| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $400: An Olympic gold medal is required to be at least 92.5% this metal & plated with a minimum of 6 grams of gold silver |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $1200: For interpreting the handwriting on the wall, he was clothed "with scarlet" & given "a chain of gold about his neck" Daniel |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $600: Steve Carell getting his chest waxed is comedy gold in this 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | ROAD SCHOLARLY $400: Built into Fraser Canyon, the Caribou Road served those pounding their way to the gold rush in this country Canada |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $200: Misquoting Shakespeare, a wise proverb tells us, "All that" does this "is not gold" glitters |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $600: More agile than the nickname "Pudge" suggests, catcher Iván Rodriguez won 13 of these awards as the best fielder at his position a Gold Glove |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | YOU'RE A FINAL"IST" $600: In the Middle Ages, this person tried to turn ordinary metals into gold an alchemist |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $2000: The theft of a fortune in gold in Victorian England is "The Great Train Robbery" by this late American thriller master Crichton |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | "G"OING PLACES $1600: This area stretches roughly from Paradise Point to Coolangatta in Queensland & largely consists of beach resorts the Gold Coast |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $800: From 2012 to 2020 Dave Navarro hosted this series that had episodes like "Drill Baby, Drill" Ink Master |
| #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 |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $800: A valuable collection or resource, or literally, a hidden pile of gold & jewels a treasure trove |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NAME THAT TOMB $5,800 (Daily Double): Cyrus the Great's tomb still stands at Pasargadae in this country, but his gold sarcophagus is gone Iran |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | LITTLE GNOME FACTS $200: Swiss bankers were seen as hoarding gold underground & disparaged as "gnomes of" this city, the country's financial center Zurich |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALLOYS $2000: Lydia in Asia Minor was the chief source in the ancient world of this naturally occurring alloy made of gold & silver electrum |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $800: At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a four-and-a-half minute program that featured multiple triple jumps Scott Hamilton |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | HEAVY $400: "The head that wears" this might ache wearing the solid gold, nearly 5-pound St. Edward's one used in a 2023 ceremony the crown |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $300: The 1929 novel "Cup of Gold" isn't on your Kindle? You might be more familiar with "The Grapes of Wrath", also by this author John Steinbeck |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $400: U.S. gymnasts: Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Kerri Strug & this gold medalist who became America's Sweetheart in 1984 Mary Lou Retton |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $1000: Sting:
"Fields Of ____" Gold |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $800: The highest U.S. denomination ever issued, $100,000 gold certificates, were not meant for public use, but for use by these banks |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 4-LETTER FISH $800: Koi are an ornamental type of this common fish carp |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $1200: Right before gold is this other precious metal, which should bring to mind a shade of blonde hair platinum |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $800: Unlike any human's, the great horned owl's driver's license would say its eyes are this color gold (yellow) |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $600: "When they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts": these 3 items gold, frankincense & myrrh |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $1000: Many men have lightened their billfolds by carrying this; JFK's was gold with an image of St. Christopher a money clip |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $500: This Olympic gold medalist's name became synonymous with the wedge haircut she sported in Innsbruck Dorothy Hamill |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | ECON 101 $400: The monetary system called this standard allows holders to exchange currency for No. 79 on the periodic table the gold standard |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | COACH $200: In 2008 "Coach K", the hoops headman at this school, led the USA to Olympic gold in Beijing Duke University |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | IN COGNITO $800: This bar of gold an ingot |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Behind thick glass in the Gems & Minerals Hall of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Tom's Baby is an 8-lb nugget of this gold |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GOLF $800: A rare old gold coin, or an even rarer 3 under par on a single hole a double eagle |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | METALLICA $200: In 1987 the album "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica achieved this status of 500,000 copies sold gold |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $1000: You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our "Scourge of God" fan club? Attila the Hun |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ESPAÑOL $200: In Spanish, oro is gold & plata is this metal silver |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $1000: The U.S. hockey team wins Olympic gold,
Lin-Manuel Miranda is born 1980 |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $400: "The Lottery" or "The Gold-Bug" short stories (short fiction) |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | SEE "NN" $1200: Manually sifting for gold in a river panning |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $800: "Gold Dust Woman" can only be a biography of this member of Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS! $1000: Small bits of pyrite in this alliterative blue rock give the appearance of gold specks lapis lazuli |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | FIGHTERS $600: Before turning to MMA, UFC champ Henry Cejudo won a 2008 Olympic gold medal in freestyle this freestyle wrestling |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! $400: Gold,
silver,
bronze bronze |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OSCARS $600: Sofia Coppola found Oscar gold with this film starring Bill Murray & Scarlett Johansson Lost in Translation |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OSCARS $1000: Kenneth Lonergan picked up the gold for the screenplay of this 2016 film starring Casey Affleck Manchester by the Sea |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | THE ASIAN GAMES $800: This country dominated table tennis at the 2018 games, winning every gold medal China |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $400: This actor-singer starred in the movies "Day Shift" & "Baby Driver" & crooned on "Slow Jamz" & "Gold Digger" (Jamie) Foxx |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WELCOME TO MIAMI $200: The Gold Coast Railroad Museum boasts the train from which this pres. held a paper telling of his 1948 election "defeat" Truman |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates Joseph Smith |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $1000: Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles "The Boys of Summer" |
| #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 |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $2000: A recent exhumation of this eccentric 16th century Danish astronomer found his prosthetic nose was more likely brass than gold Tycho Brahe |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $1200: In the live action movie "Dora & the Lost City of Gold", Dora asks the audience, "Can you say" this tasty word? delicioso |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | EAGLES $400: Sure, this Marquette Golden Eagle here is a Miami Heat legend & won Olympic gold, but his real career highlight--he became a game show host (Dwyane) Wade |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $2,500 (Daily Double): Heinrich Schliemann found gold ornaments he called "The Jewels of Helen" while excavating this site in 1873 Troy |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $1200: Gold Beach was the middle of the 5 landing spots during this June 6, 1944 event D-Day (the Invasion of Normandy) |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $1000: "Straight Outta Lynwood" & "Alapalooza" are 2 of his 10 RIAA-certified gold albums "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: All 3 names the same: U.S. naval hero awarded a Congressional Gold Medal & Led Zeppelin bassist/Kennedy Center honoree John Paul Jones |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | HAMMER $1000: In 2017 this tool company whose name is a synonym for "artisan" won a Gold Edison Award for its flex claw hammer Craftsman |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | STATE OF THE UNION $600: The CSA wanted this 31st state to join--it had recently come into some gold & had an unblockaded harbor--but it went Union California |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA $1,200 (Daily Double): When the British held Ghana as a colony, it was known as this due to the vast riches the region held the Gold Coast |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | I AM "D.B." $1600: I won two gold medals in figure skating & spent decades as a respected commentator on the sport Dick Button |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CLASSIC CAR TV $1200: "This is" the 1970s P.I. who drove a sierra gold Pontiac Firebird esprit; "at the tone, leave your name & message, I'll get back to you" Rockford |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: Seen here this Lakota leader who resisted U.S. government incursions in search of gold, got his name from a site in the sky, also seen here Red Cloud |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $600: The woman in gold in this artist's famous painting was Adele Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy Jewish socialite Klimt |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: Perhaps a reference to the Medici family, 3 gold balls have become the symbol of this type of shop a pawn shop |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $600: A ship found off Madagascar may be the vessel of this British pirate whose riches Poe wrote of in "The Gold Bug" Kidd |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $1000: Poe rhymed this fabled city of gold with "down the valley of the shadow" El Dorado |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $600: In P.E. I'll make you multi-sport stars like this decathlete who won a 1960 duel of UCLA Bruins to take Olympic gold Rafer Johnson |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | FROM THE GREEK $600: This stage in the development of a butterfly is from the Greek for "gold" a chrysalis |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice The Gold Rush |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | "OF" PAINT $400: A kneeling trio offers the Christ child gifts of gold, frankincense & myrrh in this 1480s painting by Leonardo da Vinci Adoration of the Magi |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | FUTILITY $2000: Harry Potter might have a better chance of turning metals to gold using this medieval substance from alchemy, also called the tincture the philosopher's stone |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | "G.P." $600: It's a fun though probably not lucrative activity at Columbia State Historic Park in California's High Sierra gold panning |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $200: A 2-time Olympic gold medalist in the heptathlon, she was named for Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie Joyner) Kersee |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $400: In 2023 the EPA blocked a proposed copper & gold mine in the Bristol Bay region of this state Alaska |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $800: An old miner's trick to separate gold from minerals: mix with this liquid metal, put that inside a potato & toss in the fire mercury |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1200: Home to the Miners, UT at El Paso's student newspaper is named this, like someone who explores an area for gold a Prospector |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1600: In this 1948 film set in Mexico, Walter Huston says he's mined all over the world & warns, "I know what gold does to men's souls" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $2000: Seen here, this box helps filter & sift heavier mineral deposits like gold from useless & boring regular dirt a sluice box |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | A HARD BARGAIN $200: In 1867 the U.S. agreed to give the czar $7.2 million in gold; the cost to him? This territory Alaska |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SLIDING INTO YOUR "D.M."s $1,800 (Daily Double): The dome on the capitol building of this Midwest city is gilded with 23-karat gold leaf Des Moines |
| #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 |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $1600: Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney make up this 2-man band that knew someone had an eye on their "Gold On The Ceiling" The Black Keys |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LOST WITH THE TITANIC $2000: An incredibly ornate edition of this Omar Khayyam work bound with more than 1,000 jewels set in gold the Rubáiyát |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $400: Winning four in 2016, she tied the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics by a female gymnast Simone Biles |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $800: Make a racket for these 2 siblings who won the gold in women's doubles tennis at the 2000, 2008 & 2012 Olympics Venus & Serena Williams |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $1600: Must be something in the water--this Olympian swimmer with 10 medals, including 7 gold, hails from Maryland like Michael Phelps Ledecky |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $2000: This Norwegian ice skater & future movie star won the first of her Olympic gold medals at age 15 at the 1928 Games in St. Moritz Sonja Henie |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | STATE MOTTO TRANSLATIONS $600: The motto of Montana is oro y plata, these 2 desirables gold & silver |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | STANDING ON A BOARD SIDEWAYS $1000: Seen here is this American, the youngest woman ever at 17, to win Olympic gold in snowboarding Chloe Kim |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $1000: I tell ya, it's gold! Gold! Gold is commonly found in veins of this silica mineral, the second-most common in Earth's crust quartz |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: A canine is the main character of this 1903 novel set in part in Canadian gold rush country The Call of the Wild |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | HAVE A NOSH $800: Rold Gold & Snyder's of Hanover both make these snacks pretzels |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | I HAVE AN IDEA $2000: The institute named for this 18th c. Scot says his radical insight was that national wealth isn't gold but productive capacity Adam Smith |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY $800: Seized by the Nazis, this artist's "Woman in Gold" portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer now resides at the Neue Galerie in New York Klimt |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $1200: You'll find R-E-I-G-N in this word for a gold one-pound coin depicting one who reigned a sovereign |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | FASHIONABLE ETYMOLOGY $800: These decorative spangles get their name from zecchino, a gold coin of 16th century Venice sequins |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $1200: A gold mine promoter named Homer Pennock gave his first name to a city in this state Alaska |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | MICHAEL, BOLTIN' $200: In 2004 & 2008 this U.S. swimmer won Olympic gold in the 100- & 200-meter butterfly & the 200- & 400-meter individual medleys Michael Phelps |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | EASY MONEY $300: The doubloons thrown from Mardi Gras floats are often aluminum; the original doubloon was a Spanish coin made of this metal gold |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A SIDE OF FABERGÉ EGGS $400: 1897's Coronation Egg, with gold, diamonds, an emerald & a replica of a travel carriage, was a gift from Nicholas II to this woman Alexandra |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SPORTS COMPETITIONS $600: A little birdie told us that China has won the most gold medals in this sport's BWF World Championships badminton |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $800: "The Gold Rush", "The Kid" & "City Lights" are silent films that this comic legend wrote, directed & starred in (Charlie) Chaplin |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $400: "A unit of fineness... for gold equal to 1/24 part of pure gold in an alloy" a karat |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | POP MUSIC-POURRI $1600: To tweak an '80s lyric from this band, lovin' would be easy if your colors were those on Ghana's flag, red, gold & green Culture Club |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FUN WITH 21 $2000: In the 19th century this former gold coin of Britain was worth 21 shillings, one more than in a pound a guinea |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $800: 1890:
14.8% are this, highest in history, finding the streets paved with gold immigrants |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $2000: This word meaning a spectacular mining find was given to the creek where gold was found in the Klondike in 1896 bonanza |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | RHYMING RESPONSES $200: A bird that can talk &
a unit of gold fineness a parrot & a carat |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $600: "Stay ____,
Ponyboy.
Stay ____" gold |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLAYING SANTA $200: People magazine called Edmund Gwenn "the gold standard for cinematic Santa Clauses" after he worked up a "Miracle on" this 34th Street |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | STATE STUFF $200: California's state fabric is this jeans material that became a hit in the gold rush denim |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $400: His wish that everything he touched turned to gold turned into a royal fiasco Midas |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $400: Olympic Stadium in this city was the site of multiple gold-winning performances by Jesse Owens Berlin |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | A PINEAPPLE $1000: The extra sweet pineapple called this Hawaiian isle "Gold" is grown on the slopes of Haleakala Maui |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | "P.J."s $2000: Alexander Pope wrote of this literary term, "with her lifted scale, where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs" poetic justice |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $400: Called "kings" in a Christmas carol, these visitors to the young Jesus brought a trio of gifts: gold, frankincense & myrrh the magi (or the wise men) |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SPORTS STARS $600: In 2008 this Jamaican sprinter came from out of the blue to set the first of many world records; Olympic gold would follow Usain Bolt |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | FRONTIER FOLK $2000: Horace Vesey, frontier hotelier, ran the Gold Hill Hotel in the boomtown called this "City", biggest in Nevada Territory Virginia City |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | LEARNED LEAGUES $2000: A signature gold key represents this philosophical society founded on Dec. 5, 1776 Phi Beta Kappa |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $400: Bracelets featuring butterflies inlaid with gems, circa 2500 B.C., are made from this metal, at that time, more precious than gold silver |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $800: This young pharaoh's mummified remains were interred in a solid-gold coffin weighing almost 250 pounds King Tut |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $200: The statue of this top Greek god at Olympia stood nearly 40 feet high & showed him seated on a gold- & jewel-encrusted throne Zeus |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $800: (I'm Roger Bennett.) My new book, "Gods of Soccer", celebrates 100 stars of the game, like Lionel Messi, Pelé & this American who won 2 World Cups, 2 Olympic gold medals & scored 158 goals in international play (Mia) Hamm |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $800: All that glitters may be iron this, once used to produce sparks in muskets, but it won't finance your retirement iron pyrite (fool's gold) |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $1600: As an art supply, pixie dust is often flakes of this shiny 4-letter type of mineral mica |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ALL THAT GLITTERS $2000: One of Portia's disappointed suitors learns that "All that glisters is not gold" in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | FLAGS $1000: The yellow on the flag of this state capital symbolizes the state's gold, the white, snow-covered mountains Denver |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $1200: Jack London set "The Call of the Wild" during the 1890s gold rush in this Canadian region where he tried to strike it rich the Klondike |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $800: Prospector John Bozeman blazed a trail to gold-rush towns in what is now this state Montana |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | 4 OF THE SAME LETTER $800: At the recent Tokyo Olympics, Alix Klineman & April Ross netted gold in this sport beach volleyball |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE JACKSONS, 5 $1600: In 2022, Erin Jackson made history as the first Black woman to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, winning for this sport speed skating |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1200: He won nine gold medals in four Olympics before retiring from track & field competition in 1997 Carl Lewis |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $2000: In 2 Kings this king of Babylon "cut in pieces all the vessels of gold... in the Temple of the Lord" Nebuchadnezzar |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | FACTS & FIGURES $1200: With 37, including 16 gold, this European country won the most medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics Norway |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: A thing to be hated & cursed, like a graven image & its gold per Deuteronomy 7:25 an abomination |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $600: In 1897 Russia went to a gold standard in switching this monetary unit from silver to gold the ruble |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II $800: Precious commodity:
7-15-12-4 gold |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $1000: In a Paulo Coelho novel, a 200-year-old who can transform base metals into gold The Alchemist |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PRESENTING JEOPCOIN! $2000: We're very close to amassing the assets to make our crypto this kind of "coin", meaning it's tied to a traditional base like dollars or gold a stablecoin |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ON THE COAST $800: You'll find Pompano Beach & Deerfield Beach on this state's scenic Gold Coast Florida |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $2000: British & Canadian troops landed at areas code-named Gold, Juno & Sword Beaches; U.S. troops, at these 2 Omaha & Utah |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | LET'S GET HISTORICAL $200: The U.S. officially adopted this standard in 1900 & officially abandoned it in 1976 the gold standard |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS $200: The first Asian-American Olympic medalist, Vicki Draves was also the first female to win gold in platform & springboard this diving |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | SPORTS SHORTS $1000: He took gold with a powerhouse free skate at the 2022 Winter Olympics Nathan Chen |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | "4"! $200: Pure gold has this measurement 24 karats |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | WAITS & MEASURES $2,000 (Daily Double): This name for a type of ounce used to measure gold comes from a city in medieval France, not ancient Turkey the troy ounce |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | POSSESSIVE THINGS $200: It began in California after an 1848 discovery at Sutter's Mill the Gold Rush |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $800: This type of ornamentation is like lacework done with gold or silver filigree |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $200: Nazi loot found in a salt mine included precious artworks, items stolen from concentration camp victims & more than 8,000 bars of this gold |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | HOW ARE YOU FIXED FOR BLADES? $600: Olympian Bonnie Blair wore different blades of glory in winning 5 gold medals in this sport speed skating |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $400: Greek words for "gold" & "flower" give us the name of this flower for November that's also associated with Japan's royal family a chrysanthemum |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | COLORFUL STATE SYMBOLS $400: California, mineral:
this gold |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | MUSIC AS OF LATE $200: His "24K Magic" was good as gold & a Grammy winner for Album of the Year Bruno Mars |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1600: While in the bath, he reportedly exclaimed "Eureka!" after coming up with a method to test the purity of gold Archimedes |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT $2000: Not for the faint of heart or liver, it's European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelínek 10 Year Gold slivovitz |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | HERE BE LIONS $1200: As described in 1 Kings, this great monarch's gold & ivory throne was flanked by figures of lions Solomon |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $1000: William Howard's vertical gold mine passages Taft's shafts |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | Y IS THE SECOND LETTER $1600: In Matthew 2:11 it's presented as a gift, along with gold & frankincense myrrh |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS $400: The Gold Glove & Silver Slugger Awards (both sound like it could be boxing, but it's not) baseball |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | COMMON COMMODITIES $200: It hit an all-time high in August 2020, when it was trading at more than $2,000 an ounce gold |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | FREE STUFF $800: Rhyming term for a sack of gifts at an awards show; a $200,000 Oscars version included gold vape pens & liposuction vouchers a swag bag |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | GYMNASTICS $1000: This 2012 Olympic team gold medalist & 2-time world champ in the vault is seen here testifying to Congress in 2021 (McKayla) Maroney |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $800: In 1998 the 9 teens who integrated Central High in this Southern capital in 1957 were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Little Rock |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | MIDAS $800: In "The Lost Hero" by this adapter of myths for young adults, Midas turns Leo & Piper into gold statues (Rick) Riordan |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $1200: Helen Mirren is trying to recover a portrait by Gustav Klimt in the fact-based movie "Woman in" this Gold |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | THE LYIN' IN WINTER $600: Hard to believe we just beat Dan Jansen's 1994 gold medal-winning time in the 1,000 meters in this sport speed skating |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | HALF PAST $800: First used to stamp gold & silver, it now refers to anything of excellent quality hallmark |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ALL SORTS OF BOOKS $1000: The title character in this Paulo Coelho novel turns lead into gold for young Santiago The Alchemist |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THAT'S QUITE A DORM ROOM $600: An indoor, Olympic-sized swimming pool is a nice touch! You can try to beat her gold medal time in 2021's 1,500-meter freestyle (Katie) Ledecky |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: At the Olympic games in Stockholm, Jim Thorpe won gold medals in both of these track & field multi-events the decathlon & the pentathlon |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | ONE WOMAN $200: Among the items our woman famously saved was a blue & gold Lowestoft set of porcelain ware, more commonly called this china |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CEREAL $200: 2-time Olympic gold medalist Bob Richards was this cereal's first spokesperson Wheaties |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | EXPLORERS $2000: Lope de Aguirre was among those who sought this mythic South American land of gold El Dorado |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $1200: This 4-time Olympic gold medalist got a parade in NYC but had to ride the freight elevator to his reception at the Waldorf Jesse Owens |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | DOUBLE TIME $400: Worth twice as much as a pistole, this Spanish gold coin was once widely used in the Americas a doubloon |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Gold found on his land in 1848 ruined this California man; people destroyed his property looking for more & by 1852 he was bankrupt Sutter |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $200: Silver iodide is often used to produce condensation for "seeding" these clouds |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $400: In vein & placer deposits, gold often appears with fool's gold, also called this pyrite |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $600: When they're bars & ingots, gold & silver are called this, which sounds like a soup broth bullion |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $800: Gold is virtually indestructible, yet has this moldable quality, from the Latin for "to hammer" malleability |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $1000: Silver is valuable due to its brilliance, scarcity & resistance to this process, meaning it won't rust oxidation |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 $1200: This British diver won gold at the Olympics & won hearts by knitting in the stands Tom Daley |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 19th CENTURY STUFF $800: In the 1850s a gold rush slogan was this Colorado mountain "or Bust" Pikes Peak |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Catholic tradition says this cup used for sacramental wine should be at least part gold or silver a chalice |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | THAT'S OUR FACTORY $1200: This beauty company whose name partly means "gold": the Lassigny plant north of Paris L'Oréal |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | 5,5 $400: Steinway says it makes the gold standard of this type of musical instrument a grand piano |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | POTENT ETYMOLOGY $800: Named for the professional who creates the gold leaf inside, this cinnamon liqueur is German for "gold beater" Goldschläger |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | TIME TO FALL INTO AUTUMN $200: Baby Boo & autumn gold are varieties of this gourd that's popular during fall holidays a pumpkin |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | IN BOX $200: The 2 tablets of law that God gave to Moses were placed in this wooden, gold-plated chest but don't look at it, Marion! the Ark of the Covenant |
| #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 |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | A PRESI-DENTAL CATEGORY $1200: Gold dental plates made for this general/president & his wife Julia were stolen from their dentist's office & never recovered (Ulysses S.) Grant |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WE DID START THE FIRE $1600: A fire started by an experiment in this gold-making pseudoscience destroyed a Weimar castle in 1618 alchemy |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | ALLITERATION $1200: To have fun, to enjoy oneself; a character in Shakespeare "must" do this "with the duchess' gold" make merry |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THE GEOGRAPHY $2000: Until 1957, what is today this West African country was known as the Gold Coast Ghana |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $1600: She won Olympic gold in 1992 & in 1998 was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame Kristi Yamaguchi |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $400: Momiji Nishiya, at 13 the youngest gold medalist since 1936, came down the rail to win gold in the street type of this debuting sport skateboarding |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $800: Not in a driveway but in an arena, a shot by Karlis "Batman" Lasmanis gave Latvia the 1st men's gold in this form of basketball 3 versus 3 (3 on 3) |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $1200: Not an anthem but Tchaikovsky was played at gold medal ceremonies for the ROC, short for this team, the result of a ban Russian Olympic Committee |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $1600: This martial art, born on Okinawa, made its Olympic debut & Ryo Kiyuna, born on Okinawa, won gold karate |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $2000: The first Hmong-American Olympian, she won all-around gold in gymnastics (Suni) Lee |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $400: After being a train-riding teen hobo, Jack London went to Cal-Berkeley but soon dropped out to search for this in the Klondike gold |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: In the 1890s this was discovered in Western Australia; what a rush! gold |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $800: In "The Outsiders" C. Thomas Howell recites this poet's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" Frost |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | '80s LADIES $800: At the 1988 Summer Olympics, she ran off with three gold medals & one silver "Flo-Jo" (Florence Griffith Joyner) |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | IT'S A TRAP! $1000: The 2010 collapse of a gold & copper mine would end up trapping 33 workers for 69 days in this country Chile |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | WE GUARANTEE IT $1000: "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold", said this man in a fiery 1896 speech Bryan |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $800: At the '84 Olympics Brits Torvill & Dean got perfect 6s skating to gold using this Ravel work but we'd have given them a "10" Bolero |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown" James Abbott McNeil Whistler |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: This Army major & his 21 associates were recognized with congressional gold medals for their work on yellow fever Walter Reed |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $5,000 (Daily Double): Augustus Caesar said he "found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of" this, which was much nicer! marble |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON BASS $200: 60 gold records aside, this lefty from Liverpool failed his choirboy audition at the city's Anglican Cathedral Paul McCartney |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | NON-ALEXANDER HAMILTON $800: U.S. figure skater Scott Hamilton took the gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics in this city that would later be a war zone Sarajevo |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | YE OLDE SCIENCE $400: Transmutation was a key goal of this science, whether from old age to youth or base metal to gold alchemy |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | MASTERPIECE/THEATER $600: This artist used his signature gold leaf technique on one of his 2 portraits of Viennese society woman Adele Bloch-Bauer (Gustav) Klimt |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | WE HAVE SUCH CHEMISTRY $1200: Po-210, an isotope of this element, is used in gold foil to eliminate static electricity in industrial processes polonium |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | WHAT A HOARD! $1200: Though the owners won't say where, a hoard of gold coins worth millions was found in 2013 in this east California mountain range the Sierra Nevada |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $200: This mythic guy used a gold-tipped arrow to inspire love; a lead-tipped one had the opposite reaction Cupid |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $200: This type of bread made from a starter has been a San Francisco specialty since the gold rush days sourdough |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | HEAVY METAL $600: In 2016 a passerby on a Manhattan street grabbed an 86-pound, $1.6 million bucket of this off the back of an armored car gold |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | HAPPY TRAILS! $2000: This southern Montana city is named for John, who blazed a trail to the territory's gold rush towns in the 1860s Bozeman |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | DISNEY DWARF ALTERNATE NAMES $200: Cantankerous Grumpy |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: An 1849 act authorized the minting of double eagles, $20 coins made of this gold |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | YOU LOSE! $1200: Putting the 1908 & 1912 presidential races in Olympic terms, he went from gold to bronze, going from 51% to 23% Taft |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | HISTORY ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS $200: The ancient "Father of History" aka "Father of Lies", Herodotus said in India, ants bigger than foxes dig for this precious metal gold |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | HOMOPHONES $400: A measure of gold purity, or a Bugs Bunny favorite carat/carrot |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Among the treasures he was buried with around 1325 B.C., was the gold mask seen here King Tut |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | 17th CENTURY LIT $800: Ben Jonson wrote popular comedies like the 1610 play about one of these magical gold-changers the alchemist |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | SHEDDING LIGHT $400: A symbol of enlightenment, its torch is covered in 24-karat gold & lit by 16 floodlights at night the Statue of Liberty |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | BUSINESSES $800: In 2020 this car rental co. that offers gold plus rewards said that even if you're 20, you're good to go, with no extra fee Hertz |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | LEFT BEHIND ON THE MOON $800: A gold replica of one of these natural symbols of peace an olive branch |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | YUKON $1000: Whitehorse, Yukon's capital, began as a transit hub to Bonanza Creek in this gold rush region around 1898 the Klondike |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE GRAMM"E"S $1000: 1960's Song of the Year went to Ernest Gold for his theme to this movie about the founding of Israel Exodus |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | JOCKS $200: Captain of the U.S. team in the last 2 Olympics, Aly Raisman has won 3 gold medals in this sport gymnastics |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | OLYMPIC SPORTS YOU CAN DO BAREFOOT $800: With a new partner, Brooke Sweat, 42-year-old Kerri Walsh Jennings plans to go for her 4th gold in this 2-word sport in 2021 beach volleyball |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | A TRIP TO -BURG -TON -VILLE $400: This South African city of about 5 million is also called Egoli, a Zulu name for "City of Gold" Johannesburg |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | KEEPING IT 100 $400: In 1958 this trade magazine launched the Hot 100, the gold standard for ranking popular songs Billboard |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SKIPPER $400: The short story "The Gold Bug" is about treasure supposedly buried by the pirate known as "Captain" him Kidd |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | COINS $2000: A gold coin is named for this man who was president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 Paul Kruger |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | IT'S A FACT $400: Spelled with a "C", it's a unit of weight for diamonds; spelled with a "K", it's a measure of the purity of gold carat |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | CENTRAL AMERICA $1000: Tegucigalpa, the capital of this country, was founded in 1578 as a base for gold & silver mining operations Honduras |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | BREAD $600: Gold miners in the Klondike got this nickname, after a bread they made sourdough |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOLOGY $800: These features have their disastrous downsides, but on the plus side many, such as Australia's Junction one, host gold deposits faults |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | IT'S GONNA BE CLOSE... $800: At the 2008 Olympics he won his 7th gold by a fingertip, beating Milorad Cavic to the wall in the 100m butterfly by .01 of a second Michael Phelps |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME LATITUDE $1600: If you know that this resort city & port on Mexico's west coast is at latitude 16 degrees 51 minutes north, you get the gold Acapulco |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | OLYMPIC SITES $1200: Squaw Valley, Calif. is best known for this sport in which Ernst Hinterseer of Austria & Heidi Biebl of Germany won gold there in 1960 (alpine) skiing |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | DOUBLE "E" FOR THEE $2000: Delicate & intricate patterns of thin gold or silver wire used as decoration filigree |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | BO, JACK $800: The first chapter of his 1910 work "Burning Daylight" mentions roulette, the Klondike & a sack of gold dust Jack London |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Butterflies emerge as adults not from a cocoon but from one of these structures whose name is from the Greek for "gold" a chrysalis |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | DISCOVERY $600: In this year James Marshall discovered gold from the American River in California; the next year the rush was on 1848 |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | ATHLETES WHO TEACH $1200: The first woman to win three gold track medals in a single Olympics, 1960, she taught second graders in Tennessee Wilma Rudolph |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $400: Edwin Moses wins gold in world record time as the Summer Olympics are held in Montreal '76 |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: Febold Feboldson sells sand from this sweltering California location to freezing gold prospectors Death Valley |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THE GOLD BURGS $400: This big burg was founded in 1886 following the discovery of gold in the Transvaal Johannesburg |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THE GOLD BURGS $800: Bodie, Calif. once had a population of 10,000; when the local mine's gold ran out, the people did too, & now it's one of these sites a ghost town |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THE GOLD BURGS $1600: The 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush gave birth to this city, which merged with Auraria in 1860 Denver |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THE GOLD BURGS $2000: This Alaskan city named for a senator & vice president boomed thanks to a 1902 gold rush Fairbanks |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THE GOLD BURGS $3,800 (Daily Double): In 1855 a California mining town wisely changed its name from Mud Springs to this, a Spanish name for a legendary gold country El Dorado |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $800: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 1971 I earned my first Gold record for a single & the following year my first Grammy for this song written by Carole King "You've Got A Friend" |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $400: In 2016 Pernille Blume of Denmark won the women's freestyle gold medal in this, the shortest Olympic swimming distance 50 meters |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $800: Still the world record holder in both, he won gold medals in the 100m & 200m running events in 3 straight Olympics Usain Bolt |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | SHINY THINGS $400: Since the 1980s this country has had a shiny gold coin called the nugget; one version shows a wallaby Australia |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | DIVING $1600: One of the best divers in history, he won Olympic gold in 1984 and 1988 Greg Louganis |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A historic "Cross of Gold" orator decides to make a meth of things as a "Breaking Bad" star William Jennings Bryan Cranston |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $200: This flour brand is named for the top prize that it won at an 1880 exhibition Gold Medal |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $400: The AKC says this "is an exceptionally intelligent breed" & boasted "the first three dogs to earn AKC Obedience Champion titles" a golden retriever |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $600: The Ohio River begins at the western tip of the "Golden Triangle" in this city Pittsburgh |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $800: Oil is also known by this "colorful" 2-word phrase, followed by "Texas tea" in an old sitcom theme black gold |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $1000: These 3 stone-cold sisters of Greek myth who were less than photogenic had bronze hands & golden wings the Gorgons |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $2000: (Ryan Reynolds presents the clue.) In the 2015 film "Woman in Gold", I played Randy Schoenberg, the lawyer who finally got the Austrian government to return Nazi-looted art to the relatives of Adele Bloch-Bauer whose portrait was painted by this Austrian known for his use of gold leaf (Gustav) Klimt |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | FAIRY TALE POLICE REPORT $1000: "Plotted to take queen's firstborn child by offering to spin straw into gold for her" Rumpelstiltskin |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $7,000 (Daily Double): After saving some kids' lives in "The Outsiders", Johnny tells this main character to stay gold, then joins our category Ponyboy |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): "Passing" this "test" originated with using it to dissolve substances to see if they were really gold or not the acid test |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | MUSIC HALLS $800: This New York City venue a shimmering gold stage curtain that is said to be the largest in the world Radio City Music Hall |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES $800: "Oro y plata" is a Spanish motto mentioning these 2 elements gold & silver |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track & field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority Jesse Owens |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HIDDEN TREASURE $400: The Mongol Dynasty lasted from 1271 to 1368 gold (in Mongol Dynasty) |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | COINAGE $800: The 1792 Coinage Act named 10-dollar U.S. gold coins for this bird the bald eagle |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | GEMSTONES! MEET THE GEMSTONES! $5,000 (Daily Double): This birthstone is used in abrasives for polishing & grinding; the color pairs with gold as an official one for Florida State garnet |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | A SPARKLING CATEGORY $1200: Sparkling iron pyrite sometimes gives miners delusions of impending wealth & is derisively called this fool's gold |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $200: This man from Medford, Massachusetts was the 108th mayor of New York City Bloomberg |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $400: He wrote the screenplay for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" & adapted his own novel "Marathon Man" for the movies William Goldman |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $600: "The Good Earth", released in 1937 after his death, was the first film with the name of this MGM production head in the credits (Irving) Thalberg |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $800: In 1998 this former GOP presidential candidate went to Paradise...Valley's Christ Church of the Ascension Memorial Garden in Arizona Goldwater |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $1000: Missile launches are part of the mission of the California Air Force base named for this general Vandenberg |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1st African-American woman to win Olympic gold, Alice Coachman cleared 5'6 1/8" in this track & field event in 1948 the high jump |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $1600: In 2017 Billy Bob Thornton took home the gold for his role as lawyer Billy McBride taking on the big guys on this drama Goliath |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC $1600: In the Olympics, Leon Spinks won a gold medal in this boxing class between 165-178 pounds light heavyweight |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | CHRISTMAS RAPPING $600: This rapper, real name Christopher Bridges, mixes his name with "Crismas" saying, "All I want for Christmas is 2 gold front teeth" Ludacris |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | NAVAL HISTORY $800: Congress presented him a gold medal in 1787 for his naval leadership during the American Revolution John Paul Jones |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $800: The pre-Civil War discovery of gold in Colorado led to cries of this alliterative site "or Bust" Pike's Peak |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | MISCELLANY $400: In the U.S., if the level of purity is below 10 of these units, you cannot call it gold karats |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH RHYME TIME $600: Oro frío cold gold |
| #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 |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ONCE UPON A TIME... $400: Robert Carlyle played Mr. Gold, AKA this spinner of straw, in ABC's "Once Upon a Time" Rumpelstiltskin |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | WHAT DO YOU LOVE? $1000: Heliophile the Sun |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE 17th CENTURY $1,800 (Daily Double): Around 1612 in Virginia, John Rolfe began growing this "brown gold"; soon the colony started shipping it to England tobacco |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $4,133 (Daily Double): This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado Centennial |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | ITTY BITTY CITY $2000: Nevada City, Montana is one big historical museum; visit the area & you can learn this water-based skill & maybe get rich panning for gold |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $400: Casinos in Reno & Shreveport named for this lost city seem like the perfect place to pick up some gold El Dorado |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | NEW GROUP NAMES OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $400: A Merv of these hybrid creatures who guarded gold from the Arimaspians griffins |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $800: In 1994 Oksana Baiul edged out this famously injured American for figure skating gold Nancy Kerrigan |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $200: "Open sesame" are the magic words that this man used to take gold from 40 thieves Ali Baba |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $400: Princess Toadstool is in trouble in this 1985 Nintendo game, yet her 2 rescuers are all about those gold coins Super Mario Brothers |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $600: In a 1964 film Goldfinger wants to detonate a dirty bomb in the gold reserves at this locale, making his stash more valuable Fort Knox |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $800: In 1922 people in Kanab, Utah were convinced that the gold of this Aztec was in a mountain cave near their city...nope Montezuma |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $1000: In an opera this dwarf makes a ring from the gold of the Rhine & enslaves the Nibelungen Alberich |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $1600: In 2018 Jessie Diggins & Kikkan Randall dashed across the snow for the 1st Olympic gold by U.S. women in this sport cross-country skiing |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | HISTORICAL MUSEUMS $200: Learn about pre-Hispanic societies at Bogota's Museo del Oro, the museum of this element gold |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $400: Kanye West & Jamie Foxx advised getting a prenup before getting involved with this title type of gal a golddigger |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $800: In a 1993 hit Sting walked in these fields of gold |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $1200: One Direction, Fitz & the Tantrums & Graham Parker & the Rumour have all recorded songs titled this "Fool's Gold" |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $1600: Neil Young was a miner for this title of a 1972 No. 1 hit "Heart Of Gold" |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $2000: Striking it rich in love, Colbie Caillat sings, "Feels like we're sittin' on top of" this "yeah, our love is" this a goldmine |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | IF THEY MARRIED... $1200: Olympic gold medal skater Tara weds the actor who plays Jim from "The Office" & gets this long & rhyming hyphenated name Tara Lipinski-Krasinski |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | ON THE BEACH $400: Gold Beach was at the center of the 5 designated landing areas during this 1944 military operation D-Day (or the invasion of Normandy) |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A carpenter named James Marshall found this in a streambed on January 24, 1848; he tried to keep it a secret, but... gold |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS, ENDS WITH ONE $800: Archimedes' exclamation after figuring out how to determine gold content in an alloy "Eureka!" |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: This university, the Bruins of the Pac-12, waves its banners in blue & gold UCLA |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WOMEN OLYMPIANS $400: In 2016 tennis ace Monica Puig beat 3 Grand Slam champions to win this U.S. territory's first-ever gold medal Puerto Rico |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WOMEN OLYMPIANS $600: China's Li Xuerui took gold in 2012 in this racquet sport badminton |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WOMEN OLYMPIANS $800: Jackie Joyner-Kersee twice won gold in this multi-event Olympic contest the heptathlon |
| #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 |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $1600: If you're gonna lie in the heart of something, make it the gold field of the Witwatersrand, like this huge South African city Johannesburg |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | IN JERUSALEM $400: In 691 A.D. this gold-domed Islamic shrine was built on Jerusalem's Temple Mount Dome of the Rock |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | MOOLAH $11,914 (Daily Double): The mint in this western city produces about half of U.S. coinage & is the USA's second-largest gold depository Denver |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | "TOUCH"-Y, "FEEL"-Y $1000: A standard of judgment, or a fine-grained mineral used to test alloys of gold a touchstone |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | THE WORLD OF MONEY $1,400 (Daily Double): In an effort to diversity its portfolio, Canada sold most of this, becoming the only G7 member with less than 100 tons gold |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | BABY'S FIRST INSTAGRAM $200: Nearly 800,000 follow Boomer, who is seen in a few pools; natural, since Dad is this 23-time Olympic gold-winning guy Michael Phelps |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | IS IT SCIENCE? $800: National Geographic says this medieval effort to make gold is "usually dismissed as mystical pseudoscience" alchemy |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | TRIPLE "O" RATED $1000: This gold coin was so named because it was worth twice as much as a pistole a doubloon |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | FRUIT SALAD $200: Zin for short, this grape was introduced to California during the gold rush years zinfandel |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | FROM THE MERMAID'S LOCKER $1200: A coral & gold chain of beads for this Catholic devotion--must have fallen overboard a rosary |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | 1870s AMERICA $400: In 1874 a U.S. Army expedition to South Dakota found gold in them thar hills the Black Hills |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $800: This hit begins, "This hit, that ice cold, Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold" "Uptown Funk!" |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | UNPHARAOHS $4,000 (Daily Double): The Bible says Pharaoh Shishak raided Jersualem & the temple, taking the gold shields this king had made Solomon |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $400: This queen arrives in Jerusalem packing spices, gold & gems & sets out to test the wisdom of King Solomon the Queen of Sheba |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | SULFUR $2000: There's more sulfur than iron in this mineral, AKA fool's gold iron pyrite |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | EDIBLE HOMOPHONES $200: The gold collar for my Netherland dwarf rabbit must be at least 18 this karat |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $200: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic nomination in 1896 with his defense of free silver: "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of" this metal gold |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | EDIBLE COMMON BONDS $800: Fingerling,
white rose,
Yukon gold potatoes |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | OLYMPIANS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew poses in front of a map.) The origins of the signature move locals call "To Di World" by this gold-medal sprinter can be traced to his love of a Jamaican dance move popular in 2008 Usain Bolt |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | OLYMPIANS $400: Isabell Werth has won 6 Olympic gold medals in dressage, even though this, at times, was using illegal substances her horse |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | PLACES OF LEGEND $2000: Neither Pizarro nor Raleigh succeeded in their searches for this land of gold El Dorado |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | IN THEIR WILLS $600: Thomas Jefferson left a gold-mounted walking staff "as a token of...friendship" to this succeeding president Madison |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | HALLMARK ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $1200: For this anniversary 3 years after gold, it's time to say I love you even more... with plastic 53 |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MYTHOLOGY $400: Dionysus granted this king any wish; he regretted getting the golden touch when his food became gold & he nearly starved (King) Midas |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | CENTS OF A WOMAN $1,000 (Daily Double): She graces a gold $1 coin, along with her son Jean Baptiste, born February 11, 1805 Sacagawea |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | SPRINGS $600: Gold medal hopefuls train at the U.S. Olympic complex in this city 6,000 feet up Colorado Springs |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES $800: In the 1810s, many state banks went bankrupt when the U.S. bank forced them to exchange these 2 metals for banknotes gold and silver |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | BROTHERS GRIMM FAIRY TALES $600: This guy who could spin straw into gold had a name from German mythology from a type of goblin Rumpelstiltskin |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | OLD SPICE $1600: This light-brown spice from a tree of the laurel family is said to have been more valuable than gold in antiquity cinnamon |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | RIVERS OF CALIFORNIA $200: The region where this "capital" river meets the American River was the scene of the state's 1849 gold rush the Sacramento |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S SOME GIFT! $1000: The 3 wise men who visited Jesus brought gifts of gold, frankincense & this myrrh |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | HOLD THE HOMOPHONE $600: That thin layer of gold you just applied to everything, or the feeling you now have for exceeding your budget gilt/guilt |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | FIRST "IN", LAST "OUT" $800: Molten gold is sometimes poured into this type of mold an ingot |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | THE OLYMPICS $1000: An old man of 31, this American became the first 3-time snowboarding gold medalist in 2018 Shaun White |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WHOSE WHAT? $1000: In January 1848 carpenter James Marshall reported the discovery of gold at this spot Sutter's Mill |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | GO FOR THE GOLD $400: The higher the karat weight, the higher the gold purity, ranging up to this number meaning pure gold 24 karat |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | GO FOR THE GOLD $800: Reflecting its name in Latin, this is the chemical symbol for gold Au |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | GO FOR THE GOLD $1200: To protect the nation's gold reserves, in the 1930s the U.S. bullion depository opened at this site Fort Knox |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | GO FOR THE GOLD $2,000 (Daily Double): The last time Olympic gold medals were made of solid gold was in 1912 at the games in this Scandinavian city Stockholm |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | GO FOR THE GOLD $2000: The gold artifact seen here is called the mask of this king, who led the Greek forces against Troy Agamemnon |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | MORE COWBELL $1000: "Rock on, gold dust woman, take your silver spoon, dig your grave", sang this cowbell-employing band Fleetwood Mac |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | I GOT A FEVER $2,000 (Daily Double): Random House defines this "fever" as "greed and excitement caused by" it & dates the term to the 1840s gold fever |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $800: This general term for gold or silver bars kept in bulk is in the official name of Fort Knox Depository bullion |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | NEO GEO $2000: As an important source of this metal from the 1400s on, Ghana was previously known as this "Coast" gold |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HIT THE BEACHES $800: The British 50th Infantry Division landed 25,000 men on Gold Beach on this day in 1944 June 6th (or D-Day) |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | HANDWEAR $400: In the 2000s pro baseball's Ichiro Suzuki won this defensive award 10 straight times the Gold Glove |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | BIRTHDAY PARTY $600: Cheers to this gold-medal gymnast who blew out 21 candles in March of 2018 (Simone) Biles |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | & THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES $400: In December 1848 President Polk gave Congress the news that "the supply" of this in California "is very large" gold |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | MOVIE SEQUEL SUBTITLES $1000: This "II: The Legend of Curly's Gold" City Slickers |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TIME FOR OPERA $400: "The Girl of the Golden West":
this year that gave California gold rushers their nickname 1849 |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $400: Clement Stone, b. 1902, began his fortune with cold calls (he called them gold calls) for these policies, the casualty type insurance |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $1000: Lake Placid's hockey arena is now named for this coach who miraculously won gold there Herb Brooks |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | ROCKS & MINERALS $800: An iron sulfide, pyrite looks this color in rocks but creates a black streak when rubbed across a surface gold (or yellow) |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $2000: The Venus in his "Venus of Urbino" painting has hair of the red-gold color for which his art was known Titian |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | IDIOM ORIGINS $400: Can you pass the acid test? It dates back to the use of nitric acid to test the content of this precious metal gold |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | I NEED A DRINK $1000: I'll take a shot of this Swiss cinnamon schnapps with real gold-leaf flakes Goldschlager |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | PRIZE PACKAGES $400: A gold medal, a hand-lettered diploma & 9 million Swedish kronor the Nobel Prize |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | EXPORTS $1200: Both Mauritania & Mali export gold, but you can see from the map why only Mauritania is big in frozen this seafood |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $800: The first black winter Olympic gold medalist, Vonetta Flowers won as a brake woman in this event in 2002 bobsled |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | OLD NAMES FOR CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $800: Aurum is this object of many a conquistador's quest gold |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | SOCCER $400: In 2016 Neymar led this nation to its first-ever Olympic gold medal in soccer Brazil |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHE DID IT! $1,000 (Daily Double): She won gold in track & field at the 1932 summer Olympics & was the leading money winner in women's golf, 1948 to 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | MEMORABLE MOVIE SCENES $1000: 1925:
In the Yukon, a starving Charlie Chaplin dines on one of his shoes, laces & all The Gold Rush |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | NEWER TECHNOLOGY $400: In December 2017 one unit of this cryptocurrency was worth 15 times more than an ounce of gold Bitcoin |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | POTENT MEASUREMENTS $1200: Armand de Brignac offers a Midas bottle size that contains 30 liters of the brut gold type of this champagne |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ELEMENTARY $1,800 (Daily Double): This precious metal boasts the highest thermal & electrical conductivity silver |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 600s Muslim forces captured Jerusalem & by century's end, they had built this gold-topped shrine the Dome of the Rock |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $400: In "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", he plays gold-greedy Fed C. Dobbs, sweetheart Bogart |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | INTO THE "WOOD"S $600: Founded around the 1870s gold rush, this entire South Dakota city has been named a national historic landmark Deadwood |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WHERE YA FROM, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST? $200: Going back to 1988 divers from this country, including Gao Min, have taken every gold medal in women's springboard China |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WHERE YA FROM, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST? $400: Do you know me? Or rather, this country where 1968 downhill, slalom & giant slalom skiing champ Jean-Claude Killy is from? France |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WHERE YA FROM, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST? $600: 2-time 10,000-meter champ Haile Gebrselassie, come home to this country Ethiopia |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WHERE YA FROM, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST? $1000: 9-time champ Paavo Nurmi from this country also held the world record for the mile for 8 years Finland |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WHERE YA FROM, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST? $1,400 (Daily Double): Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, always a 10 in our book, hailed from here Romania |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $400: Gold wedding bands with the name of the very first winner Wings rings |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $200: Nickname of football HOFer & Olympic gold medal sprinter Bob Hayes; he wasn't really faster than a speeding one speeding bullet |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN $1000: This one-ounce gold coin of South Africa was introduced in 1967 the krugerrand |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | JAY LENO'S GARAGE $1000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) With a top speed of more than 240 MPH, a central driving position & touches like an engine bay literally lined with heat-reflective gold, it's no surprise that this British company's F1 has been called the greatest car of the 20th century McLaren |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | TOTALLY METAL, DUDE $800: Of all metals, it has the greatest ductility & reflects heat rays the best, so yeah, it's a pretty valuable thing to have gold |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | THE HUNGARY GAMES $1000: Goalkeeper Viktor Nagy made a splash in this sport in which Hungary has won 9 Olympic gold medals water polo |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $200: Under the gold standard, the value of this circulating money, from Latin for "to run", is linked directly to gold currency |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARDS $400: According to GQ, Common Projects makes "the gold standard of high-end" these sports shoes with a stealthy name sneakers |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $400: In 1821 Britain became the first adopter of the gold standard, dropping this metal from its bimetallic system silver |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $600: Advocates say the standard acts as check on this, caused by excessive issue of paper money inflation |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARDS $800: Business Insider called this tracking poll's approval ratings "the gold standard of presidential indicators" Gallup |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $800: To combat the Depression, FDR moved the U.S. off the standard shortly after taking office in this year 1933 |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $1000: Off the standard for decades, the U.S. issues this kind of money backed by decree, Latin for "let it be done" fiat money |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARDS $1200: Wired magazine said that "for many," this maker's Stratocaster is "the gold standard of electric guitars" Fender |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARDS $1600: Named for Ransom Eli Olds, REO, an old maker of these, promoted them as "the gold standard of value" cars (automobiles or Speedwagons) |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARDS $2000: The New York Times called James Baker, who served Reagan & Bush, the gold standard of this White House job chief of staff |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | A HISTORY OF VIOLINS $1200: Legend has it that a fiddle of gold was put up against Johnny's soul when "The Devil Went Down To" this place Georgia |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | THE ATHLETE'S COLLEGE $2000: In purple & gold, Ben Simmons & Shaquille O'Neal LSU |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | ARRIBA ARUBA! $400: One tradition says Aruba's name comes from oro huba, Spanish for "there was" this (they hoped) gold |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $200: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards these each January the Golden Globes |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $400: Michael Phelps won only 3 of these in his Olympic career silver medals |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $600: Top Hollywood agent Ari Gold was a character on this HBO series Entourage |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $800: The Golden State Warriors have won 2 NBA titles led by this 2-time league MVP Curry |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $1000: This cosmic comic book hero travels through the universe on a board the Silver Surfer |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | HISTORY TIME $400: Hurry up & name this westward movement sparked by an 1848 find by James Marshall the Gold Rush |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | ROSE $800: The pinkish hue of the precious metal with this name is achieved by increasing the copper-colored alloys in the mix rose gold |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | FEARLESS GIRL $11,400 (Daily Double): A young woman from Chile moves to Calif. during the gold rush in "Daughter of Fortune" by this author Isabel Allende |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $200: Gymnast Viktor Lisitsky won 5 silver medals for this country, but no gold or bronze the USSR |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $400: In 2010 German Winter Olympian David Moeller injured himself doing this to his silver medal biting it |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $600: Michael Phelps first gold medal of his record 23 was at the 2004 Games in this city Athens |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $1000: At the first Olympics in 1896, winners received a silver medal & this natural symbol of peace an olive branch |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games were inlaid with this gem jade |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | GDANSK $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a shop in Gdansk, Poland.) Found in 40-million-year-old Baltic sands, this Baltic gold is used to make treasures for which Gdansk is famous amber |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $2000: The 2015 movie "Woman in Gold" is about a legal fight over portraits, including the one seen here, by this Austrian (Gustav) Klimt |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $800: Snag, in this Canadian territory famed for its gold rush, hit 82 below in 1947... without wind chill the Yukon |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | STATE CAPITAL HAIKU $600: No roads lead to it /
Named for a gold prospector /
It gets quite cold there Juneau |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: This Jack of many trades sought fortune in the 1897 Klondike gold rush & used the experience in his books Jack London |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | COME SAIL AWAY $1200: In 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up this river in what's now Venezuela in search of a city of gold the Orinoco |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | DOING BUSINESS IN THE 1800s $2,000 (Daily Double): In Britain a pound equaled 20 shillings; this gold coin named for a region of Africa equaled 21 shillings a guinea |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It was once a Westinghouse washing machine trademark; now it's a place where quarters are like gold laundromat |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | FOOD & DRINK $600: "Liquid gold" is what Kraft calls this processed product used in its Shells & Cheese Velveeta |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | LEAP YEARS $400: With a 26' 5 1/2" leap right in der Fuehrer's face, Jesse Owens took the long jump gold medal at this city's 1936 Olympics Berlin |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | DEEP UNDERGROUND $600: Some of the deepest mines like the Savuka & Driefontein are used to look for gold in this country South Africa |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: Spelled one way, it's a unit of weight for precious stones; spelled another, a unit for measuring the purity of gold carat/karat |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $200: A 24-karat gold-plated tone arm is part of this award that weighs 5 pounds a Grammy |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: To rid himself of a gift he no longer wanted, this king of Phrygia bathed in a river whose sands then became gold Midas |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $1000: Sting:
"Fields Of ____" Gold |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ORE $1200: Some gold ore is considered exogenetic, meaning it was formed in this layer of the Earth the crust |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | STATE FLAGS $600: Indiana's flag has a flaming gold one of these, representing liberty & enlightenment a torch |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | TRY COLOR $1000: The iPhone 7 comes in a metallic pink with this 2-word name, also popular for jewelry rose gold |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | HIDDEN GEMS $800: A top azalea breeder named Hans Hachmann came up with a flower in a gold one named for this gem topaz (in top azalea) |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | THE WOMAN IN THE MOVIE $800: In 2015 she played the niece of the "Woman in Gold" Helen Mirren |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1900 the U.S. went on this standard, setting its price at $20.67 an ounce the gold standard |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | ECONOMICS $800: A downturn in the U.S. economy from 1836 to 1838 was partly caused by a lack of confidence in this common type of currency paper currency |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $800: In the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme song, it's one term for Jed's new find black gold |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | FINGER-SNAPPING TUNES $1600: Oh, snap! This hit had "jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash, we don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair" "Royals" |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | RUSSIAN CULTURE $800: Made of gold & enamel, the hen egg was the first of some 50 creations he produced for the imperial family beginning in 1885 (Peter Carl) Fabergé |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ENDS WITH A DOUBLE VOWEL $2000: Delicate ornamentation in gold or silver wire filigree |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | THE MAP OF CANADA $600: Bigger than Sweden but home to just 35,000 people, this territory is famous for an 1890s gold rush the Yukon Territory |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ORGANIZATIONS $2,600 (Daily Double): The organization of these bereaved mothers of armed service members dates back to 1928 the Gold Star Mothers |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | COUNTIES OF CALIFORNIA $400: Prominent during the Gold Rush, this county bears the name of a mythical land of gold El Dorado |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | "E"VALUATION $800: The U.S. Mint offers a 1-ounce "American" this gold bullion coin for about $1,600 an eagle |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THE CROWN $400: You can buy a keepsake ornament as well as cards at its Gold Crown stores Hallmark |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | TYPES OF STREETS $800: Lake Shore, home to Chicago's Gold Coast drive |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES $600: Gold & Heat are his & her fragrances from this music power couple Jay-Z & Beyoncé |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | KINDA SCIENCEY $400: 2-word term for the soil or gravel in which gold is found, or what you "hit" when you make a fortunate discovery pay dirt |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH $200: James Marshall made his big find in this year, one year before the biggest rush of fortune seekers 1848 |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH $400: This businessman famously made heavy duty work pants for gold rush miners using tent canvas & then denim Levi Strauss |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH $800: Last name of George, who came to California for gold and built a family fortune that included a publishing empire Hearst |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH $1000: This California city on a river of the same name grew rapidly during the rush & became the western end of the Pony Express Sacramento |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $2000: This Austrian known for using gold leaf in his paintings was a founder of the Vienna Secession Gustav Klimt |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET? $800: Glad you asked; it's a fountain pen from this "Alpine" company with an 18K gold nib & a diamond cap-top Montblanc |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $2000: Many economists say this standard of fixed global exchange rates helped spread the Depression around the world the gold standard |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | COINS FROM EVERYWHERE $400: The Lydian Lion from 600 B.C. was made from electrum, an alloy of mainly these 2 precious metals gold & silver |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | OLYMPIANS $400: In 2014 Jonathan Toews, Chris Kunitz & Sidney Crosby led Canada to gold in this sport ice hockey |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | OLYMPIANS $800: On the final shot of a round at Rio 2016, Kim Woo-jin hit the innermost gold circle to set a world record in this sport archery |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Until the California Gold Rush in 1849, this largest North Carolina city was the center of the USA's gold production Charlotte |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | MY "BA-E" $400: At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Ryan Murphy captured gold medals in the 100- & 200-meter this backstroke |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | FLOWERS $1600: The genus Tagetes is made up of this flower with "gold" in its name marigold |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | WHAT ARE THOSE? $600: People's Choice,
Webby,
Gold Glove awards |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | STATE CAPITAL EVENTS $600: The 1850s are back as tons of dirt cover the streets of Old this state capital in its annual Gold Rush Days Sacramento |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | CHEMICAL ELEMENT SYMBOLS $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the precious element whose symbol is found in the middle of the name of Haiti's capital gold |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: This one-ounce gold coin was named for an early South African president a krugerrand |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCULPTURE $2000: The Lincoln statue seen here is by this saintly sculptor, also known for his designs of the $10 & $20 gold coins Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: To cover with a thin layer of gold to gild |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | NFL CHEERLEADING SQUADS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Gold Rush the Niners (or 49ers) |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: In an 1896 speech William Jennings Bryan said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon" this a cross of gold |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | ALLOYS $400: American Eagle gold bullion coins are an alloy of 91.67% gold, 3% silver & the rest is this metal, symbol Cu copper |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $200: In one version his daughter is among the items he turns to gold with his touch Midas |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $400: In 1880 gold was found near this city that would later become Alaska's capital Juneau |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | THE 2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS $400: There's no more perfect 10, so it was a 15.933 floor exercise that clinched her all-around gymnastics gold Simone Biles |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | THE 2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS $1200: Her 4 gold medals included a world record & a win by nearly 12 seconds in the 800-meter freestyle (Katie) Ledecky |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | WHAT A BUNCH OF BOLOGNA $400: The Bologna stones found by Vicenzo Cascariolo were thought to turn base metals into this gold |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | IN COGNITO $800: This bar of gold an ingot |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COLOR $800: The innermost bull's-eye in Olympic archery is this color yellow (or gold) |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | LIECHTENSTEIN $400: Sport of some Liechtenstein tourists & of Hanni Wenzel, who in 1980 brought her country its first Olympic gold skiing |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | MORE POETRY, PLEASE $800: "'Nets of silver and gold have we', said Wynken, Blynken, and" him Nod |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $2000: The Poetry Society of America's gold medal was renamed for this man; as he wrote, "Nothing gold can stay" Robert Frost |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | HISTORY $2000: The discovery of gold near this double-talk Washington city made it a hotbed of activity in the 1860s Walla Walla |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | GETTING READY FOR THE OLYMPICS $400: Katie Ledecky was 6 when she got the autograph of this male swimmer who decided to try for more gold in 2016 Michael Phelps |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | PERIODIC SPELLING $400: Francium + gold =
this German lady Frau |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | KIND OF A GREY AREA $1200: His western novels include the gold-mining tale "The Border Legion" Zane Grey |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | THE WRITE STUFF $800: A poem by him begins, "All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn" E.E. Cummings |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | HIT THE GYM $1000: The bodybuilding documentary "Pumping Iron" brought attention to this gym that started in Venice, California Gold's Gym |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | RHYME TIME $1000: A gold-covered sword handle a gilt hilt |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | THE GOLD BURGLARS $200: Jeremy Irons tries to steal gold "with a Vengeance" in the third entry in this film series, but John McClane is on it Die Hard |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | THE GOLD BURGLARS $400: In the role of Satipo, he's the gold-thieving actor seen here, trying to relieve Indiana Jones of his booty Alfred Molina |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | THE GOLD BURGLARS $600: Bad guys want the ship full of gold doubloons in this 1985 film; Chunk, Mouth & the rest of the teen crew aren't having it The Goonies |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS $800: I still have my blue & gold video card from this store, I'm just gonna go rent a new release... What? No way! Blockbuster |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $400: Known as a poison, it's also used to extract gold cyanide |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | "GO" AHEAD $600: Any mass pursuit of wealth, like the one that these fellows are part of a gold rush |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | GLUTEN-US MINIMUS $600: This high-protein grain is actually related to spinach & was considered the "gold of the Incas" quinoa |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: From "Gold Diggers of 1935", it contains the lyric "Come on along & listen to" "The Lullaby Of Broadway" |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | IT BELONGS TO THE BRITISH $1600: In 2008 the New Zealand mint began producing gold coins featuring the Bounty for this tiny island Pitcairn |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1200: 1959 winner "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" tells a tale of a young man heading West as part of this 1849 frenzy the California Gold Rush |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | COUNTRY DISTINCTIONS $1200: More than 50 gold medals make this nation the leader in world curling championships for both men & women Canada |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | PUT IT THERE! $1200: Expecting a crash? Put your money in this, a term for gold or silver by quantity in bars or ingots bullion |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | PRONUNCIATION $1200: In the French army this rank wears 5 gold stripes & is actually said as it's spelled a colonel |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | 1948 $1200: John Huston directed Bogey in this 1948 film about gold & greed south of the border Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORLD WAR II $800: Sword & Gold, 2 of the beaches at Normandy, were named for these creatures fish |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | THE WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) "Pirates of the Caribbean" props include the dead man's chest, Jack's compass, & a medallion of stolen Aztec gold cursed due to the greed of this Spanish conquistador Cortés |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES $400: Gold medal gymnast Bart Conner is married to her, the first to score a perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics Nadia Comaneci |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES $600: With her victory at the 2010 Olympics, she became the first American woman to win gold in downhill skiing Lindsey Vonn |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES $800: Winner of 1976 Olympic gold, this American woman gained fame for her spins & her haircut Dorothy Hamill |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | ELEMENTS OF SONG $800: Fleetwood Mac:
"Rock on ____ dust woman" gold |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: This Costa Rican capital's Gold Museum has hundreds of pre-Columbian gold artifacts San José |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | "GET" GOING $400: A lump of something, perhaps gold a nugget |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | PAY $2,500 (Daily Double): 2-word term for any large sum; in 1360 it was literally 3 million gold crowns for John II a king's ransom |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS SAYETH $1200: "As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair" one of these "which is without discretion" a woman |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | INTO THIN AIR $2000: You can get this magical creature's gold if you keep your eyes on him, but he will trick you into looking away & disappear a leprechaun |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | I RUN A LITTLE $600: Her use of banned drugs led to this woman giving up her 100-meter gold from the 2000 Olympics as well as 4 other medals Marion Jones |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | I RUN A LITTLE $800: Bob Hayes sprinted to gold in 1964, then played 10 years for Tom Landry & this team, averaging 20 yards per catch the (Dallas) Cowboys |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | THE BALTIC $1600: For centuries, the port of Gdansk has been known for its artisans of this resin, the "Baltic gold of the north" amber |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $2000: Yee-ha! I've struck it rich with these potatoes that were developed in Canada and are perfect for boiling Yukon Gold |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $600: "...fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!" The Scarlet Letter |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS! $1000: Small bits of pyrite in this alliterative blue rock give the appearance of gold specks lapis lazuli |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | TED $800: U.S. skier Ted Ligety won gold in the combined event at the 2006 winter games in this Italian city Turin |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | OLD-TIME SCIENCE $2000: Mutation is part of modern genetics; put a syllable before it to get this change of base metals to gold in alchemy transmutation |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): He sought his fortune in Yukon gold prospecting, but made it big as the USA's highest-paid writer Jack London |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | "FY" ON YOU $800: In 1896 William Jennings Bryan said "You shall not" do this to "mankind upon a cross of gold" crucify |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS $1600: This creature with the head & wings of an eagle & body of a lion guarded gold from the Arimaspians a gryphon |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | MUSEUMS $400: The Egyptian museum in Cairo has mummies, sarcophagi &, of course, the solid gold funeral mask of this boy king Tutankhamun |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: Superagent Ari Gold on "Entourage" Jeremy Piven |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | RACE $1000: (Stephan James delivers the last clue.) Due to the climate of Hitler's Germany, USA's Jewish runners were pulled from this 4-man event; Ralph Metcalfe & a reluctant Owens stepped in, giving Jesse his historic 4th gold medal the 4 × 100 meter relay (the 400 meter relay accepted) |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | THE EARLY 20th CENTURY $400: California's early 1900s "second gold rush" was in this edible commodity fruit (oranges) |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | THAT'S FRAGRANT! $800: A longtime "Project Runway" judge, this American man offered both White Luminous Gold & Rose Radiant Gold Michael Kors |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $800: Designed a year after the prizes began, the Pulitzer Prize gold medal depicts this founding father & newspaper printer (Benjamin) Franklin |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | ____ OF THE ____ $200: Henry Fowler created a reserve currency called "paper gold" while serving in this Cabinet post Secretary of the Treasury |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | BOXER BRIEFS $800: 1992 gold medalist known as "The Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAMERS $400: Inducted in 1977, this American who'd been laden with gold at Munich 5 years earlier Mark Spitz |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAMERS $1200: 1993:
This 4-time Olympic gold medalist who did much of his swimming following a dive Greg Louganis |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | STATE FIRSTS $200: The first gold discovered in this state was found along the Russian River & Kenai Peninsula around 1849 Alaska |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | CRAIGS LIST $200: Goaltender Jim Craig was part of the U.S. hockey team that won Olympic gold in this year 1980 |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | VERBS $200: Separate gold from gravel in an open metal dish by washing pan |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | ECON 101 $400: The monetary system called this standard allows holders to exchange currency for No. 79 on the periodic table the gold standard |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | BIG TIME RUSH $200: In 1858 a discovery along the Fraser River in British Columbia led to a gold rush in this country Canada |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | DEBUT NOVELS $1600: "Cup of Gold", a swashbuckling fantasy about 17th c. pirates, was the first novel by this author of "Tortilla Flat" (John) Steinbeck |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | FLOWERS $1200: The name of this autumn bloomer is from the Greek for "gold" & "flower" a chrysanthemum |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II $1200: In the 16th century Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up the Orinoco in search of this lost city of gold El Dorado |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | SPORTS NOBILITY $1200: This controversial head coach led Indiana to 3 NCAA hoops titles & the U.S. to a gold medal in 1984 Bobby Knight |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $1200: In 2015 a rock dam was removed from this type of site in Colorado, turning the Animas River yellow & metallic a (gold) mine |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | LOGOS $1200: This NFL team's logo features a purple bird's head with a gold letter "B" on it the Baltimore Ravens |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE ____ OF ____ $800: Joseph Smith said this text, written on gold plates, was delivered to him the Book of Mormon |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Juneau had its beginning in 1880 when Richard Harris & Joe Juneau arrived in the area seeking this... what else? gold |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.) The Parthenon in Nashville boasts one of the world's largest sets of doors made from this metal--24' high & 7' wide bronze |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | TODAY'S TENNIS STARS $400: (I'm Andy Murray.) I'm the reigning Olympic singles tennis champion, winning gold at the games hosted by this city London |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | AMERICANA $600: Nudie Cohn, the custom tailor for Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, also made this singer's $10,000 gold lame suit Elvis Presley |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $1200: A gold mask discovered in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann is known by the name of this ancient Greek king Agamemnon |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SUPERATHLETES $200: We bet Hitler didn't know this winner of 4 gold medals in Berlin was "the Buckeye Bullet" (Jesse) Owens |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | CHARLESTONS $200: The gold-leafed dome of this state's Capitol in Charleston is taller than that of the U.S. Capitol West Virginia |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | FEELIN' "GRU"VY $1600: Pale gold cheese from southern Switzerland Gruyère |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS $1000: The name of this mineral is from the Greek for "fire"; as well as fooling gold-seekers, it produced the spark in wheel-lock guns (iron) pyrite |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE $800: San Francisco's population of 1,000 grows to over 25,000 the 1840s |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THAT WAS ON TV $200: Rosie was the maid with a heart of gold & a body of other metals on this futuristic '60s cartoon series The Jetsons |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $5,000 (Daily Double): Reflecting its precious resources, it was the colonial name for what is now Ghana the Gold Coast |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | DISCOVERIES $600: On January 24, 1848 James Marshall discovered gold while building a mill for this man, & the rush was on! (John) Sutter |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | METAL $200: Psalm 135 describes the idols of the heathen as not of God & merely made from these 2 metals silver & gold |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) The deluxe 14 incher!--used for this hopeful activity, like at Big Thunder nearby in the 1890s gold prospecting |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | GUARDIANS $1600: The scarlet & gold dress uniforms of these guardians of the Tower of London date back to 1552 the Beefeaters (or Yeoman Warders) |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | SIERRA $200: The treasures of this chief mountain system in Mexico include silver & gold, mined there since the 16th century the Sierra Madres |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | THE ELEMENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The gold standard in hip replacement isn't gold at all but this super-strong metal name for mythical figures titanium |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | OTHER FIRST LADIES $200: In just under 2 hours, 25 minutes in 1984, Joan Benoit became the first woman to win Olympic gold in this race the marathon |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $5,000 (Daily Double): Her barge "like a burnished throne, burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold" Cleopatra |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | THE ATHLETE WHO... $1000: in 1996 helped the American female gymnasts win gold by sticking her second vault while injured Kerri Strug |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | EXPECT THE SPANISH $400: The name of this Spanish gold coin comes from the Latin for "double"; it was worth 16 silver dollars a doubloon |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FLOUR POWER $600: Gold Medal flour products include self-rising, unbleached & this one that sounds good for any type of baking all-purpose |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | ASTROPHYSICS WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $1600: (Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) The existence on Earth of heavy elements like gold, silver & iron confirms that our solar system was formed from the debris of one of these enormous cataclysmic explosions supernova |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: A critic accused this American of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" with his 1875 "Nocturne in Black and Gold" Whistler |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | TIME TO "GO" $600: "Now I ain't sayin' she" is this, a woman who weds a man for material gain... oh, wait, I am a gold digger |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | COMPANIES $800: This sock brand is the gold standard; you can tell because "gold" is in its name Gold Toe |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | GOLDEN "I" $1200: You can buy gold in coins or bars, which are often called these ingots |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | HYBRIDS & BLENDS $1600: The alloy electrum is mostly gold with at least 20% of this metal silver |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | HORN $1200: Before "Barefoot in the Park" in 1963, this playwright struck gold in 1961 with "Come Blow Your Horn" Neil Simon |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | ICE DANCING $600: (Meryl Davis and Charlie White deliver the clue.) The hot ticket at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo was the final free dance in ice dancing;
that's when this British pair performed to Ravel's "Bolero", earning a gold medal and 9 perfect scores for artistic impression, a feat that has never been duplicated Torvill and Dean |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | ROMANIAN HOLIDAY $800: Head to Sibiu to dine in Romania's oldest restaurant, Butoiul de Aur or the barrel of this gold |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NONFICTION $400: "The Boys In The Boat" is the true story of the U.S. Crew Team & its quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics in this city Berlin |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | SCIENCE-Y STUFF $2000: 2 parts gold to one part bismuth yields a substance with this 17-letter quality of very low electrical resistance superconductivity |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $2000: 1948:
Gold-grubbing gringos get greedy The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE NEW $100 BILL $1600: To help those with visual impairments, a gold 100 on the back of the bill towers over this Penn. building Independence Hall |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | MOVIES WITH "HEART" $2000: A 2006 documentary about Neil Young had this No. 1 song as its subtitle Heart of Gold |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST $200: 1980:
Eric Heiden men's speedskating |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST $400: 2004:
Ian Thorpe swimming |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST $600: 1976:
Michael Spinks boxing |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST $800: 1996:
Dominique Dawes gymnastics |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST $1000: 1968:
Jean-Claude Killy downhill skiing |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | WELL, THEY SOUND THE SAME... $400: A unit of gold's purity, or Bugs Bunny's preferred diet carrot/karat |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $400: Elizabeth Taylor's costume budget for this 1963 historical drama was $194,800 & included a gold cloth dress Cleopatra |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | "EL" CATEGORY $400: Manoa & Omagua were said to be cities in this fabled country of gold El Dorado |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST $600: One night in this Asian city, go to Wat Traimit, a temple with a 5 1/2-ton solid gold Buddha statue Bangkok |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $800: When Mrs. Cratchit asked her husband Bob how this son behaved in church, he replied, "as good as gold" Tiny Tim |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | PROVERBIAL 4‑LETTER WORDS $1000: A Russian proverb says, "Better a bed of wood than a bier of" this gold |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | A LONG TIME AGO $200: Chinese emperor Wang Mang filled the treasury by making everyone swap gold for this, 2 down on the Olympic medal list bronze |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | THE UKRAINE STRAIN $2000: After the drama, Nancy Kerrigan won the 1994 figure skating Olympic silver medal; this Ukrainian won gold Oksana Baiul |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | CINEMATIC NIGHTSPOTS $800: The Gold Room at the Overlook Hotel The Shining |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | TRIBUTE ALBUMS $1600: The Flaming Lips' "After The Gold Rush" is on "The Bridge: A Tribute to" this Bridge School benefactor Neil Young |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This metal more valuable than gold has a name that means "little silver" due to its appearance platinum |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | EARTHLY QUOTES $800: From a popular Christmas carol:
These "bending near the Earth, to touch their harps of gold" angels |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | PANHANDLE STATES $600: Oklahoma's panhandle has the state's highest point, "Black" this type of flat-top formation of the Southwest mesa |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | ECONOMICS $2000: In 1821 Great Britain instituted this system in which a metal provides the reference point for currency the gold standard |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | STATE MOTTOES $400: They're the 2 precious metals in Montana's motto "Oro y plata" gold & silver |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $2000: In 1898 gold was discovered on Anvil Creek near this future port on Alaska's Seward Peninsula Nome, Alaska |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $200: An underage gold digger minor miner |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL RECIPIENTS $400: The youngest recipient, an 11-year-old Vermont boy, rescued 5 friends who fell through the ice on this lake Champlain |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | A LOAD OF ODIN $400: Forged by dwarfs, Draupnir was this precious piece of Odin's jewelry that could make gold ring |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL RECIPIENTS $800: These songwriting brothers were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal--it is necessarily so the Gershwins (Ira & George) |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL RECIPIENTS $1200: This writer "helped make the memory of the Holocaust eternal by preserving the story of 6 million Jews in his works" Elie Wiesel |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL RECIPIENTS $1600: Congressman Leo Ryan was killed in this country, where he'd been investigating Jim Jones' Peoples Temple Guyana |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL RECIPIENTS $2000: This longtime Speaker of the House called himself "a Democrat without prefix, without suffix, and without apology" (Sam) Rayburn |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | THE '30s $600: On Nov. 15, 1533 this conquistador entered the Incan capital of Cuzco, seizing all of its gold Pizarro |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $400: This Wagnerian dude tells Wotan he's forged the sword, killed the dragon & taken the gold Siegfried |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: 18-karat gold is this percentage pure 75% |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | AGES & ERAS $2,000 (Daily Double): While organizing antiquities at a museum, Christian Thomasen came up with these 3 "ages" to arrange the displays the Stone Age, the Bronze Age & the Iron Age |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | TV SHOWS BY BOSS $1000: Hollywood super-agent Ari Gold Entourage |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | NO RUSH $800: If you arrived in Dawson in 1899, you were too late for the gold rush named for this Yukon river the Klondike River |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Clue reports from Deadwood, South Dakota.) This is what it looks like now, but in 1875, Deadwood was just a mining camp that sprung up after this lieutenant colonel & his 7th Cavalry found that the Black Hills were rich in gold (George Armstrong) Custer |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WHO WROTE IT? $2000: "Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold" Robert Frost |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THAT'S NATIONALLY EPIC! $800: The German epic "Nibelungenlied" sees an evil family bury their magic gold in this body of water the Rhine |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITY $1,200 (Daily Double): It's fitting that this Atlantic City casino comps with its 24 Karat Club Golden Nugget |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | EAT YOUR VEGGIES $600: Developed in Canada, the Yukon Gold variety of this tuber has yellow flesh potato |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | YOU GOT THE MINE, I GOT THE SHAFT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Homestake Mine in South Dakota.) In the late 1800s, miners delved deep into the Black Hills of South Dakota; creating the shafts and tunnels of the Homestake Mine, to bring this precious metal to the surface gold |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | SUMMER OLYMPIC SPORTS $1000: In 2008 Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen threw this projectile more than 297 feet for the gold medal the javelin |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | JOBS IN ART $1200: Joseph Wright painted this kind of bygone sort of chemist who tried to turn other metals into gold an alchemist |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | ATHLETES $600: In 2014 this 18-year-old became the youngest-ever Olympic slalom gold medalist (Mikaela) Shiffrin |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In Dec. 1941 the Declaration of Independence was packed up & sent to this gold depository for safekeeping Fort Knox |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | MYTHS BUSTED BY MYTHBUSTERS $200: You can't pick up radio signals through one of these, whether gold or amalgam fillings |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | MYTHS BUSTED BY MYTHBUSTERS $400: Unlike a James Bond movie scene, covering someone's body in this will not kill a person through asphyxiation paint |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | WORKS OF ART $2,500 (Daily Double): Klimt's last major project was a set of murals in this type of design, containing pieces of glass, gems, gold & enamel mosaic |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | NO CHASER $1000: This American must have taken his DayQuil before winning giant slalom gold at Sochi in 2014 Ted Ligety |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MAN OVERLORD! $200: Here comes this Hun king, who in the 440s made the Eastern Roman Empire pay 2,100 pounds of gold per year Attila |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | I AM FROM ROMANIA $800: At the 1980 Olympics, this gymnast struck gold (again) on the balance beam (Nadia) Comaneci |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | NEVADA $400: From 1870 to 1893, after a gold & silver boom, this state capital was home to a U.S. mint Carson City |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | CROSSWORD WORDS $400: A lump of metal, perhaps of gold
(6) nugget |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): With a mark of 5'6" in this event, in 1948 5'7" Alice Coachman became the first African-American woman to win Olympic gold high jump |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: This "choice" word is also the color gold in heraldry or |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | HISTORIC DAYS $1000: Jan, 24, 1848
(out West) gold discovered in California |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $2000: In 2014 $4.6 million was the price for the first gold coin made in the U.S., known as the "Brasher" this Spanish coin Doubloon |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | MORGAN TOWN $800: This Hartford-born man formed a syndicate that resupplied the U.S. government's gold reserves after the panic of 1893 J.P. Morgan |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN POETRY $400: Thomas Nashe:
"Rich men, trust not in wealth; ____ cannot buy you health" gold |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE "BLACK"LIST $1200: It's another name for oil--just ask Jed Clampett black gold |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | PERIODIC SPELLING $400: Gold + radium=
it's illuminating AuRa |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The gold at this Kentucky facility is held as an asset of the U.S. at a book value of just $42.22 an ounce Fort Knox |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | LADIES WHO LUNGE $200: Here she is, lunging down the course in 2010, on the way to becoming the first American woman to win gold in an Olympic downhill Lindsey Vonn |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | LADIES WHO LUNGE $1000: Mariel Zagunis won Olympic gold in 2004 & 2008 using this fencing sword that goes back to a curved military weapon a saber |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | A PROPER BRITISH BURIAL $2000: We hope the sky was a Nocturne in blue & gold as this American-born artist was buried in Chiswick in 1903 James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | OLYMPIC GOLD $200: Women's doubles tennis,
2012 (both players) Venus & Serena Williams |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | OLYMPIC GOLD $400: Men's half-pipe,
2006, 2010 Shaun White |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | OLYMPIC GOLD $600: Men's 100-meter dash,
1936 (in Berlin) Jesse Owens |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | OLYMPIC GOLD $800: Men's figure skating,
2010 Evan Lysacek |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | OLYMPIC GOLD $1000: Men's 100-meter dash,
1984, 1988;
men's long jump,
1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 Carl Lewis |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BOOK COVERS $200: Part 1 of a trilogy:
A gold mockingjay pin The Hunger Games |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | SITCOM ROLES $2000: Hug it out with superagent Ari Gold Jeremy Piven |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | METROPOLIS $1600: This largest South African city is in a gold-rich area called the Rand Johannesburg |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | BOTANY $1200: The seeds of the red-bead tree were once used to weigh gold due to their uniform weight: 4 seeds equal this metric measure a gram |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | GRIMM, GRIM $800: Unable to spin straw into gold, a woman barters her firstborn kid to this guy, a psycho with name issues Rumplestiltskin |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | BOXING DAY $2000: Last name of the 2 brothers who both won gold medals for the U.S. at the 1976 Olympics Spinks |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $400: Bank vaults beneath this Swiss city's Bahnhofstrasse are said to be crammed with gold & silver Zurich |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | THE CONFEDERACY $400: The Confederacy tried to pressure England & France for support using the threat of withholding this "white gold" cotton |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $400: Eddie Murphy was box-office gold in this 1984 film about a Detroit police officer out West Beverly Hills Cop |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | PERIODIC TABLE FOR 5 $800: Group 1B of the periodic table goes copper, silver, then this valuable metal gold |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | FINLANDIA $400: In the 1920s this Finnish track athlete won 9 Olympic gold medals & 3 silvers (Paavo) Nurmi |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | SEQUELS $800: This film "II: The Legend of Curly's Gold" City Slickers |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | THE PRODUCERS $400: "My Fair Lady",
"Gold Diggers of 1933"--
Jack of these brothers Warner |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s took place in this territory that borders Alaska the Yukon |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | T.P., YOUR HOUSE $800: Travis Pastrana, your yard has enough ramps & jumps to hold these Games in which you've won 11 gold medals the X Games |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $600: Kelly Clarkson was an "American Idol"; in 2002 Kelly Clark went all the way to Olympic gold in this snowboarding event the half-pipe |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | PRECIOUS PHRASES $2000: If you have a generous nature, you have this, the name of Zaphod's ship in "Hitchhiker's Guide" a heart of gold |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IN "MOTHER" WORDS $2000: This rich California gold belt extends from El Dorado County in the north to Mariposa County in the south the Mother Lode |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | A TREASURE TROVE $200: A solid-gold funeral mask was featured in the 1970s traveling exhibit "Treasures of" this king Tutankhamun |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | A TREASURE TROVE $400: The wealth of gold & silver in its mountains earned it the nickname "The Treasure State" Montana |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | TOUGH STUPID ANSWERS $2000: If you want to go to this country that was once part of the Gold Coast, fly into Lome Togo |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | OLYMPIC SPORTS OBJECTS $400: Reigning gold medalist Jenn Suhr knows this object precedes "vault" a pole |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | SEE FOOD $200: How about a gold spoonful
of this expensive delicacy caviar |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | METALS $400: There's 1 mg of this metal per ton of seawater, but even at the 2012 peak of $1,792 an oz., it's not cost-effective to extract it gold |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | ¡HOLA TEQUILA! $200: Cuervo is known for this colorful type of tequila also known as joven, or "young" gold |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) California's boy scout Camp Winton is near a gold-bearing area
called "the Mother Lode" in the foothills of this mountain range the Sierra Nevada |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $800: "The Land of Gold"& "The Eureka State" California |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | YOU MUST BE PRESIDENT TO WIN $1,400 (Daily Double): The International Radio & Television Society gave him its gold medal as "America's most accomplished communicator" Ronald Reagan |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Vaccine pioneer Edward & gold medalist Bruce Jenner |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | THE GILDED PAGE $600: The 1843 mystery "The Gold-Bug" won him a $100 prize from a Philadelphia newspaper (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | THE GILDED PAGE $800: John Steinbeck's first novel, "Cup of Gold", is about this buccaneer knighted in 1674 Henry Morgan |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $200: September 24, 1869:
A panic ensues when New York financiers try to corner the market in this precious metal gold |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | LIFE OF BRIAN $800: An ice follies show sparked his interest in figure skating, in which he took Olympic gold in 1988 Brian Boitano |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | THE COLOMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA $4,000 (Daily Double): Under "E":
Many Spanish explorers came to Colombia searching for this fabled city of gold El Dorado |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | GYMNASTICS $400: 7 perfect scores helped this Romanian girl win 3 gold medals at the 1976 Olympics Nadia Comaneci |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | GYMNASTICS $800: Despite a broken leg, Shun Fujimoto nailed the landing on this final move to help Japan win 1976 Olympic gold the dismount |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | GYMNASTICS $1000: At the '84 Olympics she trailed by 0.05 points & needed a perfect vault to win all-around gold; no problem Mary Lou Retton |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | I GOT MAD HIP-HOP SKILLZ $1200: In "Gold Digger": "Cutie the bomb, met her at a beauty salon, with a baby Louis Vuitton under her underarm" Kanye West |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | TALES OF HIGH ADVENTURE $200: In Clive Cussler's "Inca Gold", adventurer Dirk Pitt seeks an ancient fortune in these mountains the Andes |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | CNN TOURISM $400: (Here is CNN correspondent
Ivan Watson.) Tradition holds an architect misheard a request for towers made of gold, or "altin", as "alti", or 6--so Istanbul's Blue Mosque was built with 6 of these minarets |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS $600: At New York's Serendipity 3, a $1,000 one of these is drizzled with Tuscan chocolate & gold leaf, not hot fudge sundae |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $800: In 1541 this Spanish explorer & his men reached Arkansas, still looking for gold Hernando de Soto |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | SOUND $400: In London in 2012 a gold medal in this sport went to Jike Zhang table tennis (or ping pong) |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1200: After the battle of Lake Erie, Congress gave this Naval hero a gold medal & $5,000, plus his share of prize money (Oliver Hazard) Perry |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | BELA $1200: Bela Pratt designed the early 20th century quarter eagle gold coin, worth this much $2.50 |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1200: In a trilogy Katniss Everdeen wears a gold pin of this genetically altered bird a mockingjay |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | LET IT "B" $2000: Spelled one way, it's a broth; spelled another, it's gold or silver in the form of bars or ingots bouillon (or bullion) |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | OUT WEST IN THE 1850s $1200: A gold strike in Colorado led to the slogan this mountain "or bust" Pikes Peak |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | CURRENCY SPECULATION $3,000 (Daily Double): Wouldn't she be happy to know she's on the First Spouse ten-dollar gold coin seen here Dolley Madison |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | COLORFUL QUOTES $2000: e.e. cummings:
"All in ____ went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn" green |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | PINS & NEEDLES $1000: Gold & silver needles used in this medical practice were found in the tomb of Liu Sheng, who was buried in 113 B.C. acupuncture |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | GET YOUR IRISH UP $400: Treasure of the leprechauns found at the end of the rainbow a pot of gold |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | TOUCHED BY AN ANGLE $800: Wrestler Kurt Angle touched opponents all over on his way to winning gold at the 1996 Olympics in this city Atlanta |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | GOLD RUSH $200: In the Bible, worship of this golden idol is an act of apostasy, the rejection of one's faith the golden calf |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | GOLD RUSH $400: Unlike real gold, when heated, fool's gold, or iron this, will smoke & produce a bad odor pyrite |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | GOLD RUSH $600: "Stay gold, Ponyboy", says the doomed Johnny in this 1967 S.E. Hinton novel The Outsiders |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | GOLD RUSH $800: This U.S. politician & orator said, "you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | GOLD RUSH $1000: Widely used in America until the 1800s, this gold Spanish coin was worth 2 pistoles doubloon |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | LET'S ROCK $2000: Black jasper is used as this type of "stone": rub a gold alloy on it & the streak color tells you the gold content a touchstone |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: 8 years before she won Olympic gold, this gymnast was a 2004 Virginia State champion Gabby Douglas |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $600: Soaked up Australia's Gold Coast for the "Quicksilver Pro" that kicks off the world tour of this sport surfing |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $800: A third Olympic gold put Misty May-Treanor on boxes of this in 2012 Wheaties |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | JEWISH STARS $1600: This American gymnast performed her 2012 Olympic gold medal-winning floor routine to "Hava Nagila" Aly Raisman |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | WE'RE PULLING 3 Gs $800: 2-word term for a woman who weds chiefly for financial gain; now I ain't sayin' she's one a gold digger |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | MINT MARKS $1000: A "C" on gold coins stands for this city named for George III's queen Charlotte |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL MISTAKES $200: This king realized he'd goofed big time when his food & wine turned to gold King Midas |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | "L" CAN EAT $200: This twisty candy was used to make the shoe Charlie Chaplin ate in "The Gold Rush" licorice |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1200: American Claressa Shields won gold as the women's version of this sport made its Olympic debut in 2012 boxing |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of parts of England and France.) The crossing of the English Channel would have been 21 miles straight, but because of bad weather on August 6, 1926, a 35-mile route was swum by this Olympic gold medalist Gertrude Ederle |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | HOLD THE FORT! $400: This fort south of Louisville currently houses more than 140 million ounces of gold Fort Knox |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | FILL IN THE FILM FRUIT $400: "Trading Places": "Here in N.Y. they trade everything: gold, silver...& of course, frozen concentrated ____ juice" orange juice |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | ADD A LETTER $200: Add a letter to a unit for measuring the fineness of gold to get this martial art karate (karat) |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: Exodus 37 describes this chest as being made of wood overlaid with gold the Ark of the Covenant |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | LANDMARKS $400: During WWII the gold vault at this military post held the original copy of the U.S. Constitution Fort Knox |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | JA, DAS IST MEIN POSSE $400: Andreas Brehme was the hero as the West German team won this in 1990 the World Cup |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | ELEMENTAL SYMBOLS $3,000 (Daily Double): French preposition between coq & vin gold |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $400: This 8-minute-long classic begins, "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold" "Stairway To Heaven" |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE 2012 OLYMPICS $800: This swimmer beat Michael Phelps in the 400-meter individual medley to take the USA's first 2012 Olympic gold medal (Ryan) Lochte |
| #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 |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE 2012 OLYMPICS $1600: He'd lost in the Wimbledon final, but this Scot thrilled the crowd by winning Olympic tennis gold Andy Murray |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WHO "R-U"? $1600: In 1960 this sprinter became the first American woman to win 3 track-&-field gold medals in a single Olympics Wilma Rudolph |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $1000: You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our "Scourge of God" fan club? Attila the Hun |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | MY SON, THE ARTIST $1200: Gold engraver Ernst Klimt fathered this artist known for putting gold leaf on his works Gustav Klimt |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SPORTS PEOPLE $200: Nicknamed "Missy the Missile", this 2012 swimming gold medalist has size 13 feet & a 6-foot 4-inch wingspan Missy Franklin |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | SPORTS STARS $800: In 2000 they became the only sisters in Olympic history to win gold in women's doubles in tennis Venus & Serena Williams |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | MEASURE FOR MEASURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Number of karats in pure gold 24 |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | ODE TRIP $600: Thomas Gray penned an "Ode on the Death of a Favourite" one of these, "Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" a cat |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | CANTERBURY TALES TELLERS $800: The prioress, a nun, carries with her a gold brooch inscribed with a Latin phrase meaning this "conquers all" love |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | "BULL"! $1000: Gold or silver in block form bullion |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | FAST FOOD $800: Carl's Jr. & this more eastern burger joint are sister restaurants with nearly identical gold star logos Hardee's |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This company offers 18,000 new & redesigned cards a year, many sold in its Gold Crown stores Hallmark |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | BOY SCOUT TIES $600: Many Scouting awards include knots; the award for a den leader of these young 'uns has a gold knot on blue Cubs |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | HERSHEY'S $600: The name of this assortment of caramels makes it sound like you'd find it at the end of a rainbow Pot of Gold |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $400: In August 2008 he appeared on a Sports Illustrated cover with his 8 gold medals hanging from his neck Michael Phelps |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $800: In a 1972 issue of Sports Illustrated, he posed with his 7 gold medals hanging from his neck Mark Spitz |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $1200: (Hannah Storm of ESPN gives the clue) She won 3 track & field gold medals at the 1960 Olympics; I bet Fred Flintstone was a fan Wilma Rudolph |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $2000: In 2011 she & Kerri Walsh said they'll go for a third straight beach volleyball gold in 2012 Misty May |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | APPS $1200: Gizmodo says this, also a term for bartender, is "the gold medal winner of our best drinking apps battle" a mixologist |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | SEE-ATTLE $800: A national historical park in the city examines Seattle's role in the Klondike one of these gold rush |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | COLORFUL LYRICS FROM COLORFUL SONGS $2000: "Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, sold in a market down in New Orleans" "Brown Sugar" |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | DISCOVERING JAPAN $1,200 (Daily Double): Though he didn't make it all the way to "Cipango", he reported it had gold in the greatest abundance Marco Polo |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $400: Bonanza, Idaho is now this abandoned type of "town" that faded away after the gold was gone a ghost town |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | RECENT OLYMPIC MEDALISTS $400: In 2008 Mariel Zagunis won gold in sabre, part of this sport fencing |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | RECENT OLYMPIC MEDALISTS $800: He McTwisted his way to gold in 2010 Shaun White |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | RECENT OLYMPIC MEDALISTS $1200: This host nation struck gold in 2010 when Alexandre Bilodeau won the men's Moguls in freestyle skiing Canada |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | RECENT OLYMPIC MEDALISTS $2000: In 2010 Tora Berger won gold for Norway in this event that combines skiing & rifle shooting a biathlon |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | THE SILENT MOVIE ERA $1600: Not only did this mustached comic star in 1925's "The Gold Rush", he wrote & directed it too Charlie Chaplin |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | ORE $200: Processing 10 tons of ore yields one troy ounce of this, atomic number 79; no wonder it's so darned valuable gold |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | A BYZANTINE CATEGORY $800: The Byzantines paid tributes of gold to this big bad Hun who attacked them repeatedly in the 440s Attila |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | BEHIND THE SONGS $400: It was a Saturday in the park--Central Park--that inspired Robert Lamm to write this group's first gold single Chicago |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | HERALDRY $400: The heraldic colors "argent" & "or" get their names from these 2 precious metals silver & gold |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AP MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR $600: 1936:
Ohio State track star & Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $1600: In this story, 2 friends & a servant go on a hunt for Captain Kidd's buried treasure "The Gold Bug" |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MY PRECIOUS $400: This silvery-white (not blonde) metal, element number 78, fetches more than $1,500 an ounce platinum |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $600: (Hannah Storm presents the clue.) Flo-Jo's sister-in-law, she won the heptathlon gold at the 1988 & 1992 Olympics as well as a 1988 long jump gold medal Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | CANADA'S WALK OF FAME $2000: In 2000 the walk honored Joni Mitchell & this other Canadian music icon who had a "Heart Of Gold" Neil Young |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | 5 FLAGS OVER TEXAS $200: In the 1500s the first European explorers of Texas were from this country, seeking "glory, god & gold" Spain |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | DEATH ON A SITCOM $2000: Tracey Gold's older boyfriend (played by Matthew Perry!) paid the price for drunk driving on this '80s sitcom Growing Pains |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | EXPOSITION $600: 8 1/2 feet long, the Mares of Diomedes by this Mount Rushmore sculptor won a gold medal at the 1904 Expo in St. Louis Borglum |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Magical noun for the changing of lesser metals into gold by alchemists transmutation |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | U.S. COINS $400: Calling it "close to sacrilege", Teddy Roosevelt ordered this motto removed from the Saint Gaudens 10-dollar gold piece "In God we trust" |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $1200: You'll look like a king in the Elvis Grand Heritage lame suit from Rubie's Costume Company; it's this color gold |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $600: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film Con Air |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | MUHAMMAD ALI AT 70 $400: Ali won a light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in this European capital Rome |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | STATE SONGS $600: "She has her Black Hills, and mines with gold so rare, and with her scenery, no other state can compare" South Dakota |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | GOLD $200: Gold in the form seen here, it can also mean priceless pieces of wisdom nuggets |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | GOLD $400: Still widely used today, these extremely thin sheets of gold were used for gilding medieval manuscripts gold leaf |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | GOLD $600: Gold has the atomic number 79 & this chemical symbol Au (Aurum) |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | GOLD $800: The 1897 Canadian gold rush named for this river occurred around the confluence of the Yukon River & it the Klondike |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | GOLD $1000: A fabled lost city of gold lends its name to this California county El Dorado |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | THE MOST EXPENSIVE EVER $400: With a solid gold nib, the 1 million euro Aurora Diamond is the most expensive one of these ever a fountain pen |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | THE 1820s $400: In 1827 chemist John Walker "struck" gold by inventing the first friction ones of these; smokers really liked them matches |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | A LURE $800: The Million-Dollar Lure is made of 3 pounds of gold & platinum & 100 carats of diamonds & these red gems rubies |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | STATE CAPITAL FUN FESTS $600: On Labor Day weekend, this capital invites you to step back in time & relive the Gold Rush days Sacramento |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE ECONOMY $1000: In a May 2011 interview, Steve Forbes called for a return to this to stabilize the value of the dollar the gold standard |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL $400: According to this prophet's "History", an angel appeared at his bedside & told him where to find the gold plates Joseph Smith |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | GETTING DEFENSIVE $200: Baltimore Orioles defensive wizard Brooks Robinson won 16 straight gold these from 1960 to 1975 gloves |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | EYE TUNES $800: This Kim Carnes song begins, "Her hair is Harlow gold" "Bette Davis Eyes" |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | WEE FOLK $200: In a Grimm tale the Miller's daughter gave this little man a necklace & a ring for spinning straw into gold for her Rumpelstiltskin |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | MINER CLASSICS $400: He didn't strike it rich in the 1897 Klondike gold rush, but he did use the experience in works like "Son of the Wolf" (Jack) London |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS $2000: It's no myth--this champion speed skater took the gold in Season 4 Apolo Ohno |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD $1600: When this member of the nightshade family reached Italy, it was known as pomi d'oro, or gold apple a tomato |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | PAY BALL! $400: Say hey! Say what? In 1965 he hit 52 homers & won his ninth straight Gold Glove--& made $105,000 Willie Mays |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | HANDGUNS $200: Head to the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum to see this woman's pair of gold-plated six shooters Annie Oakley |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $4,200 (Daily Double): Device used by Terry Herbert to find the "Staffordshire Hoard" of buried Anglo-Saxon gold metal detector |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BRUCE ALMIGHTY $1600: He gets a gold medal for being Kim Kardashian's stepdad Bruce Jenner |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $400: 1976:
Nadia Comaneci;
2008:
Nastia Liukin (champions all-around) gymnastics |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $800: 1964:
Joe Frazier;
1996:
Wladimir Klitschko boxing |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $1,000 (Daily Double): 1896:
Ellery Clark, 20' 10";
2000:
Ivan Pedroso, 28' 3/4" the long jump |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $1200: 1924:
Helen Wills;
2004:
Justine Henin-Hardenne tennis |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $1600: 1904:
Thomas Kiely, with 6,036 points;
2000:
Erki Nool, with 8,641 the decathlon |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | OLD JOBS $1600: According to the name, an aurifex worked with this metal gold |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | WORD DERIVATIONS $1200: This word from the Arabic for "weight of 4 grains" is worth its weight in gold carat |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $2,400 (Daily Double): "Rags of Glory" &
"Kruger's Gold" the Boer War |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | ONE VOWEL ONLY $1000: Last name of the president when the California Gold Rush began Polk |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS $1000: Many rockin' friends have joined this guy with a heart of gold at his annual Bridge School Benefits Neil Young |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | THE SANDERS OF TIME $1600: Olympic gold medal swimmer & TV personality seen here Summer Sanders |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES $1000: This country's Rand was named for a gold mining region South Africa |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | TURIN! TURIN! TURIN! $800: In 2006 this short track speed skater won the men's 500-meter Olympic gold in the Turin games Apolo Anton Ohno |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | NYSE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.) In 1979, the New York Stock Exchange formed a new exchange for trading in these forward-looking securities; right now I can buy 33.2 ounces of gold for delivery next January futures |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | SPANISH PHRASE BOOK $1000: Shopping vocabulary es muy importante: "¿Cuanto cuesta esta cadena de oro?" How much does this cost? a gold chain |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | THE DAN, PATRICK SHOW $1000: (Dan Patrick reads the clue from his studio.) This decathlete got top billing over "Dave" in a '92 ad campaign but didn't make the Olympic team; 4 years later, he won gold Dan O'Brien |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | "O" BROTHER $1600: He had 6 older brothers to go along with 4 gold medals from the 1936 Olympics Jesse Owens |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: (Hannah Storm reads the clue from the set of SportsCenter.) In 2010 she was ranked No. 1 in downhill, super-G, super combined & overall World Cup skiing; she also won Olympic gold (Lindsey) Vonn |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $800: Prince Houssain buys this transportation device at a bazaar for 40 purses of gold a magic carpet |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | HEARTS $1600: The Heart of Gold was the starship in this 1979 Douglas Adams book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | DISCOVERIES $1200: James Marshall, whose discovery began this 1849 frenzy, died poor in Kelsey, California the California Gold Rush |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | ATHLETES $400: In 2008 gymnast Shawn Johnson kept her equilibrium & got Olympic gold in this event the balance beam |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | SO. CAL. STUDIES $2000: The Chocolate Mountains don't produce chocolate, but some say there's $100 billion in this under them gold |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | OLYMPIC ODDITIES $1000: It was the anatomical oddity of U.S. gymnast George Eyser, who won a gold medal on the parallel bars in 1904 he's missing a leg |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | GOLF $800: A rare old gold coin, or an even rarer 3 under par on a single hole a double eagle |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | ON THE AFRICAN MAP $1600: On old maps the African country of Ghana was known as this coast the Gold Coast |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $400: "The Lottery" or "The Gold Bug" a short story |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "PAY" UP $1600: If you "hit" this 2-word term for a profitable discovery, it might be earth or gravel containing gold pay dirt |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | DOUBLE "G"s $600: Not just a tangible lump of gold or such, it can also be a small bit of wisdom or information a nugget |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | "EAU" K $400: This state capital was founded by gold prospectors in 1880 Juneau |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | JOB $1600: A jacket with gold braid & a "V" of buttons is named for this hotel fetcher & carrier a bellhop |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $1600: For attacking a pillbox during the invasion of Sicily, Chips, seen here, got a Purple Heart & this precious medal for valor the Silver Star |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | SCOTT LAND $1200: He's seen here on his way to winning Olympic gold in 1984 Scott Hamilton |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | SOCCER TO US! $400: In 1987, at age 15, she joined the U.S. women's team & later won the World Cup & 2 Olympic gold medals Mia Hamm |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: In a book for kids, he tells "How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals" Michael Phelps |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $200: (Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)
"The most amazing Olympic event ever? It's the U.S. hockey team's "Miracle on Ice" in 1980."
"Well, that was a good one, but what about this man's 4-gold-medal-winning performance in Berlin in 1936 that gave Hitler fits" Jesse Owens |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | TICKLE THE IVORIES $200: The Bible says this wise king's ships went to Tarshish to bring back "gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks" Solomon |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP $1000: This N.Y. archbishop died in 2000, 2 months after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Bishop John O'Connor |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEYOND BELIEF $1600: A type of medieval chemistry, it aimed in part to transmute base metals into gold alchemy |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | RAW FOOD $600: We don't have any food ideas for raw Yukon Gold or other types of these, but they're supposed to help with warts potatoes |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $1,800 (Daily Double): Due to its golden shimmer, the pupa is also called this, from the Greek for "gold" a chrysalis |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | GREEK GODS & GODDESSES $2000: Hercules had to catch a gold-horned stag that was sacred to this goddess of the hunt Artemis |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: It's the "specific" ratio between the density of pure water & that of another substance; for gold, it's 19.3 specific gravity |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | OPRAH'S AHA! MOMENTS $800: (Oprah reads the clue from a chair.) An aha! moment is grasping something for the first time--I could see it in this former "Growing Pains" actress when she realized her drunk driving arrest was a sign she needed to listen to her instincts Tracey Gold |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $800: Against Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oratory, in 1896 he said, "I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform" William McKinley |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | BLARNEY $600: This type of sprite will lead you to the gold a leprechaun |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | THE ONION DESCRIBES THE STATE $200: "In 1849, thousands arrived (here) to pan for gold, and once that didn't work out, to panhandle for gold" California |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | FERROUS, BUELLER $600: Pale to brassy yellow, this item, half iron & half sulfur, is sometimes called fool's gold pyrite |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | REMEMBER THE MANE $1000: Remember when she & her wedge cut won gold at the '76 Olympics? Dorothy Hamill |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | CAN YOU PICTURE IT? $800: He's the multiple gold medal-winning Olympian seen here Jesse Owens |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $400: At the 2010 Vancouver games, Kim Yu-Na of this country skated away with gold & a world record in the long program South Korea |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | GREAT "B"-GINNINGS $400: Jean Schlumberger designed a gold & diamond one of these for Gary Cooper to give his wife a bracelet |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | SPIN-OZA $200: In a Grimm fairy tale, this little man spins straw into gold: can you guess his name? Rumpelstiltskin |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | ELEMENTAL LATIN $400: Aurum gold |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | SPEAKING FLUENT CANADIAN $400: At the 2010 Olympics, this Pittsburgh Penguin & Nova Scotia native scored the gold medal-winning goal for Canada (Sidney) Crosby |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | ALL ROADS LEAD TO CECIL RHODES $1600: A gold coin bears the name of this South African president whom Rhodes & others tried to overthrow in 1895 (Paul) Kruger |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | YOU'RE TRIPPING $1600: Jacques Cartier found this largest island of the Hochelaga Archipelago while searching for gold Montreal |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | PAINTINGS $200: His "Nocturne, Black and Gold--The Falling Rocket" isn't quite as well known as that painting of his mother Whistler |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | DISCO! DUCK! $400: This syndicated DJ & "Solid Gold" host hit No. 1 with "Disco Duck" in 1976 Rick Dees |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AT THE DRUGSTORE $1000: According to its logo, this brand of medicated powders has been "healing since 1908" Gold Bond |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING $1200: Although first cultivated in China, this flower's name is from the Greek for "gold flower" Chrysanthemum |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | GOLDEN RETRIEVERS $400: Winning in Seoul & Los Angeles, he was the last American to win gold in the men's 10-meter platform dive (Greg) Louganis |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | GOLDEN RETRIEVERS $800: Glenn Eller targeted the gold when he won the double trap in this sport in Beijing double trap shooting |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | GOLDEN RETRIEVERS $1200: In 2002, Jim Shea took the gold in this event that gets its name because of the sled's "bony" appearance skeleton |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | GOLDEN RETRIEVERS $1600: In 1960 Abebe Bikila became the first black African gold medalist when he won this event--barefoot! the marathon |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | GOLDEN RETRIEVERS $2000: In 2008 Sue Bird helped the U.S. win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal in this sport basketball |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | SKIP TO MY "LOO" $200: An old gold coin equal to 2 pistoles a doubloon |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | X MARKS THE SPOT $400: Southwest of Louisville, it's where you'll find much of the U.S. government's gold reserve Fort Knox |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | BAKING BRANDS $800: Flour from Washburn Crosby Company won this in 1880 & was renamed for it, still the name of the brand Gold Medal |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $2,000 (Daily Double): Though it has only one vowel in its name, this element's periodic table symbol is 2 vowels gold |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | HI, BOB $800: Known as "Bullet Bob", he won Olympic gold & a Super Bowl ring Bob Hayes |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | IS THIS PLACE FOR REAL? $1,000 (Daily Double): Spanish conquistadors long sought this mythical city of gold in the Americas El Dorado |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | THAT'S FOUL! $1600: Karch Kiraly knows it's a foul to touch the net in this sport in which he's an Olympic gold medalist beach volleyball (or indoor volleyball) |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | FLICK ARRR! $400: Johnny Depp got gold caps for his turn as Captain Jack Sparrow in this 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | NFL LOGOS $600: A gold lightning bolt outlined in blue San Diego Chargers |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $2000: After gold was discovered in 1890 in the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie mines, this capital of Western Australia grew rapidly Perth |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | STREAKING $600: This swimmer won at least 6 gold medals at each of the last 2 summer Olympics Michael Phelps |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | BOB'S YOUR POET $1600: This American poet wrote, "Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold" Robert Frost |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | INVESTING WITH WARREN BUFFETT $400: Buffett grabbed 5% of the stock in this company a few years before it introduced the gold card American Express |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | WYATT EARP $600: Wyatt Earp worked as a guard for this company that was founded to handle the banking business of the California gold rush Wells Fargo |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | WYATT EARP $1000: In the late 1870s Wyatt Earp headed for the gold rush in this mountain region in the Dakota Territory the Black Hills |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | "CROSS" TALK $1000: At the 1896 DNC, William Jennings Bryan told delegates, "You shall not crucify mankind on" one of these a cross of gold |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OH, BEE GEE $800: Though never a Bee Gee, this other brother had 3 No. 1 singles & hosted "Solid Gold" Andy Gibb |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | FRANCE $600: (Sarah gives the clue from Omaha Beach.) The amphibious assault on Normandy took place at five beaches. The British landed at Gold and Sword, the Canadians at Juno, and the Americans at Omaha Beach and this beach to the west Utah |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $1200: His Grammy-winning "Gold Digger" featured Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx Kanye West |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | REALITY SHOW RUNNERS-UP $800: Gilles Marini had all the right moves but it was this Olympic sweetheart who danced away with the gold Shawn Johnson |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $200: Term for the strings of tubular shell beads used by Native Americans in lieu of money wampum |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $400: Dating to the 600s B.C., the first Western coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold & 20 percent this stuff silver |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $600: The earliest coins of ancient Britain were made of speculum, this alloy containing 20 percent tin bronze |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $800: "Pecuniary" comes from this language's pecu, meaning "herd", as livestock were long used as a means of exchange Latin |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $1000: Large stone disks were once used as money on the Yap Islands, part of the Federated States of this "tiny" country Micronesia |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: In 1824 this British landscape painter's "The Hay Wain" received a gold medal at the Paris Salon John Constable |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | MMM... BACON $1200: He once flew from Memphis to Denver for the fool's gold sandwich--PB&J & a pound of bacon on Italian bread Elvis Presley |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Platinum, atomic number 78, is worth more than this other metal, atomic number 79 gold |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | TREES! $1600: The thin, papery leaves of this tree of the genus Fagus turn gold in the fall; knowing that is no day at the... the beech |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | THE "EU" $800: Archimedes exclaimed this after finding a method for determining the purity of gold eureka |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, CA.) Skylights to capture sun help give San Francisco's Digital Arts Center a gold LEED rating--that's short for Leadership in this and Environmental Design Energy |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | "P.M." $400: Gold, silver or platinum, for instance precious metal |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | FAMOUS O'BRIENS $800: In 1996 Dan O'Brien won a gold medal in this grueling Olympic sport, the first American to do so since Bruce Jenner the decathlon |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | "RUSH"IA $800: The Klondike one lasted for 3 short but enriching years a Gold Rush |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | THIS & THAT $1000: You'll get a "Cross of Gold" if you can tell us the name of this "Boy Orator of the Platte" William Jennings Bryan |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | YEARS $800: Jesse Owens struck multiple Olympic gold in Berlin in this year 1936 |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WHAT A DECADE IN THE U.S. $2000: An 1870s novel about greed & corruption gave us the name of this Age, meaning "gold-covered" Gilded |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | ELEMENTAL RHYME TIME $600: Auric growth of fungi gold mold |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BIBLE QUOTES BY BOOK $2000: "Then Peter said, silver & gold I have none... in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk" Acts |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | LET'S GO TO A THEME PARK $400: Let's "rush" over to Knott's Berry Farm & let an old prospector teach us how to pan for this gold |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | JUST DESERTS $600: This California desert valley was named by gold seekers, many of whom didn't survive the crossing of it Death Valley |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | U.S. COINS $2000: When this motto first began appearing on gold & silver coins, it was left off the dime, which was too small "In God We Trust" |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | USE A GOOD "STOCK" $1600: Get a "lode" of this rich vein of gold & silver discovered in western Nevada in 1859 the Comstock Lode |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: "America! America! May God thy gold refine/ till all success be nobleness, and every gain" this godly word divine |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | IN THE BIBLE $1000: According to Deuteronomy 7:25, neither the silver nor gold of these shall be desired, for they are an abomination idols (or graven images) |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | SPORTS NET $400: Karch Kiraly is the only person to win Olympic gold medals in both the indoor & beach versions of this sport volleyball |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | ISAAC HAYES $1200: In a 1985 episode of this show, Rick James helps Mr. T bust Isaac out of stir; that's a lot of gold chains for one van The A-Team |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | TOP 40 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES? $600: "Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on... all that glitters is gold; only shooting stars break the mold" Smash Mouth |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE "GOLD" BUG $400: We're rich! Oh, wait... it's only this, iron pyrite fool's gold |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE "GOLD" BUG $800: You earn one of these with 500,000 sold copies of your latest musical single a gold record |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE "GOLD" BUG $1200: It's the variety of tall herbs seen here goldenrod |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE "GOLD" BUG $1600: This cartoonist drew intricate diagrams of impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (Rube) Goldberg |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE "GOLD" BUG $2000: When FDR took the U.S. economy off this, his budget director asserted, "This is the end of... civilization" the gold standard |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | DISSING HISTORIC FIGURES $800: Giving Cortes all that gold in 1519 wasn't your best move, emperor, & thanks for that "revenge"! Montezuma |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $400: This swimmer's 8 medals (6 gold) at the 2004 Olympics aren't as well remembered as the 8 he won at the 2008 games Michael Phelps |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $800: This swimmer did okay at the 1968 Olympics, winning 2 gold medals; he did better in 1972, winning 7, all record setters Mark Spitz |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): She's the first American woman to win 4 Olympic gold medals in swimming, winning 3 in 1988 & 1 in 1992 Janet Evans |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $2000: This Olympic gold medalist traded in her swim goggles for hosting duties on "Figure It Out" & "NBA Inside Stuff" Summer Sanders |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | DOG-EARED PAGES $400: Buck is a pampered dog that's stolen & taken to the Yukon during the Gold Rush in this novel The Call of the Wild |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | RHYMING PRODUCT NAMES $600: Rold ___ Gold |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | FUN WITH NUMBERS $600: 19th c. gold seekers; or Ronnie Lott, Jerry Rice, et al. 49ers |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | BE A SPORT $800: This sport gives a Gold Glove Award (not to be confused with boxing's Golden Gloves) baseball |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HOMOPHONES $800: A plant of the parsley family, or a unit to measure the fineness of gold carrot/karat |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | PRO CHEERLEADER SQUADS $400: In the NFC West:
The Gold Rush the 49ers |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | WHAT "R" WE? $400: This South African monetary unit is named for a major gold mining area the rand |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.) Cooled magnets at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facilitate this super phenomenon; current shows no resistance, & gold ions travel at nearly light speed superconductivity |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BORN TO RUN $400: In 1984 he dashed off with Olympic gold in the 100m; in 1988 he did it again; then there are his 7 other golds… Carl Lewis |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | OTHER PLACES TO GAMBLE $200: Relive the gold rush days at Diamond Tooth Gertie's in this Canadian territory the Yukon |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN $1600: I said I'd found this type of cast gold bar, spurring others to look as well ingot (in spurring others) |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $2000: An Australian gold mining town shares this name with former Aussie prime minister Robert Menzies |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | STEVE WIN $600: This Dodger first baseman won 4 straight gold gloves (1974-1977) Steve Garvey |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OLYMPIC FACTS $400: It was Michael Phelps' margin of victory for his seventh gold in 2008, the 100-meter butterfly a hundredth of a second |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OLYMPIC FACTS $1200: Cathy Freeman was the first athlete of this ethnicity to win individual gold for Australia Aborigine |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | THE JOURNEY OF LIFE $2000: Time magazine called this gift "a metaphor for retirement from a corporate culture that cared for its workers" a gold watch |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OLYMPIC FACTS $2,500 (Daily Double): He said he threw his 1960 gold medal into the Ohio River after being denied service at a whites-only diner Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | AMERICAN FEMALE FIGURE SKATERS $1600: She was the only American to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble Peggy Fleming |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | HAMLET $400: Dramatized by an HBO series, this Black Hills South Dakota hamlet boomed & waned with nearby gold mines Deadwood |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | GOOD BUY! $800: This 4-letter item was about $300 an ounce in Oct. 1998 but eureka! It had tripled a mere 10 years later gold |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | "B" PREPARED $400: Ammunition pellets like gold dot or hot-cor bullets |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | POSH & BECKS $400: In 2008 a posh, diamond-encrusted white gold one of these "firey" toy cars was made, worth $140k Hot Wheels |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SEX & THE CITY $600: Male; born Baltimore, 1985; ransacked Athens for gold, 2004; knocked over Beijing, 2008 Michael Phelps |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | FUN WITH ASTROLOGY $800: Sagittarians dream of emulating Zhang Juan Juan, who won Olympic gold in this sport in 2008 archery |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | THE 19th CENTURY $800: In 1861 gold was found in Otago on this country's South Island; the population tripled in a year New Zealand |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | FARK.COM HEADLINES $400: He "denounces materialism from balcony of marble, gold-domed building... while wearing giant gold cross" the Pope (Benedict XVI) |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | "KAR" $200: This unit of the fineness of gold is often spelled differently from the weight unit for gems karat |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | ELEMENTARY SPELLING $800: Beryllium,
gold beau |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | WORLD HISTORY $400: This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans Attila |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: Once known as the Gold Coast, it was the first member of the Commonwealth of Nations governed by Black Africans Ghana |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | SONG LYRICS $400: This band:
"There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven" Led Zeppelin |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | WHAT A CONCEPT $2000: Yeah, right...
This type of stone, a mythical substance, was thought to turn base metals into gold the philosopher's stone |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $1000: Her winning streak with Kerri Walsh hit 108 en route to Olympic gold but "Dancing with the Stars" proved an Achilles heel Misty May-Treanor |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | OLYMPIC HEROES $400: In 2004 Ryoko Tani's inside leg technique brought her a second straight gold in this martial art judo |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | OLYMPIC HEROES $1200: This Pittsburgh Penguins great was the captain of Canada's 2002 gold-medal hockey team (Mario) Lemieux |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | OLYMPIC HEROES $1600: In both '84 & '88, Greg Louganis doubled up in diving, winning gold in platform & this springboard |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME $200: (Jon of the Clue Crew walks near a larger-than-life statue.) This statue brings to life one of the greatest athletes the world has known; he won gold in the 1912 Olympics & played football & baseball for New York Giants teams Jim Thorpe |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | MADE $2000: In the 2008 movie, Iron Man's suit is an alloy of gold & this metal titanium |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: Around 1325 B.C. this boy king was buried in a gold mask inside 4 coffins, one of which was made of gold King Tut |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: A group of these gold seekers reached San Francisco on the steamer California 13 months after gold was found the Forty-Niners |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | STATE THE LANDMARK $400: The Mendenhall Glacier,
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Alaska |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | ON THE MONEY $600: A synonym for "monarch", it can also mean an old British gold coin a sovereign (a crown accepted) |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1200: (Hi, I'm Misty May-Treanor. And I'm Kerri Walsh.)
Kerri & I won the USA's first gold in women's beach volleyball at the 2004 Olympics held in this city--we didn't lose a single set Athens |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | SPEED METAL $2000: The Witwatersrand once produced 40% of the world's supply of this precious stuff gold |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | J.W.s $1600: Later an actor, he won 3 swimming Olympic gold medals in Paris in 1924 Johnny Weissmuller |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $1600: Turkey & these, the first Canadian-bred potatoes marketed by name; their skin & flesh are buttery yellow Yukon Gold |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | CRAYOLA: A COLORFUL HISTORY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a melting tray at the Crayola Museum & Factory in Easton, PA.) The makers of Crayola introduced dust-free school chalk; it was so successful that it won a gold medal at the 1904 World Exposition in this city St. Louis |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | DISCOVERIES $800: In Coloma, California, the statue of James Marshall is pointing to the spot where he discovered this gold |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | ATLANTIS $1200: In his book "The Return of Tarzan", the jungle man stumbles upon Opar, the city of gold left over from Atlantis (Edgar Rice) Burroughs |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | HIDDEN COLORS $800: Bringing old heirlooms to the antique store could pay off for you gold (Bringing old) |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | YEARS $1000: Mary Lou Retton won Olympic gymnastic gold in Los Angeles in this year 1984 |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: It's the last name of New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal champion Malcolm Champion |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE $200: Oct. 4, 2006
STOP
This company's president & CEO Christina Gold rings opening bell
STOP Western Union |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Buying gold jewelry insures good fortune on Akshaya Tritiya, a special day of this religion Hinduism |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | LIFE'S A BEACH $800: Gold, Sword, Juno, Utah & Omaha were the 5 code-named beaches in this endeavor the Normandy invasion |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT $400: Initially yours: in 1895 his syndicate bought all of a $62 million bond issue, ending a gold shortage in the U.S. treasury J.P. Morgan |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $1000: This trickster shouldn't have stolen Sif's golden hair; he had to replace it with real gold Loki |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | GRASSHOP-POURRI $200: This state's first major gold strike occurred about 65 miles SW of Butte on Grasshopper Creek on July 28, 1862 Montana |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | JOHN STEINBECK $1600: Steinbeck's "Cup of Gold" told the tale of this British pirate whose name lives on in bottles of rum Captain (Henry) Morgan |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: It can be a small piece of gold or a bite-sized piece of batter-fried chicken a nugget |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | SOUNDS LIKE A GAME SHOW HOST $400: She wasn't in Jeopardy against Gabriele Seyfert when she won a gold in figure skating at Grenoble in 1968 Peggy Fleming |
