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#9064, aired 2024-03-21ON THE NOSE $1200: If you're really working hard on something, you (proverbially) have your nose to this wheel-shaped device the grindstone
#9063, aired 2024-03-20UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY $1600: Let's see if your Os is running properly; this element, No. 76, is used to make hard alloys for phonograph needles osmium
#9056, aired 2024-03-11WORLD OF LIT $800: He served several years of hard labor in Siberia before writing about someone else's "Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky
#9054, aired 2024-03-07THE MATERIAL WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): This hard black wood from trees of the Diospyros genus shares its name with a magazine founded in 1945 ebony
#9052, aired 2024-03-05POETS & POETRY $400: Elizabeth Bishop rhymed "disaster", "faster" & "vaster" with "the art of losing isn't hard to" this master
#9046, aired 2024-02-26THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $2000: I want you to want me to say Cheap Trick's 1978 live album "at" this arena in Japan is a hard rock masterpiece Budokan
#9042, aired 2024-02-20THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $200: Stronger than dogs but hard to train, these animals took time off from Santa to pull sleds of mail in Alaska in the early 1900s reindeer
#9041, aired 2024-02-19TV COACHES $400: Coach Sue Sylvester, on this Fox show: "You think this is hard? I'm passing a gallstone as we speak. That is hard!" Glee
#9041, aired 2024-02-19PLANT LORE $1600: Kids in the day smashed the horse type of these to try to break them in the hard-hitting game called Conkers chestnuts
#3, aired 2024-02-02H.P. SAUCE $800: It's the anterior bony portion of the roof of the mouth; the "soft" one is muscular hard palate
#9026, aired 2024-01-29BOOZE CLUES $800: Reminiscent of the hard candies, Fireball whisky, which comes in 42 & 66 proof, tastes of this spice cinnamon
#9025, aired 2024-01-26TOUCH SOME GRASS $600: No wonder this "grouchy" weed is so hard to eradicate; each individual plant can produce up to 150,000 seeds crabgrass
#9025, aired 2024-01-26DASHIELL HAMMETT $1200: This L.A.-based hard-boiled novelist said Hammett's work took "murder out of the Venetian vase & dropped it into the alley" Raymond Chandler
#9023, aired 2024-01-24WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER $400: Hard to imagine them apart, but in 1957 Abbott & Costello did this, also a chemical process, to their partnership dissolve
#26, aired 2024-01-23SCIENCE IS COOL $1500: Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn't melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this sublimation
#9017, aired 2024-01-16HATS IN OTHER WORDS $400: Boil an egg this way if you want a solid inside hard boiled
#24, aired 2024-01-09THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $1200: Hungry for some hard rock? Then fire up this 1987 Guns N' Roses album that leads off with "Welcome to the Jungle" Appetite for Destruction
#9010, aired 2024-01-05COUNTRY OVERLAPS $1200: Kabul's country safaris to East Africa to meet Dar es Salaam's Afghanistanzania
#9007, aired 2024-01-02LET'S TALK ASTRONOMY $2000: This word for when the Moon is between half & full can be pronounced with either a hard or soft "G" sound gibbous
#9003, aired 2023-12-27POETRY ABOUT PROSE $400: A tale of London / In times that were hard / Detailing the far north / & a shepherd-St. Bernard The Call of the Wild
#9003, aired 2023-12-27RHYMING TREE PAIRS $800: Hard, brown valuable wood of Asia polished to an attractive shine a sleek teak
#9002, aired 2023-12-26YELLOW STONE $2000: Like emerald, heliodor is a variety of this hard, 5-letter mineral beryl
#8998, aired 2023-12-202020s TV $1200: Set in a school for wannabe superheroes, "Gen V" is a spinoff of this hard-hitting Amazon Prime show The Boys
#8997, aired 2023-12-19UNOFFICIAL TEAM NICKNAMES $400: The Peach Clobbers: The hard-hitting 2013 edition of this MLB team the Atlanta Braves
#8996, aired 2023-12-18COLORFUL SPORTS $600: Hard Rock Stadium in Florida is home to the Miami Dolphins & this college bowl game the Orange Bowl
#8992, aired 2023-12-12ANATOM"E" $1200: This hard layer that covers the crown of a tooth is not living & contains no nerves the enamel
#8985, aired 2023-12-01MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $800: Root of this, the plant that killed Socrates; not hard to find at a good organic produce store hemlock
#21, aired 2023-11-29WHAT THE "EFF"?! $600: Idiomatically speaking, it's the "grade" you get for trying hard--even if you sucked E for effort (or A for effort)
#8981, aired 2023-11-27THE 23rd PSALM $200: They're the first 5 words of the Psalm The Lord is my shepherd
#8980, aired 2023-11-24IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $1000: Though cockatiels are mainly seed eaters, the hard internal shells of these squid relatives provide needed calcium cuttlefish
#8977, aired 2023-11-21TEACHING $4,000 (Daily Double): This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label" a syllabus
#20, aired 2023-11-15SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $400: Mayo is in egg salad with hard-boiled eggs, which are with bacon atop this salad, first served at LA's Brown Derby Cobb salad
#20, aired 2023-11-15SAD SONGS $600: At the 2020 Grammys, Alicia Keys & this trio sang "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" in a tribute to Kobe Bryant Boyz II Men
#8964, aired 2023-11-02GROWING PAINS $400: These hard, pebble-like masses in your renal organ can cause pain until they pass kidney stones
#8963, aired 2023-11-01NAME THAT TUNESTER $200: "I came in like a wrecking ball, I never hit so hard in love, all I wanted was to break your walls" Miley Cyrus
#8959, aired 2023-10-26LET'S GO LOBSTERING $400: To determine this on a lobster, check whether the first pair of swimmerets are hard or feathery the sex
#18, aired 2023-10-25FUNGUS AMONG US $300: Some fungi form umbrella-shaped "fruiting bodies" that hold fungal reproductive spores; stir-fry enthusiasts know them as these mushrooms
#17, aired 2023-10-18MEDICAL MNENOMICS $1200: If you can't remember "ulna, radius, humerus", try "usually really hard" to help recall the bones in this part of the body the arm
#8951, aired 2023-10-16THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $1200: "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, & I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life" Jay Gatsby
#16, aired 2023-10-11PEW! PEW! PEW! $600: Paul Rudd once joked this stage of life "hit me pretty hard. all of a sudden I woke up and I had really curly hair" puberty
#8943, aired 2023-10-04HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $1200: As quoted in "Die Hard", when this ancient guy "saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" Alexander the Great
#14, aired 2023-09-27ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $500: Players of this instrument "are just belligerent, and cocky, and you know just hard-headed" according to Wynton Marsalis the trumpet
#8935, aired 2023-09-22COMPOUND ADJECTIVES $2000: Mean & unfeeling, like "Hannah, the vamp of Savannah" Hard Hearted
#8929, aired 2023-09-14SPEECHIFY"ING" $2000: Emmeline Pankhurst: "To the shame of the British government, they set the example... of____ sane, resisting human beings by force" feeding
#8928, aired 2023-09-13ALSO A CANDY $800: It's when you get your peanuts for all your hard work payday
#8924, aired 2023-07-27ANATOMICAL ANAGRAMS $400: Especially in a crowded cafe, it would be hard to hide this face (from cafe)
#8918, aired 2023-07-19FASHION OLD & NEW $1000: A 1914 ad said this piece of outerwear was "made of a hard khaki... lined sheepskin" & "absolutely waterproof" a trench coat
#8916, aired 2023-07-17OPPENHEIMER $2000: (Matt Damon presents the clue.) I play this hard-driving U.S. Army general, described as the Manhattan Project's indispensable man who oversaw the project from its inception through the successful testing & eventual wartime use of the atomic bomb General Leslie Groves
#8911, aired 2023-07-10HOMOPHONES $1600: Hard to unravel & badly behaved knotty/naughty
#8910, aired 2023-07-07ONLY ONE CONSONANT $800: Tree known for its hard, durable wood in furniture making oak
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SOME "HARD" SONGS $400: A 1964 chart-topper said, "It's been" this, "& I've been working like a dog" "A Hard Day's Night"
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SOME "HARD" SONGS $800: In a reggae classic by Jimmy Cliff, this title precedes "the harder they fall, one and all" "The Harder They Come"
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SOME "HARD" SONGS $1200: "She" does this, sang Donna Summer, "so you better treat her right" "She Works Hard For The Money"
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SOME "HARD" SONGS $1600: "Ghetto Anthem" is the subtitle of this Jay-Z hip-hop classic "Hard Knock Life"
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SOME "HARD" SONGS $2000: "Is there anyone out there? 'Cause it's getting" this, the title of Maroon 5's debut single "Harder To Breathe"
#8902, aired 2023-06-27SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $800: The title is cribbed from the best--Billy Shakespeare; y'all live in a hard-to-say county; Benjy the hunted The Sound and the Fury
#8896, aired 2023-06-19LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $1600: An Alan Rickman "Die Hard" villain "wants those detonators" from a title Great Dane of 2002! Hans Gruber and Scooby-Doo
#8894, aired 2023-06-15ROLLING STONES LYRICS $1000: "Am I hard enough? Am I rough enough? Am I rich enough?" "Beast Of Burden"
#8880, aired 2023-05-26YOU JUST MADE THAT STUFF UP $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the very hard-to-get substance that causes humans to set up shop on Pandora unobtanium
#19, aired 2023-05-24SOME HARD WORDS $200: The task is this, meaning extraordinarily difficult? must be a job for a mythical Greek hero! Herculean
#19, aired 2023-05-24SOME HARD WORDS $400: Stoves & stomachs are made of this 2-word alloy formed in a mold cast iron
#19, aired 2023-05-24SOME HARD WORDS $600: This synonym for indifferent is a homonym of a word for hardened skin callous
#19, aired 2023-05-24SOME HARD WORDS $800: Thoroughly heated via immersion, or the type of fiction mastered by James M. Cain hard-boiled
#19, aired 2023-05-24SOME HARD WORDS $1000: Old French for "diamond", it can mean a diamond or other object of unyielding firmness adamant
#8877, aired 2023-05-23YOU'RE SO SHELLFISH $1000: Used to make chowder, large East Coast hard-shell clams often go by this Native American name quahogs
#14, aired 2023-05-17MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: One can be between a rock & a hard place or similarly, between this pair of foes faced by Odysseus Charybdis & Scylla
#9, aired 2023-05-15ABBREV. $1000: Remember your cell biology? E.R. is this membrane system with a name that's fun to say endoplasmic reticulum
#7, aired 2023-05-12TABLE TALK $400: If your pool shot is a bit hard to approach, put one of these on the table to make the shot easier a bridge
#7, aired 2023-05-12JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $600: "We call those three the Plastics, they're shiny, fake & hard/ They play their little mind games all around the schoolyard" Mean Girls
#7, aired 2023-05-12HANG IN THERE $800: Though this ship sank in the Antarctic in 1915, it lived up to its name, from the Latin for "hard", & was found intact in 2022 the Endurance (Shackleton's ship)
#8863, aired 2023-05-03JOHN C. REILLY $800: As this singer in the biopic spoof "Walk Hard", John C. Reilly is told by his dad, "The wrong kid died" Dewey Cox
#8858, aired 2023-04-26TOP TO BOTTOM $200: You've hit this hard piece of nature "bottom" at your lowest point rock
#8857, aired 2023-04-25READING MUSIC $400: In "Me", his Donald Duck costume's "padded bum" made it hard to sit; he tried "to play 'Your Song' but... couldn't stop laughing" Elton John
#8855, aired 2023-04-21A HARD BARGAIN $200: In 1867 the U.S. agreed to give the czar $7.2 million in gold; the cost to him? This territory Alaska
#8855, aired 2023-04-21A HARD BARGAIN $400: The harsh terms imposed on Germany by the 1919 treaty of this are often cited as a cause of World War II Versailles
#8855, aired 2023-04-21A HARD BARGAIN $600: It took 2 months, 133 ballots & a lot of negotiating for Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel Banks to land this job in 1856 Speaker of the House
#8855, aired 2023-04-21A HARD BARGAIN $800: China ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain in 1842 as one of many concessions to end the first of these wars the Opium Wars
#8855, aired 2023-04-21A HARD BARGAIN $1000: In 1962 the Berlin Hilton bar was a headquarters for James B. Donovan in tough negotiations to get this American pilot released Gary Powers
#8852, aired 2023-04-18OLD WAR $800: To gain a port, Florence leaned hard into this nearby 4-letter city in the 14th century, finally taking it in 1406 Pisa
#8851, aired 2023-04-173-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: It can mean to think or focus really, really hard, or to rally all forces towards one specific goal concentrate
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING $1000: To reinforce a viewpoint, idiomatically as in "you need to" this structural support "your argument with hard facts" buttress
#8838, aired 2023-03-29EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Hungarians know their country not as the land of the Huns, but as the land of this nomadic people who settled there in the 9th c. the Magyars
#8835, aired 2023-03-246-LETTER RHYMERS $400: The item seen here or a prepaid hard-to-trace cellphone a burner
#8804, aired 2023-02-09MUSIC FOR SHARKS $1000: "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" is a Grammy-nominated tune by this hard rock band whose name is a type of shark Great White
#8802, aired 2023-02-07NUTS TO YOU! $800: When food was hard to find, American pioneers resorted to eating these nuts, perhaps from a white oak acorns
#8799, aired 2023-02-02PLAY THAT GAME $200: It's gotta be hard to catch 'em all when new video games keep coming out, but in 2022 folks gave it a shot with this "Legends: Arceus" Pokémon
#8796, aired 2023-01-30MUSHROOM STEW $400: Chitin, hard enough to form crabs' exoskeletons, also makes up these microscopic mushroom germinators spores
#8795, aired 2023-01-27PLACE YOUR BETS $2000: A horn bet in craps pays a sizeable amount due to the fact that these 4 numbers you're betting on are quite hard to hit a 2, 3, 11 & 12
#11, aired 2023-01-19THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $200: The title of this Dostoyevsky novel refers to murder & 8 years of hard labor in Siberia Crime and Punishment
#8780, aired 2023-01-06THE WHOLE TOOTH $600: The nutria, or swamp beaver, has orange teeth because this hard layer of their teeth is high in iron enamel
#8780, aired 2023-01-06WORKERS OF THE WORLD $800: Job of Alexei Stakhanov, such a model for Soviet workers that a city & a word meaning "hard worker" bear his name a (coal) miner
#8773, aired 2022-12-28THE HUMAN BODY $1600: From Latin for "hard mother", it's a tough membrane protecting the brain & spinal cord the dura mater
#8770, aired 2022-12-23PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $800: Stuck with 2 bad options, you're this, the title of a book by trapped climber Aron Ralston between a rock & a hard place
#8769, aired 2022-12-22THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $1200: In a book by this man, "Misery's Return" was a hard-to-execute novel by his character Paul Sheldon Stephen King
#8760, aired 2022-12-09STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $400: A wizard's magic rod Washington & North Dakota
#8756, aired 2022-12-05"OO", BOOZE! $600: The 1980s had these fizzy drinks, mixing something like Chardonnay & 7UP; today there are hard seltzers wine coolers
#8750, aired 2022-11-25STAYIN' ALIVE $400: The Hoover Dam was the first job site to mandate wearing these, which have saved construction workers' lives hard hats
#8749, aired 2022-11-24CAR ACCESSORIES $400: A stick-on mirror that augments your side mirror can help minimize this 2-word liability with a hard-to-see name a blind spot
#8, aired 2022-11-13COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH MATT AMODIO $300: (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) Before the hard disk era, the storage of data or programs known as this word took more cumbersome forms, like huge circular drums & reels bearing hundreds of feet of tape memory
#8734, aired 2022-11-03NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: This fashion magazine originally focused on movie stars & its title included the words "of Hollywood" Glamour
#8733, aired 2022-11-02HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Greek for "to breathe hard" gives us the name for this ailment common in children asthma
#6, aired 2022-10-30FIGURES OF SPEECH $200: "It's raining" these means it's coming down hard, not that there's a deluge of Angoras & Akitas cats & dogs
#8728, aired 2022-10-26THE NUMBER IN MUSIC $800: It would be a (disorganized) crime if you didn't know this group won an Oscar for their song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" Three 6 Mafia
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CRUNCH $400: This alliterative crunch in which it's hard to get a loan can lead to a recession a credit crunch
#8723, aired 2022-10-19WHAT A BUTTE! $3,699 (Daily Double): Grizzly Bear Lodge is another name for this butte that rises 1,267 feet above Wyoming Devils Tower
#4, aired 2022-10-16BUT WE REPEAT OURSELVES $1500: Did you study up on your calculus? Because that's another word for this hard yellowish substance that can cause tooth decay tartar
#8719, aired 2022-10-13HODGEPOURRIPODGE $200: This 102-story structure on New York City's 34th Street is kinda hard to miss the Empire State Building
#8718, aired 2022-10-12WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: Half a quart & a hard mineral used to produce a spark pint & flint
#8716, aired 2022-10-10PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $2000: The drug adrenochrome gives Johnny Depp's character Raoul Duke a hard time in this film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
#3, aired 2022-10-09GO BLUE! $200: Time to break out some PBR, this beer brand that briefly branched out into hard coffee Pabst (Blue Ribbon)
#8713, aired 2022-10-05BARTENDING 101 $800: "Burning the ice", melting it all with hot water, happens at closing time or if this, hard to tell apart from ice, gets in the bin glass
#8712, aired 2022-10-04IT'S A MYSTERY $1000: A musical instrument is found at the end of this word that describes a hard-to-solve problem conundrum
#8708, aired 2022-09-28MATERIAL $400: The very hard material silicon carbide was discovered in 1891 in an attempt to make artificial these gems diamonds
#8708, aired 2022-09-28HISTORY $1000: On Friday the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of this military group the Knights Templar
#8707, aired 2022-09-27ALSO IN THE CIRCUS $400: 2-word term for insurance or social programs designed to assist those that have "fallen" on hard times safety net
#8704, aired 2022-09-22FARMING $200: The hard red spring type of this is a specialty of North Dakota; further south in Kansas is where they grow the hard red winter type wheat
#8697, aired 2022-09-13A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $1200: It's the type of ionization chamber heard here, a measuring device that non-physicists never want to hear working hard nearby a Geiger counter
#8697, aired 2022-09-13A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $2000: With hard work & strong acid, you can get the original metals from alloys, like this partner of zinc out of brass copper
#8677, aired 2022-07-05STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH "Q" $800: From the French, it's a type of varnish used to give surfaces a hard protective coating lacquer
#8673, aired 2022-06-29DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $200: Self magazine had this as the No. 1 superfood for weight loss, noting bloat-busting potassium & that "Popeye was onto something" spinach
#8673, aired 2022-06-29DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $400: Capsaicin in these has been shown to increase fat burning & reduce appetite, but maybe lay off the "Red Hot" Red Savina type (chili) peppers
#8673, aired 2022-06-29DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $600: To lower calories, choose types of this like albacore that's canned in water & not oil, which can add fat tuna
#8673, aired 2022-06-29DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $800: Seaweed has few calories, lots of fiber & provides iodine that supports this gland that controls the body's metabolism the thyroid
#8673, aired 2022-06-29DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $1000: The flowers of plants like broccoli form a cross, so you may read about the benefits of these vegetables meaning "cross-bearing" cruciferous
#8671, aired 2022-06-27MORE THAN ONE MEANING $600: Very strict & hard-nosed, or a boat's rear end stern
#8668, aired 2022-06-22____ING BOOK TITLES $200: In a tale of hard luck in Sin City, this word precedes "Las Vegas" Leaving
#8656, aired 2022-06-06NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS $600: She said, "I worked so hard" after a 2020 op-ed suggested she stop using "Dr." before her name Dr. Jill Biden
#8656, aired 2022-06-061992 FILMS $2000: Chow Yun-fat starred in this Hong Kong director's action epic "Hard Boiled" John Woo
#8651, aired 2022-05-30TV THEME SONGS $800: Chicago artist Sasha Go Hard singing, "I was born on" this "Side, I was raised on" this "Side" is the theme to an HBO Max show South Side
#8649, aired 2022-05-26MOVIE CO-STARS $2000: In "Die Hard with a Vengeance" & "Unbreakable": Bruce Willis & him Samuel L. Jackson
#8648, aired 2022-05-25ROUGH NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $2000: This nation sings of a nearby rival: "King Christian... his sword was hammering so hard... the Swedes' helmets & brains cracked" Denmark
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JOHN GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND $400: On a sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away, John Goodman dropped by this kids' show to extol the virtues of triangles Sesame Street
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JOHN GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND $800: There was less of a sheen in the White House when John had a brief run as president as Glenallen Walken on this NBC drama The West Wing
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JOHN GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND $1200: Yes, that's John voicing a ho-ho-homicidal robot Santa Claus trying to take out Fry & Leela on this animated show Futurama
#8632, aired 2022-05-03HIDDEN ANATOMY $800: Around here, if you rank leisure above hard work, you might get a swift kick in this the ankle (in rank leisure)
#8630, aired 2022-04-29THE LANGUAGE OF SPORT $200: In volleyball, this hard hit ends a point; police use it in a "strip" to end high-speed pursuits spike
#8617, aired 2022-04-12ROCK ART $600: Lithographs by this late disco queen include "Jazzman" & "Hard for the Money" Donna Summer
#8615, aired 2022-04-08MULTIPLE MEANINGS $400: To strike down hard with a foot, or something that's affixed to show a fee has been paid stamp
#8607, aired 2022-03-29PHOTOGRAPHY $400: A symbol of bad luck & of Halloween, this common pet can also be hard to photograph--use diffused, not direct light a black cat
#8600, aired 2022-03-18ARTHROPODCAST $800: The name of this arthropod subgroup is from Latin for "hard shell" crustacean
#8588, aired 2022-03-02BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS $400: The "Amazing Amy" series of books is oft-mentioned in this thriller from Gillian Flynn Gone Girl
#18, aired 2022-02-22A STATE CAPITOL IDEA $5,000 (Daily Double): Utah's Capitol is abuzz with 2 large sculptures of these structures, symbolizing the hard work done by the state's citizens beehives
#17, aired 2022-02-22THE 18th CENTURY $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1768 a tutor found this future queen intelligent but frivolous & hard to teach Marie Antoinette
#8579, aired 2022-02-17A HARD CATEGORY $400: The hardest tissue in your body, this tooth-topper predominately contains calcium & phosphate enamel
#8579, aired 2022-02-17A HARD CATEGORY $800: Known for its hardness, durability & capacity to take a high polish, this heavy, black wood is big in cabinets & knife handles ebony
#8579, aired 2022-02-17A HARD CATEGORY $1600: Rubies & sapphires rate a 9 on this scale of hardness named for a German mineralogist the Mohs scale
#8579, aired 2022-02-17A HARD CATEGORY $2000: This white substance in the outer skeleton of crabs is used to bind dyes & as a strengthening agent for paper chitin
#8579, aired 2022-02-17A HARD CATEGORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This brand with a biblical character in its name offers hardside luggage with a polycarbonate composite shell Samsonite
#14, aired 2022-02-17A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $800: To be hit hard by something is to "take it on" this the nose (or the chin)
#8578, aired 2022-02-16THE LYIN' IN WINTER $600: Hard to believe we just beat Dan Jansen's 1994 gold medal-winning time in the 1,000 meters in this sport speed skating
#8572, aired 2022-02-08A CONFRONTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $200: The bigger they are, the harder they fall, & this big guy falls hard, via a "stone sunk into his forehead" Goliath
#8558, aired 2022-01-19CORRECT THAT NUMBER $400: Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, crankin' the dials on his amp waaay up: "These go to" 596, which would totally rock so hard 11
#8558, aired 2022-01-19CORRECT THAT NUMBER $600: In a Christmas song: 156 "drummers drumming", a multiple of the actual number that would totally rock so hard 12
#8553, aired 2022-01-123 SHORT WORDS $600: The advice to let an unhappy baby do this, hard for many parents to follow, dates back to 1894 cry it out
#8550, aired 2022-01-07POP CULTURE MONIKERS $2000: The Victims is the fitting name for superfans of this hard-rocking Vegas band The Killers
#8544, aired 2021-12-30WORD OF MOUTH $800: A "cleft" this is a split in the hard roof of the mouth the palate
#8528, aired 2021-12-08PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $600: Using a forceful manner to attack a problem is to do it this way, like a "Die Hard" film title with a vengeance
#8523, aired 2021-12-01PRONOUNCE IT THE WAY WE WANT $1000: A serve-yourself food place becomes this hard-hitting word buffet
#8522, aired 2021-11-30JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $400: "Oh, I'm very sorry, Hans... I figured since I waxed Tony & Marco & his friend here I figured you & Karl & Franco might be a little lonely" (John) McClane
#8522, aired 2021-11-30"BLACK" ON THE MAP $1000: It's hard to believe Lake Lahontan once covered this Nevada desert area seen here in all its stark beauty Black Rock (Desert)
#8516, aired 2021-11-22BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $200: Paul McCartney said The Beatles wanted to be in a film, but wanted to make a good one--& did with this first film of theirs A Hard Day's Night
#8516, aired 2021-11-22CHEW ON THIS $200: Some like them hard, but I really enjoy a Bavarian-style one of these twisty, chewy items with sweet mustard a soft pretzel
#8516, aired 2021-11-22CHEW ON THIS $400: The name of this hard-to-chew candy literally says it could fracture your mandible a jawbreaker
#8512, aired 2021-11-16WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: A hard-shell tortilla with fillings & a Texas city founded in 1849 on the Brazos River taco & Waco
#8509, aired 2021-11-11DOGGONE CINEMA $1200: In a lousy future, this title hard-driving drifter's only friend is an Australian cattle dog Mad Max
#8507, aired 2021-11-092-WORD PALINDROMES $2000: A Papeete porkpie a Tahiti hat
#8504, aired 2021-11-04DARK MATTER $800: Traditionally the black keys on a piano are made of this hard dark wood ebony
#8503, aired 2021-11-03TV THEME LYRICS $2000: "Meatwad make the money, see / Meatwad get the honeys, G" Aqua Teen Hunger Force
#8502, aired 2021-11-02GEOGRAPHIC IDIOMS $200: If you're between a rock & a hard place, you might also be between the devil & this salty expanse the deep blue sea
#8496, aired 2021-10-25THE LANDLOCKED NATION $200: The Arabian Sea is 300 miles south of this often invaded but incredibly hard to conquer nation directly east of Iran Afghanistan
#8494, aired 2021-10-21SPOKEN WORDS IN CLASSIC SONGS $400: "We are young... heartache to heartache, we stand... no promises, no demands... love is a battlefield" (then she kicks in hard) Pat Benatar
#8493, aired 2021-10-202 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL $400: I broke a "powder" this & only have one now; it's gonna be hard to get down the slope a ski
#8489, aired 2021-10-14MURDER, HE WROTE $2000: When it comes to hard-boiled murder & Frank Chambers icing a dame's husband, this 1934 James M. Cain novel always delivers The Postman Always Rings Twice
#8486, aired 2021-10-11NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $400: A detective is hired to track down the missing sister of the secretive Miss Wonderly at the beginning of this hard-boiled novel The Maltese Falcon
#8481, aired 2021-10-04INCONCEIVABLE! $400: Add a "Y" to this 4-letter word for gloom or a dark mist & you get a word for hard to understand murk
#8479, aired 2021-09-30OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $400: Philippe-Laurent Roland did things the hard way, taking a 1787 selfie in this rock marble
#8473, aired 2021-09-22NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Ritter.) You know, it's always hard to find parking around Manhattan, but on January 15, 2009, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger saved 155 lives with an emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in this river on the West Side Hudson
#8470, aired 2021-09-17BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS $1600: Jay-Z admitted he lied about seeing "Annie" on Broadway as a kid to convince the rights holders to let him use its music in this song "Hard Knock Life"
#8466, aired 2021-09-13TASTY BUSINESS $1000: This restaurant chain says the only ingredient it uses that's hard to pronounce is the pepper in its name Chipotle
#8448, aired 2021-07-21EXODUS TELLS US... $200: The Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve, made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar & in this brick
#8441, aired 2021-07-12GAMER'S DELIGHT $800: (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) Now entering the arena is Twinkle Riot, a hard-hitting star in "Destruction AllStars", a type of this alliterative competition in which vehicles are supposed to get smashed to pieces demolition derby
#8430, aired 2021-06-25WEATHER SONGS $1600: Guns N' Roses sang that "It's hard to hold a candle" in this type of cold autumn deluge November Rain
#8428, aired 2021-06-23THE ARISTOCRATS! $1600: The daughter of an aristocrat who hit hard times, she became empress of France, till hubby nullified their marriage in 1809 Josephine Bonaparte
#8419, aired 2021-06-1015 LOVE $800: Before her birthday in this 1984 film, Molly Ringwald was already crushing hard on hunky Jake Sixteen Candles
#8416, aired 2021-06-07HEIR GUITAR $200: The Hard Rock Hotel in Tulsa featured guitars signed by Miley Cyrus & this man, her father Billy Ray Cyrus
#8413, aired 2021-06-02POP PSYCHOLOGY $800: In "Paranoid", this hard-rocking man sang, "People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time" Ozzy Osbourne
#8386, aired 2021-04-26HARD SCIENCE $400: The Vickers test measures the hardness of a metal by indenting it with one of these super-hard gems a diamond
#8386, aired 2021-04-26HARD SCIENCE $800: Nanofiltration is used to reduce hardness of this, caused by dissolved minerals like calcium & magnesium water
#8386, aired 2021-04-26HARD SCIENCE $1600: The Knoop test uses low indentation pressure to measure the hardness of glass & these materials, from Greek for "pottery" ceramics
#8386, aired 2021-04-26HARD SCIENCE $2000: Gypsum is 2 & quartz is 7 on this scale Mohs
#8386, aired 2021-04-26HARD SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): The number used to designate a pencil's hardness, relates to the ratio of clay to this material, a form of carbon graphite
#8382, aired 2021-04-20HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. the Persian army found out the hard way this mountain pass was about 50 feet wide at its narrowest Thermopylae
#8380, aired 2021-04-16DISSECTING THE LYRICS $800: "There were plants & birds & rocks & things", noticed America in "A" this "With No Name", & that's hard to argue a horse
#8380, aired 2021-04-16BLOW-POURRI $2000: In 1804 this admiral commiserated with the seasickness of an earl's nephew, writing, "I am ill every time it blows hard" Horatio Nelson
#8376, aired 2021-04-12AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $800: What's sometimes called Indian candy in Alaska is strips of this fish smoked until hard salmon
#8373, aired 2021-04-07WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS! $2000: This hard-to-pin-down guy played by Brad Pitt in "Fight Club" starts Project Mayhem Tyler Durden
#8371, aired 2021-04-05HISTORY POTPOURRI $1200: The Ming bought horses on a huge scale from these previous rulers (it's hard to breed horses in China's selenium-poor soil) the Mongols
#8358, aired 2021-03-17POTENT POTABLES $400: This blue ribbon beer company also provides hard coffee & stronger seltzer Pabst
#8357, aired 2021-03-16HARD-HITTING WORDS $200: This word paired with "cutting" in a computer term can also mean a heavy beating pasting
#8357, aired 2021-03-16HARD-HITTING WORDS $400: The OED credits World Wrestling Entertainment with popularizing this term similar to beatdown smackdown
#8357, aired 2021-03-16HARD-HITTING WORDS $600: In a traditional rhyme, Lizzie Borden gave family members a total of 81 these whacks
#8357, aired 2021-03-16HARD-HITTING WORDS $800: It's thought that the verb "trounce" is etymologically similar to this wooden club a truncheon
#8357, aired 2021-03-16HARD-HITTING WORDS $1000: Only one letter different from "gallop", this word for a heavy blow used to mean to ride at a gallop wallop
#8353, aired 2021-03-10SONG TITLE ADJECTIVES $1600: In 1982 Chicago found it "Hard To Say I'm" this Sorry
#8348, aired 2021-03-03TOUGH TALK $800: There's a sensory organ in this hyphenated adjective meaning tough-minded hard-nosed
#8346, aired 2021-03-01HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $600: Think hard! This kids' game where you match pairs is also called Memory Concentration
#8346, aired 2021-03-01ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: In early "factories" , Neanderthals turned out tools of this hard stone known for fire-sparking qualities flint
#8343, aired 2021-02-24A SYSTEM OF GRAFT $1600: Many of this type of fruit named for its hard pit, such as peach & apricot, can be grafted onto the same tree stonefruit
#8324, aired 2021-01-28WORDS & PHRASES $400: Back in 1937 a magazine complained about the cliche "Working hard or..." this phrase hardly working
#8320, aired 2021-01-22BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Sorry, Hans. Wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy!, where the scores can really change?" Die Hard
#8320, aired 2021-01-22THE BRITISH PANTRY $400: To the British this drink always has alcohol; in America it's "hard" or it's apple juice cider
#8302, aired 2020-12-15AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: With diplomas signed by President Grant, this school for the deaf & hard-of-hearing graduated its first 3 students in 1869 Gallaudet
#8299, aired 2020-12-10LET'S MAKE A SUPERGROUP $600: Bringing the thunder on drums, let's give a "Whole Lotta Love" to the legendary John Bonham of this hard rock group Led Zeppelin
#8296, aired 2020-12-07TRADING PLACES $600: The Minneapolis Grain Exchange is the place to go if you're looking to trade some HRSW, hard red spring this wheat
#8281, aired 2020-11-16JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR $1200: We've landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport for a stay in this capital; we hear one night there makes a hard man humble Bangkok
#8279, aired 2020-11-12FEMINISM $600: In a feminist move the women's social & political union insisted on saying this word with a hard "G", as in "We'll get the vote" suffragette
#8265, aired 2020-10-23MOVIE SUM-UP $400: A cop saves his troubled marriage by visiting his wife in L.A. & killing a bunch of people in her office building Die Hard
#8265, aired 2020-10-23ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $400: Hard-boiled favorite about a pilfered avian: "HEELS OF CATTLEMAN" The Maltese Falcon
#8235, aired 2020-06-12THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $1000: "How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb" Juliet
#8227, aired 2020-06-02BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul McCartney's Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building "Live And Let Die Hard"
#8226, aired 2020-06-01HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $1000: A scratchy & hard-to-wear elaborate starched collar a rough ruff
#8220, aired 2020-05-22THAT WORD IS QUITE A CHARACTER $800: This adjective based on a Cervantes character includes a hard "X" sound, unlike his name quixotic
#8214, aired 2020-04-30BROKEN ENGLISH $400: At the blackjack table, don't hit on hard 17 or you'll probably do this synonym for "break" bust
#8210, aired 2020-04-24MOVIE VILLAIN QUOTES $400: Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman): "Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?" Die Hard
#8208, aired 2020-04-22YOU KNOW THE DRILL $1600: Use a hammer drill to cut through this hard building material named for the bricklayer or stoneworker who constructed it masonry
#8206, aired 2020-04-20ROLL WITH IT $400: Instead of evaluating all applications after a hard deadline, some colleges use this 2-word process & reply more quickly rolling admission
#8206, aired 2020-04-20SPORTS TALK $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crews presents by a display monitor.) Tennis players shouldn't linger in this area between the service line and the baseline where returns are hard to hit; it shares its name with an area between trenches that World War I soldiers also wanted to avoid no man's land
#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
#8203, aired 2020-04-15"AD"JECTIVES $1600: Meaning hardheaded about something, it also means a really hard type of rock adamant
#8199, aired 2020-04-09COLLEGE LAW $600: Georgia State says it follows state law in banning hard liquor at these pre-game parking lot parties tailgate parties
#8196, aired 2020-04-06I'M YOUR NEW PERSONAL TRAINER! $1600: An intense circuit-style workout, metcon is short for these 2 words, & we're gonna hit it hard today! metabolic conditioning
#8194, aired 2020-04-02LET'S SKIRT THE ISSUE $1000: This old-timey skirt gets its name because of the extreme tapering at the ankle that makes it hard to walk in the hobble skirt
#8193, aired 2020-04-01FBI QUANTICO $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.) The FBI lab finds hard-to-detect fingerprints with a fuming chamber that turns a strong adhesive into vapor, allowing it to adhere to latent moisture. The adhesive--cyanoacrylate, better known as this powerful, quick bonding stuff super glue
#8189, aired 2020-03-26AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Here's this author in 1935, hard at work on "Gone With the Wind" (Margaret) Mitchell
#8182, aired 2020-03-17ALLITERATIVE ACTRESSES $800: She proved hard to kill as O-Ren Ishii, aka Cottonmouth, in "Kill Bill" Lucy Liu
#8182, aired 2020-03-17ABBREVIATED ABC $1000: If you're a salesman, ABC refers to this hard-sell strategy Always be closing
#8178, aired 2020-03-11FOE PAs $2000: In this spoof of music biopics, John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox is repeatedly told by his father, "The wrong kid died!" Walk Hard
#8176, aired 2020-03-09WE HAVE A FEW SPECIALS $1000: She has a different take on motherhood in her comedy specials "Baby Cobra" and "Hard Knock Wife" Ali Wong
#8160, aired 2020-02-14LONDON BOROUGHS $1600: More than 1,300 bombs were dropped on the especially hard-hit borough of Croydon during this 1940-41 German-named assault the Blitz
#8155, aired 2020-02-07CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $3,200 (Daily Double): This discriminatory practice comes from the colorful borders on maps around areas where minorities found it hard to get loans or credit redlining
#8154, aired 2020-02-061980s POP LYRICS $400: Madonna: "'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right" "Material Girl"
#8153, aired 2020-02-05SHOW TUNE RHYMES $3,000 (Daily Double): In "it's The Hard-Knock Life", Annie laments, "No one cares for you a smidge, when you're in" this place an orphanage
#8151, aired 2020-02-03COMPOUND WORDS $2000: Getting to the core of things, the oldest & strongest part of a tree is the hard dark center called this heartwood
#8146, aired 2020-01-27PHRASE HISTORY $400: A 1918 song title said this "Is Hard To Find" A Good Man
#8142, aired 2020-01-21WORDS START WITH "U" $1200: Adding an "M" to this word meaning "to speak" makes it something hard to hear utter
#8, aired 2020-01-14WELCOME BACK BOYS! $600: In 2019 this hard rock band led by Maynard James Keenan released its first album in 13 years & it went to No. 1 Tool
#8, aired 2020-01-14BROADWAY $600: The 2019 musical "Hadestown" goes straight to Hell with Tony winner André de Shields as this Greek messenger god "The wage is nothing and the work is hard / It’s a graveyard in Hadestown" "Way down Hadestown / Way down under the ground" Hermes
#1, aired 2020-01-07THE OSCARS $1000: The Oscar-winning song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" was by this hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia
#8131, aired 2020-01-06HIP-HOP FEUDS $1200: The mom of this "Empire State of Mind" & "Hard Knock Life" star told him to apologize to Nas after a very rough diss track Jay-Z
#8129, aired 2020-01-02CHANGE ONE LETTER $2,000 (Daily Double): A word meaning to try hard tries hard & changes a letter to take one long step strive & stride
#8120, aired 2019-12-20BOOKS FILMED WITH DIFFERENT TITLES $800: "Nothing Lasts Forever", with a cop named Leland flying out to the coast to visit his daughter at Christmas, became this action film Die Hard
#8113, aired 2019-12-11COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $800: Super-hard shell paste is one product from this protective brand for your car Turtle Wax
#8110, aired 2019-12-06THE REST OF THE TITLE, PLEASE $400: "Die Hard 2", promising even more Die Harder
#8096, aired 2019-11-18WE SAY JUMP $400: An allusion to old circus acts, "to jump through" these is to do exasperatingly hard tasks to reach a goal hoops
#8089, aired 2019-11-07THE HUMAN BODY $1600: From the Greek for "hard", it's the tough, white outer layer of the eye sclera
#8082, aired 2019-10-29AMERICAN GOTHIC $1200: Before he he became an Oscar-winning composer, he brought a Gothic feel to '90s hard rock Trent Reznor
#8073, aired 2019-10-16OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $600: Asked incredulously in this film, "You got into Harvard law?", Elle Woods replies, "What, like it's hard?" Legally Blonde
#8060, aired 2019-09-27SOME STERN WORDS $800: A way an egg is cooked, or an adjective for an unsentimental chap hard-boiled
#8057, aired 2019-09-24THE PHYSICS OF TAEKWONDO $200: Practitioners create a solid foundation for striking & make it hard for an attacker to topple them by maintaining this stable 5-syllable state, from Latin for "balance" equilibrium
#8053, aired 2019-09-18CLASSIC METAL BANDS $400: Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine partied so hard he got kicked out of this band whose very name says "metal" Metallica
#8053, aired 2019-09-18DESCRIBING THE CASINO GAME $400: There's no joy in a push; soft numbers, hard choices; a "split" personality blackjack
#8050, aired 2019-09-13ANTONYMS $400: PC Magazine's online encyclopedia uses these 2 antonyms for hard-to-figure-out & easy-to-figure-out passwords strong & weak
#8049, aired 2019-09-12ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name of this hard protein found in hair & nails derives its name from a Greek word for "horn" keratin
#8046, aired 2019-09-09LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $800: Lena, one of TV's "Girls", & Dashiell, who wrote about hard-boiled men Dunhammett
#8043, aired 2019-07-24GO, GO, GADGET... $1000: Crustaceans have hard outer shells called these; the CLOi SuitBot is billed as one that helps you lift things exoskeletons
#8041, aired 2019-07-22ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: In "Hard to Kill", this martial artist & actor says, "I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank" Steven Segal
#8034, aired 2019-07-11BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO $400: The first attempt to break up this communications company was in 1949; it finally happened in the '80s AT&T
#8034, aired 2019-07-11BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO $800: In 1989 these 2 actors decided to rekindle their relationship; actress Dakota Johnson resulted Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith
#8034, aired 2019-07-11BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO $1200: In 2000 this company was ordered to split Windows & Internet Explorer into 2 companies but appealed successfully Microsoft
#8034, aired 2019-07-11BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO $1600: This country was partitioned in 1772, with Austria getting Auschwitz; it was back together in 1918 Poland
#8034, aired 2019-07-11BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO $2000: After other failed attempts, a 1911 federal lawsuit finally split this oil trust into more than 30 companies Standard Oil
#8018, aired 2019-06-19ANIMALS $1600: Lobsters & tarantulas both have these hard outer bodies that must be periodically molted exoskeletons
#8017, aired 2019-06-18A WRITER'S LIFE $1200: Ironically, poet Hart Crane, whose father invented this ring-shaped hard candy, died after jumping overboard a Life Saver
#8010, aired 2019-06-07RISE TO THE OCCASION $1600: This film is set in a high rise, Nakatomi Plaza, during an employee Christmas party; Hans Gruber & co. crash the party Die Hard
#8005, aired 2019-05-31COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA $1000: You get an "A" if you know this hard coal was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1762 anthracite
#8000, aired 2019-05-24ACTORS WE MISS $800: By Grabthar's hammer, this late, great actor was also a classic "Die Hard" villain (Alan) Rickman
#7999, aired 2019-05-23NEWS SPEAK $1200: The term "hard pass" was in the news in November 2018--it's what reporters need to come & go in this building the White House
#7993, aired 2019-05-15TEACHERS IN SONG $200: This hard-rocking group "Got it bad. Got it bad. Got it bad". They're "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen
#7989, aired 2019-05-09TAURUS TYPES $1600: This woman seen here worked hard & made great sacrifices in the search for racial equality Coretta Scott King
#7968, aired 2019-04-10MOLLUSKS $400: Cherrystones & littlenecks are hard-shell types of these clams
#7966, aired 2019-04-08"TOUCH"-Y, "FEEL"-Y $400: I don't want us to part having any resentment, so "no" these, okay? hard feelings
#7960, aired 2019-03-29QUARTZ & ALL $1600: Rich in quartz & feldspar, it's the most common plutonic rock in Earth's continental crust--think hard granite
#7960, aired 2019-03-29PHILOSOPHY $2000: 13-letter term for the state of being aware; the "hard problem" of it is how to explain it using just the brain's physiology consciousness
#7956, aired 2019-03-25IS IT SCIENCE? $600: Chemistry sure is; in fact, it's this 4-letter kind of science dealing with things that can be observed & measured hard science
#7939, aired 2019-02-28ARTS & CULTURE $800: A simile compares white skin to this ceramic material first made in China that has hard- & soft-paste types porcelain
#7938, aired 2019-02-27WHAT A CIRCUS! $400: Mario Zacchini, AKA the "human" this, once said, "Flying isn't the hard part, landing in the net is" a cannonball
#7921, aired 2019-02-04CHICAGO, ATLANTA & MIAMI SOUND MACHINE $1000: Chicago was a "Hard Habit To Break" with an '80s run of hits produced by him, AKA "The Hitman" David Foster
#7911, aired 2019-01-21ONE-NAME TV TITLES $400: For its ninth season, the title guy of this animated FXX show was a hard-drinking pilot, not a hard-drinking spy Archer
#7910, aired 2019-01-18HERE COMES THE SONG TITLE! $800: "Baby, I've been, I've been praying hard, said no more counting dollars, we'll be" this "Counting Stars"
#7898, aired 2019-01-02ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $400: The Beatles reteamed with director Richard Lester after "A Hard Day's Night" to make this movie Help!
#7885, aired 2018-12-14GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $400: Dan Stevens of "Downton Abbey" fame brings this novel to life I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body Frankenstein
#7881, aired 2018-12-10I'M NOT RETIRING! $400: I want to bring the show to this NFL team's Hard Rock Stadium, formerly Joe Robbie Stadium, when it hosts the Super Bowl in 2020 the (Miami) Dolphins
#7868, aired 2018-11-21SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY $600: Even if you have an awesome name like Pita Pan or Holy Mole, these businesses take long hours & hard work restaurants
#7867, aired 2018-11-20THE HUMAN BODY $800: The roof of the mouth consists of a hard this & a soft this; one is a plate of bone & the other is muscle & connective tissue a palate
#7864, aired 2018-11-15CELEBRITIES $600: She trained hard so that she could perform her own stunts as a trapeze artist in "The Greatest Showman" Zendaya
#7862, aired 2018-11-13WHOSE HIT ALBUM? $1200: "Talking is Hard" (so "Shut Up And Dance") Walk the Moon
#7848, aired 2018-10-24STATE FOSSILS $800: Arizona's is this rock-hard wood; there's a whole "forest" of it in the north of the state petrified wood
#7842, aired 2018-10-16ENDS IN AN F SOUND $200: The one over Bette Davis' remains says, "She did it the hard way" an epitaph
#7841, aired 2018-10-15WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS $400: "Guests" of this fortress who checked out the hard way included Sir Thomas More, Edmund Dudley & Anne Boleyn the Tower of London
#7836, aired 2018-10-08HERE'S THE HARD STUFF $200: It's the good stuff--I mean the hard stuff--in a classic daiquiri rum
#7836, aired 2018-10-08HERE'S THE HARD STUFF $400: It's a special birthday; let's celebrate with a glass of 30-year-old this from Glenfiddich (single-malt) Scotch
#7836, aired 2018-10-08HERE'S THE HARD STUFF $600: I'll have a Tom Collins, hold the seltzer, lemon juice & syrup--heck, just give me a glass of this gin
#7836, aired 2018-10-08HERE'S THE HARD STUFF $800: Dilute my bourbon with vermouth? Go straight to Hell's Kitchen! I didn't ask for one of these cocktails a Manhattan
#7836, aired 2018-10-08HERE'S THE HARD STUFF $1000: If you can handle this Italian stuff made from distilled grape seeds & skins, you're a better man than I am grappa
#7826, aired 2018-09-24I'M A HUGE FAN! $2,000 (Daily Double): Die-hard fans of this 1975 movie are naturally "Finaddicts" Jaws
#7820, aired 2018-09-14CAN YOU HEAR ME? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a hearing aid on the monitor.) The hearing device shown here sends vibrations directly to the inner ear, skipping the eardrum--it uses this hard substance as a conductor, so it feels like voices in your head bone
#7815, aired 2018-07-27AROUND THE BODY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents a diagram of a tooth on the monitor.) Between a tooth's enamel & the pulp is this hard, yellow, sensitive layer of tissue that makes up the bulk of the tooth the dentin
#7812, aired 2018-07-24A HALL OF FAME INFIELD $800: Negro Leagues shortstop Willie Wells used a miner's hard hat as an early version of this a batting helmet
#7807, aired 2018-07-17THE OCTOPUS $600: The only hard part of an octopus' body is a sharp, parrotlike one of these on its underside where its arms converge a beak
#7804, aired 2018-07-12AULD BRITISH SLANG $2000: A whooper-up was an inferior, hard-on-the-ears one of these a singer
#7787, aired 2018-06-19POKE OUT AN I $400: Whether acrylic or watercolor, an art supply without its "I" becomes this--breathe hard a pant
#7775, aired 2018-06-01MOVIE! $800: "Well, I try & try to forget you, girl, but it's just so hard to do, every time you" name this 1996 Tom Hanks-directed film That Thing You Do!
#7772, aired 2018-05-29A-1 ALPHANUMERICS 4U $1200: In 1988 this hard-rockin' band was alphanumerically yours with "OU812" Van Halen
#7753, aired 2018-05-02YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE $600: Chronic bronchitis & this lung disease hard on smokers are the 2 main components of COPD emphysema
#7752, aired 2018-05-01DOUBLE "L" WORDS $2000: This bird is often hard to spot, but its song is easy to recognize a whippoorwill
#7730, aired 2018-03-30PLAYING THE PALLADIUM $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows palladium on the monitor.) Palladium is one of the noble metals, which are often precious metals that resist oxidation; it's hard to tell palladium from this noble metal that's directly below it on the periodic table platinum
#7728, aired 2018-03-28RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD $600: Eric Trump to Jared Kushner brother-in-law
#7728, aired 2018-03-28RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD $800: George Clooney to Rosemary Clooney nephew
#7728, aired 2018-03-28RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD $1000: Mei Xiang to Bao Bao (born 2013) mother
#7728, aired 2018-03-28SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $1600: This quartet sang "Our house is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
#7722, aired 2018-03-20MATT DAMON $400: So far, Matt has played this extremely hard to kill guy 4 times, in 2002, '04, '07 & '16 Jason Bourne
#7712, aired 2018-03-06TV $1000: Finding God is hard but Jesse Custer has a woman named Tulip & a vampire named Cassidy to help the search on this AMC drama Preacher
#7709, aired 2018-03-01SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: Behaving like this hard-charging hero of a 1605 Spanish work has become shorthand for impractical idealism Don Quixote
#7706, aired 2018-02-26SEARCH TERMS $800: To search thoroughly, or to clean by hard rubbing to scour
#7703, aired 2018-02-21LOOK UP THE BEATLES NUMBER $600: Lyrics from this song include "He say one & one & one is three. Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see" "Come Together"
#7701, aired 2018-02-19STICKY STUFF $800: The logo for this product shows a worker in a hard hat hanging from the letter A Krazy Glue
#7700, aired 2018-02-16AT THE COMO PARK ZOO $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Como Park Zoo.) While endangered, it's hard to estimate how many snow leopards are left in the wild, because they inhabit such remote regions of Asia; however, some have been spotted & may be making a comeback on this highest mountain from which they disappeared decades ago Mount Everest
#7697, aired 2018-02-13WOOD $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Prized for its hard, reddish wood and used in furniture, this national tree of Belize appears on its flag mahogany
#7690, aired 2018-02-024 TOP MEN $2000: At the 2017 Grammys, this hard rocking quartet of dudes went (Lady) Gaga to play "Moth Into Flame" Metallica
#7685, aired 2018-01-26SIMILES IF YOU PLEASE $400: Someone with limited compassion might be called "hard as" or "tough as" these fasteners nails
#7684, aired 2018-01-25TIBET SEE $400: Here is a different kind of string cheese--cheese from this local bovine is sometimes served rock hard a yak
#7677, aired 2018-01-16HARD "C" $400: One gardening encyclopedia says it's a name for generally obnoxious weeds, particularly in lawns crabgrass
#7677, aired 2018-01-16HARD "C" $800: This word for a harsh discordance of sound comes from the Greek for "bad sound" cacophony
#7677, aired 2018-01-16HARD "C" $1200: It's the name for the white siding on the house seen here clapboard
#7677, aired 2018-01-16HARD "C" $1600: English chemist Humphry Davy figured out how this element works as a bleaching agent chlorine
#7677, aired 2018-01-16HARD "C" $2000: A pale blue porcelain glaze is called this, a French phrase meaning moonlight clair de lune
#7669, aired 2018-01-04FAUX PAS $600: Church etiquette isn't hard & fast, but you probably shouldn't chew gum or wear your Oakley or Persol these there sunglasses
#7658, aired 2017-12-20FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $1200: Olaf the Snowman confessed he found this 1962 David Lean epic "hard to watch" Lawrence of Arabia
#7649, aired 2017-12-07NEW TO THE OED $1200: This 3-word term for a bullet with a hard casing, also a 1987 movie title full metal jacket
#7631, aired 2017-11-13THEY WROTE IT $1200: The diary entry "That big, dark, hunky boy...came over and was looking hard in my eyes and it was Ted Hughes" Sylvia Plath
#7622, aired 2017-10-31WORD TO THE Y_Ys $1200: It's memorably used by "cowboy" Bruce Willis in "Die Hard" yippee-ki-yay
#7621, aired 2017-10-30"ANT", MAN $600: Grammatically, in "Sal hit a ball so hard that he knocked the cover off it", Sal is this to he, as is ball to it antecedent
#7614, aired 2017-10-19THE CHANDLER $1600: A typical hard-boiled line: these guys "never say goodbye. They're always hoping to see you again in the line-up" the cops
#7610, aired 2017-10-13RICKENBACKER GUITARS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Rickenbacker Guitars HQ in Santa Ana, California.) Rickenbacker changed the sound of the 1960s when it gave the second-ever Model 360 12-string to George Harrison, who used it for the opening chord of the theme song for this 1964 movie A Hard Day's Night
#7600, aired 2017-09-29ROCK & ROLL! $200: Rockin' & rollin & mic stand-twirlin' a bit too hard, David Lee Roth cut his nose fronting this band on Kimmel & got 14 stitches Van Halen
#7592, aired 2017-09-19DITLOIDS $400: These hit the pharaoh hard in Exodus: 10 P of E the ten plagues of Egypt
#7575, aired 2017-07-14BIG BEN $800: Ben Rich used the security alias Ben Dover when he helped design the F-117 Nighthawk, the first of these hard-to-spot craft stealth craft
#7571, aired 2017-07-10EVERYBODY "PAY"S $800: To keep up your good standing in the Teamsters, or to earn your position by hard work & tough times pay your dues
#7570, aired 2017-07-07STAR TALK $800: Because of the proximity of Sirius, NASA had a hard time imaging the closest-to-Earth white this, a burned-out star a dwarf
#7569, aired 2017-07-06CONFUCIUS SAID $200: "Not to grumble at being ____ is hard, not to be proud of wealth is easy" poor
#7569, aired 2017-07-06A SPARKLE QUIZ $1000: Sparkle Plenty was a family friend of this hard-boiled comic strip detective Dick Tracy
#7566, aired 2017-07-03LETTER PERFECT $800: "Gadsby" was a 50,000-word work of fiction with no using of this non-consonant (Ha! Did it! But it was hard to do!) an E
#7565, aired 2017-06-30STAY WOKE $400: This musical "nap" the Bee Gees might like is taking a snooze to get ready to play hard later that night at a certain venue a disco nap
#7558, aired 2017-06-21PUB TRIVIA $400: Bartenders would once commonly measure their hard liquor pours by the width of these body parts fingers
#7552, aired 2017-06-13A BEATLES SONG & MOVIE TITLE $800: "But when I get home to you, I find the things that you do, will make me feel alright" "A Hard Day's Night"
#7551, aired 2017-06-12THE SPORTING LIFE $400: In the 2 styles of this Olympic sport, one is played on sand & the other on a hard surface volleyball
#7550, aired 2017-06-09RECENT MOVIES $1000: Ron Howard's documentary on the Beatles' touring years had this song in its title "Eight Days A Week"
#7544, aired 2017-06-01HOPE-POURRI $400: In a victory speech in October 2015, this PM of Canada said, "We beat fear with hope. We beat cynicism with hard work" (Justin) Trudeau
#7536, aired 2017-05-22ASIAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $800: Maggie Q fulfilled the second part of this 2007 Bruce Willis title after plunging down an elevator shaft in an SUV Live Free or Die Hard
#7534, aired 2017-05-18TV SITCOM BY EPISODES $400: "A Hard Jay's Night" & "Phil on Wire" Modern Family
#7527, aired 2017-05-09PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $1600: The archetype of the hard-boiled detective, Sam Spade was created by this author & featured in "The Maltese Falcon" Dashiell Hammett
#7518, aired 2017-04-26LOCKER ROOM TALK $800: I read it in GQ, Perkins--"back hair is never sexy"; get rid of it this way, using either the hard or strip types wax
#7515, aired 2017-04-211990s NO. 1 ALBUMS $1600: This hard rock group conjured up "Use Your Illusion II" Guns N' Roses
#7513, aired 2017-04-19SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $200: The moose never stood a chance on "Weekend Update" when this "Sisters" star did a hard-core gangsta rap about Sarah Palin Amy Poehler
#7506, aired 2017-04-10ANIMATED CHARACTERS $600: This PBS Kids title guy in a hard hat brings his construction projects in on time & under budget Bob the Builder
#7494, aired 2017-03-23NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: It began in 2001 as "Nous sommes tous Americains"; now these 3 English words precede the name of any hard-hit group "we are all"
#7492, aired 2017-03-21WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON $800: During the 1840 election, Harrison was accused of only wanting a pension, a log cabin & this hard apple beverage apple cider
#7486, aired 2017-03-13MONEY MUSIC $400: In 1983 this singer told us, "She works hard for the money, so hard for it, honey" Donna Summer
#7478, aired 2017-03-01A SMALL COLLEGE $400: This D.C. schools says it's "the world's only university designed to be barrier-free for deaf & hard of hearing students" Gallaudet
#7478, aired 2017-03-01PLUS "C" $1200: Combine a "C" with this word meaning difficult & you get this Swiss vegetable hard and chard
#7477, aired 2017-02-28A SHOW OF HANS $800: This "Die Hard" character made AFI's list of the 100 greatest movie heroes & villains of all time Hans Gruber
#7471, aired 2017-02-20WOMEN WRITERS $400: For 10 years she wrote for Entertainment Weekly; since she published "Gone Girl", EW covers her Gillian Flynn
#7467, aired 2017-02-14SCI-FI BOOKS $200: The "hard rain" in Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves" comes from this natural satellite that's broken up & falling to Earth bit by bit the moon
#7461, aired 2017-02-06HARD "G" $400: The midnight to 8 A.M. shift the graveyard shift
#7461, aired 2017-02-06HARD "G" $800: "Mikado" librettist Gilbert
#7461, aired 2017-02-06HARD "G" $1200: There's a ruffed type of this game bird a grouse
#7461, aired 2017-02-06HARD "G" $1600: He built what's now Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre (Sid) Grauman
#7461, aired 2017-02-06HARD "G" $2000: Japanese dumplings gyoza
#7432, aired 2016-12-27A FOND FAREWELL TO THE 114th CONGRESS $800: In 2016 Orrin Hatch pushed legislation combating opioid abuse, saying "My home state of" this "has been... hard hit" Utah
#7425, aired 2016-12-16WESTERN MOVIES $1200: This hard-drinking friend of Wild Bill Hickok has been played on film by Jean Arthur, Yvonne de Carlo & Doris Day Calamity Jane
#7422, aired 2016-12-13BOOKS OF THE 1930s $2000: Ding! Ding! This hard-boiled 1934 novel was James M. Cain's first The Postman Always Rings Twice
#7417, aired 2016-12-06THAT'S JUST NUTS! $1000: Cultivated in California & Iran, it has a hard, tan shell, enclosing a pale, green nut pistachios
#7414, aired 2016-12-01"ROCK" IT TO ME $800: In the title of a 1989 hit, the Rolling Stones were stuck between these 2 unpleasant things a rock and a hard place
#7411, aired 2016-11-28CLASSIC FILM MUSIC $1000: "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" made easy work of winning the Oscar for Original Song for this 2005 film Hustle and Flow
#7410, aired 2016-11-25THIRD IN THE MOVIE SERIES $200: Hans Gruber's brother Simon turns up "with a Vengeance" in No. 3 in this series Die Hard
#7409, aired 2016-11-24FROM A TO ALMOST Z $800: In "The Christmas Song", "Tiny tots with their eyes all" this "will find it hard to sleep tonight" aglow
#7386, aired 2016-10-24THE GIG ECONOMY $800: The Bolt DVR from this video recording pioneer unifies your TV watching with its minimum 500 GB hard drive TiVo
#7374, aired 2016-10-06MAKE AMERICA GRATE AGAIN $200: "Reggiano" is part of the Italian name of this hard cheese that's grated over pasta dishes parmigiano
#7374, aired 2016-10-06MAKE AMERICA GRATE AGAIN $600: A-S-I-A are the first 4 letters of this hard cheese, but it's not from Asia, it's from the Veneto foothills in Italy asiago
#7371, aired 2016-10-03DEAD LINES $1,600 (Daily Double): He's the hard-boiled detective who silently muses, "You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep" Philip Marlowe
#7371, aired 2016-10-03THE "TIMES" OF YOUR LIFE $1600: In the 2007 film "I'm Not There" Mason Jennings sings this classic Bob Dylan tune "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
#7370, aired 2016-09-30ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $400: Protective headgear for a construction worker a hard hat
#7367, aired 2016-09-27THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE LADLE $1600: In a "Muppisode" on YouTube, this hard-to-understand cook takes on Gordon Ramsay the Swedish Chef
#7366, aired 2016-09-26WOMEN GETTING PHYSICAL $1600: The dramatic life of this "hard-hearted" soprano included getting slapped by fellow singer Giulietta Simionato Maria Callas
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The German model 1902 field Howitzer could hurl a 95-pound shell nearly 5 miles; because of their power & black smoke, the incoming rounds got this nickname among the allied troops after the hard-hitting African-American heavyweight champion of the era Jack Johnson
#7346, aired 2016-07-18QUICK AS THE DICKENS $2000: This work was subtitled "For These Times" Hard Times
#7333, aired 2016-06-29HISTORIC OOPSIES $200: In 1812 this world leader learned a hard lesson--don't wage war in Russia in winter Napoleon
#7333, aired 2016-06-29THE GOLD BURGLARS $200: Jeremy Irons tries to steal gold "with a Vengeance" in the third entry in this film series, but John McClane is on it Die Hard
#7333, aired 2016-06-29HISTORIC OOPSIES $400: In 1941 this world leader learned a hard lesson--don't wage war in Russia in winter Hitler
#7333, aired 2016-06-29ALLEYS $800: Often used as the shooter in marbles, an alley is named for this hard stone from which it is sometimes made alabaster
#7321, aired 2016-06-13GLUTEN-US MINIMUS $200: Beer generally has gluten, but this hard beverage, like from Angry Orchard, does not cider
#7314, aired 2016-06-02RHYME WAVE $400: To etch words or pictures into a hard surface like glass or stone engrave
#7300, aired 2016-05-13SUPERIOR $200: Money proved superior to this system of swapping goods, as it was hard walking around with a cow or a sack of pears bartering
#7291, aired 2016-05-02BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $800: In 2015 he apologized for "mistakes in planning" but found it hard to apologize "for removing Saddam" Tony Blair
#7291, aired 2016-05-02JUST "D.M." ME $2000: The name of this hard covering of the brain is Latin for "hard mother" dura mater
#7280, aired 2016-04-15"KNOCK", KNOCK $1000: The setbacks & lessons of real life are sometimes called this educational institution the school of hard knocks
#7279, aired 2016-04-14ALL YOU CAN "EAT" $1200: Hard red winter & hard red spring are 2 types of this wheat
#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
#7264, aired 2016-03-24"CALL" NOW $1200: From the Latin for "hard-skinned", it's an insensitive disregard for others callousness
#7261, aired 2016-03-21NOW YOU SEE ME $1000: This hard to spot insect lives up to its name, & some can force a toxin-containing blood from their exoskeletons a walking stick
#7243, aired 2016-02-24HARD-THROWING PITCHERS $400: Along with the career record for strikeouts--5,714--he holds the career record for walks with 2,795 Nolan Ryan
#7243, aired 2016-02-24HARD-THROWING PITCHERS $800: Only Greg Maddux & this 6'10" Diamondbacks flamethrower have won 4 straight Cy Young awards Randy Johnson
#7243, aired 2016-02-24HARD-THROWING PITCHERS $1200: The pitcher most recently named the American league's MVP was this fireballing Tiger in 2011 (Justin) Verlander
#7243, aired 2016-02-24HARD-THROWING PITCHERS $1600: In 1978 this team's Ron Guidry, 25-3, achieved the highest winning percentage of any 20-game winner with .893 the Yankees
#7243, aired 2016-02-24HARD-THROWING PITCHERS $2000: The Nationals' Blake Treinen has hit 100 mph with this type of pitch that gets its name from its downward motion a sinker
#7226, aired 2016-02-01ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: Covering 8 Nevada acres, it's the not very ancient pyramid seen here the Luxor
#7223, aired 2016-01-27POP MUSIC $1600: This singer-songwriter reached the Top 10 twice with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", in 1962 & 1976 Neil Sedaka
#7213, aired 2016-01-13FILL IN THE BODY PART $600: Hard effort: ____ grease elbow
#7204, aired 2015-12-31TOP "TEN" $800: Once a teacher is granted this, it's hard to dismiss him tenure
#7199, aired 2015-12-24COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE $600: Hillary Clinton's memoir about her time in the State Department: "Hard ____" Choices
#7196, aired 2015-12-21MEASURED WORDS $400: A 4-inch tall horse would measure one of these, & be very hard to ride a hand
#7155, aired 2015-10-23ODD COMPETITIONS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays some hard rock riffs with no instrument.) I wonder if I'm good enough to enter the U.S. championships for this, held annually since 2003 air guitar
#7154, aired 2015-10-22GEM $800: The 3 natural forms of this hard gem are called bort, ballas & carbonado a diamond
#7136, aired 2015-09-28COMPUTER HISTORY $400: The alternative to hard disk wasn't called soft disk but this, & 5 billion a year were sold in the mid-'90s floppy disk
#7122, aired 2015-07-28A FISH IS STILL A FISH $400: Slow & nearly defenseless in its normal state, it's intimidating & hard to swallow after doing its thing blowfish (or pufferfish)
#7121, aired 2015-07-27MY LITTLE PONY NAMES $400: A player who hits the ball very hard, or the Louisville bat he uses Slugger
#7119, aired 2015-07-23LINGO $800: In craps, if you roll a 6 with a 3-3 combo, you've done it this "way" the hard way
#7117, aired 2015-07-21FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $600: The fourth film in this Bruce Willis series was inspired by an article about cyberhacking Die Hard
#7117, aired 2015-07-21THE NON‑DEPRESSING 1930s $600: Hard work paid off for Frances Perkins--in 1933 she became Secretary of this, the first woman in the cabinet Labor
#7117, aired 2015-07-21THE ART OF THE KISS $1600: It's hard to tell, but that's him & wife Jacqueline Roque entwined in "The Kiss", painted in 1969 when he was 88 Pablo Picasso
#7101, aired 2015-06-29"STA" WITH ME $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows videos on the monitor.) If the video your friend took is hard to watch because the camera moves around, it can be improved by using an editing effect known as motion this stabilization
#7100, aired 2015-06-26SAINTS $1000: St. Stephen earned sainthood the hard way, telling off the Sanhedrin before getting this to death, literally stoned
#7095, aired 2015-06-19U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $400: The name of this largest New Mexico city once had a second "R", but it was hard to pronounce that way Albuquerque
#7085, aired 2015-06-05THE MOST DOWNLOADED ROCK SONGS $600: Any way the wind blows, this operatic yet hard-rockin' tune by Queen is No. 10 "Bohemian Rhapsody"
#7083, aired 2015-06-03LITERARY SIMILES $4,000 (Daily Double): Jonathan Harker's journal says this character's face "was deathly pale and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires" Dracula
#7080, aired 2015-05-29PULL UP A CHAIR $400: French for "long chair", it's a seat long enough to support its user's legs chaise longue
#7080, aired 2015-05-29GRAINS $2000: From the Latin for "hard", it's wheat used chiefly in making pasta durum
#7079, aired 2015-05-28BOOKS' FIRST LINES $1000: Hard boiled: "Sam Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth" The Maltese Falcon
#7073, aired 2015-05-20"EBB" & "FLO" $1200: To step hard on the gas to floor it
#7071, aired 2015-05-18EGG $400: There's nothing satanic about this hard-cooked-egg appetizer; the name means the dish was made with a hot or savory seasoning deviled eggs
#7070, aired 2015-05-15POP CULTURE $600: Angus Young has been wearing his school uniform as a member of this hard-rockin' group since the early 1970s AC/DC
#7063, aired 2015-05-06LIGHT THE CANDLES $200: Idiomatically, do this to the candle & you're going too hard by both day & night burning it at both ends
#7061, aired 2015-05-04THE MIDWEST $400: You'd be hard-pressed to find one in the state, but the critter seen here gave a nickname to this state Michigan
#7057, aired 2015-04-282 SYLLABLES, 2 SYLLABLES $400: Cadmium, or a term for aggressive rock music heavy metal
#7053, aired 2015-04-22BUSINESS HISTORY $200: This restaurant chain opened in London in 1971; Eric Clapton's guitar became the first piece of memorabilia in 1979 the Hard Rock Cafe
#7047, aired 2015-04-14SPEECH! SPEECH! $600: On Sept. 12, 1962 JFK said America would achieve this within the decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard a Moon landing
#7045, aired 2015-04-10DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE $8,600 (Daily Double): "E" is for this hard outer body of an animal, like a mollusk's shell exoskeleton
#7044, aired 2015-04-09BARTENDING GLOSSARY $200: This 6-letter word is used of a milder beverage that's consumed immediately after a shot of hard liquor chaser
#7042, aired 2015-04-07FILM SCHOOL $200: Asked, "You got into Harvard Law?" in this film, Reese Witherspoon replies, "What, like it's hard?" Legally Blonde
#7025, aired 2015-03-132-TIMING STATES $1000: In Michigan they're still asleep in Ironwood but getting up in this rock-hard seat of Genesee County Flint
#7019, aired 2015-03-05THE BLACK LIST $400: AKA "hard coal"' it's steel gray to black in color anthracite
#7019, aired 2015-03-05THROWING SHADE $1000: Soft or white, types of this tree produce needles in bunches of 5; hard or yellow, in bundles of 2 or 3 a pine
#7016, aired 2015-03-02MAY THE FORK BE WITH YOU $1000: The length of this fork hits those hard to reach spots within the namesake crustacean a lobster
#7004, aired 2015-02-12SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $800: 1941: Scandal sheet skipper says single sled sentence Citizen Kane
#7000, aired 2015-02-06FROM BOOK TO FILM $800: Joe Leland became John McClane & "Nothing Lasts Forever" became this action romp Die Hard
#6998, aired 2015-02-04THE MI"DD"LE $1600: Adjective for a person who trudges or a book that's hard to get through plodding
#6996, aired 2015-02-02HARD ROCKERS $400: "Can't you see me standin' here, I got my back against the record machine... ah, might as well jump (jump!)" Van Halen
#6996, aired 2015-02-02HARD ROCKERS $800: "Take me down to the Paradise City, where the grass is green & the girls are pretty, oh, won't you please take me home?" Guns N' Roses
#6996, aired 2015-02-02HARD ROCKERS $1200: "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the May Queen" Led Zeppelin
#6996, aired 2015-02-02HARD ROCKERS $1600: "The walls were shaking, the earth was quaking, my mind was aching, & we were making it, & you... shook me all night long" AC/DC
#6996, aired 2015-02-02HARD ROCKERS $2000: "Girls, girls, girls... long legs & burgundy lips, girls, girls, girls... dancin' down on the Sunset Strip... girls, girls, girls" Motley Crue
#6991, aired 2015-01-26THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $400: The Tiger-Lily says these talk because the ground is hard: "In most gardens... they make the beds too soft" & they sleep flowers
#6981, aired 2015-01-12SYMBOLS $1200: An emblem of the samurai was this fruit with red flesh & a hard kernel a cherry
#6980, aired 2015-01-09DO IT $800: Cut blocks of hard snow, place them in a circle & add blocks on top of them to form a dome an igloo
#6975, aired 2015-01-02IN MY CABINET $800: Oral-B's Complete Deep Clean Ultra this hits those hard-to-reach spots dental floss
#6973, aired 2014-12-31NAME YOUR POISON $1,400 (Daily Double): Angry Orchard, Adam's Revenge (hard apple) cider
#6961, aired 2014-12-15NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $400: (Hi. I'm Quvenzhané Wallis.) In an updated version of a beloved musical, I play this title girl as a foster kid--it's the hard knock life with Miss Hannigan in Harlem Annie
#6955, aired 2014-12-05THE OLYMPIC GAMES $2000: In 1952 at Oslo, for this type of skiing aka Nordic, it was hard to tell competitors from spectators, who arrived on skis cross-country skiing
#6954, aired 2014-12-04GETTING ATTACHED $600: The Bible says the children of Israel had it tough "with hard bondage, in mortar, and in" this, which mortar binds together bricks
#6946, aired 2014-11-24THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $400: Hard to make "Being" this actor without this actor; boy, John Cusack really got in his head John Malkovich
#6927, aired 2014-10-28OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 2005: Things are difficult in regards to the call-girl management industry "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp"
#6907, aired 2014-09-30LAYING THINGS M TO M $800: A stately tomb; it's hard to enjoy an eternal night at the... mausoleum
#6906, aired 2014-09-292014 BESTSELLERS $400: This politician was diplomatic in her memoir "Hard Choices" Hillary Clinton
#6904, aired 2014-09-25AMERICANA $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Deadwood, SD) Born Martha Cannary, this hard-drinking legend of the old west had a soft side, too, caring for the victims of the 1878 smallpox epidemic in Deadwood. Her dying request? "Bury me beside Wild Bill" Calamity Jane
#6900, aired 2014-09-19DATE NUT $600: Hard to believe it's been 40 years since Nixon resigned on the 9th of this month in 1974 August
#6898, aired 2014-09-17CRITTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This largest sea turtle is the only one that lacks a hard shell, having instead skin with tiny bone plates the leatherback turtle
#6892, aired 2014-07-29OLD TESTAMENT HEROES $800: "When the Queen of Sheba heard of" his fame, "she came to prove him with hard questions" Solomon
#6879, aired 2014-07-10THAT'S DIFFICULT! $400: It precedes "-boiled", "candy" & "cider" hard
#6878, aired 2014-07-09ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT $1000: In May 1895 this author was sentenced to 2 years at hard labor, mostly served at Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde
#6871, aired 2014-06-30POTENT POTABLES $600: The brand called Mike's Hard makes cider & punch, but its logo shows this is its flagship drink lemonade
#6866, aired 2014-06-23YOUR IDIOMS CONFUSE ME $800: A rule with no exceptions is said to be "hard &" this fast
#6866, aired 2014-06-23WE ALL HAVE NEEDS $1200: On Broadway this title character is needed to lead the orphans singing "It's The Hard-Knock Life" Annie
#6865, aired 2014-06-20DETROIT ROCK CITY $400: An abbreviation of this nickname for Detroit gave the hard-rocking MC5 their name the Motor City
#6861, aired 2014-06-16ALAN RICKMAN ROLES $800: Bruce Willis said, "Yippee-ki-yay" to Rickman's Hans Gruber in this flick Die Hard
#6850, aired 2014-05-30POKER $600: It's hard to tell if pro Phil Laak is bluffing behind the shades & hood that earned him this serial killer nickname the Unabomber
#6847, aired 2014-05-27PLASTIC $1200: The hard plastic now called HDPE was introduced to consumers by this swiveling 1950s fad the Hula Hoop
#6845, aired 2014-05-23AUTH"ER"S $1200: This hard-boiled writer took the big sleep for real on March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler
#6843, aired 2014-05-21FAMOUS WOMEN $200: In 2013 N.Y. mag. reported, "Three years before November 8, 2016, she's working hard to be relaxed, calm, easy" Hillary Clinton
#6833, aired 2014-05-07CHINESE ART $1200: These landforms, such as Kunlun, have long been featured in Chinese art; they're the home of dongtian, or "cave heavens" mountains
#6833, aired 2014-05-07READ"ING" $10,000 (Daily Double): Squire Allworthy is a character in a 1749 novel by this man (Henry) Fielding
#6828, aired 2014-04-30LOW-TECH HIGH TECH $400: A hard reboot of your computer can be accomplished with this simple pair of steps turning it off, turning it on (or unplugging it, plugging it back in)
#6826, aired 2014-04-28A PIG $1600: Flat & hard, it's what a bush pig mainly uses to unearth food its snout
#6815, aired 2014-04-11THE CHARACTER SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS $400: "Fes" was a foreign exchange student with a real name too hard to say on this sitcom set in Wisconsin a few decades ago That '70s Show
#6815, aired 2014-04-11CHECK YOUR "OIL" $400: Hard work; it precedes "and trouble" in the title of a book about witches toil
#6803, aired 2014-03-26OLYMPIC TRACK & FIELD RECORDS $600: 73 feet, 8 3/4 inches by Ulf Timmermann the shot put
#6797, aired 2014-03-18POTTERY $800: Hard paste, soft paste & bone china are the 3 main types of this ceramic porcelain
#6796, aired 2014-03-17A BIRD IN THE HAND $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Alaska.) The feet of the Harlan's red-tailed hawk are protected from struggling prey because their talons are bone encased in a sheath of this hard protein keratin
#6792, aired 2014-03-11VICE PRESIDENTS $800: In 1814 this VP from Mass. for whom a political term is named died in office having served less than 2 years (Elbridge) Gerry
#6791, aired 2014-03-10TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: It's the Pritchetts vs. the Dunphys for some cold hard cash, & Richard Dawson's kissing all the ladies Modern Family Feud
#6789, aired 2014-03-06CONSIDER THAT A DIVORCE $400: In 1982 this future German chancellor got a divorce after 5 years of marriage but kept the last name Angela Merkel
#6783, aired 2014-02-26BRAVE $600: This little friend of Winnie-the-Pooh wisely opined that "it is hard to be brave when you're only a very small animal" Piglet
#6777, aired 2014-02-18A GREEK MYTHTAKE $400: Beset by madness induced by Hera, he killed his wife Megara & was sentenced to hard labors Hercules
#6772, aired 2014-02-11HARD TO DEFINE $200: In March 2014 NYC's 92nd Street Y will use a 7-day program to define this (our try: a creatively brilliant person) genius
#6772, aired 2014-02-11HARD TO DEFINE $400: stopTHIS.gov defines it as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among... children that involves a... power imbalance" bullying
#6772, aired 2014-02-11HARD TO DEFINE $600: The elusive concept of fairness, or an official "of the peace" justice
#6772, aired 2014-02-11HARD TO DEFINE $800: AKA po-mo, it's a rejection of theory in favor of a mix of styles & values--or something like that post-modernism
#6772, aired 2014-02-11HARD TO DEFINE $1000: Clara Bow starred in a 1927 film whose title was this pronoun--hard to define, but basically sex appeal it
#6769, aired 2014-02-06GRANDSON OF WOOD $400: (Alex Trebek presents the clue from the deck of the USS Iowa.) The upper decks of World War II Iowa class battleships were covered in this hard Asian wood, some of it still in place after 70 years; it's the kind of wood you find on expensive yachts teak
#6754, aired 2014-01-16THROWN OF GAMES $600: In craps, you need a pair of 4s to throw 8 this "way" the hard way
#6747, aired 2014-01-07PLAY THAT FIDDLE $2000: Plucking instead of bowing the strings; Bartok called for doing it extra-hard so the string snaps onto the wood pizzicato
#6728, aired 2013-12-11POP QUIZ $200: He was English king Charles II's daddy (don't think too hard) Charles I
#6728, aired 2013-12-11SALAD $800: This salad with chopped turkey, bacon, tomatoes & hard-boiled eggs is named for the owner of the Brown Derby a Cobb salad
#6718, aired 2013-11-27SEQUELS $1600: 2013's "A Good Day to" do this Die Hard
#6713, aired 2013-11-20SPEAK UP! $600: The woman in this song by 'Til Tuesday needs to speak up despite what her boyfriend says "I try so hard not to get upset..." "Voices Carry"
#6710, aired 2013-11-15GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $1200: This math branch can also pose a problem for your dentist as a hard deposit on your teeth calculus
#6704, aired 2013-11-07THE FABRIC OF OUR LIVES $200: When you say it's fiber from insect larvae made from cocoon spinning, it's hard to believe we love to sleep on sheets of it silk
#6689, aired 2013-10-17OTHER ROLLING STONES $400: Aron Ralston's memoir of being trapped when an 800-pound boulder rolled onto his arm is called "Between" this pair a rock & a hard place
#6687, aired 2013-10-15STARTS WITH A QUESTION WORD $1600: This peanutty Hershey bar has "a name & a taste that's hard to forget" Whatchamacallit
#6685, aired 2013-10-11AS HEARD ON TV $600: Sue, on Fox: "You think this is hard?! I'm passing a gallstone as we speak! That's hard!" Glee
#6681, aired 2013-10-07BAND/NAMES $1000: I'd go to Mars with Sixx of my pals to Neil before '80s hard rock gods like them, right, Tommy boy? Motley Crue
#6674, aired 2013-09-26WELL-PLAYED, WELL-PAID $800: This Spaniard's hard work has netted him more than $50 million on the pro tennis tour Rafael Nadal
#6672, aired 2013-09-24OH, "G"! $600: With both a hard & a soft G, this word means to eat gluttonously to gorge
#6658, aired 2013-07-24NAIL POLISH COLORS $1000: Hard Candy's Crystal Confetti Collection includes a red & black one named for this type of costume ball masquerade
#6646, aired 2013-07-08ROCK & ROLL CALL $800: Rick Savage plays bass in this band, whose name was initially spelled like a hard-of-hearing feline Def Leppard
#6643, aired 2013-07-03TENNIS THE MENACE $400: An ATP study found that injuries occurred less than half as often on this French Open surface as on hard courts clay
#6642, aired 2013-07-02AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $400: If his "Finnegans Wake" is hard to fathom, try this Irishman's kids' book "The Cat & the Devil" (James) Joyce
#6627, aired 2013-06-11I SANG THE JAMES BOND SONG $2000: "Goldfinger" Shirley Bassey
#6613, aired 2013-05-22MOVIE COUPLES $1600: Bonnie Bedelia played Holly Gennaro McClane, the on-again, off-again wife of John McClane in this film series Die Hard
#6596, aired 2013-04-29REVENGE $400: To get revenge on Odysseus, Polyphemus prayed to this sea god, his dad, who made it hard for Odysseus to get home Poseidon
#6594, aired 2013-04-25THE FAST & THE FURRIEST $800: As it zips around the eastern, central & southern African plains at 70 mph, it's hard to say this large cat "never wins" cheetah
#6592, aired 2013-04-23ALL-TIME 100 SONGS $800: "Thanks to... 'Wayne's World', it can be hard to take" this Queen song "seriously" "Bohemian Rhapsody"
#6588, aired 2013-04-17ON "EDGE" $800: In conversation with a Gabby Gus, it may be hard to "get a word in" this way edgewise
#6584, aired 2013-04-11THE BALL $1600: Blake Griffin slams the ball down hard for this other NBA team in the City of Angels the Clippers
#6581, aired 2013-04-08"CH"OW $1600: This medium-sized east coast clam has a hard shell a cherrystone
#6580, aired 2013-04-05MONOGRAMS OF THE FAMOUS & INFAMOUS $400: Hard-drinking 19th century poet & critic EAP Edgar Allan Poe
#6579, aired 2013-04-04LET IT "B" $1600: Studies suggest that cosmetic injections of this make it hard not only to show emotion but also to empathize botox
#6577, aired 2013-04-02REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $200: Rough May 2012 for this bank whose name ends in "Chase", chasing after a $2 billion or so loss it ran up J.P. Morgan Chase
#6577, aired 2013-04-02REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $400: In 1972, when you get just 17 electoral votes, reality says if you wanna live in a White House, go to a paint store George McGovern
#6577, aired 2013-04-02REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $600: Carel Fabritius, nice job on A View in Delft in this country; bummer about the powder explosion there that killed you the Netherlands
#6577, aired 2013-04-02REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $800: When the French realize you're a dancing double agent during WWI, Oct. 15, 1917 will be a bad day, female bro Mata Hari
#6577, aired 2013-04-02REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $1000: 2008 got heavy for you, bro, when foes in Pakistan's parliament said they'd impeach you--time to quit as president Pervez Musharraf
#6574, aired 2013-03-28MEMPHIS MUSIC HALL OF FAME $1600: Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" won a 2005 Oscar for this film with "Hustle" in its title Hustle and Flow
#6567, aired 2013-03-191801-1810 $1200: Jesse Fell of Pennsylvania invented a great grate to permit the home burning of this hard coal anthracite
#6555, aired 2013-03-01DRUMSTICKS $1200: Despite losing an arm in a car accident, Rick Allen is still the drummer for this hard rockin' "Hysteria" band Def Leppard
#6554, aired 2013-02-28TV VILLAINS $400: Despite his evil intent, it's hard not to feel bad for this Warner Bros. Road Runner pursuer Wile E. Coyote
#6552, aired 2013-02-26HOLIDAY FUN $200: Duh, December 26th is the national day for this colorful hard candy a candy cane
#6551, aired 2013-02-25NELSON MANDELA $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Robben Island.) Mandela did 13 years of hard labor here in the quarry, suffering eye damage caused by the sun's reflection off the rock, while chipping away with picks & shovels to get to this four-letter residue, also known as calcium oxide lime
#6551, aired 2013-02-25END "SHIP" $1000: The Gates Millennium is one of these; study hard! a scholarship
#6544, aired 2013-02-14PIN THE TALE ON THE WRITER $1600: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1953) Flannery O'Connor
#6544, aired 2013-02-14THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC 2013 $2000: Occurring twice a month, it's the 6-letter hard-to-spell term for when the Sun, Moon & Earth are in alignment syzygy
#6538, aired 2013-02-06ANATOM"E" $1200: This hard tissue that covers the crown of a tooth is not living & contains no nerves enamel
#6535, aired 2013-02-01NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1000: Cobalt is a silver-white metal; this is a hard, dark volcanic rock, common in the earth's crust basalt
#6522, aired 2013-01-15WELLS $2000: Named for a French region, it's drilled through hard rock to reach water capable of rising to the surface by its own pressure an artesian well
#6516, aired 2013-01-07AMERICAN REGIONALISMS $400: Whether it's a trash mover, a toad strangler or a gully washer, a hard one of these is about to fall a rain
#6514, aired 2013-01-03SHELF RELIANCE $400: For raw eggs, it's the period of 3-4 weeks after the "sell by" date; for hard-boiled, it's 7 days, with the shell on shelf life
#6513, aired 2013-01-02THE 6 SIMPLE MACHINES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew operates a doorknob.) It's hard turning just the post of a doorknob, but put the knob on, & it's now the simple machine known as the wheel & this axle
#6509, aired 2012-12-27YOUR CHOICE OF 3 $400: The jointed shell of the southern 3-banded this animal lets it curl up into a hard, tight ball for safety armadillo
#6507, aired 2012-12-25IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $1000: Though cockatiels are mainly seed eaters, the hard internal shells of these squid relatives provide needed calcium cuttlefish
#6507, aired 2012-12-25SON OF... $2000: Spelling out this common Spanish patronymic suffix shouldn't be hard; just the opposite ez
#6507, aired 2012-12-25FILL IN THE FILM FRUIT $2000: "Sideways": "It's a hard _____ to grow" a grape
#6493, aired 2012-12-05THIS REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED $400: In the Dickens adaptation "Hard Times" the Industrial Revolution
#6483, aired 2012-11-21CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Hi. I'm Cheech Marin, and...) You can't help feeling the exuberance of the Beatles in this, their first movie A Hard Day's Night
#6479, aired 2012-11-15GET "REAL"! $800: A viral video said this "hits you hard, bro" reality
#6464, aired 2012-10-25SITE $400: This news website that lets you share "top news" sounds like it's trying to get to China the hard way Digg
#6463, aired 2012-10-24THE 2012 OLYMPICS $2000: Though being legally blind seems like it makes this sport hard to do, Im Dong-Hyun set the Games' first world record archery
#6459, aired 2012-10-18CELEBRITY COOKBOOKS $600: Chapters in "Cookin' with Coolio" include "Pasta Like a Rasta" & "It's Hard Out Here for" this seafood a shrimp
#6459, aired 2012-10-18THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $800: Nobody won the Peace Prize in 1939, but both Neville Chamberlain & this Munich Pact partner were nominated Adolf Hitler
#6457, aired 2012-10-16YOU CAN FIND ME ONLINE $1600: Hard to believe it took until 2011 for the launch of this 11-time NBA All-Star & TNT analyst .com (Charles) Barkley
#6452, aired 2012-10-09LONDON CAN TAKE IT $1000: This waterborne illness hit London hard in 1831, 1848, 1854 & 1866 cholera
#6442, aired 2012-09-25TO YOUR HEALTH $400: Also known as renal lithiasis, these small, hard deposits can be made of mineral & acid salts a kidney stone
#6425, aired 2012-07-20MILITARY MATTERS $1000: (Kelly gives the clue from the USS Iwo Jima) A heavy armor version of the Abrams tank was never penetrated during the first Gulf War because its super hard armor contains the depleted type of this element, isotope 238 uranium
#6422, aired 2012-07-17ROUGH REVIEWS ON Rotten Tomatoes $200: Re: "The Whole Ten Yards", with this "Die Hard" star: "Don't even think about making the whole eleven yards" Bruce Willis
#6418, aired 2012-07-11THE HARD STUFF $400: In 2009 scientists announced that lonsdaleite, formed by meteor impacts, is 58% harder than this pricey hard stuff diamond
#6418, aired 2012-07-11THE HARD STUFF $800: The most common plutonic rock in the Earth's crust, it makes a great building stone; don't take it for... granite
#6418, aired 2012-07-11THE HARD STUFF $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) The mineral orthoclase scratches a pane of glass, but apatite doesn't, which puts glass between orthoclase & apatite on this scale, devised by a German mineralogist to measure hardness Mohs
#6418, aired 2012-07-11THE HARD STUFF $2,000 (Daily Double): The star variety of this deep blue gemstone has other minerals embedded inside super-hard corundum sapphire
#6418, aired 2012-07-11THE HARD STUFF $2000: An invisible chromium oxide film is what makes this alliterative alloy gleam stainless steel
#6411, aired 2012-07-02THE QUICK PICK PAPERS $400: Put "back" in front of this type of instant lottery ticket & you get an item that helps you get to hard-to-reach spots a scratcher
#6411, aired 2012-07-02HARD TIMES $400: A U.S. recession was caused in part by the 1802 treaty of Amiens, bringing peace between France & this signing nation Great Britain
#6411, aired 2012-07-02HARD TIMES $800: One cause of the panic of 1873 was overinvestment in this form of transportation, as with the Northern Pacific line railroads
#6411, aired 2012-07-02HARD TIMES $1600: When land & farm prices collapsed in 1887, farmers demanded the unlimited, or "Free", coinage of this metal silver
#6411, aired 2012-07-02HARD TIMES $2000: The crisis of 2008 brought forth the TARP program to buy up MBS, short for these not so secure " securities " mortgage-backed
#6411, aired 2012-07-02HARD TIMES $2,400 (Daily Double): The economic contraction known as the Panic of 1907 led Congress to create this system in 1913 the Federal Reserve
#6406, aired 2012-06-25THE CIVIL WAR $600: A leader of Confederate guerrillas who were spookily hard to find & fight, John Mosby was aka the Gray this Ghost
#6398, aired 2012-06-13ANIMAL LOGOS $400: This car-care product's logo depicts a certain green reptile & the slogan "Hard Shell Finish" Turtle Wax
#6398, aired 2012-06-13"Q"-LINARY TERMS $1600: Some of the finest of these hard-shell clams come from the waters around Rhode Island quahogs
#6397, aired 2012-06-12ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $200: B.A., after 4 years of hard work & beer drinking Bachelor of Arts
#6396, aired 2012-06-11WORDS OF LOVE $400: I've got one of these on you; it's also a verb meaning to squeeze hard crush
#6394, aired 2012-06-07ALMOST-FORGOTTEN WARS $400: After a hard-fought World Cup qualifier, in 1969 El Salvador & Honduras fought a brief war named for this sport soccer
#6393, aired 2012-06-06FATS & OILS $1600: This hard, white fat found around the kidneys of cattle & sheep is often melted down to form tallow to make candles suet
#6392, aired 2012-06-05WHAT'S APENNINE $800: Calderone, on the ice-covered north slope of Mount Corno, is the southernmost one of these in Italy a glacier
#6386, aired 2012-05-28COLORFUL PHRASES $1600: Someone who squeezes an airplane armrest hard is said to be this type of flier white-knuckle
#6376, aired 2012-05-14THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "E" $1000: Hard, glossy finish (6) enamel
#6373, aired 2012-05-09CLOTHES MAKE THE IDIOM $200: It's tough to tighten this in hard times, but getting hit below it... that's just wrong the belt
#6369, aired 2012-05-03POP MUSIC $400: This roc-a-fella introduced us to a "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" Jay-Z
#6368, aired 2012-05-02FINE ARTS $600: This statue at the Louvre may have originally held a shield & mirror; it's hard to know since she's "unarmed" the Venus de Milo
#6368, aired 2012-05-02VISITING THE BOSTON AREA $1600: It's hard to miss this monument honoring colonists who died in a 1775 battle--it's 221 feet high the Bunker Hill Monument
#6362, aired 2012-04-24JUST DESSERTS $1000: It's the 2-word French name for a custard dessert with a hard, caramelized sugar topping crème brûlée
#6360, aired 2012-04-20MARINE BIOLOGY $400: These marine mammals of the weasel family use rocks to open such hard-shelled prey as clams & crabs otters
#6360, aired 2012-04-20BIBLICAL IDOL $2000: The prophet Elijah worked hard to stamp out the cult of this Canaanite god the Israelites had worshipped in the wilderness Baal
#6333, aired 2012-03-14A "WHEY" WITH PUNS $1600: It's how you might learn by difficult experience, or the watery part of milk if it's frozen solid the hard whey
#6329, aired 2012-03-08TIME TO "ROCK" & "ROLL" $1000: 2-word term for sugar in large, hard crystals rock candy
#6326, aired 2012-03-05CIVIL WAR SLANG $800: A thirsty soldier might ask for apple lady, the "hard" type of this cider
#6326, aired 2012-03-05SEAFOOD $800: The rainbow type of this fish is known for its spectacular leaps & hard fighting when hooked trout
#6322, aired 2012-02-28"D" IS FOR... $1600: The Diavel model & also this maker that says the muscular bike is "hard to be seen, easy to be noticed" Ducati
#6311, aired 2012-02-13SHORT STORY FILL-IN $2000: Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man Is ____ ____ ____" Hard to Find
#6307, aired 2012-02-07THE I.T. FACTOR $600: Look to the sky for this type of computing that stores your info online, not on your hard drive cloud computing
#6298, aired 2012-01-2520th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It follows "sex" to mean a certain urge; once the computer age hit, it also followed "hard" drive
#6291, aired 2012-01-16INVENTIVE MINDS $1200: In 1837 he built a smooth, hard moldboard out of a circular saw, & seeing nothing ran like 'em, began to make steel plows John Deere
#6291, aired 2012-01-16____ THE ____ $1,500 (Daily Double): To sternly demand hard work; it's also something Indiana Jones often does crack the whip
#6290, aired 2012-01-13FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $800: This 2010 film about trapped hiker Aron Ralston was based in part on his memoir "Between A Rock And A Hard Place" 127 Hours
#6286, aired 2012-01-09THE SEA AROUND US $1200: It's hard to visit, but this deepest trench, in the Pacific Ocean, was designated a U.S. national monument the Mariana Trench
#6270, aired 2011-12-16ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: This tough membrane that forms the outermost covering of the brain is Latin for "hard mother" dura mater
#6255, aired 2011-11-25WHAT THE DICKENS? $1000: "Tough Days" Hard Times
#6245, aired 2011-11-11THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL $200: This "at all costs," this "in spite of all terror," this "however long and hard the road may be" (V is for...) victory
#6231, aired 2011-10-24ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR $200: A hard blow or punch a sock
#6231, aired 2011-10-24ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR $800: Hard, quick gasps for air pants
#6230, aired 2011-10-21THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! $800: To remove a no-longer-wanted computer program from your hard drive uninstall
#6229, aired 2011-10-20ACTING HURT $2000: Making this film in Brazil in 1985, William Hurt was kidnapped at gunpoint; that's one hard-earned Oscar Kiss of the Spider Woman
#6224, aired 2011-10-13ONE GOOD TURN $800: At sea, if you want the wheel turned all the way in 1 direction, say this 4-letter word "a-port" or "a-starboard" hard
#6223, aired 2011-10-12SAY CHEESE! $2000: The name of this gratable Italian hard cheese begins with a continent's name asiago
#6214, aired 2011-09-29BLUES CLUES $400: Willie Dixon had the blues, saying this hard rock group didn't credit him for "Whole Lotta Love"; the sides settled in 1987 Led Zeppelin
#6199, aired 2011-07-21THE HUMAN BODY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a knife.) The paper clip moves because no matter how hard you try, you can't hold completely still because the cells of this type of tissue are always in alternating states of contraction & relaxation muscle tissue
#6198, aired 2011-07-20SONGS FROM MUSICALS $800: "Little Girls" & "It's The Hard-knock Life" Annie
#6198, aired 2011-07-20CELEBS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON REALITY SHOWS $1000: Can Meryl Streep make the Vikings as a defensive tackle? This HBO NFL series will test her famed versatility Hard Knocks
#6190, aired 2011-07-08THE OBJECT OF THE HASBRO GAME $400: Your opponent's 5-piece Navy must go down, & it must go down hard Battleship
#6180, aired 2011-06-24COVER BANDS $2000: Perhaps "Back In Black", Live Wire "Shook Me All Night Long" with its tribute to this hard rock group AC/DC
#6177, aired 2011-06-21WHAT DO U STAND FOR? $2000: In the committee known as HUAC Un-American
#6165, aired 2011-06-03EXTRAORDINARY DENTITION $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a rodent skull on the monitor.) In rodents, these teeth wear out faster on the back than on the front side, creating the chisel shape that makes it easier to gnaw hard objects the incisors
#6164, aired 2011-06-02FOOTBALL FREE FOR ALL $1000: As coach of the Jets, he has the "gang green" defense deal out hard knocks (& enjoy some gosh-darned snacks) (Rex) Ryan
#6163, aired 2011-06-01LITERARY TERMS $1200: Cooking term for a type of tough guy fiction featuring a no-nonsense street-smart detective like Sam Spade hard-boiled
#6162, aired 2011-05-31BEATLES LAST LINES $800: "You know I feel all right" "A Hard Day's Night"
#6152, aired 2011-05-17BOND FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: "Hard Gems Exist Eternally" Diamonds Are Forever
#6149, aired 2011-05-12BROKEN ENGLISH $800: Neil Sedaka sang, "If you go then I'll be blue, 'cause" this "is hard to do" "Breaking Up"
#6148, aired 2011-05-11THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $800: One night in this Asian city makes a hard man humble, & with 38,850 people per sq. mile in its Sam Peng district, that's a lot of men Bangkok
#6145, aired 2011-05-06SPORTS WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: Made of hard black rubber, it must be 1 inch thick, 3 inches in diameter & weigh from 5 1/2 to 6 ounces a hockey puck
#6136, aired 2011-04-25PACIFIC OCEAN LIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Maui Ocean Center.) To be hard to see from both above & below, many sharks have dark backs & paler bellies; this was named "counter-shading" by Abbot Thayer, an artist who helped the military develop this during World War I camouflage
#6129, aired 2011-04-14SOUP & SALAD $600: This kitchen personage's salad is tossed greens topped by Julienned cheeses & meats, sliced veggies & hard-cooked egg a chef salad
#6123, aired 2011-04-06ROADSIDE AMERICA $1200: In Turner County it's hard to miss this state's official peanut monument--it's about 20 feet tall Georgia
#6111, aired 2011-03-21IT'S "AH" FULL $800: Hard reddish-brown wood of the genus Swietenia mahogany
#6110, aired 2011-03-18HARD TO "PORT" $400: The range of your investments, or a thin case to hold drawings a portfolio
#6110, aired 2011-03-18HARD TO "PORT" $800: Lewis & Clark had to resort to this, carrying boats overland portage
#6110, aired 2011-03-18HARD TO "PORT" $1200: 1921 saw the creation of this organization for which a Manhattan bus terminal is named the Port Authority
#6110, aired 2011-03-18HARD TO "PORT" $1600: From the Latin for "gate", it's a columned entranceway a portico
#6110, aired 2011-03-18HARD TO "PORT" $2000: This large iron grating covered the entrance to many medieval castles the portcullis
#6107, aired 2011-03-15THE CIVIL WAR $800: This biscuit fittingly had "hard" in its name; Union soldiers called it "sheet iron crackers" hardtack
#6104, aired 2011-03-10ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) The hard X-ray nanoprobe helps in the design of solar cells by allowing subatomic examination of these materials, such as silicon, which act sometimes like metal & sometimes like insulators semiconductors
#6101, aired 2011-03-07ACTING SEQUELITIS $400: Yippie ki yay! Bruce Willis has played John McClane 4 times in this series Die Hard
#6101, aired 2011-03-07STATELY FLOWERS $1200: I'm having a hard time remembering this state flower of Alaska seen here--are you? a forget-me-not
#6087, aired 2011-02-15LITERARY CHARACTER APB $600: Wanted for general evil-ness; last seen at the Tower of Barad-Dur; it's a giant eye, folks. Kinda hard to miss Sauron
#6083, aired 2011-02-09GERMAN FOOD $2000: Mimi Sheraton says German stuffed hard-boiled eggs are "always made with a great deal of" this creamy product mayonnaise
#6082, aired 2011-02-08"I" SAY $2,200 (Daily Double): First title "Poem of the Body", this "charged" Walt Whitman poem got its present 5-word title in 1857 "I Sing the Body Electric"
#6080, aired 2011-02-04"Q" FOOD & DRINK $1200: It's the Native American name for the East Coast hard-shell clam quahog
#6078, aired 2011-02-02HUMBLE & NOT-HUMBLE ABODES $200: To build this Inuit structure, begin harvesting blocks of hard-packed snow about 3' long, 15" high & 8" deep an igloo
#6069, aired 2011-01-20DESCRIBING THE FILM $800: 1988: A cop comes to L.A. for Christmas, goes to his wife's holiday party, kills a lot of party crashers Die Hard
#6069, aired 2011-01-20SIBLINGS OF SONG $2000: Last name of brothers Eddie & Alex, who lent that name to a hard rock band in 1974 Van Halen
#6063, aired 2011-01-12CANDIED CAMERA $800: You're on a "roll" if you can tell us that Bill Murray told Dustin Hoffman, "don't play hard to get" in this movie Tootsie
#6061, aired 2011-01-10PLAYING HIMSELF $1200: This game show host landed 8 straight hard jabs before a right cross sent Happy Gilmore into a water hazard Bob Barker
#6061, aired 2011-01-10PLAYING HIMSELF $2000: As the 2008 film was called "JCVD", it would've been hard for anyone but this Belgian to play the title role Jean Claude van Damme
#6057, aired 2011-01-04WHAT ARE YOU... CHICKEN? $400: The chicken prepared this way, French for "blue ribbon", was often hard to swallow--& such small portions! cordon bleu
#6045, aired 2010-12-17LOOK AT THAT IDIOM $800: It means working hard, not hardly working putting your nose to the grindstone?
#6038, aired 2010-12-08NBA MVPs PDQ, OK? $400: In 2008 this Laker won his first MVP; hard to believe it took 12 seasons Kobe
#6037, aired 2010-12-07DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $800: In this Bruce Willis movie, the villain goes out the window of the Nakatomi building, gun in hand Die Hard
#6037, aired 2010-12-074 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $1600: Hard coal that burns with little flame anthracite
#6034, aired 2010-12-02FASHION TRENDS $800: They were made for walking (& platform dancing) in the '60s; In 1996 Nancy Sinatra donated hers to The Hard Rock Cafe go-go boots
#6029, aired 2010-11-25I'M GONNA "MAKE" IT! $800: It sounds like a farm machine, but it's really a hard punch that renders an opponent unable to continue boxing a haymaker
#6025, aired 2010-11-19MY DORM ROOM IS SO SMALL... $1000: It's hard to find space for my 2/3-inch-thick Adamo laptop from this company Dell
#6006, aired 2010-10-25THINGS ARE SLOW $400: If your computer is slow, try scanning this & then defragmenting it your hard drive
#6001, aired 2010-10-18YOU TAKE A MILE $600: The world's first stretch of road made of this hard material was between 6 & 7 mile roads in what's now Detroit concrete
#5998, aired 2010-10-13ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $2000: From the Greek for "hard", it's the dense white part of the eye the sclera
#5995, aired 2010-10-08FRENCH CITIES? $2000: A 4-door automobile with a hard top, population 21,000 Sedan
#5991, aired 2010-10-04FROM THE LATIN $1600: Reading a declassified document is hard when the text is full of these, from the Latin for "to drive back" redaction
#5985, aired 2010-09-24SCRAMBLED EGG WORDS $800: I HELD BROAD hard-boiled
#5979, aired 2010-09-16GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $800: The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match Andy Roddick
#5976, aired 2010-09-13MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: This Finnish-born director hit it big with "Die Hard 2" & "Cliffhanger"; then came "Cutthroat Island" Renny Harlin
#5975, aired 2010-07-30BIRTHQUAKES $1200: "Hard Times", indeed! A giant quake struck New Madrid, Mo. on Feb. 7, 1812, the day this author struck England Charles Dickens
#5962, aired 2010-07-13LET'S BLOW $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew tries to blow out a candle from a distance, first with her mouth, then a plastic soda bottle.) Blowing out a candle from far away is hard because the blown air disperses, but concentrate the air through a small opening & it creates a whirling mass of air like a tornado called this a vortex
#5957, aired 2010-07-06PARTS OF PEACH $600: 5-letter word for the hard interior of a peach the stone
#5949, aired 2010-06-24LET'S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY $200: As you'd expect, their music plays 'round the clock in the lobby of the Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool The Beatles
#5949, aired 2010-06-24TO GET OURSELVES A TREAT $1000: It's the geographic-sounding name for an almond in a hard candy shell Jordan Almonds
#5948, aired 2010-06-23ALEX MEETS AUTO-TUNE $800: "When Israel was in Egypt land / Let my people go / Oppressed so hard they could not stand / Let my people go" "Go Down Moses"
#5948, aired 2010-06-23BREAD $1000: "Sea biscuit" is another name for the unleavened bread called "hard" this; sounds delish tack
#5946, aired 2010-06-21BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1000: He's the hard-rocking former "American Idol" contestant seen here (Chris) Daughtry
#5938, aired 2010-06-09WHAT'S "BLACK" & "WHITE"? $1000: Expression meaning an unwanted possession that's hard to get rid of a white elephant
#5924, aired 2010-05-20THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $600: A 2010 article reported on the hard times that have fallen on wineries in this California valley Napa Valley
#5924, aired 2010-05-20NEW ORLEANS & KATRINA $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) The Domino Sugar refinery built a 200-unit trailer park here on-site to house its employees when this "saintly" parish was hit hard by flooding St. Bernard
#5924, aired 2010-05-20BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: "Don't Cry Out Loud" singer & Beckham's 1992-2003 team remind us that "a mind is a terrible thing to waste" Melissa Manchester United Negro College Fund
#5920, aired 2010-05-14BOXING TERMS SANS BOXING $200: An enticement; hard to catch a fish without one a hook
#5913, aired 2010-05-05"V" LIKE 7-LETTER WORDS $800: After it dries, this leaves a hard, glossy coating on wood varnish
#5910, aired 2010-04-30PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION 2010 $400: This Treasury head is No. 5; after dealing with the economy, how hard could the top job be? Timothy Geithner
#5905, aired 2010-04-2319th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: A cracker is named for this 19th century man who advocated cold showers, hard mattresses & unsifted flour (Reverend) Graham
#5902, aired 2010-04-20LIKE A HURRICANE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a meterological animation on the monitor.) Rotating cloud bands in a hurricane's center make its path wobble, making it hard to predict the exact point where the storm's center crosses a coastline, the location called this the landfall
#5896, aired 2010-04-12ARRESTING AUTHORS $400: This Irish wit did 2 years of hard labor for "gross indecency" (Oscar) Wilde
#5884, aired 2010-03-25WEAK RHYMES $800: Tall East Indian timber tree with durable, hard wood the teak
#5878, aired 2010-03-17SOFTWARE $1000: It's hard being an "angel" when playing the PC version of this first-person shooter, dubbed "combat evolved" Halo
#5875, aired 2010-03-12FOUND IN THE JEOPARDY! ATTIC $400: If the heat goes out, we could always burn our piece of this hard, high-carbon type of coal anthracite
#5874, aired 2010-03-11FILLING FOODS $200: Hard-boiled ____ foo yong egg
#5874, aired 2010-03-11FLORAL PATTERNS $1600: "Everything's" doing this, a phrase about emerging from hard times in good shape, is a "Gypsy" song title coming up roses
#5871, aired 2010-03-08ZORBA, THE GREEK TUTOR $2000: The phrase "Ti ora ine", which means this, may help you at Cretan casinos; you must remember clocks are hard to find there What time is it?
#5869, aired 2010-03-0421st CENTURY CINEMA $600: Kid: "You just killed a helicopter with a car"; John McClane: "I was out of bullets" in this 2007 film with a 5-word title Live Free or Die Hard
#5867, aired 2010-03-02NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2000: "I am all the subjects that you have... here you sty me, in this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me the rest o' the island" The Tempest
#5862, aired 2010-02-23VEGAS CASINOS $800: Enjoy rock star lemonades & world famous DJs at the rehab poolside party at this hotel the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
#5860, aired 2010-02-19TECHNOLOGY $400: Erase a hard disk before disposing of a computer: putting personal data out there risks this 2-word crime identity theft
#5859, aired 2010-02-18THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE $1600: In "Paradise Regained", this British epic poet opined, "Hard are the ways of truth, & rough to walk" Milton
#5858, aired 2010-02-17ROCK $2,000 (Daily Double): Chert, a hard, dense sedimentary rock, is called jasper if it's brightly colored, & this if it's dark flint
#5843, aired 2010-01-27THIS OLD HOUSE 30th ANNIVERSARY $2000: To help revive the area, the 30th anniversary project home is in Roxbury, hard hit by these seizures of houses by lenders foreclosures
#5827, aired 2010-01-05NONCREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE $400: He not only chose to "Live Free or Die Hard" but also to perform unbilled in 2007's "Nancy Drew" Bruce Willis
#5826, aired 2010-01-04"ARD" STUFF $800: Clumsy, or hard to handle awkward
#5824, aired 2009-12-31GOOD HOUSEKEEPING $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Good Housekeeping Institute in New York.) Fabrics are put through tens of thousands of cycles through a Wyzenbeek machine, which measures abrasion; that's a good test for this lasting quality from the Latin for 'hard' endurance (durability accepted)
#5818, aired 2009-12-23MOVIES BY QUOTE $600: Hans Gruber, reading a message: "Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho" Die Hard
#5803, aired 2009-12-02TOOTSIE ROLLS $400: It's the principal ingredient on the label of a Tootsie Roll (don't think too hard) sugar
#5802, aired 2009-12-01NIGHTS $800: This 1964 Beatles film was made for $500,000 & shot in a little over 6 weeks (they were working like dogs!) A Hard Day's Night
#5801, aired 2009-11-30IT'S OFFICIAL $400: Fittingly, this music-themed cafe is the "official venue" for Grammy viewing parties the Hard Rock Cafe
#5801, aired 2009-11-30IT'S OFFICIAL $1600: Hard to figure, but this company that also owns Frito-Lay makes the official soft drink for both the Yankees & Mets Pepsi
#5800, aired 2009-11-27RENAISSANCE FAIR LADY $400: Hans Holbein decided to paint Cupid with this love goddess in 1524; maybe Aphrodite was too hard to spell Venus
#5785, aired 2009-11-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his "As I Lay Dying" Faulkner
#5775, aired 2009-10-23BIBLE QUOTES $800: When this queen "heard of the fame of Solomon... she came to prove him with hard questions" the Queen of Sheba
#5761, aired 2009-10-05ITALIAN COMPOSERS $1200: Hard tellin' why, after 1829's "William Tell", he wrote no more operas the last 39 years of his life Rossini
#5754, aired 2009-09-24BEYOND MEASURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A mickey, used to measure movement of this computer part, equals 1/200th of an inch a mouse
#5750, aired 2009-09-18FATHER TIME $1200: After 144 years of good times & hard time, this Illinois prison where Jake Blues did time closed in 2002 Joliet
#5748, aired 2009-09-16PLAYBOY COVER BOYS $800: This hard rock bassist did a cover in March 1999; come on & give us a kiss! Gene Simmons
#5740, aired 2009-07-17TRICKS ARE FOR KIDS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew picks your brain.) Hold a toothpick near your fingertips--it won't break no matter how hard you try; but move it above your knuckles, & it's easy thanks to this principle that increases mechanical advantage leverage
#5736, aired 2009-07-13TIME FOR CLASS $200: P.E.: Practice hard to become a Hall of Famer in this sport, like Cal Ripken Jr. baseball
#5723, aired 2009-06-24LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! $400: Its radius is approximately 109 times that of Earth & it's really hard to miss the Sun
#5716, aired 2009-06-15ALAN $1200: This actor does bad good: Prof. Snape in the "Harry Potter" films & Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" Alan Rickman
#5713, aired 2009-06-10THE READER $1200: In contrast to tough-guy novels, sentimental stories are said to be this hyphenated word, like a 3-minute egg soft-boiled
#5709, aired 2009-06-04NOT HARD AT ALL $200: Soft water is made soft by adding ions of this element that's abundant in seawater sodium
#5709, aired 2009-06-04NOT HARD AT ALL $400: Soft gooey stuff in the cavities of your ulna marrow
#5709, aired 2009-06-04NOT HARD AT ALL $600: Though soft, this metal is durable & corrosion resistant, so the Romans made water pipes of it (not a good idea) lead
#5709, aired 2009-06-04NOT HARD AT ALL $800: Western red this is a soft wood, popular for decks, as seen here cedar
#5709, aired 2009-06-04NOT HARD AT ALL $1000: Used for steam generation, this soft variety of coal is called steam coal in Britain bituminous
#5706, aired 2009-06-01"I" OPENERS $200: It's hard to show some backbone if you're classified as this type of creature that lacks one an invertebrate
#5706, aired 2009-06-01ART $1200: Hard to tell, but Frans Hals is said to have used 27 different shades of this--look at the garb of "Adriaen Van Ostade" black
#5705, aired 2009-05-29TRIBUTE ALBUMS $2000: "Lick It Up" is a millennium tribute to this hard-rockin' quartet Kiss
#5703, aired 2009-05-27POTPOURRI $2000: This title guy's pal says, "That... hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so, that he will sure run mad" Romeo
#5697, aired 2009-05-19IN THE BO-"D" $1600: The outer layer of the spinal meninges, its name means "hard" in Latin the dura
#5683, aired 2009-04-29"DI" HARD $400: Usually worn by infants, it goes back to the Greek for "White" a diaper
#5683, aired 2009-04-29"DI" HARD $800: An oblique line a diagonal
#5683, aired 2009-04-29DARTH VADER, D.D.S. $1000: The force is strong with this one--the hard, outermost layer of the tooth enamel
#5683, aired 2009-04-29"DI" HARD $1200: This Major League Baseball team debuted in 1998 the Diamondbacks
#5683, aired 2009-04-29"DI" HARD $1600: To take money out of your holdings; institutions are often urged to do it divest
#5683, aired 2009-04-29"DI" HARD $2000: This queen of Carthage welcomes Aeneas hospitably, but then commits suicide when he has to leave Dido
#5676, aired 2009-04-20NOT LITERALLY $600: You're "literally going to pieces"? Use this adhesive that stuck a worker's hard hat to a beam in an old ad Krazy Glue
#5665, aired 2009-04-03"POP" GOES THE CATEGORY $1200: A piece of hard candy on a small stick, or a "good ship" a lollypop
#5664, aired 2009-04-02GEEK CHIC $1000: New super-thin laptops like the Toshiba Portege R500 use this type of hard drive flash
#5659, aired 2009-03-26SONG DICHOTOMY $400: It's hard to swallow their rebellious song "I Get Around" after picturing them as loners in "In My Room" The Beach Boys
#5656, aired 2009-03-23CROSSWORD CLUES "X" $1600: The hard tissue of a plant (5) xylem
#5654, aired 2009-03-19HARD STUFF $400: Around 1890 Thomas Edison schemed to have this invention named after his rival George Westinghouse the electric chair
#5654, aired 2009-03-19HARD STUFF $800: With a 2007 women's water polo title, this California school became the first to win 100 NCAA titles UCLA
#5654, aired 2009-03-19HARD STUFF $1200: When Pluto got demoted, this 1916 Gustav Holst composition was once again complete The Planets
#5654, aired 2009-03-19HARD STUFF $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the bridge of the USS John C. Stennis in San Diego, CA.) USS John C. Stennis is one of this class of carrier named for an admiral under whose command carriers like Yorktown & Enterprise fought in WWII Nimitz
#5654, aired 2009-03-19HARD STUFF $2000: Africa's closest national capitals are Brazzaville & Kinshasa, separated by this river the Congo
#5648, aired 2009-03-11THE JOURNEY OF LIFE $1200: 3-letter term for a young man, or the British culture of hard-partying young men a lad
#5646, aired 2009-03-09IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A SHRIMP $200: Most shrimp have 19 pairs of jointed these, feelers & other appendages, & like ZZ Top said, they know how to use them legs
#5646, aired 2009-03-09IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A SHRIMP $400: Many small shrimp eat this tiny drifting aquatic organism, also a rival restaurant owner on "SpongeBob" plankton
#5646, aired 2009-03-09IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A SHRIMP $600: Large or jumbo species of shrimp are often called this; one is seen here a prawn
#5646, aired 2009-03-09IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A SHRIMP $800: The only way a shrimp can grow is to go through this process of shedding its shell & growing a new one molting
#5646, aired 2009-03-09IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A SHRIMP $1000: A shrimp's head & thorax are fused & covered by an overhanging shell called this; turtles have them, too a carapace
#5645, aired 2009-03-06THE ART OF WORK $800: The 18th-century work seen here is partly titled these people "Hard at Work" blacksmiths
#5645, aired 2009-03-06DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION $800: It's hard "keeping up with" this family that includes spoiled, sometimes-clothed rich girl Kim & Mrs. Bruce Jenner the Kardashians
#5644, aired 2009-03-05PLURALIZE IT! $600: An ox has a hard life, so when you see a group of them, please call them this, not "oxes" oxen
#5644, aired 2009-03-05MIT DEN BEATLES $600: Astrid Kirchherr & Klaus Voormann are characters in this movie dramatization of The Beatles' time in Germany Backbeat
#5643, aired 2009-03-04IN THE OFFICE FRIDGE $600: Someone has this candy bar in the freezer because rock-hard it "really satisfies", as its slogan used to say Snickers
#5630, aired 2009-02-13SWEET! $400: Butter is an ingredient of this hard candy that has "butter" in its name; the rest of its name doesn't refer to whisky butterscotch
#5625, aired 2009-02-06IT'S A LOCK $1600: For good home security, get a lock with this fatal-sounding latching system; they're tough & hard to jimmy a deadlock (also deadbolt or deadlatch)
#5618, aired 2009-01-28THE AUDACITY OF BOB HOPE $200: Of golfing with this president, Bob quipped, "It's hard to play a guy who rattles his medals while you're putting" Eisenhower
#5613, aired 2009-01-21BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $400: 3 police states always war, plus, English hard enough, but deal with Newspeak in this novel. Tough read for Tarzan 1984
#5598, aired 2008-12-31ROCKS & STONES $1600: Knapping, chipping rock to shape tools, is usually done to this hard type of quartz flint
#5592, aired 2008-12-23IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $1200: It's drama at Dulles International in this second John McClane adventure Die Hard 2
#5584, aired 2008-12-11SHAKESPEARE, YOU KILL ME! $2,600 (Daily Double): Roderigo, already wounded by Cassio (this guy lets everyone do the hard work for him!) Iago
#5572, aired 2008-11-2575 YEARS OF ESQUIRE $600: For Esquire's 75th, the electronic cover was created; the hard part was finding a small enough one of these battery
#5556, aired 2008-11-03MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $800: Root of this, the plant that killed Socrates; not hard to find at a good organic produce store hemlock
#5545, aired 2008-10-17GEMS & JEWELS $1600: It's actually the hard, colorful calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps coral
#5536, aired 2008-10-06"G" WHIZ $200: Proverbially, to work hard is to "keep your nose to" this grindstone
#5533, aired 2008-10-01AH-"AH" $1200: Tree that yields hard, reddish-brown wood for furniture-making; do you know where it's going to? mahogany
#5525, aired 2008-09-19MOVIES BY QUOTE $1000: "I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by" Back to the Future
#5523, aired 2008-09-17LITERARY VILLAINS' PERSONAL ADS $2000: I'm a brilliant academic but I tend to leave the deerstalker caps & hard drugs to a certain arch-nemesis Moriarty
#5516, aired 2008-09-08EXPRESS YOURSELF $2000: Adam Smith wrote of one of these hard-to-see body parts when describing laissez-faire an invisible hand
#5514, aired 2008-07-24ANAGRAMS THAT MAKE SENSE $800: It's hard to get a handle on these casino games: CASH LOST IN 'EM slot machines
#5507, aired 2008-07-15BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: Film of a typical day in the life of the Beatles, which includes running from bloodthirsty zombie fans in a Romero classic A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead
#5504, aired 2008-07-10BODY LANGUAGE $400: Hard physical work is made easier when you apply this type of "grease" elbow
#5503, aired 2008-07-09ART FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Salvador Dali once planned to build a table made entirely of these hard-boiled items "so that it could be eaten" eggs
#5502, aired 2008-07-08MERE SMITHS $800: This director of "Clerks" played Warlock in "Live Free or Die Hard" Kevin Smith
#5498, aired 2008-07-02FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an anatomical animation on the monitor.) Making it hard to communicate, inflammation of the structure above the trachea is known as this laryngitis
#5482, aired 2008-06-10JAPANESE CUISINE $1600: Meaning "pull-noodle", this fast-cooking noodle dish in broth is hard to top for a quick meal ramen
#5480, aired 2008-06-06SPORTS TALK $800: In volleyball it's a hard smash close to the net going almost straight down into the opponent's court a spike
#5478, aired 2008-06-04COLD HARD CASH $200: Scheduled for release in late 2008, the last of the commemorative state quarters will honor this state Hawaii
#5478, aired 2008-06-04COLD HARD CASH $400: Minted from 1979 to 1981, the coin featuring her was the first depicting a woman that went into general circulation Susan B. Anthony
#5478, aired 2008-06-04COLD HARD CASH $600: His quincentenary was celebrated with a coin in 1992 Columbus
#5478, aired 2008-06-04FILM FISTICUFFS $800: Yippee-ki-yay! Ex-hostage Bonnie Bedelia smacks a smarmy TV reporter in this 1988 action film Die Hard
#5478, aired 2008-06-04COLD HARD CASH $800: In 1997 this Brooklyn Dodger got a commemorative coin as quick as you could say his name Jackie Robinson
#5478, aired 2008-06-04COLD HARD CASH $1000: A "Benjamin" issued by it would have meant a $2 note, which showed its sec'y of state Judah P. Benjamin the Confederate States of America
#5476, aired 2008-06-02HIP-HOP & RAP $400: This huge hit by Jay-Z samples a song from the musical "Annie" "Hard Knock Life"
#5476, aired 2008-06-02AH, SWEET MYTHTERY $600: Hard-partyin' half-man, half-goat creatures of Greek mythology a satyr
#5471, aired 2008-05-26WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these gigabytes
#5471, aired 2008-05-26GET A "CL"UE! $800: This hard worker seen here has a lot of pull a Clydesdale
#5465, aired 2008-05-16NEW REALITY SHOWS? $1000: Oops! Rex finds out the hard way this body part's neocortex is nowhere near the groin in "I Wanna Be a Surgeon!" the brain
#5452, aired 2008-04-29INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $400: In a traditional Chinese dish, hard-cooked eggs get a marbled appearance by being simmered in this beverage tea
#5450, aired 2008-04-25THE ROCKIES $1200: This mockumentary hard rock band sang, "I met her on Monday, 'twas my lucky bun day" in their song "Big Bottom" Spinal Tap
#5445, aired 2008-04-18EGGS $1200: You don't have to travel to Edinburgh for this appetizer, a hard-boiled egg that's coated with sausage & fried a Scotch egg
#5439, aired 2008-04-10MOVIE "NIGHT" $200: Wilfrid Brambell played Paul McCartney's granddad, "a clean old man", in this 1964 film A Hard Day's Night
#5438, aired 2008-04-09QUOTATIONS $1000: In 1975 she commented on a 1955 event by saying, "My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work" Rosa Parks
#5429, aired 2008-03-27MY, YOU'VE AGED $1200: The 1530s were hard on Henry VIII; marital problems, weight gain, & this action taken by the Pope in 1533 excommunication
#5423, aired 2008-03-19H2O MUSIC $800: With 1998's "Hard to Swallow" this white guy from Miami tried to recapture his gangster rap success Vanilla Ice
#5417, aired 2008-03-11QUOTES FROM BRUCE WILLIS MOVIES $2000: "Five billion people died in 1996 & 1997. Almost the entire population of the world. Only about 1% of us survived" Twelve Monkeys
#5410, aired 2008-02-29TRADING PLACES $400: Frankfurt's Rossmarkt was a site for this type of animal "trading", also a term for hard bargaining horse trading
#5409, aired 2008-02-28SAMUEL L. JACKSON $1200: In 1995 Sam's Zeus Carver had a rough day with Bruce Willis in this sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance (or Die Hard 3)
#5406, aired 2008-02-25TENORS $1600: This last name of the great tenor Beniamino was hijacked for the title of a poorly reviewed 2003 Ben Affleck film Gigli
#5402, aired 2008-02-19I'M GIDDY FOR GADGETS $2000: (Alex reports from Sony headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Here's a sneak preview of Sony's newest Walkman that can turn on, flip between menus & play instantly because it uses this type of memory that's basically a mini hard drive flash memory
#5387, aired 2008-01-29FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: After filling Joe McCarthy's Senate seat, this Democrat fought long & hard against wasteful govt. spending William Proxmire
#5386, aired 2008-01-28NO. 1 ALBUMS $800: 1986 not only gave us Mr. Mister's "Welcome to the Real World" but this hard rockin' group's "5150" Van Halen
#5383, aired 2008-01-23STATUE OF LIMITATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): A WNBA-worthy 6-foot-8, this Greek statue was created around 130 B.C. but would have a hard time shooting the ball the Venus de Milo
#5375, aired 2008-01-11HOT CROSS PUNS $800: It's why it's tough to locate clarinetist Benny or Roseanne's co-star John A Goodman [good man] is hard to find
#5371, aired 2008-01-07TERN! TERN! TERN! $100 (Daily Double): Terns eat insects, small fish & this type of arthropod whose name comes from the Latin for "hard-shelled ones" crustaceans
#5362, aired 2007-12-25THE FEMININE MISTAKE $400: Years of hard drinking led to her Aug. 1, 1903 death at about age 51; she's buried in Deadwood Calamity Jane
#5358, aired 2007-12-19OFFICIAL STATE FOODS $1200: In Maryland, you can feast on this "colorful" state crustacean, both hard-shell & soft-shell the blue crab
#5345, aired 2007-11-30MYTHICAL MENAGERIE $1600: It wasn't hard for this Lernaean serpent to get ahead; every time one of its heads was cut off, 2 grew in its place the Hydra
#5344, aired 2007-11-29HARD RHYME TIME $400: Threshers' & hammerheads' recreation areas sharks' parks
#5344, aired 2007-11-29HARD RHYME TIME $800: A Crayola made from synthetic fabric a rayon crayon
#5344, aired 2007-11-29HARD RHYME TIME $1200: A cordovan bird plume a leather feather
#5344, aired 2007-11-29HARD RHYME TIME $1600: A object that disperses light into a spectrum, creating opposed factions a prism schism
#5344, aired 2007-11-29HARD RHYME TIME $2000: A judge who insists on strict correctness a purist jurist
#5341, aired 2007-11-26LOOSE WHEEL $800: If the wheel is loose on your computer's mouse, you may find it hard to do this up & down screen function scrolling
#5338, aired 2007-11-21AIR $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew puts a peeled hard-boiled egg on the smaller mouth of a glass bottle.) In the egg-in-a-bottle experiment, the flame going out causes a vacuum effect, so the egg is sucked in by the differential in this between the inside & outside of the bottle air pressure
#5335, aired 2007-11-16RECENT CINEMA $600: Some officials in New Hampshire were unhappy that the title of this action film was a play on the state motto Live Free or Die Hard
#5316, aired 2007-10-22POP CULTURE $1200: In the '40s, zis sex therapist was a sniper for Jewish forces in Palestine (yes, you heard me, a sniper!) Dr. Ruth
#5312, aired 2007-10-16HODGEPODGE $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew zaps some styrofoam peanuts with liquid from a test tube in the Jeopardy! science lab.) You might think styrofoam peanuts are hard to get rid of, but they can be dissolved using this solvent, the same one found in nail polish remover acetone
#5311, aired 2007-10-15"ONE" WORLD $1200: The main dramatic section that begins a play, or the title of playwright Moss Hart's autobiography Act One
#5305, aired 2007-10-05INTRA-VENUS $400: Venus' surface is hard to view from Earth because it's completely covered in these clouds
#5294, aired 2007-09-20FASHION SENSE $200: Made of lace & ribbons over a framework, a commode was worn on top of this in the late 1600s head
#5293, aired 2007-09-19BEFORE & AFTER $800: A dangerous substance like asbestos that's a Madonna hit in which a "boy with the cold hard cash is...Mr. Right" hazardous Material Girl
#5291, aired 2007-09-17THE ELEMENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This very hard metal is named for the children of Uranus & Gaea titanium
#5287, aired 2007-09-11DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS $200: This woman with a reputation as a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed ruffian claims she married Wild Bill Hickok Calamity Jane
#5283, aired 2007-07-25TV GETS REAL $400: Teams go 45,000 miles across 5 continents to gain fame & hard cash on this show Amazing Race
#5275, aired 2007-07-13TO INJURY $800: In 1821 this poet had a hard time counting the ways she loved thee, what with injuring her spine in a fall Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#5273, aired 2007-07-11CELEBRITY PAINTERS $1000: This disco diva sang "She Works Hard For The Money", then went acrylic with her "Hard for the Money" Donna Summer
#5272, aired 2007-07-10"C" ME $400: Animal subphylum of chiefly aquatic arthropods covered by a hard shell crustacean
#5264, aired 2007-06-28CRIME RHYME TIME $200: Hard to believe! Mrs. Ashley Wilkes' seriously unlawful activities Melanie's felonies
#5261, aired 2007-06-25LITERARY HORSIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It has been surmised that this hard-working horse from "Animal Farm" got his name from a Chinese revolt Boxer
#5249, aired 2007-06-07ANATOMY $400: The roof of the mouth is made up of hard & soft ones that are covered by mucous membranes palates
#5248, aired 2007-06-06FAMOUS FLOPS $600: Businesses stuck with carbon paper because this company's 1949 Model A was slow, messy & hard to use the Xerox
#5244, aired 2007-05-31RHYME WAVE $1000: To incise letters on a hard surface engrave
#5215, aired 2007-04-20HARD STUPID ANSWERS $400: Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & this pink-clad singer sang "Lady Marmalade" at the 2002 Grammys Pink
#5215, aired 2007-04-20HARD STUPID ANSWERS $800: Joe Theismann changed the pronunciation of his name in college while trying to merit one of these a Heisman
#5215, aired 2007-04-20HARD STUPID ANSWERS $1200: Mirage crowds love this new Cirque du Soleil show that features re-mastered Beatles tunes Love
#5215, aired 2007-04-20HARD STUPID ANSWERS $1600: In this director's film, Pres. Bush can be seen saying into a mike, "This is an impressive crowd: the Haves, & the Have-Mores" Michael Moore
#5215, aired 2007-04-20HARD STUPID ANSWERS $2000: Most of the action in this 2005 movie takes place in Basin City Sin City
#5214, aired 2007-04-19SCRAMBLED SAYINGS $600: A hard rock and a place between "Between a rock and a hard place"
#5212, aired 2007-04-17THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $1600: "Work hard, study and...keep out of politics!", advice from his grandpa, is the title of a memoir by this '80s-'90s Sec. of State James Baker
#5211, aired 2007-04-16NOT QUITE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Indiana Jones works hard to recover a Biblical artifact misplaced somewhere in Little Rock Raiders of the Lost Arkansas
#5208, aired 2007-04-11IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP $400: Atrial fibrillation may reduce the efficiency of this pump, especially the atrium the heart
#5208, aired 2007-04-11IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP $800: Leo Szilard & this more-famous Euro-American physicist worked together to develop a refrigeration pump Albert Einstein
#5208, aired 2007-04-11IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP $1200: Joe Dumars could tell you that reciprocating pumps have one of these moving back & forth to regulate flow a piston
#5208, aired 2007-04-11IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP $1600: This ancient Greek's "screw" aided in pumping water from deep in the ground Archimedes
#5208, aired 2007-04-11IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP $2000: Rotary pumps are also known as this type of pump, from the Latin for "to flee the middle" centrifugal
#5193, aired 2007-03-21LITERARY LASS LINES $1,800 (Daily Double): "It should be Christmas Day... on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man" (Mrs.) Cratchit
#5188, aired 2007-03-14LITERARY QUOTES $2000: In an epic poem, he wrote, "Long is the way And hard that out of hell leads up to light" (John) Milton
#5183, aired 2007-03-07BREAKFAST CEREAL $600: With flavors like Raspberry Red, Lemony Lemon & Grapity Purple, it's hard for silly rabbits to resist this classic Trix
#5181, aired 2007-03-05IN THE DICTIONARY $1600: In poetry, a closed one is, "A perfect judge will read each work of wit / with the same spirit that its author writ" a couplet (rhyme later judged acceptable)
#5159, aired 2007-02-01NATURE STUDY $800: This tree has 2 groups: soft, which has needles in bundles of 5, & hard, which has needles in bundles of 2 or 3 pine
#5154, aired 2007-01-25LET'S EAT CHINESE $400: This soup may be hard to swallow, especially if the feathers & twigs aren't removed bird's nest
#5143, aired 2007-01-10AUTHORS' WORKS $400: "Dombey and Son", "Hard Times", "Our Mutual Friend" Charles Dickens
#5138, aired 2007-01-03TECH SUPPORT $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands next to an open computer case.) If you hear a whir & a clunk & can't get into Windows, this part that stores information on magnetic platters has failed hard drive (or hard disk drive)
#5137, aired 2007-01-02RED, WHITE, OR BLUE $1000: What a soccer player sees before being sent off the field by the referee for a hard foul a red card
#5136, aired 2007-01-01SAY CHEESE $2000: This semi-hard cheese from Italy's Aosta Valley is traditionally dressed in a reddish-brown wax coat Fontina
#5132, aired 2006-12-26JAMES BOND $1000: Author Ian Fleming wrote that James Bond looked a lot like this composer of "Stardust' Hoagy Carmichael
#5131, aired 2006-12-25AUTHORS $2000: Henry Chinaski was the alter ego of this late hard-living California poet (Charles) Bukowski
#5112, aired 2006-11-28THE POLITICS OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Walt Whitman lobbied hard for this 1855 work that he hoped would inspire people to action at a local level Leaves of Grassroots
#5111, aired 2006-11-27THE 5 BEETLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Labor hard & tell us the name of the beetles seen here named for a mythological hero the Hercules beetle
#5106, aired 2006-11-20THE 1980s $1600: Breaking up is hard to do, but on January 1, 1984 this telecommunications giant was forced to AT&T
#5100, aired 2006-11-10CONVERT THE ROMAN NUMERAL $400: Mentioned at Gettysburg: LXXXVII 87
#5092, aired 2006-10-31SCIENC"E" $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island, CA.) Pentaradial symmetry & hard, spiny skin are two major qualities of this phylum of creatures Echinodermata
#5090, aired 2006-10-27ROCK OF AGES $800: The name of this hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony, can also be found on maps of Michigan flint
#5079, aired 2006-10-12COLORFUL GROUPS $1000: Hard rockers "Burnin' For You": ____ ____ Cult Blue Öyster
#5068, aired 2006-09-271970s ROCK $400: In 1975, 13 years after hitting No. 1 with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", he charted again with a remake of the song Neil Sedaka
#5058, aired 2006-09-13IT'S A MAN, BABY! $1000: At 6'7", this one-named African-American dragster was hard to miss in the video for "Love Shack" RuPaul
#5053, aired 2006-07-26MAKE $$$ IN YOUR SPARE TIME! $600: Think hard & pick up this honor, worth 114,935 kronor in 1923 & 10 million in 2005 the Nobel Prize
#5049, aired 2006-07-20COAL RIDGE $800: The "hard" glossy black coal that's mined with the highest fixed carbon content is this type anthracite
#5040, aired 2006-07-07MY NAME IS URL $800: This company's website says shaking a photo too hard during development may damage the image Polaroid
#5032, aired 2006-06-27BUGS $800: There are 2 kinds of this creature, soft & hard; hard ones can suck blood for weeks & cause paralysis in man & animals ticks
#5021, aired 2006-06-1211-LETTER WORDS $2000: The hard protective outer covering of an insect or a crustacean exoskeleton
#5017, aired 2006-06-06POP CULTURE $800: As a child, this "Spider-Man" co-star called herself Kiki; her first name was just too hard to pronounce Kirsten Dunst
#5016, aired 2006-06-05LOST ART $400: His marble "David" would be hard to lose, but his smaller bronze "David" has been missing since the 18th century Michelangelo
#5016, aired 2006-06-05FEARFUL QUOTES $600: Hard to believe she was ever alone, but this Gallic sex kitten revealed, "Solitude scares me" Brigitte Bardot
#5004, aired 2006-05-183 OF A KIND $200: Coddled, deviled, hard boiled eggs
#5004, aired 2006-05-18VICE PRESIDENT... THE SITCOM! $200: Tonight on "Fuzzy Math", he finds out the hard way that sometimes, 50,456,062 can be more than 50,996,582 Al Gore
#5003, aired 2006-05-17HORSE RACING $600: The name of this champion of the 1930s is a synonym for Hard Tack, his sire's name Seabiscuit
#4999, aired 2006-05-11QUOTATIONS $800: In his prime this athlete said, It's hard to be humble "when you're as great as I am" Muhammad Ali
#4996, aired 2006-05-08FIRST LADIES $800: She said a quiet husband wouldn't be hard to get used to after teaching at the Clarke Institute for the Deaf Mrs. (Grace) Coolidge
#4995, aired 2006-05-05HIT ME $1600: In a No. 1 hit from July 1985, he was "findin' it hard to believe we're in heaven" Bryan Adams
#4987, aired 2006-04-25LEGENDARY LEGENDS $200: Legend says if you run unto the ghost of the pirate Blackbeard, he may be hard to recognize, as he's missing this his head
#4983, aired 2006-04-19THE "UN" COUNTRIES $400: It's hard to ask a question about this European country without mentioning its Magyar ethnic group Hungary
#4969, aired 2006-03-30THE DEANS LIST $200: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras Dean Martin
#4965, aired 2006-03-24LITERATURE $400: In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond a frog
#4962, aired 2006-03-21THE MATERIAL WORLD $600: This hard substance also comes from the tusks of the narwhal & the teeth of the hippo ivory
#4962, aired 2006-03-21SCIENCE CLASS $1200: According to string theory, our universe has at least this many dimensions, but 6 are "curled up" & hard to see 10
#4952, aired 2006-03-07CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U.S. $1200: Hard to miss this 300-lb. Chief, known for walking the 3 mi. between his home & the court most mornings & nights Taft
#4948, aired 2006-03-01IT'S A MYSTERY! $600: The V.I. in this hard-boiled detective's name stands for Victoria Iphigenia V.I. Warshawski
#4943, aired 2006-02-22ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in front of a projection screen.) Correggio got an almost religious ecstasy into his mythological paintings, such as this Roman god & Io Jupiter
#4936, aired 2006-02-13PIZZA TOPPINGS $200: This type of hard sausage is America's favorite pizza topping pepperoni
#4930, aired 2006-02-03CANDY $200: The name of this big, hard round candy implies that it'll fracture your mandible a jawbreaker
#4925, aired 2006-01-27SONG ADJECTIVES $1200: A hard-rock classic: "_____ Child O' Mine" Sweet
#4919, aired 2006-01-19STOCK SYMBOLS $200: It won't be hard to look it up: YHOO Yahoo!
#4913, aired 2006-01-11JACKSON HOLE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.) It's hard to believe the picturesque Jackson Square was once used as a dump; in 1932 it was beautified & named for this president for his 200th birthday George Washington
#4909, aired 2006-01-05THE BODY HUMAN $800: When you eat, the hard one of these helps crush food & the soft one closes off the nasal opening during swallowing the palate
#4907, aired 2006-01-03HACKER CINEMA $400: Clarence Gilyard Jr. cracks security to open a vault & help take over an office tower in this 1988 film Die Hard
#4904, aired 2005-12-29PREMIERE $200: This Beatles film premiered in London on July 6, 1964 A Hard Day's Night
#4887, aired 2005-12-06HARD "BALL" $200: A system in which eligible people vote, or the physical piece of paper itself used to record each vote a ballot
#4887, aired 2005-12-06HARD "BALL" $400: Helper crouched by the side of the net at Wimbledon a ball boy
#4887, aired 2005-12-06HARD "BALL" $600: During WWII a barrage series of these was anchored to inhibit low-flying aircraft attacks barrage balloons
#4887, aired 2005-12-06HARD "BALL" $800: Those in this profession, like Julie Kent, might do an arabesque penche a ballerina
#4887, aired 2005-12-06HARD "BALL" $1000: An ancient weapon similar to a catapult used to hurl large stones a ballista
#4885, aired 2005-12-02TV FANS $600: The Peanut Gallery was this popular show's hard-to-get-into audience Howdy Doody
#4863, aired 2005-11-02SONGS FROM MUSICALS $1200: "Good Morning Starshine" & "Easy To Be Hard" Hair
#4841, aired 2005-10-03HARD "WORK" $200: In the old song standard, it's the line that precedes "all the livelong day" "I've been working on the railroad"
#4841, aired 2005-10-03HARD "WORK" $400: This play is set in Tuscumbia, Alabama & at the Perkins Institute for the blind The Miracle Worker
#4841, aired 2005-10-03HARD "WORK" $600: 2-word term for insurance required of businesses for employees injured on the job workman's compensation
#4841, aired 2005-10-03HARD "WORK" $800: In 1962 Cesar Chavez founded the union that is today known as this the United Farm Workers of America
#4841, aired 2005-10-03HARD "WORK" $1000: One of the "New Deal" programs created for the unemployed, it was abbreviated the WPA the Works Progress Administration
#4834, aired 2005-09-22FUN ACROSS AMERICA $400: The world's largest Hard Rock Cafe really rocks on Citywalk at this Florida theme park Universal Studios
#4828, aired 2005-09-14BEASTLY RHYME TIME $600: Hard-to-wash-out mark that a large wading bird left on your clothing a crane stain
#4828, aired 2005-09-14ALSO A BATMAN VILLAIN $800: Neurotoxic crawler who's hard on her mates Black Widow
#4824, aired 2005-07-211980s BESTSELLERS $600: Stephen King fans found it hard to rest in peace after reading this bestseller about an animal graveyard Pet Sematary
#4815, aired 2005-07-08MAKING THE CUT $400: This steak is named for the letter-shaped hard substance separating the tenderloin from the top loin T-bone
#4814, aired 2005-07-07LIQUIDS $2000: It's commonly made by pouring apple cider over wood shavings while blowing air through the mixture vinegar
#4812, aired 2005-07-05AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century English author also wrote the books "Curiosa Mathematica" & "Symbolic Logic" Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
#4810, aired 2005-07-01THE BODY HUMAN $2000: This "hard mother" of a membrane forms the outermost of the 3 meninges covering the brain the dura mater
#4808, aired 2005-06-29INVENTIVE MINDS $1,000 (Daily Double): He's on the 4th floor in the Inventors Hall of Fame for his "improvement in hoisting apparatus" (Elisha) Otis
#4807, aired 2005-06-282 PARTS OF SPEECH $1,800 (Daily Double): Hard an adjective & an adverb
#4801, aired 2005-06-20JOHN/PAUL $2000: The jarring chord that opens this Lennon-McCartney composition is a G7 with an added ninth & suspended fourth "A Hard Day's Night"
#4791, aired 2005-06-06IT AIN'T ME, BABE $1000: Here's a "hard" one; I'm the '50s hunk who at one point went by Roy Fitzgerald Rock Hudson
#4757, aired 2005-04-19AVENUE "Q" $1000: When medium-sized, these hard clams are marketed as cherrystones quahogs
#4736, aired 2005-03-21SKI $600: It's the sound of the skis bouncing rapidly off hard snow--keep your knees & ankles flexed to make it shut up chattering
#4736, aired 2005-03-21OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: It isn't hard to name this song from "Nashville" that won Keith Carradine an Oscar "I'm Easy"
#4718, aired 2005-02-23BEASTLY LANGUAGE $600: Hard, shrewd bargaining, like negotiating for an Appaloosa horse trading
#4715, aired 2005-02-18SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew, in a yellow hard hat, squats with a search dog in a pile of rubble.) Part of a disaster search dog's training is to ignore every scent except this human (scent)
#4712, aired 2005-02-15ROCK GROUPS $600: Bon Scott of this hard rock group was rejected by the Australian army as "socially maladjusted" AC/DC
#4711, aired 2005-02-14WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DRINK? $1,200 (Daily Double): This beverage that can be "sweet" or "hard" is made from freshly pressed deciduous fruits cider
#4709, aired 2005-02-10TALKING HEADS $1200: He's the hard-hitting news honcho seen here Chris Matthews
#4707, aired 2005-02-08MAKE-UP TEST $1000: Hard Candy's Glitter Lash Freak type of this has shards of silver micro glitter mascara
#4706, aired 2005-02-07GUM $1000: The name of this gum brand sounds like a hard tissue found in teeth Dentyne
#4703, aired 2005-02-02NONPOTENT POTABLES $2000: Team Lizard rides hard for this brand's Tsunami, Lava, & Lightning SoBe
#4698, aired 2005-01-2619th CENTURY LITERARY QUOTES $400: Charles Dickens called him "tightfisted... hard and sharp as flint" (Ebenezer) Scrooge
#4692, aired 2005-01-18"ROAD" SHOW $400: Hard partying, a boa constrictor, & Tom Green take this college comedy down the low road Road Trip
#4690, aired 2005-01-141964 BEATLES NO. 1 HITS $1600: This hit was also the title of the band's first film, which one critic called "the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals" "A Hard Day's Night"
#4680, aired 2004-12-31THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $400: He's considered the author of the Pentateuch, which is hard to believe, as Deuteronomy continues after his death Moses
#4654, aired 2004-11-25CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP $800: Looking for a NW Passage, sandwiched between a rock & a Hawaiian hard place: The Resolution (Captain) Cook
#4648, aired 2004-11-17COOKING $1200: An egg that spins merrily & easily on the counter tells you it's this hard-boiled
#4626, aired 2004-10-18NOTHIN' BUT "A"s $200: It was hard to escape from this island prison located in San Francisco Bay Alcatraz
#4623, aired 2004-10-13DUMB CRIMINALS $400: A vending machine thief had a hard time claiming innocence after paying $400 bail in this currency with Washington on it quarters
#4623, aired 2004-10-13DUMB CRIMINALS $800: A counterfeiter found out the hard way they don't take $16 bills in this city, Kansas' most populous Wichita
#4617, aired 2004-10-05THEATRICAL ANGELS $800: This hard-boiled detective musical set in 1940s L.A. appeared several years before the unrelated Meg Ryan film City of Angels
#4615, aired 2004-10-01ANAGRAMMED WEST WING STARS $1000: He's Toby Z: HARD CHIC RIFFS Richard Schiff
#4613, aired 2004-09-29THE 3rd FILM IN THE SERIES $800: "With a Vengeance", not "III", came after this in the title of a 1995 film Die Hard
#4601, aired 2004-09-13GEOLOGY $1200: The Hawaiian islands consist mostly of this hard, dark volcanic rock basalt
#4597, aired 2004-09-07THE EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew holds a giant black boot at Experience Music Project in Seattle, WA.) The dragon boots were part of the finery of this hard rock band Kiss
#4592, aired 2004-07-20MOTHER GOOSE NOIR $1000: Whippin' a girl "for causing Jack's disaster"? This dame had to go down, & go down hard Dame Dob
#4587, aired 2004-07-13JOURNALISM $400: An uncritical piece is called this & is as hard-hitting as the pastry of the same name a puff piece
#4587, aired 2004-07-13IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $800: Bruce Willis is waiting for his wife's plane to land at Dulles when trouble begins in this 1990 sequel Die Hard 2
#4569, aired 2004-06-17ADVERBS $2000: As a nautical adverb it means "completely", as when it precedes "a-starboard" hard
#4564, aired 2004-06-10THE MIND $1,400 (Daily Double): Leonardo da Vinci supposedly had an eidetic memory, today more commonly called this type a photographic memory
#4556, aired 2004-05-31"W"ORDS $200: Some strive to have abs as hard & ripply as this laundry implement washboards
#4555, aired 2004-05-28THE INDY 500 $1000: (Sofia reports from the Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.) It was hard keeping up with this 1963 Indy 500 winner, the first driver to turn an official lap here at over 150 miles per hour Parnelli Jones
#4555, aired 2004-05-28"TUDE" RANCH $1600: In law, imprisonment with hard labor is "penal" this servitude
#4553, aired 2004-05-261990 $200: She worked hard choreographing the dancers for the 1990 Oscars; today she's a bit "Idol" Paula Abdul
#4548, aired 2004-05-19TELL ME ABOUT "IT" $600: It often means hard & breakable like glass, or a peanutty confection brittle
#4548, aired 2004-05-195-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: To try too hard when making up for a defect overcompensate
#4546, aired 2004-05-1720th CENTURY THINKERS $800: This New Yorker wondered, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?... It's hard enough finding your way around Chinatown" Woody Allen
#4544, aired 2004-05-13W M Ds $800: The only one that's on the musical scale D
#4542, aired 2004-05-11WASHINGTON POST CARDS $800: Dear Mary, Today I found out you can't do this to "All of the people all [of] the time" -Abe fool
#4540, aired 2004-05-07STUFF TO DO AT RECESS $200: You want to break ties in the U.S. Senate, so use recess to study hard & become VP like this man is today Dick Cheney
#4513, aired 2004-03-31MADONNA SONGS $400: A "commercial" hit: "Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right" "Material Girl"
#4510, aired 2004-03-2620th CENTURY PEOPLE $600: This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction Dashiell Hammett
#4510, aired 2004-03-26FOOD & DRINK BRANDS $2000: The name of this brand of hard candies was meant to suggest a friendly Western company Jolly Rancher
#4503, aired 2004-03-17SOUNDS LIKE AN IRISH COUNTY $1000: Route Julius Caesar took to France; too hard? Okay, flutist James Galway (or "Gaul way")
#4492, aired 2004-03-02AN ANTONYM OF BOTH... $1200: ...effortless & non-alcoholic hard
#4492, aired 2004-03-02"F" TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY $1200: This hard-drinking '20s-'30s comedian scattered his money among hundreds of bank accounts across the country W.C. Fields
#4477, aired 2004-02-10BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $600: A possession that is hard to get rid of is called a "white" one of these an elephant
#4477, aired 2004-02-10POP MUSIC $2000: This hard rock group took its name from an Alice in Chains song Godsmack
#4476, aired 2004-02-09DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER? $600: It's the "rigid" disk inside your computer magnetized to hold the operating system & lots of data the hard drive
#4470, aired 2004-01-30FRENCH FOOD $400: The black type of this hard-to-find edible fungus grows in the French region of Perigord a truffle
#4470, aired 2004-01-30FRENCH FOOD $2000: Tuna, olives & hard-boiled eggs are ingredients in the salad made in this style named for a city on the French Riviera Nicoise
#4463, aired 2004-01-21ROCK $400: In 1975 this hard rock group made its Top 40 debut with "Rock and Roll All Nite" Kiss
#4457, aired 2004-01-13MOVIE VILLAINS $1200: In this 1988 film Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber spoils Bruce Willis' day -- well, night Die Hard
#4455, aired 2004-01-09AH, SWEET MISTER"E" $400: On screen he's been hard-boiled cop Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood
#4455, aired 2004-01-09THE GENE POOL $1600: It was hard to beat this man, Benny Goodman's drummer from 1935 to 1938 Gene Krupa
#4443, aired 2003-12-24WHAM! $2000: Wham's third U.S. No. 1 hit; it includes "Somebody tell me... why I work so hard for you... to give you money" "Everything She Wants"
#4442, aired 2003-12-23FRENCH FRY YOUR BRAIN $800: It's the French term for the fun time in the lodge after a hard day on the slopes apres-ski
#4438, aired 2003-12-17A WEEKEND AT THE CAPE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the beach in Cape Cod) Hard-shelled clams called these burrow into the bottom, so you need a long-handled rake to find them quahogs
#4434, aired 2003-12-11'80s SONGS $1000: "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was a 1988 No. 2 hit for this hard rockin' quintet Def Leppard
#4409, aired 2003-11-06WORD "UP" $600: Neil Sedaka said this "is hard to do" Breaking Up
#4405, aired 2003-10-31YESTERDAY'S PERSONALITIES $400: This famous early 20th century entertainer seen here was hard to keep under lock & key Houdini
#4396, aired 2003-10-20BEFORE & AFTER $600: Mr. Romano's sitcom featuring the hard-boiled writer of "The Big Sleep" Everybody Loves Raymond Chandler
#4392, aired 2003-10-14GOOD "TIME"s $1600: This Charles Dickens work is about the tough living & working conditions brought about by industrialization Hard Times
#4390, aired 2003-10-10I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM! $800: An enthusiastic hard worker is often described as one of these zealous rodents eager beaver (or busy beaver)
#4383, aired 2003-10-01FILMS OF THE '90s $2,000 (Daily Double): Some referred to this 1994 movie as "Die Hard on a Bus" Speed
#4382, aired 2003-09-30MARSHMALLOW MADNESS $600: Hard to know if the Thanksgiving side dish of marshmallows, brown sugar & these still counts as a vegetable sweet potatoes
#4381, aired 2003-09-29LET'S GO LOBSTERING $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from a boat in Portland, Maine.) To determine this on a lobster, check whether the first pair of swimmerets are hard or feathery the sex
#4381, aired 2003-09-29HISTORY ON FILM $1600: In "Max", this "Say Anything" actor has to say, "You're an awfully hard man to like, Hitler, but I'm going to try" John Cusack
#4380, aired 2003-09-26ENDS IN "OO" $800: From an Inuit word for "house", this house is made from blocks of hard-packed snow igloo

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (17 results returned)

#8803, aired 2023-02-08EUROPEAN CITIES: Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the Allies in World War II Aachen
#8764, aired 2022-12-15ACTION MOVIES: Its last line is "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's" Die Hard
#8738, aired 2022-11-09CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy
#8635, aired 2022-05-06USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson
#8023, aired 2019-06-2619th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: "Hard and sharp as flint... he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas" Ebenezer Scrooge
#8001, aired 2019-05-27GAMES: When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over The Game of Life
#7727, aired 2018-03-271960s NO. 1 SONGS: Complaints about heavy workloads inspired the titles of 2 songs by this group, No. 1 hits 7 months apart The Beatles
#7012, aired 2015-02-241980s MOVIES: At his term's end, Ronald Reagan took an office in an L.A. high-rise, still a mess from the filming of this 1988 thriller Die Hard
#6807, aired 2014-04-01FAMOUS WOMEN: This crusader, in 1906: "More than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, & then to die without it seems so cruel" Susan B. Anthony
#6320, aired 2012-02-24LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
#6130, aired 2011-04-15ANCIENT ARTIFACTS: Some of its text says, "The decree should be written on a stela of hard stone, in sacred writing, document writing & Greek writing" the Rosetta Stone
#6055, aired 2010-12-31POLITICAL TERMS: A 1912 speech said the Bull Moose Party "comes from" these; "it has grown from the soil of... people's hard necessities" grass roots
#3690, aired 2000-09-22THE THEATRE: The inspiration for this 1913 play was taken in part from the life of an Edwardian philologist named Henry Sweet Pygmalion
#2528, aired 1995-09-06FAMOUS WOMEN: Of a famous 1955 event she said, "My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work" Rosa Parks
#1731, aired 1992-02-24CHILDREN'S BOOKS: You'll find this Martin Hanford character is Charlie in France & Ubaldo in Italy Waldo
#871, aired 1988-05-23POP SINGERS: Only artist to hit Top 10 with a remake of his own #1 hit, the original in '62, the remake in '76 Neil Sedaka
#389, aired 1986-03-06AMERICAN STATISTICS: Highest birth rate in the U.S. is in this state, where almost 70% of the population has same religion Utah

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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar "She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri "He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College "His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia "A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota "He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York "This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan "He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Jim Gilcreast, a printing salesman from North Providence, Rhode Island Season 22 player (2005-11-03). Jim passed away 2023-09-05. Obituary.
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon 2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California "In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
John Shoe, a third and fourth grade teacher from Lakewood, Colorado "He teaches at a school for gifted children who choose their...
Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa 2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000. JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York "It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina 2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas "This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the College Championship.
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland "As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
Meg Khavari, a high school biology and religion teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland Season 27 player (2011-03-08).
Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College "In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana 2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami "As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
Watson, a deep question answering system from IBM 2011 IBM Challenge winner: $500,000 to World Vision + $500,000 to...
Hannah Shoenhard, a junior at Scripps College originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma 2013 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "SHANE-hard".
Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California 2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
Sarah Fremgen, a microbiologist from Carrollton, Texas Season 30 2-time champion: $52,400 + $2,000. Last name pronounced with a hard "G".
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine "Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
Senator Al Franken, a U.S. senator from Minnesota "After a successful career as a comedy writer, author, and radio...
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland "His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
Okey Chikezie, from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey "He wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows...
Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia "Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana "A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin "This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California "A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky "He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia "This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois "A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C. Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C. Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky "In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer "In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma 2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota "And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Bellamy Young, an actress from Scandal "On the hit series Scandal, she is the beloved First Lady...
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men "As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan 2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas 2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Richard Kind, an actor from Spin City "He plays Paul Lassiter, the hard-pressed press secretary to the mayor...
Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Rachel Barg, a charter school teacher from Los Angeles, California Season 24 player (2007-11-19). Last name pronounced with a hard "G"...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
George Tsuji, a software engineer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Season 27 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina 2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown "He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey "A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
Jim Mainguy, a customer service representative from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Season 22 player (2006-07-21). Last name pronounced like "MAIN-gee" (with a...
Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois "He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas 2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show "This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California "A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia "In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...



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