| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 2020s & 1920s SLANG $800: This shortened word precedes "check" in a term used on social media for reviewing one's attire before hitting the town fit |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | PLANT 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 |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | I RAN $600: In 2011 this Jamaican sprinter was too fast for some school zones, hitting a top speed of 27.33 mph in a race Usain Bolt |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $400: At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency" "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | 2020s TV $800: You can't swing a stick without hitting an assassin in "The Continental", set in the world of this Keanu Reeves guy John Wick |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | 2020s 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 2023-12-19 | UNOFFICIAL TEAM NICKNAMES $400: The Peach Clobbers:
The hard-hitting 2013 edition of this MLB team the Atlanta Braves |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CIRCLE TIME $400: In target archery hitting this center circle garners you 10 points the bullseye |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $200: Since Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941, only this Reds player has exceeded 40 straight games (Pete) Rose |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | BRACE FOR LANDING $1200: You'll be thanking every saint you can think of after hitting the runway of this Caribbean island with ties to Holland & France Saint Martin |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A CENTURY AGO: 1923 $400: This facility hosts its first game, with Babe Ruth hitting a 3-run homer to beat the Red Sox Yankee Stadium |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $400: As you can see from what happened to Ixion, hitting on this woman, Zeus's wife, was not a great idea Hera |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | TRUMPET TOOTIN' $1200: That's a piccolo trumpet hitting the high notes in this Beatles song that's "in my ears & in my eyes" "Penny Lane" |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | A "MID" CATEGORY $1200: Pitcher Randy Johnson once said this act of giving a batter pause "is not in hitting a guy. It's the fear of it" intimidation |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GROWING UP X $800: This type of printer from Apple that used pins hitting an inked ribbon?
You bet it's on display! dot matrix |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | MOVE FAST $800: Drive to survive! In 2005 Juan Pablo Montoya set Italy on fire, hitting 231.5 mph in this class of auto racing Formula 1 |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A REAL LONG SHOT $600: Matt Stutzman, a 2012 silver medalist at these international games, set a longstanding record for hitting an archery target 930.4 feet the Paralympics |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | '80s MOVIE COMEDIES $200: In 1986 this title guy & 2 friends had quite a day, hitting a museum & doing some fine dining; he even caught a ball at a Cubs game Ferris Bueller |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: How about hitting the court for this rapidly growing sport? pickleball |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $900: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Before hitting it big writing novels like "The Da Vinci Code", he pursued a music career & also taught at prep schools in New Hampshire & Beverly Hills (Dan) Brown |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $1000: Before he set the major-league record, he had a 61-game hitting streak in the minors DiMaggio |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | STREETS OF AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): This man made Salt Lake City's downtown streets wide so a wagon team could turn around without hitting sidewalks or using profanity Brigham Young |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | ROLE CALL $200: Hitting the big screen as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" was an offer this actor couldn't refuse Brando |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $600: (I'm Jenise Fernandez.) Hitting South Florida in 1992 with 165-mile-per-hour winds, destroying around 25,000 homes, taking 44 lives, & causing more than $25 billion in damage, it made news as the then most expensive Atlantic hurricane in history Hurricane Andrew |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $600: Sammy Sosa, hitting 66 homers in 1998 the Cubs |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | SPACE: KIND OF HUGE $1600: In 1977 this probe 2 launched 2 weeks before probe 1; it took 12 years to reach Neptune before hitting interstellar space Voyager |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE MUSIC "MAN" $2000: Twice a "man", he had a hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" before hitting the charts again with his Earth Band Manfred Mann |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | "PRE"FIXES $400: Before a contest, or to toss a few back before hitting the bars pre-game |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | FALSE ADVERTISING? $400: Actually, it's the ulnar nerve that causes the tingling sensation known as "hitting" this the funny bone |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PRONOUNCE IT THE WAY WE WANT $1000: A serve-yourself food place becomes this hard-hitting word buffet |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | IN THEIR 60s $800: At age 63 she set a trapshooting record by hitting 98 out of 100 pigeons at a North Carolina club (Annie) Oakley |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | 3-LETTER VERBS $600: To clear a pool table by hitting all the balls in the pockets in a row run |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NO EGRETS $200: The peregrine this can really hit the gas going for prey, hitting 200-plus mph a falcon |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | GAMER'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 |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $200: Scouting report on this title guy: very indecisive hitting holes but has great vision--even of his own father's ghost Hamlet |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $200: This word paired with "cutting" in a computer term can also mean a heavy beating pasting |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $400: The OED credits World Wrestling Entertainment with popularizing this term similar to beatdown smackdown |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $600: In a traditional rhyme, Lizzie Borden gave family members a total of 81 these whacks |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $800: It's thought that the verb "trounce" is etymologically similar to this wooden club a truncheon |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $1000: Only one letter different from "gallop", this word for a heavy blow used to mean to ride at a gallop wallop |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | MIXED BAG $1200: First hitting the streets in 2010, this company completed its 10 billionth ride in 2018 Uber |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | JOCKS $1000: The unconventional methods of this long-hitting 2020 U.S. Open champ include using a protractor on the putting green Bryson DeChambeau |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | WHAT ARE THE ODDS? $1000: A $2 ticket buys you about a 1 in 300 million chance of hitting the jackpot in this alliterative 45-state lottery the Mega Millions |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1855 2 faculty members & 10 students began hitting the books at this now-Big Ten school less than 15 miles from Chicago Northwestern |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | WHAT AN IDIOM! $400: To do or say the most fitting thing is to do this construction task with a tool to a fastener hitting the nail on the head |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | MILITARY JARGON & SLANG $1000: Ejecting from an aircraft & using a parachute is called "hitting" this fabric the silk |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ADVERTISING $400: With the introduction of the Model T & more people hitting the road, outdoor advertising on these became more popular billboards |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | DANCING BACK TO DISCO $1000: Hitting some really high notes from Dec. 1977 to 1979, this trio had 6 straight No. 1 hits, including "Tragedy" the Bee Gees |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | BALLOONS $1600: An L.A. government agency says mylar helium balloons that fly free cause around 200 of these in the city every year power outages |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | THE ZODIAC, KINDA IN PICTURES $800: Here's Matt Stutzman, not only repping this sign symbolically but hitting a target 930' away Sagittarius |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $800: This star was "Pitch Perfect" as an author, with her "Scrappy Little Nobody" hitting No. 1 on the Times' bestseller list Anna Kendrick |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | SIZE IT $400: This 1997 James Cameron flick couldn't avoid hitting a slew of Oscars the Titanic |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GOTTA RUN! $800: With Gehrig on deck, Game 7 of the 1926 W.S. ended with this big-hitting Yankee legend getting thrown out trying to steal second Babe Ruth |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | HITTING THE SAUCE $200: Sauces at this fast food chain include mild, Del Scorcho & Del Inferno Del Taco |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | HITTING THE SAUCE $400: In 2014 A1 sauce dropped this word from its name--maybe it wanted to see other meats steak |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | HITTING THE SAUCE $600: McDonald's changed the special sauce on this sandwich in 1991, but wised up & changed it back in 2004 the Big Mac |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | HITTING THE SAUCE $800: The traditional fry sauce from Utah is basically these 2 condiments mixed to make its pink color ketchup and mayonnaise |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | HITTING THE SAUCE $1000: This brand's "Redhot" cayenne pepper sauce was the one used to make the original Buffalo wings Frank's |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | THE MEDICAL FILE OF ALEX TREBEK $2000: I'm fine now, but slipping & hitting my head led to blood on the brain, a subdural one of these swellings a hematoma |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | TIME TO TAKE THE S_A_T $1600: It's not just the sound of a grapefruit hitting concrete--it's also the middle vertical element of a chair back splat |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | A LITTLE MISTAKE $400: 4-letter result of hitting the "Q" on the keyboard instead of the "W" a typo |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | ROUGH WATERS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 2016 the waves at Mavericks in this "lunar" California bay were gnarly, dude, like totally hitting 50 feet Half Moon Bay |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | SPORTS RECORD HOLDERS $800: Ray Allen was big from way downtown in his 1,300 games, hitting 2,973 of these; bang! 3-pointers |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | CONGRESSIONAL POWERS $800: Congress protects intellectual property by issuing these, hitting number 9 million in 2015 patents |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | PENNANTS $1000: In 2007 this slugger had some Big Papi in his bat, hitting .714 in the ALDS on the way to pennant & World Series wins (David) Ortiz |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $1600: A Category 4 hurricane hitting a wide & shallow continental shelf can produce a 20-foot this alliterative phrase a storm surge |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | PRECIOUS GEMS $1000: Light hitting layers of silica causes the brilliant colors of this gem, including the boulder type the opal |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | HOT PLACES $800: Records show Tirat Tsvi, one of these small collective farms in Israel, hitting 129 in 1942 a kibbutz |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING 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 |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | BASEBALL $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.) Here's the ball hit by this Yankee legend who broke a 44-game hitting streak record, held by "Wee Willie" Keeler Joe DiMaggio |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | TALKING BASEBALL $200: A single, double, triple & homer in one game is known as hitting for this the cycle |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | DAVID MUIR COVERS POLITICS $800: (David Muir presents.) Political reporting often means hitting the presidential campaign trail, like I did in 2015 when I conducted a one-on-one interview in English & Spanish with this ex-governor Jeb Bush |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On April 18, 1775, this man left Charlestown around 11:00 P.M. but was captured by the British after hitting Lexington, but before he got to Concord (Paul) Revere |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | LEADER OF THE PACK $200: In 1959 this new coach of the Packers said, "Dancing is a contact sport; football is a hitting sport" (Vince) Lombardi |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $6,000 (Daily Double): In 2015 the Intl. NYT debuted a monthly digest of Times content in Chinese for these 2 administrative regions Hong Kong & Macau |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY $1,000 (Daily Double): A membership fee bump helped this co. move up the food chain in 2013, hitting $100 billion in sales for the first time Costco |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $400: Jack London's tale of the place where feral creatures stop at the food court before hitting Old Navy The Mall of the Wild |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | THE LIFE OF A NOVELIST $400: Gee, wizard! Before hitting it big, she worked for Amnesty International & lived in Portugal teaching English J.K. Rowling |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | COMPUTER ACTIONS $600: In Windows hitting Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V performs these 2 artsy & crafty actions copy & paste |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | THE LANGUAGE OF SPORTS $800: In soccer, it's the proper term for hitting the ball with your noggin a header |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | MOVIE COMEDIES $400: In "Caddyshack" this comedian said, "I'll tell ya, this steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it" Rodney Dangerfield |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | DETROIT ROCK CITY $1600: Doug Fieger was born in Detroit in 1952, years before hitting it big with this band & "My Sharona" The Knack |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | TENNIS TIPS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows diagrams on the monitor.) Because the net is lower in the center & there's an extra 4 1/2 feet of court to work with, this type of diagonal shot is typically smarter than hitting it down the line a cross-court |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | CROQUET, MONSIEUR $200: In British croquet, a player gets one extra stroke for putting a ball through a wicket & 2 extra strokes for doing this hitting one of his opponent's balls |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ____ING THE ____ $800: Going to sleep, not punching dried grass, as you might think hitting the hay |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | ALT $200: This "numeric" Trent Reznor act keeps hammering away, hitting the 2013 Billboard Alt Charts with "Came Back Haunted" Nine Inch Nails |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | "HIT" ME $1600: A baseball player getting a single, double, triple & home run all in one game is doing this hitting for the cycle |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | ENGLAND SWINGS $2000: The day his son was born, this band's Liam Gallagher celebrated by hitting a photographer Oasis |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | TOY STORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Founded in 1948, this company got its name from the sound a slingshot projectile made when hitting a target Wham-O |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | SCULPTURE $800: This 4-letter term means a figure composed of the head, neck, shoulders & part of the torso a bust |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | THE "RONG" STUFF $2000: This hoofed mammal can really hoof it, hitting 60 MPH pronghorn |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND $1200: We got together as kids in the San Francisco Bay Area before hitting it big with "Proud Mary" Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | SCHOOL OF ROCK $800: She faced many hurdles at her Missouri high school before hitting it big with songs like "If It Makes You Happy" Sheryl Crow |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | THE OLD BALL GAME $400: In rounders, the ancestor of baseball, a runner was put out not by tagging but by doing this with the ball--ouch! hitting the player |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | AT BAT $800: Jim Rice was so powerful, he broke a bat without hitting the ball on one of these, a swing the batter tries to stop a checked swing |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This 315-mile-long river passes through Troy & Albany before hitting the bright lights of New York City the Hudson |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | GREAT COMEBACKS WITH DAN PATRICK $400: (Dan Patrick reads the clue from his studio.) A year after hitting .406, this Red Sox legend left to be a fighter pilot in WWII, came back, won the Triple Crown, left to fight in the Korean War, came back & was an All-Star Ted Williams |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | PAY BALL! $1000: After hitting .350 in 1907, this Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop got his salary doubled for 1908--to a whopping $10,000 (Honus) Wagner |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MYTHBUSTERS $600: (The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) We tested a story of unlikely survival using a parachutist hitting a see-saw to launch a girl several stories up but she'd be subjected to 42 of these units, exerted on an object by changes in speed, so a safe landing is unlikely indeed a g |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | COLLEGE SPORTS $800: Hitting .361 as a sophomore got him a contract with the Yankees, but he'd win Super Bowls as a Bronco quarterback John Elway |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | THE SANDERS OF TIME $800: In an episode of this Garry Shandling series, the title star thinks David Duchovny is hitting on him The Larry Sanders Show |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | COMPUSTUFF $600: If a program locks up, try hitting this combination of 3 keys at the same time to open the task manager ctrl + alt + delete |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | I'M BORED! $2000: How about hitting the slopes of Loon Mountain or the Dartmouth Skiway in this state New Hampshire |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | THAT'S EXPENSIVE! $600: In 2010 his hitting & third base playing services cost the Yankees $33 million Alex Rodriguez |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE BRITISH POET LAUREATE WRITES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2010 David Beckham injured his heel, inspiring Carol Ann Duffy to compare him in verse to this Greek hero Achilles |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $200: Bo knows that this Auburn running back & Heisman winner played MLB for 8 years, hitting 141 home runs Bo Jackson |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE $400: Hitting Innsbruck or Salzburg in this country & saying "G'day, mate!" over & over will only confuse the locals Austria |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | STREAKING $1000: After his 56-game hitting streak ended in 1941, this Yankee hit in 16 straight; that's 72 out of 73 games Joe DiMaggio |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | LETTER-WORD $600: One of the first versions of this, in Michigan in 1956, had the kids hitting off a metal pipe T-ball |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SELF-CONTRADICTORY WORDS $400: To hit something; in baseball, it's when you miss hitting something a strike |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | TRANSPORTATION $2000: Ernst Henne was "the fastest man on two wheels", hitting 173 mph in 1937 on a motorcycle from this company BMW |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | THEY'RE TALKIN' BASEBALL $800: Garry Maddox, reflecting on hitting a grand slam: "As I remember it, the bases were" this loaded |
| #5555, aired 2008-10-31 | REQUESTS $400: I'm hitting the road, Mr. DJ, so please put on this title track of Springsteen's 1975 album "Born To Run" |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | NEW INTERNATIONAL SPORTS TEAMS? $400: Now hitting the pitch, this North Sea squad who want to split the cost of the date with you; all cheer for the... Dutch Treats |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | I LIKE TO DECORATE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue.)
Making ordinary furniture look like an antique is called this, a synonym for "troubling"--the fun part is the hitting distressing |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BALLS $1600: In racquetball, the ball must strike the front wall before hitting this the ground (or the floor) |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | "J" PEG $400: Someone who's there when you need him, or "Jeopardy!"'s announcer hitting his mark Johnny-on-the-spot |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | FUN WITH PROBABILITY $400: High rollers get to play roulette on single-zero wheels, where the chance of hitting your lucky number is 1 in this 37 |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | ADVENTURES IN THE AIR $400: Hitting a speed of about 800 miles per hour, Chuck Yeager broke this barrier in October 1947 the speed of sound |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | AUTHORS $1200: He wrote comic book stories for "Captain America" & "Captain Marvel" before hitting it big with "I, the Jury" Mickey Spillane |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | THE SPORTING LIFE $200: Probably by not hitting into his last name, he won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes, an all-time best Tiger Woods |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | DOUBLE "Z" $1200: In 2004 he broke Carlton Fisk's record for career home runs as a catcher by hitting his 352nd Mike Piazza |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s 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 |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | DICKENS CHARACTERS $800: Drinking beer, kicking dogs & hitting women are hobbies of this man, Fagin's adult accomplice Bill Sykes |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | INSIDE THE BRAIN $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads the clue after hitting Jon on the knee with a small mallet.) The knee jerk reflex involves just one of these connection sites between neurons; most, like the blink reflex, use more than one synapses |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: Ex-soldiers' financial arrangements Veterans' Affairs |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | HITTING A HOMER $400: Hers was the face that launched a thousand ships Helen of Troy |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | HITTING A HOMER $800: In the "Iliad", he was the greatest of the Greek warriors Achilles |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | HITTING A HOMER $1200: Brother to Paris, he was the greatest of the Trojan warriors Hector |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | HITTING A HOMER $1600: The king of Troy & husband to Hecuba Priam |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | HITTING A HOMER $2000: Leader of the Greek armies, he was murdered by his own wife after the war Agamemnon |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG $600: If I ask for some "you & me", I'm not hitting on you, I merely want this, especially in the afternoon tea |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1,000 (Daily Double): ...among the Balkan states Albania |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | DOUBLE "D"s $600: In golf, before hitting the ball you do this to it, in preparation address it |
| #4709, aired 2005-02-10 | TALKING HEADS $1200: He's the hard-hitting news honcho seen here Chris Matthews |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | BASEBALL IN THE '60s $1000: In 1967 this Red Sox outfielder became the last Major Leaguer to win hitting's Triple Crown Yastrzemski |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | BIRD HUNTING $1000: The Academy of Pro Players Power Hitting Baseball Camp can help you with bat speed, bunting & hitting the curve a bunting |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | JOURNALISM $400: An uncritical piece is called this & is as hard-hitting as the pastry of the same name a puff piece |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | SMART CHOICES $200: After hitting .202 in the minors in '94, he went back to his day job of all-universe NBA star (Michael) Jordan |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $800: In the 8th inning of a 1941 game, a play by shortstop Lou Boudreau ended this Yankee's 56-game hitting streak Joe DiMaggio |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | JIMMY JAM $200: He played Victor Sifuentes on "L.A. Law" before hitting the street as Det. Bobby Simone on "NYPD Blue" Jimmy Smits |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | LEGENDS OF THE GAMES $1200: Hockey's hard-hitting "Boom Boom" Bernie Geoffrion played for this team in the '50s Montreal Canadiens |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $2000: She worked as a babysitter for songwriter Carole King until hitting the big time with King's song "The Loco-Motion" Little Eva |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | "P"EOPLE $200: With the Mets since 1998, he's been called "The greatest-hitting catcher ever to play the game of baseball" Mike Piazza |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | GOLF TALK $400: (Peter Jacobsen gives the clue) Keep the club head low through your swing when hitting these, a term for any wood other than the driver fairway woods |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: To go out & celebrate boisterously, particularly by hitting bars & other nightspots to paint the town red |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $400: Since Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941, only this Reds player has exceeded 40 straight games Pete Rose |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | IRIDIUM $1200: Traces of iridium in rocks lend credence to the theory that this cosmic event led to the dinosaurs' extinction asteroid/meteorite hitting the Earth |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | BIBLE HEROES $600: In the first book of Samuel, David defeats this Philistine by hitting him with a rock Goliath |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | ACTIVITIES $200: In 2001 the president invited kids to the White House to play this game, hitting a ball off a stand T-Ball |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | MUSIC $1000: This group had its initial success in 1991, hitting No. 1 with the following
"Your purple prose just gives you away /
The things, you say /
You're unbelievable" EMF |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | HITTING THE LINKS $200: 24 tales are linked in this Chaucer masterpiece Canterbury Tales |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | HITTING THE LINKS $400: The Oswego canal links the Erie Canal with this Great Lake Lake Ontario |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | HITTING THE LINKS $600: This ancient trade route linking China & Europe was used by Marco Polo in the 13th century the Silk Road |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | HITTING THE LINKS $800: Xerox created the local area network known as this to link computers at its research center the Ethernet |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | HITTING THE LINKS $1000: Using simple links, the molecule whose structure is seen here is this substance, used as a bleach hydrogen peroxide |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | SEPTEMBER SONGS $1200: This Jon Bon Jovi tune young gunned up the charts in 1990, hitting No. 1 in September "Blaze of Glory" |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | DAMN YANKEES $400: In 1956 this Oklahoman won the Triple Crown, hitting .353, with 52 HRs & 130 RBIs Mickey Mantle |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DURING DiMAGGIO'S HITTING STREAK $100: Germany invaded this country on June 22, 1941, attacking Minsk & Odessa Soviet Union/Russia |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DURING DiMAGGIO'S HITTING STREAK $200: On July 4, 1941 he told the nation America can't be an oasis of liberty in a desert of dictatorship Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DURING DiMAGGIO'S HITTING STREAK $300: This former New York Yankee seen here on a stamp died at age 37 Lou Gehrig |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DURING DiMAGGIO'S HITTING STREAK $400: British & free French forces took Syria from this collaborationist French government Vichy |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DURING DiMAGGIO'S HITTING STREAK $500: Charles Evans Hughes resigned from this post he'd held since 1930 Chief Justice of the United States |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | WHO'S THERE? $400: Hitting home run No. 715 in Atlanta on April 8, 1974 Hank Aaron |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | HITMEN $300: In 1941 this Yankee broke a 44-year-old record by hitting safely in 56 straight games Joe DiMaggio |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | 49ers $500: This defensive back known for hard hitting entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 Ronnie Lott |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | SPORTS FIRSTS ON THE FIRST $100: On June 1, 1925, pinch hitting for Pee Wee Wanninger, he played his first of 2,130 games in a row Lou Gehrig |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MERYL STREEP FILMS $200: Before hitting "The Beach", he played Meryl Streep's son in 1996's "Marvin's Room" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #3611, aired 2000-04-24 | ANDRES & ANDREAS $200: In 1999 he won a total of $4,002,598 just by hitting a few tennis balls Andre Agassi |
| #3600, aired 2000-04-07 | STRAIGHT "F"s $800: Major League coach Jimmie Reese was the master of hitting these fly balls to fielders Fungos |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | SPORTS STARS $300: (Hi, I'm Bob Costas.) In 1956 this N.Y. Yankee became the only player ever to win baseball's Triple Crown while hitting more than 50 home runs Mickey Mantle |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | AROUND THE PARK WITH SALLY $200: Sally is good at this game of hitting a ball to completely coil a cord around a post Tetherball |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | READINGS FROM HOMER SIMPSON $200: He's the god hitting the hay here:
"Going up to the bed he slept and Hera of the gold throne beside him" Zeus |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | CAR TALK $200: It's the "A" in ABS, which is designed to keep you from hitting the skids Anti(-lock Brake System) |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | SPORTS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Dot Richardson) I led this school's Bruins in hitting 3 consecutive years & was named NCAA Player of the Decade for the 1980s UCLA |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $200: The sound of a horse's hoof hitting the pavement, it usually follows clip Clop |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | SOMETHING'S A "FOOT" $400: In tennis, it happens when the server steps over the baseline before hitting the ball Foot fault |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | WHATCHA DOIN'? $100: Hitting a chip shot onto the green golfing |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $300: Hitting the bull's eye in pub games,using these, brings you 50 points Darts |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | FOOLISH PHRASEOLOGY $300: "I ain't in no slump", asserted this former Yankee, "I just ain't hitting" Yogi Berra |
| #3002, aired 1997-09-23 | ATHLETES $300: In 1996 boxer Andrew Golota lost twice to Riddick Bowe by committing this foul hitting below the belt |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | FITNESS $100: A runner's fatigue caused by glycogen depletion is called "hitting" this "The wall" |
| #2982, aired 1997-07-15 | CASANOVA $400: Besides writing his popular autobiography, Casanova translated this Homer war work in 1775 the Iliad |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE $200: Margot Asquith said of Lloyd George, "He could not see" one of these "without hitting below it" Belt |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | PEOPLE $400: In July 1993 this Seattle outfielder tied a Major League record by hitting home runs in 8 straight games Ken Griffey, Jr. |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $400: A costume dispute may have kept Joan Crawford from hitting the beach with Burt Lancaster in this 1953 film From Here to Eternity |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME $300: In 1941 this outfielder had a 56-game hitting streak, a Major League record Joe DiMaggio |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | LIGHT $500: Colors on this household object are produced by beams of electrons hitting colored phosphors a television |
| #2691, aired 1996-04-22 | GOLF $500: This term means to position oneself before hitting the ball, not to speak to the ball to address the ball |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $100: He played with the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro League before hitting 755 home runs in the majors Hank Aaron |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | BASEBALL $200: In 1978 this Cincinnati Red set a modern-day National League record with a 44-game hitting streak Pete Rose |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | IN OTHER WORDS... $200: Striking beneath a waist cincher hitting below the belt |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | IN THE BALLPARK $1000: A ball hitting the roof may remain in play in the Minnesota stadium named for this vice president Hubert H. Humphrey |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | SPORTS $400: In 1993 this Seattle center fielder tied a Major League record by hitting home runs in 8 straight games Ken Griffey Jr. |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | NUTRITION $600: Ultraviolet light from the sun hitting sterols in the skin produces this vitamin D |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: This hard-hitting defense lawyer appears in about 80 of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels Perry Mason |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This home run hitting champ told his life story in the autobiography "I Had A Hammer" Hank Aaron |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | THE 1940s $1000: Cleveland Indians pitching ended this Yankee center fielder's record 56-game hitting streak (Joe) DiMaggio |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | BY GEORGE $500: Lady Asquith said of this British prime minister, "He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it" Lloyd George |
| #1806, aired 1992-06-08 | CYCLING $200: Caliper brakes work by squeezing levers on the handlebars; coaster brakes by doing this pushing the pedal back |
| #1728, aired 1992-02-19 | BASEBALL $100: In 1978 this Cincinnati Reds player tied a N.L. record by hitting safely in 44 straight games Pete Rose |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | POOL $200: The spin imparted on the cue ball by hitting it off center is called this English |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | 1941 $400: His 56-game hitting streak was ended on July 17th Joe DiMaggio |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | THE MOON $500: A current theory says from debris thrown off by a giant rock hitting the Earth 5 billion years ago how was the Moon formed |
| #1134, aired 1989-07-06 | PEOPLE $400: Mark Hebbard may make it into Guinness for hitting 90 decibels while doing this when asleep snoring |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | FOOTBALL $500: This Ohio State coach was fired for hitting a Clemson player in the 1978 Gator Bowl Woody Hayes |
| #1072, aired 1989-04-11 | BASEBALL HISTORY $500: Wee Willie Keeler's famous rules for hitting were "keep your eye clear and hit 'em" here "where they ain't" |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | BASEBALL $400: The unusual thing Jimmy Piersall did after hitting his 100th career homer in 1963 ran the bases running backwards |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | 1978 $400: His hitting streak stopped at 44 games, disappointing everybody except maybe Joe DiMaggio Pete Rose |
| #880, aired 1988-06-03 | FOOTBALL $500: At 65, he was fired as Ohio State's football coach after hitting an opposing player Woody Hayes |
| #877, aired 1988-05-31 | SPORTS $500: This Yankee 1st baseman set a Major League record in '87 hitting 6 grand slam home runs Don Mattingly |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | RACQUET SPORTS $100: In racquetball, the ball must strike the front wall before hitting this floor |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | RHYME TIME $100: Officially, a punch below the belt; unofficially, hitting a guy when he's down low blow |
| #787, aired 1988-01-26 | "BACK" IN SPORTS $500: What Minnesota Fats put on a cue ball to stop it dead after hitting another ball backspin |
| #741, aired 1987-11-23 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT $100: Table tennis rackets or paddles are also called this, even though they're not used for hitting home runs bats |
| #602, aired 1987-03-31 | POP MUSIC $200: She taught in a segregated high school before hitting #1 with "The 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face" Roberta Flack |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | WORLD WAR II $300: Planes from this ally bombed Gestapo HQ in Denmark without hitting 2 hospitals 100 yards away England |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | BASEBALL $200: Position in the batting order of a player hitting "clean-up" 4th |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | BASEBALL RECORDS $1000: Joe DiMaggio's consecutive-game hitting streak record 56 games |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | THE LONGEST $100: After all these years, Joe Di Maggio still has the longest one in baseball hitting streak |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | SPORTS TRIVIA $300: From Scandinavian for "shoot", its goal is hitting clay targets thrown into air skeet shooting |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | HISTORY $100: 13,000 houses were destroyed, but no one died in this city's "Great Fire" of 1666 London |
| #156, aired 1985-04-15 | AGRICULTURE $400: Rainmaking process banned in some states for upsetting the balance in nature cloud seeding |
| #115, aired 1985-02-15 | ARCHERY $200: You score 9 or 10 points for hitting this on a target the bullseye |
| #78, aired 1984-12-26 | UP IN "ARM"s $300: Frank Sinatra starred in this hard-hitting film about drug addiction The Man with the Golden Arm |
