#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $200: The Castle of Good Hope dates to the 1660s in this city in South Africa Cape Town |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $600: Froindlichst sells meatless patties in this German city on the Elbe Hamburg |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The historic site Pedra do Sal in this second city has been called "the birthplace of samba" Rio de Janeiro |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $200: Village-sized but billed as Britain's smallest city, St. Davids is in this U.K. country with David as its patron saint Wales |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $400: More than 600,000 Argentinians live in this city near the shore of the Rio de the same name La Plata |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $600: Try some okonamiyaki savory pancakes in this city, often referred to as the "Kitchen of Japan" Osaka |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $800: An Azerbaijani oil baron built a replica of a Parisian palace for his wife in this capital city Baku |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $1000: The Atlantic port city Essaouira in this North African country was planned by an 18th century French architect Morocco |
#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $1,000 (Daily Double): Columbia is about midway between these 2 same-state Midwest cities that squared off in the I-70 World Series in 1985 Kansas City & St. Louis |
#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $200: 2 cities with this name in different states lie on the Missouri River Kansas City |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The Lombard League, an alliance of Italian cities, was founded in 1167 to defend against this red-bearded Holy Roman Emperor Barbarossa |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: We are marching to this city where the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, ending the Boer War Pretoria |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $2000: About a third of this city's 15 million people live on the Asian side, while the rest live in Europe Istanbul |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $400: Chicago's throne-shaped theatre building with this kind of work in its name, opened with "Aida" in 1929 opera |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $800: Memphis harkens back to ancient times with a Bass Pro Shops in one of the world's largest of these, worthy of the mighty pharaohs pyramid |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $1200: Get a kick out of some kicks at the Giant Shoe Museum in Pike Place Market in this Western city Seattle |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Area 15 in Las Vegas houses art installations originally built for this annual festival held in the Black Rock Desert Burning Man |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $400: In the '60s it gave birth to the Motown sound Detroit |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $800: In 1786 it was chosen to replace Charleston as a state capital Columbia |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $1600: Many a cruise leaves out of Port Everglades in this city, the seat of Broward County Fort Lauderdale |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Most city founders have been gone a while, but the man for whom this Nevada casino town is named, passed away in 2023 Laughlin |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $3,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 3, 1996 the Star Tribune & the Pioneer Press headlined a big stat for these 2 adjoining cities: -60 degrees Minneapolis & St. Paul |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: Cultural attractions in Bangkok include Wat Pho & Wat Arun, temples of this religion Buddhism |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $800: This Nepalese capital sits in a bowl-shaped valley near the border with Tibet Kathmandu |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $600: In 2023 this type of filing affecting housing was 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities eviction |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: The African Union has its headquarters in this Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $1200: Everybody comes to this city also known as Dar Al-Beïda--everybody in Morocco, that is Casablanca |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $1600: Windhoek is the capital of this southwest African nation that gained independence in 1990 Namibia |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $2000: Libya's second-largest city, this port on the Mediterranean sadly made international news in 2012 Benghazi |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $800: 4th century A.D. Roman emperor Jovian was born in Singidunum, now this Serbian capital Belgrade |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961 in honor of its dictator, this city returned to its old name after his assassination Santo Domingo |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $400: Espoo & Lappeenranta are cities in this nation Finland |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $400: In Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" an operative is sent to this onetime capital to help against Vietnamese Communists Saigon |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1600: "City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard takes place in the author's longtime home, this Midwest city Detroit |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor Casterbridge |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $1000: He takes Charles Darnay's place at the scaffold in "A Tale of Two Cities" Sydney Carton |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $400: In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city Moscow |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $800: This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia Tokyo |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1200: Athens hosted the first Modern Olympics in 1896; this other European capital hosted the second games in 1900 Paris |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $400: Some pilgrims go on their knees up the steps of Canada's largest church, St. Joseph's Oratory in this city in Quebec Montreal |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $600: Also the site of the largest mall in Canada, this oil city of Alberta is "The Gateway to the North" Edmonton |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $800: Flooding in 1950 in Winnipeg by this river of the north led to the building of floodways there to bypass the city the Red River of the North |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $600: The 4 largest cities in the U.S. by area are all in Alaska: Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and this city, also the most populous Anchorage |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $800: I found my thrill on Parliament Hill in this city with a visit to the Canadian Senate chamber Ottawa |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1600: The massive Lower Usuma Dam was completed in 1990 to bring drinking water to Abuja, about to become this nation's new capital Nigeria |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): Today an art school stands at the place in this huge metropolis where Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 Mumbai |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | IN DENMARK $800: Copenhagenize is an urban planning firm specializing in making cities friendly to these transports, the way Copenhagen is bicycles |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $400: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C., but it wasn't built in a day Rome |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $1200: This city on the Côte d'Azur is thought to be named in honor of the Greek goddess of victory Nice |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2022 it was the site of 2 FIFA World Cup venues Doha, Qatar |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $800: The burial place of the Medicis, the Church of San Lorenzo claims to be the oldest in this city Florence |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the sacred city of Kandy is in this island country Sri Lanka |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $1600: This city on the north coast of Colombia was named for one founded in 3rd century Spain by the North African general Hasdrubal Cartagena |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | WORLD CITIES $2000: At 92 feet below sea level, Baku in this country is the lowest national capital Azerbaijan |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $400: On the Che trail in this country, the town of Vallegrande has the laundry room where Señor Guevara's body was washed Bolivia |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $1600: Just east of St. Petersburg, Russia is the lovely town of Shlisselburg on this river the Neva |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $2000: These 2 sister cities in the U.S. & France are settings in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" & "Das Boot" New Rochelle, New York & La Rochelle, France |
#8873, aired 2023-05-17 | "X" IN THE CITY $800: Indicated on the map & named for the 2 states it straddles, it functions as one community but two separate cities Texarkana |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $200: The design of this capital city that began construction in the 1950s is said to resemble a bird or an airplane Brasília |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $600: Nieuw Nickerie & Nieuw Amsterdam are cities in this country Suriname |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $800: Most flights to & from the Galapagos Islands stop at or originate in this city, Ecuador's largest Guayaquil |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $1000: On the Atlantic coast, Maldonado is 70 miles east of this capital city Montevideo |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | 4 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS OR CONSONANTS $2000: This capital of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province is one of the southernmost cities in the world Ushuaia |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $400: In this Dickens novel, Sydney Carton loves Lucie Manette so much that he replaces her husband on the guillotine A Tale of Two Cities |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $400: The State Hermitage Museum is in this "saintly" Russian city St. Petersburg |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $800: In 1809 John Molson linked Quebec & this city by water with the first Canadian steamboat Montreal |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $1600: The worker bee is a symbol of this industrial city in northern England & represents unity since a 2017 bombing there Manchester |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Over 10,000 feet in elevation, this South American capital is one of the International Cities of Peace La Paz |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $2000: You can study physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in this city, like 1900 grad Albert Einstein did Zurich |
#8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $1200: The cities of the Achaean League situated on the northern part of this peninsula met defeat in 146 B.C. at the hands of Rome the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $200: Now in Syria, Aleppo lies at a crossroads of great commercial routes about 60 miles away from both the Euphrates River & this sea the Mediterranean |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $400: In 1687 Venetians besieging Athens hit this temple with a mortar, setting off gunpowder stored inside; it's never been the same the Parthenon |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $800: Copan, an important city of the Classic period of these people is in modern-day Honduras, near the border with Guatemala the Mayans |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | PLANES, TRAINS $1200: When it started service in 1862, the Flying Scotsman rail route took 10 1/2 hours between these 2 cities; now it does it in 4 London & Edinburgh |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $2000: This Aristophanes play is named for the character who inspires the women of Athens & Sparta to end a war between the cities Lysistrata |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1,800 (Daily Double): These paired cities, "going after strange flesh, are... suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $2000: This major port is the largest city in Crimea Sevastopol |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $200: Though Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, the seat of government is in this city The Hague |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: "Carmen" is set in this city; "The Marriage of Figaro" takes place nearby Seville |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: Seen here is some merrymaking in this capital of Bavaria Munich |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: Since 1578 a sacred 14-foot linen shroud has been preserved in a cathedral in this city Turin |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1000: Warsaw lies on both banks of this river, the longest in Poland the Vistula |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $200: In 1880 the British defeated indigenous forces in the Battle of Kandahar, now the second-largest city in this country Afghanistan |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $600: Founded by King Olaf III Haraldsson, Bergen is the second-largest city in this country Norway |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bulawayo in this nation is home to State House, built by Cecil Rhodes Zimbabwe |
#8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1600: Canonized in 1671, the first saint of South America, Rose of this city Lima |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | IN THE ROOM $1600: This large upholstered couch that shares its name with the largest of the Quad Cities along the Iowa-Illinois border a davenport |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $400: Olympic Stadium in this city was the site of multiple gold-winning performances by Jesse Owens Berlin |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $1200: The cities of Würzburg, Bayreuth & Munich are all found in this largest German state by area Bavaria |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $1600: The site of a Roman fortress in the 1st century B.C., this city was the seat of federal government for 50 years until 1999 Bonn |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $2000: Hanover was the original home of the man who would become this English king in 1714 George I |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1600: What was Sela, the "strong city" of Edom, is today somewhere in this country--maybe it's Petra Jordan |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $600: Located in the heart of the Lehigh Valley, it's nicknamed the "Christmas City" Bethlehem |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $1000: River surfing is a big deal in this second-largest Montana city that's also home to the University of Montana Missoula |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $800: Nieuw Nickerie & Lelydorp are among the largest cities in this country Suriname |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $2000: In London, it's an area of government offices, & by extension the civil service; in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the prime minister's office Whitehall |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $400: Southwest of Birmingham in the city of Bessemer is an abode with this name reminiscent of a Lynyrd Skynyrd tune Sweet Home |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $1000: In 2022 this South Carolina city topped Southern Living's list of the South's best cities for the fifth time Charleston |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | A VIEW TO THE BRIDGE $400: Completed in 1849, the Chain Bridge linked these two cities that would link as well to form Hungary's capital Buda & Pest |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE RICHTER SCALE $500: In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities the San Andreas |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: Major cities in New Hampshire include Dover & this port that also shares its name with a historic port of southern England Portsmouth |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $200: Things found in this city: The Joe Louis Fist statue as well as Ford Field Detroit |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $400: Wacker Drive is an impressive double-decker street in this city of big shoulders Chicago |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $2000: The Lombard League was a medieval alliance of cities in the north of this present-day country Italy |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa the Phoenicians |
#8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FICTIONAL PLACES $1600: Norton Juster wrote up Dictionopolis & ran the numbers on Digitopolis, rival cities in this children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1000: The Chilean city of Calama is in this desert the Atacama |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1,600 (Daily Double): La Plata & Mar del Plata are cities in this country Argentina |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $200: 148,000 people make Bridgeport No. 1 in this state Connecticut |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $400: I'm goin' to this biggest city in Mississippi, I'm gonna mess around Jackson |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1000: More than twice as populous as No. 2 Rapid City, this South Dakota city also has a water feature in its name Sioux Falls |
#8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $200: In season 8 the Linz siblings covered 50 cities in 25 days to win this reality show's first family edition The Amazing Race |
#8604, aired 2022-03-24 | AUSTRIA'S BORDERS $2000: One of the fastest-growing cities in Europe, this national capital is just over the Slovak border on the Danube River Bratislava |
#8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $1000: Home to the largest religious college in Iran, this city was the base of Ayatollah Khomeini before & after his exile Qom |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $800: Aberdeen is one of only 5 cities in this Midwest state to have more than 20,000 people South Dakota |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: Incorporated in 1911, this city 30 miles northwest of Hoover Dam has had a busy 111 years Las Vegas |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $800: Founded on a peninsula in 1565, it would become Spain's military & religious headquarters in North America St. Augustine |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): "Take a ride" in this oft-mispronounced Pennsylvania city named for the ancestral hometown of the Penn family Reading |
#8570, aired 2022-02-04 | "R" TOWN $200: In the names of California cities, this Spanish word precedes Cordova, Cucamonga & Mirage Rancho |
#8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $1600: This "A Tale of Two Cities" hero goes to his death in place of his lookalike Charles Darnay Sydney Carton |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $400: Get a whiff of this city, the largest in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia Cologne |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $800: In Dublin, the Ha'penny Bridge spans this river the Liffey |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $1200: This capital city is located in the region known as Anatolia Ankara |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this second-largest city in Wales starts with a big bird Swansea |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $2000: South of Quito, this largest Ecuadorian city is seen here in all its colors Guayaquil |
#8516, aired 2021-11-22 | HISTORICAL FICTION $3,600 (Daily Double): Published in 1859, this novel takes place in Paris & London during the French Revolution A Tale of Two Cities |
#8514, aired 2021-11-18 | IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES $600: You did not want to be in these 2 cities after the Lord says "their sin is very grievous" in Genesis 18 Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $800: Mohammed V Square is the central plaza in this city but you probably won't find any gin joints there Casablanca |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1600: In 1961 Stalingrad was renamed this, for the river on which it lies Volgograd |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $200: St. Louis, Missouri's sister cities include this city in Senegal St. Louis |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $400: In a 1938 tale the fictional cities of Thobos & Ashair are at war & this "ape man" is caught in the middle Tarzan |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $800: Galway is home to a national theater dedicated to works in the language called Irish this Gaelic |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $1600: Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal Waterford |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | PUT IT IN THE PROVINCE $400: The cities of Gaspé & Rivière-du-Loup Quebec |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: By the 13th century Visby in Sweden had become one of the richest cities in Europe & an important member of this league Hanseatic |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WE'LL GET TOGETHER $600: With many players serving in World War II, NFL teams from these 2 cities in the same state merged to form the Steagles Pittsburgh & Philadelphia |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $800: Much of this 2006 animated film takes place in Radiator Springs Cars |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $2000: At one point in this 1946 film, Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville It's a Wonderful Life |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $2,500 (Daily Double): When Nicole Kidman & Matthew Broderick move to this town in a 2004 remake, the neighborhood wives seem a tad robotic Stepford |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NEXT IN LINE $1200: Salt Lake City,
Turin,
Vancouver... Sochi |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | PERU $800: One of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere, it was the capital of the Inca Empire when the Spanish arrived Cuzco |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Málaga & Murcia are 2 big cities in the southern part of this nation Spain |
#8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $800: "Islamic Empires" follows the rise of the religion from its birth in Mecca to modern cities like Doha in this country Qatar |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $600: The Florida Museum of Natural History is located in this university city, right on the campus Gainesville |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $1600: After a 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca, Emperor Mansa Musa built a great mosque in this caravan city on the edge of the Sahara in Mali Timbuktu |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $1600: Dili is the capital of this nation that broke away from Indonesia in 1999 East Timor |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $800: The ruined city of Vaishali in northeast India is said to be the place where this man preached his last sermon the Buddha |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $2000: Now in this Central American country, the ancient Mayan city of Uaxactun was mysteriously abandoned by the 10th century Guatemala |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Now in this country, Persepolis was the capital from which Darius the Great ruled Iran |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS $200: Known as the "Indiana Icicle", Charles Fairbanks has one of the largest cities in this state named for him Alaska |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $1000: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West is in this city, a resort suburb of Phoenix Scottsdale |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $200: It makes sense to NBA fans that the museum dedicated to the 45th infantry, "The Thunderbirds", is in this city Oklahoma City |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $400: The corporate headquarters of 3M are in Maplewood, a suburb of this Minnesota city St. Paul |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $600: In 1939 San Antonio broke ground on this promenade, now one of its biggest attractions the River Walk |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $1000: This Indiana city is named for the stronghold built in 1794 by the general who won the Battle of Fallen Timbers Fort Wayne |
#8358, aired 2021-03-17 | HOPEFUL HISTORY $600: Now held in the same host cities as the related games, these international athletic competitions began in 1960 the Paralympics |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: The Stedelijk Museum is in this Dutch city Amsterdam |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: There are 4 A's (or 4 alphas) in this capital of Greece's Messenia region, known for its delicious olives Kalamata |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1600: Traditional boats for carrying a certain fortified wine, sail the Douro River, in what's known as the second city of this country Portugal |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $200: To accommodate "South Platters", the capital of Nebraska was moved in 1867 from Omaha to here Lincoln |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $1000: This Midwestern city whose name begins with the state it's in is home to the NCAA Indianapolis |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $200: Fun places to visit in this California city include the Exploratorium & Ghiradelli Square San Francisco |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $400: Once the state capital, this city in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country ranks as one of the best places to retire Lancaster |
#8337, aired 2021-02-16 | IT HAPPENS IN GENESIS $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 cities get wiped out in Genesis 19 Sodom & Gomorrah |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $200: They're sister cities, but you can't see Magadan in this country from your house in Anchorage Russia |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $1000: In 1872 these 2 cities on opposite sides of the Danube joined hands & names Buda & Pest |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1600: Hamburg & Lubeck in Germany were 2 of the first cities allied in this medieval mercantile league the Hanseatic League |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Chris Frye from WOIO.) In 1967, Cleveland voters chose Democrat Carl Stokes over Republican Seth Taft, making Stokes the first African American to hold this office in one of America's major cities mayor |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $400: Near Lake Tahoe, this city named for a Civil War general became a gambling mecca after legalization widened in 1931 Reno |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $800: During Vaudeville the question was often asked of new acts, "Will it play in" this Illinois city? Peoria |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $1600: This former mining town founded in 1859 is home to the Colorado Railroad Museum & a famous brewery Golden |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Magic Kingdom south, it was once known as Jernigan but got a name change in 1857 & a Wet 'n Wild water park, a bit later Orlando |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $1000: The American Quarter Horse Association is headquartered in this "yellow" Texas city Amarillo |
#8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $400: Verses written in transit vehicles in NYC & other cities are courtesy of the Poetry Society of America & are called "Poetry in" this motion |
#8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): One of Puerto Rico's largest cities is named in honor of a descendant of this Spanish explorer Ponce de León |
#8299, aired 2020-12-10 | VERY PURITANICAL $1200: Trot trot to Boston, trot trot to Lynn; those were 2 cities in this colony founded in 1630 by Puritans the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | GEOGRAPHIC FOURS $1000: Of Australia's 4 most populous cities, 3 are in the east & this one is in the far southwest Perth |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Second only to New York City in population, this western port is the "Nickel City" Buffalo |
#8268, aired 2020-10-28 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): Major cities that share this name lie on the Kennebec River in Maine & on the Savannah River in Georgia Augusta |
#8259, aired 2020-10-15 | A PAIR OF PENCE $200: In 1859 he edited a twopenny weekly called "All the Year Round" & serialized his own "A Tale of Two Cities" in it (Charles) Dickens |
#8249, aired 2020-10-01 | GNAT GEO $400: 2019 high water on this river in cities like Natchez helped bring gnats out in force the Mississippi River |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $400: Put a stopper in this second city of Ireland, found on an island in the River Lee Cork |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $1600: Barcelona is Spain's second-largest city & has about a fifth of the population of this region it's in Catalonia |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $2000: At one time a major Byzantine city, Split is today the second-largest city in this country that split from Yugoslavia in 1991 Croatia |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | ROCK BANNED $2000: 1968: "There's just no place for" this Rolling Stones song in many cities in a year of political demonstrations "Street Fighting Man" |
#8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Norman Mailer's "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" reports on these events that happened in those cities in 1968 national conventions (Democratic and Republican) |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $400: On this show, the title character slayed them, she really slayed them in Sunnydale, California Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $600: A young Clark Kent struggled to find his way in Smallville, a town in this Heartland state Kansas |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $800: If you write about "Murder, She Wrote", include that it took place in Cabot Cove in this New England state Maine |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $2000: Oakland University isn't in California, it's in this state's cities of Auburn Hills & Rochester Hills Michigan |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $200: Before it was renamed in 1804, this Haitian capital city was known as Port-Republicain Port-au-Prince |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $600: This city was named in 1565 by the Portuguese, who mistook its bay for the entrance to a river Rio de Janeiro |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $1000: In Arabic the name of this major port city & seat of Tanzania's government means "abode of peace" Dar es Salaam |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | WORLD TRANSPORTATION $2000: In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals Cape Town & Pretoria |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | STUMP TOWN $200: In the names of Iowa cities, this tree precedes Falls & Rapids Cedar |
#8129, aired 2020-01-02 | PLACES $6,000 (Daily Double): Home to its 2 most sacred cities, the Hejaz is a region in this country Saudi Arabia |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.) The Széchenyi Chain Bridge was the first to permanently span this river and connect the two old cities that form Hungary's capital. At the time, there was debate over Budapest versus Pestbuda the Danube |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1600: With room for 7,000 worshippers, Al Fateh Mosque in Manama, capital of this island kingdom, is the nation's largest Bahrain |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Founded in 1736 as a stopping place for ships between Europe and Asia, Port Louis is the capital of this island nation in the Indian Ocean Mauritius |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Roseau, Dominica was burned by the French in 1805 & suffered near-total destruction by one of these in 1979 a hurricane |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1600: 1989:
"Jesus of ____" (not in the Holy Land) Montreal |
#8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE U.N. REPORTS $1000: "I.I"! A 2016 report found this financial issue had increased in 75% of the world's cities in the preceding 2 decades income inequality |
#8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: Sydney Carton takes the place of this doomed French nobleman in "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Evrémonde (Charles Darnay) |
#8066, aired 2019-10-07 | PLACES OF BUSINESS $1000: With shared spaces & private offices, this alliterative company helps business get done in more than 110 cities WeWork |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $200: Ancient cisterns were basically rainwater barrels; in 79 A.D., some Pompeiians tried to hide in them from this disaster the eruption of Vesuvius |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $1000: This western U.S. city, fire-prone since the Shades Hotel burned in 1849, still has around 200 buried cisterns San Francisco |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $400: Da Nang,
Da Lat Vietnam |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $800: Lugano, Lausanne Switzerland |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $1200: Lagos,
Lafia Nigeria |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $1600: Beersheba,
Bat Yam Israel |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CITIES IN THE COUNTRY $2000: Aarhus,
Aalborg Denmark |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $800: Home to more than 1.4 million people, Novosibirsk is the main city in this 5-million-square-mile region of Russia Siberia |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $1600: If you're gonna lie in the heart of something, make it the gold field of the Witwatersrand, like this huge South African city Johannesburg |
#7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CITY ADJECTIVES $9,812 (Daily Double): Cantabrigian means from one of 2 noted college cities named this Cambridge |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $400: A statue of a seated Genghis Khan graces an entrance to the government palace in Ulaanbaatar in this nation Mongolia |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $800: This Israeli city was founded in 1909 as a suburb of the ancient Mediterranean port of Jaffa Tel Aviv |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $1200: The only big city in a nation of small towns & villages, this Asian capital is located on the delta of the Chao Phraya River Bangkok |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | ASIAN CITIES $2000: Bishkek, which began as a fortress in 1825, is today the leading city of this "stan" Kyrgyzstan |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $400: Its nickname the "Crescent City" derives from its original layout in a bend of the Mississippi River New Orleans |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $1600: Sit down & put your feet up in this third most populous Iowa city Davenport |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $2000: John Deere plowed into this Illinois city, setting up shop in 1848 & it remains the world headquarters Moline, Illinois |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $600: It's not fully depicted in "A Tale of Two Cities", but it's the implied method of execution for the heroic Sydney Carton by guillotine |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $400: Seen here is an aerial view of the very curvy Lombard Street in this West Coast city San Francisco |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city has one of the world's largest collections of space memorabilia Huntsville |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $400: This Texas city that celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2018 got its name on a saint's feast day even before its official founding San Antonio |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $600: Discovery Drive, Exploration Drive & Genoa Place are streets in this state capital Columbus, Ohio |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | CITIES $800: Take a stroll down the Molo Audace in Trieste & you can dip your feet in this 500-mile-long sea the Adriatic |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $400: A brief civil war took place in this capital after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917 Helsinki |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $1200: A team name came from this word that preceded "67" in the name of a 1967 Montreal happening Expos |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $1600: In 1535 Lima was founded by Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes, meaning this City of Kings |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $1200: In its long history, the Zytglogge Clock Tower in this Swiss capital has also served as a guard tower & a women's prison Bern |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: The eventful history of this Balkan city includes being sacked in a Mongol invasion in the 13th century Zagreb |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $3,800 (Daily Double): You'll find NATO's world headquarters on Boulevard Leopold III in this capital city Brussels |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Ben Bailey with Local 4.) In 1837 Detroit became Michigan's first capital; 10 years later, this city took over, as it was much more centrally located within the state Lansing |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Rob Fukuzaki from ABC7.) The Rose Bowl, which has held crowds of 105,000 people, is in this California city whose population is about 135,000 Pasadena |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (I'm Patrice Sanders with Fox45 News.) In 1783 George Washington relinquished his command of the Continental Army here in the Maryland State House located in this city Annapolis |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) One unusual landmark is Topiary Park--well, sorry, properly it's The Topiary Park, just like it's The Ohio State University in this city Columbus |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: According to the CIA World Factbook, these are the 2 largest cities in China by population Beijing and Shanghai |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $200: Country music fans get to meet & hear their favorite artists at the annual CMA Festival in this city--where else? Nashville |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $1000: In 1950 this Southwest city ranked 99th in population; by 2010 it had risen from the ashes to No. 6 Phoenix |
#7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: The site of fighting in recent years, Aleppo in this country is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities Syria |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $200: This city in Maine--not the Oregon one--is sisters with Shinagawa, Japan, a city of 350,000 inside the borough of Tokyo Portland |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $400: Boring, Oregon & Dull, Scotland are informal sister communities; some wanted to say g'day to Bland in this foreign nation Australia |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $1000: In 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts became family with Les Cayes in this nation, 4 years after a terrible natural disaster Haiti |
#7847, aired 2018-10-23 | ZEBULON PIKE'S PIQUES $800: Pike thought he bought land for the U.S. near the Twin Cities of this state in 1805, but the Sioux seemed to disagree Minnesota |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $400: The largest cities in Maine & Oregon share this name Portland |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $800: This largest city in Alabama was named for the second largest city in the United Kingdom Birmingham |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $1200: The largest city in southern Germany, it's also the largest city & capital of Bavaria Munich |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $2000: This largest city in the U.S. Virgin Islands was named for the wife of a Danish king Charlotte Amalie |
#7827, aired 2018-09-25 | QUEEN CONSORT $1,000 (Daily Double): Cities in North Carolina, Virginia & Prince Edward Island are named for this consort of George III Charlotte |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $200: As the old saying goes, this city "wasn't built in a day" Rome |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $400: In 2016 a state of emergency was declared over lead contamination in this Michigan city's water Flint |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $1000: A huge Reformation monument stands in this city where Martin Luther stood before the diet in 1521 Worms |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $200: San Jose in this Central American nation is home to John F. Kennedy Park, memorializing his visit to the country in 1963 Costa Rica |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $400: With a name meaning "new flower", this city replaced Entoto as the capital of Ethiopia in 1887 Addis Ababa |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $600: This Malaysian capital lies in the country's tin & rubber belt; I used to wear one of those, but it chafed Kuala Lumpur |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MULTI-WORD CAPITAL CITIES $1000: U.S. Students at a medical school in this Caribbean nation's capital St. George's were rescued during a 1983 invasion Grenada |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $1600: Extremely small parks in cities are named for this clothing part a pocket park |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The ancient world had 2 important cities named Thebes: one in Greece & one in this land Egypt |
#7796, aired 2018-07-02 | SMALL-SCREEN CRIME FIGHTERS $600: Set in Washington D.C., "NCIS" spun off versions that take place in these other 2 cities New Orleans and Los Angeles |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $400: Appropriately, the modern Olympics began with the 1896 Games in this city Athens |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $800: The 1976 Summer Games in this Canadian city were boycotted by 22 African nations Montreal |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $800: It might "rock" your world to take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory in this Colorado city Boulder |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $1200: The McKinley Museum & the Pro Football Hall of Fame are both in this Ohio city Canton |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $1600: The University of Oregon had its first classes in this city in 1876 Eugene |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 400s B.C. Greek cities like Thebes & Megara had not a monarchy but this form of rule by a small group an oligarchy |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $600: In Genesis 19 these 2 cities near the Dead Sea have fire & brimstone rained down on them Sodom and Gomorrah |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HODGEPODGE $1000: From the 13th to the 15th centuries, this association of German cities dominated trade in northern Europe the Hanseatic League |
#7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: Flourishing from around 300 B.C., El Mirador in Guatemala was one of the largest cities ever built by these people the Maya |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): Chile had to pay millions after officials failed to warn coastal cities about this after a deadly 2010 earthquake a tsunami |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $200: On the Douro River, Porto lives up to its name in many ways, making & exporting the fine port wines of this nation Portugal |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: Wenceslas Square is a popular tourist area in this city on the Vltava River Prague |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: In Krakow, Poland you'll find the former factory, now a museum, of this righteous businessman (Oskar) Schindler |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: In 2017 65,000 had to be evacuated from their homes as a WWII bomb was defused in this Germany city am Main Frankfurt |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | ASIAN $800: The Red Sea port of Jeddah is more liberal than other big cities in this Middle East kingdom Saudi Arabia |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE AT BOWERY FARMS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Bowery Farms in Kearny, NJ.) It's projected that by 2050 two-thirds of Earth's population will live in cities far from traditional food sources; indoor vertical farming brings fresh produce to urban areas with this soil-free growing process, from Greek words meaning "water" & "labor" hydroponics |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | ETHNI-CITIES $800: In 2011 this European capital's 8.2 million people included 1 million ethnic Indians, Pakistanis & Bangladeshis London |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | ETHNI-CITIES $1600: irishcentral.com says this city's metro area is the most Irish in the U.S., & Sully will fight you if you disagree Boston |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: Tanzania's Dar es Salaam literally means "house of" this in Arabic peace |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: Like Rome, Ibadan in Nigeria was built on this many hills seven |
#7711, aired 2018-03-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $1200: Throngs of people were trying to get into Tahrir Square in this African capital in February 2011 Cairo |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: In 2017 Los Angeles joined other cities in replacing this holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day Columbus Day |
#7697, aired 2018-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Cities in Greece & Macedonia both have airports named for this man Alexander |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PORT-MAP-TEAU $400: 3 cities combine in the name of Dalworthington Gardens in this state Texas |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PORT-MAP-TEAU $800: Midway between 2 of the largest cities in Washington state, it contains a big airport SeaTac |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | AIRPORT CODES $1000: RMG, REO & FCO all serve cities or towns with this name, in Georgia, Oregon & Italy Rome |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $400: Named by UNESCO in 2004, this city is the literary & literal capital of Scotland Edinburgh |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $800: This major city is recognized for its excellence in publishing both Spanish & Catalan literature Barcelona |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state Iowa |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $2000: Thomas Bracken & Janet Frame are 2 authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront New Zealand |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES $800: The statue of Adolph Coors seen here is in this Colorado city Golden |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $800: The Gatornationals is a famous drag racing event in this city Gainesville |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | FLORIDA CITIES $1000: This alliterative city in Broward County has been named one of the USA's best cities to live in--the trees in its name help Pembroke Pines |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NON -IA COUNTRIES $400: Pusan & Inchon are major cities in this country South Korea |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | THEY'RE HISTORY! $200: In 452 he & his Huns invaded northern Italy, sacking several cities Attila |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $400: The Ataturk Mausoleum & the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations are both in this capital Ankara |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $800: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was born in this world capital Prague |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $400: The Puritans found safety when they settled this Connecticut city in 1638 New Haven |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $800: Founded in 1718, it was ceded to Spain in 1763, ceded to France in 1800 & sold to the U.S. in 1803 New Orleans |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $2000: Founded in 1639, this Rhode Island town flourished thanks to its excellent harbor Newport |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Situated on the west bank of the Yamuna River, it was formally dedicated in 1931 New Delhi |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | ICYMI $1000: The Australian Natl. Univ. created an algorithm in 2016 to help warn coastal cities of this dangerous event a tsunami |
#7557, aired 2017-06-20 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $400: With Amarillo No. 1, this state has 4 of the Weather Channel's 10 windiest U.S. cities Texas |
#7555, aired 2017-06-16 | THE CONDEMNED MAN $400: Sydney Carton takes the place at the guillotine of the condemned Charles Darnay in this Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
#7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $200: Gopher it! This university was established in 1851 in 2 neighboring cities the University of Minnesota |
#7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: A hill marking the site of an ancient city, it's found in the names of some Middle East cities, including one of Israel's largest tel |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THUNDER & LIGHTNING $1000: Lying on the shore of Lake Superior, this Ontario city was created in 1970 from the twin cities of Port Arthur & Fort William Thunder Bay |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: If you're in front of the former Sears building seen here, you're in this city Seattle |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $800: In this Rhode Island resort town, you can visit such mansions as Rosecliff & the Breakers Newport |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This Soap Box Derby city was co-founded in 1825 by Simon Perkins, an official with the Ohio Canal Fund Akron, Ohio |
#7509, aired 2017-04-13 | SAY IT WITH CHOCOLATE $1000: In addition to its famous square in San Francisco, this chocolatier has ice cream & candy stores in several other cities Ghirardelli |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | LIGHTHOUSES $400: "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" is in this S. Amer. country near Ushuaia, one of the world's southernmost cities Argentina |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $400: When you're moving, a box for dolls comes in handy Oxford (in box for dolls) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $800: Before her beau arrived, Isabel fastidiously adjusted her bonnet Belfast (in Isabel fastidiously) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $1200: How proud Pa Isley would have been if only he had lived to see "Shout" become a classic song Paisley (in Pa Isley) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $1600: That's what happens when you treat Oscar differently from the other kids Cardiff (in Oscar differently) |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $2000: At the library you'll find love poems & more filed under Byron Derby (in under Byron) |
#7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 2 TICKETS TO PARAGUAY $400: One of the oldest cities in South America, this capital was built on a high promontory in 1537 Asunción |
#7467, aired 2017-02-14 | TIME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER $1000: This alliterative country singer went bonkers in 2014 playing 10 shows in 10 cities in 24 hours Hunter Hayes |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $200: Antoni Gaudi helped design the fountain of Aurora in this Spanish city while he was still a student Barcelona |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $400: More than 20 million people live in this former capital of Nigeria Lagos |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $600: The song "Seven Nation Army" says, "I'm going to" this city, the most populous in Kansas Wichita |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $800: In 1881 Vincent van Gogh moved to this Dutch city, home to the royal family The Hague |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $1000: 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson seemed unfamiliar with this Syrian city, called Halab in Arabic Aleppo |
#7458, aired 2017-02-01 | CASINO $1200: Quad Cities is a Midwestern gaming hub with casinos in Bettendorf & this other trisyllabic Iowa city Davenport |
#7451, aired 2017-01-23 | NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $1200: Tulum National Park in the Yucatan has the ruins of one of the last thriving cities of this civilization the Mayan civilization |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The main campus of Cairo University is located in this suburb Giza |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $2000: This Colorado city was founded in 1870 & named for the New York Tribune editor who supported the settlers Greeley |
#7435, aired 2016-12-30 | ALL IN THE FAMILY? $400: Bordeaux & Beirut are 2 of these in relation to Los Angeles sister cities |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $400: The Tycho Brahe planetarium opened in this capital in 1989 Copenhagen |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $800: Malmo in the south of this country was once known as Malmhaug, or "sandpile" Sweden |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $1600: Each August productions of "Hamlet" take place on Kronborg Castle in this Danish town Helsingør (or Elsinore) |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Norwegian Olympic Museum is in this small town Lillehammer |
#7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $2000: Whale & reindeer are on the menu in Longyearbyen, capital of this Norwegian island group also known as Spitsbergen Svalbard |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $800: Known to locals as Sampa, this Brazilian city is the most populous in the Southern Hemisphere São Paulo |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $2000: The inner city of this Incan capital was laid out in the shape of a puma whose head was the fort of Sacsayhuaman Cusco |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates city of Ur to found a new nation Abraham |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $600: Built by King Omri as his capital, Samaria is found in what's now often called this directional region the West Bank |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $200: We bet you know that in population it's the largest city in Northern Nevada Reno |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $400: On the first anniversary of his death, a memorial to Michael Jackson was unveiled in this Indiana city Gary |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $600: Bill Clinton was born & spent his early childhood in this small Arkansas town Hope |
#7364, aired 2016-09-22 | POLYNESIA $2000: It's the most widely spoken Polynesian language; you'll hear it in the cities of Apia & Pago Pago Samoan |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ENDLESSLY ROCKING $600: 60 acts played for 16 hours for this 1985 London-Philly charity event; Phil Collins caught a plane & played in both cities Live Aid |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS $400: This Charles Dickens novel that partly takes place in France got the Oprah nod in 2010 A Tale of Two Cities |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1600: 14th century mystic & patron saint of Italy, St. Catherine of this city in Tuscany Siena |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | JAPANESE CITIES $200: Yes, that's a roller coaster passing through the centerless Big O Ferris wheel in this capital of Japan Tokyo |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | JAPANESE CITIES $800: Koromo got this new name in 1959 to reflect the importance of its major employer, an auto manufacturer Toyota |
#7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HOW JUVENILE! $600: Youth "violence prevention" is part of what this org. offers in the Twin Cities; we hear it's "fun to stay" there the YMCA |
#7316, aired 2016-06-06 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE AGES $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the USS Intrepid.) Operated by British Airways, Concorde Alpha-Delta set a passenger airliner speed record in 1996 when it flew between these two cities in just 2 hours, 52 minutes, & 59 seconds New York & London |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $200: In 2015 the Pope said this city's shroud was "an icon of love" Turin |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $600: This seaport in Liguria lends its name to a popular type of salami Genoa |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $800: In 1987 this city & its lagoon were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site Venice |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ITALIAN CITIES $1000: Though Portugal claims him as a patron saint, St. Anthony is buried in this Italian city Padua |
#7303, aired 2016-05-18 | D.C. HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Washington originally included 2 port cities within its boundaries: Georgetown & this city that returned to Virginia in 1846 Alexandria |
#7302, aired 2016-05-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: We have no beef with this capital of Hyogo Prefecture being called one of Japan's most attractive cities Kobe |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $800: The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines is a popular attraction in this city Taipei |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $1200: This capital of Bangladesh is in the heart of the world's largest jute-growing region Dhaka |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Tango & Cheri are important Buddhist monasteries near Thimphu in this Himalayan nation Bhutan |
#7289, aired 2016-04-28 | ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $400: In "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes, women of Greece withhold their favors to force a peace between these 2 cities Athens & Sparta |
#7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORDS IN CHARLES DICKENS NOVEL TITLES $400: A shorter synonym for story a tale |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MUSIC CITIES, USA $2000: In the '70s The O'Jays & Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes helped give this city its distinctive soul "sound" Philadelphia |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $400: Museums in this most-populous Russian city include one housed in Stalin's WWII bunker Moscow |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $1600: Grozny is the capital of this republic in the Caucasus that's been fighting for independence since 1991 Chechnya |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1930s a ballet company as well as the city of Vyatka were renamed this for slain Communist Sergei Kirov |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | WORLD CITIES $1200: An 18th century tobacco factory made famous in "Carmen" is now home to this city's university Seville |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | WORLD CITIES $2000: The Confederation Chamber in Province House in this capital of P.E.I. is called the "Birthplace of Canada" Charlottetown |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | 2-WORD COUNTRIES $1200: Ostrava & Brno are cities in this country of Central Europe the Czech Republic |
#7252, aired 2016-03-08 | WHEN THINGS WERE ROTTEN $1600: Avalanches of this are not uncommon in poor areas of large cities; in 1993 one killed more than 30 near Istanbul garbage |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $400: In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city Moscow |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $800: This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia Tokyo |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1200: In 2006, 30 years late, the debt was paid off for the stadium called "The Big Owe" & the rest of this city's games Montreal |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $1200: You can visit the city of Bowling Green & the state university of the same name; they're both in this state Ohio |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $1600: For more than 40 years, Edison worked in this town with both a direction & a color West Orange |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $400: With 20 million people in its greater metro area, this Brazilian city is South America's most populous São Paulo |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Hanoi's old quarter consists of 36 streets; Hang Ma specializes in papermaking, but I also stopped off at Hang Bac for some silver & Hang Bun for some noodles, as each street traditionally matches up with one of these organizations of craftsmen guilds |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $1600: Banda Aceh in this country sustained heavy damage from the 2004 tsunami Indonesia |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1907 a 500,000-year-old "man" was found near & named for this southwest German city Heidelberg |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $200: Now the capital of a different country, in the Middle Ages it was the capital of Russia Kiev |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $400: It succeeded Kandahar as capital in 1776 Kabul |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $600: It's found in a fertile valley of the eastern Himalayas Kathmandu |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | & THE HOLOGRAMS $800: Using holograms, this diva aka Mimi sang "Silent Night" in 5 different European cities in 2011 Mariah Carey |
#7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SPANISH CITIES $400: Spain's Cortes, or parliament, meets in this city Madrid |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $800: Joshua killed everyone in this city except for Rahab & her family because they hid Joshua's spies Jericho |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | BIBLICAL CITIES $1600: While a captive in this city, Daniel was given the name Belteshazzar Babylon |
#7101, aired 2015-06-29 | PENGUIN CLASSICS COVERS $600: Intrigue in London & Paris A Tale of Two Cities |
#7090, aired 2015-06-12 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1853 Sir Richard Burton became one of the few non-Muslim men of the time to visit these 2 "M" cities Mecca & Medina |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | CANADIAN CITIES $400: In 1992, this city's velodrome, once used in the Olympic Games, was transformed into an environmental biodome Montreal |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | CANADIAN CITIES $1600: An intersection in this provincial capital is the original western terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway Victoria, British Columbia |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $400: Next time you're in this city, stop by Duke's Bar, where the martinis inspired Ian Fleming to make them 007's drink London |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $1200: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Alexander McCall Smith's novels is in Gaborone, capital of this nation Botswana |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $1600: The intrigues & poisonings of this 1934 Robert Graves work take place in 1st century A.D. Rome I, Claudius |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | LITERARY CITIES $2000: Lawrence Durrell wrote an immense "quartet" of novels set in this African city Alexandria |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $400: Randy Newman:
"Looks like another perfect day, I love" this city L.A. |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Billy Joel:
"Well, we're living here... and they're closing all the factories down" Allentown |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $1200: Jay Z & Alicia Keys:
"Now you're in" this city, "these streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you" New York |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $1600: Barry Manilow:
"At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of" here Havana |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $2000: Bruce Springsteen:
"Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wasting away on the streets of" this city Philadelphia |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Found in North Africa, it gets its name from an ancient district that included 3 cities Tripoli |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $800: In Arizona it forms a metropolitan area with Phoenix & Glendale Mesa |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1200: It's no myth--for most of the last 15 years, this city has ranked as the safest in Michigan Troy |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1600: The most populated city in Central Oregon, it's a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts Bend |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | PLACES IN SONG $2000: Bob Dylan:
"Stuck Inside Of ____ With The ____ Blues Again"
(2 different cities, please) Mobile & Memphis |
#7027, aired 2015-03-17 | "QUAD"-RUPLE JEOPARDY! $1200: Davenport & Bettendorf, Iowa, plus 3 (huh?) places in Illinois the Quad Cities |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $400: In 2004 President Roh Moo Hyun tried to move South Korea's capital from this city to Gongju Seoul |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $400: It's home to the International Slavery Museum, but you may know it as the home of the Beatles Liverpool |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $800: This city on the River Cam is home to a univ. founded in the 1200s; the same-named one in Massachusetts has good schools too Cambridge |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $1200: Associated with a mean sheriff, this city on the River Trent used to have an "S" in front--ewww Nottingham |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $1600: The Thermae Spa has updated the millennia-old hot springs tradition of this city Bath |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND $2000: The frame of a ship, or a Yorkshire port city of 250,000 people Hull |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $400: A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A. Vancouver |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $800: Nagoya, which in 1959 became L.A.'s first sister city, has some of the oldest shrines for this Japanese religion Shinto |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $1200: In the early 1700s immigrants from Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland founded this capital not on the mainland Taipei |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $1600: L.A. has 2 sister cities in Africa: Lusaka, Zambia & this pyramid city on the Nile Giza |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | "W"ORLD CITIES $400: In 1611 the Polish king & court were moved here from Krakow Warsaw |
#6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $2000: Erech & Kish were cities of this earliest known civilization that flourished in Iraq in the 3rd millennium B.C. Sumeria |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the coast in Italy.) The U.S. has a naval support base at this southern Italian city; near here on September 9, 1943, about 500 Allied ships assembled for Operation Avalanche Naples |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 a campaign was launched to change the name of this Sicilian town, associated with the Mafia due to U.S. pop culture Corleone |
#6993, aired 2015-01-28 | "EL" CATEGORY $400: Manoa & Omagua were said to be cities in this fabled country of gold El Dorado |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After France surrendered to the Nazis in June 1940, the country was divided into a German-occupied area & an unoccupied zone with an administrative center in this spa town, by whose name the region would be known Vichy |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $600: The metro area of this city includes Clay & Cass Counties in Missouri & Leavenworth in a neighboring state Kansas City |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $800: In 1858 land speculator Abraham Curry founded what became this capital, named for a frontier scout Carson City |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $1000: Check out the Truman show in this capital, specifically the Harry S Truman State Office Building Jefferson City |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $400: Home to Disneyland, this city was founded by German immigrants in 1857 Anaheim |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $800: The 64-story U.S. Steel Tower in this city is one of the tallest buildings in Pennsylvania Pittsburgh |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $1600: Take a hike & get in touch with your spiritual side at Cathedral Rock in this Arizona city Sedona |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | GAMES $1000: Build roads & cities in the Mayfair board game called "Settlers of" this place Catan |
#6947, aired 2014-11-25 | WHAT'S IN THE BOX?! $600: I wasn't expecting a map of this country, with the cities of Namanga, Lodwar, & Mombasa highlighted Kenya |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $400: Mary Todd Lincoln was born in this Kentucky city, now a major center for horse breeding Lexington |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $600: That's a statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $800: The Olympics were held in the U.S. for the first time in 1904, hosted by this city that was also holding the World's Fair St. Louis |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $400: Less than half of the people living in this busiest port on Canada's West Coast speak English as their first language Vancouver |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $800: It's the only big city in Uruguay Montevideo |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $1200: In 2014 this Spanish city honored El Greco on the 400th anniversary of his death with a series of exhibitions & concerts Toledo |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $2000: On an evening lantern hike, you can see the ski slopes used in this Austrian city's Olympics Innsbruck |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $800: A statue of Leif Eriksson, a gift from the U.S., stands in front of Hallgrimskirkja church in this capital Reykjavik |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $1600: Colorful shops line
front street in Hamilton, capital of this British territory off the east coast of the United States Bermuda |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | ATLANTIC CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): This South African city is often called "the mother city" because it was the first place in the nation settled by Europeans Cape Town |
#6889, aired 2014-07-24 | PRO SPORTS TEAMS $800: The 2 NHL teams based in national capital cities are the Washington Capitals & them Ottawa Senators |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $400: Near the delta of the Indus River, the largest city in this country was formerly called Kolachi Pakistan |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $1200: Some 15 million Indians live in the metro area of this city once infamous for its "Black Hole" Calcutta |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $1600: Da Lat is in southern Vietnam; this city the French called Tourane is 300 miles north, on the coast Da Nang |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $3,600 (Daily Double): In 2010 this largest Chinese city overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port Shanghai |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $400: You'll find Transylvania U. & Henry Clay's old home, now a museum, in this city Lexington, Kentucky |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $1000: The Tibetan Cultural Center of this Indiana city was founded in 1979 by a brother of the 14th Dalai Lama Bloomington |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): This North Carolina city got its present name in 1913, & not for 2 brands of cigarette Winston-Salem |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $800: Joplin in this state was not named for a musician but for a Methodist missionary Missouri |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $1,400 (Daily Double): The southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland, it had a population of only 343 when the railroad arrived in 1896 Miami |
#6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $400: The Battle of the Coral Sea saw the sinking of this carrier that shares a name with Massachusetts & Kentucky cities Lexington |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): The Farina Fragrance Museum in this city has on exhibit perfume bottles dating from antiquity Cologne |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $1600: In Augsburg, home of these "elder" & "younger" portrait artists, a high school bears their name Holbein |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $2000: The Karlstor, the Sendlinger Tor & Isartor are gates from medieval times that have been preserved in this Bavarian city Munich |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $1200: Danube cities in this country include Linz & Krems Austria |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $1000: A memorial on the site of the former South Fork Dam commemorates the devastating 1889 flood in this Pennsylvania city Johnstown |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | BIBLE VIOLENCE $400: Genesis 19:
In these 2 cities "the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MISSPELLED BANDS $2000: Cities where they played showes in 2013 included their hometown, Atlanta The Black Crowes |
#6719, aired 2013-11-28 | FEAT $200: In the 1930s the engineers of the Bay Bridge linking these 2 cities sank supports hundreds of feet to reach the bedrock San Francisco & Oakland |
#6712, aired 2013-11-19 | STAND BY YOUR STAN $400: Until the 2000s, cities like Herat & Kandahar in this country were not often seen in Western news Afghanistan |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $800: If you've "bean" watching, you know that on "Glee" McKinley High is located in this Ohio city Lima |
#6672, aired 2013-09-24 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1600: It's located where the Colorado River meets the Gila River in southwestern Arizona Yuma |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1054 the "Great Schism" divided the power of the Catholic church between these 2 cities, in east & west Rome & Constantinople |
#6615, aired 2013-05-24 | I-20 $2000: A sampling of I-20 cities to visit in this state: Abilene, Ranger & White Settlement Texas |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | EUROPEAN CITIES $2000: Mozart lived for a time in this city on the Vltava river & wrote a symphony named for it Prague |
#6598, aired 2013-05-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew walks along the beach.) It's the good life in the three beach cities south of Los Angeles--Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach & this one, whose name means "beautiful" Hermosa Beach |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Her work with the Missionaries of Charity put clinics in the slums of 160 cities, treating millions by the time she died in 1997 Mother Teresa |
#6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $200: George Square in this largest Scottish city has a very tall column with Sir Walter Scott atop it Glasgow |
#6543, aired 2013-02-13 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $600: Norway has hosted the Olympics twice--in Oslo in 1952 & in this small town in 1994 Lillehammer |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $1000: The Fire Chicago |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $200: Completed in 1926, Aloha Tower greets visitors to this city Honolulu |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $400: In recent years this Texas capital has ranked as one of the top U.S. cities for young adults Austin |
#6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $800: This state's state fair is held in Shreveport Louisiana |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $200: Several bridges, including El Tahrir, cross the Nile in this capital Cairo |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: Wooden 2-story verandas in this Liberian capital are an architectural link to the U.S. south Monrovia |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $200: We're livin' on the air in this city, home to the 49-story Carew Tower, on the north bank of the Ohio River Cincinnati |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $800: The art deco-style Union Depot & Phillips Oil "Philcade" suit this city in Oklahoma to a "T" Tulsa |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Orange you glad to know this city in Central New York supplied most of the salt needs of the U.S. until 1870 Syracuse |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $1000: 1 of 2 Pennsylvania cities other than Philadelphia in which the Second Continental Congress met York & Lancaster |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) This poet was so right in 1904 when he called Chicago "a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities" Carl Sandburg |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $800: Cabaret Voltaire in this largest Swiss city is considered the birthplace of Dadaism Zurich |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1600: Seen here is a square in this Asian capital that you won't find jammed with tourists Pyongyang (North Korea) |
#6463, aired 2012-10-24 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $2,000 (Daily Double): This novel set in London & Paris was first published serially in 1859 A Tale of Two Cities |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | A LONG TIME AGO $600: Between 250 & 900 this Central American culture flowered in its Classic Period in such cities as Tikal the Maya (the Mayans accepted) |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Cities in this country include Chennai & Mumbai, formerly Madras & Bombay India |
#6431, aired 2012-07-30 | NATURAL DISASTERS $600: In 79 A.D. one of these destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii & Herculaneum a volcanic eruption |
#6395, aired 2012-06-08 | LATIN NAMES FOR CITIES $1200: A seaport:
Massilia Marseilles |
#6395, aired 2012-06-08 | LATIN NAMES FOR CITIES $2000: At the mouth of the Tagus River:
Olisipo Lisbon |
#6390, aired 2012-06-01 | PENINSULAS $400: Cities on this Mexican peninsula include Ensenada & La Paz Baja California |
#6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $400: The history of the formation of these culminates in the megalopolitan stage cities |
#6372, aired 2012-05-08 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Port cities on this sea include Massawa in Eritrea & Hurghada in Egypt the Red Sea |
#6360, aired 2012-04-20 | AXIS & ALLIES $1,000 (Daily Double): An "axis" binding these 2 cities was proclaimed in 1936 Berlin and Rome |
#6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $200: In Genesis it was one of the cities destroyed by fire & brimstone Gomorrah |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $400: Fittingly, Louis Armstrong sang, "Way down yonder in" this city, "in the land of the dreamy scenes" New Orleans |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $800: Elton John sang of its freedom, "Shine on me, I love you" Philadelphia |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $1200: Sara Bareilles was "Gonna sell my car and go to" this Silver State city; "that's where dreams would be" Las Vegas |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $1600: "They're closing all the factories down", sang Billy Joel about "living here" Allentown |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $2000: In a Van Morrison tune, "She's as sweet as" this kind of honey tupelo |
#6324, aired 2012-03-01 | CANALS $1000: The Soo Canals at the twin cities of Sault Ste Marie in Michigan & Ontario allow ships to pass between these two Great Lakes Superior & Huron |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The cities of Ramadi & Fallujah have given nightmares to U.S. troops engaged in this Sunni-majority province, Iraq's biggest in area Al Anbar |
#6312, aired 2012-02-14 | 2 FOR THE SHOW $800: Garfield the cat was animated in a film punningly subtitled "A Tail of Two" these Kitties |
#6291, aired 2012-01-16 | TV GUIDE SAYS $800: "Bob and Jillian lead community-wide fitness challenges in seven cities" The Biggest Loser |
#6278, aired 2011-12-28 | "NEW" U.S. CITIES $200: Yale University was around for 15 years before it moved to this city in 1716 New Haven |
#6278, aired 2011-12-28 | "NEW" U.S. CITIES $400: The 33-story World Trade Center building rises at the south end of Canal Street in this city, y'all New Orleans |
#6278, aired 2011-12-28 | "NEW" U.S. CITIES $800: The U.S. Naval War College & Naval Undersea Warfare Center is in this city on Narragansett Bay Newport |
#6278, aired 2011-12-28 | "NEW" U.S. CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): Somewhat ironically, this Connecticut city was attacked, captured & burned by the British in 1781 New London |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1000: Prickly but edible, they're one letter different from the name of cities in Arizona & Mexico nopales |
#6269, aired 2011-12-15 | DIALECTS $400: When in the cities of Jeddah & Medina, you'll most likely encounter the Hijazi dialect of this language Arabic |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | IT'S A "MAD" WORLD $400: It's the name of cities in 14 states, not just Wisconsin Madison |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | FATS $1000: Regulated in some cities, partially hydrogenated fats are also known by this "changeable" name trans fats |
#6218, aired 2011-10-05 | SPORTS VENUES $2,400 (Daily Double): In the beginning this team iced the puck at the Border Cities Arena in Windsor, Ontario; then for 50 years at Olympia Stadium the Detroit Red Wings |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | WITH THIS "RING" $800: Cities in Missouri & Massachusetts are called this, also the capital of a third state Springfield |
#6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MEMBER NATIONS OF OPEC $1000: In March 2011 world oil prices rose due to fighting in this OPEC member's oil cities, like Ras Lanuf Libya |
#6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $400: The George Eastman House in this city is home to the International Museum of Photography & Film Rochester |
#6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $800: This small town in Wyoming county boasts a large annual rodeo & a rather well-known maximum security prison Attica |
#6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $1000: Take note--the fort in this town was once considered the "Gibraltar of the North" Ticonderoga |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WORLD CITIES $200: In 1949 Indonesia became independent & Batavia became this capital city Jakarta |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WORLD CITIES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Kibbutz Amiad in Israel.) When this city had problems treating its sewage prior to the 2008 Olympic games, Amiad's water filtration company helped with machines like the EBS filter Beijing |
#6147, aired 2011-05-10 | HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Stretching from the Taurus Mountains in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, with its heart between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, is this ancient region, home to the world's first cities Mesopotamia |
#6143, aired 2011-05-04 | SISTER CITIES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.) In less than 13 1/2 hours, Qantas flies direct from Sydney, the home of the Harbour Bridge, to this U.S. sister city that also has a famous bridge San Francisco |
#6102, aired 2011-03-08 | BOOK NUMBERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Dickens novel opens in the year 1775 A Tale of Two Cities |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | THAT'S MY BUSINESS! $1600: I bus tables at Twin City Grill, one of the 50 restaurants in this Twin Cities shopping destination the Mall of America |
#6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $800: Mazar-e Sharif, Ghazni & Kandahar are cities in this country Afghanistan |
#6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $1200: Aralsk, Shu & (Good Lord!) Almaty are cities in this country Kazakhstan |
#6071, aired 2011-01-24 | ANCIENT "P"LACES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Roman-created Decapolis had 10 cities, including this one that shares its name with one of the largest in the U.S. Philadelphia |
#6064, aired 2011-01-13 | CITIES' LEADING NEWSPAPERS $2000: Portland (the one in Multnomah County) The Oregonian |
#6062, aired 2011-01-11 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: In 1669 this loose confederation of North German cities met for the last time the Hanseatic League |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This capital of Israel is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world Jerusalem |
#5998, aired 2010-10-13 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $400: The cities of Antwerp & Ghent lie in this northern region of Belgium Flanders |
#5995, aired 2010-10-08 | FRENCH CITIES? $800: Multiple episodes of military service in a war zone, population 137,000 Tours |
#5982, aired 2010-09-21 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $400: New Jersey's 4 largest cities in population are Newark, Jersey City, Paterson & her Elizabeth |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | MOVIE CITIES $400: Of course there's a car chase on the freeway in 1985's "To Live and Die in __.__." L.A. |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | MOVIE CITIES $800: 2010 brought Travolta as a spy in "From ____ with Love" Paris |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | MOVIE CITIES $1200: 2010, starring Kristen Bell: "When in ____" Rome |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | MOVIE CITIES $2000: The 1980 Oscar winner for Foreign Language Film was "____ does Not Believe in Tears" Moscow |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | READ ALL OVER $2,000 (Daily Double): In Spanish speaking countries, this 19th century novel is "Historia de Dos Ciudades" A Tale of Two Cities |
#5930, aired 2010-05-28 | WHERE AM I? $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a Spanish-architecture courtyard.) I'm in this Peruvian city, once the capital of an empire, & one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the western hemisphere Cuzco |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $400: In Asia:
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $1200: In South America:
Paramaribo Suriname |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $1600: In an emirate:
Doha Qatar |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $2000: In a Central Asian "stan":
Bishkek Kyrgyzstan |
#5905, aired 2010-04-23 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $400: Nuremberg & Augsburg are cities in this southern German state Bavaria |
#5876, aired 2010-03-15 | STORY PROBLEMS $600: Sydney Carton solves the problem of saving Charles Darnay's neck (literally) in this work A Tale of Two Cities |
#5874, aired 2010-03-11 | THE NFL $3,600 (Daily Double): When a team switched cities in 1988, this new full team name contained 2 birds, one real & one mythic the Phoenix Cardinals |
#5872, aired 2010-03-09 | LITERARY LETTER DROP $800: Dickens parable about the beer in Paris & London An Ale of Two Cities |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | ALPHABETIC LETTER PAIRS $600: In names of cities, this abbreviation precedes Paul & Louis St. |
#5851, aired 2010-02-08 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH? $600: Of the top 5 Canadian cities in population, it's the one closest to the Pacific Ocean Vancouver |
#5850, aired 2010-02-05 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1000: In 1167 northern Italian cities formed the Lombard League as protection against this red-bearded invader Barbarossa (Frederick I) |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | CAPITAL CITIES $200: It joins Yokohama in a Metro area home to more than 30 million people Tokyo |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | CAPITAL CITIES $600: It fell to British troops in 1917 & to U.S. troops on April 9, 2003 Baghdad |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | CAPITAL CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Once the capital of Spain's New World empire, this South American city was founded by Pizarro in 1535 Lima |
#5835, aired 2010-01-15 | WE GO WAY BACK $800: Athens put larger Greek interests first & joined other cities to defeat this nation in the 480 B.C. battle of Salamis Persia |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $400: This city's Haight-Ashbury District emerged in the 1960s as a mecca of the counterculture scene San Francisco |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $800: Yes, dear, this insurance center is the largest city in the Connecticut River Valley Hartford |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $1200: The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker peace group, is headquartered in this city Philadelphia |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $1600: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a nonfiction book about events in this Georgia city Savannah |
#5811, aired 2009-12-14 | CLINTON AFTER THE PRESIDENCY $200: (Former President Clinton delivers the clue.) Launched in 2006, the Clinton Climate Initiative is working with cities to improve energy efficiency & reduce these emissions like CO2 that contribute to global warming greenhouse gases |
#5806, aired 2009-12-07 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city Geneva |
#5806, aired 2009-12-07 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1000: Signed in 1975, the accord named for this city was an effort to ease tensions between the Soviet Bloc & the West Helsinki |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | AMERICAN CITIES $1000: In 1882 the Knights of Columbus was founded in this "new" Connecticut city New Haven |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | AMERICAN CITIES $1,400 (Daily Double): "Cross and Sword", Florida's official state play, was created to reenact this city's founding in 1565 St. Augustine |
#5790, aired 2009-11-13 | ON THE U.S. MAP $600: Pine Bluff & Arkadelphia are cities in this state Arkansas |
#5788, aired 2009-11-11 | CLASSIC LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): Edmund Dantes is unjustly accused of aiding the exiled Napoleon & imprisoned for life in this novel The Count of Monte Cristo |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | U.S. CITIES $400: This city's Golden Gate Park was built on sand dunes in the late 19th century by architect John McLaren San Francisco |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | U.S. CITIES $600: This city on Lake Erie in Upstate New York was the last stop on the Underground Railroad in the 19th century Buffalo |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Florida city was first called Cowford but was renamed in 1822 for a man who would soon become president Jacksonville |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | U.S. CITIES $1000: You'll find exhibits pertaining to the War of 1812 at the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House in this city Baltimore, Maryland |
#5772, aired 2009-10-20 | WORLD CITIES $400: This Brazilian city's name means "river of January" in Portuguese; its site was discovered on New Year's Day Rio de Janeiro |
#5772, aired 2009-10-20 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Though expanded as a Roman city, it became a capital under the Merovingian ruler Clovis I in 508 Paris (France) |
#5750, aired 2009-09-18 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $2000: Thou art landlocked in this Southeast Asian country, yet may still enjoy its cities of Xam Nua & Muang Xon Laos |
#5720, aired 2009-06-19 | U.S. CITIES $600: The roadside attraction called the Cadillac Ranch is in this Texas city whose name is Spanish for "yellow" Amarillo |
#5720, aired 2009-06-19 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Jestine's Kitchen is a soulful stop for catfish in this city, home of Catfish Row in story & opera Charleston |
#5720, aired 2009-06-19 | U.S. CITIES $1000: It's the biggest city in eastern Washington Spokane |
#5706, aired 2009-06-01 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $800: In the U.S., this river runs through the cities of Sioux City & St. Joseph the Missouri |
#5699, aired 2009-05-21 | OLD CITIES $800: Still standing today, the Alcazar is a Moorish palace in this "barber"-ous city of southern Spain Seville |
#5699, aired 2009-05-21 | OLD CITIES $1600: Still a popular tourist destination in Mali, this city was a major religious & commercial center in the 15th c. Timbuktu |
#5699, aired 2009-05-21 | OLD CITIES $2000: In the 1840s Sir Henry Layard excavated Nineveh, capital of this ancient neighbor of Babylonia Assyria |
#5669, aired 2009-04-09 | THE OTHER $1000: The holiest cities in Islam are Mecca & this Medina |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $800: Island country in the Indian ocean:
Port Louis Mauritius |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $1600: In western Africa:
Yamoussoukro Cote d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast) |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $2000: In the Pacific:
Honiara the Solomon Islands |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | CITIES $400: This capital is located in the historical region of New Castile Madrid |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | CITIES $800: For a short time in the 1950s, La Plata, Argentina was named for her Eva Peron |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | CITIES $3,600 (Daily Double): A center of tulip-growing, this Dutch city gave its name to a section of Manhattan Haarlem |
#5622, aired 2009-02-03 | WHO'S ON FIRST? $400: In many cities "Jeopardy!" leads into this sister show Wheel of Fortune |
#5614, aired 2009-01-22 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $1600: In Africa:
Buchanan Liberia |
#5599, aired 2009-01-01 | GET SOME CULTURE $800: Tacoma & Durham are 2 cities that have regular events named this in which you stretch your legs & see paintings art walks |
#5581, aired 2008-12-08 | RED STATES $600: Redwood City, Redding & Redlands are all cities in this state California |
#5576, aired 2008-12-01 | U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS $400: Denver's windmill has been restored, so take the A10 in Norfolk County to visit it in this country England |
#5576, aired 2008-12-01 | U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS $800: If you're on the Mosquito Coast, don't forget to visit Atlanta in this country Nicaragua |
#5576, aired 2008-12-01 | U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS $1200: Ski on Antuco Volcano close to Los Angeles near the Argentine border of this country Chile |
#5576, aired 2008-12-01 | U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS $1600: Orlando in this country does not have Disney World, but nearby Soweto is becoming a tourist destination South Africa |
#5576, aired 2008-12-01 | U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS $2000: In Victoria, the town of Portland is an ideal spot to visit the southern coast of this country Australia |
#5567, aired 2008-11-18 | MSAs $1,000 (Daily Double): These same-named Midwest cities in 2 neighboring states combine into one metro area with nearly 2 million people Kansas City |
#5535, aired 2008-10-03 | POPULATION-POURRI $3,500 (Daily Double): Of cities in titles of Shakespeare's plays, this Mediterranean capital has the highest population Athens |
#5526, aired 2008-09-22 | 2008 NEWS $200: Protests disrupted its progress, & it had to be re-lit in cities including Paris & Jakarta the Olympic torch |
#5525, aired 2008-09-19 | EUROPEAN CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A majority of this Italian city's population has left the islands & now lives on the mainland in Mestre Venice |
#5525, aired 2008-09-19 | EUROPEAN CITIES $2000: A lake called the Inner Alster lies in the center of this, Germany's chief port Hamburg |
#5511, aired 2008-07-21 | JUNEAU $1600: Juneau has several sister cities including Whitehorse in the Yukon & this port in Southeastern Siberia Vladivostok |
#5472, aired 2008-05-27 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Cities like Copan thrived in this Mesoamerican civilization's Classic Period, until about 900 the Maya |
#5467, aired 2008-05-20 | WORLD CITIES $200: From Bei Hai Park in this city, pass the Great Hall of the People, bear left, & then it's straight on to Mao's mausoleum Beijing |
#5467, aired 2008-05-20 | WORLD CITIES $600: The Tsarina's Stone is the oldest monument in this city that was made Finland's capital by Russian insistence Helsinki |
#5467, aired 2008-05-20 | WORLD CITIES $1000: Construction began on this German city's Gothic cathedral near the Rhine in 1248 & lasted 632 years Cologne |
#5465, aired 2008-05-16 | STATE FACTS $200: Only 3 cities in this state have more than 50,000 people--Billings, Missoula & Great Falls Montana |
#5439, aired 2008-04-10 | ANAGRAMMED CANADIAN CITIES $800: An "equine" town in the Yukon:
HE HOTWIRES Whitehorse |
#5427, aired 2008-03-25 | MASSACHUSETTS $600: Minute Man National Historical Park is located between these 2 Massachusetts cities made famous in April 1775 Lexington & Concord |
#5413, aired 2008-03-05 | U.S. CITIES $400: This New Mexico artist colony town's Pueblo was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 Taos |
#5413, aired 2008-03-05 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Mormons settled this city in 1855 but thought it was too much of a gamble & abandoned it in 1857 Las Vegas |
#5413, aired 2008-03-05 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Granite works sprung up in & around this state capital using stone from Barre, a few miles away Montpelier |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | BOXER $2,000 (Daily Double): His 1910 defeat of James J. Jeffries resulted in racial violence in many U.S. cities Jack Johnson |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $400: Seen here, this city boasts a spectacular skyline, especially in the evening Seattle |
#5397, aired 2008-02-12 | CAPITAL IDEA $1000: One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities, it became a capital in 1946 when Syria gained independence Damascus |
#5394, aired 2008-02-07 | "CHI" CHI $1000: The ancient Mayan cities of Palenque & Bonampak are in this southern Mexican state Chiapas |
#5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SPANNING THE GLOBE $200: Haiphong, Cam Ranh & Dong Hoi are all important cities in this country Vietnam |
#5382, aired 2008-01-22 | WORLD CITIES $2000: Founded as a penal colony in 1824, this capital of Queensland was the site of the World's Fair Expo '88 Brisbane |
#5378, aired 2008-01-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: Oran & Annaba are important cities in this north African nation Algeria |
#5376, aired 2008-01-14 | GERMAN CITIES $800: From 1949 until 1999 Germany's Bundestag legislature met in this city Bonn |
#5376, aired 2008-01-14 | GERMAN CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Getting into the German National Museum in this Bavarian city might be a bit of a "trial" on busy days Nuremberg [Nürnberg] |
#5372, aired 2008-01-08 | STORY LINE $400: Darnay's arrested; Sydney Carton drugs him & takes his place in jail A Tale of Two Cities |
#5361, aired 2007-12-24 | STATE YOUR CASE $400: Woodbury, Middlebury & Waterbury are all cities in this state Connecticut |
#5353, aired 2007-12-12 | KANSAS CITY, KANSAS HERE WE COME $600: KCK's sister cities are Linz, Austria; Karlovac, Croatia & Uruapan in this country's state of Michoacan Mexico |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | AIR $200: In U.S. cities, 95% of this air pollutant comes from incomplete combustion in vehicles carbon monoxide |
#5321, aired 2007-10-29 | THEY COME IN THREES $1000: Aradus, Sidon & Tyre were 3 principal cities of this ancient civilization Phoenicia |
#5318, aired 2007-10-24 | "C" IN HISTORY $1000: Legends of riches led a set of Zuni villages to be dubbed the Seven Cities of this Cibola |
#5289, aired 2007-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL $1000: Cities in this large South American country include Mendoza, Rosario & Mar del Plata Argentina |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: The old cities of Bern in Switzerland & Damascus in this country made the list Syria |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | DOWN SOUTH $800: In 2004 this hyphenated North Carolina city was named one of the most livable cities in America Winston-Salem |
#5276, aired 2007-07-16 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $2000: Downtown skyway systems with 13 miles of walkways make it so you don't have to go outside while in these twin cities Minneapolis & St. Paul |
#5258, aired 2007-06-20 | HERE COMES UKRAINE AGAIN $800: Called "Mother of Cities", this Ukrainian capital was heavily damaged in WWII & not fully rebuilt until around 1960 Kiev |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | RADIO CITIES $200: On a TV sitcom, Jennifer, played by Loni Anderson, brightened up radio station WKRP in this city Cincinnati |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | RADIO CITIES $400: WABC & WCBS-880 are radio stations based in this metropolis New York City |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | RADIO CITIES $1000: The 100,000-watt voice of Georgia State University, WRAS in this city is the most powerful all-student-run U.S. radio station Atlanta |
#5246, aired 2007-06-04 | HIDDEN CITIES $400: Nero met his match in this city Rome (Nero met) |
#5246, aired 2007-06-04 | HIDDEN CITIES $800: Because of the traffic, I often feel mad riding in a taxi in this European capital Madrid (mad riding) |
#5246, aired 2007-06-04 | HIDDEN CITIES $1600: Enos lost his way in the snow in this Scandinavian city Oslo (Enos lost) |
#5246, aired 2007-06-04 | HIDDEN CITIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Help a soldier find this Texas city as fast as possible El Paso (Help a soldier) |
#5244, aired 2007-05-31 | CANADIAN CITIES $1200: In 1934 gold was discovered in this capital of the Northwest Territories; in 1991 diamonds were discovered there Yellowknife |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | SUV $800: This Dodge vehicle would look good on the streets of the cities of the same name in Mexico & Colorado Durango |
#5213, aired 2007-04-18 | WORLD CITIES $400: Volksgarten isn't a parking lot for Volkswagens but a beautiful park noted for its rose bushes in this Austrian city Vienna |
#5213, aired 2007-04-18 | WORLD CITIES $1000: More than half of Manitoba's people live in this city Winnipeg |
#5198, aired 2007-03-28 | JUST ONE OF THE 2... $600: cities that the NBA's Hornets called home in the 2005-06 season New Orleans |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | AFRICAN CITIES $200: In ancient times Giza, a suburb of this city, served as a large cemetery, or necropolis Cairo |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: This Sudanese capital was destroyed by the Mahdists in 1885; Lord Kitchener began to rebuild it in 1898 Khartoum |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | AFRICAN CITIES $1000: While in this capital, tourists should see the well-preserved Roman aqueduct between Carthage & Zaghouan Tunis |
#5186, aired 2007-03-12 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS! $400: Some of the men in this novel assume the Alias "Jacques"; Monsieur DeFarge calls himself Jacques Four A Tale of Two Cities |
#5183, aired 2007-03-07 | TOP 10 LISTS $600: The top 10 highest cities in the world include La Paz, Bolivia & Lhasa in this region once ruled by the Dalai Lama Tibet |
#5175, aired 2007-02-23 | U.S. CITIES $200: Perhaps to sound more macho, the town of Juliet, Illinois "explored" new names & came up with this one in 1845 Joliet |
#5175, aired 2007-02-23 | U.S. CITIES $1000: In 2006 rival cities got crabby when Men's Fitness magazine named it the fittest city in America Baltimore |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | U.S.A. $400: Oregon's major cities, including this state capital, lie in the fertile Willamette Valley Salem |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | ____ & ____ $1200: In Matthew, Jesus said God would be harder on cities rejecting the Gospel than he was on these 2 wicked cities Sodom & Gomorrah |
#5146, aired 2007-01-15 | U.S. PORT CITIES $400: Among the busiest ports with "port" in their names are Port Everglades in Florida & Port Arthur in this state Texas |
#5146, aired 2007-01-15 | U.S. PORT CITIES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a port city in Georgia.) This mother city of Georgia was known as the "pretty woman with a dirty face" until a preservation effort began in the 1950s Savannah |
#5146, aired 2007-01-15 | U.S. PORT CITIES $800: By containers handled, Los Angeles is the busiest U.S. port; the second-busiest is in this city just a few miles south Long Beach |
#5146, aired 2007-01-15 | U.S. PORT CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Among the top 40 busiest ports in the U.S. are these Northeast & Northwest cities with the same name Portland |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: Home to the Mauritshuis Royal Art Gallery, it began in the 1200s as a hunting lodge of the Count of Holland The Hague |
#5141, aired 2007-01-08 | A GEOGRAPHY LESSON $800: Puntarenas & Limon are coastal cities in this country whose name includes the Spanish word for "coast" Costa Rica |
#5120, aired 2006-12-08 | IOWA $800: The quad cities comprise Bettendorf & Davenport, Iowa & Rock Island & Moline in this state Illinois |
#5106, aired 2006-11-20 | THE TOP TEN OF EVERYTHING $400: The top ten most populous cities in the U.S. include Dallas, San Antonio & this other Texas city Houston |
#5096, aired 2006-11-06 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $600: This section of Rio is known as the birthplace of the bossa nova; there was a "Girl From" there in song Ipanema |
#5096, aired 2006-11-06 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $800: Punta Arenas, the southernmost large city in the world, lies at the tip of Chile on this strait the Strait of Magellan |
#5096, aired 2006-11-06 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $2,200 (Daily Double): In this city's Plaza de Armas, you're walking in the footsteps of Francisco Pizarro Lima, Peru |
#5050, aired 2006-07-21 | U.S. CITIES $800: The Sternwheel Regatta, a 10-day river festival, is held each summer in this West Virginia capital Charleston |
#5050, aired 2006-07-21 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Billy Joel could tell you this "town" near Bethlehem, Penn. has the oldest municipal band in the U.S. Allentown |
#5050, aired 2006-07-21 | U.S. CITIES $2000: This "town" on Martha's Vineyard was named in 1671 for a son of the Duke of York Edgartown |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | WORLD CITIES $400: In the 1860s a conference in this city led to a document on the treatment of those wounded in battle Geneva |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | WORLD CITIES $800: The monument seen here is in the section of honor in this city's Central Cemetery Vienna |
#5043, aired 2006-07-12 | I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $800: In March 1996 the Supreme Court ruled New York & other cities couldn’t change the results of this 1990 event the census |
#5039, aired 2006-07-06 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $400: Each winter the post office in this Indiana town, ZIP code 47579, gets letters from children all over the world Santa Claus |
#5039, aired 2006-07-06 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This state capital lies on a narrow strip of land between the Gastineau Channel & the slopes of 2 mountains Juneau, Alaska |
#5034, aired 2006-06-29 | YO, ADRIATIC $1600: Important port cities on the Adriatic in this country include Dubrovnik & Split Croatia |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | THAT'S SO CONVENTIONAL! $800: In 2004 the 2 major U.S. political parties held their conventions in these 2 cities New York & Boston |
#5007, aired 2006-05-23 | ON THE GO $600: In the '30s the U.S. Navy had battleships named for states & these for cities: Macon, L.A. & of course Akron dirigibles |
#5007, aired 2006-05-23 | ON THE GO $800 (Daily Double): In 1919 a $25,000 prize was offered to the first pilot who could fly nonstop between these 2 cities New York & Paris |
#4991, aired 2006-05-01 | THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE BUSINESS BUSINESS $200: On its first night of continuous operation in 1973, this co. delivered 186 packages to 25 cities overnight using 14 jets FedEx |
#4991, aired 2006-05-01 | EARLY AMERICA $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) The shipping of goods such as flour & wine, vital to cities like Portsmouth, depended on the skill of the men with this job of making barrels a cooper |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $200: This city, "Here I come. They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one" Kansas City |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $400: It's the city where you'd find "The House Of The Rising Sun", the ruin of many a poor boy New Orleans |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $600: Jan & Dean sang about "The Little Old Lady From" this city; "She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard" Pasadena |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $800: In this 1968 hit Dionne Warwick claimed that "L.A. is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car" "Do You Know The Way To San José" |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $1000: This West Texas town was the home to Rosa's cantina and wicked Felina, "the girl that I loved" El Paso |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | BIBLICAL CITIES $400: This city in Lower Galilee was the hometown of Mary & Joseph Nazareth |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | BIBLICAL CITIES $800: Lot fled to Zoar as destruction rained upon Admah, Zeboiim & these 2 cities in the Vale of Siddim Sodom & Gomorrah |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | BIBLICAL CITIES $1200: Samson was imprisoned & died in this Philistine city; today a "Strip" is named for it Gaza |
#4979, aired 2006-04-13 | ANAGRAMMED CANADIAN CITIES $400: Oh, man, it's in Manitoba:
GIN IN PEW Winnipeg |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | HIDE & SIKH $800: The Sikh religion is centered in this northwest Indian state whose main cities include Ludhiana & Jalandhar Punjab |
#4974, aired 2006-04-06 | A LA CART $400: Dickens novel in which Sydney Carton finds himself riding in one of the "death-carts" A Tale of Two Cities |
#4963, aired 2006-03-22 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: His London home & museum boasts the original "Golden Arm" sign mentioned in chapter 6 of "A Tale of Two Cities" Dickens |
#4961, aired 2006-03-20 | CITIES WITH HOSPITAL-ITY $1200: In Maryland:
National Naval Medical Center Bethesda |
#4961, aired 2006-03-20 | CITIES WITH HOSPITAL-ITY $2000: A part of history:
Parkland Dallas, Texas |
#4958, aired 2006-03-15 | CITIES BY THE "TON" $800: Founded in 1670 at Albemarle Point, this South Carolina city was moved to its present location in 1680 Charleston |
#4958, aired 2006-03-15 | CITIES BY THE "TON" $1200: Home to the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, remember this Texas city! San Antonio |
#4945, aired 2006-02-24 | THE 1800s $800: In 1812, the Turks retook these 2 holy cities of Islam; the Wahhabis had taken them in the previous decade Mecca & Medina |
#4941, aired 2006-02-20 | U.S. CITIES $400: In 2005, for the tenth straight year, this South Carolina city was voted tops in politeness Charleston |
#4941, aired 2006-02-20 | U.S. CITIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Because Malaria was still common in the South, the Communicable Disease Center was established in this city in 1946 Atlanta |
#4940, aired 2006-02-17 | SMALLVILLE $200: Small cities in this state include Kinbrae (pop. 21) & Boy River (pop. 38); Minneapolis is much bigger Minnesota |
#4937, aired 2006-02-14 | AROUND THE USA $200: In the 2000 census, Des Moines & Cedar Rapids were the only 2 cities in this state with populations of more than 100,000 Iowa |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | "YO" ! $400: Not only is it one of the most populous cities in the world, The Economist reports it's also the most expensive Tokyo |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | DID YOU READ YOUR BIBLE? $1200: In Judges 16 this strong man dies in Gaza, one of the Philistines' 5 strong cities Samson |
#4932, aired 2006-02-07 | FILL IN THE NOVEL TITLE $600: "A.T.O.T.C."
by Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities |
#4928, aired 2006-02-01 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: In "A Tale of Two Cities", Jerry Cruncher is a "resurrection-man"--defined as a person who steals & sells these corpses |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | "I" DO $400: United as the Lombard League, cities in this country fought fiercely against Frederick I, the Holy Roman Emp. Italy |
#4883, aired 2005-11-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: The best-known landmark in this German city known for its perfume is its cathedral with 2 towers rising over 500 feet Cologne |
#4883, aired 2005-11-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: This capital's Tower of Belem was built in the early 1500s to honor explorer Vasco da Gama Lisbon |
#4882, aired 2005-11-29 | LOOSE CHANGE $800: The mints in these 2 cities manufacture most of the coins for general circulation Denver & Philadelphia |
#4878, aired 2005-11-23 | 1945 $400: In 1945 Grand Rapids, Mich. & Newburgh, N.Y. became the first 2 cities to add this chemical to the water supply fluoride |
#4867, aired 2005-11-08 | U.S. CITIES $200: This Texas port is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. Houston |
#4867, aired 2005-11-08 | U.S. CITIES $800: Founded in 1769, this city near the Mexican border is often called "The Birthplace of California" San Diego |
#4851, aired 2005-10-17 | THE 19th CENTURY $1200: In 1873 these 2 cities united with Obuda & Margaret Island to form the capital of Hungary Buda & Pest |
#4828, aired 2005-09-14 | POLLUTION $600: The American Lung Association's list of cities with the worst particle air pollutuion is topped by 3 in this state California |
#4807, aired 2005-06-28 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $400: The National Earthquake Information Center is in this "colorful" city just west of Denver Golden, Colorado |
#4807, aired 2005-06-28 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $1200: The growth of this state capital in Eagle Valley was stimulated by the discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859 Carson City |
#4807, aired 2005-06-28 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $1600: This raisin center of more than 400,000 people in California's San Joaquin Valley has grapes on its seal Fresno |
#4807, aired 2005-06-28 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $2000: Montana State University has a branch in this city named for frontiersman John Bozeman |
#4807, aired 2005-06-28 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): This New Mexico city was founded in 1706 & named for a viceroy of New Spain Albuquerque |
#4758, aired 2005-04-20 | CAPITAL CITIES $400: Not surprisingly, in Korean this city's name means "capital city" Seoul |
#4758, aired 2005-04-20 | CAPITAL CITIES $800: In 1831 the city of Thang Long changed its name to this, a capital idea by the Vietnamese Hanoi |
#4758, aired 2005-04-20 | CAPITAL CITIES $1200: In exile, Lenin ran a training school for Russian revolutionists at Longjumeau, a suburb of this capital city Paris |
#4758, aired 2005-04-20 | CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Razed in the 16th century, the reconstructed ruins of Templo Mayor are found in this capital's Zocalo Mexico City |
#4758, aired 2005-04-20 | CAPITAL CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Honoring one of the country's famous sons, the Universidad de Belgrano is found in this South American capital Buenos Aires |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | TEXT MESSAGING $1200: Madame Defarge knits a list in code to condemn the aristocracy in this Dickens tale A Tale of Two Cities |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | U.S. CITIES $200: In 1921 this New Jersey city crowned its first Miss America Atlantic City |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | U.S. CITIES $600: Had this Michigan city kept its earlier name, there might have been a song "I've Got A Gal In Bronson" Kalamazoo |
#4679, aired 2004-12-30 | THIS "BUD"'S FOR YOU $400: In 1873 3 adjoining cities united with Margaret Island to form this city, now a world capital Budapest |
#4672, aired 2004-12-21 | U.S. CITIES $200: Located 12 miles north of Mexico, this California city was a whaling port in the mid-1800s San Diego |
#4672, aired 2004-12-21 | U.S. CITIES $400: W.C. Handy wrote some of his blues on Beale Street in this city Memphis |
#4672, aired 2004-12-21 | U.S. CITIES $800: Daniel Boone lived for a while in this West Virginia capital Charleston |
#4672, aired 2004-12-21 | U.S. CITIES $1000: John Adams said "the child of Independence" was born in "the old Council Chamber" of this city's Old State House Boston |
#4652, aired 2004-11-23 | GREECE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.) In Greek cities, orient yourself using this, whose name comes from words meaning "highest" & "city" the Acropolis |
#4648, aired 2004-11-17 | U.S. CITIES $200: The game properties in classic Monopoly were named for streets in this city Atlantic City |
#4636, aired 2004-11-01 | U.S. CITIES $400: Named for a slain political figure, Harvey Milk Plaza is in this city's Castro district San Francisco |
#4636, aired 2004-11-01 | U.S. CITIES $2000: The structure seen here is in this city, on the bluffs of the Mississippi Memphis |
#4627, aired 2004-10-19 | LITERATURE $1000: This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens |
#4604, aired 2004-09-16 | U.S. FACTS & FIGURES $200: The average time in the 15 largest U.S. cities for this is 24.3 minutes & most people do it by car commute |
#4585, aired 2004-07-09 | THE FIRST WORD $2000: In the Dickens novel "A Tale of Two Cities" It |
#4577, aired 2004-06-29 | MIDWESTERN CITIES $600: The Roger Maris Museum at the West Acres Shopping Center is a big hit in this North Dakota city Fargo |
#4577, aired 2004-06-29 | MIDWESTERN CITIES $800: 2 of the 3 state capitals in the Midwest that are named for U.S. presidents (2 of) Lincoln, Jefferson City, & Madison |
#4577, aired 2004-06-29 | MIDWESTERN CITIES $1000: The famous question "Will it play in" this Illinois city goes back to its Vaudeville days Peoria |
#4571, aired 2004-06-21 | LET'S VISIT AFRICA $1200: Ibadan, Abuja & Ogbomosho are all cities in this African nation of over 125 million Nigeria |
#4565, aired 2004-06-11 | SEATTLE'S SISTER CITIES $400: In 1987 Seattle gave a sea otter to its oldest sister city, Kobe in this country Japan |
#4565, aired 2004-06-11 | SEATTLE'S SISTER CITIES $1600: This Norwegian sister city should be a favorite of Murphy Brown Bergen |
#4554, aired 2004-05-27 | WORLD CITIES $1600: Mount Wellington is not in New Zealand but lies just miles west of this Tasmanian port Hobart |
#4554, aired 2004-05-27 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A castle keep in this French city is known as the Tour Jeanne d'Arc Rouen |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | SPORTS TEAMS HOME CITIES $400: The Bulls are beastly when they slam it down in this NBA home city Chicago |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | SPORTS TEAMS HOME CITIES $800: The NFL's Dolphins ride the surf to glory in this city Miami |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | SPORTS TEAMS HOME CITIES $1200: In the NHL, the Bruins bruise up the opposition when in this home city Boston |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | SPORTS TEAMS HOME CITIES $2000: The NHL's Mighty Ducks get off skate free playing their home games in this city Anaheim |
#4534, aired 2004-04-29 | ASSASSINS $800: Nathuram Godse's assassination of this man in 1948 set off riots in Bombay & other cities Mahatma Gandhi |
#4514, aired 2004-04-01 | BEST-SELLING U.S. NEWSPAPERS $600: The Times of these 2 cities clock in at No. 3 & No. 4 L.A. & New York |
#4511, aired 2004-03-29 | THERE ARE PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): Universities founded in the 12th & 19th centuries are in cities named this in England & Mississippi Oxford |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | BIBLE MOVIES $1000: Stewart Granger played Lot & Pier Angeli was his salty wife Ildith in the 1962 film about these 2 title cities Sodom and Gomorrah |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | U.S. CITIES $400: When Oregon became a state in 1859, this city on the Willamette River was already the capital Salem |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | U.S. CITIES $600: Benjamin Franklin Parkway & The Franklin Institute Science Museum are in this city Philadelphia |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Located in this city's Garden District, Commander's Palace features a jazz brunch on weekends New Orleans |
#4500, aired 2004-03-12 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew) Madrid, one of Europe's highest capital cities, is located in the very center of this peninsula the Iberian Peninsula |
#4494, aired 2004-03-04 | TEXAS CITIES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) I'm in this city that in 1836 was the biggest in Texas with around 2,000 people San Antonio |
#4494, aired 2004-03-04 | TEXAS CITIES $1200: Grab your cowboy hat & let's go walk "out in the streets" of this Texas city, the chief port of entry into Mexico Laredo |
#4494, aired 2004-03-04 | TEXAS CITIES $2000: In January 2003 this "Port" city celebrated the 60th birthday of famous daughter Janis Joplin Port Arthur |
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 | BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS $600: In his short book, Jude describes this pair of cities as "suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#4465, aired 2004-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $200: Farmers in this state's San Joaquin Valley ship their stock through Stockton California |
#4465, aired 2004-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Kentucky city was founded in 1775 & named for a battle site in Massachusetts Lexington |
#4465, aired 2004-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $600: In November 2001 this city's Journal & Constitution newspapers fully merged Atlanta |
#4465, aired 2004-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $1000: This Idaho city, founded in 1861, was named for the co-leader of an expedition that camped there in 1805 Lewiston |
#4465, aired 2004-01-23 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The chief cities on this river in Oregon include Portland, Salem & Eugene the Willamette |
#4453, aired 2004-01-07 | GEORGE ORWELL $600: According to the title of a 1933 work, 1 of the 2 cities in which Orwell was "Down and Out" London or Paris |
#4452, aired 2004-01-06 | RUSSIAN PAST $800: In 1703 this city on the Neva River became Russia's first built in imitation of western European cities St. Petersburg |
#4443, aired 2003-12-24 | THE 1840s $1000: Built in 1849, the Chain Bridge spans this river to link the cities of Buda & Pest the Danube |
#4404, aired 2003-10-30 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $2000: He takes Charles Darnay's place at the scaffold in "A Tale of Two Cities" Sydney Carton |
#4398, aired 2003-10-22 | BASEBALL HISTORY $1600: 2 of the 5 cities that had both National League & American League teams in 1903 (2 of 5) Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, or St. Louis |
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 | A PAIR OF "I"s $600: In 79 A.D. it was 1 of the 3 cities burned by Vesuvius Pompeii |
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 | U.S. CITIES $1600: New Hampshire's largest city, it was first named Harrytown, then Derryfield; it got its present name in 1810 Manchester |
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 | U.S. CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The completion of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in this city in 1932 largely ended the threat of floods from the Mississippi New Orleans |
#4386, aired 2003-10-06 | CITIES' TALLEST BUILDINGS $400: In this eastern U.S. city, it's One Liberty Place Philadelphia |
#4386, aired 2003-10-06 | CITIES' TALLEST BUILDINGS $800: The Peter & Paul Cathedral is tops in this city named for one of them St. Petersburg |
#4377, aired 2003-09-23 | WORLD CITIES $400: To visit the real Luxor, not the one in Las Vegas, you have to go to this country Egypt |
#4377, aired 2003-09-23 | WORLD CITIES $2000: This largest port in New Zealand was named for a British First Lord of the Admiralty, not a bird Auckland |
#4377, aired 2003-09-23 | WORLD CITIES $4,500 (Daily Double): Germany's third-largest city in population & Switzerland's first, they both end in "ich" Munich & Zurich |
#4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): "Knitting", "Still Knitting" & "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities |
#4358, aired 2003-07-09 | GIMME AN "E" $2000: Gonder & Dire Dawa are major cities in this east African country Ethiopia |
#4328, aired 2003-05-28 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1000: Minsk & Pinsk are cities in this former Soviet republic Belarus |
#4322, aired 2003-05-20 | A TALE OF TWO CITIES $200: In Genesis 19 these two are known as "The Cities of the Plain" Sodom & Gomorrah |
#4322, aired 2003-05-20 | A TALE OF TWO CITIES $600: The two most populous cities in the largest country on the Iberian Peninsula Barcelona & Madrid |
#4313, aired 2003-05-07 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: You'll find the European headquarters of the U.N. in this Swiss city Geneva |
#4313, aired 2003-05-07 | EUROPEAN CITIES $2000: Referring to the mineral springs, the name of this German resort city in Hesse means "baths on the meadow" Wiesbaden |
#4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $600: Near the end of this novel, Madame Defarge is killed with her own gun during a struggle with Miss Pross A Tale of Two Cities |
#4290, aired 2003-04-04 | "GO" TO THE END $200: In 2000 Ladies Home Journal ranked this North Dakota city among the Top 10 cities for women Fargo |
#4286, aired 2003-03-31 | EUROPEAN CITIES $200: In 1986 Thessaloniki in this country celebrated its 2,300th birthday Greece |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | AROUND THE VATICAN $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Vatican City.) St. Peter's Square was enlarged in the 1600s so more people could hear the "Urbi et Orbi" blessing, which translates to this the city and the world |
#4260, aired 2003-02-21 | AMERICAN CITIES $200: An earthquake on April 18, 1906 in this city destroyed the Wells Fargo Bank, but the vaults remained intact San Francisco |
#4260, aired 2003-02-21 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The MGM Grand Hotel in this city claims to be the largest in the world with over 5,000 guest rooms Las Vegas |
#4260, aired 2003-02-21 | AMERICAN CITIES $600: The final draft of the U.S. Constitution was composed in this city in September 1787 Philadelphia |
#4260, aired 2003-02-21 | AMERICAN CITIES $1000: Often placed in the bear family, the first giant panda in the U.S. was appropriately exhibited in this Midwest city Chicago |
#4257, aired 2003-02-18 | HISTORY SPEAKS! $400: (George Washington) These are the two cities in which I was inaugurated President of the United States New York & Philadelphia |
#4256, aired 2003-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $1200: William Saroyan was born & for the most part "raisin" this California city in the San Joaquin Valley Fresno |
#4253, aired 2003-02-12 | POPULATIONS $800: The 3 most populous cities in the U.S. New York, Chicago & Los Angeles |
#4250, aired 2003-02-07 | THE NHL $800: Without a home stadium in 1926, this American team played at Windsor's Border Cities Arena Detroit Red Wings |
#4250, aired 2003-02-07 | RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY $1600: Cities on this 626-mile-long river include Toledo, Spain & Santarem, Portugal Tagus River |
#4240, aired 2003-01-24 | CITY LIFE $600: Cities can be cooled by using light-colored concrete in place of blacktop, which is usually this material asphalt |
#4232, aired 2003-01-14 | THE OLYMPICS $400: The 2 cities that hosted the Summer Olympics in the 1970s, they both begin with the same letter Munich & Montreal |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1600: In 1834 Delacroix painted the lush "Women of" this Algerian city "in Their Apartment" Algiers |
#4219, aired 2002-12-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: Tradition says that Columbus announced his discovery of the New World in a courtyard of this Spanish port Barcelona |
#4219, aired 2002-12-26 | WORLD CITIES $1600: This Southeast Asian capital, commonly known as KL, was founded as a tin-mining camp in 1857 Kuala Lumpur |
#4219, aired 2002-12-26 | WORLD CITIES $2000: The Universal Postal Union is headquartered in this Swiss capital Bern |
#4210, aired 2002-12-13 | MAIDS IN GREEK MYTH $2,500 (Daily Double): She served as the goddess of Greek cities & was also called Parthenos, or "The Maiden" Athena |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | CITIES & TOWNS $800: Lubbock in this state was named for Thomas S. Lubbock, a Civil War Ranger Texas |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | CITIES & TOWNS $1200: Brooklyn, NYC's most populous borough, was named for Breuekelen, a village in this country The Netherlands/Holland |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | CITIES & TOWNS $1600: Neil Simon might know Jefferson Davis made his home in this Mississippi town known for its "blues", not grays Biloxi |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | CITIES & TOWNS $2000: Thomaston in this "Constitution State" was named for clockmaker Seth Thomas Connecticut |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | "H" CITIES $400: The racing schooner Bluenose, depicted on Canada's 10-cent coin, has a replica in this Nova Scotian port Halifax |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | "H" CITIES $800: This capital was founded by Sweden's King Gustav I Vasa in 1550 Helsinki, Finland |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | "H" CITIES $1000: It served as a dynastic capital in the 1800s & continued as the royal capital of Vietnam until 1945 Hue |
#4181, aired 2002-11-04 | FLORIDA CITIES $800: Established as a military post in 1838, it's now the home of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Fort Lauderdale |
#4181, aired 2002-11-04 | FLORIDA CITIES $1000: You won't find Capt. Tony Nelson in this "chocolaty" city, but you will find a missile exhibit at nearby Patrick AFB Cocoa Beach |
#4176, aired 2002-10-28 | AMERICAN CITIES $800: This city near Disney World was given its present name in 1857 to honor a soldier killed in the Seminole Wars Orlando |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | BIBLICAL CITIES $600: Lot's house was located in this wicked city Sodom |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | BIBLICAL CITIES $1000: The apostle Paul escaped his enemies in this Syrian city by being lowered over a wall in a basket Damascus |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | U.S. CITIES $600: The prestigious Eastman School of Music is located in this city in western New York Rochester |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | U.S. CITIES $800: The Durham Western Heritage Museum in this Nebraska city is housed in the old Union Pacific depot Omaha |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Now the largest city in the Carolinas, it hosted the last full meeting of the Confederate cabinet in 1865 Charlotte |
#4155, aired 2002-09-27 | A DICKENS OF A STORY $1200: In "A Tale of Two Cities", she knits in code to condemn aristocrats to the guillotine Madame Defarge |
#4116, aired 2002-06-24 | GERMAN CITIES $400: In 1923 Hitler staged his Beer Hall Putsch in this capital of Bavaria Munich |
#4116, aired 2002-06-24 | GERMAN CITIES $600: In German, it's Koln; in English, this Cologne |
#4116, aired 2002-06-24 | GERMAN CITIES $1,600 (Daily Double): A British royal house that ruled from 1714 to 1901 originated in this city from which it got its name Hanover |
#4105, aired 2002-06-07 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: Jo'burg is a nickname for this city founded in the 1880s Johannesburg |
#4090, aired 2002-05-17 | NEW ENGLAND $200: Hartford & Bridgeport are important cities in this state Connecticut |
#4087, aired 2002-05-14 | U.S. CITIES $400: Dixieland refers to a style of jazz that originated in this Southern city New Orleans |
#4087, aired 2002-05-14 | U.S. CITIES $800: There's a tomb of the unknown soldiers of the Revolutionary War in this N.Y. city that wasn't built in a day Rome, New York |
#4087, aired 2002-05-14 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Vincennes on the Wabash River in this state was the territorial capital from 1800 to 1813 Indiana |
#4070, aired 2002-04-19 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $800: Arizona:
Pop. 1.3 million & one of the fastest-growing cities in the USA Phoenix |
#4070, aired 2002-04-19 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1600: Idaho:
Pop. 185,000, the only city in the state with a population over 100,000 Boise |
#4070, aired 2002-04-19 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $2000: Montana:
Pop. 90,000, founded in 1882 by the Northern Pacific Railway Billings |
#4066, aired 2002-04-15 | AS TOUGH AS "X", "Y", "Z" $800: In 1994 this rebel group took over several Mexican cities in the state of Chiapas the Zapatistas |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | U.S. CITIES $200: Part of the San Andreas Fault line moved about 25 feet during a 1906 earthquake in this northern California city San Francisco |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | U.S. CITIES $400: This largest Tennessee city was named for a city in Egypt Memphis |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | U.S. CITIES $500 (Daily Double): This state capital was named for an English explorer who died in 1618 Raleigh (North Carolina) |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | U.S. CITIES $1000: The name of this Texas city means "yellow" in Spanish Amarillo |
#3983, aired 2001-12-19 | NATIONS' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $400: In Italy, pop. 2.7 million Rome |
#3983, aired 2001-12-19 | NATIONS' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $800: In Thailand, pop. 5.5 million Bangkok |
#3983, aired 2001-12-19 | NATIONS' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1200: In India, pop. 18 million Bombay/Mumbai |
#3983, aired 2001-12-19 | NATIONS' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1600: In Liberia, pop. 1 million Monrovia |
#3983, aired 2001-12-19 | NATIONS' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $2000: In Saudi Arabia, pop. 3 million Riyadh |
#3982, aired 2001-12-18 | U.S. CITIES $200: In 1700 its population of 4,500 consisted of a large number of Quakers professing "brotherly love" Philadelphia |
#3982, aired 2001-12-18 | U.S. CITIES $600 (Daily Double): It was laid out in 1847 in a grid pattern based on the 4 streets around Temple Square Salt Lake City, Utah |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | STATE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $200: Most cities would cringe, but Hidalgo in this U.S. state embraced being the Killer Bee Capital Texas |
#3955, aired 2001-11-09 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $200: Quezon City the Philippines |
#3955, aired 2001-11-09 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $500: Mombasa Kenya |
#3942, aired 2001-10-23 | U.S. CITIES $100: Saltwater taffy originated in this New Jersey resort in 1883 Atlantic City |
#3934, aired 2001-10-11 | DICKENS' WORKS $400: This novel was based in part on Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution A Tale of Two Cities |
#3931, aired 2001-10-08 | THE HISTORY OF INDIA $100: 1 of the 3 Indian cities where the British founded universities in 1857 (1 of 3) Bombay, Calcutta or Madras |
#3928, aired 2001-10-03 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $100: In China, it's second in population to Shanghai Beijing |
#3928, aired 2001-10-03 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $200: In Vietnam, it's second to Ho Chi Minh City Hanoi |
#3928, aired 2001-10-03 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $300: This seaport is the second most populous city in France Marseille |
#3928, aired 2001-10-03 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $400: In Spain, it's second to Madrid Barcelona |
#3928, aired 2001-10-03 | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $500: In Mexico, it's second to Mexico City Guadalajara |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | KANSAS CITIES $100: The Menninger Clinic founded in this capital owns a collection of Sigmund Freud's papers Topeka |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | KANSAS CITIES $200: In the 1960s this largest Kansas city became the world's largest producer of general aviation aircraft Wichita |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | U.S. CITIES $200: It's the largest city in population on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay Oakland |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | CITIES IN INDIA $200: Until 1912 it was the capital of British India (black hole & all) Calcutta |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | CITIES IN INDIA $400: In this city you'll find the National Museum & the Rashtrapati Bhavan or President's House New Delhi |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | CITIES IN INDIA $600: This heavily populated port city & capital of Maharashtra state is the leading financial center of India Bombay/Mumbai |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | CITIES IN INDIA $800: Over 2,000 died when the Union Carbide chemical plant in this city leaked toxic gas in 1984 Bhopal |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | CITIES IN INDIA $1000: Mumtaz knows it's the northern India city that's home to the Pearl Mosque & the Taj Mahal Agra |
#3875, aired 2001-06-08 | ITALIAN CITIES $400: Mussolini founded the Fascist Party in this city, but keep it under your hat Milan |
#3875, aired 2001-06-08 | ITALIAN CITIES $1000: You'll find the International School of Violin Making in this city, once home to Amati & Stradivari Cremona |
#3874, aired 2001-06-07 | IT'S ALL POLITICS $600: Miami Beach, Philadelphia & this are the cities that have hosted the Democratic & GOP conventions in the same year Chicago |
#3867, aired 2001-05-29 | CITIES BY HOTEL $300: The Ambassador, site of RFK's assassination in 1968 Los Angeles |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | THE DICKENS, YOU SAY $400: In April 1859 Dickens launched a new weekly with the 1st installation of this "tale" set in the French Revoution "A Tale of Two Cities" |
#3847, aired 2001-05-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Politics aside, in 1980 strikes in Gdansk & other Polish cities led to the formation of this labor union Solidarity |
#3834, aired 2001-04-12 | THE "BUTLER" DID IT $1000: The mission statement of this school says it's located "In...Indianapolis, one of America's most livable cities" Butler University |
#3833, aired 2001-04-11 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A.", it served as Alabama's capital in 1819 Huntsville |
#3828, aired 2001-04-04 | HEADQUARTER CITIES $1000: Eastman Kodak Company Rochester, New York |
#3822, aired 2001-03-27 | A MESS O' MESOPOTAMIA $200: In 331 this Macedonian took possession of the palaces & treasuries of the major cities of Mesopotamia Alexander the Great |
#3807, aired 2001-03-06 | U.S.A. $200: Border cities in this state include Texarkana & Texhoma Texas |
#3791, aired 2001-02-12 | AFRICAN CITIES $100: Tourbooks suggest shopping for baskets on Muindi Mbingu Street in this Kenyan capital Nairobi |
#3791, aired 2001-02-12 | AFRICAN CITIES $300: Founded in 332 B.C., this port city was designed by Dinocrates, architect to Alexander the Great Alexandria |
#3791, aired 2001-02-12 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: Sudan's national museum is in this capital city Khartoum |
#3786, aired 2001-02-05 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: Major cities in this European nation include Vaasa, Maarianhamina & Helsinki Finland |
#3783, aired 2001-01-31 | U.S. CITIES $400: John D. Rockefeller began his oil dynasty in this Ohio city Cleveland |
#3783, aired 2001-01-31 | U.S. CITIES $800: Arlington is located between these third & sixth most populous cities in Texas Dallas & Fort Worth |
#3783, aired 2001-01-31 | U.S. CITIES $1000: This state's Medford in the Rogue River valley was named for Medford, Massachusetts Oregon |
#3778, aired 2001-01-24 | U.S. CITIES $100: The 25 hospitals you can choose from in this city include the famous Massachusetts General Boston |
#3778, aired 2001-01-24 | U.S. CITIES $200: This gambling mecca was originally settled by Mormons back in 1855 Las Vegas |
#3778, aired 2001-01-24 | U.S. CITIES $400: Women outnumber men in this North Carolina city named for the wife of King George III Charlotte |
#3772, aired 2001-01-16 | 50 CENTS $1000: In 1999 the mints in these 2 cities produced a total of 19,582,000 50-cent pieces for general circulation Philadelphia & Denver |
#3763, aired 2001-01-03 | FUN DATES $1000: Cities can earn the designation "Tree City USA" from the foundation for this holiday in Nebraska Arbor Day |
#3728, aired 2000-11-15 | SPORTS HOME CITIES $200: MLB's
Devil Rays Tampa Bay |
#3713, aired 2000-10-25 | U.S. CITIES $200: This city that's home to the Naval Academy was capital of the U.S. in 1783 & 1784 Annapolis, Maryland |
#3713, aired 2000-10-25 | U.S. CITIES $800: "Health, History, Horses" is the motto of this city in upstate New York Saratoga Springs |
#3700, aired 2000-10-06 | A COUNTRY IN EUROPE $100: Major cities in this country include Marseilles, Orleans & Lyon France |
#3690, aired 2000-09-22 | MIDWESTERN CITIES $200: Bay City in this state is named for its location near Saginaw Bay Michigan |
#3690, aired 2000-09-22 | MIDWESTERN CITIES $400: Parma, Euclid & Shaker Heights are communities in its metropolitan area Cleveland |
#3690, aired 2000-09-22 | MIDWESTERN CITIES $600: In this big city the Midway Plaisance ("Pleasure Place") connects Jackson & Washington Parks Chicago |
#3690, aired 2000-09-22 | MIDWESTERN CITIES $800: A family arriving in this seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana might say, "We are here" Lafayette |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | ANAGRAMMED TEXAS CITIES $500: Established in 1755:
OLD EAR Laredo |
#3666, aired 2000-07-10 | LANGUAGES $100: Bavarian-Austrian is the form of this language spoken in such cities as Munich & Vienna German |
#3661, aired 2000-07-03 | TITLE REFERENCES $200: The tale of these 2 cities is told in "A Tale Of Two Cities" London & Paris |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | U.S. CITIES $300: In addition to being a major seaport for cargo, it's the world's largest cruise port Miami |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | U.S. CITIES $500: At 64 stories the USX Tower in this Steel City is one of the tallest buildings in the eastern U.S. Pittsburgh |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A stone obelisk dedicated to President William McKinley stands in this New York city's Niagara Square Buffalo |
#3632, aired 2000-05-23 | "MUM"s THE WORD $400: Formerly called Bombay, it's in the top 5 cities in the world in population Mumbai |
#3618, aired 2000-05-03 | U.S. CITIES $100: City in which the Watergate break-in occurred Washington, D.C. |
#3618, aired 2000-05-03 | U.S. CITIES $200: With a new waterway, this Oklahoma oil center became an inland port in 1971 Tulsa |
#3618, aired 2000-05-03 | U.S. CITIES $300: The city of Cambridge in this state was the birthplace of spaceman John Glenn Ohio |
#3618, aired 2000-05-03 | U.S. CITIES $400 (Daily Double): Butte is in Montana; a city named for this similar land form is in Arizona Mesa |
#3612, aired 2000-04-25 | WORLD CITIES $200: Many tourists like to shop in this Mexican city just south of San Diego Tijuana |
#3612, aired 2000-04-25 | WORLD CITIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Emperor Menelik II founded this African capital in 1887 Addis Ababa |
#3611, aired 2000-04-24 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $100: South America's most populous city, it was founded by Jesuit missionaries from Portugal in 1554 Sao Paulo |
#3611, aired 2000-04-24 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $300: In the 1980s this city became the center for Colombia's most powerful cocaine cartel Medellin |
#3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $600: The only 1 of the 5 Cities of the Plain in the Bible that fits the category Gomorrah |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | U.S. CITIES $100: The names of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th most populous cities in California begin with these 3 letters San (San Jose, San Diego & San Francisco) |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | U.S. CITIES $200: The Walk-In-The-Water, the first steamship on the Great Lakes, ran between Buffalo & this motor city Detroit |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | U.S. CITIES $300: In 1799, if you wanted to go to the nation's capital, you went to this city Philadelphia |
#3548, aired 2000-01-26 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $400: British breakfast of same-named cities in Maine, California & Michigan & an Alan Alda series Bangors & M*A*S*H |
#3547, aired 2000-01-25 | WORLD CITIES $200: About 1 out of every 10 Japanese people lives in this city's metropolitan area Tokyo |
#3547, aired 2000-01-25 | WORLD CITIES $400: In 1973 a highway bridge opened connecting the European & Asian parts of this Turkish city Istanbul |
#3529, aired 1999-12-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: The U.S. signed a famous treaty in this city December 24, 1814 Ghent, Belgium (treaty to end the War of 1812) |
#3520, aired 1999-12-17 | BEASTLY GEOGRAPHY $100: Cities in this nation include Iskenderun, Islahiye & Istanbul Turkey |
#3515, aired 1999-12-10 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $600: In the 1940s this North Korean capital was home to forces of the occupying Soviet army Pyongyang |
#3515, aired 1999-12-10 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $800: It was China's capital from 1928 until its brutal capture by Japanese forces in 1937 Nanking |
#3513, aired 1999-12-08 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $800: Washington used Elijah Miller's house in this New York town as his HQ at the Battle of Chatterton Hill White Plains |
#3513, aired 1999-12-08 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Built around 1776, Tank Cottage in this city is said to be the oldest house in Wisconsin Green Bay |
#3513, aired 1999-12-08 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $1000: Texan & Mexican culture are combined in this city's pre-Lenten festival Charro Days Brownsville |
#3505, aired 1999-11-26 | THE BIG VALLEY $200: You'll find the California cities of San Jose & Santa Clara in the valley nicknamed this Silicon Valley |
#3502, aired 1999-11-23 | U.S. STATES $200: This state has more ethnic Norwegians than any other state, most of them in the Twin Cities area Minnesota |
#3475, aired 1999-10-15 | FILMS OF THE '10s $400: "The Dimpled Darling", Maurice Costello, played Sydney Carton in a 1911 version of this novel A Tale of Two Cities |
#3471, aired 1999-10-11 | ON THE MAP $600: Mainland Europe's only active volcano, it buried several Italian cities in 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | KHAN GAMES $1000: In 1240 Batu & his horde pillaged this "mother of Russian cities" now in the Ukraine Kiev |
#3457, aired 1999-09-21 | FRENCH CITIES $1000: In 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake at the Place du Vieux-Marche in this city on the Seine Rouen |
#3453, aired 1999-09-15 | THE TWIN CITIES $300: The Twins & Vikings play in the Metrodome, named for this politician Hubert H. Humphrey |
#3453, aired 1999-09-15 | THE TWIN CITIES $500: In Minneapolis' name, polis is Greek for "city" & minne is an Indian word meaning this substance Water |
#3445, aired 1999-07-23 | RIVER CITIES $200: This large & commercially important U.S. river begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ohio |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | MONDO GEO $600: Conquered by Alexander the Great in 333 B.C., this Syrian capital is one of the oldest cities in the world Damascus |
#3423, aired 1999-06-23 | WORLD CITIES $500: The Tyrolean Folk Art Museum is a popular attraction in this Austrian city, once an Olympic host Innsbruck |
#3415, aired 1999-06-11 | ASIAN CITIES $200: In a 1940 film Sabu was "The Thief of" this city Baghdad |
#3415, aired 1999-06-11 | ASIAN CITIES $400: You could call Benazir Bhutto, born in this country's largest city, the Karachi Kid Pakistan |
#3415, aired 1999-06-11 | ASIAN CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In this city you can visit an uplifting museum of Khmer art, or Tuol Sleng, a museum of torture & murder Phnom Penh |
#3413, aired 1999-06-09 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $600: Nicosia & Limassol are the only 2 cities with a population of over 100,000 in this country Cyprus |
#3411, aired 1999-06-07 | THE '60s $400: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Freedom Walk in 1965 spanned the 50 miles between these 2 Alabama cities Montgomery & Selma |
#3407, aired 1999-06-01 | SISTER CITIES $300: These sister university cities in England & Massachusetts share a name Cambridge |
#3403, aired 1999-05-26 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: One of the newer large cities in the world, it's located in the central plateau of Brazil Brasilia |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | U.S. CITIES $100: When football's Saints go marching in for a home game, it's in this city New Orleans |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | U.S. CITIES $200: Oh, the O. Henry house & the Alamo are 2 of the places you can visit in this city San Antonio |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | U.S. CITIES $400: In 1904 people met at the fair in this city to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase St. Louis |
#3392, aired 1999-05-11 | RUSSIAN CITIES $200: Novosibirsk & Omsk are the 2 main cities in this large, cold Russian region Siberia |
#3392, aired 1999-05-11 | RUSSIAN CITIES $300: In 1712 the capital of Russia was moved to this city later named Leningrad St. Petersburg |
#3391, aired 1999-05-10 | U.S. CITIES $200: At less than 950 feet, Mt. Davidson is the highest point in this "City by the Bay" San Francisco |
#3391, aired 1999-05-10 | U.S. CITIES $300: Paul Revere's house in this capital is the city's only 17th century building downtown Boston |
#3391, aired 1999-05-10 | U.S. CITIES $500: The site of the World's Fair in 1962, it's flanked on the west by Puget Sound & on the east by Lake Washington Seattle |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $400: It's "That Toddlin' Town" Chicago |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $600: "They've got some crazy little women" here, & "I'm gonna' get me one" Kansas City |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Bob Dylan sang "Stuck inside of" this Alabama city "with the Memphis blues again" Mobile |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $1000: On the album "Court and Spark", Joni Mitchell lamented that she once felt better as "A free man" in this city Paris |
#3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Cities in this country include Baguio, Quezon City & Manila the Philippines |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | TOWNS & CITIES $600: Founded in 1565, this Florida city served as one of Spain's North American military headquarters St. Augustine |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | ANTONYMS $200: In Dickens' antonymic opening to "A Tale of Two Cities", "It was the spring of hope, it was" this season "of despair" Winter |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $600: "I like to use cities as characters", said this "Meet Me In St. Louis" director, Liza's dad Vincente Minnelli |
#3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $200: The black population of these U.S. areas, the destination of "white flight", doubled in the '70s & '80s Suburbs |
#3309, aired 1999-01-14 | THE OLD WEST $500: Cities in Nebraska, Ohio & California are named for this topographical engineer nicknamed "The Pathfinder" John C. Fremont |
#3302, aired 1999-01-05 | U.S. CITIES $200: This "Crescent City" was acquired as part of the land deal the U.S. made with France in 1803 New Orleans |
#3302, aired 1999-01-05 | U.S. CITIES $300: The city known for its Mud Hens; it was named for a city in Spain Toledo, Ohio |
#3302, aired 1999-01-05 | U.S. CITIES $400: The Society of Friends founded this California city in 1887 & named it after an American poet Whittier |
#3292, aired 1998-12-22 | Q ME $1000: Umm Said & Dukhan are cities in this country, the only one in the world that begins with the letter Q Qatar |
#3288, aired 1998-12-16 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $800: He delivers his "It is a far, far better" speech from the scaffold Sydney Carton (in A Tale of Two Cities) |
#3288, aired 1998-12-16 | WORLD CITIES $1000: The rebuilt Imperial Palace in this city was home to only 2 emperors; Meiji moved the Imperial Palace to Tokyo Kyoto |
#3281, aired 1998-12-07 | I SAW IT IN VOGUE $500: Vogue's editor was turned off by the reactionary 1998 fall collections in these 2 European cities Milan & Paris |
#3254, aired 1998-10-29 | A PRAIRIE PRIMER $200: The largest cities in Canada's "Prairie Provinces" are Edmonton & Calgary in this one Alberta |
#3242, aired 1998-10-13 | LANGUAGES $100: The standard form of this language developed from that spoken in Amsterdam & nearby cities Dutch |
#3232, aired 1998-09-29 | MIDWEST CITIES $300 (Daily Double): A copy of the Gettysburg Address is displayed in this city's old state capital building Springfield, Illinois |
#3232, aired 1998-09-29 | MIDWEST CITIES $800: South Dakota city named for the landmark seen here Sioux Falls |
#3220, aired 1998-09-11 | TOUGH U.S. CITIES $200: Parks in this Louisiana city include Audubon & Pontchartrain New Orleans |
#3220, aired 1998-09-11 | TOUGH U.S. CITIES $1000: This southernmost Texas city is actually about 450 miles farther south than Tijuana Brownsville |
#3217, aired 1998-09-08 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $500: LATE SET, Washington Seattle |
#3193, aired 1998-06-17 | U.S. CITIES $100: This city's Major League Baseball team plays its home games in Chavez Ravine Los Angeles |
#3193, aired 1998-06-17 | U.S. CITIES $500: In 1972 a flash flood in this South Dakota city killed over 200 people Rapid City |
#3186, aired 1998-06-08 | U.S. CITIES $200: In 1963 NASA opened its $8 million Mission Control Center in this Texas city Houston |
#3186, aired 1998-06-08 | U.S. CITIES $400: Neil Simon's Eugene Jerome had the "blues" in this Mississippi city Biloxi |
#3174, aired 1998-05-21 | CANADIAN CITIES $100: English is also widely spoken in this largest French-speaking city outside of Paris Montreal |
#3174, aired 1998-05-21 | CANADIAN CITIES $200: The North Saskatchewan River divides this Albertan capital in half Edmonton |
#3174, aired 1998-05-21 | CANADIAN CITIES $300: The CFL's B.C. Lions play their home games in this city Vancouver |
#3174, aired 1998-05-21 | CANADIAN CITIES $400: Whitehorse replaced Dawson as capital of this territory in 1953 Yukon Territory |
#3169, aired 1998-05-14 | CHARACTERS IN DICKENS BOOKS $600: Monsieur the Marquis,
Charles Darnay,
Lucie Manette "A Tale of Two Cities" |
#3152, aired 1998-04-21 | L.A.'s SISTER CITIES $200: This L.A. sister city is not the one in Georgia or Ohio, but the one in Greece Athens |
#3152, aired 1998-04-21 | L.A.'s SISTER CITIES $400 (Daily Double): Salvador Bahia, also known as Sao Salvador, a port city in this So. American country, is in the sisterhood Brazil |
#3152, aired 1998-04-21 | L.A.'s SISTER CITIES $400: 2 of L.A.'s sister cities are about 200 miles apart: Giza, Egypt & Eilat, in this country Israel |
#3145, aired 1998-04-10 | ITALIAN CITIES $200: A regatta held each September in this city features gondola races on the Grand Canal Venice |
#3145, aired 1998-04-10 | ITALIAN CITIES $400: Shakespeare's feuding Montagues & Capulets were inspired by actual incidents in this city Verona |
#3145, aired 1998-04-10 | ITALIAN CITIES $600: The pope has approved the public display of this city's famous shroud in 1998 Turin |
#3145, aired 1998-04-10 | ITALIAN CITIES $1000: Conductor Arturo Toscanini was born in this city famous for its cheese Parma |
#3131, aired 1998-03-23 | REAL U.S. CITIES $200: "Roachtown" & "Sandwich" are in this state, also home to "Skokie" Illinois |
#3131, aired 1998-03-23 | REAL U.S. CITIES $400: If you think about it, "okay" is obviously in this state Oklahoma |
#3131, aired 1998-03-23 | REAL U.S. CITIES $600: You can eke out a living in "Eek" in this final frontier state Alaska |
#3127, aired 1998-03-17 | IN THE NIGHT $300: Action taken by coastal cities to prevent U-Boats from targeting the silhouettes of ships turning the lights out (or a blackout) |
#3117, aired 1998-03-03 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $500: In January 1997 Acclaim Comics began reissuing this series with "A Tale of Two Cities" & "Tom Sawyer" Classics Illustrated |
#3111, aired 1998-02-23 | NAME THAT NOVEL $400: "There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine shop of Monsieur Defarge" A Tale of Two Cities |
#3074, aired 1998-01-01 | WORLD CITIES $100: Krung Thep, the Thai name for this largest city in Thailand, means "city of angels" Bangkok |
#3074, aired 1998-01-01 | WORLD CITIES $200: When Pizarro founded this Peruvian city in 1535, he called it the "city of kings" Lima |
#3053, aired 1997-12-03 | WORLD CITIES $200: This capital's Avenida Juarez was named for Benito Juarez, president of the country in the 1860s & 1870s Mexico City |
#3053, aired 1997-12-03 | WORLD CITIES $800: You can visit the home of former prime minister John Diefenbaker in this Saskatchewan capital Regina |
#3053, aired 1997-12-03 | WORLD CITIES $1000: The Prefecture, the palace of Pizarro, still stands in this southern Peru city known for its Incan remains Cuzco |
#3052, aired 1997-12-02 | EASTERN EUROPE $500: You can "spot" Croatia's tourist cities Split & Dubrovnik in this coastal region for which a dog breed is named Dalmatia |
#3049, aired 1997-11-27 | U.S. CITIES $200: Nearly 40% of the people in Washington state live in the metropolitan area of this city Seattle |