| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Fountains, Roman candles & ground spinners are types of these fireworks |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $800: Premiering in 1749, "Music for the Royal" these got set off to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession fireworks |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP MUSIC $600: Of course fireworks burst across the sky-y-y in her video for "Firework" Katy Perry |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A LITTLE "DEB"LL DO YA $1000: They're his "Fireworks" heard here Debussy |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: The character Po eats, shoots out of fireworks & leaves us laughing in this 2008 film, the start of a film franchise Kung Fu Panda |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FOREIGN HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: This observance in the United Kingdom on November 5 is also known as Bonfire or Fireworks Night Guy Fawkes |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Fireworks went off July 4, 2012 with the announcement of a boson consistent with the predictions of this British particle physicist Higgs |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SUMMER'S HERE $200: It's a festive Fourth of July in South Carolina, where consumer-grade these are legal to use if you're over 16 fireworks |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This Tchaikovsky work became popular for July 4th after a 1974 Boston Pops performance featuring fireworks & cannons the 1812 Overture |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | IT'S TOO CROWDED $600: On New Year's Eve 1994, 4.2 million showed up for fireworks & a free Rod Stewart concert on Copacabana Beach in this city Rio de Janeiro |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | OLDE MUSIC $800: Handel's 5-movement orchestral suite, "Music for the Royal" these, premiered in 1749 & naturally preceded a display Fireworks |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | POP CULTURE $200: She closed out the 2021 inauguration celebration by singing "Firework" as fireworks shot across the sky Katy Perry |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $200: (Mary Bubala of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) In 2014, fireworks lit the sky at Fort McHenry as the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore--& the writing of this song--was celebrated "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Megan Gilliland of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Every 4th of July there are fireworks over this ship, Baltimore's answer to the USS Constitution; her illustrious history includes the capture of three slave ships off the coast of Africa the USS Constellation |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $600: Nearly 70,000 shells filled the air in 2019 as viewers lined NYC's FDR Drive to see July 4th fireworks over this river the East River |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $400: Baozhu, a Chinese word for firecracker, means "exploding" this woody grass--early fireworks were made from it bamboo |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $800: In 2020 this state's Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival set a record for largest aerial firework with a 2,800-pound shell Colorado |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $1600: We give 10 stars to this firework named for a European city, which often has 10 exploding stars packed into a tube a Roman candle |
| #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 |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $2000: You can make a safer type of the "black" this reptile with baking soda & sugar--it produces CO2 & carbon ash snake |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | CHEMISTRY $1600: In a flame test, this element--atomic number 11--burns yellow; it's also often the basis of the yellow color in fireworks sodium |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE DRAKE PASSAGE $600: Drake was featured on her hit "What's My Name?"; he addressed their fling on his own song "Fireworks" Rihanna |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | I'M DYIN' UP HERE! $600: In 1819 famed aeronaut Sophie Blanchard ignited fireworks over Paris; bad idea in a balloon filled with this hydrogen |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | COIN STAR $1,400 (Daily Double): The stars allude to fireworks on a 2-pound coin the Royal Mint issued in 2005 to remember this plot on its 400th anniversary the Gunpowder Plot |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: The medieval city of Carcassonne in France puts on a great fireworks display on this July holiday Bastille Day |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | I COMPOSED IT $1000: Commissioned by England's King George II, "Music for the Royal Fireworks" Handel |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: Slightly less dangerous than the lit kind, the water version of this firework is launching here a bottle rocket |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $800: This handheld firework is the source of most fireworks-related injuries a sparkler |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1200: You might cry with joy after seeing the firework here, named for this tree a (weeping) willow |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1600: Using bamboo tubes, this country, not Italy, first made Roman candles China |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $2000: The firework here gets its name from the wheel associated with this female saint St. Catherine |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | "SALT" $1200: The first Chinese propellants used sulfur, charcoal & this, potassium nitrate saltpeter |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Handel's "Music For the Royal" these accompanied a display of them in its 1749 premiere fireworks |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | TOOL TIME $200: Using compressed air to break up pavement, this portable drill is slightly less noisy than fireworks going off 3' away a jackhammer |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | IT COMES ONCE A YEAR $1000: In England fireworks & the burning of effigies are part of the festivities for this November 5 holiday Guy Fawkes Day |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | BOSTON, MISTER $1200: The July 4, 2015 concert at the Hatch Shell featured this orchestra & of course, some serious fireworks the Boston Pops |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | THE ENTERTAINER $400: A pyrotechnician is someone involved in the art of making these fireworks |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | RIGHT NOW SCIENCE $800: Astronomers geared up for fireworks when the enormous gas cloud G2 passed Sagittarius A*, one of these a black hole |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC ADJECTIVES $1000: Handel wrote "Music for" these "Fireworks" Royal |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT $400: November 4, 1605:
Guy Fawkes is caught playing with fireworks under the House of these dukes, earls, etc. Lords |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: A March festival in Valencia features these, los fuegos artificiales, so loud that it bans pregnant women from some events fireworks |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | HISTORICAL TIME UNITS $800: An observer said this day in Philly in 1777 had "ringing of bells all day... & the bonfires in the streets, & the fireworks" July 4th |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | JULY $600: On July 4 Norfolk, Virginia has its annual "Great American Picnic and" these in the night sky Fireworks |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | DISNEY SIDEKICKS $2000: The song heard before the credits as fireworks explode over the castle was sung originally by this sidekick Jiminy Cricket |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: Legally, consumer versions of these, like M80s & cherry bombs, must be limited to 50 milligrams of flash powder fireworks (or firecrackers) |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Greek for "fire craft", it's the art of making fireworks pyrotechnics |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | BY GEORGE $2000: 1749's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" George Handel |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE $1600: Illegal in many places, this 1 1/2" fireworks item, also the first film Wes Anderson directed, has a 12" stick attached a bottle rocket |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | YULE TUBE $2000: Featuring warm weather & fireworks:
"Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in ____" July |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: This city's 4th of July celebration includes fireworks & music on the Charles, near the Longfellow Bridge Boston |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | THIS, OR THAT $600: A young hoodlum, or something used to light fireworks a punk |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! $800: For these, sodium compounds produce yellow; strontium, red; & copper & barium, blue & green; Oooooh! Aaaaah! fireworks |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | JOHNNY, TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON $400: You've won a brand new White House, & let the fireworks start as your opponent, Thomas Jefferson, is your new V.P. John Adams |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | GONE "-ICIAN" $1600: Someone who handles fireworks (carefully, we hope) a pyrotechnician |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $600: Knoxville's Boomsday festival celebrating this Sept. holiday has one of the USA's largest fireworks displays Labor Day |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | A SALT $1,500 (Daily Double): Used in fireworks & gunpowder, potassium nitrate gets this other name from the Latin for "rock" saltpeter |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $800: Fireworks light up India's sky during Diwali, this religon's festival of lights Hinduism |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | I LOVE A PARADE $800: Festivities on this July 14th holiday include fireworks & a huge military parade down Paris' Champs-Elysees Bastille Day |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | THE 21st CENTURY $1,500 (Daily Double): In 2005 there were fireworks on the 4th of July--83 million miles away, as the Deep Impact probe hit one of these a comet |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | BANGERS $4,200 (Daily Double): From their name, we assume these tubular fireworks are popular in Italy Roman candles |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME $1000: The first record of fireworks on this British man's infamous "day" came in 1660 & was mentioned in Pepys' Diary Guy Fawkes |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MAJOR MUSICAL WORKS $400: Tchaikovsky called this work of his in E flat major "loud and noisy", & he never even heard it with fireworks "The 1812 Overture" |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | COMPOSERS $1200: Go for Baroque & name this composer of "Music for the Royal Fireworks" Handel |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | "PUN" DAY $800: A young rebel, or something to light fireworks a punk |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | THE DARWIN AWARDS $400: A teen involved in a previous fireworks mishap tried to light gunpowder with this 9-letter metalworking aid a blowtorch |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | GUNS N' ROSES $200: On Jan. 1, 2005, a 207-foot train spouting fireworks & a 50-foot robot were highlights of this event the Rose Parade |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | TIMES SQUARE AT 100 $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports Times Square.) In 1907, risky fireworks were replaced for New Year's Eve with this, covered with 125-watt bulbs the (New Year's Eve dropping) ball |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | A LITTLE "DEB"LL DO YA $1000: They're his "Fireworks" heard here (Achille-Claude) Debussy |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | CLASSICAL CLASSICS $200 (Daily Double): In 1749 audiences craned their necks to Handel's "Music for" these the Royal Fireworks |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | CHEMICAL COMPOUND COMMERCIALS $1600: Potassium dichromate is used in photography! Dyeing! Fireworks! & The "safety" type of these! Isn't that amazing? matches |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME $2,000 (Daily Double): This term for the science of setting off fireworks is from the Greek for "fire craft" pyrotechnics |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | DEPARTMENT OF KNOWLEDGE $400: Prevent Blindness America sponsors a month for safety in the use of these that runs from June 1 to July 4 fireworks |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: This 1717 Handel piece heard here was composed for King George I The Water Music |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | USES FOR ARSENIC $200: Arsenic compounds are used as coloring agents in these sky displays fireworks |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | SWEET NOVEMBER $400: In Great Britain, every November 5 is his "Day", celebrated with fireworks & bonfires Guy Fawkes |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Manufacturers of fireworks use barium to give off a green color & sodium to produce this color yellow |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | CANADIAN TOURISM $600: Each year this British Columbia city hosts the Symphony of Fire, a 4-day fireworks extravaganza Vancouver |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | CAPITAL TOWNS $400: New Castle, Pa. is king of these, producing shows for the 1986 Statue of Liberty fete & every July 4 fireworks |
| #3283, aired 1998-12-09 | GOING FOR BAROQUE $500: In 1749 he composed "Music for the Royal Fireworks" to celebrate the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Georg Frideric Handel |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: This Handel work heard here was composed while he was living in London "Water Music" |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | BAYWATCH BEACH SAFETY $100: (Hi, I'm David Hasselhoff.) For L.A. beaches, this list includes dogs, fireworks & tents things that are prohibited |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | LAUNCH THIS! $200: The Pyrotechnics Guild International enjoys launching varieties of these, including "stars" & "comets" fireworks |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | COMPOSERS $1000: "Fireworks" was an earlier work by this "Firebird" composer Igor Stravinsky |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: Gunpowder invented during China's T'ang dynasty was first used in these, not in weapons fireworks |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | CHEMISTRY $200: These everyday items produce flame by the reaction between red phosphorus & potassium chlorate matches |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: The French celebrate this July 14 holiday with parades, fireworks & balls Bastille Day |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | MUSIC $800: His "Music for the Royal Fireworks" was written originally for wind orchestra; he added the strings later Handel |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | FIREWORKS $100: Until the 18th century, fireworks only came in this "waves of grain" color amber |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | FIREWORKS $200: According to superstition, the reason for fireworks on New Year's Eve is that their noise does this scares away the evil spirits |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | FIREWORKS $300: Appointed by John Lindsay, George Plimpton is this city's honorary fireworks commissioner New York City |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | FIREWORKS $400: "Fruity" name for a red, spherical firecracker a cherry bomb |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | FIREWORKS $500: A Very pistol shoots these & is used by people in need of aid a flare |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | THE ELEMENTS $100: Adding a bit of strontium will give these a crimson color when they burst in the sky fireworks |
| #1969, aired 1993-03-11 | GREEN THINGS $500: Barium nitrate added to the bursting powder in these makes them green fireworks |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | METALS $800: When used in fireworks barium gives off a green color & sodium emits this color yellow |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $100: "Summer and Smoke" opens on this holiday & there's a display of fireworks in the park 4th of July |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Biographers note, while they were born near each other, Bach never met this "Fireworks Music" composer Handel |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | SCIENCE $800: Used in flares, flashbulbs & fireworks, this element burns with a white flame in air magnesium |
| #1198, aired 1989-11-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: From the Greek for "fire" & "craft", it's a fancy word for a fireworks display pyrotechnics |
| #1062, aired 1989-03-28 | MUSIC $800: His "Royal Fireworks Music" could be put out with his "Water Music" (George Frideric) Handel |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $500: This soap co. sponsors nationwide fireworks shows that include a "ring around the sky" display Lever Brothers |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | U.S.A. $200: On New Year's Eve, there's a fireworks display on this well-known Colorado mountain Pikes Peak |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | CHINA $400: Though the Chinese invented gunpowder, they originally only used it in these fireworks |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | DISNEYLAND $100: Between the parade & the fireworks she flies over Fantasyland summer nights at about 9:30 P.M. Tinker Bell |
| #551, aired 1987-01-19 | TV TRIVIA $200: Peter Jennings said repeatedly this spectacular July 1986 display left him "limp" the fireworks display for the Statue of Liberty |
| #172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the art of making or displaying fireworks pyrotechnics |
