| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ENERGY GLOSSARY $400: Petroleum is classified as one of these "archaic" energy sources fossil fuels |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ENERGY GLOSSARY $800: Hydrofracking, injecting shale with pressurized fluid to release oil & gas, is short for "hydraulic" this fracturing |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ENERGY GLOSSARY $1200: A good thing, this word that follows "energy" is calculated as a ratio of the result amount divided by the amount put in efficiency |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ENERGY GLOSSARY $1600: The 3 types of heat energy transfer are conduction, convection & this type like that from the Sun to the Earth radiation |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ENERGY GLOSSARY $2000: CFLs, compact fluorescent lamps, light up by exciting atoms of this silver-colored element mercury |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $200: 003, here's your this, a compilation of documents about your next target; the Steele one was in the news in 2017 a dossier |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $600: This "mortal" term refers to the prearranged location spies use to relay information without meeting a dead drop |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $800: Also a word for "zero", it's a method spies use to disguise messages by shuffling letters around cipher |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $1000: The use of sexual wiles in espionage is called this, which sounds like it would work against Winnie-the-Pooh a honey trap |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $1,800 (Daily Double): John le Carré popularized this word; in a 1974 novel, he defined it as "an agent so called because he burrows deep" a mole |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $1,200 (Daily Double): A list of terms with definitions, it comes from the Greek for tongue a glossary |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: The classical age often refers to the time of these 2 ancient Western civilizations Greece & Rome |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $1200: This end-of-the-alphabet word refers to tiered or terraced temple structures in Mesopotamia a ziggurat |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $1600: Seen here is a quartet of this type of jar used to hold organs during mummification a canopic jar |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Published in 1836, Christian Thomsen's "Three Age System" refers to the progression of early crafters using these 3 materials stone, bronze & iron |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $2000: This -ology is the term for dating events by counting the growth rings that trees add annually dendrochronology |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY $200: Descargar means to do this, like data off the Internet download |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY $400: For our show, jeopardy.com is this, heimasíða in Icelandic the homepage |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY $800: It makes sense that la carte mère is this component the motherboard |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY $1000: President Xi apologizes; his email left off the fù jiàn, this an email attachment |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY $2,800 (Daily Double): It's literally porta sul retro, but Italian hackers use this English term a backdoor |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | GEOLOGY $800: Also a section at the back of a book, this word is used for fossils like trilobites that can help identify certain time periods index |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | BOATING GLOSSARY $200: A windlass is a rotating device that houses the chain used to raise or lower this the anchor |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | BOATING GLOSSARY $400: To take a sounding is to measure this, often important in unfamiliar seas depth |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | BOATING GLOSSARY $600: It's a rope attached to the lower corner of a sail to control it; if you're 3 of them "to the wind", you're drunk sheet |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | BOATING GLOSSARY $800: It sounds like scissors are required to do this, change the angle of a sail to take advantage of the wind to trim |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | BOATING GLOSSARY $1000: This uppermost edge of the side of a boat gets its name because it was once used to support cannons the gunwale |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY $400: Covalent bonds share valence these electrons |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY $800: These units of heat weigh in at just over 4 joules; the ones counted by dieters are actually "kilo-" sized a calorie |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY $1200: As the name implies, redox is a reaction in which these 2 actions take place reduction & oxidation |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY $2000: Though it doesn't start with that letter, "S" represents this measure of the molecular disorder in a closed system entropy |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY $2,800 (Daily Double): Europium is one of these metals, though they're not as scarce as their name implies rare earth metals |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CHRISTIAN GLOSSARY $200: A canticle is one of these performed in a church's public service a song |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CHRISTIAN GLOSSARY $400: A cathedra is one of these objects used by a bishop chair (throne) |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CHRISTIAN GLOSSARY $600: Agape is the Christian concept of this, sometimes called charity brotherly love |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CHRISTIAN GLOSSARY $800: The ancient statement of faith called these men's creed begins, "I believe in God, the Father almighty" the Apostles' Creed |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CHRISTIAN GLOSSARY $1000: A pardoner was someone who sold these to sinners, like Johann Tetzel of the Reformation era indulgences |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $400: These rod-shaped structures in a cell's nucleus carry its genetic information chromosomes |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $1200: Pass the this, defined as a substance produced by the reaction of a base & an acid salt |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $1600: These subatomic particles are named for physicist Enrico fermions |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Rocks that have been environmentally altered from other rocks make up this class, from Greek for "change" & "form" metamorphic |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $2000: This "theory" views subatomic particles as threadlike one-dimensional entities, not zero-dimensional points string theory |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $400: A nucleon is either of these 2 basic constituents of an atomic nucleus a proton or a neutron |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $800: This colorful-sounding type of radiation has wavelengths between the visible part of the spectrum & X-rays ultraviolet |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $1200: The linear type of this device increases the speed of particles as they move toward a target at the end of a tunnel an accelerator |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $1600: Every second, our sun creates energy by the nuclear fusion of 600 million tons of this element into helium hydrogen |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $2000: A baryon is a particle made of 3 of these, which come in "flavors" including charm & strange quarks |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | GLOSSARY OF HISTORY $200: Once used to authenticate documents, it's a device to leave an impression, usually in wax, or the impression itself a seal |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | GLOSSARY OF HISTORY $400: A physical repository of historic documents; there's a famous one at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue an archive |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | GLOSSARY OF HISTORY $600: In this type of manuscript, the handwritten text is supplemented by the addition of elaborate illustration an illuminated manuscript |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | GLOSSARY OF HISTORY $800: Term for the cultural & artistic movement of the late 18th & early 19th C. emphasizing emotion & sentiment rather than reason Romantic |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | GLOSSARY OF HISTORY $1000: It's the system by which coats of arms & other family or national emblems are devised & regulated heraldry |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | SOCIOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY $200: One definition of these trends is an "amusing mass involvement" that's short-lived; Hula Hoops & smiley faces are 2 examples a fad |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | SOCIOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY $400: From the Latin for "absorbed", it's the process by which immigrants are absorbed into the majority culture assimilation |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | SOCIOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY $600: The counterpart of a certain ceiling, this type of floor prevents screwups born into privilege from falling too far socioeconomically the glass floor |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | SOCIOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY $800: Like orders of angels, it's the arrangement of positions in rank order, with those below reporting to those above hierarchy |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | SOCIOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY $1000: To us, it means a too-complex system of rules, but to Max Weber, it was an ideal type of hypothetical organization bureaucracy |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ANIMAL TALK $1600: The Amateur Entomologists' Soc. glossary entry "stridulation", making noise with body parts, mentions these creatures crickets |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $400: Term for the senator who has served longer than the other senator from their state senior (senator) |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $800: Title of the senator who presides over the Senate in the absence of the vice president president pro tem |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $1200: This type of call of the roll ensures there are enough members present to conduct business; for the Senate, it's 51 quorum |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $1600: It's not tabulating touchdowns & field goals, it's the Senate term for the up-to-date tracking of budget actions scorekeeping |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $2000: Supervision of a federal agency or program, as in the Subcommittee on Taxation & IRS ____ oversight |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | GLASSES $1000: The LensCrafters online glossary lists anti-reflective & scratch-resistant as 2 types of this for lenses coatings |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $400: In this system, from Old French for "public", the government controls the major means of production Communism |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $800: 8-letter word for the type of graphic depiction seen here a timeline |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $1200: From a word meaning "to bind", it's a coalition of 2 or more nations united for mutual benefit alliance |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $1600: Adjective for the architecture of that era in a nation's history when it was under another land's control colonial |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $2000: Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen said this event of mass hunger has never in history happened "in a functioning democracy" a famine |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $400: A:
The rate of increase of speed or velocity acceleration |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $800: I:
The tendency to stay in the same place or on the same path until acted on by an outside force inertia |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $1200: D:
A nuclide made from the radioactive decay of a parent nuclide a daughter |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $1600: T:
Relating to a fusion reaction at a temperature of several million degrees thermonuclear |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $2000: M:
These & baryons make up the major subgroup of hadrons meson |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | "G" STRING $400: An alphabetical list of terms from one specific field of knowledge a glossary |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | BEASTLY GLOSSARY $200: For nesting, the horned puffin uses its feet & bill to dig & excavate one of these, just like a rabbit a burrow |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | BEASTLY GLOSSARY $400: This 5-letter adjective refers to a wild animal, especially a domestic animal gone wild feral |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | BEASTLY GLOSSARY $600: Mudskipper don't need water all the time; it gets around on land just fine using two souped-up pectoral these fins |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | BEASTLY GLOSSARY $800: "Caudal" refers to this part of an animal the tail |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | BEASTLY GLOSSARY $1000: From the Greek for "transform", it's the beastly process seen here a metamorphosis |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | ELECTION GLOSSARY $400: This type of speech gets its name from the natural object politicians would stand on to gain height a stump speech |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | ELECTION GLOSSARY $800: This type of issue sounds like a section of iceberg lettuce, but it's a polarizing question that can divide voters a wedge issue |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | ELECTION GLOSSARY $1200: These public funds to candidates from the federal government equal dollar for dollar what was given by individuals matching funds |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | ELECTION GLOSSARY $1600: Sounding like covering something in fabric, it can refer to wooing voters directly or to pre-election polling canvassing |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | ELECTION GLOSSARY $2000: It's the term for Vermont's single U.S. Representative who serves the whole state at-large |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | POLICE GLOSSARY $200: A suspect avoiding arrest is "in the wind" or "at" this at large |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | POLICE GLOSSARY $400: As a verb, it's to steal a small item; as a noun, it's slang for a police informant snitch |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | POLICE GLOSSARY $600: This British word for a cop comes from the name of the man who founded London's police force bobby |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | POLICE GLOSSARY $800: A controversial practice used on pedestrians is called "stop and" this type of search frisk |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | POLICE GLOSSARY $1000: You can listen as dispatchers talk to patrol cars with the radio receiver called a police type of this scanner |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THEATER GLOSSARY $200: French term for a daytime performance of a show a matinee |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THEATER GLOSSARY $400: As 1 word, it sounds like you could eat it; as a hyphenated trademark, it's a type of stage makeup Pan-Cake |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THEATER GLOSSARY $600: Used on stage, practicals are these that actually function, as distinguished from replicas lights (or props) |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THEATER GLOSSARY $800: Sounding like it only goes one direction, any stage curtain that can be raised or lowered is known as one of these a drop |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THEATER GLOSSARY $1000: It's the 4-letter word for an upright piece of painted scenery mounted on a frame a flat |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $200: It's the fertile upper layer of the Earth's crust, or what it does to dirty your clothes soil |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $600: It'll be a feather in your cap if you can give us this term for a column of magma rising from the mantle a plume |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $800: Oblique slip is one type of this, which can be measured in inches or miles a fault |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Halite is the naturally occurring form of this mineral sodium chloride (or salt) |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an image on the monitor.) The edge of plateau where multiple streams drop to a plain below is called this 4-letter line, for the cataracts that form there a fall line |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $2000: An alphabetical index of the principal words of a book; Strong's is a well-known one of the Bible a concordance |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | PASTA GLOSSARY $200: This basic type of pasta gets its name from a word meaning "thin rope" spaghetti |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | PASTA GLOSSARY $400: These long ribbons of pasta have a name meaning "little tongues" linguine |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | PASTA GLOSSARY $600: Little disks, orecchiette are named for their resemblance to these body parts the ears |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | PASTA GLOSSARY $800: Narrow flat noodles, margherite means these white & yellow flowers daisies |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | PASTA GLOSSARY $1000: The name of this totally tubular pasta is said to mean "little mustaches" mostaccioli |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $2000: An online "Australian English Glossary from A to Zed" translates it as "Well done!" Good on ya |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | BARTENDING GLOSSARY $200: This 6-letter word is used of a milder beverage that's consumed immediately after a shot of hard liquor chaser |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | BARTENDING GLOSSARY $400: To make this kind of martini, add olive juice dirty |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | BARTENDING GLOSSARY $800: This bartending tool looks like a little baseball bat & is used to crush fruit & herbs, not confuse patrons a muddler |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | BARTENDING GLOSSARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Neapolitan for "a measure of liquids" gives us the name of this glass container that holds 2-4 glasses of wine a carafe |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | BARTENDING GLOSSARY $1000: On a champagne label, brut equals this wine term, as the grapes used to make it contained little or no sugar dry |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | AVIAN GLOSSARY $200: Meaning able to find one's way back to the nest, it can be found before "pigeon" or "instinct" homing |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | AVIAN GLOSSARY $400: Drop the "S" from the end of a Southern dish to get this substance that helps pet birds' digestive process grit |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | AVIAN GLOSSARY $600: Sullen name for a hen sitting on eggs in a nest brooding |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | AVIAN GLOSSARY $800: Birds can be categorized by how much they wander as either sedentary or this word that also ends in "ry" migratory |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | AVIAN GLOSSARY $1000: It's the process of growing feathers; followed by "success", it means the percentage of hatchlings that leave the nest fledging |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WET BAR GLOSSARY $200: That fifth of whiskey you picked up today means 1/5 of this liquid measure gallon |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WET BAR GLOSSARY $400: Here come the "Jeopardy!" writers; better tap this cask that can hold 165 12-ounce beers a keg |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WET BAR GLOSSARY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a goblet of cognac.) This special goblet used to serve fine cognac narrows at the top to trap & enhance the aroma of the liquor a snifter |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WET BAR GLOSSARY $800: Avast ye hearties! Hand me the large beer glass named for this large sailing vessel with at least 2 masts a schooner |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WET BAR GLOSSARY $1000: It's a tall, often pewter mug with a hinged lid a tankard |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $1000: It's a helpful list of terms & definitions at the back of some textbooks a glossary |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $200: Relict is a rather unkind-sounding term for this grieving person widow |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $600: This term for a family tree comes from the Latin for "crane's foot" due to the appearance of the chart lines pedigree |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $800: 2 couples out for the evening, or a genealogical reference using both the Gregorian & Julian calendars double date |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Also a zodiac sign, in English marriage records this term referred to unmarried women virgo |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $1000: A PAF, or personal ancestral file, is software from this church that's very into genealogy the Church of Latter-Day Saints |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | NASA GLOSSARY $400: "A ring" refers to the outermost of the 3 rings of this planet that are easily seen with a small telescope Saturn |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | NASA GLOSSARY $800: "MGN" was short for this spacecraft named for a Portuguese explorer Magellan |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | NASA GLOSSARY $1200: "EDL" refers to entry, descent & this landing |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | NASA GLOSSARY $1600: The 4 largest satellites of Jupiter are a class named for this Italian astronomer Galileo |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | NASA GLOSSARY $2000: To NASA "AZ" doesn't mean Arizona; it refers to this position along the observer's horizon azimuth |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | "G"ARDEN GLOSSARY $400: Inserting a section of one plant into another so that they grow as one plant to graft |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | "G"ARDEN GLOSSARY $800: Rich in nutrients, this bat or bird dropping is good for your garden guano |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | "G"ARDEN GLOSSARY $1200: Open an account at one of these banks that exist for the conservation of seeds, tissues or reproductive cells a gene bank |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | "G"ARDEN GLOSSARY $1600: This cereal grain embryo is usually separated from the endosperm during milling; health nuts love the "wheat" kind the germ |
| #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 |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | SCISSORS $400: In the Beijing Olympic Glossary for this sport, the scissor kick entry says that it's relegated to the sidestroke now swimming |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | BIOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: We suppose you know that adipose is a layer of this that insulates the body from heat loss fat |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | BIOLOGY GLOSSARY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us some photos in the science lab.) After a butterfly goes through four life stages, from egg to larva to pupa, & finally, to adult, it's said to have undergone complete this, Greek for "transformation" metamorphosis |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | BIOLOGY GLOSSARY $1,500 (Daily Double): By definition, phototaxis is the movement of an organism in response to this light |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | BIOLOGY GLOSSARY $1600: It's the proper term for a human embryo after the first trimester a fetus |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | BIOLOGY GLOSSARY $2000: In 1901 botanist Hugo de Vries coined this term to describe sudden genetic change mutation |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | CONGRESSIONAL GLOSSARY $400: It's a derogatory term meaning a foreign trip taken by members of Congress at the public expense a junket |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | CONGRESSIONAL GLOSSARY $800: This passageway refers to the space dividing the majority party from the minority the (center) aisle |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | CONGRESSIONAL GLOSSARY $1200: This synonym for "room" is used for the assembly room where senators gather on the floor to debate & vote the Senate Chamber |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | CONGRESSIONAL GLOSSARY $2000: Senate Rule 22 governs this procedure used to end filibusters that requires 60 votes to succeed a cloture |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY $400: Camus & Buber were big in this movement that said humans were fully responsible for making meaning of their own lives existentialism |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY $800: The name of this study of moral principles is derived from a Greek word meaning "habit" ethics |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY $1200: This philosophical movement holds that the truth value of a proposition lies in its practicality pragmatism |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Founded by Zeno of Citium, this -ism is the belief that detachment & self-control enable one to argue in an unbiased fashion stoicism |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY $2000: "Every virtue is laudable. Kindness is a virtue. Therefore, kindness is laudable" is a logical this syllogism |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $400: It's the chemical substance that carries genetic information that determines form & functioning of all living things DNA |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $800: This bacterium found in eggs & poultry that causes food poisoning is named for an American pathologist salmonella |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $1200: The time it takes for 50% of a given amount of a radioactive element to decay half-life |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $2000: The transfer of a fluid from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration through a membrane osmosis |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $3,000 (Daily Double): The quality of richness of variety of life forms, both plant & animal, in a given environment biodiversity |
| #5622, aired 2009-02-03 | IT'S ALL ABOUT ME $2000: Per the "American Psychiatric Glossary", this mania is "pathological preoccupation with self" egomania |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $400: The lumen, a unit of this, is the amount emitted from a source one candela strong light |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew takes the heat on his inner forearm at Stanford University's Pain Management Center.) Types of pain studied here at Stanford's Human Pain Laboratory include chemical, electrical & this type produced by the application of heat thermal |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $1200: Interferons are proteins produced to interfere with the spread of these non-bacterial infectious agents viruses |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew pours the blue contents of a graduated cylinder into a beaker.) Colored water, cooking oil & colored alcohol can be layered because each liquid has a different this, defined as mass divided by volume density |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $2000: The lowest temp. where vapor & oxygen form a combustible mixture is this point; bring in a flame & whoosh! the flash point |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THE "G"-8 $400: It's a list of defined terms in a special subject at the end of a book glossary |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | THE ONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS $200: It's "a contest to see which candidate can answer the fewest questions" a debate |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | THE ONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS $400: This type of ballot doesn't "involve... having to get up off the couch & walk to a high school gymnasium" an absentee ballot |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | THE ONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS $600: This "-ist" is defined as "a better-paid legislator" a lobbyist |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | THE ONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS $800: This is referred to as a "process by which Americans are quadrennially reminded of Iowa's existence" the Iowa caucuses |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | THE ONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS $1000: This company's voting machine "electronically changes your vote into a vote for Mitt Romney" Diebold |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $200: The 2 rhyming answers asked for on a roll call vote yea or nay |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $400: This kind of voting allows a senator to cast a vote in committee for an absent senator proxy voting |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $600: These "rooms" adjacent to the Senate chamber serve as gathering places for party members to speak in private the cloakroom |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $800: To do this to "the floor" is to finish one's remarks after speaking on an issue to yield the floor |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $1,800 (Daily Double): Term for the Senate's official adviser on rules & procedures for conducting Senate business the Parliamentarian |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | POET'S GLOSSARY $200: Japanese style /
Always syllable counting /
This type of poem haiku |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | POET'S GLOSSARY $600: This basic metrical unit of poetry sounds like a body part a foot |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | POET'S GLOSSARY $800: The "heroic" variety of this pair of rhyming lines is written in iambic pentameter a couplet |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | POET'S GLOSSARY $1000: From the Latin for "stopping place", it's 2 or more lines of poetry that form a division within a poem a stanza |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | GEOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY $400: In city names, it follows Montego, Coos, & Green Bay |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | GEOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY $800: At the top of Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand is this type of body of water, also the name of a U.S. national park a crater lake |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | GEOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY $1200: A sandbar with a curve at the tip; in New Jersey you'll find a "sandy" one hook |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | GEOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY $1600: The U.S. has the Great Dismal Swamp; Ireland has the peat-loaded this of Allen Bog |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | GEOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY $2,500 (Daily Double): Chadds this, Pennsylvania was originally a place to cross the Brandywine Ford |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | ALL ABOUT THE BOOK $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents an image of a page of a book.) A "gloss" is a marginal translation or explanation of a difficult term; the same root gives us this word for a list of such terms a glossary |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | GEISHA GLOSSARY $400: Not so much wan, an obi is a decorative sash tied around this robe a kimono |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | GEISHA GLOSSARY $800: Konnichiwa means this; The Doors might have sung, "Konnichiwa, I love you, won't you tell me your name?" hello |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | GEISHA GLOSSARY $1200: A maiko is this type of geisha novitiate; Mickey had a similar title in "Fantasia" an apprentice |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | GEISHA GLOSSARY $1600: "Kampai!" is one of these exclamations, like "Prosit!" for the Germans or "Slainte!" for the Irish a toast |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | GEISHA GLOSSARY $2000: The plucky gal seen here strums her instrument with a bachi, this in English; it's from the Greek plessein a plectrum |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $400: This is the definitive term for the lowest theoretical temperature, -273 degrees Celcius absolute zero |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $800: From the French for "to raise", it's an embankment designed to prohibit the overflow of water a levee |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $1600: 2 of these sexual reproductive cells, from the Greek for "marriage", join to create a zygote gametes |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $2000: Mr. Beatty knows that this is the apparent displacement of an object caused by an altered observation point parallax |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $3,000 (Daily Double): It sounds like it's sorry, but this term refers to the orbital point where a celestial body is farthest from the Earth the apogee |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | MODERN WAR GLOSSARY $400: Technically, MOAB stands for "massive ordinance air burst", but it's been nicknamed "the mother of all" these bombs |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | MODERN WAR GLOSSARY $800: An overwhelming offensive described as this "and awe" is designed to elicit a quick surrender from an enemy shock |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | MODERN WAR GLOSSARY $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "fellow countryman", it's a type of surface-to-air antimissile missile Patriot |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | MODERN WAR GLOSSARY $1200: The Iraq War popularized this adjective for a reporter traveling with battlefield troops embedded |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | MODERN WAR GLOSSARY $1600: From the Latin for "parallel", this kind of "damage" is a military euphemism for civilian deaths collateral |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew paddles his raft down the Snake River in Wyoming.) A Class 3 river like this part of the Snake is for intermediate rafters; the scale goes up to this number, but those I'll skip 6 |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew paddles a raft of her own.) It's the simple 3-letter noun for a stretch of river that can be boated or a verb for trying it--here goes run |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew is in the raft this time.) A river's flow is measured in CFS, short for this; on the Snake, dangerous high water begins around 30,000 cubic feet per second |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks along the Snake River.) Also found on a shoe, it's the V-shaped point of entry to the rapids where the fast current of the deep waters has cleared rocks away the tongue |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by the Snake River.) Just like it sounds, it can be a prison guard, or a meeting of currents that may trap your craft a keeper |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | PASTA GLOSSARY $200: A very thin pasta, capelli d'angelo means angel this hair |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | PASTA GLOSSARY $400: The bow-tie shaped farfalle gets its name from the Italian word for this insect butterfly |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | PASTA GLOSSARY $600: Slender vermicelli is less appetizing when you realize its name is from the Italian for this invertebrate worm |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | PASTA GLOSSARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Flat & broad, linguini is named for this body part tongue |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | PASTA GLOSSARY $1000: Conchiglie are these, usually ridged shells |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | ORANGE YOU GLAD? $600: This 1962 novel includes a glossary of Nadsat language A Clockwork Orange |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "difficult word", it's a list of words and their definitions Glossary |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | BALLET $600: A glossary of ballet terms will tell you that this kind of step is called a tour spin (turn) |
| #2009, aired 1993-05-06 | TEXTBOOK TALK $300: If you're unsure of the meaning of a key word, see if they book contains this section glossary |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: A list of specialized words & their meanings, often found at the end of a book glossary |
