| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $2000: Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs Land of the Lost |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $2000: His novel "Women in Love" recounts the lives & romances of the Brangwen sisters D.H. Lawrence |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1200: The Achille Lauro was infamously beset by a group of these criminals hijackers |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: H.R. Haldeman said that the shootings at this Ohio location in 1970 began the demise of the Nixon administration Kent State |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $400: Under H:
"An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another" happiness |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $600: In "The Color Purple", the role of Mary Agnes, known as Squeak was played the singer who goes by this name H.E.R. |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $1600: H.P. Lovecraft wrote that the "U"s in the name of this "hellish entity" should sound "about like that in 'full"' Cthulhu |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $400: This word is medical speak for really bad breath halitosis |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $800: Arabic gives us this word referring to food from an animal slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law halal |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $1200: A classic song says, "waiting 'round the bend, my" this person, "Moon River & me" huckleberry friend |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $1600: It's a fancy 9-letter way to say a forerunner or an omen, as of spring harbinger |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $2000: The Beach Boys mentioned these Mexican sandals in "Surfin' U.S.A." huaraches |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $400: The period of time from March to July of 1815 when Napoleon escaped Elba & ran wild in France is known as this the Hundred Days |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $800: "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" was perhaps sung by citizens of these ramshackle areas named for a Depression-era prez Hoovervilles |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1200: It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630 the Hijrah |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1600: What's known as this New England city's "Convention" was spurred by dissatisfaction in the War of 1812 Hartford |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $2000: The "March of the 10,000" involved the heavily armored Greek soldiers known by this name, trapped behind enemy lines Hoplites |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $600: With 1920's "The Outline of History", this "Time Machine" man went from bestselling novelist to bestselling educator H.G. Wells |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THE EMMYS $200: He won a 1974 Emmy for his role in "M*A*S*H"; he'd also win for writing & directing that series Alan Alda |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $200: Col. H.H. Godwin Austen is a bit of a mouthful for a name, so a 28,000-foot mountain keeps it alphanumeric with this K2 |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | HALLELUJAH! $400: Also starting & ending with H, this exultant cry was greatly used on Hulu's "The Great" huzzah |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $200: H.C. Andersen's way to identify one of these: have her sleep on a pea under a pile of 20 mattresses under 20 feather beds a princess |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $600: This cocktail may be dry, like the wit of H.L. Mencken, said to have called it "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet" a martini |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: 5th wife of Henry VIII & possibly Thomas Culpeper's sneaky link: C.H. Catherine Howard |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | H.P. SAUCE $200: An iconic basset hound represents this brand of footwear Hush Puppy |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | H.P. SAUCE $400: This small measure was Pa's nickname for Laura on "Little House on the Prairie" Half Pint |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $600: Check in, check out; H is this hotel |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | H.P. SAUCE $600: H2O2, used as a bleach hydrogen peroxide |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | H.P. SAUCE $800: It's the anterior bony portion of the roof of the mouth; the "soft" one is muscular hard palate |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | H.P. SAUCE $1,200 (Daily Double): This phrase is Greek for "the many" hoi polloi |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | NONFICTION $200: Helen MacDonald's memoir of adopting a predatory bird is called "H Is for" this raptor hawk |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $200: The host of a nightly news telecast, or the last runner in a relay race anchor |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $400: This exclamation of frustration by Homer Simpson was inspired by utterances of actor James Finlayson in Laurel & Hardy films D'oh! |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $600: It can be submission to one of superior rank or a song written in imitation of an admired artist homage |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $1000: From the name of a town in County Wicklow, it's an Irish walking stick or cudgel a shillelagh |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $3,200 (Daily Double): From the Dutch for "permission", it's a leave of absence granted to a member of the military a furlough |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $400: SECDEF, 1989 to 1993; also 8 years of veep experience Dick Cheney |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $400: Many state laws reduce liability for defamation if a newspaper issues this statement of withdrawal in a timely way a retraction |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $800: The legal money of a nation is said to be the "coin of the" this the realm |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $1200: It's the "tranquil" musical term for the combination of pitches heard here harmony |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $1600: I say without fear of this, an extravagant exaggeration, Butterbean is the greatest boxer of all time hyperbole |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $2000: This calm & peaceful word describes weather or ahhh... those idyllic days of youth halcyon |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $800: The 1974 Senate race in N.H., with 220,000 votes cast, was won by 355, then after the first of these, by 10, then after another, by 2 recounts |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | FLAGS $1200: The central part of this American designer's logo is the nautical flag for the letter H (Tommy) Hilfiger |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $100: He appeared in every episode of "M*A*S*H"; he also directed its last episode in 1983 Alan Alda |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $200: Please be patient for a moment!:
H.Y.H. hold your horses |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $1200: It's the "H-E" in "HELOC", a line of credit that can pay for your kitchen reno, your wedding... even your divorce home equity |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | UNION ACTIONS $1000: Black Union sailors John H. Lawson & James Mifflin got the Medal of Honor for their actions at the 1864 battle of this Alabama bay Mobile Bay |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | HERE COMES THE SUN $600: "H" is for this model of our solar system that puts the Sun in the middle the heliocentric |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WISH I'D SAID THAT! $3,000 (Daily Double): H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be" this word happy |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | I WANT MY "M" TV $200: This show's 1983 finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" is still the most watched episode of scripted TV ever M*A*S*H |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $300: Try yelling out "O-H!" in a crowded place; chances are, any Buckeyes fan within earshot will yell these two letters in return I-O |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 2 IN THE BUSH $1600: 2 sons of George H.W. Bush have been governors, of these 2 states Florida & Texas |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $1600: The area of a parallelogram equals b times h, short for these 2 measures base & height |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $200: A Japanese-style grill
(7 letters) hibachi |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $400: A plant eater
(9 letters) an herbivore |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $600: A fraud or a fake
(4 letters) a hoax |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $800: Steeplechase barrier
(6 letters) a hurdle |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $1000: Excessive arrogance or pride
(6 letters) hubris |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WE'LL SPOT YOU A LETTER $400: First letter H:
A small village a hamlet |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $600: In 2019, he surpassed George H.W. Bush as longest-living U.S. president; he was 96 when Biden was inaugurated Jimmy Carter |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $800: With no pence on hand, you might ask the curry restaurant, "Will you take" a personal one of these? C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $1000: Like, for sure not a native, this father of the H-bomb totally helped create Lawrence Livermore Lab at U.C. Berkeley Teller |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $400: The cheerful tune you're hearing is this composer's overture to "H.M.S. Pinafore" Sullivan |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $1,000 (Daily Double): One of activist Greta Thunberg's fans is this former governor who owned the first electric Hummer H-1 Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $200: Sorta like Hercules, the "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." have to fend off this evil organization HYDRA |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $800: For foreign workers in the states, one might be H-1B or H-2A visa |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | THE STATE OF CONGRESS $1000: Thomas Hart Benton, Xenophon P. Wilfley, Sempronius H. Boyd Missouri |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | INFLUENZA $2000: Flu strains are determined by the makeup of 2 antigens known by these 2 letters, as in _1_1 H & N |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | STARTS WITH "H-I" $400: It's the handle of a sword hilt |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | STARTS WITH "H-I" $800: The northern star coral enters quiescence, commonly known as this, during colder months hibernation |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | STARTS WITH "H-I" $1200: It's not the lady's tux, it just means hairy hirsute |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | STARTS WITH "H-I" $1600: It's a chemical released by certain white blood cells during allergic reactions histamine |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | STARTS WITH "H-I" $2000: A 1932 article about FDR touches on his "Unexpected" this ability & adds, "the dramatic is not without value in politics" Histrionics |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): The subtitle to this H.G. Wells novel is "A Grotesque Romance" The Invisible Man |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | GARDEN PARTY $1000: George H.W. Bush was famously not a fan of this veggie but it grows fast, is high in vitamins A, C & K, so it gets planted broccoli |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN $1,000 (Daily Double): Despite never having been to sea, Sir Joseph Porter is "rule of the queen's navee" in this shipshape favorite the H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | HAMMER $200: A drywall hammer can have this other axe-like "H" tool on its back end to trim & hack through panels a hatchet |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FROM "H" TO "Y" $200: You know, feeling hostile because you really need to eat hangry |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FROM "H" TO "Y" $400: The image seen here is part of this field of study heraldry |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FROM "H" TO "Y" $600: It's the name of a royal rowing regatta as well as a collarless shirt a Henley |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FROM "H" TO "Y" $800: Basically, it means dominance of one group over another, as well as the influence exerted by the dominant group hegemony |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FROM "H" TO "Y" $1000: Sectioning tissue, staining it & looking at cells under a microscope are all integral to this scientific study histology |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $800: The gamekeeper's little garden in this D.H. Lawrence novel features "double daffodils" that "rose in Tufts" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PRESIDENTS WHO SERVED $1600: On Sept. 2, 1944 Robert Williams of the USS Finback sighted shot-down aviator George H.W. Bush through this, enabling his rescue a periscope |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | EAT FOOD. NOT TOO MUCH. MOSTLY PLANTS $1600: The "J" is pronounced like an "H" in the name of this crisp vegetable that's native to Mexico jicama |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | ANIMATED ENTERTAINMENT $800: H. Jon Benjamin voices Bob of "Bob's Burgers" as well as this animated spy Archer |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | WHERE THE "H" IS THAT? $400: The Buda Castle District is near the Danube in this nation Hungary |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | WHERE THE "H" IS THAT? $800: The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is in this Missouri city Hannibal |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | WHERE THE "H" IS THAT? $1200: The Canadian citadel seen here has a lovely view of this Nova Scotia city Halifax |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | WHERE THE "H" IS THAT? $1600: One of New Jersey's oldest, this rhymingly named city was founded as New Barbadoes Hackensack |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | WHERE THE "H" IS THAT? $2000: This Ancient Egyptian city lived up to its name as the seat of worship of Re, the sun god Heliopolis |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $1000: As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula Women in Love |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | SHARPS & FLATS $600: Also starting with "H", it's the large flatfish sometimes served as hirame at the sushi bar halibut |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | LETTER PERFECT $600: It's the symbol for the very first element on the periodic table H |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | AT THREES & FOURS $600: This youth group promises, "I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty" & 2 other things the 4-H Club |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WE QUOTE MR. Ts $3,000 (Daily Double): "These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners", said this Shawnee rival of Wm. H. Harrison Tecumseh |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE WWE $1000: (Triple H presents the clue.) In 1997, I defeated Mankind to take this coveted, rhyming royal title that helped give me the momentum to form D-Generation X later that year King of the Ring |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $400: The beautiful Orion Nebula is an H II region, a vast cloud of ionized this elemental gas hydrogen |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $200: In the acronym HOMES, it's the "H" Huron |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $400: ...in a goat-bodied, flame-spewing monster of Greek myth H |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | TV PARTY TONIGHT! $1200: Henry Blake's farewell party on this show is followed by a gut punch--his plane is shot down over the Sea of Japan M*A*S*H |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $200: Insert an "H" in a word meaning identical & you get a feeling of disgrace shame & same |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $400: To be unwell takes some Preparation H to call out for a cab ail & hail |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | YOU WEAR ME OUT $400: Named for a town near Wiesbaden, "H" is for this type of hat, seen here a homburg |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $600: A clever word describing Oscar Wilde adds an H to become a preposition wit & with |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $800: A planet lets an H settle on it to become a fireplace's brick floor Earth & hearth |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $1000: A restaurant with tables on the sidewalk adds H to the menu for a word meaning to irritate by rubbing café & chafe |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $400: H:
Evidence presented by a witness who came by it secondhand hearsay |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | ALL ABOUT MEXICO $800: This southern state has Mexico's largest indigenous population & a name where the "X" sounds like an "H" Oaxaca |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1929 she painted "The Lawrence Tree", which she enjoyed gazing upon at D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico ranch Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: Of H.G. Wells; his first name was Herbert George |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $2000: There are plenty of laughs in this 1878 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set aboard a Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | RECAST FOR TV $800: Donald Sutherland
to
Alan Alda Hawkeye Pierce |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $400: This company that offers tax preparation services is named for its founders, brothers Henry & Richard H&R Block |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $1600: A gamekeeper takes the place of a baronet in this scandalous 1928 novel, written near the end of D.H. Lawrence's life Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | RIVER RUN $3,000 (Daily Double): Rivers that border Manhattan include the East River & these 2 "H" rivers the Hudson and the Harlem |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE OED QUOTES $2000: The entry for "she" cites "'She-who-must-be-obeyed' commands thy presence" from a work by this adventure novelist (H. Rider) Haggard |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: Charles H. Dow (as in Dow Jones) co-founded this business daily back in 1889 The Wall Street Journal |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | THE STRONGEST LINK $600: To zoom around the web, you can click on a hotlink or this, which also starts with "H" hyperlink |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Michelle Zauner writes about losing her Korean mother to cancer in her memoir "Crying in" this Asian grocery chain H Mart |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1200: Despite being brittle-boned Elijah Prince, I'm still firmly in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE $1000: "Patient 4077" M*A*S*H |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $1600: $1,100:
A Holstein one of these, a young milk cow also starting with "H" a heifer |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $1200: "Dizzy sunless cliffs above the great abyss" paints a picture in H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of" this Madness |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $1600: In dictionaries O.E. is Old English & O.H.G. is this European language used until about 1200 Old High German |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | LETTER-PERFECT BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Lin Haire-Sargeant's novel "H" imaginatively fills in the blanks in this character's 3-year absence from a Bronte novel Heathcliff |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | TV TITLE ADJECTIVES $1000: With William H. Macy as patriarch of the dysfunctional Gallagher family: "____" Shameless |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | BYE, GEORGE $200: A memorable 2018 photo showed this president's flag-draped casket, with his service dog Sully beside it (George H.W.) Bush |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $600: In the 1979 thriller "Time After Time", Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells on the hunt for this Victorian killer in the future Jack the Ripper |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SCI-FI CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an H.G. Wells tale, Griffin, whose face is wrapped in rags, turns out to be this title guy The Invisible Man |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $400: Clark Gregg & Chloe Bennet fought evil as "Agents of" this S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $1000: The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization U.N.C.L.E. |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FICTIONAL PLACES $2000: In an H.G. Wells book, this doctor has established a camp for creepy scientific research on a volcanic island Doctor Moreau |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WARTIME U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: George H.W. Bush assembled a multinational coalition to win this war, but it didn't help him at reelection time the Gulf War |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WE DO TALK ABOUT BRUNO $2000: H. Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. testified about handwriting specimens at the 1935 trial of this accused kidnapper (Bruno) Hauptmann |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | THE NUREMBERG TRIALS $1200: (Jimmy presents the clue.) The U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials was former Attorney General Robert H. Jackson who took an 11-month leave from this body to which he'd been appointed by FDR in 1941 the Supreme Court |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: In her book "Tenderness", Alison MacLeod explores the origins & publication of this author's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" D.H. Lawrence |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $400: N.P.H.,
suiting up for "How I Met Your Mother" Neil Patrick Harris |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $600: W.J.H.,
making some (after)life changes in "The Good Place" William Jackson Harper |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | FANTASY FICTION $800: "The Sword in the Stone" is the first volume of this T.H. White telling of the Arthurian legends The Once and Future King |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GIMME SOME SPACE $800: An H II region made mostly of ionized hydrogen, the Orion this is an emission type of gaseous cloud a nebula |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | SCI. & MED. ABBREV. $2000: In trig, S=O/H is deciphered as sine equals this opposite over hypotenuse |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1200: Claire Tomalin's bio "The Young" him tells us that in the family of this early sci-fi writer, Herbert was called Bertie H.G. Wells |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | 3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY $1600: Traditional head covering worn by Muslim women a hijab |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SUCCESSION $1,000 (Daily Double): 1969:
The original Triple H, Hubert H. Humphrey, is wrestled out of the veep office Spiro Agnew |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind" The Time Machine |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS $2000: Called "Al Azif" in Arabic, this book in H.P. Lovecraft's stories can cause insanity in readers the Necronomicon |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | TV SHOWS BY FINAL EPISODE $800: Luring over 100 million viewers in 1983: "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" M*A*S*H |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | THE PICKLE BARREL $1200: At the 1893 World's Fair, this pickle-maker from Pittsburgh offered souvenir pickle charms to those who visited his booth H.J. Heinz |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | ____ OR ____ $800: Succeed or fail is at the heart of this "watery" alliterative idiom sink or swim |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $400: As this group was forming in 1945, Brazil & China asked for a global health organization; the W.H.O. would show up in 1948 the UN |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $800: In 2021 the W.H.O. recommended a promising vaccine for this disease that kills some 250,000 sub-Saharan children a year malaria |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $1200: Seen here, Korea's first W.H.O. chief, Lee Jong-wook, was this type of doctor that focuses on diseases affecting many at a time epidemiologist |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $1600: The W.H.O. helps in global crises, like the decade-long one in this Mideast country that it aids with cross-border partners in Turkey Syria |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $2000: The logo of the W.H.O. displays the rod of this Greek god of healing who inspired a serpentine cult Asclepius |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS $800: Before Biden he was the last veep to later ascend to the presidency George H.W. Bush |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | FOR NAUGHT $800: Remove these 2 letters from the Latin word for "nothing" to get "nil" I & H |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $400: Hormonal influences make this headache disorder twice as common in women as in men migraine |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $800: This inflammation & narrowing of airways is the most common chronic disease of children asthma |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $1200: You can reduce your risk of stroke, heart disease & this, also called high blood pressure, by limiting your salt intake hypertension |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $1600: Often found in home-canned foods, the bacterial toxins that cause this illness are among the most lethal substances known botulism |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $2000: Early supportive care & rehydration improve survival of this viral hemorrhagic fever named for a Central African river Ebola |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ALSO KNOWN AS $800: Howard Hughes' H-4 Hercules the Spruce Goose |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $2000: Spooky HBO show with references to H.P.'s works, with Katharine McPhee along as the singing nanny Lovecraft Country Comfort |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | SUBURBS $600: Stewart Hartshorn made a fortune in window shade rollers & gave his S.H. initials to this wealthy New Jersey suburb Short Hills, New Jersey |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $800: This R&B w.o.m.a.n. was far from the "Back of My Mind" & close to the top of the chart H.E.R. |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $1000: Ezra Pound & H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) were leaders of this "ism" in which poems create precise visual pictures imagism |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | A LECTURER $800 (Daily Double): Biologist T.H. Huxley was a renowned defender of this theory & in 1893 famously lectured on it "& Ethics" evolution |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $400: A son or daughter by marriage a stepchild |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $800: To arrest a criminal suspect apprehend |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $1200: In 2021 4 astronauts landed in the Gulf of Mexico in the USA's first nighttime one of these since 1968 a (crewed) splashdown |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $1600: Squid & octopuses are members of this class of marine mollusks cephalopods |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $2000: These sacred writings of Hinduism explain the fundamental tenets of the religion Upanishads |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | IN THE CURRICULUM $1000: This stomach trouble is caused by the H. pylori bacterium & can be made worse by too many pain relievers an ulcer |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | WE GET LETTERS $1600: German musicians use "B" for B flat & this for B natural H |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | TV $800: Set in Korea, it lasted 3 times as long as the war it depicted M*A*S*H |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $400: At the end of a D.H. Lawrence novel, this title thing "arched indomitable, making great architecture of light and color" The Rainbow |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | SHORTZ $800: One of Will's favorites from his NPR Sunday puzzle is the fact that this type of pain has the sequence "A-C-H" twice in a row a stomachache |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $1600: A computer chip shortage caused Peugeot to put old-fashioned analog these to tell you your km/h in some models speedometers |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | '38 $600: On October 31, 1938 the New York Times reported, "Radio listeners in panic" after a broadcast of this H.G. Wells story The War of the Worlds |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | GET THE H OUTTA HERE! $200: A sharp-pointed part of a plant cuts away an H & also leaves our clothing ripped, or this synonym torn |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | GET THE H OUTTA HERE! $400: The fabric of the clergy renounces H & coagulates as this word clot |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | GET THE H OUTTA HERE! $600: A proverbially lucky nationality drops the H & becomes this part of your eye the iris (from Irish) |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOUR DESTINATION AWAITS $800: Why this city, you may ask? It has the Rock & Roll H.O.F. & the Great Lakes Science Center, & as far as I'm concerned, it rocks! Cleveland |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | GET THE H OUTTA HERE! $800: A word meaning to make holy loses an H & gets permission to become this word meaning to permit allow |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | GET THE H OUTTA HERE! $1000: Something fake loses an H & horses around as this a pony |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $200: Tights & stockings
(7 letters) hosiery |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $400: Songbook for Sunday
(6 letters) a hymnal |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $600: God of the underworld
(5 letters) Hades |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $800: A daily in Miami
(6 letters) Herald |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $1000: Shaggy-haired & bewhiskered
(7 letters) hirsute |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | CLUBS $400: Part of this youth club's pledge reads, "My hands to larger service, and my health to better living" the 4-H Club |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | INSTITUTIONS $1000: Rice University's Institute for Public Policy bears the name of this man who was George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State James A. Baker |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $800: 1970:
Hot Lips,
Trapper John,
Painless Waldowski M*A*S*H |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $1200: 1964: General
"Buck" Turgidson,
Colonel "Bat" Guano, Major "King" Kong Dr. Strangelove |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $1000: Take the H off the end of a word meaning to complete & you still have this noun for a conclusion finis |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | THEATER COMPANIES $1600: The Atlantic Theater Company was founded by William H. Macy & this "Glengarry Glen Ross" playwright Mamet |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | TALES OF HORROR $600: It's the title vocation of Herbert West in a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft tale, & he needs fresh corpses to do it to reanimator |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $200: He helped make the Teamsters the USA's largest labor union, but his whereabouts are a mystery Hoffa |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $400: On Oct. 14, 1066 King Harold was killed at this battle Hastings |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $600: This abolitionist wrote "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic", the semiofficial song of the Union Army (Julia Ward) Howe |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $800: In 1825 Charles X of France finally recognized this nation, 21 years after it declared its independence Haiti |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1000: As many as 30,000 of these German mercenaries fought during the American Revolution & some were with Cornwallis when he surrendered Hessians |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS $200: Made the last of 21 straight all-star teams in 1975:
H.A. Hank Aaron |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS $1000: He took a big lead & slid into the H.O.F. in 2009: R.H. Henderson |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $800: Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won (Robert) Frost |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: An H. Rider Haggard novel from 1885 saw Allan Quatermain looking for this king's mines Solomon |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | FOOD FIGHTS BACK $800: A serious allergic reaction to this legume can be caused by its Ara h 1, 2 & 3 proteins peanuts |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $2000: The women in his "Women in Love" are Ursula & Gudrun, who first appeared in "The Rainbow" D.H. Lawrence |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WE'LL GET TOGETHER $1000: Get C, H & O together in the right proportions & you've got this gasoline additive also called ethyl alcohol ethanol |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $800: There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White The Sword in the Stone |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | RECENT POP CULTURE $400: "I Can't" do this by H.E.R. won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 2021 "I Can't Breathe" |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | HISTORY $200: Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific saw the first use of this powerful new weapon in 1952 an H-bomb |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | LOGOMANIA $1600: The center part of the logo for this designer & creator of Tommy Jeans is the international signal flag for the letter "H" Tommy Hilfiger |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $2000: "Through early morning fog I see", begin this song's lyrics, heard in the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H" but not in the TV show's theme "Suicide Is Painless" |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | N.E. PORT $1200: George H.W. Bush had a summer home at this Maine city whose name ends with "port" Kennebunkport |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $2000: By H.G. Wells, "The Reversion of the Beast Folk" The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AMERICANA $1000: The USA's oldest continuously operating one, this building has linked Hinsdale, N.H. with the world since it opened in 1816 post office |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | SOME RANDOM INFO $400: This country's flag has 5 stars for the 5 lands of the United Provinces of Central America; conveniently, they form an "H" Honduras |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | FACE THE PERFORMER $200: Ming-Na Wen was marvelous as Melinda May, a one-woman cavalry on this ABC series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h height |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | ADDITIVES $1600: The W.H.O. suggests face masks made with polypropylene, which has this water-repelling adjective that means "afraid of water" hydrophobic |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $400: Like mustard & wasabi, this related root is prepared & used as a condiment horseradish |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $800: In song, "There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken" this hallelujah |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $1200: Grown from a bulb, it's the popular spring flower seen here a hyacinth |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $1600: A "commitment to the land, the people, and the future of Israel" is the mission of this organization of Jewish women Hadassah |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $200: A noisy outburst by an angry or excited group hullabaloo |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $400: Jolly hyphenated exclamation by Grumpy & his housemates on the way home from the mine heigh-ho! |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $600: This adverb means up until the present moment hitherto |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $800: Legendary priestess of Aphrodite who left the light on for her lover Hero |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $1000: From the Spanish for "little oven", it's a mound of molten lava hornito |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | I'LL FIGHT YOU! $600: This "Rowdy" woman made some initial changes in 2018, swapping out MMA for WWE to take on Triple H Ronda Rousey |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON SPEAKING $800: There's a silent "H" in this art form that served the Greeks & Romans well in speaking & writing rhetoric |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "AU" $1600: He was one of the great masters of 20th century English poetry (W.H.) Auden |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $800: Jamie Farr never did get that Section 8 he was seeking as this dress-wearing soldier on "M*A*S*H" Max Klinger |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $1600: Author Howard Phillips H.P. Lovecraft |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | MIXIN' WITH NIXON $800: To win the presidency in 1968, Richard Nixon defeated this Democrat (Hubert H.) Humphrey |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HEMINGWAY $2000: (Ken Burns narrates the clue.) The third Mrs. H., Martha Gellhorn, was a fellow correspondent & the lovers bonded in this war-torn capital in the 1930s Madrid |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | INTERNAL RHYME SURNAMES $2000: In 1989 after 3 terms as New Hampshire's governor, he became George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff Sununu |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $400: H.L. Mencken: The "clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters... this story is obviously unimportant" The Great Gatsby |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $2000: "M*A*S*H" & "The Player" were among the great movies directed by him Altman |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $400: Born in Hamburg, H.A. & Margret Rey are best known for a series of kids' books about this monkey Curious George |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $800: In "Pleasantville" Reese Witherspoon goes from black & white to color after reading this novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | TV $400: Classic episodes of this series include "Welcome to Korea" & "Abyssinia, Henry" M*A*S*H |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | 1930s AMERICA $800: Here's the H-1 Racer that set a new world's speed record of 352 miles per hour when it was flown by this mogul in California on September 13th, 1935 Howard Hughes |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | HISTORICALLY SHAMELESS $200: (William H. Macy presents the clue.) Though he shamelessly threw around accusations of communist affiliation, his influence ended in 1954, when a lawyer asked, "Have you no sense of decency"? McCarthy |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | HISTORICALLY SHAMELESS $600: (William H. Macy presents the clue.) His name has come to mean a great lover, & this 18th century Italian was quite shameless about his escapades, trysting with nuns & writing to one woman, "I have no reason to blush at having made a conquest of you" Casanova |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $800: George H.W. Bush was director of it from January 1976 to January 1977 the CIA |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | HISTORICALLY SHAMELESS $1000: (William H. Macy presents the clue.) Rome's citizens must have rethought the whole one-man rule thing when this third emperor gleefully abused his power by making senators run beside his chariot & dissolving valuable pearls in his drinks Caligula |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUDIO DRAMAS $400: The infamous 1938 radio adaptation of this H.G. Wells novel moved the action from England to Grovers Mill, New Jersey The War of the Worlds |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $1600: "Bestsellers" says the paperback revolution of the '60s began with cheap copies of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | "H"ISTORY $400: The name of this dynasty that ruled in Europe from the 1200s to the 1900s came from the family's ancestral "Hawk's Castle" Hapsburg |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | "H"ISTORY $800: King of Judea, he built the palace-fortress of Masada & rebuilt the temple of Jerusalem Herod |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | "H"ISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Battle of Castillon & the capture of Bordeaux in 1453 effectively ended this war the Hundred Years' War |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | ACTRESSES $1000: This actress is the great-granddaughter of early 20th century British Prime Minister H.H Asquith Helena Bonham Carter |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | "H"ISTORY $1600: Following WWII this Japanese emperor declared he was not a living god & renounced his divinity Hirohito |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | "H"ISTORY $2000: This emperor of Ethiopia was deposed in 1974 & died under mysterious circumstances a year later Haile Selassie |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | IN THE PRESIDENT'S CABINETS $400: Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense; Lamar Alexander getting an education George H.W. Bush |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | IN THE PRESIDENT'S CABINETS $800: Abraham Ribicoff at H.E.W.; the Attorney General, a guy the president knew from childhood JFK |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ON YOUR WEDDING DAY $200: A true MVP, an unwed M.O.H., short for this, plans the bridal shower, answers guest queries & yes, hits the dance floor! maid of honor |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 HBO took us to the "Country" named for this author, as Black travelers face vile monsters like those in his fiction (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | RAINBOW COALITION $2000: "The Rainbow" by this British author was branded obscene after its 1915 release D.H. Lawrence |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Inspired as a boy by H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 (Robert) Goddard |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | A SERIOUSLY FLUFFY CATEGORY $800: Members of this group whose name stands for head, heart, hands & health help coif fluffy cows like the one seen here 4-H |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | AROUND THE USA $200: After a decree from the federal govt., from 1891 to 1911 this Pennsylvania metropolis had no "H" at the end of its name Pittsburgh |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | POP CULTURE $800: For an ad, Preparation H wanted this song, a big hit in 1963; the singer's daughter Rosanne said "No" "Ring Of Fire" |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ELVI $1600: H.S. teammates Desmond Howard & Elvis Grbac fled north from Ohio to play football for this rival university the University of Michigan |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $800: This 2020 thriller based on an H.G. Wells novel had the title character as an abusive ex stalking Elisabeth Moss The Invisible Man |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $800: 2019's H.R. 420 is a federal bill that seeks to regulate this substance marijuana |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | EMMYS FOR WRITING $1000: In 2011 Jason Katims had clear eyes, a full heart & couldn't lose an Emmy for this H.S. football drama Friday Night Lights |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS $200: In Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries, "H is for" this killer crime homicide |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | FACTS & FIGURES $600: Since its founding in 1955, this company with locations in all 50 states has prepared more than 800 million tax returns H&R Block |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $1200: In 2019 H.R.596, this peninsula's "Annexation Non-Recognition Act", passed in the House 427-1 Crimea |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $2000: In 2017 Rep. Ed Royce sponsored H.R.3364, "Countering America's Adversaries Through" these measures "Act" sanctions |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOTALLY AWESOME '80s TV $1600: Not Hawkeye but this "M*A*S*H" tentmate became the title character of an '80s drama Trapper John |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $200: Store copies of your photos on an external this in case the one inside the computer gets fried a hard drive |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $400: The words "Saving Children" are on a 2017 one of these coins celebrating the centennial of Boys Town half dollar |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $600: Basenji & basset are this type of canine, also the subject of an Elvis Presley song a hound dog |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $800: It's the leading cause of death of women in the United States heart disease |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $1000: 3,300 feet up in the Mojave, Yucca Valley, California is in this type of area & has a nature museum named for it a high desert |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPELL IT LIKE THE BRITS $200: Hermione, our tickets to a play the West End have arrived! Tonight we're off to the... T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPELL IT LIKE THE BRITS $400: Your singing is lovely, Georgina; win "Britain's Got Talent" & Simon Cowell might hand you one of these for 250,000 pounds C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | MONSTERS INK $2000: H.P. Lovecraft called this chief of his nightmares a blend of octopus, dragon, and other human forms the Cthulhu |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: SCOTUS upheld the independence of corporations, ruling in 1819 that N.H. had wrongly replaced the trustees of this school Dartmouth |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $200: H.L. Mencken wrote that this gloomy historical -ism is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" Puritanism |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | MAKE A SELECTION $600: As a favor to this catcher's dad in 1988, Tommy Lasorda had the Dodgers draft him in round 62, 1,390 overall--he made the H.O.F. Mike Piazza |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TV VILLAINS $800: Kasius, Graviton & a Kree were bad guys on this Marvel series on ABC Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $1600: In 1917 D.H. Lawrence wrote, "A fine" this "is blowing the new direction of time" wind |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WALKING $1600: The A.H.A. says walking 150 minutes a week can reduce risk of this silent killer caused by blocked or burst brain arteries a stroke |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $800: E.B., T.H. & Australian Nobelist Patrick White |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | POUND! SAND! $1200: Readers got Ezra Pound's views on art, poetry & philosophy in his "Guide to" this, oddly spelled starting "K-U-L-C-H" Culture |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | SECOND CITY ALUMNI $800: One notable alum is this actor who starred on "M*A*S*H" & directed 32 of its episodes Alan Alda |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $800: W.H. Auden wrote a famous poem about a painting of him, described as "a boy falling out of the sky" Icarus |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $200: Richard Hooker's "Novel About Three Army Doctors" was the basis for a film & a TV show, both with this name M*A*S*H |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1600: Hubert H. Humphrey had the monogram H.H.H.; for this 19th century veep, it was H.H. (Hannibal) Hamlin |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FAIRY TALES & FOLK TALES $1000: The opera "Rusalka", about a water nymph who longs to be human, is partly based on this fairy tale by H.C. Andersen The Little Mermaid |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $600: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 1968 I loaned this fellow Canadian the money for a plane ticket from London to L.A. so he could audition for the movie role that would change his life; the movie was "M*A*S*H"--& I got my money back Donald Sutherland |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: The first initial in the name of this clothing retailer is short for "Hers" in Swedish H&M |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FIGURES OF SPEECHES $4,000 (Daily Double): From a 1988 speech by a presidential candidate. "A brilliant , diversity spread like stars, like" this 5-word phrase a thousand points of light |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | DESIGNER INITIALS $400: In 2016 he launched a new line in collaboration with model Gigi Hadid: T.H. Tommy Hilfiger |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $400: 5-letter magazine founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson Ebony |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS $200: Einsteinium was first found in the debris of a 1952 H-bomb explosion in this ocean the Pacific |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $400: Attila was the king of these people from 434 to 453 the Huns |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $800: About a dozen transatlantic trips were scheduled for this airship; after May 1937, tickets became void the Hindenburg |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | STRONG LANGUAGE $800: Proverbially, if you're in good health, you're "hale &" this other "H" word hearty |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $1600: This 1862 law providing 160 acres, basically free after 5 years' residence, was still on the books in the lower 48 states until 1976 the Homestead Act |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This defensive barrier was in use until almost the end of the Roman rule of Britain Hadrian's Wall |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $2000: A group known as the "Chicago 8" were blamed for the violence during an 1886 riot in this Chicago square Haymarket Square |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | A BIG STATISTIC $1000: BLK on the NYSE, it has more than 6 trillion dollars in assets under management, more than any other firm BlackRock |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: In April 1973 H.R. Haldeman & John Dean were among 4 top presidential aides forced out over this scandal Watergate |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | FUN-TO-SAY QUOTATIONS $2000: "I'm called little buttercup, dear little buttercup, though I could never tell why" is from this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta the H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: In 1906 H.L. Mencken joined the staff of this Maryland newspaper that's still around today The Baltimore Sun |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $200: Play-____ modeling compound D-O-H |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $800: ____-It crackers come in flavors like Cheddar Jack, White Cheddar & Hot & Spicy C-H-E-E-Z |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE $1200: Hutchings was the middle name of this notorious RHG who pioneered rocket science (Robert H.) Goddard |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | "H.D." $400: Appetizers served before a main meal an hors d'oeuvre |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | "H.D." $800: Adjective for a carriage pulled by a team horse-driven (or horse-drawn) |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | "H.D." $1200: Some believe this nursery rhyme fella was based on a cannon that crashed on the ground during the English Civil War Humpty Dumpty |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | "H.D." $1600: A residential area in which the dwellings have all been planned & built around the same time a housing development |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | "H.D." $2000: 2-word term meaning to take shelter in a defensive position, perhaps from a storm hunker down |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AN ACTOR & A SUPPORTING ROLE $800: Car salesman Jerry Lundegaard in "Fargo" William H. Macy |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY PROJECT $5,000 (Daily Double): The project has more than 1,100 of these, including George H.W. Bush's "Memorandum of Disapproval for the Revenue Act of 1992" vetoes |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | BUSINESS $400: Willie Nelson once parodied his IRS troubles with an ad for this tax prep firm H&R Block |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $2000: Pronounced "T-H", the Icelandic thorn is one of these 24 old Viking letters also known as Futhark runes |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | LET'S MAKE A TREE $1600: The "H" is removed from a ship's steering wheel, leaving this 3-letter tree elm |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $800: HLT is Hilton; H by itself is this hotels corporation Hyatt |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | NOT THE MAMA! $600: This ever-optimistic "glad girl" in books by Eleanor H. Porter is sent to live with her aloof aunt Pollyanna |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE 2010s $800: In early 2016 the W.H.O. announced an outbreak of this virus that during pregnancy can cause infants to be born with microcephaly Zika |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): His 1913 novel "Sons and Lovers" was daring but not banned like a later work D.H. Lawrence |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | THE ACCESSORIZED TEACHER $1000: Say you love learning with a pair of these showing books; George H.W. Bush wore some to honor his wife's literacy activism socks |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: With bleached skin & large eyes, the Morlocks are strange beasts from the future created by this author H.G. Wells |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE $1200: The flag of the Pitcairn Islands includes a depiction of the anchor of this ship the H.M.S. Bounty |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | IOWA IN ENTERTAINMENT $1200: Iowa native Fred Grandy played Gopher on this TV show for 9 years & later was a U.S. rep from the state The Love Boat |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | STAGE CRAFT $9,812 (Daily Double): Captain Corcoran is in command of this title Gilbert & Sullivan ship the H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | LAKE NAME-IS-MEMORABLE $800: In "What About Bob?" this actor tracks down therapist Richard Dreyfuss at a vacation home at N.H.'s Lake Winnipesaukee Bill Murray |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1200: Wragby Hall is a setting in this controversial novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | TALKING DEAD $1600: "I am Providence", says the Rhode Island headstone of this horror master & Cthulhu creator (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | "Z"-POURRI $2000: On "M*A*S*H", Trapper ordered this strong rum cocktail & said, "Keep making them until I turn into one" zombie |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | ANAGRAMMED TV TITLES $1000: William H. Macy on Showtime:
MESS HEALS Shameless |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IN THE MIDDLE $1000: It was the "E" in H.E.W., the Cabinet department created in 1953 Education |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | CAROL KAYE PLAYED BASS ON THAT $1200: The themes to "M*A*S*H", "Hawaii Five-O" & this spy show that debuted in 1966 & self-destructed in 1973 Mission: Impossible |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT... $1000: He served as undersecretary of H.E.W. in the Eisenhower administration & then as New York governor Rockefeller |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | TV SERIES FINALES $400: On Feb. 28, 1983 nearly 106 million people watched a war end with the last original episode of this CBS show M*A*S*H |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLERS $400: 1916's "Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by this author tried to make sense of the madness of WWI; no time travel involved H.G. Wells |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | POLITICIANS $1200: At the 1988 Democratic convention, this fellow Texan said George H.W. Bush was born with a silver foot in his mouth Ann Richards |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $400: In 1887's "She" by H. Rider Haggard, a lost civilization is discovered in the jungles of this continent Africa |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | SPELLEMENTS $800: Cl C-H-L-O-R-I-N-E |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | TOP NON-SPORTS PROGRAMS OF ALL TIME $200: No. 1
(1983):
The last episode of this wartime sitcom M.A.S.H. |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | FER SURE, IT WAS THE '80s $1000: 1984, a big year:
"Jeopardy!" premiered & these 2 met up in the first vice presidential debate to feature a female candidate (George H.W.) Bush and Ferraro |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $400: With six, this man has the most wins as Best TV Actor, Comedy or Musical, all for his role on "M*A*S*H" Alan Alda |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | "W"RITERS $400: His first published book was a biology text; his first novel was "The Time Machine" (H. G.) Wells |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | LIKES & RAVERS $1000: Online, "h/t" is short for these 2 words, a way to express gratitude with your homburg or fedora hat tip |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WRITERS EXPOSED $1000: Poet Wystan Hugh (W.H.) Auden |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): After death, this horror author still talked about the Necronomicon in his novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" H.P. Lovecraft |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTS $400: "The Wolves" of Sarah DeLappe's lay are a H.S. girls' team in this sport & auditions involved kicking a ball around soccer |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ON THE MOVE $600: In names of ships these 3 letters came before Beagle & Bounty H.M.S. |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY $400: In 1992 George H.W. Bush, Brian Mulroney & Carlos Salinas signed this 5-letter trade pact NAFTA |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | INTERJECTIONS $1000: It's how the Oxford English Dictionary spells the 4-letter representation of the sound of a kiss M-W-A-H |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | DESCRIBING THE TRAFFIC SIGN $600: A blue rectangle with a large white "H" a hospital |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | RAISING CANE $2000: Louisiana farmers raise lots of cane for the Chalmette refinery of this sugar company that now owns C&H Domino |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE MINOR LEAGUES $400: The Manchester, N.H. Monarchs are a minor league affiliate of these NHL monarchs on the opposite coast the (Los Angeles) Kings |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2,000 (Daily Double): Max Klinger (a German Symbolist, not a "M*A*S*H" character) is among painters of this 5-letter theme of a grieving Mary the pietà |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | FICTIONAL BOOKS IN BOOKS $2000: A book of magic called the "Necronomicon" twists minds & souls in works by this author (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $1000: These two men, an actor-director & a writer, have a nice chat, perhaps about their last names being homophones Orson Welles and H.G. Wells |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | LETTER PERFECT $200: Physicist Edward Teller was dubbed "the father of" this bomb the H-bomb |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | RHYMING TERMS STARTING WITH "H" $400: The long-haired flower children of the 1960s were sometimes described this way hippie-dippie |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | RHYMING TERMS STARTING WITH "H" $800: A magician might say these magic words hocus-pocus |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | RHYMING TERMS STARTING WITH "H" $1200: If the camera is moving around way too much, the image is said to be this; I'm getting sick herky-jerky |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | RHYMING TERMS STARTING WITH "H" $1600: Quit looking at me that way! It's creepy & it's giving me these the heebie-jeebies |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $1600: In March 2018 this 3-star general advised the nation he'd no longer serve as national security advisor H.R. McMaster |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | RHYMING TERMS STARTING WITH "H" $2000: An adjective for a gadget that's extra useful & convenient handy-dandy |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $400: In this H.G. Wells classic, the narrator is "drawn on by the...Earth's fate" & sees it in "strides of a thousand years" The Time Machine |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | TV WITH HIGH RATINGS $1600: With a 60.2 rating in 1983, the finale of this sitcom is the highest-rated TV episode of all time M*A*S*H* |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $800: In H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", explosions seen on the surface of this planet led to disaster for humanity Mars |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | & THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Hungarian-born physicist later regretted the sexism in his telegram "it's a boy" when an H-bomb test worked Edward Teller |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | "H" TO "H" $200: This floor of a fireplace usually extends into a room & is paved with brick or flagstone the hearth |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | "H" TO "H" $400: Idiomatically, the ambitious want to complete this action connecting a "wagon" & a "star" hitch |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | "H" TO "H" $600: If a rabbit asks you to come see his etchings, he's likely inviting you to this his hutch |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | "H" TO "H" $800: Swill or slop, or a bunch of nonsense hogwash |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | "H" TO "H" $1000: From the Greek for "written in full", it's a document written entirely in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears a holograph |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | "U" KNOW IT! $400: Wanting to emulate Thomas More, H.G. Wells wrote of a "modern" one utopia |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $800: In H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" one of these occurs at a new moon rather than a full moon an eclipse |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | DESIGNER INITIALS $1000: He designed Jackie Kennedy's famous pillbox hat:
H Halston |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | MISCELLANEOUS $1000: Spelled with or without an "H" at the end, it's a chapter of the Koran a surah |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | TRUST US! $600: Jimmy Chitwood is a H.S. basketball player of his word in this 1986 film after saying he'll make the title-winning shot Hoosiers |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | IT'S ME, MARGARET $400: On "M*A*S*H" Loretta Swit played head nurse Margaret Houlihan, better known by this nickname Hot Lips |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | CLASS OF 1918 $2000: This future composer was far from "The Common Man" when he graduate from Boys' H.S. in Brooklyn in 1918 Aaron Copland |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $800: Losing his New Orleans customs job freed up H.L. Hunley to make this type of vessel he named after himself a submarine |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: It's what the "H" stands for in the disorder abbreviated ADHD hyperactivity |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | "H" ON THE MAP $200: Osaka is on this island, as are Japan's largest lake & mountain Honshu |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | "H" ON THE MAP $400: The capital of South Holland province, it's the seat of the Netherlands' government The Hague |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | "H" ON THE MAP $600: The name of this Central American nation is Spanish for "depths" Honduras |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | "H" ON THE MAP $800: The Minch is a channel separating Scotland's NW Highlands from this "Outer" island group the Hebrides |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | "H" ON THE MAP $1000: This rhymingly named New Jersey city is the seat of Bergen County Hackensack |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $1600: The Dole Pineapple Company once owned 98% of this 5-letter Hawaiian island L-A-N-A-I |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | NOVELS WITH CONFLICT $200: "M*A*S*H" by Richard Hooker the Korean War |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | AVIATION HISTORY $1600: With H. Ross Perot Jr. aboard, the Spirit of this state is seen here completing the first round-the-world helicopter trip Texas |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENCY $800: He returned for another 7 years as a U.S. senator from Minnesota after his 1960s veeping Hubert H. Humphrey |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $1000: In H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", an expedition discovers an alien terror on this continent Antarctica |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | NOTEWORTHY NONFICTION $200: Starting with cave paintings, E.H. Gombrich's "The Story of" this has sold millions of copies art |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | DITLOIDS $800: The talus is one:
206 B I T H B 206 bones in the human body |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | OTHER WONDER WOMEN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an acronym on the monitor.) Saying "Shazam!" gave Mary Batson godly powers; "S" for Selena, "H" for Hippolyta, "A" for Ariadne, "Z" for Zephyrus, "A" for Aurora & "M" for this wise Roman goddess Minerva |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | TV SPIN-OFFS $1200: "Trapper John, M.D." M*A*S*H |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | YOU TWO $800: H&M:
Familial avatars of Appalachian anger the Hatfields and McCoys |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $1200: In accepting his 1988 nomination, he called on govt. & the private sector to bring about "a kinder and gentler nation" George H.W. Bush |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | EVERYBODY'S A CRITIC $400: Ed Zern said this D.H. Lawrence novel "cannot take the place of J.R. Miller's 'Practical Gamekeeping'" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | FITNESS ABBREV. $800: H.I.I.T. is short for high-intensity this--it will tire you out interval training |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | LOVE ACTUARILY $1600: The A.H.A., short for this, says having a dog lowers your risk of the type of disease it fights the American Heart Association |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | ON STAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): Some of the buccaneers in this Gilbert & Sullivan show may do double duty as policemen The Pirates of Penzance |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | GANGSTERS $4,000 (Daily Double): While Bugsy Siegel was being shot in B. H., Meyer Lansky's goons were walking into a hotel in this city & taking over Las Vegas |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $200: Appropriately, it's the novel in which Wells coined the phrase "time traveller" The Time Machine |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $400: Wells imagined an overwhelmingly destructive explosive called this 6-letter "bomb" more than 100 years ago atomic |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $600: Wells preached & definitely practiced this 2-word phrase for ignoring the conventional constraints of marriage free love (or an open marriage) |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $800: Long before "Sliders" or "Fringe" hit TV screens, Wells talked about these universes in "Men Like Gods" parallel universes |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $1000: We use it today for the arrival ashore of a storm; Wells used it to mean the arrival of an airplane landfall |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | PEPPERS $800: "H" is for hot & for this chile from the Yucatan that's used in sauces & can pack a 350,000-Scoville-unit punch habanero |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth" D.H. Lawrence |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1200: The last veep to go on to win the top job was this one George H.W. Bush |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | NON-AMERICAN GODS $2000: The son of Hyperion was this chariot-driving Greek sun god also with an "H" name Helios |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | WAR IS OVER $400: George H.W. Bush calls a halt on February 28, 1991 the Gulf War |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | "H"2"O" $400: Being a truant involves "playing" this hooky |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | "H"2"O" $800: Arabic-named water pipe a hookah |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | "H"2"O" $1200: It's what Granny's making in her still hooch |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | "H"2"O" $1600: Folk singers' performances a hootenanny |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | "H"2"O" $2000: Football firm is a term for a group of these British ne'er-do-wells hooligans |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $400: Drop "the" from an H.G. Wells title to get the name of this 1952 novel narrated by a nameless young black man Invisible Man |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $200: Hyphenated term that's used to describe all the latest cutting-edge electronic devices high-tech |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $400: For lunch, how about this 2-word filler-upper? a hero sandwich (or a ham sandwich) |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $600: We have a feeling you might know that Merv Griffin once hosted a game show called "Play Your" this hunch |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $800: Barely having enough money for food & basics is living this-to-this hand-to-mouth |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $1000: Grown from bulbs, this colorful spring flower was named for a youth Apollo loved a hyacinth |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | DR. JOHNSON'S ALPHABET $600: "Sounded only by a strong emission of the breath...and is therefore by many grammarians accounted no letter" H |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THREE OF A KIND $1200: Umaga,
Triple H,
John Cena WWE wrestlers |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | STARS' INITIAL SHOWS $800: Jason Bateman, 1981:
"L.H.O.T.P." Little House on the Prairie |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | FANTASTIC 4 $800: A 4-leaf clover is the logo of this organization that teaches kids about agriculture 4-H |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | ON "PIN"s $1600: In a work by Gilbert & Sullivan, Captain Corcoran commands this title vessel the H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | "AU"THORS $800: The W.H. in this poet's name stood for Wystan Hugh W. H. Auden |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | IS THAT A THING? $800: Yes, it's a small boat; take out the "H" & you get a word meaning "dirty" a dinghy |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: In 1948 the winning word was this medical branch that deals with the treatment & prevention of mental illness P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-Y |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: In 1981 Paige Pipkin buried the competition with this word for an ancient stone coffin S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | LET'S SET SOME BOUNDARIES $1200: George H.W. Bush metaphorically drew one of these boundaries in 1990 prior to the first Gulf War conflict a line in the sand |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BUSH I & II CABINET MEMBERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Married to a Kansas senator, she was Secretary of Labor for H.W. Elizabeth Dole |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | DITLOIDS $800: Where Remus & his brother got started:
7 H of R the seven hills of Rome |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: "The Time Machine"
(1895) H.G. Wells |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | HELLO, SUCKER! $800: H. Cecil Booth's version of this contraption was used to clean up Westminster Abbey for a coronation in 1902 a vacuum cleaner |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | WEST VIRGINIA $600: This yellow apple had its origin in 1890 as a chance seedling in the Clay County farm of A.H. Mullins Golden Delicious |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $800: An adventure novel by H.Rider Haggard takes its hero to this Biblical king's mines Solomon |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES $1600: He ran twice as a third party candidate in the 1990s, the second time as the Reform Party's standard bearer H. Ross Perot |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $400: This H.G. Bissinger book about a small-town Texas football squad was oft-penalized Friday Night Lights |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | GENRES $1600: Imagining the England lost WWII, "SS-GB" is a BBC show in this fantasy genre abbreviated A.H. alternate history |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | SCARY READING $1000: An early 20th c. New England recluse, he wrote scary tales like "The Thing on the Doorstep" & "The Dunwich Horror" H.P. Lovecraft |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | NOTABLE WOMEN $600: With husband H.A., Margret Rey fled the Nazis carrying the manuscript for their story about this impish monkey Curious George |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | TV DOCTORS $400: He won Emmys for writing & directing episodes of "M*A*S*H" as well as for playing Dr. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Alan Alda |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES $400: 1960s radical H. Rap Brown once told the press, violence is as American as this cherry pie |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | YOU'RE SUCH A HOMER $400: Homer, Alaska calls itself the "capital of the world" for this fish that also starts with an "H" halibut |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | ALTERNATIVE FACTS $1600: Stress & a rich diet were blamed for this type of lesion in the stomach; turns out the culprit is the bacteria H. pylori an ulcer |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TEXTBOOKS $400: Van Eyck's "Man in a Red Turban" is on the cover of the 7th edition of H.W. Janson's textbook on this subject art history |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $2000: Pirates cheered when this historian & military leader was chosen as Donald Trump's national security advisor Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | ACCESSORIES $1000: A signature color for this luxury company's Birkin bag is called "Orange H" Hermès |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | SUPERHERO TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $1200: Ghost Rider & Daisy Johnson (AKA Quake) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: This "Saturday Night Live" regular is seen here showing George W. Bush how to imitate his dad, George H.W. Dana Carvey |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | 5-"H" $400: From the Greek for "pretender", it's someone who expects standards that he doesn't live up to a hypocrite |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | 5-"H" $800: Yeehaw! It's a type of lively square dance or a festive hootenanny where it might be performed a hoedown |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | 5-"H" $1200: It's the artery that supplies the liver with fully oxygenated blood the hepatic artery |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | 5-"H" $1600: The object seen here; metaphorically, it's any difficult situation you may not want to be part of a hornet's nest |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | 5-"H" $2000: A major coastal region of western Saudi Arabia, it contains Mecca & Medina the Hejaz |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | WHEN IN DOME $600: In 2011 the Georgia Dome hosted this event XXVII; matches included the Undertaker v. Triple H & the Miz vs. John Cena WrestleMania |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: The first part of this H.G. Wells novel is "The Coming of the Martians"; part 2 is "The Earth Under the Martians" War of the Worlds |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | UNFORTUNATE HISTORY $1200: This president from N.H. began his inaugural address in "bitter sorrow", his son having recently died in a train wreck Franklin Pierce |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | A VISIT TO THE CIA $200: (Alex reports from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, VA.) The Director's Gallery in the headquarters building contains portraits of every man who has led the CIA, including this one, who also served as president of the United States George H.W. Bush |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OIL! $800: In oil exploration geologists look for these compounds that consist only of the 2 elements symbolized by H & C hydrocarbons |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | ECOLOGY $800: Lions, elephants & giraffes are found naturally in this type of biome with grassy plains, few trees & sometimes a final "H" a savannah |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | NBA GREATS $1000: This Houston "Dream" added an "H" to his first name midway through his pro career (Hakeem) Olajuwon |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | A FICTIONAL DEATH $200: Post-mortem the title character of this H.G. Wells novel can be seen, hands & feet first The Invisible Man |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | M.D.s $800: Dr. H.V. Carter provided the illustrations for this British anatomist's 1858 textbook Gray's |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago.) Thousands of the USA's aircraft carrier pilots of World War II were trained at Chicago's Navy Pier; one was this future U.S. president who said, "Flying off Lake Michigan was the coldest I ever was in my life" George H.W. Bush |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | YOU'RE THE MAN! $2000: This author of "The Time Machine" is "The Man Who Invented Tomorrow" H.G. Wells |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "H. H." $200: 2-word interjection used by sailors when pulling a rope heave ho |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "H. H." $400: This period of day at the bar has reduced prices on booze happy hour |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "H. H." $600: You can see why this politician, shown here in the 1960s, was dubbed "The Happy Warrior" Hubert Humphrey |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "H. H." $800: This product that debuted in the U.S. in 1958 was inspired by a piece of Australian physical education equipment the hula-hoop |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "H. H." $1000: This song asks what "makes that little ol' ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant" "High Hopes" |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "L"ITERATURE $1200: The first line of this D.H. Lawrence novel is "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | PHYSICS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Geneva, Switzerland.) The "L" in LHC means large-- 17 miles in circumference; "H" is for hadrons, the particles being accelerated, and "C" refers to this, what happens when the particles moving in different directions meet collide |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS $400: Colonel Potter dresses as Santa in the "Death Takes A Holiday" episode of this sitcom M*A*S*H |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TALES $2000: Men are just beasts--or is that beasts are just men?--in this 1896 H.G. Wells tale about the world's worst vet The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | NO STAN LEE CAMEO $2000: No room for Stan in the tank with Brad Pitt & Shia LaBeouf in this 2014 movie that wasn't about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s boss Fury |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | SILENT "H" $400: According to a proverb, it's "the best policy" honesty |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | SILENT "H" $800: From the Dutch, it's a small cucumber used to make pickles a gherkin |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | SILENT "H" $1200: Seen here, the cattleya is a popular variety of this an orchid |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | SILENT "H" $1600: This feeling of sadness was once thought to be caused by an excess of black bile melancholy |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | SILENT "H" $2000: In Greek myth, before the universe was created, there was nothing but this void chaos |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | H.P. $200: The pooch seen here represents this brand of footwear Hush Puppies |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | H.P. $400: This small measure was Pa's nickname for Laura on "Little House on the Prairie" Half-Pint |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | H.P. $600: H2O2, used as a bleach hydrogen peroxide |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | H.P. $800: Young Teddy Roosevelt served as club secretary for this Harvard club known for its theatricals the Hasty Pudding Club |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | H.P. $1000: This phrase is Greek for "the many" hoi polloi |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | 1960s COMPUTING $1600: On Dec. 9, 1968 in San Francisco, "the mother of all demos" introduced the mouse, GUI & this linking, the H in HTTP hypertext |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $1000: Tagalog is a principal language of this country made up of more than 7,000 islands P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E-S |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: For Medicine,
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Australia |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $800: E.H. Harriman went on an expedition that discovered a new glacier & a new one of these Norwegian-style inlets a fjord |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ABBREV. $2000: In the medical term H&H, one "H" is hematocrit; the other is this blood protein hemoglobin |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | A STUDENT OF FILM $2000: Andie, Blane & Duckie deal with love & H.S. in this "colorful" '86 pic; it's been on cable 1,000 times & you've seen it, right? Pretty in Pink |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | INITIALITERATURE $200: "L.C.L."
by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | HERE COMES THE SUN $600: "H" is for this model of our solar system that puts the Sun at the center heliocentric |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | BRITISH SPELLING TEST $600: Check C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | ALLITERATIVE TV ACTRESSES $1600: Post-Xena, she's played Izzy on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." & Ruby on "Ash vs. Evil Dead" Lucy Lawless |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | U.S. MUSEUMS $2000: The home in which John Paul Jones lived while his ship the Ranger was being built is now a museum in this N.H. city Portsmouth |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | WHO'S THE BOSS? $400: Agent Phil Coulson, who survived death on the big screen Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1200: Completed in 1941 during WWII, this Black Hills memorial wasn't formally dedicated until 1991 by George H.W. Bush Mount Rushmore |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $2000: Secretary of Homeland Security Mr. Johnson J-E-H |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $800: 4-letter spelling of the word the OED says is imitative of "the sound made in clearing the throat" A-H-E-M |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | PRES-POURRI $2000: 19 presidents had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives; he's the most recent one George H.W. Bush |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | POST HASTE $1000: It's German for "housewife" hausfrau |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $1200: In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the first horticulture lab in the U.S. at this school in East Lansing Michigan State |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | MILAN $200: Many Italian cities feature this type of building, but only Milan's had D.H. Lawrence call it "an imitation hedgehog" a cathedral |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | EMMY TIME $1200: In 1980 it was James Burrows vs. 4 "M*A*S*H" episodes for directing, & Jim won for this show's "Louie & the Nice Girl" episode Taxi |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | BEVERLY HILLS $600: Lenny Kravitz let love rule along with Maria McKee & this Guns N' Roses guitarist as classmates at B.H. high school Slash |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | "M"ISCELLANY $1200: Add an "H" to a common mineral & you'll get this Old Testament book that follows Jonah Micah |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | POLITICAL BOOKS $1000: His criticism of Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld in the 2015 bio "Destiny and Power" made news George H.W. Bush |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: Conflict between the U.S. & the Soviet Union from the 1940s to the 1990s that's a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells the Cold War of the Worlds |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | TURN UP THE A_C $1600: 3-D,
4-H,
1-A
(e.g.) alphanumeric |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | WHOOPS $200: H:
A laugh or outcry, perhaps from a nocturnal raptor hoot |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | BESTSELLERS $400: When it was finally published in the U.S. in 1959, this D.H. Lawrence novel promptly became a bestseller Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | GRAVE MATTERS $800: A Fort Sumner, New Mexico marker lists pals Tom O'Folliard, Charlie Bowdre & William H. Bonney, alias him Billy the Kid |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | SWEET AISLE OF MINE $800: C&H or Domino is a good choice for this colorful stuff containing oodles of molasses brown sugar |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | "D.H." $200: In the '50s, cake mixes were first sold under his name; they're "So moist. So delicious. And so much more" Duncan Hines |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | "D.H." $400: This singer from Philadelphia says of his rich career that he was in the right place at the right time Daryl Hall |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | "D.H." $600: This Swede was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | "D.H." $800: In "The Best and the Brightest", this historian chronicled the failings of the U.S. military in Vietnam David Halberstam |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | "D.H." $1000: His 1961 N.Y. Times obituary called him "The dean of the so-called 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction" Dashiell Hammett |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | WE'LL SPOT YOU A LETTER $400: First letter H:
A small village a hamlet |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | DEALER'S CHOICE $400: The Vulcans play for U.H. Hilo, this school with an active volcano next door the University of Hawaii |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | CLOTHES $800: Christian Dior introduced the H-line, the Y-line & in 1955 this flared silhouette the A-line |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE $600: With action at Agincourt, "H the F" Henry V |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | STARTS WITH ONE LETTER, ENDS WITH THE NEXT $2,200 (Daily Double): This cooking item is Japanese for "fire bowl" hibachi |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $600: Check in, check out; H is this hotel |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | DOGGONE GOOD WRITING $1200: In 1838 he began publishing "Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" Darwin |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | BRITISH FICTION $400: A mad scientist named Griffin is the title character in this H.G. Wells work The Invisible Man |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $200: This symbol helps you find posts on Twitter a hashtag |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $400: Its deadly demise in 1937 marked the end of the use of airships for commercial air transportation the Hindenburg |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.) The warm & soft wool of the alpaca is low in substances that irritate human skin, making it popular for garments that are this, meaning "unlikely to cause immunological reaction" hypoallergenic |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $800: In hockey it's 3 goals scored in a single game by the same player a hat trick |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $1000: Latin for "have the body", this legal writ requires that a person held in custody be brought before the court habeas corpus |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | NONFICTION $2000: In 1920 this sci-fi novelist turned to nonfiction with "The Outline of History"; no word on if he used his "Time Machine" (H.G.) Wells |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | I NEED A SUB $800: Regional names for submarine sandwiches include hero &, in Philly, this other "H" one hoagie |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | "ADD"/"DROP" $1200: The universal caution code "H" on a prescription means it's possible the drug will lead to this addiction |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | LONG-RUNNING SITCOMS $400: Episodes of this 1970s show included "Some 38th Parallels" & "Patent 4077" M*A*S*H |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Agent Melinda May,
Director Phil Coulson Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: Joyous or cheerful, like Noel Coward's title "Spirit" B-L-I-T-H-E |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | "H" 2"O" $400: Recent trends in this type of flooring include wider planks & darker colors hardwood |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | "H" 2"O" $800: A coveted possession handed down from one generation to the next heirloom |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | "H" 2"O" $1200: Gary Cooper won an Oscar for his role as Marshal Will Kane in this film High Noon |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | "H" 2"O" $1600: This slang term for a jail comes from the Spanish for "court of justice" hoosegow |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | "H" 2"O" $2000: It's a hot, violent dust or sand storm that blows in the deserts of North Africa & Arabia a haboob |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | AUTHORS $1000: He saw a lot of 20th century innovations coming before anyone else H.G. Wells |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: This 1895 H.G. Wells book was subtitled "An Invention" The Time Machine |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $1600: The royal family were big supporters of the RLH hospital, the H for this type of diluted medicine practice homeopathic |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | THE SILENT LETTER IN... $400: A combination of 3 musical tones played simultaneously on a piano h (in chord) |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | NONFICTION $200: Falconry hobbyist Helen MacDonald called her memoir of bereavement "H is for" this bird Hawk |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | 2 LETTERS MISSING $1200: CA__OTS:
Slang for "in" a conspiracy H & O (in cahoots) |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL $1000: Lerner & Loewe adapted this musical from T.H. White's "The Once & Future King" Camelot |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $1200: In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the 1st horticultural laboratory in the U.S. at this East Lansing school Michigan State |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | 2015 ANNIVERSARIES $400: In 2015, the Navy Reserve marks 100 years of service by citizen sailors, including this president, who joined the Reserve in 1942 George H.W. Bush |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE DETERGENT SERIES $1600: Emergent:
Now there's "H.E. Turbo" Tide, H.E. short for this type of washer high-efficiency |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | CRITTERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This H.G. Wells doctor remarks, "I took a gorilla... and mastering difficulty after difficulty, I made my first man" Dr. Moreau |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $800: This alphanumeric group got its start in 1902 with either the Tomato Club or the Corn Growing Club 4-H |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | PRESIDENTS' SPEECHES: ONE WORD OFF $1000: George H.W. Bush:
"A thousand points of purchase, of all the community organizations... doing good" light |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | WATERGATE $1600: The scandal led to the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman & this ‑man, assistant to Nixon for domestic affairs (John) Ehrlichman |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | RETURN OF THE WOOD $400: A Con Ed electric safety brochure advises using a fiberglass or wooden one around power lines, never metal a ladder |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | REALITY TV HOSTS $600: Padma Lakshmi Top Chef |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | COMPARING $800: Boxer Bob Fitzsimmons gets credit for the line that contains "bigger" & this other comparative harder |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | MOVIE MUSIC $2000: "Tubular Bells" was in this 1973 scarefest The Exorcist |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $4,800 (Daily Double): Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle was the subject of his 1872-73 work "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2" James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SELF-RHYMING "H" WORDS $200: Balancing on one's palms vertically is doing one of these a handstand |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SELF-RHYMING "H" WORDS $400: To associate with the wealthier folks hobnob |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SELF-RHYMING "H" WORDS $600: This hyphenated term for sound reproduced over the full range of frequencies came to mean a music-playing apparatus a hi-fi |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SELF-RHYMING "H" WORDS $800: There's a musical instrument in the name of this word meaning "boring" humdrum |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SELF-RHYMING "H" WORDS $1000: Mutton & potatoes cooked in a covered receptacle is this dish hot pot |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | DESIGNER INITIALS $600: Cool American style since 1985:
T.H. Tommy Hilfiger |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $200: Asking for this vehicle that conveys the dead turns the category into a game of... hearse |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $400: Six-letter term describing the figure seen here oblong |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $600: To steal livestock, or to cause soft sounds rustle |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $800: It's the study of the patterns by which sentences & phrases are formed syntax |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $1000: It means occurring in an abnormal position or place & describes a serious pregnancy complication ectopic |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | ABBREV. $400: When referring to ships, the "H" in H.M.S. can be either of these 2 words his & her |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | TV MOVIES $2000: Now starring on "Shameless", he played a traveling salesman with cerebral palsy in "Door to Door" William H. Macy |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | A STATE OF VWLLSSNSS $800: H Ohio |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | COWS $400: Until a cow gives birth to a calf, she is known by this term that scoffs at the "I before E except after C" rule a heifer |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | LARGE & IN CHARGE $800: This Australian state didn't add an "H" to the last word in its name when the obese Sir George Reid was premier New South Wales |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | THE BIGGEST LOSER $800: In a Wimbledon singles final: Miss P.D.H. Boothby, in 1911 to Mrs. R.L. Chambers by this worst possible score 6-love, 6-love |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | A SENSE OF STYLE $1000: Introduced in 1936, these shoes from G.H. Bass were the original penny loafers Weejuns |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | MOVIE COSTUMES $2000: You can see the 1930s version of a space suit in this film that dropped "The Shape of" from an H.G. Wells title Things to Come |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | NOVELS' SEQUELS $2000: "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence The Rainbow |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | ALL YOU NEED IS "LOVE" $2000: His Cthulhu mythos series of stories describe ordinary New Englanders encountering horrific beings of alien origin (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In this H. G. Wells novel, a character is hurtled into the year 802,701 The Time Machine |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $400: This H.B. Stowe character was partially based on josiah Henson, a slave who escaped the south to Canada Uncle Tom |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.)
Flying a TBM Avenger in 1944, this 20 year old naval aviator bailed out after his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over the island of Chichi-jima, making him the only U.S. president to have literally been shot down in combat George H. W. Bush |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 1865 $800: HSBC, today a giant banking firm, is founded in this place on China's coast, the "H" in its name Hong Kong |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | FICTION $1200: In 1960 Penguin Books took a risk & published the full text of this D.H. Lawrence novel in England Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $400: Men, after visiting the Pro Football H.O.F. in this Ohio city, take your own first lady to the nearby First Ladies Historic Site Canton |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $1200: John Roberts had this job for William Rehnquist; Rehnquist had it for Justice Robert H. Jackson clerk |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1950s BESTSELLERS $1200: Grace Metalious shocked America with her novel of secrets, sex & hypocrisy in this fictional N.H. title town Peyton Place |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $200: In case you were wondering, yes, C&H still makes sugar in this shape cubes |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | ANGELS $1600: There's a whole book of the angel sermons of C.H. Spurgeon, a 19th c. preacher in this "immersive" denomination Baptist |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $200: In this H.G. Wells novel, Griffin is a scientist obsessed with theories of light refraction & cell transparency The Invisible Man |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $1600: Boat builder's boys:
H, S & J Ham, Shem & Japheth |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | YOUR TV CHARACTER IS DEAD TO ME $1200: Henry Blake was shockingly shot down offscreen on this classic warcom M*A*S*H |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL MOMS $600: Dorothy Walker George H.W. Bush |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | ORGANIZATIONS $1200: Members of this org. originally aimed at rural youth pledge their head, heart, hands & health for their greater community 4-H |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | TV CHARACTER NICKNAMES $400: On "M*A*S*H", surgeon Benjamin Franklin Pierce Hawkeye |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | 1865 AMERICA $800: James H. Nason patented this type of coffee maker in which hot water flows through a tube to filter the grounds a percolator |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $1000: In 1920 H.G. Wells turned to nonfiction & published one of these "of History" an outline |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | KIDDY LIT $800: She's the blindly optimistic title character in books by Eleanor H. Porter Pollyanna |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | TELEVISION FOR SHORT $800: The "H" in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stands for this, also in the name of a Cabinet department Homeland |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $2000: 1953:
"F.H.T.E.", with a big sandy love scene From Here to Eternity |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ELEMENT SYMBOL FUN? $400: Not alphabetically but by atomic number, the first element whose symbol is a pronoun helium |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $800: This Olympic sport that consists of 10 track & field events D-E-C-A-T-H-L-O-N |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | JUST BEYOND THE "H"ORIZON $400: Insulin is one hormone |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | JUST BEYOND THE "H"ORIZON $800: Suite! It's the friendly reception of guests hospitality |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | JUST BEYOND THE "H"ORIZON $1200: Hyphenated term referring to the last few generations preceding the automobile horse-and-buggy |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | JUST BEYOND THE "H"ORIZON $1600: The science of measuring time horology |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | JUST BEYOND THE "H"ORIZON $2000: Crostini are a popular choice for these hors d'oeuvres |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | WHAT DAY IS IT? $800: In W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues":
"He was... My working week and my ____ rest" Sunday |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): Appointed by Gerald Ford, he's the only man to serve as both C.I.A. director & U.S. president George H.W. Bush |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | THE SMITHSONIAN FROM A TO Z $200: H:
This blue stone, the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's premier attraction the Hope Diamond |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | INITIALLY YOURS $1600: This Nixon chief of staff went by "Bob" H.R. Haldeman |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | MALL SHOPS $600: This department store started in Sweden in 1947; the "H" in its name stands for the Swedish word for "hers" H&M |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | COMMANDER & CHEF $800: Pierre Chambrin, who quit as White House chef in 1994, said it wasn't true that this President ate a lot of fast food Bill Clinton |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | COMMANDER & CHEF $1000: Francois Rysavy was blamed when this President had an attack of indigestion that scared financial markets Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $200: To improve a skill or sharpen a knife hone |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $400: Don't believe this, excessive publicity hype |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $600: To require someone to do silly or often dangerous things in order to join a group haze |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $800: A type of lagomorph hare |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $1000: A costume combo mentioned in Shakespeare was "doublet &" this hose |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | TV GUIDE SAYS $800: "Coulson goes on the attack to save Skye's life" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $1000: Long before "the mambo kings", Xavier Cugat was "king" of this Afro-Cuban dance whose name can have an "H" or not the rhumba |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago Board of Trade.) He was the first U.S. President to appear here on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade; he ended his remarks on the state of the economy by saying, "Maybe I could learn a few new hand gestures" George H.W. Bush |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE MOVIE AVENGER WHO... $600: Shares his name with a character on "M*A*S*H" Hawkeye |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: In 1980 this medical organization, the W.H.O., announced that smallpox had been eradicated worldwide World Health Organization |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | ADD A LETTER $800: Add an "H" to a feline to get this informal talk (& also the French for feline) chat |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | THE 2 H CLUB $400: Gargle with it before a big date mouthwash |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | THE 2 H CLUB $800: The name of this sidewalk game can also mean to jump from one place to another hopscotch |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | THE 2 H CLUB $1200: This "equine" condiment is sometimes moistened with vinegar horseradish |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | THE 2 H CLUB $1600: Meaning premeditated, it's often found after "malice" aforethought |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | THE 2 H CLUB $2000: It's what the 3-headed Cerberus is hellhound |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | A THOREAU UNDERSTANDING $1000: When "A Week on" this "and the Merrimack Rivers" sold only 220 copies, publishers dumped the last 700 on H.D.'s door Concord |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $800: "Moreau"
(1896) H.G. Wells |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | NAME THE NETWORK $800: "Modern Family",
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.",
"Shark Tank" ABC |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | U.S. FRANCHISES $1000: Hilton doesn't own Holiday Inn but does own this other "H" "Inn" Hampton Inn |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1200: David Herbert were the given names of this author whose 1915 "The Rainbow" was banned as obscene (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $800: This show about Laurey & Curly was the first R&H collaboration Oklahoma! |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | SUN OF A BOOK $2000: In this "royal" H. Rider Haggard adventure novel, a character uses his knowledge of a solar eclipse to fool tribesmen King Solomon's Mines |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | THOSE ARE MY INITIALS, TOO $1000: Hunley,
Mencken H.L. |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Migrate north to this city to visit the largest museum of African-American history; it's named for Charles H. Wright Detroit |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | ____ THE ____ $400: William H. Bonney was one of several aliases that he used Billy the Kid |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | GOVT. MED. ABBREV. $400: Jointly funded by the states & the feds, C.H.I.P. is the "Health Insurance Program" for these folks children |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | GOVT. MED. ABBREV. $800: Not subject to income tax, an H.S.A. is one of these used to pay medical expenses a health savings account |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: This D.H. Lawrence novel continued the stories of sisters Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen, who 1st appeared in "The Rainbow" Women in Love |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | 1950s SCI-FI FILMS $1200: Martians attack Southern California, not England, in the 1953 film version of this H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | YOUR OWN 2 "Y"S $1600: It's the "H" in ADHD hyperactivity |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | 2 IN THE BUSH $1600: 2 sons of George H.W. Bush have been governors, of these 2 states Florida & Texas |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | 2 IN THE BUSH $2000: One of the 2 sons of George H.W. Bush who were never a state governor Neil or Marvin |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | MEDICAL PROBLEMS $3,500 (Daily Double): The H. pylori bacterium causes this type of ulcer, from the Greek for "digestive" peptic |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | "H"OMONYMS $200: To cut with an axe, or to cut through a computer's defenses hack |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | "H"OMONYMS $400: Obscure from view, or an animal skin hide |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | "H"OMONYMS $800: A command to a dog, or a low-down mean dog of a person heel |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | "H"OMONYMS $1000: The fruit of a rose plant, or very au courant hip |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | "H"OMONYMS $1,200 (Daily Double): A big basket, or to impede hamper |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Miskatonic University makes its "initial" appearance in this author's 1922 serial "Herbert West--Reanimator" (H. P.) Lovecraft |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | RECENT TV $200: Despite the inconvenience of being killed in a movie, Phil Coulson made it to the small screen as an "Agent of" this S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: In this type of composition, like Brahms' Opus 79, the "H" is silent a rhapsody |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | THE TOP 40 A TO Z $600: H:
This hit by Train that gives '80s band Mr. Mister its due "Hey, Soul Sister" |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | IN THE SPORT'S HALL OF FAME $400: More formal names
on its list:
Lawrence P. Berra,
Ernest Banks,
George H. Ruth baseball |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | EMMY M.D.s $200: In 1982 he "M*A*S*H"-ed the competition & won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy series Alan Alda |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $400: "41" is HBO's documentary about him & his life in Kennebunkport, his "anchor to windward" George H.W. Bush |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $1200: This future president left N.H. for Bowdoin College, where he was friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne Franklin Pierce |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | GUESS WHAT I'VE GOT? $800: A key from this organization founded in 1776 that believes "Love of Learning is the Guide of Life" Phi Beta Kappa |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | LITERATURE $200: Estate Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title paramour in this D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | TV $400: On the finale of this show, ironically, Klinger stayed in Korea, having married Soon-Lee M*A*S*H |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | T.C.L.T. $400: "O.H.B."
by Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | T.C.L.T. $600: "F.H.T.E."
by James Jones From Here to Eternity |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | TRIPLE H $400: This Mexican dog breed stands about 5 inches high at the shoulder Chihuahua |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | TRIPLE H $800: In 2011 this New Zealand city was devastated by a 6.3 earthquake Christchurch |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | TRIPLE H $1200: At the end of World War II, Soviet troops occupied Korea north of this parallel of north latitude the 38th parallel |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $2000: Samuel L. Jackson has played this agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $1600: The male half of the Hollywood power couple Filliam H. Muffman, he was Asst. U.S. Attorney John McCormack in 1990 William H. Macy |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | TOMB SERVICE $1,500 (Daily Double): This writer's tomb in Amiens, France was featured on the masthead of Amazing Stories magazine for many years Jules Verne |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | BRITISH POETS $2000: This Brit's works included many political poems, including "Spain 1937" about the Spanish Civil War W.H. Auden |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | OLD PAINT $400: His sister Nan & his dentist B.H. McKeeby were the models for his 1930 masterpiece "American Gothic" Grant Wood |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | PANTSLESS TV $1600: Under enemy sniper fire, this man (Gary Burghoff) lost the towel covering his rear flank on "M*A*S*H" Radar O'Reilly |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | OCEANIA $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of South America and the Pacific Ocean.) In 1766 Philip Carteret & Samuel Wallis sailed from England in two ships; storms separated them, & while Carteret discovered Pitcairn, Wallis found this other island that's part of the H.M.S. Bounty story Tahiti |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FRENCH DRESSING $800: The "H" is silent in this French house big on scarves, begun in 1837 as a bridle & harness maker Hermès |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $1600: This author's 1860 novel "The Woman in White" was loosely based on a French case Wilkie Collins |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE TALES OF HASSELHOFF, MAN $1000: In a 1998 TV movie, the Hoff played "Nick Fury: Agent of" this organization that got its own TV show in 2013 S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | FANTASTIC 4 $1600: The first H in 4-H, it's followed by Heart, Hands & Health Head |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | POLITICALLY INCORRECT $400: "Read my lips, no new taxes!" George H. W. Bush |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | LITERARY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING $2000: A polar expedition finds the remains of a strange creature "At the Mountains of Madness" by this weird author (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | VERTICAL LANDMARKS $800: His London "column", including his statue by E.H. Baily, was completed in 1843 Nelson |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $1000: This large, juicy peach from Georgia was named for the wife of its developer, Samuel H. Rumph an Elberta peach |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | SLIM $800: Referring to a gaunt, worn appearance, it's the last name of Merle & H. Rider Haggard |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $1600: The Necronomicon, an ancient evil Book of the Dead, wreaks havoc in several stories by this author who died in 1937 (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | MINNE-CODA $800: The full name of the Metrodome includes the name of this politician who met his maker in Waverly, Minnesota in 1978 Hubert H. Humphrey |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $2000: This planet's symbol is not an "h" but a sickle or scythe & may represent the Roman god of agriculture Saturn |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | KEEPING UP WITH THE JOANS $400: John's big sister, she recently played William H. Macy's love interest on "Shameless" (Joan) Cusack |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | "AND" BOOKS FOR SHORT $800: D.H. Lawrence:
"S. and L." Sons and Lovers |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $400: In 1905 Dr. H.A. des Voeux coined this word for the air pollution created by the Industrial Revolution smog |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $1200: H.M. [Her Majesty's] Prison, which dates to the 1840s, is the oldest building in Road Town, the capital of this British island group the British Virgin Islands |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THAT '80s SHOW $1200: This series starred Pernell Roberts as a character also seen on "M*A*S*H" Trapper John, M.D. |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BAND'S KILLER ALBUM FILLER $2000: On "Icky Thump": ' "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues" The White Stripes |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | GOOD CAUSES $2000: The H is silent, but many veterans are vocal about helping Laotians of this group who fought for the United States the Hmong |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | HOMECOMING $200: He spent 5 years as a naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle before returning home to England in 1836 Darwin |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "T.T.M." by H.G. Wells The Time Machine |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1000: "H.E." by E.M. Forster Howard's End |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | THE SECRETARY OF STATE WHO... $2000: Went 1 for 2 running George H.W. Bush's presidential campaigns James Baker |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | EDITOR $2000: Editor George Davis' NYC house was also home to W.H. Auden, Gypsy Rose Lee & this "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" author (Carson) McCullers |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $400: That adolescent's behaviour is utterly reprehensible B-E-H-A-V-I-O-R |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $200: At the start of a word, this can be silent when it's right before S & it creates an "F" sound when it precedes H P |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $400: The 11th letter, it's rarely used in languages that developed from Latin K |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | & MICE $2000: The H in the illness HPS, which had a 2012 outbreak in Yosemite, is for this virus carried by the deer mouse Hantavirus |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | "BLOCK" PARTY $200: This company says it "has helped clients obtain nearly $50 billion in tax refunds" & other benefits H&R Block |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | LITERARY RELATIONS $800: Gertrude is Paul Morel's mom in this D.H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. $1,500 (Daily Double): This man got the assignment in 1971; he'd get to appoint 2 other men to the job himself George H.W. Bush |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES $2000: In Toronto, go to the Annandale Club for curling; in Dublin, to Croke Park for this similar-sounding sport hurling |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $200: With an "L", it's skiing in a zigzag course; with an "H", it's a Hebrew hello slalom/shalom |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | F.H. $200: Blaze-fighting feature affixed to the street a fire hydrant |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | F.H. $400: A common type of screwdriver a flat-head |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | F.H. $600: Anointing & the laying on of hands are part of this method of curing illness using divine power faith healing |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | F.H. $800: Linda Hunt won an Oscar for playing a man in 1983 & this actress was nominated for playing a man in 2005 Felicity Huffman |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | F.H. $1000: Oui, this brass instrument is pitched lower than a trumpet but higher than a tuba a French horn |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | LEWIS OR CLARK $600: In 1994 James H. Clark co-founded this company known for its Navigator web browser Netscape |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Send me those shoes pronto; I'll pay the P&H, this "& handling" postage |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | DR. SEUSS TITLES BY INITIALS $200: "G.E.A.H." Green Eggs and Ham |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | DR. SEUSS TITLES BY INITIALS $400: "T.C.I.T.H." The Cat in the Hat |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | DR. SEUSS TITLES BY INITIALS $600: "H.T.G.S.C!" How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. $200: N.H.S. stands for a "national" this type of "site" in the national park system historic |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | IT'S GETTING WARM $1000: Sunstroke is likely with prolonged exposure to over 105 degrees on the H.I., short for this heat index |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | MISSOURI LOVES COMPANIES $1000: The headquarters of this company, founded by two brothers, is in a Kansas City building the color of an eye shade H&R Block |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | LITERARY SEQUELS $600: His "Women in Love" was a sequel to "The Rainbow" D.H. Lawrence |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | THE CALIFORNIANS $1000: Like, for sure not a native, this "father of the H-bomb" totally helped create Lawrence Livermore Lab at UC Berkeley Edward Teller |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | WHAT THE "H"? $400: In FHA & HUD Housing |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | WHAT THE "H"? $800: In HIV Human |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | ICE, ICE BABY $1200: Scientists call ordinary ice "ice Ih"; the "h" comes from this 6-sided figure that's the shape of an ice crystal a hexagon |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | WHAT THE "H"? $1600: In H.G. Wells & D.H. Lawrence Herbert |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | WHAT THE "H"? $2000: In HTTP & HTML Hyper |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | WHAT THE "H"? $3,000 (Daily Double): In OSHA Health |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | LITERARY WHITE PAPER $400: Theodore H. White wrote a series of books about "The Making of" this elected official the President |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | LONG-RUNNING TV $400: As of October 1975 it had run longer than the Korean War, & still had 8 years left M*A*S*H |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $1600: Martians attack the Earth after landing outside of London in this 1898 sci-fi classic by H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | NOTABLE NAMES $2000: Later a human rights advocate, he helped create the USSR's H-bomb with his "layer cake" design Andrei Sakharov |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $1600: Check out (or really, check in) this winner for 1931-32: "G.H." Grand Hotel |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | NOTABLE HUNGARIANS $600: He's been called "the real Dr. Strangelove" as well as "the father of the h-bomb" (Edward) Teller |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | LUNAR FICTION $1200: In 1901 this Brit, a sci-fi pioneer, had his "First Men in the Moon" encounter insect-men called Selenites H.G. Wells |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | PRESIDENTS BY KIDS $1000: His 6 include Neil, Marvin & Dorothy George H.W. Bush |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | IN UTAH ROW $1600: A native of Ogden, Brent Scowcroft was this adviser to presidents Gerald Ford & George H.W. Bush National Security Advisor |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | HOLLYWOOD'S MIDDLE INITIALS $400: William Macy H. |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | 20th CENTURY FOX TV $200: Major Houlihan & Corporal Klinger both wore the same wedding dress on this show M*A*S*H |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | COMPANY NAMES $400: Not H&J but this record company was founded in 1962 by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss A&M |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE $1200: Eugene H. Peterson approved "The Message", a contemporary version of this, with all 66 books combined into one the Bible |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE $600: This George H.W. Bush veep "thinks Roe vs. Wade are two ways to cross the Potomac" Dan Quayle |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BOOKS $1,200 (Daily Double): This H.G. Wells story says the title figure has "goggling spectacles and (a) ghastly bandaged face" The Invisible Man |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $200: In Genesis it was one of the cities destroyed by fire & brimstone Gomorrah |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $400: Those into this subculture often have black-dyed hair & wear black clothes & dark makeup goth |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $600: This food & drink embellishment might include a chocolate curl or a bell pepper ring a garnish |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $800: From the Yiddish for "lapse", it's a minor malfunction, often of a computer a glitch |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $1000: Nonsensical talk gibberish |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $2000: 1970:
"Suicide Is Painless", with lyrics by Mike Altman M*A*S*H |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | MURDER, SHE WROTE $800: "'H' is for Homicide"
(1991) Sue Grafton |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $1200: Some New Yorkers pronounce this big 4-letter word as if the first letter was "Y", not "H" huge |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | THE VERSATILE "O-U-G-H" $200: Tall grass area on a golf course the rough |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | THE VERSATILE "O-U-G-H" $400: Deck the halls with these of holly boughs |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | THE VERSATILE "O-U-G-H" $600: Pre-bun or pre-loaf stage dough |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | THE VERSATILE "O-U-G-H" $1,000 (Daily Double): Greenwich is an inner one of London a borough |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | THE VERSATILE "O-U-G-H" $1000: A long, narrow area of atmospheric low pressure a trough |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THEY GO BY THIER FIRST INITIAL $2,000 (Daily Double): H is for Henry:
Billionaire who had a Reform Party Ross Perot |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $1200: H.L. Mencken wrote a notorious essay on the "unbroken and agonizing ugliness" of this state's steel towns Pennsylvania |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | AMERICAN "H"ISTORY $200: To provide poor & minority children a better chance for success in school, this 1965 program was directed at preschoolers Head Start |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | AMERICAN "H"ISTORY $400: 1990 was the first year U.S. Census takers hit the streets to seek these people out to add to the count the homeless |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | AMERICAN "H"ISTORY $600: In March 1861 this Texas governor was forced out of office for refusing to support the Confederacy Houston |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | AMERICAN "H"ISTORY $800: One third of the British forces in America during the Revolutionary War were actually these mercenaries the Hessians |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | AMERICAN "H"ISTORY $1000: In 1945 this recently retired Secretary of State was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping establish the U.N. Cordell Hull |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | WHAT 2 Q SO LONG? $800: George H.W. Bush denied there was any of this in Iran-Contra; it's latin meaning "something for something" quid pro quo |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | ARTHURIAN LIT $1000: It's T.H. White's 4-part retelling of the legend The Once and Future King |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | DEATH ON A SITCOM $400: In 1975 Lt. Col. Henry Blake was discharged from the army, then from life in a plane crash on this show M*A*S*H |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | LITERARY LOCALES $200: "Kangaroo" by D.H. Lawrence:
This country Australia |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | WRITE NOW! $800: H. Rider Haggard is said to have penned "King Solomon's" these in a little over a month to back up a boast he'd made Mines |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | FORM LETTERS $1000: These 3 letters refer to a Cabinet department & precede 30106 in a sample move in/move out inspection form H.U.D. |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | TAKING STOCK $200: Very taxing:
HRB H&R Block |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | SILENT LETTERS $400: H:
An ecstatic expression, or an emotional musical composition rhapsody |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | SILENT LETTERS $600: C-H:
Named for a German botanist, this drooping flower seen here lends its name to a vivid, purplish-red color fuchsia |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET $1600: H:
A place to stay when on vacation hotel |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | INITIAL TV $400: Hawkeye & Trapper John shared a tent called The Swamp on this sitcom M*A*S*H |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $400: This "maneuver" is the method of choice to use when a person is choking the Heimlich |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $800: The body produces many of these, including prolactin & insulin hormones |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This 8-letter word for a collection of blood, usually clotted, comes from words for "blood" & "tumor" hematoma |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) This occurs when the nucleus of a disk protrudes through the surrounding cell & puts pressure on a spinal nerve a herniated disk |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $5,200 (Daily Double): A transplant rejection problem, GVH, stands for graft versus this host |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | MINER CLASSICS $800: The son of a coal miner, this author touched on the mining life in his autobiographical 1913 novel "Sons and Lovers" (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Instead of with a "P-H", there's an alternate 4-letter spelling of this Greek pastry dough filo |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | CHARACTER IN JAMES FENIMORE COOPER $1600: In "The Last of the Mohicans", he's Chingachgook's friend with a name out of "M*A*S*H" Hawkeye |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | PUT ON A SUIT $200: A character on "M*A*S*H" once ordered a fancy pinstripe suit--alas, when it came, the pinstripes went this way horizontally (or sideways) |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | LETTER PERFECT $1600: The first letter alphabetically to appear alone as a periodic table element symbol B (for boron) |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | GIMME AN "H" $400: Proverbially, "he who" does this "is lost" hesitates |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | GIMME AN "H" $800: A house of shelter for pilgrims, or a homelike facility that provides care for the terminally ill a hospice |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | GIMME AN "H" $1200: From 1823 to 1838 it was one of the 5 countries that made up the United Provinces of Central America Honduras |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MAPMAKER, MAPMAKER $1200: A study says it's the most misspelled city in the U.S., but you got it right, with the final "H" Pittsburgh |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | GIMME AN "H" $1600: In Egyptian myth this deity & son of Osiris is usually depicted as having the head of a falcon Horus |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | GIMME AN "H" $4,000 (Daily Double): Anglers & crafters, not just surgeons, use this instrument, whose name means "blood stop" a hemostat |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: A young man lost after placing an "H" in the middle of this Italian bacon pancetta |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | KEYBOARD NEIGHBORS $400: They combine to make an "F" sound "G" & "H" |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | KAN U SPEL BIZNESS? $200: Dessert topping (the part after "Reddi") W-I-P |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $200: As a woman's "sons grow up, she selects them as lovers" was D.H. Lawrence's synopsis of this novel Sons and Lovers |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: The 1932 film "Island of Lost Souls" was based on this 1896 novel by H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | THE "N-H-L" $400: Keats' ode to this bird begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense" nightingale |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | THE "N-H-L" $800: It's the branch of science that specializes in the kidney nephrology |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | THE "N-H-L" $1200: It's an 11-letter synonym for "hell" a netherworld |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | THE "N-H-L" $1600: This male first name is from the Hebrew for "gift of God" Nathaniel |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | THE "N-H-L" $2000: This soft white cheese with a French name is similar to cream cheese Neufchâtel |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $800: "M*A*S*H" &
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri" the Korean War |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | THEIR DEBUT NOVELS $400: 1895:
"The Time Machine" H.G. Wells |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | ABBREVIATED NO. 1 HITS $800: Gwen Stefani,
2005:
"H.G." "Hollaback Girl" |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $400: An intuitive feeling a hunch |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $800: In music it can mean "sharp" high |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $1200: To secretly devise something, like a plan for a really good door on my boat hatch |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $2000: "Love is not a victory march" is a line in this oft-covered Leonard Cohen tune "Hallelujah" |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $5,800 (Daily Double): The first ordinal number that fits the bill hundredth |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | THE WITCH $800: Witchiepoo coveted Freddy the Talking Flute on this Sid & Marty Krofft kids' show H.R. Pufnstuf |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $800: The loc.gov feature called Thomas lets you search for these made by Congress, like H.R. 575 laws that are passed by Congress |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | "H" IS FOR HOBBY $400: If dancing is your thing, try this alliterative style that employs breaking, popping & locking Hip Hop |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | "H" IS FOR HOBBY $800: Maybe you like to collect these, like fedoras or berets hats |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | "H" IS FOR HOBBY $1200: If you're getting ready for some dressage at an equestrian event, you're probably into these animals horses |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | "H" IS FOR HOBBY $1600: If you're working on a world record spinning this, don't let it get below your hips Hula Hoop |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | "H" IS FOR HOBBY $2000: If you like cultivating fruits & plants, you're down with this art whose name comes from the Latin for "garden" horticulture |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | FROM SPORTS BOOK TO FILM $600: Odessa, Texas was the home field for this H.G. Bissinger book-turned-film Friday Night Lights |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $200: It's an allergy to the pollen of certain plants, like ragweed hay fever |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | MOVIES BY INITIALS $400: 2010, with animated Vikings: "H.T.T.Y.D." How to Train Your Dragon |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $400: It's the medical term for high blood pressure hypertension |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $600: (Here's Jimmy.) Collectively, the biceps femoris, semitendinosus & semimembranosus muscles are called this, which flexes & rotates the hip & knee joints the hamstring muscles |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $800: Anemia can be caused by red blood cells that are deficient in this pigment hemoglobin |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1000: It's the surgical removal of the uterus hysterectomy |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES $200: Margaret & H.A. Rey:
"The Complete Adventures of Curious ____" George |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | TV TOE TAGS $1000: After his sitcom alter ego died in 1975, this actor surfaced on "The Carol Burnett Show" in a raft, screaming, "I'm OK" McLean Stevenson |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | WHEN THINGS GO WRONG $800: Infection with the H. pylori bacterium is probably responsible for most peptic these ulcers |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | JOHN PHILIP SOUSA $800: Sousa met his wife, Jane, during rehearsals for this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set on a ship off Portsmouth H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $800: Carrie Underwood & her Louisville Slugger: "B.H.C." "Before He Cheats" |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $1000: The Fray: "H.T.S.A.L." "How To Save A Life" |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS $600: Emile de Becque & Ensign Nellie Forbush South Pacific |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | SPELL IT RIGHT $200: He was big in Egypt P-H-A-R-A-O-H |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | SPELL IT RIGHT $600: In England it's zero C-Y-P-H-E-R |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | REALLY BIG SHOW $200: War alternated between hell & hijinks on this show whose 1983 finale got a 60.2 rating M*A*S*H |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | VIRGIN BERTHS $400: On March 15, 2006 the George H.W. Bush was launched as the 10th & final ship in the Nimitz class of these an aircraft carrier |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | THE VEEP RIGHT BEFORE... $800: George H.W. Bush Walter Mondale |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $600: This military marching command to reverse is the title of Col. David H. Hackworth's "Odyssey of an American Warrior" about-face |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | JUST GET A MOVE ON $1000: B & H Airlines originates from this Balkan country Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $200: One of this Norse god's main epithets is Vingnir ("the hurler") (4 letters) T-H-O-R |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $400: "To Anacreon In Heaven" mentions this rollicking Roman god's vine
(7 letters) B-A-C-C-H-U-S |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $800: Vulcan is the Roman equivalent of this Greek fire god (10 letters) H-E-P-H-A-E-S-T-U-S |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $1000: This Hindu god of wisdom & good fortune has the head of an elephant (7 letters) G-A-N-E-S-H-A |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $200: In a 1901 sci fi romance, Wells told a tale of "the first men in" this heavenly body, where they meet the Selenites the Moon |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $400: Tripod-borne aliens attack & destroy London in this scary 1898 novel The War of the Worlds |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $600: Rod Taylor starred in a film version of this Wells novel in which a scientist cruises the centuries The Time Machine |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $800: In an 1897 work a man discovers his "refractive index" can be changed to that of air, making him this type of "man" Invisible |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | NEW ENGLANDERS $1600: This president's father, Prescott, represented Connecticut in the Senate from 1952 to 1963 George H.W. Bush |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $200: A Japanese-style grill
(7) hibachi |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $400: A plant eater
(9) herbivore |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $600: A fraud or a fake
(4) hoax |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $800: A pagan
(7) heathen |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $1000: Excessive arrogance or pride
(6) hubris |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TO THE LETTER $1600: Speakers of Cockney are known for dropping this letter from the beginning of words H |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | A SHORT SPELL $200: "Jesus loves me" is this, a sacred song
(4 letters) H-Y-M-N |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | A SHORT SPELL $1000: You turn wood to shape it on this machine
(5 letters) L-A-T-H-E |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | SUE GRAFTON'S ALPHABET MYSTERIES $1200: Make a killing:
"H is for..." Homicide |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "L.H.O.T.P"
by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | HALL-ELUJAH! $400: Stephen F. Austin, John H. Rogers & John Coffee Hayes are Lone Star lawmen in this group's hall the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | HALL-ELUJAH! $600: In 2006 Cesar Chavez, John Muir & the Hearst family were among the inaugural inductees in this state's H.O.F. California |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | HALL-ELUJAH! $1000: "Car Talk", "The Romance of Helen Trent" & "All Things Considered" are programs in the Nat. this H.O.F. radio |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $3,000 (Daily Double): "T.A.O.H."
by Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | ENDS IN "H" $200: As a verb it means to sit with an awkward, drooping posture; as a noun, it refers to an awkward, lazy person a slouch |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | ENDS IN "H" $400: This gate fastener consists of a bar that fits into a slot & is lifted by a lever a latch |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | ENDS IN "H" $600: It's a space for a ship to anchor, or a space to sleep on that ship a berth |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | ENDS IN "H" $800: Savior, from the Aramaic for "anointed one" messiah |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | ENDS IN "H" $2,500 (Daily Double): The only state capital ending in "H", it was named for an English soldier & courtier Raleigh |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MERRY MELODIES $400: The cheerful tune you're hearing is this composer's overture to "H.M.S. Pinafore" Sullivan |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | RACE-Y HUMOR $2,200 (Daily Double): In the 1992 presidential race George H.W. Bush called this political rival "ozone man" Al Gore |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | REAL NAMES OF CELEBS $400: This actor born Alphonso D'Abruzzo got plenty of "M*A*S*H" notes Alan Alda |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | WHAT THE "H" $200: Feature shared by camels, Quasimodo & certain whales a hump |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | WHAT THE "H" $400: An ace in golf a hole in one |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | WHAT THE "H" $600: Break out the bagpipes; it's time for this lively Scottish folk dance the Highland Fling |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | WHAT THE "H" $800: This U.K. government "office" is responsible for domestic affairs the Home Office |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | WHAT THE "H" $1000: Namaste is a greeting in this official language of India Hindi |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: This service "Club" has a 4-way test of things they think, say & do, including "Will it be beneficial to all concerned?" the Rotary Club |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | TEXT MESSAGES $2000: Edward Teller notified this New Mexico lab site about the first successful H-bomb test with "It's a boy" Los Alamos |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | TEXTBOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Dr. H.V. Carter illustrated this 1858 text, an instant success despite bad reviews in the British Medical Journal Gray's Anatomy |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | WRITERS ON THE MOVE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this country D.H. Lawrence started a novel called "Quetzalcoatl", later "The Plumed Serpent" Mexico |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | UNFINISHED NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Reminiscent of another of his novels, his "The Original of Laura" features a lecher named Hubert H. Hubert Nabokov |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | THE NUMBER OF YEARS FROM... $200: The end of the G.H.W. Bush presidency to the start of the G.W. Bush presidency 8 years |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | FLIES & FLYING $800: During WWII this future U.S. president flew a Grumman Avenger & was shot down over the Pacific George H.W. Bush |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | THE NP FOR L $1600: 1946:
H.H. from Switzerland, for his "inspired writings" (Hermann) Hesse |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | ZAC(H/K) ATTACK $200: Zachary Quinto showed us the logic as this character in 2009's "Star Trek" Spock |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | I KNOW UR $400: The first major excavations of Ur were made after WWI by H.R. Hall of this London institution the British Museum |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | ZAC(H/K) ATTACK $400: Zach Johnson donned the green jacket as the 2007 winner of this sporting event The Masters |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | ZAC(H/K) ATTACK $600: He was the voice of Chicken Little in a 2005 film, but he's better known for his role in "Scrubs" Zach Braff |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | ZAC(H/K) ATTACK $800: He'll forever be remembered as Troy Bolton, the captain of his high school's basketball team who can sing Zac Efron |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | ZAC(H/K) ATTACK $1000: Zack de la Rocha tapped into his anger as the vocalist in this group featuring guitarist Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $1600: Alan Young, who co-starred in the 1960 version of this film based on an H.G. Wells book, had a bit role in the 2002 remake The Time Machine |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GHOST WRITERS $2000: There's a ghost story within a story in "The Open Window" by H.H. Munro, better known by this single pen name Saki |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | IT'S GOOD TO BE HIM $600: Nice H.S. grad present! Nike signed him to a $90 million contract before he'd even played 1 game as a Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | HISTORICAL YEARBOOK ENTRIES? $400: Voted most likely to wed his H.S. sweetheart Lynne on Aug. 29, 1964 & most unpopular quail hunting partner Dick Cheney |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | HISTORICAL YEARBOOK ENTRIES? $600: Rome H.S. football rules! Voted most popular, most likely to cross the Rubicon in 49 B.C. & to have a month named for him Julius Caesar |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | ADD A TREE $400 (Daily Double): Put a tree after "H" & you get this nautical wheel helm |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $200: Not 7th & not 9th, but the ordinal one in between E-I-G-H-T-H |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $600: "The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | SUPER $2000: A scene at the end of "Iron Man" finds Samuel L. Jackson as this one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? $1200: He co-starred in "Dragnet" & later in "M*A*S*H" Harry Morgan |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | CLASSIC NOVELS' ORIGINAL TITLES $200: Try a little "Tenderness", the original title of this scandalous D.H. Lawrence work Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS $800: "A kinder, gentler nation" George H.W. Bush |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS $1200: In 1915 William H, & William L. Bragg shared the prize for their analysis of the structure of crystals via this type of image x-ray |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | RIGHT BY THE NUMBERS $800: It follows 4 in the name of a youth organization that uses a clover symbol H |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | PICKLES $1000: This Pittsburgh-based food businessman was known as the "pickle king" H.J. Heinz |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | ZOMBIELAND $400: & they thought alligators were bad! In 1984's "C.H.U.D." zombies haunt this city's sewer system New York |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | BESTSELLERS $4,200 (Daily Double): This sci-fi scribe of "The Time Machine" also wrote hit nonfiction with "The Outline of History" (H.G.) Wells |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WHO'S THE MRS.? $1600: Mrs. William H. Macy Felicity Huffman |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | "W"RITERS $2000: He adapted "Le Morte D"Arthur" into a quartet of novels called "The Once and Future King" (T.H.) White |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | JEOPARDY! DRINKING GAMES $400: When naming this member of the 2nd triumvirate, don't add an "H" to his last name or you're talking about J. Lo's hubby Mark Antony |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Marcel Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q." put a mustache & goatee on a postcard reproduction of this masterpiece the Mona Lisa |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | "LA" STORY $400: Risque D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | THE SHARED LOUISIANA PARISH NAME $600: Jesse,
Robert H.,
Stonewall Jackson |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $200: David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $400: Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1000: Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | DIRECT TV $400: Cast members Mike Farrell & David Ogden Stiers both directed episodes of this hit show M*A*S*H |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | COMPLETES THE FAMOUS PHR-- $400: "The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties", 'Off with his h--"' head |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NUCLEAR ENERGY $2000: This rare isotope of hydrogen is sometimes called H-3 tritium |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $400: Hippos & rhinos are also these, thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates pachyderms |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $800: The state of being a mom or dad parenthood |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $1600: The name of this plant is from the Greek for "fond of trees" philodendron |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $2000: The Curies discovered radium in 1898 while working with this ore of uranium pitchblende |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $2,800 (Daily Double): This term for a solid figure having many faces comes from the Greek for "many faces" polyhedron |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $1600: Yale University (class of 1948) George H.W. Bush |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | FRATERNITIES $2000: To be a member of A.O.H., the ancient order of these, you must be a Catholic & either Irish or of Irish descent Hibernians |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | CALLIGRAPHY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.) The line that connects the two vertical lines in an "H" is called one of these, just like the beam a football crosses over for a field goal crossbar |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | KIDDY LIT $400: In Britain this simian created by H.A. Rey is called Zozo Curious George |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | HR $600: This business services & tax prep company also operates under the brand RSM McGladrey H&R Block |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | HR $800: The American recovery & reinvestment act of 2009 was H.R. 1; the "H.R." stood for this House of Representatives |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $400: Logician Saul Kripke said he refused a job offer from this Camb, Mass. Univ,: his mom wanted him to finish H.S. Harvard |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | YOU'VE BEEN TRADED $400: In 1996 the Hornets traded the rights to this then-H.S. scoring phenom to the Lakers for Vlade Divac; ouch Kobe Bryant |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $600: Chartered in 1769, this Ivy League school is N.H.'s oldest & ranks among the 10 oldest U.S. colleges Dartmouth |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | TV REVEILLE $400: 1972:
Loretta Swit as Major Margaret Houlihan M*A*S*H |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | NEED HELP WITH PRONUNCIATION? $1200: Mexican state bordering Chiapas:
The "X" sounds like "H" Oaxaca |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | CLASSIC LIT $800: The Morlocks are an evil race in this H.G. Wells story The Time Machine |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | YOUNG MR. PRESIDENT $800: He grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, & attended private schools there & in Andover, Massachusetts George H.W. Bush |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE "H" IT IS $400: From the Old Norse for "house dweller", it's one variety of spouse husband |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE "H" IT IS $800: If you haven't enjoyed being a contestant, you may leave in this fit of annoyance a hissy fit (or a huff) |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE "H" IT IS $1200: Aw, shucks, it can be a bit of chaff in grass cut for fodder, or an unsophisticated rural person a hayseed |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE "H" IT IS $1600: Perception of visual or auditory events without an external stimulus a hallucination |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | TV CASTS $1600: Michael Chiklis,
Walton Goggins,
C.C.H. Pounder The Shield |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE "H" IT IS $2000: It was the Dutch settlers' name for the Khoikhoi people of southern Africa the Hottentots |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | FILL IN THE AUTHOR $400: "The Bostonians"
by H.J. Henry James |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | FILL IN THE AUTHOR $800: "The Rainbow"
by D.H.L. D.H. Lawrence |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | "T-H-E" $200: Proverbially, a praiseworthy accomplishment is this "in your cap" a feather |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | "T-H-E" $400: You're giving this when you donate 10% of your income to your church a tithe |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | "T-H-E" $600: The Beatles had this head of a Christian religious community for women "jump the gun" Mother Superior |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | "T-H-E" $800: It's the condition where the human body's temperature falls below 95 degrees hypothermia |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | "T-H-E" $1000: It's an old term for a drugstore an apothecary |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | BRIT LIT $1600: In H. Rider Haggard's novel, this title pronoun is followed in the text by "-who-must-be-obeyed" She |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $400: Hawkeye & Trapper John shared a tent called the swamp on this show M*A*S*H |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GIMME AN "H" $400: It's made from the nectar of flowers honey |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GIMME AN "H" $800: Now meaning a bunch of hooey, it was originally garbage fed to pigs hogwash |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GIMME AN "H" $1200: In 1944 inventor Erno Rubik first twisted & turned to life in this country Hungary |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GIMME AN "H" $1600: Concentrated hemp resin that lent its name to the assassins of the Middle Ages hashish |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GIMME AN "H" $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Plaza de Quintana in Spain.) Here, at the Plaza de Quintana, one of the main portals into the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is only opened during one of these years, also known as the jubilee a Holy Year |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE "O" $600: George H.W. Bush derided Ronald Reagan's fiscal policies as this type of "economics" voodoo |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $200: This S-T-E-E-L C-I-T-Y is the seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $400: The NYC borough that includes Wall Street M-A-N-H-A-T-T-A-N |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $600: Hopefully the spelling of this Arizona capital will rise from the ashes of your brain P-H-O-E-N-I-X |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $1000: Pardon me, boy, but this city is on the Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee River C-H-A-T-T-A-N-O-O-G-A |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | 3 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $1600: Artur Sammler,
Eugene H. Henderson,
Augie March (Saul) Bellow |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | ALAN $400: After playing a doctor on "M*A*S*H", he turned up as Dr. Gabriel Lawrence on "ER" Alan Alda |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): George H.W. Bush faced off against this opponent in a 1984 vice presidential debate Geraldine Ferraro |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | FICTIONAL GAMES $600: Hawkeye plays double cranko, which involves poker & chess, on this TV show M*A*S*H |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | NAME THAT PREZ $600: He made his first run for the office in 1980 George H.W. Bush |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | EMMY-WINNING SITCOM EPISODES $400: "Welcome to Korea"
(Directing, 1976) M*A*S*H |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | "MEN" AT WORK $800: This journalist said no one "has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses" (H.L.) Mencken |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: H.G. Wells sci-fi novel about Sir Thomas More & his ability to not be seen The Invisible Man for All Seasons |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | JOURNALISTS $800: In 1938 H.V. Kaltenborn of CBS made 102 broadcasts in 18 days from this city as Hitler was being appeased Munich |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | VEGAS FILMS $1000: In a 2003 film he played "The Cooler", a Vegas casino's gambling jinx William H. Macy |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | PREZ DISPENSERS $200: Bill Clinton unseated this U.S. president George H. W. Bush (George Herbert Walker Bush) |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | BUSINESS LETTERS $400: H&R Block was named for founding brothers Henry & him Richard |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne died while traveling with this N.H.-born U.S. president, his close friend (Franklin) Pierce |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | THE HUSTLER $800: The 4 H's on the 4-H Club's cloverleaf once stood for Head, Heart, Hands & Hustle; in 1911 this replaced Hustle Health |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | SCIENCE A TO Z $4,000 (Daily Double): "H":
It's the tendency of an organism to bend toward or away from sunlight heliotropism |
| #5622, aired 2009-02-03 | A THOMAS GUIDE $400: In 1989 George H.W. Bush appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Clarence Thomas |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | THE AUDACITY OF BOB HOPE $400: After playing golf with this president: "He hit a birdie--and an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark..." Gerald Ford |
