Harder They Fall |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | I HAVEN'T READ POE, BUT... $600: In this story an earthquake takes down a Broadway theater... right? "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #3340, aired 1999-02-26 | LIFE AFTER APPOMATTOX $200: In 1877 this former President retired to an estate near Biloxi to write "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" Jefferson Davis |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Patrick Duffy.) In the fall 1986 "Dallas" opener, Pamela woke up & saw me doing this, making the last season a dream taking a shower |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $800: Nat King Cole sang "When I Fall In Love" in the Errol Flynn film named for this Turkish city Istanbul |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | AROUND THE OFFICE $200: If your colleagues fall asleep in a meeting, it may mean this drink was in the brown instead of the orange pot decaf coffee |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | THE FALL $200: During this fall celebration in Germany, drinkers consume some 10 million pints of beer! Oktoberfest |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | THE FALL $400: By an act of Congress, it falls on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November Election Day |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | THE FALL $600: Can't wait for Christmas? In Europe, this saint "visits" on Dec. 6, his feast day, with gifts in hand Saint Nicholas |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | THE FALL $800: Every fall this Arizona town raises hell with Helldorado Days, an Old West gunslinging celebration Tombstone |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | THE FALL $1000: During this Jewish harvest festival, many families take meals in homemade huts Sukkot |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | THE LIST LIST $200: Santa keeps a list of people who fall into these 2 "N" categories Naughty & nice |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $100: Season that's also a long hairpiece Fall |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | TBA $400: Warnings of these "floods" are announced by the N.W.S. when large amounts of rain fall in a short amount of time a flash flood |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | I SAW IT IN VOGUE $500: Vogue's editor was turned off by the reactionary 1998 fall collections in these 2 European cities Milan & Paris |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | MMM... TAPIOCA $300: As a stabilizer, tapioca can prevent the dreaded fall of this French-named dessert souffle |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | HOMOPHONES $400: Fall back to plant again Recede & reseed |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | TARGET SPORTS $300: Now a sport that can include a 10,000 foot free fall to a target, the equipment dates back to 1797 Skydiving |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | FIX THE PROVERB $200: Tide groweth before a squall Pride cometh before a fall |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | 1970s TV $400: The fall of 1975 saw "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" & these 2 spin-offs from it on the schedule Rhoda & Phyllis |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | BIBLICAL FOOD & DRINK $400: The only day it didn't fall from the sky was on the Sabbath manna |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “HARD” & “EASY” MOVIES $600: Bogart's last flim, it was bout what goes down in the world of prizefighting The Harder They Fall |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: King Kong plunges from Edward Gibbon's massive history "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire State Building" |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | FIX THE PROVERB $100: The bigger they come, the harder they smell the bigger they come, the harder they fall |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | BUGLE CALLS $500: At camp, it signals the afternoon roll call; in the field, it means "fall back" "Retreat" |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | CATS $500: This English scientist didn't need a cat to fall on him to inspire the cat flap, a swinging door Sir Isaac Newton |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HAIKU $400: Shiki wrote that this / "enlightened one" does not blink / "as the hailstones fall" Buddha |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | KISS YOUR LASS GOODBYE $300: Lucy Westenra is the first English woman to fall victim to him in Bram Stoker's novel Count Dracula |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | KIDS' GAME SHOWS $600: In 1997 "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" became "Where in" this "is Carmen Sandiego?" Time |
| #3145, aired 1998-04-10 | EASTER $500 (Daily Double): Since Easter can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25, it is called this type of feast Moveable |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | THE FOUR SEASONS $100: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season the fall |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | THE FOUR SEASONS $200: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor winter, spring, summer, or fall |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | THE FOUR SEASONS $400: The University of Cambridge's Michaelmas term takes place in this season the fall |
| #3132, aired 1998-03-24 | THE MOVIES $500: "The Edge" reunited Anthony Hopkins with Bart the Bear, who was pitted against Brad Pitt in this 1995 film Legends of the Fall |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX $100: Ann Landers said women's complaints about sex fall into 2 categories: not enough & this too much |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: When it precedes "off", it means to fall asleep Nod |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE POEMS $1000: In "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" this "Manley" poet told Margaret, "It is Margaret you mourn for" (Gerard Manley) Hopkins |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | LET'S FALL IN LOVE $200: A canine term for youthful infatuation; it's also called "calf love" puppy love |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | LET'S FALL IN LOVE $400: French for "love", in English it means romance, especially a secret one Amour |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | LET'S FALL IN LOVE $1000: Sanskrit for the pursuit of love, it's the subject of a famous sutra, or collection kama |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | LET'S FALL IN LOVE $3,000 (Daily Double): It's love of yourself, especially if you're a handsome youth or a pretty white flower narcissism |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | SLEEP $100: Normally this activity is harmless, but make sure the person doesn't fall down the stairs Sleepwalking |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | GARDENING $300: If you want your tulips to bloom next year, dig these up in the fall & store them in a dry, cool place bulbs |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $1,400 (Daily Double): This proverb about taking a spill is attributed to heavyweight boxer Robert Fitzsimmons "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | HISTORIC DATES $200: On the French Revolutionary calendar, this 1789 date of the Bastille's fall might have been 25 Messidor July 14 |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE BELLS $200: The bells in this 12th century Italian tower are no longer rung; we just hope they don't fall out Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | ON YOUR TOES $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the weapon featured in "Fall River Legend", Agnes De Mille's ballet about Lizzie Borden an axe |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | MOVIE DEBUTS $600: In 1994 "Silent Fall" introduced this teenage beauty who became a star in "Stealing Beauty" Liv Tyler |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | THE FALL CLASSIC $100: In 1932 he pointed to the stands & hit the ball there--or maybe he just gestured at the Cubs' bench Babe Ruth |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | THE FALL CLASSIC $200: The 1989 "Bay Bridge Series" between these 2 teams sadly became the "Earthquake Series" Oakland A's & San Francisco Giants |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | THE FALL CLASSIC $300: This team's Pat Borders was the series MVP in 1992 as the championship crossed the border Toronto Blue Jays |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | THE FALL CLASSIC $400: Career .242 hitter Ron Swoboda hit .400 & made an amazin' catch in this team's 1969 Series win New York Mets |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | THE FALL CLASSIC $500: In Game 2 of the 1956 series, he was gone in the second inning; in game 5, he was perfect Don Larsen |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | CAPITAL QUOTES $400: It was Lord Byron who wrote, "When falls the coliseum", it "shall fall; and when" it "falls -- the world" Rome |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | "ITZ" AT THE END $600: Skiers who fall on their derrieres leave this German "mark" in the snow a sitz mark |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $400: It took Edward Gibbon 15 years to chronicle the "Decline and Fall of" this ancient empire The Roman Empire |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | ENDS IN "OUGH" $100: When it breaks, the cradle will fall the bough |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: In the fall Oklahoma City hosts a Grand National horse show for this breed named for a man The Morgan Horse (Justin Morgan) |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | AIRLINE TRAVEL $200: Flight attendants tell passengers to use care when opening overhead bins for this reason because during travel, items may shift |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: This Christian holiday can fall as early as March 22 or as late as April 25 Easter |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | MYTHOLOGY $500: Some say she was reunited with her husband Menelaus after the fall of Troy Helen |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | IT'S THE PITT'S $800 (Daily Double): Film seen here, it influenced People magazine to pick Brad as the "Sexiest Man Alive": Legends of the Fall |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: This Jewish holiday that celebrates the new year occurs in the fall before Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah |
| #2927, aired 1997-04-29 | LITERATURE $200: Roderick & Madeline are the doomed twins in his scary 1839 story "The Fall of the House of Usher" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | ART $200: The part of the Sistine Chapel on which Michelangelo painted Adam's fall ceiling |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | FEMALE SINGERS $200: Her 1996 album "Stardust" features another duet with her late dad on "When I Fall In Love" Natalie Cole |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | THE CABINET $1,200 (Daily Double): Famous people in this post have included Albert Fall, Stewart Udall & James Watt Secretary of the Interior |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | "FOOL"ISH SONGS $750 (Daily Double): In 1981 Diana Ross cracked the Top Ten with a remake of this 1956 Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers hit:
"Why do birds sing so gay /
And lovers await the break of the day..." "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Native country of Emlyn Williams, who starred in his own plays "Night Must Fall" & "The Corn is Green" Wales |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $800: This "The Cradle Will Fall" author's first book was a biography of George Washington Mary Higgins Clark |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | LITERATURE $400: Budd Schulberg's novel "The Harder They Fall" deals with corrupt practices in this sport boxing |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | PLANTS & TREES $1000: Some of these bearded flowers bloom once in spring & again in late summer or fall Irises |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | MISSOURI $500: Like Kentucky's, the state seal of Missouri features this phrase implying a need for solidarity "United we stand, divided we fall" |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | ODDS & ENDS $400: For about $200 a whack, you can spend the night at the Fall River, MA home of this alleged murderess Lizzie Borden |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THE '96 FALL TV SEASON $100: Co-starring Phylicia Rashad, his new series is based on the British series "One Foot in the Grave" Bill Cosby |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THE '96 FALL TV SEASON $200: After her appearance on "Friends" NBC decided to star her in a sitcom & voila--she's "Suddenly Susan" (Brooke) Shields |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THE '96 FALL TV SEASON $300: Based on the 1995 film, this series stars Annie Potts as an inner-city schoolteacher Dangerous Minds |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THE '96 FALL TV SEASON $400: Husband & wife pair inked to play divorcees in "Ink" Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THE '96 FALL TV SEASON $500: Aliens invade Earth in this NBC series starring Eric Close & Megan Ward Dark Skies |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | HISTORIANS $1000: This author of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" had little formal education (Edward) Gibbon |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | TELEVISION $300: The fall '95 network season featured these 2 shows with "Murder" in their titles on Thursday nights Murder, She Wrote & Murder One |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | IDIOMS $200: You can "keep a straight one" or "fall flat on" it your face |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | ____ THE ____ $500: A 1964 Arthur Miller play or, as Adam & Eve learned the hard way, when winter comes After the Fall |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | THE MOVIES $200: This heartthrob played the troubled & tempestuous Tristan in "Legend of the Fall" Brad Pitt |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | POP MUSIC $1000: This singer's 1970 hit "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" was from the Broadway musical "Promises, Promises" Dionne Warwick |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | U.S. HISTORY $300: This oil scandal led to the 1923 resignation of Interior Secretary Albert Fall Teapot Dome |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: After the fall of this city in April 1865, Danville, Virginia became the last Confederate capital Richmond |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | THE 17th CENTURY $600: Reportedly, in an English orchard in Woolsthorpe in 1666, he saw an apple fall & got ideas Newton |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1674 Milton redivided this poem about the fall of man into 12 books instead of the original 10 "Paradise Lost" |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | GARDENING $100: Dutch bulbs are planted in the fall to bloom during this season spring |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | FASHION $300: Rather than a full wig, it's a long, single hairpiece used to fill out a woman's coiffure fall |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | WAR $100: In 1995 celebrations marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which ended this war the Vietnam War |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | TIME $300: Season during which many clocks in the U.S. are set ahead an hour Spring ("Spring forward, fall back") |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | BIBLE QUOTATIONS $100: Proverbs says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before" this a fall |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $100: Add a letter to knee to get this word that means to fall on your knees kneel |
| #2640, aired 1996-02-09 | LOVE SONGS $800: This composer's "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" was introduced in the 1928 musical "Paris" Cole Porter |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | NURSERY RHYMES $300 (Daily Double): The 2 numbers associated with the following: [Pick-up Sticks fall] 5, 6 |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | THREE LITTLE WORDS $300: It might mean to fall asleep in a barn loft hit the hay |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | TELEVISION $400: This series' theme song, "The Unknown Stuntman", was sung by Lee Majors The Fall Guy |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | STATE FLAGS $400: Completes the motto found on the flags of Kentucky & Missouri: "United we stand..." divided we fall |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This monumental work by Edward Gibbon covers 13 centuries until the capture of Constantinople The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THEATRE $200: A Catholic woman & a Protestant man fall in love in "Remembrance", set in this Northern Ireland capital Belfast |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $300: The first free-fall jump using one of these devices was from a damaged airplane in 1922 Parachute |
| #2575, aired 1995-11-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: This Salman Rushdie novel begins as Gibreel Farishta & Saladin Chamcha fall from an exploded jet The Satanic Verses |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | ANATOMY $200: These paired bones that protect the heart & lungs rise & fall as you breathe the ribs |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | NATIONAL PARKS $200: Bridalveil Fall is usually the first waterfall seen by visitors to this California Park's valley Yosemite |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | COSTUMES $500: In "First Knight" & "Legends of the Fall", this British beauty wore the outfits seen here (Julia) Ormond |
| #2564, aired 1995-10-26 | TV SITCOMS $100: In the fall of '94, her sitcom "These Friends of Mine" returned as "Ellen" Ellen DeGeneres |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | NATIONAL PARKS $400: This park is home to Ribbon Fall & El Capitan, a solid granite rock rising about 3600 feet Yosemite |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | "TOP"s $300: It means to totter & fall to topple |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: The fall of this city on July 4, 1863 gave the Union control of the Mississippi River Vicksburg |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $200: Jacques-Louis David went into exile after the fall of this emperor whom he'd served as court painter Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | RAIN POTPOURRI $500: In an 1841 poem, this poet wrote, "Into each life some rain must fall" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | LITERATURE $600: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1947 told of the rise & fall of Willie Stark All the King's Men |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | CELEBRITIES $100: In 1995 People magazine named this "Legends of the Fall" star "The Sexiest Man Alive" Brad Pitt |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $300: It's the historic period between the fall of the Roman Empire & the dawn of the Renaissance the Middle Ages |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): As stated in Book 1, the theme of this epic poem is the fall of man through disobedience Paradise Lost |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | TIME $300: In the U.S. Daylight Saving time begins & ends during these 2 seasons Spring & Fall |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | MEDIEVAL HISTORY $1000: The grand master of this military-religious order was killed at the fall of Acre in 1291 Knights Templar |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | THE 1880s $200: In 1881 this ex-president published "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" Jeff Davis |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | NONFICTION $200: Theodore White's 1975 book "Breach of Faith" tells of "The Fall of" this president Nixon |
| #2406, aired 1995-02-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $500: In a Russian novel, Kitty Shcherbatsky & this title character both fall in love with Count Vronsky Anna Karenina |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | SONG LYRICS $200: "Why does the rain fall from up above? Why do fools" do this fall in love |
| #2392, aired 1995-01-17 | ODDS & ENDS $200: From the Greek for "deep sleep", a head injury may cause you to fall into one a coma |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | THE FOUR SEASONS $100: In the northern hemisphere, the first day of fall falls in this month September |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | THE FOUR SEASONS $300: The 4 seasons, in alphabetical order fall, spring, summer, winter |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: His "The Fall of the House of Usher" appeared in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, which he co-edited (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | GOULASH $200: Boat races are a feature of this state's Aloha Week each fall Hawaii |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | RULES FROM EXODUS $400: You're supposed to eat this kind of bread 7 days a year; they all fall during Passover unleavened |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | FARMING $400: The harvest moon is the full moon closest to this celestial event the fall equinox |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Hail forms within clouds; this form of precipitation is raindrops that freeze as they fall sleet |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | 20th CENTURY OPERAS $600: He wrote the music for "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"; Brecht wrote the libretto Kurt Weill |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | MYTHOLOGY $800: Nemesis arranged for this handsome youth to fall in love with his own reflection Narcissus |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: Jokingly, this May observance is said to fall nine months after Father's Night Mother's Day |
| #2334, aired 1994-10-27 | MONTHS $300: St. John's Day & Midsummer Day fall on the 24th of this month June |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: On July 28 this tiny country surrounded by Italy celebrates the fall of fascism San Marino |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | LITERATURE $600: 2 twins are the only survivors of the family that owns a decayed mansion in this Poe story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #2327, aired 1994-10-18 | OCTOBER $100: For much of the U.S., this ends on the last Sunday in October daylight savings time (daylight saving time) |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | SONG LYRICS $500: "Never thought I'd fall, but now I hear love call, I'm gettin'" this "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" |
| #2323, aired 1994-10-12 | SAFETY DEVICES $500: From the French for "to shield a fall", it's a safety device for an aviator a parachute |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This "Brideshead Revisited" author was 24 when he published his first novel, "Decline and Fall" (Evelyn) Waugh |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | THE ROARING '20s $1000: As Interior Secretary, he was the leading figure in the Teapot Dome scandal (Albert) Fall |
| #2278, aired 1994-06-29 | SPIRITS $300: Before trying to contact spirits, a medium may "fall into" this sleeplike, partly conscious state a trance |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | FALLING OBJECTS $400: Longfellow wrote, "Into each life" some of this "must fall" rain |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | 1931 $800: Alfonso XIII lost the throne of this country, a year after the fall of dictator Primo de Rivera Spain |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | BALLET $400: While this alleged axe wielder was acquitted in real life, she's hanged in "Fall River Legend" Lizzie Borden |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | MONTHS $100: In the Northern Hemisphere it's the first month that falls completely in fall October |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | TV SITCOMS $600: In the fall of 1993, Sarah Chalke replaced Lecy Goranson as Becky Conner on this sitcom Roseanne |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | 1794 $600: Edward Gibbon, author of "The Decline & and Fall of" this, died in January the Roman Empire |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | FOOD $200: Though the Bartlett type of this ripens in summer, most other varieties wait until fall the pear |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | CLICHES $400: Dating back to the Bible, to give up or fail in an endeavor is to "fall by" this the wayside |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | MONTHS $100: A "fest"ive fall month, or an ale brewed in it October |
| #2202, aired 1994-03-15 | HAIR $300: For most people it averages 70 to 100 a day the number of hairs that fall out |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: Simhat Torah, Succot & Yom Kippur all fall in this Number Month on the Jewish calendar the first |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | OPERA $200: Debussy never finished his opera "La chute de la maison Usher", based on this Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: For him it's all day push the rock up the hill, watch it fall, push the rock up... Sisyphus |
| #2170, aired 1994-01-28 | LANGUAGES $100: Dialects of this language fall into 2 major divisions: Plattdeutsch & Hochdeutsch German |
| #2158, aired 1994-01-12 | "NIGHT" MUSIC $400: This Cole Porter classic begins, "Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom, when the jungle shadows fall" "Night And Day" |
| #2158, aired 1994-01-12 | ANTONYMS $600: Antonyms in Kentucky's state motto are united & divided & this pair stand & fall |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | SPANISH HISTORY $1000: The fall of this city in 1492 marked the end of the reconquest of Spain from the Moors Granada |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: Gibreel Farishta & Saladin Chamcha fall from an exploded jet at the start of this Salman Rushdie novel The Satanic Verses |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | POTPOURRI $100: Starting in fall 1993, Nepal will charge expeditions $50,000 to climb this mountain Mount Everest |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: It took Edward Gibbon 6 volumes to describe this empire's "Decline and Fall" the Roman Empire |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | CLASSIC TV $300: In the fall of 1954, he became host of "General Electric Theater", a job he retained for 8 years Ronald Reagan |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | DANCE $400: This "Singin' in the Rain" octogenarian helped choreograph Madonna's Fall '93 tour Gene Kelly |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: These were once called "love apples", perhaps because eating them was thought to make you fall in love tomatoes |
| #2109, aired 1993-11-04 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $100: This book has it all: the fall, the flood & Sodom & Gomorrah Genesis |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: An earthquake in 224 B.C. caused this monument of Rhodes to break at the knees & fall Colossus of Rhodes |
| #2085, aired 1993-10-01 | LITERATURE $800: Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace" appears as part of this tale about an eerie mansion The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | ROCK TRIVIA $800: Frankie Lymon was only 13 when he posed this question, his biggest hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | THEATRE $1000: His daughter Rebecca directed a revival of his play "After the Fall" in 1992 Arthur Miller |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | U.S.A. $200: This phrase begins Kentucky's motto, which ends, "divided we fall" United we stand |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: When this singer starred in a revival of "Funny Girl", one critic said, "Pia doesn't fall on her fanny" Pia Zadora |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | RECENT EVENTS $200: In fall of 1992 this automaker started issuing MasterCards General Motors |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The narrator of a Poe story describes this title structure as a "mansion of gloom" the House of Usher |
| #2039, aired 1993-06-17 | CABINET MEMBERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Albert B. Fall, who was jailed for the Teapot Dome scandal, held this Cabinet post under Harding Secretary of the Interior |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Pulitzer Prize-winning Thornton Wilder novel about 5 travelers who fall to their deaths in Peru The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | TV TRIVIA $200: Lee Majors not only starred in this series, he sang its theme song, "The Unknown Stuntman" The Fall Guy |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: Troy could not fall while it contained the Palladium, an image of this goddess Athena |
