| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $600: Of
"The Girl Who Played with Fire" Swedish |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1600: Not great with numbers, val doesn't end up in 1966 watching the launch of Gemini 10 but in London, in this year of the Great Fire 1666 |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING $400: In September 2016 the this Note 7 was recalled, as it really wasn't supposed to catch on fire (Samsung) Galaxy |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | HORROR MUSIC $2000: "Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline" is from the theme song to this beastly film starring Nastassja Kinski Cat People |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $800: Fire up the engine of your mind & name this solid figure with equal & parallel circles at either end a cylinder |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS $600: The fire kind of this amphibian defends itself from predators by spraying poison from behind its eyes a salamander |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $400: Consider your heart (but really, these) warmed in song via "roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose" chestnuts |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $2000: In this Bible book once alluded to by Samuel L. Jackson, "Another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord" Ezekiel |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $6,400 (Daily Double): "C":
In myth, it's a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it's an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA chimera |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $400: On your special day, know that this company got away from selling postcards & into greeting cards after a 1915 office fire Hallmark |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $1200: The Talking Heads were "fighting fire with fire" in this song that may result in a call to your insurance guy "Burning Down The House" |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | UNDERGROUND $2000: You can go under this square, the heart of Old Seattle, to see bits of what the city looked like before a great fire in 1889 Pioneer Square |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $800: Nate Ruess & this band implored, "We are young so let's set the world on fire" fun. |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | "LIKE"NESS $800: P!nk is backed up by columns of flame when she performs this 2016 hit in concert "Just Like Fire" |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: This phosphorescent glow is produced by certain fungi found on decaying wood fox fire |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $1200: "Fire in the sky"! After Montreux Casino burned during a Zappa gig, Deep Purple wrote this Top 5 hit with a killer lick "Smoke On The Water" |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LITERARY GROUPS $1200: The 1926 literary magazine "Fire!!" featured Wallace Thurman & Countee Cullen, members of this New York movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 2020s & 1920s SLANG $1200: Oxford's word of the year for 2023, it's what someone has if they spit fire game to the hunks or the honeys rizz |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $800: The pillar kind of this device loved by dogs was invented by... uh... we dunno; an early patent was ironically lost in a blaze a fire hydrant |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $2,500 (Daily Double): After the great fire of 64 A.D., this emperor built himself a palace with an artificial lake & revolving dining room Nero |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WHEN I'M 64 $800: This city that had a disastrous fire in 64 A.D. employed a corps of pumpers called siphonarii Rome |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $1000: We're not sure how Adele pulled off this title trick in a 2011 song, but she definitely wanted to "let it burn" "Set Fire To The Rain" |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1200: On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns New Orleans |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $2000: When Picard is assimilated by the Borg at the end of Season 3 of "Star Trek: TNG", this 1st officer gives the order to fire at him Riker |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $200: A sudden reintroduction of oxygen to an enclosed fire can cause this, also the title of a Kurt Russell film Backdraft |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $2000: According to an old spiritual, "no more water," this title of James Baldwin's 1963 bestseller about racial tensions in America The Fire Next Time |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | DISASTER $200: The earthquake & ensuing fire that struck this U.S. city in 1906 had a 7.9 magnitude & claimed more than 3,000 lives San Francisco |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $300: This country is home to roughly 120 active volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire Indonesia |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $1200: Hungry for some hard rock? Then fire up this 1987 Guns N' Roses album that leads off with "Welcome to the Jungle" Appetite for Destruction |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $400: George R.R. Martin:
"A Dance with Dragons";
"A Storm of Swords";
"A Game of Thrones" A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MISHEARD LYRICS $1600: We're glad to say that in a 2008 hit, this band did not sing about "dyslexics on fire" Kings of Leon |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $200: 3 children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 are among those who have had visions of this place of much fire & groaning hell |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $200: 1871:
The Hôtel de Ville in this city is burned during the Commune Paris |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $400: 1871:
The "Great Fire" of this city starts in a barn on De Koven Street Chicago |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $600: 1925:
A fire melts a whole lot of wax at this landmark London place Madame Tussaud's |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1000: A 1776 fire destroyed this city's Teatro Regio Ducale; La Scala was built to replace it Milan |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THREESOMES $200: If your clothing catches fire (though hopefully it won't), this 3-pronged fire safety mantra will remind you what to do stop, drop & roll |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE MOON $1000: The Apollo astronauts didn't fire muskets on the Moon, but they did report that moondust smells of this burnt explosive gunpowder |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $600: Alliterative 2-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops friendly fire |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $600: "Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm I got a bad desire" "I'm On Fire" |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $600: "But I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face, well, it burned while I cried" Adele |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $400: Gene Simmons claims he accidentally set fire to his glam-rock hair numerous times while performing with this band Kiss |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $400: A wyvern is a smaller, 2-legged, 2-winged, usually non-fire-breathing type of this a dragon |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | TRIANGLES $1000: In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | "POUND" KEY $600: Where you go to retrieve your car after it gets towed for being parked in front of a fire hydrant the impound lot |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $200: "Fight" this "with fire" fire |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $2,500 (Daily Double): This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms St. Elmo |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $1600: Friar Vicente de Valverde gave Atahuallpa the choice of death by fire or garrote; he chose the latter & this empire ended the Incan |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $1000: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "The story had held us round the fire, sufficiently breathless", is how this author began "The Turn of the Screw", about a governess trying to protect children from the effects of malevolent spirits (Henry) James |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $600: "The Land of Fire & Ice"
(Do its citizens really believe in elves? I guess we'll never gnome) Iceland |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ANTS $300: If you can't make it to the Houston Zoo, check out these types of ants on the zoo's live webcam leaf cutter ants |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FIRE Z $200: Chisel the Z from an abundant mineral & it becomes this liquid measure equal to one-fourth of a gallon a quart (from quartz) |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FIRE Z $400: Take Z beer away from a word for a heavy drinker & get this person at a sporting event voicing their displeasure booer (from boozer) |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FIRE Z $600: Pop the Z off a pimple & get this Stephen King title It (from zit) |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FIRE Z $800: Deny the Z of a ballroom dance & it becomes this first name of a 19th century U.S. poet Walt (from waltz) |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FIRE Z $1000: Take the Z off the case in a type of mystery novel with little violence & it becomes this word for shy coy (from cozy) |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | STRAIGHT FIRE $200: L'Oreal's Colorista is just about the coolest thing ever to give this of yours a little more flair hair |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $400: This title is "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | STRAIGHT FIRE $400: Your new PlayStation 4 is the bomb, but a couple extra DualShock these for your crew would rock a controller |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | STRAIGHT FIRE $600: If you've got the perfect getup, show your peeps online by posting an "OOTD", your this "of the day" an outfit |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | STRAIGHT FIRE $800: You can buy do-it-yourself kits for making these Japanese rice-based treats filled with ice cream mochi |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | STRAIGHT FIRE $1000: Beats by this guy is known for its headphones Dr. Dre |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THIS AMERICAN LAKE $2000: Let's fire up our RV & head for this lake, Wisconsin's largest inland one, & catch some northern pike & largemouth bass Winnebago |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | THE "LL" YOU SAY $1600: It's an artwork that immerses the viewer in an environment, such as Damien Hirst's "Earth, Air, Fire, Water" an installation |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $400: Juliet stops the show with "Roar", a 2013 hit from this artist
"I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter /
Dancing through the fire /
'Cause I am a..." Katy Perry |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $1000: Use a pound of the Bing variety & don't set yourself on fire when you ignite the liquor in this 2-word dessert cherries jubilee |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $600: Let's just say Zeus was disappointed this god gave fire to humans, nailing him to a big rock & having his liver eaten repeatedly Prometheus |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SCIENCE $1200: The phenomenon of St. Elmo's fire familiar to sailors & aviators is a luminous glow of this 4th state of matter plasma |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE "SILVER" STATE $400: U.S. Army medic Monica Lin Brown was awarded one of these in 2008 for heroism under fire during the war in Afghanistan the Silver Star |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THAT EUROPEAN LANGUAGE $2000: Remember your double vowels: tuli is fire, tuuli is wind Finnish |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $400: "A Clash of Kings" A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $1200: "The Girl Who Played with Fire" The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the Millennium series) |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | DISNEY ENDINGS $1200: Tadashi dies in a fire in this 2014 movie, leaving Hiro devastated, but Baymax is there for him Big Hero 6 |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $2000: 5 sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" & "What the Thunder Said" "The Waste Land" |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | SCIENTIFIC DEVICES & INSTRUMENTS $2000: Ionized air maintains the moving spark in the high-voltage traveling arc commonly known by this biblical name Jacob's ladder |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | MOVE FAST $800: Drive to survive! In 2005 Juan Pablo Montoya set Italy on fire, hitting 231.5 mph in this class of auto racing Formula 1 |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $400: Oooof, this year: Matthew Flinders died.
The White House, set on fire. 1,200 killed by the Philippines' Mayon volcano eruption 1814 |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $800: Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals" MacArthur |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $1000: Contesting with a prevaricator & igniting a blaze fighting a liar & lighting a fire |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $600: "Then the Lord rained upon" these 2 sinful cities "brimstone and fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $800: An old miner's trick to separate gold from minerals: mix with this liquid metal, put that inside a potato & toss in the fire mercury |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $200: A Port Macquarie hospital specializes in treating these critters, including the one seen here, who was rescued from a bush fire koalas |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | THE CENTAUR OF ATTENTION $1000: Pained by poison, the centaur Chiron gave up his immortality to this fire-stealer Prometheus |
| #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 |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE SCENIC SOUTHWEST $1000: Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park is home to petrified trees & these similarly named inscriptions, some 2,000 years old petroglyphs |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ADAPTERS $400: (I'm Joel Kim Booster.) In 2022, I wrote & starred in "Fire Island", a modern retelling of this Jane Austen novel in which I find myself in the shoes of Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $2000: "His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | AUTOCRATS $1200: After his troops opened fire on demonstrators in 1989, this country's Nicolae Ceausescu was chased from power & executed Romania |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHIP OUT $1200: Launched in 1797, this ship in more recent years has been known to fire cannon salutes while tooling around Boston Harbor the Constitution |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a channel for conveying away smoke or gas produced by a fire or heater a flue |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1,500 (Daily Double): An October 9, 1871 headline declared this city was "utterly destroyed... both North and South Sides smoking ruins" Chicago |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | TV REALITY & COMPETITION SHOWS $1000: Contestants are judged on their bladesmithing & weapon-making skills on this "hot" History Channel show Forged in Fire |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1,800 (Daily Double): These paired cities, "going after strange flesh, are... suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | LITERARY REUNIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): This title woman finally returns to Rochester, blinded after a fire; but fear not! He regains some sight after they marry Jane Eyre |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $1600: Frigga got an oath from fire, water, iron, you name it, to not hurt her son, this Norse god of light, but things got hairy anyway Balder |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $2000: Fish were thrown into a fire on August 23 during a festival honoring this Roman god of fire Vulcan |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LANDMARKS $400: In 2022 a fire damaged some of the iconic Moai statues on this remote Pacific island Easter Island |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | NUTS TO YOU! $400: In the early 1900s not many had them roasting on an open fire after a blight nearly took out these trees in eastern N. America chestnuts |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $1600: This Billy Joel song /history lesson references the Rosenbergs, Dien Bien Phu, the Edsel & of course, "Wheel of Fortune" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GOING UNDERGROUND $1000: This city on Puget Sound was largely destroyed by fire in 1889; you can tour the original site under the rebuilt downtown Seattle |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $400: Burning the U.S Capitol building in 1814, the British fueled the fire with 3,000 books from this institution, small at the time the Library of Congress |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | SO THAT HAPPENED $1000: Sept. 2, 1666:
He journals about "a great fire... in the city" Samuel Pepys |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | YOUR ELEMENTAL HIT PARADE $1200: Know it's No. 83 & used in fire-detection equipment & you'll be taking care of this, every day! Taking care of this, every way! bismuth |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MEMOIRS $1,000 (Daily Double): "I ordered our men to open fire on the Spaniards in the trenches" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $400: A resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, she wrote, "Ashes denote that fire was; respect the grayest pile" Dickinson |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $800: In "The Hobbit", this dragon appeared "as a spark of fire rushing towards them and growing ever huger and more bright" Smaug |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $1600: In 1667 he penned, "Incens'd with indignation Satan stood, unterrify'd, and like a comet burned" Milton |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $2000: In the "Rubaiyat", he wrote that hell was "the shadow of a soul on fire" Omar Khayyam |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $4,000 (Daily Double): An ode Emerson wrote for this town where he lived includes, "Oh tenderly the haughty day, fills his blue urn with fire" Concord |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SOUNDS $600: As in an old kitchen-based catchphrase meaning things are going well, "Now we're" doing this cooking with gas |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $1200: In NBC's "One Chicago" program block, it comes between "Chicago Med" & "Chicago P.D." Chicago Fire |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | ELEMENTARY $800: Compounds of this element, symbol P, are often used to make fire when you light a match phosphorus |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | NEAR THE FRONT OF THE DICTIONARY $400: It's any substance that increases the rate at which a fire burns accelerant |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | THE NEANDERTHALS $600: Wear from pyrite on tools indicates Neanderthals may have been able to produce this, not just collect it from natural sources fire |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SONGS FROM THE HIT ALBUM $600: "Rolling In The Deep" & "Set Fire To The Rain" 21 |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MEMOIRS & PERSONAL ACCOUNTS $2000: Susannah Cahalan chronicled her descent into madness while struggling with an autoimmune disease in this 2012 bestseller Brain on Fire |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE ROCK BASSIST'S GROUP $2000: Verdine White, a "Shining Star" in any group Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | GEOLOGY $2000: From Greek for "fire", this "flow" is super-hot rock & gas emitted by a volcanic eruption pyroclastic |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $100: This Hawaiian island had a Honolulu of a hot year in 2019; attention, shoppers at Waimalu Plaza, it hit 107 one day Oahu |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $200 (Daily Double): On the map, Italy looks like it's giving the boot to this Mediterranean island, which was kicking around at 120 degrees in 2021 Sicily |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $300: Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida Cuba |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $400: In September 2020 it was a toasty 110 in this one of California's Channel Islands with Avalon as its only city Catalina |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $500: In the King James Bible, "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah" these 2 things fire & brimstone |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $500: 92 at Kilkenny Castle in 1887 was long considered the hottest temperature in this island nation Ireland |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $900: Bob Newhart on the phone with Walter Raleigh about this stuff: "shred the leaves... between your lips... set fire to it!" tobacco |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | LEARNED LEAGUES $400: "Gift of Fire" is the official publication of the very high IQ society named for this fire-stealing Greek god Prometheus |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | THE ELEMENTS $200: Swedish chemist Carl Scheele proved that air was made of 2 gases: "fire air", oxygen, & "foul air", this element nitrogen |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): Capt. Preston was acquitted for his part in this March 5, 1770 event--it couldn't be proved he'd ordered British troops to fire the Boston Massacre |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The Pharos of Alexandria was one of these that stood on an island in the city harbor, with a fire lit at the top every night a lighthouse |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BROADWAY ROCKS $2000: Based on the music of Johnny Cash, "Ring of Fire" opened with this Nine Inch Nails song memorably covered by Johnny "Hurt" |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | GIBSON GIRLS & GUYS $1200: "I need your love like a flame needs a fire", sang this '80s teen queen who also gave us "Only In My Dreams" Debbie Gibson |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: Prometheus had the bright idea to steal this from the gods & give it to man; the gods had Pro's liver eaten by an eagle on the reg fire |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $800: Idiomatically, it's a catastrophe when this large receptacle comes before "fire" dumpster |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | ENTERTAIN "YOU" $1000: Harry Styles befriends a lonely fish in the video for this solo 2019 hit that says, "I'd walk through fire for you" "Adore You" |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | GODDESSES $1600: Seen here, are the priestesses, or virgins, who were consecrated to this Roman goddess, & who kept her sacred fire burning Vesta |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | PARTY! $800: An article about these 2-word parties gone wrong included one dad-to-be causing $8 million in damages in a Tucson fire a gender reveal |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $600: Let me stand next to your fire! 1967's Summer of Love reached a peak when Jimi Hendrix set his guitar ablaze at this pop festival the Monterey Pop Festival |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | CHEMISTRY $1000: Acids & bases are among these current conductors; using a solid instead of a liquid one reduces the risk of fire in batteries electrolytes |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $200: Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources ants |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $400: Farmers burning fields after harvest would chant this creature, "fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn" ladybug |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $200: Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging fire |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $800: In Exodus, "Behold", this "burned with fire, and (it) was not consumed" the (burning) bush |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | I SPEAK FOR THE TREES $800: "An 11-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree", says this classic by Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m here on board the fire boat John S. Damrell helping protect this city’s harbor south of Winthrop & north of Quincy Boston |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | ELEMENTS & THEIR USES $800: Okay, we've heard about it regarding "fire & brimstone", but this element is used as a fungicide & in vulcanizing rubber sulfur |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | RECENT SLANG $800: Something hot can be this or straight this--it all sounds temperature related but isn't fire |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $1600: Cannon fire volley a salvo |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Greek composer Vangelis ran away with his Oscar for this Olympics-centered film Chariots of Fire |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | WHAT'S THAT SONG CALLED? $1200: "I went down, down, down & the flames went higher" "Ring Of Fire" |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $2000: He directed the films "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" & "Mulholland Drive" David Lynch |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $200: Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended" refers to this date when "two towers... went down, swallowed by a fire dragon" 9/11 |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | MOUNTAINS & HILLS $400: The order "Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes" is associated with this hill Bunker Hill |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $600: "No one can have a mouth full of" this baking essential "& also blow on a fire" flour |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $800: It's good advice to follow when clothing catches fire stop, drop & roll |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On October 8, 1871, a fire broke out near the barn of Patrick & Catherine O'Leary; & the next morning this city was in ruins Chicago |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ECONOMICS $2000: Related to a word meaning "setting on fire", they're defined simply as "perceived benefits that encourage certain behaviors" incentives |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | A REIGN OF ERROR $400: After having his mom & wife killed, this emperor was accused of starting a fire that devastated Rome; he blamed the Christians Nero |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $400: Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west Oslo |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | FROM THE SKY $2,000 (Daily Double): Online databases of crashes by these include quite a few of the U.S. military's Reaper & Fire Scout types drones |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $1000: He set the '80s New York literary world on fire with "Bright Lights, Big City" Jay McInerney |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $800: "The real" this last name means the genuine article; the real derivation is one of "fire" McCoy |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | HOBBIES $400: After you've made your pottery, you may want to fire it in one of these ovens a kiln |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $400: Iceland is "the land of" these 2 things also mentioned in a George R.R. Martin series ice & fire |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In the book "New Hampshire" by Robert Frost, you'll read "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in" this ice |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | ____ OF ____ $1200: The Inquisition ceremony auto-da-fe means this in English act of faith |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $800: His life came to an end in 1805 after being hit by enemy fire on the deck of his flagship, the HMS Victory Horatio Nelson |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $800: On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot (Saddam) Hussein |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $300 (Daily Double): In this novel, Miss Havisham dies after the faded wedding dress she wears catches fire Great Expectations |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | THAT FILM IS FIRE $400: Mowgli accidentally starts a forest fire in this 2016 live-action/CGI film The Jungle Book |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | THAT FILM IS FIRE $800: Fresh from hell, Scorpion uses some fire powers to take down Sub-Zero in this 2021 flick based on a video game Mortal Kombat |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | THAT FILM IS FIRE $1200: Michael Myers escapes a fire in this 2021 entry in a venerable franchise Halloween Kills |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | THAT FILM IS FIRE $1600: Sandra Bullock gets some pushback using a fire extinguisher to battle flames in this 2013 sci-fi thriller Gravity |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | THAT FILM IS FIRE $2000: This 2009 Tarantino film features a fire in a Nazi-filled movie theater Inglourious Basterds |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | GEOGRAPHY $1,600 (Daily Double): The Aleutians divide the Bering Sea from the Pacific, but are still part of the belt with this un-icy name the Ring of Fire |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: In a holiday favorite, "The fire is so delightful and since we've no place to go", this title, this title, this title "Let It Snow" |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Killing 146 workers, mostly women, this tragic fire at a New York City garment factory in 1911 led to new safety laws the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOTHERS OF INVENTION $200: Apartment blazes were deadlier before Anna Connelly devised one of these metal structures around 1887 a fire escape |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: To light a fire one can enjoy while using the same-named e-reader kindle |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PLATES, POTS & PANS $200: It's "out of" this kitchenware, perhaps a non-stick one, "& into the fire" the frying pan |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | WE GOT STUCK $800: Ready, aim, fire--this gun seen here, used in bonding surfaces to make things watertight a caulking gun |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $1000: "The Best of" this Canadian band, "Volume 1" included "Rockstar", "How You Remind Me" & 17 other songs Nickelback |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | IT'S YOUR LOKI DAY $1200: For crimes against the gods, Loki is bound to a rock as punishment much like this Greek titan; both are gods of fire Prometheus |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | FIRST RESPONDERS $600: Hoist gloves protect first responders' hands while aboard these vehicles performing rescues helicopters |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | FIRST RESPONDERS $800: Where there are these pros, there's fire; the U.S. Forest Service employs more than 300 of them smoke jumpers |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | GO GET "EM" $2000: This Greek philosopher was the first to argue that all matter is made up of earth, air, fire & water Empedocles |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $200: In 1665 the Great this hit London, killing thousands; the next year, the Great Fire took out 13,000 houses & much of the city the Great Plague |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | BRITISH HUMOR $1000: Richard Ayoade, typing a distress email on this show: "Dear Sir/Madam ...fire! Help me!... Looking forward to hearing from you" The IT Crowd |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $600: The French thought they had the upper hand with arms like the mitrailleuse, an early one of these rapid-fire weapons a machine gun |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $800: "You're thinking, 'did he fire 6 shots or only 5?'... You've gotta ask yourself a question. 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ROMAN MYTHOLOGY $1200: Vulcan was the Roman god of fire & a divine member of this profession in which fire can play a prominent part blacksmith |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | JESUS & NERO $800: Nero blamed Rome's Christians for this 64 A.D. disaster & used it as an excuse to persecute them the fire (when Rome burned) |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $800: It's an "impartial selector" of Triwizard champions the Goblet of Fire |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $800: In 2021 one of these in Oregon covered 646 square miles & was causing dangerous pyrocumulus clouds a fire |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | LEFT MOTION $1000: At the Battle of Chancellorsville, he swung left to crush the Union right, but was mortally wounded by friendly fire Jackson |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $2000: In 1667 Londoner Nicholas Barbon set up the first office for this type of insurance fire insurance |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $800: On Dec. 17, 1989 Nicolae Ceausescu had forces fire on demonstrators in this country; 8 days later it was Nicolae being fired on Romania |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | 1985 IN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: John Parr climbed the highest mountain & crossed the wildest sea to hit No. 1 with this movie tune "(Man In Motion)" "St. Elmo's Fire" |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $400: 25,000 miles long & horseshoe-shaped, it burns burns burns in part due to eruptions of Mount Ruiz & Novarupta the Ring of Fire |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY $400: Extensive renovations were required after this residence outside London caught fire in 1992 Windsor Castle |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $400: In 1666 the fire that would devastate this city began at the home of the king's baker on Pudding Lane London |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BLACKSMITHING $400: Using this device with a plural name to blow air through coals, smiths could raise their fire to 3000 degrees above iron’s melting point bellows |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | THE SABBATH $400: Exodus 35:3 bans doing this on the Sabbath, hence the Jewish dish cholent which can go on the stove Friday & cook until Saturday lunch lighting a fire |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | ON BASE $800: In 1968 an air reserve base in Indiana was named for this Hoosier astronaut killed in a fire the year before Gus Grissom |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WE DID START THE FIRE $400: Plains Indians regularly set prairie fires to spur the growth of fresh grass that enticed herds of these animals buffalo |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WE DID START THE FIRE $1200: Breaking with tradition, Hindu daughters are starting to light these for their deceased parents in India funeral pyres |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WE DID START THE FIRE $1600: A fire started by an experiment in this gold-making pseudoscience destroyed a Weimar castle in 1618 alchemy |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WE DID START THE FIRE $2000: On Feb. 7, 1497 Florentines burned objects said to be distractions from religious duty--an event known as this Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WE DID START THE FIRE $3,000 (Daily Double): Also an automotive noise, it can be a blaze deliberately set for wildfire control, as seen here backfire |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | HERE COMES THE SONNET $400: Shakespeare's Sonnet 153 notes the "love-kindling fire" of this Roman god & where he "got new fire--my mistress' eyes" Cupid |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $400: Hotfoot Teddy, a cub that survived a fire, was renamed this for a character who promoted fire safety & became his living symbol Smokey Bear |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | WEBCAMS $600: In 2019 a webcam captured the fire that collapsed this 850-year-old cathedral's spire & roof Notre Dame |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | STARTS WITH "B" $400: A signal fire, perhaps on a Boston hill beacon |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1200: His invention of the revolver around 1836 allowed the user to fire more times than ever before without reloading (Samuel) Colt |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | "IN" THE DICTIONARY $1600: In legal speak, it refers to a person guilty of arson or to a device designed to harm people or property by means of fire incendiary |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | MYTH RUN-ONS $400: Roman fire god, now a big orange melon Vulcantaloupe |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Term for the Pacific Ocean zone that forms a band as long as the equator & has about 75% of Earth's active volcanoes Ring of Fire |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | DOWN TO "RTH" $400: Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking a hearth |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | LAW SLAW $400: Rule by military authority, it was declared in Chicago following the Great Fire of 1871 martial law |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | TV ANIMATION $800: Like Aang in a previous series, Korra is working on becoming a master one of these; she was already a pro at fire, earth & water airbender |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $800: The movie "All Is True", about Shakespeare in retirement, begins with the fire that destroyed this theatre in 1613 the Globe Theatre |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | LIGHTNING $200: The B.C. scientific work "On the Nature of Things" ignores Prometheus & says it was lightning that first brought this to Earth fire |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $400: In "We Didn't Start The Fire", Billy Joel sings of "trouble in" this Mideast canal region, the site of a 1956 crisis Suez |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | THE STAGE $1200: 2 of the sets in this Tennessee Williams drama are the Wingfield family apartment & a fire escape The Glass Menagerie |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $200: In a 2003 book this 15-year-old could have "counted the freckles on" Cho Chang's nose as she steals a kiss from him Harry Potter |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | HISTORY BEFORE 1738 $1600: This restored king of Great Britain reigned during the great plague & Great Fire that struck London in the 1660s Charles II |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | NEW TO THE OED $1600: The last 4 months of the year are called these 5-letter "months", like the last piece of wood in a fire the ember months |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | MAKING FETCH HAPPEN $1000: In "The Tempest", this ex-Duke of Milan says Caliban "does make our fire, fetch in our wood" Prospero |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY $1600: "Now the cave or den is the world of sight, the fire is the sun, the way upward is the way to knowledge"--hey, that's mine! Plato |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: The Dictator, an enormous one of these artillery weapons that fire high-arcing shells, was used in the Siege of Petersburg a mortar |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | CLICHÉS $800: A soft bed & a warm fire are "creature" these, appealing to our animal nature as opposed to more spiritual needs comforts |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $400: In song, these are "roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose" chestnuts |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | SAINTLY NAMED $2000: The name of this electrical phenomenon in the atmosphere comes from a corruption of Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors St. Elmo's fire |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | YE OLDE SCIENCE $1200: The ancient Greeks believed all matter was composed of these 4 classical elements earth, air, fire & water |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | PROM MUSIC $2000: If your school's prom is then, put on "Month Of May" from this band's album "The Suburbs" Arcade Fire |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SACRED BOOKS $400: The Hindu Vedas praise Agni, god of this fundamental force; "agni" is related to our word "ignite" fire |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FANTASTIC BEASTS $800: The puk is a small, household one of these fire-breathers that protects the home & brings treasure to its master a dragon |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | TRIBUTE BANDS $1000: Unforgettable Fire, featuring its own Edge & Larry U2 |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DISSECTING THE LYRICS $400: This Canadian pop guy, in "Boyfriend": "Swag swag swag on you, chillin' by the fire while we eatin' fondue"; well, it does rhyme Justin Bieber |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $800: Future wife Nora saved "Stephen Hero" after this man threw it in a fire; it became "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James) Joyce |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $800: A chilly evening? Relax around this backyard accessory, burning wood like the portable model called the Solo Stove Bonfire a fire pit |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $1600: This poet's manuscript of "Conversation at Midnight" burned at both ends in a hotel fire & she rewrote it from memory Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | FROM THE FRENCH $200: From French for "cover" & "fire", it was originally the hour the fires in a town were to be extinguished the curfew |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | SAFE AT HOME $200: The Sentry S6770 safe is U.L. classified to protect valuables for 1 hour during one of these a fire |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | GODS & GODDESSES $800: In Hawaiian religion, she is the goddess of volcanoes & fire (Madame) Pele |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | HISTORIC PLACES $800: The Clarke House is this U.S. city's oldest, having survived the Great Fire, though it now stands 2 blocks from its original spot Chicago |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | HOMOPHONES $800: To fire a .45, or a sloping channel for water shoot/chute |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: In early "factories" , Neanderthals turned out tools of this hard stone known for fire-sparking qualities flint |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS $600: Black residue formed via fire & smoke soot |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | TV SHOW QUOTES $800: Dre: "So everything is okay as long as (the kids) are home by 5... & at 5:01, we call the police"; Bow: "4:59, & the fire department" black-ish |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | HOOPS $800: WNBA teams include the New York Liberty, the Phoenix Mercury & these fire starters of Los Angeles the L.A. Sparks |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | IN CONCERT $400: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 2011 at Madison Square Garden, I performed "Fire And Rain" & "Fifteen" with this young singer-songwriter whom, I'm honored to say, is named after me Taylor Swift |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $1200: In "A Song of Ice and Fire", Sansa Stark wonders why this sister of hers can't be sweet & delicate Arya |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: The name of these islands off the southern tip of South America means "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE WHITE HOUSE $200: On Christmas Eve in 1929, a fire in this section of the White House gutted the executive offices the West Wing |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Chris Frye from WOIO presents the clue.) In 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River was so badly polluted that an oil slick on the river's surface caught fire, making national headlines & helping spark the 1970 creation of this federal agency the EPA |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | FORTIFY YOURSELF $400: Fort Bourtange in the Netherlands is this celestial type; an attacker who gets close to one wall is exposed to fire from another a star fort |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | HOW DO YOU... $2000: Nock the projectile in the string, hold solid part of weapon firmly, pull back on string, aim, release fire a bow & arrow |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $400: This director created "The Terminator" after a nightmare about a metallic figure emerging from a fire James Cameron |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NON-PROPHETS $1600: In Revelation the beast & the false prophet are tossed into a "lake of fire burning with" this substance brimstone |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $2,000 (Daily Double): From Greek words meaning "fire" & "art", this is the craft of making & shooting off fireworks pyrotechnics |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BESTSELLING NONFICTION $2000: British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre needed a defense lawyer, & this future pres. "Under Fire" tells the tale John Adams |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $200: This "Girl On Fire" performer chose her last name in reference to the piano & because "it can open so many doors" Alicia Keys |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $800: A major royal residence until a 1512 fire, the Palace of Westminster is now home to these "Houses" Parliament |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | BLOCKBUSTERS $600: Subtitled "Catching Fire", the second film in this series caught fire with moviegoers The Hunger Games |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WORDS THAT ARE IN COMPREHENSIBLE $600: A fire's smoldering remains embers |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | POP CULTURE $800: For an ad, Preparation H wanted this song, a big hit in 1963; the singer's daughter Rosanne said "No" "Ring Of Fire" |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | 2 $800: A fire at a London power station blacked out the much-anticipated 1964 launch of this TV channel BBC Two |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | TERMS FROM ISLAM $1200: The "Oxford Dictionary of Islam" entry on this says it's called jahannam & is a place of eternal fire hell |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | IT'S A DATE $2000: This Mideast war ended on June 10, 1967 when the U.N. negotiated a cease-fire the Six-Day War |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | PLACES OF SUBSTANCE $400: This Michigan industrial city bears the name of a river named for a "fire stone" Flint |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" the witches of Macbeth |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | PUN-FORGIVABLE $800: "A spot for handing out pink slips", or a hearth at the base of a chimney a fire place |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $400: About 80% of energy released by quakes comes from events with epicenters in the Circum-Pacific belt, AKA this, AKA a Johnny Cash tune Ring of Fire |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $800: Go to hispanicfederation. org to help this island hit by 155-mph winds in a 2017 hurricane & a 6.4 earthquake in 2020 Puerto Rico |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1200: Wind erosion in this rugged 2,000-square-mile area of the Dakotas has unearthed a large number of fossils the Badlands |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1600: Much of the business district in this New Zealand capital lies on reclaimed land after an 1855 earthquake raised its harbor bed Wellington |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | 3 NAMES IN CLASSIC ROCK $1600: Earth, Wind & Fire covered this Beatles tune that begins, "I was alone, I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there" "Got To Get You Into My Life" |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $2000: A mass of oily rags that doesn't let the heat dissipate... oxidation raising the temp inside...& boom! you get this 2-word phenomenon spontaneous combustion |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $1200: In 1991 the IRA attacked John Major & his cabinet with mortar fire during a meeting at this address, Major's residence 10 Downing Street |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $400: This science guy made an impassioned appearance on "Last Week Tonight" to warn that our planet's on fire Bill Nye |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SNOPES SAYS NOPE $600: An episode of "The Simpsons" did not predict the April 2019 fire here in Paris Notre Dame Cathedral |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HOLY SMOKE $800: This alliterative shrubbery from Exodus was not consumed by the fire that engulfed it the burning bush |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $200: Home of a famous tire yard fire, this memorable TV town is where the Simpsons live Springfield |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $800: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 1971 I earned my first Gold record for a single & the following year my first Grammy for this song written by Carole King "You've Got A Friend" |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $800: In 64 A.D. a fire broke out in Rome in the shops surrounding this large hippodrome, no doubt causing many to flee the Circus Maximus |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | RETURNS $200: In "The Two Towers" this wizard says, "Yes, I am white now...I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted" Gandalf |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE CODE OF HAMMURABI $600: If a responder steals from a house where this has broken out, "he shall be thrown into" it then & there a fire |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $1000: The USS Massachusetts & the Cristóbal Colón, which exchanged fire outside Santiago de Cuba the Spanish-American War |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $3,400 (Daily Double): "What is fire? It's a mystery", says this novel; "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | PLAYING THE SINGER ON FILM $1200: Dennis Quaid in "Great Balls of Fire!" Jerry Lewis |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $2000: What is now NYU's Brown Building was the site of this tragic 1911 fire that killed 146 workers the Triangle Shirtwaist fire |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | 4,4 $2000: This type of event is meant to move possible damaged merchandise quickly & at very low prices a fire sale |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | BAND EMOJIS $400: "Let's Groove" with these guys Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | A DISASTER AREA $7,000 (Daily Double): In the 1670s the 202-foot Monument column was built in this city near the origin of a large fire a few years before London |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS IN ENGLISH $1200: Italian for "hell", it's used in English to describe a raging fire an inferno |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | A UNIQUE SYNONYM $800: Lacking small fire-lighting sticks matchless |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES $600: There's no "-proof" in this adjective often seen on kids' PJs & meaning designed to fend off flames fire-resistant |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | & THEN THERE WERE NUNS $2000: Her books include "Dead Man Walking" & "River of Fire", a 2019 memoir about becoming an activist Sister Helen Prejean |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | STOP IT! $400: To fire from a job, or to attempt to kill Sarah Connor, onscreen terminate |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | AIRPORT ATTRACTIONS $1000: We appreciate the indoor service dog relief area at the airport for this charmed city; the fire hydrant's a nice touch Baltimore |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | YOU BURNED MY FOOD! $1000: Bust out your chafing dish, some orange butter sauce & Grand Marnier to fire up this crepes dish crêpes Suzette |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1200: In a Shelley work this fire bringer is not happy to be nailed to a "wall of eagle-baffling mountain" Prometheus |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | SCIENCE AROUND US $600: By taking away needed oxygen, a mix of baking soda & vinegar can work as a basic type of this safety device a fire extinguisher |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 8, 1871 a fire started on DeKoven Street, destroying more than 17,000 of this city's buildings Chicago |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | GEMSTONES! MEET THE GEMSTONES! $200: Don't be deceived by this, a compound of sulfur & iron whose name comes from the Greek for "fire" pyrite |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE TOTALLY RAD 1980s $600: I thought this movie about Olympic runners would be grody to the max but not even! It won Best Pic, & everyone loves Vangelis! Chariots of Fire |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF $800: In her memoir "Inside Out", this actress says "St. Elmo's Fire" saved her life: she had to go to rehab to keep her role in the film Demi Moore |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | DAVID MUIR COVERS THE WORLD $1600: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 I got an exclusive first look at restoration efforts inside Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral afters its devastating fire; amazingly, the huge 13th century rose windows survived, despite fears that the intense heat might have melted this metal in the frame that supports the stained glass lead |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is standing in the street.) I'm in this South Dakota city named for the fallen timbers left by a forest fire. Today the entire city is a national historic landmark Deadwood |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | SPACE SCIENCE $2000: A 1958 paper by Max Faget showed that a spacecraft could fire these to slow itself down & allow re-entry to the atmosphere retrorockets |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: To give a break to those who fight conflagrations, this strip of cleared land helps stem the spread of a prairie fire a firebreak |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | USING WORLDLY ADJECTIVES $2000: A precursor to napalm, this combustible weapon was used by besieged defenders at Constantinople in the 7th century Greek fire |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $1200: Played by Timothy Olyphant on "Justified", Raylan Givens appeared earlier in the short story "Fire in the Hole" by this author Elmore Leonard |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | RANDOM FACTS $400: In 1912 Arthur Eldred made a fire from 2 sticks & a string & became the USA's first Scout to earn this honor an Eagle Scout |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | FIREBOATS OF BOSTON $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents while aboard a fireboat.) A fireboat carries a minimum of four crew members, two deckhands, a fire officer, and a pilot, certified by this branch of the military the Coast Guard |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | FIREBOATS OF BOSTON $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Boston, MA.) At full power, using all five of its deck guns, the Marine One fireboat can throw 12,000 GPM, 450 feet at a fire, "GPM" standing for this gallons per minute |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | FIREBOATS OF BOSTON $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shoots water from a fireboat.) The foam thrown by the fireboats blankets the surface, cutting the fire off from the oxygen that feeds this chemical reaction combustion |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SINGERS $600: This singer won a Grammy for her 2012 album "Girl On Fire" Alicia Keys |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | BUGLE CALLS $800: This bugle call means lay off those trigger fingers, the enemy has had enough "Cease Fire" |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Jonathan Edwards thought sin was restrained by God; otherwise the soul would be "a furnace of" these two things fire and brimstone |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $400: Smokey was named for Smokey Joe Martin, a member of this famed urban force for 46 years & a hero of the "Greenwich Volcano" blaze the New York Fire Department |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $800: In 1950 Smokey got a living symbol: a bear cub that survived a forest fire in this state; his burns were treated in Santa Fe New Mexico |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II $2,000 (Daily Double): These 2 "Great" historic afflictions hit London in 1665 & 1666 Great Fire & the Plague |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUT "OK" $1000: It means "added fuel to a fire" or "elated, pumped up" stoked |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL $800: Thanks to quick thinking during the devastating 2019 fire, this most sacred relic, said to be worn by Jesus, was saved the Crown of Thorns |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $200: Arcade Fire performs the song "Baby Mine" during the end credits of this Tim Burton film based on a Disney cartoon Dumbo |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | A "DROP" $800: 3-verb advice for what to do if your clothing catches fire stop, drop & roll |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $1000: This western U.S. city, fire-prone since the Shades Hotel burned in 1849, still has around 200 buried cisterns San Francisco |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | YOGA POSES $1600: The hip-opening fire log pose is often suggested to treat this leg pain named for a nerve sciatica |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $400: Near the end of this Ray Bradbury novel, a character talks about the phoenix, a mythical bird reborn from the ashes of fire Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $1200: The 1924 Olympics played backdrop to this film about 2 British runners Chariots of Fire |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $400: Stieg Larsson's second novel about Lisbeth Salander was "The Girl Who Played With" this fire |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | FUJI $400: Matching its name, which may come from ancient Ainu for "fire mountain", Mount Fuji is a composite of 3 of these volcanoes |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | SINGULAR SPORTS TEAMS $800: MLS:
Chicago Fire |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $200: When this man first meets God, he sees a bush on fire, but it doesn't burn up Moses |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | VIRAL CHALLENGES $200: Police & fire departments across the nation are mouthing along to popular songs in these challenges lip synch challenges |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $1000: Dangerous skills include fire-eating & this, requiring the ability to relax your esophageal sphincter sword swallowing |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | ALPHANUMERICS $2000: This plastic explosive needs a shock to go boom; match-lit, it burns slowly, & was used by Vietnam soldiers as a cooking fire C-4 |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | SOME OF THE TEA IN CHINA $1200: Despite its name, you can't use this green tea rolled into pellets to fire a cannon gunpowder |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "Don't have too many irons in the ____" fire |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FIRE & ICE $400: Fire Island lies off the southern shore of this island in southeastern New York state Long Island |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FIRE & ICE $800: ICE, short for U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, was created in 2003 as part of this Cabinet department Homeland Security |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FIRE & ICE $1,000 (Daily Double): The patron saint of Mediterranean sailors gave his name to this phenomenon seen on the masts of ships in stormy weather St. Elmo's fire |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FIRE & ICE $1200: Dry ice is this gas in its solid form carbon dioxide |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FIRE & ICE $1600: Ice plants are a low-growing species of these plants with fleshy, thick tissues that store water succulents |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Kitchen ovens left unattended by King Charles II's bakers may have led to this 1666 disaster the Great London Fire |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: Tertullian's proverb "de calcaria in carbonarium" is said to be the source of this phrase for going from bad to worse out of the frying pan and into the fire |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $200: "Fire & Blood" is a novel from this author, set centuries before the events in "Game of Thrones" (George) Martin |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Both Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" & Bob Woodward's "Fear" mention this building in their subtitles the White House |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | POTENT PORTABLES $200: Amazon's Fire Tablet 7 comes preloaded with this assistant & her soothing voice Alexa |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | CELEBS ON TWITTER $200: OK, he is Deadpool:
"I'd walk through fire for my (kid). Well not fire...a super humid room. But not too humid, because my hair" Ryan Reynolds |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: In Nabokov's "Pale Fire", revolutionaries plan to kill an exiled king with this name, the same as the leader of the X-Men Charles Xavier |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | GIVE ME A "MINUTE" $800: In 1774 the Pennsylvania Gazette reported these "each...should be immediately equipped with an effective fire-arm" minutemen |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | GROSS CONFESSIONS $1200: Learning archery "changed (her) body"; by "Catching Fire", "my shoulders were 2" broader, my right arm is 1" longer than my left" (Jennifer) Lawrence |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | PHRASE ORIGINS $1,800 (Daily Double): 19th c. exhibitions saw fire brigades competing either using water, or in one of these, now a term for a practice effort a dry run |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | EMERGENCY GENERATOR $400: Roman I-I-I plus wakeup clock plus conflagration three-alarm fire |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AMERICAN POETRY $5,000 (Daily Double): Despite his name, he holds "with those who favor fire" for how "the world will end" (Robert) Frost |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | ____ OF ____ $1000: More than half the world's active volcanoes above sea level are located in this belt along the Pacific the Ring of Fire |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | AN APRIL TO REMEMBER $400: In April 1906 an earthquake hit this U.S. city followed by a massive fire & the loss of 3,000 lives San Francisco |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | SCI-FI TRANSPORTS $400: In a 2012 "Alien" film, the title ship is named for this mythical titan who gave fire to mankind Prometheus |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | SET IN THE CITY $200: As of 2019 its "Med", "Fire" & "P.D." were all serving Chicago |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TO BE ELF-EVIDENT $400: The ghosts of men are no biggie for this Tolkien elf, but a Balrog?! The ancient fire monster freaks him out Legolas |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | BEWARE! $800: The National Fire Protection Assoc. reports 200 fires involving these lights each Dec. & Jan., so unplug yours at night Christmas lights |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Seen in the training center & arena sequences in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", this silver combat bow was a signature weapon of this heroine Katniss |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: This textured plaster used in ancient Greece & Aztec Mexico may not provide much insulation but is a great fire resister stucco |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | COLORFUL BANDS $800: A fire at a Frank Zappa concert inspired this band's song "Smoke On The Water" Deep Purple |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | VOWEL-POURRI $200: Beginning with 4 vowels, Ueueteotl is one spelling for the fire god of these people the Aztecs |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | ANIMAL FAKERS $200: AKA mosquito hawk or darning needle, this insect does not breathe magical fire dragonfly |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | SULFUR $400: Paired with "fire", this is the Biblical name for sulfur brimstone |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $1000: This song mentions, among many others, "Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | CITY FLAGS $1600: The four stars on this Midwest city's flag represent a fort, a fire & two expositions Chicago |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | ENDS IN "ITE" $200: Light my fire, literally ignite |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | GET "HIP" $400: 4-word phrase meaning to make a snap decision, or to fire without aiming to shoot from the hip |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | THEIR TRIBUTE BAND $400: The funk-tastic Earth Wind for Hire Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | RIVALRY $200: Having the high ground was enough, we guess, for Obi-Wan to leave this ex-pal crippled & on fire Anakin Skywalker |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | THE DEEP SOUTH $1000: A statue of this Roman god of fire atop a mountain in Birmingham, Ala. is said to be the world's largest cast-iron statue Vulcan |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | YOU GO NORWAY $400: From 1624 to 1925, this capital was called Christiania to honor the king who planned the rebuilding of it after a huge fire Oslo |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | EDISON LABS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Edison Labs in Menlo Park, NJ.) Written after a 1914 fire damaged the labs, a letter offering Edison best wishes for continuing health & success shows that the rivalry between Edison & this European electrical genius was not as bitter as it's sometimes made out to be (Nikola) Tesla |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | AVIATION $2000: The B-17 bomber was known by this alliterative term, battling anti-aircraft fire to deliver its payload the Flying Fortress |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $800: Pin, hose, a pressurized tank filled with chemicals such as potassium bicarbonate or just water a fire extinguisher |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: This character, this character "fly away home. Your house is on fire and your children have gone" ladybird |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | OCEAN LINERS $1200: The builders of the SS United States were so concerned with fire safety, they asked Steinway to make an aluminum this a piano |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IT CAN'T GET MUCH WORSE $200: Vividly described in Samuel Pepys' diary, this 4-day catastrophe that destroyed most of the city began on Sept. 2, 1666 the Great Fire of London |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | PSA MASCOTS $1000: Sparky, this dog breed, is the official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association a Dalmatian |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | GOD BLESS AMERICIUM $1200: The americium used in these devices that keep you safe at home is itself safe, though radioactive smoke alarm |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | CELEBRITY POSSESSIVES $400: A "Ring Of Fire" singer's pocket money Johnny's cash |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: Peter Dinklage really spit fire lip-syncing to Busta Rhymes for Blaze Chips from this brand Doritos |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $200: "The Triwizard Tournament" is a chapter in this book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $400: Andrew McGee goes on the run with his young daughter in this Stephen King thriller Firestarter |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $600: Katniss takes part in a victory tour & the Quarter Quell in this book sequel Catching Fire |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $800: Bond trader Sherman McCoy thinks he's a master of the universe in this novel by Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $1000: James Baldwin gave voice to the emerging struggle for civil rights in this 1963 bestseller The Fire Next Time |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BURNIN' LOVE SONGS $400: Johnny Cash fell into one in 1963 & topped the country charts for 7 weeks "Ring Of Fire" |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $600: As a 1924 host, Paris was the setting for this film about runners Eric Liddell & Harold Abrahams Chariots of Fire |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BURNIN' LOVE SONGS $800: Robby Krieger wrote most of this 1967 classic, but that "mire"/"pyre" rhyme is pure Morrison "Light My Fire" |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BURNIN' LOVE SONGS $1600: In the title of a 2012 No. 1, Adele pulled off this difficult feat "Set Fire To The Rain" |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 15 MINUTES OF FAME $2000: In January 2018 journalist Michael Wolff became the story with his book "Fire and" this appropriate word fury |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | CHEMICAL PROCESSES $1200: Combustion is a chemical reaction usually including oxygen & accompanied by heat & light in this physical form fire (or flame) |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | ABBRE-"V"-IATIONS $1600: In Oklahoma, to join a VFD, this, you must be 18 to 44 years old, have a good driving record & pass a background check a volunteer fire department |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE END OF "IT" $200: A skewer for holding meat over a fire a spit |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE DISASTER ARTISTS $400: The painter Peter Jackson captures this 1666 conflagration the Great Fire of London |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | STARTS WITH A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $1200: Used to fan a fire, this type of blower draws in air & expels it quickly through a tube bellows |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | BAND MATES $800: Regine Chassagne & husband Win Butler had a hit with "Everything Now" for this Canadian band the Arcade Fire |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ALL EYES $800: Tiger eye quartz is formed by the alteration of crocidolite, this type of fire-resistant fibrous mineral asbestos |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $600: In Genesis 19 these 2 cities near the Dead Sea have fire & brimstone rained down on them Sodom and Gomorrah |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | INTERNET SLANG $600: A complete disaster is known as this, which the man here is dealing with a Dumpster fire |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | GOING UNDERGROUND $400: After an 1889 fire ravaged this city in Wash., streets were raised & what was the ground is now tourable underground Seattle |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | INTERNAL RHYME TIME $1600: To fire someone, or simply to tell him to leave your presence to dismiss |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Published in 2017, "A Column of Fire" continues his Kingsbridge saga that began with "The Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follett |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | COLA $1000: New in 2017, Pepsi Fire barks that this spice is its primary flavor cinnamon |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | THE MOST EXCITING PLAY $600: "Bumblescratch", set in 1665-66 London, starts with a plague & ends with this other disaster the Great Fire of London |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $400: The fire at its top guided ships for over a thousand years the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WEIRD WORDS $1600: The adjective pyroclastic refers to fragments that can dangerously blast away from one of these a volcano |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | THE BRIT'S NO. 1 HIT $800: 2012:
"Set Fire To The Rain" Adele |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $1000: After March 6, 1935 this "Jr." Supreme Court justice no longer cared if you shouted "Fire!" in a crowded theater Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $400: You know it would be true, you know I wouldn't be a liar, to say this band turned down $50K from Buick to use "Light My Fire" The Doors |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | CATCHING "FIRE" $200: A loud, premature explosion in your engine's intake manifold backfire |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | CATCHING "FIRE" $400: Sailors thought this luminous atmospheric phenomenon was good luck St. Elmo's Fire |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | CATCHING "FIRE" $600: He pioneered the manufacture of tires for the Model T (Harvey) Firestone |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | CATCHING "FIRE" $800: It's nicknamed "New York's Key West" Fire Island |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | CATCHING "FIRE" $1000: "Light the fire within" is the motto of this youth organization that began accepting boys in 1975 Campfire |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | 2-WORD SONG TITLES $2000: This Earth, Wind & Fire hit reminds you "what your life can truly be" "Shining Star" |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARDS $1600: Named for Ransom Eli Olds, REO, an old maker of these, promoted them as "the gold standard of value" cars (automobiles or Speedwagons) |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | EARLY AMERICA $1600: His sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" helped fire the 18th century's Great Awakening religious movement (Jonathan) Edwards |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | LETHAL WEAPON $200: In 1978 the U.S. military stopped using this, which can produce a 2,000-degree wall of fire a flamethrower |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC $2000: Stonewall Jackson is one of the best-known victims of this alliterative event friendly fire |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | "LIGHT" MUSIC $200: In a song title The Doors wanted you to do this "Light My Fire" |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | OLD TESTAMENT TRANSPORTATION $2000: The prophet Elijah as a grand exit featuring this flaming vehicle a chariot (of fire) |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The belt stretching 25,000 miles from New Zealand through Japan and the Aleutian islands to South America is actually horseshoe-shaped, but best-known by this three-word description the Ring of Fire |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD $600: In the U.S. someone frantic has his hair in this state; in China the same thing happens to the eyebrows on fire |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $1000: This temporary military encampment is often set up without shelter or protection from enemy fire a bivouac |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | WAR IS OVER $200: Syria agrees to a cease-fire, June 1967 the Six Days War |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: It can't fly or breathe fire, but this largest living lizard has a venomous bite that inhibits blood clotting the komodo dragon |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | A MANIA FOR MANIAS $1200: This abnormal interest in fire can be dangerous & destructive pyromania |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POE FOLKS $800: Tiny "Hop-Frog" is one of these royal amusers who gets revenge upon an abusive king & his court by setting them all on fire a jester |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $400: Before he stalked the president in the film "In the Line of Fire", this actor stalked the Steppenwolf stage (John) Malkovich |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | A TRIANGLE SCHEME $1000: The regulation of sweatshops got heavier after the 1911 fire at this factory named for the blouses it made the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | IN THE YEAR 1017 $400: A medieval chronicle says a 1017 fire in this Ukrainian capital destroyed 750 churches--odd in a city of maybe 25,000 Kiev |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Clint Eastwood in "In the Line of Fire" laments the underuse of this 10-letter word for a ludicrous scheme or idea cockamamie |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Harry Potter book, Fleur faces a dragon after being selected for a contest by this title vessel the Goblet of Fire |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | VOCABULARY $1600: The "I" has it, it meaning to sacrifice a victim through the use of fire immolate |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | LITERA-CHURCH $400: Set during the 1660s, W. Harrison Ainsworth's "Old St. Pauls" finds the London church treating victims of this the plague |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | MISREMEMBERED HARRY POTTER BOOK TITLES $200: "Harry Potter &" these poultry innards "of Fire" giblets |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | THE CITY'S TV SHOW $400: Episodes of this sitcom include "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell" & "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire" It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | 9 $800: Ether, time, space, soul & mind team up with these better-known 4 as the 9 substances of the universe in Hinduism earth, wind (or air), water and fire |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES $1200: Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa has evidence of human use of this 1 million years ago, perhaps the earliest use found fire |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | HIDDEN GEMS $600: To buy the fire type of this gem, shop along Pitt Street in Sydney's city centre an opal (in shop along) |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $600: The books that make up the "Hunger Games" trilogy are "The Hunger Games" & these 2 Catching Fire and Mockingjay |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | A REAL NUT JOB $400: marthastewart.com says to roast these nuts at 350 degrees in an oven; a song suggests "on an open fire" chestnuts |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | SECOND CITY TV $400: Jason Beghe as Sergeant Hank Voight, who had been seen on "Chicago Fire", stars in this spin-off Chicago P.D. |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | PANTS ON FIRE $200: Women's Wear Daily coined this term for the ultra-short shorts whose sales were on fire in the 1970s hot pants |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | PANTS ON FIRE $400: In the 1960s Sonny & Cher helped popularize these wide-flared pants based on ones originally worn by sailors bell-bottoms |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | PANTS ON FIRE $600: A big trend of the '80s was denim treated with bleach to fade the color, creating this-washed jeans acid |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | PANTS ON FIRE $800: The brand called this Couture got trendy putting its name in rhinestones on the seats of its velour sweatpants Juicy |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | PANTS ON FIRE $1000: Part of a bicycle is in the name of these cropped pants, originally worn for biking pedal pushers |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): "Gates of Fire" is an epic novel of this epic battle of ancient Greece Thermopylae |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | YOU'RE FIRED FROM THE MOVIE! $2000: Trying to light a cigar, blind hermit Gene Hackman sets Peter Boyle's thumb on fire in this 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BIBLICAL PAIRS $1200: In 2 Kings a chariot of fire appears to these 2 men whose names both start with the same 3 letters Elijah and Elisha |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $1200: On Dec. 17, 1989 security forces under Nicolae Ceausescu were ordered to fire on demonstrators in this country Romania |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Sodom was destroyed by fire & it brimstone |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | PRESIDENTIAL MUSIC? $600: She co-wrote "Ring Of Fire" for future hubby Johnny Cash (June) Carter |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $600: On the Billboard charts, don't confuse EMF with EWF, this "Shining Star" group Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | COMPUTERS $1600: The Cardiff Giant was a PC produced on this '80s-set AMC show whose title refers to a destruct command Halt and Catch Fire |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $800: Citing fire risks, in 2016 the FAA banned this company's Galaxy Note 7 phones from all U.S. flights Samsung |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | OH MY GODS! $1000: This god of fire & patron of craftsmen was really lame... really Vulcan (or Hephaestus) |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $2000: Fire-bellied toads say "don't eat me" by showing their red bellies, a warning of this poison |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | TRICKY CLUES $200: This 6-footer, so to speak, comes in fire & carpenter varieties ants |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | YOUR IDIOM IS FOREIGN TO ME $400: In Spanish, poner las manos en el fuego, or "to put" these "in the fire", means to have 100% faith in someone your hands |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | FAMILIAR TRIOS $1200: Soil, air current & ignition earth, wind, and fire |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | THE NORTHERNMOST SPORTS FRANCHISE $1000: Pro Soccer:
the Fire,
the Galaxy,
the Rapids the (Chicago) Fire |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | "S.A." TEST $400: Fire departments say when you reset your clock for daylight saving time, also change the batteries in these smoke alarm |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | PUTTING THE "R" IN ENTERTAINMENT $400: This hit by Adele begins, "There's a fire starting in my heart, reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out the dark" "Rolling in the Deep" |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEEING RED $800: An intense, bright red named for an emergency vehicle fire truck red (or fire engine) |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This disaster began on October 8, 1871 in a barn on DeKoven Street & left nearly 100,000 people homeless the Chicago fire |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | HEAT $1600: One of Dan Patrick's catchphrases at ESPN was this, Spanish for "on fire" en fuego |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MUST "C" TV $200: The Windy City has a Major League Soccer team & a Dick Wolf series both called this Chicago Fire |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | ADJECTIVAL DESCRIPTION $600: It's this adjective regarding earth, water, air & fire, dear Watson elementary |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | ON TV NOW $1200: Miley Cyrus & this "Girl On Fire" joined "The Voice" as coaches in 2016 Alicia Keys |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | POP CULTURE "VICE" $1600: School administrator Danny McBride helps set his new boss' house on fire in this HBO comedy Vice Principals |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WE PREDICT YOUR HOROSCOPE $400: Like this fire sign, today you'll be ram-tough against your troubles Aries |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | VARIETY PACK $1600: According to Hawaiian legend, anyone who removes a piece of volcanic rock will be cursed by this fire goddess Pele |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | IT'S AN EMERGENCY! $600: The Red Cross reports that 60% of house fire deaths occur in homes where these are not working a smoke alarm |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $200: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for "Ramadi: On the Front Line"; a report on troops under fire in this country Iraq |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | FILL "E_R" UP $600: A glowing fire piece an ember |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | THAT'S JUST NUTS! $200: Mount Olympus was said to have many trees bearing this nut; no word if the gods had them "roasting on an open fire" chestnuts |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | GOING TO THE DOG'S BREED $800: What is it, Lassie...? Timmy's trapped?! & you've already called the fire department? This breed is amazing! a collie |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Daytona International Speedway.) To protect them from fire and heat in case of an accident, all NASCAR drivers wear suits made of Nomex, a heat-resistant, flame-retardant fabric that's reinforced with this fiber that's five times stronger than steel and often used in bulletproof vests Kevlar |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | CLASSIC FILM MUSIC $800: "Man In Motion" heated up this 1985 Brat Pack coming of age story St. Elmo's Fire |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $1000: An engine fire in British Columbia gutted a 2003 Enzo worth $643,000 from this Italian carmaker Ferrari |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | WHAT $600: Closely related to seahorses, a leafy sea this can be 14 inches in length-- no fire-breathing, though a seadragon |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | MOTOR VEHICLES $200: A pumper is this type of emergency vehicle a fire truck |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $1600: Sadly, shining star Maurice White, who founded this R&B group, passed away in 2016 Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | PLANTS WITH ANIMAL NAMES $400: Disappointing but true, these flowers don't breathe fire snapdragons |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | MUSICIANS' SIGNATURE MOMENTS $600: On June 18, 1967 he set fire to his guitar at Monterey Pop Jimi Hendrix |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | MIDDLE "G" $1600: It's a group of persons organized for a specific purpose, such as a bucket one to carry water to a fire a brigade |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS $1200: Sept. 5, 1666:
Begin plan to rebuild post-Great Fire London; hand in to King in a week or so Christopher Wren |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | A SONG OF ICE &/OR FIRE $200: "If there was a problem, yo, I'll solve it, check out the hook while my DJ revolves it", this 1990s rap title "Ice Ice Baby" |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | A SONG OF ICE &/OR FIRE $400: Seen here, she had a hit with "Fire And Ice" Pat Benatar |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | A SONG OF ICE &/OR FIRE $600: This Adele song says, "When it burned, well, I cried" "Set Fire To The Rain" |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | A SONG OF ICE &/OR FIRE $800: "Feel That Fire" is an album & a single by this country crooner seen here Dierks Bentley |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | A SONG OF ICE &/OR FIRE $1000: "You're as cold as ice, you're willing to sacrifice our love", says a song by this group with Lou Gramm & Mick Jones Foreigner |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | IN SEPTEMBER $200: A September 1666 fire destroyed much of this capital city, including its cathedral London |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THE BUCKET LIST $200: Alliterative name for a line of people who pass pails of water to help put out a fire bucket brigade |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | FOO FIGHTERS $1200: "There goes" this person, "He's ordinary" in a song whose video showed a building on fire "my hero" |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: In 1807 his ship was described as a "backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire" (Robert) Fulton |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | OH, GOD! $200: "Volcano" comes from the name of this fire god Vulcan |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | WORRIER PRINCESS $1600: She's worried about rodents of unusual size in the fire swamp, but Westley doubts they exist until one attacks him (Princess) Buttercup |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $400: The Library was originally housed in this building, which the British set on fire in 1814, destroying almost all its books the Capitol Building |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY $600: The Chicago fire, leaving 90,000 homeless the 19th century |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | WHOSE WHAT? $1200: Judd Nelson was a man in motion after graduating Georgetown with Rob Lowe & pals in this film St. Elmo's Fire |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | THESPIANISTS $800: Goodness, gracious, Dennis Quaid pounded the ivories in this 1989 biopic; catch Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Swaggart Great Balls of Fire! |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $200: The nearly 800-room Palace Hotel in this city was one of the largest in the world when it was destroyed by a fire in 1906 San Francisco |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | BRIDGES $1200: The 14th century chapel bridge on Lake Lucerne in this country was nearly destroyed by fire in 1993 Switzerland |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | COMMUNICATION $1200: On film Ringo Starr played Atouk, this title type of "man", whose language included ool ("food") & haraka ("fire") a caveman |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | IN THE FRAYS $1600: General Westmoreland's Saigon headquarters came under fire under this early 1968 attack the Tet Offensive |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: To indicate this type of transport in Plains Indian sign language, combine the signs for boat & fire steamboat |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE PEPYS SHOW $800: Describing "the cracking of houses at their ruine", Pepys wrote of this event that "it made me weep to see it" the Fire of London |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | THE AZTECS $800: This ruler's ornate throne, seen here, was built to commemorate the new fire ceremony in 1507 Montezuma |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS $400: J.K. Rowling won in 2001 for this novel partly about an object full of flames Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | CHICAGO TV $400: In 2015 this drama about Windy City doctors joined the "Chicago P.D." & "Chicago Fire" franchise Chicago Med |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | STARTS WITH ONE LETTER, ENDS WITH THE NEXT $2,200 (Daily Double): This cooking item is Japanese for "fire bowl" hibachi |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | PICK UP THE "TAB" $1200: A Kindle Fire, or an Aleve a tablet |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | MISSING LINKS $800: Baptism of ____ fighter fire |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | THE LEGEND & TRUTH OF SLEEPY HOLLOW $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) As the exceedingly lank schoolmaster heads for the bridge near the story's end, he "casts a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish... in a flash of fire and" this, but is disappointed brimstone |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | FICTION $200: This third installment of Stieg Larsson's "Girl" trilogy was the top-selling hardcover fiction book of 2010 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | ELEMENTAL SYMBOLS $2000: Pm, it's named for a fire-bringer promethium |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | REACH FOR THE TOP $1200: Merapi, or "mountain of fire", is a sacred volcano on Java in this country Indonesia |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | BAND AID $1200: In 2015 Miley Cyrus toured with these indie darlings who sound like their mouths are on fire The Flaming Lips |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS $400: (Po delivers the clue.) This Danish master wrote a tale about a brave one-legged tin soldier & his love for a tiny toy dancer; he ended up being melted by the fire into the shape of a heart--sorry, that one always kinda gets me Hans Christian Andersen |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | CHICAGO HISTORY $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) The museum houses many relics that survived the Great Fire of 1871, including a cowbell that was allegedly worn by this woman's cow, who was once blamed for kicking over a lantern & starting the fire Mrs. O'Leary |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | O CANADA $200: A fire in 1900 left a quarter of the 60,000 living in this capital homeless but its burnt-out areas were rebuilt by 1912 Ottawa |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | "G" WHIZZES $800: The gun this man invented in 1862 could fire 350 rounds per minute (Richard) Gatling |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | NONFICTION $400: "Vera" is a biography of his mrs., without whom he would not have written novels like "Pale Fire" & "Lolita" (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | OFFBEAT MUSEUMS $600: Leila's Hair Museum in Independence, Mo. includes a lock from this rock star taken from a Pepsi shoot when his hair caught fire Michael Jackson |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Bill Magrath's "Returning Fire", seen here, depicts the 1862 battle between these 2 vessels the Monitor & the Merrimack |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | SILENT KNIGHT $600: Not known for verbosity, Gregor Clegane is the hulking "Mountain Who Rides" in these books A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | OTHER CHRISTMAS SONGS $800: It's the alternate title & first line of "The Christmas Song", definitively sung by Nat King Cole "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | OUR ELVES $600: Azari is a fire elf & Naida a water elf in this Danish company's toy line & accompanying media franchise Lego |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $3,600 (Daily Double): A 1666 entry in his diary read, "The churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once" Samuel Pepys |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | NEW MUSICAL SUPERGROUPS $400: The Mamas at the Disco The Mamas and The Papas & Panic! At The Disco |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | EARTH, WIND OR FIRE $200: Conflagration fire |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | EARTH, WIND OR FIRE $400: Loam earth |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | EARTH, WIND OR FIRE $600: Flashover fire |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | EARTH, WIND OR FIRE $800: Mistral wind |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | EARTH, WIND OR FIRE $1000: Aridisol earth |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | SONG BOOKS $400: The HBO series "Game of Thrones" is based on the book series "A Song Of" these two things Ice & Fire |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | THE 1600s $400: The current St. Paul's Cathedral was built after this 1666 event destroyed the previous one the Fire of London |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $600: J.K. Rowling considered "Harry Potter and the Three Champions" for this fourth book in the series The Goblet of Fire |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | MOTTOES & SLOGANS $1600: "Blood and fire" is the motto of this "Army"; the blood comes from Jesus & the fire from the Holy Spirit the Salvation Army |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | NATIONAL PHRASES $400: "And when I awoke I was alone; this bird had flown / So I lit a fire, isn't it good" this title "Norwegian Wood" |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SCIENCE TIMELINE $800: Around 450 B.C.:
Empedocles posits that all matter is made of these 4 classical elements earth, fire, air & water |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BEAR NAYS $600: Smokey Bear first said "No" to fire in 1944, when the Ad Council teamed up with this federal government service National Forest Service |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | THIS & THAT $200: Because the Roman god Vulcan was all about fire, these houses of worship for him had to be outside city walls temples |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | HERBS & SPICES $200: The smoked Spanish version of this Hungarian spice is made from pimiento peppers dried & smoked over an oak fire paprika |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $200: The "tip of" it is the first hint of something more complex the iceberg |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $400: Someone busy with several projects has a lot of these, like a blacksmith irons in the fire |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $600: Corona discharge, or a 1985 Judd Nelson movie St. Elmo's fire |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $800: 7-letter word meaning to be adequate enough for needs; that will... suffice |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $1000: Job of one appointed to rule a country as the representative of a sovereign the viceroy |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | ON "FIRE" $200: A museum in Phoenix honors these heroes & has a database of 9,000 who have died in the line of duty since 1800 firefighters |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | ON "FIRE" $400: A sudden outburst of controversy or protest firestorm |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | ON "FIRE" $600: This beetle has luminous organs on its abdomen that are used during courtship a firefly |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | ON "FIRE" $800: We never tire of this industrialist who moved to Akron & formed his own company in 1900 (Harvey) Firestone |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | ON "FIRE" $1000: Two-word name for the silica stone seen here, often used for gems a fire opal |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 Time said, "Chocolate-brown, oily... it oozes rather than flows" after this Ohio river caught fire the Cuyahoga |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | LOW COUNTRY TYPES $800: WWI Dutch aviator Anthony Fokker developed a way to synchronize machine gun fire with the rotation of this a propeller |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | KINDLE $1600: A sudden outburst of fire, violence or a rash a flare-up |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | KINDLE $2000: Rhyming term for a section of forest that keeps catching fire a hot spot |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $1200: Get fired up for the song heard here, which in 1979 won the Grammy for this band The Doobie Brothers |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: 146 workers died in a 1911 fire at this NYC sweatshop that made shirtwaists, which were high-necked blouses the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | "L"AKES $1200: Sadly, the beautiful Chapel Bridge over this Swiss lake was badly damaged in a 1993 fire Lake Lucerne |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | NAME-DROPPING SONG LYRICS $1200: "Liston beats Patterson" is a line from his hit "We Didn't Start The Fire" Billy Joel |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | USS COD $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows off a torpedo tube on the USS Cod in Cleveland, OH.) Thanks to its torpedo data computer, the cod could fire guided weapons; a spindle slipped into the torpedo's side was used to set the course into an internal one of these spinning devices, from Greek for "circle watcher" a gyroscope |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS $1000: The name of this mineral is from the Greek for "fire"; as well as fooling gold-seekers, it produced the spark in wheel-lock guns (iron) pyrite |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | 1-WORD SONG TITLES $400: Its lyrics include "I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire" "Roar" |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | DIPLOMA"C" $400: Everybody stop shooting! It's high time we had one of these suspensions of armed conflict a cease-fire |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | VULCANOLOGY $400: The "Ring of Fire" is a large circle of active volcanoes on both sides of this ocean the Pacific Ocean |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS $400: Meaning to end something or fire someone, this verb often precedes "with extreme prejudice" terminate |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | GAMBLING WORDS $400: A metal rod for stirring a fire poker |
| #7054, aired 2015-04-23 | IN THE PANTHEON $800: Maker of metal objects, the fire god Hephaestus is the Greek counterpart of this Roman Vulcan |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | ANATOMICAL QUOTES $1200: At Bunker Hill, William Prescott (or was it Israel Putnam?) told his troops to not fire until they saw these of the enemy the whites of their eyes |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $800: O foul & dark time! This infamous event was borne in Pudding Lane & did rage for 5 awfull days in September of 1666 the Great London Fire |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | "L"ITERATURE $1000: Joe Christmas has an affair with Joanna Burden, kills her & sets her house on fire in this novel by Faulkner Light in August |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | SINGLE MOMS ON TV $2000: Darn tootin', Brett Butler was a single mom to 3 young'uns on this show Grace Under Fire |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, shows a machine.) Harvard lost most of its scientific equipment in a 1764 fire; state-of-the-art replacements, like an electricity-generating machine, were bought by this man in London on business for the colony of Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | READING RAINBOW $1200: The Rainbow Guard is Renly Baratheon's variant of the Kingsguard in these books The Song of Ice and Fire |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | ANTS $1600: These ants with a burning sting arrived in the U.S. from South America via Mobile, Alabama early in the 20th century fire ants |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | ASTROLOGY $600: Sometimes Sagittarius is considered a human sign, but usually they're Virgo, Aquarius, Libra & this Gemini |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.)
Flying a TBM Avenger in 1944, this 20 year old naval aviator bailed out after his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over the island of Chichi-jima, making him the only U.S. president to have literally been shot down in combat George H. W. Bush |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES $1000: You had left, middle & right fire buttons in this game, also the name of a U.S. Army unit known as MICOM Missile Command |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | MONSTER MANUAL $400: A wyvern is a smaller 2-legged, 2-winged, usually non-fire-breathing type of this a dragon |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | TRIPLE TALK SONGS $1200: This winter title follows "The fire is slowly dying, and, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing, but as long as you love me so..." "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1000: During the Battle of Manila Bay, this captain of the Olympia was told by Dewey to fire "when you are ready" Charles Gridley |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | "FIRE" $200: In 2007 Marko Lisec of Slovenia built a 60,589-cubic foot one of these to celebrate Labor Day a bonfire |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | "FIRE" $400: This software or hardware barrier is used to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing your computer a firewall |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | "FIRE" $600: Term for a meteor brighter than Venus in the morning or evening sky a fireball |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | "FIRE" $800: A British fighter plane of WWII, or a fierce-tempered woman a Spitfire |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | WIND $800: "Ba de ya, say do you remember" this hit by Earth, Wind & Fire, one of many featuring the Phenix Horns "September" |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | "FIRE" $1000: This 3-word phrase means taking a risk while engaging in what seems like a game playing with fire |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | PROCESS OF "L-M-N"ATION $800: It can mean pertaining to earth, air, water & fire, dear Watson elementary |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $800: In a Nabokov novel, it precedes "light of my life, fire of my loins" Lolita |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | CITY-TITLED MOVIES $400: In this film Ingrid Bergman asks Humphrey Bogart, "Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?" Casablanca |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $400: "Fire & Ice":
This island country with 300,000 people & 200 volcanoes Iceland |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | YOU CAN BUY IT ON eBAY $400: An assortment of barbecues & grills, including this kind, from the Japanese for "fire pot" hibachi |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | COOKBOOKS $800: This 5-letter prefix precedes "Grilling" in the title of the "Modern Caveman's Guide to Cooking with Fire" paleo |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | THE TITLE WHO... $400: Stieg Larsson:
"The Girl Who Played with..." Fire |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | LET'S TAIWAN ON $2000: Also called marsh gas, it seeps out of a spring to create Taiwan's Water & Fire Cave methane |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MOVIES $800: Air racer Dusty joins a helicopter named Blade Ranger in this animated movie subtitled "Fire & Rescue" Planes |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | NOT A POP GROUP, YET A POP GROUP $1000: The two items seen here Arcade Fire |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TOP 40 INSTRUMENTALS $400: The opening theme to this movie about a Jew & a Christian racing at the Olympics was a No. 1 hit Chariots of Fire |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THE REAGAN LIBRARY $200 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA.) On August 19, 1981, an international incident occurred when two U.S. Navy F-14s flying patrol over the Gulf of Sidra were attacked by two fighter jets flown by this country; the Tomcats returned fire, downing both enemy aircraft Libya |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | MANAGEMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): Don't fire that old duffer yet--he knows stuff about the company that's not written down, this 13-letter type of "memory" institutional |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | WHAT A WONDERFUL "WORLD" $400: The song "We Are Young" by fun. uses this idiom meaning to do great deeds & gain fame set the world on fire |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | PICTURE THE HITMAKERS $1600: These funkmeisters formed in Chicago Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | THE TEAM, THE TEAM, THE TEAM $1000: This "hot" Midwestern Major League Soccer team shares its name with a current NBC drama the Chicago Fire |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WORLD WAR I SLANG $2000: A German verb meaning "punish", by war's end it meant attacking with machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft strafe |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | SONG LYRICS $400: David Guetta:
"I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose, fire away" "Titanium" |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITY $200: Trump Taj Mahal allows side bets called "fire bets" that are placed before the new shooter first rolls in this game craps |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | KEEPING SAFE $400: The U.S. fire admin. wants you to know that 3/4 of fire injuries occur in residences, most of those in this room kitchen |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $2000: "Pale Fire", a reference to moonlight in "Timon of Athens", is the title of a 1962 novel by this Russian-born man Vladimir Nabokov |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | SONGS ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $800: "Fire In The Twilight" &
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" The Breakfast Club |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE QUOTE $800: "Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and ____ bubble" cauldron |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | BETTER KNOWN BY ONE NAME $400: Nigeria actually called a cease-fire in its civil war in 1967 to see this soccer star play Pelé |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | OLD TESTAMENT HEROES $1000: When a chariot of fire appeared, this prophet went up into heaven Elijah |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | THE PRESIDENCY $800: A 1929 fire damaged the West Wing, including this important alliterative room the Oval Office |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | GOOD KNIGHT $400: "The Hedge Knight" is a graphic novel set in the same world as this author's "A Song of Ice and Fire" George R.R. Martin |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | "FIRST" $600: Fire, police or medical personnel; whoever's earliest on the scene to assist in an emergency first responder (first response accepted) |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: The ability to set things on fire by psychic power pyrokinesis |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BAND OF BROTHERS $800: Grammy-winning indie rockers out of Canada: Win & William Butler Arcade Fire |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $1600: "Greek Fire" tells of the lives & love affair of singer Maria Callas & this shipping tycoon (Aristotle) Onassis |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | MOVIEMAKERS $800: Ridley's brother, this late director delivered lots of action from "Top Gun" to "Man on Fire" Tony Scott |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | ROMANTIC CLICHÉS $1,000 (Daily Double): A 17th c. Frenchman wrote, "Absence is to love as" this "is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it kindles the great" wind |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $200: 586 B.C.:
Nebuchadnezzar burns this city's first temple Jerusalem |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $400: 1871:
The "Great Fire" of this city starts in a barn on De Koven Street Chicago |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $600: 1613:
It's fire burn & cauldron bubble for this city's Globe Theatre London |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $800: Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $1000: 1871:
The Hotel de Ville in this city is burned during the commune Paris |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | WE'RE WITH "THE" BAND $200: "The End" &
"Light My Fire" The Doors |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | AVOIDING THE CLICHÉ $600: One christening involving a conflagration a baptism of fire |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | BETWEEN $600: In a trilogy, it's the book that comes between "The Hunger Games" & "Mockingjay" Catching Fire |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $400: This "fire" appears on the masts of ships in stormy weather St. Elmo's fire |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WAR STORIES $2000: "Fields of Fire" &
"Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder" the Vietnam War |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | IT WAS AN ACCIDENT $200: What may be the first air disaster came in 1785 when a fire ensued after one of these hit a chimney in Tullamore, Ireland hot air balloon |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CAPTAIN $500 (Daily Double): Sparking a debate about women in combat, in 1989 U.S. Capt. Linda Bray led troops under fire during the invasion of this country Panama |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | INNOVATION $1000: By 500,000 B.C., fire was being controlled & used by this "upright" species Homo erectus |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | IMAGINE DRAGONS $400: In an epic poem written around the 700s, this title guy is fatally wounded by a fire-breathing dragon Beowulf |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | THE MERCURY ASTRONAUTS $1600: Gus Grissom died in a 1967 fire during a simulation of the first launch in this program the Apollo program |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | ALBUM COVERS $2000: Pink Floyd:
2 men, one of whom is on fire, shaking hands Wish You Were Here |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | IN A FRENCH KITCHEN $400: Stand back, mon ami; brandy or rum can be used when serving something this way, meaning "on fire" flambé |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT PERFORMS TODAY'S HITS $600: "I got the eye of the tiger... dancing through the fire, 'cause I am a champion & you're gonna hear me roar" Katy Perry |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | A GREEK MYTHTAKE $600: After this guy tricked Zeus into accepting the bones from a sacrifice instead of the meat, Zeus hid fire from man Prometheus |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | A (TAYLOR) SWIFT CATEGORY $1600: Ms. Swift was named for this "Fire And Rain" singer James Taylor |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | NAMES IN NATURE $200: Use caution when trying to extinguish these ants that are named for their painful, burning stings fire ants |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BOOK COVERS $400: A sci-fi novel:
A man in a newspaper suit is on fire Fahrenheit 451 |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | PLANTS & TREES $1200: This Australian gum tree is so well adapted to fire that chemical changes from the heat cause new buds to sprout eucalyptus |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $1000: This man I:
"The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants" Job |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | 30 YEARS $800: Having failed to protect JFK, Clint Eastwood tries to thwart a new assassin 30 years later in this 1993 film In the Line of Fire |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $200: Pyrophobia fire |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | TAKE A WALK ON THE MILD SIDE $1200: "Goodness" this word from the Latin for "favor", "great balls of fire!" gracious |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | IT'S MAGIC TIME! $200: According to their contract rider, the talking one of this magical duo "eats fire...(but) does not blow or shoot flames" Penn & Teller |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Greek for "fire craft", it's the art of making fireworks pyrotechnics |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | LONDON MONUMENTS $1600: A Doric column designed by Christopher Wren that stands in the heart of London commemorates this 1666 tragedy the Great Fire |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | O CHRISTMAS TREE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) Often made with adhesive, cellulose & fire retardant, the artificial snow found on some trees is called this, also a term for what a bunch of birds do when coming together flock |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | WE'RE HAVING A BARBECUE $600: It's the 1-word equivalent of a spit roast, which rotates food while it cooks over a fire a rotisserie |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | MYTHING PERSONS $800: If he hadn't stolen fire from heaven, he wouldn't have been bound by chains to a rock in the Caucasus Prometheus |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | HOOK $200: A hook & ladder is another way of referring to this type of conveyance a fire truck |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | SOUND GEOGRAPHY $1200: Darwin Sound lies on the south coast of this South American island, the "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | '80s ONE-HIT WONDERS $1600: Vangelis, with his theme from this movie Chariots of Fire |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | EARTH BLANKS $1200: Funky Philip Bailey group:
Earth, ____ & ____ Wind & Fire |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | RAID! $2,000 (Daily Double): In February 1942 he wrote that the purpose of his upcoming raid was "to bomb and fire the industrial center of Japan" Jimmy Doolittle |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | PANTSLESS TV $1600: Under enemy sniper fire, this man (Gary Burghoff) lost the towel covering his rear flank on "M*A*S*H" Radar O'Reilly |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | BUILT TO DESTROY $600: A standard army weapon since the 1960s, this automatic rifle can fire 950 rounds per minute M16 |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | WORLDS & PHRASES $800: A poem by him starts, "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice" Robert Frost |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FIRE! $200: On Oct. 10, 1871, after 2 days, unbuilt lots, rainfall & Lake Michigan quelled a huge fire in this city Chicago |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FIRE! $400: On March 18, 1925 this woman's house of wax in London went up in smoke; the models within could be heard sizzling Madame Tussaud |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FIRE! $600: This general was blamed for the fire that destroyed Columbia, South Carolina, but he denied setting it & tried to put it out (William Tecumseh) Sherman |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FIRE! $800: Genesis 19 says, "the Lord rained upon" these 2 cities "brimstone and fire ...out of heaven" Sodom & Gomorrah |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FIRE! $1000: The 1911 fire in the NYC shirtwaist factory with this geometric name led to improvements in working conditions the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | DAYS $600: The date Congress authorized it, October 1 is the birthday of this national park, menaced by fire in the summer of 2013 Yosemite |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | CASTLING $1200: This low wall at the top of the ramparts kept soldiers from falling off & protected against enemy fire parapets |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | TV FOR THEE & ME $2000: Ralph Garman ordered up the flame of fire as "Full Bounty" host Jake Montrose on this Spike TV show, revived in 2013 The Joe Schmo Show |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | BESTSELLERS $800: George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series includes "A Storm of Swords" & "A Dance with" these creatures dragons |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | MUSIC $1600: There's an "Inferno Version" of her hit song "Girl On Fire" Alicia Keys |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $3,400 (Daily Double): Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" is an epic novel about this battle lost by the Spartans in 480 B.C. (the Battle of) Thermopylae |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT $800: Responsibilities of this unit of the San Diego PD include "fire control support" & "hostage rescues" SWAT team |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | 19th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES $1600: "Mr. Earnshaw was sitting by the fire, deadly sick; his evil genius, almost as...ghastly, leant against the chimney" Wuthering Heights |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | TEACH YOUR CHILDREN $2000: In the firefighting acronym P.A.S.S., pull the pin, aim at the fire's base, squeeze the lever, then do this until the fire is out sweep |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | A QUICK CATEGORY $1600: Arson is suspected when this type of substance, used as a catalyst to spread a fire, is found accelerant |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | WHO WROTE THAT? $2000: "The Fire Next Time" James Baldwin |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | NEXT IN ORDER $800: "...and the Sorcerer's Stone", "...and the Chamber of Secrets", "...and the Prisoner of Azkaban" ...and the Goblet of Fire |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | I HAVE A PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS $200: The act of parachuting into a forest fire gives this job its name smokejumper (or firejumper) |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): He redesigned more than 50 of the 87 churches lost in London's Great Fire Christopher Wren |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | IF EARLY INVENTORS USED KICKSTARTER $1200: OK, my 1839 screw propeller for steamboats was a few months late at the patent office, but help me fire up my 1862 machine gun Gatling |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: During the Battle of Manila Bay, this commodore told his captain, "you may fire when you are ready, Gridley" (George) Dewey |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | CHOP CHOP! $800: In the Stone Age, this stone was the main one flaked to produce arrowheads & axes; it can also be used to strike fire flint |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ROME, IF YOU WANT TO $1600: The ruins of the Domus Aurea, this Emperor's "Golden House" built after the Great Fire, sit in a public park in Rome Nero |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | MONARCHS OF ENGLAND $1000: This restored king ruled during the great plague of 1665 & the Great Fire of London the following year Charles II |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $800: In the short story "To Build" this, a newcomer to the Yukon struggles to keep warm in the frigid weather a Fire |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | ON BASS & VOCALS $600: He spews fire, he plays bass, he sings "Rock and Roll All Nite" for kiss Gene Simmons |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | UNIQUE PLACES $2000: A giant crater in Turkmenistan that's been on fire for 40 years has been dubbed "The Door to" this place Hell |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | FIRESTARTER $200: It's not known whether Mrs. O'Leary's cow started Chicago's great fire, but it did start in one of these structures a barn |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | FIRESTARTER $600: In 1917 a fire on a TNT-laden ship in this Nova Scotia capital led to the biggest pre-atomic man-made explosion Halifax |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | FIRESTARTER $800: Shockingly, a 2002 fire that blackened 200 square miles near Denver was started by an employee of this federal service the Forest Service |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | FIRESTARTER $1000: After London's great fire of 1666 started, this diarist said he buried a "Parmazan cheese as well as my wine" Samuel Pepys |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | HUGO AWARDS FOR SCIENCE FICTION $1200: J.K. Rowling for "Harry Potter and" this burning vessel the Goblet of Fire |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE LATE, GREAT COMEDIAN $800: This African-Amer. comic noted, "When you're on fire & running down the street, people will get out of your way" (Richard) Pryor |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE 4 ELEMENTS $2000: A corona discharge, light & crackling from objects such as masts, also has this more religious name St. Elmo's fire |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $1000: The Fire Chicago |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | LET'S WRITE A SHORT STORY $400: A dramatic hospital fire makes an excellent "plot" one of these, also a word for a turn or spiral a twist |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | NOUN; VERB $600: A container for soup; to fire an employee can |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | MUSIC ACT BY SIBLINGS $1200: "Sex On Fire"'s Caleb, Nathan & Jared Followill Kings of Leon |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | WHERE IS THAT PLANET? $200: After Google; before wind & fire Earth |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | CALL ME ISRAEL $1200: General Israel Putnam is said to have ordered, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at this battle Bunker Hill |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | THE LONDON STAGE $800 (Daily Double): In summer 2012 this play based on a movie about 2 British athletes at the 1924 Olympics was off & running Chariots of Fire |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | CONSERVATION $2,000 (Daily Double): Indonesia's largest lizard, it's protected from poachers, though we wish it could breathe fire to do the job itself a Komodo dragon |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a naval animation on the monitor.) At the 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, a line of Japanese ships received deadly raking fire from American Admiral Scott's fleet in a classic naval maneuver called "crossing" this the T |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | LEFT TO YOUR OWN DEVICES $400: The ionization type of this safety device responds better to leaping flames; the photoelectric, to smoldering a smoke detector |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | TURN UP THE HEAT $800: A hellish, raging fire, or the Italian word for hell inferno |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | F.H. $200: Blaze-fighting feature affixed to the street a fire hydrant |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | THOR'S DAY $1200: O gods, rain fire on Marvel & Paramount for making this slimy god Thor's brother Loki |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | THE BOX $1200: To make fire before matches were invented, this container held combustible materials, flint & steel a tinderbox |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | FOODS, STUFFED $1000: Miss Leone's "Fire in the Pit" are queen ones of these stuffed with hot peppers olives |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Sicily's "Mountain of Fire" Mount Etna |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | LIVING IN TENTS $600: Described by Thoreau, a baker tent gets its name because it's open to the fire on one end & is warm as this inside an oven |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This word meaning an hour to be home comes from the French for "cover the fire" a curfew |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | LONDON CAN TAKE IT $400: It began in the house of the king's baker near London bridge on September 2, 1666 the great London fire |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | LITERARY SEQUELS $200: "The Girl Who Played with Fire" is the first sequel to this bestseller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES $3,800 (Daily Double): 1847:
"Attic head case sets fire to house when hubby falls for new governess" Jane Eyre |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: In 2011 he had bestsellers with the thriller "Cross Fire" & the kids' book "Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life" James Patterson |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | DUTCH COURAGE $400: Rather than let his gunpowder-filled ship be captured, Captain Jan van Speijk did this to it, he & his crew still aboard blew it up |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | 1990s NO. 1 ALBUMS $1200: This Seattle band was "Unplugged in New York"; cuts included "Lake Of Fire" Nirvana |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | KID HEROES $800: On Nick 12-year-old Aang must overcome the ruthless fire nation as The "Last" this an Airbender |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | POP MUSIC $800: It may not make sense, but in song, Adele wanted to "set fire to" this rain |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | NUMERICAL NOVEL BY CHARACTERS $600: Guy Montag, Fire Captain Beatty Fahrenheit 451 |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | "C" MONSTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Greeks said this fire-breather was part lion, part dragon & part goat--but maybe it was a figment of their imagination a Chimera |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | HEATED WORDS $200: It precedes
escape,
power &
extinguisher fire |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | QUEUES $3,000 (Daily Double): He abdicated shortly after Petrograd police opened fire on a group lined up for bread Nicholas II |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WAR POETRY $800: Dylan Thomas' "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" World War II |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | SINGERS PORTRAYED ON FILM $400: Dennis Quaid in "Great Balls of Fire!" Jerry Lee Lewis |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | THE RING CYCLE $600: Yes, Mr. Cash, it's also called the Circum-Pacific Belt the Ring of Fire |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | THE KING OF ENGLAND WHO... $1600: Reigned during the Great Fire of London Charles II |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ACTION & INACTION MOVIES $800: Nicholas Cage is back riding a motorcycle like his head was on fire in this: "Spirit of Vengeance" Ghost Rider |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: In 1913, just days before he was to move into his "Wolf House" in northern Calif., the house was destroyed by a fire Jack London |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | ODD WORDS $2000: Gather around the fire--the shanachie is here & he's going to do this tell stories |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: A succession of sharp snapping noises such as heard in a roaring fire crackles |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $200: In Genesis it was one of the cities destroyed by fire & brimstone Gomorrah |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | PLANT-HERS $200: The black-eyed this flower is called a pioneer plant--it's one of the first plants to grow in a new field, such as after a fire Susan |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | KROSSWORD KLUES "K" $400: Material for lighting a fire (8) kindling |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | MILITARY NICKNAMES & SLANG $2000: "Blue on blue" refers to one of these unfortunate alliterative occurrences friendly fire |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: In the Bible, "there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire... and Elijah went up by" one of these "into heaven" a whirlwind |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | GOD DID IT! $200: In Genesis 19, God got a tad angry with Sodom & rained on it fire & this, an old word for sulfur brimstone |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $800: In 1978 they put an R&B spin on "Got To Get You Into My Life" Earth Wind & Fire |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | SONG MASH-UPS $400: Song mash-up by The Doors & James Taylor that says, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" & "sweet dreams & flying machines" "Light My Fire And Rain" |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | PHENOMENA $2,000 (Daily Double): This term for a lucky type of visible electrical discharge is a corruption of Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors St. Elmo's fire |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | YOUR BIRTHDAY HOROSCOPE $400: March 25:
Mars may rule this fire sign known for great athletes, but no one else does! Also, bet heavy on the Rams Aries |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $1200: Pay Paul Hewson (who works under another name): buy this band's 1984 album "'The Unforgettable Fire" U2 |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" battle site is the setting for a 1980s ensemble cop drama Bunker Hill Street Blues |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | TECHNOLOGY MATTERS $400: This Amazon line has a new multimedia tablet aptly dubbed "Fire" Kindle |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | HISTORY IS STRANGE $400: In the great fire of this capital city in 1666, as much as 80% of the city burned down but fewer than a dozen people perished London |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ON CABLE $1600: Chris Matthews' game is to fire off tough questions on this MSNBC show that he's hosted since the 1990s Hardball |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | MYTHOLOGY $400: This fire stealer was Pandora's brother-in-law Prometheus |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | MYTHOLOGY $800: One myth says Thetis, the mom of this Trojan War hero, held him in fire to destroy his mortal elements Achilles |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | ASIAN HISTORY $2000: Fire shrines found in Iran show that the ancient Parthian empire followed this religion Zoroastrianism |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | COUNTRY GROUPS $800: In 1981 they burned up the pop & country charts singing, "My heart's on fire, Elvira" The Oak Ridge Boys |
| #6286, aired 2012-01-09 | FELONIOUS MONKS $1200: Friar Vicente de Valverde gave Atahuallpa the choice of death by fire or garrote; he chose the latter & this empire ended the Incan Empire |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | PLAYING THE PONIES $2000: Viggo Mortensen takes this title horse on the "Ocean of Fire" race in a 2004 movie Hidalgo |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | U.S.A. $2000: In Mitchell, Ind. a rocket memorial honors this hometown hero who died in a fire on the launch pad in 1967 Gus Grissom |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE DREIDEL WILL ROCK $1600: Guitarist Robby Krieger lit the fire under this classic '60s band The Doors |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | GEORGE STRAIT TO NO. 1 $600: One of these "I Can't Put Out" a fire |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | CANADA ROCKS $800: In 2007 this Montreal group was "aflame" with creativity on their album "Neon Bible" Arcade Fire |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | THE VILLAGE IDIOM $1600: Like a Tower of London guard, Ed has done this type of "service", running our volunteer fire department yeoman |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | BURNS, BABY, BURNS $800: Finish the burns line: "Give me a spark O' nature's fire! / that's a' the learning I..." "desire" |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BIOPIC SUBJECTS $1200: 1989:
"Great Balls of Fire!" Jerry Lee Lewis |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | STORAGE $1000: In 1955 the Sentry company made the first one of these classified as fire-resistant a safe |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC $200: In 1963 Johnny Cash sang, "And it" this, this, this, "the ring of fire, the ring of fire" burns, burns, burns |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | CURRENT TV SHOWS BY EPISODES $2000: "Mac's Mom Burns her House Down" &
"Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire" It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | SCIENCE "K"LASS $800: A substance to start a fire, or the point that's the lowest temperature at which something will autoignite the kindling point |
| #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 |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | LIBRARIES $800: This city's first public library opened in 1873 in a circular water tank that had survived the Great Fire Chicago |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MYTHBUSTERS $400: (The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci designed a cannon powered by the rapid expansion of this; he thought it would fire projectiles 3,000 feet, but our test showed that the idea was mostly hot air steam |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MYTHBUSTERS $800: (The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) 500 mirrors reflected the sun's rays on a ship's sail which got hot, but failed to catch fire; at President Obama's request we were testing a method invented by this ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | VOLCANOES $200: About its eruption in 79 A.D., an observer wrote that "broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several points" Vesuvius |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | MEET THE FLINT STONES $200: The flint core stones seen here were used to produce this fire |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | EARTHQUAKE! $200: The Palace Hotel in this U.S. city had to be rebuilt after it was gutted by fire following a 1906 earthquake San Francisco |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | FICTION $1600: The first book in George R.R. Martin's epic series "A Song of Ice and Fire" became this HBO series in 2011 Game of Thrones |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | INSIDE OUTSIDE $600: To put out a fire by pouring water on it douse |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PAN AM IN THE '60s $800: (Christina Ricci gives the clue.) In the mid-'60s U.S. flight attendants were almost all female & it was 1965 when the EEOC ruled the airlines couldn't fire one for doing this getting married |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | DISASTERS $400: Like Chicago the year before, Boston was hit by a "great" one of these in 1872 a fire |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | EARLY MAN $400: 790,000-year-old flints from a site in Israel provide the oldest known evidence of early man's control of this fire |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $800: A 1920 Robert Frost poem begins, "Some say the world will end in" this, "some say in ice" fire |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | ATTILA THE HUNGRY $600: I know you like this nut "Roasting On An Open Fire", along with your enemies; try some sweetened ones, as in marrons glaces chestnuts |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | SUMMERTIME $600: The fun-spoilers in city government don't want you to open these to play in the street--what if there's no water to fight fires? fire hydrants |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: To save ammunition during this 1775 battle, Patriots were ordered, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" Bunker Hill |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHARIOTS OF FIRE $1200: In the '60s George Barris bought a concept car from Ford for $1; holy swindle! in 1966 we knew it as this fire-spewing TV car the Batmobile |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHARIOTS OF FIRE $1600: In 1994 this brand extinguished the name of its K5 Blazer, replacing it with Tahoe Chevy |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHARIOTS OF FIRE $2000: This brand made both the Fiero (which is actually Italian for "proud") & the Firebird Pontiac |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | POETS & POETRY $400: Lord Byron wrote wistfully, "I am ashes where once I was" this fire |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | ON A SWISS ARMY KNIFE $800: This can help with reading the fine print or with starting a fire using sunlight a magnifying glass |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THEIR GREATEST HITS $600: "September" & "Shining Star" Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LYRICAL MOP UP $1600: David Bowie: "And I've been putting out fire with ___" gasoline |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | THE "L" YOU SAY $400: If you were born on August 15, you're this fire sign Leo |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | THE MOGULS & THE MOVIES $400: Starting in 1915, Carl Laemmle built this "city" named for his studio, complete with its own mayor & fire department Universal City |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $1000: In 1910 this man published his story collection "Lost Face", which includes "To Build a Fire" Jack London |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the bank of the Jordan River in Israel.) As depicted in art, after parting the River Jordan with his cloak, this biblical prophet followed a chariot of fire into Heaven Elijah |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | 1911 $600: Claiming 146 lives, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in this city led to worker safety reforms New York City |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $800: Vulcan is the Roman equivalent of this Greek fire god (10 letters) H-E-P-H-A-E-S-T-U-S |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2,000 (Daily Double): The second book in a bestselling trilogy is "The Girl Who Played with" this Fire |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $400: A devastating earthquake & fire in this city in 1906 caused 3,000 deaths & $400 million in damages San Francisco |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | PATENTS $1600: 1878: Joseph Winters for a wagon-mounted fire escape one of these a ladder |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | GETTING INTO CHARACTER $1000: To play Hawkeye in this movie, Daniel Day-Lewis learned to track animals, build canoes & fire muskets The Last of the Mohicans |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | GET INTO THE RING $400: And it burns, burns, burns, this 3-word zone of the Pacific Ocean highlighted here the Ring of Fire |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $2000: Mars light,
tower ladder,
water pressure gauge,
hydrant intake a fire truck |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | LOUISIANA LORE $1600: Kenner, outside New Orleans, was once called "Cannes Brulee" as Indians used to light this on fire to drive out game sugarcane |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS $2000: A Mexico City bodyguard looking for revenge Man on Fire |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | RESCUE ME $600: In 1950 this future symbol of fire prevention was rescued from a fire in a New Mexico forest Smokey the Bear |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | O GODS $600: Ogoun is the god of fire in this Haitian religion derived from an African word meaning "deity" Voodoo |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | "A" + 4 $2000: It can mean passion or zeal, or the intense heat or glow of a fire ardor |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | SOCCER TO US! $800: This name of Chicago's MLS team refers to an 1871 event Fire |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | MANDARIN CHINESE $400: Che is the word & character for vehicle: huo che, or "fire vehicle", is this transport that can take you across China a train |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | THE MAGIC DRAGON $1600: Christian Bale & Matthew McConaughey tag & bag flame-throwing dragons in this futuristic tale Reign of Fire |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | THIS & THAT $600: Hephaestus was the Greek god of this; Prometheus was chained to a rock for stealing it fire |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | POP & ROCK $1200: This indie rock group lit up the charts with its 2010 album "The Suburbs" Arcade Fire |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | POETIC PLACES $1600: Sections of the lengthy Eliot poem about this place include "The Fire Sermon" & "What the Thunder Said" The Waste Land |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | THE EXECUTOR BRANCH $800: In 1754 he ordered his Virginia militiamen to fire on a group of unsuspecting Frenchmen, killing 10 George Washington |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | 5 OF THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $1000: Fire was an important part of this landmark, which stood for about 1,500 years the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | YOU'RE FIRED $4,000 (Daily Double): If you're a Glock-17, you fire bullets of this metric caliber, equal to .35 inches 9 mm |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | FIREFIGHTING $200: Your dry chemical household fire extinguisher likely contains sodium bicarbonate, known as this in the kitchen baking soda |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | FIREFIGHTING $1000: Early NYC firemen were alerted with rattles--so you might have a 3-rattle fire where today we'd have this equivalent a 3-alarm fire |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | HELLO, I'M JOHNNY CASH $200: I kept a close watch on this hit of mine as it climbed into the Top 20 in 1956 "I Walk The Line" |
| #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" |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP! $800: Adm. Rickover said this ship's 1898 explosion was due to heat from fire in a coal bin that set off ammunition... remember? the Maine |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $800: This alliterative exclamation of surprise dates back way before "Great Balls Of Fire": it goes back to the 1700s goodness gracious |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | BOY SCOUT ACTIVITIES $800: Patterns a scout can use to build a fire include cross-ditch, pyramid & this one named for a Native American structure teepee |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | THAT HURTS! $1000: Clearing land by cutting trees down and then setting fire to them is called this "& burn" slash |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | HELLO CLEVELAND! $1000: Cleveland sits at the mouth of this river that caught fire in 1969; it's also the seat of the county of the same name Cuyahoga |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | MAKE IT RIGHT $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) A wood product called TimberSIL gives Make It Right homes durability; it endures, resists warping, & is a Class A fire retardant, due to being infused with this common transparent material glass |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | THEY'RE LOOKING OUT FOR US $1200: Pasadena, Texas, population 140,000, has the USA's largest municipal fire department of this type volunteer |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | RADIO DISNEY $400: "Everybody Else" knows these huggable toys precede "On Fire" in the name of a Radio Disney top 30 band; do you? Care Bears |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | SEE & SAY $1200: Say the name of this bug; don't worry, it doesn't breathe fire the dragonfly |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | VERBS $1000: From the German for "punish", it's to fire on ground troops from a plane strafe |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | IT'S IN ARGENTINA $800: Discovered in 1520, this large island Argentina shares with Chile has a name that means "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | ANAGRAMS OF COLORS $800: You could be a fire or army type in a colony if you're this ant (an anagram of tan) |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LANDMARKS $400: Irish-born architect James Hoban designed this Washington, D.C. building; he had to rebuild it after an 1814 fire the White House |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | WORDS FROM RELIGION $800: 5-letter word for the set of books that have authority in a religion & no, you can't fire it off canon |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | ROMEO ON THE RADIO $1600: This song that pairs Romeo & Juliet with Samson & Delilah was a hit for the Pointer Sisters "Fire" |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | WE GOT THE "BEA" $1600: A signal fire a beacon |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | ECUADOR OF YORE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parque Histórico in Guayaquil, Ecuador.) The Malecón, or river walk, was rebuilt on a more grand scale after the 1896 fire, which some said was set on purpose to keep President Alfaro from moving the capital here to Guayaquil from this city Quito |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | DOUBLE TALK $1600: It's another term for antiaircraft fire ack-ack |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | HISTORIC TRANSPORTS $1000: In 2007 while undergoing renovations, this historic British tea clipper was further damaged by a fire the Cutty Sark |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS $1200: In ancient times, the 4 basic constituent elements of the physical world wind, earth, fire and water |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | THE OTHER 2 LITTLE PIGS REBUILD $200: They say "people who live in" these "houses shouldn't throw stones", but if it's 9 inches thick, Pig 1 says fire away! glass houses |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 26, 1776 a fire destroyed Milan's Royal Ducal Theatre; this replaced it La Scala di Milano |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | MARCH 1 $800: Injuring several representatives, nationalists from this U.S. territory opened fire on Congress on March 1, 1954 Puerto Rico |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Boy Scouts of America at Camp Winton.) A traditional skill in scouting is knowing how to build a fire; one good method is named for this Native American shelter a tepee |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: After basically setting Georgia on fire, he was the commanding general of the U.S. army from 1869 to 1884 Sherman |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NON-BEATLES ROCK BAND $1200: "Be Somebody" & "Sex On Fire" are songs off 2008's "Only By the Night" from this band Kings of Leon |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $400: "The Fire Sermon" is Part III of this poet's "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $800: The burning of Moscow after Napoleon's exit is dramatized in this Tolstoy novel War and Peace |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $1200: In Book 1 of this, Satan is "hurld hedlong flaming from th' ethereal skies... to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire" Paradise Lost |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $1600: This Irish poet's "Sailing to Byzantium" urges "sages... in God's holy fire" to be "singing masters of my soul" William Butler Yeats |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $2000: His 1963 bestseller "The Fire Next Time" took its title from an old spiritual James Baldwin |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | VERB-ATIM $800 (Daily Double): This word meaning "to set on fire" is related to one of the 3 basic forms of rock ignite |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | THINGS WITH STINGS $200: The sting-happy European fire ant is polygynous, meaning it has lots of these royals per colony queens |
| #5837, aired 2010-01-19 | NORSE $2000: Volsung saga hero Sigurd rode through a ring of fire to free this warrior princess from her charmed sleep Brunhilde |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $1600: Ron Howard was on fire with this film in which Kurt Russell & William Baldwin starred as firefighting brothers Backdraft |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | THE STATE OF THE STATE $600: On fire--on Oct. 8, 1871, 90,000 people in a major city were left homeless in this state Illinois |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | BRITISH HISTORY DATEBOOK $600: September 2, 1666:
This deadly conflagration begins the Great Fire of London |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | IT HAPPENED ON CHRISTMAS EVE $400: Destroying more than 35,000 volumes, a fire devastated this location in Washington, D.C. on Christmas Eve 1851 the Library of Congress |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets a whiff of a holiday treat sold at a hot dog vendor's sidewalk stand in New York.) The aroma reminds me of one of the most popular holiday songs; written in 1946, it's simply called "The Christmas Song", but is better known by this first line "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | CALENDAR GIRLS $800: In 1963 she co-wrote "Ring of Fire" with Merle Kilgore (June) Carter (Cash) |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | A DAY WITH GRANDMA $800: Grandma slipped you a $10 bill, the redesigned one with this new fire-bearing symbol of freedom on it the torch of the Statue of Liberty |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | A DATE $2000: Our whirlwind tour ends when you come up & see these, made from acid-incised plates my etchings |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE $200: E.O. Wilson, the man behind the EOL, is an expert on these insects, like the black & red fire types you'll find listed ants |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE ROMAN GOD OR GODDESS OF... $1000: Fire & metalworking, but not logic Vulcan |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | & HOW $400: Keep it short; hand over accrued vacation pay; don't try to make things easier with complimentary lies fire someone |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | BIBLE QUOTES $2000: "There appeared a chariot of fire" & he "went up by a whirlwind into heaven" Elijah |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | SPEAK UP! $800: A German composer: "Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of a woman" Beethoven |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS' ADS $1200: Seeking nymphet to be light of my life, fire of my loins. Must answer to "Lolita" Humbert Humbert |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: Promethium is named for a man in Greek legend known for theft of this fire |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | EYE CANDY $400: Spice up your life with these cinnamon candies that also come in a fire version Hot Tamales |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | MOTHER NATURE $400: This beetle of the family Coccinellidae lays her eggs on a leaf before flying away home, fire or no fire the ladybug |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | PARTS OF SPEECH $2000: The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! a preposition |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE $400: Fire Island Light,
Buffalo Light New York |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | HAVOC $2000: An 1837 fire destroyed this city's Winter Palace, but the Hermitage's treasures were saved St. Petersburg |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | RING OF "FIRE" $400: A safety exercise to rehearse evacuating a building in the event of an emergency a fire drill |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | RING OF "FIRE" $800: An emergency water connection on a street a fire hydrant |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | RING OF "FIRE" $1200: A security system designed to prevent unwelcome hacking on your computer a firewall |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | RING OF "FIRE" $1600: When this is done as a religious ceremony, as in India, it's frowned on to accompany it with "Oh! Ow! Ooh!!" firewalking |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | RING OF "FIRE" $2000: They're the "F" in ATF Firearms |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: "Auto-da-fe" is associated with the Spanish Inquisition, but the phrase, which means this, is Portuguese act of faith |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $600: British troops set fire to the U.S. Capitol Madison |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | DISSING HISTORIC FIGURES $400: The fire-fiddling was one thing, but spending 2 billion sesterces on your court & gifts; emperor, you're nuts! Nero |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | SPELL IT BACKWARDS $400: A firecracker that fails to fire D-U-D |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | JOHNNY, TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON $2000: You've won the race to discover this element--now decide whether to call it "fire air" or "dephlogisticated air" oxygen |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE "GREAT" $400: This hit song begins, "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane" "Great Balls Of Fire" |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | RESCUE ME $1600: (Dennis Leary delivers the clue.) In the Crusades the knights of this Mediterranean island had to contend with fire-hurling Saracens; the FDNY later adopted their cross as a badge of honor Malta |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | THE "END" ZONE $800: Alliterative term for accidentally causing casualties to one's own combat troops friendly fire |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OUT LIKE A "LAM" $600: Mythologically, these terrestrial amphibians were supposed to live in fire salamanders |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | OMAHA BEACH $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Omaha Beach in France.) In the early hours of D-Day here at Pointe-Du-Hoc, members of this elite U.S. Army force braved heavy enemy fire to scale the steep cliffs & take out cannons the Army Rangers |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | THEY SHOULD HAVE PLAYED VEGAS $400: Aargh! He stuck long lit matches under his hat to frame his famous facial hair in fire; let's book him at Treasure Island Blackbeard |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | BANK ON IT $200: In a 2008 weekend fire sale, this red, white & blue bank snapped up Merrill Lynch Bank of America |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | BANK ON IT $1,200 (Daily Double): This company was incorporated to help those in need after a fire blackened the Seattle business district in 1889 Washington Mutual (WaMu) |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | FIRE 'EM $400: In 2007 a judge ruled that a Santa Barbara newspaper had illegally fired workers for trying to join this a union |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | FIRE 'EM $800: This final payment is often 1 or 2 weeks' pay per year of service severance |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | FIRE 'EM $1200: Douglas MacArthur is among those who've been fired for this, disobedient resistance to authority insubordination |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | FIRE 'EM $1600: From the Latin for "end", this word often follows "wrongful" termination |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | FIRE 'EM $2000: The 2008 firing of the Oakland Raiders' coach was "for" this, meaning coach doesn't get the rest of the money cause |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | A DISCOURAGING WORD $200: Someone who "dampens" enthusiasm, or what Linus might use to extinguish a small fire a wet blanket |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | SPRINGSTEEN SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: "Me, Ablaze" "I Am On Fire" |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $200: Apostles Peter & Paul may have been put to death when Christians were blamed for this disaster in Rome in 64 A.D. fire |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GOOD EATS WITH ALTON BROWN $400: Add a little brandy or other spirit to the fire, then with a little fire, and you've created this French presentation flambé |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | WORLD OF WARCRAFT $200: Bows get arrows; crossbows fire these, like lightning bolts |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $3,000 (Daily Double): This band took its name from the 3 elements in founder Maurice White's astrological chart Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | A BUNCH OF NUTS $200: They can be boiled, candied or pureed, but at Christmas time it's traditional to roast them "on an open fire" chestnuts |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | HYBRIDS $2000: The name of this fire-breathing, lion-headed, goat-bodied monster has come to mean any idle fancy the Chimera |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | CHRISTMAS PUDDING $1000: The Norse, who thought the sun was a ball of fire rolling around, started the tradition of this fireplace object a yule log |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | PLANET "EARTH" $600: Their hit songs include "Boogie Wonderland" Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $2000: Crusty Secret Service agent Clint Eastwood protects the president from John Malkovich in this 1993 thriller In the Line of Fire |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | VARIETY PACK $1600: During a thunderstorm, this faint glowing light sometimes appears around masts of sailing ships & treetops St. Elmo's Fire |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: Trial by fire & by water were part of this medieval procedure, now meaning any painful experience to be endured trial by ordeal |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | MADE $800: Building with bales of this is sturdy, unlike in "The 3 Little Pigs", & fire-resistant when packed to keep out oxygen hay (or straw) |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | THE COMPLETELY GUILTY BYSTANDER $200: On Oct. 8, 1871 I didn't see her cow start the fire at her Chicago barn, but I should have put it out early Mrs. O'Leary |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | KNOW YOUR RIGHTS $400: Upon Stonewall Jackson's injury by friendly fire in 1863, this man remarked "I have lost my right arm" Robert E. Lee |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | FIREFIGHTING $200: The Bombardier 415 is used in the initial attack on these alliterative menaces, dropping a mix of water & foam a forest fire |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | FIREFIGHTING $400: NYC bucket brigades were retired with the use of watertight hoses & of these; the 1st was in 1817 on Frankfort St. a fire hydrant |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | FIREFIGHTING $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a firefighting map diagram on the monitor.) Firefighters make a perimeter around a wildfire--much of it by digging; when you hear a fire is 80% this, it doesn't mean it's 80% put out, but 80% of the perimeter is in place contained |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | OF THE CRYSTAL $400: A 1936 fire in this city destroyed the prefabricated Crystal Palace London |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | SOFT "C" $1000: The suspension of active hostilities in a war zone a cease-fire |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | BOOKS' SUBTITLES $800: Myra Lewis:
"The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis" Great Balls of Fire |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | THE HENRY WHO... $400: ...won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a cease-fire in Vietnam Kissinger |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE $400: On Oct. 11, 2007 this chairman of the Virgin Group rang us up, but he didn't parachute in while on fire or anything (Richard) Branson |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NAVY SEALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on shore as 2 attack boats approach at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The Navy SEALs were created by this U.S. president who had been a small-unit naval commander & who knew what a small, tough force could do JFK |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | STAR WARS $400: Martin Sheen weighed in on his son Charlie's divorce from this actress by calling for a "cease-fire" Denise Richards |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: This American organization undertook its first disaster relief in 1881, aiding victims of a forest fire the Red Cross |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | WORLD HISTORY $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Ginza in Tokyo.) Not much keeps the spirit of Tokyo down; this event in 1923 basically destroyed the city, but it was completely rebuilt in 1930 an earthquake |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | COOK $2000: Genuine pizza pies in the style of this southern Italian city are cooked in wood-fire ovens at 905 degrees F. Naples |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $200: Nidhogg, one of these mythical fire-breathers, gnaws at the roots of the cosmic tree a dragon |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1600: As quoted by James Baldwin, "God gave Noah" this sign, "no more water, the fire next time!" a rainbow |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lights a peanut on fire.) The oil in the peanut is almost 100 percent fat, which burns & produces energy, a process that's measured by this unit a calorie |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1200: Joe Wheeler, a cavalry leader in this war, was a fire-eating general in the Cuban campaign the Civil War |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | MODES OF TRANSPORT $200: 3 types of these are rescue trucks, pumpers & ladder trucks fire trucks |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | PLEASE DON'T SET THE DORM ON FIRE $200: Helium is OK, but this gas that filled the Hindenburg isn't; no containers of it in your room hydrogen |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | PLEASE DON'T SET THE DORM ON FIRE $400: Hey, chem majors! This alliterative heater seen here is not to be used at Herringbone Hall a Bunsen burner |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | PLEASE DON'T SET THE DORM ON FIRE $600: No re-creations in your room of this yearly event conceived by Larry Harvey & held many times in Black Rock Desert Burning Man |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | PLEASE DON'T SET THE DORM ON FIRE $800: This item seen here is definitely not a university-approved dorm fixture a flamethrower |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | PLEASE DON'T SET THE DORM ON FIRE $1000: No oily rag heaps; poor air circulation plus oxidation leads to this 2-word term, as Spinal Tap's drummer learned spontaneous combustion |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | ATLAS $400: This fire-stealer was Atlas' brother Prometheus |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | THE ROCKIES $400: In 1967 he literally & figuratively set his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival Jimi Hendrix |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | ____ OF ____ $800: A 1977 ticket for parking near a fire hydrant led to the arrest of the infamous NYC killer called this Son of Sam |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | APRIL 15: DAY OF DOOM $800: Hundreds perished April 15, 1997 in a fire during this religious pilgrimage to Mecca the hajj |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | THIS & THAT $400: It's easy to use one of these small grills whose name is from the Japanese for "bowl of fire" a hibachi |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | MAN-AGRAMS $1600: He "josh"ed around on "The West Wing":
WHAT BOLD DRY FIRE Bradley Whitford |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | THE CALENDAR $400: The Chinese assign each year an element as well as an animal; 1972 got rat & water & 1976, dragon & this fire |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | JACK LONDON $2000: The popular Jack London story "To Build" this is about a man trying to survive a harsh Yukon winter night a fire |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: During the Battle of Bunker Hill, patriots were warned not to "fire until you see" these the whites of their eyes |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | WHAT'S FOR DESSERT? $600: The Suzette type of these pancakes are so exquisitely thin, it's a shame to set them on fire for dessert crêpes |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | LET'S GO TO OHIO $2000: In 1969 this river running through Cleveland actually caught fire the Cuyahoga |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | THE ZODIAC $400: Zodiac signs are classified as earth, water, fire or air; Cancer is this type water |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | IT'S RAINING "MN" $400: Catch the flue here, where fire goes up in smoke a chimney |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | THAT SOUNDS "GREAT" $1600: St. Paul's Cathedral was among the more than 80 churches destroyed during this 1666 catastrophe the Great Fire of London (the Great London Fire accepted) |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD $200: First used in 1915 by the Germans, this 12-letter portable assault weapon adds serious fire-power a flamethrower |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: This part of a bagpipe that substitutes for your lungs shares its name with a device to force air onto a fire a bellows |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | DUCHY $800: Devastated by fire in 1713 & 1808, this city was made the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1812 Helsinki |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $1000: Workplace safety was reformed after the March 1911 fire at this garment factory the Triangle factory |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | WELCOME "BACK" $1000: An explosive surge in a fire produced by the sudden inrush of oxygen mixing with superheated gases backdraft |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | DESERT SURVIVAL SKILLS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a campfire in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.) Even in the desert, fire is important for survival, for cooking, signaling, & avoiding this, from the Greek for "under" & "heat" hypothermia |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WHAT THE HECK IS IT? $400: If you set some Chinese punk on fire, it's because Chinese punk is this, like sandalwood incense |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $800: A fire-eater makes sure the flame is out before opening his mouth--otherwise a rush of this will revive it oxygen |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | ZOOLOGY $400: While it doesn't breathe fire, this largest lizard does kill its prey with its deadly saliva a Komodo dragon |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $600: In 1865 NYC, already home to 800,000, finally abandoned this type of fire department volunteer |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | THE JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kyoto, Japan.) Many elements of the ceremony like the fire & water, the open tea bowl & the closed tea caddy, represent these two complementary forces of nature borrowed from the Chinese yin & yang |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | WORDS IN NOVEMBER $400: A smoldering remnant in a dying fire an ember |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | POMPIDOU & CIRCUMSTANCE $1600: In '61 Georges led secret talks with this country's Front de Liberation Nationale & got a cease-fire there Algeria |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | ALSO A TOOL $400: We recommend giving someone this figuratively if you must fire him; later he might have one to grind the axe |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | UNDER THE VOLCANO $2000: From words meaning "fire" & "broken", this type of flow of searing gas & rock swept down Mt. Pelee in 1902 a pyroclastic flow |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | BEST FEMALE ROCK VOCAL GRAMMYS $800: 1981:
"Fire And Ice" Pat Benatar |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | NAME THAT CENTURY $600: London experienced its deadly "Great Fire" the 17th century |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | COLORS $200: If you want to stand out, you can't beat the fire-engine shade of this red |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | PREFIXES $800: It puts the fire before -technics & -mania pyro- |
| #5302, aired 2007-10-02 | IT'S A GAS! $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) To make a simple fire extinguisher, just put some vinegar in baking soda & the chemical reaction produces this gas, which will put out a flame carbon dioxide |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THE BRITISH INVASION $800: "Play with Fire" from this Group's 1965 album "Out of Our Heads" featured Phil Spector on bass The Rolling Stones |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $800: This 1987 comedy in which Steve played fire chief C.D. Bales was based on "Cyrano de Bergerac" Roxanne |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | "P"LEASE $800: A large fire built for a funeral cremation a pyre |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | STORY SPOILERS $200: Harry is chosen for & competes in the Triwizard Tournament. He fights Voldemort. "Moody" tries to kill Harry Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | STORY SPOILERS $600: Ponyboy vs. the Socs. Johnny kills a Soc. A church catches on fire, kids are saved. Johnny dies, Dally is shot The Outsiders |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | NATURE $600: This type of "high" Southwestern brush, like the scrub oak, depends on fire to renew its growth chaparral |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY $2000: Tragically, a Jan. 27, 1967 fire at Cape Kennedy claimed the lives of Ed White, Roger Chaffee & this man (Gus) Grissom |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $7,600 (Daily Double): This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms St. Elmo |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PRESIDENTIAL HUMOR $1200: He said, "I didn't fire" MacArthur because he was dumb, "although he was, but that's not against the law for generals" Harry Truman |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | PTOLEMY...WHY NOT TAKE PTOLEMY? $600: Fire was an important part of this structure, one of the 7 ancient wonders, finished during Ptolemy II's reign the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | GEOLOGY $600: In the 5th century B.C., Empedocles argued that everything that exists can be reduced to these 4 elements earth, air, water & fire |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | LET'S EAT $1000: Actress Suzette Reichenberg may have lent her name to this dish that is served on fire Crêpe Suzette |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | OF WING $200: It can't breathe fire, but a dragonfly does have this many wings 4 |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | PUDDING $400: This tragedy started in a baker's shop on Pudding Lane on Sept. 2, 1666 the Great Fire of London |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $2000: This 1981 dramatic film about Stone Age man won the Academy Award for Best Makeup Quest for Fire |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | CREOLE CURIOSITY SHOP $1600: Following the death of his mad Creole wife Bertha in a fire, this literary character weds Jane Eyre Rochester |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $1000: Safety pin, pressurized canister, hose, foam a fire extinguisher |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | LANDMARKS $1600: A gilt statue of this fire-stealer is at the heart of Rockefeller Center Prometheus |
