| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $400: In Chapter 7 our hero gets nicked; in Chapter 8 he's at His Majesty's pleasure, which means he's here jail |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $1000: How about this dwarven race of "Ring Cycle" fame whose name begins & ends with the same letter N-I-B-E-L-U-N-G-E-N |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | "G"OING PLACES $400: This Scottish city is known for local slang such as "gallus", which means bold or daring Glasgow |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | "G" WHIZ $400: Tell a good joke & hear giggles; tell a great one & you might hear this, a hearty, boisterous burst of laughter guffaws |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | "G" WHIZ $800: A welcome development is this word, an unexpected "divine" gift a godsend |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | "G" WHIZ $1200: It sounds like it means to play games of chance, but with the -ol spelling, it means to leap around joyously gambol |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | "G" WHIZ $1600: The bell-lyra & the orchestra bells are 2 of the main types of this percussion instrument a glockenspiel |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | "G" WHIZ $2000: Like the one seen here for "Breakfast at Tiffany's", this French designer created several dresses for Audrey Hepburn Givenchy |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1200: At the end of "Little Caesar", this actor cries, "Mother of Mercy. Is this the end of Rico?" Edward G. Robinson |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THE MEDI-VERSE $500 (Daily Double): Development of the fighter pilot's G-suit is one of the breakthroughs from this clinic whose name sounds like a deli condiment the Mayo Clinic |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | "G", LOOK AT THAT $2000: Seen here is a work of the Venetian Renaissance by this painter, whose name means "Big George" Giorgione |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | "G"EOGRAPHY $400: Ecuador once ran a penal colony whose prisoners were made to build a "wall of tears" on rocky Isabela Island in this island group the Galápagos |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | STARTS WITH A SILENT LETTER $200: The biting midge, or no-see-um, is one of these small, pesky flies whose "G" is a no-hear-um a gnat |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SCI-FI CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an H.G. Wells tale, Griffin, whose face is wrapped in rags, turns out to be this title guy The Invisible Man |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $400: It's a remark meant to start a conversation, or a chess opening involving a sacrifice a gambit |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $800: You don't have to be a math whiz to know that this adjective describes the pattern seen here based on simple shapes geometric |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $1600: 2 similar words: one means excessively greedy when it comes to food, & the other, sticky or gummy gluttonous & glutenous |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $2,000 (Daily Double): Add "S" to the end of a word meaning pertaining to old age to get this branch of medicine that focuses on the elderly geriatrics |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $2000: They gather leftover grain from a field after a harvest like the title women in the Jean-François Millet painting seen here gleaners |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $400: Union veterans of the Civil War made up the G.A.R., the Grand Army of this, which they'd fought to save the Republic |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $1600: Is this a short, swordlike weapon used for stabbing which I see before me? a dagger |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | 3 G's $800: Still sleepy when you first wake up groggy |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | I JUST TOOK A DNA TEST $2000: DNA is composed of nucleotides, which contain 4 nitrogenous bases represented by these 4 letters A, C, G & T |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | I WANNA SAX YOU UP $1200: This man whose real last name is Gorelick tweeted a pic of himself on a T-shirt that said "Nobody blows harder" than him Kenny G |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $200: Appropriately, it's the novel in which Wells coined the phrase "time traveller" The Time Machine |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | MIDDLE "G" $800: The largest tree-dwelling mammal in the world, this ape from Sumatra & Borneo can weigh 220 pounds an orangutan |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | EXTINCT CREATURES $800: G'day & good Lord! I wouldn't want to box the giant type of this marsupial, which could be 6 1/2 feet tall & weigh 500 pounds a kangaroo |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | "LITTLE" MOVIES $800: Classic gangster film in which Edward G. Robinson has the dying line "Mother of mercy! Is this the end of Rico?" Little Caesar |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | WHOSE LIFE IS IT? $1000: Born Finland, 1910,
designed for G.M., M.I.T. & J.F.K.,
met the big architect, Michigan, 1961 (Eero) Saarinen |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | "G"REA"T" WORDS $400: You say it to wish good health to someone who has sneezed Gesundheit |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | "G"REA"T" WORDS $1200: It's the reinforced eyelet in cloth or leather through which a fastener passes a grommet |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $800: A D.C. site is where Dr. Carter G. Woodson came up with Negro History Week, now expanded & renamed this Black History Month |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | "G.M." $1000: It's the wanderer seen here whose larvae are highly destructive a gypsy moth |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | FROM "G" TO "G" $800: Despite its name, this marmot can climb trees & swim just like the squirrels to which it's related a groundhog |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS $1200: F.R.G. (Federal Republic of) Germany |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | OH, "G"! $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a satellite around the Earth.) Many satellites are in this type of orbit, in which they're at a fixed point moving at the same speed as Earth's rotation geostationary (or geosynchronous) |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $200: Appropriately, the name of this first book of the Bible means "origin" or "beginning" Genesis |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $400: Yum! They're the candies seen here gumdrops |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $600: Rumor has it that it's talk of a personal nature about another person--pass it around gossip |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $800: In ancient Rome these trained warriors fought to the death for public entertainment gladiators |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $1000: It's a helpful list of terms & definitions at the back of some textbooks a glossary |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | NOTRE DAME $800: The 2 main towers are connected by the Grand Gallery, which could be called the Grand Gallery of these "G" beasts gargoyles |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | WHICH PART OF SPEECH? $400: A German's germs are not germane to a conversation about Jermaine Jackson: germane (with a "G") an adjective |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | "G"ARDEN GLOSSARY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some plants on the monitor.) Most plant shoots have a tendency to grow towards the sun, which is called phototropism; if roots grew that way, they'd shrivel up & die, so they grow into the earth, displaying this other -ism geotropism |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $600: Rod Taylor starred in a film version of this Wells novel in which a scientist cruises the centuries The Time Machine |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | AskOxford.com $1600: This 2-letter abbreviation means "which see" in Latin & directs readers to another part of the book for info q.v. |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $1000: (Alex stands in front of an exhibit at the Newseum.) The exhibit "G-men and Journalists" contains the very first ledger in which this list was kept; it began when a reporter asked the FBI, "Who are the toughest guys you're looking for?" the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | EUROPE, AGES AGO $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew hands us down a tale from the Lejre Archaeological Research Center, Denmark.) How stones of several tons were moved & lifted with Stone Age technology is the mystery of structures called dolmens, which were built as these tombs |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | SPECIAL OPS MOVIES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The SEALs remain all male, despite this movie in which Demi Moore makes it through SEAL training & a Libyan rescue mission G.I. Jane |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | "G"EOGRAPHY $400: This Ecuadorian island group straddles the equator, but Isabela is the only one through which it passes the Galápagos |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $200: A hood who's packing a rod is carrying one of these a gun |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $400: Ah! An Old French word for "elegant" evolved into this adjective that means "dazzlingly beautiful" gorgeous |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $600: If I ask you to rustle up some of this slang term for food, don't bring me the insect larva of the same name grub |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a dog show at Silver Bay Kennel Club.) Dog show judges know a good indicator of structure, temperament & condition is this pattern of movement that can be a walk, trot or gallop gait |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $1000: From the Old French for "watchtower", it's an attic room that's perfect for a soulful starving artist garret |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | "G" WHIZ $200: Proverbially, to work hard is to "keep your nose to" this grindstone |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | "G" WHIZ $400: According to the nursery rhyme, if you were born on a Tuesday, you're full of it grace |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | "G" WHIZ $600: One of the 7 deadly sins, it's from the Latin for "to swallow" gluttony |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | "G" WHIZ $800: A period of pregnancy, or a time for the development of an idea gestation |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | "G" WHIZ $1000: It's the London borough famous for a royal observatory Greenwich |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | "G" WHIZ! $200: A male goose you might take a look at gander |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | "G" WHIZ! $400: It's the liquor you might drink while playing the card game of the same name gin |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | "G" WHIZ! $600: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gained fame as one of these Indian teachers guru |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | "G" WHIZ! $800: Endocrine or exocrine, for example gland |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | "G" WHIZ! $1000: A small cave, perhaps a "Blue" one grotto |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $400: This 2005 film in which aliens use tripod machines is based on a novel by H.G. Wells War of the Worlds |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | 5 "G"s $200: The wooden frame upon which condemned persons are executed by hanging a gallows |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | HERSHEY'S $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew holds some chocolate at the Hershey's Museum in Hershey, PA.) As well as the K type, World War II G.I.s got Hershey's D type of this; in 1945 the company was producing 24 million a week rations |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | "G" WHIZ $400: Battles between these fighters in the Roman Colosseum were stopped in 404 A.D. the gladiators |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | "G" WHIZ $800: Bartenders use it to make an orange blossom gin |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | "G" WHIZ $1200: These large masses of slow-moving ice occur where winter snowfall exceeds summer melt glaciers |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | "G" WHIZ $1600: Rich in phosphates, this waste matter left by bats & seabirds can be a valuable commodity guano |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | "G" WHIZ $2000: In construction, it's a horizontal load-bearing structural member a girder |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | "G" WHIZ $400: It's one unit of rice or one unit of sand a grain |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | "G" WHIZ $800: More than 2,000 newspapers around the globe carry the comic strip featuring this feline Garfield |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | "G" WHIZ $1200: Spanish-language sportscaster Andres Cantor is famous in the U.S. for this one-word call during soccer games gol |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | "G" WHIZ $1600: An early Christian movement that taught that salvation comes from learning esoteric truths the Gnostics |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | "G" WHIZ $2000: Infamous 2-word title of the 15th century Spanish monk Torquemada Grand Inquisitor |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | FOOD IN HISTORY $800: Re-enactors still buy hardtack crackers from the G.H. Bent Co. of Mass., which supplied them for this 1860s war the Civil War |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | BOGIE & BACALL SPEAK! $2000: In "Key Largo", Bogie tells this actor that he wishes for "a world in which there's no place for Johnny Rocco" (Edward G.) Robinson |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | GOLLY "G"! $1000: Psychologist Max Wertheimer co-founded this theory in which the sum is greater than its parts Gestalt |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | DOUBLE G WHIZ $200: Dis music of da Caribbean blends da blues, calypso & rock, mon reggae |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | DOUBLE G WHIZ $400: Legally, this type of assault involves serious bodily injury aggravated |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | DOUBLE G WHIZ $600: Apologies to those dining at home now: it's a soft-bodied, legless larva of certain flies a maggot |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | DOUBLE G WHIZ $800: Slang for "hyped", it also means beaten with a whip as punishment flogged |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | DOUBLE G WHIZ $1000: To overwhelm or bewilder, especially while playing a certain Parker Brothers word game boggle |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | TERRE HAUTE CUISINE $800: Any day of the week, hit this chain on U.S. 41 for a Three-For-All wings, skins & mozzarella appetizer T.G.I. Friday's |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | DAYS OF THE WEEK $1200: This restaurant chain began in 1965 with a NYC site at First & 63rd T.G.I. Friday's |
| #4555, aired 2004-05-28 | "G" WHIZ $200: The first success for the theater of the Absurd, a 1952 Samuel Beckett play is about this title figure Godot |
| #4555, aired 2004-05-28 | "G" WHIZ $400: The first snorkels were used by submarine crews of this nation to get air to their engines without surfacing Germany |
| #4555, aired 2004-05-28 | "G" WHIZ $600: Excluding noncopyrighted works, this book first published in 1955 is the bestselling book in the world The Guinness Book of World Records |
| #4555, aired 2004-05-28 | "G" WHIZ $800: The 2-man capsules of this program were propelled into orbit by Titan II rockets Gemini |
| #4555, aired 2004-05-28 | "G" WHIZ $1000: The 1983 invasion of this country inspired the plot of the film "Heartbreak Ridge" Grenada |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | "G" FORCE $1000: This edible export from Holland comes in "wheels" that may weigh 25 pounds Gouda |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $400: When we say he invented movable type, we mean he invented the mold which made movable type practical Johannes Gutenberg |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | GIMME A "G"! $600: All snails are members of this class of animals, whose name is from the Latin for "stomach-foot" gastropod |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1200: At the end of "Little Caesar", this actor cries, "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Edward G. Robinson |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $400: A Fodor's, or a Frommer's guidebook |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $800: In contrast to the red types, the uvarovite form of this gemstone is a fine green garnet |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $1200: Hume Cronyn played cards with Jessica Tandy in this play that won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize The Gin Game |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida) The Flagler Museum exemplifies the style of this golden era, found in the title of a book by Charles D. Warner & Mark Twain "The Gilded Age" |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $2000: We rarely mention the Ghibellines without referring to these people, their historic rivals Guelphs |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | G-MEN & WOMEN $400: (Cheryl gives the clue from the National Air and Space Museum.) This is the actual Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, in which he orbited the Earth February 20, 1962 John Glenn |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | G.I. KNOW $400: It was the last year in which Congress made an official declaration of war 1941 |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | "G" WHIZ! $200: An invention [...] this 15th century man created the work seen here Gutenberg |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | "G" WHIZ! $400: Graceful & swift African native seen here a gazelle |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | "G" WHIZ! $600: Known for his naturalism this Spanish master's "Portrait of the Duchess of Alba" is seen here Goya |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | "G" WHIZ! $800: Noisy Australian insectivore, seen here a gecko |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | "G" WHIZ! $1000: One of the founders of Europe's scientific revolution, he's the Pisa-born man seen here Galileo |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | CLASS ACTIONS $600: Competition in which you'd hear, "Asparagus, A-S-P-A-R-A-G-U-S, asparagus" a spelling bee |
| #3926, aired 2001-10-01 | HOUSE & GARDEN $600: Suburban decade during which H&G ran the cover seen here 1950s |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | FAMOUS ARTS $200: In 1992 this columnist won a lawsuit which held that his idea was the basis for the movie "Coming to America" Art Buchwald |
| #3724, aired 2000-11-09 | DEBT $1,000 (Daily Double): A time during which late payments aren't penalized, or the years 1956-1982 in Monaco Grace period |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | G-MEN $200: Janet Reno was made U.S. Attorney General during the 1993 FBI-Branch Davidian standoff near this city Waco |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $200: This observance always falls 2 days before Easter Good Friday |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $400: It's the second most-populous city in Mexico Guadalajara |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $600: The only 1 of the 5 Cities of the Plain in the Bible that fits the category Gomorrah |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $800: "Our Town" setting for a "Sesame Street" monster Grover's Corners |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $1000: It may look like a duck, but this clumsy creature was once thought related to the loon, but that was looney: Grebe |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | "G" WHIZ! $200: To grumble, perhaps about the ruffed bird of the same name Grouse |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | "G" WHIZ! $400: Things aren't always "peachy" in this former Soviet republic Georgia |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | "G" WHIZ! $600: This word can refer to any impregnable standard, not just the famous rock Gibraltar |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | "G" WHIZ! $800: It's a terrestrial rodent such as a marmot or chipmunk -- not one who's been through a meat grinder a ground squirrel |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | "G" WHIZ! $1000: A needlefish, or a Scottish verb that means to force Gar |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | MUSIC $300: One of the 4 notes to which violin strings are tuned (1 of) A, D, E, or G |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | "G" WHIZ! $100: A male goose you might take a look at Gander |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | "G" WHIZ! $200: Garbology is the study of this, not of Greta Garbo movies Garbage |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | "G" WHIZ! $300: A small cave, perhaps a "blue" one Grotto |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | "G" WHIZ! $400: It's the slang term for a newcomer to India, even if his first name isn't Merv Griffin |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | "G" WHIZ! $500: Perhaps from the Latin for "throat", it's a noise made by brooks & babies Gurgle |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $600 (Daily Double): John Ashbery wrote of this U.S. president, "He wasn't a bad egg. Just weak, he loved women and Ohio" Warren G. Harding |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | "G" WHIZ! $100: Endocrine or exocrine, for example glands |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | "G" WHIZ! $200: It's the liquor you might drink while playing the card game of the same name gin |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | "G" WHIZ! $300: It's the waste matter left by pelicans & penguins, as well as bats guano |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | "G" WHIZ! $400: The Sanskrit word for "venerable" gave us this term for a spiritual guide guru |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | "G" WHIZ! $500: Isak Dinesen compared these mammals to "rare, long-stemmed speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing" giraffes |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “G” WHIZ! $100: Attention, Tiger Woods: Heloise hints that you can store these neatly by placing them in egg cartons golf balls |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “G” WHIZ! $200: “Letter perfect” name for a mere strip of a garment worn by strippers a g-string |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “G” WHIZ! $300: This adjective that means “infested with gnats” is a homophone of one that means “smartly dressed” gnatty |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “G” WHIZ! $400: A synonym for cautiously, it's the way Astaire might have held Rogers if she was in a bad mood gingerly |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “G” WHIZ! $500: A professional errand-runner, whether or not he has cheek pouches a gopher |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | "G" WHIZ! $100: If you order a G & T in a bar, you'll probably get this drink Gin & Tonic |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | "G" WHIZ! $200: Figuratively speaking, a deceived person is led "down" this "path", or perhaps "up" it Garden path |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | "G" WHIZ! $300: The perfect plaid for singer Campbell Glen |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | "G" WHIZ! $400: Butt of course: this kind of muscle may be minimus, medius or maximus Gluteus |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | "G" WHIZ! $500: A coarse material made from jute, or the kind of sack made from it Gunny |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $600 (Daily Double): 1935 American opera whose final scene features the following Porgy and Bess |
| #3150, aired 1998-04-17 | SKIN DEEP $500: The skin's 2 exocrine types of glands are sweat & these, which produce oils Sebaceous glands |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | "G" WHIZ! $200: The only one of Snow White's dwarfs who fits the category Grumpy |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | "G" WHIZ! $400: A piece of sand or of common sense grain |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | "G" WHIZ! $600: In a familiar phrase, you do it to your loins to prepare for action gird |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | "G" WHIZ! $800: Nokomis kept her wigwam "By the shores of" this Gitchee Gumee |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | "G" WHIZ! $1000: Avarice, as in the title of an Erich Von Stroheim film greed |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | "G" MOVIES $400: Musical in which Marilyn Monroe, as Lorelei Lee, asked, "Is this the way to Europe, France?" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: Beatrice Webb was a leader of this Socialist society to which G.B. Shaw also belonged The Fabian Society |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | THINGS I WISH I'D SAID $500: P.G. Wodehouse defined it as the "only one real cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman" the guillotine |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | LETTERS & NUMBERS $1,500 (Daily Double): Common term for the group of wealthy nations whose leaders hold annual summer summits G-7 |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | "G" WHIZ! $100: It's a wine glass with a base & a stem Goblet |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | "G" WHIZ! $200: The insane emperor Commodus fought in the arena as one of these combatants Gladiator |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | "G" WHIZ! $300: During WWII this island was the site of the first major Allied offensive in the Pacific Guadalcanal |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | "G" WHIZ! $400: Grammatically speaking, it's a verbal noun ending in "ing" Gerund |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | "G" WHIZ! $500: The Soviet Union's chief administration of corrective labor camps was known by this Russian acronym GULAG (Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps) |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | "G" WHIZ $100: A swinging couch suspended from a vertical frame or a light aircraft with no engine Glider |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | "G" WHIZ $200: This shade of red has the same name as a birthstone Garnet |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | "G" WHIZ $300: Artist Charles Dana's "Girl", or her martini with an onion Gibson |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | "G" WHIZ $400: This Italian family ruled Mantua for almost four centuries Gonzaga |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | "G" WHIZ $500: This German composer of the opera "Alceste" taught singing to Marie Antoinette Christoph Gluck |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | "G" WHIZ! $100: Seneca said, "Fire is the test of" this metal; "adversity, of strong men" gold |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | "G" WHIZ! $200: The phrase "The moon is made of" this refers to a freshly made dairy product, not a colorful one green cheese |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | "G" WHIZ! $300: Its state bird is the brown thrasher Georgia |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | "G" WHIZ! $400: In 1824 Lord Byron died of a fever in Missolonghi, now in this country Greece |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | "G" WHIZ! $500: The Kloss's species of this smallest of the apes is endangered gibbon |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | TRANSPORTATION $400: One theory says that the name jeep came from the initials "g.p.", which stood for this general purpose |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | AMERICANA $200: In the late 1800s the Republicans became known as the G.O.P., which stands for this the Grand Old Party |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | "G" WHIZ! $200: It often precedes paint, pencil & monkey grease |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | "G" WHIZ! $400: This American form of religious music combines elements of spirituals & jazz, & that's the "truth" gospel |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | "G" WHIZ! $600: This yellow state flower of Nebraska & Kentucky generally doesn't cause hay fever as many believe goldenrod |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | "G" WHIZ! $800: Its a lamp with a curved, flexible shaft that resembles part of a certain bird's anatomy a gooseneck lamp |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | "G" WHIZ! $1000: These lizards that can walk upside-down on ceilings are non-venomous geckos |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | "G" WHIZ $100: Often caused by cold, this skin condition could be called "waterfowl bumps" goosebumps |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | "G" WHIZ $200: These abandoned communities could be called "spectre cities" ghost towns |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | "G" WHIZ $300: Jubilant joy, or the kind of club that might sing about it a glee club |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | "G" WHIZ $400: A voracious eater, or someone with an enormous capacity "for work" or "for punishment" a glutton |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | "G" WHIZ $500: Some species of this ratlike rodent, a popular pet, are called jirds gerbils |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | ABBREVIATIONS $300: A physician who treats a variety of illnesses may be called a G.P., which stands for this general practitioner |
| #1838, aired 1992-09-09 | THE LETTER G $400: Of the U.S. presidents, the one whose middle name is usually shown as G. Harding |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | "G" WHIZ $200: This angel whose name is Hebrew for "man of God" announced the birth of John the Baptist to Zacharias Gabriel |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | "G" WHIZ $400: Among lizards, only this family has a distinctly audible voice the gecko |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | "G" WHIZ $600: On June 29, 1613, this London theater burnt down during a performance of "Henry VIII" the Globe Theatre |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | "G" WHIZ $800: Victor Hugo's home is now a museum on this 2nd largest of the Channel Islands Guernsey |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | "G" WHIZ $1000: In 157 A.D. this Greek was appointed physician to the gladiators at Pergamon Galen |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | "G" WHIZ $100: According to some accounts, he was killed by Elhanan, one of David's soldiers Goliath |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | "G" WHIZ $200: The comet, lionhead & veiltail are common varieties of this aquatic pet, a type of carp goldfish |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | "G" WHIZ $300: A Scottish city, or the last name of Southern author Ellen, who wrote "In This Our Life" Glasgow |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | "G" WHIZ $400: A ragtime dance popular around World War I, or an animal also known as Ursus horribilis grizzly |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | "G" WHIZ $500: Aaron Copland wrote "Appalachian Spring" for this woman, who choreographed it Martha Graham |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $200: In 1926, Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, the forerunner of this current observance Black History Month |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | "G" WHIZ $100: A synonym for entrails; you can spill your own or hate someone else's guts |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | "G" WHIZ $200: Thought to have come from Egypt, these wandering people were originally called Egyptians Gypsies |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | "G" WHIZ $300: To encircle with a belt, or, perhaps, with an elasticized undergarment girdle |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | "G" WHIZ $400: Mrs. George Burns might have felt at home in this famous New York City mayoral residence Gracie Mansion |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | "G" WHIZ $500: A magnificent Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of high social position a grandee |
| #1370, aired 1990-07-13 | THE WHITE HOUSE $200: Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait of G. Washington dominates this room which has a "directional" name the East Room |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | "G" WHIZ $100: In heraldry this mythical beast is depicted both with & without wings, as Merv could tell you Griffin |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | "G" WHIZ $200: This astronomer had a brother named Michelangelo who was a musician, not an artist Galileo |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | "G" WHIZ $300: This word can precede village, meridian & mean time Greenwich |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | "G" WHIZ $400: A Soviet republic, or a U.S. state Georgia |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | "G" WHIZ $500: Baron Monck was the first to hold this office in Canada Governor-General |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | POLITICAL QUOTES $400: 1 of the 3 things which, according to John Fremont's 1856 G.O.P. campaign, should be free (1 of) soil, men & speech |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | FANTASTIC FILMS $400: Means by which Jack the Ripper & H.G. Wells get to 1970s San Francisco in "Time After Time" Time Machine |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | NEWSPAPERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Tribune Co. which owns the Chicago Tribune also owns this best-selling NYC newspaper New York Daily News |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | "G" WHIZ $100: This work shift begins late at night & it doesn't have to start in a cemetery the graveyard shift |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | "G" WHIZ $200: The kind of knot you'd expect your mother's mother to tie a granny knot |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | "G" WHIZ $300: It was the nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon, who had the rum ration watered down "Grog" |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | "G" WHIZ $400: Figuratively speaking, to prepare for action you do this to your loins gird |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | "G" WHIZ $500: As a noun, it's a game bird; as a verb, it means to grumble or complain grouse |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | G WHIZ $100: It can be a maxim or a dwarflike creature that lives underground gnome |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | G WHIZ $200: This spasm of the diaphragm is pronounced the same whether it ends in "cough" or "cup" hiccough |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | G WHIZ $300: It pairs up with ready or tumble rough |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | G WHIZ $400: A portent of things to come, or the big placard that says "Jeopardy!" outside our studio sign |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | G WHIZ $500: Oui, monsieur, it's a small, round, choice cut of beef from the loin filet mignon |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: G.E. was instrumental in starting this communications giant which it bought in 1986 RCA |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | GOVERNMENT $500: For that map you want of coal beds in eastern Kentucky, write to the U.S.G.S., which is this United States Geological Survey |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | "G" WHIZ $200: Cranky, like that dwarf in the Disney movie Grumpy |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | "G" WHIZ $400: The type of "humor" you might hear if you hang around at a hanging gallows humor |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | "G" WHIZ $600: The 3rd sign of the zodiac
The 3rd sign of the zodiac Gemini |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | "G" WHIZ $800: Sometimes this cartilage makes meat tough to chew gristle |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | "G" WHIZ $1000: The period perpetuated by Pericles the Golden Age |
| #1032, aired 1989-02-14 | "G" WHIZ $200: It's the world's tallest living animal a giraffe |
| #1032, aired 1989-02-14 | "G" WHIZ $400: Your relationship to your dad's uncle great niece |
| #1032, aired 1989-02-14 | "G" WHIZ $600: The groom may throw this after the wedding, but he 1st has to take it off the bride the garter |
| #1032, aired 1989-02-14 | "G" WHIZ $800: If you ever break your legs, you might find yourself on one of these hospital stretchers a gurney |
| #1032, aired 1989-02-14 | "G" WHIZ $1,100 (Daily Double): This verb can mean gathering grain or knowledge gleaning |
| #982, aired 1988-12-06 | WORD ORIGINS $100: This costume piece, worn by a stripper, may derive from "groin", which is where it's worn g-string |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $600: The 22nd & 24th presidents, whose initials were G.C. Grover Cleveland |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | "G" WHIZ $200: It can follow
Maurice, Robin or Barry Gibb |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | "G" WHIZ $400: Term for a present participle used as a noun such as "asking" & "answering" a gerund |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | "G" WHIZ $600: 20th c. German psychology which emphasizes that the whole experience is greater than the sum of its parts gestalt |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | "G" WHIZ $800: A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones on a piano or trombone, for example a glissando |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | "G" WHIZ $1000: The okapi belongs to this family the giraffe family |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | H. G. WELLS $200: Country in which Wells set "The War of the Worlds" England (Great Britain) |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | "G" WHIZ! $100: Zane, or Lady Jane Grey |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | "G" WHIZ! $200: Poet Edgar, whether or not he was invited to dinner Guest |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | "G" WHIZ! $300: A brown & white cow or its Channel Island home Guernsey |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | "G" WHIZ! $400: It commonly precedes "drop" or "Arabic" gum |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | "G" WHIZ! $500: This word for "sociable" comes from the Latin meaning "belonging to a flock" gregarious |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | COMPOSERS $1,000 (Daily Double): 18th-century composer on whose composition the following, a 1965 No. 2 hit, is based:
"How gentle is the rain /
That falls softly on the meadow /
Birds high up in the trees /
Serenade the flowers with their melodies..." Johann Sebastian Bach (Minuet in G) |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | STARTS WITH "G" $300: Hungarian dish whose name means "herdsman's stew" goulash |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | STARTS WITH "G" $400: Hungarian dishes whose names are Magda, Eva, & Zsa Zsa the Gabor sisters |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | SCIENTIFIC SPELLING $600: Temperature scale in which the freezing point of water is 0° C-E-N-T-I-G-R-A-D-E |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | "G" WHIZ $100: From French "to dance", Richard Gere was an American one in 1980 a gigolo |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | "G" WHIZ $200: An immature cucumber, it makes a popular pickle a gherkin |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | "G" WHIZ $300: From Japanese for "art person", she's trained in the art of entertaining men geisha |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | "G" WHIZ $500 (Daily Double): Bandleader who recorded over 800 songs for Decca, including the following: Guy Lombardo |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | "G" WHIZ $500: In a 1960s ad jingle, Mr. Clean was supposed to get rid of these 2 "G"s in just a minute grease & grime |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | U.S. HISTORY $300: Common name for the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, which provided veterans' benefits the G.I. Bill of Rights |
| #609, aired 1987-04-09 | SPELLING $100: It's the system of rules under which a language functions, not your mother's mother G-R-A-M-M-A-R |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | LETTER PERFECT $200: Letter which precedes "T.E." & "I. Joe" G |
| #528, aired 1986-12-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major was named this, from the sudden loud chord which made the lades wake up the Surprise Symphony |
| #494, aired 1986-10-30 | "G" WHIZ $100: The only U.S. state that starts with "G" Georgia |
| #494, aired 1986-10-30 | "G" WHIZ $200: Cucumbers, melons & pumpkins are all types of these gourds |
| #494, aired 1986-10-30 | "G" WHIZ $300: What The Rascals were doing on a Sunday afternoon in 1967 groovin' |
| #494, aired 1986-10-30 | "G" WHIZ $400: Black-footed albatrosses, or a 1985 Steven Spielberg production goonies |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | LAST LINES $200: Film in which Edward G. Robinson's dying words are "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Little Caesar |
| #277, aired 1985-10-01 | GAME SHOWS $200: Game in which toss-up questions were thrown to campus combatants by Allen Ludden (G.E.) College Bowl |
| #51, aired 1984-11-19 | SCIENCE $1000: Edward G. Robinson played this bacteriologist whose "magic bullet" cured syphilis Dr. (Paul) Ehrlich |
