#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1600: The Afar Depression in the Horn of Africa is part of this "Great" fault system the Great Rift Valley |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $1000: Dry season months like November are ideal for hiking "the Roof of Africa" at Simien National Park in this country on Africa's horn Ethiopia |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $200: A French horn's name is technically just "horn"-- & the modern version was born not in France, but in this land of Oktoberfest Germany |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $400: A French horn & choir comprise the iconic intro of this Rolling Stones song, in which Mick assures us, "you get what you need" "You Can't Always Get What You Want" |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $1000: Heard here, its name is from the German for "flank horn", from its use in battle a flugelhorn |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $400: In August 1578 this English navigator sailed around Cape Horn Francis Drake |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $800: Willem Schouten, who rounded the Horn, named it after his birthplace in this country Holland (the Netherlands) |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $1600: In 1910 he said he was sailing from Norway to the Arctic Ocean via Cape Horn, but he was really headed to the South Pole Amundsen |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $2000: This British naval captain "Endeavour"ed to sail around the Horn--& did in 1769 Cook |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $600: In 2010, this plastic horn infamously made its presence known among World Cup crowds in South Africa the vuvuzela |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | TRUMPET TOOTIN' $800: In 1944 he tooted his own horn to study at what is today Juilliard; by '57, he was "Miles Ahead" with a masterpiece album Miles Davis |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE 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 |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | AROUND THE HORN $200: In baseball, an around-the-horn double play starts with a ball fielded by the player at this base third |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | AROUND THE HORN $400: This big beast's name means "three-horned face" in Greek Triceratops |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | AROUND THE HORN $600: The Täschhorn & the Weisshorn poke up nearly 15,000 feet in this range the Alps |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | STATES' OTHER COMMON LANGUAGES $2000: An estimated 75,000 in Minnesota speak this language from the Horn of Africa Somali |
#8612, aired 2022-04-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Located off the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn is found in this "blazing" archipelago Tierra del Fuego |
#8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $1200: Constructed in 1348, the 220-foot Galata Tower in this city overlooks the Golden Horn Istanbul |
#8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BEFORE THE HORSE $800: Harold Lloyd & Jay-Z had at least this eyewear in common horn-rimmed glasses |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $400: First made from bone & animal horn, eyed versions of this tool made from iron popped up in the Low Countries in the 15th century a needle |
#8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $2000: It looks like a different planet, but one of the hottest places on Earth is Dallol, in this largest Horn of Africa country Ethiopia |
#8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: An "international" phrase used after swearing tunes in as a valved, circular brass instrument pardon my French horn |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | A FORD FIESTA $800: Rob Ford in 2013, unwittingly writing a clue: "I don't want to toot my own horn... but I'm the best mayor this city has ever had" Toronto |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | 19th CENTURY MUSIC $1200: Invented in France in the 1820s, this instrument seen here gets its name from the Latin for "horn" a cornet |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | NATIONS $2000: France has a major overseas naval base in this small Horn of Africa country that was a French territory until 1977 Djibouti |
#8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $1200: The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was fought between Italy & this Horn of Africa country Ethiopia |
#8298, aired 2020-12-09 | HISTORIC ENGLISH COUNTIES $1000: The name of this region in southwest England is related to the Latin word for “horn”, based on its horn-like shape Cornwall |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $800: In 1993, this country broke away from Ethiopia to become the Horn's newest independent nation Eritrea |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | KNIGHT LINE $800: This knight "blew upon the war-horn in dolor and in pain/ and all the Frenchmen hearkened and the Emperor Charlemagne" Roland |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: A memorial that depicts an albatross on this Chilean cape is dedicated to the sailors who lost their lives in the Southern Ocean Cape Horn |
#8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: E.B. White mouselike boy in a southern state capital Stuart Little Rock |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1600: A symbol of the Mormon faith is the angel Moroni with one of these in his mouth horn (trumpet) |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name of this hard protein found in hair & nails derives its name from a Greek word for "horn" keratin |
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living Ethiopia |
#7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUNNY "D" $2000: The "cold" season in this country on the horn of Africa has lows in the 70s Djibouti |
#7834, aired 2018-10-04 | WORLD LAKES $800: Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, is in this Horn of Africa nation Ethiopia |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | THIS CATEGORY WILL BLOW YOU AWAY $1000: Sound the trumpets! In 1961 "Come Blow Your Horn" was his first comedy produced on Broadway Neil Simon |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | SURPRISING MUSICIANS $400: Before making "one small step" in space, he played baritone horn in a school band in his native Ohio (Neil) Armstrong |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $800: Big Horn County, Wyoming borders another Big Horn County in this state Montana |
#7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On a December day in 1890, about 200 Native Americans were slain by U.S. Army troops at this South Dakota location Wounded Knee |
#7705, aired 2018-02-23 | ROUGH WATERS $400: Many prefer the safety of the Panama Canal to dealing with this S. American cape rounded by a Dutch navigator in 1616 Cape Horn |
#7640, aired 2017-11-24 | THE 300+ $1600: AL 333, AKA "the first family", is a group of hominid fossils found in Hadar in this Horn of Africa nation Ethiopia |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $1000: In 2009 the Maersk Alabama, captained by him, ran afoul of pirates near the Horn of Africa Captain Phillips |
#7601, aired 2017-10-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: The cor anglais, or English horn, is in the family named for this double-reed instrument the oboe |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The powder horn belonged to one of 10,000 African-Americans who fought at battles like Monmouth in this war; to them, liberty was not just an abstract concept, but something they personally craved and hoped would be granted by the winning side, and in some cases, it was the American Revolution |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES $1600: The oldest Homo sapiens fossils date from 195,000 years ago & were found in this Horn of Africa nation Ethiopia |
#7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPEAKING "FRENCH" $200: In Prokofiev's "Peter & the Wolf", the wolf is represented by this instrument the French horn |
#7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: This "White Fang" author's "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" was based in part on his 1912 voyage around Cape Horn Jack London |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE COUNTY LINE $600: Montana's counties include Big Horn & this one named for a 19th century general who died in Montana Custer |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | TOOTING YOUR OWN HORN $200: A Broadway nightclub, Birdland, was named for him; he performed on opening night in late 1949 Charlie Parker |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | TOOTING YOUR OWN HORN $1000: Pardon me boy, but it was this trombonist who gave us "Chattanooga Choo Choo" in 1941 Glenn Miller |
#7270, aired 2016-04-01 | TUBA $1000: His album "Birth of the Cool" includes the French horn & tuba, instruments rarely heard in a jazz context Miles Davis |
#7126, aired 2015-09-14 | DANGEROUS $1000: This stormy point at the bottom of South America has a monument dedicated in 1992 to sailors lost trying to round it Cape Horn |
#7030, aired 2015-03-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: Little Big Horn days in Hardin, Montana includes a reenactment of this June 1876 event Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand) |
#7026, aired 2015-03-16 | RAGE FOR THE MACHINE $1600: The Victor Company enclosed the horn of a gramophone in a cabinet to create this hot-selling brand of the 19-teens Victrola |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | HORN $1200: Before "Barefoot in the Park" in 1963, this playwright struck gold in 1961 with "Come Blow Your Horn" Neil Simon |
#6997, aired 2015-02-03 | HIGH PLACES $1200: You'll find this animal part in the names of several Alps horn |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | WIND $200: This Midwest band was known for its horn-laden pop, as on the hit "Saturday In The Park" Chicago |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | WIND $400: The horn hook on her hit "Crazy In Love" was sampled from the Chi-Lites hit "Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)" Beyoncé |
#6942, aired 2014-11-18 | BATTLE CREEK $400: A tributary of the largest tributary of the Yellowstone, it became famous in 1876 Little Big Horn |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In Chapter 2 of "Moby Dick", he tucked his carpetbag under his arm & "started for Cape Horn and the Pacific" Ishmael |
#6622, aired 2013-06-04 | ALASKAN AQUATIC LIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew scuba dives with an octopus in Alaska.) The giant Pacific octopus has a 24-foot armspan & two horn-like papillae above each eye, which some say give it this satanic fish nickname devilfish |
#6490, aired 2012-11-30 | IT'S CHILE IN HERE $400: This cape, the southernmost point of Chile & of South America, is only about 600 miles from Antarctica Cape Horn |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $800: Most of the literature of this Horn of Africa country is written in either classical Ge'ez or modern Amharic Ethiopia |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | NEXT WORD IN COMMON $1600: Cape,
French,
Little Big Horn |
#6306, aired 2012-02-06 | RECENT MOVIES $200: "Jeopardy!" champ Thomas Horn plays the kid in "Extremely Loud and" this Incredibly Close |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CAPES $1200: In 1938 the German ship Admiral Karpfanger was mysteriously lost off this Chilean cape Cape Horn |
#6235, aired 2011-10-28 | THE 1600s $400: Dutchman Willem Schouten, who rounded this dangerous tip of South America in 1616, named it for his birthplace Cape Horn |
#6147, aired 2011-05-10 | SUBSTITUTES $1600: The mellophone is sometimes used as a substitute in marching bands for this "national" instrument the French horn |
#6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LUCILLE BALL'S 100th BIRTHDAY $800: In her final big screen role, Lucy coaxed the blues right out of the horn as the auntie in this musical with a one-word title Mame |
#6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MEN OF MUSIC $1000: Horn virtuoso Franz Strauss was consulted by Wagner in devising this hero's horn call Siegfried |
#5993, aired 2010-10-06 | HISTORIC BATTLES $600: The national monument honoring this battle covers 765 rolling acres in southern Montana the Little Big Horn |
#5802, aired 2009-12-01 | POLAR OBSESSION $1600: (Paul Nicklen presents the clue.) It's easy to see why these mammals are called unicorns of the sea; that's not a horn, though--it's actually a grooved tooth a narwhal |
#5787, aired 2009-11-10 | MUSIC $800: Trumpet players use an object called a mute; a French horn player just puts this in his instrument his hand |
#5682, aired 2009-04-28 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: In 1898 McClure's magazine published Two Moons' account of this June 1876 event the Battle of Little Big Horn |
#5638, aired 2009-02-25 | THE USED "-AR" SALESMAN $800: A little old lady only blew this ram's horn on high holidays, so it's in great condition a shofar |
#5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: In "The Glass Menagerie", Jim accidentally breaks the horn off this animal, the prize of Laura's collection a unicorn |
#5552, aired 2008-10-28 | LET US GO TO THE OPERA $1600: This title Wagner hero blows a mighty horn call & then kills Fafner, who's in the shape of a dragon Siegfried |
#5420, aired 2008-03-14 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MOVIES $2000: Bix Biederbecke's bio:
"Young Man With A ____" Horn |
#5350, aired 2007-12-07 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: I don't mean to "horn" in, but this first sign of the zodiac is represented by a symbol that looks like curved horns Aries |
#5048, aired 2006-07-19 | GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES $2,500 (Daily Double): It's the cape referred to in the name of the Cape buffalo the Cape of Good Hope |
#4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AROUND THE HORN $200: The southernmost point in South America, Cape Horn is part of this country Chile |
#4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AROUND THE HORN $1000: The largest desert in the Americas is in this Argentinean region visited by Darwin on his Beagle trips Patagonia |
#4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GETTING ATTACHED $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from horseback in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) On the Western saddle, a cowboy can attach his lariat to the high one of these parts, also called the horn a pommel |
#4940, aired 2006-02-17 | SEÑOR CLASS $2,200 (Daily Double): Señor Garcia's geography test included Cabo de Buena Esperanza, which is on this continent Africa |
#4813, aired 2005-07-06 | CELEBRITY CRITTERS $400: Ironically, a horse named Comanche was one of the few survivors of the 7th Cavalry in this 1876 battle the Little Big Horn |
#4783, aired 2005-05-25 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: The horn seen at Kansas City's American Jazz Museum belonged to this '40s & '50s musician who grew up in Kansas City Charlie Parker |
#4740, aired 2005-03-25 | MOZART & FRIENDS $1600: In scores for this type of work for orchestra & soloist, Mozart said horn player Ignaz Leutgeb was an ass, ox & fool a concerto |
#4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $400: In August 1578 this English navigator sailed around Cape Horn Drake |
#4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $800: Willem Schouten, who rounded the Horn, named it after his birthplace in this country Holland |
#4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $1200: In the 1830s this British ship visited the Patagonian Coast & the Falkland Islands & made a passage around Cape Horn the Beagle |
#4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $1600: In 1910 he said he was sailing from Norway to the Arctic Ocean via Cape Horn, but he was really headed to the South Pole Amundsen |
#4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $2000: This British naval captain "Endeavour"ed to sail around the Horn--& did in 1769 Cook |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds a musical instrument.) Here at Mammoth Mountain, the staff of the yodeler lodge sounds this instrument each day to bring folks in from the slopes an Alpine horn |
#4528, aired 2004-04-21 | TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS $2,200 (Daily Double): In December 2003 Joe Horn was fined $30,000 by the NFL for using one of these after making a touchdown cell phone |
#4463, aired 2004-01-21 | STING $400: In 1998 Britain's RSPCA helped foil crooks trying to sell this animal's horn, thought in Asia to be an aphrodisiac rhinoceros |
#4407, aired 2003-11-04 | LET'S HAVE SOME CHILE $1200: Chile's southernmost point, it lies on an island in the Tierra Del Fuego Archipelago Cape Horn |
#4397, aired 2003-10-21 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $1000: Heard here, its name is from the German for "flank horn", from its use in battle flugelhorn |
#4385, aired 2003-10-03 | THE NEXT SOUND YOU HEAR... $600: ...in the NBA, after the ball is whistled dead when there's a substitute waiting a horn |
#4357, aired 2003-07-08 | "HORN" IN $200: These glasses may be plastic or actual animal product horn-rimmed |
#4357, aired 2003-07-08 | "HORN" IN $400: He had a plum role in a nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner |
#4357, aired 2003-07-08 | "HORN" IN $600: The buzz is that this former North Carolina team still plays in the NBA Charlotte Hornets |
#4357, aired 2003-07-08 | "HORN" IN $800: To squeeze into a small place shoehorn |
#4357, aired 2003-07-08 | "HORN" IN $1000: They're also called Rocky Mountain sheep bighorn sheep |
#4334, aired 2003-06-05 | AFRICA $1600: Africa stretches about 4,700 miles from Cap Vert in the west to Raas Xaafuun in this country on the "Horn" Somalia |
#4322, aired 2003-05-20 | YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN'! $400: In the Cleveland Orchestra, this section includes flutist Joshua Smith & oboe man Jeffrey Rathbun woodwinds |
#4274, aired 2003-03-13 | AFRICAN MAMMALS $5,600 (Daily Double): (Alex in Africa) The name of the animal behind me (rhinoceros) comes from 2 Greek words which mean these 2 body parts nose & horn |
#4248, aired 2003-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This 1876 battle in Montana is also known as Custer's Last Stand Little Big Horn |
#4198, aired 2002-11-27 | THANKSGIVING AT ALEX'S HOUSE $600: (Sarah brings in table decorations.) I'm decorating with a cornucopia inspired by the magical horn of Amalthea, who nursed this Greek god when he was a baby Zeus |
#4170, aired 2002-10-18 | OF AFRICA $2000: This Horn of Africa country once known as French Somaliland took the name of its capital in 1977 upon independence Djibouti |
#4157, aired 2002-10-01 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $800: In 1616 Dutch sailor Willem Schouten named this South American cape for his native town Cape Horn |
#4127, aired 2002-07-09 | CAPES $400: Mariners sometimes mistake a cape on Hoste Island 35 miles to the northwest for this cape in Tierra del Fuego Cape Horn |
#4126, aired 2002-07-08 | ANCIENT TIMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 31 B.C., Mark Antony's army camped on this cape before his battle with Octavian off its gulf Actium |
#4085, aired 2002-05-10 | RELIGION $1600: Traditionally, in Judaism a ram's horn called this is blown at the end of Yom Kippur a shofar |
#4071, aired 2002-04-22 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $800: The Horn's Grinde is a peak in the northern part of this "dark" German region the Black Forest |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | COME BLOW YOUR HORN $800: Geographic name of the instrument featured here in a Mozart concerto a French horn |
#3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CHANGE ONE LETTER... $500: ...in kudus, antelopes with horns, to get this, praise to toot your horn about kudos |
#3813, aired 2001-03-14 | MOTHER GOOSE $100: "Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn; the sheep's in the meadow, the cow's" here In the corn |
#3740, aired 2000-12-01 | HORNS $600: National Geographic found that in Mandalay in the 1980s, this animal's horn was going for $20,000 a kilo Rhinoceros |
#3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $800: Harry James dubbed the trumpet playing for this actor in "Young Man With A Horn" Kirk Douglas |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THE MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA $400: Captain Cook "rounded" it with little difficulty in early 1769 Cape Horn |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THAT 1870s SHOW $600: In a special episode, Marcy finds out her boyfriend Jerry was killed in this June 25, 1876 battle Little Big Horn |
#3576, aired 2000-03-06 | FAMOUS NATIVE AMERICANS $400: This leader of his people at the Little Big Horn took no active part in the battle Sitting Bull |
#3413, aired 1999-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1901 Buffalo Bill founded this town in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming Cody |
#3393, aired 1999-05-12 | PARDON MY "FRENCH" $600: In France this musical instrument is called "cor d' harmonie" French horn |
#3373, aired 1999-04-14 | PUT A KIRK IN IT $1000: Kirk played Rick Martin, a role based on Bix Beiderbecke, in "Young Man with" one of these A horn |
#3370, aired 1999-04-09 | U.S. HISTORY $100: It was the last battle in which George Armstrong Custer saw action Little Big Horn |
#3239, aired 1998-10-08 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $300: This Montana site was designated a national cemetery in 1879; it became a national monument in 1946 Little Big Horn |
#3228, aired 1998-09-23 | HORN BLOWERS $200: In this family trombonist Delfeayo is the kid brother of the higher-profile Wynton & Branford Marsalis |
#3227, aired 1998-09-22 | SYMPHONIES $100: In 1889 Cesar Franck shocked some French critics by using this "English" instrument in a symphony the English horn |
#3216, aired 1998-09-07 | U.S. AT WAR $400: The Battle of the Little Big Horn was part of the Sioux Wars that also included the massacre here in 1890 Wounded Knee |
#3191, aired 1998-06-15 | HEY, "U"! $600: In legend, this mythical beast could purify poisoned water with its single horn Unicorn |
#3143, aired 1998-04-08 | SIMON $200: Born in 1927, he wrote his first Broadway hit, "Come Blow Your Horn", in 1960 Neil Simon |
#3103, aired 1998-02-11 | HAMMURABI'S CODE $500: If you hired one of these & broke a horn off or cut off its tail, you owe 1/4 of its value in money a cow (or bull or ox) |
#3046, aired 1997-11-24 | AROUND THE HORN $400: In Biblical times, this horn proclaimed the anointing of a new king a shofar |
#2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: In late June, Hardin, Montana reenacts this famous 1876 battle between the cavalry & Indians Little Big Horn |
#2931, aired 1997-05-05 | AFRICAN HISTORY $200: In 1969 General Siad Barre led a military coup in this country on the horn of Africa Somalia |
#2906, aired 1997-03-31 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): South America's Cape Horn was named for the city of Hoorn in this country Holland/The Netherlands |
#2896, aired 1997-03-17 | CAPES $300: The terrain of this Chilean cape in the Drake Passage rises to 1,391 feet Cape Horn |
#2889, aired 1997-03-06 | THE STARS $200: Among the horse constellations in the sky are one with a horn, the unicorn & this one with wings Pegasus |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | THE 1800S $100: The only survivor of Custer's force in this 1876 battle was a horse named Comanche Little Big Horn |
#2868, aired 1997-02-05 | MARCHING BAND $400: Pitched below the trumpet, the mellophone replaces this brass horn in the marching band the French horn |
#2778, aired 1996-10-02 | THE RANGE $100: Running from Cape Horn almost to Panama, it splits into 3 ranges in Colombia the Andes |
#2729, aired 1996-06-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: Two Moon's tale of this June 1876 battle was told in an 1898 article in McClure's Battle of Little Big Horn |
#2724, aired 1996-06-06 | NEW TESTAMENT NAMES $400: In Revelation 12 this archangel leads his band of angels in battle against the dragon Michael |
#2684, aired 1996-04-11 | "NET"s $200: This brass instrument originated in the 1820s from a post horn used on carriages a cornet |
#2583, aired 1995-11-22 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $100: Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument is located south of Hardin in this state Montana |
#2404, aired 1995-02-02 | LIBRARIES $300: The library at Eastern Montana College in Billings has a collection on this 1876 battle Little Big Horn |
#2383, aired 1995-01-04 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $200: This composer designed 2 French horn-like tubas to be used in his opera cycle "The Ring" Wagner |
#2378, aired 1994-12-28 | PARKS $800: This country's Cape Horn national park is the most southerly park in the Western Hemisphere Chile |
#2339, aired 1994-11-03 | ALL THAT JAZZ $400: His son Mercer played trumpet & E-flat horn in his band & once served as the band's tour manager Duke Ellington |
#2308, aired 1994-09-21 | MAESTROS $1,300 (Daily Double): Esa-Pekka Salonen studied French horn at the Sibelius Academy in this capital city Helsinki |
#2205, aired 1994-03-18 | EXPLORERS $600: In 1500 Bartolomeu Dias perished near this African cape that he'd discovered years earlier the Cape of Good Hope |
#2180, aired 1994-02-11 | RELIGION $400: Used in Jewish ritual, a shofar is this a ram's horn |
#2168, aired 1994-01-26 | BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY $200: Pliny said this mythical beast had "a single black horn... standing out in the middle of its forehead" a unicorn |
#2161, aired 1994-01-17 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: In June this state celebrates Little Big Horn Days Montana |
#2122, aired 1993-11-23 | THEATER $400: His first musical, "Little Me", premiered in 1962, the year after his first play, "Come Blow Your Horn" Neil Simon |
#2110, aired 1993-11-05 | 1876 $100: Custer made his last stand on June 25 when he & his men were killed in this battle Little Big Horn |
#2109, aired 1993-11-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $600: In Afrikaans this city is Kaapstad Cape Town |
#2013, aired 1993-05-12 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: The trombone was developed in the 1400s as a variable of this horn, which was then valveless trumpet |
#1990, aired 1993-04-09 | ISLANDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Cape Horn is located in this South American island group Tierra del Fuego |
#1944, aired 1993-02-04 | CAPES $400: Dutch sailor Willem Schouten named this South American cape for his hometown in Holland Cape Horn |
#1738, aired 1992-03-04 | THE ORCHESTRA $600: This composer invented a half tuba/half horn instrument especially for use in his "Ring" cycle Richard Wagner |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | FEATHERED FRIENDS $400: In names of birds, it follows cross, horn & spoon bill |
#1709, aired 1992-01-23 | HOBBIES $100: In ancient times these sharp items were made of bone, ivory & horn; today sewers use ones made of steel needles |
#1542, aired 1991-04-23 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: The long wooden horn, named for the mountain range where it was used for signaling the Alpenhorn |
#1428, aired 1990-11-14 | MUSIC $400: In Italian this instrument is the corno inglese the English horn |
#1339, aired 1990-05-31 | HISTORY $400: In 1616 Dutch explorer Willem Schouten rounded this cape that he named for his home town Cape Horn |
#1191, aired 1989-11-06 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $100: Its German name means "flank horn" or "wing horn", from its use in battle a flugelhorn |
#938, aired 1988-10-05 | LAKES & RIVERS $1,000 (Daily Double): River mentioned in the following Kingston Trio song:
"Standing there across the river, mid sound of horn and tram / In all her quiet beauty, the cathedral Notre Dame..." the Seine |
#840, aired 1988-04-08 | TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 cars mentioned in the following 1958 hit by The Playmates:
"Beep beep, beep beep /
His horn went beep beep beep..." Little Nash Rambler (or Cadillac) |
#808, aired 1988-02-24 | CONTAINERS $600: Part of an animal in which American frontiersmen carried gunpowder the horn |
#671, aired 1987-07-06 | WARS $100: 2 of his brothers, his brother-in-law & his nephew were also killed at the Little Big Horn Custer |
#637, aired 1987-05-19 | JUNE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sources vary on # of soldiers killed in this battle, but they all agree it was on June 25, 1876 Little Big Horn |
#591, aired 1987-03-16 | MUSIC $400: Upon receiving a "gestopft" order, a French horn player will stick this part of her anatomy in the bell forearm or hand or fist |
#573, aired 1987-02-18 | RELIGION $300: Blown in Jewish rituals, the shofar is traditionally a horn of this animal sheep (male sheep, a ram) |
#545, aired 1987-01-09 | EXPLORERS $200: Rounding this in 1616, Dutch explorer Willem Schouten named it after his home town of Hoorn Cape Horn |
#544, aired 1987-01-08 | MUSIC MEN $400: Leaning on this product in a TV ad, Miles Davis says, "I'll play 1st & tell you about it later...maybe" Honda motor scooter |
#384, aired 1986-02-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: Schussers love to schuss down the slopes of Kitzbuhel Horn, in this country Austria |
#352, aired 1986-01-14 | TECHNOLOGY $300: It was 1st introduced in 1904: please give your question at the beep; Beep! the telephone answering machine |
#310, aired 1985-11-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $100 (Daily Double): In 1818, Heinrich Stolzel took out a patent on this horn improvement allowing changes of pitch Stolzel valve |
#154, aired 1985-04-11 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: Instrument played by Jack Benny in his famous 1945 film a trumpet |
#134, aired 1985-03-14 | GEOGRAPHY $500: Cape Horn, southernmost part of South America, lies at tip of Horn Island in this country Chile |