| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: President Coolidge presented him with the first Distinguished Flying Cross medal Lindbergh |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: On his third voyage, this man travels to the flying island of Laputa, where the people are so lost in thought they notice little else Gulliver |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | FLAG TIME! $400: Mary Pickersgill made the flag that was flying over this fort in 1814; it inspired a patriotic poem Fort McHenry |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | THE 3 "R"s $1200: This type of pilot in the early days of aviation would travel the country giving stunt-flying exhibitions barnstormer |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE HISTORIC 1990s $600: It didn't end well in 1997 for this cult that believed a flying saucer was following comet Hale-Bopp Heaven's Gate |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $2000: This "Flying Finn" was the first athlete from his country to win 5 gold medals at a single Olympics Nurmi |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | TAKING FLIGHT $1200: For its defensive firepower, World War II's B-17 was alliteratively nicknamed the "Flying" this Fortress |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Known for its yellow planes, this low-cost airline began flying gamblers from Detroit to Atlantic City in 1992 Spirit |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: They were first paired up in the RKO film "Flying Down to Rio"; "Top Hat" was a more successful venture for them & the studio Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | THE "ARE" YOU BREATHE $400: High-flying Jeb Corliss is often described as one of these; careful Jeb a daredevil |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WHEN I'M 64 $400: In all 64 minutes of this 1941 Disney classic, the high-flying title character never speaks Dumbo |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $800: In 1913 Lincoln Beachey became the first American to perform this repetitive-sounding maneuver, flying in a vertical circle loop the loop |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | RHYME TIME $1200: A flying feudal man-at-arms tethered & held by a child, hopefully, on a windy day a knight kite |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | KIDDY LIT $1000: In Janell Cannon's "Stellaluna", one of these flying animals is adopted by a family of birds a bat |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $2000: This adjective that means moody or readily evaporating comes from Latin for "to fly"; it once meant a flying creature volatile |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FROM THE FRENCH $400: The flying Montgolfier brothers used this word for a fabric device that slows your fall a parachute |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: Seen riding a flying gander, this character is usually traced back to a 1697 book by Charles Perrault Mother Goose |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CRAFTS $800: Before powered airplanes, the Wright brothers built a successful type of this 6-letter flying craft in 1902 a glider |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): April 21, 1918:
World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, best known by this nickname, is shot down & killed the Red Baron |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $1000: In 1932, this auto racer began using the squadron badge of a World War I flying ace, a prancing horse Ferrari |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $1000: On "Black Thursday" 1943, the U.S. lost 60 of these bombers on a single raid; message:
Need escort fighters! the Flying Fortress (the B-17) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $400: "The Flying Dutchman";
"The Mastersingers of Nuremberg";
"Tristan and Isolde";
"Ring Cycle" Wagner |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | LEONARDO DA VINCI, BUSY GUY $2000: As it has bird-like flapping wings, Leo's flying machine is designated one of these an ornithopter |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THREE DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS $300: In 2005, this company delivered its last 757 to Shanghai Airlines--its 737 is still flying high Boeing |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | HEY, LAD-"E" $200: Flying "may not be all plain sailing... but the fun of it is worth the price", said this woman, who would know Earhart |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | REAL FAST $800: Jorge Masvidal used a flying knee strike to knock out his opponent in just 5 seconds at this event in 2019 the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $1200: Not named for pirate William, but for an admiral who died on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor, here's the USS this, flying the Jolly Roger the USS Kidd |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THE IDIOMS GO THATAWAY $400: This phrase describes a plane flying low to evade enemy detection, or anything that's not getting attention nowadays under the radar |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | TRACK & FIELD $1000: This Finnish track star won an amazing 9 gold medals across 3 Olympic games in the 1920s Paavo Nurmi |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $600: Seen here are some high-flying gargoyles on this Manhattan building the Chrysler Building |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | EAGLES $800: On the pitch, the Eagles of Crystal Palace have been flying in this league since their most recent promotion in 2013 the Premier League |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES $1000: Complete your MBA by flying into the international airport of this Kenyan city Mombasa |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LET'S STICK TOGETHER $800: Harrison Ford was no longer flying solo in 2002 when he began seeing this "Ally McBeal" actress; the wedding was in 2010 Calista Flockhart |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $800: This quartet is on the "Adventure Of A Lifetime", flying "Up With The Birds" in "A Sky Full Of Stars" Coldplay |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $600: This gloomy architecture style is known for using flying buttresses Gothic |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | FIVE FOR FIGHTING $2000: His 1919 book "Fighting the Flying Circus" detailed his exploits in the 94th Aero Pursuit Squadron Rickenbacker |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CHAT G-P-T $1000: Engines don't turn the main rotors on these flying machines; they self-lift due to air flow gyrocopters |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FLYING COLORS $200: Benjamin Moore's paint called this, also an airline, is a dark sapphire; the airline's planes do have the appropriate tailfin color jet blue |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FLYING COLORS $400: Fittingly, desert gold is one of the colors that has been used on this U.S. airline's planes Southwest |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FLYING COLORS $600: This airline's planes have teal tails that sport a green shamrock with heart-shaped leaves Aer Lingus |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FLYING COLORS $1000: This Israeli airline has a blue Star of David on the tail of its planes El Al |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FLYING COLORS $2,400 (Daily Double): This airline's planes sport purple, fuchsia & coral to depict Pualani, the flower of the sky, who wears a hibiscus in her hair Hawaiian Airlines |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | PLANES, TRAINS $1200: When it started service in 1862, the Flying Scotsman rail route took 10 1/2 hours between these 2 cities; now it does it in 4 London & Edinburgh |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | FANCIFIED BEASTLY IDIOMS $800: In the manner of one flying fox leaving Pandemonium like a bat out of hell |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | FILL IN THE BLANKET $800: Heated WWII flying suits led to the patent:
E____
(8 letters) the electric blanket |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LET'S VISIT NICARAGUA $600: A stadium in Masaya is named for this Puerto Rican Pittsburgh Pirate who died flying earthquake relief to Nicaragua Clemente |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | DISNEY MENAGERIE $200: This flying elephant has his own ride at Disneyland Dumbo |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $800: Head to the Southeast Pacific if you're ready for a fight with the Humboldt, or jumbo flying, species of this cephalopod squid |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | OTHER FAMOUS VOLUNTEERS $400: Robert Scott, an ace of the Flying Tigers volunteer Air Force of World War II, wrote a book about his career called "God Is My" this Co-Pilot |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | WHAT IN THE WHIRLED... $600: Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton are hardly fazed by flying cows in this 1996 film Twister |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | MONKEY BUSINESS $600: The most abundant primate of the Amazon region, this type of monkey bears the name of a common rodent of North America a squirrel monkey |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | TREE TIME $400: The flowers of the African sausage tree bloom at night for visits by these flying mammals, their principal pollinators bats |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | NICKNAME'S THE SAME $1000: High-flying Charles Lindbergh & crime-timing Charles Luciano Lucky |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT $200: This liberating card depicts Mr. Monopoly flying out of a birdcage; you can buy one from another player Get Out of Jail Free |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | ANIMAL NAMES $1600: The name of this fast-flying falcon means "traveling" or "wandering" peregrine |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | BIOLOGY $1200: Wind-dispersed seeds are named for types of flying craft; maple seeds are this type that spins to get farther from the tree a helicopter |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $1600: In 1841 Richard Wagner composed "Der fliegende Holländer", this opera in English The Flying Dutchman |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | HISTORIC EVENTS $300: In 1927, this American became an international idol by flying solo across the Atlantic in his plane Spirit of St. Louis Charles Lindbergh |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $1600: According to his '60s theme song, he lived "in a world full of wonder, flying there under, under the sea" Flipper |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $600: Seen here, flying buttresses helped cathedrals like this one in Paris soar to new heights the Notre-Dame |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $200: So you saw an E.T.? Then it must have been piloting this, also called a flying saucer a UFO |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | WEIRD SCIENCE $200: Scientists now believe a species of this flying mammal buzzes like a wasp to deter owls from eating them a bat |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPINELESS CREATURES $1200: Several species of colorful, fast-flying butterflies are named for this top naval rank admiral |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | STARS $200: Giddyup, this constellation named for a mythical flying horse; a supernova was seen in a spiral galaxy there in 2014 Pegasus |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | PLANE TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): Great flying weather with no major clouds or haze is CAVU, "ceiling and" this "unlimited" visibility |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $100: The largest of these flying mammals have wingspans of more than 5 feet bats |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | NATURALISTS $1600: Jack Miner, a pioneer of doing this, to track birds, began a tradition of adding Bible verses to create flying missionaries tagging (banding) |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $1000: Clyde "Upside-Down" Pangborn was one of the 1920s pilots who thrilled folks on the ground with the stunt flying called this aerobatics (barnstorming) |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $400: Carpet,
saucer,
colors flying |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | 2022 GEOGRA-FEE $1000: Flying Emirates--first class, natch!--from L.A. to DXB, the airport serving this city, could set you back $16k, just one way Dubai |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | AT CROSS PURPOSES $800: Roscoe Turner, who entertained folks when he flew with his lion pal, is one of the few civilian pilots to earn this medal the Distinguished Flying Cross |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE III $1000: This high-flying '60s group included James Joseph McGuinn III (aka Roger) & Ingram Cecil Connor III (Gram Parsons) the Byrds |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $200: Aviophobia:
doing this flying |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 2022 ANNIVERSARIES $400: Happy 65th to this flying disc that Wham-O began rolling out in 1957 the Frisbee |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ON THE COASTER $1600: Coaster on coaster--it's this venerable Coney Island ride that Charles Lindbergh said was more thrilling than flying the Cyclone |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THE SILENT CONSONANT IN... $1000: Extinct 5-toed flying reptile from the late Cretaceous P |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES $800: In 1936, Beryl Markham was the first woman to achieve this solo flying east to west; Lindbergh had gone the easy way crossing the Atlantic |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: George Clooney travels around firing people while flying with U.S. President Harrison Ford Up in the Air Force One |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | AIRLINES $400: Its roots go back to 1932 when a pilot started flying his 3-seat plane between Anchorage & Bristol Bay Alaska Airlines |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE $1600: Not to be trusted as scientists, Coldplay claimed that "birds go flying at" this; they, in fact, do not the speed of sound |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $200: Flying over Utah, you might get a glimpse of this body of water the Great Salt Lake |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | RHYME TIME $600: Flying raptor jargon hawk talk |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | CROSBY $800: Before teaming up with Stills & Nash, David Crosby was a founding member of this high-flying 1960s rock group The Byrds |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $1000: This critically endangered bird with an alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America a California condor |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $800: After flying over the Nazca Lines in this country, get away to Huacachina, an oasis in the middle of the desert Peru |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $800: This German airline began flying in April 1955 Lufthansa |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | CRUISIN' FOR A BOOZIN' $1000: If you're sailing eternally around the Cape of Good Hope on a certain ghost ship, enjoy this same-named gin & triple sec drink the Flying Dutchman |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | FALSE ADVERTISING? $1200: One of the largest bats, the creature seen here goes by this alliterative, other-animal moniker flying fox |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Angling necessity that's a high-flying track & field event fishing pole vault |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | LESSER-KNOWN MARSUPIALS $600: Using another term for the way it moves from tree to tree, this marsupial would be called the sugar volplaner a sugar glider |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WE'VE GOT THAT BAND'S NUMBER $400: Megan Thee Stallion is featured on "Beautiful Mistakes" by this group; the video shows her & Adam Levine flying a car over Los Angeles Maroon 5 |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BOATS & SHIPS $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1854 Flying Cloud, this type of merchant ship, sailed from NYC to San Francisco in 89 days, a record that stood for 135 years a clipper |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | "NOD" $800: A flying creature of the cretaceous, seen here a pteranodon |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $400: The flying wedge was first used in this sport by Harvard in 1892 but became illegal due to players being brutalized football |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $800: We're not sure if this Bullwinkle pal is biologically a flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) or a regular gray squirrel who can fly Rocky |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $1200: Known as "The Flying Tomato", this snowboarder won his first Olympic halfpipe gold in 2006 (Shaun) White |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $1600: In 2005 she won a TV Land Award as "Favorite Airborne Character" for her 1960s work as "The Flying Nun" (Sally) Field |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $2000: In song, "He floats through the air, with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on" this flying trapeze |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | HISTORIC GROUPS $1600: Formed by the U.S. to help China in World War II, the American Volunteer Group Air Corps was also known as these "felines" the Flying Tigers |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | A VISIT TO THE ISS $400: (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) Look up in the sky at dawn or dusk & you might be able to spot the ISS flying overhead; it's visible thanks to nearly an acre of the arrays that provide this type of power solar |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $1000: Here's the view from one of these alphanumeric flying fortresses as it unleashed its bombs over occupied Europe in 1943 the B-17 |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $800: Sure, this Aussie mammal lays eggs like a bird, has a bill like a bird & dives under-water for 40 seconds, but flying? Nope! a platypus |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $1200: The title refers to a high-flying rocket in this third Ian Fleming James Bond novel Moonraker |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | PLANE, TRAIN OR AUTOMOBILE $1000: Flying Scotsman a train |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: "The harpoon was darted... (he) stooped to clear it... but the flying turn caught him round the neck" Captain Ahab |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | TIGER $800: A group of volunteer American pilots recruited by Claire Chennault during World War II had this nickname Flying Tigers |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | MOVIE MUSICALS $1600: "Toot Sweets" & "Truly Scrumptious" were 2 of the tunes in this 1960s musical about a magical flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: This ancient flying reptile had a wing span of up to 35 feet pterodactyl |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $600: A black flag is scary enough, but a pirate ship flying this color flag meant "no quarter given", a very bad omen red |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | NICKNAMES $800: The Hughes Flying Boat was also known by this rhyming nickname the "Spruce Goose" |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HISTORY OF FLIGHT $1600: While flying over Rogers Dry Lake in California in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break this the speed of sound |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HISTORY OF FLIGHT $8,800 (Daily Double): Also a type of flying marsupial, this nonpowered craft was pioneered by Otto Lilienthal & Octave Chanute a glider |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | THAT'S SO "G-Q" $1600: This rodent with a 2-word name glides between trees using a furry membrane that stretches from wrist to ankle a flying squirrel |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | YACHT ROCK $200: Mike Campbell wrote the music for "Boys Of Summer" working on a Tom Petty album but gave it to this Eagle who penned the lyrics, flying solo Don Henley |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SKIPPER $5,000 (Daily Double): In a maritime fable Captain Falkenberg endlessly traverses the North Sea in this spectral craft The Flying Dutchman |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $800: The London Times mocked his mechanical reaper as "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow & a flying machine" Cyrus McCormick |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | BIBLE-POURRI $600: Isaiah 31 says that like birds flying, the Lord will protect this city & deliver it from strife Jerusalem |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $800: A ship's captain is cursed to sail the seas forever unless he can find a faithful wife in this Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | "BEE" GOOD $200: This flying disc from Wham-O got its name in part from a comic strip a Frisbee |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | JAMES BOND $400: In "Thunderball" Bond makes an escape wearing one of these personal flying devices we were all supposed to have by now a jet pack |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY $1000: This artist's "The Persistence of Memory" & Earhart flying solo across the Atlantic happened on Hoover's watch Salvador Dalí |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $1200: In 1733 John Kay's flying shuttle made weaving more efficient & was an early part of this revolution the Industrial Revolution |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | FLICK OF SEAGULLS $800: Seagulls eat a lot of Paul Rudd's flying transports in this 2018 comic book sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FANGS A LOT! $1200: A type of this snake is rightly called spitting--its fangs are shaped to send poison flying cobra |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | IT'S A FACT $1600: In 1927 he was the first recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross Lindbergh |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | WHAT'S MY AIRLINE? $200: In 1947 this carrier began flying regularly to London on what was called the "Kangaroo Route" Qantas |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $1000: Check out this two-word boat item as it goes soaring through the air; I like the cut of yours a flying jib |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $400: This "heavier-than-air flying machine is intended to rise & descend vertically" a helicopter |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $1600: WWI pilots sometimes fled a unit of the Jagdgeschwader known as this in English, a name familiar to Monty Python fans a Flying Circus |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | ___ING___ $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1947 a pilot reported 9 circular aircraft doing 1,700 mph near Mount Rainier & these 2-word items entered the modern lexicon flying saucers |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $400: The high-flying Maverick is on cruise control but Goose gets cooked; oh, & there's some shirtless volleyball Top Gun |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.) Appropriately, "Little Stinker", a nimble Pitts Special S1C, hangs upside down; in the 1940s and '50s, pioneering daredevil Betty Skelton flew it to win titles in this spectacular sport of stunt flying aerobatics |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $800: In 1960 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union flying one of these spy planes a U-2 |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | NAMES OF THE 1920s $400: In June 1928 she gained fame for flying across the Atlantic as a passenger in a plane (Amelia) Earhart |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | SPORTS DEFINITIONS $600: In pool, if you've sunk the cue ball or sent it flying into the bar area, you've done this foul & lost your turn as a result to scratch |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | CHECK OUT THE CRITTER $800: Despite its name, the sunda flying this, an animal native to Madagascar, is not one, nor does it fly a lemur |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | 1995 $200: Flying 5,430 miles between Korea & Canada, Steve Fossett made the 1st Transpacific solo flight in one of these a balloon |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | CRIMINAL SLANG $1600: This high-flying verb means to smuggle a letter into prison or to write a bogus check outside of prison kite |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | UNCOMMON $600: "Monty Python's Flying Circus" often encouraged us with "And now for something..." these 2 words completely different |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $2000: "Fear of Fifty" was "A Midlife Memoir" by this "Fear of Flying" author Erica Jong |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | BOOKS FILMED WITH DIFFERENT TITLES $800: "Nothing Lasts Forever", with a cop named Leland flying out to the coast to visit his daughter at Christmas, became this action film Die Hard |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | FACTS $400: A flying fox, with a wingspan of up to 5 feet, isn't a fox--it's this type of mammal a bat |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | PEEK A CHOO-CHOO $800: The London-to-Edinburgh locomotive known as "The Flying" this "Man", was Britain's first, clocked at 100 miles per hour Scotsman |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | LET'S SCIENCE THE HECK OUT OF THIS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crews presents by a display monitor.) A plane flying faster than the speed of sound creates a percussive wave called a Mach cone. Wherever the cone passes, observers on the ground encounter this window-rattling phenomenon a sonic boom |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $400: A lemon & a radiation symbol are both featured on the flag of this TV cartoon city Springfield |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $800: This author wrote that Ozma's flag had 4 quadrants for the regions of Oz, with, of course, a green center (Frank) Baum |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $1200: A large "F" is emblazoned on the flag of Freedonia, a country run by this funnyman in "Duck Soup" Groucho Marx |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $2000: In "Nostromo", this author describes the flag of Costaguana as red & yellow with 2 palm trees Joseph Conrad |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $4,000 (Daily Double): After arriving by submarine, this character claims the South Pole with a black flag bearing a gold "N" Captain Nemo |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $800: In "American Made" it's the 1980s & Tom Cruise is flying guns to these Nicaraguans battling the Sandinistas the Contras |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SHIP OF THE LINE $2000: "Long time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away", begins John Boyle O'Reilly's poem about this spooky title ship the Flying Dutchman |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | VIDEO GAME-POURRI $200: Aunt May & Norman Osborn show up in this superhero's Marvel-ous high-flying game Spider-Man |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINNISH LINES $2000: The press dubbed this Olympic champ "The Flying Finn", "The Phantom Finn" & "The Finnish Running Marvel" (Paavo) Nurmi |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1200: The high-flying condor gets its name from the word for that bird in this Inca language Quechua |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | ALLUSIONS $1600: The fabled Flying Dutchman & this novelist's Siddhartha both can be used as allusions for wandering (Hermann) Hesse |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | I GRANT YOU 5 FISHES $600: Here's this fish doing its thing; stronger ones can cover 600 feet in a single glide a flying fish |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG ENGLISH $800: In 1901 John Moore-Brabazon strapped a shoat named Icarus into a basket on the wing of his Voisin, & this impossibility was a reality pigs flying |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | DEEP "POCKET" $600: A sudden updraft or downdraft when flying in a plane is known as this an air pocket |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IN THE AIR $800: At a 1914 air show, Lawrence Sperry stood on the wing as the plane he was flying stayed on course using this invention autopilot |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | TRANSPORTATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1932 a 3-seat Stinson was the entire fleet flying between Bristol Bay & Anchorage for what would be this airline Alaska Airlines |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | CAREER TRACK $400: Sally Ride could tell you this high-flying occupation takes its name from words meaning "star sailor" astronaut |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: E.B.'s flying toys White's kites |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ANIMAL TALK $800: What flying squirrels do isn't flying, it's called volplaning, another word for this gliding |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTY FACTS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue): A 15th-century Madonna has gained 21st-century notice for its possible depiction of one of these mysterious objects a UFO (flying saucer) |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | "O" THE PLACES YOU'LL GO $800: You can go lots of places flying out of this busiest airport in the Midwest O'Hare (in Chicago) |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WOMEN OLYMPIANS $1000: Simone Biles won 4 gold medals in Rio: team, all-around, floor exercise & this high-flying event the vault |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | BALLOONS $1200: This high-flying 2009 film took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film Up |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Unseen in "The Wizard of Oz", an elastic chin strap kept the iconic hat on Margaret Hamilton's head during her flying sequences as this character the Wicked Witch of the West |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT "P" $2000: A recent discovery in Utah: perhaps the oldest flying vertebrate, a 200-million-year-old one of these pterodactyl |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $400: Mario Zacchini, AKA the "human" this, once said, "Flying isn't the hard part, landing in the net is" a cannonball |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | POETRY FILL-IN $400: Herrick:
"Gather ye ____ while ye may, old time is still a-flying" rosebuds |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | IN PERPETUITY $400: One legend about this ship has its captain forever sailing the North Sea, playing dice for his soul with the devil the Flying Dutchman |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SCIENCE FICTION $1600: "The White Dragon" is one of Anne McCaffrey's novels about this alien planet & its sentient flying reptiles Pern |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | DISASTER AVERTED $1000: The Calif. species of these birds is credited with flying in to gorge on crickets & save the crops of Utah pioneers in 1847 a (California) gull |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FLYING CARS? $400: Lamborghini's Reventon was inspired by the F-22 Raptor, this kind of fighter designed to evade detection a stealth fighter |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FLYING CARS? $800: The U.S. Air Force show squadron rolled off the assembly line in 1953; the popular Fords, a year later the Thunderbird |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FLYING CARS? $1200: GM added "Le" to the name of the F-86 fighter jet to get the name of this Buick model LeSabre |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FLYING CARS? $1600: To Dodge, it's a minivan; to Cessna, it's a turboprop; in the desert, it's a group of travelers a Caravan |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FLYING CARS? $2000: Giovanni Michelotti designed the Spitfire, a real winner in the '60s for this British car brand Triumph |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $800: Dame Daphne du Maurier's works made into Hitchcock films include "Rebecca" & this high-flying novelette The Birds |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $2000: This star of "The Flying Nun" won an Emmy as "Sybil", a woman with multiple personalities Sally Field |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | ROALD DAHL $800: Roald co-wrote the script for this 1968 musical film about a magical flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | A SCIENCE BOOK $800: A 65-million-year-old story is told in "Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became" these birds |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | "MIRA", MIRA $1000: In 1985 this airline began with 2 jets flying out of Dubai Emirates |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ODD FUTURE $800: This 3-letter word precedes "pack" in a word for a long-awaited solo flying suit jet |
| #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 |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $1200: Ancient Olympians were nude, including in this sport introduced in 708 B.C. that has a move called the flying mare wrestling |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | SOUNDS LIKE IT TO ME $200: If your high-flying idea turns out to be a dud, it lands with this sound that rhymes with "dud" thud |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | ON THE PLAYGROUND $800: In "Young Frankenstein", the monster inadvertently turns this into a catapult, sending the girl flying a seesaw |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | THE MALE MAN $800: On April 2, 1801 the Danes found out that this Brit was a one-eyed, one-armed, non-flying naval people beater (Horatio) Nelson |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | POP CULTURE SQUIRRELS $800: June Foray gave voice to this high-flying resident of Frostbite Falls--again! Rocky (the Flying Squirrel) |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | FLAGS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a flag flying on the monitor.) The part of the flag farthest from the staff is called the fly; the part closest to the staff, used to raise the flag, is called this, also a verb meaning "to raise a flag" hoist |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $800: Chubby flying mammals are having a little fight a fat bat spat |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $200: A 3-ball cascade is the most basic pattern used in this hobby, but one day you might attempt a flying disco drop juggling |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | FLAPPERS $400: With males growing to over 5 feet, the world's tallest flying bird is the sarus species of this a crane |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | THAT'S NOT FLYING! $400: All flying fish use their pectoral these to "fly"--some are aided by the pelvic ones too fins |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | THAT'S NOT FLYING! $800: The flying type of this rodent can't fly, but is nocturnal like bats a squirrel |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | THAT'S NOT FLYING! $1200: The marsupials called gliders are sometimes incorrectly called flying these worldwide marsupials possums |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | THAT'S NOT FLYING! $1600: The flying this reptile goes from a "J" shape to an "S" shape to a "C" shape to get air a snake |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | THAT'S NOT FLYING! $2000: The flying type of this cephalopod doesn't fly as much as it leaps by expelling a jet of water a squid |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | AVIATION HISTORY $800: Benjamin Davis Jr. became the first to lead this all-black Alabama flying unit also known as the Red Tails the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | A QUICK RIDE $2000: "P" is for pursuit in this alphanumeric plane used by World War II's Flying Tigers a P-40 |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | BEJEWELED $800: When dense, black lignite coal takes on a high polish & is used for jewelry, it's called by this high-flying name jet |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | ROUGH WATERS $600: First sighted in 1488, this dangerous South African cape will never quite be rounded by the Flying Dutchman the Cape of Good Hope |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $1000: Starring Sally Field:
"The ____ Nun" Flying |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | ANOTHER FINE MEZZO $1200: Orlofsky's a man, baby, played by a mezzo gal in this Strauss opera named for a flying mammal Die Fledermaus |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | "DIS" IS IT $1000: The medal seen here--it's awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement in aerial combat the Distinguished Flying Cross |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | NHL LOGOS $1000: This team's flying wheel logo is the oldest unchanged logo in the NHL, created in 1948 the Detroit Red Wings |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $1200: The name of this extinct flying creature means "wing finger" a pterodactyl |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $200: Mr. C is flying down I-15 to a 5,000-room hotel in this seat of Clark County, 'cause Santa's feelin' lucky! Las Vegas |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | MIND YOUR GRAMMAR $800: "We saw the Grand Canyon flying over the USA" contains a misplaced one of these a modifier |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | "ELECTRIC" DREAMS $1600: The Flying V & the Jazzmaster are these electric guitars |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | AVIATION $3,000 (Daily Double): The day before flying at Mach 1 in 1947, he broke 2 ribs when he fell off a horse Chuck Yeager |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | BOATS & SHIPS $400: Here's the Flying Cloud, this type of speedy 19th century ship a clipper |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | THE CIA $600: (Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) In the 1950s and '60s, brave pilots wore body-fitting pressure suits like this one, often flying at higher than 70,000 feet in this alphanumeric reconnaissance aircraft that is still very much in use today U-2 |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | WHERE'D YOU DISAPPEAR TO? $400: One of her last transmissions was "Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet" Amelia Earhart |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | CHECK, PLEASE $1600: Illegally shifting money between accounts is doing this "soaring" term with checks kiting |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | SPEAKING GERMAN $1,000 (Daily Double): Your knowledge of opera might help with this one: it's the German word for "bat" (the flying kind) Fledermaus |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE $1200: The recently discovered Laotian giant this rodent can reach 42 inches in length a flying squirrel |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | CHARLIE BROWN, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $200: In Snoopy you have not only a loyal pet but a flying ace in this war the First World War |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | CITY PARKS $2000: This architect led the design team of Sao Paulo's Ibirapuera Park, which has a planetarium shaped like a flying saucer Oscar Niemeyer |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | LONG NONSTOP FLIGHTS $2000: Emirates Airlines will pass you over 3 continents flying 16 hours from this skyscraper-laden city to Los Angeles Dubai |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MATH, NOW... $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a quadrilateral on the monitor.) A quadrilateral with two adjacent sides of length "a" & two adjacent sides of length "b" gets this high-flying name from its familiar shape a kite |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME $400: In an animated film Jasmine & Aladdin go flying on this type of remarkable rug a magic carpet |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | CORPORATE LOGOS $600: The logo for this sports team is popularly known as the Flying Elvis the New England Patriots |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | WORLD WAR II $2000: A World War I flying ace with 22 kills, he headed Hitler's Luftwaffe (Hermann) Goring |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | IN THE NEWS $600: Imagine flying from Memphis to Dallas in 2014 & seeing this guy, AKA the Duke of Cambridge, sitting next to you in coach Prince William |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | BARE-KNUCKLE FIGHTING $400: With Marion stuck in the Nazi flying wing, this archaeologist character has to deal with a big, bald pugilist Indiana Jones |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $200: In "Khaki Wings" a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war World War I |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | NBA GREATS $800: At the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese called this Laker Xiao Fei Xia or Peter Pan, due to his "flying" ability Kobe Bryant |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $1000: In some versions of the maritime legend, Vanderdecken is the captain of this spectral ship The Flying Dutchman |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | THE OCCIDENT EXPRESS $1200: The Flying Scotsman, which ran from Edinburgh to King's Cross in this city, had a cinema car & a hair salon London |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | FREQUENT FLIERS $2,000 (Daily Double): On Nov. 1, 1958 this airline began service from Amsterdam to Tokyo, flying over the North Pole KLM |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago.) Thousands of the USA's aircraft carrier pilots of World War II were trained at Chicago's Navy Pier; one was this future U.S. president who said, "Flying off Lake Michigan was the coldest I ever was in my life" George H.W. Bush |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the College Football Hall of Fame.) The belt here had little handles, so other players could lock arms and move down the field in one of these formations, later outlawed by the NCAA due to death and injury the flying wedge |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $1000: "Flying mammals occupy that fellow's church bell tower" "he's got bats in his belfry" |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | SCIENTISTS $2000: In the 1890s this man best known for his temperature scale said heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible Lord Kelvin |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CRAFTS $800: Before powered airplanes, the Wright brothers built a successful type of this 6-letter flying craft in 1902 a glider |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | CIRCUS PERFORMERS $1000: In 1928 the crowds went wild for the American debut of this family of high wire acrobats & its human pyramid the Flying Wallendas |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MUSIC IN MOVIES $1600: In the third installment of this comedy, Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow sings "I Believe I Can Fly" while flying over Vegas The Hangover |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | 5, 5 $200: Passengers flying internationally in this section on American Airlines get a pair of pajamas first class |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | OUT OF THE CRADLE $400: We bought a plastic ring to help with this painful process & even put it in the freezer, but here it comes flying out teething |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | BAT DANCE $1000: With a wingspan of over 5 feet, one of the largest bats is the giant golden-crowned type of this alliterative bat the flying fox bat |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | BASEBALL $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.) Check out the incredibly rare 1909-11 T206 card of this "Flying Dutchman"; in 2013, one went at auction for $2.1 million Honus Wagner |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | OPERATIC ADJECTIVES $200: By Wagner:
"The ____ Dutchman" Flying |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $600: In 1953 he had the right stuff when he set a world record by flying 1,650 mph in an X-1A rocket plane Chuck Yeager |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | PATENTS $1000: An 18th century British patent introduced a loom with a flying one of these devices a shuttle |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE AGES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.) Flying at more than 2,000 miles per hour, the A-12 Blackbird generated temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, too high for aluminum, so its skin was made of this silvery gray, high-strength metallic element titanium |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | TELE-NOVELAS $1600: Sally Field soared as Sister Bertrille on this sitcom based on a book by Tere Rios The Flying Nun |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | TAKE IT "EZ" $400: Richie, Chela, Tito & Armando, the Flying Gaonas, were one of the most prominent of these circus acts trapeze |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: Elphaba goes green as a high-flying character in this magical musical Wicked |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: An ax head coming loose during use is said to have inspired this phrase about the loss of self-control flying off the handle (going off the handle accepted) |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | SPACECRAFT TYPES $800: This 2-word term for possibly alien spacecraft was 1st used after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in 1947 a flying saucer |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES $1000: This 1920s star was nicknamed "The King of Runners" & "The Flying Finn" Paavo Nurmi |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | BESTSELLERS BY PARTIAL TITLE $400: From Liberated 1973, "Flying" Fear of Flying |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE! $1200: The bar-headed goose's migration includes flying over this mountain range at altitudes exceeding 23,000' the Himalayas |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | THAT JUST WON'T FLY $400: Possible titles for Monty Python's BBC series were "Owl Stretching Time" & "A Toad Elevating Moment", but they chose this (Monty Python's) Flying Circus |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | THAT JUST WON'T FLY $800: The "flying" this was a masonry structure found in Gothic architecture & had no wings a (flying) buttress |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | THAT JUST WON'T FLY $2000: Looks like Phil Silvers just caught this dog breed in the act of not flying an Airedale |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LET'S HIT THE "BAR" $1000: Associated with stunt flying, it also means to conduct a speaking tour in many small rural towns barnstorming |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | CLEVER LOGOS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) Called "the Widget", Delta Airlines' corporate logo is designed to resemble both the swept wings of a jet flying overheard & the fourth letter of this alphabet the Greek alphabet |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | IT TAKES 2 $400: The 2 standard ingredients in a traditional mimosa cocktail orange juice & champagne |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a picture of a plane and a map of Australia on the monitor.) In Australia's remote areas, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has dozens of bases providing airborne care; the Alice Springs base serves nearly half a million square miles of this territory the Northern Territory |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | SEEING STARS $800: In 1995 the first extrasolar planet ever discovered orbiting a sun-like star was found in this "flying horse" constellation Pegasus |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | AIR QUOTES $200: In an 1868 song, he'd "fly through the air with the greatest of ease" the man on the flying trapeze |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | STARS IN THE SKY $1000: This co-star of "On Golden Pond" got flying lessons from Howard Hughes Katharine Hepburn |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) The flying snake can glide short distances by undulating to maintain balance as they come down & flattening the tiny plates called these on its skin scales |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BARONS & BARONESSES $600: On April 21, 1918 this commander of Germany's flying circus was shot down & killed over the Somme the Red Baron |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | RICHES $1200: Better than first class! I'm flying private in one of these jets named for electrical engineer William a Learjet |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | THE SQUIRREL FAMILY $800: On the Carolina northern this creature, skin between the wrist & ankle forms an aerodynamic surface for gliding flying squirrel |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | PUNS $400: A chicken crossing the road, a duck flying, or a turkey swimming, is this 3-word phrase poultry in motion |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $1200: Contact! Tell us this airplane part that's part of the design of the Distinguished Flying Cross propeller |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | STATE ANIMAL FIGHT! $400: Oklahoma's state flying mammal, the Mexican free-tailed bat, bites this Oregon State & Oregon State University animal the beaver |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SHOW TUNES $8,000 (Daily Double): Act I of "Wicked" ends with this high-flying song "Defying Gravity" |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | MINIONS $400: Because the Wicked Witch of the West possesses the Cap of Quelala, these creatures have to do her bidding 3 times flying monkeys |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $400: Here's Snoopy as a World War I flying ace in the new "Peanuts" movie, still pursuing this nemesis--"Curse you!" the Red Baron |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | POP CULTURE FROM BARTLETT'S $1000: From Series 2, Episode 2 of "Monty Python's Flying Circus": this 5-word phrase about a surprise to all "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $600: Resembling a flying saucer, the Theme Building located here is a cultural & historical landmark LAX |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $2000: A few years prior to developing the helicopter, the firm of this Kiev-born man made the flying clippers for Pan Am Sikorsky |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | MBA ALL-STARS $1600: Forbes called Columbia's Robert Stevens a "savior" of this high-flying company that makes the F-35 Lockheed Martin |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A NOVEL LOOK $2,800 (Daily Double): Major Major Major Major problems;
not crazy about flying;
quite the paradox Catch-22 |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | FICTIONAL PLACES $800: This title guy travels to a flying island called Laputa, as well as the nearby city of Lagado Gulliver |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | YOU'LL "HANG" ON EVERY WORD $800: It's the sport of flying in lightweight unpowered aircraft hang gliding |
| #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 $800: Appropriately, the highest lance won in this classic game; less appropriately, there were flying ostriches Joust |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $1000: A flying penguin shows up in "Zero History", a cyberpunk opus from this author of "Mona Lisa Overdrive" William Gibson |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | AVIATION $2000: (Sarah wraps up the category from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.) The highly efficient hybrid wing body has been a long-time dream. Today's engineers are working out the control issues that doomed the 1940s flying wing from this company later paired with Grumman Northrop |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | FEATURES OF CREATURES $1200: The Cape fox is also called the this-eared fox after the flying creature it resembles bat |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ALL THINGS CONSIDERED $1000: Quaff this drink, 2 oz. gin &1/2 oz. triple sec, & try to sail around the Cape of Good Hope on the ghost ship of the same name Flying Dutchman |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | ALADDIN ON BROADWAY $800: (Prince Ali delivers the clue with his princess dressed in blue.) In a highlight from Act II, we take a high-flying magic carpet ride among the stars while singing this Oscar-winning song "A Whole New World" |
| #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 |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | U.S. MILITARY MEDALS $600: Medals for "Distinguished Service" & "Distinguished Flying" are both in this shape cross |
| #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 |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | AVIATION FIRSTS $200: In 1917 Eugene Bullard became the first black combat pilot while flying for this country, receiving the Legion of Honor France |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $400: In 1933's "Flying Down to Rio", Fred Astaire teamed with this lady for the first of 10 films Ginger Rogers |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | CHESHIRE CATS $1200: Cheshire-born WWI flying ace Christopher Draper, "The Mad Major", earned the Croix de Guerre & this medal, the DSC the Distinguished Service Cross |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | POETIC WOMEN $800: Before her first novel, "Fear of Flying", she published a poetry collection about some bawdy "Fruits & Vegetables" (Erica) Jong |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | NEVADA $1000: This elite USAF flying team took up residence at Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base in 1956 the Thunderbirds |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | I WILL SURVIVE! $2000: The USA's top WWI flying ace, he survived 24 days lost at sea during WWII, subsisting on seagulls Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | ALL KINDS OF MUSIC $2000: Blond hair flying, he's been making the violin a crossover instrument since his 2007 album "Virtuoso" David Garrett |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1600: In the 1870s paleontologist Othniel Marsh discovered the first remains of this flying reptile in the United States a pterodactyl |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $600: In 1926 this rear admiral received the Medal of Honor for his "risk of life" flying over the North Pole Admiral Byrd |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | POULTRY IN MOTION $200: It's fitting that this matronly character who dates back to the 1600s is often depicted riding a flying gander Mother Goose |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Used in every theater of World War II, the B-25 Mitchell is best known as the plane used by Doolittle's Raiders in the dramatic 1942 attack immortalized on film as "Thirty Seconds Over" this city Tokyo |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) The F4U Corsair's unusual bent wings helped reduce
the aircraft's drag; the wings also folded to save storage space when it operated from these, as it did in the Pacific in both World War II & the Korean War an aircraft carrier |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) C-54 Skymasters carried most of the 2.3 million tons of cargo delivered between June 1948 & October 1949 as part of this Cold War program, nicknamed "Operation Vittles" the Berlin Airlift |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) In the P-51 Mustang, the Allies finally had a fighter with the range to fly from England into the heart of Germany & back; when he saw mustangs over Berlin, this Luftwaffe chief reportedly said he knew that World War II was lost Hermann Goering |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Most of the more than 3,000 Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighters built during World War II were delivered as part of the lend-lease program to this country for use in what was called the Great Patriotic War the Soviet Union |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | LEGEND $1,000 (Daily Double): Legend has it Captain Vanderdecken still tries to round the Cape of Good Hope on this ship... & tries... & tries... the Flying Dutchman |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | ACTUAL 911 CALLS $200: Rocky the flying one, still at large: in 2012 a Canadian man reported this animal on his porch was acting in a suspicious manner a squirrel |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | CELEBRITY VETERANS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Among the men who flew in the Avenger torpedo bomber in World War II was this Cool Hand Luke; color blindness in his famous blue eyes kept him from becoming a pilot, but not from flying in the Pacific as a tail gunner Paul Newman |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | GLOBAL STUDIES $800: For 70 million travelers flying to more than 90 countries a year, this U.K. airport is one of the world's busiest Heathrow |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | KIWI FAUNA $400: New Zealand has 2 species of this flying mammal, the only land mammal native to the country bat |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | STATE GOVERNORS $400: In the 1970s this Texas governor served in the U.S. Air Force flying C-130 tactical airlift aircraft Rick Perry |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | INCOMPLETE "PASS" $2000: To ace an exam, so you resemble a triumphant sailing fleet to pass with flying colors |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | NONFICTION $1000: Nik of this "flying" family wrote the memoir "Balance", about "life on the line" the Wallendas |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the California Science Center in Los Angeles.) Flying above war-torn Rwanda in 1994, Endeavour used space-borne imaging radar to penetrate clouds over the Virunga volcano chain in an effort to help researchers track & protect this endangered species the mountain gorilla |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $200: In 1919 John Alcock & Arthur Brown made the first nonstop one of these flights; Lindbergh's in '27 was the first solo trans-Atlantic |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | LOCO FOR LOGOS $400: It's the high-flying company whose logo is seen here Qantas |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $400: In 1889 they began publishing a weekly Dayton, Ohio newspaper called the West Side News the Wright Brothers |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $600: In the 1920s she wrote an aviation column for Cosmopolitan Magazine (Amelia) Earhart |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $800: In 1933 this mogul took a job at American Airways as a co-pilot using the pseudonym Charles W. Howard Howard Hughes |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $1000: After the 1922 crash of the airship Roma, the U.S. Navy switched to this safer but more expensive gas helium |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | ALPHANUMERIC STUFF $1000: This flying wing bomber is flown by a crew of two and carries 40,000 pounds of ordnance a B-2 |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | DINOSAUR NAMES $800 (Daily Double): The high-flying Pterodactyl's name means "winged" this body part fingers |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | LET'S TWIST AGAIN $200: Now the master of the Double McTwist 1260, this "Flying Tomato" had 2 open-heart surgeries before he was a year old Shaun White |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $400: A couple of hours flying south will get you from this Paraguayan capital to this Argentinean capital from Asunción to Buenos Aires |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | HEY, LAD-"E" $400: "Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price", said this woman, who would know Amelia Earhart |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | SPACE SHUTTLE FLYOVERS $800: On a visit to Los Angeles, the shuttle took itself out to the ball game, flying over this venue. Dodger Stadium |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | ARKANSAS $2000: Issued in 2003, the Arkansas state quarter features rice stalks, a flying mallard &, of course, this gem a diamond |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | DIRECT FROM THE DICTIONARY $600: "A flock of geese when not flying" a gaggle |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | TRANSPORTATION $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1784 2 Frenchmen built Europe's first flying model of this type of aircraft; its rotors were made of feathers a helicopter |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | AMERICA'S CUP RACING $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue.) Standard training for the upcoming America's Cup includes flying a hull, a breathtaking maneuver that's used to increase speed & reduce this force that resists the motion of an object through a fluid drag |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $1600: A squadron of airplanes operating together, whether they're into Monty Python or not flying circus |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | ANIMAL IDENTITY $1200: The largest of bats, genus Pteropus. are called "flying" these foxes |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | A QUICK CATEGORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This synonym for quick is also the name of a fast-flying bird that resembles the swallow swift |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT $800: In some versions, it's the knight Percival who succeeds in finding this vessel; Wagner told his story in "Parsifal" the Holy Grail |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $800: James Bond had some cool cars, but none as cool as this flying title one of another Ian Fleming book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | CLIPS $800: Borrowed from the theater, it's the term for the type of stunt-flying exhibition seen here barnstorming |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $800: Paris' Notre Dame was one of the first buildings to use a flying this, an arched exterior support a buttress |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | MY INVENTION WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $200: In 1912 an inventor called "The Flying Tailor" failed to fly after leaping from this Paris landmark in his parachute suit the Eiffel Tower |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | AIRLINES $1000: Pilot Sully Sullenberger performed the "Miracle on the Hudson" while flying for this airline US Airways |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | TED TALKS $800: This late U.S. senator from Alaska often talked about his love of flying Ted Stevens |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | LESSER-KNOWN FAITHS $400: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster practices this religion, one letter off from the name of a Jamaican sect pastafarian |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | 19th CENTURY SPORTS $600: In the 1890s strategy in this sport included kicking opponents, & the flying wedge was a popular offensive play football |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $1600: This word comes before "lemur", but the animal really only glides a couple of hundred feet--& isn't a lemur flying |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | WITCH MOVIE? $800: Angela Lansbury played an apprentice witch with a flying bed in this Disney film that mixed live action & animation Bedknobs And Broomsticks |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | WINGS $1200: Despite being made almost entirely of birch, Howard Hughe's flying boat was dubbed this by the press the Spruce Goose |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | WINGS $1600: He was flying the Fokker DRI triplane no. 425/17 when he was killed in action in April 1918 the Red Baron (Baron Richthofen) |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $400: The little brown species of this flying mammal can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour a bat |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | THE P-51 MUSTANG $1600: Often flying P-51 Mustangs, this distinguished African-American unit flew more than 1,500 missions during WWII the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | MILITARY MITE $1200: 5'5" James Jabara was the USA's first ace in this type of plane, flying the F-86 a fighter jet |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | THE "GOLDEN" HOUR $200: In Greek myth, it described the wool of a flying ram the Golden Fleece |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AROUND THE FOREST $600: Birds & these creatures, which include flying foxes, are agents of pollination in tropical forests bats |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | GHOST-POURRI $1600: For centuries this ghostly ship has been seen sailing around the Cape of Good Hope The Flying Dutchman |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | 100 YEARS AGO--1912 $2000: The United Kingdom established the forerunner to the R.A.F.-- the R.F.C., short for this Royal Flying Corps |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE 2012 OLYMPICS $1200: This "Flying Squirrel", a member of U.S. gymnastics' "Fab Five", won gold in individual all-around Gabby Douglas |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AVIATION $1200: This WWII flying fortress was named for a southern city & the girlfriend of its captain, Robert K. Morgan Memphis Belle |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | DUTCH COURAGE $1,800 (Daily Double): After tackling a bomb-wielding man on an airliner, Jasper Schuringa was nicknamed this, like a spectral ship "The Flying Dutchman" |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | SPORTS STARS $1000: This snowboarding champion is known as the "Flying Tomato" for his long red hair Shaun White |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER $2000: (Sarah shows us an old car at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando.) The Weasleys' flying car seen here was used in this Harry Potter film, the second in the series, when Harry & Ron crash into the Whomping Willow Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | THINK FAST! $1000: As a test pilot, this future astronaut set a speed record in 1957, flying from Los Angeles to NYC in 3 hours 23 min. (John) Glenn |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | THIS & THAT $1000: Richard Wagner adapted a story by Heinrich Heine to create this nautical opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW $800: After "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he found further comic success as hotel owner Basil Fawlty John Cleese |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $400: Shemya Island in this group was a refueling stop for military aircraft flying the great circle route to the Far East the Aleutian Islands |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | A HARRISON FORD FIESTA $600: Passionate about this hobby, Ford says, "it elevates the spirit and it's an exhilarating freedom" flying airplanes |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | CRADLES $400: Long Island, with the east coast's only prairie, was a hub of early flying & is home to the Cradle of this museum Aviation |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | POP MUSIC $600: "You Sent Me Flying", sang this British woman who died young in 2011 Amy Winehouse |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1600: You can see the great blue type of this bird feeding & flying overhead in the Quinebaug & Shetucket river valley a heron |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | LOOKING TO THE FUTURE $400: A 2009 Air Force report envisions the possibility of these flying robots replacing all its manned aircraft drones |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | FLIGHT $600: The Red Baron commanded a unit called the "flying" this, for its brightly colored planes the Flying Circus |
| #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" |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | I'M FEELING DIS-ORIENTED $1200: It's weird to gain 7 hours flying to Moscow from VVO, the airport of this city in far eastern Russia Vladivostok |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | THE 21st CENTURY $400: In 2009 C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger became a national hero after demonstrating his prowess at this job flying airplanes |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | YAY, PHYSICS! $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a flying toy.) The flying spaceman's twin rotors spin in opposite directions, keeping him from spinning out of control by canceling out the effects of this rotational force torque |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | BELL CURVES $400: This Disney pixie invented a "balloon carrier", a flying craft made from a cotton fluff, a gourd & a compass Tinker Bell |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | ONE-WORD TV CLUES $600: Spam! (one word, but repeated dozens of times) Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | "HALF" BAKED $800: This flag custom may have begun at the end of naval battles; today it's done to show respect to the recently departed flying it at half-staff |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | ONE GOOD TURN $2,000 (Daily Double): Sharp type of turn that sounds like an accessory to keep your toupee from flying off a hairpin |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $1000: "Dear God. You manipulate everyone around you, just like a marionette. You are downright..."
...this adjective, also the title of a hit Broadway musical that features Munchkins & flying monkeys wicked |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LOGOS $1000: A baseball flying past snow-capped mountains the (Colorado) Rockies |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | WITH THIS "RING" $400: Adventurous courage, perhaps shown by the young man on the flying trapeze daring |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | OPERAS WITH CHARACTER $1600: Daland, a captain of the high seas who meets a mysterious stranger The Flying Dutchman |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | JOHN PHILIP SOUSA $1200: This 1893 march named for a national symbol served as the theme for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" "The Liberty Bell" |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | MILITARY NICKNAMES $600: The high-flying "Red Baron" of World War I von Richthofen |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | DOUBLE E, DOUBLE O $800: Flying targets simulate the flight of game birds in this 2-word activity; pull! skeet shooting |
| #6134, aired 2011-04-21 | STATE / PRISON $1000: It's another Pleasant Valley State Prison Sunday, no one's flying out of Pelican Bay, either California |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | PSILENT "P" $1600: Let's park in the Jurassic to see this flying reptile with a birdlike beak a pterodactyl |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | TV SHOW CASTING CALL $1600: In the late '60s, Sally Field as Sister Bertrille The Flying Nun |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | ACTUAL FBI FILES $800: The Air Force "telephonically advised... an object purporting to be a flying disc" was found near this New Mexico city Roswell |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | OF THE SQUIRRELS $400: It's the common name for squirrels of the subfamily Pteromyinae (hint: "ptero-" is Latin for "winged") flying squirrels |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $800: Ammunition used to hunt flying game birdshot |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $200: Your words of advice are as powerful as when this man of myth warned his boy Icarus about flying too near the sun Daedalus |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | AVIATION $600: In 1953 he set another world record flying 2 1/2 times the speed of sound in a Bell X-1A rocket plane Chuck Yeager |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | EARHART $1000: Amelia was the first woman to receive this award, the DFC the Distinguished Flying Cross |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Dolores Del Rio was one of the stars of the 1933 musical "Flying Down to" here Rio |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | OH BOY! PRESENTS! $400: Fore! How about a Wham-O equipment set for playing "golf" with mini versions of this flying disc a frisbee |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $1200: This colorful World War I flying ace is seen here with his dog Moritz the Red Baron |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | CREATURES OF THE NIGHT $400: If you've never seen a "flying" one of these, it might be because they're nocturnal (Bullwinkle's pal is an exception) squirrel |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | CHAPTERS IN THE WIZARD OF OZ $800: Chapter XIV is named for these flying creatures (winged) monkeys |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $800: Thanks to Rodney Dangerfield, Judge Smails' boat The Flying Wasp meets an untimely end in this comedy Caddyshack |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $1600: In "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", Davy Jones helms this ship, also the name of a Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | THE 15th CENTURY $200: In the 1480s he designed a flying machine that used revolving paddles instead of wings da Vinci |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $400: The second oldest U.S. college breaks out the flying umbrella & disciplines the Banks kids William & Mary Poppins |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL GREAT MIGRATIONS $2000: A female covers herself with secretions to prep for the migration of the bats called flying these animals the flying fox |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $1000: In 1947 this "flying" family perfected the 7-man pyramid on the high wire the Wallendas |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | FLIES & FLYING $400: This existentialist wrote the 1943 play "Les Mouches", or "The Flies" Sartre |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | FLIES & FLYING $800: During WWII this future U.S. president flew a Grumman Avenger & was shot down over the Pacific George H.W. Bush |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | FLIES & FLYING $1200: Jack kills a pig & Roger kills Piggy in this 1954 work Lord of the Flies |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | THAT HURTS! $400: Angelina Jolie's lips are sometimes described as this hyphenated term, as if she'd been attacked by a flying insect bee-stung |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | WOMEN: WRITE ON! $2000: "Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life" is a 2006 memoir by this "Fear of Flying" author Erica Jong |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | OFF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST $800: Some say that "Ginny", the West Virginia northern flying this rodent, was delisted too soon & still needs protection a squirrel |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | ANTARCTIC WILDLIFE $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Antarctica.) The Antarctic is home to several species of petrels, named perhaps because their habit of flying close to the water's surface is reminiscent of this apostle, who tried to walk on water with Jesus Peter |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | FLYBOYS $400: In 1915 Adolphe Pegoud became one of the first to be called this after shooting down 5 aircraft a flying ace |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | ENGLISH LIT $200: During his "Travels" , he visited the flying island of Laputa Gulliver |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE FAMILY CIRCUS $400: Performers at the New Cole Brothers Circus recreate the 3-tiered, 7-man pyramid on one of these "lofty" things a high wire |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | NEWS TO ME $2000: Falcon Heene, who it turned out was safe at home, not flying over Colorado, became known as this "boy" the balloon boy |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | CLASSIC YUMMY ROCKERS $1600: This "Airborne" country rock band included Gram & Gene Parsons, who, despite the group's name, are unrelated The Flying Burrito Brothers |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | WEISS GUYS $600: WWII fighter ace Robert Weiss scored more than 100 kills flying Messerschmitts & Focke-Wulfs for this Air Force the Luftwaffe |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1600: The rudimentary wings of this national bird of Australia are useless for flying, but it is an excellent swimmer the emu |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $600: In 1932 this auto racer began using the squadron badge of a WWI flying ace: a prancing horse Ferrari |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE! $600: The crushing foot used in this TV show's opening is from Bronzino's 1545 painting, "An Allegory with Venus and Cupid" Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | THE TRUCK STOPS HERE $200: There are 8 private showers at the Flying J truck stop in Troutdale just east of this largest Oregon city Portland |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | BEVERAGE BRANDS $1000: This alliterative brand of French vodka features flying birdies on its bottles Grey Goose |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | HISTORIC TRANSPORTS $600: The centerpiece of the Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon is this giant flying boat, piloted only once by Howard Hughes the "Spruce Goose" |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | HEY THERE, MUSCLES $1000: You use this broad, flat muscle to raise your shoulders; it's the daring young man on the non-flying... the trapezius |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | THE PULITZER FOR BIOGRAPHY/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY $200: 1939:
Carl Van Doren, writing about this founding father known for kite flying (Ben) Franklin |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | INSIDE A B-17 $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a B-17.) Because of its heavy defensive armament, including .50 caliber machine guns, the B-17 was dubbed the "Flying" this; Nazi propaganda tried to change that to "Flying Coffin" Fortress |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | TIME TO "FLY" $1200: It's a legendary spectral ship said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope the Flying Dutchman |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | THE SCIENCE OF AUTUMN $1200: The migratory formation of the waterfowl named for this nation gives the trailing birds easier flying Canada (Canadian geese accepted) |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | THE RUSSIAN $400: He's the high-flying hero of 1961 seen here Yuri Gagarin |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | THIS & THAT $200: Seen riding a flying gander, this character is usually traced back to a 1697 book by Charles Perrault Mother Goose |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) The Newport 28 is the model Alan Winslow & Douglas Campbell were flying in 1918 when they became the first Americans to shoot down enemy planes in combat over this country France |
| #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 |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | DIRECT TO FILM $1200: He started the "X-Men" series before flying over to "Superman Returns" Bryan Singer |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | BELIEVE $400: I saw 3 of these objects, first reported near Mt. Rainier in June 1947, hovering over my house last night UFOs (or flying saucers) |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | DUCK! SOUP $800: Banzai! This fermented soybean paste is used in the Japanese soup that's flying toward your head miso |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | FUN WITH SCIENCE $200: If you make a house for these flying mammals, mount it at least 15 feet above the ground to attract them bats |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | ALEX ROCKS IN CONCERT $400: I hope you saw me flying over this lowest balcony, from Latin for "middle"; that harness was killing me mezzanine |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | FICTIONAL MUNCHIES $800: This British TV show once featured candy selections known as crunchy frog & anthrax ripple Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | FASTER $1000: Flying a Westland Lynx turboshaft in 1986, Trevor Egginton set the record for one of these at 249 mph a helicopter |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | MOVERS & SHAKERS $5,400 (Daily Double): Roberto Clemente died flying supplies to this quake-stricken country in 1972 Nicaragua |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Her next book after "Fear of Flying" was a poetry collection, "Loveroot" Erica Jong |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | HAWAII $800: (Vanna White reports from a helicopter.) (I'm on location with Wheel in Hawaii...) ...And flying over this, the world's largest active volcanic mass & the centerpiece of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Kilauea |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a New Mexico amphitheater.) I'm at this New Mexico national park, where every night from April to October 300,000 to 400,000 hungry flying mammals delight the crowds with an amazing bat flight Carlsbad Caverns |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | OPERATIONS $400: On June 26, 1948 the U.S. began flying tons of supplies into the western sector of this city in Operation Vittles Berlin |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "B-U-T" FULL $800: A solid structure built against a wall to support it; some are "flying" buttresses |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | SYMPHONY FOR THE DEVIL $2000: If this title Wagner sailor can find a gal who will promise to love him forever, the Devil's curse will be broken the Flying Dutchman |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDES $800: When the Concordes were flying, a round-trip flight between Paris & this U.S. city cost about $8,700 New York City |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDES $1600: Flying on the Concorde in 1985, this Genesis singer performed at both the London & Philadelphia Live Aid shows Phil Collins |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AVIATION $1600: Flying this plane 59.6 miles up in 1962, Robert White became the first non-NASA American to qualify as an astronaut X-15 |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | 2008: A SUBPRIME YEAR $1000: 1 of the last 2 major high-flying investment banks that became regular old banks on Sept. 21 Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | WHAT'S YOUR PRICE FOR FLIGHT? $1000: Go Dutch (& back) by flying from Amsterdam to L.A. on this 3-letter airline; in 2008, it cost 861 euros KLM |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | GERMAN COMPOSERS $1200: He developed the idea of the Flying Dutchman while sailing from Riga to London (Richard) Wagner |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): A Norwegian sea captain is a character in this 1843 opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | ZOOLOGY $200: In the Amazon one species of this flying mammal hangs out (literally) in a tent that it makes out of a big leaf a bat |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | GREEK ALPHABET SOUP $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew airmails us something from The Thunderbirds in Las Vegas, NV.) Several times in each show, all 6 Thunderbirds, flying 18 inches apart, team up in this formation named for a Greek letter delta formation |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | RELAX, WE'RE STILL RATED G $800: Tom Hanks says, "That wasn't flying. That was...falling with style" in this 1995 animated movie Toy Story |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | ZEPPELIN $800: This high-flying dirigible made the first airship flight around the world in 1929 the Graf Zeppelin |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | AIRLINE & HUB $800: If you're flying U.S. Airways, you may change planes in this North Carolina city's hub airport Charlotte |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | FILM FISTICUFFS $400: Female fists were flying when Uma Thurman battled Lucy Liu in Vol. 1 of this series Kill Bill |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | SOUSA'S $1000: This Sousa march was used as the theme to "Monty Python's Flying Circus" "The Liberty Bell" |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | THE THUNDERBIRDS $2000: (Sarah reports from the air one more time.) Pulling up to 7.5 Gs, a popular solo move by the Thunderbirds is a reversed one of these terms, named for a German WWI flying ace the Immelmann turn |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ALABAMA $800: This man whose last name is on an Ohio Air Force base also taught flying at what's now Alabama's Maxwell AFB Wilbur Wright |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | FIGHT SONGS $1200: Hail our banners red flying overhead onward to Pusan--& beyond! Gooooo Army! North Korea |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | FISHIN' IMPOSSIBLE $800: The 4-winged version of this alliterative swimmer has been known to "glide" up to 200 meters a flying fish |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | AVIATION $400: The B-17 is the Flying this, the B-29 the Super this, & the B-52 the Strato this Fortress |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | NONFICTION $1600: This gonzo journalist told the "Strange and Terrible Saga" of flying with angels--Hell's Angels Hunter S. Thompson |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | THE LOVE BOAT $600: In November of 1947 this flying boat traveled 70 feet above the water & 80 miles per hour for one mile in its only flight the Spruce Goose |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | "LING"O $1000: An inexperienced person, or a young bird that just got its flying feathers a fledgling |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | ANIMALS ALOFT $800: This German WWI flying ace flew with his Great Dane puppy until it became too big the Red Baron |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | TAKE THE KIDS! $800: Take the kids on a magical journey through this author's fairy tales on the Flying Trunk ride at Tivoli (Hans Christian) Andersen |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $3,400 (Daily Double): Who else but this Iberian would paint "Giant Flying Demi-Tasse with Incomprehensible Appendage 5 Meters Long" Salvador Dalí |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | CHICK FLICKS $200: Mel Gibson was in a fowl mood when he voiced Rocky Rhodes, a "flying rooster" in this animated film Chicken Run |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | LEONARD MALTIN ON DISNEY $1000: (Leonard Maltin wraps it up.) My favorite animated Disney film is this 1941 classic in which a lovable misfit becomes a high-flying circus star Dumbo |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $600: A man is searching for the novel "Knickerless Nickleby" in the bookstore skit on this British Show Monty Python('s Flying Circus) |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | DA PLANE! DA PLANE! $600: Flying at the then-incredible speed of 575 mph, the Boeing 707 began commercial flight service in this decade 1950s |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | PLAYING POSSUM $2000: The flying possum doesn't fly; well-developed flaps of skin along its flanks have it known by this 6-letter term a glider |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | POMPIDOU & CIRCUMSTANCE $1200: During WWII, G.P. fought as a lt. & won this French military honor created in 1915 to reward bravery the Croix de Guerre |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL $1200: In 1941 this retired U.S. Air Corps captain formed the "Flying Tigers" Claire Chennault |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | FISH & SHIPS $400: The ability of the creature seen here to get airborne gives it this two-word name flying fish |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $800: Isadora Wing is the lusty heroine of this 1973 Erica Jong bestseller Fear of Flying |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $400: He made his debut as Katharine Hepburn's grandson in "A Matter of Gravity" before flying high as Superman Christopher Reeve |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY $600: We hope the endangered Carolina Northern "flying" species of this rodent keeps on flying a squirrel |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | PIC-POURRI $600: This high-flying DC comic superhero might not mind being called a bird-brain Hawkman |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | COMPLETES THE OPERA $400: Wagner:
"The Flying ____" Dutchman |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | NOTES TO FUTURE CONTESTANTS $200: The only "S" in the name of this "Flying Nun" is in her first name; her last name is very, very singular Sally Field |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | LEND US THY VOICE $2000: Rachel Weisz as the high-flying Saphira Eragon |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | WORLD OF WARCRAFT $800: Stinger missiles are used against low-flying aircraft & are known as this-to-air ground (or surface) |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS $200: As Michelle Higgins is the "Practical" this, she'll tell you how to cut the high cost of flying to Africa Traveler |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | ANIMAL FARM $400: The saliva of this species of flying mammal contains an anticoagulant vampire bat |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | YOU NEED HELP $1000: Call up the Royal Flying Doctor Service if you need emergency medical help in a remote part of this country Australia |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | LITERARY MOUNTAINS $600 (Daily Double): In a Hemingway tale, Harry gets gangrene; before he dies, has a vision of flying in a plane toward this mountain Kilimanjaro |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | PLANE CRAZY $1000: This B-17 flying fortress of WWII was named for a southern city & Margaret Polk, the girlfriend of the pilot the Memphis Belle |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | MIDWAY $1200: In 1935 this airline built a prefab hotel on Midway as a rest stop for passengers flying on its China Clippers Pan Am |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LYRICAL BROADWAY $1,000 (Daily Double): "High flying, adored, that's good to hear but unimportant... local girl makes good weds famous man" Evita |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $400: Proverbially, you can be "flying" this or be this "& dry" high |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | WORDS INTRODUCED IN THE 20th CENTURY $400: 1947: A 2-word transport for aliens a flying saucer |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | BETTER THAN "NUN" $400: In one episode of this TV series, a pelican falls in love with Sister Bertrille The Flying Nun |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | THE 1700s $1200: John Kay's flying shuttle, a device used in this craft, was an important step toward automating the process weaving |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | POP CULTURE $400: Perhaps because this beverage "gives you wiiings!", it sponsors Flugtag, a flying contest Red Bull |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND $400: I'll feel like a kid again on this flying elephant ride, a fixture at Disneyland since 1955 Dumbo |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | SPORTS 2006 $1200: Redheaded halfpipe hero Shaun White made the cover of Rolling Stone with the line "attack of the flying" this tomato |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | JEWISH HISTORY $1000: In 1984 an airlift began flying Jews called falashas from this African country to Israel Ethiopia |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | I JUST SAW A GHOST! $800: The "horror" that took place in the Lutz home in this N.Y. city included flying ghostly pigs & walls that oozed blood Amityville |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | A SET OF CHINA $800: We prefer this small, round shallow dish that holds a cup to the flying kind a saucer |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | TOP 10 LISTS $400: The top 10 most common phobias include the fear of heights, the fear of flying & the fear of these, aka arachnophobia spiders |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A sketch show's dead parrot lives to soar through a flaming hoop held by Cathy Lee Crosby on a '70s celeb variety show Monty Python's Flying Circus of the Stars |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | THIS MEANS WAR! $200: With 22 enemy planes shot down, Eddie Rickenbacker was the USA's No.1 flying ace during this war World War I |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | PICTURE ME! $800: They're the innovative high-flying Ohioans seen here Orville & Wilbur Wright |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Reviewing her "Fear of Flying" in 1973, John Updike said it had "class & sass, brightness & bite" Erica Jong |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | THE MACY'S PARADE: BEHIND THE SCENES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew poses in front of Snoopy.) A new version of Snoopy debuted in 2006--when he first appeared in 1968, he was dressed up as this, the way he often was atop his doghouse WWI flying ace |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $600: Charles Lindbergh must have been flying high after winning the Pulitzer in 1954 for this memoir The Spirit of St. Louis |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $400: The Kitti's hog-nosed species of this flying mammal is about the size of a bumblebee a bat |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $200: Well, chim chim cher-ee! This musical about a flying nanny is flying onto Broadway Mary Poppins |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | THE DIRTY DOZEN $1200: Founded by a relative of a flying ace, this company became famous for its 12-string guitars Rickenbacker |
| #5095, aired 2006-11-03 | BOOZE-A-PALOOZA $2000: This rum company's logo of a flying bat traditionally symbolizes long life & prosperity Bacardi |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | PLAY THIS $200: This "avian" skateboarding legend has produced several high-flying video games for Activision Tony Hawk |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $400: Ron & Harry use this unusual transport to get to Hogwarts for their second year a flying car |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $400: This branch of science deals with forces exerted by air on both flying & wind-blown bodies aerodynamics |
| #5044, aired 2006-07-13 | BETTER "RED" $600: High-flying critter seen here a robin redbreast |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | HULL OF FAME $400: The captain of this spectral ship is condemned to sail the seas until Judgment Day unless he is saved by love the Flying Dutchman |
| #5020, aired 2006-06-09 | OZ $400: The Wicked Witch's golden cap allows her to summon these to do her bidding 3 times the flying monkeys |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | OK COMPUTER $200: This "high-flying" computer program from Adobe converts other types of documents into a PDF file Acrobat |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | WEBSTER'S 2005 TOP WORD SEARCHES $1200: Fingers were flying when New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed for this contempt |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | BROADWAY SECRETS $800: When Tom Hewitt played this vampire in a 2004 musical, he had to get over a big fear: not of garlic, but of flying Dracula |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | FAMILIAR SONGS $400: This title aerialist of a song that dates back to the 1860s has stolen the singer's girl away "The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze" |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $400: It's the type of bird being complained about
"It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late--" a parrot |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $800: It's the profession he's singing about
"I cut down trees /
I skip and jump /
I like to press wild flowers /
I put on women's clothing /
And hang around in bars..." lumberjack |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $1200: It's the packaged meat product that comes with the following
"...or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top and--" Spam |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $1600: It's the tribunal making an appearance here
"Our chief weapon is surprise--surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise--" the Spanish Inquisition |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $2000: It's the game show being played
"This is for 15 pounds, and it's to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton." Blackmail |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | ATTENTION, SPACE CADETS $800: In 2005 this SW city's annual UFO Festival featured a parade with aircraft flying over it looking for alien invaders Roswell (New Mexico) |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | FAMOUS FOLKS $400: In 1976, this high-flying woman was simply gym-dandy Nadia Comaneci |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | "PUT" SHOTS $2000: After Lilliput, Gulliver travels on to this flying island populated by absurd folk Laputa |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | SMALL MAMMALS $400: With a wingspan of more than 5 feet & a pigeon-sized body, the flying fox is the largest of these mammals a bat |
| #4887, aired 2005-12-06 | HARD "BALL" $600: During WWII a barrage series of these was anchored to inhibit low-flying aircraft attacks barrage balloons |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | COMEDIC CATCHPHRASES $600: A group:
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" Monty Python |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | OPERA $400: Act I of this "airborne" Wagner work includes a tenor aria about a sailor returning to his sweetheart The Flying Dutchman |
| #4877, aired 2005-11-22 | AMERICAN WOMAN $600: This high-flying Atchison, Kansas native once remarked, "Women must try to do things as men have tried" (Amelia) Earhart |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | WORLD WAR I $800: This American flying ace shot down 26 enemy aircraft & received the French Croix de Guerre Rickenbacker |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1600: This musical has it all: cute kids named Jeremy & Jemima, a truly scrumptious leading lady &, oh yes, a flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | THE SHAW FESTIVAL $800: The Shaw's landmark version of this Orwellian epic encompassed the whole town & even featured flying helicopters 1984 |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | FEMALE FIRSTS $200: In 1932 she became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross Amelia Earhart |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | "X" RATED $600: Before testing the Enterprise & flying on the STS-2 shuttle mission, Joe Engle piloted this craft into space 3 times the X-15 |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $800: Bellerophon was crippled when he was thrown from this horse as he was flying to Mount Olympus Pegasus |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | YOU GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY $600: Composed largely of American pilots, the Lafayette Escadrille flying squadron served during this war the First World War |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | THE "F.D." FILES $1600: Richard Wagner wrote an opera in 1843 about this spectral ship doomed to sail the seas for eternity the Flying Dutchman |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | DRAW IT UP $400: The sketch seen here accompanies U.S. patent number 821,393, officially submitted for this type of machine a flying machine |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | '70s SITCOMS $200: After "The Flying Nun" was grounded in 1970, she went on to play "The Girl with Something Extra" Sally Field |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | OHIO BIO $800: Born in Columbus in 1890, he was a car-racing champion & a WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | BUSH $200: ...who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | ANIMALS $400: Type of squirrel that has a thin, extending membrane called a patagium a flying squirrel |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | ARMY, NAVY OR MARINES $400: World War I flying ace Frank Luke the Army |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $600: Sandy Powell must have been flying high after winning the Oscar for Costume Design for this film The Aviator |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | CAAN $1200: This quirky 1992 comedy featured Caan as gangster Tommy Korman, who lost the girl to one of the Flying Elvises Honeymoon in Vegas |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | ALSO A BAR DRINK $800: Take a flying leap & name this type of reconnaissance plane or insect of the family Acrididae a grasshopper |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | A FLY CATEGORY $200: To WWI British aviators, the Red Baron's group with its colorful planes was one of these, like Monty Python's a Flying Circus |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | A FLY CATEGORY $600: During World War II, a famous American volunteer air corps in Asia was nicknamed this the Flying Tigers |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | A FLY CATEGORY $1000: Airborne nickname of 1920s Olympic gold medalist Paavo Nurmi the Flying Finn |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | WE'VE GOT DESIGNS ON BROADWAY $3,600 (Daily Double): Peter Foy revolutionized stage flying with the "inter-related pendulum" he designed for this 1954 musical Peter Pan |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | PHYSICS $800: A plane flying at supersonic speed catches up to its own air disturbances, which form this "sudden" wave a shock wave |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $600: The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has a full-size replica of this extraterrestrial lab now flying over the Earth the International Space Station |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | WHEN I'M 64 $400: In all 64 minutes of this 1941 Disney classic, the high-flying title character never speaks Dumbo |
| #4669, aired 2004-12-16 | "HOW" NOW $1000: Erica Jong's bestselling 1977 follow-up to "Fear of Flying" How to Save Your Own Life |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | I'VE GOT AN "ITCH" $400: In this high-flying game, balls called bludgers can knock players off their brooms Quidditch |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | NOTHING "BUT" $800: These gothic architectural supports can be "clasping" or "flying" buttresses |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | AVIATION $800: In chemistry, it maintains a mixture resistant to change; when flying it controls the pitch of an aircraft the stabilizer |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | SILENT "P" $400: An extinct flying reptile from the Cretaceous Period, it had a wingspan of about 25 feet a pteranodon |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | MICRONESIA $200: The only native mammal in Micronesia is this flying one a bat |
| #4591, aired 2004-07-19 | LOOK OUT! $600: The 16-ton weight featured in this '70s comedy series is poised above somebody & ready to.... Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $600: William Wellman, who'd served in the Lafayette Escadrille Flying Corps, directed this first Best Picture winner Wings |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | MOVIE MUSIC $600: An iconic scene in "Apocalypse Now" features copters flying, blaring this Wagner piece "Ride Of The Valkyries" ("Ride Of The Valkyrie" accepted) |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | NONFICTION $600: No question about it, after 30 years this "Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers" is still flying high What Color Is Your Parachute? |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | HOW ABOUT HOWARD $800: This billionaire set many flying records, including an around-the-world mark of 3 days, 19 hrs., 14 mins. Howard Hughes |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | I DID IT! $800: In 1957 this future astronaut set a speed record flying from L.A. to NYC in 3 hrs., 23 min., 8.4 sec. John Glenn |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | MILITARY MEN $1200: Madame Chiang Kai-shek hired Claire Chennault to direct China's air force against Japan & he formed this famous group the Flying Tigers |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | NAMES IN NATURE $1200: Aku is another name for this fast-moving tuna which seems to "skip" over the water skipjack |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | THE ROMANTICS $1200: This opera composer's art really took off with 1843's "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | WHO'S AFRAID OF $600: Erica Jong might know that aviophobia is this fear of flying |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | MOUNTAINS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew flying over Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii) Kilauea Volcano isn't classified as extinct, dormant or intermittent, but is this type, so we'll stay alert active |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | FLAGS $800: Early in the 2nd millennium, ships from this city began flying the flag of Saint Mark, its patron Venice |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | 1953 $1200: On December 12 this U.S. Air Force pilot set a speed record by flying his Bell X-1A rocket plane over 1600 MPH (Chuck) Yeager |
| #4470, aired 2004-01-30 | CLUES PAST THEIR FRESHNESS DATE $600: In 1992 United began flying the Latin American routes purchased from this airline that folded in 1991 Pan American |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS $800: "I Won't Grow Up" &
"I'm Flying" Peter Pan |
| #4444, aired 2003-12-25 | WWI $2000: The flying squad known as the Escadrille Americaine soon changed its name to this the Lafayette Escadrille |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | BASKETBALL $200: David Falk, agent for a certain Chicago Bull, came up with the name for this high-flying sneaker brand Air Jordan |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | BASEBALL LEGENDS $2000: This shortstop, the "Flying Dutchman", outplayed Ty Cobb in their 1909 World Series showdown Honus Wagner |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | CLASSIC SITCOM EPISODES $600: "This Convent is Condemned" The Flying Nun |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | SPEECH! $2,600 (Daily Double): She's the speaker heard here in the 1930s:
"And in all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainments." Amelia Earhart |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | THE TIGERS $400: Founded by Claire Chennault, these aviators shot down hundreds of Japanese planes during World War II the Flying Tigers |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $200: A chunky flying mammal fat bat |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | CLOCKED $200: Encarta reports that some of these mammals have been clocked flying at 60 mph bats |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | THE PELICAN BRIEF $400: This 1960s TV show starring Sally Field was based on the book "The Fifteenth Pelican" by Tere Rios The Flying Nun |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | THE JUNG & THE RESTLESS $800: Jung called these "unidentified" things, first reported by pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947, "a modern myth" UFOs/flying saucers |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $800: This extinct flying reptile's name is from the Greek for "finger wing" pterodactyl |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | SHOW ME THE MONEY! $200: He collected $25,000 for flying from New York to Paris in 1927 Charles Lindbergh |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | 1960s TV $400: The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate determined that at the end of the '60s, this variety series was TV's No. 1 show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | A FLY CATEGORY $400: A magic flying carpet was a character in this 1992 Disney film Aladdin |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew flying over Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii)
This melted rock which eventually becomes lava may form up to 100 miles below the volcano's surface magma |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | EDS $200: Shooting down 22 planes in 1918, Eddie Rickenbacker was the USA's No. 1 flying ace in this war World War I |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | THE LABORS OF HERCULES $400: Hercules used these flying weapons to shoot down the Stymphalian birds arrows |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | "POP" CULTURE $600: She's the high-flying nanny of Jane & Michael Banks Mary Poppins |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | AIRLINES $2,000 (Daily Double): Flying Dutchman is the frequent flyer program of this airline KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: In an Indian festival every September 17, people enjoy flying these & cutting others' strings kites |
| #4286, aired 2003-03-31 | TV CATCHPHRASES $1000: "And now for something completely different" Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: Amsterdam-born soccer star Johan Cruyff inevitably became "The Flying" this "Dutchman" |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FISH $200: These fish do not flap their pectoral fins; they leap into the air & glide flying fish |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $7,800 (Daily Double): Son of Daedalus, his first flying lesson is generally considered something of a failure Icarus |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | "GOOD" STUFF $800: You might catch a glimpse of the doomed ship "The Flying Dutchman" off this African cape Cape of Good Hope |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | CHUTE FIRST $1200: A blanketlike membrane of furry skin acts like a parachute when this "flying" rodent glides through the air flying squirrel |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | CHUTE FIRST $1600: Though neither was built, around 1500 he sketched not only a flying machine, but a parachute, too Leonardo da Vinci |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: Ron & the title character return to school in a flying car in this 2002 film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $200: A '97 musical told the story of a kid who was half-boy & half-one of these bloodsucking flying animals bat |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | GO FLY A KITE! $400: The song "Let's Go Fly a Kite" is featured in this movie about a flying nanny Mary Poppins |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | FISH $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Seattle) The fish flying here at Seattle's Pike Place Market include this "regal" shining example king salmon |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: This star is truly a "Top Gun" when he's flying below radar to deliver a warhead Tom Cruise missile |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | LEONARDO DA VINCI, BUSY GUY $2000: As it has birdlike flapping wings, Leo's flying machine is designated as one of these ornithopter |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | FAMOUS JOHNS $800: This man's "Liberty Bell March" was used as the theme song for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" John Philip Sousa |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The high walls of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris are supported by these "flying" supports buttresses |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | MOVIE MAGIC $400: Harry Potter's teachers include Madam Hooch, who teaches flying on one of these broom |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Her career took off after publishing "Fear of Flying" in 1973 Erica Jong |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | AUTO LOGOS $1600: Its prancing horse logo was originally the emblem of WWI flying ace Francesco Barraca Ferrari |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $2000: "Like a sheeted ghost" this schooner "swept tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe" the Hesperus |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: 1973:
"There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" "Fear of Flying" |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | AIRPLANES $800: The plane seen here was called "The Flying" this, the part that provides lift, sending the plane up Wing |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | WHAT A BUNCH OF TV CHARACTERS $800: Carlos Ramirez,
Reverend Mother,
Sister Bertrille The Flying Nun |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | THAT SHOULD BE BULLFROG $400: The fringed-lipped species of this flying mammal eats frogs, & the bullfrog has been known to eat the flying mammals bats |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | SPORTS CHANNEL $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew flying above the water.) When this sport was invented in 1961, the flyer was originally towed behind a car parasailing |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $200: 55 down:
Flying mammals
(4) bats |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID $1,200 (Daily Double): She could have called her 1973 bestseller "Aviophobia" Erica Jong |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | '60s TV $400: This series was set at the convent San Tranco in Puerto Rico The Flying Nun |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | CHARLES IN CHARGE $400: He was flying mail between St. Louis & Chicago in 1926 when he heard about a prize for the 1st solo Atlantic flight Charles Lindbergh |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | THIS FAMILY MATTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1928 this family made its Madison Square Garden debut without a net--it had gotten lost in shipping the (Flying) Wallendas |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | INITIAL REACTIONS $1200: It's an IFO, as opposed to a UFO an identified flying object |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | "FLYING" $400: Bullwinkle's buddy is one a flying squirrel |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | "FLYING" $800: The fins of the 50-ish true species of these are used like wings as they glide above water flying fish |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | "FLYING" $1200: An illegal football move, or a police formation used to move into crowds effectively a flying wedge |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | "FLYING" $1600: An external wall support often used in Gothic cathedrals a flying buttress |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | "FLYING" $2000: A phantom ship eternally cruising the Cape of Good Hope the Flying Dutchman |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $2000: These 2 were first partnered in the 1933 film "Flying Down to Rio" Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | LONDON $400: When the Royal Standard is flying above Buckingham Palace, it denoted this the Queen is home |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | BOOK SEQUELS $800: Erica Jong's "How to Save Your Own Life" Fear of Flying |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | A FAREWELL $400: At the end of this 1964 film, Mr. Banks says to the nanny flying off, "Goodbye...Don't stay away too long" Mary Poppins |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | BESTSELLERS $1,000 (Daily Double): His "Report" to the House of Representatives was flying off the shelves in 1998 Kenneth Starr |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | WHAAAZUUUP?! $800: In May 1927 this plane was tested by flying from San Diego to NYC; it took 20 hours, 21 minutes the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | 1890s AVIATION $1200: In 1899 Wilbur Wright asked this museum complex for any info on flying; they sent him some pamphlets the Smithsonian |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | MAMMALS $200: The Malayan flying fox, with a wingspan of over 5 feet, is really one of these mammals bat |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the Santa Monica Pier.) This character sometimes dreams that he's a World War I flying ace, battling the Red Baron Snoopy |
| #3937, aired 2001-10-16 | TV PAST & PRESENT $1000: Old Ebony, ridden by Chuck Connors in this western, was the grandson of Kentucky Derby winner Flying Ebony The Rifleman |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $400: The tallest flying birds are members of this family the crane |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: Folk tales of this legendary keelboatman began appearing shortly after his 1823 death Mike Fink |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | TRUE STORY $400: This gonzo journalist tells the "Strange and Terrible Saga" of flying with angels--Hell's Angels Hunter Thompson |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | 4-F $1000: Flying by the seat of your pants in a speech, you're also doing it this other clothing way off the cuff |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | FEATURED CREATURES $300: Bullwinkle's buddy Rocky is this animal, scientific name Glaucomys volans a flying squirrel |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $300: In 1993 Sheila Widnall was flying high as the first woman secretary of this military branch the Air Force |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | TRAVEL FUN $300: If it's August & you're in Austin, Texas, indulge in a romantic dinner cruise to watch these flying mammals Bats |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | MODES OF TRANSPORT $500: The Flying Dutchman in opera Ship |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | TAKE THE KIDS! $100: In part of Disney's Animal Kingdom, no glass separates you from the giant fruit type of this flying mammal Bat |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $200: She was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross Amelia Earhart |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | CHINESE INVENTIONS $100: During the Han dynasty, over 2,000 years ago, the Chinese were out flying these Kites |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | ANIMAL RHYME TIME $200: An informal talk about flying mammals bat chat |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | FEMALE FLYERS $200: "Charlie", now in the Smithsonian, was the plane in which Flying Angel Geraldine Mock did this in 29 days in 1964 Circumnavigate the globe |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | FEMALE FLYERS $300: Anne Spencer Morrow's first date with this man, her future husband, was a flying lesson Charles Lindbergh |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | LET'S GET MOVING $2,600 (Daily Double): Lufthansa is the No. 1 customer of this European company, flying its A320 & A340, among others Airbus |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: In the East Indies certain species of this reptile are called flying dragons because they can glide from tree to tree Lizards |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | HAWAII $600: One of the "Big Island"'s biggest thrills is flying in a helicopter over this volcano that's been erupting since 1983 Kilauea |
| #3783, aired 2001-01-31 | TRUSTY SIDEKICKS $400: Rocky, a flying squirrel Bullwinkle |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | WILD KINGDOM $400: The white-headed variety of this high-flying scavenger is seen here Vulture |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "N" $200: On TV Sally Field played a flying one Nun |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | AVIATION $600: The B-17 was the Flying this, the B-29 the Super this, & the B-52 the Strato this Fortress |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | CATS UP $1000: Disney created the fearsome design on this WWII fighter group's plane seen here Flying Tigers |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | BIRDS $300: Flying at 100-200 MPH, this bird is fast as its name implies; in fact, it's one of the fastest Swift |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | I GOT AN "F"! $200: It precedes Dutchman, fish & saucer Flying |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | HEY, MIKEY! $600: This world-traveler was an original member of Monty Python's Flying Circus Michael Palin |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | NAMES IN NATURE $400: The wolf & this rodent both have "red" & "gray" types, but there's no flying wolf squirrel |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | FLYING MANEUVERS $200: To do it to a fire, you cover it, to do it to a plane, you lower one wing Bank it |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | FLYING MANEUVERS $400: Noisy term for flying low over a person or area Buzzing |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | FLYING MANEUVERS $600: Also a Coney Island ride, it's a 360-degree maneuver that starts by pointing the nose upward Loop-the-loop |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | FLYING MANEUVERS $800: In this roll named for a container, the plane revolves once on its longitudinal axis Barrel roll |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | FLYING MANEUVERS $1000: Pitch is when the plane's nose moves up or down, & this 3-letter word refers to a left or right motion Yaw |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | THE CIRCUS $400: The Flying Gaonas are famous for performing on this "flying" apparatus the trapeze |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | MUSICALS $400: The song heard here is a highlight of this high-flying Broadway musical Peter Pan |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | TO THE CORPS $400: Flying or not, this Marine Corps nickname refers to a collar once part of the uniform "Leathernecks" |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | REALLY BAD DATES $400: On Feb. 3, 1998 a low-flying jet clipped a ski lift cable, killing 20 in the Dolomite Mountains in this country Italy |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | WORST OF THE FIRSTS $100: While flying near Douaumont during this war, Victor Chapman became the first U.S. aviator ever to be shot down World War I |
| #3663, aired 2000-07-05 | SPORTSTALK $300: Flip-flop,
flea-flicker,
flying wedge football |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | MOVIE DEBUTS $200: She made her film debut in "The Way West" in 1967, the year she flew across TV screens as "The Flying Nun" Sally Field |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $800: This German composed the "Sailors' Chorus" heard here: Richard Wagner (from The Flying Dutchman) |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | FANDEMONIUM $300: Fans of this high-flying sport involving lots of string may know it's Thailand's most popular Kite flying |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | LETTER AFTER K $500 (Daily Double): In the common name of the airline whose mileage program is called "Flying Dutchman" L (KLM) |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | SEEING "RED" $100: In "Peanuts", Snoopy often fancied himself a flying ace out to get this pilot The Red Baron |
| #3616, aired 2000-05-01 | PRESIDENTS SINCE 1970 $500: A recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross George H.W. Bush |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | MUSIC $400: This German composer's "Flying Dutchman" took off after he expanded it from 1 act to 3 Richard Wagner |
| #3562, aired 2000-02-15 | THE MIDDLE AGES $600: In 1232 A.D. the Mongols were repulsed by "arrows of flying fire", or rockets, at Kaifeng-Fu in this country China |
| #3554, aired 2000-02-03 | EXPRESS YOURSELF $600: Of the first manned space flight, this cosmonaut said, "I could have gone on flying...forever" Yuri Gagarin |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | THE TONY AWARDS $200: Former Tony nominee Cathy Rigby wowed the audience in 1999 with a high-flying number from this musical Peter Pan |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: This woman seen here was flying high aboard the shuttle Columbia in July of 1999 Eileen Collins |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: He's the American hero seen here Charles Lindbergh |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | THE FILM VAULT $800: An action star from the '30s to the '70s, this actor headlined "The Fighting Seabees" & "Flying Tigers" John Wayne |
| #3462, aired 1999-09-28 | THAT'S LUNCH! $100: In Panama, the fringe-lipped species of these flying mammals eats frogs bats |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | THE ROARING '20s $1000: Popular athletes included Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost, & this man, the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | IT'S A WEIRD WORLD $400: While president of the Royal Society in 1895, this lord remarked "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" Lord Kelvin |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | "RO" IS ME $200: The first British pilot to die in a flying accident was this business partner of Henry Royce Charles Rolls |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | WAR STORIES $200: In this Joseph Heller novel, Captain Yossarian pleads insanity in an attempt to get grounded from flying "Catch-22" |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | EXPRESSIONS $1000: Headgear appears in this expression used of a pilot who shows off by flying low flat-hatting |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: In 1930 Ellen Church was flying high as the first woman to serve the airlines in this capacity a stewardess |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: A pilot, 1937:
"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet..." Amelia Earhart |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | ODD COUPLES $800: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" is all this singer wants from her kite-flying beau Aretha & Ben Franklin |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | LET'S FLY $600: "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease" "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" |
| #3368, aired 1999-04-07 | ROYs & ROGERs $500: This 13th century English philosopher can "bring home" the credit for an ornithopter, a flying machine Roger Bacon |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | MOV"ING" PICTURES $500: Fred & Ginger do the carioca in this, their first movie together Flying Down to Rio |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | ABBREV. $500: Members of the military who show heroism during aerial combat may be awarded this, abbreviated DFC the Distinguished Flying Cross |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | WOMEN: WRITE ON! $600: Henry Miller hailed this novel as a female "Tropic of Cancer" when Erica Jong published it in 1973 Fear of Flying |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | "FLY" RIGHT $1000: Claire Chennault's volunteer aviators who fought in China & Burma in World War II Flying Tigers |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | A WOODLAND "P"ARADISE $500: If you're picknicking in the woods of "The Lost World", one of these flying reptiles might decide to lunch on you! pterodactyl |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $1000: The courageous captain of this spectral ship is condemned to sail the seas until judgment day the Flying Dutchman |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | BELLS $400: This Sousa march was used as the theme to "Monty Python's Flying Circus" "Liberty Bell March" |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | OH "MI" $200: For many birds, it means flying south for the winter migrating |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | MYTH ME? $500: Serge Lifar's ballet "Icare" is based on the myth of this father & son flying team Daedalus & Icarus |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $100: This film about a flying elephant inspired a ride at Disneyland Dumbo |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | WHAT'S THAT BIRD DOING? $800: Known for flying off with trinkets, this crow relative is more Hyde than Jeckle Magpie |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | WORD ORIGINS $800: The name of this prehistoric reptile, the largest known flying animal, means "wing finger" Pterodactyl |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | THE WORST IN SPORTS $600: This northwestern team wasn't "flying" when it set the NFL record of -7 yards against the Rams in 1979 Seattle Seahawks |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $200: In other words, "Similar to a flying mammal leaving Hades" like a bat out of Hell |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | L.A.'s SISTER CITIES $1000: Flying from Los Angeles to this city, you go a long way from LAX ro AKL Auckland, New Zealand |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BEFORE & AFTER $100: The one-time flying nun who lands on a magical baseball diamond on your farm Sally Field of Dreams |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | FLYING $100: "Low-observable technology" earned the Air Force's B-2 bomber this nickname stealth bomber |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | FLYING $200: Tourists take off on popular helicopter excursions over this "Garden Island" of Hawaii Kauai |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | FLYING $300: In "The Flying Nun", Sally Field played this "sister" Sister Bertrille |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | FLYING $400: In January 1997 Steve Fossett stayed aloft in one for over 6 days, but failed to fly it around the world hot air balloon |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | FLYING $500: This company's airship "The Eagle" appears on the city seal of Carson, California, where it's based Goodyear |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | MILITARY POWER $100: Contour flying is when a pilot flies low, following the Earth's contours, to avoid this radar |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | FLYBOYS $100: In 1922 this "Lone Eagle" learned to fly at a Lincoln, Nebraska flying school Charles Lindbergh |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | AROUND THE CASTLE WITH LANCE $400: Since Lance's castle dates from before the Gothic period, it lacks the "flying" type of these supports Buttresses |
| #3089, aired 1998-01-22 | FINN FUN $800: This "Flying Finn" flies no more, but he has a statue near Helsinki's Olympic Stadium Paavo Nurmi |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | THE WAR OF 1812 $200: By the dawn's early light of Sept. 14, 1814, the U.S. flag was still flying over this Baltimore fort Fort McHenry |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | MYTHOLOGY $400: In Australian myth, Ngunung-Ngunnut, one of these flying mammals, created the first woman Bat |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $600 (Daily Double): The largest free-flying flock of this wading bird in the U.S. is kept at Hialeah Racetrack in Florida flamingos |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE RAVEN $500: This Biblical prophet is known for being fed by ravens & flying to heaven in a chariot of fire Elijah |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | DEMOCRATS $1,500 (Daily Double): This Ohioan is flying high as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee John Glenn |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | THE SMITHSONIAN $200: Wilbur's brother, he had a long feud with the Smithsonian about who created the first flying machine Orville Wright |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | THE CIRCUS $400: Antoinette Concello's triple somersault helped make her the "Queen of" this "flying" apparatus trapeze |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | FICTIONAL GHOSTS $300: In the Wagnerian version, this ghost puts into port every 7 years to seek true love the Flying Dutchman |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | WINGS $500: In 1984 this Richard Branson-owned airline began flying with a fleet of one Virgin |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | MACHINES NEVER BUILT $200: Around 1500 he sketched not only a flying machine, but a parachute Leonardo da Vinci |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | TV GUIDE'S 50 GREATEST STARS $1000: Nos. 32 & 48:
1 of 2 male cartoon characters on the list who are voiced by females Bart Simpson or Rocky The Flying Squirrel |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $400: This British comedy troupe's "Flying Circus" landed on American TV in 1974 Monty Python |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | DEBUTS $400: Julie Hagerty debuted as stewardess Elaine in this high-flying spoof of "Airport" movies Airplane! |
| #2971, aired 1997-06-30 | LAS VEGAS $300: You'll find the Flying Monkey Bar & the Oz Buffet in the Emerald City area of this "grand" hotel MGM Grand |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | SCIENCE $800: In 1975 in Texas scientists found fossils of this flying lizard with a more than 50' wingspan a pterodactyl |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | IT'S THE PITT'S $600: Brad was flying high in this 1992 fly fishing film A River Runs Through It |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: "Fisher King" director Terry Gilliam created this British comedy troupe's surreal animations Monte Python (Flying Circus) |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | ANIMALS $200: Among the largest flying birds are the California & Andean species of these Condor |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $400: "Any Woman's Blues" was a 1990 novel by this "Fear Of Flying" author Erica Jong |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: Legend says this doomed spectral ship, an omen of ill luck, can be seen off the Cape of Good Hope in stormy weather The Flying Dutchman |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE 1930s $400: When Howard Hughes set an air speed record August 13, 1935, she was flying by to help confirm it Amelia Earhart |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BIRDS & BEES $200: Because its mouth is extremely wide, the swift can feed on insects while doing this flying |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BIRDS $100: Not only do these birds hover, they're the only ones capable of flying backwards hummingbirds |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | U.S.A. $400: Built in 1876, the Flying Horses Carousel on this Massachusetts island is a national historic landmark Martha's Vineyard |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | INCREDIBLE EDIBLES $400: The flying fox, a type of this mammal, is considered a taste treat in the Seychelles Bat |
| #2804, aired 1996-11-07 | ANIMALS $400: Nocturnality protects these flying mammals from dehydration due to their enormous skin area bats |
| #2786, aired 1996-10-14 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $200: After causing this flying horse to throw Bellerophon, Zeus used it as a pack beast for thunderbolts Pegasus |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | ZOOLOGY $300: Special folds of skin act as a parachute when this rodent glides through the air a flying squirrel |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | RHYME TIME $100: A fedora for a flying mammal bat hat |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: "Flying Padre" was one of the short films this director of "The Shining" made early in his career Stanley Kubrick |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | PATENTS $200: These magnificent men & their flying machine received patent 821,393 the Wright brothers |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $300: Some of the flying monkeys in this 1939 classic were actors in costumes & some were 6" rubber miniatures The Wizard of Oz |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | SATIRE $200: This Jonathan Swift character's third voyage takes him to Lagado & the flying island of Laputa Gulliver |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | THE MOVIES $200: This dancer first appeared with Ginger Rogers in the 1933 film "Flying Down to Rio" Fred Astaire |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1000: "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them." Fear of Flying |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | GAME BIRDS $500: They nest on the ground, prefer walking to flying & fit in a "Foods That Begin with 'Q'" category quail |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | CELEBRITY ALUMNI $300: Purchase College graduate Steven Weber is flying high as Tim Daly's brother on this sitcom Wings |
| #2647, aired 1996-02-20 | INVENTORS $100: This duo became interested in flying after reading of the 1896 death of gliding pioneer Otto Lilienthal Wright Brothers |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | "FLYING" THINGS $100: Between 1948 & 1969, the Air Force investigated over 12,000 sightings of these flying saucers |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | "FLYING" THINGS $200: Jay Ward's Rocky is a famous animated one flying squirrel |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | "FLYING" THINGS $300: They help hold up Notre-Dame de Paris flying buttresses |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | "FLYING" THINGS $400: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was based on the legend of this ghost ship the Flying Dutchman |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | "FLYING" THINGS $500: They play on the road to Mandalay the flying fishes |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | WORD ORIGINS $200: This trademark name of a flying plastic disk comes from a Bridgeport, Connecticut pie company Frisbee |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | HERALDRY $300: A heraldic bird that appears to be doing this is described as volant flying |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | FLYING $100: With 16 planes built, construction of this supersonic transport ended in 1979 the Concorde |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | FLYING $200: It's the nickname of the H-4 Hercules, the flying boat Howard Hughes piloted in 1947 the "Spruce Goose" |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | FLYING $300: In 1995 Eileen Collins became the first American woman to pilot one of these a Space Shuttle |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | FLYING $400: By 1940 Artem Mikoyan & Mikhail Gurevich produced the first of these Soviet fighter planes MiG |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | FLYING $500: Referring to the way certain aircraft rise up & touch down, the abbreviation VTOL stands for this vertical takeoff and landing |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Often used to absorb thrusts from roof vaults, these supports come in hanging & flying varieties buttresses |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | BIRDIES $500 (Daily Double): With a wingspan of up to 9 1/2 feet, this vulture is North America's largest flying land bird a (California) condor |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | QUOTATIONS BY WOMEN $200: "Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed" is a line from this Erica Jong book Fear of Flying |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | BIRD PARTS $500: The carina is a keel-like ridge on this bone that helps support muscles used in flying Breastbone (sternum) |
| #2575, aired 1995-11-10 | SURPRISING SINGERS $500 (Daily Double): Actress heard here singing her TV theme before she won two Oscars:
Long as there's a habit standing by,
Who needs things like wings to fly? Sally Field |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | ANIMALS $400: The only mammals native to New Zealand are these flying ones bats |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | "GREAT" FILMS $800: Robert Redford was flying high as a barnstorming pilot in this 1975 film The Great Waldo Pepper |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | CIRCUS HISTORY $400: This Frenchman invented the flying trapeze act & had a snug one-piece garment named for him Jules Léotard |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | SPORTS $400: From 1927 to 1945, this World War I flying ace owned the Indianapolis Speedway Rickenbacker |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | RAIN POTPOURRI $400: Guinness says one of these phenomena appeared for over 3 hours in North Wales on August 14, 1979 a rainbow |
| #2480, aired 1995-05-19 | FAMOUS PEOPLE $400: This World War I flying ace later served as president of Eastern Airlines Rickenbacker |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | MAMMALS $500: The colugo, a forest mammal that glides from tree to tree, is also called this kind of "lemur" a flying lemur |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | GHOSTS $500: One legend says this ghost ship sails around the Cape of Good Hope; another puts it in the North Sea the Flying Dutchman |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | SPACE EXPLORERS $1000: This Apollo 11 command module pilot wrote "Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places" for kids (Michael) Collins |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | NOTABLE WOMEN $200: She was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross in 1932, the same year as her solo transatlantic flight Amelia Earhart |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | ZOOLOGY $600: While flying, they use their bioluminescence to attract mates fireflies |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | POTPOURRI $1000: In 1938 this tycoon beat Wiley Post's record for flying around the world by almost 4 days (Howard) Hughes |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | THEATRE $200: A common method of changing this is flying -- raising or lowering suspended units scenery (flats accepted) |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | OPERA $1,100 (Daily Double): The German title of this Wagner opera is "Der fliegende Hollander" The Flying Dutchman |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | TV TRIVIA $500: This Sally Field series was set in Puerto Rico The Flying Nun |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Ribbed vaults & flying buttresses are features of this style that followed Romanesque Gothic |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | CROSSWORD CLUES "I" $400: High-flying Greek
(6) Icarus |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | TELEVISION $400: On TV he parked his plane, the Songbird, on the Flying Crown Ranch Sky King |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $200: "Flying may not be all plain sailing... but the fun of it is worth the price", she said before she disappeared (Amelia) Earhart |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | "O" NO! $500: It's a flying machine that has wings that flap like a bird's an ornithopter |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | OLD U.S. COINS $200: On the quarter during the 1920s, it was flying; today it's perched the eagle |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | TRAINS $1,600 (Daily Double): The Flying Scotsman once ran between these 2 capital cities London & Edinburgh |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | NATURE $200: Sausage trees, found in Africa, are pollinated by these flying mammals bats |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | QUOTATIONS $200: He was quoted April 14, 1961: "I could have gone on flying through space forever" Yuri Gagarin |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | QUOTATIONS $300: Virgil spoke of it as "flying, never to return", a sign he was having fun Time |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | NONFICTION $400: "Fear of Fifty" is the first admitted autobiography by this "Fear of Flying" author Erica Jong |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | MAMMALS $200: The largest species of this flying mammal is pteropus vampyrus, a type of "flying fox" a bat |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | POTPOURRI $100: This aviatrix was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross Amelia Earhart |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | COMEDIANS $400: After performing on "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he starred in "Fawlty Towers" John Cleese |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $100: In 1927 he set a distance record by flying from New York to Paris without refueling Charles Lindbergh |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | AWARDS $200: In 1930 he was given a National Geographic Society medal for flying over the South Pole Richard Byrd |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | FLOWERS $200: The flower of the banana plant is pollinated by these flying mammals bats |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | LEFTOVERS $300: Charles Schulz' problems flying these gave him the idea for a tree that eats them kites |
| #2316, aired 1994-10-03 | 1960s ROCK $300: In 1969 The Flying Machine told her to "smile a little smile for me" Rosemary |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | MAMMALS $600: The southern flying species of this rodent may make its nest in an old woodpecker hole a flying squirrel |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | TRANSPORTATION $200: In 1984 this airline dropped the wings from its flying kangaroo logo Qantas |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This "flying" arched support extends from a pillar to a wall a buttress |
| #2275, aired 1994-06-24 | PHOBIAS $400: As Erica Jong could tell you, aviophobia is this fear of flying |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | TV TRIVIA $400: This series that made Sally Field a star also featured Barbara Hershey & Bonnie Franklin as 2 of her friends Gidget |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1989 this Memphis- based package delivery service bought Flying Tigers, an all-cargo carrier Federal Express |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | MUSEUMS $400: Material about the China Clipper flying boats is housed at the Treasure Island Museum in this California city San Francisco |
| #2255, aired 1994-05-27 | GAS $500: In the 1930s Socony-Vacuum started selling gas under this brand name using a flying red horse logo Mobil |
| #2247, aired 1994-05-17 | ZOOLOGY $300: Types of these rodents include fox, Eastern Gray & flying squirrels |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | ARCHITECTURE $200: These supports come in setback, diagonal & clasping types as well as flying buttresses |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $200: 2-word term for the disturbance of normal body rhythms caused by flying across different time zones jet lag |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | BIOLOGY $500: Common name of Cypselurus californicus whose enlarged pectoral fins act as airfoils flying fish |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | MOVIE TRIVIA $100: Timothy Mouse helps a flying elephant become a star in this classic Disney film Dumbo |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | ARTISTS $1000: This sculptor of "Bird in Space" also executed a work called "Flying Turtle" Constantine Brancusi |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Shakespeare is a character in this "Fear of Flying" author's "Serenissima: A Novel of Venice" (Erica) Jong |
| #2166, aired 1994-01-24 | BROADWAY SONGS $300: A song in "Peter Pan" says, "Look at me way up high, suddenly here am I" doing this flying |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | STATE CAPITALS $600: You'll find the World Center for Birds of Prey on West Flying Hawk Lane near this capital of Idaho Boise |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | AIRCRAFT $3,000 (Daily Double): Man who created the following flying design Leonardo da Vinci |
| #2151, aired 1994-01-03 | SPORTS $1000: In Feb. 1993 this golfer was "flying high" after he became the first to top $8 million in earnings Tom Kite |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | AVIATION $600: By one account, it was Canadian Captain A. Roy Brown who downed this German flying ace the Red Baron |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | AVIATION $800: In 1988 the Air Force unveiled this high-tech bomber described as a "flying wing" the B-2 |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $600: Planes flying east use this high-velocity wind to gain speed & save fuel Jet Stream |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | CLASSIC TV $500: It's the comedy series that presented the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award (Rowan & Martin's) Laugh-In |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | ANIMALS $500: Britanica says the Jamaican fruit type of this flying mammal smells like perfumed soap bat |
| #2109, aired 1993-11-04 | BIRDS $100: Guinea fowl usually escape their enemies by doing this instead of by flying running |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | ARCHITECTURAL TERMS $1000: Flying buttresses are most associated with this style of architecture gothic |
| #2107, aired 1993-11-02 | TV TRIVIA $400: "The Flying Nun" was set at the Convent San Tanco on this island Puerto Rico |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | BATS $500: In German the bat is called Die Fledermaus, which translates to this the flying mouse |
| #2099, aired 1993-10-21 | GENERAL SCIENCE $1000: It's the type of energy exhibited by a flying baseball or an object falling to the ground kinetic |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | JULY 25 $400: On July 25, 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first to cross the English Channel this way by flying |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | CONTESTS $100: Friskies invites the country's best canines to compete in catching & fetching this flying disc Frisbee |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | UNREAL ESTATE $200: Laputa is a flying island inhabited by somewhat useless philosophers in this Jonathan Swift classic Gulliver's Travels |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE $300: Frederick Auserlitz & Virginia McMath in "Flying Down to Rio" Fred Astaire & Ginger Rodgers |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | CAVES $100: Large deposits of guano left by these flying mammals on caves can produce a toxic gas bats |
| #2061, aired 1993-07-19 | ASTRONOMY $400: The ancient Chinese thought these dark areas on the Sun looked like flying birds sunspots |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | ZOOLOGY $400: Fruit bats like the Samoan are also known as "flying" ones of these foxes |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | RODENTS $500: In one downward leap one of these rodents may glide for over 150 feet flying squirrels |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | TRANSPORTATION $400: These airships went into service in 1910, flying between various German cities Zeppelins |
| #2039, aired 1993-06-17 | U.S. HISTORY $300: In 1927 this aviator became the first person to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | DISAPPEARANCES $500: This author of "The Little Prince" disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission in 1944 (Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THEATRE $200: Among the notables who have played this high-flying role are Cathy Rigby, Sandy Duncan & Mary Martin Peter Pan |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | BORNEO $300: The flying dragon of Borneo isn't a bird, but one of these reptiles that glides from tree to tree a lizard |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | BOATS & SHIPS $500: Among the more famous of these swift sailing ships were the Flying Cloud & the Cutty Sark a clipper ship |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | CONSERVATION $300: In England it's illegal to disturb these flying mammals during their breeding season bats |
| #1935, aired 1993-01-22 | COUPLES $400: This "Fear of Flying" author wore red when she married her fourth husband, Ken Burrows Jong |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | STAINED GLASS $200: The "flying" type of this support allowed Gothic cathedrals to have large stained glass windows buttresses |
| #1921, aired 1993-01-04 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $500: Sir Walter Scott's 1813 poem "Rokeby" was inspired by the legend of this ghost ship the Flying Dutchman |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | MUSEUMS $100: An Ulverston, England museum is devoted to the film careers of this comedy pair who starred in "The Flying Deuces" Laurel & Hardy |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: It's a support built against a Gothic structure's outer wall a flying buttress (or a buttress) |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | OPERA $1000: This Wagner opera concludes with a ship sinking & its captain & Senta ascending to heaven The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: At Carnegie Hall in 1935, she talked about "Adventures in Flying"; she disappeared 2 years later (Amelia) Earhart |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | FEATHERED FRIENDS $600: The California species of this New World vulture is North America's largest flying bird the condor |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | SCIENCE & NATURE $300: The fastest flying animal is the peregrine species of this bird of prey a falcon |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1000: Their leaps of up to 35' in the air & glides of almost 1000' may be to escape undersea predators flying fish |
| #1746, aired 1992-03-16 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN SONGS $500: "It's a Grand Night for" doing this; "the moon is flying high" singing |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | AMERICAN NOVELS $200: Erica Jong's "How to Save Your Own Life" was a sequel to this 1973 novel Fear of Flying |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | PYRAMIDS $500: A 7-man walking pyramid was a specialty of this high-wire family until a 1962 fall the (Flying) Wallendas |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: In a park each April Philadelphia holds a competition in this to honor Ben Franklin kite flying |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $600: A flying one of these is an arched support extending from a column to a wall a buttress |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | COMMON BONDS $500: Dutchman,
saucer,
buttress flying |
| #1677, aired 1991-12-10 | VICE PRESIDENTS $600: As a Navy pilot from 1943-45, he won the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism George Bush |
| #1660, aired 1991-11-15 | ANIMALS $300: The flying fox isn't a type of fox, but a type of this Bat |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | OPERA $400: Common translation of the Wagner title "Der Fliegende Hollander" The Flying Dutchman |
| #1646, aired 1991-10-28 | TRANSPORTATION $200: In the 1930s this country introduced the Flying Hamburger, a high-speed railcar Germany |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | THE OLYMPICS $300: Paavo Nurmi was nicknamed the "Flying" one of these a Finn |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | MAMMALS $400: When flying through the sky during the Cenozoic Era, these looked the same as they do now bats |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | PEOPLE $200: Born Erica Mann, she wrote two books of poetry before soaring with "Fear of Flying" in 1973 Erica Jong |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | ANIMALS $100: The only land mammals native to New Zealand are 2 species of these flying mammals bats |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | SPORTS $300: Star, Flying Dutchman & Tornado are classes in this Olympic sport yachting |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | THE ARABIAN KNIGHTS $400: It was only about 6 feet square but its asking price was 40 purses of gold a flying carpet |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: In May 1906 they received patent No. 821,393 for a flying machine the Wright brothers |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | FAMOUS FOLKS $400: His "Flying Dutchman" opera was partly inspired by his own near shipwreck in a storm Wagner |
| #1530, aired 1991-04-05 | SPIDERS $500: These slim-waisted flying insects are among spiders worst enemies wasps |
| #1527, aired 1991-04-02 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: Many airlines cut the fear-of-flying scene from this 1988 D. Hoffman film, but Qantas didn't Rain Man |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AIN'T IT "GRAND" $400: In this song from "State Fair", "The moon is flying high" "It's A Grand Night For Singing" |
| #1498, aired 1991-02-20 | DEM BUGS $500: These large bugs named for a monster are probably the fastest flying insects dragonflies |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | BOOKS ON TAPE $400: "Fear of Flying" author who recorded her own novel of obsession, "Any Woman's Blues" (Erica) Jong |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MAMMALS $100: This flying mammal is not blind; some can see almost as well as humans a bat |
| #1449, aired 1990-12-13 | PLAYING THE "HARP" $400: Eagle named for the mythical flying monster it resembles a harpy |
| #1449, aired 1990-12-13 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: "Baa, Baa Black Sheep" is the 1958 autobiography of this WWII flying ace Pappy Boyington |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The armlike beams connecting a high wall to outside supports in Gothic churches flying buttresses |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | GIRLS IN SONG $200: In a 1969 hit Flying Machine told her to "Smile A Little Smile For Me" Rosemarie (Rosemary) |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: He was a top race car driver before becoming the most famous flying ace of World War I (Eddie) Rickenbacker |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | AVIATION $600: Claire Lee Chennault founded this group, some of whom went into cargo transport after WWII the Flying Tigers |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | SCIENCE $600 (Daily Double): The flying shuttle John Kay invented in 1733 was a new type of this machine loom |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | ZOOLOGY $400: The flying fox of Southeast Asia isn't a fox at all but one of these bat |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | SPORTS $100: A piece of sports equipment that sounds like a flying mammal a bat |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | HERSTORY $100: She worked for the telephone company in 1920 to earn money for flying lessons Amelia Earhart |
| #1337, aired 1990-05-29 | SHIPS $600: One legend says if you want to see the Flying Dutchman, be in the area of this cape during a storm Cape of Good Hope |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | LETTER PERFECT $200: For the Flying Fortress this letter preceded -17; for the Superfortress, -29 B |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | FEATHERED FRIENDS $400: Samuel Taylor Coleridge could have told you it has the largest wingspan of flying birds albatross |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Ribbed groin vaults & the flying buttress were introduced with this imposing 12th century style Gothic |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | U.S. LANDMARKS $200: Built in the 19th century, the Flying Horse Carousel & Newport Casino are landmarks in this state Rhode Island |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $200: In U.S. decorations this adjective precedes service medal & flying cross distinguished |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | LIBRARIES $500: The library at this Waco, Texas school houses the largest collection of works about Robert Browning Baylor |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | MAMMALS $200: These flying mammals aren't really "blind"; most have small eyes concealed by fur bats |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | MYTHOLOGY $800: Venus drove a flying chariot pulled by these elegant white birds swans |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | AUTHORS $400: She's also a poet, but she's more famous for her "Fear of Flying" Erica Jong |
| #1238, aired 1990-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1926 Lindbergh had to parachute out of planes 4 times while employed to do this flying the mail |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | TOYS & GAMES $400: When this toy was introduced in 1957, it was called a "Pluto Platter" or "Flying Saucer" frisbee |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | AVIATION $500: In the '60s pilots flying this rocket plane over 65 mi. up were awarded astronaut wing the X-15 |
| #1212, aired 1989-12-05 | U.S.A. $500: Passengers on plane can spot traces of this Missouri-to-New Mexico trail when flying over the desert the Santa Fe Trail |
| #1209, aired 1989-11-30 | ANIMAL GROUPS $400: Called a skein when they're flying, a flock of geese on the ground is called this a gaggle |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | POTPOURRI $100: A pioneer of the U.S. Air Force, Benjamin Foulois took flying lessons by mail from them the Wright brothers |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | MODERN NOVELS $800: In Chapter 1 of this Edna Ferber novel, "All Texas was flying to Jett Rink's party" Giant |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $200: Flying an airplane of this color, Baron Manfred von Richthofen was shot down April 21, 1918 red |
| #1182, aired 1989-10-24 | FOREIGN BRAND NAMES $600: Manufactured by Piaggio, the Vespa motor scooter is named for this flying insect the wasp |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | AVIATION $800: It's Boeing's highest numbered model passenger aircraft currently flying 767 |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: She was a poet before turning to fiction with "Fear of Flying" Erica Jong |
| #1142, aired 1989-07-18 | ASTAIRE & ROGERS $1000: After Fred & Ginger did this samba-style dance in "Flying Down to Rio", it became a national craze the carioca |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | ASIA $100: The mythical beast pictured on the flag of Bhutan the dragon |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | STARTS WITH "R" $800: This car's "Flying Lady" radiator ornament is known formally as "The Spirit of Ecstasy" Rolls Royce |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Found in Gothic architecture, these supports can be "clasping" or "flying" buttresses |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | ROYALTY $400: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands achieved this feat in 1954, 7 years after Chuck Yeager flying faster than the speed of sound (breaking the sound barrier) |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | TV "ADVENTURES" $100: Flipping over the film let this show's hero reverse his flying direction, but his "S" was backwards The Adventures of Superman |
| #1072, aired 1989-04-11 | 4-LETTER BIRDS $200: This bird isn't attached to a string, like a high-flying apparatus of the same name a kite |
| #1071, aired 1989-04-10 | SHIPS $100: Flying Cloud, Cutty Sark & Sea Witch are all examples of this mid 19th c. speedy merchant ship a clipper ship |
| #1067, aired 1989-04-04 | 1983 $200: Flight 007, en route from N.Y. to this country, was downed after flying over Soviet air space (South) Korea |
| #1053, aired 1989-03-15 | COLORS $300: Sheb Wooley's 1958 No. 1 hit about a one-eyed one-horned flying creature "The Purple People Eater" |
| #1035, aired 1989-02-17 | PREHISTORIC ANIMALS $600: Many of these flying reptiles had a wingspan about 5 times that of a bald eagle a pterodactyl |
| #1031, aired 1989-02-13 | BIRDS $400: Instead of flying to a warmer climate, the poorwill does this during the winter hibernate |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FLYING MACHINES $200: Now in the Smithsonian, "The Flyer" was their plane Wright brothers |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FLYING MACHINES $400: You can see this plane with the world's largest wing span, 319' 11", in Long Beach, California Spruce Goose |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FLYING MACHINES $800: This name for an airship came from a Latin word meaning "to steer" dirigible |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FLYING MACHINES $1000: This British jet fighter can come to a standstill in midair & hover in one place Harrier |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FLYING MACHINES $2,000 (Daily Double): The highest model number of Boeing aircraft currently in commercial use 767 |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | ZOOLOGY $800: Species of this animal include the common brown, leaf-nosed & flying fox bats |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | ADVERTISING $200: A flying red horse is a symbol of this oil company Mobil |
| #978, aired 1988-11-30 | "G.R." $400: This dancer said of break dancing, "You can't dance on your head...it's like flying a plane on the ground" Ginger Rogers |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | "AND" SO IT GOES $800: Monty Python's Flying Circus borrowed this catch phrase from BBC announcers "And now for something completely different" |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | AVIATION $400: A plane's wings are necessary to create this primary force in flying lift |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | AVIATION $500: In 1909 Louis Bleriot electrified the world by flying the 23 1/2 miles of this body of water in 37 minutes the English Channel |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | ARCHITECTURE $200: A projecting support, whether or not it's "flying" a buttress |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | SINGING CELEBRITIES $100: She recorded a pop album over 20 years ago, back when she was "The Flying Nun" Sally Field |
| #934, aired 1988-09-29 | 20th C. AMERICANS $200: Flying a jet fighter in 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the 1st woman to do this fly faster than the speed of sound |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | ANIMALS $100: In the tropics, some strongly scented flowers are pollinated by these flying mammals bats |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | HUMMINGBIRDS $200: Good at hovering, hummingbirds inspired Igor Sikorsky to design this type of flying craft a helicopter |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $200: In a quest for the rarest object, Prince Houssain found one of these that could fly a flying carpet |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | VOCABULARY $200: In dictionary entries, this word is followed by fish, saucer & Dutchman flying |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | TRANSPORTATION $200: A flying circus was a WWI squadron or a show featuring this style of flying stunt or daredevil flying |
| #882, aired 1988-06-07 | STARTS WITH "CRU" $100: This verb can refer to driving, flying or sailing cruising |
| #878, aired 1988-06-01 | ANIMALS $100: The Bismarck flying fox, this type of mammal, has a 5 1/2 foot wingspan bat |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | ZOOLOGY $300: Many experts believe this dandy household pest may have been Earth's 1st flying creature cockroach |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT $300: Lindbergh tested his plane by flying from San Diego to NYC with a stopover in this city St. Louis |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT $500: After the flight, Pres. Coolidge awarded Lindbergh the 1st of these medals in U.S. history (Distinguished) Flying Cross |
| #865, aired 1988-05-13 | SHORT STORIES $300 (Daily Double): Person referred to in both the following song & in the title of a Wm. Saroyan short story the daring young man on the flying trapeze |
| #865, aired 1988-05-13 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $1000: Some commercial airlines flying to the Far East refuel on Shemya Island, part of this group the Aleutians |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | PALINDROMES $200: It can follow Blue, Singing or Flying nun |
| #839, aired 1988-04-07 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $100: In their 1st musical number together, Ginger sang, he played the accordion & neither 1 of them danced Fred Astaire |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $100: Capone set 1-year income record, Ruth set 1-year homer record, Lindbergh set 1-man flying record 1927 |
| #817, aired 1988-03-08 | ANIMALS $100: These rodents can be classified as ground or flying, or, like Rocky, animated squirrels |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | BRITISH TV $100: Cleese, Chapman, Idle, Palin, Gilliam, & Jones were collectively known as this Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: In 1938, this businessman/aviator set a record flying around the world in 3 days, 19 hrs., 14.28 mins. Howard Hughes |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | FLAGS $200: Floridians expect this when they see 2 red flags with black squares flying at shore stations hurricanes |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 forms of "flying" transport that start with "H" & are able to take off & land in water (1 of) a hydroplane (hovercraft or helicopter) |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | AUTHORS $500: "Little Prince" author who disappeared while flying a WWII reconnaissance mission & was never found Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | FAMOUS ALICES $400: The Flying Dr. Service & School of the Air are based in this isolated central Australian town Alice Springs |
| #768, aired 1987-12-30 | BATS $500: You may be glad to know that the bats known as flying foxes are vegetarians, eating mostly this fruit |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | SPACE & AVIATION $100: On June 11, 1927, he became the 1st recipient of the American Distinguished Flying Cross Charles Lindbergh |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | BEST SELLERS $600: "North to the Orient" & "Listen! The Wind" were her accounts of flying with her husband Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $200: Ghost ship which was the basis for the Wagner opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" Flying Dutchman |
| #721, aired 1987-10-26 | FLYING ACES $100: Shoot down at least 5 enemy aircraft, including airships or observation balloons qualifications for an ace |
| #721, aired 1987-10-26 | FLYING ACES $200: On his WWII plane, German ace Gen. A. Galland had a picture of him, America's most popular cartoon star Mickey Mouse |
| #721, aired 1987-10-26 | FLYING ACES $300: WWI ace Frank Luke was the 1st U.S. airman honored with this medal Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #719, aired 1987-10-22 | FAMOUS QUOTES $600 (Daily Double): Line from Scottish poet Robert Burns that's found in the following patriotic song:
"You’re a grand old flag /
You’re a high-flying flag /
And forever in peace may you wave /
You’re the emblem of /
The land I love /
The home of the free and the brave /
Every heart beats true /
‘Neath the red white and blue /
Where there’s never a boast or brag..." should auld acquaintance be forgot |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | RHYME TIME $400: What you might call the leg joints of a flying social insect bee's knees |
| #706, aired 1987-10-05 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1000: In 1619, 1st Blacks were brought to Jamestown in a ship flying the flag of this trading nation the Netherlands |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | THE JUNGLE $400: Adjective which can, in jungle species, precede frog, gecko & lemur, all of whom actually glide flying |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | AIRPORTS $1,100 (Daily Double): After his death, a Calif. airport was renamed for this actor who had been a "Flying Leatherneck" John Wayne |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | TV SISTERS $100: Series that featured Sister Sixto, Sister Jacqueline & Sister Bertrille The Flying Nun |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | RUBBER $100: It's what the "Absent Minded Professor" named his invention which he 1st called "flying rubber" flubber |
| #660, aired 1987-06-19 | IN OTHER WORDS... $100: Unsighted, like the flying mammal blind as a bat |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | GUINNESS RECORDS $300: The American woodcock is the slowest of all birds at doing this, going 5 mph "without sinking" flying |
| #645, aired 1987-05-29 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $400: Built in the 12th c., these arched supports found on Notre Dame Cathedral are still "flying" today buttresses |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | FANTASY ISLANDS $400: Gulliver said the flying island Laputa kept towns below in line by dropping these on them stones (or rocks) |
